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July
Third Quarter
(1) Baptist Bible Institute
PROCEEDINGS 43
Fourth Quarter
October
(1) Student Join-the-Church Day
(Sunday following college opening)
(2) Ridgecrest, State Assemblies and
Camps
(2) Layman's Day, October 13
(3) Student Volunteer Summer Serv­ (3) State Mission Day in Sunday
ice
School and Offering, October 27
(3) Sunday School Training Courses
August
November
(1) Southwestern Baptist Theological (1) Every-Member Canvass
Seminary
(2) Church Schools of Missions and
(2) W.M.U. Young People's Organiza­ Stewardship
tions
(3) State Papers and Missionary
Magazines
(3) Ridgecrest, State Assemblies and (4) R.A. Focus Week, Nov. 10-16
Camps
(5) Orphanage Day and Offering
(4) Sunbeam Focus Week, Aug. 11-17 December
(1) Foreign Missions
September
(2) W.M.U. Week of Prayer for Foreign
Missions and Lottie Moon
(1) Southern Baptist Theological
Christmas Offering, Dec. 2-6
Seminary
(3) Southwide Simultaneous Associa­
(2) W.M.U. Training School.
tional Training Union Meetings,
(3) W.M.U. Season of Prayer for
Dec. 6
State Missions and Offering (4) Every-Member Canvass (completed)
(4) Training Union Study Courses
(5) Student Night at Christmas, Dec.
At some time during the year, emphasize the 29 service to all types of Southern
Baptist work, at home and abroad, which the American Bible Society
renders by supplying the Scriptures, without profit and often below cost, and
explain its need for contributions from the churches.
ADMINISTRATION
MEETING OF CONVENTION DEFERRED
At the call of the President, J. Howard Williams, the Executive Committee
met in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 6, 1945, in special session to consider
the advisability of deferring the meeting of the Convention which was scheduled
to meet in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8-13, 1945.
At the request of the Chair, Louie D. Newton, Chairman of the Centennial
Convention Committee, explained the object of the called session, and offered
the following motion, which after lengthy discussion, was unanimously adopted:
In view of the statements from Mr. Byrnes, Colonel Johnson, Senator
George, and other governmental officials, and after conference with various
officers of the Convention and many pastors and lay leaders, I move that the
next regular session of the Southern Baptist Convention, scheduled to meet
in Atlanta, Georgia, May 8-13, 1945, which marks the 100th anniversary of
this historic body, be deferred, with the understanding first, that such
action is taken by the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention
as our desire to co-operate with our Government in its expressed
appeal of January 5, 1945; and second, that the Executive Committee of the
Southern Baptist Convention hereby requests the Director of War Mobilization
and Reconversion and the Director of the Office of Defense Transportation
to notify this committee, if, at any time during the year 1945, the
Convention may be had without hindering the war effort; and, third, that
the Executive Committee make a statement immediately to our people,
explaining its reason for this action, and adopt such plans as may be found
feasible and practicable in carrying forward the work of the Convention,
including the Centennial Evangelistic Crusade and other special efforts