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HISTORY OF BAPTIST CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA
The Southern Baptist Convention;
meeting at Savannah, Georgia, in May I
1861, and the Georgia Baptist Con- j
vention meeting at Athens, Georgia, j
April 26, 1861, both passed solemn j
and carefully worded resolutions ap- !
proving the formation of the govern- j
ment of the Confederate States of
America and invoking divine aid in
behalf of those responsible for the
government. Mercer University was
practically suspended and its gradua
ting classes of ’6O and ’6l almost to
a man volunteered. Mission work
amoiijr the Indians was completely
broken up. The Domestic Mission
Board directed its efforts chiefly in
promoting religion among the soldiers
of the Confederate armies in the field
The Georgia Baptist Convention re
fused to give its approval to the ap
pointment of chaplains for the army
but agreed to support all ministers of
our denomination who were permit
ted “to attend as missionaires upon
regiments or batalions which may |
petition for their services.” The Bap ,
tists of Georgia poured out their
treasures that the soldiers of the ar 1
mies of the Confederacy might be sup
plied with Testaments, religious lit
erature and the preaching of the gos
pel. The Domestic Board of the South
ern Baptist Contention contributed
fo r army missions during the year
1863, $130,000.00, and of this amount
$50,000.00 were contributed by the
Baptists of Georgia.
Following the War between the
States, Georgia Baptists entered up
on a period of reconstruction. Thous
ands of colored Baptists had been
members of our churches. It soon be
came apparent that this relation was
neither desirable nor practical. In
variably the white Baptists lent their
aid to their colored brethren, grant
ing letters of dismission and assist
ing them in the proper organization
of their churches. For over half a
century a genuine Christian fellow
shop has been maintained between
the white and the colored Baptists of
Georgia. The growth in numbers by
the colored Baptists in Georgia has
been phenomenal. Since their separa
tion from their white brethren, they
have increased more than tenfold.
There are 380,000 white Baptists in.
the state, while the colored Baptists'
claim 520,000, making the astounding
total of 900,000 or nearly ten times
the number in 1867, when the total
of the missionary, anti-missionary,
united and colored Baptists was only
97,345
The chief topic of discussion at the
Convention held at Newnan in 1870
was the proposed removal from Pen-
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field of Mercer University. The
growth of an educational institution
in its student attendance depends
largely upon its location. Penfield
was four miles from the nearest rail
way station. The city of Macon ten
dred $125,000.00 in cash and seven
acres of ground, making certain reser
vations as to the maintenance of an
institution of college grade. The
transfer of the faculty and the stu
dent body was made January 1, 1871
There was 82 students enrolled in
1870-71—today there are 630; there
were in 1870 five professors in the
faculty; today there are 51 profess
ors and instructors; the trustees re
ported assets in 1879, amounting to
$146,251.00; today they report over
$1,500,000.00.
The establishment of the School of
Law in 1873, the reorganization of the
School of Theology in 1918, the found
ing of the Schools of Commerce, Edu
catian and Journalism, the extension
of courses for medical and engineer
-1 ing students gives the institution the
moral right to be recognized as a uni
versity.
In the thinking of Baptists general
ly the work of the State Mission Board
has assumed a greater importance
than that of any other department in
which the Convention is interested.
Yet this Board was not organized un
til 1877. Dr. J. D. DeVotie, the Sec
retary of the State Mission Board, re
ported in 1878 the following contri
butions to the various mission caus
es: Foreign Missions, $6,000.00;
Home Missions, $2,316.62 ; State Mis
sions, $7,478.75—t0tal $15,795.37.
Dr. Arch C Cree, Secretary-Treasur
er of the Erecutive Committee of the
Georgia Baptist Convention, reports
for the year ending Dceember 1, 1921
the following as the annual contri
butions of Georgia Baptists to the
causes: Foreign Missions, $229,057.42;
Home Missions, $141,250.73; State
Missions, $120,507.45—t0tal $490,925.-
60. Or more than thirty times the
amount given forty-three years ago.
