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rrocr riw r6vh J- , AA WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY MAY 7. REV. LANSING BURROWS. Secretary of the Convention. Rev. Lansing Burrows junior secre tary of the Southern Baptist conven tion, is a son of the celebrated Rev. J. L. Burrows. He was born April 10, 1845 at Philadelphia, moved while young to Richmond, Va., was educated at Richmond college and at Wake For est. He began life as a Journalist upon The Richmond Press.- He served through the greater part of the war and returned to Journalism at its . close, in 1866 he taught in the seminary at Stanford, Ky. He married Miss Salie Rochester, of Boyle county, Ky., 1868; was pastor at Lexington, Va. In 1883 he jbecame pastor of Green Street church Augusta, Ga., and remains there until the present time. He received in the same year the degree of A. M., from Princton College, N. J., and from Mad ison University, New York. . - REV. HARRY A BAGBY who conducted the devotional exercises last evening was born in King and Queen county, Va., November 23, 1863, went to Bethel College, Ky., and grad uated from the seminary at Louisville in 1887, ordained at Broadway Baptist church July 1887, was pastor of Cyn thiana and Union churches from 1887-90 and also pastor of the Baptist church at Suffolk, Va., at present pastor of Clay Street Baptist church, Richmond, Va. I REV. JOHN NEWTON PJIESTRIDGE the new vice president of the Baptist Young People's Union, born at Selma, Ala., February 5, 1853, went to Howard College, to the seminary from 1879 to 1883, was ordained. at Harpersville, Ala., pastor at " New 'Castle and Burks. Branch churches in Kentucky, at Hop kinsville, Ky., at San Antonio, Texas in November 1887, at present pastor at Williamsburg, Ky., also president of Williamsburg Institute, a co-educational institution. O REV. LUMUEL ORAH DAWSON -nrMiriTit'-nt-tiiB-uTiiori'WaS born at" Waverly, Ala., April 24, 1865, graduated with high honx at Howard college, and then took a full course at the Theolog ical Seminary. After filling several important pastorates in Kentuck he was called to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he now resides and is held in the high est esteem. REV. JOHN O'BRIEN RUST , who made the address of the great ad dresses, born at Hopkinsvflle, April 6, 1859, educated at Bethel College, Rus sellville, Ky., attended seminary at Louisville in 1882-83, was ordained at Lyle's church. Fluvanna, county, Va., 1877, was pastor at Beaverdam and - Columbia, Va.. in 1879-80; at Mount Olivet,- Ky., and New , Providence, Tenn., in 1881-84, at Trenton and Mc Ferran Memorial and Borderstown, at . r . in . m JUDGE JONATHAN HARALSON. President of the Convention. Judge Jonathan Haralson, president of the Southern Baptist convention was born October 18, 1830 in Loundes Coun ty, Alabama, He graduated at the University of Alabama in 1851 and the Louisiana law school in 1852. In 1853 he moved to Selma, Ala., and began the practice of ' law In 1875 he became Judge of the city court of Selma, a few years later he was elected Judge of the supreme court of Alabama, which posi tion he has held ever since. In early youth Judge Haralson became a Bap tist, was baptized at 14 years of age, became deacon in 1855, has been pres ident of the Alabama state convention, trustee of 'Howard college and of the Agricultural and Mechanical college for several years, and president of the Southern Baptist convention since 1889. He is a capital presiding officer, often relieving the dull routine with gleams of humor. MR. JOSIAH WILLIAMS BAILEY who made the capital address of wel come on behalf of North Carolina Bap tists was born September 14, 1872, at Warreton, North Carolina. Educated at Wake Forest college. At the death of his father Rev. Dr. C. T. Bailey edi tor of The Biblical Recorder, he became editor and has been singularly success ful. He is probably the.most pungent paragraphist in the south. Mr. Baley is good looking and unmarried. 1 T BAPTIST Y0D1IG PEOPLE. INTERESTING MEETING OF THE UNION HELD YESTERDAY. Inspiring Addresses by Leaders - oj Jthe Movement. Promptly at 10 a. m. in the First Baptist church the Baptist Young Peo ple's Union auxllliary to the Southern Baptist convention was called to order by the president, Rev. L. O. Dawson, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., who presented Rev. Oscar Haywood, of West Point, Miss., but who was born in North' Carolina, to conduct the devotional exercises. After singing "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name." Dr. H. j W. Tribble, of Charlottesville, Va., prayed and "Jesus Lover of ' My Soul" was sung, then Rev. M. D. Earley led in prayer. "Stand Up For Jesus" was sung and Rev. Os car Haywood read the thirteenth chap- .ter of First Corinthians: "Though I speak with the tongue of men and an gels;" also a part of the fifth chapter of Matthew. "And seeing the .multi tudes He went up into a mountain." Mr. Haywood made . brief, expository remarks as he read and closed by em phasizing the blessedness of obeying God. Rev. Dr. Baron D. Gray, of Bir mingham, Ala., prayed and "Oh For a