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(RELIGION.) BAPTIST.
WELCOME, National Baptist
Convention, Columbus, Ohio,
1909.
Textile pennant from the
National Baptist Convention, Held
at Columbus,Ohio, in 1909, 17-1/2
x 10-7/8 inches; some very slight
fraying to the delicate fabric at the
bottom right; attached to a piece of
dowel, 23-1/2 inches long. In the
center, is a circular vignette (6 inches
in diameter) of anAfricanAmerican
couple, immersed in water up to
their waists.
Columbus, 1909
[800/1,200]
An extraordinary survival.The vignette
in the center of the pennant shows a globe
within which a couple is being baptized.
Above them is the following: “National
Baptist Convention, Organized
November 24, 1880 at Montgomery,
Alabama.” Across the vignette is the
following Biblical quote from Mark
16:16 “He that believeth and is
Baptized shall be saved.One Lord,One
Faith, One Baptism.” The National
Baptist Convention in Ohio represents
the amalgamation of three conventions:
The Baptist Foreign Mission Convention,The National Convention of America, andThe National Baptist
Education Convention.These three bodies had joined together in 1895, and this pennant traces its roots to
the earliest of these conventions in Alabama 1880.Two thousand people attended the 1909 convention.
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