LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA Gift of THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN RELIGION A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION THE CONVENTION SEAL A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST " CONVENTION PREPARED BY REQUEST OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO COMMEMORATE THE COMPLETION OF TEN YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD 1908-1918 PUBLISHED FOR THE CONVENTION BY THE AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY PHILADELPHIA FOREWORD THIS Manual aims to acquaint the reader with the structure of the Northern Baptist Convention, its methods of service, the work of its cooperating and affiliating organizations, the func- tions of its boards and committees, and its ministry to the de- nomination and the kingdom of God. The sections dealing with these matters are of necessity sketchy. A mastery of the book will equip the reader with all knowledge necessary for complete understanding of the organized activity of our Baptist brother- hood in the Northern States. While much of the material is historical, the book is in no sense a history. The story of causes and events that led up to the organization of the Northern Baptist Convention and the experiences of the Convention during its existence require an- other volume of much larger proportions. The preparation of such a history will be undertaken as soon as the demands of a busy pastorate and the unusual calls for service to our country at the present time will permit. Much of historical interest has been excluded from this volume, that its size and cost may be kept within reasonable limits, and because at this time it is thought best that Baptists should realize what the Convention is and how to use it for the promotion of the kingdom of God, and, most of all, since present conditions demand that we should vitalize every part of it with the enthusiasm of a fresh consecra- tion to the cause of Jesus Christ. The editor hereby expresses his gratitude to those who have furnished the material for the book. Their names will be found in connection with their contributions. His thanks are especially due to Dr. Daniel G. Stevens for the Index, for aid in reading the proof, and for other services. He hopes that it is not too extravagant to wish that copies of this Manual may find their way into each church in our denomination. Efforts to achieve this desirable result will be heartily appreciated. W. C. BITTING, Editor. CONTENTS PAGE I. HISTORICAL PREFACE. By Secretary W. C. Bitting i II. INTRODUCTION. By President Harry Pratt Judson n III. ORGANIC DOCUMENTS 17 1. Act of Incorporation 19 2. Declaration and By-laws 20 3. Standing Resolutions 30 IV. THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONVENTION. By Hon. Edward S. Clinch 33 V. THE COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS 41 1. Directory of Cooperating Organizations 43 2. American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. By J. Y. Aitchison, D. D., Home Secretary 44 3. American Baptist Publication Society. By Guy C. Lamson, D. D., General Secretary 47 4. The American Baptist Home Mission Society. By Charles L. White, D. D., Secretary 50 5. Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society. By Mrs. S. C. Jennings 52 6. Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. By Miss Nellie G. Prescott, Foreign Secretary 54 VI. THE CONVENTION BOARDS 57 1. The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board 59 1 i ) Members of the Board 59 (2) Members of the Board for Seven Years 59 (3) Work of the Board. By Rev. E. T. Tomlinson, Execu- tive Secretary 60 (4) Act of Incorporation 63 (5) By-laws .. 64 2. The Board of Education 68 (1) Members of the Board 68 (2) Members of the Board for Seven years 68 (3) Work of the Board. By Rev. Frank W. Padelford, Executive Secretary 69 Vlll CONTENTS PAGE (4) Table Number I. Baptist Educational Institutions in the Northern States 74 (5) Table II. Report of Work in Universities 75 VII. AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS 77 1. Directory of Affiliating Organizations 79 2. Relation of the Affiliating Organizations to the Convention. By Secretary E. R. Pope 81 VIII. THE CONVENTION COMMITTEES. By Prof. Ira M. Price 89 IX. A DIGEST OF CONVENTION ANNUALS. By Prof. Henry K. Rowe 99 X. THE CONVENTION HISTORICAL TABLES 109 1. Convention Sessions . . . : in 2. Present Officers 112 3. Members of Executive Committee 112 4. Officers for Ten Years 113 5. Members of Executive Committee for Ten Years 114 6. List of Important Documents in Convention Annuals. By Recording Secretary Maurice A. Levy 117 XI. CONVENTION STATISTICS. By Charles A. Walker, Statistical Secretary 119 1. American Baptist Foreign Mission Society: Receipts and Disbursements 121 2. American Baptist Publication Society : Receipts and Disburse- ments 122 3. The American Baptist Home Mission Society: Receipts and Disbursements 123 4. Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society : Receipts and Disbursements 124 5. Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society : Receipts and Disbursements 125 6. Statistical Survey of the Affiliating Organizations : Member- ship and Property 126 7. Statistical Survey of the Affiliating Organizations : Contribu- tions 127 XII. INDEX. By Daniel G. Stevens 129 HISTORICAL PREFACE By Secretary W. C. Bitting HISTORICAL PREFACE (These notes are taken from the minutes of the meeting for the organ- ization of the Northern Baptist Convention, held at Washington, D. C, May 16, 17, 1907.) (1) In May, 1896, at Asbury Park, N. J., "A Commission on Systematic Beneficence " was created, by the adoption of a series of resolutions presented by the Finance Committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union. These resolutions were also adopted by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and the American Baptist Publication Society. Rev. F. M. Ellis, D. D., of Baltimore, Md., then declared, " We have unified the denomination at the contribution-box, and that is next to the throne of grace." (2) In May, 1897, the Woman's Baptist Home Mission So- ciety adopted resolutions, urging Northern Baptists to com- bine all their missionary periodicals into one, and pointed out the waste occasioned by the current method of publishing num- erous journals. At the Anniversaries the same year, the report of the Commission on Systematic Beneficence called attention to the significant and the suggestive example of the joint efforts which had been made during the previous year by the three gen- eral Societies to cancel their debts. (3) In November, 1898, at the meeting of the Baptist Con- gress in Buffalo, N. Y., Rev. George E. Horr, D. D., then editor of " The Watchman," declared : " There is a great opportunity for the denomination to harmonize its missionary work. . . There is just as much necessity that the work of the Missionary Union, the Home Mission Society, and the Publication Society should be harmonized note that I do not use the word unified should be harmonized, as there ever was that our controversies in regard to the Bible question should be adjusted, as they were at Sara- toga a number of years ago." This significant deliverance was the subject of much comment. The denominational press, par- ticularly " The Standard," started discussion which increased the 3 4 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION sentiment in favor of a closer relation between the organizations that were conducting our denominational work. (4) So far the discussion had related principally to the har- monious cooperation of distinct organizations. It was inevitable that such discussions should produce a feeling in the hearts, and a conviction in the minds, of many intelligent Baptists that our brotherhood should be more pronounced and an exhibition of it in Christian work more manifest. (5) In May, 1900, at the Anniversaries in Detroit, Mich., " A Commission on Coordination," composed of representatives of the general Societies, including the women's organizations, with Mr. Stephen Greene, of Massachusetts, as chairman, was ap- pointed to consider the better coordination of our denomina- tional work. The duties of this commission were, " To consider the relative amounts which the denomination should be asked to furnish for our different benevolent enterprises, and also to consider the practicability of more closely coordinating the dif- ferent departments of our denominational work, and to make such other recommendations as in their judgment they may deem wise." (6) In May, 1901, in Springfield, Mass., there was held the first of several general meetings of the denomination. This was a mass-meeting on " Coordination." The report of Mr. Stephen Greene, of Newton Center, Mass., chairman of the committee, made six notable suggestions. Among them was one that The best interests of our work as a denomination require that the annual gatherings of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the American Baptist Missionary Union, and the American Baptist Publication Society should be representative and delegated bodies, having the same basis of representation, so that the delegates to the three Societies shall be, so far as possible, identical As a step necessary toward this end we recommend that the several Societies, at the earliest possible date, and after mutual consultation through their executive boards, change their constitutions so as to require the same qualifications of voters at their Anniversaries. It is believed that such action is fundamental, and if taken would create an atmosphere in which a " better coordination " would be possible. If the executive officers and boards of our several Societies could be brought to realize, as such action would help them to see, that their constituencies were actually one, a distinct advantage would be gained, and if the representatives of our churches could go up to the Anniver- HISTORICAL PREFACE 5 saries with the clear conviction that an actual responsibility concerning the entire work of the denomination rested upon them, it is certain that a better coordination of the different departments o our work would be the result. It was at this general denominational meeting that many re- marks were made upon the need for reforming the method of conducting our Anniversaries, and for improving the existing scheme of representation. Objections to the proposed uniform basis of representation were raised to the effect that it was a step toward consolidation. There were also vague references to an impression that there was competition and rivalry between the Societies. The Woman's Home Mission Society, during these Anni- versaries, adopted resolutions favoring coordination, and advis- ing that a period of five years be devoted to adjusting existing interests without the injury of any. At these Anniversaries also another recommendation of the committee of which Mr. Greene was chairman was adopted, providing for an annual joint meeting of executive boards or committees of the Societies, but a recommendation to publish a joint missionary periodical was rejected. Another recommendation was adopted to appoint a com- mittee of nine, to consider the matter of district secretaryships of the Societies, and the relations of collection agencies. This was a most notable meeting. It had a marked influence upon the growing desire for coordination and orderly pro- cedure. It is claimed that from this meeting, and from the report presented by Mr. Greene, dates the denominational movement resulting in the formation of the Northern Baptist Convention. (7) In December, 1901, in New York City, there was held an important conference of the executive boards and committees of the Societies, in accordance with a recommendation adopted at Springfield. At this conference, among the questions dis- cussed was, " What Changes, if Any, Are Desirable and Feasible in our Denominational Work? " A committee was also appointed to take into consideration the matter of the relations of the col- lection agencies of the Societies. It was voted to submit the methods involved in the operation of the several Societies to a general meeting of the Societies to be held in St. Paul. 6 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION (8) In May, 1902, at the Anniversaries in St. Paul, Minn., resolutions offered by Dr. Lemuel Moss, at a meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union, were almost unanimously adopted, providing for a committee of fifteen persons who were to ascertain whether there was any lack of proper adjustment and cooperation between the three Societies, including organiza- tions associated with them, as to fields of labor, collecting and other agencies, and methods of work, and whether there could be an improvement in the mutual relations of these agencies. These resolutions were also adopted by the American Baptist Home Mission Society and the American Baptist Publication Society. The committee appointed at the mid-year conference in New York City, in December, 1901, reported that, " in view of exist- ing conditions, neither economy nor efficiency would be furthered by the adoption of the method of employing one man to represent the three Societies." At a general conference of the three So- cieties, during their Anniversaries in St. Paul, the report of this committee was brought up for consideration, and a motion to appoint one district secretary to represent the three Societies in a given territory was defeated by a vote of 127 for it, to 135 against it. The whole matter was then referred to the com- mittee of fifteen provided for in the resolution offered by Doctor Moss. At the same general conference of the three Societies, the publication of one missionary magazine was also considered, and after opposition to such a consolidation of missionary magazines, it was voted to appoint a committee to investigate and report upon the matter. (9) In May, 1903, at the Anniversaries in Buffalo, N. Y., the Committee of Fifteen appointed the previous year at St. Paul, reported that consolidation of the three Societies was neither practical nor desirable, and left matters practically where they were. However, their report resulted in the appointment of a Committee of Conference, consisting of nine persons, ".to which all matters of controversy between the missionary Societies should be referred, and which should have authority to settle such con- troversies in the name of the denomination." This committee has had no matter brought before it, and indeed has had no ex- istence since the year expired for which it was appointed. No at- HISTORICAL PREFACE 7 tention has been paid to it, and no appointments have been made to membership upon it since the Anniversaries that created it. (10) In May, 1904, at the Anniversaries in Cleveland, Ohio, there was another general denominational meeting at which, how- ever, no opportunity was given to discuss general denominational matters. At this meeting, a committee was appointed to repre- sent the Baptists of the North, in cooperation with other com- mittees, in a proposed Baptist World Congress to be held in London. This Congress met in 1905 and was not only sugges- tive, but decidedly helpful to the movement for denominational solidarity. The same effect was produced by the formation of the General Convention of the Baptists of North America, in St. Louis in May, 1905. (n) In September, 1906, the Chicago Baptist Association, after listening to a notable paper, entitled " An Awakening Con- sciousness of Denominational Unity, What Does it Demand ? " adopted the following resolution: For years there has been a growing belief among our churches that there should be more coherence in our missionary work, and especially that our Baptist Anniversaries should be made more helpful to denom- inational unity. The splendid work now carried on by our several mis- sionary Societies ought to be more widely extended ; and there should be some platform from which may be voiced the sentiments of the de- nomination upon movements and policies which concern the denomina- tion as a whole, and are not germane to the work of any one of our present Societies exclusively. In view of the wide-spread dissatisfaction with present arrangements for conducting our Baptist Anniversaries, dissatisfaction which in no degree concerns the honored leaders of our denominational Societies, but which concerns arrangements and policies and precedents growing out of the nature of the organizations and their history, therefore, Resolved, That the Chicago Baptist Association, consisting of over twenty thousand Baptists, put upon record its earnest desire for greater effectiveness in the conduct of our great annual meetings, known popu- larly as the Baptist Anniversaries. In order that reasonable steps may be taken looking to improvements, this association urges the executives of our national Societies to call a joint meeting of all Societies in connection with the Anniversaries of May, 1907; that for this meeting a suitable program be provided by the executive boards of the Societies ; that provision be made for the permanent organization of a general association or convention repre- senting all the Northern Baptist churches; that one of the special func- A .MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION tions of this association or convention shall be the appointment of a repre- sentative committee on arrangements to act in connection with the boards of the Societies in unifying and improving the exercises of all the meet- ings of all the Societies whose anniversaries are held each May; that this general association or convention be so organized and its objects be so stated that it shall voice to a large degree the trend of denominational sentiment and policy in such matters as touch the welfare of all the churches, leaving to the Societies the management of the great missionary and publication work which they are now conducting. Resolved, That if no steps are taken by the boards of the Societies before April I, 1907, to call such a general or joint meeting as pro- posed, the moderator of this association be empowered to appoint a com- mittee to act in conjunction with other committees and representatives of churches in this and other States to consider the advisability of calling a general convention or association for the purposes specified. (12) In November, 1906, at a meeting of the Baptist Congress in St. Louis, Mo., a' conference was held in which brethren from different parts of the country participated. It was decided to call the attention of the general Societies to the wide-spread demand for an organized expression of denominational unity. The following petition, numerously signed by prominent minis- ters and laymen from all parts of the country, was addressed to the secretaries of the Societies: To the Corresponding Secretaries of The American Baptist Missionary Union; and The American Baptist Home Mission Society; and The American Baptist Publication Society, DEAR BRETHREN* : In view of the growing desire, most recently shown by State Conventions, district associations, and persons, for an organization through which Northern Baptists may consider the manifold interests of the kingdom of God, and express a denominational opinion thereon, we respectfully request you to set apart, during the Anniversaries of the Societies in 1907, at least one morning and afternoon, as near the middle of the week as possible, for a meeting to consider the expediency of such an organization. We suggest that in your call for this meeting, if you consent to issue it, each church be requested to appoint its pastor and two delegates, who shall represent it at this meeting, with power to effect the organization if found desirable. This request is addressed to you in order to avoid even an apparent expression of any unfriendly attitude toward our heartily appreciated denominational Societies or their executive officers. HISTORICAL PREFACE 9 (13) December n, 1906, in compliance with the request of those brethren, the following call was issued for the meeting at which the Convention was provisionally organized: Whereas, in various quarters a desire has been expressed for a meeting in connection with the Anniversaries at Washington, D. C., in 1907, to consider the question of a general organization of Baptists as represented in the constituencies of the American Baptist Missionary Union, The Amer- ican Baptist Home Mission Society, and the American Baptist Publica- tion Society; the undersigned acting upon the request of those interested in the subject, and with the approval of their respective boards, and repre- senting their joint committee on the Anniversaries, do hereby formally call a meeting of those who shall be entitled to membership in these Societies, and of others who shall be formally appointed by their churches to participate in the deliberations, on Thursday evening, May 16, and Friday forenoon, May 17, at the Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, D. C., for the purpose of effecting a general organization, if it shall be deemed desirable to do so; and suggest that Thursday evening, Rev. W. C. Bitting, D. D., of St. Louis, Mo., address the body for fifteen minutes upon a motion to form such an organization, to be followed by Rev. A. J. Rowland, D. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., in an address of ten minutes in seconding the motion; these to be followed by general dis- cussion in which speakers shall be limited to five minutes each; and that Friday forenoon be devoted to the consideration of the report of the committee on organization with an address of twenty mintues by Prof. Shailer Mathews on the functions of such an organization, followed by general discussion, speakers being limited to five minutes each. H. L. MOREHOUSE, T. S. BARBOUR, A. J. ROWLAND, Committee. In accordance with the arrangements indicated above, the meet- ing was held in the Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, D. C., on the evening of May 16, 1907. The following was unanimously adopted : Resolved, That we, representatives of Baptist churches, in convention assembled, do hereby declare our belief in the independence of the local church, in the advisory and representative nature of the local and State associations, and our loyalty to the work of our missionary and educa- tional Societies; and, Resolved, That we do also affirm our conviction that, in view of the growth of our country and denomination, there is further need of a IO A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION general body that shall serve the common interests of our entire brother- hood, as the individual church, the district and State associations min- ister to the interests of their several constituencies; and, Resolved, That we do now proceed to organize ourselves into such a body. It was also Resolved, That a committee of fifteen brethren be appointed to draft a plan of organization ; to which committee the matters now under dis- cussion shall be referred for further consideration; said committee to report at the session to-morrow morning. This committee consisted of L. C. Barnes, Massachusetts ; C. C Barry, Massachusetts ; W. C. Bitting, Missouri ; J. W. Brougher, California; Walter Galley, Pennsylvania; L. A. Crandall, Minne- sota; J. S. Dickerson, Illinois; J. M. English, Massachusetts; B. A. Greene, Illinois; F. P. Haggard, Massachusetts; Shailer Mathews, Illinois; H. L. Morehouse, New York; C. H. Moss, Massachusetts; A. J. Rowland, Pennsylvania; W. S. Shallen- berger, District of Columbia. The next morning the committee reported provisional Pre- amble, Constitution, and By-laws. These were adopted and made permanent at the meeting in Oklahoma City, Okla., May 21- 27, 1908. II INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION THE Baptist churches in the United States have a long history as history goes in our republic and have reached a very large membership. Events which need not be discussed here led to an organization of the churches in Southern States quite sepa- rate from those in the rest of the Union. The Southern Baptist Convention is an efficient and forceful agency of its constituent churches, intelligently planned and wisely administered. For many years no such organization was created in the Northern States. Missionary Societies had grown up, however, the Foreign Missionary Society dating from 1814 and the Home Society from 1832, and a Publication Society had been estab- lished in 1824, and each of these Societies had reached consider- able proportions. They were incorporated under the laws of different States : the Foreign Society in Massachusetts, the Home Society in New York, and the Publication Society in Pennsylvania. Legally each was an independent entity, and none of them, there- fore, was under any legal control by the churches. Still, each depended on the churches for a large part of its financial sup- port, notably the two missionary Societies, and of course their membership and also their large individual gifts and bequests came from members of the churches. The annual meetings of the Societies, which were held simultaneously in May, there- fore, were real gatherings of the churches, at least of those in- terested in the common purposes embodied in the Societies, and were the only form in which common interchange and common action of the churches in the Northern States could occur at all. But there was no organ by which the churches could act as a unit to express their united views or their united wishes. The Southern Baptist Convention had no counterpart in the Northern States. It was only natural that definite organization of the Baptist churches for common purposes was slow in coming. Individ- ualism is at the heart of Baptist polity, individualism of the local 13 14 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION church democracy, and of the member in the church soul liberty. A Baptist church is a complete unit in itself, and it would not be a Baptist church if it recognized any ecclesiastical superior. It is not surprising, therefore, that any attempt at very large organization should be looked at askance. An association is a neighborhood. A State Convention is in reach. A grouping of States for organization purposes looks too much like the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church not to win sharp scrutiny from Baptist churches. Indeed, one cannot dwell too much on the independence of these churches. Not merely do they recognize no superior authority in ecclesiastical organization, but so far as spiritual matters are concerned they are jealously independent of the State. They manage their secular affairs, of course, in strict accordance with law. But so far are they from recognizing the right of the State to a voice in religious matters that it has been a definite Baptist principle to decline State aid in the form of appropriations for any of their undertakings. The power of giving or withholding funds too often leads to influence on policies. Individualism of members within the church is quite as pro- nounced as the independence of the local church from external control. The church is essentially democratic : all church officers, pastor, deacons, finance committee, are elected by the church- members. But democracy should be based on intelligence. It is fundamentally for that reason that the Baptist churches insist on an adult membership, the age at least of comprehension of the issues involved being a condition of admission. With this intense individualism in the churches, then, on the one hand, and at the same time with the lack of coordination and responsibility to the churches on the part of the great Societies, on the other hand, there was presented to the Baptist people in the Northern States a very puzzling and difficult question of or- ganization. Democracy, it is often held, is the antithesis of ef- ficiency. Is it possible for a great body of Christian people so loosely held together as are the Baptists so to plan and administer their common affairs as to save duplications, to save waste, to multiply efficiency, and to secure real responsibility of the agencies to the churches which form the real constituent body? INTRODUCTION* 15 For years these possibilities were matters of discussion in the press and on the forum. Finally in 1907, at a meeting called and held in Washington, D. C, a temporary organization was effected, and a plan of permanent character was submitted to the churches for consideration and action at a delegate convention to be held the following year, in connection with the May Anniversaries. This convention was duly held at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in May, 1908. For the first time a body representing the Baptist churches of the Northern States was convened, and was in- structed to act on the plan of organization which had been sub- mitted to the churches the previous year. The provisional constitution and by-laws were adopted and the Northern Baptist Convention was duly constituted. The vital matter before the Convention was its relationship to the existing missionary Societies. These Societies were legal corporations, wholly independent of one another and of the Con- vention, and with vested property rights. It seemed highly desirable that there should be an organic union between the Societies and the Convention. But such union was certainly impracticable to accomplish at that time, and quite probably never could be brought about at all. Still, neither the Convention nor the Societies could reach their full efficiency unless a mutual relationship could be devised which would make it possible for the Convention, representing the Baptist churches for all pur- poses, to coordinate the work of the various missionary Societies, each of which was really the agent of the same churches for a specific purpose. Could this puzzling problem be solved ? With mutual good will such difficulties vanish away and they vanished at Oklahoma City. A plan was presented which required no change in the constitution the work of a year but only of the by-laws, which could be changed immediately; and which raised no question of the legal basis of the Societies, but merely established a contractual relationship between those corporations and the Convention a relationship, however, for all practical purposes as effective as organic union. By the terms of the pro- posed contract the Societies could become cooperating Societies of the Convention, with specific mutual obligations. A Finance Committee of the Convention was provided, with powers which made it the directing and coordinating agency for the Convention l6 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION and for all the cooperating Societies. The by-laws were adopted, the agreements were made at once, and thus the Northern Bap- tist Convention became a vital force. At the second annual meeting of the Convention, held at Port- land, Oregon, in 1909, the Committee on Legal Relations of the Societies to the Convention, authorized at the first annual meet- ing, and consisting of five eminent lawyers, reported a further development of the plan of organization, with the addition of new by-laws, providing for the legal incorporation of the Convention and for a uniform plan of organization for all the cooperating Societies. This report was adopted, and thus the Convention and its Societies became a smoothly working mechanism, with all its parts in a definite relation to one another and to the whole. These formative years of the Convention were intensely in- teresting to those who took part on behalf of the churches, and the loyal support which has been given by the Societies and by the churches bids fair to make the Convention in the years to come a source of new power to the common cause to which all are devoted. HARRY PRATT JUDSON. CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 18, 1918. HI ORGANIC DOCUMENTS ORGANIC DOCUMENTS ACT OF INCORPORATION Chapter 384 of the Laws of the State of New York of 1910. Became a Law June 6, 1910. