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MINUTES

SIXTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING

Baptist State Convention

NORTH CAROLINA

HELD IN OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA

DECEMBER 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13, 1897

RALEIGH

EDWARDS & BROUGHTON, PRINTERS

1897

OFFICERS.

PRESIDENT :

Rev. R. H. Marsh, D. D Oxford, N. C.

VICE-PRESIDENTS :

Rev. J. M. White Apex, K C.

Rev. R. T. Vann, D. D Scotland Neck, N, C.

Rev. C. B. Justice Rutherfordton, N. C.

recording secretaries :

N. B. Broughton Raleigh, N. C.

Rev. Hight C. Moore Monroe, N. C.

treasurer : J. D. BousHALL Raleigh, N. C.

auditor : W. N. Jones "... Raleigh, N. C.

corresponding secretary : Rev. John E. White Raleigh, N. C.

trustees :

Rev. W. C. Tyree Durham, N. C.

Hon. C. M. Cooke Louisburg, N. C.

Rev. Livingston Johnson Greensboro, N. C.

T. H. Briggs, Esq Raleigh, N. C.

Prof. L. R. Mills Wake Forest, N. C.

CONSTITUTION OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION.

1. The Baptist State Convention shall be compoeed of three male rep- resentatives from each white Association in the State in fellowship with us, or one annual male representative appointed by the churches for every ten dollars contributed to its funds : Provided, that no church shall have more than ten representatives, and of such male life mem- bers as have been made so by the payment of thirty dollars at any one time to the Treasurer for the objects of the Convention. No one shall be a member of the Convention who is not a member in good standing of a Baptist church in fellowship with us, and no other life mem- bers shall be made.

2. The primary objects of the Convention shall be to encourage and support Wake Forest College ; to educate young men called of God to the ministry, and approved bj- the churches to which thej" belong ; to encourage education among all the people of the State ; to support the Gospel in all the destitute sections of the State and of the Southern Baptist Convention ; to send the Gospel to the nations who have it not ; to encourage the disti-ibution and study of the Bible and a sound religious literature ; to assist Baptist churches in the erection of suit- able houses of worship ; to encourage the proper care of indigent or- phan children and destitute and aged ministers of the Gospel, and to co-operate with the Southern Baptist Convention in all its departments of labor.

3. The Convention shall meet annually, on Thursday night after the first Sunday in December.

4. The officers of the Convention shall be a President, three Vice- Presidents, a Recording Secretary and an Assistant, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, an Auditor, and five Trustees, all of whom, except the Trustees (who shall serve during the pleasure of the Conven- tion) shall be elected annually.

5. The President shall preside and enforce order in accordance with Dr. Mell's Parliamentary Practice. One of the Vice-Presidents shall preside in the absence of the President.

6. The Recording Secretary and his Assistant shall record the pi'o- ceedings, collect and preserve statistics of the denomination, and pub- lish and distribute the Minutes.

7. The Treasurer sliall receive all funds represented in the Conven- tion ; make public acknowledgement of the same each week through the Biblical Recorder ; give his bond to the Trustees ; forward, at least once a month, all contributions to their destination ; at every meeting

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of the Convention make a full report of his receipts and disbursements, and, on retiring from his office, turn over to his successor all moneys, papers and books belonging thereto.

8. The Trustees shall secure and hold the title to any and all property belonging to or wliich may be acquired by the Convention, and take a suiiicient bond of the Treasurer. The terms, conditions and amount of the bond shall be fixed by the Trustees, and in case the Treasurer shall refuse or neglect to give his bond within thirty days after his election, the Trustees shall have power to elect a Treasurer. They shall report annually to the Convention.

9. The Auditor shall, prior to each annual meeting of the Convention, examine carefully all the receipts, disbursements, vouchers, papers and books of the Treasui-er. and his certificate to the facts in the case shall be attached to the Treasurer's report.

10. The Corresponding Secretary shall solicit contributions to the objects of the Convention ; assist the Board of Missions and Sunday Schools in the employment and payment of missionaries, and labor to promote the cultivation and development of Christian benevolence.

11. The Education Board shall, so far as it may be able, assist promis- ing and indigent yovmg ministers seeking to prepare themselves for the more efficient preaching of the Gospel.

12. The Board of Missions and Sunday Schools shall encourage the churches to give liberally to all the objects of the Convention ; so far as the means at its disposal will allow, supply all destitute portions of the State with faithful and efficient ministers of the Gospel : give pecuniary aid, as far as can be secured, for building houses of worship at proper points in the State, and in cases where pecuniary aid cannot be given, commend them to the beneficence of the churches ; encourage the dis- tribution and study of the Bible and a sound religious literature in the homes, in the churches and in the Sunday Schools ; encourage Sunday School Conventions and Institutes ; continue, and so far as it may be able and the growth of this work may require, enlarge the Baptist Book Store, and co-operate with all missionary and Sunday School work of the Southern Baptist Convention.

18. That a committee of fifteen members of the Board of Missions and Sunday Schqols be appointed, to whom shall be entrusted the Sunday School and Colportage work conducted by the Convention, the com- mittee to be selected by the Convention annually. That it shall be the duty of the committe to manage the Baptist Book Store at Raleigh, and to them shall be committed the appointment of a Sunday School Secretary, or Secretaries, to prosecute the Sunday School work within the bounds of the Convention. That the committee shall provide for establishing new Sunday Schools and increasing the efficiency of ex- isting Sunday Schools, for holding Sunday School Institutes in the dif- ferent Associations of the Convention, and to organize the Baptist Sun-

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da}' School workers of the State. The committee is directed to report to the Board of Missions and Sunday Schools, and tlirough them to the Baptist State Convention annually.

14. There shall be an Auditor of tlie Baptist Book Store who, prior to each annual meeting of the Convention, shall examine carefully all the receipts, disbursements and expenditures, vouchers, papers, books and stock on hand, and his certitlcate to the facts in th.^ case shall be attached to the report on the Book Store.

lo. The Board shall be ajipointed annually, and report to each session of the Convention.

16. The Convention year sliall close one week before the annual meet- ing of the boij'.

17. The Boards of the Convention shall fix the compensation of their respective officers, and that of the Treasurer and Corresponding Secre- tary of the Convention.

18. The Constitution may be changed or amended at any annual ses- sion by two-tliirds of tlie representatives present voting in the affirma- tive.

BOARDS OF THE CONVENTION,

For 1897-'98.

BOARD OF MISSIONS AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

John E. Ray, Chairman; John E. White, Corresponding Secretary ; J. H. Alford, G. M. Allen. J. S. Allen. J. D. Boushall, C. B. Edwards, A. D. Hunter, J. B. Boone, J. M. Broughton, A. B. Forrest. S. W. Brewer, N. B. Broughton, J. C. Caddell, J. W. Carter, H. W. Norris. W. C. Douglass, J. C. Ellington. W. R. (Jwaltney, F. P. Hobgood, J. N. Hold- ing. E. C. Holleman, C. J. Hunter. W. N. Jones, W. A. Montgomeiy, T. E. Skinner, A. M. Simms, H. L. Watson, W. T. Faircloth, J. D. Huf- ham, H. C. Dockery, C. M. Cooke. W. L. Poteat, John T. Pullen, J. W. Bailey, J. H. Weathers, J. B. Brewer, J. S. Hardaway. J. P. Wyatt, B. W. Spilman, A. C. Barron, J. A. Mundy, R. N. Simius. W. R CuUom.

Ashe and Alleghany. J. Ellis; Atlantic, C. W. Blanchard; Alexander, L. P. Gwaltney; Beulah, J. E. Jordan: Bladen, Wm. Brunt; Brier Creek; Brushy Mountain. J. L. Hemphill; Caldwell, J. V. McCall; Cedar Creek, R. W. Horrell: Central, P. A. Dunn; Catawba River, J. H. Hoff- man ; Cape Fear ; Chowan, T. B. Boushall; Columbus; Eastern. L. R. Carroll; Elkin; Flat River. T. H. Street: French Broad; Or een River, T. B. Justice; Kings Mountain, G. M. Webb; Liberty; Little River, M. Holleman; Mecklenburg and < abarrus. R. H. Jordan; Mitchell; Mont- gomery; Mt Zion. G. J. Dowell; Pee Dee, J. G. Blalock; Piedmont, R. W. Brooks; Pilot Mountain, H. A. Brown; Raleigh. J. M. White; Robe- son, E. K. Proctor, Jr.; Sandy Creek, C. L. Greaves; South Fork, W. A. Graham; South River; South Yadkin, G. H. Church; Stanly; Tar River; Three Forks, W. S. Farthing; Union, H. C. Moore; West ( howan; Yad- kin. V. M. Swaim; Yancey.

SUNDAY SCHOOL AND COLPORTAGE COMMITTEE.

N. B. Broughton, Chairman; A. M. Simms, Jno. E. White, W. N. Jones, John E. Ray. S. W. Brewer. W. C. Douglass, W. L. Poteat, JohnT. Pullen, J. D. Boushall. J. W. Bailey, J. H. Weathers, J. W. Carter. R. N. Simms. J. B. Brewer, J. M. Broughton, W. R. CuUom.

BOARDS OF THE CONVENTION.

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

W. L. Poteat, W. R. Gwaltney, W. B. Royall, D. W. Allen, C. E. Brewer, J. M. Brewer, J. B. Carlyle, L. Chappell, W. B. Dunn, G. W. Paschal, P. W. Johnson. L. R. Mills, J. B. Powers, F. M. Purefoy, N. Y. GuUey, C. E. Taylor. J. F. Lanneau, John Mitchell, W. R. Cullom, AV. A. Montgomery. W. J. Ferrell, J. C. Caddell, T. E. Holding, J. H. Gorrell. B. F. Sledd, J. C. Fowler. W. C. Parker, L. N. Bagley.

MINISTERIAL RELIEF BOARD.

W. C, Tyree, G. J. Dowell, J. F. McDuffie, N. B. Broughton, H. A. Fonshee, H. A. Reams. T. E. Cheek. J. L. Markham. J. S. Hardaway, T. H. Street. O. C. Horton.

ORPHANAGE BOARD.

John Mitchell, President, Wake Forest; Thomas Carrick. Secretai'y, High Point; Noah Biggs, Scotland Neck; John C. Scarborough, Mur- freesboro; Dennis Simmons. Williamston: F. P. Hobgood. Oxford; Dr. R. D. Fleming, Warrenton; John B. Brewer, Wake Forest: W. R, Gwaltney, Wake Forest: John Markham, Durham; H. C. Dockery, Rockingham; M. L. Kesler, Rocky Mount; Dr. S. J. Montague, Winston; H. F. Schenck, Cleveland Mills; J. D. Brevard, Shelby; E. Frost, Cana; Walter Daniel, Weldon: L. Johnson, Greensboro.

LIST OF DELEGATES.

ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION.

First Church. Goldshoro — James Long.

Kinston — C. W. Blanchard.

LaGrange — J. W. Rose.

Middle Street. Newbern— Samuel J. Porter.

Tabernacle. Xeivbem — H. H. Mashburn. H. B. Dutfj-.

BLADEN ASSOCIATION.

White Oak — William Brunt. Winnie.

BRrSHY MDUNTAIN ASSOCIATION.

Moravian Falls— W. R. Bradshaw. North Wilkesboro.

CALDWELL COUNTY ASSOCIATION.

Lenoir — J. V. McCall. J. G. Pulliam.

CATAWBA RIVER ASSOCIATION.

Morganton — E. McK. Goodwin.

CEDAR CREEK ASSOCIATION.

Burgair—R. W. Horrell. Hope Mills. Cnmberland Union — E. J. Edwards. Cedar Creek.

CENTRAL ASSOCIATION.

Forestville—F. A. Dunn. D. W. Allen : L. N. Chappell, Wakefield.

Franklinton—A. A. Butler. R. B. White.

Neir Hope—R. J. Buflfaloe. Raleigh

Raleigh. First Church— J. W. Carter. C. J. Parker. D. T. Johnson, Carey J. Hunter. John E. Ray. J. W. Bailey. W. N. Jones. H. L. Wat- son, T. E. Skinner.

Rolesville—O. Rogers, J. F. Ragan. Youngsville.

Wake Forest— C. E. Taylor, W. L. Poteat. John B. Brewer. J. B. Carlyle, John Mitcliell. J. C. Caddell, W. B. Royall. W. R. Gwaltney, Chas. E. Brewer.

West Raleigh— A. L. Betts. Raleigh.

Youngsville — S. E. Pierce. Jack Winston.

LIST OF DKI.KGATElS

CHOWAN ASSOCIATION.

Coinjock — N. P. Stallings, Moyock.

Edenton—W. F. Watson: John E. White, Raleigh.

Eureka — E. S. Pierce, Pantego.

Elizabeth City—W. S. Penick, W. N. Gregory, E. F. Pritchard.

Hertford — Josiah Elliott.

Reiinoldson—W. B. Waff.

Salem— John T. Davis.

Saicyer's Creek— J. D. Hufham, Henderson ; T. B. Boushall. Belcross.

Shiloh—J. H. Morisette.

Woodville—J . Paul Spence, Elizabeth City.

EASTERN ASSOCIATION.

Brooklyn — D. L. Gore, Wilmington.

Johnson — W. L. Bilbro. Warsaw.

Souihside—F. H. Farrington and J. B. Harrell. Wilmington.

Warsaui—L. R. Carroll.

Wilmington, First Cliurch—WiW. B. Oliver.

ELKIN ASSOCIATION.

Liberty Oroide — J. W. Burchett, h'onda.

FLAT KIVER ASSOCIATION.

j^rbor—W. T. Creath, Elmo, Va.

Bethel— J. A. Beam, Ruffin Moody, S. C. Hmiiphries, Bethel Hill.

Bethany — W. A. Malone, Moriah.

Enon—B. F. Hester, J. F. Cm-rin, E. A. Howard, and J. M. Phipps, Oxford.

Grassy Creek— B. F. Winston, W. T. Yancey, and J. R. Ragsdale, Adoniram.

Hesters— R. W. Hobgood and Lawson Knott, Sunset.

Island Creek— R. G. Norwood and D. V. Knott, Dexter.

Mill Creek— G. T. Watkins. Clarksville, Va.

3It. Zion—M. Blalock, J. S. Jones. S. O. Briant, and N. J. Jones, Culbreth; S. L. Howard, S. R. O'Brian, W. R. Cox, Berea ; J. T. Denny, Center Grove: B. D. Howard, Oxford.

Oxford— J. S. Hardaway, R. H. Marsh. J. A. Stradley, H. M. Shaw, F. W. Hancock. A. C. Parham. J. M. Currin, J. H. Long, A. Hobgood, J. B. Roller, F. P. Hobgood, S. W. Parker, W. D. Currin. B. S. Royster.

Wilto7i — J. R. Pace.

Po2Dlar Creek— R. M. Currin. Oxford ; G. W. Wright, Carlton.

Roxboro — W. B. Morton.

Sharon — W. A. McFarland, Berea.

State Line — J. S. Royster, Bullock.

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FRENCH BROAD ASSOCIATION.

Mars HiU—T. M. Honeycutt, S. W. Hall. Paint Gap—C. C. Metcalf. Briggsville.

GREEN RIVER ASSOCIATION. Rutherfordton — C. B. Justice.

king's MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION.

King's Mountain — A. M. Ros.s.

Neio Hope — C. E. Gower, Lincolnton.

Shelby— R. F. Tredway, E. Y. Webb, G. M. Webb.

Zion — A. C. Irvin. Pearl.

LIBERTY ASSOCIATION.

Lexington — James Smith, Henry Sheets. Mt. Airy— J. H. Lamberth, Lexington. Orphanage — W. H. Rich, J. B. Boone, J. D. Newton. Piny Orove — C. M. Wall. Wallbiirg.

LITTLE RIVER ASSOCIATION.

Buie's Creek — J. A. Campbell, Poe's.

Central — J. M. Holleman. Apex.

Cumberland Union — S. W. Oldham, Grotto.

Dunn — J. A. Taylor.

Friendship — A. L. Byrd, Bunn's Level.

Lillington — John A. Rodgers.

Piny Grove— G. B. Alford. Holly Springs.

MECKLENBURG AND CABARRUS ASSOCIATION.

Tryon Street. Charlotte — A. C. Barron, R. H. Jordan. Twelfth Street, Charlotte— l^. R. Pruett. Concord — J. J. Payseur, E. B. Lewis.

MT. ZION ASSOCIATION.

Burlington — J. S. Corpening.

Chapel Hill — F. L. Cleveland, T. Hume, J. W. Watson, Saxapahaw. East Durham — O. C. Horton.

Durham, First Church — W. C. Tj-ree, H. A. Reams, W; H. Edwards, A. L. Phipps, Robert Holloway. Durham, Second Church — G. J. Dowell, Z. P. Council. Mt. Adah — J. H. Vernon, Cedar Grove. Olive Chapel— W. S. Olive, Apex.

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PEE DEE ASSOCIATION.

Steele's Mills — C. P. Jones. Rockingham. Wadesboro—C. T. Ball.

PIEDMONT ASSOCIATION.

High Point — J. M. Hilliard, Greensboro.

Leaksville —John Sweaney.

Reidsville — J. A. Mundy.

Washington Street, Greensboro — Livingston Johnson.

PILOT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION.

Leaksville — D. F. King.

Winston, First Church — H. A. Brown.

RALEIGH ASSOCIATION.

Apex — M. A. Adams. Cary — W. H. Young, Lillington.

Green Level— G. M. Beavers, Wake Forest, S. F. Scott, Ewing. Holly Springs — H. W. Norris, Ballentine's Mills. Inicood — O. L. Stringfield, Raleigh. Salem — J. M. "White, Apex. Smithfield — W. H. Davis. Sioift Creek — A. D. Hunter, Carj-.

Tabernacle, Raleigh — A. M. Simms, N. B. Broughton, J. S. Allen, R. N. Simms, T. B. Moseley, B. W. Spilman, J. R. Barkley.

ROBESON ASSOCIATION.

Maxton — W. M. Jones, Red Springs — J. D. Moore.

SANDY CREEK ASSOCIATION.

Carthage— W. C. Petty.

Pittsboi^o — Chas. L. Greaves.

Love's Creek— 3. D. Dorsett, Silk Hope.

SANDY RUN ASSOCIATION.

Henrietta — J. E. Herring.

SOUTH FORK ASSOCIATION.

Gastonia — C. H. Durham.

Hickory— C S. Cashwell, S. P. Hatten.

SOUTH RIVER ASSOCIATION.

Fayetteville— John A. Gates, Jr.

Salem— W. C. Barrett, S. A. Howard, Ora.

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SOUTH YADKIN ASSOCIATION.

Farmington — J. H. Rich. Netv Hope — J. H. Booth. Catawba. Society — J. B. Hohiian, Cool Spring. Salishtn-y — M. E. Parrisli. Statesville—G . H. Churcli. J. C Turner.

STANLEY ASSOCIATION.

Albeviarle — John W. Suttle. Falmerville — E. F. Eddins. H. Morris.

TAR RIVER ASSOCIATION.

Ephesus — J. W. Coppedge. Wakefield.

Greenville — A. W. Setzer.

Halifax — J. A. McKaughan.

Hamilton— J. H. Sherrod.

Henderson— T. M. Pitman, J. T. Elmore, R. S. Wester. W. W. Par- ker, W. D. Horner. R. B. Hayes. A. W. Stewart. S. Dean, W. B. Shaw. T. P. Stewart.

Louisbnrg — E. F. Early. J. S. Meadows, Forrest Smith, Josiah Crudup.

Littleton — L. W. Bagley.

Peach Tree — J. S. Printer. Spring Hope.

Scotland Neck—R. T. Vann.

Sharon — John T. Edmundson, Littleton.

Tarhoro — N. S. Jones.

Warrenton-R. D. Fleming, N. L. Shaw, T. J. Taylor.

Weldon — R. G. Kendrick. Jr.

Williamston — G. L. Fincli.

UNION ASSOCIATION.

Monroe — Hight C. Moore, R. F. Beasley. Waxhaic — T. L. Caudle

WEST CHO\VAN ASSOCIATION.

Aulander — A. W. Early.

Cas/ne— R. D. Cross. Windsor.

Hebron — D. Cole, Potecasi.

Mt. Carmel — J. L. Harris and M. F. Long, Seaboard.

Murfreesboro — John C. Scarborough, Samuel Saunders.

