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HISTORY OF BAPTIST CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA
"The History of Ceorgia Baptists
with Biographical Compendium,’’ com
piled by The Christian Index, gives ,
tiiis picture of the conditions which !
existed in 1835: “The opposition to j
education and missions resulting in
opposition to the Convention was ex
ceedingly strong and bitter. Tne op
position to Bible Societies, Tract So
cieties, an ( i Temperance Societies was
bold outspoken. Various questions
pertaining to church order and doc
trines were unsettled and excited the
gieatest violence of speech and man
ner. Church disciple was lax and
ignorance and prejudice prevailed to
a lamentable extent. Criminations
and recriminations which resulted in
much personal ill-will were but too
prevalent. Churches were split, as
sociations were divided. Harsh and
sometimes unjust discipline was ex
ercised. Nonfellowship was frequent
ly declared and the greater part of
the denomination was for years in a
state of embroilment and dissension
excited by feelings unbecoming to
true Christians. The clouds of dis
cord and dissension hung low r eringly
over the denomination for years.”
The Convention was assailed on the
ground that it was assuming absolute
control ove r the church, infringing
and even destroying their rights, inde
pendence and sovereignity. This led i
the Convention in 1835 to pass the fol (
lowing: “Resolved that this Conven-j
tion disclaims all power by which
she can exercise any dominion over
the faith or control the discipline of
the church, or in any wise coerce
them to do or contribute anything
whatsoever contribute to their own
sense of propriety and duty.’
This declaration did not in any
sense appease the critics of the Con
vention. A large number of Baptise
ministers met at Forsyth. Georgia,
on the 7th of July, 1836, for the pur
pose of endeavoring to heal the un
happy difficulties which then existed
in the denomination. They reached
an agreement on a confession of faith
andi they declared that differences of
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By Rufus W. Weaver, President of Mercer University in Christian Index
opinion about missions, Sunday scools :
Bible societies and other benevolent
interes should not be a ground or
non-fellowship and that the indepen
dence of the churches should never
be infringed. One of the brethren in
attendance writing years after said:
“The effect throughout the state was 1
magical, and from that date until
now the great mass of the denomina
tion have striven together as one-man
for the faith of the gospel, thus se
curing for Baptist principles a great
er triumph in Georgia than in any
other country on earth.”
Those who were actively interested. I
in Baptist affairs between 1830 and
1840 were not able to forecast the,
happy results which we witness to- (
day. Then “associations were torn
| asunder; churches were divided; ,
'friendships were broken and Chris
! tian fellowship terribly interrupted”
Probably the majority of Georgia Bap 1
I tists were anti-missionary and when ,
; the cleavage came, allied themselves
| with the Primitive Baptist, or Hard
J shells, as they were often called. The
Georgia Baptist Convention was under
I God the organization which led to the j
: separation. With the enemies of pro
J gress by their own action separated
' from those who believed in education,
missions and belevolent institutions,
the men who founded the Georgia
Baptist Convention and those who had
been drawn into sympathy with their
program were cheered by the rapid
development of a stronger missionary
spirit and by the almost startling
growth of interest in education.
Referring to this period, in our his j
tory, Dr. A. H. Newman, now pro
, fessor of Church History in the ]
j School of Theology, Mercer Universi- j
! ty, says: “In the fact of n appalling
amount of unreasonable oppor ition 1
i the state organization gr dually won
its way an' became highl: influen
i tial.”
! In many respects the decade begin
ning with 1840 was the most remark
able in our history. Large gifts were
made to the equipment and endow-
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Lavid Benedict the historian, express
ed the judgment tnat Mercer Universi
ty had a larged endowment than any
other Baptist educational institution
in America. During this period Jes
se Mercer, who had done more than
any other man in promoting the Geor
gia Baptist Convetion, passed away.
rßefore his death he transferred The
Christian Index to the Convention.
Missionary work was carried on in
destitute sections and among the
Cherokee Indians. Increasing num
[ bers of the black race were 'received
I into the membership of the churches
The Baptists of Georgia interested
l themselves in all the causes of our
, Christian work; Domestic and
Foreign Missions, Education for
, young women, Sabbath schools, Tern
: perance, Bible and. Tract Societies,
t and the Southern Baptist Publication
1 Society.
; Hearn Academy, the oldest Baptist
1 school of its grade in the South, was
in a “highly prosperous state.” Loot
lieam ,for whom the school was nam
, ed, gave $12,000.00 in his will as an
| endowment. Baptist schools and col-
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toll LEGISLATURE
I hereby announce for re-election
io the Legislature, under the rules
ana regulations ’ of the Democratic
\v line Primary, same to be held on
tuo 13 tli of September, and will ap
preciate the support of all voters,
ibis the 27th of June, 1922.
