This constitution may be amended or modified (except Article . \'.,) by the consent of two-thirds of the members present. Every morning, at the opening of business, an hour, or such shorter time as may be necessary, shall be set aside for the introduction of resolutions and such other business as is not fixed in the ordinary order.
10 Thirty-Eighth Anniversary
P. Boyce, assumed the chair
On motion, visiting brethren were invited to seats, and the following names were reported, viz. Lewis, at the last session, was reported from the committee to whom it was referred, with amendments, and on motion it was adopted and ordered to be inserted as article V in the order of business.
Harvey
FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD
THOMAS, Chairman;
These meetings usually consist of messengers sent from different schools to associations. Perhaps there are many churches in the state which have not shown sufficient interest in organizing and supporting schools.
B. Cabaniss read the Annual Report of the Executive Board
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
We trust that they will succeed in getting an education and become good ministers of the Gospel. Owing to the severity of the winter, and other causes, they did not accomplish their design so soon as they had expected. At the last meeting of the Russell's Creek Association the Corresponding Secretary took up a collection to be expended on missionary work within the boundaries of that Association.
Six of the baptized were formerly Catholic and two others had been raised Catholic. I don't know, but on this basis it could end up in furthering the gospel. Since I have to walk, I need two days to go. Concord: Serves three missionaries part time, reporting: 55 days; 58 sermons; 20 exhortations; added to the 27 churches; and collected $16I 7 5 .
Thirty-Eighth Anniversary
B. CABANISS,
Resolved, That the report of the Executive Council be referred to the Committee on State Missions, and that G. Resolved, That the said committee and the members of the Executive Council be requested to hold a joint meeting and report such facts and proposals as they may deem necessary for the successful prosecution of the work of state missions with a view to our approaching Centenary celebration; and that this report be made at a mass meeting to be held in this house to-morrow evening. Resolved, That so much of said report as refers to Sunday Schools be referred to the Committee on Sunday Schools; as much as what is referred to our schools and colleges is referred to the Committee for Schools and Colleges;.
Helm asked that the rules be suspended to consider the report of the committee on the centennial celebration; and as several members of this committee were absent, J. Harvey read an invitation from the Church at Harrodsburg, asking that the next meeting of the body be held with them. Smith read the Report of the Centennial Committee, which was referred to the Committee of the Whole to-morrow at ten o'clock was referred to the Committee of the Whole to-morrow at ten A.M.
N. Dicken read Report of the Committee on Nominations
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS
G. BERRY,
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
M. Pratt submitted the Report of the Committee on For- eign Missions
REPORT ON FOREIGN MISSIONS
B. Tharp read report of the Committee on Home Missions
REPORT ON HOME MISSIONS
G. TERRY,
In anticipation of the discussion about which the hour has arrived for the consideration of the Centennial Report, the Association rc-. 39 resolved to a committee of the whole; and after some time spent there, on motion of C. Lewis, it was ordered that the committee rise, report their progress, and ask to be dismissed from further consideration of the subject; which was approved.
Spicy speeches were limited to ten minutes for the remainder of the session, with the exception of mass gatherings. Manly offered a replacement for the first recommendation of the Centennial Committee report, which was passed as.
Manly offered a substitute for the first recommendation of the report of the Centennial Committee, which was adopted as
REPORT ON STATE MISSIONS
Sumner, was adopted
REPORT OF CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE
From that day until this, this peculiar people of God have been faithful to the teachings and doctrines of God's holy word; and through all the trials, difficulties, and hardships of the Revolution, the changes, troubles, and wars that followed, the Baptists have preserved their religious integrity, brotherly union, missionary spirit, and secured, we trust, the divine approval. , has grown from a mere handful to the great number of one hundred and one thousand white and thirty thousand five hundred colored members. In spite of this wonderful increase in membership, it appears that the work is just beginning to develop properly, and it requires redoubled energy, more earnest prayer, a deeper consecration, and a far more liberal spirit in its propagation and support pure 'Word of God, that all the people may hear and know the truth and learn of Christ, whom to know is eternal life. FIRST - The increase of population in the state, the large number of members of the churches, thousands brought under Baptist influence, and the thousands who can be reached, require more ministerial work.
