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MINUTES
SEVENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING
Baptist State Convention
NORTH CAROLINA
HKI.D AT
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, DECEMBER 4 to 8, 1901
RALEIGH, N. C.
Presses of Edwards & Broughton
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OFFICERS.
PRESIDENT :
R. II . Marsh, I). D Oxford, N. C.
VICE-PRESIDENTS '.
R. B. White Franklinton, N. C.
R. L. Moore Mars Hill, N. C.
Samuel Huffman Morganton, N. C.
SEGRETARY I
N. B. Broughton Raleigh, N. C.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY :
Hight C Moore New Bern. X. C.
TREASURER :
Walters Durham Raleigh, N. C.
ASSISTANT TREASURER I
J. M. Stoker Asheville, N. C.
AUDITOR :
J. B. Martin ...... Raleigh, N. C.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY \
Livingston Johnson .. . . . . .. Raleigh, N. C.
trustees :
W. ('. Tyrek.... .... .... ..Durham, N. C.
C. M. Cooke Louisburg, N. C.
F. P. Hobgood ( )xford, N. C.
T. H. Briggs Raleigh, N. < .
L. R Mills . . Wake Forest. X. C.
CONSTITUTION.
1. The Baptist State Convention shall be composed of three male
representatives from each white Association in the State and one
annual male representative appointed by the churches for every ten
dollars contributed to its funds, and of such male life members as
have been made so by the payment of thirty dollars at any one tune
to the Treasurer for the objects of the Convention. No church shall
have more than ten representatives. 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 member 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 by the churches to which they be-
long; 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 distribution and study of the "Bible and
a sound religious literature; to assist Baptist churches in the erec-
tion of suitable houses of worship; to encourage the proper care of
indigent orphan 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. This Convention shall meet annually, on Wednesday 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, and Auditor, and five Trustees, all of whom,
except the Trustees (who shall serve during the pleasure of the Con-
vention), shall be elected annually.
J. The President shall preside and enforce order in accordance
with Dr. Kerfoot's Parliamentary Law. One of the Vice-Presidents
shall preside in the absence of the President.
6. The Recording Secretary and his Assistant shall record the pro-
ceedings, collect and preserve statistics of the denomination, and
publish and distribute the Minutes.
7. The Treasurer shall receive all funds represented in the Con-
vention; make public acknowledgment of the same each week
through the Biblical Recorder; give his bond to the Trustees; for-
ward, at least once a month, all contributions to their destination; at
every meeting 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 which may be acquired by the Convention,
4 CONSTITUTION.
and take a sufficient 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 Conven-
tion, examine carefully all the receipts, disbursements, vouchers,
papers and books of the Treasurer, 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
promising and indigent young ministers seeking to prepare them-
selves 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 wor-
ship at proper points in the State, and in cases where pecuniary aid
can not be given, commend them to the beneficence of the churches,
encourage the distribution and study of the Bible and a sound relig-
ious literature in the homes, in the churches and in the Sunday
Schools; encourage Sunday School Conventions and Institutes; con-
tinue, 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 mis-
sionary and Sunday School work of the Southern Baptist Conven-
tion. The Board shall appoint of their number a committee of seven,
to whom shall be committed the Sunday School work, and the nomi-
nation for approval by the Board of a Sunday School Secretary or
Secretaries to prosecute the work within the bounds of the Conven-
tion. The Board shall also appoint three of their number, who shall
be the managers of the Baptist Book Store, and as may be necessary
from time to time report its condition to the Board.
13. The Boards shall be appointed annually, and report to each ses-
sion of the Convention.
14. The Convention year shall close one week before the annual
meeting of the body.
15. The Boards of the Convention shall fix the compensation of
their respective officers, and that of the Treasurer and Corresponding
Secretary of the Convention.
16. The Constitution may be changed or amended at any annual
session by two-thirds of the representatives present voting in the
affirmative,
BOARDS OF THE CONVENTION,
1901-1902.
BOARD OF MISSIONS AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
John E. Ray, Chairman; Livingston Johnson, Corresponding Sec-
retary; 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, L. D. Watson, J. H.
Smith, J. C. Ellington, W. R. Gwaltney, F. P. Hobgood, J. N. Holding,
W. C. Newton. C. J. Hunter, W. N. Jones, J. C. Scarborough. T. E.
Skinner, H. L. Watson, J. D. Hufham, H. C. Dockery, C. M. Cooke,
W. L. Poteat, John T. Pullen, J. W. Bailey, J. S. Hardaway, J. P.
Wyatt, T. Neil Johnson, A. C. Barron, W. A. Cooper, R. N. Simms,
W. R. Cullom, E. P. Moses, J. H. Weathers, T. J. Taylor, T. M. Pitt-
man, W. C. Petty, J. Wm. Jones, T. B. Moseley, W. M. Vines, T. M.
Honeycutt, A. I. Justice, R. A. Sentell, A. H. Sims, A. A. Marshall,
W. D. Hubbard, J. W. Denmark, A. A. Butler, Walters Durham, R. T.
Vann, M. L. Kesler, F. W. Hamrick, J. Q. Adams, C. A. Jenkens, C. S.
Blackwell, C. W. Duke. A. Johnson, B. W. Spilman.
ASSOCIATIQNAL DELEGATES.
Alleghany and Grayson, W. C. Fields; Ashe and Alleghany. J. El-
der; Atlantic, A. W. Setzer; Alexander, L. P. Gwaltney; Beulah, J. E.
Jordan; Bladen. Wm. Brunt; Brier Creek, D. C. Jarvis; Brushy
Mountain, J. L. Hemphill; Buncombe. L. B. McBrayer; Caldwell, J.
V. McCall; Carolina. T. J. Brickman; Cedar Creel;. R. W. Horrell;
Central, E. S. Dunn; Catawba River, S. J. Porter; Cape Fear. A. H.
Porter; Chowan, T. B. Boushall; Eastern, L. R. Carroll; Elkin. J. I.
Dimette (Trap Hill); Flat River. T. H. Street; French Broad. W. P.
Jarvis; Green River. C. B. Justice; Haywood, J. L. Morgan; Kings
Mountain, A. C. Irvin; Liberty, C. M. Wall; Liberty and Ducktown,
J. F. McGee; Little River, J. A. Campbell; Mecklenburg and Cabar-
rus. R. H. Jordan; Mitchell, L. H. Green (Bakersville) ; Montgom-
ery, AV. M. Bostick; Ml. Zion, W. C. Tyree; New Found. R. H. Hipps;
Pee Dee, W. J. Ferrell; Piedmont. R. W. Brooks; Pilot Mountain.
H. A. Brown; Raleigh, J. T. Holt; Robeson, E. K. Proctor, Jr.; Sandy
Creek. G. L. Finch; South Fork, W. F. Watson; South River, John A.
Oates, Jr.; South Yadkin, M. E. Parrish; Stanly, E. F. Eddins; Stone
Mountain, J. S. Kilby; Tar River, N. Biggs; Tennessee River, J. S.
Woodard; Three Forks, W. S. Farthing; Transylvania. E. Allison;
6 BOARDS OF THK CONVENTION.
Tuckaseigee, T. C. Bryson; Union, A. M. Croxton; West Chowan, T.
T. Speight; Western North Carolina, J. T. Plott; Yadkin, R. B.
Home; Yancey County Association, B. B. Riddle: Neuse, C. W.
Blanchard.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
C. E. Taylor, W. L. Poteat, J. F. Lanneau, W. B. Royall, W. R.
Culloms, C. E. Brewer, J. C. Caddell, J. M. Brewer, T. E. Holding,
J. B. Carlyle, J. H. Gorrell, W. B. Dunn, B. F. Sledd, J. L. Lake, J. C.
Fowler, P. W. Johnson, C. C. Crittenden, G. W. Paschall, L. R. Mills,
J. B. Powers, R. E. Royall, F. M. Purefoy, N. Y. Gulley, E. W. Sikes,
W. W. Dickson, J. L. Allen, G. E. Gill, W. H. Haywood, T. V. Reed.
MINISTERIAL RELIEF BOARD.
\V. C. Tyree, T. E. Cheek, J. F. MacDuffie, H. A. Reams, J. V. Rigs-
bee, H. A. Foushee, R. H. Rigsbee, J. S. Hardaway, J. W. Cobb, Reu-
ben Shipp.
MANAGERS BAPTIST BOOK STORE.
J. W. Bailey, C. J. Hunter, L. D. Watson.
SUNDAY SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
N. B. Broughton, L. Johnson, R. N. Simms, Jno. E. Ray, S. W.
Brewer, J. W. Bailey, J. C. Caddell.
ORPHANAGE BOARD.
John Mitchell, President; John B. Brewer, W. R. Gwaltney, H. F.
Schenck, C. E. llolton, J. B. Holman, Henry C. Dockery, J. S. Mon-
tague, Thomas, Carrick; .1. H. Lassiter, F. P. Hobgood, Noah Biggs,
M. L. Kesler, E. Frost, Dennis Simmons, John C. Scarborough, John
E. Ray, Stephen Mclntyre.
TRUSTEES OF BAPTIST ,E UNIVERSITY.
W. N. Jones, !' ; X. B. Broughton, Secretary; C. J. Hunter,
Chairman /:<<< utive Commit;' <■; o. l. Stringfield, W. C. Petty, C. M.
Cooke, F. H. Briggs, Jobn E. Ray, E. McK. Goodwin, J. N. Holding,
W. J. Hicks, W. L. Poteat, S. W. Brewer. J. D. Boushall, C. A. Jenk-
ens, M. L. Kesler, J. Y. Joyner, J. W. Bailey, Jno. T. Pullen, Living-
ston Johnson. A. A. Marshall. W. D. Hubbard. B. W. Spilman.
REPRESENTATIVES.
LIST OF LIFE MEMBERS PRESENT.
M. Baldwin, Huntsville; T. H. Briggs, Raleigh; J. M. Hilliard,
High Point; R. H. Marsh, Oxford; John E. Ray, Raleigh; J. B. Rich-
ardson, High Point; T. E. Skinner, Raleigh; Chas. E. Taylor, Wake
Forest; R. P. Thomas, Bethlehem.
CHURCH AND ASSOCIATIONAL MESSENGERS.
ALEXANDER ASSOCIATION.
Taylorsville — J. A. White.
ALLEGHANY AND GRAYSON ASSOCIATION.
Laurel Springs — T. M. Honeycutt, W. F. Daughton.
Liberty — J. M. Wagoner, Montland.
Sparta — Loyd M. Hollaway.
ASHE ASSOCIATION.
Jefferson — J. F. Fletcher.
ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION.
Beaufort — J. N. Tolar.
Morehead City — A. W. Setzer.
New Bern, First Church — Hight C. Moore.
BEULAH ASSOCIATION.
Clement — J. B. Hudgins, Ormond.
Milton — R. J. Bateman.
Shiloh — John B. Yarbrough, Semora.
Trinity — A. Graves, Ashland; C. J. Yarbrough, Locust Hill.
Yanceyville — J. R. Moore.
BRUSHY MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION.
Club Creek — J. M. Parlier, Moravian Falls.
Moravian Falls — J. J. Beach, R. A. Beach.
North Wilkesboro — W. R. Bradshaw, W. M. Absher, Cleveland Jar-
vis, H. W. Horton, H. W. Church.
Wilkesboro — R. A. Spainhour.
8 REPRESENTATIVES.
BUNCOMBE COUNTY ASSOCIATION.
Asheville, First Church — W. M. Vines, W. C. Stradley, J. H. Tucker,
John M. Stoner.
Asheville, West End — A. E. Brown.
CALDWELL COUNTY ASSOCIATION.
Lenoir — I. W. Thomas.
CAPE FEAR AND COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION.
Lenoir's Cross-Roads — A. H. Porter, Orton.
Whiteville — J. L. Memory.
CAROLINA ASSOCIATION.
Fruit land — A. I. Justice.
Hendersonville — A. R. Love, C. F. Toms.
CATAWBA RIVER ASSOCIATION.
Morganton — W. H. Reddish, R. L. Patton, E. McK. Goodwin, P. W.
Patton, S. Huffman.
CEDAR CREEK ASSOCIATION.
Gape Fear — R. L. Byrd.
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION.
Brassfields — J. B. Moss, M. V. Lawrence, G. L. Allen, Wilton; W.
H. Garner, Grissom; H. D. Mangum, Creedmore.
Franklinton— J. B. Harrell, R. B. White.
Raleigh, First Baptist — A. A. Marshall, T. E. Skinner, W. N. Jones,
C. J. Hunter. Baxter Durham, John E. Ray, R. T. Vann, J. W. Bailey,
C. F. Meserve.
Wake Forest— €. E. Taylor, W. R. Cullom. J. B. Carlyle, J. C. Cad-
dell, G. I. Dunn.
Wi st Raleigh — R. S. Stephenson, Raleigh.
CHOWAN ASSOCIATION.
Belhaven—J. H. Rich.
Berea — D. P. Harris, Elizabeth City.
Elizabeth City—C. W. Duke.
Hertford — W. A. Ayers.
Reynoldson — W. B. Waff.
Woodville— N. P. Stallings, Winfall.
EASTERN ASSOCIATION.
Clinton — J. D. Larkins.
Warsaw — A. L. Betts.
REPRESENTATIVES.
EI.KIN ASSOCIATION.
Elkin—Chas. H. Utley, J. W. Madison, J. W. Bowles, N. W. Fowler.
Liberty Grove — J. W. Burchitt, Roaring River.
Macedonia — J. I. Dimmette, Dimmette.
FLAT RIVER ASSOCIATION.
Bethel Hill—E. Y. Pool.
Enon— Marsh Currin, Berea; E. A. Howard, Oxford.
Mill Creek— T. H. Street; G. T. Watkins, Clarksville, Va.
Mt. /Aon — S. L. Howard, Berea.
Oxford — R. H. Marsh, J. S. Hardaway, F. P. Hobgood.
Poplar Greek — J. L. Capps, G. S. Wright, Carlton; W. N. Critcher,
Oxford.
Roxboro — W. B. Morton, A. R. Foushee.
FRENCH BROAD ASSOCIATION.
Mars Hill—R. L. Moore, W. H. Woodall.
GREEN RIVER ASSOCIATION.
Marion — C. S. Cashwell.
Ruiherfordton — C. B. Justice.
HAYWOOD ASSOCIATION.
Clyde— W. E. Wilkins.
Pleasant Hill — J. L. Morgan, Clyde.
Waynesville — C. M. Billings.
KINGS MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION.
Bethlehem — G. R. Watterson, G. F. Hambright, Crocker.
New Bethel- — J. V. Devenny, Lawndale.
Shelby — C. J. Woodson.
Zion — A. C. Irvin, Pearl.
LIBERTY ASSOCIATION.
Abbott's Creek — N. R. Teague.
Holloway's — J. M. Prim, Silver Hill; J. S. Fine, Pinnix.
Lexington — Henry Sheets, W. H. Rich, J. D. Holt, James Smith.
Liberty — S. H. Morton, Thomasville; John A. Summey, Hammers-
ville.
New Friendship — S. A. Hege, A. B. Smiley, Winston-Salem.
Orphanage — Chas. A. G. Thomas, J. B. Boone, J. D. Newton, A.
Johnson, Thomasville.
Piney Grove — C. M. Wall, Wallburg.
Reed's Cross-Roads — John N. Myers, R. B. Myers. •
Rich Fork — John R. Miller, Thomasville, R. S. Green, Jr., Jimes.
I O R E PR ESEN TATI VES.
LITTLE RIVER ASSOCIATION.
Bute's Creek — J. A. Campbell.
Central — J. M. Holleman, Apex.
MITCHELL COUNTY ASSOCIATION.
Bakersville — L. H. Greene.
MECKLENBURG AND CABARRUS ASSOCIATION.
Charlotte, Olivet— W. H. Dodd.
Charlotte, Twelfth Street— L. R. Pruett, W. M. Lyles, S. F. Conrad.
Charlotte, Tryon Street — A. C. Barron, W. C. Dowd, W. N.
Flanders.
Coyicord — J. E. Smith.
MONTGOMERY ASSOCIATION.
Blackwood's Chapel — E. Lee Fox, Star.
MOUNT ZION ASSOCIATION.
Burlington — J. W. Gates.
Cane Creek — J. F. McDuffie, Rock Spring.
Chapel Hill — J. Wm. Jones, Thomas Hume.
Durham, First Church — W. C. Tyree.
Durham, Second Church — C. J. D. Parker.
East Durham — W. F. Fry, C. L. Upchurch, J. F. Pleasants.
West Durham — W. A. Smith.
Oath — J. W. Watson.
Graham — L. N. Chappell.
REUSE ASSOCIATION.
Goldsboro, First Church — C. A. Jenkens, H. B. Parker. H. T. Jones.
Kinston — C. W. Blanchard.
Snow Hill—U. P. Davis.
PEE DEE ASSOCIATION.
Laurinburg — W. G. Quakenbush.
Ror - C. L. Greaves, W. Y. Fulford.
Wadcsboro — J. F. Love.
PIEDMONT ASSOCIATION.
Greensboro — W. C. Newton, J. Y. Joyner, M. C. Workman. R. W.
Brooks, A. W. Cooke, J. T. Valentine; Joe Howard, Pomona.
High Point — J. B. Richardson, J. M. Hilliard.
Mount Calvary — D. M. Moore, Reidsville.
REPRESENTATIVES. 1 1
Reidsville — P. H. Jones.
Ruffin—F. P. Tucker, J. W. Roberts.
Salem Street — R. C. Charles, High Point.
Summerfield — J. M. Henley, J. L. Lane.
PILOT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION.
Beaver Island — T. L. Vernon, Madison.
Clemmonsville — J. C. Wommack, Bower.
Leaksville — S. J. Beeker, D. F. King.
Mayodan — W. H. Wilson, Madison.
Mount Airy — J. M. Hamrick, J. B. Barker, John A. Martin, C. C.
Haymore, P. D. Muse, P. S. Rothrock.
Mount Hermon — D. L. Blackburn, Reidsville.
Mount Olive — W. L. Smith, R. M. Loftis, Pinnacle.
Shiloh—S. W. Hall, E. W. Culler, Pinnacle.
Southside — John F. Reech, Winston-Salem.
Walnut Cove — Joseph Aden.
WaugMown — W. L. Sink, Winston-Salem; W. H. Hinsdale, East
Bend.
Winston-Salem, Broad Street — J. Alfred Garrett, J. E. Marshall,
R. P. Dalton, W. F. Hailey, G. H. Snyder.
Winston-Salem, First Church — H. A. Brown, D. S. Reid, A. H. El-
ler, S. J. Montague, J. M. Martin, F. T. Baldwin, B. F. Huntley, H.
Montague.
KALEIGH ASSOCIATION.
Gary — Livingston Johnson. t
Green Level — W. T. Hurst, Ewing.
Inwood — O. L. Stringfield, Raleigh.
Mount Vernon — W. P. Edward, Neuse.
Raleigh, Fayetteville Street — A. A. Butler, J. T. Pullen.
Raleigh, Tabernacle — N. B. Broughton, J. M. Broughton, W. A.
Cooper, J. H. Smith, B. W. Spilman, W. H. Holloway.
Salem — T. T. Holland, Apex.
Selma — Duncan McLeod.
Smithfield—J. W. Suttle.
KOBESON ASSOCIATION.
Lumber Bridge — J. W. Cobb.
Red Springs — R. A. Moore.
SANDY CREEK ASSOCIATION.
Bethlehem — W. H .H. Lawhon, Lawhon.
Pittsboro—B. C. Britt.
12 REPRESENTATIVES.
SANDY RUN ASSOCIATION.
Immanuel — Geo. J. Dowell, Caroleen.
SOUTH FORK ASSOCIATION.
Dallas — J. L. Vipperman.
Gastonia — W. F. Watson.
Hickory — W. R. Gwaltney.
Kidd's Chapel — Wm. A. Graham, Machpelah.
Lincolnton — D. P. Bridges.
Penelope — C. M. Murchison.
SOUTH RIVER ASSOCIATION.
Autryville — R. A. Hedgepeth.
Fayetteville, First Church — John A. Oates, Jr.
SOUTH YADKIN ASSOCIATION.
Advance — E. Frost, Cana.
Cleveland — A. T. Hord.
Eaton's— J. W. Eaton, G. L. White, D. R. Eaton, John A. Naylor,
C. W. Lowry, Cana; P. P. Green, Nestor.
Jerusalem — G. W. Hendrix. Ephesus; John Lindsay, South River;
W. T. Pickler, Tennyson.
Mocksville — S. D. Swaim, W. C. Martin.
Mooresville — J. L. Shinn, R. H. Newton, G. L. Finch.
New Hope — T. B. Swain, Cool Spring.
Salisbury — M. E. Parrish; P. 0. Tatum, Mill Bridge.
Society — V. M. Swaini, River Hill.
Bpem er—C. G. Wells.
Statesville, First Church — Edward S. Reaves. John C. Turner,
Chas. A. Leonard.
Trading Ford — W. M. Sapp, Linwood.
STANLY ASSOCIATION.
Albemarle — J. A. McKaughan. H. Morris. Wm. 1. Hill, T. H. Sibley.
Big Lick — C. J. Black.
Palmerville — John E. M. Davenport.
STONY FORK ASSOCIATION.
Stony Fork — A. C. Hamby.
TAR RIVER ASSOCIATION.
Elm City— R. D. Carroll.
enville, Memorial — J. N. Booth.
Henderson — J. D. Hufham.
Louisburg — Forrest Smith, Thos. B. Wilder, E. W. Timberlake.
North Rocky Movnt — J. S. Farmer, Rocky Mount.
REPRESENTATIVES. 1 3
Red Oak — G. W. May, Nashville.
Rocky Mount — Z. T. Broughton.
Scotland Neck — Noah Biggs.
Tarooro — T. S. Crutchfield, C. J. Austin.
Warrenton—T. J. Taylor.
Williamston — B. K. Mason.
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY ASSOCIATION.
Calvert — F. M. Jordan.
UNION ASSOCIATION.
Macedonia — M. D. L. Preslar, Monroe.
Meadow Branch — Thos. Carrick, High Point.
Monroe, First Church — Rowland P. Beasley, Frank B. Ashcraft.
WEST CHOWAN ASSOCIATION.
Aulander — A. W. Early.
Bethlehem — R. P. Thomas.
Jackson — R. D. Cross.
Murfreesooro — G. P. Harrill.
WILMINGTON ASSOCIATION.
Southside — R. H. Herring, Wilmington.
Wilmington, First Church — C. S. Blackwell.
YADKIN ASSOCIATION.
Antioch — I. W. Reece, Mt. Airy.
Boonville — M. L. Woodhouse, J. L. Speas, R. B. Horn, A. S. Speer,
J. H. Fleming.
East Bend — L. S. Hall, Boonville.
Flat Rock — A. J. Martin, Hamptonville; John H. Martin, Long
Town.
Huntsville — M. Baldwin.
Mountain View — K. Thompson, Low Gap.
Nestor — John H. Hendricks.
Richmond — J. J. Angell, Boonville; T. F. Hurt, P. C. Layne, Rusk.
Rockford — J. G. Burrus, B. S. Reece, B. D. McKaughan.
Rusk — J. C. Bass.
Swaim — J. E. Arnold, Jonesville.
Union Grove — T. C. Myers, Martin.
SUMMARY.
Number life members present 9
Number Associations represented 46
Number churches represented 182
Number Representatives enrolled 311
MINUTES
OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION.
SEVENTY-FIRST ANNUAL SESSION.
Winston-Salem, N. C, December 4, 1901.
The North Carolina Baptist State Convention met at 7 :30
p. in., in the First Baptist Church, this being the seventy-
first annual session.
The Introductory Sermon was, according to appointment,
preached by W. C. Tyree, pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Durham. Text: "We preach Christ crucified." — 1 Cor.
1 :53.
President K. H. Marsh, of Oxford, then called the Con-
vention to order, and appointed the following as a Commit-
tee on Enrollment: J. C. Caddell, A. E. 'Brown, W. B. Mor-
ton, J. A. Garrett and B. D. Cross. After having performed
their work, the committee reported 235 messengers present
at this hour.
On motion of R. T. Vann, the Secretary was instructed
ro cast the unanimous vote of the body for B. H. Marsh, of
Oxford, for President.
On motion of J. B. Boone, the vote of the Convention for
N. B. Broughton for Secretary and Flight C. Moore for Assist-
ant Secretary was cast by J. William Jones.
The following were appointed a committee to nominate the
remaining officers of the Convention : W. C. Newton, W. M.
Vines, G. T. Watkins, J. S. Hardaway, W. A. Wilkinson.
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The Committee on Order of Business was appointed, as
follows: C. J. Hunter, Livingston Johnson, T. Neil Johnson,
W. R. Cullom, W. C.Tyree, J. W. Jones and C. C. Haymore.
At this point addresses of welcome were made by pastor
H. A. Brown on behalf of the First Baptist Church, Mayor
O. B. Eaton on behalf of the city, and Bishop Rondthaler
on behalf of Salem and the Christian community in general.
Response on the part of the Convention was made by A. C.
Barron, of Charlotte.
0. J. Hunter, for the committee, made the following report
on Order of Business, which was adopted:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ORDER OF BUSINESS.
THURSDAY. DECEMBEB 5, 1901.
9:30 a. m. — Devotional Exercises.
10 a. m. — Report of Board of Missions and Sunday Schools.
10:45 a. m. — American Baptist Publication Society.
11:15 a. m. — Sunday School Board of Southern Baptist Convention.
12 m. — Foreign Missions.
1 p. m. — Adjournment.
3 p. m. — Baptist Book Store.
3:30 p. m. — Ministerial Education.
4 p. m. — Report of Wake Forest College.
5 p. m. — Adjournment.
7:30 p. m. — Century Movement.
FRIDAY, DECEMBEB 6. 1901.
9:30 a. m. — Devotional Exercises.
10 a. m. — State Missions: Destitution in Eastern North Carolina.
10:20 a. m. — Factory Missions.
