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PROCEEDINGS 59
35. For the Committee on Committees, Chairman Warren named
the Committee on Time, Place, and Preacher for next session:
C. H. Bolton, Florida, Chairman; H. C. Bass, Missouri; Wallace Bassett,
Texas; J. L. Baggott, Georgia; Mary Northington, Tennessee; H. H. Hobbs,
Alabama; H. Leo Eddleman, Kentucky.
36. A motion offered by J. A. Ellis, Texas, was referred to the
Committee on Resolutions.
37. The motion of W. L. Johnson, Mississippi, that a committee
be appointed to study the relationships and needs in the field of
religious education in our churches and mission fields was on his
motion referred to the Committee on Resolutions.
38. The following message and response, offered by Louie D.
Newton, was adopted:
MESSAGE FROM BISHOP ARTHUR J. MOORE
Bishop of the Methodist Church for Georgia and Florida
Atlanta, Ga., May 15, 1946
Dr. Louie D. Newton,
Southern Baptist Convention,
Miami, Florida
Please extend to the Southern Baptist Convention the assurance of my high
regards and prayers. May God keep your great body alive in every fiber of
its being, and make it the foe of sin and iniquity, and the enthusiastic champion
of all the promises to hasten the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth.
Methodism is happy to be your partner in this great task.
ARTHUR J. MOORE
RESPONSE
Bishop Arthur J. Moore,
63 Auburn Avenue, N. E.,
Atlanta, Georgia
Southern Baptists, in regular convention assembled, Miami, Florida, May 16,
1946, have gratefully received your gracious message. We rejoice in the fellowship
of Christ's followers of every communion, and particularly the warm and
fervent ties of fellowship with our Methodist brethren as we pray and think
and work together for the furtherance of the Kingdom of our blessed Lord at
home and to the ends of the earth.
LOUIE D. NEWTON
39. The report of the Committee on Baptist Papers, presented by
C. E. Bryant, Arkansas, and discussed by John D. Freeman, Tennessee,
was adopted:
BAPTIST PAPERS
Establishment of the Baptist Press in the South antedated organization
of the Southern Baptist Convention by more than twenty years. In the Convention's
first century of progress, the number of these news-journals has
grown from six to twenty, all of them contributing fundamentally to the
denomination's glorious history. The columns of these papers, encouraging free
speech and free press, have been vital in promoting the democratic cooperation
that is our distinctive characteristic.
As the Convention enters now into its second century and we look to a
new era for these Baptist papers, we would not change in the least—but we
would intensify—their editorial policy of free discussion, of denominational
promotion, of strong doctrinal pronouncements. The only change we would
desire is increased attractiveness, increased circulation, increased readership.