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION SECTION i. All persons who are now or who hereafter may become members of the organization called the Northern Baptist Convention, formed in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, in the year nineteen hundred and seven, are hereby constituted a body corporate with the name " Northern Baptist Convention," and under that name shall have perpetual succes- sion and shall have the right to purchase or to acquire by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise, and to sell, convey, or otherwise dis- pose of, any real or personal property. SEC. 2. The object of the corporation shall be to give ex- pression to the opinions of its constituency upon moral, religious, and denominational matters, and to promote denominational unity and efficiency in efforts for the evangelization of the world. SEC. 3. The corporation, at any time it shall determine so to do, may elect or appoint such officers and may adopt such by-laws or regulations in relation to its organization, to the management, disposition, and sale of its real or personal property, to the duties and powers of its officers, and to the management and conduct of its corporate business and affairs as it shall think proper, pro- vided such by-laws or regulations are not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or this State. SEC. 4. Meetings of the corporation may be held at such time or times and at such place or places in the United States as the corporation may determine from time to time. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. 19 20 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION DECLARATION The Northern Baptist Convention declares its belief in the in- dependence of the local church, and in the purely advisory nature of all denominational organizations composed of representatives of churches. It believes also that, in view of the growth of the Bap- tist denomination and its extension throughout our country, there is need for an organization to serve the common interests of the entire denomination as State and district organizations serve their respective constituencies. BY-LAWS ARTICLE I MEMBERSHIP SECTION i. The Convention shall be composed of accredited delegates appointed as follows : (a) Any Baptist church in the United States may appoint one delegate, and one additional delegate for every one hundred members. (b) Any Baptist State Convention may appoint ten delegates, and one additional delegate for every ten District Associations in- cluded in it, above the first ten. SEC. 2. Accredited officers and members of Boards of Man- agers of cooperating organizations shall be delegates ex officio. The accredited officers and members of the Boards of Managers of the Woman's Missionary Societies auxiliary to or cooperating with the American Baptist Home Mission Society or the Amer- ican Baptist Foreign Mission Society shall be delegates ex officio. Officers and members of committees of the Convention during their terms of service shall be delegates ex officio. ARTICLE II OFFICERS SECTION I. The officers shall be a President, a First Vice- president, a Second Vice-president, a Corresponding Secretary, ORGANIC DOCUMENTS 21 a Recording Secretary, a Statistical Secretary, and a Treasurer. SEC. 2. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Con- vention and of the Executive Committee, and shall exercise a general supervision over the affairs of the Convention. SEC. 3. In the case of the absence of the President or his in- ability to serve, his duties shall be performed by the Vice-president in attendance who is first in numerical order. SEC. 4. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the corre- spondence of the Convention, shall send notices to the members of the Executive Committee of the times and places of its meetings, shall inform the chairman of each committee of the names of its members and of the purpose for which it was appointed, and shall perform such duties as the Executive Committee may direct. SEC. 5. The Recording Secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Convention in a book provided for that pur- pose. SEC. 6. The Statistical Secretary shall collect, tabulate, and prepare for publication in the Convention Annual all statistics re- lating to the work of the Convention down to the first day of October preceding the publication of the Annual. Should the officers of any State Convention fail to furnish the statistics of its own State to the Statistical Secretary, it will be the duty of the latter to collect such statistics from any available source. SEC. 7. The Treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging to the Convention, keep an accurate account thereof and of the sources from which they were derived, pay them out on the direction of the Convention or of the Executive Committee, and at each annual meeting make a written financial report. SEC. 8. Each officer shall be elected by ballot and shall serve from the close of the meeting of the Convention at which he is elected to the close of the next annual meeting, and until his suc- cessor is elected. SEC. 9. Any member of a Baptist church in the United States is eligible to any office or to serve on any committee, except where otherwise provided. 22 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION ARTICLE III MEETINGS SECTION i. The Convention shall meet annually on the third Wednesday in May, unless for some special reason some other time shall be fixed by the Executive Committee in conference with the Boards of Managers of the cooperating organizations. SEC. 2. Each delegate to an annual meeting shall pay a regis- tration fee of one dollar, and on the payment of fifty cents in addi- tion shall be entitled to receive a copy of the Annual. ARTICLE IV COMMITTEES SECTION i. (a) There shall be an Executive Committee elected by ballot, and composed of the officers and former presidents of the Convention, and thirty others, of whom at least fifteen shall be laymen. Of the thirty first elected, ten shall serve for three years, ten for two years, and ten for one year ; and thereafter there shall be elected annually ten to serve for three years. Vacancies caused by the death, resignation, or refusal to act of any of the thirty may be filled by the remaining members of the committee. (b) No one, other than an officer or a former president of the Convention, shall be eligible to membership in the Executive Com- mittee after service thereon for six consecutive years, until the expiration of one year after the termination of such service. (c) It shall be the duty of this committee to make arrange- ments for the meetings of the Convention, and to care for its in- terests between the meetings. (d) No appeals for money shall be made and no collections shall be taken at the meetings of the Convention which have not been approved by the Executive Committee. SEC. 2. (a) There shall be a Finance Committee of nine, a majority of whom shall be laymen. (b) It shall be the duty of this committee to prepare and pre- sent to the Convention at each annual meeting a budget based on the budgets submitted by the Executive Committee and by the cooperating organizations. ORGANIC DOCUMENTS 23 (c) In case of an emergency arising between the annual meet- ings of the Convention, the committee, by the majority vote of all its members, may approve the incurring of indebtedness by a co- operating organization. Should such approval be given, the com- mittee shall report its action with the reasons therefor to the Convention at its next annual meeting. SEC. 3. (a) There shall be an Apportionment Committee ap- pointed at each annual meeting. It shall be composed of a repre- sentative from each of the following bodies : The Executive Com- mittee of the Convention, the Board of Education, each of the cooperating organizations, a city church, a rural church, and a State Apportionment Committee, together with a District Secre- tary of a cooperating organization and an executive officer of a State Convention. (b) It shall be the duty of this committee: 1. To divide among the States represented in the Convention the respective amounts to be raised as specified in the budget approved by the Convention, and to communicate to the Appor- tionment Committee of each State the amount apportioned to it; 2. To appoint an Apportionment Committee for any State where no such committee is appointed ; 3. To employ such agents and methods and to take such other action to carry the apportionment into effect as to it may seem wise; 4. To divide ratably among the beneficiaries of the budget the expenses incurred in the performance of the duties of the com- mittee. SEC. 4. There shall be a Committee on Reports, to serve from the adjournment of each annual meeting of the Convention until the adjournment of its next annual meeting. All reports of co- operating organizations shall be submitted to the committee as early as practicable before the next meeting of the Convention, at which the committee shall present its report in writing. SEC. 5. There shall be a Committee on Enrolment consisting of five persons, which shall be appointed at the first session of each annual meeting. To this committee shall be presented the creden- tials of delegates to the Convention, and the committee shall pre- pare from these credentials and shall report to the Convention a roll of delegates. 24 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION SEC. 6. There shall be a Committee on Order of Business, which shall report each day to the Convention a proposed order of business for the next day. SEC. 7. There shall be a Committee on Nominations of Officers and for vacancies in the Executive Committee. No one shall be a member of the committee who is a salaried executive officer or an employee of a cooperating or .of an affiliating organization other than a pastor, or who is a member of the Board of Man- agers of a cooperating organization, or a member of the Execu- tive Committee of the Convention, unless under the authority of a by-law he shall be appointed a member of the Committee on Nominations without the right to vote. SEC. 8. There shall be a Committee on Selection of a Place for the Next Annual Meeting, which shall report before the ad- journment of the last session of the Convention, at which the committee is appointed. SEC. 9. There shall be a Committee on Resolutions which shall consider and report upon all resolutions referred to it by the Convention, and may originate and report others. A motion to refer to this committee shall not be debatable. The final report of the committee shall be presented not later than at the morning session of the last day on which the Convention meets. After the final report shall have been presented, no proposed resolution referring to a subject not included in the report shall be referred to the committee, but, without debate, shall be sent to the Execu- tive Committee for submission to the Committee on Resolutions at the next annual meeting of the Convention. This by-law may be suspended by a three-fourths vote. SEC. 10. There shall be a Law Committee consisting of six per- sons. It shall be the duty of this committee to consider and report upon all matters referred to it by the Convention or the Executive Committee. SEC. ii. There shall be a Committee on City Missions consist- ing of nine persons. It shall be the duty of this committee to study the questions related to cooperation between city mission or- ganizations and State Conventions, and the cooperating organiza- tions of the Northern Baptist Convention, and also all other general questions related to city mission work throughout the country. ORGANIC DOCUMENTS 25 SEC. 12. There shall be a Committee on Baptist Brotherhood consisting of twelve persons. It shall be the duty of this com- mittee to further the organization of men in Baptist churches for study, fellowship, and service, and to consider all questions related thereto. SEC. 13. There shall be a Committee on State Conventions consisting of nine persons. It shall be the duty of this committee to review the work of the State Conventions that are' affiliating organizations and to consider all questions concerning such Con- ventions and their relation to the Northern Baptist Convention. SEC. 14. There shall be a Committee on Social Service consist- ing of twelve persons. It shall be the duty of this committee to study social conditions and needs, to ascertain the activities of Baptist churches in the field of social service, to organize and enlist Baptists in practical and definite lines of community ser- vice in city and country, to cooperate with similar agencies of other religious bodies, and from time to time to report its findings and recommendations through the religious press. SEC. 15. There shall be a Committee on Religious Education consisting of nine persons. It shall be the duty of this com- mittee to study the educational needs of the local church, and in cooperation with the American Baptist Publication Society to prepare educational courses for the promotion of the intelligent growth of the church, and for its symmetrical development in its varied relations to the community, to the outspread of Chris- tianity, and to the world at large. SEC. 16. There shall be a Committee on Young People's Work consisting of nine persons. It shall be the duty of this committee, in cooperation with the American Baptist Publication Society, to superintend the organization of young people's work, and to foster inspirational and educational activities in connection there- with. SEC. 17. There shall be a Committee on Evangelism consisting of nine persons. It shall be the duty of this committee to study the subject of evangelism with a view to discover and suggest the most effective means for promoting it, and in cooperation with the American Baptist Home Mission Society to disseminate evangelistic literature, and in all other practical ways to encour- age and promote personal evangelism, organized evangelism in 26 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION the local church, and cooperative evangelism among the churches. SEC. 18. There shall be a Committee on the Coordination of Baptist Bodies Using Foreign Languages consisting of eighteen persons. It shall be the duty of this committee to study and report on the best methods for coordinating Baptist bodies using foreign languages with one another and also with other Baptist bodies, and also to report such other facts and such statistics re- lated to the work of the committee as to it may seem proper. SEC. 19. Of the members first appointed on the Finance Com- mittee, the Apportionment Committee, the Law Committee, the Committees on City Missions, on Baptist Brotherhood, on State Conventions, on Social Service, on Religious Education, on Young People's Work, on Evangelism, and on the Coordination of Baptist Bodies Using Foreign Languages, one-third shall serve for three years, one-third for two years, and one-third for one year, and thereafter there shall be appointed annually one-third of the number of members to serve for three years. The members of these committees shall be appointed by the President on the nomination of the Executive Committee. SEC. 20. The Executive Committee, the Finance Committee, the Apportionment Committee, the Committees on Reports, on City Missions, on Baptist Brotherhood, on State Conventions, on Social Service, on Religious Education, on Young People's Work, on Evangelism, and on the Coordination of Baptist Bodies Using Foreign Languages shall report in writing at each annual meeting of the Convention. SEC. 21. The Committees on Reports, on Order of Business, on Nominations, on Selection of a Place for the Next Annual Meeting, and on Resolutions shall be composed of one of the delegates from each State to be nominated by such delegates and elected by the Convention at the second session of each annual meeting. A vacancy in any one of these committees shall be filled by the delegates from the unrepresented State. SEC. 22. No one shall be a member of any committee men- tioned in Section 21 unless he be a delegate from a State whose State Convention is an affiliating organization. SEC. 23. The Executive Committee shall appoint annually one of its members, whose term does not expire the current year, to ORGANIC DOCUMENTS 27 act as an additional member of the Committee on Nominations, without the right to vote. SEC. 24. The President shall appoint all committees, and shall fill any vacancy in any committee, except when otherwise pro- vided. SEC. 25. The word " State " means any State, Territory, dis- trict, or dependency of the United States. ARTICLE V COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS SECTION i. On its application and the approval of the Conven- tion by a two-thirds vote, any general denominational missionary, educational, or philanthropic organization, whose constituency resides in the States represented in the Convention, may become a cooperating organization. v \ SEC. 2. A cooperating organization must agree: (a) To insert in its by-laws a provision that all accredited delegates to each annual meeting of the Northern Baptist Conven- tion shall be annual members of the organization ; (b) To regulate its expenditures in accordance with a budget to be annually approved by the Convention; (c) To solicit funds only on the approval of the Convention, or on the approval of the Finance Committee given between the annual meetings of the Convention as provided by Article IV, Section 2, Subdivision (c) ; (d) To incur no indebtedness without the previous approval of the Convention, or of the Finance Committee as provided by Article IV, Section 2, Subdivision (c) ; (e) To submit its books and accounts to the inspection of the Finance Committee; to prepare its budgets and to make its financial reports in such form as that committee shall request. SEC. 3. The Convention, through its Executive and Finance Committees, will aid in raising funds needed to carry on the work of each cooperating organization. SEC. 4. Cooperation between the Convention and a cooperating organization shall be terminated on the expiration of a year after written notice of a desire to terminate cooperation shall have been given by one to the other. 28 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION ARTICLE VI BOARDS SECTION i. (a) There shall be a Board of Education, to be composed of twenty-one persons, to be appointed by the Executive Committee. Of the twenty-one first appointed, seven shall serve for three years, seven shall serve for two years, and seven shall serve for one year, and thereafter seven shall be appointed an- nually by the Executive Committee to serve for three years. Vacancies caused by the death, resignation, or refusal to act of any of the twenty-one may be filled by the Executive Com- mittee. (b) It shall be the duty of this Board to develop the educa- tional convictions of our churches, to make a comprehensive study of our educational problems, and to foster such denominational institutions and denominational ministries in other schools of learning as the Board may approve. (c) The Board may adopt by-laws for its government, elect its own officers and define their duties, and shall report annually to the Convention. SEC. 2. To each annual meeting of the Convention the Execu- tive Committee shall present the names of persons to be appointed by the Convention to fill such vacancies in the Board of Managers of the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board of the Northern Baptist Convention as shall exist at the annual meeting of said Board. ARTICLE VII AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS SECTION I. On its application and the approval of the Con- vention any Baptist State Convention in any State represented in the Convention may become an affiliating organization. SEC. 2. An affiliating organization should agree : (a) To adopt the following statement of its objects : To promote in the State of the preaching of the gospel, ministerial and general education, the establishment, main- tenance, and assistance of Baptist churches and Bible schools, and the care of worthy pastors, their wives or widows, and their dependent children. ORGANIC DOCUMENTS 2Q To give expression to the opinions of its constituency upon moral, religious, and denominational matters, to promote denom- inational unity and efficiency in efforts for the evangelization of the world, to support earnestly the work of cooperating organiza- tions of the Northern Baptist Convention, and by affiliation with that Convention to promote its plans and work. (b) To provide for the promotion of these objects by thorough and efficient organization. (c) To appoint an Apportionment Committee whose duty it shall be to receive from the Apportionment Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention the statement of the amount ap- portioned by the latter to the State, to add to that amount the sum adopted by the State Convention for all other objects, and to apportion the aggregate amount equitably among the churches of the State and to notify each church of the amount apportioned to it. District Secretaries of the organizations co- operating with the Northern Baptist Convention and the State Secretary shall be advisory members of the State Apportionment Committee. (d) To employ such agents and methods and to take such other action to carry the apportionment into effect as to it may seem wise. ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS SECTION i. On all ballots for officers and for members of the Executive Committee there shall be reserved a space after the name of the nominee for each office, and after the names of the nominees for the Executive Committee, in which spaces may be inserted the name or names of any other person or persons to be voted for, as the case may be. SEC. 2. (a) When any motion is pending before the Conven- tion, its consideration may be temporarily suspended by a motion that a vote on the subject shall be taken by the delegations from the States, and such a motion shall be deemed carried when sup- ported by one-fifth of the delegates voting; and upon report of the result by States a motion to concur shall be in order ; and in case it shall be decided in the affirmative, the matter shall be deemed settled; but if the Convention votes not to concur, the 3O A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION matter shall be dismissed from further consideration at that meet- ing of the Convention. (b) On a vote by States, each State shall be entitled to one vote, and an additional vote for every ten thousand members of Baptist churches within the State in affiliation with the Northern Baptist Convention. (c) The vote of each State shall be determined by the majority of its delegates voting. (d) A motion to vote by States shall be in order at any time while a motion is pending, shall not be debatable, and shall not close debate on the original motion. (e) For use at each annual meeting the Statistical Secretary shall prepare a statement of the number of votes to which each State shall be entitled according to the best denominational statistics available. The statement thus prepared, when approved by the Executive Committee, shall be authoritative. ARTICLE IX AMENDMENTS These By-laws may be amended at any annual meeting of the Convention, either on the recommendation of the Executive Com- mittee, given at a previous session of the Convention at which such amendment is submitted, or after written notice of the pro- posed amendment, given at a previous annual meeting and signed by at least twenty-five delegates, representing not less than five States. STANDING RESOLUTIONS DEBATABLE MOTIONS IN WRITING Resolved, That all debatable motions shall be reduced to writ- ing, and be in the hands of the Recording Secretary before a vote by the Convention. (Annual 1913, pages i, 24.) NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF COMMITTEES Resolved, That when the time for electing committees at the first afternoon session is reached, a recess of thirty minutes shall ORGANIC DOCUMENTS 3! be taken to allow the State delegations to meet, organize, and nominate to the Convention the committeemen on the Committees on Order of Business, on Nominations, on Selection of a Place for the Next Annual Meeting, on Resolutions, and on Reports. The members of the Committee on Nominations shall be nomi- nated by the State delegations by ballot. That, at the close of the recess, the Recording Secretary of the Convention shall call the roll of States; that each State chair- man, from his place on the floor, shall announce the names of the committeemen nominated to the Convention (a list of names having previously been sent to the Secretary's table) ; and that then the Convention shall proceed to the election of the commit- tees thus nominated. Immediately after the election, it shall be the duty of the Presi- dent to announce the rooms in which the several committees so elected shall meet on adjournment of the session. The convener of each committee shall be the committeeman from the State in which the Convention is meeting, or, in his absence, the com- mitteeman from the State in which the Convention met the pre- vious year. , . _ n . (Annual 1912, pages 54, 84, 85.) (Annual 1914, pages 7, 19.) PRESENTATION OF OUTSIDE CAUSES Resolved, That the presentation at meetings of the Convention of causes other than those relating to the work of the Convention and its cooperating organizations be permitted only upon recom- mendation of the Executive Committee. (Annual 1912, pages 177, 180.) PROCEDURE IN A VOTE BY STATES Resolved, Whenever a vote by States is ordered, as provided in the By-laws, either of two undebatable motions shall be in order : ( i ) That the debate now close, that the Convention recess for fifteen minutes to allow the State delegations to meet in their designated places on the floor of the Convention to take the vote, 32 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION and that at the close of the recess the vote be reported to the Secretary, recorded, and announced, or, (2) That the vote by States be reported, recorded, and an- nounced at a certain hour at some future session of the Con- vention, that the State delegations meet at the close of this ses- sion of the Convention, in their designated places on the floor, and either then and there take their vote, or provide for further discussion within the delegations at their convenience at some other time and place, before the hour of reporting the vote as above provided. In case the second of these motions should prevail, debate on the main question may continue at the pleasure of the Convention, but a motion to close the debate shall be in order at any time. When the vote by States has been reported, recorded, and an- nounced, the motion to concur, provided for in the By-laws, shall follow immediately without the intervention of any other busi- ness and without discussion. RULES OF ORDER Resolved, That, beginning with the Convention in 1914, " Robert's Rules of Order " be the manual of parliamentary prac- tice for the guidance of the Convention in all matters of pro- cedure not prescribed in the By-laws. (Annual 1913, pages 153, 154.) IV THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONVENTION By Hon. Edward S. Clinch I THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONVENTION N the very beginning of its existence the Convention, in 1907, adopted a Preamble to declare why the Convention was formed, what its general functions were to be, and its attitude toward the local church and all other denominational organiza- tions. This Preamble found expression substantially in a Declara- tion adopted in 1910, which without change has remained to the present time. The Declaration is : The Northern Baptist Convention declares its belief in the independence of the local church, and in the purely advisory nature of all denominational organizations composed of representatives of churches. It believes also that, in view of the growth of the Baptist denomination and its exten- sion throughout our country, there is need for an organization to serve the common interests of the entire denomination as State and district organizations serve their respective constituencies. By this Declaration the Convention, the greatest denomina- tional organization in the North, has committed itself to the maintenance of the independence of each Baptist church, to the principle that no denominational organization has governmental authority over any denominational body composed of representa- tives of churches, and to the necessity for the coordination of all denominational agencies in order to secure a maximum of ef- ficiency. At no time since the Convention was organized has it infringed upon any part of its Declaration. The Act of Incorporation, the by-laws, and the seal, jointly and severally, confirm and safeguard every phrase in the Declara- tion. The Act of Incorporation confers upon the Convention the power to adopt such by-laws in relation to its organization and the management of its corporate business and affairs as it shall 35 36 A MAX UAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION think proper, and the by-laws it has adopted have been framed with absolute loyalty to the Declaration. The control of the Convention is given to the churches, every one of which may send delegates in proportion to its member- ship. State Conventions and the boards of managers of the co- operating organizations are represented in the membership of the Convention, but their representatives constitute a minority. The American Baptist Home Mission Society, the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, the Woman's American Baptist For- eign Mission Society, and the American Baptist Publication So- ciety are the cooperating organizations of the Convention, with the privilege on the part of each of them and of the Convention to terminate cooperation on the expiration of a year after notice by either to the other of a desire to terminate it. By the action of each of the cooperating organizations all delegates to the Convention are members of the cooperating organizations, and thus control over the latter is given to the churches to the same extent as is control of the Convention, and there is secured the closest cooperation between the Convention and its cooperat- ing organizations that can be effected. The Convention by-laws provide also that on its approval any State Convention on its application may become an affiliating organization. Under this provision every State Convention in the Northern States has become an affiliating organization, and has agreed to support earnestly and by thorough and efficient organ- ization to promote the plans and work of the cooperating organ- izations of the Convention. The Convention seal has upon its face the words " Freedom, Union, Service." They typify the freedom of the individual and of the churches ; the union of individuals and churches in a common service to our Lord and Master. Thus through its Declaration, by-laws, and seal does the Con- vention proclaim its devotion to the independence of the indi- vidual and of the church, and to the cooperation of all individ- uals, and of all churches, and of all denominational organizations in service in the promotion of the interests of the kingdom of God. Xot only is the Convention under the control of the dele- gates from the churches, but the right of these delegates to select THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONVENTION 3/ the officers and Executive Committee of the Convention is pro- tected by a procedure which comes as close to government by pure democracy as can be devised for a delegated body. This right is secured by the by-law which provides for the selection of a Committee on Nominations of Officers and for vacancies in the Executive Committee. This by-law was designed to prevent any combination to secure or control nominations. No one can be a member of this committee who is a salaried executive officer or an employee of a cooperating or an affiliating organization other than pastor, or who is a member of the board of managers of a cooperating organization, or a member of the Executive Committee of the Convention, with the single exception that to act in an advisory capacity a member of a board of managers or a member of the Executive Committee may be appointed a member of the Committee on Nominations without the right to vote. A member of the latter committee is elected by each State delegation by ballot, the State delegations being called together for that purpose at the first afternoon session of the Convention. It cannot be known who will constitute the Committee on Nomina- tions until after the State delegations meet and make their nomina- tions thereto. Thus combinations are made impracticable. To provide for the continuity of the work of the standing com- mittees of the Convention, each committee is so divided that the terms of one-third of its members expire each year. This permits the introduction into its membership of new members who, on the one hand, can profit by the experience of the others and, on the other, can introduce new plans, methods, and thoughts. It also enables the committee to provide intelligently plans to cover pro- longed periods. The by-laws provide also for an Executive Committee com- posed of the officers, of those who have served as presidents of the Convention during the three years preceding the last annual meeting, and thirty others of whom fifteen must be laymen. The thirty are divided into three equal classes, so that each year one-third of the number and others to fill vacancies are nomi- nated by the Committee on Nominations and elected by the Con- vention. No one other than an officer is eligible to membership in the Executive Committee after service thereon for six con- secutive years, until the expiration of one year after the termina- 38 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION tion of such service. This committee is charged with the very important duty of caring for the interest of the Convention be- tween its meetings. There is a committee of the Convention called the Board of Education whose duty is to develop the educational convictions of our churches, to make a comprehensive study of our educa- tional institutions and denominational ministries in other schools of learning as the board may approve. There is no denominational interest nor any interest connected with the kingdom of God which could not be served either by an existing committee of the Convention or by a new committee or other agency which the Convention may create or appoint. The powers conferred by law, by the action of its cooperating and affiliating organizations, and by its own actions are equal to any denominational situation or demand upon the denomination that can be presented. Loyalty to the churches, loyalty to the coop- erating and affiliating organizations, loyalty to the Convention, and an all-embracing loyalty to our Lord and Master are all that are needed to make the Northern Baptist Convention and its associated bodies the most potent factors in the promotion of his work that this country and indeed the world has ever seen. What has the structure of the Northern Baptist Convention accomplished thus far? What can it say in justification of its creation and its continuance ? It has created among the Baptists within its territory a degree of unity that previously had not existed. Its constituency is conscious of a tie that has bound it in a compact body that has demonstrated its strength. It has become the mouthpiece of over one million three hundred thousand Baptists and of over ten thousand churches in respect to great denominational, na- tional, State, and moral questions; it has created a greater in- terest on the part of Baptists in the questions which concern them ; it has brought into greater harmony the cooperating organ- izations with a resulting increase in efficiency and a greater economy ; it has increased the efficiency of the State Conventions, and has brought them into cooperative relations between them- selves, with an assurance that each State Convention is recog- nized as the great missionary force in the State and the agent of the cooperating organizations in their work in the State. THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONVENTION 39 The Convention is a great national organization of Baptists which stands ready to grapple with any question which may con- front the whole or any part of its constituency. It is also a great advisory body, to which any part of its constituency may look for a decision in any denominational matter, or indeed in any matter in which as a Christian body the denomination may or should be interested. V THE COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS THE COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS DIRECTORY OF COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY, Ford Building, Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. Home Secretary, John Y. Aitchison. Treasurer, Ernest S. Butler. Foreign Secretaries, James H. Franklin and Joseph C. Robbins. THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY, 23 East Twenty-sixth Street, New York City. Secretary, Charles L. White. Treasurer, Frank T. Moulton. AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY, 1701 Chestnut Street, Philadel- phia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, Guy C. Lamson. Treasurer, WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY, 2969 Vernon Ave- nue, Chicago, 111. Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Katherine S. Westfall. Treasurer, Mrs. John Nuveen. WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY. Home Secretary, Miss Eleanor Mare, 450 East Thirtieth Street, Chicago, 111. Foreign Secretary, Miss Nellie G. Prescott, Ford Building, Boston, Mass. Associate Foreign Secretary, Miss Helen Hunt, Ford Building, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Miss Alice E. Stedman, Ford Building, Boston, Mass. ' 43 44 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY By J. Y. Ailchison, D. D., Home Secretary THE sailing of five young men to foreign lands in 1812 for missionary service constituted the founding of the foreign mission enterprise of American Christianity. Among these was Adoniram Judson. On the long voyage to India his study of the New Testament led to a change of conviction regarding baptism, and accordingly he offered his services as a missionary to American Baptists. His challenge in 1814 called into exis- tence " The General Missionary Convention of the Baptist De- nomination in the United States of America for Foreign Mis- sions." In 1846 the name of this organization was changed to " American Baptist Missionary Union," and in 1910 the present name of " American Baptist Foreign Mission Society " was adopted. Since 1826 the headquarters of the Society have been in Boston, Massachusetts. The by-laws of the Society state that the purpose of the organization is to diffuse the knowledge of the religion of Jesus Christ by means of missions throughout the world. The Foreign Mission Society of Northern Baptists is one of the largest and most influential in the realm of Protestantism. A hundred years ago only $1,059 represented the financial expendi- tures for Baptist foreign missions, whereas during the past five years the receipts in support of this work have exceeded one mil- lion dollars annually. The work of the Society covers a vast territory in the non- Christian world. Ten mission fields are maintained. These are located in Japan, the Philippines, East China, West China, South China, Burma, Assam, Bengal-Orissa, South India, and Belgian Congo, thus forming practically a great missionary belt across the densely populated area of heathenism. In these there are 127 regularly maintained stations with missionaries in residence and 3,237 out-stations or preaching-places. In addition, by a cooperative arrangement, the Society since 1835 has been assist- THE COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS 45 ing the Baptist cause in Europe, where missions are maintained in eight European countries. The missionaries supported by the Society to-day number 688 (including those of the Woman's Society), and these are assisted by 6,673 native workers. In Europe 2,480 workers were in service in 1914, but what effect the war has had upon their number has not yet been determined. The work is as varied as it is extensive. Of primary importance is evangelism, and the results constitute one of the marvels of foreign missions. In non-Christian lands to-day 183,505 church-members are enrolled in 1,732 regularly organized Bap- tist churches, of which 1,027, or fifty-nine per cent, are self- supporting. It is a noteworthy fact, and one productive of deep gratification, that among the Karen people in Burma the per- centage of self-supporting Baptist churches is greater than in any State of the Northern Baptist Convention. "In 1916 the missionaries on all fields baptized 12,355 converts, and the total number of baptisms since the work began has exceeded 625,000. The service of the medical missionary is of value in that it visualizes the Great Physician, and at the same time opens the door to the evangelist with his healing gospel for the diseases of the soul. Fifty-one missionary physicians, assisted by 133 native nurses and other helpers, give their full time to this im- portant work. Twenty-one hospitals and forty-eight dispen- saries constitute the equipment for their service. More than 83,000 patients received medical and surgical treatment during the past year, and plans are now being made for a great advance in this phase of the Society's work. Second in importance to evangelism comes the work of Chris- tian education. The educational work is conducted in six col- leges, twenty-nine theological seminaries and training-schools, and 2,602 schools of all grades, with a total enrolment of over 85,000 pupils. More than 89,000 pupils receive religious instruc- tion in 2,301 Sunday Schools. The missionaries have trans- lated the Bible, in whole or in part, into thirty dialects and languages. Three printing and publication plants are connected with the Society, where Bibles, periodicals, hymn-books, text- books, and other literature are printed. Another important work is that of industrial training. Along with the necessity of leading men and women to Christ exists 46 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION the need of providing means of self-support. Conversion is only the first step in the development of a Christian character. Furthermore, not only must individual character be transformed through the redeeming power of the gospel, but a Christian civilization must be established in the native community. Other- wise, the new converts, surrounded by their former heathen environment, find it painfully difficult to maintain their new and childlike faith amid such evil influences. Thus industrial training becomes a stern necessity, not only for the character development of the new believer, but also to make possible, at an early date, a self-supporting church through providing remunerative employment for its members. Various occupations are taught, dependent on climatic conditions and other features of the environment. In Africa, at the Kimpese training-schools, converts learn brickmaking, carpentry, typewriting, and tailor- ing. In China they are taught gardening, lacemaking, and weav- ing. In British India bookbinding, printing, iron work, and carpentry receive attention, while surveying and engineering are taught in the Philippine Islands Mission. Considerable atten- tion is given in all fields to agricultural training. Obviously a work as large, as many-sided, and as varied as this needs considerable material equipment to make it effective and to guarantee permanent results. Large sums have been in- vested in equipment. Missionaries must have suitable homes; schools must have buildings, apparatus, and libraries; preaching halls and chapels must be built; doctors must have dispensaries and hospitals ; and printing-presses must be housed. Then there are the touring outfits, carts, ponies, tents, gospel wagons, launches, motor-cycles, and many other things, all needed for carrying the message to the people in cities and villages, moun- tains and jungles. There are many buildings in the missions as good as can be found anywhere in the Orient, like the Cush- ing Memorial Buildings of Rangoon Baptist College, or the American Baptist Mission Press at Rangoon, or the Ashmore Theological Seminary at Swatow, China, or the new Tabernacle in Tokyo, Japan. Unfortunately not all the work is as well cared for, lack of money making it impossible to provide the mis- sionaries with the equipment which is absolutely essential to the largest use of their abilities and opportunities. At least ten THE COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS 47 million dollars will be needed by the end of the Five Year Program, March 31, 1921, to equip the present work on the foreign field as it ought to be. The administration of this great enterprise is placed in the hands of a Board of Managers of twenty-eight members, nine of whom are appointed each year. The plans and policies of the Board are carried out under the direction of the executive of- ficers. At the present writing these are six in number. AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY By Guy C. Lamson, D. D., General Secretary THE American Baptist Publication Society is the second oldest of our great general denominational organizations. It was organized in 1824 in Washington, D. C., to print tracts to send into the destitute regions. In 1826 its headquarters were re- moved to Philadelphia. The Society owns its own headquarters, one of the finest office buildings in Philadelphia. The printing plant of the Society, a modern six-story building, is located in a different section of the city, and is fully equipped to do first- class work. The work of the Society is carried on through two great de- partments: a Publishing Department and an Extension Depart- ment. The Publishing Department is responsible for the pub- lication of the Sunday School literature and periodicals of the denomination. It issues thirty-five Sunday School periodicals, with an annual output of approximately sixty million copies. In addition to the publication of Sunday School literature the So- ciety publishes an average of about fifty books a year, and a very large number of pamphlets. About five thousand different tracts are published in fifteen tongues. Several millions are circulated annually. The Society also prints the Bible as a whole and by portions in English and in nine other tongues. The entire profits from the Department of Publication are turned over to the Extension Department for its work. Arrange- ments have now been made whereby in the future a portion of 48 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION the profits of each year will be paid into the treasuries of the various State Conventions for use by their boards in their extension work. The Extension Department carries all the varied activities of the Society's work in the field, such as colportage; Sunday School, both missionary and educational ; chapel car work ; social service work, including temperance and rural life work ; vacation Bible Schools; and Bible distribution. The Society began its extension work on a systematic basis in 1840, when it employed colporters to distribute its literature. The colportage idea was later adopted by other bodies. In the colportage work at the present time the Society uses about sixty colportage wagons and outfits, twenty-three automobiles, and three gospel boats. The automobiles are used in sections of the country where roads are good and distances great. Some are equipped with sleeping accommodations for the worker in charge. Some are equipped with tents. A few colportage wagons are equipped with living accommodations for a worker and his wife. They have cooking and storage facilities, and sleeping quarters. The boats are equipped to be the homes of the workers while in service. The Sunday School work of the Society is varied and exten- sive. For many years a specialty was made of the organization of new Sunday Schools in unchurched territory. The workers of the Society have organized more than sixteen thousand Sun- day Schools. In recent years the policy has been changed from one of indiscriminate organization to that of selected organiza- tion, and the workers of the Society are told to organize only in those places where there are prospects of permanency. With the development of Sunday School missionary work has grown the necessity for an educational campaign among schools already in existence. The educational work among Sunday Schools has been greatly extended in recent years. In harmony with the Committee on Religious Education of the Northern Baptist Convention the Society has promulgated its educational plans. By means of institutes over two hundred thousand Bap- tist Sunday School officers and teachers are reached for training each year. A force of directors in each State Convention, with three exceptions, is bringing the highest educational ideals to the remotest school. Correspondence Teacher-training Courses are THE COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS 49 also given to those living in districts where teacher-training classes are impracticable. The Society is the responsible agency for conducting the young people's work of the denomination, and executes its plans in harmony with the Young People's Council. The Society owns and operates seven chapel cars. It was the first organization in the world to build a real chapel car. They are built like Pullman cars, with living quarters in one end for the worker and his family, and the rest fitted up as a meeting-place, in which there are seating accommodations for from sixty-five to ninety-seven, according to the car. One of the cars is equipped with a baptistery. The last one built is all steel, costing, equipped, about twenty-two thousand five hundred dol- lars. It is the largest of its kind in existence, and is a credit to the denomination. Through its Social Service Department the Society seeks to organize adult classes and brotherhoods, to help churches broaden their activities and relationships, and to train workers for dis- tinctive lines of religious work. In connection with this depart- ment the work of the Daily Vacation Bible School was organized in 1916. At present Daily Vacation Bible Schools are being held in more than half the States. Early in 1918 the Society launched its work for Rural Life and Community Betterment, and also its denomination's temperance campaign, destined to associate all of our Baptist churches with the organized temper- ance agencies of the. country in the definite endeavor to make the nation dry. Through its Bible work the Society is putting the Scriptures into fifty thousand destitute homes yearly. The Society can now furnish Scriptures to other Bible agencies in America in certain foreign tongues, while the missionary agencies of our own denomination are freely supplied with all copies that are needed for distribution. 