The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Dover Baptist Association.

--The annual meeting of this body was brought to a close on Thursday at Berea, sixteen miles west of the city. It includes all the Baptist churches in Richmond and in several of the surrounding counties, and has a membership of sixteen thousand. Nine of the churches are in this city, and contain seven thousand communicants. Rev. F. McCarthy preached the opening sermon. Rev. J. B. Solomon was elected Moderator; Rev. W. H. Fonerden, Clerk; and Dr. G. B. Steel, Treasurer.

Rev. A. E. Dickinson, Rev. W. F. Broadus and W. Sands spoke in behalf of educating the children of deceased and disabled soldiers. Twenty-five hundred dollars in money was raised, while several persons assumed each to educate an orphan.

Rev. Mr. Dickinson raised seven hundred dollars in cash and subscriptions for the Colportage Board, to be used in sending the Religious Herald to the army.

Sermons were delivered by Revs. R. H. Land, W. F. Broadus, J. F. Kiser, W. H. Williams and A. E. Dickinson. The session was very pleasant and the hospitality of the Berea people unbounded.

The Association adjourned to meet a year hence at Dover, Goochland county--Rev. M. Winston to preach the opening sermon and Dr. J. L. Burrows his alternate. Rev. Dr. Ryland was appointed to write the circular letter.