While our membership has increased
during the period 4SO per cent, our
contributions have increased 3,100 per
cent. The story of the state mission
board reads like a romance. The
benefactions of the State Mission
(Board have extended from Rabun
Gap to Tybee. There are few centers
of population in which our Bautist
work during its early stages has not
been aided by this Board. Its work
has been expanded until it now in
cludes pastoral aid to mission church
es .evangelism, enlistment, Sunday
schools, church building, B. Y. P. U.
work, while through the recoganiza-
By Rufus W. Weaver, President of Mercer University in Christian Index
tion of the Convention, centering the
direction of all our work in the exe
cutive Committee of the Convention,
the Secretary-Treasurer, who fills the
office formerly known as the Secre
tary of the Mission Board supervises
all the ministers in which we as a
Convention engage and i& the direct
ing mind in all campaigns for funds
for all causes by the Baptists of
Georgia.
During this period of marvelous pro
gress we have had only six official
leaders, each built upon the work of
his predecessor. To those noble, self
sacrificing men who have displayed
in their leadership the genius of
statesmen, the executive ability of
captains of industry and the fervor
of saintly missioinaires of the cross,
the denomination owes a debt of last
ing gratitude and unfailing apprecia
tion. Their names should be upon the
honor roll of every Baptist church
Rev. J. H. DeVotie, D. D., the first
Secretary, leads in length of service,
giving thirteen years of nis fife to
the organizing and developing of our
mission work. He blazed the way and
made possible the achievements of
his successors. His patience was link
ed with perseverence and> his lovable
spirit drew to him the support of the
brethren.
Rev. John G. Gibson, D. D., serv
ing from 1891 to 1900 placed special
emphasis upon education and the rais
ing of endowment for Mercer Univer
sity and other Baptist schools. For
years a country pastor, no man in
Georgia history was able to so arouse
the country churches to support our
denominational program. Notable
progress was made in developing the
grace of giving.
Rev. S. Y. Jameson, D. D., LL. D.,
filled nearly every important place as
a leader of Georgia Baptists. He was
president of the Georgia Baptist Con
vention from 1909 to 1911; president
of Mercer University from 1906 to
1913 and Secretary of the State Miss
ion Board from 1900 to 1906. Few men
have touched our denominational life
in so many different ways and so ef
fectively. Traveling over every part
of the state, he awakened in our peo
ple a consciousness of Baptist power
and duty which is today the basis of
our Baptist solidarity and its prophet
ic of great achievement in the Future
Rev. J. J. Bennett, D. D., gave him
self without reserve for sir full
years to the development of our Geor
gia Baptist people and he is the first
of the State Mission Secretaries whose
total receipts within his term of ser
vice exceed a million dollars Dur
ing the six years $1,842,356,15 was
The Churches of a Community
Are the bulwarks of its progress
and enlightment even more than its
schools, fo r commercial and mental
advancement need the pillars of mor
al conception and responsibility to
make them substantial and lasting.
What can society accomplish with the
labor of man's mind and body with
out the influence of his moral nature
to define his relations and duties to
his fellow-man? How futile would be
the efforts of legislators, courts and
magistrates to make and enforce laws
for the common good without that
moral sentiment for which the
churches of our land are recognized
to be responsible Even the man up
on the outside appreciates their bene
ficent influence and few there are
looking for new homes who would not
consider the church spires of each
town as sponsors of truth and justice
They make happier homes fnd more
contented people. The churches of
this town need your support and you
need the church es.
REGULAR CHURCH ATTEN
DANCE MEANS BETTER LIVING.
GIVE THE HABIT OF CHURCH .
GOING FULL HOLD OF YOU
We are all ruled by habits, some
’ good, some bad. Be sure to form
good habits and the best habit you
can ever form is that of regular
church attendance.
The Pioneer In
dustry
of Waynesboro
made possible by con
tinuously applying the
Golden Rule in bus
iness.
One- and Two-Horse
YVagons in stock.
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Sanders
Wagon *. Works
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Groceries
Meat Market
\
Not the largest in town,
. but growing, and
here to stay
Courteous Service and
high quality of goods
is the reason.
W. Q. Johnson
THE TRUE CITIZEN SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1922.
raised for all causes. A winsome per
sonality, he won and still retains the
high regard and affection of all our
! people.
Rev. H. R. Bernard, D. D., long as- !
sociated as auditor was for one year j
the acting secretary. His presence!
was a benediction and his life was
one of helpful ministries. He brought
business methods and financial sys
tem into our State Mission office and
due in large measure to his personal
, influence these methods have peme
trated all the departments of our
wokr.