5O A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY By Charles L White, D. D., Secretary E missionaries of The American Baptist Home Mission So- 1 ciety, which was organized in 1832, began their work in the Mississippi Valley and followed the settlers as the frontier moved westward. They established churches, built meeting-houses, started schools, organized colleges, and laid the foundations of a permanent Christian civilization. Nearly every Convention west of the Mississippi grew out of churches started and fostered by the Society. After eighty-six years its wide-spread work stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is carried forward in every State, of the Union except New Mexico, and reaches into Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, It has built or aided in the erection of more than three thousand meeting-houses, and has recently been giving attention to the improvement of Baptist churches in educational centers. Its work among fifteen Indian tribes has been very fruitful. It has expended during the last fifty- five years $6,000,000 in building, equipping, and maintaining educational institutions in the Southern States to prepare in- tellectual and spiritual leadership for the Negro race. Its schools for the Indians, foreign-speaking groups in Chicago, Cleveland, and New York City, and in Cuba, Porto Rico, and Mexico have been strongly maintained. This Society is an interstate organization for doing the home mission work of the Northern Baptists, and has been a strong national agent in building the denomination. Its inter- national influence reaches to every corner of the earth, to which men and women won to Christianity through the efforts of its devoted missionaries have returned home to spread the influence of their new ideals. Its missionaries are laboring among twenty- seven different foreign groups who have colonized in America, and some of their converts, returning to their peoples across the seas, established churches of like faith to those which they THE COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS 5! entered in America, and which have proved to be the begin- nings of great denominational developments in distant nations. The Society has been a wise adviser, furnishing consecrated guides to those who have been passing through the wilderness of many spiritual adventures. It has been an efficiency expert, whose agents have seen the vision of the whole country as they have planned for the work of all the Conventions and city mission so- cieties. It has stood as the loving parent, equally interested in every member of the large and widely scattered family, assisting one son with the gift of another son and uniting all in the education and success of the younger children coming later to their strength. It has been the strong bank with firm lines of credit, maintaining the even distribution of missionary currency that gives stability to all church enterprises. It has assisted in the day of harvest, and when the drought was long it provided for the distress of the workmen. It has always been a trans- continental transportation company, sending leaders and supplies for the opening of new areas and for the intensive development of older States. It has been a national promoter, watching for opportunities hitherto unseen or neglected, passing into new sec- tions, and entering open doors to Cuba, Porto Rico, Central America, congested foreign centers, newly irrigated regions, needy rural communities, mining- and lumber-camps, and striving to make all into the garden and city of God. It has been the great physician, taking supplies of medicine and food to the regions where the inhabitants were in sudden want because of fires, earthquakes, floods, and storm. It has been a distributer of workmen where most needed. It has been the architect who has drawn many of the plans of a Christian system of education for backward peoples, for church edifice extension, and for the multiplying work of those many city and State mission societies with which it has fruitfully cooperated. The country-wide, uni- versal, cosmopolitan, interorganizational, and inspirational char- acter of its work has marked its growth during nearly nine decades. Every national problem, whether educational, social, economic, or spiritual, is a home mission problem. What the Society has been, it is now, and, in a larger sense, must be in coming years. 52 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY By Mrs. S. C Jennings THE Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society works among the non-Christian women and children of home mis- sion fields. The work is conducted in three departments the home, the school, and the Christian center. Trained women missionaries work in the homes. They carry practical sugges- tions for daily living, gather children into industrial and Sunday Schools, temperance, missionary, and Bible bands. Through the children mothers are persuaded to attend mothers' and Bible classes, and eventually whole families unite with the church. In the homes trained missionary nurses minister to soul and body, giving lessons in sanitation, hygiene, preparation of food, and care of children. The immigrant mother is taught English by the aid of simply worded Bible stories. The missionary creates the desire for education, which is met by employing teachers in schools among Negroes, Indians, Orien- tals, and Spanish-speaking peoples. From kindergartens through primary, high-school, industrial, college, normal, and missionary training the pupil is given Bible study with all the other work. The truths taught are applied to daily living. Every school in which there are older students serves as a community center of Christian helpfulness. Last year Spelman Seminary graduated from the high school forty-four young women, six of whom had taken the college preparatory course, and thirty-eight the teachers' preparatory training-course. Eight graduated from the teachers' professional course, one took her B. A., and one a diploma in advanced piano. Five nurses finished the three-year course. Fifty-seven secured certificates of proficiency from in- dustrial courses, and eight from the preparatory music course. The Baptist Missionary Training School in Chicago is equipped to prepare women for every phase of Christian service. The three years' course is full of essentials for the workman in present-day kingdom service. Ninety students are enrolled, THE COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS 53 twenty are now ready for appointment under this Board. All over the world are its graduates. Changing conditions of population have placed the emphasis on different fields. The increase in numbers of trained ministers and laymen and women among the Negroes of the South is releasing our white missionaries for other fields. This is true also of the alien populations from Northern Europe. To-day the Society is emphasizing work among foreign-speaking peoples from Southern and Eastern Europe and in Latin America. Because of the conviction that Christian centers best serve the mixed populations in large cities, the Society is cooperating in such centers in Atlanta, Ga., Louisville, Ky., Brooklyn, N. Y., New York City, and Chicago. Last summer the center at Aiken Institute, Chicago, had the largest Daily Vacation Bible School in the United States. Plans are being made for cooperation in other centers in the near future. The Society grants assistance in the erection of buildings and maintains a missionary super- intendent, trained nurse, and kindergartner in each center. Latin America also demands special attention. The unschooled masses of Cuba cry out for education, and only ten teachers have been sent at any one time. In Porto Rico, where excellent public schools exist, the call is for missionaries. At Ponce the Day Nursery is opening hearts and homes to the missionaries, while the Hostel at Rio Piedras provides a Christian home for the normal school girls, who would otherwise live in Catholic families. Mexico's needs call for relief, but the law of the country, pro- hibiting religious teaching by foreigners, limits the service of the Society. Trained native teachers are in the schools, and Amer- ican and native nurses in the new hospital at Puebla. In Central America the crowd is hungry to hear the gospel. This Society began work two years ago in the appointment of Miss Blackmore at Managua, Nicaragua; the same year two other missionaries went out to San Salvador, and because of the ignorance of the people felt compelled to hold some day classes. Four day-schools have been opened during the year, but without enough teachers or adequate buildings or equipment. The out- standing needs are schools and trained native teachers. The war has created a new responsibility, which the Society is meeting in cooperation with the War Commission. Baptist 54 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION women in the cities near cantonments join in a survey to deter- mine the most efficient methods of providing home and social privileges for the men in camp. The Society is ready to respond to all calls for such service. The Society is represented by three hundred and twenty-five missionaries and teachers in forty States, District of Columbia, Alaska, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, and Central America. In addition to the Alaskan Indians and the Spanish-speaking peo- ples, they minister to Poles, French, Germans, Syrians, Italians, Jews, Scandinavians, Slavic nationalities, Indians, Negroes, Chinese, Japanese, and Russians. WOMAN'S AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY By Miss Nellie G. Prescott, Foreign Secretary THE scope of this Society is stated in its constitution, as fol- lows: " The object of this Society shall be the elevation and Christianization of women and children in foreign lands." The Society has carried on its work forty-seven years in Oriental countries. The means and methods used are also de- scribed in the constitution, as follows : " This object it shall seek to accomplish by engaging the earnest, sympathetic cooperation of the women of our Baptist churches in sending out and support- ing women missionaries to do evangelistic, educational, and medical work on the foreign fields, in developing and employing native Christian teachers and Bible women, physicians and nurses, and in erecting such buildings as may be deemed necessary for the prosecution of the work." The Society operates in five countries British India, China, Japan, Philippine Islands, and Africa ; in ten mission fields : South India, Bengal-Orissa, Assam, Burma, South, East, and West China, Japan, Philippine Islands, and Belgian Congo. It has one hundred and ninety missionaries under appointment, four-fifths of whom are always at their work, while the remain- ing one-fifth are at home for reasons of health or advanced years, THE COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS 55 or on regular furlough. In addition there are about eighty mis- sionaries of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society who have requested and have been granted appropriations from the Woman's Society and who are making a valuable contribution to our work for women and children. These missionaries make their influence felt through one hundred and six boarding-schools, sixty-seven day-schools, seven hundred and sixty-five village schools, and eight hundred and sixty-two Sunday Schools. They direct the work of nearly three hundred Bible women and come into close touch with at least thirty-six thousand Oriental boys and girls. They are at work in twenty-six hospitals and dispensaries, bringing help and healing each year to over seventy thousand men, women, and children. The Woman's Foreign Mission Society feels more and more strongly that its object will be most quickly attained if it aims to develop Christian women in the Orient who shall themselves be able to teach and train their own people along all Christian lines. To this end a constant effort is being made to send out young women who shall, through their training, preparation, ex- perience, and Christian culture and life give promise of exem- plifying the finest types of our trained Christian womanhood. College or normal graduates are sought who have supplemented this general preparation by actual teaching . experience in our schools, or by further study in Bible schools and seminaries of good standing. Registered trained nurses and physicians, grad- uates from accredited medical schools, are also sought, as are kindergartners and music teachers. The success which has thus far been attained and the influence which is exerted through our work is largely due to these women who have through the years so faithfully and steadily stood for the best that Christian America can offer to women. The purpose of the Society is also being secured through the types of educational work which have been and are being de- veloped. More and more, through committees on the field, the educational problems of the different countries are being studied with a view to coordinating and developing the educational work to meet the real need, and to offer to young women the training that will fit them to adjust themselves to the rapidly .changing conditions in the Orient. The Society has under its charge 56 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN* BAPTIST CONVENTION schools for kindergarten teachers and Bible students; special schools for older women ; normal schools and nurses' training- schools, in addition to the elementary and high schools where the preparation for more advanced work is obtained. Within the last few years, another avenue for higher training has opened through the union schools and colleges which have been established. The Society is actively interested in the Union Christian Colleges for Women in Madras, India, and Nanking, China, and is looking forward to the opening of one in Tokyo, Japan, in April, 1918. The Union Girls' High School, Hangchow, China, is already on a well-established basis, and the Union Normal School for Girls at Chengtu. China, is slowly but steadily growing. Two colleges projected for establishment in the near future are for advanced medical training at Xellore, India, and Shanghai, China. The development of an Oriental literature adequate and suited to children, girls, and women, who are now demanding reading material of all kinds, is also receiving the attention of the Society. Along medical lines a similar effort is being made to train young women to become efficient nurses among their own people. Within the last two years a woman's hospital has been projected for West China, and a portion of the money appropriated, three hospitals promised our Congo Mission, in cooperation with the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, and the Ellen Mitchell Memorial Hospital opened in Maulmain, Burma. To strengthen the medical work the Society sent to the Orient in 1917-1918 four women physicians and two trained nurses. This purpose to train young women for efficient service finds its strongest confirmation in the direct evangelistic work which is now everywhere possible. In nearly every field there is a Bible training-school, graduating each year a group of earnest, consecrated young and older women who have within their hearts the real spirit of Christ and the desire to witness for him. The doors of the Oriental home are open now to those who bring the message, thousands wait for the life-giving story, many die without hearing it. The women of the Orient are the guardians of the religion of their people. To them we must look for the successful attainment of the object of our Society the elevation and Christianization of women and children in the Orient. VI THE CONVENTION BOARDS THE CONVENTION BOARDS THE MINISTERS AND MISSIONARIES BENEFIT BOARD MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Term expires 1918 G. G. Butcher, Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. C. M. Gallup, Providence, R. I. Rev. F. M. Goodchild, New York City. C. H. Prescott, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio. C. E. Prior, Hartford, Conn. E. S. Reinhold, Chester, Pa. Rev. P. C. Wright, Hartford, Conn., Recording Secretary. Term expires W. G. Brimson, Chicago, 111. A. K. . Van Deventer, Elizabeth, N. J. A. M. Harris, Plainfield, N. J. Rev. A. A. Shaw, Brooklyn, N. Y. C. M. Thorns, Rochester, N. Y. Rev. H. J. Vosburgh, Camden, N. J. Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin, New York City. Term expires 1920 F. P. Beaver, Dayton, Ohio. Rev. C. A. Eaton, New York City. Rev. E. P. Farnham, Brooklyn, N. Y. E. H. Haskell, Newton Center, Mass., President. Rev. G. W. Nicholson, Bridgeport, Conn. R. L. Scott, Chicago, 111. Robert Stone, Topeka, Kans. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD FOR SEVEN YEARS 1911-, Tomlinson, E. T., Executive Secretary, New York City. 1917-, Beaver, F. P., Dayton, Ohio. 1916-, Brimson, W. G., Chicago, 111. 1912-1917, Davison, Rev. W. A., Burlington, Vt. 1912-1917, Dimock, G. E., Eliza- beth, N. J. 1911-1916, *Doane, W. H., Cincin- nati, Ohio. 1912-, Dutcher, G. G., Brooklyn, N. Y. 1911-, Eaton, Rev. C. A., New York City. * Deceased. 1912-, Farnham, Rev. E. P., Brook- lyn, N. Y. 1911-, Gallup, Rev. C. M., Provi- dence, R. I. 1912-, Goodchild, Rev. F. M., New York City. 1912-, Harris, A. M., Plainfield, N. J. 1911-, Haskell, E. H., Newton Center, Mass. 1911-1913, *Haslam, Rev. J. H., Philadelphia, Pa. 1911-1912, Humpstone, Rev. John, Brooklyn, N. Y. 59 6O A MAX UAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION 1912-1917, Keller, Luther, Scran- 1915-, Shaw, Rev. A. A., Brooklyn, ton, Pa. N. Y. 1911-1915, MacLeish, Andrew, Glen- 1916-, Stone, Robert, Topeka, Kans. coe, 111. 1911-, Thorns, C. M., Rochester, 1911-1917, *Morehouse, Rev. H. L., N. Y. New York City. 1913- Van Deventer, A. K., Eliza- 1917-, Nicholson, Rev. G. W., beth, N. J. Bridgeport, Conn. 1912-, Vosburgh, Rev. H. J., Cam- 1911-1912, Porter, H. K., Pitts- den, N. J. burgh, Pa. 1913-1916, White, Rev. H. J., Hart- 1912-, Prescott, C. H., Jr., Cleve- ford, Conn. land, Ohio. 1912-1916, Wilson, Rev. J. K., Port- 1914-, Prior, C. E., Hartford, Conn. land, Me. 1911- Reinhold, E. S., Chester, Pa. 1911-, Wright, Rev. P. C., Hartford, 1917-, Scott, R. L., Chicago, 111. Conn. 1911-1914, *Shallenberger, Gen. W. 1916-, Woelfkin, Rev. Cornelius, S., Washington, D. C. New York City. WORK OF THE BOARD By Rev. E. T. Tomlinson, Executive Secretary THE Northern Baptist Convention in May, 1908, appointed a commission of seven " to make inquiry concerning the methods and the extent of aid to aged and disabled Baptist ministers and the dependent widows of deceased ministers; also to make a careful estimate of the number of such persons by classes within the bounds of the Convention for whom provision should be made annually and the aggregate amount required for this purpose." In the following year Dr. Henry L. More- house, the prime mover in the work as well as chairman of the commission, reported that more time was required. Similar reports subsequently were made to the Convention in 1910 and 1911. Just before the meeting in 1911, Doctor Morehouse re- ceived a communication from one who expressed himself deeply interested and offered to give $50,000 toward a fund, provided the denomination would contribute $200,000 additional by Christ- mas of that year. This unknown giver was " A Man from Pennsylvania." Resolutions appreciative of the generous offer were enthusiastically adopted, and the Convention pledged itself to recognize the annual budget of the Benefit Board as one of * Deceased. THE CONVENTION BOARDS 6l the objects of benevolence to be commended by the Convention to the churches. Thereupon the Convention created the Ministers and Mission- aries Benefit Board, to be incorporated in the State of New York. This Board held its first meeting August 15, 1911, when Dr. Henry L. Morehouse was elected president and acting trea- surer; Rev. P. C. Wright, recording secretary; and Rev. E. T. Tomlinson, executive secretary. The Act of Incorporation re- ceived the signature of the governor of New York March 24, 1913. The immediate task before the Board was to secure $200,000 to meet the conditions of the pledge of $50,000. The response of the denomination was immediate. On June 17, 1913, the first grants were voted. These were twelve in number, and have since increased to nearly four hundred. The Board is composed of twenty-one members; the term of service of each member is three years. Seven are nominated annually by the Executive Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention, and are elected by the Convention itself. At present the Board is composed of eleven prominent business men and ten of our foremost ministers. The work of the Board comprises : 1. Care of aged and dependent worthy Baptist ministers and missionaries, their widows and dependent children. 2. Pensions. As soon as proper provision shall have been made for relief work, the Board is prepared to adopt plans pro- viding for retiring pensions. 3. Studies in the present conditions of the Baptist ministry. These have included investigations as to the salaries received, the number of churchless pastors and pastorless churches, the relative number leaving the ministry, where the old ministers are, the conditions of ordination, numbers of students for the min- istry, and various other phases of the life and work of our ministers. At present the grants of the Board have been limited to cases of relief. A careful estimate places the number of those in need at seven hundred out of a total of thirteen thousand ministers, 62 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION missionaries, widows, and orphan children under eighteen years of age. How much is required for a successful prosecution of the work can be estimated from the fact that a modest grant of $20 per month requires $168,000 annually. This amount is the income of three and one-half millions. The budget of the Bene- fit Board is submitted for approval to the Finance Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention, and is in turn submitted by that Committee to the Apportionment Committee of the same body. The latter committee, after approval, assigns the appor- tionments by States, and then the State Apportionment Commit- tees suggest to the churches the amount each should place in its budget. In every State a Committee of Cooperation with the Benefit Board is appointed by the State Convention. Applications from any State are first submitted for approval to the State Coopera- tive Committee. No grant is made until the Benefit Board has formally taken action. A thorough investigation of every ap- plication is made. It is the purpose of the Board to place this work not upon a basis of charity, but of justice and business. At present the Board is making grants in thirty-five States. The committees of the Board are : Executive, Finance,' Applica- tions, and Accounts. The endowment has steadily increased until now in the treasury of the Benefit Board and in the cooperative States it amounts to nearly $2,000,000. The need of increasing this fund is tragically manifest. Among the largest donors have been " A Man from Pennsylvania," Mr. Ambrose Swasey, " A Baptist Layman," Mr. John D. Rockefeller, and others. In honor and loving memory of the man to whom the Benefit Board owes its existence and to which he offered to give nearly all his possessions, the Board has been authorized by the North- ern Baptist Convention to increase its permanent funds by raisins: the Morehouse Memorial Million. THE CONVENTION BOARDS 63 ACT OF INCORPORATION Chapter 107 of the Laws of 1913 of the State of New York. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MINISTERS AND MISSIONARIES BENEFIT BOARD OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION i. William A. Davison, W. Howard Doane, George G. Dutcher, Charles A. Eaton, Edwin P. Farnham, Clarence M. Gallup, Frank M. Goodchild, Arthur M. Harris, Edward H. Haskell, Luther Keller, Andrew MacLeish, Henry L. Morehouse, Charles H. Prescott, Jr., Eli S. Reinhold, William S. Shallen- berger, Charles M. Thorns, Andrew K. Van Deventer, Homer J. Vosburgh, Herbert J. White, Joseph K. Wilson, and Peter C. Wright, and their successors are hereby constituted a body cor- porate with the name, " The Ministers and Missionaries Bene- fit Board of the Northern Baptist Convention," and under that name shall have perpetual succession and shall have the right, either absolutely or in trust, to purchase or to acquire by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise, and to sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of, any real or personal property. SEC. 2. The objects of the corporation shall be to administer its funds for the benefit of worthy Baptist ministers and Baptist missionaries, their wives, or widows, and their dependent chil- dren, either directly or through the medium of related organiza- tions; to cooperate with such organizations in securing, .so far as practicable, uniformity in the methods for the extension of such aid, to promote interest in the better maintenance of the ministry, and to adopt such measures to these ends as may be recommended by the Northern Baptist Convention. SEC. 3. The twenty-one incorporators named in Section I of this act shall be so divided at their first meeting that seven shall serve for three years, seven shall serve for two years, and seven shall serve for one year, and each shall serve until his successor is chosen, and as these respective terms expire seven shall be 64 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION appointed by the Northern Baptist Convention to serve for three years, and said Convention shall have also the power to fill vacancies caused by death, resignation, or otherwise. SEC. 4. The body hereby corporated may elect or appoint such officers as to it may seem proper, and, subject to the confirmation of the Northern Baptist Convention, said body may adopt such by-laws or regulations in relation to its organization, to the man- agement and disposition and sale of its real or personal property, to the duties and powers of its officers, and to the management and conduct of its corporate affairs as it shall think proper, pro- vided such by-laws or regulations are not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of this State. It shall present a written annual report to the Northern Baptist Convention at each of its annual meetings, and the said Convention shall have the power to instruct the body hereby incorporated in respect to its general policies. SEC. 5. Meetings of the corporation may be held at such time or times and at such place or places in the United States as the corporation may determine, subject, however, to the right of the Northern Baptist Convention to fix the time and place of any meeting of the corporation. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. BY-LAWS Of the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board of the Northern Baptist Convention ARTICLE I The executive powers of the corporation shall be vested in the twenty-one incorporators and their successors, who shall be called Managers. ARTICLE II MEETINGS The annual corporate meeting shall be held as soon as prac- ticable after the regular annual meeting of the Northern Baptist THE CONVENTION BOARDS 65 Convention at such time and place as may be designated by the Executive Committee of this Board, unless some other time shall be fixed by the Managers on conference with the Executive Com- mittee of the Northern Baptist Convention. Regular meetings of the Managers shall be held on the second Tuesday in April and November. Special meetings may be called at any time by the President, and shall be called at any time on the written request of any two Managers. Written notice of all meetings shall be mailed at least ten days previous to the meeting. Nine Managers shall constitute a quorum for business, and a less number may adjourn to a definite time. ARTICLE III OFFICERS SECTION i. There shall be a President, Vice-president, Execu- tive Secretary, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer, who shall be elected annually by the Managers. SEC. 2. The President shall preside at all corporate meetings and at meetings of the Managers, shall appoint committees, ex- cept when otherwise provided ; and shall exercise a general super- vision over the affairs of the corporation. SEC. 3. In case of the absence of the President or his inability to serve, his duties shall be performed by the Vice-president. SEC. 4. The Executive Secretary shall conduct the correspon- dence of the Managers, shall send notices by mail to them of the times and places of their meetings, shall prepare a docket of business to be transacted at each meeting, shall keep an accurate record of all grants to beneficiaries and of the sums paid to them, shall inform the chairman of each committee of the names of its members and of the purpose for which it was appointed, and shall prepare the annual report for the Northern Baptist Conven- tion in time for the submission of the report to the Managers be- fore the meeting of the Convention. He shall perform such other duties as the Managers may direct. He shall furnish a copy of the annual report to all the members of the Board. SEC. 5. The Recording Secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings of all meetings in a book provided for the purpose. 