We want more preachers in the field, and we want them to be prepared and well qualified to understand and teach the Gospel in the midst of so much error, to the acceptance and honor and glory of God, and the further in- . To this end we wish to make the Centennial and Memorial Celebration a means of raising the endowment fund to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary sufficiently to place that Institution on a sure financial basis in the city of Louisville, where our young men, who are poor in the things of this world, but is rich in the grace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ, so can be educated to go out and sow the seed that will bear fruit to the glory of God. They want to be shown that if, with the small contribution that has been given so far, we have increased our number under God from a few dozen to nearly one hundred and fifty thousand, there is hardly any estimate that can be made of the figures that we may
Thirty-Eighth Anniversary
C. Smith read report of the Committee on Evangelization of the Colored People
REPORT ON EVANGELIZATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE
McDonald submitted the report of the Committee on
KENTUCKY BAPTIST HISTORY
F. BAKER
34;I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to children." Some truths are more easily understood by the 8imple than by the wise, by THE: ignorant than by the learned, by children as in men and womoo.. We feel that the religious world does not yet fully understand the power of practical transmission of this great truth.
We greatly need Sunda.y schools for the proper training of the little children — not as substitutes for parental instruction, but as aids to it. Your committee would like to draw attention to the following facts mentioned in the report of the Sunday School Board and of its Superintendent. That the Board is further instructed to seek out and appoint a serious, efficient man to the post of General Superintendent as soon as possible.
F. BAGBY
A continuation of our present efficient committee with instructions to carry on the work with greater vigor, if possible, during the coming year than at any time before. Let our motto be: A Baptist Church in every community and a Cultivating School in every church. Coleman was appointed to the Executive Nominating Committee provided for in the report of the Centenary Celebration Committee.
Boyce, agent of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary endowment, was directed to recommend that this report be passed and printed with our minutes. Re, olwl, that this body cherishes the enterprise contemplated in the Raid report as claiming its claims to the generosity of Kentucky Baptists, and that therefore it be one of the great objects of our centennial year to extend the remainder of our proposed contribution to that goal, and we pledge our active cooperation in achieving it. Boyce, as a loyal energetic agent, and recommends that he be authorized to employ such agent or agents as he deems necessary to ensure the completion of this work during the next association year.
CENTENNIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Jt is hoped that arrangements will be made during the summer for erecting a dormitory for students, which may make the cost of education cheap for many deserving and industrious young men. Boyce, t() believes that the sum necessary for its removal and donation at Louisville will be raised within a year; and that the year 1876, as a result of his labors, will witness his permanent settlement in our State.
RELIGIOUS PERIODICALS
Resolved, That the next meeting of the General Association be held at the Walnut Street Church, Louisville, commencing on the Wednesday before the fourth Sunday in the year 1876. Resolved, That the thanks of the General Association of Kentucky Baptists .. are due and are hereby tendered Louisville CouRIER-JouRNAL, Lo{;IS-nLLE DAILY Co)!MERCIAL and LoUisviLLE DAILY LEDGER for the efficient and prompt manner in which the proceedings of this association have been reported. Resolved, That the Association thank and hereby tender various railway and river packages for the reduced price of delegates attending the deliberations of this body.
Determined, '!' special thanks should be given to the citizens of Louisville and members of the city's Baptist churches for the liberal and overcrowded ho~. Decided that the secretary should be instructed to have two and five hundred copies of the ::\iinutes printed and distributed, and to ask the treasurer of the board for funds to pay for them. Decided that the secretary be directed to publish, as far as practicable, the detailed tables of the general association of the whole district.
1\IINUTES OF THE
Call for essays, &c., in order of appointment
Fixing hours of meeting
Brother Baker, who spoke at adjournment this morning, continued his remarks on Brother Knight's essay. 9· The state of the dead between death and judgment, and the necessity of a final judgment, on the grounds that the dead are immediately happy or miserable. On motion it was ordered that a committee of three be appointed to act in consultation with a committee from the general association for the purpose of our centennial celebration.
Adjourned to meeting at IO the day before the next ordinary general meeting at the same place.
D. RAsH,