Closer Walk With God" was sung. Mr. John Williams Bailey, editor of The Biblical Recorder, Raleigh, N. C, spoke a welcome as follows: "I am grateful for the honor and proud of the privilege of tendering wel come on behalf of the great Baptist brotherhood of North Carolina to the great Baptist Young People's Union auixliary. It is not in me to express half the warmth of the welcome in their hearts. We are glad you have come to North Carolina. We have looked for you from afar from the north and the west and the south. You have come to the great est Baptist state of them all, in which the Baptists number more than all other denominations beside. May-, this be a source of strength to you. You have come to the state and not far from the region in which the Baptists of the south started according to "Uncle Billie" (Dr. Whitsitt) who knows. May this visit to the old grand-mother be an inspiration to you. You have come to a state in which your fathers endured persecution, public whippings, fines and imprisonment for the sake of the priceless principles which are our trophies today. May this bind you more firmly to your mission as Baptists and serve to sustain you LjtscaJLruat another evil cLav ,m. ,YVm, . Vyave come to a state in which our denomina tion has increased as it has nowhere in the world, growing in a little more than a century from 10.000 to 300,000 baptized believers. May this be for yqu a token of our power in the years to' come, of our future in the genera tion which we must serve. You have come to, a state in which the Young People's, work has developed grandly in the last two years in which we had an excellent convenion of our own last winter, as Brother Jordan will tell you. May, this inspire those of you who are working against opposition in other states to work on and faint not. Here by the placid waters of the Old Cape Fear, along whose banks in cen turies sone the Tuscarora's had their haunts; in the sound of Old Ocean's mighty, ceaseless anthem; in North Carolina's semi-tropical city of flowers, of enterprising men and fair women; on ground made sacred by the labors of pioneer Baptists, by the sufferings of Paul Palmer and the sacrifices of Shubal Stearns: in the state that fought the first battle for liberty, that promulgated the first declaration of in dependence,, that sent the most soldiers to the battle fields in Virginia and that brought back the least; in the Baptistic state of North Carolina, free, conserva tive, prosperous, promising, God-fearing and glorious; here let us be wel come, let us be strong, as we review a years' work and set out upon another attempting great things in the name of our God. I have watched with gratification our progress since the meeting at Atlanta. I was there and in the cradle of the new organization; and well do I re member how it was rocked by rough winds without and tender hands with in. I was by the side of the lusty in fant at Chattanooga, and measured the' strength Of his loins and the power of his lungs. After a year, we have a full grown organization; our secretary has compassed the south in his work; and today at Wilmington there is none to dispute our title to the field of great est promise in our convention, the young men and women in the churches, upon whom shortly will fall the mantles now so worthily worn by our elders. If by means of our work there shall be raised up in each of the states we represent 100 young men and women who know what it is to be Baptists, -who recognize their mission as Bap tists, who as laymen or workers will find their places and fill them, whether as members of boards, pillars of con ventions, .associations and churches, managers of finances or promoters of woman's work, as business men and women of the Lord, examples and teachers of their fellow Baptists, then the Southern Union will have proved an auxiliary j indeed; it will have done what nothing else has done: it will have made i us strong where .we are weakest in ' active, intelligent lay members. And this is what we are do ing, which is the glorious part of it. If we shairmake the twentieth cen iury the century of Baptist achieve ment in missions and education, as the nineteenth has .been the century of Baptist growth and organization, we must begin now and inprbve, train and dedicate the young men and women whose best years will begin with the new century. If we shall make the influence of the eightteenth century the power of the twentieth; if we shall make he aspirations of the' nineteenth century the realizations of the twen tieth; if we shall make the ideal of the nineteenth the character of the twen tieth century, we must be up and doing now. We must take time and our young people by the forelock. This is what this meeting is here for. and I thank God for his assurance of its suc cess. It is a great undertaking; it is fraught with mighty possibilities, and God is in it failure is impossible. As we are forerunners of the great convention which will convene tomor row, let us regard ourselves, as we are, indeed, forerunners'" of a still greater convention of which we shall be parts in the years to come. We are gathered with the