66 A -MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION I lc shall also send a copy of the minutes of each meeting to every member of the Board. SEC. 6. The Treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging to the corporation, keep an accurate account thereof and of the sources from which they were derived and deposit them in the name of the corporation in such banks or other places of deposit as the Finance Committee may designate. He shall have the custody of the corporate seal. Payments to beneficiaries, salaries, and other current expenses shall be made on the direction of the Managers. All other payments shall be made only on the written order of the Finance Committee of the Managers. The Treasurer shall give security by corporate bond for the faithful perform- ance of his duties and in such amount as shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Managers. SEC. 7. The President and Executive Secretary are authorized with the written assent of the Finance Committee to execute and deliver in the name of the corporation and under its corporate seal any refunding bond which may be required in order to receive any legacy bequeathed to the corporation and such other instru- ments as may be required by said committee in the management of the corporate investments and in the prosecution of the work. ARTICLE IV COMMITTEES SECTION I. The following committees shall be appointed an- nually: Executive Committee, Finance Committee, Committee of Accounts, Committee on Applications. SEC. 2. The Executive Committee shall consist of seven mem- bers. It shall be the duty of this committee to care for the interest of the corporation between the meetings of the Managers, to at- tend to such other business as may be referred to it. The com- mittee shall keep a careful record of its proceedings and report to the Board. SEC. 3. The Finance Committee shall consist of three mem- bers. It shall have supervision of the funds of the corporation and of the investments and reinvestments thereof; it shall take mea- sures to secure to the corporation all property and funds devised THE CONVENTION BOARDS 67 or given to it. All investments shall be made in such securities as are sanctioned by the laws of New York relating to investments by trustees. At the regular meeting in April and whenever re- quired by the Managers, the committee shall make a full written financial report. SEC. 4. The Committee of Accounts shall consist of two mem- bers, who shall examine the accounts and vouchers of the Trea- surer semiannually, and shall make a written annual report to the Managers at the regular meeting in April. SEC. 5. The Committee on Applications shall consist of five members. It shall be the duty of this committee to examine and report upon all applications for aid, and to ascertain and report whether the amount of any aid granted should be increased, re- duced, or discontinued. . ARTICLE V APPLICATION FOR AID All applications for aid must be made in writing on such forms as shall be provided by the Managers. ARTICLE VI These By-laws may be amended at any meeting of the Man- agers, by a majority of the Board voting affirmatively, provided written notice of the proposed amendment shall have been given at a previous meeting, and also that a copy of the proposed change shall have been mailed to each member of the Board at least ten days previous to the meeting. 68 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Term expires 1918 Trevor Arnett, Chicago, 111. Prof. E. D. Burton, Chicago, 111. Rev. E. R. Curry, Boulder, Colo. E. A. Deeds, Dayton, Ohio. C. A. Marsh, Chicago, 111. Pres. S. E. Price, Ottawa, Kans. Term expires 1919 Pres. C. A. Barbour, Rochester, N. Y. Rev. J. W. Brougher, Los Angeles, Cal. Rev. E. A. Hanley, Rochester, N. Y. Rev. E. W. Hunt, Newton Center, Mass. Prof. Paul Monroe, New York City. Pres. L. W. Riley, McMinnville, Ore. Hon. E. L. Tustin, Philadelphia, Pa. Term expires 1920 Prof. J. S. Brown, Joliet, 111. Rev. A. K. Foster, Brooklyn, N. Y. L. S. Gillette, Minneapolis, Minn. Pres. G. E. Horr, Newton Center, Mass. Prof. A, W. Small, Chicago, 111. Rev. J. M. Stifler, Evanston, 111. Chancellor Frank Strong, Law- rence, Kans. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD FOR SEVEN YEARS 1912- Padelford, Rev. F. W., Ex- ecutive Secretary, Boston, Mass. 1915-, Arnett, Trevor, Chicago, 111. 1911-, Barbour, Pres. C. A., Roches- ter, N. Y. 1912-, Brougher, Rev. J. W., Los Angeles, Cal. 1914-, Brown, Prof. J. S., Joliet, 111. 1911-, Burton, Prof. E. D., Chicago, 111. 1912-1913, Chandler, C. Q., Wichita, Kans. 1911-1914, Clarke, Sidney, Grand Forks, N. Dak. 1915-1916, Colgate, Sidney, Orange, N. J. 1911-, Curry, Rev. E. R., Boulder, Colo. 1916-, Deeds, E. A., Dayton, Ohio. 1912-1914, Ewart, A. W., Pierre, S. Dak. 1911-1915, Faunce, Pres. W. H. P., Providence, R. I. 1912-1913, Fosdick, Rev. H. E., Montclair, N. J. 1912-, Foster, Rev. A. K., Brook- lyn, N. Y. 1912-1915, Franklin, J. E., Colorado Springs, Colo. \ 1912-1913, 1914-, Gillette, L. S., Minneapolis, Minn. 1913-, Hanley, Rev. E. A., Roches- ter, N. Y. 1912-1913, Herget, Rev. J. F., Cin- cinnati, Ohio. 1911-, Horr, Pres. G. E., Newton Center, Mass. 1911-, Hunt, Rev. E. W., Newton Center, Mass. 1913- Marsh, C. A., Chicago, 111. 1913-, Monroe, Prof. Paul, New York City. THE CONVENTION BOARDS 69 1915-, Price, Pres. S. E., Ottawa, 1911-, Strong, Chancellor Frank, Kans. Lawrence, Kans. 1911-, Riley, Pres. L. W., McMinn- 1912-1914, Townson, A. J., Roches- ville, Ore. ter, N. Y. 1914-, Small, Prof. A. W., Chicago, 1912-, Tustin, E. L., Philadelphia, 111. Pa. 1912-, Stilwell, Rev. H. R, Cleve- 1912-1913, Whidden, Rev. H. P., land, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio. 1912-, Stifler, Rev. J. M., Evanston, 1912-1915, Woelfkin, Rev. Cor- 111. nelius, New York City. WORK OF THE BOARD By Rev. Frank W. Padelford, Executive Secretary THE first steps in the creation of a Baptist Board of Educa- tion were taken at the session of the Northern Baptist Con- vention in 1909. The following resolution was adopted by the Convention : Resolved, That a committee be created by this Convention and be instructed to prepare and present one year hence a report on the sub- ject of denominational education. As appointed, this was a notable committee, consisting of many of our leaders in education, including fourteen college presidents, two former presidents, one professor, and two pastors. It was known as the " Committee on Denominational Relation to Edu- cational Institutions." This committee presented a most carefully prepared and elaborate report at the next session of the Convention in 1910. It recommended that the Convention create a Board of Educa- tion and that the Executive Committee appoint a board of nine members. The failure of the Executive Committee to appoint the Board until the following March made it impossible to make any progress during that year. At the Convention in 1911, a by-law was adopted making provision for a permanent Board of Education. During the year 1911-1912 the new Board made a careful survey of the educational situation in the denomination and called an educational conference in Des Moines on the day pre- 7O A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION ceding the Convention. Much interest and enthusiasm was mani- fest at this meeting which marked a distinct point of advance in the development of the educational work of the denomina- tion. The Convention increased the Board to twenty-one mem- bers, correlated it with the American Baptist Education Society, a corporation chartered under the laws of the State of New York in 1888, authorized the appointment of a salaried secretary, and provided a budget of $7,500. This action of the Convention enabled the Board to inaugurate its work on a definite and permanent basis. In November Dr. Frank W. Padelford, of Boston, became its executive secre- tary and the active work of the Board began. The Board consists of twenty-one members, seven of whom are appointed each year by the Executive Committee of the Convention. While there is no by-law which requires it, about one-third of the members are educators, one-third laymen, and one-third ministers. This ratio has been preserved as nearly as possible since 1912. By constitutional arrangement the Board of Education is also the Board of Managers of the American Baptist Education So- ciety, which corporation is entitled to hold funds. This organ- ization acted for many years as the distributer of Mr. Rockefel- ler's educational benefactions. The headquarters of both Boards are at Chicago, where all meetings except the annual are held. The business office is in the Ford Building, Boston. In 1912 when the Board was reorganized and enlarged, Dr. Ernest D. Burton, of Chicago, was made chairman, and this position he still holds. When in 1915 the Board was ready to enter actively into financial campaigns for schools, Dr. John S. Lyon, of Massachusetts, was elected field secretary. In 1917 the financial work of the Board had so increased that Rev. Walter J. Sparks, of Philadelphia, was also elected a field secretary. These men devote all their time to assisting schools and colleges to raise endowment funds. Mr. Frank L. Miner, of Des Moines, has been treasurer from the first. The budget of the Board for the year 1912-1913 amounted to $1,260. For the year 1917-1918 the expense will be approxi- mately $30,000. These figures somewhat indicate the expansion of the Board's activities. Until the year 1917 the expenses of THE CONVENTION BOARDS 7 1 the Board were met by appropriations from the treasury of the Convention, the same being guaranteed by the cooperating missionary Societies. The Board now has an apportionment of S 100,000 to the churches, and its expenses are met directly from this fund. For the first two years the Board devoted most of its energy to an intimate and personal survey of our whole educa- tional situation. Practically every school has been visited, its educational work carefully studied, and its financial conditions examined. The Board determined that when the time came to make financial appeals, it would have a thorough knowledge of the situation and would appeal only for such institutions as proved their soundness and their worth. An immense amount of in- formation has been gathered and the Board knows our entire educational situation intimately. The Board has undertaken to do three distinct things. First, it is endeavoring to create a wider interest in the education of our children on the part of our entire constituency. The first survey revealed indisputable evidence that Baptists do not have a sufficiently strong interest in this matter. The investigation proved that in two hundred and twenty institutions reporting in thirty-four States, the Congregationalists had one student in college for every sixty-nine members in their churches ; the Pres- byterians, one for every seventy members ; the Methodists, one for every one hundred and forty-three; and the Baptists, one student for every one hundred and seventy-six members. Realizing that no body of Christians can make an adequate contribution to the kingdom without trained leadership and an educated constituency, the Board has conceived that its funda- mental task is the development of an educational interest among our people. It has endeavored to create this interest by addresses in churches, associations, and conventions, by frequent articles in the denominational papers and State bulletins, and by wide distribution of leaflets, pamphlets, and books. A rapidly de- veloping interest is now apparent in nearly every section of the Convention territory. No actual survey of the college situation has been made since 1912, and no adequate survey can now 'be made until at least two years after the war has closed. But there is evidence sufficient to prove that an awakening is already taking 72 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION place. The accomplishment of this purpose alone would seem- ingly justify the action of the Convention in creating the Board of Education. As its second task the Board has endeavored to provide for the moral and religious interests of Baptist students in the great State universities. A census of the State universities in 1914 revealed the fact that there were 7,086 Baptist young people registered in our State universities, of whom 4,866 were in the Northern States. These groups run all the way from six students in Ohio University to five hundred and fifty in the University of Michigan. The ministry to the religious life of these future leaders is of the greatest importance. To the accomplishment of this end the Board has adopted various methods adapted to the various situations. It has assisted churches in the employment of pastors qualified to minister to students. It has employed graduate students to assist the pastors. It has employed young men as university pastors to give all their time in connection with the local church, to work among students. Where the num- ber of Baptist students has seemed to warrant it, the last method has been found to be most effective. Until the war withdrew many of our men for our national service, the Board was con- ducting this service in eighteen universities and had stimulated similar work by local churches in five other universities. The Board had nine men and one woman giving entire time to stu- dents, and seven men and women giving part time. These uni- versity pastors and student secretaries were ministering to over four thousand Baptist students. They reached in one way or another over three thousand of them. They had 1,728 enrolled in Bible classes and made over five thousand pastoral calls a year upon them. They counted an average attendance of these stu- dents at morning worship of over eleven hundred. By this ministry the interest of many Baptist young people in their churches has been maintained during this critical period of their lives, many church leaders have been trained, and not a few have been induced to devote their lives to the ministry and missionary service. The results have been beyond measure. Jn the third place the activities of the Board have been directed toward aiding our schools and colleges. Careful surveys have been made in practically every one of our central and western THE CONVENTION BOARDS 73 fields. Presidents and trustees have been assisted in shaping policies. The Board has outlined a campaign to raise at least six million dollars for our schools during the period of the Five Year Program. It has rendered direct personal assistance to at least seventeen schools and colleges in raising funds. In several cases it has taken direct charge of the financial campaigns. It is impossible to state the amount of funds which have been added to our institutions during the period of the life of the Board. No inquiry in this direction has been made. During the first two years of the Five Year Program period there were added to our educational funds $6,968,905, of which $3,916,645 was received by the University of Chicago, $433,838 by our mission schools, and $2,618,421 by our other Baptist schools and colleges at home. There is therefore every indication that with- out counting the funds accruing to the University of Chicago, our other institutions will receive the full six million dollars before the Five Year Program period ends. Last April the Board reported that there were twenty-three schools and col- leges engaged in financial campaigns amounting to $7,450,000. At that time the amount pledged toward this sum was $2,016,919. Since that time several other campaigns have been brought to a successful conclusion. The Board of Education makes no claim to have raised all this money, but there can be no question that the success has been due in large part to the new educational spirit which has been created in the denomination as a result of the activities of the Board. The six million dollars suggested in the Five Year Program do not cover all the financial needs of our schools. The Board reckons these to be not less than $14,000,000, and this amount will be increased by the new needs created by the war. The Board is now laying plans to carry its campaign way beyond the six million dollars, until the many needs of our schools are adequately met. Table Xiimbcr I BAPTIST EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE NORTHERN STATES M 1 .a Q in o j? s "5 o Name Location II Bjl Ucfl c > 2"O 3 3 o i n H'X fa o 6 'K "M 21 K> n E f o e d W o o c . Hamilton, N. Y. ... 38 i 6 8; 7 52 4^ 2 14 I I 3 i 10 i [Included $200,00 [Included in 150,00 217,75 in Colgate $813.66 Universit 23.50 911,24 University] $40,672 of Chicago] 20,890 41,000 . Upland, Pa Chicago . Chicago, 111 . Kansas City, Kans. . Newton Center, Mas Northern Berkeley Rochester . Chicago, 111 .Berkeley, Cal . Rochester, N. Y. . . 22,00 44i,97 13,00 1,814,13 5,825 75,141 8 Theologies 60 99 3 $1,031,72 $3-577.54 $183,528 :, ti i IS Ij 14 ;. 10 ?> l< 44 II 1 4. ;_ J. j-i i; at 2~ at 3Q 30 31 3- Bates Brown Bucknell Carleton Chicago Colby Colgate . Lewiston, Me Providence, R. I. Lewisburg, Pa Xorthfield, Minn. . . Chicago, 111 Waterville, Me. . . . Hamilton, N. Y. ... . Denver, Colo 47 1,13 66 48 3,36 42 1 57 26; 6 7 230 26 [Clo 17 133 227 140 So \H I6 5 2 289 1,122 47 i,i3 66 7,98 4 ^ 58 13 57 15 26; 137 224 340 26 sed] 112 263 393 183 320 564 130 123 308 450 1,122 2 8 3 4 43 3 4 i 5 i i i 2. 22 I I 2O 2O II 46 15 i 2< i; 3 i I i i i 12 IJ 2O *$597,I7 2,120,00 630,00 755.68 11,297,86 368,89 2,000,00 200,00 1,250,00 160,965 2ii,73 127.15 177,00 175.732 211,83 170,00 70,600 9i,97 120,000 251,709 30,000 i.SSS.ooo 105,223 125,000 250,000 517.197 3,460,60! '$885,79 4.581,91 775,30 995,32 22,239,86 873,92 2,225,00 $89,809 332,134 200,000 130,205 1,780,996 99,016 165,000 17,700 110,000 32,419 53,104 I5,i95 *i5,ooo 34,26i 46,096 Denison Francis Shimer . . . Franklin Grand Islarul Granville, Ohio . . . Mt. Carroll, 111. ... Franklin, Ind Grand Island, Neb. Mexico, Mo 1,200,00 79,29 359,37 49,70 98,00 402,00 622,40 30,00 7,03 r22,n 255,95 99,6s 85,000 2,338,000 175,908 Hillsdale Hillsdale, Mich. . . Kalamazoo, Mich. . Keuka Park, N. Y. La Grange, Mo. . . . McMinnville, Ore. . Ottawa, Kans Redlands, Cal Rio Grande, Ohio . Rochester, N. Y. .. Alton, 111 Sioux Falls, S. Dak Columbia, Mo Liberty, Mo Poughkeepsie, N. Y Keuka La Grange 6,000 38,517 33,7i6 31,664 10,500 154,000 27,969 12,318 67,000 37,621 '674,869 Ottawa Redlands Rochester Shurtleff 28 25 I li 40,000 324,129 1,425,172 William Jewell 33 34 [0 35 30 37 3* 3<5 4; 6 43 45 40 9 4'? 50 51 5 40 5- 53 54 " 55 11,532 17,841 1,1-1 266 $27,031,340 $40,230,882 $4,215,109 Seattle, Wash 59 142 15 $121,777 150,000 $7,166 69,548 11,000 * 1 0,000 5,491 27,000 12,062 14,533 16,966 9,250 59,219 7,250 20,335 20,774 174,930 21,500 47,000 7,000 *4,ooo 40,000 St. Paul, Minn. .. Bucknell 1 Lewisburg, Pa Philippi, W Va. . . . 35 200 no 150 no 75 207 76 25 136 250 352 54 225 152 US 175 sed] 124 150 125 296 j It 10 8 ii 8 9 13 6 6 10 12 24 8 13 7 12 12 13 5 7 19 2 25,000 175,000 50,000 200,000 96,000 200,000 JIO.OOO 5O,OOO 230,079 75,000 'Included in 120,000 120,400 360,932 140,000 270,000 60,000 *30,ooo 130,000 125,000 208,125 40,000 30,000 '750,000 $15,000 45,678 3,000 33,510 118,260 15,524 35,000 222,116 21,000 Seminary] 24,400 53,972 130,117 14,000 295,000 22,700 *22,000 70,000 76,OOO 255,262 44,156 52,OOO *200,000 Cedar Valley Chicago Training . . . Coburn Osage, Iowa Chicago, 111 I 8 i i 9 4 i 6 3 12 I 8 2 I 8 6 2 2 6 Waterville, Me Cook Montour Falls, N. Y. Doane Granville, Ohio Hebron Hebron, Me Higgins Charleston, Me Kansas City Training Kansas City, Kans. . Keystone IFactoryville, Pa Maine Central Pittsfield. Me Peddie Phila. Training Pillsburv Hightstown, N. J. Philadelphia. Pa. ... Owatonna, Minn. . . . Ricker Houlton, Me Southwestern Suffield Bolivar, Mo Suffield, Conn Vermont Saxtons River, Vt. . Beaver Dam, Wis. . . Mt. Pleasant, Pa. . . Moores Hill Mo. . . [Clo tVayland Western Penn Will Mavfield 44,247 3,000 4,100 *5o,ooo Worcester, Mass. . . 26 Academies 3.579 263 03 $3,867,313 $1,768,695 $686,371 6 1 Schools.. 2.4.17 .n.16 QQ $11. 0.10, .l8l $4.*.c.77.Il8 $5, 085.008 The list includes a few schools founded by Baptists, but not now under Baptist control. All statistics furnished by the schools except those *, which are from other sources. In seminary figures " College Students " means college graduates. In college figures it means students in four college classes. THE CONVENTION BOARDS 75 r?f P- a. a. ^ a at o 2 -. o 3 3. ! a * g rt ff. ff. " n ^ S. 8 2. 2 O " N U of sit p(^- o Kg a'S 3 UJ.033W.1 ivo vi M O O 4 O 4^ O\ Total Student Enrolment 01 1-1 U M M O M M 00 O HI W1HMOJOJ10M M tO Total Baptist Students OJ 'b o 01MI01-1M (01-1 w Ml w MM 4v A O v] 41, 00 O to O > M *. in vj in vj vo O O W O OJ OJ O O M 0-ilAOOO OOO1 ta ON O Baptist Students Reached Students in to 00 vj OO OOO OJ O OAUivotOVOtOO O 00 to O O Ln >-i 4* 01 o Oi vjoocnoioncs O CNVI Bible classes VO 00 VO tn on Ln u S^ 00 o Cn 4>. vo Ol 4* ON O W In Average Attendance O 4kMVjvjooO!Vj vo 4. vj (j vj on 4 C\ CNO1 Average Student Attendance A. M. Worship 00 ON en to to 4x M OJ M OJ OJ A M . voto 00 O O O en en on O OOCnCnOVOVO en O Calls Made on Students CO v? M M OJ OJ -. K> 4k. MJ M OJ M en o\ OOVO to OO ON ON OO to OJ O\4* O 00 O Oj OJ Students United with Local Church in to OJ M 4* 004k to (0 10 OO!/ 4* MI vj o vj KO Ministerial and Missionary Students SJ O po m O ^i O po c z m po CO H g VII AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS Legal Title Executive Officer Arizona Baptist Conven- Rev. T. F. McCourtney, Cor- L. W. Thayer, M. D., Phce- responding Secretary, 2161 nix. Noll Building, Phoenix. Northern California Baptist Rev. C. W. Brinstad, Cor- 'A. E. Caldwell Oakland ------ j: c ---- x ---- -.0 of Savings, Oak- Convention. responding Secretary, 35 Blake Building, Oakland. land. Southern California Baptist -Rev. W. F. Harper, Corre- (George E. Reid, Home Sav- Convention. i spending Secretary, 501 ings Bank, Los Angeles. Columbia Building, Los Angeles. Colorado Baptist State Convention. Rev. F. B. Palmer, Corre-'F. D. Stackhouse, 368 Gas spending Secretary, 368 1 & Electric Building, Gas & Electric Building, I Denver. Denver. The Connecticut Baptist | Rev. A. B. Coats, General Convention. Secretary, 722 Asylum Avenue, Hartford. Chas. Edw. Prior, Security Trust Company, Hart- ford. Delaware Baptist S t a t e N. D. Cloward, Clerk, 906 jC. H. Cantwell, 706 North Convention. Jefferson Street, Wilming- Van Buren Street, Wil- toii. ; mington. Columbia Association of. Rev. J. W. Many, Clerk, James C. Herring, 2 548 Baptist Churches. 3304 Alabama Avenue,! Fourteenth Street, N. W., S. E., Washington, D. C. ; Washington, D. C. The Idaho Baptist Con Rev. W. H. Bowler, State Dr. S. R. Rightenour, Em- vention of the State of| Superintendent, 4:6 Em- j pire Building, Boise. Idaho. pire Building, Boise. Illinois Baptist State Con- Rev. E. P. Brand, Superin- vention. , tendent of Missions, Nor- i mal. The Indiana Baptist Con- Rev. C. M. Dinsmore, Gen- eral Superintendent o f State Missions, Indianapo- lis. L. K. Evans, El Paso. W. A. Burton, Franklin. Iowa Baptist Convention. Rev. G. P. Mitchell, Mission- J. H. Cochrane, Des j ary Secretary, 507 S. and Moines. [ L. Building, Des Moines. ; The Kansas Baptist Con- Rev. J. T. Crawford, Mis- Wayland Campbell, Topeka. vention. j sionary Secretary, Parsons. United Baptist Convention of Maine. Massachusetts Baptist Mis- sionary Society. Michigan Baptist Conven- Minnesota Baptist State Convention. Rev. I. B. Mower, Corre- George M. Graffam, 314 Ma- sponding Secretary, Water ville. sonic Building, Portland. Rev. Hugh A. Heath, Secre- Edward E. Stevens, 707 Ford tary, 707 Ford Building, Boston. Building, Boston. Rev. E. M. Lake General Walter W. Smith, Vinton Secretary, 368 Capitol Building, Detroit. Bank Building, Lansing. Rev. E. R. Pope, Correspond- J. A. Ridgway, County Court ing Secretary, 405 Evans- ton Building, Minneapolis. House, Minneapolis. Missouri Baptist General Rev. Joe P. Jacobs, General Lex McDaniel. Association. i Secretary, 115 East Thirty- | first Street, Kansas City. 1 Montana Baptist Conven- Rev. G. Clifford Cress, Cor- R. L. Setzer, Butte. tion. responding Secretary, Lewistown. 79 AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS Continued Legal Title Executive Officer Treasurer Nebraska Baptist S t a t e Rev. Ray E. York. Superin- Convention. tendent of Missions, 2635 Garfield Street, Lincoln. The Nevada-Sierra Baptist Rev. G. N. Gardner, Corre- Convention. spending Secretary, Box 743, Reno. United Baptist Convention Rev. D. S. Jenks, Secretary, of New Hampshire. Franklin. New Jersey Baptist Con- Rev. R. M. West, Executive vention. Secretary, 761 Broad i Street, Newark. Baptist Missionary Conven- Rev. W. A. Granger, Presi- tion of the State of dent and Chief Executive, New York. 23 East Twenty-sixth St., New York City. North Dakota Baptist State Rev. C E. Tingley, Corre- Convention. Ohio Baptist Convention. spending Secretary, 517 bouth Sixth Street, Grand W. E. Rhoades. United States National Bank. Omaha. Victor Cokefair, 735 North Virginia Street, Reno. Lewis E. Staples, Ports- mouth. B. F. Fowler, Haddonfield. Orrin R. Judd, 23 East Twenty-sixth Street, New York City. S. C. Hendrickson, Grand Forks. Forks. Rev. T. F. Chambers, Execu-!E. E. Hopkins, Granville. tive Secretary, Granville. ! Oregon Baptist State Con- Rev. O. C. Wright, Corre- vention spending Secretary, 405 Tilford Building, Portland. Pennsylvania Baptist Gen- Rev. C. A. Soars, General eral Convention. Secretary, 1701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Rhode Island Baptist State i Rev. J. Stewart, Secretary, F. E. Ballou, Weybossett and James F. Failing, 243 Eleventh Street, Portland. I A. M. Graves, 690 Bourse i Building, Philadelphia. Convention. South Dakota Baptist Con- vention. Utah Baptist State Conven- tion. 403 Butler Exchange, Providence. Rev. S. P. Shaw, Secretary, Sioux Falls. Rev. W. H. Bowler, Corre- sponding Secretary, Box 862, Boise, Idaho. Eddy Streets, Providence. E. A. Loomer, Mitchell. J. E. Berkley, Kearns Build- ing, Salt Lake City. Vermont Baptist State Con- 1 Rev. W. A. Davison, Secre- vention. tary _ and Superintendent, Burlington. East Washington and North j Rev. A. H. Bailey, Corre- Idaho Baptist Conven- spending Secretary and tion. Superintendent of C o n - 1 vention Missions, 539 Rookery Building, S p o - i kane. Western Washington Bap- i Rev. J. H. Beaven, Corre- tist Convention. spending Secretary, 323 New York Block, Seattle. Howard Crane, Burlington. R. M. Marshall, 210 Hyde Building, Spokane. Gee. W. Fowler, Equitable Building, Tacoma. The Baptist General Asso- ciation of West Virginia. Rev. L. B. Moore, Corre- E. H. Flynn, Parkersburg. spending kersburg. Secretary, Par- Wisconsin Baptist S t a t e Rev. D. W. Hulburt, General Convention. Superintendent, 1717 Wells Wyoming Baptist State Convention. 