Held in the Sixteenth Street Church, Birmingham, November, 1885.
Officers of previous session re-elected. On the 10th of November, one
day prior to the sitting of the Convention, the Ministers’ Union
met and appointed a committee on the character of the author of this
pamphlet, and which reported the following:
“We, your committee appointed on Bro. C. O. Boothe, beg leave to
submit the following: On account of the complications of his marriage
relations, his oppositions to the State work, and on account of his
want of loyalty to truth, we recommend that we withdraw from him the
hand of fellowship as a minister. C. S. Dinkins, J. Q. A. Wilhite, J.
Dosier, committee.”
The brother, who was excluded (?) by the adoption of this report, asked
and was allowed to put in the minutes of the Convention the following:
“To all who may read the resolution passed by the Alabama Baptist
Ministers’ Union bearing upon me, I affirm my innocence of each and all
the charges therein presented, and appeal to the King of Kings, whose
just judgment I patiently await.
“C. O. Boothe.”
Dark times follow upon the work and upon many individuals. The total
receipts for this year, as reported by Bro. Bouey, were $2,200. Rev. J.
P. Barton was made State missionary, and Rev. J. Q. A. Wilhite was made
financial agent of the school.
The school was getting into debt, and serious losses threatened. The
founders of the work were not sufficiently willing to confer with each
other.