History of Texas Baptists 
by Benjamin Framklin Fuller - 1900 - 489 pages


[The Baptist General Association of Texas]

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[Page 220]

  The fourth annual session convened at Fairfield, July 21, 1871.  There was 
some complaint that this was an invasion of the territory of the Baptist State
Convention.  Twenty-seen churches and six associations sent messengers.  
General J. W. Speight was elected President, and other old officers were 
continued.  The Missionary Board reported that T. B. McComb had been appointed
General Agent, at a salary of $1,200.  At this session this board was located
at Tyler.  At the last session the Sunday-school Board was located at 
Jefferson, but made no report.  On Monday Dr. J. R. Graves arrived and was
invited to a seat as a visitor.  He explained the plan proposed by the 
enterprise he was representing, called the Southern Baptist Publication Society,
and on motion of Dr. R. C. Burleson the same was approved and recommended to 
the churches; but George Yarbrough and W. H. Parks asked and obtained leave 
that their protest against the indorsement of this enterprise be entered on the
minutes.

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[Page 237]

  ...This movement was opposed at the meeting by both Baylor and Waco, and the
meeting adjourned to the next session of the General Assocation at Fairfield in
1871.
   At this Fairfield meeting a resolution was adopted to the effect that it was
desirable to organize "The Educational Union" when $10,000 should be subscribed.
This was raised on the spot, and a meeting was appointed for August 3, 1872, at
Bryan, to organize.  A charter was secured, and agents were put in the field to
raise $200,000, and when this amount should be raised the donors were to locate
the school.
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