The business of this body shall be to promote State Missions; also the Home ~tml Foreign Missionary work under the councils of the Southern lhptiste Convention; also Bible and Book Colportage, Sunday Schools, and Literary and Theological Seminaries in the State; and to collect and preserve our denominational history in Kentucky. This Constitution may be amended or modified (except Article v.) by the Master of two-thirds of the members present. Call to order by the Moderator of the last session; or, in his absence, by any of the Assistant Moderators; or, in their absence, by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary.
On each morning, at the opening of business, one hour, or such less time as may be necessary, shall be devoted to the introduction of resolutions and such other business as is not provided for in the ordinary order.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The Moderator read the following list of standing com- mittees
REPORT OF EXECUTIVE BOARD
Rucker read the Treasurer's Report of the Sunday- School Board
THOMAS
- Invitations requesting the next meeting of the Associa- tion were received from the churches in Russellville, Harrods-
Re8ol,ed, That a committee be named to report tomorrow morning on the proper division of the time of the sitting of this body among the various objects brought before it.
NIGHT SESSION
THURSDAY-MORNING SESSION
Minutes of yesterday were read and approved
The Auditing Committee reported as follows
THURSDAY-AFTERNOON SESSION
On motion the regular order was suspended, and the re- port of the committee on Kentucky Baptist History was sub-
MANLY, JR
It is that after the reaction that may follow the extraordinary efforts made in this direction, a state of apathy may arise, which may ultimately counteract the influences set in motion and paralyze the energies that have begun. have entered into force. We are happy to report that our schools and colleges, both male and female, are in every way such that they should commend the heartfelt support and liberal patronage of the denomination. No doubt the Trustees, at their approaching session, will fill the faculty by tenure, and will ensure efficient instruction in all branches of the College, as heretofore.
Bethel College catalogs 1Hl students this year; of these 104 are in the regular schools of the College. By thus reducing education, the trustees intend to make it available to any youth who wishes to see its advantages. Boyce, indicates that Kentucky's portion of the Seminary endowment remains to be secured.
The friends of the seminar must now see that the price is clearly within their reach. That the removal of the Seminary to Louisville the coming fall, in the judgment of the Society, would facilitate the completion of the endowment. That the association therefore cordially invite the trustees of the t3eminary to open its next session in the city of Louisville, unless in their opinion it should be contrary to the interests of the institution.
That this body recommend that the most efficient possible steps be taken forthwith to complete the subscription in Kentucky for the endowment of. That the Association further recommend to the donors of bonds already received, to pay the remainder of such bonds as promptly as possible in lieu of installments as heretofore agreed upon, that the same may be in ~.
L. HELM,
THURSDAY-NIGHT SESSION
The minutes of yesterday were read and approved
Although we have occasion, therefore, to rejoice with the Board, in regard to their success in this department of their work, we must not be unmindful of the blessings which have been bestowed upon us. Kirtley, whom we heartily endorse as eminently and porulally qualified for the place, and we therefore hope that he may be continued as a representative of the Board of Nlarion in our residence. Your Centennial Committee would report that after the organization of the committee, they appointed Rev.
Your committee addressed the question to me, how it would best follow the future work of the committee by entrusting it to the agent of the Seminary. To carry out this work, this committee appoints the Secretary of the office, who will be under the direction of the Treasurer of the Seminary; all work is subject to the direction and supervision of the commission. That for the purpose of carrying on this work effectually, all such sums raised in this centennial work as may be necessary, be expended by the agent of the Seminary, such expenditures with the approval of this committee.
Boyce and Burrows were appointed a committee to prepare and publish in the Hecorder a statement of the plans proposed for the accession year. Branham was elected official secretary, who in August, September and October addressed several hundred letters to the ministers and chairmen of the centenary committees in the churches, in which he urged them to con·. Resolved, That all funds received by the non-directory treasurer and received by the collector or person sending them shall be credited to the general fund and distributed accordingly, unless otherwise directed on September 1st. .
There may have been instances where this resolution was not adhered to and contributions were placed on the credit of the General Fund which had been earmarked by the donors for particular purposes; if so, we do not feel that there is any guilt upon us. Norton, treasurer, with the full distribution and proper party receipts for all Centennial funds and notes received, and to the report of Brother Joseph H.
