Southern Baptists

Some 6,000 Southern Baptists last week accomplished that soul satisfying thing-- a church convention (at New Orleans) without bitter bickering. A subject of mild controversy was revision of the church constitution. Revision was passed over to next year's convention, at Birmingham, Ala. Happily exalted, many of the departing Baptists could not restrain themselves from impromptu prayer meetings in the railroad stations. As they traveled to their homes they carried with them two vigorous inspirations--on Prohibition, on Evangelism. Dr. Arthur James Barton of Atlanta had told them: "There is no neutral ground in this [ Prohibition] war. It is a 'war to the knife and knife to the hilt' between the forces of sobriety and orderly government on the one hand and the forces of liquor and lawlessness on the other." Dr. Leonard Gaston Broughton (a doctor of medicine as well as of divinity), also of Atlanta, had urged them: to support that "oldtime Baptist spiritual Evangelism to preach the doctrine of sin and salvation, and quicken the backslidden churches and reach the unsaved. . . . Those intellectual, or handpicked, or gumshoe Evangelisms in which some are trying to reflect upon our mass or church revivals, we will oppose. . . .'

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