Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-07

During the next ten days there are to be held
in this city three conventions of colored Bap-
fists, and together they will represent all sec
tons Of the country. The first will be that oil
the Virginia Baptist State Educational
Society, which will begin its sessions
Monday night at the Metropolitan BAp.
list Church and continue in session until
Tuesday evening. Wednesday morning the
Virginia Baptist state convention will begin its
labors in the same church. The third meeting
will be one to organize the national Baptist
educational convention.
At the Virginia Baptist state educational
convention IL il expected that nearly 400 dele
gates will be present DR.. ID. n. vassar of the
Richmond Theological Seminary is president
and he will call the meeting to order.
VIRGINIA BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION.
The meeting Of the Virginia Baptist state
convention is to be one Of considerable i'm
poriance to those engaged in missionary work
and a large attendance il expected. This is to
be the twenty-fifth annual meeting as we'll
as the celebration Of the one hundredth
anniversary OF the beginning Of the work.
began his. work just one hundred years, ago and
his watchword was: Expect great things
from God; attempt great things for God
In connection with this work q dollar collec-
ton Is being taken up this year. which money
Is to be applied to the erection Of new buildin g
and increasing the missionary force.
The objects Of the convention as set forth in
the constitution are the diffusion of the gospel
OF Jesus Christ, by sending out missionaries
into destitute regions; planting and training
churches; distributing the Bible and other
printed truth; promoting Sabbath schools
and general education, especially that of the
ministry, throughout the state of Virginia; also
to advance the interest of the kingdom of
Jesus Christ in Africa and other foreign lands,
as far as leth within the ability Of the conven-
ton.
The foreign mission board is located in
Richmond
The officers Of the convention are: President,
Prof. ID. y. Vassar; first vice president. Rev.
T. ID. Lewis; second vice president, Rev. w. f..
Graham; third vice president. Mrs. c. C. Ellis;
spending secretary, DIR. E. d. Brawley; treas
urer. Rev. j. L. Barksdale.
Executive board-Dr. ]. E. Jones, Revs
Willis Robinson. A. Gordon, w. r. Brown. T.
]. Chick, w. H. Crawley, H. H. Mitchell, Bros.
J. W. Crawford and T. Hamlin.
L. s. Hamlin, A. ]. Brown. ]. P. Robertson,
DIR. s. IL. DESMOND, II. II. Mitchell, committee
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION PROPOSITION.
The meeting called to consider the advis-
ability Of organizing national Baptist educa-
tional convention will meet at the Second Bap-
o..
johnson, pastor Of the church, has been work
ing hard in the interests of this convention
and lie expects that there will be fully $50 dele
gates present.
The call FOR the convention, which 10 dated
April Is, says: The educational statistics of the
denomination show that We have Sc schools for
higher education, 27S instructors, 7,245 students,
with grounds and buildings valued at Sl.U75,-
$40. These forces should be organized; there
fore the undersigned brethren have decided to
call n convention to meet at Washington ID. c.,
May 1G. 1892. at the Second Baptist Church,
for the purpose Of effecting the following OBJ
iects:
1. To secure and collect such data and sta
tls;ics OF the educational work Of the denomi-
nation as may be used for instruction and
reference by Baptists in particular and the
world IN general.
2 To assist graduates of our schools in Sc
curing positions as teachers and employment
In whatever may be their chosen profession or
calling.
8. To provide a fund for the assistance of
promising young men and women as teachers
and students, and thus show to those who have
helped us materially our willingness to do
something for ourselves.
4. To bring together the educators Of the
denomination for mutual interchange Of views,
and thus better acquaint ourselves with the
men and women who are helping to give char
acter and history TO the colored Baptists.
Continuing, the call says: 1t is hoped that
this meeting will convene with the two great
national gatherings, the U. s. foreign mission
and the national Baptist conventions It is to
be in perfect harmony with the A. B. H. NJ
Society and IS intended to antagonIze no exist
ing organizations.
The necessity Of such body needs no argu-
ment; all will agree that it is imperative. The
press of the denomination indorses it and all
the friends of Christian education are asked to
give to it that hearty cooperation that will
rtaaEa g., (Nzl
SOME OF THE sIaNERs.
Among the signsrs to the call are such men as
c. II. Parish. A. NJ, KY; A. W. Pegues, Phi.
D., N. c.; ]. E. Knox, A. NJ, Ark; NJ W. Gil
bert, A NJ. Fla; ". 7. Grasty, A. B., Va; p. F.
Morris, A. NJ. Va; c. Il. Corey, D. D.
Va " G. ~ =. King; D. D., D; C.; J
D. D., Va; E. h. Love, D. D., Ga; G. W. Lee,
D. D., b. c.; W. H. Brooks, D. D., D. c.; G. L.
PURGE. ID. d.. Ala; NJ. Mcvicar, IL. D., N. Y;
H. L. Morehouse, D. d.. N. Y; J. NJ. G. Scott,
d. D.. N. Y; W. II. Stewart, esq.,. American
Baptist Ky; E. c. Morris, A. ~. Ark; Prof.
F. Graham. Va; W. H. Scott, D. c.; H. H. Har-
ris, b. D., Mass; ]. NJ. Waldron. A. B., Fla. /:
Chas. F. Sneed, A. NJ, KY; G. W. Hayes, AM,
Va; VIM. I. Dixon, n. Y; W. A Credit, A. NJ,
Ky; NJ. v: Cook. A. b, Ky; r. ]. Temple,
D. d., Miss; John Mitchell, jr.. Richmond
~. ~.
D. C.; Robert Mitchell, A. NJ,
Ky; Charles Stewart, ESQ.,. Ill; r. r.
Perry. DID,, MY; 7. ID. Miller, D. D., Pa; E.
ID. Lewis, 3D., Va; Profs. Coleman. Diggs,
Simpson and Bliesmer, Wayland Seminary;
Revs. Warning, Porter and Cook, Alexandra.
Va; Reys. Loving, Thomas, Robinson. John
son, Taylor. Howard Of D. c.; ". Bishop
johnson, DID,, secretary, 445 4th street north
east
REV. W. BISHOP JOHNSON.
Rev. ". Bishop johnson, d. d., who 10 the
organizer of the new organization, is editor Of
the Wayland Alumni Journal, as well as pastor
of the Second Baptist Church. He is native
OF Canada, having been born in Toronto in
1856. His younger days were spent
in Toronto aud Buffalo. and he
afterward. attended Wayland Seminary, where
he received high honOrs III 1879. Seven years
before he graduated from Wayland he was
converted and he then determined to enter the
ministry.
In 1872 he was baptized by Rev. J, W.
Mitchell. then the pastor of Queen Street Bap-
fist Church, Toronto, Ontario, and in 1875 he
entered the Christian ministry, after taking q
course in theology under DR.. Mitchell.
Soon after graduating from Wayland Semi
nary he became pastor of the First Baptist
Church IN Frederick, Md, where he built up a
large congregation and left the church in q
fourishing condition.
He Is II life member Of the American Baptist
Home Mission Society and the Virginia Baptist
state convention. a member of the foreign
mission board OF the United States and the
educational board Of the Virginia convention