Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-15
BAPTIST COMMITTEES WHIP
REPORTS INTO SHAPE FOR
SUBMISSION TO CONVENTION

Conferences and committee meet
ings preliminary to the opening
Wednesday morning Of the annual
session of the Southern Baptist con
vention at the municipal auditori-
UNI were in full swing Tues
day. Many matters of vital impor-
lance to the denomination were dis
cussed at these gatherings. prepare
tory to the formulation of reports
which will be passed upon by the
convention.
| The Baptist editors of the south
!. assembled at the First Baptist
church, the trustees of the South
ern Baptist Theological seminary at
the Piedmont hotel, and the stew
ardship and enlistment conference
at the First Baptist church. In the
afternoon there was a meeting
of the board reorganization COM
mission at the First Baptist church,
this being one of the most important
commissions to report at the conven-
ton.
Tuesday night, at $50 o'clock, oc-
Cured the big mass meeting of lay
men at the municipal auditorium, at
which churchmen of all denomina-
tons gathered for a discussion of
present-day religious problems.
United States Senator Walter f..
George, of Georgia, and Douglas
Freeman, editor of the Richmond
News-Leader, delivered the Drinci-
pal addresses. Governor Clifford
Walker and DIR. NJ. Ashby Jones,
pastor of the Ponce de Leon Ave
nue. Baptist church, made short
talks. DIR. +. Y. Mullins, president
of the Southern Baptist convention,
conducted the devotional service.
CONFIDENTLY, the Woman's Mis-
sionary union, the great woman S
Organizati ton of southern Baptists,
opened it's annual convention at the
Baptist tabernacle, to continue in
session for three days. Hundreds
of delegates arrived Tuesday for
this assembly.
Bible Conference Session
Another important meeting sched-
uled for Tuesday night was the South
ern Baptist Bible conference session
at the Central Baptist church, on
Cooper street. This gathering dis
cussed the fundamentals of Chris
tianity and Baptist doctrine, the con
ference having been organized to
combat nationalistic tendencies in
religion.
The future programs committee,
at an important session Monday,
formulated tentative recommends
tons which are certain to command
intense interest from the convention
The SIS, 900 900 campaign, launched
five years ago at the Atlanta gath
ering of the denomination, to
finance UNCONVENTIONAL activities for
a five-year period, comes to a close
this fall, and it is planned to carry
forward another campaign along
similar lines, although not for a like
period of time.
The committee recommendation
it is understood calls for one-year
campaign in 1925 to raise $500 900
for southwide UNCONVENTIONAL pur-
poses, the opinion being that better
results will be achieved by a one
year drive than in a fiVe-year cam
paign.
The apportionment OF these funds
mittee is as follows: Foreign mis-
siops, 40 per cent home missions,
% per cent; relief and annuity board,
u per cent and Christian education.
30 per cent.
Budget Needs Listed
1t is the recommendation Of the
committee that the canvass of the
churches in support of this budget
be conducted from November so to
December :, and that such churches
az are not reached in that time be
canvassed during the remainder Of
December. Throughout the campaign
for the new program stewardship
and tithing will be stressed as
part of the program of education.
Estimates of their needs for 1925,
filed with the committee by the
various participating southWide
clauses, are as follows: foreign mis-
sion board. $4.046. 900 home mis-
sion board, S1.685,637; relief and
annuity board, $1150,O0O; Southern
Baptist Theological seminary, Louis
Vile, S1.050 900. Woman's Missionary
Uriou Training school, Louisville.
800, 900; southwestern Baptist Thee