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ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY EVENING DECEMBER 7 1916
NO 157
Baptists
Durham
Go To
.. For Convention 01 191?
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) Will Mppf There With
Second Baptist Church of
TWhich J. T.
Pastor
BGUCE BEIIIIEI1 CIIOSEII PRERCHER
Rockingham PastorNamed for This
Honor With R. A. McFarland Al
ternate
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' , ; Durham will be the Place and the
Second Baptist church,-of which J.
T. ; Rlddlck ia pastor, will be the
lost, of the next meeting of the
Baptist State Convention. '
;-.7Th!a wai-the-repdrt br the" -coin:'
.mittee on place ' and preacher who,
named Her; Bruoe Bennett of
.Rockingham to preach for' the Con
vention sermon, with R. A. McFar-
lan as alternate
Missions was the general topic
'for this morninx and Dr. J. F.
" L Love, brother of W. T. Love Sr. of
:. this cftv, r.nd Corresponding Rorre-
tary of the Foreign Mission Board
of Southern Baptist at Richmond.
Led the discussion.
"A larger foreign mission nro-
gram", said Dr. Love, "is a neccs
elty for Southern Baptist."
, "I would not depreciate what, has
been done", he continued, end went
on to say that the Baptist record in.
he foreign mfcssion fle!d can not he
duplicated, as A nlram .Tudsort
and William Carey are figures that
stand forth on the plane of mission
ary achievement llke the pyramids
silhouetted against the ancjlent E
gyptian sands, that spite of the
comparative inconvience of " their
, tnode of Baptism. Bptist mission-
aires have baptised Into 'heir faith
; a greater number of believers than
- any other denomination, the,ir re-
cord of souls saved in a single day
. . having no parallel save that of Pen
' tecoat.
Despite what has already been
"lone, however, Dr. Love felt that
all of it was but preparation f rr
" larger endeavors. "The sacrifice
and devotion of 75.000 Baptists In
the days of Judson should infuse
with the same spirit of heroic
Taitn he tw0 an tnree Quarter mil
' lion Baptists of today. The result
- of such inspiration "would , le be
yond v'culatlon. 'm
"Wr ''"'i left Elizabeth- City"
aald l !'niove. there was not a
niari n,'Wwn who could have own
ei a'' 'automobile. The slgnlfl
cance of twenty cent cotton instead
of six -cent cotton is overwhelming.
Any farmer who la able today - to
buy an automobile ' la able to give,
one bale of cotton a year to foreign
' "mission!, and a bale of cotton . Is
worth enough now to Veep a for
0 lgri missionary on the foreign field
for twelve months . ' ' " '
' "VI fares the land to towering
I . Ilia- a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and
jnen decay
quoted Dr. Love and went on to
say that - only a great foreign mis-.
!. Bion" pr6gram at thls,tlme can eave
Southern Bsptlsta from the , corr'd
lng rust of accumulated wealth,'.
The i speaker, took .the ground
that not only do, the blessings
which Cod hna civon BnptiKts cnll
REV. Q. M. DUKE, Maplavlllo, Or.' J D HUFHAM, Mebanp; Rev T. J.
.. 1 ' - . TAYLOR, Warrenton
and when necessity of launching, a 1 ro3slble contribution. To do this r-
great campaign fr for ?du- ;uire i the htg hect intelligence. ,
cation will be upon the Convention
"II h a InlAn it ( a 1nn Hmo
ML! I l -wuft vauv
inis mornings session dod ctid Dr. MuU!m 'tojea iie the
un ur. Muiuns aaaress on A i ne:d nf Bdtlnn u nir
Worthy Baptist Program.' ' '
At laat night's cession the Con
vention sent greetings to the fol
'owlng Baptist leaders who had
been kept away by sickness or
feebleness: 'O. HI. Duke of Mapl4pa,nt we ,'3Plcture' 1 tne-n- You
a Ion.'
lime f;r the world to believe that
&U cculd educate a girl. When wo
mau's education was teguniit was
ornainental. A girl was taught to
ew daintily, to play nfcely, and to
UR. B. W. SPILMAN, K'nston
an Empire in China;
tiveness of scholasticism to
them to the task. The South
American Republics are growu
"ashamed of the Ignorance nursed
by Rome;" a Presidency succeeds
the ineffec-
estab-
Ush clvl ization on a permanent
basig is being demonstrated In Eu
rope; the Crescent and the Cr'.is
have matched their strength for
the possession of Africa. Face to
face with these conditions the Bap
tists must, if they would be a preat
people, adopt' a grent foreign mis
sion program.