Seaboard — Archibald Cree.

YADKIN ASSOCIATION.

Mountain View — K. Thomjjson. Rockford — J. G. Burrus.

rvlINLITES

North Caroliaa Baptist State Coaveation.

SIXTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL SESSION.

Oxford, N. C, December 9, 1897.

The IS'orth Carolina Baptist State Convention met in its Sixt\'-Seventh Annual Session with the Oxford Baptist Church, at 7.30 p. m.. Thursihty, December 9, 1897.

The introductory sermon was preached by A. C. Barron, of Charlotte. Text, Acts 1:«.

President Marsh then assumed the c'lair and called the Convention to order.

The following were appointed a Committee on Enrollment: B. S. Royster. W. ^\ Jones. D. L. Gore. L. R. Pruett. W. F. Watson, J. B. Carlyle and J. D. Boushall. The Committee reported 203 messengers present.

On motion, T. E. Skinner cast the unanimous vote of the Convention for R. H. Marsh for President.

The following were appointed a committee to nominate the remaining officers of the body: B. W. Spilman, J. C. Caddell, J. H. Lamberth, W. O. Allen, A. W. Setzer, J. M. Billiard and H. M. Shaw.

Committee on Order of Business was appointed, as fol- lows: T. J. Taylor, L. Johnson, J. W. Bailey, J. D. Hufham, F. P. Hobofood, IT. A. Brown and J. B. Brewer.

The following visitors were recognized and welcomed: A. E. Dickenson, editor Rdigiovs Herald, Richmond, Va.; A. J. S. Thomas, editor Baptist Courier, Greenville, S. C; T. C. Buchanan, representing Christian Index, Atlanta; R. G.

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Seymour, of the American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia; I. T. Tichenor, Corresponding Secretary of Plome Mission Board, Atlanta; A. L. Purinton, representing Sunday School Board of Nashville; A. J. Barton, of the Foreign Mission Board. Richmond; A. T Robertson, South- ern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville.

The Committee to nominate remaining officers made the following report, which was adopted : Secretaries, N. B. Broughton and Hight C. Moore; Auditor, W. N. Jones; Treasurer, J. D. Boushall; Vice-Presidents, J. M. White, R. T. Yann and C. B. Justice ; Corresponding Secretary, Jno. E. White.

J. D. Hufham, for the Committee on Order of Business, made the following partial report, which was adopted :

Friday. — 9.30 a. m. — Devotional Exercises. 10 a. m. — Miscellaneous Business. 10.30 a. m. — Home Missions.

11.30 a. m. — Sunday School Publications, witli addresses of 30 minutes each by Drs. Seymour and Purinton. Adjoiunment.

Address of welcome was delivered by J. S. Ilardaway, pastor of Oxford Baptist Church. Response was made by A. M. Simms on the part of the Convention.

The Chair appointed the following Committee on Home Missions: W. B. Oliver, W. H. Reddish, J. W. Suttle, T. J. Ta^^lor, F. T. Wooten, J. D. Newton and Wm Brunt.

Corresponding Secretary J. E. AVhite then presented the Sixty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Missions and Sunday Schools as follows :

SIXTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MISSIONS AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude to God'^^for His divine guidance and blessing, and to the Baptist churches and people of North Caro- lina for their generous s>^npathy and support that we come to ren- der through the Convention assembled to them an account of our stewardship for the work committed to us during^the past year in this our Sixty-Seventh Annual Report.

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Your Board never greeted the Convention under happier auspices or with more cause for thanksgiving and congratulation. In the report submitted last year we expressed the ho[)e that •' we are just entering on a period of decided })eace. progi'css and jjrosiierity thnjughout our entire Zion." The results of the past year's history vindicate and substantiate the wisdom of tliat hoi)eful pi-ophecy.

We are at ' peace. The brotherhood is undisturbed by factional strife. We have progress. The denominational face is to the front in Missions, Education and in all the work of the Convention. We have prosperity. The pastors have been blessed in their ministry. The churches have had large accessions to the membership. Eight thousand believers have been baptii^ed during^the year. Our Insti tutions already at work have been loyally supported. Those in course of establishment have met and are still meeting with the hearty sympathy and assistance of our people. And we may expect with confidence that if devotion to Christ, faithfxil adherence to His Gospel, and continued and uncompromising insistance on Baptist principles shall still characterize our undertakings, peace, progress and prosperity will be the heritage of our Zion in the years to come.

The financial asi)ect of the year's work is a just source of pleasure to your Board. For the first time in the history of the Convention, the Treasurer reports as much as §15,000 received for State Missions. The largest amount rep(jrted in former years was §14,332.63. His report for the year just closed shows §15,356.07. This is^$5,394.94 more than was received last year. The debt of §2,350 to our mis sionaries reported to the Convention at Morganton is paid. And every cent due the [missionaries for the year just ended has been paid except §350. The Board asks that a cash collection cover- ing this amount be secured during the present session. In view^ of the severe financial depression, felt especially in our country churches, we feel that this record is monumental. The praise for this result belongs to Grod, and to the churches and individuals who have responded so nobly to the needs of the work.

Along with this report we submit statistical tables exhibiting the year's work — numerical and financial— by associations of the churches and Sunday Schools. These will be printed in the proper places in the minutes.

RECOMMENDATION.

The Board recommends to the Convention that an amendment be made by the Convention to the Constitution, section 3, by striking out "Thursday night" and substituting "Tuesday night," and that the Convention hereafter meet on Tuesday night to hear the annual ser- mon, and that organization be deferred until Wednesday morning.

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CHURCHES ORGANIZED.

The following newly organized churches have been reported to the Board. There are doxibtless others organized, but not reported. Sharon, Flat River Association ; Steele's Mill, Pee Dee Association ; Oak Ridge, Central Association ; Ayersville, Pilot Mountain Associa- tion ; Oak Grove, King's Mountain Association ; Corinth and New Home, Union Association; Mt. Pleasant, Mecklenburg and Cabarrus Association ; River View, South Fork Association ; Paylor's, Beulah Association ; Sherwood, Little River Association ; Enon Chapel and Bear Creek, Atlantic Association.

State Missions.

In this work the Baptists^of North Carolina have been divinely led and signally blessed. Year after year we have pressed forward in it until we have established mission jjoints and churches along the line of every railroad and in every county in the bounds of the Convention. There are one hundred and twenty prominent railroad towns and cities in North Carolina, the most of which now have self- supporting and contributing Baptist churches in which the'Baptist cause has been started, or aided in its struggles for existence and growth by the Board of Missions. Then, too, there are hundreds of well-to-do Baptist churches in other towns and country places that stand as witnesses to the wisdom and sviccessful prosecution of this work. The records show that in the last twenty years the'mission- aries of this Board have preached the Grospel in over three thou- sand neglected places, and organized on destitute mission fields over five hundred Baptist churches. Eternity's reckoning alone will re- veal the benefits and blessinps which have come to communities and individuals through the agency of State Missions in North Carolina.

In this work during the year just ended the results achieved by our missionaries may, without disparagement, challenge compari- son with any of the Convention's history.' -^^;;^;;;;,

We began the year with a debt of S2,350 to our missionaries. The Board desires to express its apju'eciation of their j^atience and sym- pathy under sometimes 'distressing circumstances. The fact that they themselves raised on their fields §1,300 for all objects, is full proof of their faithful devotion to the work of the Board.

OUR MISSIONARIES.

The names of the missionaries and the Associations in which they have done their work, are as follows :

Ashe and Alleghany. — T. M. Duncan.

AtlsLntic— J. M. Alderman, Benjamin Ward, G. N. Bray, R. D. Carroll, J. W. Rose, H. H. Mashburn.

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Beulah.— E. R. Harris.

Brushy ]\[oui)tain. — A. T. Pardew.

Central.— A. L. Betts.

(.'ho wan.— G. G. O'Neill, T. (t. Wood, X. P. 8talling,s E. S. Pierce, W. R. Caraw-an, J. T. Riddick.

Ea.stern.— J. B. Harrell, F. II. Farrins'ton, (K O. Tilley, J. H. llil- dreth, Is. A. Sheely, W. L. Bilbro, Joseph Aden.

I'lldn. — Grant Oothren, B. F. Rollins.

French Broad. — T. M. Honeycutt.

(rreen River.— J. C. 8orreLs, C. 1). Graves, J. tS. Cori)ening-, B. K. Mason.

King's ^lounrain. — (1. 31. "Webb, J. ^i. Bridges, A. M. Ross.

Liberty. — W. H. Rich, J. A. Sunnney, H. Sheets, H. Morris.

Little River. -J. A. Campbell, A. X. Campbell, J. ^l. Holleiuan. R. J. Bennett, H. W. Gaham, A. H. Gibbs.

Mecklenburg and Cabarrus.— J. J. Payseur, L. R. Pruett, J. R. Hawkins, F. H. Meyer, J. F. Morris.

Mt. Zion.— W. A. Smith. W. A. Crabtree. J. F. McPuffie, J. W. Watson, J. ]\I. Hilliard, Alvis Andrews.

Pee l>ee.— F. S. Wria-ht, W. J. Fnlford.

Piedmont. — M. L. Ke.sler, J. L. Lane, (i. L. ]\lerrill, James Jor- dan, Thomas Carrick, J. A. Hackney.

Pilot Mountain.— W. H. Wilson, W. A. Ayers, C. C. Hajnnore, R. L. Loftis, X. 8. Jones.

Raleigh- W. H. DaAis, W. U. Page, W. M. Sorrell, G. W. Co]j- pedge.

Robeson.— J. A. Smith. J. W. Cobb, J. D. Moore, R. A. Moore, J. J. Scott, W. M. Jones.

Sandy Creek. — J. R. Moore.

South Fork.- C. 8. Cashwell, J. A. Hoyle.

South River — John Prevatte, G. A. Bain.

South Yadkin.— D. P. Bridges J. N. Stallings, D. R. Myers.

Stanley.— J. AV, Suttle.

Tar River.— W. V. Savage, J. R. Pace, (x. L. Finch, J. O. xVlder- uian, F. T. Wooten, J. W. Powell, J. A. McKaughan, A. G. Wilcox, W. A. Fenell, Jno. T. Edmundson.

Three Forks.— C. S. Farthing.

Union.— A. B. Caudle.

West Chowan. — S. B. Barnes, ]NL L. Green.

Yadkin. — AV. A. Ayers.

Yancey. — J. R. Naugle.

Number of missionaries. 101.

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STATISTICS OF WORK.

Number of sermons preached 5,460

Churches supplied - 248

Out-stations supplied 1 65

Persons and families religiously visited 12.685

Persons baptized 1 .334

Number added bj- letter - - 732

Protracted meetings held 220

Professed conversions 1 ,741

Houses of w orship building 93

Houses of worship finished this year 18

Assisted in the organization of churches 17

Number of Bibles and Testaments distributed 2.193

Number of denominational tracts distributed 6,299

Money collected. for support of pastor on field $27,272. 01

For building or repairing house of worship 2,973. 29

Value of church property on fields 90,500. 00

For State Missions - - 564. 45

For Associational Missions 228. 05

For Foreign Missions 463. 60

For Home Missions of Southern Baptist Convention 210.18

For Ministerial Education 1 64. 62

For Baptist Orphanage 239. 89

For Sunday Schools and colportage 661 . 62

For other objects 1 .898. 22

Report of Sunday School work for the year is as follows:

Number of .schools on fields 195

Nimiber of pupils enrolled in same 9.959

Number of officers and teachers in same 2,016

Number of conversions from these schools 340

Members of church at work in Sunday Schools 2,808

New schools organized this j-ear 69

Schools visited - 300

Contributions for school expenses §747. 54

Contributions for State Missions 37. 76

Contributions for other objects 155.42

NOTABLE POINTS.

In Charlotte, Rev. L. R. Pruett began last year a mission Sunday School near the Gingham Mills, in a three -room factory cottage. Within a year that work resulted in a church— the 12th street— which now has one hundred and forty members, which is contribu- ting over §325 to the support of a pastor.

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In Concord, brother J. J. Payseur lias i^aid off the old and harass ing church debt, and is preparing- to enlarge the church building to accJiumoLlate the gi-owiag intere.^t.

In the Elkin Association, our missionary. Rev. Grant Cothren, has met \vith great success in his work. As an indication of the character of his work, a new association w^as organized November lit, from cburche.> from the Primitive Baptist Associations in Wilkes county, and churches from the Elkin a,nd Stoney Fork Associations. The indications are, that before another year is gone, this mover ment in that section will result in breaking down the organized anti-mission spirit thoroughly.

In the Atlantic Association, our greatest and largest mission field, much good work has been done. There are signs pointing to a for- ward movement next year in this Association. There is a demand for the increase of our force of missionaries there.

In the South Fork Association, the Board is gratified to report a well planned effort to press the work in several new fields.

In the Tar River Association, itself a monument to the success of State Missions, it is the opinion of brethren who know^ that it will be only a short time before the immense area of destitution, reach- ing from Weldon to the Albemarle Sound, will have been reached and the fields become largely self-supporting.

In Hyde county, our two missionaries, brethren Pierce and Cara- wan, report considerable progress. Another church has been oi'gan- ized and new stations opened.

In McDowell county, brother J. C. Sorrels has organized ten churches in ten years, and regards his work for the past year as the most successful he has had. The Board would make mention of the splendid services rendered on that field during four months of the summer without money and without price from any source by brother C. D. Cxraves, who is now at the Seminary.

At many other points which we have not space to mention, are to be found evidences of encouraging growth and progress.

In the last report submitted, we expressed need for conveniently arranged literature to be f uriushed pastors and churches, to the end that they might be informed on State Missions. "We are glad to re- port that that need has been partially sapi>Iied by the publication of three tracts and leaflets, written by the Corresponding Secretary. Twenty thoumid have been distributed, and there is reason to be- lieve that much good has been accomplished through them.

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CO-OPERATION.

We submit ou opposite pag:e tlio report of colored luissionavies working under the plan of co-operation entered into two years ago by the Baptist State Convention, the Home Mission Board and Bap- tist Home ^^lission .Society of New York, together with the Colored Convention in North Carolina. Your Board is convinced that great good has been accomplished in this movement. The colored Bap- tists have more than fulfilled their part in raising their portion of the funds necessary to carry on the work. They fully appreciate our disposition to help them train and develop their people, and are showing themselves capable of development by more than meeting our expectations for this work.

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Sunday Schools.

The Comuiittee of fifteen from the Board, appohil ed at Grreens- boro and reappointed at Morganton, to whieli was committed the Sunday School work ui North Carolina, report as follows through the Board to the Convention :

Your Comuiittee is glad to report a general quickening of interest in the Sunday School work during the year.

On December 5th, our Sunday School missionary, Rev. B. W. Spil- man, becoming convinced that the condition of the Book Store, on Avhich the expenses of the work depended, was not such as to justify the arrangement under which lie had accepted the "vork, gave up the Book Store and took the field as a general missionary to arouse such interest in the work as might in the future, make possible a permanent arrangement for a larger effort than we are now making.

It is but just to brother Spilmaii to report that he has been since March 1st doing this work i>ractically without salary

Plans yet to be considered and passed upon by the Board of Mis- sions are in shape by which it is expected that we may during the next year place the Sunday School field work on a definite and more satisfactory basis.

We submit a statement from our Sunday School missionary of the work he has done.

UEPORT OF B. W. SPILMAN.

Since Maicli 1st of this year I have been engaged in the Sunday Scliool work vmder the endorsement of the Sundaj' School Committee. The object in view is to organize and train the Sunday Scliool forces of North Carolina to the end that in every community there may be a well equipped evergreen Baptist Sunday School with a trained teaching force. The necessity for such work is ajiparent when it is remembered that between one-third and tliree-fourths of all the Baptist churches organized in tliis State had their origin in a Sunday School: that from eighty to ninety per cent, of our church members came in from the Sunday Schools, and that as a training school for developing active church workers no agency has yet appeared in North Carolina that lias done so mucli.

With thousands of communities having no Sunday Schools; with about a thousand Baptist churches having either no Sunda}' School at all or a school for only a few months during the year: with 218 of the 413 points supplied by the State Mission Board reporting no Sunday Schools, and a teaching force almost wholly untrained, the work mu.st be vigorously pu.shed .

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Since last March my work has been in the direction of creatine sen- timent iir favor of a more aggressive work in the Sunday School field than has been done for the past ten years. I liave attended during tliafc time six Sunday School Institutes lield at the following points: North Catawba, Caldwell County; Bethlehem, McDowell County; Bakersville, Mitchell County; Sawyer's Creek, Camden County; Buie's Creek. Har- nett County; Salem, Sampson County. I liave attended only three as- sociations this year. The Sunday School work was given a good hour at each of these. I attended the State-Line Cliautauqua at Fair Bluflf and State Chautauqua at Red Springs.

I have spoken 124 times in 2S counties during tlie nine months.

Conditions seem to be favorable just now for doing a work in estab- lishing Sunday Schools and training tlie workers, which has been greatly needed for years.

The Baptist State Sunday School Chautauqua, which held its annual session at Red Springs last August, has proven itself to be a most potent factor in tlie Sunday Scliool work of the State. Through the Chautau- qua more than any other source tliere lias been created a desire for bet- ter methods in Sunday School work.

The outlook for the future is hopeful. Many of the difficulties in the waj^ two years ago have bei>n removed. Many yet remain. There are now organizations of Sunday School workers in twenty-eight of the Associations of our Convention.

The time has come when an active elTort shoidd be made to organize the workers in the remaining sixteen Associations.

To organize new Sunday Sc-hools there should be a force of Sunday School missionaries placed in the field during the coming summer. This can be done without expense to the Board of Missions and Sun- day Schools.

To train the workers there should be an earnest effort made to have organized in every church a Sunday School Teachers' Meeting ; in ever}' Association one or more Sunday School Institutes; in various sections of the State, District Sundaj" School Chautauquas. such Chau- tauquas having been already planned for 1898 to be held in Littleton, Halifax Cimnty; Mars Hill, Madison County; Buie's Creek, Harnett County ; Fair Bluff, Columbus County, and at some point in the At- lantic Association, and then the Baptist State Sunday School Chau- tauqua.

As to the financial side. No special effort has been made to collect funds for this work. 1 have taken no collections. The funds sent in have been voluntary contributions without any solicitation on my part. 1 have received since March 1st for this work §M().;37, which has been used as foUow.s :

2-i MiNuri;s of tiik

Postage, mostly Childreirs Day progra ms S'23. .■).)

Printing 30. 00

Traveling expenses 127.27

Salary i)d.'i'y

$240. HI

There are bills due Edwards & Brougliton and the Baptist Book Store to tlie amount of $72.92.

Respectfully submitted. B. W. Spilmax.

r BAPTIST BOOK STORK.

On December loth, the tlate of brother Spilman's resignation under the former arrangement, your Committee placed the Book Store in charge of the Corresponding Secretary of the Convention, and all efforts were bent to get the business on a better financial basis. These efforts have proven successful to a gratifymg degree. On December loth, the lialiilities of the Store were 82.544.38, and our assets $3.771.04 — assets over liabilities, $1,295.4:^. The following statement of condition will indicate improvement made:

STATKMKVT OF THE BAPTIST BOOK STORE.

By Merchandise. S!.'H7.o4

Accounts 1.228.90

Furniture and Fixtures 300. 00

Cash 304. 7(i

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To Liabilities $1 .392. 91

Balance 2.378.38

3,571.20 3.771.29 •J.378. 38

Di nations and Discounts 1 1 1 . 99

Home Missions.

The Ht)me Mi.ssion Board began tlie year May 1st, 1S90, with a debt of §13,700. On January 1st, 1897, that debt had increased to 828.000. It was a remarkable achievement, alike connnendable to the Board and our S<mthern BajJtist <diurches, that when the South- ern Baptist Convention met in Wilmington May 5th. that debt had been paid and a small balance left in the treasury.

Below is a suniniarv of the vear's work:

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SUMMARY.

Suiii.'iary of work for the past Coiiveaiianal year is as follows:

T\Iissionaries, - - - •'^'''3

Weeks of labor, - - ■ - - - - 11,075

(.'hurches an<l stations, ------- 1,963

J^e'.'inons and addresses, - . . - - - 48,508

Prayer lueetirij^s, ------ 62,175

Baptisms. --------- 4,709

Ileeeived by letter, - - ----- - 4,746

To I al additions, - - 9,455

( 'liiu'clies constituted, ------- 139

Houses of worship built, ------ 57

Houses of worship improved. ----- 129

Amount e?vpended on houses of woi'ship, - - ■ §52,040

Sunday Schools organized,. ----- - 313

Tv^aehei's and pu})iLs, - - - • - - - 10 725

I^ibles and Testaments, ------- 2,837

Tracts distributed (pages), ------ 645,346

WORK OF THE BOARD — A JI0N(t THE NECiKOES.