10:40 a. m. — Educational Missions in Western North Carolina.
11:10 a. m. — Address of Corresponding Secretary.
12 m.— Woman's Work.
12:30 p. m. — Periodicals.
1 p. m. — Adjournment.
3 p. m. — Reports of Special Committees and Miscellaneous Busi-
ness.
3:15 p. m— Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
4 p. m. — Sunday Schools.
5 p. m. — Adjournment.
7:30 p. m. — Report of Baptist Female University.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1901.
9:30 a. m. — Devotional Exercises.
10 a. m. — Repoz-t of Trustees of Convention.
10:15 a. m. — Report of Committee on Baptist History.
10:45 a. m. — Report of Committee on Durham Monument.
11 a. m. — Orphanage.
1 p. m. — Adjournment.
3 p. m. — Report on Obituaries.
3:30 p. m. — Report of Ministers' Relief Board.
4 p. m. — Report of Special Committees and Miscellaneous Business.
5 p. m. — Adjournment.
7:30 p. m. — Home Missions.
W. C. Newton, for the committee to nominate officers,
made their report, which was adopted, as follows:
Vice-Presidents — R. B. White, Samuel Huffman, R. L.
Moore.
Treasurer — Walters Durham.
Assistant Treasurer — J. M. Stoner.
Auditor — J. B. Martin.
•Corresponding- Secretary — Livingston Johnson.
Trustees— W. C. Tyree, C. M. Cooke, F. P. Hobgood, T.
H. Briggs, L. R. Mills.
The President appointed the following as a Committee on
Foreign Missions: J. Win. Jones, W. C. Tyree, R. L.Moore,
D. W. Herring, R. P. Thomas, W. F. Watson and A. R. Love.
After announcements, the Convention adjwiirnpd, with
benediction by T. E. Skinner.
SECOND DAY— Morning Session
Winston-Salem, jST. C, December 5, 1901.
The Convention reassembled at the hour appointed, and
devotional exercises were conducted by T. J. Taylor, of
Warren ton.
Minutes of last night's session were read and approved.
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The following visitors were recognized and welcomed, now
and afterwards: S. T. Boyles, field editor of the Religious
Herald, of Richmond, Va. ; G. J. Thompson, Corresponding
Secretary of the Virginia Baptist General Association; O. F.
Flippo, District Secretary of the American Baptist Publica-
tion Society: G. B. Eager, Professor in the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, of Louisville, Ky. ; J. L. White, of
Macon, Ga. ; It. E. Caldwell, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Winston-Salem ; F. C. McConnell, Corresponding
Secretary of the Home Mission Board, of Atlanta, Ga. ; J. IN .
Prestridge, editor Baptist Argus, Louisville, Ky. ; J. H.
Clewell, President Salem Female Academy, of Winston-
Salem ; C. B. Williams, of Texas; J. M. Pilcher, of Virginia;
Chas. D. Mclver, President of Greensboro Normal; Presid-
ing Elder Atkins, of the Methodist Church ; E. L. Folk, of the
Lutheran Church; W. H. Willis, of the Methodist Church;
W. G. Walters, of the Christian Church ; W. E. Garrett, of
Leesburg, Va.
The report of the Board of Missions and Sunday Schools
was presented by Corresponding Secretary Livingston John-
son, and received and ordered printed in the Minutes, as
follows :
REPORT OF BOARD OF MISSIONS AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
It is with profound gratitude to Almighty God for His blessings
and favors that we submit this our annual report to the seventy-
first session of the Convention. Through trials and difficulties
God has graciously led us. and has "caused His face to shine upon
ns." There are many things in regard to our work in general for
which we should be grateful.
1. A Year of Prayer. — The Baptists of North Carolina began the
year with prayer. The very difficulties by which we were con-
fronted at the beginning of the year, drove us to Him who has in-
vited us to come and cast all our cares upon Him. All through the
year our people went often to a Throne of Grace in behalf of our
work. The devotional spirit in our Associations was very marked.
The hour of prayer was a precious hour in these meetings. Its up-
lifting influence was felt in all our discussions, giving to them a
spiritual tone. God heard these prayers and helped His people.
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We can truly say with the prophet of old, "The Lord Jehovah is our
strength."
2. Unity. — Another thing that should call forth our gratitude is
the unity which has prevailed. From the mountains to the sea
there has not been heard a discordant note. Shoulder to shoulder,
heart to heart, hand in hand, our people have pressed the holy war-
fare. From many earnest hearts in our Baptist Zion has gone up
thp prayer, "Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy
palaces."
o. Increase of the Spirit of Benevolence. — The farmers of our
State have not passed through such a discouraging year, perhaps,
for a quarter of a century. The crops have been unusually short,
and prices distressingly low. But in the face of these unfavorable
conditions, the contributions have been larger than ever before, and
in many of the churches a gratifying advance has been made in the
pledges for next year. The words of the Apostle respecting the
churches of Macedonia could be appropriately used in regard to
many of our churches: "In a great trial of affliction the abundance
of their joy and their deep poverty, abounded unto riches of their
liberality."
4. Showers of Blessings. — The greatest cause of gratitude is to be
found in the reports of gracious meetings from all parts of the
State. It has been many years since such large numbers of con-
versions have been reported. It is especially gratifying that the
first year of the new century has borne such rich spiritual fruit.
For these and numberless other blessings, we should lift our hearts
in gratitude to the Giver of "every good and perfect gift."
STATE MISSIONS.
After a term of eleven years service, our former Treasurer de-
clined re-election at the last Convention, and asked that a special
committee be appointed to examine his books, in order that they
might be turned over to the new Treasurer. This committee em-
ployed an expert accountant, who went carefully over the accounts
covering eleven years. The report of the committee, which was
adopted by the Board, showed that the late Treasurer owed to differ-
ent objects of the Convention $1,201.07, which amount has been paid
to the present Treasurer, and properly credited.
It was found that the debt on State Missions was much larger
than was supposed. When the Convention adjourned, our total in-
debtedness was thought to be $400.00 due the missionaries, and a
note in the bank for $1,000.00, which would not fall due until Feb-
ruary 1, 1901. With this understanding of our indebtedness, at its
meeting just after the Convention, the Board, in accordance with
the expressed wish of the Convention, enlarged its appropriations
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25 per cent. This put the work of State Missions on a basis of
$25,000.00. Following is an exact statement of the condition of
State Missions when the Convention adjourned last December:
Overdraft $2,192.26
Due missionaries 1,268.00
Due schools 640.00
Due Bookstore 600.00
Due co-operation 200.00
Due printing 52.00
Due note in bank (February 1) 1,000.00
Total 6,011.16
Deducting known indebtedness 1,400.00
Leaves unexpected indebtedness 4,611.16
To this add appropriations 25,000.00
Making a total to be raised 29,611.16
One or two missionaries failed to go to their fields, and others
resigned before the year was out. By rigid economy we save $383.11
in expense account. Thus the actual amount to be raised was re-
duced to $2S,636.2S. A word of explanation in regard to the indebt-
edness may be necessary. Up to two years ago it had been a long-
established custom to borrow money from other funds to pay our
missionaries, when it was absolutely necessary that they should
have their salaries, and there was nothing in the treasury to the
credit of State Missions. At the end of the year, an adjustment was
supposed to be made by drawing on State Missions to pay back this
money borrowed from other funds. In the great rush of com-
pleting the report, just a few hours before it was to be submitted,
absolute accuracy was well-nigh impossible. In the course of nine
years, during which time the custom above referred to prevailed,
it is not so very surprising that State Missions should be indebted
to the other funds $2,192.26.
Two years ago Secretary White called the attention of the Board
to this custom of long standing, spoke of the injustice to the other
objects from whose funds State Missions was accustomed to bor-
row, and asked that the Board authorize the Executive Committee
to borrow from a bank when necessary, and instruct the Treasurer
to make monthly remittances of all funds in hand, less proportionate
part of the expense. A resolution embodying the foregoing sugges-
tion was passed, since which time there has been no borrowing from
one object to pay the obligations of another. It has been the policy
of the Board to see that this resolution is strictly adhered to. The
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amount due the missionaries not reported is to be accounted for, at
least in part, by the fact that letters and telegrams came to the
Secretary up to the hour the Convention met, notifying him of
certain amounts to be forwarded. These were all counted as if
if they had been cash, and reported as such to the Convention.
Some of the telegrams were based on expectations which failed to
materialize, while some of the letters reported funds which ha«
already been received by the Treasurer. Of course, when the ad-
justment came after the Convention, there was not as much money
on hand as had naturally been supposed. To avoid the possibility
ot such confusion this year, the Treasurer closed his books the 30th
of November, in order to give himself and the Auditor ample time to
see that his report is absolutely correct. Furthermore, no state-
ment as to amount forwarded is entered upon his book unless ac-
companied by the cash.
The $600.00 due the Bookstore was not considered a debt by our
late Secretary. For several years the Bookstore has donated from
$600.00 to $1,000.00 to State Missions. Thinking this same dona-
tion would be made this year, our former Secretary did not take
that into the account as part of the indebtedness.
As the Sunday School Committee desired to enlarge the stock of
the Bookstore, they did not see their way clear, at first, to make
the donation, but they have recently done so, which kind action
relieves State Missions of that much of its burden. All of this
$600.00, be it remembered, was on last year's account. The Mission
Board paid to the Bookstore every cent due it on account for this
year.
We have taken this space to explain the indebtedness, and the
cause of it, because our people have a right to know, and it is th€
desire of the Board that they should know the facts as they are.
These are the difficulties and discouragements by which the Board
was confronted. The situation at the beginning of the year was
indeed a serious one. A plain statement of the indebtedness was
made to the Baptists of the State. Their loyalty was to be put to
a severe test. Some feared that the unexpected indebtedness would
so discourage them that they would not raise the $25,000.00. They
were dazed at first by the statement, but soon recovering themselves
they cried mightily unto God for strength and guidance, and then
buckling on the armor, they lined up in solid phalanx for the great-
est endeavor in their history. Their watchword, "Onward to Vic-
tory!" was sounded from the mountain tops and echoed from the
ocean waves. All through the year they have pressed steadily
forward. Not for one moment did they falter, there was no waver-
ing in the line, but, constrained by love of their great Leader, they
marched with steady tread to meet the difficulties unexpectedly
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thrust upon them. To undertake to raise $25,000.00 was what they
set out to do. and they went a little beyond.
THE WORKERS AND THEIR FIELDS.
Below we give the Associations in which mission work has been
done, with the names of the missionaries and their appropriations:
Alleghany Association —
T. M. Honeycutt, Sparta $300.00
Ashe County Association —
J. F. Fletcher, Jefferson 250.00
A t la it t ic Association- —
C. B. Paul. Swansboro 50.00
J. B. Olive, Swansboro 50.00
A. W. Setzer. Morehead 25.00
J. R. Taylor. New Bern 200.00
J. X. Tolar, Beaufort 125.00
A. H. Harnley. New Bern 200.00
Beulah Association —
J. R. Moore $150.00
Buncombe Association —
W. 11. Woodall. Mars Hill 100.00
Caldwell Association —
A. T. Howell, Lenoir 250.00
Cape Fear and Columbus Association —
K. .(. Edwards,, Southport 140.00
Carolina Association —
T. B. Justice, Rutherfordton 150.00
A. I. Justice, Fruitland 100.00
Central Association —
J. L. Martin, Raleigh 125.00
R. S. Stephenson, Raleigh 125.00
Chowan Association —
D. R. Carroll, Fairfield 200.00
Eastern Association —
J. H. Hildreth, Wilmington 40.00
N. A. Shelly, Catherine 200.00
J. J. Payseur, Wilmington 100.00
R. H. Herring, Wilmington 175.00
L. B. Boney, Wilmington 25.00
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Elki 11 Association —
Charles H. Utley, Elkin $125.00
Green River Association —
C. S. Cashwell, Marion 190.00
A. P. Sorrells, Garden City 150.00
E. Buchanan, Sibony 100.00
Kings Mountain Association —
B. L. Hoke, Newton 40.00
D. F. Putnam, Cherryville 40.00
Liberty Association —
C. A. G. Thomas, Thomasville 100.00
Jeff. Lanning, Denton 25.00
J. A. Summey, Hendersonville 25.00
L. G. Lewis, New Hope Academy 15.00
W. H. Wilson, Madison 25.00
M. J. Leach, Lassiter 25.00
Liberty and Ducktown Association —
W. C. Ryner, Ducktown, Tenn $75.00
Mecklenburg and Cabarrus Association —
B. L. Hoge, Concord 300.00
L. R. Pruett, Charlotte 300.00
Mt. Zion Association —
J. William Jones, Chapel Hill 150.00
L. N. Chappell, Graham 100.00
Neuse Association —
J. S. Bookhart, La Grange 250.00
J. B. Newton, Aulander 300.00
M. P. Davis, Bullhead 275.00
J. W. Smith, Pollocksville 250.00
J. B. Jackson, Goldsboro 125.00
New Found Association —
Josiah Crudup, Hot Springs 200.00
Pee Dee Association —
C. L. Greaves, Rockingham 100.00
Piedmont Association —
J. M. Hilliard, High Point 250.00
E. L. Weston, Gibsonville 30.00
Thomas Carrick, High Point 50.00
J. A. Hackney, Greensboro 200.00
F. H. Jones, Reidsville 50.00
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Pilot Mountain Association —
J. A. Garrett, Winston $250.00
C. C. Haymore, Mt. Airy 40.00
W. H. Wilson, Madison 75.00
Raleigh Association —
J. W. Suttle, Smithfield 150.00
Duncan McLeod, Selma 150.00
J. W. Nobles, Kenly 300.00
Worley Creech, Micro 50. CO
A. A. Pippin, Wakefield 50.00
Stone Mountain Association —
Grant Cothrane. Trap Hill 125.00
Sandy Creek Association —
J. M. White, Apex 30.00
South Fork Association —
D. P. Bridges. Lincolnton $90.00
South Yadkin Association —
J. N. Stallings, Salisbury 400.00
C. G. Wells. Spencer 200.00
J. L. Sbinn. Mooresville 300.00
Charles H. Utley, Cooleemee 150.00
Stanly Association —
J. A. McKaughan, Albemarle 275.00
B. H. Matthews, Norwood 25.00
Tar River Association —
J. S. Corpening. Washington 200.00
J. H. Rich 300.00
G. T. Lumpkin. Weldon 100.00
B. Craig, Tarboro 225.00
J. S. farmer, Crisp 175.00
B. K. Mason, Williamston 87.50
James W. Rose, Bethel 75.00
G. L. Merrell, Hobgood 150.00
G. G. O'Neal. Enfield 50.00
T. S. Crutchfield. Rocky Mount 75.00
J. A. Stradley, Oxford 40.00
A. Cree 40.00
G. W. Coppedge 40.00
A. G. Wilcox 40.00
G. W. Page 112.50
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Tuckaseigee Association —
T. Bright, Sylva $150.00
Union Association- —
J. L. Bennett 33.60
C. L. Fowler 15.00
W. S. Walters 25.00
S. B. Caudle 25.00
Western North Carolina Association —
A. B. Smith, Murphy •. 175.00
H. C. Standridge, Hayesville 25.00
Yadkin Association —
S. J. Beeker, Booneville 225.00
Yancey Association- —
T. C. King, Burnsville 100.00
There were, perhaps, twelve or fifteen Associational missionaries
whose names were not sent to the Secretary, but who are working
in co-operation with our Board, and take collections for the objects
of the Convention.
OTHEK APPROPRIATIONS
Work of co-operation $500.00
Mountain schools (donated by Home Board) 3,050.00
Expense of Volunteer Teachers Corps 725.00
(For expense account, see Treasurer's Report.)
THE FIELD.
In our mission work, the State is divided into three great fields —
Eastern, Central and Western North Carolina. The conditions in
these fields are so different that they may well be regarded as three
distinct fields.
EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
Our greatest destitution is in this section of the State. In one
Association (the Atlantic) there are twenty-five churches and only
two of them are self-supporting. There are three whole counties in
the east with only two churches each, and one of these counties has
a population of over twelve thousand. These churches are weak,
being largely supported by the Board. In the Tar River Association
there is a vast amount of mission work to be done, while those who
live in the Neuse claim theirs as the great mission fluid of the east.
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CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.
Here we are confronted by the factory problem. There are more
cotton mills in North Carolina than in any State in the Union, ex-
cept Massachusetts. Most of these mills are in the central section
of the State. As a majority of the operatives are Baptists, the fac-
tory work should appeal to the Baptists as to no other denomina-
tion.
WESTERN NORTH t ABOL1NA.
It is highly gratifying to note the great awakening in the west
on the subject of education. In no other section of the State have
such rapid strides been made along educational lines. Two years
ago there was one Baptist school west of the Blue Ridge, with prop-
erty worth $5,000.00, and with an enrollment of 150 students. There
are now ten of these schools in the western part of the State, with
property worth $40,000.00, and with an enrollment of fifteen
hundred pupils. For some years past there has been a grad-
ual decline of the anti-missionary spirit in the west. We may rea-
sonably expect the enlightening influence of these schools to cause
the opposition to mission and mission work to give way much more
rapidly in the future. To Assistant Secretary Brown, more than co
any other man, is due our progress in the west. See elsewhere his.
excellent report.
As these fields are to be considered under separate reports, fur-
ther space will not be given them here.
SUM MAB1 OF I'lM-: WORK.
The following summary, taken from the reports of the mission-
aries, will give you an idea of the work done this year:
Number of sermons preached 9.144
Churches supplied 512
Out stations supplied 309
Persons and families religiously visited 19,662
Persons baptized 980
Number added by letter 904
Protracted meetings held 36b
Professed conversions 2,279
Houses of worship building r>4
Houses of worship completed this year 14
Assisted in organization of churches 18
Number ot' Bibles and Testaments distributed 574
Number of tracts distributed 27.054
Money collected for support of pastors on field $11,768.53
For building or repairing houses of worship 8.939.32
Value of church property on field
For State Missions 1.367.45
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For Associational Missions $571.05
For Foreign Missions 984.96
For Home Missions 537.47
For Ministerial Education 210.05
For Baptist Orphanage 929.33
For Sunday Schools 41.99
For Ministers' Relief Fund 138.68
For other objects 3,725.78
REPORT OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS ON MISSION FIELDS.
Number of Sunday Schools 170
Number of pupils enrolled 11,150
Number of officers and teachers 1,020
Number of conversions from these schools 620
Members of church at work in Sunday Schools 2,230
New schools organized this year 37
Schools visited 137
Contributions for school e>penses $1,573.32
Contributions for State Missions 33.49
Contributions for other objects 591.01
SOME GRATIFYING FIGURES.
Last year — Baptized 981
Conversions 1,501
Moneys received $21,623.32
This year — Bajptized 980
Conversions 2,229
Money received $29,558.80
PRESENT FINANCIAL CONDITION.
In the early summer it seemed that we would be forced to report
a very large debt. As the year advanced, the contributions steadily
increased from week to week, and the outlook became quite hopeful.
Up io a week ago we expected to be able to report all debts paid, ex-
cept the note in the bank for $2,000, due February 1. For several
years past more money has been raised the fourth Sunday in No-
vember than any other day in the year. This year the fourth Sun-
day was a very rainy, disagreeable day in all the eastern section of
the State. In a part of the State from which we receive our largest
contributions to State Missions, many of the churches had no ser-
vices at all, and hence no collections, while at the churches where
services were held the congregations were small, and consequently
the collections were much smaller than usual. This makes it the
unpleasant duty of the Board to report a debt.
We owe our missionaries to-day $1,766.00. We have a note in
bank for $2,000.00. For several years we have carried a note in
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bank of a thousand dollars. While it was not, strictly speaking,
a debt at the Convention, and hence not so reported, it was practi-
cally as much a debt as if it had been due the first of December,
as there is very little contributed for State Missions between the
Convention and February 1. When it was found last January that
we owed the missionaries $1,268.00 instead of $400, and the schools
$640.00, of which they were in great need, the Foard was called
together, and instructed the Executive Committee to renew the note
in bank for $1,000.00 and borrow another thousand to meet the im-
mediate necessities.
There are, however, some things to encourage us. notwithstand-
ing the debt to the missionaries. A comparison of the Treasurer's
report this year with last, will show that we raised $7,040.12 more
than last year. To this amount should be added $775.00, which was
included in last year's report as a donation from the Bookstore.
As this amount was not donated this year, it makes the real differ-
ence between this year's and last year's contributions $7,815.02.
Another thing we should keep in mind by way of encouragement:
Last year $5,000.00 was raised for Associational Missions, and
$3,000.00 by Home Board, leaving actual cash sent by the churches
$10,550.14. This year the actual cash sent up from the churches
was $16,265.56. Now. while the amount raised for Associational
Missions is actual cash contributed by the churches, and is just as
much part of our State Mission work as if the money was sent di-
rect to the Treasurer, the fact that the same amount was raised this
year as last for Associational Missions, shows that the increase was
to State Missions at large and not to Associational Missions. This
being true, the rate of increase in contributions can be obtained by
comparing this year with last as to actual cash received by the
Treasurer. This comparison reveals the gratifying fact that there
has been an increase of 60 per cent. In view of our present finan-
cial conditions, the Board is of the opinion that we should project
our work next year on a basis which will enable us to pay all our
indebtedness, and get down on a solid foundation. This may neces-
sitate temporary retrenchment, but better that than have a part of
our working capital money borrowed from the bank, on which we
must pay interest. We believe this is the surest way to secure
healthful and continual progress.
woma.Vs WORK.
This report would be incomplete if we failed to recognize the ex-
cellent work done by the Woman's Missionary Societies, under the
wise direction of the Woman's Central Committee. With the work
of the societies we are all familiar. The excellent report of the Cen-
tral Committee contains valuable information as to what has been
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done by the societies this year. The Volunteer Teachers Movement
has passed the experimental stage. This movement was inaugurated
last year on a small scale. The results were such as to warrant an
enlargement. This year forty-seven consecrated young women volun-
teered their services as teachers for two months. The entire ex-
pense to the Board was $725.00, which amount was used in paying
the travelling expenses of these young ladies to and from their fields
oi labor. We doubt whether any other work undertaken by the
Board has brought such rich returns for the amount of money ex-
pended. If the Board can see its way clear to do so, we recommend
that the appropriation to this work be increased twenty-five per cent.
CO-OPERATIOX.
The year closes the last year of the second term of co-operation
of the Home Mission Board and the Home Mission Society with the
Colored Baptist Convention. During the last six years the colored
Baptists of the State have advanced rapidly along educational and
missionary lines. The colored Baptists are glad to welcome their
white brethren to their churches, and are always ready to receive
counsel from them.
In the work of the New Era Institutes, our pastors have a great
opportunity to help the colored preachers and make them more effi-
cient. We recommend that this Convention express its willingness
to continue the work of co-operation for a term of three years, and
that we appropriate for that work $400.00 the first year, $300.00 for
the second, and $200.00 for the third.
Following is a statement of the work, by Rev. J. A. Whitted, Cor-
responding Secretary of the Colored Convention:
To the Corresponding Secretary Baptist State Convention.
Dear Brother: — Despite the poor crops throughout the State, I am
glad to report continued progress in the work of co-operation for
North Carolina for the conventional year, which closed with October.
To meet the odds against us, our missionaries have exerted them-
selves with unusual vigor, and, together with our more loyal
churches and brethren, their reports will show advantages over last
year.
While the six years of co-operation have marked a new era in our
history, and we stand in the estimation of the world where we have
never stood before, we fully realize we have but made a fair begin-
ning.
To make the financial feature prominent, as we have been forced
to, has in some respects militated against us, and until we can culti-
vate enough of the mission spirit to support us in reaching the desti-
tute localities without regard to what we map hope to realize as im-
mediate benefits, much of the most needed work must be felt undone.
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Indeed, we have felt it unfortunate that we have had to press the
finances to meet the demands, yet it has developed the spirit of giv-
ing in some sections, while it has hindered in others.
With the pledge system, which a number of our leading churches
have adopted, our way seems brighter than ever before, and greatly
encouraging.
During the past year we have held forty-three Institutes, with one
hundred and thirty colored lecturers and forty-three white lecturers.
The aggregate number of ministers present was five hundred and
twenty-six, congregation twenty-four thousand and fifty. We have
collected for educational and missionary purposes four thousand
three hundred and fifteen dollars and sixteen cents, as compared with
three thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty-six
cents for the same objects last year.
The large number of people attending the Institutes, to our minds,
are evidences of an increasing demand for a better ministry, and an
earnest desire on their own part for information, such as the Insti-
tutes and other meetings afford.
The report shows the same number of white lecturers as in the
previous year, but not as many by far as in other years since co-
operation began in North Carolina.
I make this comparison to emphasize the importance of having our
white brethren reach us in these meetings.
The generous gifts in money from our white brethren, which have
kept life in the work, is not our only necessity.
We greatly need the stimulus and the instruction, which is of
equal, if not greater, importance, and gives moral tone to the charac-
ter of our work.
You are aware that our Convention holds you and your brethren
in high esteem. They owe you a debt of gratitude which they can
not express.
We earnestly beg them, through you, by no means let the great
work which they have so generously supported stop.
Out of the depths of our hearts we acknowledge its blessings to us.
Through it we are brought into closer fellowship, and, being blest
ourselves, we are enabled to bless others.
Very respectfully, J. A. Whitted.
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND COL-
PORTAGE.
The splendid service of Rev. B. W. Spilman, as our Field Secre-
tary in this State, received signal recognition when he was selected
to make one of the party of six Sunday School experts who made a
tour this spring over the Southern and Western States.
While on this tour he was elected Field Secretary of the Sunday
School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, and we reluc-
tantly gave him up to go to a larger field of usefulness.
The Sunday School work in this State was left without anyone in
the field from the middle of February until the first of July.
These are the months in which it was planned to push the Insti-
tute work in our eastern and central counties, and during which
funds are usually raised toward the financial support of the work.