8o~ Street, Milwaukee. H. W. Bardenwerper, 729 Thirty-fourth Street, Mil- waukee. Rev. J. M. Blodgett, Corre- L. A. Wolford, Casper, spending Secretary, Casper. AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS 8l RELATION OF THE AFFILIATING ORGANIZA- TIONS TO THE CONVENTION By Secretary E. R. Pope, D. D. IN 1907, when the provisional organization of the Northern Baptist Convention was made in Washington, D. C., the con- stitution provided " that officers and executive boards or committees of State Conventions . . . may be ex-officio mem- bers of this Convention." At that time there were State organiza- tions in nearly all the territory of the Northern Baptist Con- vention. California had two organizations, and Washington was divided east and west, while the latter was connected with Idaho. Utah and Nevada had no organizations. Two bodies had been in existence for one hundred years, three others were organized before the American Baptist Publication Society, and ten more before the organization of the Home Mission Society. The activities of these organizations in many instances originally reached out beyond the borders of their own States, but as time went on they had confined their efforts practically to work within State borders. In all the States they filled a large place, and their aggregate work was of considerable moment and of great value in the organization of churches, caring for the older fields, and looking out for some of the foreign-speaking peoples as they came within the State borders. So far as the denomina- tion in general is concerned, these State organizations were not thought of in the aggregate, or as in any sense a collective body. The thought of each was for its own State and concern for it was only in the State itself. When the organization of the Northern Baptist Convention was made permanent in 1908, the constitution then adopted re- tained the clause in the provisional constitution. In the by-laws there was a statement that the reports of the general denomina- tional organization should be referred to a committee which was to be composed of one delegate from each State to be nominated by the delegates of the respective States. This was a recognition 82 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION of the States, though of course not of the State Conventions. The question of the new organization had been acted upon by every State in the territory, and the Executive Committee reported that the Convention met with the unanimous indorsement of all the State organizations of our constituency. At the request of State secretaries who were present in Okla- homa, a committee of seven was appointed on the relations of State missionary organizations to the Northern Baptist Conven- tion. This committee was to report the following year. The Convention recognized the State Conventions by a reso- lution which was to be sent to all of the State Convention secre- taries, asking them to cooperate in the movement to secure a million and a half dollars for the national Societies, and at the same time they were asked to consider whether the State Con- ventions could come into relation with the Convention as coop- erating organizations. In 1909 this committee reported, suggesting a by-law under which State Conventions might become coordinating organiza- tions upon application approved by the Convention. The ap- portionments were referred to the various States, and each State Convention was requested to apportion the amount re- quested by the Convention. At this meeting the Wisconsin State Convention formally applied for admission. It was the general feeling that State Conventions, because of their own special and local interests, could not become cooperat- ing organizations in the same manner as the general Societies. The whole question of relationship was referred to the Law Committee. At the Convention in 1910 the by-laws were changed, as follows : '' Any Baptist State Convention may appoint ten delegates and one additional delegate for every ten district associations in- cluded in it above the first ten." This by-law stands at the present time. A definition of a State Convention was made so as to cover special conditions in the District of Columbia, Missouri, Delaware, and some other States where the title of the organ- ization did not indicate its full character. The Law Committee expressed the opinion that the relation of all the States to the Convention should be as close as possible, but they did not make AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS 83 any report concerning- a by-law, partly because a committee had been appointed fo'r that purpose, but evidently the Law Committee appreciated the importance of the State Conventions, and desired to find some way whereby these bodies and the Convention could be closely related. The report of the committee appointed at Portland concern- ing the relation of State Conventions to the Northern Baptist Convention recommended that a State Convention should become an affiliating organization when it had (a) adopted a resolution approving and promoting the work and aim of the Northern Baptist Convention, (b) provided for the consideration at its annual meeting of the work of the Convention, (c) appointed an apportionment committee to receive from the Convention the apportionment and to apportion the full amount to the churches. This committee expressed itself concerning the broadening type of the State Convention and its aim to unify the superintending of all missionary work in the State. In 1911 the Law Committee asked each State Convention to adopt a statement of its object and thus to become an affiliating organization. There seems to have been no report of the com- mittee on relations, but a resolution was adopted thanking the Convention for its action concerning the State Conventions, and requesting the appointment; of a commission on State Conven- tions. This was appointed, and has been in existence ever since, though it was not until 1917 that it was recognized in the by- laws. Up to that time its work was without charge to the Con- vention. In 1912 the applications of nineteen State organizations, namely, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, East Washington, Wisconsin, Northern California, Southern California, Connecticut, Nebraska, Nevada, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Illinois, Arizona, and New Hamp- shire were approved, and they became affiliating organizations. Some States had not taken the exact steps, but had intended to do so, and a resolution was passed requesting them simply to file an application. The report of the Committee on State Conven- tions was elaborate, dealing with the State Conventions them- selves and with their relation and attitude to the Northern Baptist Convention. Recommendations were made : ( I ) That each State 84 - Convention should seek to hold in the State the responsibility for denominational affairs held by the Northern Baptist Conven- tion for the general constituency; (2) that State Conventions should cultivate the closest possible relation with the Northern Baptist Convention; (3) that the Northern Baptist Convention should give full recognition to State organizations as great lines of missionary endeavor, and that the Executive Committee should provide time for presentation of the united State Conventions' work, for addresses and discussions at the annual meeting. Unaffiliated State organizations were urged to formally unite; these organizations were requested to give time for the pres- entation of the work and needs of the Northern Baptist Con- vention and the general missionary Societies, and it was sug- gested that in each State there be appointed a committee which should be the medium of communication between the State organization and the Northern Baptist Convention. It is easy to see from this review that State Conventions are being more and more recognized by the denomination at large and are com- ing to hold a much larger place. Now the State Convention's place is fully and generally recognized. In 1913 the States were again recognized when a provision was made for the voting by States on any question when such voting was called for by one-fifth of the delegates present, each State being given one vote and one for each ten thousand members. The Committee on State Conventions, beginning with that year, prepared tables of denominational statistics, directed par- ticular attention to differences in these tables, and urged the strongest need of cooperation. There was a very general ten- dency to make the State Conventions wider in their scope and actual State centers. At this time Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, West Wash- ington, and Wyoming were reported as having taken the neces- sary action, and were received as affiliating organizations. Dela- ware and Indiana were reported as soon to take such action, while the District of Columbia; Oklahoma, and Missouri, because of their dual relations, North and South, felt that they could not become affiliating organizations. AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS 85 When the Convention met in 1914, Delaware and Indiana be- came affiliating organizations. This completed the list, so that now all State organizations except the District of Columbia and Missouri are regular affiliating organizations, and these are in thorough sympathy with the Northern Baptist Convention's aims though, because of their relations to the Southern Baptist Con- vention, they have not thought it feasible to formally unite. Two organizations, namely, Oklahoma and New Mexico, have with- drawn from the Northern Baptist Convention. The meeting in 1915 showed further progress. The Appor- tionment Committee wrote most suggestively as follows : " Our State Conventions have been finding themselves during the period of development of the Northern Baptist Convention. They have exploited new resources within their territory, they have widened their interests to include not merely State missions in the old sense, but immigration and city mission problems within their borders, and even the work of American and foreign missions as well. Their affiliation with the Nor them' Baptist Convention and with its cooperating Societies has been a great source of strength to the denomination." In the report of the committee it emphasized that the relation between the State organizations and the Northern Baptist Con- vention was not simply financial along the line of trying to secure the apportionment, but that the " principle of cooperation " should ever be kept prominently in mind, and that the mutual relation of dependence between national and State organizations should be in the foreground. It was suggested that it might be a good plan to have in each State a committee of reference and con- sultation which should be appointed by and represent the State Conventions, the Northern Baptist Convention, and the national Societies, and that in any reorganization of State Conventions the twofold relation which is held to the State and to the national work ought to be carefully considered. In 1916 the president devoted no small part of his address to the State Conventions, and clearly indicated their large impor- tance and the necessity to consider carefully their development in the coming years. He said : " Unless my vision is hopelessly dis- torted, the development of our denomination for the next decade will be in the field of the State Convention. . . I doubt if any 86 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION problem we have faced . . . has had such far-reaching results and influences as this emergence of the State Convention into impor- tance coordinate with that of the Societies." The committee called attention to several matters of detailed organization, and was glad to note^the marked and growing sense of responsibility in the larger State Conventions for the provision for the work of all the national Societies. In 1917, the committee became a standing committee of the Northern Baptist Convention, its duty being " to review the work of the State Conventions that are affiliating organizations and to consider all questions concerning such Conventions and their relation to the Northern Baptist Convention." This is the last step taken in connecting the Northern Baptist Convention and the State Conventions. The recommendation of the committee for the appointment of a statistical secretary was acted upon and such officer was appointed. The matter of imperfect statistics was again called to the Con- vention's attention. Thus the Northern Baptist Convention, through its committee, has been of large help, and in many ways has brought about a larger and better recognition of the State Conventions. On the other hand, the State Conventions, for the most part, have loyally cooperated with and supported the Northern Baptist Convention. While occasionally there may have been hesitation about particular methods, nevertheless on the whole large progress has been made, and the State Conven- tions recognize clearly the help that they have obtained. Prac- tically all the State secretaries recognize the completed unity, the better sense of solidarity, and the wider outlook. The North- ern Baptist Convention has helped the general spirit of the de- nomination, and has taught the State Conventions to have a larger respect for themselves. The work has been dignified and strengthened, and while much of this has been done in an un- satisfying fashion, yet nevertheless it really has been done. There were nine State organizations that were not incor- porated when the Northern Baptist Convention was formed. Eight of these have since been incorporated. Eleven Conventions have changed their form of organization, not simply by adopting an object as requested by the Northern Baptist Convention, but in other and more formal ways. They have seen marked advance AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS j in their work, and are directing work in many small cities and directly cooperating in the larger ones. Evangelism has been given a larger prominence and greater emphasis than heretofore. Along educational lines State Conventions have taken the direc- tion of this work, and in some States have developed plans for work at the State universities in connection with the Board of Education of the Northern Baptist Convention. So too, in the direction of Sunday Schools and young people's work. More and more this is finding its center of direction in the State Con- ventions. The uniting of Free Baptist churches in all of the States has been promoted by the State Conventions, and their attitude and action has tremendously increased the denomina- tional life and energy. In other words, the State Convention is coming to the front, and in general it may be said is largely sustaining in each State the same relations that the Northern Baptist Convention sustains to its constituency, and is holding a much more important and larger position than ever before. VIII THE CONVENTION COMMITTEES By Prof, ha M. Price THE CONVENTION COMMITTEES THIS present triumph of denominational consciousness, after ten years of effort, has been achieved through the patient Christian strivings of hundreds of persons engaged on prob- lems that have yielded to solution only in committees. Simultaneously with the laborious task of unifying the bodies already existing, there have arisen many new problems of the local church, of the State organizations, of relations to other Christian bodies, and of the mission fields. Indeed, the larger vision of the church's function, social, educational, missionary, and national, has produced other problems that demanded atten- tion. These have received from committees the necessary patient consideration preparatory to their presentation to the Convention. The wisest machinery for reaching conclusions is the committee. In the Convention the terms " committee " and " commission " have been used rather loosely, and both have been applied to the same body at different times. But the by-laws adopted in 1917 fixed the name " committee " for all the groups for which pro- vision therein has been made. For the convenience of presentation thirty-seven committees are here grouped into four divisions, as follows: (The first date indicates the year of appointment. If only a dash follows, the committee is still active.) i. Those whose permanence is assured by a by-law, and whose membership is divided into three classes, one-third serving one year, one-third two years, and one-third three years. This tenure provides for a reasonably continuous policy, by which definite plans can be made and realized: (i) Executive (1907-) ; (2) Finance (1908-); (3) Apportionment (1909-); (4) Law (1909-); (5) City Missions (1909-); (6) Baptist Brotherhood (1908-); (7) State Conventions (1909-); (8) Sodial Service (1908-); (9) Religious Education (1909-); (10) Young Peo- 92 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION pie's Work (1910-); (") Evangelism (1913-); O 2 ) Baptist Bodies Using Foreign Languages (1911-). 2. Those appointed annually for specific work either in the Convention session or in the interim between Conventions. These are also authorized by a by-law: (i) Reports (1910-) ; (2) En- rolment (1907-); (3) Order of Business (1908-); (4) Nomina- tions of Officers (1907-) ; (5) Place of Next Meeting (1908-) ; (6) Resolutions (1908-). 3. Those without standing in the by-laws, but whose useful- ness has extended through several years. Some accomplished their purpose and ceased to be; others did not accomplish what was anticipated and therefore ceased to be; yet others are continuously active and deserve recognition: (i) General Com- mittee on Christian Stewardship (1909-1910); (2) Denomina- tional Journals (1909-1910) ; (3) Delegates to the Federal Coun- cil of the Churches of Christ in America (1909-) ; (4) Baptist Forward Movement for Missionary Education (1909-1911); (5) Persian Missions (1910-1912) ; (6) Transportation (1910-) ; (7) Conference on Faith and Order (1912-); (8) Conference with a Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (1912- 1916); (9) Denominational Day (1912-); (10) Five Year Pro- gram (1916-). 4. Those that have had only a brief existence, appointed either to meet an emergency, or to test an alleged need: (i) Plan of Organization (1907-1908); (2) Credentials (1907-1910); (3) Religious Services (1908 only); (4) General Missionaries in Foreign Lands (1909 only); (5) Coordination of Educational Agencies in the Local Church (1910 only report, 1911 no re- port); (6) Fiscal Year (1911 only); (7) To Cooperate with the American Bible Society in Arranging for its Centennial (1915-1916); (8) International Relations (1917-); (9) Refer- ence (1917-); (10) Roger Williams Memorial (1917-). ii The functions of these committees thus classified and some of their achievements are: i. (i) The Executive Committee has charge of Convention affairs in the interim between the annual meetings. No appeals for money can be made and no collections can be taken at the THE CONVENTION COMMITTEES 93 meetings of the Convention which have not been approved by this committee. It has thirty members, half of them laymen, and carries the burdens of the Convention. The progress achieved in unifying the complex interests of the denomination during the past ten years is largely due to the men who have formulated the policy and guided the work of this committee. Any reader of the minutes of the last decade can see in its work why the Convention has already taken its place by the side of the execu- tive bodies that represent other religious denominations. (2) The Finance Committee of nine men prepares and pre- sents to the Convention at each annual meeting a budget based on the budgets submitted by the Executive Committee and by the cooperating organizations. In case of an emergency arising between the annual meetings of the Convention, the committee, by the majority vote of all its members, may approve the in- curring of indebtedness by a cooperating organization. This committee is one of the necessities of the Convention. Its ef- ficiency is shown by annual reports that display the business judgment and tact that have enabled the Convention to broaden its plans with each passing year. (3) The Apportionment Committee is composed of twelve persons, widely distributed in their interests. It divides among the States represented in the Convention the amounts to be raised as specified in the budget approved by the Convention, and communicates to the Apportionment Committee of each State the amount apportioned to it. It appoints an Apportion- ment Committee for any State where no such committee is appointed. It employs agents and uses methods to carry the apportionment into effect. It divides ratably among the bene- ficiaries of the budget the expense incurred in the performance of its duties. It has had as rough sailing as any committee-craft on the Convention sea. A campaign of education in the raising of money has had to be one of the means employed to win its way. Churches and individuals, associations and State Conven- tions have at first stood aghast at the proposals of this committee. But persistent and consistent promotion of plans, though modified to meet local conditions, has steadily made headway. (4) The Law Committee consists of six persons. It is the duty of this committee to consider and report on all matters 94 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION referred to it by the Convention or the Executive Committee. Early in the history of the Convention legal counsel was required. The framing of the constitution and by-laws was clarified by consultation with such talent. In securing the Act of Incorpora- tion in the State of New York in 1910 and in constructing by-laws under that act, the Law Committee was the prime factor. The status of the Convention as a legal entity is due to this com- mittee's influence and labors. Other questions of a legal char- acter have arisen, and are continually emerging that require its knowledge and wisdom. Many problems have been happily disposed of by its efficient work, hitherto without expense to the Convention. (5) The City Missions Committee was named " Committee on City Mission Problems " until the adoption of the by-law in 1917. It is composed of nine persons, charged with the duty of studying questions relating to cooperation between city mission organizations and State Conventions, and the cooperating organ- izations of the Convention; and also all other general questions related to city mission work throughout the country. The first report in 1909 dealt with city mission and church extension so- cieties and their problems. Its second report in 1910 gave a general trumpet-call to the entire denomination to attack the city problem. In 1911 the report presented statistics on the growth of cities, with special emphasis on religious statistics, and made a stirring appeal to Baptists to assume their measure of responsibility for the redemption of American cities. The 1912 report presented notable charts of Baptist growth in large cities (1900-1910), and also others representing the segregation of foreign-born by States and cities. The report of 1915 gave city mission statistics, and a directory of city mission societies. The next year there were presented valuable statistics of the same kind, and also ten cuts of churches and groups of foreigners in city mission territory in several cities. The 1917 report emphasized the strategical importance of the work and con- cluded with valuable statistics. (6) The Baptist Brotherhood Committee was the fruition of several earlier names. The Committee on Baptist Brotherhood and Laymen's Movement was appointed in 1908. The next year there was recorded a " Men's Brotherhood Council," with an- THE CONVENTION COMMITTEES 95 other cognate body entitled " Brotherhood Auxiliary Commit- tee." But in 1910 there was a report from the " Brotherhood Council " and also a committee on nomination of officers for the " Baptist Brotherhood." Henceforth the name appears as " Brotherhood Council," until for 1918 the body is mentioned as " Baptist Brotherhood," as in the by-laws. This committee is to further the organization of men in Baptist churches for study, fellowship, and service, and to consider all questions related thereto. It has had its ups and downs. The numerous men's or- ganizations, denominational and interdenominational, have been struggling to consolidate their gains by engaging upon some specific task. In 1913 the report rejoiced over a cooperative movement between the American Baptist Publication Society and the Social Service Commission, whereby that Society created a department of Social Service and Brotherhood. This gave a new lease of life to the Brotherhood, and supplied it with in- spiring courses of study and useful lines of service. For 1914 and 1915 the reports are found under the American Baptist Publication Society's description of the work of those years in the newly created department. For 1916 and 1917 the Executive Secretary of the department of Social Service and Brotherhood presented two elaborate reports amply supplied with suggestions and proposed courses of study and service. (7) The State Conventions Committee had its root in 1909 in the committee on " Relations of State Missionary Organizations to the Northern Baptist Convention." In 1912 the committee was charged with standardizing the relations between State Con- ventions and the Northern Baptist Convention. In 1913 it was simplified to " State Conventions." It is the duty of this com- mittee to review the work of the State Conventions that are affiliating organizations and to consider all questions concerning such Conventions and their relation to the Northern Baptist Convention. The wholly independent character of the State or- ganizations has called for diplomacy, patience, executive ability, and persistence to coordinate them with the purposes of the Northern Baptist Convention. The leaders in the several States, and the desire for general harmony and unity in our denomina- tional work, have contributed largely to the steady progress made toward the realization of that ideal. 96 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION (8) The Social Service Committee was appointed in 1908, and made its first report in 1909. This committee is to study social conditions and needs, to ascertain the activities of Bap- tist churches in the field of social service, to organize and enlist Baptists in practical and definite lines of community service in city and country, to cooperate with similar agencies of other religious bodies, and from time to time to report its findings and recommendations through the religious press. It has made full annual reports of specific work done. Elaborate plans of service have been devised and published. These are found both in the annual reports, and in separate booklets issued by the Pub- lication Society. Probably no other committee has been more active nor issued a larger amount of literature bearing imme- diately on the field it was appointed to cultivate. (9) Religious Education. The " Social Service Commission " in its report for 1909 recommended that a commission on re- ligious and moral education be created by the Convention, charged with the special duty of considering this whole question of religious and moral education. It was appointed, and presented its first report in 1910. A committee on " Coordination of Edu- cational Agencies in the Local Church " was also appointed in 1909. Both reported in 1910. Conscious that their work overlapped, they made only general reports touching religious education in colleges and churches. The second committee was impressed with the desirability of a permanent commission of the Convention on Religious Education. This was the only report made by this committee. In 1912 it passed out of exis- tence, and its work was taken over by the Commission on Re- ligious and Moral Education. Since 1916 this body has been designated " Committee on Religious Education." Its duty is to study the educational needs of the local church, and in co- operation with the American Baptist Publication Society to pre- pare educational courses for the promotion of the intelligent growth of the church, and for its symmetrical development in its varied relations to the community, to the outspread of Chris- tianity, and to the world at large. This committee has endeavored to fulfil its duty and since its reorganization in 1911 has issued six annual reports, five folders, and ten bulletins on different phases of education and work immediately concerning the local THE CONVENTION COMMITTEES 97 church and the community. The material issued in 1917 oc- cupies fifty-three pages of the Convention Annual. The material already issued, if put to use by the churches, is sufficient to inaugurate a new era in religious education in our Baptist ranks. Some of these plans have already been adopted by churches and committees of other denominations. (10) Young Peoples Work was first dignified by the appoint- ment of a separate committee in 1910, which made its first report in 1911. The duty of this committee is, in cooperation with the American Baptist Publication Society, to superintend the or- ganization of young people's work, and to foster inspirational and educational activities in connection therewith. As in the case of social service, the work of this committee is largely car- ried out by the Young People's Secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society. The most notable achievement of this committee during its existence has been the consummation of friendly and even cordial relations between all Baptist young people. (11) The Evangelism Committee was recommended by the American Baptist Home Mission Society in 1913. Its purpose is to study the subjects of evangelism with a view to discover and suggest the most effective means for promoting it, and in coop- eration with the American Baptist Home Mission Society to dis- seminate evangelistic literature, and in all other practical ways to encourage and promote personal evangelism, organized evan- gelism in the local church, and cooperative evangelism among the churches. Each successive report since 1915 teems with en- couraging facts regarding the growth of the evangelistic spirit in the churches, associations, and States. The enthusiatic report of 1917 promises larger results than ever before for the con- summation of the Five Year Program. (12) Coordination of Baptist Bodies Using Foreign Lan- guages is the somewhat cumbersome title used of the committee to study and report on the best methods for coordinating Baptist Bodies Using Foreign Languages with one another, and also with other Baptist bodies, and also to report such other facts and such statistics related to the work of the committee as to it may seem proper. The committee owes its origin to two independent motions made in 1911. It was first termed " Commission on the 98 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION Coordination of American Baptist Bodies Using Various Lan- guages," and presented a brief report in 1912. In 1913 little was reported except a statistical chart of the American Baptist Home Mission Society on Northern Baptist work among foreigners in the United States. " Foreign-speaking Bodies " is the name used in 1914, when the commission presented a statistical summary of the history of such foreign-speaking Baptists in the United States. Still further progress was made in the 1915 report, where an earnest appeal was made to the church and to the Convention to come to the aid of these peoples. The last two reports (1916 and 1917) are by far the most informing and most appealing that this committee has made, and show how urgent and pressing is the task that lies before the Baptists of North America. 