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NEGRO BAPTISTS
view of the great need of an educational work among our
ministers and young preachers, your committee would
recommend that this body appoint an agent whose duty it
shall be to present the subject of education to our people,
with all of its importance, and solicit contributions for
that purpose. Your committee would recommend further,
that whenever there is a sufficient amount of money in
hand, one or more teachers be employed and set to work
in localities where the greatest numbers can be accommo¬
dated at the least expense. Your committee would also
recommend that as soon as practicable, a permanent insti¬
tution of learning be established, wherever it may be ad¬
judged the most accessible: and upon the most feasible
plan. All of which we most humbly submit.
The following obituary was adopted in reference
to the death of Rev. Brinson, the first moderator of
the association and Wm. Thompson, a member of the
Jackson association who was present at the organi¬
zation of this city:
OBITUARY.
Dear Brethren : Three years have passed away since
the organization of tnis general body, and now for the first
time we are called to mourn the loss of any of our mem¬
bers ; but since our last meeting two of our brethren have
been called from labor to reward—Bros. J. C. Brinson and
Wm. Thompson. Both of these brethren were connected
with the earlier formation of this body, and were in full
sympathy with all the objects for which it was organized,
and especially that of education. Brother Brinson was
chosen the moderator of this body when It was first organ¬
ized, and was continued for two years. Brother Brinson
was an earnest worker, a faithful minister of the New
Testament, and was much interested in the education of
our people, and especially that of the ministry, and labored
to that end with all his mental and physical powers.
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Brother Thompson met with us in'73 at Jackson, Miss.,
and expressed himself much gratified in so doing. In
these brethren, we have taken from our ranks some of our
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