This break in the continuity of our work necessarily affects the
report of the past year. In June, however, Bro. T. Neil Johnson
was chosen to succeed Brother Spilman in the work of Field Secre-
tary and herewith presents his report of work to date:
REPORT OF T. NEIL JOHNSON, SUNDAY SCHOOL FIELD SECRETARY.
In submitting to you my report of work done in the last five
months, permit me to say that it can only be an expression of things
hoped for, rather than a statement of accomplished results.
Coming from the Seminary into this field of labor, it was for me
the solving of a new problem. Though I had been familiar with the
actual work of teaching for several years, I had never before taken
the public platform to talk about the work. Upon assuming the
duties of Field Secretary, my first task was to learn what had been
done. Accordingly I spent the first few weeks in studying the
records and correspondence in the office, and in making myself ac-
quainted with the Baptist Book Store, meanwhile, as opportunity
was afforded me, I delivered addresses on the work.
I attended the Conference for Christian Workers at Mars Hill the
first of August, but the attendance of actual Sunday School teachers
was smaller than bad been expected.
Since that time I have devoted myself chiefly to the task of finding
out first hand just what the present condition of the Sunday School
work is in the different parts of the State. I have attended fifteen
associational gatherings, and spoken in the interest of the work and
conferred with the pastors and teachers about the condition of their
Sunday Schools. I would have attended more Associations had not
so many met on the same date. In addition to these, however, I have
had personal conferences with Christian workers familiar with the
Sunday Schools in the twenty-six otner Associations. I have held
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one Institute, shared in two Sunday School Conventions, conducted
two Sunday School rallies, and have spoken, in all, fifty-nine times.
Through these opportunities I have endeavored to make a diag-
nosis of the Sunday School situation in the State, with a view to so
adapting my work to the situation as to he of the most service.
The need now, as I see it, is not so much, more Sunday Schools as
better ones. Not that Sunday Schools have been organized every-
where they are needed, but these needy places, when organized, are
vitally dependent for their continual support upon the missionary
impulse from the older Sunday Schools, if they are to abide after the
initiatory enthusiasm dies away. One law of life is from within
outward, from the center to circumference. If we stimulate a strong
vigorous life within the Sunday Schools we now have, they will ex-
press that life in branch schools to which they will become the ef-
fectual supporters.
The Field Secretary can best promote the organization of new Sun-
day Schools by increasing the efficiency of those we now have, and by
cooperating with the missionaries employed by the Board. The
statistics for this year are not yet complete, but we are able to report
forty neAv Sunday Schools organized this year, almost all of which
were started upon our various mission fields.
The best volunteer work reported by any associational representa-
tive is that of Bro. H. A. Cooper, in the South River Association,
who. at great sacrifice to himself, has visited and spoken to more
than half the Sunday Schools in his Association. There remains
only one church in the South River without its Sunday Schools.
There is ;i great need for more teachers and better ones. Those
we now have may be made better ones by imparting to them a higher
ideal of the service they render, and by training them in the best
methods of teaching. Here lies the work of the Field Secretary. No
one, however, can learn to teach by simply hearing him talk about
it. We can not learn to swim without going into the water. We
can not teach another to swim by simply lecturing on the art. Our
discussions nf teaching must be combined with and grow out of the
work of actual teaching, if they are to be of. any practical value.
Therefore, we must have more actual teaching in our Institutes,
with a view to discovering the principles underlying successful
work. Th(> presence of sight-seers and curious folk often uninten-
tionally serve as a check upon lively discussion, free questions and
candid answers. Our Institutes should be places where teachers
study principles and apply same in actual teaching, consequently
talk to the multitude must be relegated to the evening. We must be
content to reach the many through the few, and may profit by the
example of our Master, who turned from addressing the multitude
to the training of the twelve.
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We also need to plan for greatly increasing our available teaching
force. Our high schools and colleges are strategic points in the fu-
ture training work of the Church. It snouid De tne rare exception
when one goes through these institutions without becoming a Chris-
tian, and being prepared to lead in the training work of his home
church. We ought to encourage the organization of voluntary classes
for the devotional study of God's Word at these institutions, and to
arrange, where possible, that they be taught the principles underly-
ing successful teaching.
No satisfactory system of colportage has yet been evolved in con-
nection with the work of the Field Secretary. A number of Associa-
tions have colporters in the field, under the direction of their own
Executive Committees, to which they made their several reports.
The American Baptist Publication Society, however, has kindly
donated several hundred dollars worth of books for the use of col-
porters in the western part of the State, under the supervision of
Bro. A. E. Brown. They make their reports through him.
The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention at
Nashville has shown itself ready this year, as so often before, to
make donations of Sunday School literature to newly-organized Sun-
day Schools unable to pay for same. We owe them no small debt of
gratitude.
T. Neil Johnson,
N. B. Broughton, Field Secretary.
President of 8. S. Committee.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Ours is not a Board of State Missions, but a Board of Missions,
having under its supervision all branches of Missions. We sincerely
believe that the Baptists of North Carolina need to take a deeper in-
terest in Foreign Missions, and feel more sensibly their responsi-
bility for the world's evangelization. We believe that nothing would
give to all our work such a mighty impulse as a deepening of the
real Foreign Mission spirit. We recommend that our State largely
increase its contribution to Foreign Missions.
REPORT OF W. C. TYREE, VICE-PRESIDENT.
During the past year there has been a very gratifying and encour-
aging increase in our contributions from North Carolina to Foreign
Missions. We have given individually more than ever before for
this object, and yet our gifts are relatively small compared with
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other States, which have fewer Baptists, and really very small in
proportion to our numbers and ability, and lamentably small in pro-
portion to the immense importance of this great cause. It is a Chris-
tian's duty to contribute, according to his ability, to every benevo-
lent work, for we are God's stewards, holding what we have as His
trustees, and the call of any good cause which is helping and bless-
ing and saving men is a call from God Himself. When we respond to
such calls, we honor God's drafts, and when we disregard these calls,
we withhold our Lord's money — we rob God. But there is no benev-
olent cause which has so great a claim upon Christians as Foreign
Missions. Nothing to which we may or do contribute more certainly
accords with the teaching and requirements of God's Word, and is
more clearly approved by God. More depends on this great under-
taking, and far greater consequences will come from its success or
failure than from any other effort which God's people are making.
If Foreign Mission work succeeds, millions of souls are saved and
Christ will be enthroned as the world's King. If it fails, millions of
souls are eternally lost and Christ's kingdom will not come. The re-
flex influence is always experienced when we contribute to any good
cause for Christ's sake. It makes us happier and better to sacrifice
for others and give to any benevolent work. But never is this reflex
influence so great and helpful as when we give to Foreign Missions.
The motive that prompts us to give to this is purer and more Christ-
iike than to any other enterprise. The heathens have no claim on us,
and we can hope for no rewards from them. We send them the gos-
pel for Christ's sake and because His Spirit imparted to us prompts
us to love them. Obedience and love for Christ and unselfish love
for the lost is the pure and powerful motive that causes us to give to
Foreign Missions. To yield to such an impulse and to obey such a
motive will surely make us better men and women; even prayer and
worship is no surer and more effectual means of grace. This really
is the tap-root of all Christian benevolence. As we cultivate a For-
eign Mission spirit, we are fertilizing the root from which comes
liberality to every good cause. There is no better way for pastors
to help their people to grow in grace and to become liberal to othsr
benevolent objects than to awaken their conscience on this subject
and cause them to perform their duty to Foreign Missions. I verily
believe if we, as a denomination, will put more stress on Foreign
Mission work our churches would respond more cheerfully and lib-
erally to other important objects. Greater interest in Foreign Mis-
sions, in the individual and Church, will produce greater interest in
State Missions, Home Missions and Christian education.
The reports from our foreign fields are gratifying and hopeful. All
of our missionaries have returned to their places in China, and there
are alreadv many indications that God will overrule the war in that
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country for the promotion of Christ's kingdom. Recent develop-
ments, growing out of our recent war with Spain, have opened up
new, important and promising fields, which our Board ought to oc-
cupy at once. In fact, all the recent changes among the nations of
the world are encouraging and helpful to Foreign Mission work.
Dr. Willingham, our faithful Secretary, tells us there is need now
for more missionaries, as there are so many fields to be occupied and
the churches are increasing their contributions. Let us pray in our
homes and churches that God will call and send out more laborers to
reap in their ripe harvest fields. There is every reason why North
Carolina should pray much and give much for this great work. God
has honored our State in sending out from our churches so many
1'aithful men and women. Some have gone to their reward and some
are still at their posts. Let us raise $15,000 for this great work next
year.
HOME MISSIONS.
The Home Mission Board never had before it such a wide open
door of usefulness as it has to-day, and never was its work more im-
portant. The eyes of the world are turning to the South, and soon
the tide of immigration will pour in upon us. About the work in
general, we will leave Bro. J. C. Caddell, Vice-President, to speak.
In North Carolina the Home Board is lending timely aid.
The Home Board appropriates $3,000.00* to our mountain schools,
the same to be used under direction of our Board. In addition to
this, the Home Board, in co-operation with our Board, supports
twenty-nine missionaries in factory villages, each Board paying half
the amount appropriated. The amount contributed by the Home
Board is $2,000.00. This appropriation is made unconditionally, in
addition to this, the Home Board promises $1,000.00 to be used in the
Mission work in the State, on condition that we raise and forward to
the Treasurer $6,000.00 for Home Missions before May 1, 1902.
REPORT OK VICE-PRESIDENT .J. C. CADDELL.
The history of the Home Board in our State is too full of glorious
achievements aim aDidmg results to ever lose its noid upon a grate-
ful people.
The sphere of the Home Board, affecting as it does the religiou?
social and commercial interests of our country, will not fail to attract
the earnest attention of wise planners and successful leaders.
A large number of the churches which make up the strength aD-l
working energy of our churches drew their first sustenance from the
Home Mission Board. But we would not stop to contemplate the
glories of a past history, but rather use it for the achievement of
even greater results in the future.
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The number of our own people who have left the older States and
found homes in the South and Southwest is constantly increasing.
If they are to have the gospel at all, they must hear it from a mi»-
sionary of the Home Board.
If Cuba is indeed to be free, and her men and women to reach the
highest and best station is citizenship, these blessings can come only
through the preaching of the Gospel.
The barriers are down, and, if we will, we may cover the island
with the Word of Life.
Many of our people are leaving their homes in the country, quit-
ting farm life, and seeking employment in factories and other en-
terprises of recent establishment.
This change in homes and associations, while it may be of finan-
cial advantage, is attended with dangers and temptations which these
simple rural people have not heretofore encountered. Factory peo-
ple move often, from place to place, and so factory churches will be
slow in reaching the condition when they will be self-sustaining, and
must look largely to the Home Board for the Gospel and for an op-
portunity to educate their children.
The Home Board has been a strong factor in co-operation work
among the negroes. This work has resulted in developing better
preachers and more competent teachers. This is the hope of the
negro race in the South, and without wise leaders the situation is at
once a serious one, and we may seriously consider, not only what
will become of the negroes, but what will become of us with them
living in our midst.
I know I have hardly so much as touched the Home Mission work,
with its far-reaching and momentous importance to the evangeliza-
tion of the world, but enough has been said to suggest that the Board
needs more sympathy, more active workers, and more money to en-
able its missionaries to carry out the last and great command of our
Saviour before He went from earth to heaven.
J. C. Caddell.
A word as to salaries and expenses may be of interest. Salaries
are as follows:
Livingston Johnson, Corresponding Secretary $ 1,700.00
A. E. Brown, Assistant Corresponding Secretary 800.00
T. Neil Johnson, Sunday School Secretary 900.00
Miss Mae Ford, Stenographer 360.00
Walters Durham, Treasurer 250.00
Total 4,010.00
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Other expenses:
Printing and postage 335.25
Office rent 120.00
traveling expenses 519.75
Total 4,985.00
Total amount for all objects of the Convention 56,410.56
Raised for schools by A. E. Brown 11,000.00
67,410.56
A little calculation will show that all the expenses are only about
8 per cent of the whole amount raised. It has been our aim to
make this report clear and explicit. We have sought to give the
facts exactly as they are. Livingston Johnson,
John E. Ray, Corresponding Secretary.
President.
REPORT OF A. E. BROWN, ASSISTANT CORRESPONDING
SECRETARY.
In presenting this, my second annual report, I endeavor to set
forth as briefly as possible an account of the work undertaken and
results achieved during the year. But, first of all, I desire to ac-
knowledge our indebtedness to Him who has granted these blessings
upon the efforts of His servants.
I congratulate my people of the West upon the progress made dur-
ing the past year. We are convincing ourselves by our achievements
that we can do things. The spirit of helplessness and distrust is being
cast aside and a new spirit is possessing our people — a spirit of con-
fidence, a spirit of progress. We are a part of th<3 world, and by the
grace of God we will let them know it some day.
The fact that there is a Baptist Church for every eighteen square
miles in the mountain counties is sufficient to convince us that our
work is not a work of evangelization, as was our fathers', but a work
of development.
SCHOOLS A:\D SCHOOL CnLDINGS^ MARS HILL COLLEGE.
This, our oldest institution, continues prosperous, and its reputa-
tion for thorough work has widened its influence until its patronage
is no longer confined to its original territory, but is drawn from
more than a score of counties in our own State and from other
States. The number of students in attendance so overcrowd its two
small brick buildings as to make it absolutely necessary to erect
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another larger and better arranged building at once. The plans for
such a building have already been prepared by a competent architect,
and during the summer we made a preliminary campaign of the ter-
ritory to publish the needs and arouse a building sentiment. This
campaign not only resulted in arousing the sentiment necessary to
carry out the plans, but a nice collection in cash and subscriptions
was secured, which forms the neucleus of the $10,000 necessary to
erect and equip the proposed building and provide suitable boarding
facilities. These buildings must not only be erected, but erected at
once. The friends of the institution recognize the magnitude of the
undertaking, but we are confronted by a condition that demands it.
There are thousands of Baptist boys and girls who can look to no
other Baptist institution for training.
FRO [TLA M> I N ST I TCTK.
The building occupied by this school is a large seven-room, well-
built frame structure, sufficiently completed to be occupied. During
the year a girls' dormitory of twenty-one rooms was commenced and
sufficiently completed to allow a portion of it to be occupied. Some
work has also been done toward finishing the institute during the
year. The two buildings, when completed, are estimated to cost
$7,000. All the funds thus far for their erection have been contrib-
uted by the Carolina Association. It will require about $1,500 to
properly finish and equip them: and then the temporary arrange-
ments for the boarding of boys must be changed and a dormitory
provided for them where they can board under the eye of the Prin-
cipal or some member of the Faculty, and this at such figures as to
put the school within reach of the farmer boys.
The present session of this school opened with greatly increased
patronage, which comes from a wider range. There is no trouble
about the boys and girls of this country going to school if the school
can be out in reach of their limited means.
II.' Y\\ mi!. HIGH SCHOOL, CLYDE. N. C.
This school also opened with an increased patronage. The build-
ing, which is a two-story brick, 32 by 70 feet long, is being enlarged
by a wing 30 by 32 feel : and before we are able to complete this ad-
dition we are confronted by the fact that the increased patronage
makes it necessary to build another wing, or erect another building.
During the year we have secured a dormitory for hoys. This is a
large three-story building, erected for a hotel, which came on the
market at about one-half its real value, and. through the business
foresight of Rev. \V. E. Wilkins, it was purchased for the school.
We owe about $1.ooo on it yet.
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A girls' dormitory is greatly needed and must be provided, or the
work materially crippled.
In my last report I was of the opinion that the Haywood Associa-
tion would be able to take care of this work without asking help
from the Convention. But the demands for enlargement have been
such that I do not now see how it can be done unless the Convention
comes to our aid. And in this case, as in the others, delay will be
well-nigh fatal, as it will so discourage a people who have made
heroic sacrifices that they will give up the struggle.
TUCKASIEUEE INSTITUTE. SYLVA. N. C.
During the year we have erected a five-room brick building for this
school, and while it is yet unfinished, the material to finish has been
purchased and the first story will be completed by the first of Janu-
ary, 1902, so that the school may open in it after the holidays.
The work on the building here has moved slowly, principally on
account of lack of funds, and your Assistant Secretary has had to in-
volve himself for several hundred dollars here, as at some other
places, or see the work suffer, perhaps beyond repair. We have as
yet undertaken no dormitories for this school, but they must be pro-
vided, as the same conditions exist here as at the otner schools. The
hoard must be brought within the reach of our farmer boys, who are
too poor to board on any other plan than the co-operative.
BELLE VIEW IilOH SCHOOL. COBBS, N. t'.
Our building here has proven insufficient for the school, and we
are now getting material together for the erection of another build-
ing better adapted to the needs of the school. We hope to have
the new building ready by the opening of the fall term, and the pres-
ent building converted into a girls' dormitory. The people of this
territory are, perhaps, the poorest in this world's goods of any in our
mountain country, but a campaign among them this fall showed
them rich in zeal and faith, which is ready to sacrifice even the few
poor comforts they have for the Lord's cause.
YANCEY COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, BUBNSVILLE. N. C.
We have here an imposing five-room building, costing $5,000, com-
menced and finished within the year. That this has been accom-
plished, is due largely to Bro. E. F. Watson, a lawyer, who closed his
office and accompanied me on my campaign through the Association,
and has spared neither time nor money to bring the work to a speedy
conclusion. Too much can not be said of the people of Yancey
County — a more loyal and sacrificing people are not to be found any-
where. They no sooner saw their school building completed than
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they began the erection of a 26-room dormitory. But, notwithstand-
ing their sacrifices, they still owe a balance on their splendid build-
ing. The school opened in August, and, notwithstanding the most
determined competition, the enrollment has gone far beyond the
hundred mark, and will doubtless reach two hundred before the ses-
sion closes.
BAKERSVILLE ACADEMY.
This is the Mitchell County school and occupies an unfinished
building, which is beautiful in design and convenient in arrange-
ment. Bakersville and Mitchell County suffered greater from the
last spring floods than any part of our State. It was almost a second
Johnstown. I have never seen anything to compare with the de-
struction wrought by the floods in this county. Thousands of dol-
lars worth of property was swept away. Scores of families were left
homeless and penniless. The Baptist Church in Bakersville, which
was the best in the town, was swept away. Yet, notwithstanding all
this distress, we have been able to make a payment on the house,
paint the outside, and provision is made for completing the inside
work.
In view of the circumstances of the people in the county, and the
homeless condition of the Baptists in Bakersville, it is impossible
for them to pay the remainder on the house within the time agreed,
and if it is not done the property will pass out of our hands with all
that we have done and sacrificed and our cause in that section
doomed for a half century or more. The property, when completed,
will be worth $3,000 or more. There is a balance of about $750 due
on the building. Three hundred of this must be paid next spring.
Notwithstanding the stranded condition of the people, they will
finish the house if this debt can be provided for outside. The school
is in a flourishing condition.
In addition to the above schools, one has been started at Enon, in
Transylvania County, which, while Baptist, is not owned and con-
trolled by the denomination, but arrangements are being made by
which it will become the property of the Transylvania Association
and will then be greatly improved in equipment. Its prospects are
good.
Another school is needed in the northwest of our territory, and it
was my purpose to visit that section this year, but high waters and
the impassable condition of the roads prevented me, and I have had
to defer the trip to another time.
In concluding this part of my report, let me say that the enroll-
ment in our schools this year has passed the 1,600 mark, and this
will be very greatly increased after the public schools close. There
is no trouble about our boys and girls going to school if they can get
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an opportunity. But our farmers handle so little money they can
not afford to pay tuition and board, and so we must provide dormi-
tories for both sexes at each of these schools, which are to be run on
the club or co-operative plan. Some of our boys and girls will go to
college and the number will increase each year, but the great mass
of them will depend on these schools for all the education they will
ever receive, and what that will mean to our churches and other in-
stitutions, no man knows.
Each of these schools, with two exceptions, has a Wake Forest
graduate for its Principal and the other teachers are either gradu-
ates of some good school, or with some special training for their
work.
A conservative valuation of our school property in the west would
be forty thousand dollars, and with fifty thousand more we will be
iD very good shape. But we should not set a limit.
COLPORTAGE.
£ have been able this year to have done some much-needed col-
portage work through the kindness of the American Baptist Publish-
ing Society and by using some books in my possession belonging to
our Book Store. The following summary will give some idea of the
work done in this line:
Colporters 8
Days of service 650
Miles travelled 6,420
Bibles sold 238
Testaments sold 222
Bibles given away 16
Testaments given away 48
Books given away 37
Books sold 468
Sermons preached 214
Addresses made 80
Prayer-meetings held 76
Families visited 1.516
Families destitute of Bible 41
Baptisms 63
Churches constituted 1
(The above is not a complete report, since all the reports for the
last month have not come in yet.)
I hope to be able to continue this branch of the work and have
plans for making it more effective in the future. In concluding this
report, let me say that the great Baptist hosts of the mountains are
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just beginning to awake to their power and opportunities. The fu-
ture is pregnant for us. We need a great many things yet, and need
them badly, but the hopeful feature of the situation is, we are be-
ginning to recognize our needs and have set ourselves to the task of
supplying them.
REPORT OF THE WOMAN'S CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF
MISSIONS.
The reports of the Woman's Central Committee of Missions are an
unceasing reminder of the power of littles given intelligently and
systematically. The foundation stones of the Woman's Missionary
Societies, under the care of this committee, are: Prayer, Bible and
Mission Study, and the giving of two cents a week. Upon these the
number of societies has grown to nearly five hundred, who con-
tribute this year the sum of $9,766.36 to Home, Foreign and State
Mission objects. This rounds out the amounts reported by the so-
cieties since the beginning of their united work, fifteen years ago, to
the splendid sum of $72,920.06.
In continuance of the forward movement of last year the societies
were urged to spare no effort to enlarge their membership, endeavor-
ing to induce each woman of their churches to contribute at least
two cents a week to missions. Much has been done on this impor-
tant line.
The Volunteer Teachers Work, which was so well begun in 1900,
was greatly enlarged in 1901, and the faithfulness of the Volunteers,
as well as their remarkable success, calls for gratitude and praise.
Forty-six teachers taught in ten counties. Into their schools were
gathered 2,111 pupils. For their services the teachers received noth-
ing but their travelling expenses and board, the former being paid
by the State Mission Board, the latter provided by the people among
whom they taught.
The cost of this work to the Mission Board was seven hundred and
twelve dollars and eight cents.
It is the opinion of the committee, and of all those who have come
in contact with this work, that it has been marvellously successful,
and that it bears large promise for the future.
In looking forward to the coming years, your committee would lay
stress upon the imperative necessity of training the children of the
Sunday Schools to an intelligent appreciation of their obligation to
give the gospel to the world. The Woman's Societies are endeavor-
ing to meet this necessity as best they may, but they earnestly ap-
peal to the pastors, parents and Sunday School Superintendents for
their support and sympathy at this vastly important point. The
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. 43
work before us increases daily. Shall the future find us defeated for
want of trained recruits?
With the past record of success, we would be wanting in faith and
gratitude if we did not look to the opening year with confident ex-
pectation of larger things.
With hope and trust for the coming year, we gratefully submit the
following itemized statement of the past year's efforts and success:
The Woman's Missionary Societies contributed for the year ending
November 30, 1901, $9,766.36, appropriated as follows:
To Foreign Missions $2,303.00
Christmas Offering 812.21
Total for Foreign Missions 3,115.21
To Home Missions $1,023.68
Self-denial 613.40
Boxes 2,374.58
Total for Home Missions 4,011.60
Tc State Missions $1,844.95
Volunteer Fund 277.8°.
Total for State Missions 2,122.78
To Orphanage $131.13
Sunday Schools 18.57
Ministerial Education 39. 6(.'
Famine Relief 7-7'*
B. F. University 2.50
Expense Fund l-^
111 inisterial Relief 20.12
Total 221.48
Respectfully submitted, Fannie E. S. Heck.
Mrs. W. N. Jones, Pres. W. Gen. Com.
Sec. and Treus. W. Cen. Com.
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REPORT OF TREASURER.
1
BALANCE SHEET.
Walters Durham. Treasurer, in account current with the
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, Dec. 4, 1901.
DEBIT.
"
CREDIT.
R
$4,850.03
2,079.72
1,198.76 :
799.53
105.34
111
111
Cash in Commercial and
Farmers Bank.
Note of Home Board
88,743.31
31
•m
1,000.00
33
46
Sunday-Schools and Col-
portage.
56
Baptist Book Store.. .. ..
248.98
62
Ministerial Relief .
121.56
69
Students' Aid Fund
4.J 50
89
Yates Memorial— -
25. 75
93
Mills Memorial _ .
4.08
2.06
Total
129
Galveston church
Total.
39,743.31
89,743.31
Correct
iber t. 1901.
J. B. Martin. Auditor
STATE missions.
Receipts from all sources for State Missions ....
To office expenses, postage, etc $ 155.15
Sal; W. H. .Broughton, stenographer. 70.00
Edwards & Broughton, printing minutes... 80.00
H. C. Moore, salary as Rec. Sec 24.37
Postage and printing for W. C. C 101.40
Walters Durham, salary as Treasurer 100.00
•lense Voluntary Teachers 700.00
Paid fm :>tion 567.47
Rent of Mission Rooms 95.00
Schools in Western N. C 1 600.00
B. W. Spilman, salary as S. S. Sec 198.33
T. Neil Johnson, salary as S. S. Sec 305.00
T. Neil Johnson, travelling expenses 10.00
$26,637.90
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. 45
To Livingston Johnson, salary as Cor. Sec $530.00
Livingston Johnson, travelling expenses 132.72
Paid note in bank 1,000.00
Paid interest on note 122.90
Miss Mae Ford, salary as stenographer 20.00
John E. White, salary as Cor. Sec 20. 1)0
J. D. Hufbam, salary as Statistician 150.00
A. E. Brown, salary as Assistant Cor. Sec. . . 799.92
A. E. Brown, travelling expenses 152.99
Paid Missionaries 14,852.62
Balance 4,850.03
$20,637.90 $26,637.90
December 4, 1901.
• FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Amount received $10,486.54
Amount sent direct 1,151.88
To amount sent direct $ 1,151.88
Office expense 64.14
Edwards & Broughton, printing minutes . . 50.00
Rent of Mission Rooms 65.00
Printing and postage W. C. C 100.00
Walters Durham, Treasurer's salary 95.00
John E. White, salary as Cor. Sec 60.00
L. Jobnson, salary as Cor. Sec 560.00
L. Johnson, travelling expenses 78.18
Mrs. W. H. Broughton, salary as Stenog 82.00
Miss Mae Ford, salary as Stenog 35.00
N. B. Broughton, salary as Rec. Sec 12.50
Foreign Board 7,205.00
Balance 2,079.72
$11,638.42 $11,638.42
December 4, 1901.
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HOME MISSIONS.
Amount received $5,949.78
Amount sent direct 263.72
To amount sent direct $ 263.72
Office expense 38.75
Edwards & Broughton, printing minutes. . . . 40.00
Rent on Mission Rooms 60.00
Walters Durham, salary as Treasurer 55.00
Printing and postage W. C. C 98.20
Mrs. W. H. Broughton, salary as Stenog 65.00
Miss Mae Ford, salary as Stenog 35.00
John B. White, salary as Cor. Sec 60.00
N. B. Broughton, salary as Rec. Sec 12.50
L. Johnson, salary as Cor. Sec 470.00
L. Johnson, travelling expenses 52.75
Paid John Mitchell for Education Board 238.82
Paid Tally-Ho Church (error) 1.00
Home Board 3,524.00
Balance 1,198.76
$6,213.50 $6,213.50
December 4, 1901.
5
EDUCATION.
Amount received $2,959.53
Paid vouchers of John Mitchell and W. R. Cullom $2,160.00
Balance 799.53
$2,959.53 $2,959.53
December 4, 1901.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND OOLPORTAGE.
Amount received $329.26
To B. W. Spilman, travelling expenses $ 23.87
B. W. Spilman, salary S. S. Sec 40.00
Freight on books 11.30
T. Neil Johnson, travelling expenses 63.75
T. Neil Johnson, salary S. S. Sec 75.00
Postage 10.00
Balance 105.34
$329.26 $329.26
December 4, 1901.
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. 47
MINISTERIAL RELIEF.
Amount received $1,519.31
To paid T. E. Cheek, Treasurer $1,094.75
Balance 424.56
$1,519.31 $1,519.31
December 4, 1901.
6
students' aid fund.
By amount received $38.00
To paid D. Presley Smith, Treasurer $33.50
Balance 4.50
$38.00 $38.00
December 4, 1901.
ORPHANAGE.
By amount received $161.38
To paid J. B. Boone, Manager $161.38
$161.38 $161.38
December 4, 1901.
YATES MEMORIAL.
By amount received $25.75
Balance $25.75
$25.75 $25.75
December 4, 1901.
MILLS MEMORIAL BUILDING.
By amount received $83.69
To paid J. B. Boone, Manager $79.61
Balance 4.08
$83.69 $83.69
December 4, 1901.
GALVESTON CHURCH.
By amount received $2.06
To balance $2.06
$2.06 $2.06
December 4, 1901.
48 MINUTES OF THE
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BAPTIST BOOK STORE.
By amount received $8,217.46
To interest '. $ 90.00
Rent 170.00
Baxter Durham on salary 30.00
Merchandise, books, etc 7,078.48
Balance 248.98
5,217.46 $8,217.46
December 4, 1901.
By total receipts to Treasurer for all objects. . . . $56,410.66
To total vouchers paid for all objects $46,667.35
Balance, in Commercial and Farmers Bank. 8,743.31
Note of Home Board '■ 1,000.00
$56,410.66 $56,410.66
Respectfully submitted, Walters Durham,
Treas. Baptist State Convention.
December 4, 1901.
I hereby certify that I have examined the books of Walters Dur-
ham, Treasurer of Baptist State Convention, and find them in all re-
spects correct and correctly supporting the above statement of ac-
counts. J- B. Martin,
Auditor.
December 4, 1901.
Eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty-six cents came in
for State Missions before the books came into the hands of the pres-
ent Treasurer. This should be added to his figures for State Mis-
sions. Livingston Johnson.
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. 49
The appointment of special committees on various phases
of the Board's report was authorized.
T. J. Taylor, of the committee to raise funds for
the investigation of Baptist history, presented a report,
which, upon his motion, was referred to a special committee
to report later.
The Convention was then addressed by O. F. Flippo, Dis-
trict Secretary of the Missionary and Bible Departments
of the American Baptist Publication Society.
Field Secretary B. . W. Spilman, of the Sunday School
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, addressed the
body on the work and claims of the Board.
The report of the Committee on Foreign Missions was
presented by J. William Jones, as follows :
REPORT ON FOREIGN MISSIONS.
The time has surely passed when, before this intelligent body, it is
necessary to argue the duty or importance of Foreign Missions.
In the supreme "Order Book" we have plainly written the com-
mand of our Great Captain: "Go ye into all of the world and preach
the gospel to every creature," and our plain duty, as "soldiers
of the cross," is to render unquestioning obedience to the order of
our Leader. He has coupled with His commission the precious prom-
ise: "Lo! I am with you all the days," and as a people, as churches,
or as individuals, we have no right to claim the promise or to expect
the blessing if we fail in strict obedience to the "marching orders"
of our King.
Let us, then, engrave it on our minds, and memories, and hearts
that as loyal subjects of Messiah's kingdom we must "Go" or "Send."
Since Cary, "the consecrated cobbler," first went as a missionary to
India and gave to Baptists the high honor of starting the modern
missionary enterprise, there has been remarkable progress in this
work, until Dr. R. J. Willingham, our faithful Secretary, could say
in a recent publication :
"The results have been wonderful. Nations have been searched
out, languages have been mastered, reduced to writing, and God's
Word translated into them. Over four hundred tongues and dialects
are made to shine forth with God's truth. Superstitions and lies of
abomination have been discarded; prejudice and hate have given
way to light and love. Besides the 15,460 missionaries laboring in
4
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foreign fields, there are 77,338 native assistants and 1,289,298 com-
municants. Volumes written could not tell of all the glorious re-
sults."
But while we should rejoice to give in detail the work of all evan-
gelical Christians, and especially the work of our Baptist brethren
of England and America, the proper limits of this report confine us
to the work of the Southern Baptist Convention with which we are
identified. Since the organization of our Board, in 1845, it has made
steady and substantial progress, until to-day its receipts are far
larger than ever before, the number of its Missions and missionaries
has greatly increased; the reports of the missionaries are more en-
couraging, and the general outlook brighter than ever before. The
Board has missionaries in China, Japan, Africa, Italy, Mexico and
Brazil, and from all of these fields the most hopeful reports come.
We quote the following from the latest statistics given by the
Board :
FOREIGN MISSION WORK 1900—1901.
MISSION-
ARIES.
PNORDAINED
NATIVE
HELPERS.
COUNTRIES.
<B
p
- -C
I
a
+3
a
co
-
-»
<»
^-,
'-
C£
<-.
^
pq
£
China . .
Africa .
Italy . . .
Mexico
Brazil .
Japan .
6
24
36
35
•>
Total 127 46 56
30
12
37
13
200
2.440
3
• >
7
2
53
382
I
26
104
615
8
14
16
1
208
1,314
9
12
20
1
449
1,932
)
1
4
3
15
90
56
41
110
20
1.009
6,773
In addition to these statistics it may be mentioned that we have a
large number of schools, upon which the Board expends very little
money, except what is specially designated for the purpose by con-
tributors, but which are doing a noble work in teaching the natives
and training efficient workers for Mission fields. Our noble brother,
R. T. Bryan, writes of our schools in China, that "they are like Sun-
day Schools running all of the week."
Brethren Graves and Simmons are doing a noble work at Canton
in training in the Scriptures young preachers, who are to carry the
gospel to their own people, and similar work is being done at other
points. The Board has just opened a training school in Rome, Italy.
has opened one since the convention in Torreon, Mexico, and has ar-
ranged to open one in a few weeks in Pernambuco, Brazil. What
hallowed influences we may expect to go out from these "schools of
the prophets!"
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. 5 1
A letter received a few days ago by the chairman of this commit-
tee, from the Secretary of our Board, says: "We have now one hun-
dred and seven missionaries, the largest number we have ever had.
Only six of these are at present in this country, and two of them are
arranging to sail for China in December. Our receipts are larger
than ever before at this time of the year, but yet not large enough to
meet the increased demands upon us. I wish that you would em-
phasize the urgent need of good men for the foreign field. Some of
our pastors ought to resign and go to the front. We are hearing of
many baptisms. China seems opened as never before. One mission-
ary has recently baptized over seventy; another writes that he has
one hundred applying to him for baptism, and other brethren write
of the glorious openings in other fields."
The contributions of Southern Baptists to the support of this
Board last year amounted to $156,083.33, of which North Carolina
gave $9,461.3(5. Our Treasurer reports for our conventional year
$11,638.42 received, an increase of about two thousand dollars.
From the days of our noble Yates to the present time, North Caro-
lina has led all of our States in the number of able, and consecrated
men and women she has sent to the foreign field. Surely she ought
not to be one whit behind any of the States in her contributions to
this great work.
We close this report with several practical remarks:
1. We should give the Board and its Secretaries our warmest sym-
pathies, most fervent prayers, and most active co-operation. The
Foreign Mission Board has been from the first exceedingly fortunate
in the men who have had charge of its affairs. Its first Secretary
was the saintly, wise and untiring Dr. James B. Taylor, of blessed
memory, who laid broad and deep the foundations of the work, and
his associate, for some years, was Dr. A. M. Poindexter, whose fiery
eloquence was heard all over our Southland, awakening and quicken-
ing the vast crowds who heard him to deeper interest, and zeal in
this work. When Taylor was called from his long and successful
service to wear his glittering crown, the Board was exceedingly
fortunate in securing as his successor the scholarly and accom-
plished Dr. H. A. Tupper, whose consecrated wisdom, thorough
knowledge of the work, and tactful management of delicate and dif-
ficult problems, have left their valuable impress on the Board and its
work. These have followed our younger men, Brethren T. P. Bell,
R. J. Willingham, E. Y. Mullins, A. J. Barton and B. E. Bomar, who
have proven their fitness and capacity by the steady progress of the
work in their hands. The Board itself has always been composed of
the ablest and best men to be found, and now consists of twenty-one
members living in Richmond, Va., and a Vice-President in each
State co-operating with the Convention. The resident members are
52 MINUTES OF THE
found in the following walks of life: Three professors, two lawyers,
one physician, eight pastors, one banker, one broker, one merchant,
one editor, one college Treasurer and librarian, and two Secretaries
of the Board, all of whom give the work their valuable time, and con-
secrated thought. Surely they should be remembered in our prayers,
that God may keep and guide and help them in their great work.
2. Our pastors should inform themselves and keep their churches
informed about the fields, the missionaries and their work. A copy
of those charming books, "Italy and the Italians," by Dr. George B.
Taylor, and "Life of Mathew T. Yates," by Dr. Chas. E. Taylor, and
similar books, should be in the library of every pastor, and every in-
telligent layman. The Foreign Mission Journal should be widely
circulated in our churches, and the leaflets published by the Board,
and by our Woman's Missionary Union, should be put in all of our
families.
3. We ought not to rest satisfied until every church in our Con-
vention and every member of our churches contribute regularly to
Foreign Missions.
4. And we can not urge too earnestly that there should be in our
pulpits, our prayer-meetings, around our family altars, and in our
closets far more of earnest, persevering, humble, believing prayer
that "the Lord of the harvest" would raise up. qualify and send forth
more laborers to garner "the fields white to the harvest" — that He
will bless the Board, its Secretaries, and its missionaries; that He
will put it into the hearts of our people to contribute more liberally
to this great work, and that He will so direct and bless .it as to
hasten the glad time when the nations of the earth shall all hear and
heed the message of salvation, and our King shall come, "whose right
it is to reign."
All of which is respectfully submitted,
(Signed) J. Wm. Jones, Chmn.,
W. C. Tyiu;e.
A. R. Love.
W. F. Watso.v
R. H. Hebbing,
R. P. Thomas,
Committee.
v remarks by E. E. Bomar, Assistant Corresponding
Mission Board, pf Richmond, Va.,
the report was adopted.
The President appointed the following committees:
Home Missions. — C. S. Blackwell, R. H. Herring. S. A. Hege, J. S.
Fine, J. N. Myers. E. L. Fox, G. L. White.
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. 53
Orphanage. — C. A. G. Thomas, C. A. Leonard, W. C. Martin, C. W.
Lowry, A. I. Justice, Thomas Carrick, G. J. Dowell.
Female University. — J. W. Bailey, J. H. Smith, W. T. Hurst, J. L.
Memory, Noah Biggs, J. W. Roberts, A. W. Cooke.
Periodicals.— Forrest Smith, W. H. Rich, T. B. Wilder, J. S.
Farmer, Thomas Hume.
Obituaries.— J. F. Love, C. B. Justice, C. J. Woodson, W. H. Dodd,
J. M. Holleman, W. A. Cooper, F. H. Jones.
-^Temperance. — John A. Oates.. C. L. Greaves, J. E. Smith, S. F. Con-
rad, W. M. Lyles, J. H. Rich, F. N. Day.
Sunday Schools and Colportage.—C. A. Jenkens, T. Neil Johnson,
F. T. Baldwin, F. J. Lipper, G. L. Allen, T. H. Street, J. T. Valentine.
Woman's Work. — E. S. Reaves, W. N. Jones, C. F. Meserve, J. B.
Yarbrough, R. B. Horn, J. H. Fleming, B. D. McKaughan.
Education, General and Ministerial. — M. E. Parrish, M. Baldwin,
J. R. Moore, P. W. Patton, J. M. Hamrick, T. L. Vernon, J. F. Pleas-
ants.
Religious Exercises. — Pastors of Baptist churches in Winston-
Salem, and Deacons of First Baptist Church.
Finance — T. S. Sprinkle, W. J. Conrad, J. C. Watkins, A. H. Eller.
To Nominate Preachers and Place of Next Meeting. — A. R. Foushee,
E. Frost, J. L. Shinn, C. J. D. Parker, J. M. Hilliard, W. H. H. Law-
hon, J. B. Carlyle.
To Nominate Board of Education. — W. F. Fry, M. P. Davis, R. W.
Brooks, C. J. Black, H. Morris, T. H. Sibley, H. T. Jones.
To Nominate Board of Ministerial Relief. — J. F. McDuffie, J. N.
Tolar, J. W. Cates, W. P. Edwards, J. W. Burchitt, W. H. Smith, R. F.
Beasley.
To Nominate Board of Missions and Sunday Schools. — F. P. Hob-
good, W. H. Garner, J. W. Bowles, J. W. Madison, C. H. Utley. J. M.
Wagoner, C. F. Toms.
The fallowing special committees were also appointed:
Destitution in the East. — J. N. Tolar, A. W. Setzer, N. P. Stallings,
W. B. Waff, R. D. Carroll, A. L. Betts, W. G. Quackenbush.
Factory Missions. — C. G. Wells, C. L. Greaves, L. H. Greene, J. L.
Morgan, W. H. Woodall, C. S. Cashwell, C. W. Duke.
Education in the West. — W. E. Wilkins, J. M. Stoner.J. F. Fletcher,
C. M. Billings, J. J. Beach, E. W. Culler.
On Report of Committee on Baptist History. — T. J. Taylor, J. S.
Hardaway, H. Sheets, W. F. Watson, J. D. Larkin, J. T. Pullen, W. J.
Fulford.
The Convention adjourned, with benediction by the Pres
ident.
54 MINUTES OE THE
SECOND DAY — Afternoon Session.
Prayer by A. A. Butler.
The Baptist Book Store, being the special order, was taken
up, and discussed by Baxter Durham and "N. B. Broughton.
( >n motion of 1ST. B. Broughton, Sections XIII and XIY
of the Constitution were repealed, and to Section XIT the
following was added as an amendment :
"The Board shall appoint of their numher a committee of seven, to
whom shall be committed the Sunday School work, and the nomina-
tion for approval by the Board of a Sunday School Secretary or Sec-
retaries, to prosecute the work within the bounds of the Convention.
The Board shall also appoint three of their number, who shall be the
managers of the Baptist Book Store, and as may be necessary from
time to time report its condition to the Board."
The report of the Committee on Education, ministerial
and general, was submitted by M. E. Parrish, as follows:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.
The Board of Education has extended aid to fifty -one (51) young
ministers since its last report to the Convention. Of this number
two graduated at our last commencement, and are now in the active
work of the ministry here in North Carolina. Several remained out
of College this year for one cause and another — some for better
preparation, some to recuperate their finances, and some to begin
their life-work. There are thirty-nine men receiving assistance from
the Board at present, and eight others have been encouraged to come
to us in January. There will probably be other applicants before
the opening of the spring term, so that the total number of benefi-
ciaries for the present session will approximate fifty (50). This is
the largest number that we have had for a number of years, and in
view of the fact that some of our leading denominations have felt
some alarm from the lack of applicants for the ministry, may we not
take this as an encouraging symptom as to the spiritual pulse of the
denomination? If we take the character of these men and their dili-
gent application to their work into consideration the symptom is
still more encouraging. After seven and a half years of most effi-
cient service as Corresponding Secretary of this Board, Dr. John
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. 55
Mitchell retired from that position on July 1, 1901, and was suc-
ceeded by W. R. Cullom, the present incumbent. Dr. Mitchell left
the business of the Board in a most wholesome condition, there being
a small indebtedness of $192.47.
The receipts of the Board for the past year have been $2,841.71,
and disbursements $2,247.31, leaving a balance in the hands of the
Convention Treasurer of $594.40.
The receipts from the notes that are now falling due from time to
time have. been very encouraging, and the income from the Swepson
Bequest has been a great help to us. It is still true, however, that
the Board is mainly dependent on the gifts from the Baptist people
of the State for the successful prosecution of its work.
The Secretary feels that the work entrusted to him is of a two-
fold nature: (1) That of looking for men; (2) that of securing
adequate funds to meet the growing demands of the work. In both
these lines of work he begs the hearty co-operation of every pastor,
of every Sunday School worker, and of every Godly father and
mother connected with this Convention.
This committee understands that it is not expected to report to
this body the facts and details of the patronage, equipment and work
of the educational institutions that are under the control of this Con-
vention. These will be duly emphasized in separate reports and by
special addresses. It is the desire of this committee that this body
shall express itself on the great and vital problem of the education
of the masses, a position to which the very democracy of our Baptist
polity commits us, as the heartiest supporters and sympathizers of
the general educational revival that is now in progress among the
people of North Carolina. We desire to call attention of this body to
the commendable effort of the State to make suitable provision for
the education of the 439,000 white children of school age, now in her
territory, and among which number our Baptist people must have a
large per cent. These young people will have open to them oppor-
tunities in all the industrial and professional positions of our State.
To give them a well-rounded education that will prepare them for
the highest usefulness t'o both the church and State, is the task be-
fore us. In all the efforts of the State to make better provisions for
common school education, we express our cordial sympathy, and
hope that the rapidly-growing sentiment of North Carolina for a
more liberal education of rank and file of her people will mature in
wise legislation that will accomplish this much-needed work.
With a people thus prepared, it is manifest that our Baptists hosts
of North Carolina must be led by a well-cultured ministry.
M. E. Parrish,
P. W. Patton,
T. L. Vernon.
5© MINUTES OF THE
After r - y M. E. Parrish, W. R. Cullom, C. I.
Thompson una I. J. Taylor, the report was adopted.
The report of the Trustees of Wake Forest College was
presented by T. E. Skinner, and discussed by C. E. Taylor,
T. E. Skinner, A. A. Marshall, J. Win. Jones. J. E. Smith
and J. D. Hufham. The final disposition of the report was
deferred till to-morrow evening.
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF WAKE FOREST COLLEGE.
It is gratifying to be able to present a favorable and hopeful re-
port as to the condition of the College. Up to the present stage of
the current s : - 358 students have matriculated. Others will en-
ter at the beginning of the spring term in January. Never has bet-
ter work been done or a higher standard of scholarship maintained
than at present.
Since the last Convention, the new, admirably-arranged and well-
equipped gymnasium has been completed and the old dormitory has
been practically rebuilt.
The College is the child of the Convention: it is prepared to do all
the undergraduate work needed by the sons of the Baptists of the
State and to give thorough training also in law. It seems, there-
fore, that in selecting a college for the education of their sons. North
Carolina Baptists should consider the claims of Wake Forest College
upon their patronage paramount to the claims of all others.
: Ii. T. Vann. the Convention started a fund
for the purchase of an oil portrait of William D. Mosely, to
bo placed in library of Wake Forest College. A special col-
- authorized for the evening session.
Pres II. Clewell, of the Salem Female Academy,
ruled an invitation he Academy at the pleasure
of the body. On motion, the Convention fixes to-morrow
afternoon at 5 o'clock as the hour.
nvention adjourned, with benediction by (i J.
Dowell.
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SECOND DAY— Evening Session.
Devotional exercises were conducted by A. A. Marshall, of
Raleigh.
A collection was taken for the fund to purchase an oil por-
trait of William D. Mosely, amounting J '0.
The report of the Committee on Century Movement, sub-
mitted by X. JB. Broughton, was received, as follows :
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CENTURY FUND.
One year ago the Baptist State Convention, in session at Raleigh,
unanimously agreed to undertake to raise one hundred thousand
dollars for our school work. Your committee to whom this -work
was entrusted have prosecuted this work as vigorously as circum-
stances have permitted. Rev. O. L. Stringfield was immediately em-
ployed as Secretary. An address to the churches was published far
and wide; in a number of Associations effective organizations were
instituted, and in many others earnest presentations of the subject
were made.
It will be remembered that just as the period approached in which
we had expected to make collections, the prospect of short crops was
realized. In spring and summer the excessive rains had niacU
tensive operations in this behalf unwise in the first half of the year:
besides, time was required to get the movement projected. In the lat-
ter half of the year the State Mission work was thought to be in
danger of failure. In view of these conditions but few churches
would encourage us to make our canvass.
The sentiment that has been created in favor of denominational
education is strong and promising, and we should not let the work
that has called it forth perish without enduring fruit.
It is with great pleasure we acknowledge the valuable assistance
rendered during this year by the pastors and other brethren in the
State. We rejoice that God has given us the hearts of our people.
Having the best reasons for undertaking to raise one hundred
thousand dollars for our educational work, and having made such a
good beginning in the creation of interest, we can not afford to
abandon it until the whole amount has been ra is
The complete organization of our school work in the E
affect every fibre of our denominational life. Baptist schools taught
by Baptist men and women for Baptists young people, and ultima
co-ordinated into a practical system, will greatly strengthen our
cause.
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We have secured in cash $6,000; in subscriptions an indefinite sum.
"We have secured for our Baptist academis fourteen thousand dollars.
Many churches are already engaged in raising funds, others have the
work in hand to begin in the spring.
There is a debt of forty-two thousand dollars on the Baptist Fe-
male University, a debt of two thousand five hundred dollars on
Chowan Baptist Female Institute, and debts to the amount of four
thousand dollars on our Baptist academies. These debts are not
only embarrassing, but are greatly hindering our work. We most
earnestly recommend, therefore, that the Century Movement be ex-
tended at least one year with the purpose of raising $50,000, to re-
lieve those of our institutions which are now so harassed by debt.
We recommend further that of this sum $42,000 be given to the Bap-
tist Female University, whose debt of this amount is too great to be
longer borne; that $2,500 be devoted to discharging the debt on
Chowan Baptist Female Institute, and that not more than $4,000 be
devoted to academies, unfinished, in debt, or recently completed.
We further recommend that the Convention appoint a central
committee of five, together with a representative of each educational
institution owned and controlled by the denomination, who shall be
considered as an advisory committee. The educational representa-
tive to be appointed by the trustees of said institutions.
God with us, and the great Baptist denomination aroused to its
duty, we look for great success to the glory of His grace.
Remarks by O. L. Stringfield, C. E. Taylor, J. B. Carlyle,
A. A. Marshall, R. T. Vann, J. W. Bailey, W. C. Tyree, C. S.
Blackwell, \Y. R. Gwaltney, N. B. Broughton, R. L. Patton,
and others. Subscriptions were taken to meet the debt on
our schools, amounting to $12,800.
On motion, further discussion and collection was postponed
till to-morrow night.
The Convention then adjourned, with benediction by J. D.
Hufham.
THIRD DAY— Morning Session.
Winston-Salem, X. ('.. December 6,1901.
A. Jenkins, of Guldsboro, conducted devotional oxer-
Minutes of yesterday were read, corrected and approved.
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By motion of J. William. Jones, the order of business was
so changed that Home Missions is made the special order for
to-day from 12 to 1 o'clock, and the topics for that hour are
transferred to Saturday evening.
The report on destitution in the East was presented by
J. X. Tolar, as follows :
REPORT ON DESTITUTION IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
The greatest and most needy Mission field in the State is found in
Eastern North Carolina, and is embraced in the counties covered by
the Tar River, the Eastern, the Neuse, and the Atlantic Associations.
In the Eastern much destitution is found. One man is trying to
preach the gospel to the county of Onslow. This county is largely
without Baptist churcbes. The greatest need of the Eastern, how-
ever, is not so much the organization of new churches as the develop-
ment of those already organized.
The Atlantic and Neuse Associations have one Baptist Church to
82 square miles of territory. Twenty-two of the 23 churches of the
Atlantic Association are aided by the Board, and often the churches
of the Neuse Association, only five, receive no aid. In addition to
these churches, there are a number of preaching points where
churches ought to be established, and a great many more unoccupied
places which should be supplied with the gospel as soon as possible.
It is especially necessary that well-equipped men — equipped in both
mind and heart — be sent to grapple with the manifold errors that
fill all this Eastern country.
The destitute section of the Tar River Association has one Baptist
Church to 84 square miles of territory. Most of the churches are
weak and must have help. Thirteen missionaries were employed in
this Association this year. Fifty men would not have been able to
reach half of the places that need now to be occupied.
