Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-10
THE COLoRED BAPTISTS
Annual Meeting to Be Held Of Washington
Association.
The Body VIII Represent About FIJI
teen thousand Members-Session
VIII Open Tuesday Next.

The annual meeting Of the First Wash
ington Baptist Association Is to be held
next Tuesday and continue in session three
days at the Liberty Baptist Church, corner
Of 18th and Z streets northwest. Liberty
Church Is without a pastor, but the men,
| bers of the congregation will not be lacking
in hospitality by reason of that fact, and
have made arrangements for lunch to be
served each day to the members of the as
ISOLATION who are attending in an official
capacity.
The association was organized a trifle
over twenty-seven years ago, this being the
| twenty-seventh annual meeting, and dur
| ing that period its progress has been steady
the time when those members now calling
themselves the Mt. Bethel Association Sc
ceded and formed a new organization.
Number of Delegates.
Each church having membership in the
Association Is entitled to be represented
by two lay delegates, and the pastor and
the body so selected will represent between
10000 and 1900 of the coloreG Baptists
OF the District Of Columbia, Of which ther
are in all 10000. There are about thirty
| churches in the association. all located
within the bounds of the District or
In the immediate vicinity, and Of these
churches, several are very strong, such as
Vermont Avenue, Berean, Metropolitan and
Mt. Carmel
The session 10 to be opened Tuesday
morning at 1870, with devotional exercises,
followed by an Introductory sermon to be
delivered by one of the pastors Of the
local churches. selected at the last annual
meeting.
The afternoon session will be taken up
| with the election of officers, the present
n39
reelected, being as follows: Moderator
Rev. J. c. Dent. pastor of Mt. Moriah
Church, who has served four consecutive
terms; vice moderator, Rev. Joseph Mat
thews. pastor of Bethlehem Church, Hills
dale; secretary, Rev. ]. l. Loving. pastor of
Enon Baptist Church: treasurer w. w.
White, layman of Mt. Moriah BAPTIST
Robert johnson. M. D., pastor of Metro
politan Church. chairman, and Rev.
James II. Lee, of the Third Baptist: Rev.
washington Waller Rev: w: E. Brown,
avenue; Rev. George w. Lee, d. D., pas
tor of the Vermont Avenue Church. ana
Rev. W. P. Gibbons, Phi. D., pastor of Mt.
Carmel Church.
Two Daily Sessions.
The two succeeding days Of the conven-
ton are to be divided into two sessions.
morning and afternoon. each opened with
devotional exercises. and in the evening
there will be preaching and addresses ly
various speakers. During the progress of
the business letters containing statistics
of different churches will be read, and ap-
pointment of committees on finance. on
new churches. on education and on cor
responding bodies will be made. There is
also to be a missionary discussion ard
during the course of this it is probable that
successor will be selected for the late
Rev. j. c. Gaskins as nome missionary
for the District of Columbia
/ The matter of the removal of WayIand
Seminary may also be taken up and Cis-
cussed in an informal way. The asso.ia-
ton meetings will be guided in the main
by stated program of business, but it is
expected that other questions, besides
these mentioned, Will crop out in the vari-
Gus discussions. 800. =. -