MORE ADEQUATE BUILDING
i FUND NEEDED
Dr. L. B. Warren, heatf of the
churrhh but lding department of
the Home Mission Board, told of
the young man who sat down to
the boarding house table and com
plained that hig napkin was .damp.
"Perhaps," ventured the landlady,
"you napkin is damp because there
U as much due (dew) on your
board. "I bring you this story
from, 'Uncle Dan' Grey, said Dr.
Warren "and he bids me remind you
that Southern Baptists are due $70
000. 00 to the Home Board. ,
Dr. Warren made a special p'ei
for4 a more adequate Baptist church
building fund and showed how
Baptists Have lagged in this re
spect aa compared with other de
nominations. Hs cited statistics
showing that Southern Baptists are
spending$ 112,000,000. 00 a year for
luxuries while 4,000 homelers
"churchea die for lackof support.
in response to a jUes by Dr Wal
ter ; N. Johnson, Secretary of tbi
State Mission Board, the , pastor!
and- other delegates pledged theiu
selves to use their utmost endeavor
"to rniso the .$140,000 asked for fo
ville; T. M. Arrington of Rocky
Mount, now at St. Petersburg,
Florida; Walter E. Daniel of Wel
don, now at Johnson Willis Hos
pital at Richmond, Virginia; and
Dr. J. D. Hufbam of Mebane.
A vote of thanks was, extended to
Dr. Brewer, retiring recording, sec
retary of the Convention, for hia
excellent arvlce In past years,
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- Dr. Mullins' address on 'Baptists
and Education' put the subject of
education before the Convention in
an extraordinarily forcible way and
Jtirred pastors and laymen to
ppeak with determination and en
thusiasm on the woork of the de
nomination along educational lines
which must le undertaken.
Dr. Mullins state:! in the begin
ning that the most vltrl and far
reaching of all subjects which Bap
tist' :irr considering today Is the
otit inn. why should Baptists ed
ucate.
Hp said that In his work in the
various sections of the United
Stafe8-nnd Canada he had fourrd
the Baptist problem 'of education
the rnnie throughout the country
and hnd also found that Baptists are
Just beginning to realize the need
of reinforcement and strengthening
In their educational plans and work
"When I try to prove the need 'of
education" taid be, "It Is like try
Ins; to prove water I wet, or any
other self-evident fact".
"But I wil! set forth", he contin
ued. "The fol'o,v,lng nrgunuents for
Biptist education which I think
you cannot dispute:
1. Baptist principles are so great
and sublime and necessary to the
life cf the world that they must be
nnpogated.
2. Baptist paople have such great
possibilities that tbey ought to be
given the greatest possible de
ve'opement. 1
3. Baptist principles are so impor
tant that th2y ought to have the
best trained men to proclaim Iheir
truths. U
I T)ant fat miirht tn. pnntrlhtito in"
all forms of social life the highest
have heard about tfie country boy
who took the country girt to the
fair. There was a peanut roastar"
nearby and the girl said 'Don't
those peanuts smell good?' 'Yes', he
enswered, 'let's drive up a llttlo
closer co you can smelt them bet
ter.' Well, that's about all we did
tor the girl In education In the beginning.
6t 5"hw acftaai ai gnnrgut. There
ia not a single Baptiut doctrine
which doj net requlne education
for Its appropiation by the indlvi
dual.
A democracy that is not intelli
gent may result In chaos and has
done so In some Baptrst churches.
If a church 19 to become self-governing
It must educate It's member
ship. We Hree tliat the ordlnunce.:
have no saving power and thai
(ah mind must understand and in
terpret them for itself. Theu each
mind must be educated.
The Bible Is literature, and it
takes intelligence t0 understand It.
