Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-17
GEORGIA DELEGATES DEPART
ON TWO SPECIAL TRAINS
BY Louie ID. Newton

ON BOARD SOUTHERN BAP-
list SPECIAL, May ia solid
train load of delegates to the
Southern Baptist convention left
Atlanta this morning at S:45 o'clock
via Chattanooga, Nashville, Padu,
cab, st. Louis, due to arrive in Kan
sas City Wednesday morning at $50
o'clock. The special train was oper
ated out of Atlanta by the N, C.
st. l.. Ry. 1t ran as an advance
section of the Dixie Flyer.
The train stopped at Dalton tC
pick up a party of delegates from
that section of the state. The next
stop was Chattanooga at noon and
the train is due in Nashville the
middle of the afternoon, where the
last contingent will be added to the
party, and the train will then make
record speed in order to reach the
convention city before the president
sounds his gavel Wednesday morn.
ing and calls the seventy7seventh
session of the Southern Baptist con-
vention to order in the municipal
auditorium at Kansas City.
Many prominent Baptist ministers
and laymen were in Atlanta last
n ght waiting for trains out to Kan
sas City The Southern railway
operated a special train, leaving the
city at midnight. This train went
via Birmingham and Memphis and
will arrive in Kansas City early
Wednesday morning.
President John d. Nell, of the
Georgia Baptist convention, left on
the train this morning, and on the
same train is the president of the
North Carolina Baptist convention,
Dr. 3. w, Spillman, and the president
of the Florida and South Carolina
conventions. A number of prom
inent women were also on the train.
To Re elect DIR. Mullins
DR.. Edgar Young Mullins is the
president of the convention and VIII
most likely be reelected tomorrow
morning by reclamation. Four new
vice president will be elected, and II
is probable that the same secfeta-
ries, DIR. Hight G. Moore and j.
Henry Burnett, wlllebe again elected.
1t has been suggested that DR.. w.
w. Landrum, formerly pastor of the
First Baptist church, of Atlanta. may
be nominated for the presidency,
and Dr.. George W. Mcdaniel, pastor
of the First Baptist church, Rich
mond, is also mentioned for the
presidency, but it is not likely that
there will be any opposition at this
convention to DR.. Mullins. There Is
q precedent that the president holds
office for three terms and this will
be DR.. Mullins third term
Among the items on the first day {
program will be the annual cOnVen-
ton sermon. which will be delivered
this wear by DR.. II. G. Bowers, Of
Texas. Another feature of the open
ing day will he President Mullins
address, which comes tomorrow
morning following the election OF
officers.
All nomination speeches are Iln-
tied to five minutes and it has been
suggested in the Baptist press OIL
the south that this period might
profitabIy be reduced to sixty sec
onds.> Oratory springs forth in
overwhelming waves in the South
ern Baptist convention during the
reriod of nomination speeches.
All committees of the convention
are appointed by the four. vice pres
idents. This custom has lately
come into vogue and is favored for
the reason that four men instead OF
one select tt esmen who are to really
run the convention. 1t is largely
matter of committee work in CON
vention of six thousand persons.
DR.. Truett's Sermon
The evening Sc ssions of the con-
vention are devoted to mass meet
ings with the ablest speakers of the
denomination bringing addresses or
missionary topics and general in
spira tional themes.
The annual Sunday afternoon mass
meeting is always the occasion OF
an address or sermon by. DR.. George
w. Truett. pastor of the First Bap-
fist church, of Dallas, Texas, and