one aim of making the achievements of our Southern Baptist convention, great as the - have been, greater, far -greater, in our day and generation. Brethren and friends, North Carolina is with you, heart and soul. "She wel comes you; she is .t your command. Mr. George E. Leftwich,,of Wilming- WELCOME BY GEORGE " E. LEFT WICH. j ' ton, 4 said : "After listening to our tal ented and beloved brother, I feel like a friend who went with another before a committee to plead a cause. After the plea was made he said, 'I enjoyed that so well, and he has covered the field so fully that I can only say that I heartily endorse him.' : y "Yet, I would bef alse to my personal feeelingandto those I represent if I did not add a word of welcome to our city. In behalf of the people and Christians of Wilmington, with- out stretched hands, I welcome you. Come to our Homes; you will bring down a benediction of blessings. Go onr with your good work till your greater meet ings in 1898; many more- stars will then deck your crown. Welcome; thrice welcome." & By request of the president Rev. J. - ST -ll I - - J J 11 ARE TO BE N. Prestridge president of Williams burg Institute responded to the words of welcome, saying: "Speaking for the visitors, permit me to say that we are glad that you are glad. Besides gratitude . for your cordial welcome we have the expecta tion of better favors' to be received. This young .peoples' movement , is the close of the first century shaking hands with the nineteenth, century, the oldest and the newest Christian thought. This young peoples' movement is a great thought, it should be extended. We should go home and teach it to our little ones at home. I plead with you to take this as the key thought of the century, plant the Kingdom of f God in every human heart. But let me thank you for your rich hospitality. If other delegates have been greeted as I have been we. feel like we own Wilmington. For your open doors and wide open hearts we thank you. May God bless you in every way. Mr. John T. Pullen. a layman of North Carolina, spoke on Personal con secration, first reading the twelfth chapter of Romans "I beseech you brethren by the pure merices of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice." . ' Among other things he said: "I want to speak of consecration. In our work we want a man with clean hands and a pure heart. Which of the saints can we take for an example. Not Abraham, nor Moses, nor David, nor Job, we seek a higher ideal. After searching all scripture and other rec ords the only ideal is our Lord Jesus Christ. In order that we may be conse crated we must follow our. ideal. We can have no power save that born on high, no strength save that He gves us; indeed we have nothing except it be given of God. Our-Lord had the spirit of God; we can have the spirit, with all good gifts God has promised to give His Holy Spirit. And as one has well said of the Holy Spirit, you must 'use Him or lose Him.' Men filled with the Spirit" shake the world. Even Pharoh made a man with the Spirit ruler of Egypt, and a man with the Spirit made Belleshaz- f-zars knees cease to shake. Again in Ofsder to be consecrated we must do the v4ll of the Father in Heaven. That is p. what. Christ's desire and purpose. He icame to fulfil that which was written in the volume of the book. When you are fulfilling the scriptures you are do ing God's will. Do His will and you shall be abundantly satisfied. And you must be much in prayer. Follow Jesus. e was frequently in prayer, He was rnest, He had faith in prayer. He was bject to the will of the Father in prayer. David and Daniel prayed' fre quently Dut Jesus prayea always, in "the wilderness, on tfie mountain, before day and all night. He prayed so earn estly that He sweat as it were great drops of blood. Again follow Jesus in going about doing good. Lastly if we would be consecrated we must follow Jesus in studying the scriptures, it was the delight of His heart. Hide the scriptures in your heart, they will light you through the rough life and into the beyond." - Rev. Fred. W. Eberhardt. of Ken tucky, prayed and "Consecrate Me Lord" was sung. " . ' Rev. C. S. Gardner, of Greenville, S. C, spoke on the Baptist Young Peo ple's Union as a school for training leaders. " . k"The subject" said he "is practical but my address will be largely theoret ical as I have more theories than I have ever been able to put in practice. We Baptists believe in individual re sponsibility, by emphasizing leadership we don't want to forget that old and first principle of our denomination. Yet leadership of the few and following of the many has brought us success. God equips certain men to be leaders. He has prepared many to be followers NTION HELD. In our churches, everything depends on the kind of leadership. Right ljer the Young People's Union finds Itil oppor tunity. The pastor must look over his field for the natural leaders, and next he must look among thd boys and girls who show powers of leadership. I want to emphasize discovery. The union is the great place to train these leaders. God makes the leaders, we can't make them but we can train them. Then we want