2. The second class of committees appointed annually requires no especial notice, although in their spheres they perform a neces- sary and useful service. 3. Lack of space forbids separate mention of the committees which constitute class three, although many of them have served and are serving useful purposes. 4. Class four contains the germs probably of several com- mittees whose usefulness will be distinguished in future years. These necessary and important services rendered by com- mittees are also to be looked upon as pioneers in the discovery of many of the most efficient and far-seeing men and women of our denomination to whom the Convention in the future can entrust some of its most troublesome and important problems. IX A DIGEST OF CONVENTION ANNUALS By Prof. Henry K. Rome A DIGEST OF CONVENTION ANNUALS THE Annuals of the Northern Baptist Convention constitute a cyclopedia of recent Baptist progress. While they are the mine from which the Baptist historian will extract his mate- rials, it can hardly be expected that the busy man of affairs will read them carefully. A predigested, condensed summary may increase the consumption of facts. This article does not make detailed references nor does it preserve chronological order, but aims to bring out the most important results of the decade. The purpose of forming the Convention was to unite more closely the churches scattered over the northern part of the country; to increase their understanding of the work of the kingdom and their interest in it ; to stimulate them to larger and more efficient activity; and to provide a platform for the dis- cussion of denominational matters, and of the moral and social issues that increasingly demand the attention of Christian people. There was no thought of establishing authority over churches or local associations. No attempt was made to absorb the general Societies, nor to merge them. It was expected that they would willingly ally themselves with the new organization. This came about within a few years, when the three large Societies, followed by the women's Societies, became officially cooperating organizations. The various State Conventions also became affiliating organiza- tions. These friendly organizations preserve their self-govern- ment. In his annual report to the Convention in 1915 President Clinch declared, " The simple scheme for the organization of the Convention preserves the independence of the church, of the cooperating organizations, and of the State Conventions, and in no wise impairs the efficiency of any of them." The functions of the Convention are to stimulate, to educate, and to plan for efficiency in the departments of service that be- long to an efficient church and denomination. The Convention created the necessary machinery to perform those functions. 101 IO2 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION Committees, commissions, and boards came into existence to guide the denomination through their findings. During the first five years the work was mainly that of preliminary surveys and pioneer construction, but at the end of that time the achieve- ments of the Convention could be summed up as follows : 1. The Convention had permanently organized itself, secured incorporation, and found its field of work. 2. The denominational Societies had become closely linked with the Convention, and the State Conventions had become affiliated with it. 3. Difficulties had been adjusted amicably with the Southern Baptists, relations established with the Free Baptists, and greet- ings exchanged with European Baptists. 4. Delegates had been appointed to the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, formed to promote national interdenominational unity; and a committee was appointed to consider matters of world faith and order in consultation with representatives of other Christian bodies. 5. An effective budget and apportionment system had been organized and had increased the gifts from the churches. 6. Two boards of vital importance were created to care for the young people and for aged ministers. 7. Committees were pushing men's and young people's work, religious education, and social service. 8. Executive and Finance committees were devising plans for further advance, adjusting various interests of the denomination, and finding ways and means to finance all these enterprises. The policy of annual meetings has given the churches con- tinual direction of denominational policies. The organization is wholesomely democratic. The personnel of its committees and boards changes frequently enough to give opportunity for the contributions of many minds, yet not in such wholesale fashion as to destroy continuity of policy and planning. The places of meeting have purposely been remote from one another. The Convention has come into close contact with all its constituency. There is always inevitably the disadvantage of an overplus of local delegates, but every section of the country has an opportunity to share in Convention gatherings at frequent intervals. A DIGEST OF CONVENTION ANNUALS IO3 The achievements of the ten years, topically indicated, are: 1. A gain in denominational self -appreciation. Now the com- mon interests and beliefs of the various communions get more emphasis than the tenets that separate, but as long as a denom- ination exists it must maintain its own respect and self-con- sciousness. The Convention has encouraged the annual ob- servance of a Denominational Day, and systematic education of the young people in Baptist principles. It has promoted denom- inational consciousness, and a sense that the denomination has reasons for existence. 2. A greater unity. The Convention has tended to bring to- gether Baptists of different names. In its early days it seemed advisable to find a common understanding with Southern Baptists over mutual interests in the Southwest, and certain differences were adjusted by a joint committee. The two Baptist branches now send reciprocal messages of greeting through accredited delegates to the annual meetings of both Conventions. In 1911 at Philadelphia about one hundred representatives of European Baptists were present, and there was great enthusiasm developed in fostering the thought of the common Baptist interests of both hemispheres being furthered through the Baptist World Alliance. Since that time there has been a closer drawing together of minor Baptist groups with the main body. In 1911 the Free Baptists entered into a mutual arrangement with the Baptists, by which the smaller body transferred its denominational in- terests to the Northern Baptist Convention and thus effected a reunion after a separation that had lasted a hundred and twenty years. The next several years saw a cordial approach of Amer- ican and foreign-speaking Baptists to each other. There are thousands of German, Scandinavian, and Italian Baptists in this country, not to speak of smaller groups, that have common beliefs and practices, but they needed such a mediator as the Con- vention to bring them together. In 1912 a committee undertook to improve the mutual acquaintance. It was able to enumerate a surprising number of foreign-speaking groups, and in 1915 sent out an urgent call to the churches to push home missions among the New Americans. This friendly approach led also to better provision for the theological education of ministers to IO4 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION Baptists speaking foreign languages and for religious literature for their use. In 1914 the General Baptists of the Ohio Valley came into closer relations with the regular Baptists. Like the Free Bap- tists, they were encouraged to seek a closer union than could be enjoyed in separate organization. Both parties were friendly, and the time seemed auspicious for a more complete union. 3. A spirit of comity toward other denominations. The Epis- copalians were urging better acquaintance among the various denominations, and proposed a World Conference of Faith and Order. Baptists responded in a friendly way, and appeared will- ing to do their part in encouraging the friendliest relations. The Convention also sends delegates to the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Baptists have been among the recognized leaders in that organization. The Convention has promoted a better acquaintance and co- operation among State Conventions. Their secretaries have met at the Convention gatherings, and now hold annual confer- ences, where they discuss their common problems. Moreover, friendly relations and helpful cooperation have been established between both the city mission societies, State Conventions, and the national missionary Societies. In ways like these the far- reaching influence of the Convention appears as well as in its more direct activities. 4. Efficiency. It was recognized in 1911 at Philadelphia that one of the valuable results of the Convention was to stimulate the local churches to higher standards of efficiency. The Execu- tive Committee in its report that year went so far as to say : " If our many-handed organization is to justify its existence it must do something more than furnish a platform for speeches, how- ever eloquent, something more than assign budgets. If our great organization can illumine the tasks of the local churches, if it can vitalize the relations between the church and Jesus Christ and between the church and humanity, it will be not only helpful but indispensable." This conviction led to the statement of a standard of efficiency, and called for its adoption by a thousand churches within a year. The standard adopted calls for con- tributions and service from every church-member, and his pres- ence in the Sunday School as teacher or pupil ; urges the reduc- A DIGEST OF CONVENTION ANNUALS IO5 tion of non-resident membership ; and proposes that every church should stimulate missions, have a constructive social program, and cooperate for fellowship and efficiency with other Baptist and non-Baptist bodies. The call for efficiency went out to the larger organizations as well as to the local churches. A committee recommended im- proved methods to the foreign Mission Society, and showed the desirability of modifying the relations of the Home Mission Society and the Publication Society. Efficiency determined the reshaping of educational programs, and the development of the structure and work of State Conventions and local associations. 5. An expansion of interest and activity. The time-honored tasks of the churches have been uppermost in the minds of the delegates. Naturally the missionary enterprise has received chief attention, for that crystallized the Baptists into a denom- ination a century ago. The Finance and Apportionment Com- mittees of the Convention aid in providing the money for mis- sionary undertakings. Evangelism is another long-standing concern of American Baptists, and a Committee on Evangelism has planned methods and campaigns. But new times bring new duties and new light for their accomplishment. Three subjects have received new emphasis : (a) The young people of the churches. The church of the present must build the future church. A Committee on Young People's Work and active cooperation with the Baptist Young People's Union care for that part of the church's interest with enthusiasm and efficiency. (b) The educational emphasis is one of the most important gains that has come from the Convention. The young people must receive religious training in the church and the home. The Committee on Religious Education has made that subject its particular field of study and effort. The young people must receive a better higher education in the colleges and profes- sional schools, and Baptist institutions need better endowment and equipment. This became the sphere of the new Board of Education. These efforts are reacting on the local churches. The new ideas of the committees do not easily percolate through the denominational system or win prompt response in contri- butions of time and money. There is much waste in the trans- IO6 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION mission of brain product, but there have been very real gains in ideals and achievements. (c) Social Service. The Convention came into existence at a time when the various denominations were putting stress on this form of Christian responsibility, and were organizing for that purpose. Among the first committees of the Convention was that on Social Service, which has reported annually. A secretary has been appointed to push that work, and to look after the interests of the Baptist Brotherhood. From the de- partment headquarters in Philadelphia radiate the forces of social uplift that operate through the channels of State and local committees. 6. Opportunity to voice denominational opinion. Religious democracy must have a means of expressing itself. Formerly our only general organizations were for missionary and pub- lication purposes, and there was no opportunity to discuss public issues. Baptists were powerless to make the influence of their convictions felt concerning such matters as temperance, crime, poverty, industrial unrest, and immigration problems. Now that has changed. Every year the Convention expresses itself upon matters of current interest, and these utterances are heard with respect. The denomination has not forgotten its responsibility in war time, and has tried to meet it more satisfactorily by the appointment of a War Commission. Consensus of spiritual prin- ciples finds expression in an annual sermon preached before the Convention by a minister of recognized leadership. 7. Increased momentum to the activities that are generally recognized as legitimate and worth while. The most ambitious advance was the adoption of the Five Year Program. In 1910 a resolution was offered " that the Executive Committee be instructed to consider a special program for advance, and to recommend a definite amount of work to be done by Northern Baptists within a specified period of years toward which the denomination may enthusiastically direct its efforts." The mis- sionary undertakings of the denomination naturally came to mind first in this connection. The Convention has approved the Laymen's Missionary Movement. It was glad to enter upon a United Missionary Campaign in 1913 under the joint direction of the General Apportionment Committee, the Laymen's Move- A DIGEST OF CONVENTION ANNUALS IO/ ment, and the Department of Missionary Education. In 1915 this Campaign was merged in the more ambitious Five Year Program. This Program, the product of a Conference on Denominational Objectives, was adopted with enthusiasm. It came as a result of a .conviction that " the call of the hour is for a constructive, cumulative program of advance so large and so compelling as to arrest attention, unify our forces and activities, challenge our men of large resources, and stir our whole people with a splendid enthusiasm for the kingdom of God." It was hoped that the program would result in making every church an evangelistic and social force in its community as well as to be dynamic in world life. The particular goal in view included a million baptisms, five thousand missionaries, two million dollars endow- ment for the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board, and six millions for denominational education, and as much more for missions and benevolence. The methods recommended included evangelism, education, social service, systematic giving, and prayer. Another Convention experiment that has proved successful was first tried in 1914, and more fully in 1917. This is the holding of sectional meetings in the interest of special matters like religious education and social service. The first of these, for instance, which was on religious education, included a general mass-meeting, at which two addresses were delivered before the entire assembly, and then the gathering divided into voluntary groups for the discussion of grade problems in Sunday School work. These sectional meetings may develop into forums for the thorough discussion of all phases of religious work and in- terest. When the results of the ten years are brought together there is much reason for encouragement. There is a new virility and determination to achieve. The first years of the Convention naturally were years of experiment. The new instrumentalities were surveying and mapping out their work. The five years since 1912 have been years of cultivation. It has been necessary to enlist the churches in the plans of the Convention, and to educate the ministers and members in the new order of church progress. It is no easy task to stimulate more than a million IO8 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION Baptists to a more rapid march to victory over ignorance and sin and social evil. That is what is being done, however. The regular drill is less spectacular than the initial mobilization, but the people are slowly rounding into form. Sunday Schools and young people's missionary organizations are being standardized and their courses of study improved. Many churches are appointing committees on religious education and social service to direct those departments of activity. The State Conventions are reorganizing after the pattern of the Northern Baptist Convention, and centralizing all denomina- tional interests within the State. Educational Day and Denom- inational Day are arousing the denominational conscience and consciousness. Some of the strongest men in the country have been enrolled among the officers and workers of the Convention and its auxiliaries. It is idle to forecast future developments. In common with all other Christian bodies Baptists are in the crucible of popular judgment of matters religious. Every denomination must prove its right to exist, and to the confidence of the people. Baptists must strive for greater unity in spirit and organization, for greater comity between departments within the denomination, and with religious organizations bearing other names, for in- creased efficiency and teachableness, and for larger undertak- ings in missions and social service. The gravest dangers are disunity and stagnation. The organism that does not respond to stimulus deteriorates and dies. If Baptists are content with an honorable past, satisfied with the same odd way of precedent without new vision, provincial in interests, and unprogressive in thought, their denominational heritage of leadership in free- dom, democracy, and spiritual earnestness will pass to others. One of the best antidotes to this slow poison is the Convention Annual. The best thought of picked men is reflected there. Always there are new ideas set into new plans to be worked out by churches, Sunday Schools, and other organizations that are forward-looking in their attitude. The story of the first ten years may well be an inspiration to the churches of the Northern Baptist Convention to much greater effort in days to come. THE CONVENTION HISTORICAL TABLES < M H ho ^ if r| . s & Pge'nr* ? f? i ' w W W a pj p J3 oooonooooo > > > > > a |0 > n p pj r ^ ^ p .m !fc ^ ' ' M ^ g . a P s*" r K ? ^ 5 5 ;!? s:S 2L r c o s p ir-- . s ^^M^I^I^JO M Ok 2> Vk Ik *!b w U vj kOl 00 on Os ON in O\ 4v OO 00 OS , VJ V, . OS OS - O > 4> 0> in * " 8 3-8 rr o S a. IS" 8 Z m z H O Z O CD III 112 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION PRESENT OFFICERS President GEORGE W. COLEMAN Boston, Mass. First Vice-president W. G. BRIMSON Chicago, 111. Second Vice-president REV. W. W. BUSTARD Cleveland, Ohio. Corresponding Secretary REV. WILLIAM C. BITTING 5109 Waterman Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Recording Secretary REV. MAURICE A. LEVY 754 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Statistical Secretary REV. CHARLES A. WALKER West Chester, Pa. Treasurer FRANK L. MINER Flynn Building, Des Moines, Iowa. MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Term expires 1918 Prof. F. L. Anderson, Newton Cen- Rev. O. J. Price, Lansing, Mich. ter, Mass. Pres. D. B. Purinton, Morgantown, F. W. Ayer, Camden, N. J. W. Va. 0. P. Coshow, Roseburg, Ore. Hon. W. W. Stickney, Ludlow, Vt. R. B. Griffith, Grand Forks, N. Dak. Ambrose Swasey, Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. F. W. Johnson, Chicago, 111. L. M. Webb, Portland, Me. Term expires 1919 S. B. Bechtel, Fort Wayne, Ind. Rev. E. A. Hanley, Rochester, 1. W. Carpenter, Omaha, Neb. N. Y. * Rev. G. H. Ferris, Philadelphia, Mrs. Andrew MacLeish, Glencoe, 111. Pa. D. C. Shull, Sioux City, Iowa. Rev. W. H. Geistweit, St. Louis, Mo. Hon. E. W. Stephens, Columbia, Pres. G. A. Hagstrom, St. Paul, Mo. Minn. Rev. M. J. Twomey, Newark, N. J. * Deceased. THE CONVENTION HISTORICAL TABLES 113 Term expires 1920 Rev. H. R. Best, Sioux Falls, S. Rev. F. P. Haggard, New York Dak. City. Rev. J. W. Brougher, Los Angeles, *?? J- J. Hergrt, Cincinnati, Ohio. j Miss M. L. Howard, Hartford, W. C. Coleman, Wichita, Kans. R A Maxwell> Williamsport , Rev. C. A. Cook, Butte, Mont. p a . Mrs. M. G. Edmands, Chestnut Hill, J. F. Schlotter, Colorado Springs, Mass. Colo. Ex officio Hon. Charles E. Hughes, New York Hon. Edward S. Clinch, New York City. City. Pres. Harry P. Judson, Chicago, 111. Dean Shailer Mathews, Chicago, Rev. Emory W. Hunt, Newton Cen- 111. ter, Mass. Pres. Clarence A. Barbour, Roches- Hon. Henry Bond, Brattleboro, Vt. ter, N. Y. OFFICERS FOR TEN YEARS (The addresses are those at the time of election, save in instances of continuous service, where present address is given.) Presidents 1916-1917, Barbour, Pres. C. A., 1907-1908, Hughes, Hon. Charles Rochester, N'. Y. E., Albany, N. Y. 1912-1914, Bond, Henry, Brattle- 1910-1912, Hunt, Rev. E. W., Gran- boro, Vt. ville, Ohio. 1914-1915, Clinch, Hon. E. S., New 1908-1910, Judson, Pres. H. P., York City. Chicago, 111. 1917-, Coleman, George W., Bos- 1915-1916, Mathews, Dean Shailer, ton, Mass. Chicago, 111. Vice-Presidents 1912-1915, Ayer, F. W., Camden, 1913-1915, Griffith, R. B., Grand N. J. Forks, N. Dak. 1911-1912, Bond, Henry, Brattle- IOOO _ IOIO) H orr, Pres. G. E., New- boro ' vt ton Center, Mass. 1908-1909, 1911-1913, Brasted, Fred, Oklahoma City, Okla. 1907-1908, Judson, Pres. H. P., Chi- 1910-1911, 1917-, Brimson, W. G., c *go, HI. Chicago, 111. 1907-1911, Shank, C. S., Seattle, 1917-, Bustard, Rev. W. W., Cleve- Wash. land, Ohio. 1915-1916, Shull, D. C, Sioux City, 1916-1917, Coleman, W. C., Wichita, Iowa. Kans. 1900-1910, Field, F. H., Brooklyn, WJrWb Stephens, Hon. E. W., |,j Y Columbia, Mo. 1907-1909, Greene, Rev. S. H., 1916-1917, Villers, Rev. T. J., De- Washington, D. C. troit, Mich. 114 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION Corresponding Secretary 1907-, Bitting, Rev. W. C, St. Louis, Mo. Recording Secretaries 1907-1910, Coleman, G. W., Bos- 1912-, Levy, Rev. M. A., Brooklyn, ton, Mass. N. Y. 1910-1912, Franklin, Rev. J. H., Colorado Springs, Colo. Statistical Secretary 1917-, Walker, Rev. Charles A., West Chester, Pa. Assistants to Recording Secretary 1911-, Ashworth, Rev. R. A., Mil- 1909, Jacobs, Rev. J. P., Kansas waukee, Wis. City, Mo. 1909, Batten, Rev. S. Z, Lincoln, IOII _ IQI2) LevV) Rev> M A-> X ew- Neb - ton Center, Mass. 1909-1910, Boody, Rev. F. S., Somerville, Mass. I 99' Wilbur, H. A., Dayton, Ohio. 1913-, Gallup, Rev. C. M., Provi- 1911-, Wright, Rev. P. C, Hartford, dence, R. I. Conn. Treasurers 1907-1912, Lincoln, W. E., Pitts- 1912-, Miner, F. L., Des Moines, burgh, Pa. Iowa. MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR TEN YEARS 1910-, Anderson, Prof. F. L., New- 1917-, Best, Rev. H. R., Sioux Falls, ton Center, Mass. S. Dak. 1911-1917, Armstrong, Rev. J. C., 1907- fBitting, Rev. W. C., St. Kansas City, Mo. Louis, Mo. 1007-1909, tAshworth, Rev. R. A, fBond( H Brattleboro, Menden, Conn. y t 1912-, fAyer, F. W., Camden, X. J. . , ., , . , 1916- tBarbour, Pres. C. A , 1J ^ 191 * f nil ' ' Rochester, N. Y. homa Cifr, Okla. 1908-1910, *Barry, C. C, Melrose, ^o-, yBrimson, W. G., Chicago, Mass. In - 1917- Bechtel, S. B., Fort Wayne, '9I7-, Brougher, Rev. J. W., Los Ind. Angeles, Cal. 1910-, Beman, Prof. W. W., Ann 1907-1908, Bryan, Pres. E. B., Arbor, Mich. Franklin, Ind. * Deceased. t Ex officio. THE CONVENTION HISTORICAL TABLES 11$ 1907- fBustard, Rev. W. W., Cleve- 1909-1910, 1913-, tGriffith, R. B., land, Ohio. Grand Forks, N. Dak. 1913-, Carpenter, I. W., Omaha, 1900-1911, *Grippen, W. A., Bridge- Neb, port, Conn. 1910-1916, Cassidy, Rev. G. W., 1917-, Haggard, Rev. F. P., New Wichita, Kans. York City. 1910-1914, Clark, Sidney, Grand 1913-, Hagstrom, Rev. G. A., St. Forks, S. Dak. Paul, Minn. 1008-, fClinch, Hon. E. S., New 1907-, Hanley, Rev. E. A., Roches- York City. ter, N. Y. 1910-1911, Colby, E. L., Orange, 1914-, Herget, Rev. J. F., Cincin- N. J. nati, Ohio. 1007-1914, fColeman, G. W., Bos- 1000-1910, fHorr, Pres. G. E., New- ton, Mass. ton Center, Mass. 1916-, fColeman, W. C, Wichita, 1917- Howard, Miss M. L., Hart- Kans. ford, Conn. 1907-1910, *Conley, Rev. J. W., 1907-, fHughes, Hon. C. E., New Omaha, Neb. York City. 1917-, Cook, Rev. C. A., Butte, 1910-, fHunt, Rev. E. W., Newton Mont. .Center, Mass. IQI5-, Coshow, O. P., Roseburg, 1912-1913, Hulburt, Rev. D. W., Ore. Wauwatosa, Wis. 1007-1913, Crandall, Rev. L. A., 1910-1911, Johnson, A. L., Indiana. Minneapolis, Minn. 1915-, Johnson, Mrs. F. W., Chi- 1910-1914, Curry, Rev. E. R., cago, 111. Omaha, Neb. 1907- tjudson, Pres. H. P., Chi- 1910-1914, Dietrich, F. S., Boise, cago, 111. Idaho. 1911-, Keller, Luther, Scranton, Pa. 1910-1913, Earle, R. O., St. Paul, 1911-1914, Lemon, Rev. J. B., Cleve- Minn. land, Ohio. 1914-, Edmands, Mrs. M. G., Chest- 1912-, fLevy, Rev. M. A., Brooklyn, nut Hill, Mass. N. Y. 1913-1916, *Ferris, Rev. G. H., 1908-1910, Lewis, C. T., Toledo, Philadelphia, Pa. Ohio. 1909-1910, fField, F. H., Brooklyn, 1007-1912, Lindsay, E. J., Milwau- N. Y. kee, Wis. 1907-1910, 1911-1912, fFranklin, 1907-1912, Lincoln, W. E., Pitts- Rev. J. H., Colorado Springs, burgh, Pa. Colo. 1910-, Lynch, Rev. R. N., Petaluma, 1913-1915, Garabrant, D. G., Bloom- Cal. field, N. J. 1915-, MacLeish, Mrs. Andrew, 1910-1912, Garnett, J. H., Santa Glencoe, 111. Ana, Cal. 1910-1911, McCurdy, J. C., New 1912- Geistweit, Rev. W. H., St. York City. Louis, Mo. 1913-1916, Martin, F. J., Seattle, 1912-1915, Gile, H. S., Salem, Ore. Wash. 1907-1910, *Greene, Rev. B. A,, 1910-, fMathews, Dean Shailer, Evanston, 111. Chicago, 111. 1907-1909, tGreene, Rev. S. H., 1917- Maxwell, Rev. J. A., Wil- Washington, D. C. liamsport, Pa. * Deceased. t Ex officio. Il6 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION 1910-1912, Meeser, Prof. S. B., Chester, Pa. 1912-, fMiner, F. L., Des Moines, Iowa. 1007-1009, Montague, Rev. J. Y., Hiawatha, Kans. 1911-, Nicholson, E. K., Bridge- port, Conn. 1910-1911, Orem, W. C, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1910-1914, Otto, Rev. Benjamin, Kansas City, Mo. 1909-1910, Porter, H. K., Pitts- burgh, Pa. 1915- Price, Rev. O. J., Lansing, Mich. 1910-, Purinton, Pres. D. B., Mor- gantown, W. Va. 1910-1914, Ralston, Rev. C. F., Yonkers, N. Y. 1907-1909, Rosselle, Rev. W. Q., Williamsport, Pa. 1907-1908, Rowley, Rev. F. H., Bos- ton, Mass. 1907-1909, Runyon, E. M., Portland, Ore. 1917-, Schlotter, J. F., Colorado Springs, Colo. 1910-1912, *Shallenberger, Gen. W. S., Washington, D. C. 1907-1911, fShank, C. S., Seattle, Wash. 1908-1913, 1915- fShull, D. C., Sioux City, Iowa. IQI5-, tStephens, Hon. E. W., Col- umbia, Mo. 1911-, Stickney, Hon. W. W., Lud- low, Vt. 1910-, Stockham, A. H., Delta, Colo. 1909-, Swasey, Ambrose, Cleveland, Ohio. 1007-1008, Sweet, Rev. F. W., Adrian, Mich. 1912-1913, Treat, M. C., Washing- ton, Pa. 1913-, Twomey, Rev. M. J., Newark, N. J. 1907-1908, Vaughan, J. R., Water- loo, Iowa. 1910-1913, 1914-1917, Vichert, Rev. J. F., Fort Wayne, Ind. 1916-, fVillers, Rev. T. J., Detroit, Mich. 1917-, fWalker, Rev. C. A., West Chester, Pa. 1914- Webb, L. M., Portland, Me. 1900-1910, Wooddy, Rev. C. A., Portland, Ore. * Deceased t Ex officio THE CONVENTION HISTORICAL TABLES 117 By Recording Secretary Maurice A. Levy American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Organization and Management of, 1913, I58ff. American Baptist Publication Society and American Bible Society, Re- lations between, 1915, 26f. Affiliating Organizations, 1911, 7of., 76f. Annuities, Proposed Plan for, 1914, iO4ff. Apportionment Plan, Development of, 1909, 66ff. Board of Education, 1909, 156; 1910, isSff. ; 1911, 72. Bulletins : i. BROTHERHOOD "Brotherhood in Action," 1916, I75ff. " Laymen and the Kingdom," 1917, 2468. " Social Service by Organized Men," 1917, 253ff. 2. