Foreign Mission Board Rooms
February 11, 1943
The Foreign Mission Board met in regular monthly session at 4:00 P.M.
on Thursday, February 11, 1943, with President Jenkins presiding.
The meeting via. s opened with prayer by Dr. Evans.
Present: L. H. Jenkins, J. G. Loving, J. Levering Evans, H. Bryant,
Mrs. Atkinson, H. W. Seever, Hill Montague, T.F. Adams, C.S. Prickett, R.
Aubrey Williams, E.P. Buxton, G.W, Sadler,
С.
E. Mad dry, A. R. Gallimore,
and Miss Marjorie Moore.
The minutes of the January meeting were approved as read.
Dr. Maddry requested that he be allowed to write to the State Board
members urging^ them to be present at the April meeting, he also reported
that living/in Ill the lands where we have mission work had increased to such
an extent that he felt that the salaries of the missionaries in South America,
Mexico and Africa should be increased §100 per year. The salaries in the
other countries have already been increased.
On motion of Mr. Montague it ms voted to call a meeting of the entire
Board for April 13 - 14, 1943.
On motion of Dr. Adams it was voted that an increase of §100 per year
be granted to the missionaries in South America, Mexico and Africa, this
appropriation to be made on a nine months' basis for 1943. This will make a
total increase of approximately §12,675 for 1943.
It was the feeling of the Board that the newly appointed missionaries
who are studying the language in the United States and who have not been to
the foreign field should not receive the emergency compensation.
Dr. Sadler gave an encouraging report of the work in Africa and Spain.
Dr. Sadler and Dr. Adams had attended a meeting of the Administrative Commit¬
tee of the Baptist World Alliance the day before and brought back a special
request for prayer in connection with the repatriation of Americans in the
Orient.
On motion of Dr. Adams it was voted to ask Dr. Maddry, as Executive Secre
tary of the Foreign Mission Board, to write to the President of the United
States making an appeal for the repatriation of Americans in the Far East.
It was also suggested that individual Board members write similar letters
to the president.
Dr. Sadler reported that
Л.
C. Donath, missionary to Nigeria, had
accepted a pastorate in Texas.
On motion of Dr. Adams it was voted to accept the resignation of Rev.
and Mrs. A. C. Donath as of the date he be cone s pastor of the church.
The following resolution on the homegoing of Mrs. W. B. Bagby was read
and approved and it was voted to s end a copy of it to the Baptist state papers
In the sudden home going of Mrs. Anne Luther Bagby, age 84, the kingdom
of God in beautiful Brazil has sustained a great loss. She held a high dis¬
tinction of being the first woman to go to our South American neighbors as
a missionary of the cross under the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention. Two months after marrying Dr. W. B. Bagby in 1880, they
sailed for their new post in Brazil.
Laboring under terrific difficulties, often in the face of persecution,
they laid broad the foundations upon which North American missionaries, in
cooperation with their Brazilian brothers, have builded a noble temple in
the Lord. she was laid to rest in the beautiful English cemetery in Recife,
North Brazil. Far to the south Dr. Bagby rests in the quiet beauty of another
cemetery overlooking Porto Alegre. Between them lies the great nation 7/ith
its lovable people whom they so admired and for whom they gave their lives.
Now joyously reunited they watch from the balconies of heaven and live again
the experiences of two generations, thanking God that they had a part in the
initiation of one of the most glorious chapters of missionary history.
To their ohildiren who have entered so valiantly into their labors, T. C.
Bagby of Goiania, Alioe Bagby Smith of Porto Alegre, Helen Bagby Harrison of
Recife, and Albert Bagby of Porto Alegre, including many relatives and
friends, the Foreign Mission Board, its secretaries and staff, extend their
deepest Christian sympathy.
— Everett Gill, Jr
