Evening star., 1925-07-03
BAPTISTS FOR NEW
MISSION SOCIETY
Fundamentalist Mass Meet
ing Urges Recall, Following
Modernist Victory.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, July 3.-F,orma-
ton of new Baptist foreign mission
society was urged in a resolution
passed at a mass meeting of funda-
mentalists last night following ses-
sions of the Northern Baptist con-
vention, in which modernists twice
were victorious.
The resolution came as a result of
the defeat of a move to recall mod
ernist missionaries from foreign
fields, which followed close on an
other modernist victory, the seating
of delegates from the Park Avenue
Baptist Church of New York, of
which DR.. Harry Emerson FoSdick
recently became pastor.
The fundamentals resolution urged
the executive committee of the Bap-
tist Bible Union, together with such
fundamentalists as the executive
committee may consider 1t wise to
call into council, to take into con-
sideration the advisability of organ
izing q foreign mission society found
ed upon the confession of faith OF the
Baptist Bible Union"
A meeting to be called at the dis
cretion of the Baptist Bible Union
executive committee for the found
ing of the new society was sug-
gested.
Scores Seating Of Delegates.
President Millikin was scored for
the ruling which seated delegates of
the Park Avenue Church. His inter
probation of the Baptist constitution
permitted delegates from a church
which is no longer in any sense
Baptist church to take their seats
and vote in the convention" the
resolution set forth.
The Park Avenue congregation in
cludes John D. Rockefeller. his son
and members Of their families. DIR.
Josha Gravett, Denver. one Of the
leaders of the fight on the convention
floor to disqualify the delegation from
that church, declared that it was no
longer Baptist, on the ground that IT
had announced welcome to members
bringing letters from any evangelical
church, and that DR.. Fosdick had pro-
nounced baptism a matter of choice.
Debate on this subject and also on
the Hinson resolution asking recall Of
modernists from foreign fields was
prolonged.
Girl Favors Brevity.
Fundamentalist leaders who ad-
dressed the convention for the Hinson
resolution were interrupted each time
they said I've just one more thing
to say" or 'I'll be through soon," by
a girl delegate, who shouted, Amen,
brother. amen"
DIR. G.. A Huntley of the Chinese
mission field declared that AZ out of
so missionaries In China would resign
rather than submit to catechizing as
to their faith.
Rev. A. w. Beaven Of Rochester, n.
Y, a member of the committee which
Investigated foreign missions, opposed
the resolution on the ground that 1t
was bringing a creedal matter before
the convention by indirection," and
that the convention. by passing the
resolution, would put aside in a few
minutes the result of many weeks
work.
DR.. W. B. Riley of Minneapolis de-
Tended the resolution. asserting that 1t
harmony, not division. and
said, IF missionaries could not sub
scribe to the cardinal tenets in 1T, there
was no use in keeping the name OF
Baptists.
Officers Nominated.
Edwin H. Rhoades, jr., of Ohio, re
ceiyed a committee nomination Tor
president of the Northern Baptist,
and w. C. Colman. Kansas, and Roy
L. Hudson, Pennsylvania, were nomi-
mated for vice presidents in a report
presented by J. E. Noftsinger, Mount
Vernon, Wash, chairman of the NOM
mating group. In previous years
committee nomination has been equiv
alent to election.
The retiring president, Carl Millikin,
former Governor of Maine and law
yer, was named for president OF the
Foreign Mission Society.
Other nominees include: The Rev.
Morris H. Levy, Pittsf1eld, Mass. re-
cording secretary the Rev. Charles A
Walker, Dover, Del, statistical secre-
tary.
subsidiary organizations include:
American Baptist Foreign Mission So
ciety-Recording secretary, William
B. Lippard, New York, treasurer,
George B. Huntington. New York.
Woman's American Baptist Foreign
Mission Society--Vice president, Mrs.
Howard Wayne Smith, Pennsylvania;
recording secretary, Mrs. W. 5. Aber-
nethy, Washington, D. Q.
Woman's American Baptist Home
Mission Society - President, Mrs.
George w. Coleman, Massachusetts,
first vice president, Mrs. George Caleb
Moore, New York.
The American Baptist Home Mis-,
sion Society-President, Judge Frank
S. Dietrick, Ohio; first vice president,
F, P. Beaver, Ohio; second vice presi.
dent, c. L. Allin, New York; third vice
president, Grant NJ. Hudson, Mich
igan; recording secretary, Miss Susan
T. Keese. New York.
The American Baptist Publication
Society-President. Alvan T. Fuller,
Massachusetts,; vice presidents. the
Rev. c. w. Kemper, West Virginia;
the Rev William H. Geistweit, Ohio;
corresponding secretary. the Rev. VIII
liam H. Main, Pennsylvania: record
ing secretary, the Rev. Charles n. Ar
buckle, Massachusetts; treasurer,
George L. Estabrook, Pennsylvania.
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