The work under the plan of co()i)eration with State Conventions, both white and colored, the Home Mission Society and the Home Mission Board, is in operation in Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Fourteen missionaries are in the joint em- ])loy of these Boards, three in Alabama, three in South Carolina, four in North Carolina and four in Virginia.

FOREIGN POPULATION.

There are tens of thousands of these people in Baltimore, Louis- ville, St. Louis and Kansas City, wliere we are noAV working. Mis- soui'i alone has about 800,000. The French population of Louisana, the Grermans of Oklahoma and Texas, and the Mexicans along the Rio Grrande from El I'aso to the (lulf, make at least as many more to v.hom we ouglit to send the word of life.

CUBA.

The enforced removal of all our pastors from that island more than a year ago. left the work in the hands of the body of the mem bership. Many have removed to this country. Some have joined the contending armies, arid the cf>ndltioris have been extremely ad- verse to oui' cause.

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But such has been the dihgenee and faithfuhiess. especially of the women, that the schools have been continued, the prayei* meet- ings and religious services on the Sabbath day observed, and quite a number who have professed their faith m Christ are awaiting bap- tism. With the return of peace we may confidently expect the re- newal of a prosperity not surpassed by the brightest days m the his- tory of our work in Havana.

Rev. J. V. Cova has been laboring durmg the year among the (Juban population in Tampa. He encountered difficulty and delay in procuring a suitable house for holding worship. This obstacle by the aid of bi-ethren in that city, has been removed, and his con- gregation now meet in a most comfortable place in a good location. His famih' h.is .suffered a great affliction during the year.

Brother Bueno was located in West Tampa, and had begun his work with his usual earnestness and persistence, when his faithful wife sickened and died. It was deemed best, on account of liis ov. n health and that of his daughter, to remove to Key West, where he is now laboring with good results.

Brother O'Halloran, on leaving Cuba, began his work in Key West. He found there quite a number of Baptists who had tied from Havana. The Cuban Chapel, built scime years ago by The Board, he has used for a daily school as well as for a place of wor- ship. He write:-; very encouragiiigly about his work.

LATEST FROM CUBA.

Under date of April G, Dr. Belot, a prominent membei- of the cliurch, who has cliarge of our i)roperty in Havana, writes:

'There is no reason to be discouraged about the schools and re- ligious matters; on the contrary, considering the absence of pai^tor and minister to guide the mission, the deacons and ladies in charge of the spiritual progress of the people are doing much better than could be expected. The meetings are well attended, and there is a gradual increase of numbers who want to join the church, others waiting to be baptised. The religious work is not interferied with, either by Catholic clergy or by jiolice: this body protects when needed.

''The schools are doing well. The work has been interrupted a short time on account of epidemics, but has re.sumed now. The number of scholars attending increases gradually. "'

OUR CITIES.

While the past work of the Board has been largely in tiie counny. the ffrowiny; towns and cities have not been neglected.

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Chiii-clies have been aided in not less than ninety per cent of our most important centers of population. The changing conditions of our civilization are carrying larger numbers to our cities than ever before. Trade is moving southv,ard in its efforts to reach foreign lands. The exportation of corn frt>m Baltimore, Hampton Roads and New Orleans is nearly three times as great as from Boston, Xew York and Philadelphia.

Pig iron, which, within the last two years, has for the first time been exi)orted from this country, is seeking a market through the ports of Savannah and Pensacola. The manufacture of ten millions of bales of cotton within siglit of the fields wliere it is grown will reach its consummation witliin tlie lifetime of another generation. The natural trade center of the Western Hemispliere is the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and to that point all commerce is tend- ing as rapidly as human enterprise can build the railways to convey it or supply the cities with facilities to receive it.

Such facts make these rapidly-growing centers of trade perhaps the most important part of the mission work of this Convention. The religious destiny of the world will be shaped by the influences that emanate from this country within the lifetime of the next gen- eration, and those influences will flow out from our cities along the highways of eounnerce. The snowy fiber that gi'ows upon our fields, woveii into forms suited to the wants of every kindred and tribe, will be borne by vehicles of commerce to every shore, and wherever it goes, will go along with it the moral influence dominating that peo]3le who have grown it upon oui- fields, transformed it in our fac- tories, and carried it to them in our great leviathans of the deep.

FRONTIER MISSIONS.

There are other departnients of our work which vie with this in the strength of their appeal to our sympathy and our sup]3ort.

West of the Mississippi river lies a vast field, the fabulous wealth of whose undeveloped resources science has failed to grasp. In the dim light of the civilization now advancing upon it, it seems a new^ world hanging upon the outskirts of our own, and destined one day to be filled with a population whoie Avealth and culture will equal, if they do not surpass, those of the Atlantic States.

From it there has come for years the cry for greater help than the Board has been able to give, until it has almost been hushed in the hopelessness of despair.

What ought we to do for these people and the millions pressing upon their footsteps in their onward march to wealth and jjower"?

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THE INDIANS.

Living within this territory is a race to whom we owe an obhga- tion we can never fully repay.

The white people have grown rich and powerful upon the fields they once possessed. Their broad plantations, their growing cities, their huge factories, their long-extended railroads, their schools and colleges, their houses and temples where they worship God, are all builded upon the land the red man possessed, and of which he was deprived by the bloodj- and unsparing hand of war.

We cannot return him the land of which our fathers depiived him. That is lost to him forever. Bvit we can turn his eye and heart to that better land, and lead him to that Redeemer who will give liim an in- heritance incorruptible and undetiled. whose fadeless beauties shall be his forever.

MOUNTAIN REGION. i

Our mountain region, comprising the ridges and valleys of the Ap- palachian .system, extending from F'ennsylvania to central Alabama, and from the Piedmont region of the southeast to the blue-grass fields of Kentucky and Tennessee, is one of the most wonderful regions of the globe.

The people who live in much of this area are strongly inclined to our Baptist faith, but there is among tliem a marked absence of the spirit of progress in things both material and spiritual. Many of them are poor, and their intellectual advancement is in keeping with tlieir physi- cal condition.

Other denominations are realizing the importance of this field, and are exerting every effort to possess themselves of its advantages. The Mormons have sent to the southeastern section of our country four hundred missionaries, with headijuarters at Chattanooga. Many of these are laboring among these mountain people. What a shame it will be to us. as Baptists, if we lose this most promising field and allow others to take our crown of glory.

ENLARGED BENEFICENCE.

The experience of the last tlu'ee years demonstrates the necessity of increasing the number of our people who contribute to missions, ami systematizing our work that our Boards will receive a steady incom.3 through the entire year.

The number of those who contribute to mi.ssion work does not equal one-third of our membership, and about two-fifths of the amounts given to our Home and Foreign Boordsis received in the month of Ajn-il. the last montli of tlie financial vear.

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The fact that a denomination whose churches all lie in the area of our Convention, and whose membership, though not more than one- seventh of our own, contributes witliout special effort more money to Foreign Missions than Southern Baptists can be made to give under whip and spur, shows a condition wliich demands a speedy remedy.

The Board asked the Southern Baptist Convention for its moral sup- port in the effort to raise during the ])rest'iit year for its work not less than one hundred thousand tlollars. The Convention sanctioned the plans of tlie Board, and North Cai'olina has been asked to do her part in making the movement a succ^ess.

On May 22. the Corresponding Secretary of the North Carolina Bap- tist State Convention met the other State Secretaries, witii the Board, in Atlanta for the discussion of these plans, and for the adoption of definite measures to promote tliem. Resolutions were adopted which commit North Carolina Baptists to this effort to secure $100,000 for Home Missions. In addition to this, our just obligation to bear our share of the great necessities of the work, we have been placed under special obligations to the Board by the following resolution, adopted by the Home Board. May 27th:

NORTH CAROLINA — $500. AND S500 CONDITIONAL.

''Resolved. That in addition to the agency expense and co-operation in negro work paid out of Home Mission funds to North Carolina State Board, an a])propriation of $o00 be paid this Board December 1, 1897, and that tlie additional amount of $")00 be paid April 30, 1898. on the express condition that the cash receipts from North Carolina (not in- cluding receipts from Western North Carolina) to the Home Board for tliis Southern Baptist Conventional year sliall be §4.000."

North Carolina Bapliists, 160.000 strong, sliould have no difficulty in meeting, and more than meeting, tliese conditions. In all its history our Home Board has been generous to North Carolina. For, besides what has been done in many of our rural districts, the Board has aided our churches in Raleigh. Edenton, Newbi rii, Goldsboro. Charlotte, Greensboro, vSalisbury, Asheville, Chapel Hill, Warrenton. Henderson- ville, Waynesville, Murphy, Brvsou City, Washington, Tarboro, New- ton. Concord, Elizabeth City and other important jjlaces. Surely our Baptist people will rally warmly to the support of this Board, which has done such m)ble work for North Carolina.

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Foreign Missions, the foundation of the work.

Our Lord has not commanded us to preach His Word in any particu- lar part of the world, but in all the world. And while we press for- ward the work at home, being zealous for the evano;elization and de- velopment of every nook and corner of our State, as also of our whole country, we must not forget the regions beyond. All the work, whether at hoiue or abroad, stands on the same commandment of Christ, and we cannot assume to teach even our children without thereby acknowledging our duty to preach the Gospel in all the world. The human family is one : we have one Saviour, and the work is one.

THE COMPARATIVE IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.

To reach a correct conclusion as to the cnmparative importance of the different divisions wliich we have made in tlie work for practical convenience, we have only to compare intelligently the conditions and needs of the different sections of tlie great vvorhl-tield. For instance, we have in .Vorth Cai'olina, according to the last national census, a little over one and a half millions of people, all told; while China has about four hundred and fifty millions — that is, we ha%-e in this State one person where China has three hundred. Now, we Baptists alone, not to mention any of the otiier Christian denominations, have, in North Carolina, over one hundred and fifty tiiousand members, over sixteen hundred churches, and about six iuindred preachei's. But Cliina, with a population numbering tinee hundred to our one, lias, of all Christian ilenominations. only a little ovt-r fifty thousand church members, only seven hundred churches, and only a little over six hun- dred preachers, not including natives. Or, to put it otherwise. China, with three iiundred times as many people, lias only about as many preachers of all denominations as North Carolina has of Baptists alone; has not /i<(i[/'as niany chuiciies of all denominations as Nortii Carolina has of Baptists alone, and has only onc-thiid as many church members of all denominations as Nortli Carolina has of Baptists alune. Now. one soul in t.'iiina is worth no more than one soul in North Carolina, but it is wortii just as nur;h. and it is just as mucli our duty, under our Saviour's orders, to give tlie Gospel to one tiieie as one iiere. But there ai"e three Iiundred times as many tiier.' as here, and only one- third as many Christians, all told, as we have members in our own churches here in this single State. Surely, bretiiren, surely, tliere is crying need in the regions beyond. Let us liasten with the light. A similar comparison could lie made between almost any two parts of tiie field at lioine and abroad.

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WHAT SOUTHERN BAPTISTS ARE DOING.

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While Southern Baptists are doing so little to meet this need that our heads ought* to hang for shame, we are glad that we are doing something. The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Con- Tention submitted what was in many respects a very pleasing report to the last session of the Convention, which met in our own seai)ort. Wihiiington. The opening sentence of that report says :

•• The past year has been full of the blessings of our Heavenly Father on the work which He lias entrusted to us in foreign lands. While in some respects it has been a year of great difliculties an.l trials, yet the Lord has prospered us continually."

The Board had last year in the six fields— China, Japan, Africa, Italy, Brazil and Mexico— eighty missionaries and one hundred and ten native helpers. The Lord was exceeding abundant in His bless- ings, and these workers baptised six hundred and sixty persons. The total receipts for the year ending April oOth were 8125,081.09.

NORTH CAROLINA S PART.

Of the above amount, North Carolina gave §7.803.44, including the Yates Memorial Fund, mentioned later in tliis report. 1 )uriiig our own fiscal year just closed we have given. :is shown by our Treasurer's re- port, §8,854.26. Brethren, are we willing that these figures stand as the measure of our interest in the salvation of all the world outside the bounds of our own Southland?

In arranging its scliedule for the present year's work the Foreign Board has asked us to give §9,000. We recommend that the Conven- tion approve the request, and pledge our most earnest and unceasing efforts to raise this amount. Shall we not, with our more than l.jQ.OOO members and six hundred preachers, contribute this much for the sal- vation of the world? Nay. ought we not to contribute many times as much ? ^ YATES MEMORIAL MISSIONARY.

Among those things for which we are profoundly grateful, is the fact that God has honored our State by calling some of our noblest brethren to the foreign field. Of this number was the honored and lamented Yates. Three years ago. at the Charlotte Convention, there was a wel 1- formed purpose among the women of (air State to raise a fund for tlie erection of a suitable memorial to Dr. Yates. It was suggested that no other memorial would be so appropriate as a missionary to labor for the salvation of the people for whom Dr. Yates gave his splendid life. The suggestion was at once adopted, and soon a fund of over §1.100 was raised, lut not until the beginning of 1897 was the i)lan carried to completion. At that time brother T. C. Britton and wife, both of our

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own Si ate. were at home, having come for a rest, and were exceedingly anxious to return to their work in China. The Board was anxious to send them back, but owing to a lack of funds could not unless some special provision could be made. All this seemed proVidential, and the women decided to adopt brother Britton as the Ystes' Memorial Mis- sionary, appropriating to liis return and support the funds tlien on hand, witli the understanding that they would try to raise a sufficient amount for his support regularly hereafter. Tlie Board concurred in this, and Brotlier and Si.ster Britton .sailed on January 16. We rejoice in this action of our women, regarding it a fit token of our love for the great missionary. M. T. Yates. We pledge to the sisters our hearty co-operation in carrying forward this well-begun work.

EXPENSES OF THE BOARD.

It is pleasing to note that (lur Foreign Board coivlucts its business with such economy that last year only 13 per cent of all the receipts was consumed in expenses, including the expenses both in Richmond and in tho.se States that charge for handling money passing through the hands of State officials.

PERSONAL MENTION.

We re.joicp that we have had in our midst during the past few months, and still have, our brother E. F. Tatum. of Shanghai. China, who went out from us and is now home for rest. A like joy is felt also at tlie presence of Mrs. Cr. W. Greene, of Canton. China, who is resting for a short time at home.

CONCLUSION.

In closing this section of our report, we call attention to the fact that just fifty years ago the first missionaries were sent to central China by Southern Baptists, and tliat they went from Xorth Carolina. On November 6. 1847. the first Baptist church was organizeil in Shang- hai. The Lord has blessed and j^rospered the work tliere. and has greatly honored the Baptists of North Carolina in connection witli it. As we stand here to-day. looking back over these fifty years of toil and sacrifice for the Master by the noble men and women that have gone out from among us to give not simply their money, but their lives, to this work, over tliese fifty years crowned by the blessings of oiir Lord, and looking out over the years to come, each one holding its duties to our Redeemer and blessings from Him, we are filled with confiicting emo- tions. Brethren, have we done our bestV Let us thank God for all the benedictions of the past, beg His forgiveness for all our indifference and shortcomings in the work, and pledge to Hini the best that there is in us for the future.

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SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD.-

This Board is located in Nashville. Tenn., and is now in the seventh year of existence.

The work accomplished by this, the youngest of our general interests, is remarkable. The fact that last year it was enabled to put into our Home and Foreign Mission treasuries $13,311.74 in casli, after making donations amounting to $28,878.14 to other objects, and then show assets above liabilities of nearly |15,000, is a tribute to the wise and energetic administration of its affairs. This statement is made simply as indicating the Board's financial condition, and also its methods of conducting its affairs. The following statement will show, as well as figures can show, what the Board has done for the furtherance of our denominational interests in the way of financial help :

Gifts of Bibles, books, tracts and periodicals to mission

schools,... _._.-$ 8,707 80

Cash for Home and Foreign Boards 12,311 74

Cash to Sunday School Missions in the different States . . 17.377 78

Expended for other denominational interests 2,892 46

Purchase and equipment of house 9,101 29

Cash balance on hand 2,126 10

Other assets n,SS'i 86

Summary for six years $64,703 13

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CAUSE IN THE SOUTH.

While the Baptist Sunday Schools of the South compare most favor- ably with those of other denominations, and while their condition pre- sents much to awaken gratitude and encouragement, yet manifestly a great deal remains to be done. Even in the best schools there is need for better equipment, better teaching, better methods, and better re- sults. Whatever the Southern Baptist Convention can do to foster its Sunday S9hool interests, will be only the fostering of power for future usefulness in the enlargement of all its work. In the united support of the Sunday School Board, in undertaking these great and lofty ends, the Convention can make for itself an agency of tremendous scope. The brethren in charge have tried to administer the trust with which they have been charged in a way to deserve the approval of their brethren, and BO as to meet the ends for which the Convention brought the Board into existence. The only way, rather the main method, of helping the Board in their work, is in supplying the Sunday Schools with the periodicals which are owned and controlled by the Convention, and which, be- sides other things, make prominent the missionary interests of the

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Convention. Here we are laying the foundations of the future, not only in the way of Baptist doctrine, but also in missionary training. This can be made an immense power, and .surely is worthy the kindly consideration of the Convention. Helping at this point and in this way is helping every other interest.

NORTH CAROLINA'S INTEREST IN THIS WORK.

We are under obligation to support this Board for tlie following good and sufficient reasons :

1. It is just as much a department of our Southern Baptist Conven- tion work as Home or Foreign Missions.

2. It is a mighty agency for the dissemination of Baptist literature.

3. It is a niissionarj- agencj' in itself, and gives annually from Sl'3,000 to §20.000 to Home and Foreign Missions in cash.

4. This Board has given $400 this past year to our Sunday School work in North Carolina.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WOMAN'S CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

The Central Committee is more than liappy to be able to report a larger increase in contributions tlian in any year in its history, and a larger number of Societies organized than in anj- other year, the first not excepted. Last year tlie Societies reported a little less than four thousand dollars; this year they report more than six thousand, two hundred. The first year after the appointment of the Committee, we reported the organization of seventy-one Societies: this year ninety-one new Societies have been formed. This remarkable increase has been made without any "especial object" or new plan of work being put forward.

The correspondence maintained by the Central Committee with each Society, by which each is brought in touch with every other, and each feels itself to be an important part of an important whole, lias been kept up with the usual diligence.

The number of Associational Vice-Presidents has been increased, and much effective work has been done by these officers, of whom there are twenty.

An important and interesting feature of the year's work has been the increased number of the Woman's Associational Mission Meetings, held generally by the Vice-Presidents. By this means many ladies who could not have been reached otherwise have become informed and in- structed in this branch of mission work. In nearly every instance where there was no Society at the place where the Association was held, one has resulted from these meetings.

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Miss Lizzie Briggs, appointed Jast 3-ear as special supervisor of Band work, has increased the interest in this important department of mis- sion training, and we look for still larger results along this line.

In the Societies more emphasis than ever before has been placed on Bible study in connection with the monthly meeting, and on the need of neighborhood missions, the members being urged to devote time and energy to the spiritual uplifting of the sick, poor and ignorant around them.

Last year in our annual repoi-t we asked the continued and increased interest of the ministers in the work of the Societies. We would now express our thanks for invaluable aid rendered, at the same time feel- ing sure that those who have organized or encouraged Woman's or Children's Missionary Societies in their churches have been more than repaid by the added power gained for all departments of church work.

In summing up last year the work of the Committee since its ap- pointment in 1886, we found the Societies had reported $31,499.05 as given to missions. The amount reported this year increases this sum to §87,771.88. The itemized report of the year's work by the Commit- tee and contributions reported by Societies is as follows :

Quarterly Letters 1 ,293

Other Letters 2,011

Leaflets, blanks, etc. , sent out 18,105

Societies organized 91

Reported for Foi'eign Missions §1,907.39

Home Missions _ . . 8,229. 51

State Missions 928. 68

Other State Mission objects, Orphanage, Ministerial Educa- tion .etc : 204. 85

Toward expenses of Committee 2.'45

$6,373. 83 Respectfully submitted.