The population of the Atlantic and Neuse, and the destitute sec-
tion of the Tar River is some 335,000 souls, with only 84 churches,
and a large majority of these struggling for existence. Hyde County
has only about twenty-five Baptists with no preacher. Many other
sections are equally as destitute.
The work is great. The more we do, the more there is to be done.
Twice the amount given to State Missions could be wisely used on
this great, growing and needy field.
Splendid reports have been sent up to the Association this year,
and the work is very promising. It is a field white already unt»
harvest. In many sections the door of opportunity stands open, and
we believe this Convention will lose greatly if it fails to enter.
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We need more men whose hearts are throbbing with love to God
and lost men, and more funds to support men.
This great section is a peculiar one in many respects, and is espe-
cially in need of men familiar with its conditions and able to meet
them. It is not wise to send to this section the young and inex-
perienced. The field is much in need of our strongest men.
R. D. Carroll,
A. W. Setzer,
J. N. Tolar,
A. L. Betts.
After discussion by J. N. Tolar and H. B. Parker, the
report was adopted.
F. P. Hobgood, for the Committee to Nominate Board of
Missions and Sunday Schools, made their report, which was
adopted. (See list of Boards of Convention.)
C. G. Wells presented the report of the Committee on Fac-
tory Missions, as follows:
REPORT ON FACTORY MISSIONS.
Factory Missions is a present pressing missionary problem before
the Baptists of North Carolina. The mill men have already come,
and operatives have gathered and are gathering in great numbers at
manufacturing centres. The indications are that the immediate fu-
ture will give us a much more numerous factory population than we
have to-day.
To-day we enjoy some special advantages with regard to factory
mission work. At present a large majority of the operatives in
North Carolina mills are native North Carolinians. They have left
the old home and oftimes the old church to solve the question of
family support amid the new conditions of factory life. Many of
our communities and churches have given of their best blood and
piety, and God has put them as leaven where they can be of service
in the Kingdom of Christ. Under these new conditions they are our
fellow-citizens and our brethren still. Every motive of patriotism,
and of denominationalism, and of love to Christ should inspire us
with more thorough devotion to the solution of the problem that is
upon us. We recommend that factory mission points should be un-
der the immediate care of experienced and successful men. We sug-
gest the establishment of Sunday Schools and prayer-meetings
among and for our factory people, and wherever expedient, churches;
that our pastors and churches urge members leaving their home
churches to take their letters with them and join the nearest
churches. Respectfully submitted, Committee.
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Remarks by C. G. Wells and C. M. Murchison, and the
report was adopted.
The report of the Committee on Education in the West
was presented by W. E. Wilkins, as follows:
REPORT OP THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN
THE MOUNTAINS.
Your committee, to whom was referred Assistant Secretary A. E.
Brown's thrilling report on Education in the West, submit the fol-
lowing:
Secretary Johnson on yesterday morning in a figure summed up
our report on the great Baptist Educational Movement in the moun-
tains of Western North Carolina, when he drew this striking con-
trast: "Two years ago there was one Baptist school west of the
Blue Ridge; property worth $5,000, with 150 students. There are
now — only two years later — nine of these schools, with property
worth $40,000, and an enrollment of 1,600 pupils. In no other sec-
tion of the State have such rapid strides been made along educa-
. tional lines."
Brother Brown's report reveals very clearly three facts:
1. That the right man — God's man — is the leader in this great
work. While Brother Brown has had a number of faithful co-work-
ers, he has had to face barrier after barrier, and discouragement
upon discouragement — but to face these was made his first step in
overcoming them. If the price of progress was the sacrifice of purse,
or even of person, he paid it as God's price. Do you wonder that he
has the ear and heart of the brotherhood of the West and that Bap-
tists all over the State are ready to "lend a hand" to him and to his
people?
2. That the work accomplished in the mountains is one of the
marvels in North Carolina Baptist history. Dr. C. E. Taylor says
that it is one of the greatest works of Baptists of North Carolina in
fifty years. The very striking and most gratifying feature of the
report is that the $40,000 is the mountain Baptists' own expression of
their needs, but only the beginning of the sacrifices they will make
in supplying these needs; and the 1,600 pupils in these schools are
1,600 grateful thanksgivings by that many mountain boys and girls.
3. But possibly the most striking feature of his report is that
which looks to the future. This valliant soldier's own epic words
are, "We should not set a limit." To A. E. Brown the victories
achieved are but the beginnings. He is not thinking of the 1,600
pupils now in the schools, but of the 16,000 or 160,000 boys and girls
practically shut out of school because none is within their reach.
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Nor is his heart glorying in the $40,000 already raised, but bleeding
for the $40,000 now needed, but unprovided.
We therefore recommend:
I. That the Convention show its appreciation of this very im-
portant work by helping those who have thus helped themselves.
II. That the unfinished buildings of these schools be a plea — as the
Voice of God — calling us to assist in this, their time of crisis. As
the principal of one of our schools expressed it. "Unaided we can not
go forward; duty says we must not retreat, and to halt would be an
irretrievable, eternal loss."
III. That all the calls of these schools, as voiced by their self-sacri-
ficing leader, be heard, and that their every appeal be taken as God's
open door to invest our money — the Lord's money — where it will
yield large, rich returns in noble, consecrated manhood and woman-
hood.
W. E. Wilkin s,
C. M. Billings,
J. M. Stonee,
J. F. Fletcher,
• Committee.
Discussion by W. E. Wilkins, W. E. Gwaltney, C. E.
Taylor and A. E. Brown, after which the report was adopted.
The body was then addressed by Corresponding Secretary
Livingston Johnson, on ''What State Missions has Done for
Us as a Denomination." The address was followed by a
collection for State Missions, amounting to $627.
The report on Home Missions was presented by Calvin S.
Blackwell, as follows:
REPORT ON HOME MISSIONS.
The first reason for Home Missions is self-preservation. The
American people are in a very optimistic state of mind just now.
We are roseate about our politics, our business and our religion.
But let us not be blind. We have claim? ' this land for God in our
Constitution and ordinances, but no optimism can make it appear
that we have claimed it in fact. Our principles are right, but they
do not control. Our institutions are properly baptized, but they do
not shape the national life towards God. Our gospel is yet little
more than a voice crying in the wilderness. Bjr the infidelity and
ungodliness of a thousand new communities in which followers of
Christ are in the great minority, we are not a Christian people. By
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all the sodden sin and cruel crime of mining camps, we are not a
Christian people. By all the menace of incoming tides of popula-
tion, East or West, North or South, infidel or pagan — we are not a
Christian people. And a Christian people we must become if we
would not add one more to the wrecks of republics along the path of
history. To this result, there is but one road — Home Missions.
The foreigner is here. He is most numerous in the North and
Northwest, but he is also found largely in the Southland. It has
been estimated that nearly one-third (that is more than 800,000) of
the population" of Missouri are of foreign origin. In portions of
Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, Louisiana and
Texas there is also a large foreign element in the population. These
come from all the nations of Europe and some of the nations of
Asia. They multiply, others follow them, and many are born in this
country. By far the most rapidly-increasing element in our popula-
tion is the foreign element. For a long time the negro in the South
has been a barrier to the approach of the foreigner, but the foreigner
is fast overcoming that barrier. He is here, and here to stay.
He is a power in the land. He makes himself felt strenuously in
all conditions of our life. The industrial world feels him mightily.
To-day the sons of the men who fought in Caesar's army and of those
who contended at Thermopylae and Marathon are building our rail-
roads. There are very few native-born American young men serv-
ing as apprentices in any trade. These positions are filled by for-
eigners or the children of foreigners. Hence, in the mechanical
arts, and especially where skill is required, the foreigner is much
more powerful than the American. As a farmer, he is an amazing
success. He comes into the country and buys a farm, on which the
American has made a failure, and makes money out of it. Then he
looks around and buys the best farm he can find anywhere. The
American usually sells out and moves away.
The best-paid skilled bosses in our Southern cotton mills are for-
eigners or sons of foreigners. As many of them are infidels, their in-
fluence for evil is frightful upon the ignorant factory hands.
In commerce he is a mighty factor. In our great cities of the
South, as Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis, Louisville, Houston,
Galveston, Atlanta, Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Dal-
las, many of the largest business concerns are in the hands of for-
eigners.
In intellectual life, he fully holds his own. In law, in medicine, in
journalism, in education, he makes a full hand. The two most im-
portant educational positions in Missouri are the presidency of our
State University and the superintendency of the public schools of St.
Louis. The latter of these positions is held by a foreigner. Indeed
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it may safely be said that in the intellectual life of our country, the
foreigner exercises an influence out of proportion to his number.
He must be saved. God has sent him here for that purpose. He
kept him away from our country until we had strengthened our re-
ligion and our morals, and then He sent him to us. No duty can be
plainer than this. It is impossible to feel that God calls us to any
work more powerfully than to save the "stranger within our gates."
And that which must be done, of course can be done.
Let this foreigner remain in possession of his European ideals and
he or his son become anarchistic assassins of our Presidents, but if
born again and regenerated by the gospel, they become founders of a
Moravian community like this at Winston-Salem.
Work among these foreigners belongs peculiarly to the Home Mis-
sion Board. This work requires large sums of money. Special ef-
forts have to be made to enlist the foreigner. It is not sufficient to
have a church and to ring the bell. He will not come in. This fruit
must be gathered by the hand; it can not be shaken off the tree.
Multitudes of missionaries, especially women missionaries, must go
into the homes of these people and take invitations, and take simple,
plain tracts in foreign languages, and read and pray. And then in-
telligent, educated men, familiar with foreign ideas and with the
language of the foreigners, must be employed to seek out the edu-
cated men among the foreigners and to converse with them, to get
them to read our books and to attend our services. Large sums
must be invested in this work. The Home Board needs at least
$100,000 a year for this kind of work. Such large sums of money are
needed that the State Boards can not attempt to raise them, and do
not attempt to raise them.
THE FBONTZER.
The frontier firing line in the Indian Territory, Texas, and New
Mexico must be served with ammunition and furnished with gener-
als and leaders. These new States and Territories are naturally
Baptistic. God calls us to them with a voice that can not be misun-
derstood. We pass it by unheeded at our peril. Only through the
Home Board can we answer God's call to the frontier.
Because of the sudden elevation of the United States to a world
power, we are suddenly a nation among nations, a force among na-
tions. But power means peril. How shall we make it secure for
ourselves and blessed for others? What is the greatest obstacle the
foreign missionary meets among pagans? Not their superstitions
nor their philosophy — but the unholy influence of nominal Chris-
tianity? Wbat brought about the uprising in China? What but the
fact that nations flying Christian flags were blockading ports and
openly planning the partition of the Empire. The Boxer movement
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was the savage outbreak of uncivilized patriotism. Because Chris-
tian nations were unchristian — hence the martyrdoms. The influ-
ence of sailors, soldiers and merchant-marines in ports of heathen
nations — these are the severest obstacles foreign missionaries en-
counter. We are saints in our documents, sinners in our behaviour.
Christian must be the manhood with which we touch the nations.
Christian the principles we fling into their darkness if we would
supplant their own.
Home Missions are basic to Foreign Missions; Home Missions are
the ventricles of the heart by which the blood is thrust, warm and
red to the extremities of the most distant and degraded foreign field.
Vitalize the Southern States of America with a Baptistic Pentecostal
Christianity and you have a Jerusalem from whence will go to the
uttermost parts of the world a salvation that saves from paganism
and papalism.
Our own State work is greatly dependent upon the Home Board
help. The Home Board appropriates $3,000.00 to our mountain
schools, the same to be used under direction of our Board. In addi-
tion to this, the Home Board, in co-operation with our Board, sup-
ports twenty-nine missionaries in factory villages, each Board pay-
ing half the amount appropriated. The amount contributed by the
Home Board is 82,000.00. This appropriation is made uncondition-
ally. In addition to this, the Home Board promises $1,000.00 to be
used in the Mission work in the State, on condition that we raise
and forward to the Treasurer $6,000.00 for Home Missions before
May 1, 1902.
Two year? ago at Asheville we met for the first time as the Home
Board Secretary, the broad-brained, the far-visioned, the indomitable
Dr. F. H. Kerfoot. He held and thrilled our assembly as a master.
Since then the Master has called him to the assembly of the spirits,
the just men made perfect. We dampen the sod on his grave with
our tears that it may but the greener grow.
Now, we turn to our mountain heights — the birth-place of great
souls like Dixon and Truett and Vance, and hail and welcome the
ccming of our own McConnell to lead the work of Home Missions to
victory.
C. S. Rlackwkli .
R. H. 'Herring.
S. A. Hege,
J. S. Fixe,
J. N. Myers,
E. L. Fox,
G. L. White.
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The report was spoken to by F. C. McConnell, Correspond-
ing Secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention, after which it was adopted.
Adjourned, with benediction by R. T. Vann.
THIRD DAY — Afternoon Session.
The Convention was called to order by President Marsh at
lock, and was led in prayer by R. L. Pattern.
On motion of A. A. Butler, the following resolution was
adopted :
"Resolved, That the Baptist State Convention be requested to ap-
point a committee of three to encourage Bible study in our churches;
to correspond with pastors; to suggest appropriate subjects to insti-
tutes, and especially to call upon our Union meetings to discuss this
matter."
The following were appointed as the special committee
called for by the resolution: T. Xeil Johnson, W. R. Cullom
and John T. Pullen.
A. R. Foushee, for the Committee to Nominate Preachers
and Place of Next Meeting, reported, recommending the
Y\ rst Church of Durham as the place ; C. S. Blackwell, of
Wilmington, to preach the sermon; W. D. Hubbard, of Ra-
leigh, as alternate. The report was adopted.
W. F. Foy, for the Committee to Nominate Board of Edu-
cation, presented their report, which was adopted. (See
List of Boards of Convention.)
The report of the Committee on Temperance was presented
by John A. Gates. Jr., as follows:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON TEMPERANCE.
The promotion of temperance among the people means the build-
ing up of the State industrially, the strengthening of our churches
and the helping on of the great work of the education of the masses
in the State.
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That intemperance which most curses and blasts is the use of alco-
holic liquors. The saloon fosters and promotes this to the detriment
of every good interest.
The saloon as an institution is the greatest anarchist in the land.
It does more to foster the spirit of anarchy, to pull down where the
church builds up, to curse our homes, to demoralize society and cor-
rupt civil affairs than any other factor with which we have to con-
tend.
We express it as our opinion that a Eaptist Church is no place for
a drunkard or anyone who is in any way interested in drunkard-
making.
And that the cause of temperance may be encouraged and pro-
moted in North Carolina, we recommend the appointment by this
Convention of a committee of five to carry on a campaign of educa-
tion at this opportune time that the people may rid themselves of
the saloon curse. John A. Oates, Jr..
C. L. Greaves,
Fred. N. Day,
S. F. Conrad,
Committee.
After remarks by John A. Oates, Jr., A. A. Butler and
Henry Sheets, the report was adopted.
The Special Committee authorized by the report was ap-
pointed by the President, as follows: John A. Oates, Jr.,
X. B. Bronghton, C. L. Graves, R. F. Beasley and C. W.
Blanchard.
P. F. Lee, pastor First Baptist Church, colored, of Ashe-
vilie, was recognized and given permission to solicit aid i.u
behalf of his church.
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was discussed
by George B. Eager, Professor in that institution. At the
close of the address, subscriptions and cash collections were
taken for the Students' Aid Fund, amounting to $585.
The report of the Committee on Sunday Schools and Col-
portage was submitted by C. A. Jenkens, as follows :
REPORT ON SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND CODPORTAGE.
Efficient Sunday School work is a need generally felt. The facili-
ties for making the work efficient in the largest measure have been
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lacking. The territory covered by the Convention is so extensive
that the Field Secretary has unavoidable difficulty in reaching and
being in touch with our widely-separated communities. In view of
this fact, it seems expedient that the Sunday School interests should
be separated from the Colportage work, and the duties of the Field.
Secretary be more clearly defined. The Sunday School work de-
mands, and should have, his undivided attention. Your committee
suggests that the Secretary, in order to lessen his multiform labors,
seek to secure the voluntary service of a larger number of judicious
pastors and successful Sunday School workers to develop fields he
can not personally reach; or else, to follow up the interest he cre-
ates. This would multiply agencies, all working along the same line.
Our Secretary, Bro. T. Neil Johnson, has made a fine impression
wherever he has gone. Statistics relating to his work have been
given in the report of the Secretary of State Missions.
In as much as there is no adequate source of financial support,
your committee recommends that the Board of Missions be in-
structed to request the church to place the work of Sunday Schools
on the list of objects to which they contribute.
In view of the fact that the Convention by its action yesterday so
changed the Constitution as to separate the Sunday School and col-
portage interests, providing a committee for Sunday Schools, your
committee recommends that the colportage work be given into the
hands of the Board of Missions with power to direct the work and
appoint the committee.
Year committee believes that the colportage work is one of the
most potent agencies for disseminating religious truth, and it
strongly recommends that the work be pushed forward in every way
possible.
C. A. Jenkens,
T. Neil Johnson,
F. T. Baldwin,
F. J. LlPPERT,
G. S. AXLEN,
T. H. Street,
J. T. Valentine.
After remarks by T. Neil Johnson, Ii. \V. Spilman and
II. B. Parker, the report was adopted.
With benediction by J. William Jones, the Convention ad-
journed to attend the entertainmenl at Salem Female Acad-
emy.
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THIRD DAY — Evening Session.
Devotional exercises wore (■.inducted by John T. Pullen, of
Raleigh.
C. E. Taylor offered the following resolutions, which, upon
motion, were laid upon the table:
"Resolved, 1. That the Board of Education be requested to open a
separate account with each young minister to whom aid is extended.
"2. That when a beneficiary leaves the College a copy of this state-
ment be furnished him.
":j. That no notes be required from beneficiaries of the Board, but
that they be requested to remit to the Treasurer of the Board, as
soon as thy can, the amounts expended in their behalf, and that these
remittances be credited to them on the books of the Board.
"4. That outstanding obligations of former beneficiaries be ad-
justed in accordance with the above resolutions."
r. J. Taylor, for the committee, made report relativ
that of the Committee on History, as follows:
REPORT OP COMMITTEE OX BAPTIST HISTORY.
Your com: as referred the report of the committee
appointed at the last .- 1 rase funds for the investigation of
Baptist history, recommend that the report be adopted.
T. J. Taylor,
Jno. S. Hardaway,
J. D. Labkixs,
J. T. Pri.r.K.x.
W. T. Fii.foiu).
Henry Sheets.
W. F. Watson,
Committee.
The Baptist State Convention, at its session of 1900, adopted this
resolution :
"That Brethren T. E. Skinner and T. M. Pittman be requested to
act as a committee, whose business it shall be to raise a fund to be
devoted to the investigation of Baptist history."
After careful consideration of the matter committed to us. we sub-
mit:
1. That such results as were contemplated by the brethren can not
be attained without the publication and discussion of such materials
as may be acquired. This will necessitate the revival of the Bap-
tist Historical Papers, or some like publication.
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2. The enterprise must be on a business basis, with ample capital
to insure success. The maintenance of the Historical Papers for
three years, without capital, gives assurance of ample support, if
properly brought before the denomination.
3. The organization having charge of the enterprise must have a
scope which will justify the employment of a general editor on a
moderate salary (.Dr. J. D. Hufham is proposed), support all neces-
sary agencies and pay a reasonable profit on the investment
4. As the most feasible plan, we propose the formation of a Pub-
lishing Company, to be located at Henderson, with a capital stock of
$5,000, divided into five hundred shares of $10 each, payable in five
annual installments of $2 per share, which shall make a specialty of
historical printing — books, pamphlets and periodicals; a field not
now occupied by any publishing house in the State. The services of
the splendidly-equipped general editor, having the use of a large col-
lection of historical materials not generally accessible, will give this
company advantage over other publishers, in its specialty, and ren-
der a fair return from the investment reasonably certain.
5. Prof. J. T. Alderman, Superintendent of Henderson Graded
Schools; J. Hill Parham, Secretary and Treasurer of the Parham
Bros. Supply Co., and Thomas M. Pittman, attorney, are named as a
committee to organize the company when as many as one hundred
and fifty shares shall be taken. Those willing to subscribe will fill
in the annexed subscription blank, sign and forward it to J. Hill
Parham. Henderson, N. C. T. E. Skinxer,
T. M. Pittman,
Committee.
October 20, 1901.
I hereby subscribe for shares of the capital stock of a
Publishing Company i to be organized), at $10 per share, payable in
five annual installments of $2 per share. I promise to pay the first
installment to J. T. Alderman, J. Hill Parham and T. M. Pittman,
Committee on Organization, December 1, 1901, or as soon thereafter
as one hundred and fifty shares shall be subscribed, and the remain-
ing installments to the proper officer of the company. I do not as-
sume, nor authorize anyone to assume for me, any liability except as
herein stated.
Name ,
Date , 190. . Address
The report was set for discussion at 10 :15 to-morrow morn-
ing.
On motion of C. J. Hunter, the order of business for to-
il mi- row was so changed as to be as follows
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Saturday, December 7, 1901, 9:30 a. m. — Devotional Exercises.
10 a. m. — Baptist History.
10:30 a. m. — Periodicals.
11:15 a. m. — Orphanage.
1 p. m. — Adjournment.
3 p. m. — Report on Obituaries.
3:30 p. m. — Report of Ministers' Relief Board.
4 p. m. — Report of Trustees of Convention.
4:05 p. m. — Report of Committee on Durham Monument.
4:20 p. m. — Reports of Special Committees and Miscellaneous Busi-
ness.
5 p. m. — Adjournment.
7:30 p. m. — Woman's Work.
The report of the Trustees of Wake Forest was now taken
from the table, discussed by J. B. Carlyle, and ordered
printed in the Minutes.
The report of the President of the Baptist Female Uni-
versity was presented, as follows :
REPORT OP THE BAPTIST FEMALE UNIVERSITY.
Our school here seems to be growing in favor with God and with
the people. The enrollment for the present session is 247, or 18
above that of the last fall term. The attendance has been limited
only by our accommodations, some ten or twelve applicants having
been turned away for lack of room. The health of the student body
has been exceptionally fine and their conduct has been almost beyond
criticism.
The increase of patronage this year has compelled us to add other
music-rooms, pianos, desks and typewriters, at a cost of nearly
$1,500. The teachers and students also, for the most part, seem to
be doing faithful, honest work and with excellent results.
With one exception, aii things seem to be prospering. This one
trouble threatens the life of the school. A debt of $43,000 on a
property worth $100,000, with no endowment, is a load which no en-
terprise can carry. We can never hope for an opening more pros-
perous than our last, or more successful financially. Our income
from students has been large beyond all expectations, and yet, be-
cause of this debt, with its annual interest of $2,500, we have been
compelled to overdraw our bank account and depend on outside col-
lections from our brethren to meet the deficiency. This course, if
pursued, can have but one result, and that will be swift and fatal.
To say that this debt should be cancelled quickly fails to convey the
gravity of the situation. Its early payment is an absolute necessity.
R. T. Vann.
■j 2 MINUTES OF THE
The report of the Committee on the Baptist Female Uni-
versity was submitted by J. W. Bailey, as follows:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BAPTIST FEMALE UNIVERSITY.
It is more than ten years now since the first steps were taken to-
ward building our Baptist Female University for the higher educa-
tion of our young women.
Of the importance of its place in our educational system, there is no
question. Of its usefulness there is now not the shadow of a doubt.
To the necessity for its existence the three years of its active work
have borne witness beyond the claims of its most sanguine advo-
cates. It began, not simply as an educational institution for women,
but as a fully-equipped institution of the very highest grade, in
standard of scholarship and character of work, and in every other
respect an honor to the Baptist people. We have every evidence of
the wisdom of establishing the institution upon these high plans.
The fact that in the hour of its opening it was filled with a throng
of young women, representing every part of the State and all condi-
tions of life, athirst for higher Christian education, is not without ob-
vious significance. The fact that the succeeding sessions have served
only to increase the attendance, even to demanding the purchase of
other buildings to make room for the students, indicates in the most
decisive manner that the institution is meeting the necessities and
fulfilling the expectations of the people, whose thought and prayers
and sacrifices called it into existence, under the guidance of our God
and Father.
We are at this hour confronted with two facts: First, the patron-
age of the institution and the service that it is rendering is such as
to give us profound satisfaction. Second, the debt of $42,000, which
has been increasing since the institution was opened, instead of de-
creasing, has readied a stage in which it certainly impairs the use-
fulness of the institution, and even threatens its very life. We have
here not simply to decide whether we shall make way for more stu-
dents, but even whether the great work we are now doing shall be
maintained.
The hour has struck in which the Trustees have been compelled to
appeal to the Baptist State Convention, to which they are responsi-
ble, and which is in turn responsible for the welfare of our Uni-
versity, to arouse, and with one mighty, united effort, wipe out this
debt. To this task your committee solemnly commends this Con-
vention, and the hosts of the Lord whom it represents. No sacri-
are too great tor this blessed end: no obstacles should be suffi-
cient to deter us. A people is known by its ideals and the degree of
permanence with which il maintains them. We have set here the
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ideal of a great institution in the name of the Christian education of
our young women. It is our message and our contribution to all
generations. By it and by what we do here shall we be known to
childrens' children; by it, in a most vital degree, shall our work be
affected in all the years to come. Much have we received; to much
are we called. Let us rise to the call of this hour in the spirit of our
fathers and in the faith of the gospel by which we have received
great things, and through which we shall enter into yet larger
promises.
Respectfully submitted, J. W. Bailey,
A. W. Cooke,
J. H. Smith,
W. T. Hurst,
Noah Bi<
Committee.
After remarks by C. D. Aycock, a collection in cash and
subscriptions was taken for the debt on the Baptist Female
University, which, including the subscriptions last night,
amounted to $42,647.