The heresy of transsubstantiation
is ba-etl on the ignorance of rheto
ric, the failure to . understand n
llgure of speech, the metaphor.
'This is my body".
. Common sense. The 'educated
man lg worth more than the unedu
cated man. An educated anything
Is worth more f -n the thing uned
ucated, an educated horne dog or
flea . The difference between power
and impotence In any undertaking
is education. Lands out west ,now
marvel3U3 fertile for many years
grew only cactus. The difference is
education.
7, Chrlutain education .Is nec,
sary if we ate to have a Chrlntaln
civilization.
, The General Education Board at
New Ifork nor plans to aid espe
cially the Chrlstain rather than the
state "schools, because the cultiva
tion o the military spirit In Europe
at th government schools It is be
llevcttv has brought about the blood
shed ft that land.
Education wlthoirt Chrtstalnjlty
produced in this country a man who
became a counterfeiter and coat
the government the . monjey which
educated him, the money which cap
tured '.him, r nd . h money which
kept tim in prison the rest of his
life. ;
Foreign missionaries have found
education Indispensable In their
work of evangelization and Dr.
Carrol of Texas says that nether
can . we in this country evangelize
In this country without this band
maiden of evangelization.
8. 'The Bible Itself teaches ed
ucation. Paul says' that grace
should abound in knowledge : and
the reat commission bids men to
go snd. teach men all things. More
over we would nofc-'e.th' Bible
i' It ha,'d not been iur educated men
who ' cou!d transmit this know
ledge to , ; . .'
9. Baptlsls' dare not refuse to ed-
Thoy are hound to do it
to - ' '"1. W'o tnvi
MEDICAL 8QCIETY MEETS
The local Medical Society met
with D'r.'.McMullan at his new and
palatial residence on ' Pennsylvania
Avenue Wednesday oighC ' ThoseN
present were: Dr. O. . McMulIan,
C. B. " WliUams, - Ef kendrick.'
C. O. s Ferebee; C. W. Sawyer,
W. W. 8awyer, W. L. Stevens, a
E. ; Newby, R- B. DatU; SI. Fear
Ingr, z. Fearlns;." ; John Saliba, : VT.
A. Peters, J, M. Parrottnd H.
T. Aydlett. ' ; v ; - .'
After enjoying an elaborate and
bountiful spread of y .moat excel
lent dinner o may courses, they ad
journed to" the library, where the
society was called to order, and af
ter a brief and instuctlve talk from
Dr. J. V Piimtt nt viu
fi LV WT Prer ( red by ' " Dr.
net Ita - officers for the ensuing
year as follows; Dr. W. w, 8w
yer.president; Dr. C. E. Newby,'
vice president; Dr. H. T. Aydlett,
-ecrejary and treasurer. Th9 fol'ow
log were e'ected board of censors:
Drs. O. McMulIan, R. L. Ken
drlck and z. Fearing.
After discussing many Interest
ing cases and many points of im
portance to the members, the socie
ty adjourned. They will, meet again
at the hospital the first Wednesday
night in January for a dinner- and
busines., meeting by Invitation of
Dr. John Saliba.
The society endorsed the Idea
of the buying of a pulmotqr by the
alderman and appointed Dr. C. B.
WnHamsnaifrinrn
to reocommend this step to the a
derman. ' v-v'
POLICE ON THE JOB
The Police Officers, who also are
traffic officers, are on the Job these
days. Judge Sawyer had quite
a few to appear before him Wed
ntsday morning on the charge of
having violated the traffic ordl
nance. They were: Joe Swindell,
fined $10.00 and eWs; Uaynor El
liott, ,flmd $5.00 and costs; C. E.
Williams, fined $5.00 and costs.
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J. A. CAMPBELL,
President Buie't Creek Academy
We muit have a does conviction of
this fact that will sway and shape
our po'ley relative to our educa
tional work. We havethe belief
perhaps, but we must get the 'con
viction. A belief, you know. Is
something that a man holds; a
conviction is something that holds
the man. A man has a belief
about hornets until he gets Into a
nest of them. After that h has
a conviction. I
THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Dr Mullins summed up the needs
of .the denomination tn educational
work as follows:
' a. The standardization of schools.
b. Limiting their number.