Fannie E. S. Heck,

Mrs. J. A. Briggs, President W. C. C.

Cor-resjMnding Secretary W. C. C.

On motion of J. D. Hufham, the recommendation of the Board as to change in the Constitution was referred to a special committee.

State Missions was made the special order for 10.30 on Saturday morning.

Adjournment, with benediction by K. G. Seymour, of Philadelphia.

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FRIDAY MORNING.

December 10, 1897. \

Convention re assembled at 9.30 a m. Devotional exer- cises were conducted by A. T. Robertson, of Louisville, Ky.

Minutes of yesterday evening were read and approved.

The following brethren were welcomed to seats in the body : W. S. Penick, Elizabeth City ; F. H. Farrington, "Wilmington ; J. H. Tucker and J. A. Brookshire, of the Western North Carolina Convention: John Lewis, Wales; Thomas Needham, Philadelphia; F. L. Cleveland, Chapel Hill ; Forrest Smith, Louisburg, and E. F. Tatum, China.

The President appointed the following committees:

Orphanofje. — J. C. Scarborough. F. L. Clevelaml. C. E. (Jower. B. F. Winston. R. D. Cross, F. H Farrington, J. P. Spence.

Female University. — A. M. Simnis. J. W. Carter. W. B. Morton, Jas. Smith. J. J. Payseur, S. A. Howai-d, C. H. Durham.

Obituaries. — Thomas Hume. T. E. Skinner, P. A. Dunn. Jno. E. Ray,

C. E. Taylor, J. V. McCall. S. P. Hatton.

On Recommendations of Board of Mis.sions and Sunday Schools. — J.

D. Hufham. E. F. Pritchard, J. A. Taylor, H. A. Reams, J. W. Watson. W. T. Yancey. A. M. Ross.

To Xomiuate Board of Education. — N. L. Shaw. A. D. Hunter. H. H. Mashburn. E. J. Edwards. W. L. Poteat, William Brunt. J. A. Mc- Kaughan.

To Nominate Minister.^' Relief Board.— J. A. Stradley, M. Blalock. O. C. Horton, J. W. Burchett, G. L. Finch. John W. Suttle, W. B. Waff.

State 3n.s.<iions.—L. R. Pruett. C. L. Greaves. R. I. Crews, G. H. Church. T. M. Honeycutt, L. R. Carroll, W. C. Barrett.

Sunday Schools and Colportarje. — W. S. Penir-k. R. G. Kendrick, Jno. Markham. J. H. Booth. R. D. Fleming, N. P. Stallings, J. W. Coppedge.

Religious Exercises. — Pastor and deacons of Oxford Baptist Church.

To Nominate Board of Missions and Sunday Schools. — L. N. Chappell, J. A. Beam, W. S. Olive, S. W. Oldham, W. S. Bilbro, R. H. Jordan, Geo. J. Dowell.

To Nominate Committee on Sunday School and Colpoi tage Work (fif- teen members of Board of Missions and Sunday Schools^. — Josiah Elli- ott, C. T. Ball, W. M. Bostick. A. Johnson, J. E. Herring, N. S. Jones, W. B. Royall.

Preachers and Place of Next Meeting. — E. W. Sikes. B. F. Hester. A. W. Setzer, John A. Gates, Jr., H. W. Norris, H. Sheets, J. B. Roller.

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Foreign MisHions.—W. M. Jones. S. J. Porter, E. F. Tatum, W. T. Creath, R. F. Treadway, G. T. Watkins, M. E. Parrish.

Periodicals. — R. T. Vann, J. A Campbell. W. C. Tyree, A. C. Barron, T. M. Pittman, John Sweany, Samuel Saunders.

Finance. — E. McK. Goodwin, C. W. Blanchard. H. A. Foushee.

Invitations were read from Superintendent IST. M. Law- rence to visit the Oxford Orphan As}' lum this afternoon at 4 o'clock ; also from President F. P. Hobgood to visit the Oxford Female Seminary to morrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Both invitations were unanimously accepted.

J. W. Bailey, for the Committee, submitted the following order of business for Frida}^ :

2.30 p. m. — Miscellaneovis Business.

8 p. m.— Ministers' Relief Board. [Wake Forest Trvistees meet.] 7.^0 p. m. — Our Baptist History and the Historical Papers. 8.45 I), m. — Foreign Mi,ssions.

The following resolution, offered as a substitute by R. T. Yann, was, after discussion by J. D. Hufham, J. W. Carter, R. T. Vann, R. D. Fleming, John E. White and others? adopted by a vote of 88 to 77 :

In view of all the circumstances involved in the Whitsitt controversy, we think it best for this Convention to take no action on the matter.

W. B. Oliver, of Wilmington, presented the report on

HOME MISSIONS.

The Treasurers report indicates a growing interest among our churches in the work of this Board, but yoiir Committee believes that Home Missions lias not been presented to and pressed upon OU7 people as the magnitude and needs of the field demand.

The work in Cuba goes on in sjjite of the distracted condition of the Island. Our churches live, and that life will become mani- fest in great power when the yoke of civil and ecclesiastical bond- age is entu-ely cast off. The Board should be prepared to enter and possess at once. It is our duty to assist in this preparation.

Southern Bai^tists hold the answer to a question which vexes rulers, lawmakers and philanthropists. It is largely in their power

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to decide what the future of the negro in this land shall be. A (jod given I'esponsibility rests upon us to evangelize, train and uplift this dependent people into a Christian citizenship. ^Ye re- commend that our pastors explain and i^ress the plan of co-operative work, and suggest that the best results are dependent upon personal interest and participation in institute work more than vxpon contri- butions.

The Frontier Missions and work among foreigners are of litmost importance. More mis.sionaries are needed, which means that larger contributions are required, which again means that more general information concernmg the field and greater interest in the labors of the Board are necessary. It is imi^ossible for us to ignore these opportunities, to neglect these open doors, and yet win the com mendation of faithful servants.

Our contributions the past year show a gratifying gain over the preceding one. but we can and must do better.

William Bri >'t, W. H. Reddish, J. r>. Newto^', Will B. Oliver, T. J. Taylor.

Remarks by I. T. Tichenor, Atlanta; J. D. Hufharn. W. B. Oliver, J. E. White, A. C. Barron, T. J. Taylor, R. T. Vann. The report was then adopted.

The next topic considered was Sunday School Publica- tions. R. G. Seymour. Philadelphia, addressed the Con- vention on the work of the American Baptist Publication Society.

Adjourned to meet at 2.30 p m. Benediction by A. E. Dickenson. Richmond.

Friday Afternoon.

At the hour ap])ointed, the President called the Conven- tion to order.

On motion of L. Johnson a committee was appointed to commend the work done by the Woman's jNfission Societies. The President appointed the following committee : L. John- son, T. B. Boushall. T. L. Caudle, J. G. Pulliam, W. W. Parker, W. B. Shaw. E. B. Lewis.

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A. L. Purinton, of Nashville, then addressed the body on the publications of the Sunday School Board of the South- ern Baptist Convention.

C. F. James, President of Roanoke Female College, was recognized.

J. D. Hufham reported for the committee on the recom- mendations of the Board of Missions and Sunday Schools.

After remarks by J. D. Hufham, T. E. Skinner, N. B. Broughton, R. T. Yann, L. Johnson, the proposed constitu- tional change as to time of meeting was not adopted.

The following recommendations were adopted upon sug- gestion of the committee :

1. That a cash collection be taken at the close of the ad- dresses on the report of the Board of Missions to morrow; said collection to be for paying off the debt, $350, now due by the Board.

2. That we will try to raise for Home Missions $4,000 by the 30th of April, in accordance with the terms of the ap- ))ropriation made to our work, and that we raise $9,000 for Foreign Missions.

W. C. Tyree, of Durham, presented the report of the Ministerial Relief Board as follows:

REPORT OF THE MINISTERIAL RELIEF BOARD.

We have many things to be grateful tor during the past year; but, nothing in all the work of our Convention calls forth our most profound gTatitude, as the interest our brethj-en have taken in this object of the Convention. The report of the Treasurer of the Convention showed last year, up to November, six hundred and thirty five dollars ($635). Up to December 1 of this year the re- port shows nine hundred and twelve dollars ($912), an increase' of two hundred and seventy five dollars ($375).

This is due to a very great extent from effort put forth by our dear Bro. J. C. Caddell during his visits to the various Associations in the State. We feel very grateful to him for the interest he has taken in the work.

We have to chronicle the death of one of our old brethren. Bio. W. J. Combs has been called to his reward.

We have now on the Board thirteen beneficiaries: Brethi-en Lew-

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ellen, William Harris, John Hughes, R. W. AVooten and S. Black- burn ; Sisters Register. PlaiUips, Churchill, Humphries, Barlow, Spivey, Combe and Best. Bro. Blackburn, Sisters Combs and Best have been received this year.

"We realize there are several of our dear old brethien needing at- tention from this Board, and we would thank any of our breth ren who are aware of such cases to inform us, and they will get such attention as we are able to give them, if they are worthy.

To say they, with these on the Board, are needy, is only to ex press what the brethren of the Convention already know. They have made but little complaint. In fact very few of them have com- plained at all. Most of them are only waiting to go home. While they wait let us try to make their stay pleasant if we can. They need your prayers as well as your contributions. Pray for them, and pray for us, that we make no mistake in our work. FraternaHy.

W. C. Tyree.

J. F. MacDuffie. Fre.shlent.

('orrespniir/f'ng Serrptari/.

Report of Treasurkr of Baptist Ministerial Relief Board.

received. Balance on hand _ $ 158 06

Intere.st on loan 50 00

In.s. repaid 11 25

J. D. Boushall. Treasurer -.^S^ 00

D. L. Gore 50 00

Interest on loan 30 00

J. D. Boushall Treasurer 227 00

Interest on loan 15 00

Interest on loan . . 15 00

J. D. Boushall. Treasurer. 408 25

1896
Nov.	10.
189	<
Apr.	21.
Apr.	21.
Mch.	m.
June	5.
Julv	s.
Sept.	15.
Sept.	15.
Oct.	21.
Dec.	6

$1,196 56

Dec 10. Balance S 174 46

1896 paid out.

Nov. 10 Corresponding Secretary's expen.ses $ 7 60

1897

Apr. 5. Insurance 11 25

Dec. 7. Permanent Interest-Bearing Fund 305 75

Rev. J. H. Lewellen. Dob.son 62 50

Rev. W. J. Combs. Trap Hill 45 00

Wb baptist state convention. 41

Dec. 7. Mrs. W. J. Combs, Trap Hill $ 20 00

Rev. Win. Harris. Kapps' Mill 50 00

Mrs. C. F. Humphries. Oxford 72 50

Mrs. Jane Barlow, Sloop Point 50 00

Mrs. H. C. Register, Register 50 00

Rev. .John Hughes, Byrd 25 00

Rev. R. W. Wooten. Ronda .- 25 00

Mrs. B. H. Phillips. Reidsville 72 50

Mrs. Rhoda Churchill. Raleigh 72 50

Mrs. Harriet Spivey, Clinton 72 50

Mrs. E. H. Best, Warsaw 30 00

Rev. Solomon Blackburn, Bud 30 00

Rev. N. H. Moss, Waco 20 00

Dec. 9. Balance 174 46

$1,196 56

PERMANENT INTEREST-BEARING FUND.

1896 Nov.lO. Balance $ 65 97

1897 Dec. 7. One-third receipts for 1897 305 75

Balance on hand $371 72

LOANED ON REAL ESTATE.

One loan $ 500 00

One loan 500 00

One loan 250 00

$1,250 00 Respectfully submitted,

T. E. Cheek. Treasurer.

We have examined this report and the Treasurer's books, and have found same correct. H. A. Reams.

Geo. J. Dow ELL, Aiidiforn.

Remarks were made by W. C. T3^ree, H. A. Reams, of Durham, G. H. Church, of Statesville, and J. D. Hufham, of Henderson, after which the report was adopted.

The Convention then adjourned to visit the Oxford Or- phan Asylum.

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Friday Evening.

President Marsh called the Convention to order at 7.30 p. m. Devotional exercises were conducted by W. C. Tyree, of Durham, who read a part of the second chapter of Philippians and offered prayer.

L. Johnson, of Greensboro, offered the following- reoort on Order of Business :

SATURDAY.

10 a. ni. — Miscellaneous Business.

10.30 a. m — State Missions.

12 m.— Wake Forest.

2.30 p. ra. ^Miscellaneous Business.

2.45 p. m. — Seminary.

7.30 p. ni. — Female University, followed by Ministerial Education.

SUNDAY.

7.30 p. m. — Orphanage.

MONDAY.

10 a. m. ^Periodicals.

11 a. m. — Woman's Work.

12 m. — Miscellaneous Business.

The following were welcomed to seats in the Convention : E. F. Tredway, new pastor at Shelby, and F. W. Boat- wright, President of Richmond College.

The special order for the evening, " Our History and the Baptist Historical Papers," was then taken up. Addresses were made by E. W. Sikes, of Wake Forest, John E. White, of Raleigh, J. D Hufham and T. M. Pittman, of Henderson.

W. M. Jones, of Maxton, presented for the committee the report on Foreign Missions as follows :

FOREIGN MISSIONS.

The ground of the commission of our ascended Lord, "(to ye into all the world and preach the Gosjjel to every creature," is found in the fact that "(xod .so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to die for it; that whosoever belie veth on Him should not peri.sh, but have everlasting life."

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Since Foreign Missions are so deeply implanted in the heart of the Gospel, it behooves us, who ai'e .sharers of His redeeming love, to carry the same to those who sit in heathen darkness.

Dui-ing the past year, on our six mission fields, God has abundant ly blessed our labors and our prayers, for our missionaries report baptism of six hundred and sixty persons.

We congratulate the Baptist women of North ("arolina, that .since the last meeting of our Convention, they have carried to comple- tion the work of supporting a Yates" Memorial Missionary in China. We pledge to them in their work our full and earnest co operation.

We are this year asked by the Board to contribute §9,000 to help carry on the work, but the 140,000 Baptists of this Convention should raise this amount to 810,000.

We also recommend that our pastors, as far as possible, promote a missionary spirit among their churches, by increasing the circula- tion of the "'Foreign Mission Journal," by encouraging the formation of a Woman's Missionary Society in every church, by fervent pray- ers for missionaries and their work.

For more extended reference to our work, Ave refer you to report of Board of Missions and Sunday Schools. Respectfully submitted,

W. M. Jo^'ES,

G. T. W ATKINS,

W. T. Creath. Samuel J. Porter, E. F. Tatum, M. E Parish , R. F. Tredway.

Kemarks were made by W. M. Jones and A. J. Barton, Assistant Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, Rich- mond. The report was then adopted.

Adjournment. Benediction by Thomas Hume, of Chapel Hill.

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SATURDAY MORNING.

December 11, 1897.

Evangelist Thomas Needhara, of Philadelphia, conducted devotional exercises.

Minutes of 3'esterday were read and approved.

T. J. Taylor, for the Committee on Order of Business, reported that the report on obituaries would be presented and considered immediately after discussion of the Orphan- age, Sunday night.

H. A. Brown read a statement from certain lawj^ers con- cerning a contested will in which the Convention is inter- ested.

On motion, this matter was referred to a committee. The Chair appointed the following as the committee: J. E. White, J. D. Boushall and W. N. Jones.

B. W. Spilman, of Raleigh, offered the following resolu- tion, which was adopted :

J 11 oixler to iiHJi'e ijerfeetly preserve the sources of (uir Baptist History in ]^orth Carolina, be it

Resolved 1. That the Statistical Secretary be instructed to gather and preserve each year a file of the " Biblical Recorder," " Charity and Children," "North Carolina Baptist, ' "Wake Forest Student," and copies of the catalogues of Wake Forest College, Southern Bai)tist Theological Seminary, Oxford Female Seminary, Chowan Bai)tist Female Institute and Baj)tist academies; Minutes of the Baptist State Convention, Southern Baptist Convention, and of the Asso- ciations of the State; and of the colored Convention and Associa- tions; the North Carolina Baptist Almanac, Baptist Historical Pa- pers, American Baptist Year Book, and wliatever other publica- tions of historical value to North Carolina Baptists.

2. That all weekly, monthly, or quarterly publications be bound each year. That annual publications be bound at the close of each census year.

3. That the Seci'etary be allowed ?.")0 per year for his services, in addition to the actual expense incurred in collecting the documents.

4. That as soon as practicable a fireproof vault be built for this (•ollection. Said vault to be paid for from funds given for that purpo.se, under the direction of the Board of Missions and Sunday Schools.

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Remarks by J. D. Ilufham, W. L. Poteat, A. T. Robertson. The report on State Missions was submitted by L. R. Priiett, of Charlotte, as follows:

STATE MISSIONS.

This year of missionary effort in Xorth Carolina will g:o down on the pages of history as one of the brightest chapters.

We have come to the Convention with our hearts delighted and full of joy over the great success of the work, and we should not foi'get to render the gratitude and praises of our hearts to (xod, from whom cometh every good and perfect gift.

During the year our Board has employed one hundred and one missionaries, and as a result of their faithful and self den jing work, 1,334 persons have been baptized.

Your Committee feels that (xod has greatly blessed the untiring efforts of our Corresponding Secretary, and that the liberality of the Baptists all over the State has abounded toward the Board and its work.

A great deal has been done, and yet we have only a little more than begun to occupy the growing and inviting fields before us. Towns and cities are springing up in our State, and they must have the Bible as Baptists believe it.

We heartily counuend the order of the Convention for a collec- tion during its session, to pay §350 due our missionaries.'

We would also reconmiend that the Board operate on a basis of $15,000 during the coming year.

We further recommend that our pastors and churches do more nn"ssionary work on their own fields.

Covimittee.

The report was discussed b}' L. R. Pruett, H. A. Brown of Winston, D. L. Gore of Wilmington, W. R. Bradshaw of Wilkesboro, C. W. Blanchard of Kinston, John E. White and X. B. Broughton. A collection in cash and pledges was then taken for State Missions, amounting to $350.

Telegram is read from the students of the Southern Bap- tist Theological Seminary, as follows :

Louisville, Ky., Dec. 11. 1897. North Cdrolina Baptist State Conveutioti, Oxford, N. C:

T wenty-.se ven sons of North Carolina at the school of the prophets send greetings. II Tliessalonians 3: 16.

RuFus Weaver. D. F. Lawrence.

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G. L. Finch was appointed to respond in behalf of the Convention.

The followino- were, at this point, recognized and intro- duced to the Convention: M. H. Tuttle, pastor Oxford il Methodist Church ; G. P. Perry, pastor Oxford M. E. Circuit; J. B. Hurley, pastor Wilson M. E. Church ; J. A. Whitted, Secretary of Co operative Work, Warrenton ; Woodford Revis, pastor of Third Baptist Church, colored, of Oxford.

J. B. Boone, of Thomas ville, submitted the following :

REPORT ON WAKE FOREST COLLEGE.

The last .session of the college, which closed May 2(\ 1897, was pro- bably the most prosperous of the sixty two years of its history. Two hundred and sixty-five students were matriculated ; forty one grad- uated; one received the degree of Master of Ai-ts ; thirty nine the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and seven the degree of Bachelor of Laws.

At the annual meeting of the Board a vacancy was filled by the election of Mr. J. C. Caddell.

The resignation of Rev. C. W. Blanchard as Financial Secretary was accepted, and the value of his work formally recognized. No changes were made in the Faculty.

Since the last meeting of the Convention some modificjitions have been made in the requirements for tlegrees. The range of election of studies has been .somewhat widened, but graduation has not been rendered more easy thereby.

The collection of amounts i)ledged for the completion of the Ro>'all Chau" of English has been slower than could be desired. Of the §25,000 needed, 814,864.60 has been paid in and invested. Of this amount §l'2,212.o8 has come from individual givers and b3.652.22 from the American Baptist Education Society in fulfillment of their conditional iiledge.

The largest single contribution ever made to the library in the Col- lege was received last August from the venerable and honored Pres- ident of the Board. Bro. T. E. Skinner. This notable addition to the educational facilities of the college consists of about 1,700 vol- umes. The thanks of the whole den<^mination are due to the giver.

A Summer School and a Pastor's Institute were inaugurated in the college during the last vacation. The former was a success. The latter was so thinly attended by our pastors that the Faculty do not feel encouraged to plan for another session during the vacation of 1898.