Following the offering, the Convention engaged in prayer,
T. F. Skinner leading, and sang "Praise God from whom ail
blessings How." A. L. Betts was instructed to telegraph
the uirls at the University the news of the provision for the
indebtedness of the institution.
The report was then adopted.
The report on the Century Movement was also adopted.
The Convention adjourned, with benediction by W. R.
Grwaltnev.
FOURTH DAY— Mobning Session.
Winston-Salem., jST. C, December 7, 1901.
Devotional exercises were conducted by W. H. Riddick,
of Morganton.
Minutes of yesterday were read and approved.
The following telegram was read :
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Wake Forest, N. C.
Baptist State Convention, Care President Marsh, Winston, N. C.
Wake Forest wins Cup from Trinity by unanimous decision.
Walter Sikes.
J. N. Tolar presented the report of the Committee to Nom-
inate the Ministerial Relief Board, which was adopted.
(See List of Boards of Convention.)
J. W. Bailey presented the following report, which was
adopted :
We beg to report in behalf of the committee appointed to adjust the
Biblical Recorder affairs, and, if possible, to effect a consolidation of
Baptist papers in North Carolina, that, as suggested by the Conven-
tion, a stock company of nearly one hundred Baptists was organized,
and by them the paper was put into the hands of a Board of Direc-
tors, composed as follows: Carey J. Hunter, Noah Biggs, Geo. A.
Norwood, Jr., J. C. Caddell, J. L. Kesler, J. W. Bailey, H. C. Dockery.
It was not possible to effect a consolidation of the newspaper prop-
erties. L. Johnson,
W. L. PoTEAT.
J. B. White.
J. B. Carlyle.
W. N. Jones.
Committee.
The order of business was suspended to hear an address
by F. M. Jordan on the history of the First Baptist Church
of Winston-Salem.
Tlic report of the Committee on Baptist History was taken
from the table, di ! by Thomas Hume, W. A. Graham,
C. B. "Williams, and adopted.
II. A. Brown, for the committee, presented the report on
religions exercises for to-morrow, naming the appointments
of members of the Convention in Wintson-Salem and vicinity.
Tlio following telegram was read before the body:
Raleigh, N. C, December 7, 1901.
Dr. R. T. Vann, Care Baptist Convention, Winston, N. C.
We rejoice with you over raising debt. Students applaud the news.
Psalm 97:1. Faculty.
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The report on periodicals was submitted by Forrest Smith,
as follows :
THE REPORT ON PERIODICALS.
There are few agencies, if any, that more powerfully influence us
for good or evil than the literature we read. Our people are reading
people. Not as much as we would like for them to be, nevertheless
they read. They read something. It is an age of inquiry and in-
vestigation, and both young and the old are wanting to know. It is
a time in which our people are having poured upon them a great
sluice of sensational and hurtful "stuff" from the secular press.
They are reading day by day about all the suicides, bank and train
robberies, the foul scenes of the prostitution of home life, the traduc-
ing of the virtue of some unsuspecting girl, the assassinations of the
leaders of the nation, the sensational divorce trials, and a thousand
other things that tend to make the blood of our children run faster
and to make the home life restless and unsettled. These influences
must be met; we must conquer or be conquered, and there are two
ways in which this can be done. First, by the suppressing of that
which is evil. But this is a herculean task. We can do something
by this method, but we can not do all by this method. To suppress
may exterminate one anarchist, but if we do not teach our people
better things, two will rise in his place. Then the second and best
way is by meeting these influences with that which is positively
good. "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." This
is the best way to meet these pernicious influences. "If thine enemy
hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink." And just as we can
get him to think in his heart so will he be. Happy for us as a de-
nomination that we have this good influence in the form of good lit-
erature with which to meet and satisfy the needs of our growing
constituency.
First of all, and best above all, we commend to our people the organ
of our denomination and Convention, the Biblical Recorder. It is true
and tried. It. has been with us, and for us, through all our struggles
and victories. It has been a mighty power in making us what we
are. It has consolidated, unified and directed our forces. It is pro-
gressive, and yet conservative. It is sweet in spirit and fearless in
advocating right. It is sound in doctrine, strong with truth and
clothed with power. We commend it to our people and ask them to
commend it to the Baptists of this State. The circulation should be
increased until we reach at least ten thousand subscribers. Will not
we pastors work to extend its circulation? It should go to every
Baptist home in our great Commonwealth.
j6 MINUTES OF THE
Charity and Children is a well-edited and strong paper, and de-
serves a warm place in our homes. It is the organ of our Orphanage
and sets before our people this grand and glorious work. The For-
eign Mission Journal and Home Field represent the Foreign and
Home Boards. They are cheap in price, but strong with truth and
full of facts that our people should know. The Wake Forest Student,
the Baptist Historical Papers, the North Carolina Baptist, and the
SJcyland Baptist are all good papers and deserve patronage. The
periodicals of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Con-
vention are also warmly commended.
Forrest Smith,
Thomas Hume,
W. H. Rich,
J. S. Farmer,
T. B. Wilder,
Committee.
Remarks by J. W. Bailey, X. B. Broughton, J. X. Pres-
tridge, John A. Gates, Jr., T. E. Skinner, Archibald John-
son, F. ( '. McConnell and R. L. Patton, and the report was
ado]
F. P. Eobgood presented the following resolution, which
was adopted :
"Resolved, That the President be instructed to appoint a commit-
tee of two, to be known as the School Visiting Committee, whose
duty it shall be. upon invitation of any school under Baptist control,
to visit said school, inspect its work, and make report to the next
session of this body, the expenses of said committee to be defrayed
by the school visited."
The president appointed as the committee called for in the
resolution: W. ( '. Tyree and W. C. Newton.
'!dir report on the Orphanage was presented by C. A. G.
Thomas, as follows :
THE REPORT ON ORPHANAGE.
The orphans, like young birds in their nest, still open their
mouths, and it is the highest duty, nay, a precious privilege, for this
Convention, like the mother bird, to fill them. The orphans, unlike
the young birds, can not grow their clothing, but Cod has given to
this body the moans in provide the raiment needful. During the
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past year you have nobly performed this beautiful work, and the
orphans, with strong faith, look to you to continue the same. The
past year has been oen of the greatest in the history of the Orphan-
age. During this period the Biggs Building has been reoccupied, af-
ter remodelling and enlarging for the accommodation of more of the
largest girls. The Mills Memorial has been quickened into life, by
the power of steam, and the buzz of saw and hum of machinery
makes merry music to the praise of the donors, and the founder of
the institution. Charity and Children has been dressed up in the
latest style, and placed upon a chariot of power to send thousands
of its healing leaves into our Sunday Schools and homes. The
water-works system has been completed, and work will be rapidly
pushed on the sewerage. The water is pure and abundant. The
year has been free from fatalities. There have been several cases
of severe illness, but God has graciously spared the lives of our
children. Our working force join with you in thanksgivings to God
and with good cheer look forward. There have been in attendance
during the year 240 orphans; and there are now 220 children within
our fold. Your committee recommends:
1. An increase in the contributions for the general fund.
2. A speedy payment of the obligations incurred by the water sys-
tem.
3. An effort to put Charity and Children in every Baptist home
within our bounds.
4. An earnest consideration of the further needs of the enlarge-
ment of other dormitories and a residence for the Superintendent
of farm.
5. That the Treasurers of Sunday Schools, churches and Associa-
tions be requested to send, without a day's delay, all funds for or-
phanage to the Treasurer, Bio. S. H. Averitt, Thomasville.
Ciias. A. G. Thomas,
C. W. Loweey,
W. C. Martin,
Thos. Cabbick,
A. I. JrsTicE,
Geo. J. Dowell.
Committee.
The report, after discussion by C. A. G. Thomas, W. A.
Smith, J. B. Boone and R. L. Patton, a subscription for the
Orphanage water-works was taken, amounting to about $680.
The following were appointed as the Central Committee
<in the Century Movement : W. !N\ Jones, 'N. B. Broughton,
C. J. Hunter, J. T. Pullen and R K Simms.
78 MINUTES OF THE
■ John A. Gates, Jr., presented the following resolution,
which, after discussion by J. B. Boone, was adopted:
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina desires to express
its hearty appreciation of the princely gift of $1,000, recently made
to the Mills Memorial Building, by Mr. R. J. Reynolds, of Winston-
Salem.
After announcements, the Convention adjourned, with
benediction by C. A. G. Thomas.
FOURTH DAY — Afteknooh Session.
The Convention was led in prayer by C. J. Woodson.
C. B. Justice, for Committee on Monument of Columbus
I hirhain, reported that fur various reasons they had not as
yet succeeded. The committee was extended for another
year.
On motion of W. E,. Gwaltney, the resolutions presented
by C. E. Taylor relative to beneficiaries of the Board of Edu-
Gation was taken from the table, discussed by W. R. Gwalt-
ney, and adopted.
W. C. Tyree presented the report of the Trustees of the
Convention, which was received, as follows:
The Trustees of the Convention report that as soon as practicable
after the last Convention, we received, according to the requirement
of the Constitution, the bond of the Treasurer for $500. Excepting
this, there is nothing to report.
The report of the Committee on Obituaries was submitted
by J. E. Love, and, after discussion by F. M. Jordan, was
adopted.
Virginia Bautlet Yancey Swepson.
Virginia Bartlet Yancey Swepson was born in Caswell County,
N. C, seventy-five years ago. She was the daughter of Hon. Bartlett
Yancey, who died when she was only two years old. Governor
Swain, President of the University of the State, used to tell his class
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in constitutional law, of this great man, who would have been elected
United States Senator had he lived six months longer.
His daughter, Mrs. Swepson, inherited the forceful character of
her distinguished father, and her versatile gifts made her a com-
n. anding figure in every circle of life.
Mrs. Swepson was converted at the age of fifteen; was united in
marriage to George W. Swepson, in her seventeenth year, and was a
devoted wife, praying for 38 years years for her husband's conver-
sion, which occurred two years before his death. This devoted
Christian woman, whose every confidence was shared by beloved
pastor, had the business gifts of a masculine mind, united to the
womanly traits of a well-disciplined intellect. She gave freely of
her consecrated wealth for a period of forty years, and left in her
will about forty-five thousand dollars to the Baptists of the State. If
she was present last night witnessing that marvellous manifestation
of spiritual presence and power, she must have rejoiced with the
friends of the education of women, throughout our beloved Common-
wealth, and of the Christianized world. Farewell, beloved sister, till
we meet again. Tuos. E. Skinner,
For the Committee.
Rev. I. D. Weight.
Rev. I. D. Wright, of Rock Springs Baptist Church, Haywood
County, died February, 1901, aged about eighty years. He spent many
years of his life in Macon County, doing very acceptable work as
county pastor.
Rev. G. N. Bray.
Rev. G. N. Bray was born in Camden County, about thirty years
ago, and was baptized by Dr. R. R. Overby when about seventeen
years of age. He had grown up on the small home farm, but after
giving himself to Christ he felt himself called of God to the gospel
ministry. Resolutely setting himself to make preparation for his
life-work, he worked his way through "Wake Forest College with but
little aid and then studied in the Southern Baptist Theological Semi-
nary until his health failed. Then he labored in the Atlantic Asso-
ciation and in Vance County. He had opening before him a great
career, when last summer death unexpectedly laid its hand upon
him. He was about thirty years of age. He had been married a few
months to Miss Whitfield, of Kinston, who, with one child, survives
him.
80 MINUTES OF THE
Chief Justice W. T. Faircloth.
This sketch is taken from resolutions adopted by the Superior
Court:
"William Turner Faircloth was born in Edgecombe County, N. C,
on January the 8th, 1829. He was graduated from Wake Forest Col-
lege in June, 1854, and in July that year he entered the Law School
of Chief Justice Pearson, at Richmond Hill. On January 1, 1856, he
was licensed to practice law, and located at Snow Hill. He served
for some time as County Solicitor for Greene County, and in May,
1856, he located in Goldsboro. He soon acquired a lucrative practice
and won and retained the confidence of a large clientage:
"After his State seceded, he volunteered as a private in Company
C, Second North Carolina State Troops, and was on duty in the army
of Northern Virginia until it surrendered in April, 1865. when he re-
tired with the rank of Captain of Cavalry, and resumed his profes-
sional work. He was a delegate from Wayne County to the Provi-
sional Convention, which convened October 2, 1865. In January,
1867, he married Evelyn Wooten, of Lenoir County. In 1876, he was
a delegate to the State Convention. In 1876, upon the death of
Judge Settle, he was appointed by Governor Brogden. Associate Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court, in which capacity he served until the
January Term. ISTSt. when he resumed the practice of law in Golds-
boro.
"He was a Trustee of the State University of Wake Forest Col-
lege, of the Baptist Female University, and of the Baptist Orphanage.
He was for many years a member of the First Baptist Church in
Goldsboro. in which he served as an honored Deacon till the close of
his life. In 1895 he was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
over which he presided with dignity and impartiality until his death.
None of his predecessor- surpassed him in faithfulness, conscien-
tious labor, love of justice, or honesty of purpose.
"In the death of Chief Justice Faircloth the State has lost one of
its most useful citizens, and the church one of its most liberal givers.
His will revealed the fact that near his heart were the benevolent en-
terprises of his denomination. A goodly man has fallen and our loss
is great. He died December 30, 1900. nearly seventy-two years of
age."
Rev. K. W. Wooten.
After twenty-four years of service in the gospel ministry this
steward of the Lord fell on sleep December 14, 1900, in the 63d year
of his age. He was loyal to the institutions of his denomination in
the State and by word and work promoted their interests. In an-
swer to his prayers, as a reward for faithful home-training, and a
monument to his usefulness, God has given him a son to receive his
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mantel and carry on his work — Rev. F. T. Wooten, a member of this
body. As a token of the confidence of his brethren in him may be
cited here the fact that for sixteen years he served one church, and
for some time was Moderator of the Cape Fear Association.
Rev. G. W. Newell.
Born in Fayetteville, N. C, August 10, 1841; died suddenly en
route from his home to Louisburg, N. C, July 8, 1901. Converted
while a prisoner during the civil war, he at once felt called of God to
the ministry of His Word. For awhile this feeling was stifled by
the more worldly ambition to be a lawyer, but when prepared for
the profession, sense of duty conquered, and he turned from the bar
to enter the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to fit himself
for his life-work. Graduating from this institution in 1871, he en-
tered upon his ministry in Wilmington, N. C, and there and in other
pastorates he persevered in his divine calling with faithfulness and
efficiency of his consecrated gifts.
Julius P. Timberlake.
Brother Timberlake died near Louisburg on February 24, 1901.
He was aged about fifty-eight years, and had been, for about forty
years, connected with the Flat Rock Church and the church at Louis-
burg, and for much of that time he occupied an official position. He
was a man of means and he used his wealth freely in all the objects
of the church.
The Tar River Association had no more valuable member than our
deceased brother.
Rev. YV. G. Brown.
At his residence, near Hamptonville, N. C, on July 3, 1901, that
valiant soldier of the cross, Rev. W. G. Brown, fell asleep.
The deceased was born in Guilford County, N. C, April 4, 1820.
As will be observed, he was 81 years 2 months and 29 days old. In
his early childhood he removed, with his parents, into the vicinity of
Salem, N. C, where he enjoyed for a brief term of a few months the
only advantages of schooling he ever had. Here also he enjoyed the
privileges of our excellent Sunday School, conducted by the Mora-
vian people, to which, during his long ministry, he often referred. In
this Sunday School he was induced to memorize large portions of
the Scriptures, which, during his later ministry, he often said were
the most familiar portions of the Word of God to him. While yet a
boy, his parents removed to Yadkin — then Surry County — where he
resided until his death.
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He was twice married, first to Priscilla Eldridge, in 1842. To this
union was born ten children, seven sons and three daughters, six of
whom survive him. Three of these sons became preachers, one of
whom is the gifted S. M. Brown, editor of the Word and Way, and
author and compiler of a number of beautiful hymns and tunes. His
second marriage was to Paulina Eaton, in 1889. To this union two
children were born — one son and one daughter.
The following facts concerning his ministry were given by him to
his son, Rev. S. M. Brown, and published by him in the Word and
Way, of Kansas City, Mo., some two years ago. His entire ministry
has been with country and village churches, where he has served, ac-
cording to the old country style, of "once-a-month" preaching.
The following have been his pastorates and the time he has
served: Flat Rock Church, 32 years; Cross-Roads Church, 24 years;
Boonville Church, 15 years; Yadkinville Church, 10 years; Clem-
monsville Church, 6 years; Yadkin \ alley Church, 4 years; Eaton's
Church, 4 years; Oak Forest Church, 5 years; Bethel Church, 8
years; Grassy Knob Church, 6 years; Huntsville Church, 5 years;
Rockfora Church, 6 years; Damascus Church, 32 years; Swain's
Church, 20 years; Society Church, 10 years; Bear Creek Church, 12
years; Zion Church, 5 years; White Plains Church, 4 years; Lewis-
ville Church, 5 years; Black Oak Ridge Church, 5 years; Three
Forks Church, 2 years; Vernon Church, 12 years; East Bend Church,
2 years. These twenty-three churches are situated in eight coun-
ties, extending over a territory of eighty-five miles long. To serve
these churches he has travelled a distance of 88,992 miles, princi-
pally on horseback. During the thirty-two years that he preached
for one church he only missed three appointments. During his min-
istry he has preached some 7,344 sermons. He has baptized more
than 2,000 persons.
In 1840 he became a member of the Yadkin Association, which has
now passed its 110 mile-stone. This body was then composed of
fourteen churches. Since that date sixty churches have gone out
from this body to join others and form new Associations.
In all his ministry he has been an earnest advocate of missions
and Christian education. Nature endowed him with rare gifts as a
public speaker, and by dint of application he made himself in many
respects an educated man. He had a wonderful command of good
English, so that he was regarded by educated men as possessing a
rare vocabulary. He was in the great controversy between the mis-
sionary and anti-missionary wings of the Baptists of Western North
Carolina, and stood with the heroes who gained the victory for our
missionary cause.
Perhaps no man has lived in the eastern part of Western North
Carolina who has wielded a wider and more powerful influence for
good.
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For some years he had been quite feeble, still he never lost his
love for the house of God. The writer well remembers the first time
he ever saw this sainted man of God. A friend led him to the front,
where he read from memory the 103d Psalm, then with bowed head
and uplifted hand he begged God, in childlike earnestness, to for-
give and to bless His people. Last November, during the pro-
tracted meeting at Flat Rock, he would have them bring him to the
services, and time and again he would rise and with feeble voice ex-
hort sinners to flee the wrath to come and professing Christians to
walk worthy of the vocation wherewith they are called. The Sun-
day before he passed away, when he was considered not altogether
in his right mind he lay upon his bed and preached most powerfully
for more than an hour, closing what seemed to him to be a public
service by singing with unusual power, "How firm a foundation, ye
saints of the Lord." Then the wheels of life lost their steady mo-
tion, as the brake of death went down, and finally ceased to move
about 3 p. m., Wednesday, July 3, 1901.
He sleeps in the old Flat Rock Cemetery, near Hamptonville, N. C.
S. J. Beeker,
Boonville Missionary Yadkin Association.
The report of the Ministerial Relief Board was presented
by W. C. Tyree, and, upon motion, its recommendation was
adopted :
REPORT OF MINISTERS' RELIEF BOARD.
We have reasons to be very greatly encouraged and very much
gratified at the work done through the Ministerial Relief Board dur-
ing this conventional year. God has signally blessed our efforts for
the relief and help rendered the old brethren and their families.
The contributions from the churches have been larger than any
previous year. We have had one large donation, and there has been
a constant flowing into the treasury that has buoyed our hopes, and
brightened the homes of many of our beneficiaries. With profound
gratitude to God, we take courage and press onward trying to help
all we can.
We had in our last report fifteen beneficiaries on the Board. We
had, contributed by the churches, $960.00 to give them. This year
we have twenty-one on the Board and $1,286.00 to give them. From
this it will be seen the amount in contributions has not been in
proportion to the number of beneficiaries; besides, there are several
applications awaiting the action of the Board. We would most
earnestly urge the churches of the Convention to enlarge their con-
tributions for this work, and recommend to the sympathies and con-
84 MINUTES OF THE
sideration of those who have not hitherto been specially interested
in this work, their aid and support.
We are now helping twenty-one: Brethren Blackburn, Duncan
and Slimr.te. from Ashe and Alleghany Association; Brother Moss
and Mrs. Phillips, from Beulah Association; Mrs. Register, from
Bladen Association; Mrs. Ray, from Cape Fear Association; Mrs.
Spivey, from Central Association; Mrs. Humphries, from Flat River
Association; Mrs. Barlow, Mrs. Best and Brother Tart, from Eastern
Association; Mrs. Cain, from Columbus Association; Brethren
Combs, Hughes and Harris, from Elkin Association; Brother Col-
lins, from Little River Association; Mrs. Horton, from Mt. Zion As-
sociation; Brother Reid, from Tuckaseigee Association, and Brother
Lewellen, from Yadkin Association.
The conditions and demand of the Board are of such a nature as
to require its incorporation. We therefore most respectfully recom-
mend to the Convention the appointment of a committee to have it
incorporated.
Respectfully submitted, Rev. W. C. Tyree,
J. F. MacDuffie, President.
Corresponding Secretary.
Report of Treasurer of Baptist Ministers' Relief Board for
Year Ending December. 1901.
1900. Received.
Dec. 5. Balance.. $263.8?
1901 Interest 10.50
May 8. W. Durham. Treasurer 147.61
9. W. J. Catling legacy 250.00
23. Interest 10.50
June 15. Interest 4.50
21. Interest... 7.50
Interest 6. 60
25. Interest 4.50
Interest 6.00
26. Interest 2.50
27. Interest... 4.05
July 2. Interest - 12.00
8. Interest. 9.00
27. W. Durham, Treasurer 200.00
Aug. 7. Interest 6.00
Sept. 5. Interest... ..' 30.00
7. Interest... 6.45
Oct. 16. Interest - 1-00
25 . W . Durham . Treasurer ... 135. 47
Nov. 2. Friend- 10.00
4 Interest 6.00
9. Interest 2.47
W.Durham, Treasurer 361.67
15. Interest 4.80
Dec. 4. Interest 4.50
W.Durham, Treasurer 424.56
$ 1.932.05
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. 85
Paid Out.
To Mrs. Rhoda Churchill, Chalk Level $75. 00
Mrs. S. E Phillips, Winston, 75.00
Mrs. Harriet Spivev. Greensboro 75. 00
Mrs. C. T. Humphries. Oxford 70.00
Rev-. N. H. Moss. Waco. 62.50
Mrs Jane Barlow. Sloop Point 55.00
Mrs. Nancy Ray, Whiteville 55. 00
Mrs. H C Register, Register 47.50
Mrs. Sibley Combs. Trap Hill 47.50
Mrs. E H. Best, Warsaw 47.50
Mrs. Elvia Caines, Orton 47.50
Rev. W. W. Reed, Scott's Creek 47.50
Rev. Solomon Blackburn. Bud ... 47.50
Rev. Jno. W. Collins, Polk 47.50
Rev. J. H. Lewellin. Dobson 35.00
Rev. Wm . Harris, Kapps' Mill 35. 00
Rev. T. M. Duncan, Beaver Creek. 35.00
Rev. W. L. Tart, Wilmington 35.00
Rev. James Shumate, Del phar * 35.00
Mrs. M. C. Horton. East Durham ..." 35. 00
Rev. Wm. G. Brown. Hamptonville 30.00
Rev. John Hughes. Benham 25.00
Expenses of Corresponding Secretary 10. 05
Permanent Interest Bearing Fund 509.78
Balance on hand 347. 22
$1,932.05 1,932.05
BENEFICIARY FUND— PERMANENT INVESTMENT.
One Loan $500.00
Do... ... 360.00
Do 350.00
Do 300.00
Do 250. 00
Do 200.00
Do 200.00
Do 160.00
Do 150.00
Do... 150.00
Do • 100.00
Do 100.00
Do 75.00
Do 62.50
$2,957.50
Balance on hand 177 . 08
3,134.58
Respectfully submitted. T. E. Cheek, Treasurer.
Durham, N C, December, 1901.
We have examined the above report and certify that same is correct
to the best of our knowledge and belief.
H. A. Foushee,
R. H. Rigsbee,
Auditors.
86 MINUTES OF THE
In accordance with, the recommendation of the report,
the President appointed H. A. Foushee and W. C. Tyree
as the committee.
W. C. Tyree presented the following resolution, which
was adopted by a unanimous rising vote:
Inasmuch as Bro. O. L. Stringfield has resigned his position as
Financial Agent of the Female University, which he has filled with
such great devotion, fidelity and ability, we desire to express our
sincere appreciation of his valuable service. For eight years he has
labored most unselfishly and heroicly, and among all who have ren-
dered valuable assistance and made real sacrifices for this institu-
tion, no one has done more to bring the undertaking to such a glor-
ious consummation than he.
W. A. Smith presented the following resolutions, which
were adopted :
Resolved, 1. The Baptist State Convention desires to express its
hearty appreciation of the unbounded hospitality ana many kind-
nesses shown to its delegates by the noble people of this beautiful
and prosperous Twin City.
2. That our thanks be extended to railroad managers for all reduc-
tions in rates and other kindness shown us.
3. That the Recording Secretary be authorized to have the same
number of minutes as at last session, and that the Secretaries be al-
lowed the usual amount for their work. W. A. Smith.
The Convention adjourned, with prayer by J. N. Pres-
t ridge, of Kentucky.
FOURTH DAY— Evening Session.
W. F. Watson, of Gastonia, conducted devotional exercises.
The report of woman's work was submitted, as follows:
WOMAN'S WORK.
This branch of our denominational work may be defined as the
effort to enlist all our Baptist women in the great work of missions.
In the language of the report of the AVoman's Central Com-
mittee, the foundation stones of the "Woman's Missionary Societies"
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. 87
are prayer, Bible and mission study, and the giving of two cents a
week. These make a sure foundation for building. In prayer they
secure guidance and power, from the Bible they get the orders of the
great King, from mission study they learn of the world's need, and
by their regular and systematic giving they endeavor to obey the
order of the Book, and to supply the needs of the world.
