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Foreign Mission Board Roons
June 10, 1948
The Foreign Mission Board net in regular .wont' ly session on Thursday,
June 10, 1948 at 4:00 p.m. with Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: L. Howard Jenkins, Clyde V. Dickerson, Oscar L. Ilite, Reuben
E. Alley, J. G. Loving,
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G. McLane], Hill Montague, Mrs. Paul LaRoque,
Rupert Coleman, Garis T. Long, Mrs. Bine on Atkinson,
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Rush Loving,
M. T. Lankin, ^Brerett Gill, Jr., George Vil. °adler, Prank K. Means, Louis
P. Seay, E. P. Maddox, Edna Frances Dawkins , Everett L. Deane.
Dr. Coleman led in prayer.
On motion of Dr. J. G. Loving it was voted to ac ept the following report
of the Appointment Committee:
Recommendations :
1. Th- 1 : r. and Mrs. Daniel L per be given a conditional appointment,
final appointment to be confirmed after a satisfactory medical
report is obtained on Mrs. Luper. Appoint. Mt is to Brazil.
2. That Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Vi. Fuller be appoi: bed to China.
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Dr. Rankin delivered the charge to the missionaries.
Dr. Alley led in the prayer of dedication.
Dr. Rankin gave a brief review of the program presented by the Foreign
ission Bo rd at the Convention in Memphis ar.d stated that it had not
been the intention of the Board to make any definite urouosals in "emphis
to implement the enlargement program of the Board but that it had been
our intention only to place the program on the hearts of the people. The
next step vri.il be taken in Nashville at the June meeting of the Executive
Committee where Dr. Rar-kin will again present the program of advance. The
whole program will then urobably be referred to the Promotional Committee
o? the Convention for study. It is not expected that any action will be
taken for 1949 unless it is in addition to what the Convention did in
- lenphis .
Dr. Sadler gave the following report:
Africa. Writin on June 3, the principal of the Nigerian Baptist Theo¬
logical Beninary stated that sixty men and twenty-six women made up the
student body of that institution. He declared further: "It appears
that the Seminary has now
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e to its real crisis. Vvith the prospects
of B.A. graduates of the University of Ibadan as ' ture students in our
Seminary, we face the imminent do: and for still higher courses in the
Nigerian Seminar:.'."
Following the April meeting of this Board when it was suggested that
Southern Baptists might extend their influence into areas other than
those now touched by us, I wrote to Rev. D. R. Morton, an independent
Negro Baptist mission) ry of Liberia. To ray inquiry concerning his
willingness to welcome our outreach in his direction, he wrote as
follows: "The contents of your letter noted carefully, and I with the
members of the Board here, respectfully beg to say YES to your sugges¬
tion of our working together, and when the timer, comes as it will come
that I, can no more go on, I can then sleep in peace, because I know
that you and yo r Board can end. will continue to direct these people
and continue the work; as it will be years before they will be able by
themselves; and they, themselves are not unmindful of their limitation.
This has been my reat concern.
. -grope . In a lew n May 1, Dr. and Mrs . Dewey Moore say:
'‘The work here progresses and grows in marvelous and sometimes miracu¬
lous ways . Practically all of our churches report ever increasing
once, interest, and giving. The Lucento C • in Turin to
invite its members to stay at home whenever there is a special service
such as a baptism because the buildin which seats about 200 cannot
accommodate the five or six hundred who wish to cone."
