Richmond, Virginia .
October 8-10, 1963
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The Foreign Mission Board met in annual session on October 8-10, 1963 with Dr.
Lindsay presiding.
State Members: G. W. Riddle, Ala.; Mrs. Albert J. Smith, Ala.; Loyd L. Hunnicutt,
Arlc.; George R. Wilson, Aria.; Blake ,/oolbright, Cali'.; : ilton Collum, Colorado;
B. Frank Foster, District of Columbia; Homer G. Lindsay, Florida; 0. M. Cates,
Georgia; Dick H. Hall, Georgia; James W. Abernathy, Indiana; J. Chester Badgett,
Kentucky; J. Norris Palmer, Louisiana; Leslie M. Bowling; Maryland; Leroy E. Green,
Mississippi; Ralph M. G. Smith, Missouri; W. D. Wyatt, New Mexico; Howard J. Ford,
North Carolina; Mrs. W. A. Mitchiner, North Carolina; R. Knolan Benfield, North
Carolina; Willard Dobbs, Ohio; Anson Justice, Oklahoma; Thomas L. Neely, South Caro¬
lina; 0. K. Webb, South Carolina; Gerald Martin, Tennessee; R. Paul Caudill, Tennessee;
Mrs. llerschell Emery, Tennessee; Philip Brown, Texas; Mrs. J. Woodrow Fuller, Texas;
J. Ralph Grant, Texas; T. A. Patterson, Texas.
Local Members: Wade Bryant, J. Roy Clifford, H. Addison Dalton, Joseph P. Edmondson,
Horace L. Ford, R. Stuart Grizzard, Mrs. Clyde V. Hickerson, M. Josiah Hoover, W.
Rush Loving, Mrs. Charles A. Maddry, J. Walter Martin, Ryland 0. Reamy, Meredith K.
Roberson, D. 0. Rose, James T. Todd, Mrs. John C. Tyree.
Staff: Baker J. Cauthen, Winston Crawley, Frank K. Means, Cornell Goerner, E. L.
Deane, Rogers M. Smith, Floyd H. North, Franklin T. Fowler, Norman Price, Elmer S.
West, Jesse Fletcher, Edna Frances Dawkins, lone Gray, Genevieve Greer, E. L. Wright,
Fon H. Scofield, E, L. Hill, Ralph A. Magee, Inez Tuggle.
Guests: Dr. W. L. Howse, Rev. Joseph L. Hart, Miss Lois Hart, Rev. John A. Tumblin,
Sr., Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Allen, Dr. and Mrs. George W. Sadler.
Dr. Loyd L. Hunnicutt read a Scripture passage and led in prayer.
On the motion of Dr. Justice, the Board voted to re-elect Dr. Homer G. Lindsay as
the President of the Board.
On the motion of Mr. Neely, the Board voted to re-elect Dr. Meredith K. Roberson as
the first vice-president of the Board.
On the motion of Mr. Gerald Martin, the Board voted to elect Dr. J. Ralph Grant as
the second vice-president of the Board.
On the motion of Dr. Roberson, the Board voted to re-elect Dr. W. Rush Loving as the
Recording Secretary of the Board.
On the motion of Dr. Wilson, the Board voted to re-elect Miss Inez Tuggle as Assist¬
ant Recording Secretary of the Board.
Dr. Hill gave the following report of the Secretary for Missionary Education and
Promotion:
REPORT OF SECRETARY FOR MISSIONARY EDUCATION AND PROMOTION
The Judsons and Luther Rice had just been baptized in the Baptist Chapel in Calcutta.
They had together written Dr. Worcester, secretary of the American Board of Com¬
missioners for Foreign Missions, the Congregational ist Board who had sent them to
India as "missionaries to the heathen," informing him that they had become Baptists.
These two new Baptists were, therefore, cut off from all support and denominational
connections. They first considered offering themselves for appointment by the English
mission society, the Particular Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the
Heathen; but William Carey, who was, in addition to his many specific missionary
skills, also a missionary statesman, wisely urged them to make connections with the
Baptists in America. He believed this afforded an excellent opportunity to arouse
the Baptists of America to assume a responsibility for foreign missions.
In response to Carey's suggestion, Judson and Rice sent a letter to Dr. Thomas Baldwin,
pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Boston, and editor of the Massachusetts Baptist
.1* apprising him of their convictions and baptism and expressing the hope for
support from the Baptist churches in America.
In the meantime, the British East India Company informed the American missionaries
they must leave India at once and gave orders for their deportation. Having sub¬
mitted their resignations to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
and disassociated themselved from the English Baptists, they feced an uncertain future,
not only in the field where they were to serve, but also in financial support.
After much prayer and careful consideration, the three decided Rice should return to
America and enlist the American Baptist in the mission causa, while the Judsons