Rev. Arch C. Cree., LL. D. accepted
in 1915 in Georgia and has in many
ways proved himself to be a superb
denominational leader. The quota of
$7,500,000.00 in the 75 Million Cam
paign, was exceeded by the subscrip
tions made by Georgia Baptists, the
total of which amounted to $10,180,-
000,00. Since his coming in 1915
Georgia Baptists haveraised for all
causes fostered by the Convention ov
er $5,000,000.00. In driving power,
in fine executive ability,, in love and
loyalty to the brethren, in devotion to
the trust committed to him by the de
t nomination he is surpassed by no one
1 of his predecessors,
j The limits of this historical sketch
forbid treatment of the remarkable
success which has attended the lead
ers of the Baptist women of Georgia
or even a review of those institutions
which have been connected with the
Convention since 1890. Among these
are the Georgia Baptist Orphans’
Home whose work is commended in
Ihe Minutes for 1891; the presenta
tion by the management of the Taber
nacle Infirmary of Atlanta of that in
stitution in 1912, and its final accep
tance and change of name of the
Georgia Baptist Hospital; the relation
of Shorter College to the Convention!
the recognition of different schools
for the most part of preparatory
I grade, first as members of the Mer
cer System and later as members of
the Mercer University System; the de
| velopment of the Education Commlss
ion into the Education Board and lat
| er its absorption with other depart
; ments into the work of the Executive
[Committee; the adoption of a new
i constitution; the establishing of a
1 Holding Commission; the purchase
* of The Christian Index by the Conven
tion; the growth of popular interest
in Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. Insti
, lutes and Conventions, all belong to a
period so recent that it is not neces
! sary that they be treated in this brief
j review of the last one hundred years
j of Georgia. Baptist history.
There are scores of names who dur
The Churches extend a
cordial invitation
to all
to attend services
every Sunday
A cordial invitation
is
extended to
strangers in the city
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ing the last twenty-five years have
rendered such distinguished service
that they merit recognition and appre
ciation. The list however would be
so long and would represent such a
variety of interests that the record
ing of their names would be all that
could be given here.
There is one institution which has
been associated organically with the >
Convention since 1898 but which has
sustained a more or less definite rela
tion for nearly seventy-five years.
The institution is now known as Bes
sie Tift College . Among the repre
sentative Baptists who have held ex
ecutive positions may be named. Dr.
W. C. Wilkes, Dr. S. G. Hillyer, Dr.
A. A. Marshall, Dr. C. H. S. Jackson
and Dr. J. H. Foster. In apprecia
tion of the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Tift, the name was changed in 1907
from Monroe College to Bessie Tift
College. Since the Convention took
control there has been a steady in
crease in attendance, in standards, in
buildings and equipment and all that
goes to make an excellent Christian
school. While the friends of Bessie 1
Tift College have every reason to be
gratified on account of the education
which is being given to the young la
dies in attendance upon this school,
it i& probably true that the greatest
service which Bessie Tift College has
rendered to our Baptist people has
grown out of the definite Christian
character which somehow this insti
tution has been able during the past
twenty years to omprint upon those
who studied there. This is probably
the truest test which can be made of
the product of a Christian school and
by this test this institution takes high
rank. Lll&'JMflHß
(Continued next week)
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FORSAKE NOT THE ASSEMB
LING YOURSELVES TOGETHER
So the letter ot the Hebrews reads:
Good advice. The church helps make
this a better community. Do your
part to make the church strong and
mere helpful. And don’t forget the
religious instruction of your children
They are welcome at our local Sun
day Schools.
Regular church attendance means
better living.
“COME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT
LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN
AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.
IN A MORAL RUT?
The longer you drive a load of
grain in the ruts of a muddy road,
the more difficult it is to get out on
level ground. Same way with your
life.
The churches of this town are here
to help you out of both social and
moral ruts. They provide Christian
fellowship and offer the only solution
for sin.
ATTEND CHURCH SERVICE REG
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32 inch high, 6 inch stay, style C, . . 8.00
40 inch high, 6 inch stay, style C, . . 9.38
49 inch high, 6 inch stay, style C, . . 10.56
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In DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTH
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than you would expect to pay.
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