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MISSISSIPPI'S CONVENTION AT WINONA
Editor T. J. Hailey, of The Baptist Record, Made President —President J. C. Hardy, of the A. and M. College, and Prof.
J. L. fohnson, Jr., Vice-Presidents Great Tor bard Movement for Orphans, Missions and Hospitals.
Note: The following is a very inadequate survey
of some of the work of the Mississippi Baptist Con
vention, which was intended simply as the conclu
sion of a story in which the demand for a constitu
tional prohibition amendment was made the special
feature. The speech of Hon. Will Whittington, who
led the movement, failed to reach us in time and
at the last moment we can only use these fragmen
tary paragraphs:
Other Work of the Convention.
It is not the province of this article to report the
Winona Convention in detail, but a passing glimpse
will hold general interest for our readers.
The writer reached Winona after the organization,
but the Winona Times, the wide-awake local paper
tells of the opening as follows:
“Rev. Bryon Simmons, of Brandon, preached Mon
day night to pastors, prepatory to organizing a pas
tor’s conference.
A pastor’s conference was organized Tuesday morn
ing as an auxiliary to the State Baptist Convention.
Dr. J. A. Hackett, of Meridian, was elected moderator
and Rev. W. H. Morgan, of Shaw, secretary of the
National Inter-Church Temperance Council
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“Dr. T. B. Hyslop, of England, says: ‘lntemperance
does not necessarily mean only obvious and palpable
drunkenness. From the very moment in which alco
hol has disturbed the health exercise of the mental
faculties, or has impaired the moral sense by unduly
exciting the animal passions, or has in any way un
fitted a person for discharging his duties in the
proper struggle for survival, from that moment has
there been guilt or intemperance.’
“This balance controlling force is destroyed in the
man whose brain cells are poisoned by alcohol. The
valuable controlling mechanism is no longer at work;
it is more or less paralyzed. Dr. Jordan says: ‘To
be able to hold liquor in excess, without drunken
ness, indicates not strength, but a depressed and dis
ordered nervous system.’
“Count Von Haesler, of Germany, says: ‘The sol
dier who abstains altogether is the best man. He
can accomplish more, can march better, and is a
better soldier than the man who drinks even moder
ately. Mentally and physically he is better. Lord
Kitchener and Lord Roberts give like testimony, and
Sir Frederick Treves says: ‘As a work producer al
cohol is exceedingly extravagant, and like all other
extravagant measures leads to a physical bankruptcy.
It is also curious that troops can not work or march
on alcohol.’ ”
(Significant excerpts from address at National In
ter-Church Temperance Council by Mrs. Edith Smith
Davis, National Superintendent of Scientific Temper
ace Instruction, W. C. T. U., “Fundamental Scientific
Truths of the Temperance Reform.”)
“That total abstinence rests upon an absolutely
scientific basis is a fact that needs to be emphasized
in every possible way in the present day temperance
agitation. Sir Victor Horsley, not long ago publicly
said: ‘From the scientific standpoint total abstinence
must be the course, if we are to follow the plain
teaching of truth and common sense.’
“Our International Congress which was held last
July in London is no longer denominated ‘The Inter
national Congress against the Abuse of Alcohol,’ but
is now ‘The International Congress against the use
of Alcohol,’ for as Dr. Koppe so tersely said, ‘The
abuse of alcohol commences with its use.’
"When then are the scientific truths respecting al
cohol which we deem fundamental in reaching the
conclusion that we must have total abstinence from
alcohol? First, that alcohol is a narcotic drug and
poisonous in its action. Alcohol is usually classified
by pharmacologists with such narcotics as chloro
form and ether for it has a twofold action: (1) Tem
porarily exhilarant; (2) Depressant. But as the de
p'regsant action of alcohol fa much longer continued
The Golden Age for November 18, 1909.
organization. One hundred and fifty pastors were
enrolled. An eloquent address was delivered by Dr.
Hackett. The whole of the afternoon was taken up
with the w r ork of this organization, which proved
very interesting and profitable to the pastors.
Convention Organized.
“With more than a thousand messengers and vis
itors assembled in Winona’s New Baptist Church
Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock, the Seventy-first ses
sion of the Mississippi State Baptist Convention was
organized by the election of the following officers:
President T. J. Bailey, of Jackson; Vice Presidents,
J L. Johnson, Jr., of Clinton; and J. C. Hardy, of
Starkville; Secretary, Walton E. Lee, of Hernando;
Statistical Secretary, S. G. Cooper, of Canton; Treas
urer, W. P. Price, of Jackson.
“After a short address of welcome by Rev. Martin
Ball, the convention sermon was preached by Rev.
W. C. Grace, of Gulfport.”
Laymen’s Movement and Missions.
Great interest w*as manifested in that new dynamic
influence known as the Layman’s Movement.
than the exhilarant it is rightly termed a narcotic.
In all its forms it acts as a depressant on normal ac
tivities.
“That alcohol is a poison is not a new scientific
discovery, for as far back as the golden age of Greece
we read in Xenophon’s Memorilla: ‘Temperance
means first moderation in healthful indulgence; and
secondly, abstinence from things dangerous, as the
use of intoxicating wines.
And even Homer speaks before that of
Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind,
Unnerves the limbs, and dulls the noble mind.
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University, says: ‘The basis of intemperance is the
effort to secure through drugs the feeling of happi
ness when happiness does not exist. Men destroy
their nervous system for the tingling pleasures they
feel as its structures are torn apart. The evil in
drink is not primarily intoxication, but nervous dis
turbance.’ Without doubt the greatest peri) of alco
hol Ib to the nervous system.
Pastor L. E. Barton, of West Point (formerly of
Quitman, Ga.,), had made a powerful speech during
the pastor’s meeting, warning against the danger of
teaching business men to give money to God’s cause
so He will bless them in making money, calling, of
course, for the supreme test —the motive of love.
President John T. Henderson, of Virginia Insti
tute, Bristol, general secretary of the Layman’s Move
ment in the South, stirred the convention mightily
with his story of the progress of the work and the
evidences of general awakening among Christian bus
iness men everywhere.
A great report on State Missions was read by the
veteran secretary, Dr. C. V. Rowe, showing about
$160,000 raised during the year for all purposes.
The unique report and stirring, magnetic speech
on Home Missions by Rev. J. H. Cain, of Greenville,
introduced a new man of power. He makes you
think, somehow, of George Truett —that is, enough
to tell.
Dr. B. D. Gray, secretary of the Home Board, was
on his native heath —for he is a graduate of Missis-
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