consecrated, sanc tified leaders I don't mean this second blessing sanctification. Sanctified am bition is the index of real power. Let us not crucify but be crucified for Christ." Rev. Dr. Joseph S. Felix, of Virginia, took the chair and called for Revs. F. L.Wilkins and E..E. Chivers the former ex-secretary and the latter present sec retary of the Baptist Young People's Union of America." Dr. Wilkins, who is pastor pro tem jof israntly Memorial church. Baltimore. congratulated 1 the union on standing up with four million Baptists repre senting twelve' million population in America, whose gifts" to higher educa tion is forty million dollars more than the gifts of all other Protestants com bines. He closed by saying "The cata chism and creed are on the dusty shelf. The Young People's Union has brought the Bible to the fore and laid these aside as relics." ' - Dr. E E. Chivers, of Chicago brought the greetings of his great body and expressed his great gratification at his reception in the south, it reminded him of Apostolic times. "They had all things in common." ; He concluded by detail ing some striking features of the Young People's work. - Never more needed than today. After announcements, on motion of Rev. W. H. Strickland, adjourned with prayer by Dr. E. E. Chivers. AFTERNOON SESSION. President Jordan called the union to order at 3 p. m. "Amazing Grace" was sung, the Rev. M. P. Hunt, of Louisville, led In prayer and the pres ident announced as committee of en rollment Revs. D. I. Purser, Louisiana; H. E. Truex, Tennessee; S. O. Z. Roy, Missouri, who proceeded to enroll the delegates. The Rev. R. VanDeventer, of Georgia, made the first address on "The Study Course and the Result of a Year's Work." He said: "For ten years I have been connected witbr a church whose Youn People's Union conducts a study, course. I find it fit for social circles and tested it among working people and it succeeds. We have no study course except here , and there as presented by the pastor. ;I hope that we are going to have a ' study course. It Is the life of the move- ; ment. I shall speak of the course we , must have. Three things I conceive are 5 necessary for the success of this course. First, conception; second, organization; third, method." After enlarging on these points and telling how to use Dr. Broadus' Har mony and lives of good prople, "Jesus Lover of My Soul" was sung and the Rev. W. H. Smith, of Columbus. Ga., spoke on "Practical Workings of a Successful Union." Dr. Smith has had for several years a most successful union and he told of its good work, speaking in thej, main as follows : , j "There are doubtless many successful unions, but I know of only one. The word, practical suggests that there is somewhere a theoretical side. I can give the practical best by giving some outlines of theories lying behind. The first principle is that the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ is intended to lift us out of self and up to God. Second, the only way to lift men from selfish ness up to God is by getting them through faith in our Christ to exercise self denial. Third, develop the individ ual member of the church. Fourth, 'de velopment is internal and external. Fifth, the only way to get internal de velopmet is by external work. Sixth, get the member to work through feeling an interest in his church. These principles v "we plant in our work. We also have a lookout commit tee, a social and music committee, a devotional committee." After a song "The Sweet Bye and Bye," the election of officers was held, resulting in the following: President. R. L. O. Dawson, Tusca loosa, Ala. First Vice "President Rev. W. H. Smith, Columbus. Ga. Second Vice President Rev. J. N. Prestridge, Williamsburg, Ky. Secretary Mr. W. W. Gaines. At lanta, Ga. Treasurer Mr. W. R. Philips, Bir mingham, Ala. J The president announced the noml- aiinsr committee as R Mempnis7xenn. 7-xvcr.- fiinsr committee as Rev. M. D. Early, tin, Nashville, Tenn.; Rev. J. H. Foster, Alabama. ' On motion of Rev. John D. Jordan," a committee on suggesting changes in the constitution with B. D. Gray as chairman, was appointed, as 1 follows: Rev. D. M. Ramsay, South Carolina; Rev. T. M. Calloway, Alabama; .Rev. I. J. Vanness. Georgia; Rev. H. R. Moseley, South Carolina. On behalf of L. A. Dawson, Meridian, Miss., the president presented a gavel from Lookout- Mountain. He said it . came from high signifying that the young people should lead ; a high life. The handle was short, showing speeches should be short, and though it came from an historic spot, it! bore no wounds, as it grew after the" war had ended.' On motion of John D. Jordan the chairman and secretary were directed to return thanks for the gavel. - ' . Adjourned with prayer by Rev. T. M. Calloway. V . I EVENING SESSION. The First Baptist church was filled to the door last evening when President Dawson called the union to order. Chairs were placed in ' the aisles and soon filled with" people. Rev. Harry A Bagby conducted the devotional ex ercises reading the third chaptjr of II Peter and emphasizing the second coming of Christ. Revs. W. A. Nelson and J. D. Chapman prayed