Held in Selma, July, 1889. Officers of previous session were
re-elected. Rev. C. S. Dinkins, having severed his connection with the
faculty of the University, was successfully operating an academy at
Marion in connection with his pastorate. This project the Convention,
on motion of Rev. A. N. McEwen, endorsed. Rev. C. O. Boothe was
appointed General Missionary of Alabama on the joint plan with the Home
Mission Society. This year our women, under the leadership of Miss S.
A. Stone, gloriously rallied to the support of the University. About
$5,700 was raised in the State. Rev. Washington Stevens, Montgomery,
and Deacon D. Lane, Greensboro, had passed away. Time of session was
again changed to November. Brethren R. T. Pollard and D. T. Gulley made
Sunday Missionaries under the Publication Society on the joint plan.
During this year, in May, a jubilee meeting was held in Selma and over
$2,000 was raised. In this jubilee meeting we met Rev. H. Stevens the
last time on earth.