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During the fall term oi the session of 1897 — 1898 two hundred and twenty Ave students have matriculated — fewer by twenty than were i)resent at the corresponding- period last year. The causes of this falling off are not far to seek, but it is needless to discuss them here. The session so far has been characterized by steady and successful work of the student body, with but few exceptions.

Esiiecial attention is called to the continued growth and success of the Law Department of the college. The school of the Bible also continues to prove the wisdom of its establishment.

It is gratifying to note the establishment of a.ssociational acade- mies in several sections of the State. These will naturally become feeders for Wake Forest and our Woman's College in Raleigh. The steady growth of educational interest among our people encourages the hope that at no distant day such high schools and academies will be organized and fostered by every Association in North Caro- lina.

The college has been fortunate in being able to secure the services of Mr. E. W. Sikes as its representative during the last few months. He has delivered effective addresses at a number of the Associa- tions and at other ])laces in the State. It is with i:)leasure that we report that this gentleman, who last June received from Johns Hopkins University his Ph. D., was on yesterday elected Professor of Economics and History, and was placed in charge of Physical Culture.

Since the old gymnasium was divided to provide quarters for the Law and Bible departments, no suitable proAusion has been made for physical culture. The college is temporarily placed at a disad- vantage in this regard, and it is hoped that before the o]iening of the next session a new and ample g\nnnasium. with facilities forbathmg, will be erected and equipjied.

RELIGIor.S TXTKHEST IN THE COLLEGE.

There has been for the most part the usual interest in relig- ious services. The young men's prayer meeting has been more large- ly attended than in many years. The mcnthly missionary meeting was, perhaps, never better. The students' Bible Band is doing good work in the study of the Grospel every Sunday afternoon.

J. B. Booiv^E,

D. L. GrORE,

L. Johnson.

Commt'ftee.

Addresses were made by C. E. Tnylor, T, E. Skinner and E. W. Sikes.

Adjourned to meet at 2.3(> p. m. Benediction by J. H. Lamberth.

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Saturday Afternoon.

The President assumed the chair at the hour appointed, and the Convention was led in prayer by H. A. Brown, of Winston.

N. L. Shaw, for the Committee to Nominate Board of Ed- ucation, reported the following, which was adopted :

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

W. L. Poteat, W. R. Gvvaltney, W. B. Royall, D. W. Allen, C. E. Brewer. J. M. Brewer, J. B. Carlyle, L. Chappell. W. B. Dunn. G. W. Paschal, P. W. Johnson, L. R. Mills, J. B. Powers, F. M. Purefoy. N. Y. Gulley, C. E. Taylor. J. F. Lanneau, John Mitchell, W. R. Cullom, W. A. Montgomery. W. J. Ft^rrell. J. C. Caddell. T. E. Holding, J. H. Gorrell. B. F. Sledd. J. C. Fowler, W. C. Parker. L. W. Bagley.

The report on State Missions was then adopted.

Moved that the report on Sunday Schools and Colportage be now considered.

L. N. Chappell submitted report of Committee to Nomi- nate Board of Missions and Sunday Schools, as follows :

BOARD OF MISSIONS AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

John E. Ray, Chairman: John E. White, Corresponding Secretary ; J. H. Alford. G. M. Allen, J. S. Allen. J. D. Boushall, C. B. Edwards, A. D. Hunter, J. B. Boone, J. M. Broughton, A. B. Forrest. S. W. Brewer, N. B. Broughton, J. C. Caddell, J. W. Carter, H. W. Norris, W. C. Douglass, J. C. Ellington, W. R. (Iwaltney, F. P. Hobgood, J. N. Hold- ing, E. C. Holleman, C. J. Hunter. W. N. Jones, W. A. Montgomeiy, T. E. Skinner, A. M. Simms. H. L. Watson, W. T. Faircloth, J. D. Huf- hani, H. C. Doekery, C. M. Cooke, W. L. Poteat, John T. Pullen, J. W. Bailey, J. H. Weathers, J. B. Brewer. J. S. Hardaway. J. P. Wyatt, B. W. Spilman, A. C. Barron, J. A. Mundy, W. R Cullom.

Ashe and Alleghany. J. Ellis; Atlantic, C. W. Blanchard: Alex-ander, L. P. Gwaltney; Benlah. J. E. Jordan; Bladen, Wm. Brunt; Brier Creek; Brushy Mountain. J. L. Hemphill; Caldwell, J. V. McCall: Cedar Creek, R. W. Horrell; Central P. A. Dunn; Catawba River. J. H. Hoff- man ; Cape Fear; Chowan, T. B. Boushall: Columbus; Eastern, L. R. Carroll; Elkin ; Flat River. T. H. Street; French Broad; Green River, T. B. Justice; Kings Mountain, G. M. Webb; Liberty; Little River, J. M. Holleman; Mecklenburg and ( abarrus, R. H. Jordan; Mitchell; Mont- gomery; Mt Zion. G. J. Dowell: Pee Dee, J. G. Blalock; Piedmont, R.

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W. Brooks; Pilot Mountain, H. A. Brown; Raleigh, J. M. White; Robe- son, E. K. Proctor, Jr.; Sandif Creek, C. L. Greaves; South Fork, W. A . Graham; South River; South Yadkin, G. H. Church; Stanly; Tar River; Three Forks, W. S. Farthing; Union, H. C. Moore; West Chowan; Yad- kin, V. M. Swaim; Yancey. L. N. Chappell,

J. A. Beam, W. S. Olive, S. W. Oldham,

W. S. BiLERO,

R. H. Jordan, Geo. J. DowELL, CoDimittee.

^Y. S. Penick, Elizabeth Cit}', submitted the report on Sunday Schools and Colportage which, after discussion by W. S. Penick, B. W. Spilman, N. B. Broughton and John E. White, was re-committed for certain amendments.

A. T. Robertson, Louisville, K3\, then addressed the Con- vention on the history and work of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. A collection in cash and pledges was taken for the Seminary amounting to $050.

E. W. Sikes, for the Committee on Preachers and Place of Next Meeting, reported the following, which was adopted :

The Committee on Preacher and Place report the following : Intro- ductory Sermon, Rev. W. S. Penick; Alternate, J. Q. Adams; Place, Greenville. E. W. Sikes,

B. F. Hester, A. W. Setzer, h. w. norris, Henry Sheets, Committee.

Adjourned, with benediction by A. E. Dickenson, to visit Oxford Female Seminarv.

Satukday Evening.

Devotional exercises were conducted by J. A. Mundy, of Eeidsville, who read the 27th Psalm. C. F. James, of Vir- ginia, led in prayer. 4

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The report on the Baptist Female University was sub- mitted by A. M. Simras, of Raleigh, as follows: '

REPORT ON BAPTIST FEMALE UNIVERSITY.

Owing to the position wliich woman occupies in the family, and the close relationship which she therefore sustains to all that pertains to the highest welfare of the liuman race, no more important subject can claim our attention than that of woman's preparation for life.

As fihe is refined and cultured, and spiritualized, all the influences and streams of life feel her power, just as the heart of all the people answers when the strings of a harp are ; wept by a music loving soul.

The Baptists have given to the world many noble women whose min- istrations have helped to sweeten tlie life of the suffering people, and there are in our homes, to-day. girls as noble hearted and as richly en- dovred by nature as any age has produced. To give to them, from the humblest to the highest, an opportunity to equip themselves edu- cationally for life, must be our work, if we are to be true to our trust.

The schools we have are doing good work, and we thank God for them, as we do for every institution that has breathed a noble ambition and a pure hope into a life of eternal iwssibilities.

But a female university is a necessity to our work, and the heart of our people, tliat never quails before difficulties nor despairs in the midst of suffering, has laid hold of it. and has said. "By the grace of God it shall be."

The roof is now on the building, which is one of the handsomest structures in the State : the scaffolding is being taken down and the windows boarded up for the winter. If our people will give* us the means to push the work the school could be opened next fall. This we hope and pray may be done. It will take §20. 000 to enable us to do this, but the respon.ses which our people have already made and the noble hearts that are interested in the enterpri.<ie, lead us to hope it will be done.

Hundreds of girls are waiting to come, and thousands of parents and children are praying that He, who has given to us so many sources of joy in the past, will add this also.

We call to every Baptist heart, be with us in this work.

A. M. SIMMS,

J. W. Carter, W. B. Morton, James Smith, J. J. Payseur, S. A. Howard, C. H. Durham,

Committee.

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The report was discussed by President F. W. Boatwright, of Richmond, N. B. Broughton and O. L. Stringfield. Col- lection and subscriptions, payable by September 1st, 189S, for the University, were taken, amounting to $4,714. The report was adopted.

Convention then adjourned.

SUNDAY.

Various pulpits in Oxford and vicinity were occupied by members of the Convention. The following were the ap- pointments :

Bcqyiist Cliurcli. — Sunday School : Rev. R. T. Vann, Jno.

E. Ray, Arch. Johnson; 11 a. m., Rev. A. J. Barton; 3 o'clock p. m., Sunday School Mass Meeting: N. B. Brough- ton, Rev. B. W. Spilman, J. W. Bailey ; 7.30 p. m., Mass Meeting on Orphanage.

Presbyterian Church. — Sunday School: Rev. W, F. Wat- son, Rev. James Long; 11 a. m., Rev. Thos. Need ha m ; 7.30 p. m., Rev. Thos. E. Skinner, D. D.

Methodist Episcopal Church. — Sunday School : Rev. R.

F. Tredway, Rev. J. J. Payseur; 11 a. m., Rev. J. W. Car- ter ; 7.30 p. ra.. Rev. J. A. Mundy.

Orphati Asylum. — Rev. C. S. Cashwell at 3 p. m:

Horner School. — Rev. Thomas Ilume, D. D.

Enon Baptist Church. — Rev. C. B. Justice.

I'oor House. — Rev. John Lewis.

Hester's Baptist Chu,rch. — Rev. Josiah Elliott.

First Baptist Church, Colored. — 11 a. m.. Rev. W. R, Gwaltney ; 7.30 p. m.. Rev. Jno. E. White.

31. E. Church, Colored.— 1\ a. m., Rev. Hight C. Moore.

/Second Baptist Church, {Penn Ave.) — 11 a. m.. Rev. A. J. Cleveland ; 7.30 p. m., Rev. L. R. Pruett.

Presbyterian Church, Colored. — 11 a. m., Rev. Jno. T. Edmundson ; 7.30 }i. m., Rev. G. W. Church.

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Convention exercises for the eveninij: were opened with music, reading of the 41st Psalin by W. B. Royal], of Wake Forest, and prayer by A. Cree, of Seaboard.

The Pi'csident called the body to order. The report on the Orphanage was read as follows by J. C. Scarborough, of Murfreesboro:

RKPORT ON THOMASVILLE BAPTIST ORPHANAGE.

The Convention which met in tlie Fir.st Baptist Church of Raleigh in the Fall of 1884 had before it for consideration a resolution to commit the Convention to the establishment and support of an Orphanage for the care and training of indigent orphan children. A considerable number of our brethren in that Convention were found to be opposed to the passage of the resolution, thinking the movement unwise and such an institution unnecessar5^ The discussion was spirited, but without harshness. Tlie brethren did not see alike.

The friends of the resolution feared it would not pass. Those op- posing feared it would pass. Under these circumstances its friends thought it wise to withdraw the resolution from further consideration by the Convention, and to organize a Baptist Orphanage Association apart from the Conventicm, which Association should have for its ob- ject tlie establishment of an or[)hanage for the care and training of indigent orphan children.

The Association was according)}- organizeil during tiiat session of the Convention. Two committees were appointed. One to procure a charter from the Legislature, whicli was to meet in January, 1885. The other to select and procure, by gift or purcha.se. a site for the pro- posed orphanage. The site near Thomasville was selected and procured by purchase before the end of the year 1884. The charter was procured from the Legislature of 1885 for "The North Carolina Baptist Orphan- age Association." Some years later it was changed to "Tlie Board of Trustees of the Thomasville Baptist Orphanage," composed of eigliteen members, with powers of self- perpetuation.

We rieem it unnecessary in this report to go more particularly into the details of the historj- of its first beginning. It is sufficient to say that the first orjihan was registered on the roll at the Orphanage on November Uth, 1885. All opi)osition ceased immediately on the be- ginning of tlie active work of caring for orphan children. The sympa- thies of our people went out to the institution, and their contributions were sent in liberal measure for the support of the children.

The first report made to the Convention of the Orphanage and its work was made at tlie session in Reidsville in tlie Fall of 1886.

Since the establishment of the Orjihanage 480 children have been en- rolled from 69 counties in .N'orth Carolina. There are now ])reseiit 164.

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Tliere are on the grounds Ifi brick buildings. Five of tliese build- ings are occupied by the orphans as liomes and dormitories.

Tlie Central School Building was completed antl occupied on the 7th of last June. 'J he building and equipments cost about $6,000. Every dollar of its cost lias been raised and paid. The condition of the Or- phanage is excellent, considering the pressure of the times. The insti- tution is practically out of debt for current expenses. The contribu- tions are from a very much larger scope than ever before, and the out- look is hopeful.

But the Orphanage is not yet complete. There is pressing need now ■of a Home for the General Manager. Your Committee recommend that such stejis be taken b3- this Convention as may be needful to com- mend the building of a suitable home for the General Manager to our pastors and churclies for their consideration and contributions. It is Hie present nece.ssity of our Orphanage. Respt-ct fully submitted.

John 0. Scarborough, Chairman,

For Committee.

The re|)orL was discussed by John C. Scarborough, J. B. Boone, General Manager of the Orphanage, J. D. Ilufham, R. T. A^ann and IL 13. Duffy. Subscriptions were taken for the ])urpose of erecting a new building at the Orphanage amounting to '§1,200.

The Convention then adjourned.

MONDAY MORNING.

Convention met at 9.30 a. m. Devotional exercises were conducted by T. E. Skinner, of Raleigh.

Minutes of Saturday and Sunday were read, corrected, and approved.

W. C. Tyree read the report on Periodicals as follows:

REPORT ON PERIODICALS.

If one were called upon to mention tlie factors that have made this the foremost of all ages, he must name the pulpit, the platform, the school-house and the printing press. This last agency stands along be- side the pulpit in power. Every business enterprise seeking popular support invokes the aid of the printer ; and any party or sect that un-

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dertakes the problem of existence without the .support of a newspaper invites extinction.

The Biblical RecorUer has stood for sixty years and more, the faitli- ful friend and sturdy helper of every object dear to this Convention. Missions, Sunday Schools, Education, and Orphanage work all find in it a staunch supporter. It may be doubted whether any other single agency has done more to bring our denomination in this State to its present high position.

The dut}' of supporting the Recorder is twofold. In doing so we are best promoting the Kingdom of God among men, while at the same time we are enlarging our own spiritual grcnvth. It is ably and fear- lessly edited, and the reduction of its price to §1.50 has removed the only difficulty ever urged in the way of its general circulation among our Baptist people.

In Chaiity and CJiildreri we have the official organ of our Orplianage. Its holy mission and its clean, elevating, stimulating matter commend it to every lover of his race.

We owe it to our denomination and to tliose men who are freely giv- ing their labor to the cau.se, to exert ourselves in the support and per- petuation of the Baptist Historical Papers.

The Foreign Mission Jvrnal. of Richmond, represents the Foreign Mission work of the Southern Baptist Convention. It may be had at 80 cents per copy or 2.5 cents in clubs of ten.

Our Home Field, which looks after the work of Home Mi,ssions in the South, is published in Atlanta, and may be had for 10 cents a year or .5 cents in clubs of t(jn.

We would also make mention of the North Carolina Baptist as a most excellent religious paper.

R. T. Vann, J. H. Lamberth, A. C. Barron, W. C. Tyree. Samuel Saunders, J. A. Campbell,

Committee.

Remarks were made by John C. Scarborough, J. D. Iluf- ham, A. M. Simms, J. E. Wliite, K B. Bronghton, T. E. Skinner, A. E. Dickenson, of Richmond, J. W. Bailey.

The following amendment to the report, offered by L. Johnson, was accepted and the whole adopted :

AMENDMENT.

We cannot overestimate the value and importance of a denomina- tional organ. It is the medium through which the churches, homes

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and individuals are reached with the clarion call for united effort in the Lord's work ; it is the agency which elicits, combines and directs the thought and energies of our people, unites them in sympatiiy and interest and educates them in the spirit of progress and large under- taking for the Kingdom of God in the earth. It is a cause for grati- tude to God that the Baptists of North Carolina throughout the last sixty -three years of their historj- have liad such an organ as the Biblical Recorder. Every succeeding year of its splendid work vindicates tlie wisdom and commends the foresight of our fathers who founded the Recorder and consecrated it to the defence of Christ. His truth and liu- mauity's common cause of Justice and Liberty. The Recorder never deserved the large and general support as it does to-day. The price has been reduced to meet the conditions of all our people. It is ably and fearlessly edited. It is commendeil to our people by a popular rei)re- 'sentative. It is under the proprietorship of two of the most loyal and capable Baptists in the State. Therefore be it

Resolved 1. That the Baptist State Convention commend and approve the course of brethren Edwards & Broughton in reducing the price of the Recorder to 81. 50, and appreciate the faith in our support which this reduction indicates and that we hereby pledge ourselves during the coming year to the effort to give the Recorder a circulation of 10,000 in our State.

2. That the Convention again approves the present editorial manage- ment of the paper, and pledges to the editor, J. W. Bailey, its contin- ued support and sympathy in his effort to promote the development of our people and defend the principles and interests of the denomination.

3. That we gratefully acknowledge the valuable work of the travel- ing agent Bro. J. C. Caddell. While primarily representing the Re- corder, he has thrown his whole soul into all our denominational work, and has taken every occasion to speak a word for the work.

G. L. Finch reported the following telegram of response to students in the Seminary at Louisville:

Oxford, N. C, Dec. 13, 1897.

Korth Carolina Students, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,

care Rev. W. R. Weaver, New York Hall, Louisville, Ky.

We send greeting. Psalm 122. verses 6 and 7. G. L. Finch,

For Baptist State Convention.

T. L. Blalock, missionary to China, was recognized and welcomed to the Convention,

L. Johnson presented the following report on Woman's Work, which was adopted :

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REPORT ON WOMAN'S WORK.

It is witli great pleasure that we note the excellent report submitted by the Woman's Central Committee. It is only in recent years that we haA'e come to recognize the importance of woman's work.

The amount contributed is very gratifj-ing. Nearly one-fourth of the amount contributed to Foreign Missions, and three-fourths of the Home Mission fund came from the Woman's ]\Iissionary Societies, while State Missions and otlier objects of the Convention were liberally supported. The Committee is able to report a larger increase in its contributions than any year in its history.

As an educational agency it is invaluable. Perhaps no other agency has done such effective work in disseminating information and awaken- ing interest in missions.

The lettei's written, the missionary literature .scattered like autumn , leaves, are seeds that must bring a blessed harvest in the j^ears to come.

All this has been done with no expense. Especial mention should be ntaiie of the worthy President, who is consecrating her life to this w()r!c.

^Ve most heartily commend the efforts of these noble women, and bid the: 11 God speed in all their undertakings.

L. Johnson. For Committee.

Thomas Ilumc, of Chaj^el Hill, offered the followinf^ re port on Obituaries, which was adopted :

REPORT ON OBITUARIES.

The necrology of this year lias to do mainly with faitliful men, the unrecognized private soldiers of the host of God's elect, names not known to the great world, but written in the Lamb's Book of Life. If they are not recorded here, it is not for want of grateful love for their memor3', but because no one has supplied the means for telling of these .silent heroes.

A few brethren liave rendered such important service to churches and benevolent institutions that they must needs be commemorated.

Brother W. W. Mitchell of Ahoskie, in the West Chowan Associa- tion, fell asleep in his eighty-seventh year after a life of devoted use- fulness. Chowan Institute and the wliole Baptist fraternity hold him in thankful love. He gave four thousand dollars to rescue the honored school at a crisis in its history, and aided in raising one thousand more. Other good deeds marked tlie career of this godly and active believer.

We could not omit to mention the useful life and Christian service of an honored physician, Dr. Victor McBrayer, a member of the Shelby church, w^ho rests well after good work.

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Rev. J. R. BuUard, of the South River Association, died in his sixty- ninth j-ear.

