Southern Baptist Convention.
--This body convened in
Augusta, Geo., Saturday morning at nine o'clock. The proceedings are thus detailed by the
Chronicle: ‘
Rev. A. M. Poindexter, of
Va., one of the
Corresponding Secretaries of the Foreign Missionary Board at
Richmond, read the annexed report of the Board for the past two years.--The report is a long, but interesting document.
Some brief accounts have been received from the missionaries in
China and
Africa.--Through a committee in
Baltimore, and by the shipment of cotton, the Board has succeeded in forwarding some funds to the missionaries.
Several of the missionaries abroad have died.
Two who sailed from
Japan have never been heard from.
The vessel was no doubt lost at sea. In some of the missions a good degree of success has been secured.
According to the order of the day, at 10½ o'clock a half hour was spent in devotional exercises in reference to the existing war.--The exercises were conducted by
Dr. Manly, of Ala.
The eighteenth annual report of the Board of Domestic and Indian Missions was read by
Rev. Mr. Sumner, the
Secretary.
The war having nearly broken up almost all the missions of this Board among the Indians of the
West, it has recently devoted itself chiefly to missions among the soldiers of the
Confederacy.
There are some thirty missionaries now laboring in different portions of the army under the direction of this Board, and it is proposed still to increase the number.
The field is a most inviting and promising one.
B Manly, Jr., of
S. C., read the report of a Special Committee on Sunday Schools, which gave rise to an animated discussion.
The point of discussion was in reference to originating a new Board of the
Convention in reference to Sunday Schools.
The body agreed to establish the Beard.
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