The Committee, to which was referred the resolutions of brother G. A. Nunnally, in reference to Bible work, beg leave to submit in lieu thereof the following resolutions for the adoption of this Convention:
RESOLVED, That we gravely disapprove of the action of the American Baptist Society in refusing to aid in the publication and circulation of the Burmese version of Dr. Judson–the accepted and only version of the Scriptures in that language.
RESOLVED, That this Convention will engage in such measures as may hereafter, in the providence of God, seem practicable and expedient for giving to the world the pure Word of God.
James P. Boyce E.T. Winkler C.C. Bitting
W.C. Crane J.W.M. Williams T.M. Daniell
T.C. Teasdale A.E. Dickenson T.P. Smith
J. Wm. Jones W.C. Wilkes T.G. Jones
T.J. Walne John A. Broadus J. B. Hawthorne
The Convention was addressed by J.L. Burrows, Virginia; J. P. Boyce, Kentucky; E.T. Winkler, Alabama; G.A. Nunnally, Georgia, and T.C. Teasdale, Tennessee, and the report was adopted.
The same Committee, through its Chairman, presented the following further report, which was adopted:
The Committee to which was referred the communication from the American and Foreign Bible Society recommend that the Convention adopt the following resolution:
RESOLVED, That this Convention fraternally recognizes the presence of Rev. Drs. Hiscox and Douglass who appear among us as messengers from the American and Foreign Bible Society, and receives the communication which they bear from that Society, but, in view of present complications and uncertainties in denominational Bible work, courteously declines to enter now into any discussion or consideration of “the condition and purposes” of this Bible Society.
James P. Boyce, Chairman
A.E. Dickinson F.M. Daniel J.W.M. Williams
E.T. Winkler J. Wm. Jones T.G. Jones
John A. Broadus C.C. Bitting W.C. Crane
T.P. Smith W.C. Wilkes T.C. Teasdale
T.J. Walne J.B. Hawthorne