Dr. A. B. Roberson, senior deacon of the Chapel Hill Church, ceased from his labors all too soon, as it might seem to our short sight. Use- ful and lielpful in his profession, practical and successful in business, earnest and faitliful in his Cliristian course, his church lost a wise counsellor and devoted member.

r>ro. Hugli K. Reid, of Reidsville. has just died at the age of eighty, altir remarkable activity maintained almost to the last. Hesitating long before joining the church, he became one of its most serviceable members. He managed his lai'ge business interests witli honorable skill and most successful results. He declined political position towards which his family associations and his knowledge of affairs might have tempted him. He rests from his labors, and his works do follow him.

Maj. W. W. Vass.* BY REV. THOS. E. SKINNER, D. D.

The city of Raleigh lias been called upon to give up many of her in- fluential and useful citizens. We have attended their fimerals and lamented their departure and our loss, but how have we taken their lives and deaths as lessons and warnings to our hearts?

"For over fifty years," says his biographer, " Maj. Vass has been an earnest, consistent communicant of the Baptist church, and has ever carried his religion into his every-day business life. His name is held in the warmest esteem and confidence wherever known. It was said of him, ' His ability is great ; his honesty crystal.'"

Put what if the subject of this obituary notice has played the man so \vell in secular life ; what if he had exceeded all other men in secu- lar onterpri.se ; of what avail now would all these things be if he had not found the "pearl of great price." the "one thing needful," the " better part," which was not taken from him here, nor ever shall be?

I have often heard him relate the circumstances of his awakening, for all men are naturally asleep to spiritual things, of the alarm to which liis high nervous temperament was subjected at the sight of himself as a sinner lost; of ho^- he feared that death might cut off his escape from the wrath to come ; of how fear drove away the possibility of belief in His Word and trust in His promises; of how the two des- tinies, "Life" and "Destruction" shone with a clear light, and, looked with fierce, piercing eyes.

Then the two courses of conduct set so plainly before him, the " nar- row way" and the " broad way," he saw as never before that there was no middle way : no neutrality between Satan and God ; no serving two masters. He seemed to stand at the meeting of two ways. The

* Copied from News and Observer, Raleigh, N. C.

58 MINUTES OF TUK

enemy of all souls beholding tlie situation, said, "Do as yoa like." "One like unto the Son of Man" replied, '"There is but one way to eternal life ; I am the way — the way of truth, the way of life, of obe- dience, of holiness." Away, then, with self-righteousness and pride of sins, and turn unto tlie way of practical obedience to God. " Choose ye this day whom ye will serve," and remember that the nari'ow way is rough and steep. On the other hand, the broad way seems easier at the start, but on that path you will lose your life — in that way lies death.

Thus was set before him life and death, and he chose the better way, and now he wears the crown of life.

A few days before his departure, I asked him how he felt in view of liis positive assertion, " I shall neA'er go out of this house again." His reply was calm and a.'-suring, reminding me of the words of the con- vert to Christ in Greenland who, when asked by the missionary the day before his death how he felt, replied, " I shall not rise from this bed again ; I am called home to the Lord. My desire is fixed on my heavenly country, where I shall behold Him whom I love, and \\lio loves me." When asked whether he feared death, "Oh, no. How can I love Clirist and fear deatli. The death of Christ was the death of Death."

A few years ago, in some reminiscences of members of tiie First Bap- tist Church of Raleigh, I wrote: '"Among the older members, and among the most useful men in the church, is our worthy and aged brother, W. W. Vass, Sr. Always in his pew. a discerner of men and their talents, without being over critical. His constant presence was an example and a blessing to all the people, with his singularly cir- cumspect walk as a disciple of Christ. Not that he is faultless, for to such an inference no one would more earnestly object than he."

Let this be our prayer : " Teach me so to live, that I may dread the grave as little as my bed." This is my prayer, for the Sciiptures de- clare that Christ has "abolished" and ' destroyed" death ; that " who- soever believeth in Him shall never die ;" that the believer "shall not taste death." The great end of life is to learn how to die. May the consoling and comforting presence of the Loi"d abide with the bereaved family, and the church of which for forty-nine years he w^as a member, and with the community. Thomas Hume,

Thom.\s E. Skinner, For the Committee.

John Mitchell, of Wake Forest, offered the report on Education, which was received and ordered printed in the Minutes. Remarks by John Mitchell.

The report is as follows:

UAPTIST STATK CONVKNTION. 59

REPORT ON BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The work of the Board has been fairly good during the year. Thirty- one young ministers were aided by the Board in the Spring Term. In order to relieve the Board of debt it was thought best to reduce the number of beneficiaries for a while. So only twenty-three AA-ere re- ceived for the Fall Term, and three of tliese did not return. To this number three have been added since, and otliers wil be at the opening of the Spring Term in January next. There are now a dozen or more applications for aid, and it is most devoutly wished that the Board might be able to assist all the wortliy young ministers who apply.

The importance of the work cannot be over-estimated. It is grow- ing upon us, and we sliould enlarge our contributions to the Board, that they might be able to give this timely aid to the young ministers for the Master's sake.

We are glad to be able to report that the Board is now practically out of debt. All outstanding notes and obligations have been can- celled, and the cHurent expenses paid up to date, except the Salary of the Corresponding Secretary, which is due from January 1st 1897 — 11 months at §20 per month, $220. This may be reduced by the amount in the hands of the Treasurer.

Tlie annual account of the Secretary, itemized, is as follows .«

DEBITS.

Received of J. D. Bou.shall, Treas .§ 2, 564 67

Jan. 4. Borrowed W. J. Ferreil 300 00

Mar. 1. " C. E. Brewer 100 00

Mar. 22. " " " .^)0 00

Total 8 3, 014 67

CREDITS.

Balance due on last year account § 31 52

Paid out as per receipts 3, 080 84

$ 3,112 86 Leaving amount due on open account __.,_. §97 69

The above account, itemized, has been audited and certified as fol- lows :

"I have carefully examined the above accounts of Rev. Dr. John Mitchell, Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Education of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, beginning November 10, 1896, and closing December 1, 1897, and find them correct and properly vouched, with a balance of ninety-seven dollars and sixty-nine cents ($97.69) due the Secretary. John M. Brewer,

Auditor." Respectfully submitted, John Mitchell,

Corresponding Secretary.

60 • MINUTES OF THE

J. W. Baile\' offered the following resolution, which was adopted :

Resolved, That the functions of the office of Statistical Secretary, with the provisions for the maintenance of that office, be merged into the office of Corresponding Secretar\^

Secretary J. E. White presented the report of Treasurer J. D. Boushall. It was ordered printed in the Minutes:

REPOKT OF J. D. BOUSBALL, TREASURER BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. NOVEMBER 9, IStlO, TO DECEMBER 4, 1897.

STATE MISSIONS.

Balance $189 37

By amount received §15, 206 07

To Paid:

N. B. Broughton. Recording Secretary 25 00

Hight C. Moore, Recording Secretary 25 00

Edwards & Broughton, printing Minutes. - 3)00

Dr. N. B. Cobb, salary as Statistical Sec... 33 34

Edwards & Brougliton, printing. 75 00

Part Expenses Women's Central Com 44 40

Rev. Jolin E. White, salary as Cor. Sec... 820 00 Rev. John E. White. Cor. Sec, traveling

expenses 150 00

Rent of Mission Rooms. 67 01

J. D. Boushall, Treasurer, salarj' 75 00

Amount paid on Co-operation. . 63 > 32

Amount paid sundry missionaries 14, 172 85

Balance 1 , 069 22

$16,335 29 $16,335 29 FOKEIGN MISSIONS.

Balance $408 48

Bv amount received 8, 854 26

To Paid:

Amount sent direct $8^8 86

Part E.\penses Women's Central Com 88 81

Edwards Ot Brougliton, printing Minutes.. 20 00

Rent of Mission Rooms ... 52 1 7

Rev. John E. Wliite, Cor. Sec, salary 533 00

Rev. John E. White. Cor. Sec, traveling

expenses . . 55 00

J. D. Boushall, Treasurer, salary 50 00

Amount sent S. S. Board, Nashville 14 08

Edwards & Broughton , ])rinting 60 50

Expenses Vice Presidents 1921

Amount sent Foreign Mission Board 6. 5()0 00

Balance.. 929 13

$9,260 74 $9,260 74

BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. P HOME MISSIONS.

Balance -

By amount received

To Paid:

Edwards & Broughton, printing Minutes.- §20 00

Appropriation to N. C. Board of Missions.. 500 00

Part Expenses Women's Central Com 44 40

Rent of Mission Rooms 21 34

Rev. Jolm E. White, Cor. Sec. salary 350 00

Rev. John E. White, Cor. Sec, traveling

expenses 50 00

J. D. Boushall, Treasurer, salary 50 00

Edwards & Broughton. printing 48 15

Amount paid on Co-operation 722 62

Amount sent direct 351 52

Amount paid Home Mission Board 3,128 63

Balance - P>65 44

$5,953 10

EDUCATION —Ministerial Education.

Balance $32 68

By amount received

To Paid;

Edwards & Broughton. printing Minutes.. 20 00

Salary J. D. Boushall, Treasurer 15 00

Dr. John Mitchell, Sec'y. vouchers 2, 488 59

Balance 248 03

Total ---- $2,814 30

Amount contributed to Royall Chair ( Wake Forest. Endowment)

Amount contributed to Baptist Female

TT • •. j Cash §5,090 26 (

University . j j^^^^ Estate... 1,050 00 l

Total for Education

ORPH.\NAGE.

{Figures furnished by Ivey Allen, Treasurer.)

Cash contributions

Subscriptions to Charity and Children

Contributions to Central Building .

Contributions in kind .-

Total

§283 56 5,668 54

§5,952 10

2,814 30

§2,814 30 §5,176 80

6,140 26 §14,131 36

$7,625 16 1,901 56 2, 155 94 1,366 79

$13,049 45

62 MINUTKS OF THE

MINISTERIAL RELIEF FUND.

By balance S3 20

A mount received _ ■ 915 93

To Paid:

Edwards & Broughton, printing Minutes.. $10 00

Paid T. E. Cheek, Treasurer 867 25

Balance 41 87

$919 12

SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

By amount received $22i5 1 0

To Paid:

Edwards & Broughton, printing $30 00

B. W. Spilman, S. S. Missionary 193 32

Balance. 23

S223 32

$223 83

students' AID FCND (LOUISVILLE.)

By amount received 850 05

To Paid:

Dr. E. C. Dargan, Treasurer $50 05

$50 05

Amount sent direct, estimated

§50	»i
$500 0^
$(>	88 1
400 00|
7, 385	95l

BAPTIST BOOK STORE.

By Balance .

Donation 8. S. Board, Nashville

Receipts of store

To Paid:

Edwards & Broughton, printing Minutes.. $30 00

Edwards & Broughton, printing and mdse. 100 00

Salary Rev. B. W Spilman. Secretary 800 00

Salary H. L \Vat.son. Clerk G50 00

Salary J. D. Boushall. Treasurer 60 00

Rent 858 32

Water rent 4 42

Fuel, lights, insurance, etc . 172 87

Donations and discounts ... Ill 99

Postage, box rent, etc 99 26

Sunday School literature and books 5, 95 1 38

Balance 43 41

$7,838 24 $7,838 24

BAPTIST STATE CONVKNTION. 63

THE "DURHAM DEBT."

By amount received in 18f)(5 - .

Amount received in 1897

Paid JIis. Durham at sundry times

Paid Mrs. Durham balance January 5, 1897

	$354 85
	144 10
877 r,5
21 40

§39S 95 $398 95

SUMMARY.

State JMissions $16, 335 39

Foreign Missions 9,260 74

Home Missions 5, 952 1 0

Education :

Ministerial S3, 814 30

\Vake Forest Endowment 5, 17G 80

Baptist Female University 6, 140 26 14, 131 36

Orplianage :

Cash 7, 625 16

Charity and Children 1 , 901 56

Central Building 2, 155 94

Inland.. 1.366 79 13,049 45

Ministerial Relief 919 13

Sunday School Mission Work 233 32

Students' Aid Fund 550 05

Baptist Book store 7, 838 34

The "Durham Debt'" 398 95

Church Extension, estimated " . 60, 000 00

$128,658 63

J. D. BOUSHALL. Treasurer Baptist State Convention.

I hereby certify that I have examined the books of J. D. Boushall, Treasurer of tlie Baptist State Convention of North Cai'olina, for the past conventional year, comparing the sanie with the acknowledge- ments in the Biblical Recorder. I find all accounts, with the various objects of the Convention, to be correct, and disbursements supi»orted

by proper vouchers.

W. N. JONES,

Auditor North Carolina Baptist State Convention.

J. A. Slradley, for the Comraittee, reported as follows:

MINISTERIAL RELIEF BOARD.

Your Committee to Nominate Ministerial Relief Board, recommend the following names to compose this Board :

64 MINUTES OF THE

W. C. Tyree, G. J. Dowell. J. F. McDuffie, N. B. Broughton, H. A. Foushee, H. A. Reams. T. E. Cheek, J. L. Markham, J. S. Hardaway, T. H. Street, O. C. Horton.

J. A. Stradley,

J. W. BURCHETT,

O. C. Horton, G. L. Finch, M. Blalock, John W. Suttle. W. B. Waff,

Committee.

Josiah Elliott submitted the

REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO NOMINATE SUNDAY SCHOOL AND COLPORTAGE COMMITTEE.

N. B. Broughton. Chairman; A. M. Simms. Jno. E. White. W. N. Jones. John K. Ray. S. W. Brewer, W. C. Douglass, W. L. Poteat, Jolm T. Pullen. J. D. Boushall, J. W. Bailey, J. H. Weathers. J. W. Carter. R. N. Sinirns. J. B. Brewer, J. M. Broughton, W. R. Cullom.

Josiah tLLioxx, Fo7' Committee.

J. W. Bailey offered the following resolution, \s'hich was carried unanimously :

Resolved, That tliis Convention reiterates the position it has taken in behalf of the Voluntary Principle in Higher Education, the prime importance of Christian Education, and sufficient provisions for the education of all the people.

J. D. Newton offered the following resolution, which was adopted :

Resolved, That the Baptists of North Carolina, assembled in Conven- tion, do express their sympathy with the unfortunate feeble-minded children in our State ; and we therefore favor the idea of some practi- cal effort being made with reference to the establishment of a suitable home for tlie training and development of these mentally affected per- sons, which, it is supposed, now numbers more than one thousand within the limits of North Carolina.

Thomas flume presented the following resolution, which was heartily adopted :

BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. 65

Resolved. The Convention renders its grateful tribute to Oxford and its hospitable people, under the leadership of Pastor Hardaway and Chairman Hancock, for their generous and graceful entertainment of so large a body of delegates and visitors. Our thanks are due to the pastors and members of all Christian coinmunions, to the Oxford Fe- male Seminary and the Oxford Orphan Asylum for delightful recep- tions and specially prepared exercises for our benefit, to the Horner School, and to the railroad companies.

On motion, it is ordered that fifteen hundred copies of the Minutes be printed, and that the Secretaries be allowed the usual fees.

The Convention then adjourned, to meet in Greenville, N. C, on Thursday night before the second Sunday in December, 1898.

R. H. MARSH,

N. B. Broughton, President.

HiGHT C. Moore,

Secretaries.

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APPENDIX.

LIST OF ORDAINED MINISTERS.

Abernatliy, J. W., Matthews.

Adams, E. J., Richmond Hill.

Adams, J. Q., Wadesboro.

Adams, M. A.. Apex.

Adams, M. H.. Venable.

Adams, J. J., Southport.

Addertoii, W. S., Denton.

Alderman. J. O., High Point.

Allen, W. M., Fletcher.

Alli.son. E.. Brevard.

Aman. D. F., Marines.

Amnions, J. A. , Needmore.

Ammons, J. M., Halewood.

Amnions, John. Outlook.

Anderson, C. J. F., So. Bp. Theo. Sem.

Anderson, J. W.. Asheville.

Angel, Jas. J. Boonville.

Annas, J. R. J.. Monbo.

Arrington, C. C. Shelton.

Atkinson, J. W.. Neuse.

Austin, D. M., Charlotte.

Austin. J. H., Rockingham.

Bailey. L. J.. Walnut Run.

Baldwin. M.. Winston.

Baldwin, T. M.. Rise.

Baldwin, J. R., Silas Creek.

Ballard. W. S., Southport.

Ballard, J. M.. Doolie.

Bardwin. J. H.. Silas Creek.

Barker, A. N.. Grade.

Barker. H. M., Peachtree.

Barker. W. F., Hud.

Barnes, S. D.. Boomer.

Barnes, S. B.. Lewiston.

Barnes. K. , Sterling.

Barrett, W. C, Raleigh.

Barron, A. C , Charlotte.

Barr, J. S , Pinckton.

Barrett. E. B.. Peachland.

Bartlett, G. A.. Franklin.

Bassett. J. E.. Asheville.

Beach. W. R.. King's Ci-eek.

Beam, J. A., Bethel Hill.

Beamer,W. H.. Pine Ridge.

Beard, C. E.. Winnie.

Beaver, C. E., Mt. Holly.

Beeker.S. J., Michael.

Beck, A. W.. Calhoun.

Bell, J. W.. Clinton.

Bennett, J., Iredell.

Bennett, J. L., Marsh ville.

Bennett, J. M., Marshville.

Betts, Alvin, Raleigh.

Betts, A. L.. Raleigh.

Betts, J. T., Whiteville.

Bilbro, W. L. , Warsaw.

Bivens, J. A., Richardson's Creek.

Blackburn, S., Grumpier.

Blalock, J. C. , Ledger.

BlalockjT. L., Cliinjj Kiaug, Cliina.

Blalock, J. G.. Rockingham.

Blanchard, C. W. , Gary.

Bland, Wm..Hawley's Store.

Blevins, John, Hermitage.

Blevins. B. , Absher.

Blevins, E., Blevins.

Blevins, C, Hermitage.

Blythe, James. Saluda.

Bobbitt. E. C. Michenor.

Boone, J. B.,Thoniasville.

Boone, J. R.,Estatoe.

Booth. J. N., Washington.

Bordeaux, A. J., Doughton.

Bostick,W. M.,Troy.

Bostick, G. P., Shanghai, China.

Bostic,W. D.. Wake Forest.

Boyd, J. P., Polkton.

Bradley, J. A., Grape Vine.

Bradley, W. T. Morgan Hill.

Bradsliaw.E. T.,Cora.

Bradshaw. W. R.. North Wilkesboro.

Bray,G. N.,S. B. T. Seminary.

Bridgers.S. A., Forest City.

Bridges, B. M., Lattimore.

Bridgers, J. M.. Waco.

Bridges, D. P., Catawba.

Bridges. J. D.,New House.

Briggs,H. W.,Bald Creek.

Briggs, J. W.,Mars Hill.

Briggs, W. K., Briggsville.

Bright, A., Spring Creek.

Bright. T., Murphy.

Erindle, J. A., Gary.

Brisson. Wm., Guyton.

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APPENDIX.

Britton,T. C.Soo Chow, China.

Bristow, S. F. . Coleraine.

Britt. J. L., Turkey.

Brock. T. J.. Acton.

Brooks. C. v.. Lemon Springs.

Brooks, G. \V.. Brevard.

Brookshier. J. L.. Flat Rock.

Brown. Asa. River.side.

Bi-own. A. E..AsheviUe.

Brown .J. W. . Ahsher.

Brown. tJ. C. Haniptonville.

Brown. H. A.. Winston.

Brown. Joel. Elkville.

Brown. VV. G.. Cross Roads Church.

Brunt. Win.. Winnie.

Bryan. L.. C3press Creek.

Bryan. R. T.. Sliangliai. China.

Buchanan. C. S.. Barker.

Buchanan . J. W. . Minneapolis.

Buchanan, J. L.. Barker.

Buchanan. S.. Plum Tree.

Buchanan. W. S.. bakersville.

Buchanan. K.. Bakersville.

Bullard.D. S.. Roseboro.

Bumgardner. A.P..Cfesar.

Buragardner, \V . J.,Swanner.

Burcham.G. M..Elkin.

Burcham. A. J..Mt. Airy.

Burcliett.J. VV..Trap Hill.

Burfoot.A. W.. Hertford.

Burgess. C. S.. Wake Forest. Butler. A. A.. Franklinton.

Bvrd.R. L..ToIarsville.