This organization is a power for good that is worthy of highest
praise and our most grateful recognition and assistance.
1. As a collecting agency it is worthy of greatest encouragement.
During the last year the women of our churches, through their or-
ganization, contributed $9,766.36 for Home, Foreign and State Mis-
sions. During the fifteen years of their organized work they have
put into our denominational treasury the large sum of $72,000 to
help in spreading the gospel of the Son of God.
2. As a teaching force their work can not be measured. In their
societies many of our women have caught the spirit of missions and
have gone into the home circle, the Sunday School and the church to
awaken a new zeal and enthusiasm for this great work. By the
distribution of tracts and the circulation of missionary books, they
are getting many of our people to read missionary literature who
have never read it before. Just how much they have done in this
way to enlist the male members of our churches we can never know.
In addition to this, during the last summer they sent forty-six of
their number as teachers into destitute sections of our State. Into
these schools were gathered 2,111 pupils, and we may be sure that
while the children studied their text-books that they and their pa-
rents and friends were learning of the Christ and of Christian work.
This self-sacrificing work of the volunteer teachers has set for us a
new example in North Carolina. When before have any of our peo-
ple given their best efforts for any considerable length of time in
the service of Christ without money and without price? Their no-
ble example ought to be an inspiration to us all.
In a great many of our churches and in a few of our Associations
the woman's work has not yet been organized. To extend their
work and to do more iu 1902 than ever before is the earnest purpose
of our women. We, your committee, would commend their noble
zeal and would urge all our pastors to give this work their encour-
agement and support. Edward S. Reaves,
W. N. Jones,
R. B. Horn,
J. H. Fleming,
John B. Yarbrough,
Committee.
88 MINUTES OF THE
Remarks were made by J. William Jones and F. C. Me-
Conneii, and the report was adopted.
Adjourned to meet to-morrow evening for closing exercises.
FIFTH DAY— Evening Session.
Winston-Salem, 1ST. C, December 8, 1901.
Various pulpits in Winston-Salem and vicinity having
been occupied by members of the Convention according to
announcement, the body was called to order by President
Marsh, after sermon by J. William Jones.
After appropriate closing remarks by T. E. Skinner,
W. R. Gwaltney and H. A. Brown, the Convention, with
benediction by Thomas Hume, adjourned to meet with the
First Baptist Church of Durham, on Wednesday evening
after the first Sunday in December, 1902.
R. H. MARSH, President.
X. B. Brougiiton, Secretary.
Higitt C. Moore, Assistant Secretary.
APPENDIX
LIST OF ORDAINED MINISTERS,
Abernathy, J. W., Matthews.
Adams, G. W., Fair Plains.
Adams, E. J., Copeland.
Adams, J. Q., Charlotte.
Adams, M. A., Auburn.
Adams, M. N.; Venable.
Adams, J. J., Louisville, Ky.
Adderton, W. S., Denton.
Alderman, J. 0., Windsor.
Alderman, J. M., Harrellsville.
Allison, E., Brevard.
Aman, D. F., Marines.
Ammons, J. A., Needmore.
Ammons, John, Outlook.
Anderson, C. J. F., 52 Via Giulio,
Rome, Italy.
Anderson, J. W., Asheville.
Angell, James J., Boonville.
Annas, J. R. J., Saw Mills.
Arnette, H. B., Crossmore.
Arnette, J. M., Wake Forest.
Arrington, T. F., Waynesville.
Arrington, C. C, Shelton.
Arrowood, A. W., Mars Hill.
Atkinson, J. W., Raleigh.
Austin, D. M., Charlotte.
Austin, J. H., Rockingham.
Ayers, W. A., Hertford.
Bailey, L. J., Walnut Run.
Bain, G. A., Buie's Creek.
Baker, T. J., ParktoU.
Baldwin, M., Huntsville.
Baldwin, T. M., Rise.
Baldwin, J. R., Silas Creek.
Ball, C. T., Spring Hope.
Ballard, W. S., Clarkton.
Ballard, J. M., Doolie.
Bangle, P. W., Lincolnton.
Barker, A. N., Grade.
Barker, H. M., Peachtree.
Barker, J. H.. Lomax.
Barker, W. F., Bud.
Barnes, S. D., Branning.
Barnes, S. B., Branning.
Barnes, K., Sterling.
Barrett, W. C, Buie's Creek.
Barron, A. C, Charlotte.
Barr, J. S., Pinckton.
Beach, J. J., Moravian Falls.
Beach, W. R., King's Creek.
Beam, J. A., Bethel Hill.
Beamer, W. H., Pine Ridge.
Beaver, C. E., New Sterling.
Beaver, J. T., Bald Creek.
Beaver, J. A., Burn svi lie.
Beck, A. L., Oconalufty.
Beck, A. W., Calhoun.
Beeker, S. J., Leaksville.
Bell, J. W., Clinton.
Bennett, J., Lumberton.
Bennett, J. L., Marshville.
Bennett, J. M., Churchland.
Bennett, R. J., New Hill.
Betts, Alvin, Raleigh.
Betts, A. L., Warsaw.
Bilbro, W. L., Ayden.
Billings, C. M., Waynesville.
Bivens, J. A., Monroe.
Blackburn, S., Bud.
Black, C. J., Big Lick.
Blackwell, C. J., Big Lick.
Blackwell, J. W., Unaka.
Blackwell, C. S., Wilmington.
Blalock, J. C, Ledger.
Blalock,T.L.,Ching Kiang, China.
Blalock, J. G., Whiteville.
Blanchard, C. W., Kinston.
Bland, Wm., Hawley's Store.
Blankenship. J. A., Price's Creek.
Blanton, J. C, Fancy.
Blevins, E., Crumpler.
Blevins, C, Ira.
Blevins, S., Dehart.
Bogart, C. P., Edenton.
Bookhart, J. S., LaGrange.
Boone, J. B., Thomasville.
Boone, J. R.> Estatoe.
Booth, J. N., Greenville.
Bostick, W. M., Troy.
Bostic, G. P., Shanghai, China.
Bostic, W. D., Shelby.
Boyd, J. P., Polkton.
Bradley, J. A., California Creek.
Bradley, W. T., Morgan Hill.
Bradley, W. L., Etna.
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APPENDIX.
Bradshaw, W. R., North Wilkes-
boro.
Brantley, J. P.. Perth.
Bridgers, S. A., Forest City.
Bridges, B. M., Gastonia.
Bridges, D. P., Lincolnton.
Briggs, H. W., Bald Creek.
Briggs, J. W., Ellijay.
Briggs. T. P., Grape Vine.
Briggs, W. K., Briggsville.
Bright, A., Spring Creek.
Bright, T., Sylva.
Brindle, J. A., Wake Forest.
Brisson, Wm. L., Guyton.
Britton, T. C, Soo Chow, China.
Bristow, S. F.. Colerain.
Britt, D. C, Rockingham.
Britt, J. L., Turkey.
Brock, S. R., Marshville.
Brooks, C. V., Holly Springs.
Brookshier, J. L., Flat Rock.
Brown, Asa, Riverside.
Brown, A. E., Asheville.
Brown, T. K., Black Mountain.
Brown, J. W., Trap Hill.
Brown, C. C, Hamptonville.
Brown, H. A., Winston.
Brown, T. L.. Crab Tree.
Brown, G. W., New Hope.
Brunt, Wm., Winnie.
Bryan, L., Cypress Creek.
Bryan, R. T., Shanghai, China.
Buchanan, C. L., Dillsboro.
Buchanan, H. B., Glen Ayre.
Buchanan, J. L., Dillsboro.
Buchanan, W. G., Elk Park.
Buff. P. F., Shoup's Ford.
Bullock, C. P., Clarendon.
Bumgardner, A. P., Caesar.
Bumgardner. W. J., Swanner.
Burns, A. F.,
Burcham, G. M., Elkin.
Burchett. J. O.. Amartha, Va.
Burchett. J. W.. Roaring River.
Burnett. Wm.,
Burger, G. F., Nina.
Burleson, A. M., Mars Hill.
Butler, A. A., Raleiih.
Byrd, R.L., Tolarsville.
Cade. Baylus. Waynesville.
Caines, J. W., Shallotte.
Caines. J. T.. Shallotte.
Caldwell, M. R. N.. Tuscarora.
Cale. D., Potecasi.
Callahan, N. A.. Shallotte.
Calhoun, C. T., Medlin.
Calhoun, T. J., Medlin.
Calloway, J. N., Jefferson.
Campbell, A. N., Buie's Creek.
Campbell, J. A., Buie's Creek.
Campbell, Neal, Thaxton.
Cannon, W. M., Dark Ridge.
Carroll, R. D., Elm City.
Carroll, S. T., Virgil.
Carroll, L. R., Warsaw.
Cairick, Thomas, High Point.
Carlton, W. F., Reddies River.
Carson, J. T., Alice.
Carswell, Z., Burningtown.
Carter, I. M., Bernice.
Carter, Henry, Garland.
Cashwell, C. S., Marion.
Cashwell. J., Bladenboro.
Cashwell, R. N., Parkton.
Cassiday, W. A.. Governor Island.
Caudle, A. B., Wingate.
Caudle, T. A.. Algood.
Chambers, S. A., Waynesville.
Chapman. H. R., Wake Forest.
Chappell, W. Y., Flint.
Chappell, L. N.. Graham.
Cheek, F. B., Whitehead.
Childers. W. R., Taylorsville.
Church, G. H., Lenoir.
Church. J. W., Reedy Branch.
Clark, D. J., Clarkton.
Clark, M. L., Morganton.
Clayton, Clubb. Sexton.
Clenny. L. C, Silver.
Cobb, N. B., Clear River.
Cobb, J. W., Lumber Bridge.
Cole, E. D
Coley, W. J.. Northside.
Collie, D. S., Bryson City.
Collies. R. D., Godwin.
Colly. J. D., New Found.
Collins, J. W., Polk.
Comer. W. T., Lovelace.
Conner, W. E.. Ouallatown.
Conrad. S. F., Charlotte.
Conway, W. W.. Baton.
Cook. Floyd, Cowarts.
Cook, H. B., Medlin.
Cook, J. H., Lark.
Cope, C. M.. Advance.
Coppedge. G. W.. Wakefield.
Corn, C. B
Corn, N. W., Lead.
Corn. N. P. N., Outlook.
Coram. R. P.. Boonville.
Cordell. J. C. Black Mountain.
Cothren, Grant. Trap Hill.
Cowan. G. N.. Louisville. Ky.
APPENDIX.
91
Craig, B., Rocky Mount.
Craig, J. A.,
Cree, A., Embro.
Creech, Worley, Micro.
Crews, R. W., Germanton.
Crisp, Jno., Norris.
Crisp, S. M., Welch.
Crisp, J. F., Lenoir.
Crisp, E. D., Upton.
Crisp, R. H., Dorsey.
Croom, H. M., Pearl.
Cross, R. D., Jackson.
Crow, Joseph, Sodom.
Croxton, A. M., Monroe.
Crudup, Josiah. Washington.
Crutchfield, T. S., Tarboro.
Cullom, J. R., Wake Forest.
Cullom, W. R., Wake Forest.
Cunningham, H. A., Swain.
Current, J. M., Buck Shoal.
Curtis, L. M., Ahoskie.
Curtis, F. O. S., Lumberton.
Darnell, W. J.,
Davenport, J. E. M., Palmerville.
Davis, M. P., Snow Hill.
Davis, W. H., Hendersonville.
Davis, A. C, Olive Branch.
Davis, A. W., Webster.
Davis, G. W., Clyde.
Davis, J. F., Albemarle.
Davis, P. S. C, Elizabeth City.
Davis, R. B., Hiddenite.
Dehart, T. S., Needmore.
Dennis, J. D., Bradley's Store.
Denton, J. R., Dysartsville.
Devenny, J. V., Lawnsdale.
Devin, R. I., Oxford.
Deweese, E. A., Murphy.
Deweese, L., Outlook.
Deweese, W. W., Burnington.
Dietz, J. S., Pearson.
Dietz, T. F., Bryson City.
Dixon, L. R., Goldston.
Dixon, T., Shelby.
Dobson, J. H., Atkinson.
Dodd, W. H., Charlotte.
Douglass, J. J., Wilson.
Dowell, G. J., Henrietta.
Dowell, J., Jennings.
Downing, J. W., Downingsville.
Downey, J. W., Buchanan.
Dudley, H. L., Asheville.
Duke, C. W., Elizabeth City.
Duke, G. M., Dnkes.
Duncan, T. M.5 Beaver Creek.
Duncan, J. W., Ledger.
Duncan, H. J., Ora.
Dunn. W. C, Balsam Grove.
Dunnigan, W. E., Durham.
Durham, C. H., Lumberton.
Earl, J. M., Swain.
Early, B. G., Winnabow.
Early, D. W., Aulander.
Ebeltoft, T. W., Shelby.
Edge, Z. J., Louisville, Ky.
Edmundson, John T., Littleton.
Edwards, A. A., Winnabow.
Edwards, A. C, Leicester.
Edwards, D. D., Durham.
Edwards, C. E., Louisville, Ky.
Edwards, J. E., Dell.
Edwards, E. J., Southport.
Edwards, J. R., Needmore.
Edwards,O.T.,Mt.Vernon Springs.
Edwards, W. H., Durham.
Elam, P. R., Kings Mountain.
Ellen, M. H., East Durham.
Eller, J. F., Sweetwater.
Eller, G. W., Jefferson.
Eller, W. H., Greensboro.
Ellington, E. P., Reidsville.
Elliott. Josiah, Hertford.
Elliott, M. C, Rocky Pass.
Ensley, W. E., Sylva.
Eudy, G. L., Effird's Mills.
Evans, W. J., Flats.
Farmer, J. S., Rocky Mount.
Farmer, J. W
Farnor, J. S., Kittyton, Tenn.
Farthing, C. S., Hattie.
Farthing, J. H., Hattie.
Farthing, R. M., Boone.
Faulkner, J. K., Kinston.
Felmet, C. F., Waco.
Fender, A., Laurelton.
Ferrebee, J. B., Elizabeth City.
Ferrell, B. S., Waxhaw.
Fiddler, F. L., High Point.
Fields, C. F., Elkin.
Fisher, Dave, Panther Creek.
Fisher, J. G., Roslin.
Flanders, W. N., Ruffin.
Fleetwood, J. C, Margarettsville.
Fontaine, P. H., Bethel Hill.
Ford, D. B., Alto.
Ford. T. W., Ellijay.
Ford, T. N., Otto.
Forester. J. A.. North Wilkesboro.
Foster, J. A., Glass.
Fowler, C. L., Greenville, S. C.
Fox, E. L., Star.
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APPENDIX.
Fox, S. L., Vilas.
Franklin, J. K., Devotion.
Freeman, A. J., Bladenboro.
Freeman, F. M., Bostic.
Freeman, J. M., Logan's Store.
Frisbie, T. J., Spring Creek.
Fry, W. F., East Durham.
Fulford, W. J., Rockingham.
Furgerson, P. F., Lambsville.
Fuqua, S. W., Eagle Springs.
Galloway, J. A., Wolf Mountain.
Galloway, J. E., Galloway.
Garner, S. E.. Pollocksville.
Garrett, J. A., Winston.
Gaskins. N. L., Davis.
Gentry, S. E., Chatham.
Gibbs, N. H., Benson.
Gilbert, R. H., Mt. Gilead.
Gilbert. R. M., Dimsdale.
GilleBpie, J. C, Henrietta.
Gilliam, E. R., Drew.
Gilmore, S., Goldston.
Glenn. W. H.. Grigsby.
Glidewell, C. W., Turtle.
Goforth, M. A., Little Pine.
Goforth, S. S., Lovelace.
Goode, J. M.. Mooresboro.
Gooden, A. H., Bryantsville.
Gordon, J. H., Averell, Va.
Gormley, M., Aquone.
Gosnell, G. W.. Owenby.
Gouge. J. a., Doe Bay.
Gough, D. A., Bandana.
Gourley, Robert. Winston.
Gower, C. E., Clayton.
Graham, H. W., Swann Station.
Gray. J. J., Bowman's Bluff.
Gray. W. P., Buck Shoal.
Gray, W. T., Marler.
Greaves, C. L., Reidsville,
Green, David, Norris.
Green, B. P., Mooresboro.
Green, J. B., Forest City.
Green, J., Boiling Springs,
ureen, R. G., Statesville.
Green, Solomon, Virgil.
Greene, G. W., Canton, China.
Greene, Edmund, Norris.
Greene, L. H., Bakersville.
Greene, D. A., Cranberry.
Greene, M. L., Ahoskie.
Greene, S. M., Clarissa.
Greene, J. A., CI
Greenwood Paint Rock.
Griffin, J. Z., Baton.
Griffin, J. W.. Maiden.
Grindstaff, I., Bakersville.
Grizzard, R. W., Wallace.
Gulledge, J. G., Lane's Creek.
Gwaltney, J. P., York Institute.
Gwaltney, H. H., Vernon.
Gwaltney, J. S., Cora.
Gwaltney, l.. P., Vashti.
Gwaltney, W. R., Hickory.
Gwyn. E. N., Gwyn.
Hackney. J. D., Franklinville.
Hackney, J. A., Greensboro.
Hagaman, J. P., Boone.
Hagaman. J. G., Sweetwater.
Haithcock, U. F., Albemarle.
Haire, P. H., Fleetwood.
Hall. J. W., Hayesville.
Hall, L. P., Western.
Hall, Thos. B.. Autryville.
Hall, Wm.. Cattaloochee.
Hall, W. G., Plvmouth.
Hall. W. F., Idaho.
Hall. S. W., Pinnacle.
Hamilton, L. C, Bowman's Bluff.
Hamilton, R. F., Pump.
Hamrick, B. M., Rutherfordton.
Hamrick. W. C, Almond.
Hiimnei', W. H., Lexington.
Hamrick, F. C, Pump.
Hamrick. D. M., Rutherfordton.
Hamrick, G. P., Boiling Springs.
Hamrick, J. M., Mt. Airy.
Haiiey, J. L., Old Fort.
Hardaway, J. S... Oxford.
Harget, B. F., Kingwood.
Hare, H., Gap Creek.
Herman, A. J., Harman.
Harman, D. C, Sugar Grove.
Hsvmon, G. W., Ramseur.
Harman, J. M., Sugar Grove.
Harrill, H. D., Forest City.
Hairell, E. J., Aulander.
Harrell, W. B.; Dunn.
I'.arrell, J. B., Franklinton.
Harrelson, H., Gaddysville.
Harrplson, J.. Clarendon.
Harrill, Z. D., Ellenboro.
Harrill, E. D., Ellenboro.
Harrill. G. P.. Murfreesboro.
Harrington. E. P., Mission.
Harris, B. B., Dysartsville.
Harris, D. J., Yancey ville.
Harris, D. P., Elizabeth City.
Harris. E. R., Wake Forest.
Harris. T. C. Island Ford.
Harris, L. \\\, Eldorado.
Harris, J. M., Hart.
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Harris, Wm,, Kapp's Mills.
Hart, J. R., Eye.
Hartley, D. C, Minneapolis.
Hartsell, J. W., Morven.
Hartsell, P. G., Big Lick.
Harnaer, J. C, Lincolnton.
Harvey, M. A., Old Fort.
Hawkins, R. Mv Sharon.
Hayincie, C. C, Mt. Airy.
Haymore. R. D., Mt. Airy.
Hayniore, J. M., Wake Forest.
Haynes, i. M., Clyde.
Hnynes, W. L., Green Hill.
Keatherly, J. R., Saluda.
Hedgepeth, 9. P., Lumberton.
Hedgepeth, R. A.. Autryville.
Hegler, D. I., Eupeptic Springs.
Hefner, S. D., Hudson.
HeDtierson, G. J., Rugby, Va.
Plenderson, G. W... Blaine.
Hendren, J. H.. Vashti.
Henley, J. M., Summerfield.
Henp'ey, S. B.. Bee Log.
Henson, A. B.a Balsam.
Herring, D. W., Ching Kiang,
China.
Herring, R. H., Albemarle.
Hester, S., Bladenboro.
Hewitt, D. L., Shallotte.
Hewlett, R. H., Wilmington.
Hice, L. H.3 Baton.
Hilburn, D. H., Bladenboro.
Hilburn, L. W., Freeman.
Hilburn, Rufus M., Pine Bluff.
Hildebrand, A., Pearson.
Hilderbrand, J. M., Penelope.
Hildreth, J. H., Wilmington.
Hill, A. H., Cottonville.
Hill. T. B., So. Bap. Theo. Sem.
Hilliard, J. M., High Point.
Hocutt, J. C, Chapel Hill.
Hocutt, J. E., Spring Hope.
Hodge, J. F., Pool.
Hogan, N. R.,
Hogue, G. F., Boonville.
Hogue, G. F., Welch.
Hogsed, W. D.,
Hoke, B. L.j Newton.
Holland, G. W., Winston.
Hollar, E., Felts.
Hollar. I., Eupeptic Springs.
Holleman, J. M., Apex.
Holloman, W. A.. Jonesville.
Hollifield, A. P., Bostic.
nolmes, W. G., Epsom.
Honeycutt, D., Clingman.
Honeycutt, G. A., Silver.
Honeycutt, R., Clinton.
Honeycutt, T. M., Sparta.
Honeycutt, W. H., Concord.
Hooker, R. D., Henrietta.
Hooker, W. H., Alexander.
Hooper, G. W.3 Robbinsville.
Hooper, J. W., Tuckaseigee.
Hooper, P. G., Isa.
Hooper, C. F., Clinton.
Hord, A. T., Cleveland.
Horner, K. C, Harper's X Roads.
Horner, T. J., Henderson.
Horrell, R. W.. St. Paul.
Howard. H. H., Bee Log.
Howell, W. T., Wake Forest
Howell. J. K., Rocky Mount.
Hoyle, J. A., Maiden.
Hoyle, B. M.; Estatoe.
Hubbard, W. D., Raleigh.
Hndgins, Richard, Bat Cave.
Hudson,T.J., Ching Kiang, China.
Hudson, D. J., Bessie.
Hufham, J. D., Henderson.
Hughes, J., Benham.
Hughes, S. A., Valley.
Hull, W. F.. Camp Creek.
Hume. Thos., Chapel Hill.
Humphrey. W. A., Orrum.
Humphries. J. K., Westfield.
Hunt, A., Gamble's Store.
Hunter, A. D., Cary.
Huntley, W. S., Bear Wallow.
Hurley, A., Thaxton.
Hutchinson, J. H., Six Forks.
Hyde. H. H., Bryson City.
Ingram, H. M., Pekin.
Irwin, A. C, Pearl.
Isaac. E., Hughes.
Israel. L. Yv Dunsmore.
Ives, S. Albert., Pine Bluff.
Jackson, W. C, Asheville.
Jackson, W. M., Flint.
Jackson. Elbert, Turner's.
Jackson, J. B., Goldsboro.
James, R. H., Wingate.
Jamerson, Wm., Fairview.
Jamison, Wesley, Bald Creek.
Jennings, T. L., Jennings.
Jarvis. J. F.. Adley.
Jenkens, C. A., Goldsboro.
Johnson. D. L., Downingsville.
Johnson, E. M., Hughes.
Johnson, E. O., Bear Creek.
Johnson, J. A., Elizabethton.
Johnson. W. B.. Granger. S. C.
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Johnson, J. E., Elkin.
Johnson, J. C, Reese.
Johnson, L., Raleigh.
Johnson, Wm. R., Ashe.
Johnson, W. N., Taylor's Bridge.
JohnsoD,R.K.,Edwards' X Roads.
Johnson, S. H., Gray's Creek.
Johnson, L. E., Fremont.
Johnson. J. B., Walnut Cove.
Johnston, Wm., Matthews.
Jolly, J. R., Saluda.
Jolly, J. R., Lomax.
Jones, C. S., Hendersonville.
Jones, E. F., Zionsville.
Jones. F. H., Reidsville.
Jones, J. R., Royal.
Jones, J. W.. Depew.
Jones. J. Wm., Chapel Hill.
Jones, R. H., Ai.
Jones. Wm. H., Dana.
Jones, W. J., Estatoe.
Jordan, F. M., East Fork.
Jordan, J. R., Lilesville.
Jordan, James, Franklinville.
Jordan, S., Robbmsville.
Jordan. W. P., Hertford.
Jordan, Y., New Castle.
Justice, A. a. Aetna.
Justice, J. J.. Blue Ridge.
Justice, T. B., Rutherfordton.
Justice, A. I., Fruitland.
Justice. C. B.. Rutherfordton.
Kane, E. P., Good Spring.
Kanot. J., Robhinsville.
Keeler, S. J., Montreat.
Keller, O. A.; Dealsville.
Keslcr, M. L.. Scotland Neck.
Kimsey, W. S.,
Kinsr. J. D., Cane River.
Kins;. M. C. Wingate.
C., Hartland.
King. R. W., Wilhoit.
T. ('.. Bumsville.
King, \V. G., Carthage.
Kinsland, J. L.. Crawford.
Kirk. J. T.. Trap Hill.
Knight, W. P., lUowing Rock.
Kuykendall, P. A., Zironia.
Kuykendall, J. A., Emma.
Kuykendall, W. L.. Saluda.
W. ■}.. Elkin.
Lancaster, J. P., Oak Ridge.
Lancaster. W. D.. Sandy Springs.
Landrum, M. N., Fingerville.
Lane. J. L.. Snmmerfield.
Laney, J. C, Wayside.
Lanning, Jeff., Denton.
Landsell, J. J., Durham.
Larkins, J. D., Clinton.
Latta, A. T., Monroe.
Lawhon. W. H. H., Lawhon.
Leach, M. J., Lassiter.
Leatherman.J.F., Hull's X Roads.
Ledford, B. M.,
Lee, W. F., Tiptop.
Lee, W. M., Summit.
Lee, M. L., Ashpole.
Leggett, B., Windsor.
