Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1887 — Southern Baptist Convention Adjourns. [ARTICLE]

Southern Baptist Convention Adjourns.

(Louisville iKy.) dispatch.] . The Southern Baptist Convention has adjourned CO meet at Richmond, Va., on the second Wednesday of May, 1888. Gen. Green Smith’s report on temperance was adopted, after some sharp debate upon the clause, “Liquor as a beverage.” A number of the delegates held that intoxicating liquors should not be allowed even aa a medicine. A meeting of the alumni of the Baptist Theological Seminary was held, at which Da:. Bryce said that a New York man had offered $25,000, provided $75,000 more were raised, one-half to endow a professorship. During the meeting $l,lOO was subscribed by the students as the nucleus of the fund which it is proposed to raise.