H. CLIFF HATCHER—pd.
I hereby announce my candidacy
ior the Legislature subject jto Die
rules governing the Democratic white
primary andi will appreciate your sup
port. Respectfully
W. D. BELL—pd.
bOR STATE SENATOR 17TH
DISTRICT—I hereby announce my
candidacy for the State Senate, sub
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FOR SENATOR, 17TH SENATORI
AL DISTRICT —I hereby Announce
my candidacy for State Senator for
this Senatorial District, subject to the
rules and regulations of the Primary
when ordered.
If nominated and elected, I pledge:
Ist. To lend my best efforts and
co-operation, first, last and all the
time, to any leasable movement or
plan having for its end a reduction of
the enormous burdens of taxation un
der which we are now groaning.
2d. To "Stop! Look and Listen” be
lore casting my vote appropriating a
single dollar of the people’s money.
3d. To cast my vote for the repeal
of every bad law of which I may have
an opportunity, and against any un
necessary new law that may be pro
posed.
I solicit and will appreciate the
support of all the citizens and voters
f the county. Respectfully
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To the Democratic White Voters,
Men and Women, of the First Con
gressional District of Georgia:
I am a candidate for Congress from
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TILE TRUE CITIZEN SATURDAY JULY 15, 1922.
leges were established in all parts of
the state. Madison, LaGrange, Perry, |
Rome, Cuthbert, Columbus, Cassville, i
Cedartown, Griffin and I’enfield had
growing and successful educational
institutions under Baptist auspices.
There were connected with the Con
vention in 1850 22 associations, 669
churches, 55,714 members and 341 or_
dained masters. The strength of the
anti-missionary sentiment was begin
ning to decline. The Primitive Bap
tists together with those who were
listed as not affiliated with the Con- 4
vention had at this time 35 associa
tions, 514 church, approximately 20,-
000 members with over 250 ordaiued
ministers.
Among the men who were leading
in Baptist affairs during the fifth de
cade of the century, the following
should be mentioned: B. M. Sanders,
C. D. Mallariy, John E. Dawson, N. W.
Brantley, Jr., Lott Warren, Thomas
Stocks, S. Landrum, B. S. Tharpe, S.
G. Hilyer, Enoch Callaway and a
score of others.
The Cherokee Baptist Convention,
organized at Cassville, Georgia, was
founded primarily to provide suffi-
the First District in the Democratic
Primary to be held September 13th,
1922.
I respectfully solicit your vote, and
earnestly ask your support and influ
ence in my behalf.
If elected I shall faithfully repre
sent all the people to the best of my
ability.
Very respectfully,
R. LEE MOORE
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cient support for the Cherokee Bap
tist College at Cassville. The consti
tution declares the objects of the body
to be: 1. To unite the friends of
education and to combine their ef
forts for the establishment and promo
tion of institutions of learning where
the young of both sexes may be thor
oughly educated on the cheapest prac
tical terms. 2 To foster and cherish
the spirit of missions and to facili
tate missionary operations in every
laudable way.
Under the presidency of Dr. T.
Rambaut the Cherokee Baptist Col
lege attained a respectable position
and accomplished much good. Wood
land Female College, named for Rev.
J. M. Wood, its president, educated
a large number of young ladies. For
a number of years a paper called
“The Landmark Banner and Cherokee
Baptist” was published in the interest
of the work of this Convention. The
organization was maintained until the
end of the war. The buildings oc
cupies by the Cherokee Baptist Col
lege at Cassville were burned by Sher
man in his march to the sea.
(Continued next week)
N. C. T. U. HEMS
BOOTLEG WHISKEY
AS A POISONER
There may have been “a serpent in
the cup,” as we were often informed
in the “good old days” before prohi
bition ,but if there was, there are a*
half a dozen serpents in every up-to
date glass of bootleg whiskey—and
each is more poisonous than the old
time variety ever thought of being.
"When you drink bootleg the chances
are better than nine out of ten that
you are drinking rank poison.” This is
not a statement issued either by Pro
hibitionists to show what Prohibitio* j
has brought us to. It is the oonclu- j
sion of a large newspaper service,'
which had its men in various parts of
the country buy the “ordinary mine
run of bootleg liquor” and then had
the samples analyzed to get “an idea
of what a man’s chances are of get-1
ting poisonous booze.” Dudley.
A. Siddall, of the NEA Service, with*
headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, is I
authority for the statement that “in-1
sofar as possible we endeavor to dup
licate, in buying, the exact conditions I
that would surround, say a traveling 1
man who might patronize bootleggers I
during a trip around the country.”