Leggett, R. J., Howelville.
Lennon, J. P., Applewhite.
Lester, J. - ±., Bushnell.
Lewellyn, J. H., Dobson.
Lewis, C. H., Gamble's Store.
Lewis, L. G., Pennington.
Lewis, Joseph, Big Laurel.
Lewis. J. L., Laurelton.
Lewis, John. Southern Pines.
Lightfoot, E. M., Waynesville.
Lilly, Edmond, King's Creek.
Limrick, R. L., Shelby.
Liner, J. R., Clyde.
Little, J. W., Walkersville.
Little, W. F., Monroe.
Little, Wm., Lane's Creek.
Little, J. W., Walkun.
Little, T. P., Marshville.
Littleton. J. W., Palestine.
Livingston, D. K., Little Pine
Creek.
Lloyd. L. A., Nashville.
Loftis, R. M., Pilot Mountain.
Long, G. T., Cary Creek.
Long. W. A., Core Creek.
Long, W. H., Ayr.
Logan, J. H., Excelsior.
Loudermilk, D. P., Glen Alpine.
Love, A. R., Hendersonville.
Love, J. F., Wadesboro.
Lowe. A. E., Bryson City.
Lumpkin. G. T., Weldon.
Lynch, Isa:ah. Rockyhock.
i -on
Manly, H.
Marcus. "W
Marshall,
Mari
Mar!
Marsh, A.
Marsh, R.
Martin, C
Martin. C.
M. Y... Graham.
Brevard.
. A.. Homestead.
A. A., Raleigh.
G., Crutcbfield.
noir.
. Marshville.
H., Oxford.
. H., Polkton.
F., Balliw.
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Martin, J. H., Hamptonville.
Martin, J. L., Raleigh.
Martin, W. N., Gem.
Marshburn, A. B., Nealsville.
Marshburn, L. J., Flats.
Mason, J. A., Conclave.
Mason, W. C, Flats.
Mason, B. K., Williamston.
Mason, N. J., Louisville.
Matthews, J. R., Hexlena.
Matthews, B. H., Norwood.
Matthews, N. J., Pilot Mountain.
Matthias, B.s Buck Shoal.
May, G. W., Nashville.
May, S. S., Cross-Roads Church.
Mercer, M. V., Howellsville.
Mercer, T. J., Bolivia.
McClure, W. B., Alexis.
McCurry, J. H., Little Pine.
McDevitt, P., Mars Hill.
McDuffie, J. F.. Rock Springs.
McFalls, W. T., Emma.
McGee, J. F... Isabella.
McGinnis, I. J., Banners Elk.
McGugan. C. P., Fodie, Ga.
Mcintosh, C. M., Clement.
McKaughan, J. A., New Bern.
McKinney, C. H., Bakersville.
McKinney, Isaac,
McLendon, J. J., Indian Trail.
McLeod, D., Selma.
McLure, W. H., Henrietta.
McLure, W. B., Alexis.
McMahon, A., Forest City.
McMillan, D. C, Ashpole.
McNeil. M.j Wilkesboro.
McPbeeters, S. F., Pensacola.
Meadows, W. C, Poor's Knob.
Meeks, O. P.. Clinton.
Melton. W. H.. Zephyr.
Melvin, W. A., Harrell's Store.
Melvin, W. J., White Oak.
Melvin. W. S.. Winnie.
Merrell, G. L., Hobgood.
Messer. J. C, Core Creek.
Metcalf. C. C. Briggsville.
Michael, W. H., Sutherland.
Michael, Ray, Nettle Knob.
Miles. John A., Leicester.
Miller. Daniel L., Ramseytown.
Miller, 1. C, Summit.
Muller, John R.. Thomasville.
Milliken. C, Ash.
Milliken, N., Ash.
Mints. J. A., Seaside.
Mitchell, E.. Osbornville.
Mitchell.. John, Wake Forest.
Mitchell, S. W., Asheville.
Mizell, J. C, Merry Hill.
Mitchener, J. F., Louisville.
Moffitt, J. I., Stone Mountain.
Montague, E. J., Allensville.
Moore, S. F., Fairview.
Moore, G. K., Gypsey.
Moore, H. C, New Bern.
Moore, I. F., Clyde.
Moore, J. 0., Hunting Creek.
Moore. R. A., Red Springs.
Moore. R. R., Greensboro.
Moore, Warren, Patterson.
Moore, J. R., Milton.
Morris, J. D., Franklinton.
Morgan, B. L., Almond.
Morgan, D. A., Spring Creek.
Morgan, E. J., Hominy.
Morgan, F. M., Flats.'
Morgan. S. J., California Creek.
Morgan, W. C, Robbinsville.
Morris, H... Palmerville.
Morris. J. D., Royal.
Morris, W. A., Bowman's Bluff.
Morrow, J. S., Core Creek.
Morton, D. S., Whitley.
Morton, H., Thomasville.
Morton, W. B., Roxboro.
Morton. W. G... Albemarle.
Moss, T. J., Forest City.
Moss, N. H., Cherryville.
Mull, W. B., Camp Creek.
Mullinax. T. H., Grover.
Mimn, D. C, Flinty.
Murchison, C. M., Penelope.
Myers, I. T., So. Bap. Theo. Sem.
Myers, W. W., Round Mountain.
Myers, D. R., Salisbury.
Myers. T. C, Martin.
Myers, A. A., Round Mountain.
Myers, J. W., Round Mountain.
Moss. T. J., Forest City.
Naugle, J. B., Clarissa.
Naylor, M. W., Giles' Mills.
Nelson, E. R., Hendersonville.
Nelson, J. H., Patterson.
Newton, W. C, Greensboro.
Newton, I. T., Brevard.
Newton, J. B., Fort Barnwell.
Newton, J. D., Thomasville.
Newton, B. F., Ca?sar.
Nichols, W. E., Tracadia.
Nobles, J. W.. Selma.
Norcutt, B. F., Charlotte.
Norman, M. A., Alice.
Norris, H. W., Cosma.
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APPENDIX.
Norris, Isaac, Crusoe.
Norris, John, Sweetwater.
Norton, J. E.,
Norton, J. H., Venable.
Nowell, W. C, Nashville.
Oldham, S. W., Holly Springs.
Olive, J. B., Swansboro.
Olive. W. C, Apex.
Oliver, P., Dalton.
Ollis, W. H., Spear.
Oneill, G. G., Enfield.
Orr. G. W... Robbinsville.
Orrell. N. B., Abbott's Creek.
Osmet, J. R., Dallas.
Overby, R. R., Belcross.
Overton, W. C, Harreisville.
Owen, S. C., Candler.
Owen. J. C, China.
Owen, J. H., Fidelity.
Owen, J. "it., Glenville.
Owen. J. R., East Fork.
Pace, J. R., Oxford.
Page, J. M., Steaclman.
Page, S. C, Godwin.
Page. Wiley M., Falcon.
Painter, J. P., Canto.
Palmer, R. L., Leander.
Parks. E. L., Lisbon.
Parker, C. J. D., Durham.
Panther, J. P., Quallatown.
Pardeu, A. T., Wilkesboro.
Parham, S., Mascot.
Paris, T. W., New Castle.
Parrish, M. E., Salisbury.
Patton, H. P., Saluda.
Patton. R. L.. Morganton.
Paul, C. B., Swansboro.
Payne, J. M.. Blowing Rock.
Payseur, J. J., Wilmington.
Pearce, E. S., Merry Hill.
Peek. I. T., Cullasaja.
Pendergrass. J. R., Franklin.
Penick, W. S., Elizabeth City.
Pennell, A. N., Avillar.
Peebles, G. W., Glady.
Perkinson, L. C., Wise.
Peterson, C. D., Dalila.
Phillips, H.; Nettle Knob.
Phillips, John, Beech Creek.
Phillips, Wm., Mt. Airy.
Phillips, J. L... Houck.
Phillips, J. B.. Collettsville.
Pierce. E. S., Pantego.
Pinner, R., Faust.
Pippin. A. A.. Wakefield.
Pitchford. J. A., Littleton.
Pittman, A. R., Rennert.
Pittman. A. E. C, Rennert.
Piatt, J. T., Warne.
Plemmons, B. B., Spring Creek-
Plemmons, James, Big Pine.
Pless. M. W., Crusoe.
Poe, E. A., Cora.
Ponder, W. M., Faust.
Pool, E. Y., Bethel Hill.
Pool, C. C, Partee.
Pool, D. W., Vashti.
Pope, W. L., Elm Grove.
Porter, S. J.. Fayetteville.
Porter, W. F., Dehart.
Porter, C. W., Elm City.
Porter, A. H., Orton.
Posten. R., Camp Call.
Potter, W. J., Elk Park.
Powell, J. W., Rocky Mount.
Powell. L. L., East Fork.
Powers. J. H.. Mt. Airy.
Presler. M. D. L., Monroe.
Prevatt, F. A., Lumberton.
Prevatt, John, Mars Hill.
Prewett, N., Knob Creek.
Privette. I. T., Wilkesboro.
Proffit. M. S., Democrat.
Pruett, L. R., Charlotte.
Pruitt, Julius.Connelly's Springs.
Pruitt. Berry. Knob Creek.
Pruitt. G.. Penelope.
Pruitt. Wm., Robbinsville.
Pugh. J. M., Randleman.
Pulliam, J. G.. Lenoir.
Putnam. J. W.. Magnetic City.
Putnam. D. F.. Cherryville.
Queen. Cicero, Casar.
Queen. A. C. Tuckaseigee.
Queen. B. N., Cathey.
Queen. J. H., Bryson City.
Queen. L. E., Cowarts.
Queen. W. H. Oconalufty.
Queen. Thos. H.; Alice.
Ramsbottom, C. F., Chadbourn.
Ramsey, Garret. Marshall.
Reaves, E. S., Statesville.
Rector. J. A.. Morganton.
Reddish. W. H.. Morganton.
Redwine. J. F., Fork Church.
Reece. J. N.. Galloway.
Reed. J. A.. Hughes.
Reed. W. W., Alice.
Reedy, E. W.. Rugbey. Va.
Reese. J. V., Cruso.
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Reid, T. M., Hughes.
Rhodes, J. R., Saluda.
Rice, G. B., Hanging Dog.
Rickard, D. V., Columbia.
Rich, J. H.. Bell Haven.
Rich, W. H., Lexington.
Richardson, J. B., High Point.
Rickman, P. R., Leatherman.
Riddle, B. B., Pensacola.
Riddle, H. B., Big Pine.
Riddle, J., Beaver Creek.
Rivenbark, W. B., Wake Forest.
Roberts, Creed, Berlin..
Roberts, D. J., Cherry Lane.
Roberts, D. J., Trap Hill.
Roberts, L. C, Sexton.
Robbins, D. P., Winnabow.
Robertson, W. A. Barnardsville.
Robeson, H. S., Shallotte.
Rogers, M., Bushnell.
Rollins, B. F., Elkin.
Rose, J. W., Bethel.
Ross, A. M., Kings Mountain.
Rowell, J. E., Cleon.
Rowell, S. J., Cleon.
Roy, W. H., Paint Fork.
Royall, W. B., Wake Forest.
Royal, F. M., Ching Kiang, Cbina.
Royal, R., Kelly.
Ruppe, John, Byarsville.
Sales, J., Mount Tabor.
Sams, J. F., Cane River.
Sandling, R. C, Clinton.
Saunders, B., Lilesville.
Scarborough, C. W., Murfrees-
boro.
Scott, J. J., Branchville.
Scotten, A. K., Coleridge.
Seagraves, W. M., Jonesville.
Sears, D. R., Siler City.
Seagle, L. M., Spring Creek.
Sellers, J., Supply.
Sentell, R. A., Clyde.
Settle, J. F., Byrd.
Settlemyer, G. W., Henrietta.
Setzer, A. W., Morehead City.
Shaver, J. M., Dealville.
Shaw, J. A., Creswell.
Sheets, Henry, Lexington.
Shell, P. J., Gibbs.
Shell, J. T., Petra Mills.
Shell, J. W., Petra Mills.
Shell, L. C, Jonas Ridge.
Shelly, N. A., Catharine Lake.
Shepherd, J. J., Brindletown.
Sherrill, T. C. Jumbo.
Sherwood, J. J. L., Yerger.
Shinn, J. L., Mooresville.
Shoaf, R. L., Linney.
Shumate, James, Delphia.
Silver, E. D., Newdale.
Silver, Edmond, Micaville.
Simmons, S. F., Jonesville.
Sims, A. H., Kings Mountain.
Skinner, T. E., Raleigh.
Sledge, J. W., Stallings.
Sluder, M. M., Juno.
Smiley, J. S., Swain.
Smith, A. B., Murphy.
Smith, James A., Fair Bluff.
Smith, Forrest, Louisburg.
Smith, J. E., Concord.
Smith, J. F., Ozark.
Smith, J. W., Wake Forest.
Smith, J. L., Siler City.
Smith, W. A.. West Durham.
Snider, D. A., Wingate.
Snider, J. W., Wingate.
Snider, J. S., Louisville, Ky.
Soles, J., Mount Tabor.
Sorrell, W. M., Cary.
Sothern, F. P., Inanda.
Sparks, W. H., Ball Creek.
Sparks, J. C, Ball Creek.
Speight, T. T., Lewiston.
Speight, J. A., Ahoskie.
Spence, J. P., New Bern.
Spence, J. R., Polk.
Spencer, M. S., Hickory.
Spilman, B. W., Raleigh.
Springfield, Robt., Granger, S. C.
Sprinkle, A. J., Fulton.
Spruill, G. E., Franklinton.
Staley, W. F., Asheville.
Stallings, J. N., Salisbury.
Stallings, N. P., Hertford.
Stamey, A., Bliss.
Stamey, E. A., Lineback.
Stamey, J. G., Balsam Grove.
Stanley, C, Nye.
Stanley, G. F., Loris, S. C.
Stanley, N., Barnesville.
Stanley, J. F., Graybeal.
Stanberry, J. S., Almond.
Standridge, H. C, Hiawassee.Ga.
Stephens, M. A., Lumberton.
Stephenson, R. S., Raleigh.
Staton, J. S., Zirconia.
Staton, M. M., Saluda.
Staton, J. A., Zirconia.
Stewart, J. L., Clinton.
Stoker, A. P., Denton.
Stone, C. H., Haystack.
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Stough, A. L., Pinevillle.
Stradley, J. A., Oxford.
Stringfield, O. L., Raleigh.
Summey, J. A., Hannersville.
Suttle, J. W., Sniithfield.
Sutton, J. D., Painter.
Swain, S. D., Mocksville.
Swain, V. M., River Hill.
Swain, E. L.. Shallotte.
Tatum, E. F., China.
Talbirt, W. T., Concord.
Taylor, J. R., Bayboro.
Taylor, C. R., Louisville, Ky.
Taylor, A. J., Chinquapin.
Taylor, C. E., Jefferson.
Taylor, C. E., Wake Forest.
Taylor. E. L., Rutherfordton.
Taylor, T. J., Warrenton.
Teeter, E. D., Locust Level.
Tew, John 0., Fayetteville.
Tew, J. W., Iredell.
Tew, D. T„ Clinton.
Thomas. A. B., Sylva.
Thomas, C. A. G., Thomasville.
Thomas. I. W., Lenoir.
Thomas, James C, Bandana.
Thomas, K., Ledonia.
Thorn, J. B., Ferry.
Tipton, B. C, Fairfax.
Tipton, S. D.. Burnsville.
Tolar, J. N., Beaufort.
Toney, B. W., Caroleen.
Town send, J. T., Carmichael.
Treadway, E. R., Cove Creek.
Treadway, R. F., Shelby.
Trivett, J. W., Dark Ridge.
Tucker, Elihu, Bud.
Turner, E. W., Richmond Hill.
Tuttle, J. F., Elizabeth City.
Tyree, W. C, Durham.
Upchurch, C. A., Ewing.
Utley, C. H., Cooleemee.
Vannoy, W. II., Hamptonville.
Vann. R. T., Raleigh.
Vaughan, L. D.,
Vernon, J. H., Wake Forest.
Vestal, M. H., Jonesville.
Vines. J. F., So. Bap. Theo. Sem.
Vines, W. M. Asheville.
Vinson, J. D., Scaly.
Vipperman.J. H., Pilot Mountain.
Vipperman, J. L., Dallas.
Waff, W. B., Reynoldson.
Walker, J. N., Rutherfordton.
Walker, N., Newcastle.
Wallen, S., Big Laurel.
Waller, Jesse, Marshall.
Walton, M. C., Burgaw.
Wallace, W. C, Carolina, S. C.
Ward. W., Asheville.
Ward, Benjamin, Marines.
Washburn, D. G., DePew.
Warren, T., Rugby, Va.
Watson, W. F., Gastonia.
Watson, T. D., Oconalufty.
Watson, J. W., Gath.
Waycaster, J. R., Estatoe.
Weatherman, J. G., Jennings.
Webb, G. M., Shelby.
Webster, G. B., Pactolus.
Welborn, T. M., Trap Hill.
Wells, C. G., Spencer.
Welch, D. H., Balsam.
West, J. H., Downsville.
West, W. C, Fayetteville.
Weston, E. L., Haw River.
Wheeler, Z. W., New Light.
Wheelous, Z. W., Grissom.
Whisnant, E. S., Maiden.
White, J. A., Taylorsville.
White, J. M., Apex.
White, G. W., Rockyhock.
White, M. P., Phoenix.
White, R. T., Seaboard.
Whitener, P. A., Morganton.
Whiteside, Z. T., Uree.
Whiteside.W.M., Rutherfordton.
Whitley, A. E., Round Mountain.
Whitlock, L. A., Porter.
Wiggins, A., Bryson City.
Wilcox, A. G., Brinkleyville.
Wilcox, William, Todd.
Wilcox, A., Caldwell.
Wild, J. M., Walnut Run.
Wild. J. R., Big Pine.
Wilhoit, G. 0., Ansonville.
Wilkins, W. E., Clyde.
Williams, A. J., Zephyr.
Williams, B. B., Harrellsville.
Williams, C. C, Royal.
Williams, J. M., Clover.
Williams, O. P., Yellow Creek.
Wilson, L. A., Sutherland.
Wilson, L. C, Hattie.
Wilson, Samuel, Bee Log.
Wilson, W. H., Madison.
Wood, T. G., Belcross.
Wood, E. M., Cisco.
APPENDIX.
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Woodall, W. H., Mars Hill.
Woodruff, C. E., Hickory.
Woodson, C. J., Shelby.
Woodard, J. S., Needmore.
Wooten, E. W., Clarkton.
Wooten, F. T., Salemburg.
Wright, N., Lark.
Wright, J. W., Felts.
Wright, T. S., Rockingham.
Wyatt, W. J., Perth.
Yarborough, A., Lexington.
Yarborough, J. A., Bryson City.
Yates, M., Morrisville.
Yoder, S. Bv Otto,
bounce, Jacob, Parrish.
Younce, Solomon, Sweetwater.
Young, A. W., Scaly.
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APPENDIX.
HISTORICAL
Place of Meeting.
Alfred Doekery .
. do
Greenville. Pitt County
Rogers' X Roads, Wake Co.—
Chapel, Chatham Co.. .
Cartledge's Creek, Richmond
County.
Cashie, Bertie County
Union Camp Ground. Rowan
Count v.
County Line, Caswell County-
May's Chapel, Chatham Co . do
Brown's, Sampson County do
Grassy Creek, Granville Co do
Johnston Liberty, Johnston Co do
do do
Meherrin, Hertford County Thomas Meredith
Boiling Springs, Henderson Co do do
President.
Patrick W. Dowd..
do
Wm.P.Biddle
.__. do
do.
Recording Secretaries.
R. S. Blount
N.G.Smith
A.J. Battle
Amos J. Battle.
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James McDaniel.
do
do
do
do
do
do
J. J. Finch.
Raleigh . Alfred Doekery
do Thomas Meredith.-.
do~~I" — - do
Friendship. Cumberland Co— Alfred Doekery
Rockford, Surry County do ...
Oxford -- James MeDaniel
Louisburg
Wilmington.
Smithneld...
New Bern
Fayetteville .
Warrenton _.
Raleigh
do..
do-
do-
do—
do-
do
do-
Hertford ! do
Raleigh do
Charlotte do
Goldsboro do
Raleigb do
Wake Forest do
Raleigh do
Warrenton do
Forestville do
Raleigh do
Wilmington , — do
Goldsboro --- do.—----
Hillsboro - Samuel G. Mason —
New Bern W.T.Brooks
; Raleigh do
Charlotte do
Fayetteville do
Warrenton ... do_____
Wilmington J. M. Heck
Shelby John Kerr
Raleigh £ M. Cooke
Durham John Kerr
Charlotte Wm.A. Graham, Jr.
Oxford Needham B.Cobb—
Goldsboro do
Winston
Warrenton .
Edenton
Raleigh
Reidsville.—
Wilmington
Durham
Greensboro .
Henderson -
Shelby
Goldsboro R-H. Marsh.
Raleigh — — do
John B. White
J. J. Finch
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N.J. Palmer
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do
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A. McDowell
George W.Johnston.
J. B. Solomon
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T. Brooks
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J. D. Hufham
do T.J. Knapp,Ass't Sec
... do
do C. E. Dunn. Assistant
... do W. J. Palmer
.„ do T. M. Hughes
J. L. Carroll, G. W. Sanderlin
— do
.... do
.... do
N. B Cobb, N. B. Broughton
.... do
..... do C. M. Cooke
do F. R. Underwood—
J. D. Huf ham, F. R. Underwood —
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do Wm. Bia:gs
Wm. Biggs, George W. Greene.
do N.L.Shaw
do N. B. Broughton—
do W. L.Wright
N. B. Broughton, N. L.Shaw
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„ do G. W. Greene...
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J.C.Scarboro —
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C.T.Bailey
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W. II. Pace
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L. L. Polk do
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. do N. B. Cobb
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Elizabeth City do..
Charlotte do_.
Greensboro — do..
Morgan ton do..
Oxford. . do..
Greenville do..
A.shevllle do_
Raleigb do..
Winston-Salem do..
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APPENDIX.
IOI
TABLE.
Corresponding Secretary.
Treasurer.
Preacher of Introductory
Sermon.
John Armstrong
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Henry Austin
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Samuel Wait.
John Armstrong.
Wm. P. Biddle.
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do
Wm. Hill Jordan
William Roles
Amos J. Battle.
do
(Minutes mutilated.)
John Kerr.
John Armstrong.
III. do
James S. Mims.
John Armstrong.
J. J. Finch.
do -
do
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Wm. Hill Jordan.
J. J. Finch.
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Eli Phillips.
R. McNabb.
G. M. Thompson.
W. T. Brooks.
J.S.Purefoy.
S.J.Wheeler —
do IIIIII
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John B. White.
A. McDowell
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Wm. Hooper.
James McDaniel.
R. I. Devin.
A. McDowell.
W.M. Wingate —
do _.
T.W.Tobey.
do —
do
(President reviewed history
of Convention.)
T. E. Skinner.
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T. H. Pritchard.
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J.S.Walthall.
B. F. Marable
S. S. Biddle
James S.Purelby.
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H. Petty.
N. B.Cobb.Supt. Army Colp. and Miss.
do . Miss, and Colp
N.B.Cobb.
H. Petty.
do Cor. Sec. R. S. Board
.III do ———————
W. M. Wingate.
A. McDowell.
W. T. Walters, Cor. Se^. State Miss. B'rd.
do Sec. State Miss. Board
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J. B. Hardwick.
Jas. P. Boyce of S. Carolina.
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f. L.Carroll.
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do. -
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John Mitchell.
J.L.Carroll.
J. D. Hufham -
do
William Rovall.
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John G. Williams
W.M. Wingate.
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J.C. Hiden.
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R. H. Marsh.
C. T. Bailey.
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H. A. Brown.
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N. B.Broughton .
T. W. Babb.
(No record.)
J. A. Mundy.
Jordan Womble, Jr
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R.H. Griffith.
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F.H.Jones.
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T.E. Skinner.
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H.A.Brown.
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John T. Pullen
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Fabius H. Briggs
W. S. Grandy
J. D. Boushall . .
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A . G. McManaway.
C.A.Jenkins.
J. M. McManaway.
R. T. Vann.
H. W. Battle.
B. Cade.
J. S. Dill.
T. H. Pritchard.
Thomas Hume.
J. S. Hardaway.
J. W. Carter.
John E." WhitelHIIIII
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T.J.Taylor.
A. M.Simms.
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J. B. Richardson.
A. C. Barron.
W.S.Penick.
R. T. Vann.
W. M. Vines.
Livingston Johnson
WT. C. Tyree.
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APPENDIX.
CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL STATISTICS.
Reported Contributions.
Associations.
Total-
Alexander
Alleghany-Grayson
Ashe
Atlantic
Beulah
Bladen
Brier Creek
Brunswick*
Brushy Mountain-
Buncombe Co
Caldwell
Cape Fear-Columbus
Carolina
Catawba River.
Cedar '.reek
Central
Chowan
Eastern
Elkin
Flat River....
French Broad
Green River
Haywuod Co
Kings Mountain
Liberty
Liberty-Ducktownf -
Little River
Mecklenburg and Ca
barrus
Mitchell County
Montgomery
Mount Zion
Neuae-
New Found
Pee Dee
Piedmont
Pilot Mountain... __
Raleigh
Robeson
Sandy Creek
Sandy Run
South Fork
South River
South Yadkin..
Stanly
Stone Mountain
Stony Fork
Tar River
Tennessee River
Three Forks
Transylvania
Tuekasiegee
Union
West Chowan.
Western
Yadkin
Yancey
1,223. 123216.237. OS 30.407.30 38, 069. 14290,733.52
♦ Churches in Tennessee not included.
ar-('oltimhiis " have ioinpri' t.hls njumpln
t Eleven other churches, figures included in "Cape
Fear-Columbus." have joined this association.
Note.— This table is taken from the minutes of the Southern Baptist Convention for 1901,
giving the figures for 1900.
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