The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-11-13
END CONVENTION
OF BAPTIsTs, TO
MEET NEXT YEAR
chlekasha Again Selected as Meeting
Place. Business Of Session
Finished: officers Elected.
Appointments Made.
LOOK INTO PLANS TO
UNITE TEXAS BODIES
Purchase More Ground for Orphans
Homo Here; Now Valued over
$4,000; Thank People OF
City for Entertainment


meeting hero Saturday afternoon,
Chlckaaha was selected rs the place
for the noxt annual meeting of the
baptist Convention OF Oklahoma.
RESOLUTIONS expressing the conycn-
tion's gratitude for the hospitality
extended by the city were PASSED.
Rey. T.. y. Minccy. OF Mangum,
mas solecicd 10 deliver the. annual
sermon to be preached ON the open.
ing day OF the 1923 session. which
begins here at 1900 o'clock on the
first Tuesday In November.
Unification Is Planned.
During the final session OF the
convention Saturday afternoon, a
committee was appointed TO 20 be-
fore the Baptist Missionary Associ-
alton Of Texas to discuss uniflcatlon
with that body. which opens It's an.
nual sessions In Dallas. Thursday.
Members Of that committee are:
Re- q. Il. Duke, newly elected mod
orator; Rev. w. c. Solomon, Of
Duke: Rev. A. Nunnery. cdltor OF
the Baptist Worker. chickasha; and
Rev. r. N. Huffhines. Gould Co
operation between tho two bodies
IN the matter OF foreign missions,
Christian education and publications
viii be especially sought.
The Texas body has been ostab-
lished for 20 years 1t is said
Buy More Property Here.
Money for tho purchasing OF
quarter of block of land adioin-
ing the conventions Orphans Home
property here was raised and the
purchase authorized al the annual
meeting here. This gives the con.
vention the entire block on which the
home Is located. The conventions
real estate property here is valued
by heads of the convention at more
than $4,000.
More than $4,000 with which to
carry on the conventions work was
raised during the convention. Do
nations were very liberal in view of
present financial conditions, heads
of the convention said.
Enlarge Missionaries Fields.
Resolutions adopted Saturday en-
larged the fields of the two mis-
sionaries employed by the conyen
tion. These missionaries were au
thorized to so into New Mexico,
Missouri, Arkansas and Texas and
hold revival meetings, organize
churches and do other missionary
work.
Rev. C. r. Tyler, of Chickasha,
who was elected one of the convsn-
tons missionaries was unable to ac
cept the position because Of previous
arrangements he had made. Rev.
J. w. Tennyson, Of Ardmore, was
selected to the position.
Nunnery Is Reelected.
Rev. A. Nunnery, superintendent
of the Baptist Orphans Home here,
was reelected superintendent of the
Orphans Home for an indefinite
period. BY unanimous vote of the
convention, the manner in which the
affairs of the home and its manage
ment have ben conduced were com
mended.
The convention appointed an edu-
cation commission to investigate the
feasibility OF establishing Baptist
school to be maintained by the con-
vention. 1t was intimated that if
the school is established, it will be
built here. Members Of the educa-
ton commission are: Rev. S. M.
West, Gould; Rev. w. M. Brisco,
Altus, and Rev. w. G. Solomon,
Duke.