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Thursday, March 8,1923.
A called meeting of the Board was held
today at 10 A.M., Dr. Gaines presiding. Dr. J.W. Porter
of Kentucky led in prayer.
The following were present: Pitt, Williams
Montague, Gaines, Crump, Clark, Gwathmey, Cousins, Jen-,,
kins, Miss Alta Poster, Mrs. Carrie W. Moore, Powell ;
Secretaries love, Ray and Kester; Miss May Hines, Mrs.
T.B.Ray, Miss Flora Dodson, Mrs . R.H.Gravesf Rev. Jno.
lake • Bro . jiWtPortoi was also present. .
The matter under consideration was the situa¬
tion existing in the Pooi To Academy, Cdnton, China. State¬
ments on this question were made hy Mrs. Graves, Miss Hine^
Miss Dodson, Brother lake and Dr. love.
The Board was led in prayer hy Dr. Pitt after
which it adjourned for lunch.
The Board reassembled at 2.30 P.M.
The afternoon session was opened with prayer
hy Dr. Broughton.
Brethren Broughton and Harris came in for
the afternoon session.
The reports offered at the last meeting were
taken up and the whole situation was discussed thoroughly.
On motion it was voted to appoint five mem-
hers--Brethren Broughton, Jenkins, Clark, Porter and
Miss Poster-- a committee’ in consultation with the secre¬
taries to prepare a paper along lines agreed upon hy the
Board.
The paper is as follows:
The Foreign Mission Board of the South¬
ern Baptist Convention, in session in Richmond, Virginia,
March 8, 1923, takes the following action on the school
situation in South China:
1. We would express our regret that the
paper adopted hy this Board, June 1920, looking to the
consolidation in one joint management of all our girls'
school work’ in Canton did not meet with acceptance.
2. We have given earnest and prayerful
consideration to the proposals of the Committee of the
Two Kwongs Baptist Association and the South China Mis¬
sion adopted hy said Joint Committee in January 1923.
3. The Board does not feel that our
Baptist educational work in South China has yet progressed
sufficiently to call for a school given mainly to normal
education.
4. We do not feel that the limited amount
of normal work ana the grade of that work now required
are sufficient to justify the
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for this purpose of
the large investment which this Board has made in the
equipment for girls' education in South China.
5. We do not beliefs that for the present
any school devoted exclusively or mainly to normal work
can fulfil the largest service to our Baptist people and
Baptist churches in South China. We cannot, therefore,
accept the terms agreed upon hy the Joint Committee. But
we are still desirous of such settlement of this educa¬
tional question as will he pleasing to all concerned and
productive of the largest benefits to our Baptist people
in South China. Seeking such a settlement this Board
adopts the following and ask its acceptance hy the Two
Kwongs Baptist Association, and suggests that" it would he
pleasing to us to see the plan put into effect as early
as practicable.