and latter singing. President Dawson stated that the Southern Baptist Theological Sem inary trustees were in session; that they were doing their work in the Spirit of Christ and they asked, the prayers of the Young Peoplejs Union. Rev. George F. Bagby, 'D. D., led in prayer. Rev. John D. Jordan read the report of "the board of managers first annual report stating that they had elected J. D. Jordan Corresponding secretary Au gust 15, 1896; he had visited nine states, was everywhere kindly received, travel ed 16,000 miles, delivered 120 addresses, and forty-seven sermons also carried on an extensive correspondence. The executive committee raised $2,082.29, paid all bills $1,980.05, have Gash on hand $102.24; since the report closed $120, total $222.24. President Dawson read the remain der of the report, and on motion of Dr. J. M. Frost the. report was adopted unanimously. Dr. R. D. Gray reported the minor changes in the constitution which were unanimously adopted. Rev. John O. Rust, of Nashville, spoke on "The Church of the Morrow." . The second address was by Rev. Dr. William L. Pickard, of Louisville, Ky. Revw M. D. Earley reported from nom inating committee a new local board, Revs. B. D. Gray, P. T. Hale. W. A. Hobson, W. R. Philips, E. B. Hogan, J. B. Docken, P. H. MelL L. P. Fleming, T. C. Ratcliff and J. W. Hargrove. States BoardAlabama, J. T. Bled- REV. O. F. GREGORY. Secretary of , the Convention, Rev. O. F. Gregory, senior secreUi of the Southern Baptist convent!-, first elected in 1877, again in 1880, a in 1882 and has served contlnuou since. He was born in 1844, March 7i. at Charleston, S. C. Baptized May " 1858, and ordained to preach Januo. 15, 1871, was educated in Chariest and was 'a member of the first con pany enlisted in the service of Sou Carolina, was. wounded at the seco.' battle of "Manassas, wounded and ca tured at Knoxville, TennM Decemli 5, 1863, was a prisoner at Rock Isla tiU March 7, 1865. He was married t Augusta, Ga., March 6,. 1866. His fi pastorate was the Mount Pleasa'.; church, near Charleston. He becai:. pastor of the First Church at Eufau 1877, at Tuscaloosa 1879, returned . South "Carolina, and was pastor jtr Florence 1880-82, was pastor at Valer. . Street church, New Orleans, 1885, whf he accepted call to the Fourtti Stn Baptist church at Baltimore, where h now is. Has been instrumental ' building seven meeting houses. MR. W. H. GAINES who was elected secretary of the Bap tist Young People's Union resides ' 1 Atlanta and is a lay worker, not preacher, was born in Kentucky 1 1867, graduated at Georgetown, studlf law at Washington and Lee in 1891. REV. JOHN D. JORDAN was born at Princeton, Ky., 1861, ed" cated at Bethel College, ordained ISir. Has had pastorates at Leitchfield, EH- ton, Madisonville, Paducah and Elizr. bethtown and Little Rock, Ark., resigi ed his present pastorate to becom. corresponding secretary of the Your People's Union. The Southern Baptist conventio' which will convene in this city today n 10 a. m.. was "organized at Augusta, Ga., May 8,, 1845. Prior to that period having a convention which met ever, three years and called the Trlenni? Convention. This body declined to ay'" point as a missionary to China a min ister who owned slaves, hence a meet ing of Southern Baptists was called t meet to consider the situation; they met at Augusta and formed the South ern Baptist convention. The foreign mission board was located at Ricl mond, Va., wherelt remains; the horn board was located at Marion, Ala,, an ' afterwards to Atlanta. Ga.. where i. has wonderfully flourished. A Sunday school board was formed in 1867. consoi idated with the home board a fev years later; a new board was formed in 1891, located at Nashville, Tenn., and i the most successful of all the boards. HON. JOSHUA LEVERING President of the Theological Trustee. Hon, Joshua Levering, president c. the Theological Seminary trustee , born in Baltimore, Md.V September IT. 1845, is one of our foremost Baptist lay men. He entered commercial life i: 1861 beginning as a clerk. In 1866 h was taken into partnership by -hir father and two brothers, under thr firm name of E. Levering & Co. In a revival meeting in 1857 he was convert ed and baptized into the fellowship of the Seventh Baptist church. In 1871 he went into the organization of Eutaw Place church. He has been superin tendent of the Sunday school since 1881. 1 also president of the Young Men's Christian Association, and school of re form. He has been treasurer of the American Baptist Education Society since its organization. ' He is now pres Ident of the board of trustees of thr Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky. Is a member of tht International" committee of the. Young Men's Christian Association of the United States and Canada. Has been a member of the prohibition, party sincp 1884 was a nominee of that party for governor of Maryland, and " last year was candidate for the presidency of tha United States of the same party,, re ceiving 157,000 votes. He has just com pleted a $10,000 gymnasium for thft students of the Seminary at Louisville,
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