FRIDAY-AFTERNOON SESSION
S. Baker submitted the report of the committee on for- eign missions
Taylor, whose judicious management drove out the la~t \'Cstige of our old tl'Oubles in Bome, and whose missionary journeys thus scattered the good seed, strengthened the feeble hands of God's elect, and the bounds of our enlarged. ecclesiastical views and practices in Italy, a tongue was given to our principles by the spread of Baptist publications in adjacent France and as far as:' Africa." In Italy, as elsewhere, the Melncholic fact is evident, that union gives strength to Home, while the diYi~ions among Protestants are a great hindrance to the spread of the Gospel.Nevertheless, the labors of brother Taylor and fellow-J<~vangelists are not in vain in the Lord.
The contributions to the Foreign Jfiesion Board in Kentucky, from 2~2, 1876, to April CLO, 1877, amounted to five thousand and twenty-four dollars. Brother Thurman is still prosecuting his agency in Kentucky in this department of our benevolence. We earnestly urge our churches to co-operate with him in his work, and to endeavor, during this social year, to make such a contribution to foreign missions as the size and importance of the work demands.
Pastors must see to it that every church in our field, and every member of those churches, has an opportunity to contribute to this cause. We rejoice at the appearance of the:Foreign Missionary Journal as the organ of the Council, and we feel assured that a little effort to form a club of subscribers to this magazine in every church would secure thousands of subscribers, and greatly promote the interest in mission. While our missionaries in three continents plead for reinforcements, the hands of the Council are tied because the churches hardly support the missionaries already in the field.
In other parts of the country Christian women's associations raise large sums annually, and we heartily recommend to the Christian women in our churches that they establish mite societies and other missionary organizations, designed to encourage zeal and secure benevolence. contributions of our sisters in Christ.
FRIDAY-NIGHT SESSION
Deitz also received $14.75 for the (Bethesda) German Orphan's Home
- On motion it was
- The Moderator called attention to the fact that this meeting of the Association was held with the first church or-
This venerable and beloved man of God fell asleep on March 30, 1877 in the residence of his son, Rev. Nor will we attempt to give here even a summary of his labors in our Master's cause — this duty being entrusted to able and loving hands, nncl will doubtless soon be faithfully performed. The first thing that occurred to us when we met him was his perfect simplicity and humility - the absence of everything that suggests the consciousness of his own superiority.
As a servant of Jesus Christ, the success he enjoyed, the important posts to which he was invited, the number of people who depended with interest on his radiant eloquence - these are proofs of his superior gifts. For sixty years proclaiming the glorious gospel of our blessed God, only the last clay will reveal the fruits of his labor. Hundreds now alive no doubt carry in their hearts the consciousness of His tender, sincere loyalty to their souls.
The last years of his life not only found him steadfast in his Christian profession, but he grew rapidly in grace and ripened for his eternal bloom. It is true, like Abel, though he be dead, yet he can speak, and speak mightily, in the monuments of his piety. All loved him - rich and poor, high and low, old and young, white and black, of his own and other denominations, and persons who were not religions.
Let a suitable monument mark the place where the body of WILLIAM VAUGHAN rests, the upright man, the radiant Christian, the eloquent preacher and the beloved pastor - a monument befitting his merits, the usefulness of his work and the gratitude. of his people.” Samuel lhycmft, one of the oldest Baptists in the state, is supposed to address the body.
JY-LINUTES
N. DICKEN, Moderator
ARRI,
Of the above, except those distinctly named Baptists, Church of God, Disoips, and Tunkers, practice immersion as (the only form of baptism. The latter is a sect found in the Eastern and Middle-Westcm States , and is a different denomination from the Disciples.
MINISTERS AND POST -OFFICES
BOOK AND PUBLISHING HOUSE !
CAPERTON ~ CATES,
BIBLES, HYMN & TUNE BOOKS,
DENOMINATIONAL, RELIGIOUS & SUNDAY-SCHOOL MISCELLANY,
SCHOOL BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS,
WESTERN RECORDER,
