The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-28
COMING BIG CONVENTION
REMARKABLE OUTCOME FROM THE
CHRISTIAN WORKERS' CONTENTION

hhhdhh AbLE OOICOME FhO4h AhE
CHRISTIAN WORKERS' CONTENTION
Which Was Held at Atlanta, Georgia, in
1S94-Boolxer Washington's Address Led
to His Selection as the Negro Speaker at
Epoch Making Address for the Blacks of
the South.
Rev. Mr.. Poteat at Calvary Baptist
church yesterday morning preached a
sermon about the coming Christian
Workers convention. He wished to
have his people informed concerning it
and how valuable is the work of the
association and it's conventions. Mr..
Poteat has attended several Of the con-
ventions and outlined the convention
work and gave sketches of some of the
work.
There is very deep and universal in
terest throughout the city over the COM
ing convention. The various commit
tees are at work at their respective du-
ties and the finance committee is meet
ing with a very cordial response, and
although they have yet obtained but a
small part of what is needed, they feel,
as do the local committee, very grateful
for the hearty cooperation they have
received. In number of the churches
committees are busy at work canvass
ing for places of entertainment for the
delegates and speakers, and for funds
to meet the expenses. A committee of
ten was appointed last evening for this
purpose by the Y. P. S. C. e. society
of Calvary Baptist church. The secre-
tary reports that the names of hundreds
of delegates are being received The
state officers of the Connecticut Chris
tian Endeavor union have sent special
letters to every one Of the five hundred
societies in the state urging them to
see that representatives are present at
the meeting from each society. The
Y. M. c. associations in the state are
doing likewise. Pastors of churches are
sending in notices of their intention to
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in easy railroad distance are expecting
to bring in many of their members.
Rev. Fl. III. Kelsey of the Fourth church,
Hartford, writes in his church maga-
zine urging every member Of his church
to spend some time at this convention.
| This indicates that pastors and others
familiar with these conventions realize
| that they have a great and practical
| value. Everything indicates that this
convention viii surpass in interest any
of its predecessors. The last annual
| convention was held at Atlanta. Ca,
and that whole section of the south was
stirred and took very deep interest in
| the convention.
Booker T. Washington, who made
| that famous address at the Atlanta ex-
position, representing the negro race,
| and which is said to be the most re-
markable event that has occurred since
| the war in the relations between the
blacks and whites of the south, made a
| journey of nearly three thousand miles
| to speak ten minutes at this Christian
| Workers convention at Atlanta when it
was held in that city. Although his
| famous work at Tuskegee Industrial
Institute was in the black belt of Ala
| bama, he had never before spoken to an
| audience of southern whites, the pec1-
| liar social conditions of the south MAX
| ing 1t an impossibility, but at the Chris
tian Workers convention he had an au-
dience of nearly three thousand repre-
sentative southerners, including minis
| ters, prominent business men, the gov
ernor of Georgia, who was chairman of
| the local committee and other promi-
nent officials. They were charmed with
| the practical character of his address,
and Mr. Washington writes Mr., Collins
| as secretary that this address was the
| entering wedge u his opinion which
| led to his selection as a. speaker to rep
| resent his race at the opening of the
| Atlanta exposition. 1t was such a great
| innovation to bring a colored speaker
before a white southern audience that
| the directors deliberated long before de-
| Gliding to do SO, but many of them hav-
| ing heard Mr. Washington at the con-
vention, they decided to take the risk,
and with the result that in the opinion
of many it has brought about a new
| era in the relations between the blacks
| and whites of the south.