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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. 


10  LIST    OF    DKI^EGATES. 

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. 


12  LIST    OF    DKLEGATES. 

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. 


14:  MINUTES    OF    THE 

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. 


BAPTIST    STATK    CONVENTION.  15 

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. 


16  MINUTES    OF    THK 

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. 


KAlMlsr    SIAIK    CoWKN'lloX.  17 

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. 


18  MINLTKS    OF    TH  K 

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. 


BAPriST    STATK    CoNVKNTION.  19 

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. 


20  MINUTES    OF    THE 

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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IJAPTIST    STATK    CONVKNTION.  23 


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. 

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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 

Dr. 

To  Liabilities $1 .392. 91 

Balance 2.378.38 

3,571.20      3.771.29 
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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: 


15A1'TIS1'    SiACK    CO.WKNTIOX.  25 

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. 


26  MIMTKS    (IF    TIIK 

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. 


BAITIST    SrA'll';    CONVKXriON.  27 

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"? 


28  '  Ml.NUIKS    OF     Till-; 

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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BAPTIST    STATK    CONVENTION.  29 


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. 


30  MINITKS    OF    THK 


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. 


BAl'lISI'    SIA'I'K    CO.NVKXrioN 


WHAT   SOUTHERN   BAPTISTS   ARE   DOING. 


31 


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 

i 


32  :SIINUTES    OF    THE 

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. 


BAPTIST    STATE    CONVENTION.  33 


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 


34  MINUTES    OF    THK 

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. 


BAPTIST    STATE    CONVENTION.  •  35 

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. 


36  •  MINUTES    OF    THE 

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. 


BAPTIST    STATE    CONVENTION.  37 

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 


38  MINUTES    OF    THE 

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. 


liAPTIST    STAIK    OONVEN'riON.  39 

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- 


40  MINUTES    OF    THE 

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. 


42  MINUTES    OF    THE 


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." 


BAPTIST    STATK    CoXVKNTION.  43 

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. 


44  MINUTES    OF    THE 


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. 


BAPTIST    STATE    CONVENTION.  45 

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. 


46  MINUTES    OF    THE 

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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BAPTIST    STATE    CONVENTION.  .  47 


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. 


48  MINUTES    OF    THE 


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. 


BAPTIST    STATE    CONVENTION.  49 

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 


50  MINUTES    OF    THE 

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. 


BAPTIST    STATE    CONVENTION.  51 

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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52  MINUl'ES    OF     IHK 

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. 


BAPTIST    STATK    C(JNVKNTION.  53 

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- 


54  AtlNUTES    OF    THK 

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 


BAPTIST    STATIC    CONVENTION.  DO 

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  : 


56  MINUTES    OF    THE 

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. 


(BAPTIST    STATE    CONVENTION.  5T 

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. 


\ 


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. 


t;8 


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. 


appp:ndix. 


69 


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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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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 

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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 


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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 


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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