- Title
- Eighty-Sixth Annual Report of the Foreign Mission Board, 1931
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- Date
- 13 May 1931 - 17 May 1931
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- Creator
- ["Southern Baptist Convention. Foreign Mission Board"]
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- Coverage
- ["Birmingham (Ala.)"]
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Eighty-Sixth Annual Report of the Foreign Mission Board, 1931
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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD REPORT
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APPENDIX A
EIGHTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
•of the
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
1931
With hearts full of gratitude to God for His manifold blessings upon its
work during the year, the Foreign Mission Board presents its eighty-sixth an¬
nual report to the Southern Baptist Convention.
ORGANIZATION
The Annual meeting of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention was held at Richmond, Virginia, June 3rd, 1930. The Board organ¬
ized for the year by electing the following officers:
President, R. E. Gaines; Vice-President, Joshua Levering; Recording Secre¬
tary, W. A. Harris; Auditor, Basil M. Gwathmey; Attorney, Hill Montague;
Treasurer, E. P. Buxton; Executive Secretary, T. B. Ray; Home Secretary, W.
Eugene Sallee; Field Secretaries, W. D. Powell and T. W. Ayers.
LOSSES BY DEATH
We sustained serious losses by death during the year:
Mils Lilia E. Echols died July 3, 1930, in the Baptist Hospital, Columbus,
Georgia.
Miss Echols was born in Carroll County, Ga., April 19, 1889. She attended
Florence University, Ala., and afterwards graduated in 1911 from Liberty Col¬
lege, Kentucky, with A.B. degree. After graduation she taught ten years in
schools in Alabama, Georgia and Florida. She attended the W.M.U. Training
School in Louisville one year. She was appointed as missionary to Shanghai,
China. June, 1923. She served with great acceptance in the Eliza Yates Girls’
School in Shanghai. She taught the English course; was a splendid Bible Teach¬
er and acted as librarian and found much time for work in the local church.
Whatever she undertook she did well.
Louis M. Duval, who for twenty-nine years was one of our missionaries in
Nigeria, Africa, was drowned on September 12th, 1930, in St. Johns River,
Canada. The cause of the accident has never been discovered.
He was born in St. Johns, New Brunswick, Canada, September 8th, 1874.
He graduated from Arcadia College in 1889. He also attended the American
Missionary Training Institute in New York. He was appointed as missionary
on June 4th, 1901, to do evangelistic and educational work in Nigeria. He de¬
veloped the work widely in the Shaki District, and was the founder and for
many years the principal of our Theological Seminary. During the latter part
of his career he was secretary of the Mission and of the Nigerian Baptist Con¬
vention. This caused him to travel extensively throughout Nigeria. He was the
editor of the “Nigerian Baptist.” He wrote “Baptist Missions in Nigeria,” which
was used as one of our Foreign Mission Board textbooks. He also wrote a
story book on Africa designed for young people. He was one of our most de¬
voted and efficient missionaries.
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