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(1) that the Convention may be asked to approve a more adequate service in
this field than it has hitherto undertaken,
(2) that the Commission itself may have warrant and guidance in projecting
a definite program of service, and
(3) that the measure of the support allocated to the Commission may be more
accurately arrived at.
2. Concerning Beverage Alcohol and Temperance
We recommend: (1) That the Convention express its appreciation of the
work being done by the National Temperance and Prohibition Council; and
endorse its legislative and educational program, both state and federal, looking
toward the curtailment and eventual eradication of the liquor traffic and its
attendant social evils (see the Commission Report).
(2) That we urge the Baptists in the several states to co-operate with and
support heartily the temperance organizations (or organization) in each state
which are rendering worthy service in the fight against alcoholism and the liquor
traffic.
(3) That we urge upon our pastors the importance of providing for our
young people a program of temperance education, the effects of alcohol upon
body, mind and soul; that in the pulpit and in study classes effort be made to
fortify our people against the drinking customs of our day and the personal and
social immoralities that are inevitably associated with them; and that total
abstinence pledges be renewed, especially among young Christians, in the Sunday
school and other organizations in the churches.
3. Concerning Baptists and Race Relations
We recommend, in the light of the relation of Southern Baptists to the racial
problems of our land, and in the light of our brotherly relationship with three
and a half million Negro Baptists in the South,
That the Convention appoint a committee of nine, composed of one member
each from the Home Mission Board, the Commission on the American Baptist
Theological Seminary, the Committee on Negro Theological Education, the Public
Relations Committee and the Social Service Commission, and four additional
members, to review the service now being rendered by Southern Baptists to the
Negro race, to study the whole race situation, especially in its moral and religious
aspects and meaning, to consider the responsibility of Baptists in the problems
of adjustment of inter-racial relations, and make recommendations of procedure
to the Convention, looking toward a larger fulfillment of our responsibility in
the total situation and particularly with reference to helpful co-operation with
our fellow Baptists in the Negro race.
4. Concerning Conscientious Objectors
Whereas request comes from National Service Board for Religious Objectors
that the Southern Baptist Convention take under consideration the ^service
rendered during the war by other denominations to conscientious objectors who
were members of Southern Baptist churches, and the expense they incurred in
that service, and
Whereas the churches of our Convention have not fully reimbursed the agencies
who lent assistance to the members, and the Convention itself has taken no
direct action in the matter beyond acting as a receiver of voluntary funds.
We recommend that the Executive Committee of the Convention be requested
to study the facts of the situation and take such action as in its judgment the
Convention should rightfully take in the matter.
We further urge upon the President of the United States and the military
authorities to grant amnesty at the earliest possible moment to the conscientious
objectors still held in camps or prisons.
5. Concerning Military Conscription
We recommend that the Convention go on record (for reasons stated in the
Commission Report) as opposing universal and compulsory military training of