The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
WORK IN COLLEGE CENTERS PUSHED ].
Reports Of Hospitals And Orphans Home Heard.
 Missions Stressed
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD


 Montgomery. Ala. Nov. 14 The second day os the Alabama Baptist convention, centennial year, was devoted entirely to missions. The morning session being consumed with the reports of activities and summaries of needs of the hospital, laymen's missionary, religious litera- ture and Alabama Baptist commit tees and with the hearing of the ad- dress of Dr. J. R. Hobbs of Birming- 2 ham on the Stockholm world all liance, a gatherings of Baptists from 80 countries. The afternoon session heard reports of both home and for eign missions and temperance com mttees.
 That the ensuing year will mark the peak in the history of Alabama Baptists in the matter of work in the college centers of the state was clearly evidenced at the opening of the morning session when, under the head of miscellaneous business, resolution from Tuscaloosa calling the attention of the convention to the needs for adequately ministering to the spiritual welfare of the Bap- tist students of the Alabama uni- versity was introduced This pre- cipitated discL ssion and time was extended for a report from Auburn. Normal schools were silent because of the fact that the convention was pressing for time. It was recom- mended that money be appropriated fin so far as possible, to provide an adequate church for the Auburn pas torate and that all aid possible be extended to Tuscaloosa. It was the sense of the convention that all school centers were fertile fields or endeavor and that as the opportunl- ties present themselves they should be grasped. Participating in this discussion were Dr. Robinson Brown, T Tuscaloosa; Hugh G. Grant of Au- burn
 Hospitals Active.
 Reports of the work in the hospi- tals of the state showed that the ln- stitutions had remained for SI months of their existence well With in the budget and that the Good Sa- maritan hospital, an institution Tor negroes, had been established With out the aid of funds from the con vention. During the past year the hospitals have cared for 3,957 pa tients, of which number AS were en- tirely charity.
 The paper contained a recommen dation that no new debts be incurred by the convention with precedence over the bonds for the hospitals ana the orphans home. This preclpl- tated a discussion in which Dr. Lewis J. Bristow of Selma, chairman Of the committees; pr. J. M. Long, Birmlng' ham Baptist hospital; Dr. J. w. Rue ker. LaFayette; E. $. Alderman, Tus- kegee. N O. Patterson and w. Hines partic'- Fhe report Wal adopted as submitted
 That layu church are not interested sufficiently in the various activities provided for them to per mft of a report from the committed was the belief of pr. H. J. Will inehim. chairman, Dolby H. Brown Birmingham, dismissed the discussion of the report with the simple decla- ration that the committee would con- tinue to function.
 pr. I. E. billiard, Birmingham brought the report of the Alabama commission and religious literature committees in short speech II which he declared that the leadlhe literature for Christian homes was good Bible, a cook book, a. magazln' and the church paper.
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 Says Papers Willing.
 He made no mention of the daily press, bu. this department of litera tnre was given high praise in the afternoon session by Rev A. A Ultto. chairman of the press com mittee, who declared that the paper: of Alabama had been found to b' willing and eager to publish news stories of all church activities. The
 
 ficial publication of the communi' cants of the state, showed that tho subscription list approXimated lo,oo. anl that the next year showed prom ise for an increase of at least lO,O0' copies. Qualification was expressed by al departments of the church at the in creasing interest in the seventy live q million campaign,' which IS now II its last year and both addresses or missions declared it to be essential tt the projects now undertaken or those contemplated for the future that the pledges be paid to. the last dollar Dr. | O. Williams, Selma, chairman of the home missions, turned the discussion over to B. D. Gray, secre' tary of the southern board, who tolt the convention of the advancement made in the United States and de clared that the great opportunity now lay in the south with the ire Inendous influx of foreign labor tC replace the migration of the negro. Presents Foreign Report.
 Dr, Jesse A. Cook of Birmingham presented the report of the foreign rn ssion committee and showed tha1 there now were 546 missionaries il foreign fields, with 2,S20 native workers and that this force had ac' counted for 12,611 Baptist in the las ear pr. T. B. Ray of Richmond Va, secretary of the board. said that 4f new missionaries had been sen out in the past year and that the