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION "A Program of Religious Education in a Local Church," 1913, Siff. " Suggestions for a Committee on Religious Education in a Local Church," 1913, 6iff. " Standard of Efficiency for Baptist Sunday Schools," 1913, 64ff. "Program of Religious Education in a Church of One Hundred Members or Less," 1914, 87ff. ; 1915, I25ff. " Church and the Public School in Religious Education," 1915, I32ff. "Religion in the Home," 1915, I39ff. "Public Worship Morning Service," 1915, I46ff. " Religious Education in the Five Year Program," 1916, I33ff. "Preparation for Church-membership, 1917, I24ff. "The Church School Building," 1917, I27ff. " Developing a Trained Leadership for the Churches," 1917, I35ff. " Library on Religious Education," 1917, I48ff. 3. SOCIAL SERVICE "Reading Courses," 1913, I3off. " Social Service Year," 1914, I42ff. Il8 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION " Social Program of the Local Church," 1914, I47ff. " Social Service Library," 1914, i49f . " Temperance Situation and the Churches' Duty," 1914, I56ff. " Peace and Arbitration," 1915, :87ff. " State Social Sen-ice," 1915, I9off. "America's International Policy," 1916, iO9ff. " Social Service by Young People," 1917, 275 ff. "Church and Industrial Peace," 1917, 2ox>ff. " Social Service in the Five Year Program," 1917, 3OO-iff. "Emergency War Measures," 1917, 3OO-7ff. Efficiency of Administration of Cooperating Organizations, 1914, 76ff. ; 1915, 78ff. ; 1916, 76ff. ; 1917, loiff., n6f. Five Year Program, 1915, 233; 1916, 67ff. ; 1917, 94ff. Free Baptists, 1911, 59! ; 1912, 47. General Missionaries, 1909, 158. Joint Magazine, 1908, 80; 1909, 155. Judson Memorial Fund, 1917, I92ff. Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board, 1911, 70; 1913, 4f. " Northern Baptist Convention : Its Origin, Purpose, and Functions," 1915, 31 iff. Northern Baptist Convention : Historical Statement, 1007, 7ff. Incorporation of, 1910, 78ff., 89, 92ff. ; 1912, I33ff. Preliminary Resolutions, 1907, isf. Provisional Constitution and By-laws of, 1907, 4ff., 17. Provisional Organization of, 1907, 17. Made permanent, 1908, 28. Relation of, to Societies, 1907, :8f. To State Conventions, 1909, I42ff. ; 1910, I38ff. Seal of, 1915, 29. Societies Become Cooperating Organizations of, 1908, 87, 103, 104, ; 1909, 43, I02ff. ; 1913, 7if. ; 1914, 7f. Restudy of Annual Budgets, 1916, 3iff. Southern Baptist Convention, 19*11, 53ff. ; 1912, 46, 93ff. ; 1914, n8f. Standardization of the Ministry, 1917, 34ff. State Convention Statistical Standards, 1915, 2O7ff. State Surveys, 1914, i87ff. United Missionary Campaign, 1914, i68ff. XI CONVENTION STATISTICS By Charles A. Walter, Statistical Secretary AMERICAN BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY RECEIPTS c *rf . s "s Year S J JPH' * V I Is . f u S &'>>% 'SgtS 5 " 'C "a'S 13 rt c ^ - B B >"O 5g O V u-ct-3 Sen J > .! c CO 1 u c O V u c3 g^ u & ^ .2 c JS J5.S(i; i sl Q CO *0 o H 1908 $34 696 86 $800,693.85 1909 126,761.83 $1 1;8 6od ";s 63,129.45 1910 657,384.96 134,239.89 $1,121.13 27,756.99 1912 757,538.12 907,250.85 1913 869,964.76 20,142.22 126,797.98 1,016,004.06 IOI4 . 960 884 52 80^.081.71 182.711.^8 844,833.56 15,430.61 jr.i6i.o7 1,023,716.70 1917 851,777.46 46,659.34 143,714.64 '1,042, 1 5 1. 44 1 $7,624,186.41] $300,693.84] $1,292,774.89 $374,569.20 $1,121.13 $9,593.345-47 Surplus of Appropriations, as follows: Previous year's deficit $3,805.94 Medical work in China 5,000.00 Losses in missionaries' salaries in China 8,000.00 Legacy Reserve Fund 20,404.70 $37,210.64 121 122 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION uoijeajsiuimpv OOts.^fts.^Ots. M 00 00 ts,OO O VO 00 M ON m^-dxtsd M ts.ts.ts.ts. o E o vo JUIOJJ m t* n >n *+ m i*. ~ to (A *- M * K ts.ONVO COOVOO O O <* ts. o "& S Cd lurauwfoa || ^"f^S.s^E IS. 10 SBURS 'wa 1 " in 1 E i i ^ mm ^ a o o o oo vo oo -' m in N 0\ d u> VO m vd in M UU XJBUOISSIJM SiJ^JvSvo'S 0^ 8 in in | & * 5- * saoanog J3qjQ P UE ts.vo Mtninvo M o m C-. ts.O * o o ts, S 2 '" TO " 1 1 - 5 1 1 1 1 1 II $192,407 in 00 tx UJ i43-43 1911 251,022.61 123,987.79 60,000.00 57,142.67 1912 250)267.31 119,097.56 23 827.76 1913 282,480.14 120,068.08 87,332.45 1 08 832 64 1914 258,105.78 129,249.98 66.C4J. 81 IOIS 262,021.42 120,172.00 67,674.02 28,198 89 258,997.44 108,413.56 72,880 66 277, ,161. e8 8 181 ^s. Total . . . $2,504,217.42 $1,167,573-37 $893,492.91 $235,OII.8l $760,602.10 DISBURSEMENTS Mission Work Education Work Church Edi- fice Work Home Ad- ministration Miscel- laneous 1908 $235,448.23 $102,306.42 $35,325.60 $24,430.07 $73,573.29 10.09 251,587.39 65,147.84 25,886.11 1910 52,784.83 31.167.80 I4j..c68 26 77,061.11 22.787 8j. 72 8l2 85 66,948 76 1917 326,250.85 146,986.60 40,088.82 85,876.69 Total ... $2,803,452.02 $1,295,738.79 $440,551-44 $255>792.94 $796,975-40 124 A MANUAL OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION > 13 CD sjuatnasjnqsiQ STOOH - ^ ** VO to O SO to M ^ Ov \C suoisstj^ "5 ; *2 tooo - 0\ IX _ _ ^. OO OO VO O\ N v N n to oo CONVENTION STATISTICS 125 co ^ en s}U3tu3s.mqsiQ IWl tNtxoo o ^f'f^oo tNino $2,008,976.6 ^t-di<^Ti-oJovo omc^-^rxvo^J-mt-ico fOin- O Tf^-N M-COO o r^ o o' o D - TC M m OB- H vo - <<^-~oovo inm Tfultxi-irt . > M f M to M *9- M w_- O> < ?> * ! O O> CO Oi ^ O T)-O\1000VD O\ WOOtOCONOCOOUlM - eoi-t o (^ ^cocomvo *9- VAV IBaoiiBonpg o> $156,021.58 o m VOAV ! SS IK co oo * 11 in oo m in if ^ vo m co $1,322,724.89 M t^ - N CO 1^ M t^ m m c^ c \o O O vo o O t^ ^ n VO O> 00 Ov 00 O o\ o fo i- m o co RECEIPTS saajnog J3q;o Ov in m vo tx o> M o M o\ oo Tt- co $222,466.17 t> n 00 C4 m vo vo n vo Ov Cx co n ^* m o oo tx ov o ov inmnQO moooovovo MMCOM C4**MC4C4 M- sat;muay * H in I tx co *9- S3IOBS31 nMt^ooocoooo^in rtxOvoo * *nt-. o invo^ooino>'-'00 t^ sjenpiAipuj : : : : : o? 5 ^ ? $110,779-70 <0 o\ N * saqoanio intxumtvi^-iio m ^in^-incoo\cOM in CN 00 co tC vo in M * MMnWMeH in COO\MC4C40OO^ M VO'-OOOCOVOOO'* tx ind"ininooovo" rs ooONcommtxvovo oo U ! OOOvOnNCO^mvotx g O^OAOtOvOV^OvOtOvOX STATISTICAL SURVEY OF THE AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS MK Ml'.ERSHIP AND CHURCH PROPERTY --. 3- California, Northern . . California, Southern . . Connecticut f ; Delaware 7- | District of Columbia . . . Idaho c. Illinois I 0. Indiana II. Iowa Maine* 14. Massachusetts - r Michigan -t> Minnesota -5 Montana 19. Nebraska go Nevada J I . New Hampshire* rr. New Jersey - i. New York - 4- North Dakota :". Ohio -,; Oregon Pennsylvania l| Rhode Island * c). South Dakota "0. Utah i : . Vermont M- 33- 31 Washington, Eastern . . Washington, Western.. West Virginia ir Wisconsin ?f>. Wyoming . Total. 1 Churches Ministers 1 f 1 Membership Bible School Enrolment Parsonages Total Valuation 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 21 47 15 I 156 r" IOO 28 60 247 141 80 2 43 1 16 434 227 1,142 947 764 979 1,136 3,136 20,911 16,634 11,541 18,910 12,533 1,148 2,904 11,290 1 6, 1 06 5,261 19,441 9,914 3 17 ' 26 $75,200 196,500 1,454,700 1,706,600 856,900 1,719,800 1917 163 94 1,042 808 17,312 12,006 33 995,600 2,146,200 972 27,635 18,468 2,872,300 1907 1917 15 15 15 17 114 IOI 2,198 2,913 6,859 1,984 2,492 4 226,500 441,000 1917 22 40 414 10,329 1,836 9,411 2 1,113,800 1917 51 33 369 8 At I 4,700 4,792 18 235,433 1917 1.295 i,38i 9,940 169,946 114,056 9,471,800 1,992,900 1917 517 27O 356l 73,o89 58,221 85 3,324,700 1917 396 628 272 2>I56 48,512 40,425 156 3,285,700 1917 1907 1917 1907 595 240 409 346 440 185 259 440 6ie 3,651 691 1,648 2,894 60,765 20,857 33,647 75,507 89,345 51,574 20,195 30,775 64,701 79,638 146 ' '183 2,397,8oo 1,160,400 2,263,000 7,584,500 10,462,700 1917 1907 1917 1907 443 256 248 1, 880 I 826 386 193 238 1,441 3,553 ,58! ,545 i ,597 53,389 23,907 28,466 171,797 200,632 53,852 21,145 25,558 106,582 96,060 202 117 4,473,500 1,469,400 2,466,800 3,955,000 2,179,900 165,300 1917 1907 1917 5 S 218 192 57 169 181 274 ,120 ,861 4,077 18,178 20,650 228 4-058 14,981 I7>43i 284 15 90 357,100 998,900 1,141,600 6,000 1917 12 86 12 84 24 501 919 8,851 2 62,300 719,000 is6 731 14,822 1 1,534 1,296,900 528 61,837 5,402,300 1917 1907 1917 376 93i 984 76 458 1,175 1,055 3,330 5,627 8,216 380 80,878 164,538 191,197 4,883 53,898 138,120 144,009 4, 2 ^6 180 602 7,730,400 18,526,900 22,331,500 224,800 1917 1907 95 628 618 64 580 354 3,8i4 3>798 6,821 80,592 76,564 7,708 60,746 73,537 42 407,000 4,321,000 5,192,400 118 487 515,500 1917 141 140 855 15,333 13,187 34 833,/oo 1917 804 ' 76 689 80 5,188 498 157*005 129,234 278 13,046,600 1,375,300 1917 114 no 702 298 19,546 18,636 7,331 46 1,382,800 316,700 1917 103 90 461 8,573 7,957 600,500 80,000 1917 14 14 g-> 74 1,343 8.372 1,323 8 S74. I 179,100 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 112 57 77 91 118 66 1 907 203 210 21 41 80 47 42 in 112 360 444 I5i 172 17 37 614 322 385 1,070 657 2,914 2,244 1,030 1,215 28 178 9,956 4,200 7,296 9,137 11,774 53,231 60,437 19,683 20,559 837 2,053 9,350 4,766 6,632 11,795 1 1, 660 32,512 44.569 18,966 12,053 1,348 2,695 105 13 34 45 59 10 978,200 259,200 522,000 5Si,9oo 963,100 1,089,000 1,554,900 1,247,200 i.773,5oo 71,800 I53,ooo 1907 1917 IO.999 11,866 9,455 10,161 65,589 79,971 1,308,817 1,549,665 1,037,902 1,215,969 3 2,545 $88,632,100 110,113,200 * Union of Baptists and Free Baptists was consummated during this period. STATISTICAL SURVEY OF THE AFFILIATING ORGANIZATIONS CONVENTIONS CONTRIBUTIONS 0) ct) V > _, V e u 0. 3 X u w "5 B - V n) g bo C > '-3 fS O. 3 a C3 c _o n .52 t/5 S d o 1 u 3 3 1 B _rt 'v u '1 " 1 o 1 O 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 IQO7 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 J9I7 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1917 1907 1017 1907 1917 $17,577 31,286 172,221 184,056 101,464 239,008 117,835 137,021 271,156 280,294 22,295 21,143 96,039 115,756 18,158 51,571 946,777 1,127,044 430,078 272,099 333,240 490,225 307,732 347,740 151,334 261,875 1,001,982 1,158,521 406,578 461,270 230,963 298,064 725,625 450,498 43,290 67,351 150,891 238,399 289 8,104 91,588 155,222 648,570 618,701 1,244,614 1,917,303 53,529 90,360 560,781 431,870 96,994 102,477 1,188,553 1,029,606 166,510 207,476 56,790 86,724 7,735 19,849 75,489 99,000 45,734 58,075 126,661 97,826 152,029 256,520 187,824 202,728 11,772 22,171 "$'8,is5 $1,327 3,078 6,326 10,711 22,939 20,618 5,153 8,423 10,762 8,493 557 1,381 2,082 3,655 841 6,634 33,329 22,180 5,824 21,744 6,765 13,757 6,629 11,555 5,479 7,6 1 2 18,122 24,560 15,150 "'$^36 2,969 21,700 301 6,796 388 35,142 1,095 934 ito 597 256 43i $809 * 6 ' 3 6,917 10,887 23,646 70,56o 8,116 81,607 19,383 36,219 649 1,363 n,i86 24,177 1,151 675 79,622 63,433 10,904 '"8,597 15,786 10,710 55,763 8,753 9>845 45,821 57,38o 17,573 25,361 36,219 40,392 79,296 15,604 1,758 2,173 7,299 12,215 $20,991 44,656 244,983 363,401 250,818 429,886 150,724 249.125 336,264 358,656 25,389 34,727 129,246 163,354 21,868 68,391 1,119,649 1,457,360 470,085 538,160 423,066 576,239 344,797 561,993 188,849 386,394 I,i79,99i 1,393,421 466,947 715,002 302,647 493,024 871,240 2. California, Northern . . 3. California, Southern . . H5,295 102,468 92,904 Connecticut 43,7i6 7. District of Columbia... 8 Idaho 5,697 9,129 382 ,585 8,479 4,122 2,142 7,410 7,607 5,500 11,322 1,229 1,978 4,067 4,164 2,343 180,427 Kan- 135,512 14. Massachusetts 54,845 1 5. Michigan Mi 130,233 10,126 21,184 41,196 57,570 735 3,027 5,345 8,354 ' 3,991 S,5i6 6,894 7,341 17. Missouri 86,465 45,049 75,576 273,191 282,798 289 15,727 105,279 180,640 775,513 1,034,718 2,267,027 2,848,005 63,833 109,943 662,367 715,009 109,488 165,467 1,420,884 1,806,053 194,302 243,918 76,343 142,857 15,038 21,617 87,347 117,977 6l,432 "8,753 156,019 143,942 177,214 303,304 217,108 288,574 I5,46i 24,542 19. Nebraska 29,570 3,909 4,562 7,049 399 1,234 2,042 13,720 18,142 37,888 34,736 1,801 3,242 10,469 15,803 2,286 5,755 26,066 14,742 2,126' 3,556 2,748 4,694 395 796 2,601 5,697 2,001 4,193 4.835 6,412 6,383: "'73^ 6,156; 8,717 457 804 60 251 368 3,508 4,311 18,706 11,859 50i US 3,228 3,776 59,610 61,237 296,715 452,906 3,164 16,341 55,383 23. New York 333,325 255,583 435,5ii 24. North Dakota 25. Ohio 13,513 4,148 229 3,850 f,o6o ,820 636 573 2,113 3,536 170,181 4,533 6,876 101,639 99,25' 8,265 12,570 5,644 5,595 6,042 805 2,482 3,200 j 208 5,476 8,645 4,996 6,098 11,164 6,768 9,898 2,566 290 29,474 397,720 19,744 30. Utah 31,165 62 274 480 17 1,33' 387 1,760 1,409 2,278 975 32. Washington, Eastern... 33. Washington, Western.. 34. West Virginia 15,845 49,679 21,527 35. Wisconsin 47,112 8 Total 1907 $10,260,601 $358,051 $359,872 $101,631 $913,008 $13,302,738 1917 11,607,224 2,451,280 396,004 152,743 1,221,471 16,473,209 XII INDEX By Daniel G. Stevens INDEX " A Man from Pennsylvania," 60, 62. Act of Incorporation of N. B. C., 19. Affiliating organizations: in relation to N. B. C., 28, 38, 81, 101; directory of, 79; number of, 84; statistical survey of, 126, 127. Africa, 46. Aiken Institute, 53. Alaska, 54. American Baptist Education Society, re- lation of, to Board of Education, 70. American Baptist Foreign Mission So- ciety: in relation to N. B. C., 36; offi- cers of, 43; sketch of history and work of, 44; educational work of, 45; in re- lation to W. A. B. F. M. S., 45, 55, 56; efficiency in work of, 105; statistics of, 121. American Baptist Home Mission Society: resolutions adopted by, 3, 6; in coopera- tion with N. B. C., 36; officers of, 43; sketch of work of, 50; educational work of, 50; church edifice work of, 50, 51; relation of, to Committee on Evangel- ism, 97; efficiency in work of, 105; sta- tistics of, 123. American Baptist Mission Press, 46. American Baptist Missionary Union: reso- lutions presented by, 3; resolutions adopted by, 6; heir of the General Mis- sionary Convention, 44. American Baptist Publication Society: res- olutions adopted by, 3,6; in cooperation with N. B. C., 36; officers of, 43; sketch of work of, 47; educational work of, 48; in relation to Committee on Re- ligious Education, 48, 96; conductor of young people's work, 49; chapel-car work of, 49; social service department of, 49; Daily Vacation Bible Schools of, 49; rural life and community better- ment work of, 49; temperance campaign of, 49; Bible work of, 49; cooperating with Social Service Commission, 95; in relation to Committee on Young Peo- ple's Work, 97; efficiency in work of, 105; statistics of, 122. American Bible Society, Committee to Cooperate with, in Arranging for its Centennial, 92. Anniversaries: relations of denominational organizations discussed at, 3, 4; reform in conducting, 5; real gatherings of the churches, 13. Annual, Convention, 108. Apportionment: by committees of N. B. C. and of State Conventions, 23, 29, 82; system, 102. (See Apportionment Com- mittee.) Apportionment Committee: composition and duties of, 23, 93; term of service of, 26; appointment of, 26; to report in writing, 26; relation of, to affiliating or- ganizations, 29; report of, as to State Conventions, 85; work of, 105; and United Missionary Campaign, 106. Ashmore Theological Seminary, 46. Assam, 44, 54. B Baptisms, in Five Year Program, 107. Baptist Brotherhood, 95, 106. (See Bap- tist Brotherhood, Committee on.) Baptist Brotherhood, Committee on: com- position and duties of, 25; appointment of, 26; to report in writing, 26; work of, 95- Baptist Congress, 3, 8. " Baptist Layman, A," 62. Baptist Missionary Training School, 52. Baptist polity, 13. Baptist World Alliance, 103. Baptist World Congress, 7. Baptist Young People's Union, work of, 105. Bengal-Orissa, 44, 54. Bible Bands, 52. Bible in foreign tongues, 45, 47, 49. Bible question, 3. Board of Education: organization of, 28; duties of, 28, 38; members of, 68; mem- bers of, for seven years, 68; work of, 69; composition of, 70; officers of, 70; budget of, 70; survey of educational situation by, 71; provides for moral and religious interests of Baptist students, 132 INDEX 72, 105; aids schools and colleges, 72, 105; and Five Year Program, 73. Boards, the Convention, 59. Brotherhood Council, 95. " Brotherhood Council, Men's," 94. Budget: of N. B. C., 22, 23; of cooperat- ing organizations, 27; system, 102. Burma, 44, 45, 54, 56. By-laws of N. B. C., 20. Call for meeting at which N. B. C. was organized, 9. Calvary Baptist Church, meeting at, 9. Central America, 51, 53, 54. Chapel cars, 49. Chicago Baptist Associatien, 7. China, 44, 46, 54, 56. Christian Stewardship, General Commit- tee on, 92. Church and State, 14. Church edifice work of A. B. H. M. S., 5i Si- City Missions, Committee on: composition and duties of, 24, 94; appointment of, 26; to report in writing, 26; work of, 94- City missions, promoted by A. B. H. M. S., 51, by N. B. C., 104. Collection agencies, 6. College, Rangoon Baptist, 46. Colportage work of A. B. P. S., 48. Comity: interdenominational, 104; within and without the denomination, 108. Commission on Coordination, A, 4. Commission on Systematic Beneficence, A, 3- " Committee " or " Commission," 91. Committees of N. B. C. (See names of committees.) Committee on Christian Stewardship, Gen- eral, 92. Conference, Committee of, 6. Conference on Faith and Order, 92, 102, 104. Conference with Committee of Southern Baptist Convention, 92, 102. Congo, Belgian, 44, 54. Convention Annuals, a Digest of, 101. Convention Committees, the, 22, 37, 91. (See names of committees.) Convention Seal, 35, 36. Convention Sessions, Table of, in. Cooperating organizations: relation of, to N. B. C., 15, 27, 38; directory of, 43. Cooperation with Ministers and Mission- aries Benefit Board, Committee of, 62. Coordination: a Commission on, 4; a mass- meeting on, 4. Coordination of Baptist Bodies Using For- eign Languages, Committee on the: composition and duties of, 26, 97; ap- pointment of, 26; to report in writing, 26; work of, 98. Coordination of denominational work: en- deavors to effect, 3; effected, 15. Coordination of educational agencies in the local church, 92, 96. Correspondence teacher-training courses, 48. Credentials, Committee on, 92. Cuba, 50, 51, 53, 54. Gushing Memorial, 46. D Daily Vacation Bible Schools of A. B. P. S., 49, S3- Declaration of N. B. C., 20. Delegates to the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 92, 102. Delegates to the N. B. C., 20. Democracy: church, 14; and efficiency, 14; in N. B. C., 37, 102, 106. Denominational Day: Committee on, 92; observance of, 103, 108. Denominational Journals, Committee on, 92. Denominational Objectives, Conference on, 107. " Denominational Relations to Educational Institutions, Committee on," 69. Dispensaries, 45, 55. Education, Christian: on foreign fields, 45; in field of N. B. C., 105; in Five Year Program, 107. Educational Day, 108. Educational institutions in Northern States, Baptist, 74. Educational work: of A. B. F. M. S., 45; of A. B. P. S., 48; of A. B. H. M. S., 50; of W. A. B. H. M. S., 52; of W. A. B. F. M. S., 55- Efficiency: and church democracy, 14; in the general Societies, 15, 105; promoted by N. B. C., 38, 104; and A. B. H. M. S., 51; standard of, 104; in State or- ganizations, 105. Ellen Mitchell Memorial Hospital, 56. El Salvador, 50. Ellis, F. M., quoted, 3. INDEX 133 Enrolment, Committee on, composition and duties of, 23. Europe, Baptist cause in, 45. European Baptists: greetings to, 102; greetings from, 103. Evangelism: by A. B. F. M. S., 45; con- cern of American Baptists, 105; in Five Year Program, 107. Evangelism, Committee on: composition and duties of, 25, 97; appointment of, 26; to report in writing, 26; relation of, to A. B. H. M. S., 97. Executive Committee of the N. B. C.: election and duties of, 22, 93; to report in writing, 26; represented on Commit- tee of Nominations, 26, 37; elected by delegates from the churches, 36; ap- points members of Board of Education, 70; work of, 102; and standard of effi- ciency, 104; and Five Year Program, 106. States of America for Foreign Missions, The, 44. Giving, systematic, in Five Year Program, 107. Greene, Stephen, report by, 4, 5. H Historical Preface, i-io. Horr, George E., quoted, 3. Hospitals, 45, 55, 56. Independence of the churches, 14, 20, 35. India, 44, 46, 54, 56. Indian tribes, 50, 52, 54. Individualism in Baptist polity, 13. Industrial missions: on foreign fields, 45; on home fields, 52. International Relations, Committee on, 92. Faith and Order: world, 92, 102; World Conference of, 104. Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 92, 102. Fifteen, Committee of, 6. Finance Committee of N. B. C.: powers of, 15; term of service of, 26; to report in writing, 26; appointment of, 26; re- lation of, to cooperating organizations, 27, to M. and M. B. B., 62; duties of, 93; work of, 102, 105. Fiscal Year, Committee on, 92. Five Year Program, 47, 73, 106, 107. Five Year Program, Committee on, 92. Foreign-speaking Baptist bodies, coordina- tion of, in N. B. C., 103. Foreign-speaking peoples in America, work among, 50, 53, 54, 103. Forward Movement for Missionary Edu- cation, Baptist, 92. Free Baptist Churches: union of, with Baptists, promoted by State Conven- tions, 87; by N. B. C., 102; transfer of denominational interests of, to N. B. C., 103. General Baptists, union of, with regular Baptists, 104. General Convention of the Baptists of North America, 7. General Missionaries in Foreign Lands, Committee on, 92. General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United Japan, 44, 46, 54. Judson, Adoniram, and the foreign mis- sion enterprise, 44. K Karens, 45. Kimpese, 46. Kindergarten, 53, 56. Latin America, 53. Law Committee: duties of, 24, 94; ap- pointment of, 26; opinion of, as to re- lation of State Conventions to N. B. C., 82. Laymen's Missionary Movement, 106. Legal Relations of the Societies to the Convention, Committee on, 16. M Managua, 53. Medical missions, of A. B. F. M. S., 45. Mexico, 50, 53, 54. Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board: Board of Managers of, 28; members of, 59; members of, for seven years, 59; work of, 60; composition of, 61; bud- get of, 62; committee of cooperation with, 62; grants by, 62; endowment of, 62; Act of Incorporation of, 63; by- laws of, 64; managers of, 64; officers of* 65; committees of, 65; and Five Year Program, 107. Missionary Campaign, United, 106. INDEX Missionary Education, Department of, 107. Missionary magazines, proposed consolida- tion of, 3, 6. Morehouse, Henry L., 60. Morehouse Memorial Million, 62. N. Negroes, so, 52, 53. New Mexico, SQ. Nicaragua, 50, 53. Nine. Committee of, 5. Nominations of Officers, Committee on: composition and duties of, 24, 26; nomi- nation and election of, 31. Northern Baptist Convention: minutes of meeting for organization of, 3 ; call for meeting for provisional organization of, o; preamble, constitution, and by-laws adopted by, 10, 15, 16, 35; relation of, to general Societies, 15, 101; Act of Incorporation of, 19; Declaration of, 20; by-laws of, 20; membership of, 20; officers of, 20; meetings of, 22; com- mittees of, 22, 37 (see names of com- mittees) ; organizations cooperating with, 27; boards of, 28; organizations affiliat- ing with, 28, 84; standing resolutions of, 30; rules of order of, 32; structure of, 35; controlled by the churches, 36; and denominational unity, 38; an ad- visory body, 39; in relation to M. and M. B. B., 60; a digest of Annuals of, 101; purpose of, 101; achievements of, 103; present officers of, 112; members of Executive Committee of, 112; officers of, for ten years, 113; members of Executive Committee of, for ten years, 114; important documents in Annuals of, 117. O Oklahoma City, Convention at, 15. Order of Business, Committee on: duty of, 24; composition of, 26; nomination and election of, 31. Persian Missions, Committee on, 92. Philippines, 44, 46, 54. Plan of Organization, Committee on, 92. Ponce, 53. Portland, Convention at, 16. Porto Rico, 50, 51, 53, 54. Prayer, in Five Year Program, 107. Presentation of outside causes to N. B. C., 31. R Reference Connniltee, 9.2. Religious Education, Committee on: com- position and duties of, 25, 95, 102; ap- pointment of, 26; to report in writing, 26; in relation to A. B. P. S., 48, 96; work of, jos. Religious Services, Committee on, 92. Reports, Committee on: duties of, 23; to report in writing, 23, 26; composition of, 26; nomination and election of, 31. Resolutions: by A. B. H. M. S. and A. Ji. P. S. and W. B. H. M. S. and A. B. M. U., 3, 6; by Chicago Baptist Asso- ciation, 7; at Anniversaries in 1907, 9. Resolutions, Committee on: duties of, 24; composition of, 26; nomination and election of, 31. Rio Piedras, 53. Rockefeller, John D., 62. Roger Williams Memorial, Committee on, 92. Rural Life and Community Betterment Work of A. B. P. S., 49. San Salvador, 53. Selection of a Place for the Next Annual Meeting, Committee on: duties of, 2.4; composition of, 26; nomination and elec- tion of, 31. Sermon, annual, before N. B. C., 106. Social service, in Five Year Program, 107. Social Service and Brotherhood Depart- ment of A. B. P. S., 49, 95. Social Service, Committee on: duties of, 25> 95 ! appointment of, 26; to report in writing, 26; work of, 96, 102, 106. Social service work of A. B. P. S., 48. Societies, general: debts of, 3; consolida- tion of, deemed undesirable, 6; peti- tion from Baptist Congress to, 8; ori- gin of, 13; and efficiency, 14; relation of, to N. B. C., 15, 102; to State Con- ventions, 104. Soul liberty, 14. Southern Baptist Convention, 13. Southern Baptists, relations with, 92, 102. 103. Spelman Seminary, 52. " Standard, The," 3. State Apportionment Committees, appoint- ment and duties of, 29, 62. State Conventions: in affiliation with N. B. C., 28, 36, 87, 101 ; efficiency of, pro- moted by N. B. C., 38; and A. B. H. M. S., 50; early organization of, 81 ; grow- INDEX 135 ing importance of, 85; in cooperation with Board of Education, 87; coordina- tion of, 104; relation of, to general Societies, 104; and centralization of de- nominational interests, 108. State Conventions, Committee on: duties of, 25, 95; appointment of, 26; to re- port in writing, 26; report of, as to affiliating organizations, 83; made a standing committee, 86. State mission societies and A. B. H. M. S., 51. " State Missionary Organizations, Rela- tions of, to the N. B. C.," Committee on, 95. States, procedure in a vote by, in N. B. C., 31. Statistical Secretary: duties of, 21; ap- pointment of, 86. Sunday School work: of A. B. F. M. S., 45 ; of A. B. P. S., 48; of W. A. B, H. M. S., 52; of W. A. B. F. M. S., 55; and State Conventions, 87; discussion of grade problems in, 107. Svvasey, Ambrose, 62. Systematic Beneficence, A Commission on, 3- T Temperance: campaign by A. B. P.. S., 49; work by W. A. B. H. M. S., 52. Training-schools, 45, 56. Transportation, Committee on, 92. Union Christian Colleges for Women, 56. Union Girls' High School, 56. Union Normal School for Girls, 56. Universities, report of work in, 75. University pastors, 72. W War Commission, the: and W. A. B. H. M. S., 53; a voice of Baptist democ- racy, 1 06. Washington, Anniversaries at, 9. Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mis- sion Society: a cooperating organiza- tion, 36; officers of, 43; in relation to A. B. F. M. S., 45, 55, 56; sketch of work of, 54; educational work of, 55; statistics of, 124. Woman's American Baptist Home Mis- sion Society: a cooperating organiza- tion, 36; officers of, 43; sketch of work of, 52; educational work of, 52; statis- tics of, 125. Woman's Baptist Home Mission Society, resolutions of, 3, 5. Young People's Council, in relation to A. B. P. S., 49. Young people's work: conducted by A. B. P. S., 49; and the State Conven- tions, 87. Young People's Work, Committee on: composition and duties of, 25, 97, 102; appointment of, 26; to report in writ- ing, 26; work of, 97, 105. THK LIBRARY I MVKRSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara THIS BOOK IS 1)1 K ON THK LAST DATK STAMPED BELOW. 100M 11/86 Series 9482 UC SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY A 001 008 755 9