Byrd.W. F.. Trap Hill. Gaines, G. COrton. Caldwell. W. R.. Robbinsville. Caldwell. Jno. W..Loreta. Cale. D.. Potecasi. Callahan. N. A.. White Hall. Calhoun. C. L.,Medlin. Calhoun. T. J...Medlin. Camp.T. C, Tusquitee. Campbell. A. N., Foe's. Campbell. J. A.Poe's. Campbell. Neal. Gravson. Carroll. R D.. Davis'. Carroll. S. T.. Stony Fork. Carrick. Thomas. High Point. Carlton. W, F., Summit. Carswell. Z..Eno)a. Carter. I. M..Bernice. Carter. Henrv. Garland. Carter..!. W'. Raleigh. Carter. T. S.. Palestine. Cashwell.C. S.. Hickory. Cash well. J.. Bladenboro. Cassiday.W. A.. Trail Branch. Caudle. A. B.. Waxhaw. Caudle. R. T.. Rockingham.

Caudle. J. J.,Dockery.

Chafin.M. S..Calahan.

Chambers. S. A., \N aynesville.

Chappell.W. Y., Flint

Chappell. L. N.. Wakefield.

Cheek. F. B.. Whitehead.

Church. G. H. . Statesville.

Church. J. W.. Reedy Branch.

Clark. D. J.. Register.

Clark. F. P.. Dogwood

Clark. M. L . Morganton.

Clark. X. L.. Chambers.

Clarke. J. D..St. Paul's.

Clement. A. B.. Bushnell.

Clennv.L. M.. Silver.

Clea viand. F. L.. Chapel Hill.

Clayton. Clubb. Sexton.

Cobb. X. B.. HarrelKs Store.

Cobb, T J.. Chad bourn.

Cobb. J. W., Lumber Bridge.

Coleman. A., Murphy.

Coley. W. J.. Xorthsifle.

Collie. D. S.. Brvson Citv.

Collins, J. W.. Polk.

Comer. J. Q.. Hampton ville.

Comer. W. T.. Lovelace.

Compton. M. C. Clyde.

Conner. W. E.. Quallatown.

Conrad. S. F.. Winston.

Cook.H. B..Medhn

Cuok.J. H..Lark.

Coppedge. G. W. . W^aketield.

Corn. .A. J. Grange.

Corn. .Voah. Little Creek.

Corpening. L N.. Blowing Rock.

Corpening.J. S.. Burlington.

Cothren. Grant. Trap Hill.

Crabtree. A. AV.. Arlington.

Crabtree.W. A.. Durham.

Creath.W. T.. Elmo.

Cree, A.. Seaboard.

Cree. A. C, Wake Forest.

Creech. Worley. Micro.

Crews. R. W.. Germanton.

Crisp, J. F.. Xorris.

Crisp. E. D.. Upton.

Crisp. K. H.. Dorsey.

Croom.H. M.. Law'ndale.

Cross. R. D.. Windsor.

Crocker. W. E

Grumpier. J C. Hope Mills.

Cullom. W. R.. Wake Forest.

Cunningham. H. A.. Swain.

Current. J. M.. Buck Shoal.

Curtis. L. M.. Aidander.

Davenport. J. E. M.. CrozerTheo. Sem.

Daitz.T. F.. Barker.

Davis, A.. Low Gap.

Davis. W. H.. Smithfield.

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Davis, A. C, Unionville.

Davis. A. W., Barker.

Davis. J. F., Boone.

Dehart,T. S., Swain.

Dennis, J. D.. Polk.

Denton, J. R.. Dysartsville.

Deviu,R. I., Oxford.

Devenny.J V., Wake Forest.

Deweese. E. A.. Hanging Dog.

Deweese.L., Outlook.

Deweese. W. W.. Burningtown.

Dietz, J. S., Pearson.

Dietz,T. F., Barker.

Dixon, L. R., Goldston.

Dixon, T.. Shelby.

Dohson, J. H.. Atkin.son.

Douglas. J. J., Clinton.

D<)well,G. J., Lumberton.

Dt)well. J.. Jennings.

Driver, R P., Earpsboro.

Duk.%G. M., Dukes.

Duncan. T. M., Beaver Creek.

Duncan,.!. W., Ledger.

Duncan. H. J., Clinton.

Dunn.W. C Balsam Grove.

Durham. C. H.. Gastonia.

Earl. J. M . Swain.

Early, D. W.. Aulander.

Edmundson. John T., Vaughns.

Edwards, A. A.. Winnabow.

Edwards, D. D.. Morrisville.

Edwards. E. J.. Cedar Creek.

Edwards, J. R., Swain.

Edwards, O. T., Mt. Vernon Springs.

Edwards, W. H., Durham.

Elam,P. R.. Kings Mountain.

Filer, J. F. Sweet Water.

Ellington, E. P..Wentworth.

Elliott, Josiah, Hertford.

Ensley,W.. Dillsboro.

Eudy,G. L., Efird's Mills.

Farrington. F. H.. Wilmington.

Fant, J. C, Ahoskie.

Farthing, C. S., Hattie.

Farthing, J. H.. Hattie.

Farthing. R. M., Louisville, Ky.

Fehnet,C. F., Waco.

Fender, A., Laurelton.

Ferrebee. J. B.. Belcross.

FerrelI,B. S., Waxhaw.

Fields, C. F., Elkin.

Finch, G. L., Williamston.

Fisher, J. G., Roslin.

Fleetwood, J. C, Margarettsville.

Fontaine, P. H., Bethel Hill.

Foster, J. A., Wilkesboro.

Franklin, J. K., Devotion.

Freeman. F. M., Logan's Store.

Frisbie. T. J., Spring Creek.

Furgerson, P. A.. Lamb.sville. Fulford, W. J., Rockingham. Fuqua, S. W., Eagle Springs. Ci'allowa}', J. A., Wolf Mountain. Galloway, J. E. . Galloway. Gentry, S. E., Dobson. Gibbs. N. H. Benson. Gilbert. R. H.. Harrell's Store. Gillam. E. R. , Drew. Gilmore, S., Goldston. Glenn, W. H.. Thaxton. Glidewell, C. W.. Meadows. Goforth, M. A.. Big Pine. Goforth, S. S., Lovelace. Gooden, A. H., Bryantsville. Gormley,M., Aquone. Gosnell.G. W.. Owenby. Gough. D. A., Bandana. Gourley, Robert. Winston. Gower, C. E . Lincolnton. Graham, H. W., Swann Station. Greaves, C. L.. Pittsboro. Gray, W. F.. Buck Shoal. Gray, W. T., Marler. Green, David, Norris. Green, B. P., Mooresboro. Green, J. B., Forest City. Green. J., Boiling Springs. Green, R. G.. Hamptonville. Green, Solomon. Stony Fork. Green, C. L., Dark Ridge. Greene. G. W., Canton. China. Greene, Edmund. Norris. Greene. L. H., Bakersville. Greene, D. A.. Bakersville. Greene. M. L., Aho.skie. Greene, S. M., Bakersville.

Greenwood, , Paint Rock.

Griffin, J. W.. Dallas. Grindstaff. I., Bakersville. Grizzard.R. W., Wallace. Gulledge, J. G., Brown Creek. Gwaltney, J. P., York Institute. Gwaltney, H. H., Vernon. Gwaltney, J. S.. Cora. CJwaltney, L. P. Vashti. Gwaltney, W. R., Wake Forest. Gwyn,E. N., Buck Shoal. Hackney, J. D., Franklinville. Hackney, J. A.. Siler City. Hagleman, J. G., Sweet water. Haithcock, U. F., Albemarle Hairfield,G. R., Greystone. Hall, J. W. Hayesville Hall, W. F.. Idaho. Hall, S. W., East Bend. Hamilton. L. C, Bowman's Bluff. Hamilton, R. F., Knight. Hamner. W. H., Lexington.

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APPENDIX.

Hamrick, G. P.. Henrietta.

Hamrick, F. C, Pump.

Hamrick, D. M.. Rutherfordton.

Hardaway, J. S., Oxford.

Harman, A. J., Harman.

Harmau, D. C, Sugar Grove.

Harman, G. W., Ramseur.

Harman, J. M., Sugar Grove.

Harrill.H. D., Forest City.

Harrell.E. J.. Eure.

Harrell.J. B.. Wilmington.

Harrell.W. B.. Dunn.

Harrill.Z. D.. Ellenboro.

HarrilLE. D.. Ellenboro.

Harrelson.H.. Gaddj^sville.

Harrington. E. P.. Mission.

Harris, B. B., Dysartsville.

Harris, D. J., Yancey ville.

Harris, J. M.. Hartland.

Harris. Wm.. Knapp's Mills.

Hartley. D. C. Minneapolis.

Hartsell, J. W.. Morven.

Hartsell, P. G., Concord.

Hawkins, A. B., Leicester.

Hawkins, R. M.. Sharon.

Haymore.C. C, Mt. Airy.

Haynes, J. M., Clyde.

Haynes, W., AsheVille.

Hedgepeth.I. P., Orrum.

Hedgepeth.R. A., Cedar Creek.

Hefner, D., Lenoir.

Henderson, G. W.. Blaine.

Hensley. A. J., Wake Forest.

Hensley.S. B.. Bee Log.

Hensley. W. E.. Faust.

Henson, A. B.. Balsam.

Herring, J. E.. Henrietta.

Herring, D. W.. Ching Kiang. China.

Herring. R. H., Halifax.

Hewitt, D. L., Shallotte.

Hice. J. H., Baton.

Hilburn. D. H.. Bladenboro.

Hilburn.L. W., Freeman.

Hilburn. Rufus M.. Blabenboro.

Hildebrand, A., Pearson.

Hildretli.-J. H., Wilmington.

Hill. A. H.. Cottonville.

Hill.T. B., So. Baj). Then. Seminarv.

Hilliard,J. M., Greensboro.

Hocutt, J. C, Haw River.

Hocut, J. E.. Nashville.

Hodge, J. F., Pool.

Hoggard. J. N., Severn.

Hoirue, G. F.. Boonville.

Holland. G. W. Winston.

Hollar. K. Felts.

Hollar, I.. Eupeptic Springs.

HoUeman, J. M., Apex.

Hollifield. A. P., Ellenboro.

Honeycutt, G. A., Whitley.

Honeycutt, R.. Beaman's X Roads.

Honeycutt, T. M., Mars Hill.

Honeycutt, W. H.. Concord.

Hooker, W. H., Marshall.

Hooper, G. W., Robbinsville.

Hooper, L. W., Tuckaseigee.

Hopkins. W. J., Casar.

Hopper, P. G.. Issa.

Hord. A. T.. Glen ville.

Horner, K. C. Siler City.

Horner, T. J., Henderson.

Horrell, R. W. Burgaw.

Horton, O. C. East Durham.

Howard, H. H., Bee Log.

Howell, W. T., Wake Forest.

Howell, J. K., Rocky Mount.

Hojde, J. A.. Maiden.

Hoyle, B. M., Estatoe.

Hudgins. Riciiard. Pump.

Hudson, T. J., Chin Kiang.

Huf ham. J. D., Henderson.

Hughes, J., Bvrd.

Hughes, S. A.', Vallev.

Hull, W. F., Camp Creek,

Hume, Thos.. Chapel Hill.

Hunt, A., Gamble's Store.

Hunter. A. D.. Cary.

Hurley. A., Bly.

Hutcliinson, J. H., Hutchinson's Store.

Irwin, A. C Pearl.

Isaac, E.. Lineback.

Ingram, H. M.. Pekin.

Jack.son, Elbert. Turner's. James, R. H.. Reuben.

Jamison, Wesley. Bald Creek. Jenkins, J. T., Waynesville. Johnson, C. C, Reese. Johnson, J. H., Weldon. Johnson, L., Greensboro. Johnson, Wm. R., Ashe. Johnson, S. H., Grays Creek. Johnson, L. E.. Fremont. Jolly. J. R., Lomax.

Jones, E. F., .

Jones, J. R., Roj-al. Jones, N. S., Tarboro. Jones. R. H., Wakefield. Jones, Wm. H., Blue Ridge. Jones, W. J., Estatoe. Jones. W. M.. Maxton. Jordan, F. M., East Fork. Jordan. James. Central Falls. Jordan. S.. Robbinsville. Jordan, W. P.. Hertford. Jordan. Y., Osbornsville. Justice, A. A., .^tna. Justice, T. B., Rutherfordton. Justice. A. I., Emma.

APPENDIX.

71

Justice, C. B.. Rutherfoi'dton. Kane. E. F.. Good Spring. Kanot. J.. Robbinsville. Kendrick, R. G., Weldou. Kesler. M. L., Rocky Mount. King, J. D., Wampler. King. R. W.. Wampler. King, T. C, Pensacola. King, W. G.. Villanow. Knight. W. F.. Blowing Rock. Kramer. James W., Wilmington. Kuykendall. J. A., Leicester. Kuykendall. W. I., Alexander. Lamberth, J. H., Asbeville. Lancaster, J. F.. Oak Ridge. Lancaster, W. D.. Sandy Springs. Lane, J. L.. Summertield. Lanning, Jeff., Eldorado. Landsell. J. J., Roxboro. Larkins, J. D., Wake Forest. Latta, A. T.. Monroe. La^A•hon, W. H. H.. Lawhon. Lawing. J. W., Peachtree. Leach, M. J., Lassiter. Leatherman. J. F.. HulFs X Roads. Lee, W. F., Tiptop. Lee. W. M., Summit. Lee, M. L., Ashpole. Leggatt. B.. Windsor, Leggett, R. J.. Howelville. Lennon, J. P., Applevvdiite. Lewellyn, J. H., Dobson. Lewis. C. H.. Gamble's Store. Lewis, L. G.. Pennington. Lewis, Joseph. Gage. Lewis, J. L.. Laurelton. Lewis, John, Morehead. Lilly. Edmond, King's Creek. Limrick. R. L., Shelby. Little. J. W.. Lane's Creek. Little. T. P., Marshall. Littleton. J. W.. Palestine. Livingston, D. K.. Little Pine Creek. Loftis, R. M., East Bend. Logan. W. H., Ayr. Long, J. H.. Excelsior. Long, James. Goldsboro. Loudermilk, D. P.. i ridgewater. Lloyd, L. A.. Nashville. Mace. G. W., Bowman's Bluff. Macomson, M. V.. Graham. Manly, H., Brevard. Marcus, W. A.. Homestead. Marley, H. C, Lenoir. Marsh. A., Marshville. Marsh. R. H.. Oxford. Martin. C. H.. Polkton. Martin. J. H.. Hamptonville. Martin. J. L.. Roger's Store.

Martin, W. N., Trail Branch.

Marshburn, A. B., Nealsville.

Mashburn. H. H.. New Berne.

Mason, J. A., Conclave.

Mason, W. C, Flats.

Mason, B. K., Marion.

Mason. N. J., Louisville.

Matheny, M. P., Bryson City.

Matthews. J. R., Hexlena.

Matthews, B. H.. Ward's Mill.

Matthews, N. J., Pilot Movmtain.

Matthias, B.. Buck Shoal.

May, S. S., Allgood.

Mercer, T. J.. Bolivia.

McCarson. J. L.. Henderson ville.

McClure, W. B.. Alexis.

McLure, W. H.. Henrietta.

McDevitt, P., Mars Hill.

McDuffie, J F.. East Durham.

McGinnis, I. J., Banner Elk.

McGiigan, C. P., Lumber Bridge.

Mcintosh. C. M., Wake Forest.

McKaughan, J. A., Albemarle.

McKinney. C. H.. Bakersville.

McLendon, J. J.. Wolfsville.

McMahon. A.. Forest Citv.

McMillan, D. C. Ashpole.

McNeil, M., Wilkesboro.

Meadows. W. C Poor's Knob.

Meeks. O. P.. Clinton.

Melton, W. H.. Kapp's Mill.

Melvin, W. A.. Harrell's Store.

Melvin. W. S.. Winnie.

Merrell. G. L.. Hobgood.

Metcalf, C. C. Briggsville.

Michael, Ray. Nettle Knob.

Miles, John A. . Leicester.

Miller. Daniel L.. Highlands.

Milliken. C, Ash.

Milliken. H.. Ash.

Mints. J. A.. Shallotte.

Mitchell, John. Wake Forest.

Mitchell, S. W., Asbeville.

Moflit, J. L. Stone Mountain.

Montague, E. J.. Allensville.

Moore, H. C, Monroe.

Moore. I. F.. Lynch.

Moore. J. O., Hunting Creek.

Moore, R. A., Red Springs.

Moore, R. R., Greensboro.

Moore, J. D., Red Springs.

Moore. J. R., So. Bap. Theo. Seminary.

Morgan, B. L., Homestead.

Morgan, D. A.. Spring Creek.

Morgan, E. J., Hominv.

Morgan, F. M.. Flats. '

Morgan, S. J., Morgan Hill.

Morgan, W. C. Robbinsville.

Morris, J. F., Stanley's Creek.

72

APPENDIX.

Morton, D. S., Whitnej'. Morton. H., Thomasville. Morton. W. B.. Roxboro. Morton. W. G.. Albemarle. Moss, T. J.. Forest City. Moss. N. II.. Cherry ville. Mull. W. B.. Shoups Ford. MuUinox. T. H., Grover. Mnndy. J. A.. Reidsville. Murchison. C. M.. Penelope. Myers, I. T.. So. Bp. Theo. Seminary. Myers, W. W.. Round Mountain. Mvers. D. R.. Salisbury. Myers, T. C Martin Myers, A. E . Round Mountain. Myers, J. W.. Round Mountain. Naylor. M. W-, Giles Mills. Nelson. C. J.. Gold.sboro. Nelson, E. R.. Hendersonville. Nelson. J. H . Patterson. Newell. G. W.. Mapleville. Newton, I. T.. Brevard. Newton. J. B.. Aulander. Newton. J. I).. Thomasville. Newton. W. C. Roche.ster The. Sem. Newton. H. F.. Casar. Noble, J. W.. Willard. Norris. H. W . Ballentine"s Mills. Norris. Isaac. Cruso. Norris. John. Sweet Water. Norton. J. H.. Venable. No well. W. C. Nashville. Olive, W. S.. Apex. Oliver, P. Dalton. Oliver. W. B.. Wilmington. Olhs. W. H.. Plum Tree.. Oneil. G. G.. Louisville. Ky. Orr. G. W.. Robinsville. Orrell. N. B.. Abbotts Creek. Osment. J. R.. Dallas. Overby. R. R.. Belcross. 'Overton, W. C . Harrelisville. Owen. J. L.. Glen ville. Owen. S. C. Candler. Oxfoi'd. Isaac. Cedar Valley. Pace, J. R.. Wilton. Pajre. S. C. Godwin. Pa^e, Wiley M.. Falcon. Palmer. R. L.. Leander. Parks, E. L.. Lisbon. Parker, C. J. D.. Crozer Theo. Sem. Panther. J. P., Quallatovvn. Pardew. A. T.. Adley. Paris. T. W.. New Castle. Parisli. M. E.. Salisbury. Parish. A. A.. Edenton. Parsons. W. C.. Bandana. Patton. R. L.. Mor^antou. Payne. J. M.. Blowing? Rock.

Payseur, J. J.. Concoi'd. Pendergrass. J. R.. Franklin. Penick. W. S.. Elizabeth City. Perkinson. L. C Wise. Pernell, M. R.. Franklinton. Peterson, C. D.. Dalila. Phillips. John, Beech Creek. Phillips. Wm . Mt. Airy. Phillips. J. L.. Houck. Pierce. E. S.. Pantego. Pinner. R.. Fau.st. Pippin. A. A.. Finch. Pitchford, J. A., Littleton. Pittman.'A. R.. Rennert. Pittmau. A. E. C. Rennert. Piatt, J. T., Warne. Plemmons. James. Biltmore. Plemraons. T. H., Loui.sville, Ky. Poe, E. A., Cora. Pool. C. C. Partee. Porter. S. J.. Newbern. Porter. C. W.. Elm City. Porter, A. H.. Orton. Poston. R.. Pearl. Potter. W. J., Elk Park. Powell. J. W.. Rocky Mount. Prevatt. F. A., Lumberton. Prevatt. Jonah. Huntley. Prewett. N.. Knob Creek. Privette. I. T.. Wilkesboro. Proffit. M. S.. Mars Hill. Pruett. L. R.. Charlotte. Pruitt. Julius. Connelly Springs. Pruitt, Berry, Knob Creek. Pruitt. G.. Penelope. Pruitt. Wm.. Robbinsville. Pugh. J. M.. Randleman. PuUiam, J. G.. Boone. Putnam. J. W.. Magnetic City. Queen. A. C. Tuckaseigee. Queen. B. N., Tuckaseigee. Queen. J. H.. Bryson City. Queen, L. E.. Cowart's. Ramsey. Garret. Marshall. Rector. J. A.. Morganton. Reddish. W. H.. Wilson. Red wine. J. F.. Fork Church. Reece, J. N.. Gallowav. Reed. W. W.. Balsam'! Reid. T. M.. Huse. .Reedy, E. W.. Grumpier. Reese, J. V.. Cruso. Rhodes. J. R.. Saluda. Rickard,D. B.. Crisp. Rich. W. H.. Thomasville. Richardson, J. B.. High Point. Rickman. P. R.. Leatherman. Riddick. J. T.. Winton. Riddle. B. B.. Persacola.

