The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29
GREEN URGES
 BAPTIST FUND
Secretary Of Baptist Con. vention Makes Two Ad-
 dresses Here

D, E. Green, secretary treasurer of the Alabama Baptist convention, and formerly state superintendent of banks, made two pulpit addresses in Birming- ham Sunday, speaking in the morning at the Acipco Baptist church and last evening at the Irondale Baptist church.
 Secretary Green, is devoting the last few days of this year to aiding In the final subscriptions to the $75,0O0,OOO campaign" of his denomination, and to explaining the program of Southern Baptist for the year 1925.
 At the Irondale church last night Mir. Green took as his text the words found in the Fourteenth chapter of Exodus Fifteenth verse: And the Lord said, Speak unto the Children of Israel, that they go forward"
 The speaker said that when the words of the text were first uttered, a noun tain was before the Israe1ites, and that the Red Sea and hostile armies sur rounded them. He said the rank and 1 file of sthe people murmured, advising return to slavery in Egypt. Moses wished to ''stand still and see the salvation of the lord, but God said Speak unto the Children of Israel that they go forward"
 The speaker declared that it was Gods leading that brought the Isrealites into what he called their fatal tri- of escape.
 Five years ago." said MT. Green, God led our people into a great place of responsibility. We decided that in five years we would raise $75,OOO, 900 for God. He was with us nightly in the early days after the gift was pro- missed. We pledged $92,000,000 instead of only $75, 5,OO0,OO0 But as we paid out pledges, hard times came knocking at our doors. Many unseen evils came, until like the Isrealites of old we found our selves in the midst of fatal trl- angle. The mountain of financial diffi- culty was before us; the disposition to leave the furnishing of'money by others, and actual doubt and indifference, these things are now hindering us. The indif- ferent are willing to give the whole enterprise up and to return to the flesh pots of Egyptian slavery so to speak. Some advise as did Moses-'stand still and see the salvation of the Lord" i; but God commands: Speak into Children of Isreal that they go forward"
 At the Acipico Baptist church Sun day morning, MT. Green based his ad- dress on the Bible account of the barren fig tree that was cut away, when the Lord of the vineyard saw that 1t was not to bear fruit. The speaker declared the scripture words: Herein is your Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit" declaring that useless members flo the church were in the way of meet ing the same fate as befell the barren fig tree"
 Both at the Acipco church and at the Irondale church, Mr. Green named the following 19 objects of Baptist for 1925, exclusive of the undertaking or local Baptist congregations Foreign missions, home missions, state missions Howard college, Judson college, Newton institute, .ministeral education, Lotus vile seminary, Woman's Missionary Union Training school at Louisville Southwestern seminary at Fort Wortn Texas, the W. NJ. U., training school the Baptist training school at New Orleans, the general educational board of this city, negro theological school at Nashville, the orphan's home at Troy the board of ministerial relief, the Ala bama Baptist hospital, the Birmingham Baptist hospital and the Southside hos pital board at New Orleans.