Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-12
Retirement All o W.
ance for Aged Minist-
ers and Purchase Of
Recorder Come Up
Nv DAVID MORGAN.

pa1eiqh Nov 12.-FrOm all parts
40 state today and tomorrow Bap-
a.. pastors and leaders will head to-
''ord Raleigh for the annual sessions
oT the Baptist State Convention and
nastors' conference.
The pastors conference will con.
vene Monday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock
and will be followed Tuesday morn
inc bv the convention proper, which
VII, continue through Thursday noon.
neleeates will assemble Wednesday
niqht in the Raleigh Memorial Au-
ditorium. All other sessions will be
hold in Tabernacle Baptist church.
Chief item for convention business
sessions will be the foundations of
q statewide plan to provide retire
ment allowance for Baptist ministers
above 65 years of age, according tc
M. A. Higgins, general secretary of
the convention. The individual minis
ters participation in the plan would
he voluntary, Higgins indicated.
Though details of the plan will be
worked out during the convention,
the retirement plan will probably di-
vide financial responsibility among
the individual pastor, the local church,
and the State convention, in confor-
nifty to the general plan advocated by
the relief and annuity board of the
Southern Baptist Convention.
Also up for discussion will be the
purchase by the Baptist State Con-
vention of the Biblical Recorder,
weekly religious paper, organ of the
convention but now owned by the
Biblical Recorder Publishing Co. In
IA of the Is states of the Southern
Baptist Convention the Baptist Pc
riodical is owned by the State con-
vention. Members of the committee
to report on the usefulness or wis
dom of purchasing the Biblical Re-
corder" are j. L. Peacock, chairman,
Tarboro; L. L. Hatfield, Hickory:
Johnson j. Hayes, Greensboro; F. c..
Feezor, Raleigh; A. Smith, Green's
boro; A. j. Barton, Wilmington.
A committee headed by Convention
President r. N. Simms will report
on the advisability of establishing
two additional Baptist hospitals, one
in the eastern and one in the south
central sections of the State.
Convention Theme.
Theme for the three-day conven-
ton session will be "The Longed-For
Spiritual Awakening" North Carolina
Baptists adopted this theme last No
vember and had the satisfaction this
spring of seeing the Southern Bap-
fist Convention adopt for 1899 the
same general theme of emphasis on
evangelization.
Heading the list of out-of-state
speakers for the convention are DR..
L. R. Scarborough, president of the
Southern Baptist Convention, Fort
Worth, Texas; DR.. Charles E. Mad
dry, executive secretary of the foreign
mission board, Richmond, Va; DR..
w. F. Powell, president of the Bap-
fist Sunday School Board, Nashville,
Tennessee.
Other speakers are Louis S. Gaines,
lexington; James B. Willis, Hamlet;
R. E. Hardaway, Lenior; Wyman E.
Wood, Swannanoa; Sankey L. Blan-
ton, Wilmington; w. D. Morris, Eliz-
abeth City; Ira D. S. Knight, Dur
ham; Mrs. j. Clyde Turner, Green's
boro Frank K. Poole, Chapel Hill;
]. D. Simons, Louisburg; Olin T.
Binkley, Wake Forest; J. r. Gulley,
Mount Olive; J. w. Kincheloe, Rocky
Mount; E. v. Hudson, Cramerton; j.
Clyde Turner, Greensboro.
Presiding over the convention will
be Attorney r. N. Simms, ST., who
for 38 years has been teacher of the
Baraca class of the Tabernacle Bap-
fist Church, Raleigh. Vice presidents
are A. ]. Burton, Wilmington; George
W. Paschall, Wake Forest, and Hoyt
Blackwell, Mars Hill.
Pastor Of the host church is Rev.
Forrest c. Feezor, graduate of Wake
Forest College and the Southern Bap-
fist Theological Seminary, previously
head of the department of Bible at
William Jewell College, Liberty, Mis-
surf. Tabernacle church will COM
mence $4,000 building program soon
after the close of the convention.