. c. Unifying and correlating them
d. Binding them to the denom
ination. " .
C Supporting them financially.
"Finally" said he, we 'muat
capitalize our pastl! mistakes Into
assets of the future, This la, the
true phllO'phy of 111(0. We have neg
lected education. We must capita
lize this mistake Into m asset. The
ct;ri )iT,iit)f of tli' ItujtliU school
II WEEKLY VOICE
FROM
Bti
PREACHERS SERMON MAY ' BE
JUj THAT. - IF SPEAKER
MEETS COD'S "CONDITIONS
i , By O. L. GREAVES ', ;
Mt brethren the suoject upon
which ,' I am to speak this morning
U not of my choosinf. '. : It was
given mo by th program com-'
mlttee and 1 am here at their be
hest. I ahould Tnucb nmtar lf
Jt tjhfl (eet o( some lowly Enoch j
whose walk with God has .been
clearer than mine and ' hear him"
discuss a subject of such transcea-
dent .lmoortanca. . rr r ' ' .;r
I take it that th9 most of tta AN.
frankly committed to the belief that
there Is such a thing aa a voice from
heaven; that is, that God vea yet
speaks to men through the mouths
pi nis numan ' messengers who Sua
(lay after Sunday stand up to pro
claim bla word. On the other band .
I am sure we have all heard ar
-wuw( bum a VWVUVU awtUBj vi :
ourselves perhaps, when by no
stretch of th Imagination. Icould
they be ca'led Voices from heaven."
in diction, eloqueht la delivery, has
been after all onlv the wisdom of
thi, world which, the ,apqstle ,de
clarelisTfooilahBesfl wlttt"Ood. i
'But sermons are preached, tens of
thousands ' of them, which God de
UghU to own and bless. Heavenly
messengers stand on earth, Itglons
of, them, every Lord's Day as he x
aids of the Great King. This shall
be our first Inquiry: in what sense
Is the weekl, voice from the pulpit
a voice from heaven.
First, it la a voice from heaven
if it Is an explanation and an ei-V
position of. the Book which came
fpnm hno van ni-aoitilnra mam tiA
called heavenly which is not sound- '
ly biblical By this we do not mean
that one must be always juggling
with texts, nor speaking In sCrlp .
ture pharaseology, nor neglecting'
thV. significant events of the present
to dwell on the happenings of the
ancients; but that the preacher
must be saturated with the thought
and the spirit of the Bible, that he
must be entirely familiar with Its
teachings on all subjects, and that '
he must he an expert In applying
Biblical standards t0 psesenr aay
conditions. The Biblical preacher
does not claim to receive any new
revelation, he does not feel the need
of It. Th man who thinkg we need
new revelation to meet present con- -dltlons
thereby proclaims his want,
of familiarity with the only com
plete revelation there Is, the ' Holy -Scripture
. When the Northern '
Continental army defeated Bur .
goyne at Ticonderogo, Washington's
chaplain preached from thj text "1
-l'l go far away from thee' Oh
thou northern army.'1 Old (Israel
Putnam said to the chaplain after
the sermon waR over: "Of course',
you did not find that text. In the
Bible!" The chaplain immediately v
showed, it to him, whereupon the f
old warrior said: "Everything is In
that Book, If you know where to
find it." 8o then we need not' seek
for new revelations, but to become
Increasingly intimate with the, old.
In. every age fanatics, enthusiasts,
Impostors, have made extravagant
claims of extra-blbllcal revelations '
and by -uch spurious revelatlos
have claimed ' Divine sanction for
most revolting practices, even for
murder and unchastlty. A Baptist
s'ogan has been, "The 'Bible, ' the
Bible only, 'aa a sufficient , rule of
faith and practice." hlg" should
be the preachers motto And he
cannot cut oo much time nor study
In, trying to find out exactly what
It teaches, he-eannot be too conscI-v
entlous in teaching exactly hat It
teaches. If .be falls ' here: he loses
his rfRht lo be considered a heaven
ly messenger - ' ,
THE. CALL TO THE MINICTHY
Acaln the permmi n ' 1