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VOL XVII NO 40 RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. SATURDAY. SEPT. 22. 1 900 PRICE5CE.INTS The National Baptist Convention net at 8:80 P M., 14th inst. Pres. E. O. Morris, presiding. Prayer bj Rev. E. Bird af ISew York oity. Beriptnre -reading by Rer. L. M. Cbeek. The President introduead Rer. r7. Bishop JohJBion, D. Ba* af Waahington, D. O., who made the report of the Edaea tiesal Board?Ker. W. A. Oreditt, ehairman; Ber. W. Biahop Johnson, seeretary. During the reading of this report. Governor J. Hoge Tyler enter* ed aad .wm loadly applaaded by the ?udienee. .OOT. TTLBB ITBAKS. President Morria said: We are bighly favored this afternooa by hav? ing present with us Dr. H. O. Mabie, of tht Ameriean Missionary Union. He declined for the present in favor of Got. J. Hoge Tyler ot Virginia, who oon*ing to the front of the rostrum aaid* ?? It was more to atteat by aty pres enea than what I have co say. I want to firat oompliment you and oongratu late you upon your liberality. lt seems that you are the most liberal Beptists I have ever met, for you have gone out of your way to sprinkle a Presby? terian Elder Governor. I do not know wha*> you would do were you to have a ?ura enough Baptist " One brother remarked that you are all things to all men. "Borne of the ministers of this eity invited me to be present to address yoa. I Boeepted looking forward wlth pleasure to the opportunity, but other things prevented. I have not been abla to make preparation, so I oome before you with erude, haety and im mature suggestions. "1 would not exaggerate were I to aay that no people oould be engaged in a more noble work thsn that in whieh you are engaged and with great? er promise of reward before you. From your faees 1 see that yea appreeiate the work before you. TBB GBBA.T TOaCBS. Ednoational and moral training has been the great instrumentality whioh has raised all races to prominenee aad power. The influenee whieh we have endeavored to extend, eommeneing at the beginning of the Garden of Eden, has been beltiog the earth between tbe 80th and 50th degrees of longitude, giTing influenee and we flnd this re? ligion leaping across the Paeiflc and dashing itself againat the shorea of heathen lands. Extending from the ?outhern sones to Afrioa aod north ward to tbe aretic regions of Afa-k*,, oarrying sleft ihe benners of Onriat and ita toea are gi*m g away io tv<*iy seation. *You have a greet work. A greate ? respoosibitity rests upon you than up? on any other people. THB FUTUBB UNKNOWN. '?We dn not know what may be the future You Iiave been called upoa to go through the waters of trial and af? fliction, but you will be ensbled to wear a brighter erown. ''Other racea are waiting to welcome every heart and 1 believe every Chris? tian here wishes you a moat hearty suouesa. Thia thought fllled my bos om even before 1 had arrived at ma ? hood years. After the eurreader 1 went baek home. I realized what waa the reault of the war. God in Hia wondertul progreaa,?or the reault of the war would Le to bring freedom to your raee. I ealled my servanta who had been faithful to me and have baen ever since, thank G.->d, and 1 tried to picture to them some of the difficul ties whieh lay before them. DIV1DKD WITH THZM. "1 aaid that they would be free. I did not know it. but from thia mo? ment you are aa free as I am. Anoth? er thing 1 mentioned. I divided with them every cent of pereonal property I bad. I gave to every famiiy a eow aud a team of hortes, and told them if they were not satiafled with the houses it* whieh they lived, they oould suleet any other and 1 would eecure it to them and tneir children. I shall uever forget tbst scene. They manifested their apprecistion of joy. Tht y almost rolled in the grass. HIS OLD MAMMY. "Mv old msmmy, who narsed me when my mother died in giving me birth. threw her arma around them and around me, endeavoring to bind us together, deolaring that the separa tion should never be. Wben she died, I buried her and ereeted a monument over her grave, and it msy be seen from my front door today. VThey left and my old mammy was weepiog and wailing. But in lesa than a week they were all baek, say* ing that they had had their freedom long enough and that they wanted to enter into a contraet with me. I had three farm* and I aaid to Uncle Abe that I would give him one of them and he aaid that he thought thst he would be satisfied with the Kirk property? that waa about a 1G00 acres?and a pair mules, yoke of oxen and a eow. C0BTBACT MADI OUT. Well, 1 divided up the property and made out the contraet. He eame baek to hsve a stamp put npon it. The Provost Msrshal required lt. I had no stamp st thst time, ao 1 pnt ar. old Confederate revenue stamp upon it, and it answered the purpoae. "Kow, I aaid I want yoa to give tha flrat fruita of your farm to God. I gave them a plaoe for a ehureh and a tohool-heaM aad a grave-yard. This ??aas -???**>s*a?-***aa?.