Held in Marion, November 17-20, 1880. The officers elected were: M.
Tyler, president; J. A. Foster, vice-president; N. R. Nickerson, clerk;
G. C. Casby, corresponding secretary, and C. White, treasurer.
Except a small balance due Brother Woodsmall the school was now free
from debt, besides owning thirty-six acres of land and temporary
buildings.
[Illustration: Shiloh Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., Rev. T. W.
Walker, Pastor.]
Rev. S. Adams had gone to the other world.
Aided by the Selma Missionary Society, Bros. M. W. Alston, L.
Ellington, D. T. Gulley, D. L. Prentice, C. Travis, C. R. Rodgers, L.
J. Green and J. C. Curry had done effective missionary work.
Brother Woodsmall reported that the _Baptist Pioneer_ is free of debt
and has $321.03 in cash. He had received $2,399--$899 had come from
Alabama in tuition and donations, and $1,500 from the North.
The American Baptist Home Mission Society at this time adopted the
school and engaged to give it $2,000 during its session of 1880-81.
About $400 were spent on improvements of school grounds. Rev. Wm. A.
Burch, late of Philadelphia, now pastor of the First Baptist Church
in Selma, and Rev. W. W. Cully, a returned African Missionary, were
members of this Convention. Brother McAlpine had raised from all
sources $1,976.85. Before the next session Brother McAlpine, at Brother
Woodsmall’s request, became president of the school.