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NEGRO BAPTISTS
order to have this body incorporated, and I supposed you
expected me to attend to it. It is true it was not made
the business of any one by an action of this body, but I
did not see who was to do it if I did not; so at my earliest
convenience I attended to it, and succeeded in getting it
ayproved under the general law. As your servant I visited
several associations, and among them was the Jackson as¬
sociation, from which I received $10, which I paid on the
old printing debt. This $10 is all we have received from
that association in two years.
Dr. Boulden, in giving a synopsis of the work of this
association from its origin to this present session, said in
reference to the paper that the association was publish¬
ing through him: " While we cannot extend this synopsis
far, we feel it would be doing a great injustice to close it
without saying a word about the periodical department.
For the space of one year and one month this body had a
paper in operation under its auspices. In this department,
the 13 months it ran, there was collected by subscription
and otherwise $355.90, of which amount the brethren wh^
who took an interest in the department have the credit of
sending in $125. The bill for printing in that time was
$325. The bills for paper and expressage were $92.95.
Hence you see, my friends, that instead of this paper net¬
ting an income that, within 13 months, it ran in debt
$62.05." Because of the above condition of affairs in refer¬
ence to the paper Rev. T. L. Jordan was moved to offer the
following resolutions:
Whereas, We have all witnessed the good results of
our paper known, as the Baptist Reflector, when it was cir¬
culating among us; and, whereas, it had to be discon¬
tinued for the want of sufficient support on the part of
some of our brethren, and in a somewhat embarrassed
condition ; therefore be it
Resolved, We deeply regret the demise of our much
favored Reflector, through which we have often spoken to
each other.
Resolved, further, We will do all we can to pay off
its present indebtedness before trying to revive the paper
again.
Resolved, further, That this body does hereby re-
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