I WILL BE OBLIGED if you will express my cordial greetings to the Southern Baptist Convention now in session, and my deep appreciation of the importance to the national well-being of the service of the churches in the spiritual life of the nation. I do pray that the deliberations of your convention may be fruitful of wise counsels for the benefit of our country.
HERBERT HOOVER
[Dr. Arthur James Barton, c/o Southern Baptist Convention, St. Petersburg, Fla.]
Note: The message was read at the opening session of the organization's 77th annual convention which was held in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Herbert Hoover, Message to the Southern Baptist Convention. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207916