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Jan, 8, 1914
The Board met in regular session, Pres .Hutson
in the chair. Brother Johnson led in prayer.
Present: — Hutson, Smith, Johnson, Ellyson, Pitt,
Mitchell, Winston. Mathews, James, Ray, R. R. Gwathmey,
Pollard, Skinner.
Minutes of Dec. 4th and Dec. 12th were read and
,.11+Vl approved.
,outn Brethren z. T. Cody, M. D. Jeffries and
С.
E.
Burts of South Carolina were invited to sit with us. On
Carolina motion the regular order of Business was suspended and
the south Carolina Committee were allowed to make a state-
Committeement with regard to Bro. and Sister Snuggs, since some
of the Committee had to catch an early train. Bro. Cody
spoke for the Committee and presented the following pa¬
per: —
TO THE MEMBERS OP THE FOREIGN MISSION BOARD—
“We have been appointed By the State Conven¬
tion of the Baptists of south Carolina to Bring Before
you the conditions in our state as relates to Mr. and
Mrs. snuggs and the Foreign Mission Board. The Conven¬
tion gave us no instructions except to visit you and to
see if there could not come a new adjustment of this, to
us, serious affair. At least two of our Associations have
taken action favoring a reconsideration of your action in
dropping Brother and sister Snuggs from the employ of the
Board, and we Believe that the disaffection will extend
to other associations. If the affair is allowed to stand
as it is, we do not see any improvement in the attitude
of these associations to the Foreign Mission Board, But
Believe that it will rather grow much worse. How long,
the disaffection will continue, no one knows, But we fear
that it would extend through ten or fifteen years.
Our Committee will not go into the merite of
the case and we do not charge the Board with injustice,
But we do ask, in view of the situation in South Carolina,
that there Be undertaken a readjustment of the case.
we express the hope that, when the Mission
in China understands the situation in south Carolina, it,
itself, will take such action as will relieve our embar¬
rassment. we do not suggest the method By which this
relief may come, But are confident that there is enough
wisdom in the Mission and the Board to meet the emergency."
z. T. Cody
Committee — M. D. Jeffries
С.
E. Burts.
Bro. Jeffries and Bro. Burts also spoke of
the situation.
Bro. T. B. Ray read the following extract
from the Committee on China: — . (
Inasmuch as the Committee appointed By the
State Convention of south Carolina, composed of Revs.Z. T.
Cody, D. D., M. D. Jeffries, D. D., and
С.
E. Burts, D. D.,
has appeared Before the Foreign Mission Board, and has
made the representations contained in the attached state¬
ment, concerning the serious disaffection in south Caroli¬
na over the case of Rev. andMrs. E. T. Snuggs :-
RESOLVED, that the statement of the South
Carolina Brethren Be submitted to the south China Mission
with the question whether the south China Mission, in the
face of these facts, and in view of other possible consid¬
erations that may have arisen in the South China Mission
in reference to Brother and Sister Snuggs, cannot find
some adjustment of this matter that will Be satisfactory
to all parties concerned. We suggest that this matter Be
taken up By the south China Mission at once and that the
