The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-04
AFTER A HUNDREDYEARS
THE GEORGIA NEGRO BAPTISTS'
CENTENNIAL.

The Celebration to Begin on Wedres-
Baptists from Abroad to be Present
The Services to be Held in Big Tab
ernacle Seating 1000 People-Some
ofthe Matters to be Discussed.
The African Baptifts of Georgia will be-
gin the centennial celebration of their or
Ganization in Georgia in this city on
Wednesday, and will continue it for ten
days. The big tabernacle on Eighth and
Ninth streets, which is calculated to seat
1000 people, will be completed to-day. Ar
rsngements have been made with the rail-
roads centering here to bring the crowds to
the centennial at greatly reduced rates
Special excursion trains, at Jasper Festival
rates, will be run. Rev. f. K. Love- one of
tie members Of the committee informed a
MORNING News reporter yesterday that he
could see no reason to change the opinion
expressed some weeks ago that the centen-
tenial celebration win attract no less than
$1,000 colored visitors to Savannah.
The effort is being made by committee
of all the colorad Baptist churches to
secure board for the visitors at 75c. per day.
fee Of ten cents viii be charged all these
who enter the centennial grounds who are
not provided with the centennial badge, and
season tickets will be sold at 81. Rev. Love
said that it was first intended that a book
should be presented at the centennial, cen
tanning the history Of the African BaDtists
of Georgia for the last hundred wears. but
this was found to be impractcable 1t will
be written soon after the close of the cele-
bration, with a full account of the latter
added
SOME PROMINENT DIvINES.
Among the eminent African Baptist
divines OF the country the following will he
present and speak on church topics Rev.
w. j. Simmons, D. D., of Louisville, KY,
Irregularities of Baptists that distinguish
them from all other people, Rev. f. NJ.
Brawley, D. D., of Greenville, S. c., New
Testament Policv;' Rev. w. H. Mcintosh,
d. D., Macon, Ga, 1.-THE Wants of the Col
ored Ministry" Rev. j. B. Hawthorne, D.
D., Atlanta, Ga, The Relations of the
White and Colored Baptists i'll the Past,
Now, and as it Should be in the Future:n
The American Baptist Publication Society
and Its Work for the Colored
of Atlanta, Ga, "The Authenticity of the
Bible;" Rev, w. H. McAlpin, Montgomery,
Ala, The duty of Baptists to Home Mis-
sIons." j. NJ. Jones, of Atlanta, was also to
have delivered an address on this subject,
but las died since the programme was
agreed upon. Rev. S. 7. Clanton, d. D.,
New Orleans, La, "Baptists and their In,
tiuence;" Revs. N. w. Landrum. D. D.,
Richmond. Va, and Rev. j. E. l.. Holmes,
d. D., pastor of the Savannah white Bap-
fist church, Tho Bible as Suited to the
Elevation of Mankind :" Rev. E. w. Warren,
D. D., Macon, Ga, 1.-The Duty of the Pastor
to the Church; :" Revs. j. H. DeVotie, D. D.,
and G. r. Mccall, D. D., Of Griffin, The
patrick, D. D., White Plains, Ga, "Chrlst-
iaI Baptism;" Rev w L. Fitzpatrick, Heph-
zibah, Ga, Independence of a Baptist
Church"
Probably the most attractive of all the
subjects to be discussed is woman, Her
Work and Influence" which is the twelfth
subject for discussion during the centen-
NAL, and among the speakers are Miss S. B.
Packard and Miss ]. P. Moore, of New Or
leans, La, and the Rev. L. Burrows, d. D.,
of Augusta, Ga. This discussion will begin
Friday, June 8.
THE OPENING EXERCISES.
The celebration will open in the big tn b.
ernacle on Wednesday at o'clock by
praise service, led by Rev. Henry Way, of
Hawkinsville. and Rev. Z. K Love, pastor
of the First African Baptist church,
the Oldest of the kind in North
America, will deliver the address
of welcome on behalf of the African
Baptist churches and people of Savannah
The opening sermon will be preached at IL
o'clock by the Rev. c. T. Walker, of Au-
gusta, to be followed at noon by an ex-
haustive history OF the church by e. A.
Clark, of Brunswick. Addresses will be de-
livered by eminent African dvines of Penn
sylvania South Carolina Alabama Ken
lucky aud Georgia.
The centennial will attract tho widest at
tention, and the deliberations, from re-
ligious and educational point of view, will
doubtless do much to advance the material
interests of the church. The sessions will