APPENDIX.

73

Riddle, H. B., Big Pine.

Riddle, J.. Beaver Creek.

Roberts, Creed, Berlin.

Roberts, D. J., Cherry Lane.

Robertson, W. A.. Burnsville.

Roiiers, J. W. F., Apex.

Rollers. M.. Bushnell.

Rollins, B.F.. Elkin.

Rose. J. W., LaGrange.

Ro%vell, J. E.. Cleon.

Rowell, S. J.. Cleon.

R07. W. H.. Paint Fork.

Royall, W. B.. Wake Forest.

RoVal. Frank M.. Chin Kiang, China.

Royal, R., Kelly.

Ruppe, John. Byarsville.

Sales, J.. Mt. Tabor.

Sanderlin. G. \V.. Washinton. D. C.

Sandling. R. C. Clinton.

Saunders, B., Lilesville.

Saunders. Samuel. Murfreesboro.

Scarborough. C. W.. Murfreesboro.

Seagraves. W. M., Jonesville.

Sears. D. R.. Siler City.

Segle, L. M., Spring Creek.

Sellers, Lorenzo, Supply.

Sentell, R. A., Sonoma.

Settle. J. ¥.. Byrd.

Settlemyre. G. W.. Henrietta.

Setzer. A. W., Greenville.

Shaver. J. M.. Dealville.

Shaw. J. A.. Creswell.

Sheets. Henry. Lexington.

Shell. P. J., Altamont.

Shell, J. T.. Petra Mills.

Shell, L. C, Jonas Ridge.

Shelly. N. A.. Burgaw.

Shepherd. J. J., Brindletown.

Sherrill, T. C. Jumbo.

Sherwood. J. J. L.. Yerger.

Shinn, J. L., Mooresville.

Shumate. Jas.. Sparta.

Silver, Thomas. Micaville.

Simmons. S. F.. Jonesville.

Simms. A. H.. Dillsboro.

Simms, A. M.. Raleigh.

Skinner. T. E., Raleigh.

Sledge, J. W., Stallings.

Smiley. J. S., Swain.

Smith. James A.. Fair Bluff.

Smith, J. E., So. Bap. Theo. Sem.

Smith, J. L., Siler City.

Smith. W. A.. West Durham.

Soles, J., Mt. Tabor.

Sorrells, J. C, Nealsville.

Sorrell. W. M.. Gary.

Southern, W. P.. Asheville.

Sparks, J. C, Bakersville.

Speight, T. T., Lewiston.

Spence, J. R.. Polk. Spence. J. P., Hertford. Spilman, B. W., Raleigh. Sprinkle, A. J.i Peek. Stallings, J. N., Salisburv. Stallings, N. P.. Moyock.' Stamey, A.. Bliss. Stamey. E. A.. Lineback. Stanley, J. F.. Solitude. Stephens, M. A.. Lumberton. Stephenson, E G.. Raleigh. Stewart. J. L.. Clinton Stoker. A. P.. Denton. Stone. C. K.. Haystack. Stough. A. L., Pineville. Stradley, J. A., Oxford. Stringfield, O. L.. Raleigh. Summey, J. A.. Hannersville. Suttle J. W.. Smithfield. Swaim, S. D., Wilmington. Swaim. V. M . Cross Roads Church. Swain. E. L.. Shallotte. Tatum. E. F.. China. Talbirt, W. T., Concord. Tavlor, A. J., Chinquepin. Taylor, C. E.. Wake Forest. Taylor. E. L.. Rutherfordton. Taylor, T. J., Warrenton. Teeter. E. D., Locust Level. Tew, J. W., Iredell. Tew, D. T.. Clinton. Thomas. A. B., Silver. Thomas, C. A. G.. Fayetteville. Thomas, I. W.. Lenoir. Thomas, James. Bandana. Thomason, D. W.. Belmont. Thompson, K., Low Gap. Tilley, George V.. Winston. Thorn, J. B., Ferry. Toney, B. W., Sunshine. Townsend, J. T.. Carmichael. Tread way. E. R.. Cove Creek. Treadway, R. F.. Shelby. Trivett. J. W.. Dark Ridge. Tucker, Elihu. Bud. Tuttle. J. F., Clayton. Tvree, W. C, Dvu-ham. Utley, C. H., Wake Forest. Vanhoy, W. H., Hamptonville. Vann, R. T., Scotland Neck. Vernon, J. H., Cedar Grove. Vestal, M. M., Jonesville. Vinson. J. D., Cullasaja. Waff. W. B.. Reynoldson. Walker. N., New Castle. Wallen, Jesse. Marshall. Wallen, S.. Big Laurel. Ward, Benjamin, Marines. Walton, M. C, Wilmington.

14:

APPENDIX.

Watkins, G. T., Roxboro. Watson, W. F., Edenton. Watson. J. W., Chapel Hill. Wells. E. D., Magnolia. Weatherman, J. G.. Jennings. Weaver. R. W.. So. Bap. Theo. Sem. Webb, G. M. Shelbv. Welborn. T. M.. Trap Hill. Wells. C. G.. Warsaw. Welch. H. D.. Balsam. West, J. H., Downsville. West, W. C. Fayetteville. Wheelous, Z. W.. Gris.som. Whisnant. E. S., Maiden. White. J. A.. Taylorsville. White. J. E.. Raleigh. White. J. M., Apex. White, G. W.. Rockv Hock. White, M. P., Wilmington. Whitener. P. A., Morganton. Whiteside, Z. T., Uree. Whiteside, W. M., Rutherfordton. Whitlock. L. A., Silver. Willcox. A. G., Brinkleyville. Wilcox, William. Todd." Wild, J. M., Walnut Run. Wild. J. R.. Big Pine.

Wilhoit, G. O., Ansonville. Williams, A. J.. Kapp's Mill. Williams, B. B., Harrellsville. Williams, C. B., Winton. Williams, C. C., Royal. Williams, J. M., Clover. Williams, O. P., Robbinsville. Wilson, L. A., Sutherlands. Wilson, Samuel, Bee Log. Wilson. W. H., Madison. Wood, T.G., Belcross. Wood, E. M., Cisco. Woodruff, C. E., Hickory. Woodson, C. J.. Gatesville. Woodward. J. S., Needmore. Wooten. E. W., Clarkton, Wooten. F. T.. Plvmouth. Wooten. R. W.. Ronda. Wright. N., Lark. Wright, J. W.. Felts. Wright, T. S.. Rockingham. Wright. W. L., Troy. Wyatt, W. J., Perth. Yarborough, J. H., Forest City. Yarborough, A., Lexington. Younce, Jacob, Dark Ridge. Young, A. W., Scaly.

APPENDIX.

75

NUMEKICAL STATISTICS.

Associations.

Alexander

Ashe and Alleghany

Atlantic

Beulah

Bladen

Brier Creek

Brushv Mountain

Caldwell

Catawba River

Cape Fear..

Cedar Creek

Central

Chowan

Columbus

Eastern

Elkin

Flat River.

French Broad..

Green River

Kings Mountain

Liberty

Little River

Mecklenburg and Cabarrus.

Mitchell.

Montgomery

Mount Zion

Pee Dee

Piedmont

Pilot Mountain ..

Raleigh

Robeson

Sandy Creek

Sandy Run

South Fork ...

South River

South Yadkin

Stanley

Stony F'ork

Tar River

Three Forks

Union

West Chowan

Yadkin

Yancev

P3 >•

m 173

So

154 29 62

2og

122 69 152

578 81

295 94

144

"5 288 283 126 103 225 117 120 283 233

73 235 332 195 160 173 308

84 148 i8t

49 498 121 229 614 204

73

Total.

33 30 40 37 64 51 97

163 26

173 49

108 50

181

195 22

54 219 48 38 193 136

97 61

221 ■ 131 31 171

133 53 81 73

33

2fil

77 159 234 59 61

4,290

67 28

9 20

55 54 43 34

254 26

170 15 64 70 39 35 26

54 35 80 20

123 43 II 65

186 87 42 41 56

143 35 21

19 128 62 74 104 39 28

13 77 20 32 100 31 25

1.570

76

13

38

19

3

57 53

24 23 14 13 16

17 54 33 32 137

1,214

2,406	16
1,412	33
2,401	33
812	10
1,975	17
3,212	31
1,833	19
1,095	25
2, i86	28
2,361	42
1,721	15
3,264	26
8,352	52
1,054	i8
5,069	60
1,499	25
4,123	33
2,979	30
4,139	41
5,i68	32
2,277	26
2,272	24
I, 720	20
2,463	28
1, 110	14
5,390	43
2,574	29
1,540	16
3, 626	44
4,022	50
4,090	39
2,436	40
3,q«3	24
3,328	35
2,883	31
2,048	24
1,621	14
1,012	22
7,325	78
2,771	32
3,089	26
9,279	47
2,632	35
2,366	23

1,348

76

Al'PKNDIX

SUNDAY SCHOOL STATISTICS.

Associations.

Alexander

Ashe and Alleghany*

Atlantic ,

Beulah

Bladen

Brier Creek

Brushy Mountain

Caldwell

Catawba

Cape Fear.

Cedar Creek*

Central.

Chowan..

Columbus

Eastern

Elkin *

Flat River

French Broad*

Green River

Kings Mountain

Liberty

Little River

Mecklenburg & Cabarrus

Mitchell

Montgomery

Mount Zion

Pee Dee

Piedmont

Pilot Mountain

Raleigh

Robeson

Sandy Creek *

Sandy Run

South Fork

South River

South Yadkin

Stanley

Stony Fork

Three Forks

Tar River

Union

West Chowan

Yadkin

Yancey*

Total 914 6,490

280

39 108

87 56 66 106 136

495

2,295 258 911

1,076 845 707 894 928

232 630 103 266

259

220 223 133 129 145 56 55 330 1 88 '52 294 246

'25 156 145 119

128

503 170 284 87

2,104

4,330

713

2,027

1,154

1,943 2,346 1,247 1,085

1,363 732 321 3,260 1,482 1,395 3,009 3,716

677

2,575

297

1,019

1,163

901

773 1,000 1,064

445. 36 37.80

2,336

4,960

816

2,293

1,413

2,163 2,569 1, 370 1,214 1,508 788 376 3,590 1,660 1,537 3,303 3,962

35-33 89.76 123.87

'558.88 S48. 94 88.65

$ 19 10

6,671.77

"""zi.'ie

40.02

2.50

61.75

374- 03

109.97 203, 76 10;. 84 108. 27 501.66

82.35

8.00

769. 67

321.87

262. 94

.S.-2

413

345

570. 82 [ 2, 285

I 2,619

77.17 I 423 425

291

926.82

1,399

1,539

847

715 345 1,076 6,193 1,595 3,048 1,479

809

1,565

1,684

966

823

345 I, 204 6,696 1,765 3,332 1,566

104.06

9-73

31.23

1,001. 29

85.20

58,546 66,046 7,182.89

48.32 69.99

= 0 Of

640 432 301

2,283

1,720

33 «

507

I, ti6.94	250	1,535 154 4,240 1,863
	1,794 140
855. 79 729.69	1,444 1,883	2,300 3,695

1,063

460 1,250

875

19.83

237. Si

89.00 4, 161.42

173 3,084

20,013 47,549

409 4.';57

916 3,327

636

No report.

APPENDIX

77

FINANCIAL STATISTICS.

Associations.

xander

le and Alleghany..

antic

Jlah

den

er Creek

ishy Mountain

dwell

:awba River

pe Fear

lar Creek

itral...

owan

umbus County

stern

tin

t River

;nch Broad

sen River

ags Mountain

»erty

tie River

ck'burg & Cabarrus

tchell County

mtgomery

lunt Zion

: Dee

idniont ,

ot Mountain

ieigh

Ibeson ,

dy Creek

dy Run

ithFork

ith River

ith Yadkin

I^nley

Jiney Fork

r River

ree Forks.

ion

St Chowan

Idkin

ncey

n rr

i 358

341

5, "5

1,221

831 750 835 669

1,152!

1,144'

I,I2I|

4, 9801

8,3i7i

693

4,891

251

4,670

713 1,828 3,461 1,651 1,128 3,437i 500' 496! 7,6321 3,527! 3,387! 4, lllj 4,622!

4,074! 1,963! 1,3921 2,574 3,085 2,234 850

11,090

650

1,893

7,343

963

190

1,114 67

75

102 472 338 235 938 1,358

55

2,695

1,148

323

940

236

90

1,135

87

82

2,085

693

713

2,844

1,316

2, 171

112

397

471

79

5

1,560

7

220

808

1,803

Total 122,508115,0303,36414,301 12,

$ 15

318 310 44 161

5 66

31 6

3"

158 57

361 50

63

18

323 19 76

257

3,000 819

340

130 355

330 2,934

185 1, 100 2,007

698

f 12$ 13

4

128

56

45

92 622

730

55

440

77 294

244 238 170 100 551

39

657 310

.2fS

^4, 14!

395;

332 II

103 2

109! 47- 96:

1051 95i 50I 95

29 195

347

61

3

250

56

74

38

215

137

211

37

89

520

453 58 2^1

0 n	V bo to c ce P. C	i2 0 v 0 u V 0	a 3 u 3 C	V it V 'S
$ "126 31 26 43 I 9 5 161 191 4	$ 9 7 225 35 24 II 117 28 179 29 43 342 391 21 224	$ 24 3,304 162 72	$ 15 28 21 10 21 13 18 13 26 18 38 73 12 32	$ 6 ■■48 '""s 4 14 12 26 29 7 36	s
106 105
125 236 586 24 732
1 ->	18		18	I

611 484

10,995 1,866 1,212 1,257 1,247 1,131 2,053 1,678 1,773

11,575

16,401 1,048

12, 191 1,512

1,027

341

977 566

3,124

556 771

242 598 982 547	195 119 227 284
211	202
91	73
273	77
522	II
309 72	P
4 1,482	■'276
39	25
115 669	151 306
52
13	1
12,080	4,153

n

iii

76

Al'PENDlX

SUNDAY SCHOOL STATISTICS.

Associatious,

Alexander

Ashe and Alleghany*

Atlantic

Beulah

Bladen.

Brier Creek

Brushy Mountain

Caldwell

Catawba

Cape Fear.

Cedar Creek*

Central.

Chowan..

Columbus

Eastern

Elkin *

Flat River

French Broad *

Green River

Kings Mountain

Liberty

Little River

Mecklenburg & Cabarrus

Mitchell

Montgomery

Mount Zion

Pee Dee

Piedmont

Pilot Mountain

Raleigh

Robeson.

Sandy Creek *

Sandy Run

South F'ork

South River

South Yadkin

Stanley

Stony Fork

Three Forks

Tar River

Union

West Chowan

Yadkin

Yancey*

280

39 108

87 56 66 106 136

495

2,295 258 911

1,076

845 707

894 928

Total 914 6,490

220 223

133 129

145 56 55 330 188 152 294 246

•25 156

145 119

128

503 170 284 87

2, 104

4,330

713

2,027

1,154

1,943 2,346 1,247 1,085 1,363 732 321 3,260 1,482 1,395 3,009 3,716

677

2,575 297

1,019

1, 163

901

773 1,000 1,064

2,336

4,960

816

2,293

1,413

684

1,399

1,539

847

715

345

1,076

6,193

1, 595

3,048

1,479

2,163 2,569 1,370 I, 214 1,508 788 376 3,590 1,660 1,537 3,303 3,962

,-W

445- 36 37.80

35-33 89.76 123.87

558.88 848.94 88.65

374- 03

109.97 203, 76 101.84 108. 27 5or.66

82.35

8.00

769. 67

321.87

262. 94

= o

.S.-2 E

$ 19 10

6, 671. 77 3I-86"

413

345

40.02

2.50

61.75

160 698

570. 82 77-17

2, 285

2,619

423

425

268.06 1, 116.94

291

27

1,301

250

926.82

1,565

1,684

966

823

345

1,204

6,696

1,765

3.332

1,566

104.06

9-73

31-23

1,001. 29

855- 79 729-69

1,794 140

1,444 1,883

48.32 69.99

460

85.20

58,546

66,046 7,182.89

19.83 237.81

89.00

173 3,084

1,836

4,161.42 j 20,013 47,549

.«iS

=0

Of

3,08

23'

39

4,67;

4,03:

47'

1,34*

2,28;

1, 72c 331 50:

1,53

"54 4,24c 1,863

2,30c 3, 695

1,06;

1,250

875

409 4.^57

916 3,327

636

No report.

APPENDIX

TY

FINANCIAL STATISTICS.

Associations.

Alexander

Ashe and Alleghany

Atlantic

Beulah

Bladen

Brier Creek

Brushy Mountain

Caldwell

Catawba River

Cape Fear

Cedar Creek

Central

Chowan

Columbus County.. ..

Eastern

Elkin

Flat River

French Broad

Green River

Kings Mountain

Liberty

Little River

Meck'burg & Cabarrus

Mitchell County

Montgomery

Mount Zion

Pee Dee

Piedmont

Pilot .Mountain

Raleigh

Robeson

Sandy Creek

Sandy Run

South Fork ,

South River

South Yadkin

Stanley

Stonev Fork

Tar River ,

Three Forks

Union

West Chowan

Yadkin

Yancey

358

341

5,115

1,221

831

750

835

669

1,152

1,1441

1,121

4, 980,

8,3i7i

693:

4,8911

251

4, 670J

7131 1,828 3,461 1,651! 1,128: 3,437| 5001 496!

$ 121

75

102

472

338

235

938

1,358

55

2,695

1,148

323

169

940

236

90

1,135

87

82

7,6321 2,085 3,527 693 3,387: 713 4, iiij 2,844 4,6221 1,316 4,074 2,171 1,963: 1, 3921 2, 5741 3,085. 2, 234 850I

112

397

471 79

I 5

11,090 1,560

650 7

1,893 220

7, 343 808

963 1,803

190

Total 122,508115,0303,364 14,301

I 15

318 310 44 161

3,000 819

41 340

5 66

31 6

311

158 57

361

130

355

330 2,934

185 1, 100 2,007

977 566

19 76

257

246 556 771

12$ 46

92 622 730

55 440

77 294

244 238 170 100 551

39 657 310 242 598 982 547 211

91 273 522 309

72

4

1,482

39 "5 669

52

13

$ 61

3

250

56

74

38

215

137

211

14, 37

14! 89

395i 520

3321 453

58

231

13

534

301 171 148

77 192 570

38 384

109

47

96 105

95

50

95

29

195 . .

3471 369

1951 269

ii9i 303

227! 393

2841 475

202: 211

73

77

55 36

276

25

151

306

129 261

14 125

50 188 385

57 145 799

25 5

12,0804,1539,211

ii

5 161 191

4

58

18

291

3

9

7

225

35 24 II

117 28

179 29 43

342

391 21

224 18

184

6

79

150

299

89

175

6

34 287 248 217 320 279 377 229

29 292

170

61

6

1,845

31

102

610

49

4

2,0778,152

24

3,304

162

72

106 105

125 236 586 24 732

2,287 679 153 460

53

1,090 822 1,000 2,003 758 547 252 373 576

130

875 45 364

$ 15

$ 6i

29,0321,112 835

611 484

10,995 1,866 1,212 1,257 1,247 1,131 2,053 1,678 1,773

11,575

16,401 1,048

12, 191 1,512 7,878 787 3,642 7,438 3,428 1,907

7,369

1,267

796

15,837 6,810 7,198

12, 797

10,977 8,677 4,355 2,584 5,961 3,095 5,132 1,912 204

21,400 1, 117 3,496

13,199

3,098

229

389, 561

78

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