Thirty-eight samples of bootleg were
brought in this way in fifteen cities)
scattered throughout the nation. As
for the results, we read:
Only two of the 38 sarnies proved to
.be whiskey of pre-prohibition quality
One of these was purchased in Boston
the other in Washington.
Two more were synthetic gin—l
held passable One of these samples
was from Cleveland, the other from
Los Angeles.
But bootleg consumers in Boston, %
Washington, Cleveland and Los An- •
geles need not jump to the conclusion
that because these samples were pas
sable, all bootleg vended in these cities
is safe. For other samples bought in
these places proved dangerous.
Of the remaining 34 samples, 15
were doctored and diluted whiskies»
or whiskies produced from an alco-.
hoi base and artificially colored and
uavored; 17 were row' moonshine of'
varying degrees of one was
poor beer, containing w r ild yeasts; and
one was a distilled wine, of poor
quality.
Samples were collected from these
widely scattered cities: Dallas, Tex.;
Memphis, Tenn.; Denver, Col.; Nor
folk, Va.; Oklahoma City, Okla,; Bir
mingham, Ala.; Cleveland; Chicago;
Seatttle, Wash.; SanFrancilsco; Los i
Angeles; New York; Providence, R. *
I.; Boston and Washington. '
They were bought from a wide
range of bootleg channels and analyz
ed without selection. They came from
drug stores, bell boys, bootblacks, bar
hers, porters, milkmen, near-bear sa
loons and similar channels of the
trade, with a few sized in official
raids.
The samples were assembled in
Washington, and anlyzed by Govern
ment chemists in Government labora
tories.
The analyses showed that when you
buy bootleg you get nearly always a
dangerous concoction of colored and
disguised alcohol or a raw distillate
full of aldehydes and volatile poisons
that will leave you with an awful head
the day after drinking and a wrecked
eonstituton after repeated doses.
The “aldehydes” found in the moon
shones and doctored whiskies are ele
ments intermediate between alcohols
and acids They are derived from the
higher alcohols by the oxidation and
removal and a certain hydrogen con-1
tent and the addition of a very small
amount of oxygen .converts them into
active acids.
“The effect of these aldehydes,”
says William V. Dinder, Government,
chemist “is to ‘knock one out’ much]
more quickly than would high-grade I
whiskey.
“Their consumption over any con- J
siderable period undermines the gen- 1
eral constitution to a point where it
seems much more suspectible to many
diseases .
“While not immediately poisonous
causing sudden blindness or death as .
does methyl or wood alcohol, their ef|
feet is definitely and cummulatively
harmful.”
The dangerous elements in moon-'
shine and doctored whiskies, Linder
explains, are due, for most part, to the
unscientific distilling and blending. To
quot«:
“Moonshine,” says Linder, “is pro
duced for most part under the most
unscientific and unsanitary conditions
The mash is fermented in barrels or'
tubs, usually in the open backwoods
or in musty cellars. Under such con
dilions the development of wild
yeasts and unwholesome fermen
tations are common. Many moon
shines show evidences of active pu
trefaction. .
“In distilling, too, all the volatile
elements come over. In commercial
distilling, for the production of high
grade whiskies, it was the custom to
discard what was known as the ‘heads*
or first run, containing the high al
cohols and the more volatile oils, and
the ‘tails’ or the last run. Only the
middle run was retained
“The moonshiner, however, runs it
all in—heads, tails and middles. The
elements that the commercial distil
ler carefully eliminated, therefore, re
main in moonshine.
“Monshine, moreover, normaly re
ceives no aging. Hence it retains all
the injurious qualities inhering to aj
raw distillate containing high alcohols j
aldehydes and fusel oils, and also
whatever additional (poisons or jin- I
jurious chemical elements may have
accomulated through improper and un
sanitary fermentation and unscienti
fic distilling.
“All these elements, even including j
in one case signs of putrefaction, j
w y ere present in the samples in this.
test.”
Aldehydes, high alcohols and vola-)
tile oils in moonshine have a directly j
injurious effect on the circulatory
kidney and nervous systems, accord
jrtg to Reid Hunt, former chief of the
Division of Pharmacology, Hygienic
Laboratory, U. S. Public Health Ser
vice.
Also they result in “an increased
liability to contract diseases or to con
tract them in especially severe form’
Among the ailments which these
elements are generally recognized in
the medical profession as aiding and
o V,ottinir
Hardening of the arteries.
Cirrhosis of the liver.
A wide range of digestive distur
bances.
The thirty-eight samples of bootleg
collected and analyzed for the pur
pose of this test cost anywhere from
seventy-five cents to $6 a half-pint.
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