*?a*a? THE NATIONAL BAPTISTS HAD A GREAT SESSION Governor Tyler Spoke to Them. Eminent Divines. Learned Discourses. EIGHT THOUSAND AT THE AUDITORIUM. The Greatest Meeting Ever Held Here. Loud in their Praises. A Gold Headed TJmbrella for Dr. Graham. Gift of the Baptists of the United States. Rev. E. C. florris, D. D. President of the National Baptist Convent (Colored), the Greatest Negro Baptist Organiza? tion in the World. The rules were suspended and he waa unanimously re-_lected_ waa the firat ohureh areoted aoath ot the Mason and Dixon line. A . I waa going to my farm, I saw aome partiea diggiog a gjrave. I enquired whoae it was and they told me Lixzie Riopley died of typhoid fever and ahe wanta* to be buried by the aide of her motber and her siater. I felt that I was at the grave of my old family a-rvanta, who loved ma; yea wbo would lay down their llvea for me. WHAT HOFK T OA C8? What hope for yon? What for any people if we are eut off "rom the _ o riea of the aospel of heavenT We have the promiae that He will govern and direot and make the rugg-d way amooth. Let not a one of you beeome die oouraged. Eaoh one nrge aome other to beoome a oo-worker in oarrying for? ward the gospel to your people. I believe that in the hearts of the eolored people of the South thera ia deep appreoiation ol the efforta whioh have been made to help you along on edoeational linea. The Soutb waa poor, atripped of everything; yet, I think if all of the amounta given eould. have been oolleoted together, they wonld be monumenta to our people, FIOHTIBO MAKFUI.LT. "But you are flghting the battle man fully youraelvea. Never grow faint heart ed. but go forward and trnat Ood aod He wiil help y.u." A eontinued ovatioo followed. H. 0. M-bie, D. D., of Masaaoh usetta, aeoretary of the Ameriean Miasiouary Union, aaid that it waa worth the trip from Boaton to eome in eontaot with suoh a man. 'lt ia good to be here. beeauae there sounde forth strong aod true languase It waa at the oonoluaion of the re? marka of the Govornor and Dr. Mable that Bev Dr. Creditt made one of the moat tbrilling and eleetrifying apeeeh es of the oonvention. He stated the Negro'a oase in equity with oharming language, rn.gniflce.nt in its oonoep tiona and punetuated with oratory ot the highest order. The applause whioh greeted him ahowed that he had made a auaeasaful atatement of exiittng oonditions eveo though he had surprised everyone by the boldnesa of hia utteranoes. During the day Rev. R. O. Fox of Pittaburg. Pa preaided. Rev. Dr. E. P. Harria made the opening aadreaa. Rev R. Miteheil, D. D., of Frankfort. Ky , ably diecussed the "Influence of Literature upon a Nation" He urged the colored people to devote more time to making literature for them? aelvea, eduoating tbeir boys and girls for that purpoae. Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson of Balti? more ereated a aenaation by deliver ing an addreaa whieh attacked the lit? erature of th?* white man. He was ___.eroileaa in his analyaia of Homer and hia Illiad and Odyasey, expreaaing a doubt whether auch a writer ever lived. He oreated much amuaement and ear? ried hia audienoe with him from the atart to the finiab. He waa out?poken in hia advocacy of racial enterpriees. Bev. Dr. ?. A. Moaeley of Pine Bluff, Ark., preaident of the Arkaneaa de? partment of the eonvention made an address. "The Goapel in all Landa," waa the theme discussed in the morning ses? sion of the National Baptiat Oonven? tion, Thuraday. l_lk inat. R?-v. Dr. J. J. Durham. of Ueorgia, the vi.e-Preai dei.t waa in the ehair. The li-.-t addre.a waa made by Rev. M J. Maddox. of Savannah. Qa. Rev. Jordan. in a short addreaa. atated that the paat year had been a aueceasful one for the oauae of miaaions, and that the eolored people had done their duty by giving to aend the goapel to Africa. Rev. Dr. Charlea S. Morris had made a trip to Africa. and had been instru mental in many being added to th} fold. Other'apeakera were Rev Geo. W. Lee, D. D., and Rev. Walter Brooks D. 1)., both of Waahington ; Rev. John ?. Fotd, of Denver, Col., th-* flrat Ne? gro to graduate from the Ut i.ersity of Chieago; Dr. P R Neal, Nannie Burrell of Louisville, the ouief elerk of the Foreign Misaion Board. and Dr. C. H. i'_rr ah. Preaident of tbe Ex stein Nort.n University. VALUABLB IXFJRMAT.ON. The addreaa of Rev. Dr. Brooks em braced atatiatical information and a hiatorical -t.tement of the eondition of the eolored Baptists in thia oountry. It ereated a pr ..found aenaation and has been the aubjeet of mueh eomment everaino . Dr. Brooka waa offered $150.00 for hia paper, but aa he expecta to enlargen ca the subject, he deolined to aooept it The paper plaeea him in the fore front of the aivines who are gathering information ooneerning this powerful denomination. THB SOVTHKBM BAPT18T CONVBKTIOW. Dr. R, J. Willingham, Secretary of the Southern Baptiat Convention. was innodueed for the purpose of addreaa ing tha oonvention on miaaions. He delivered an able addreaa giving in de? tail the work done by hia aoeiety and ahowing tbe eolored people their duty in thia work. Rev. Dr. E. M. Brawley, preaided dor.ng the afternoon seasion and the time waa apent in hearing reports and the like. na. botd'a carbbb. Dr. R. H. Bojd. of M-.ah.ille,Seore tary ot the National Baptiat Pablishiog (CONNINUEDJON EiaHm JPAQE>