The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-03
Commission HAS
BEEN CALLEDT0MEET
Important Session Will Be Held
Here Next Week.
SCHEME IS lMPRAcTlcABLE.
So the Methodist Ministers Think About
the Proposed Paper-sermon
by Rev. G. A. Marks.
Other Notes.
SCHEME is iMPRAcTlcABLE

pointed by the last Baptist General As
ISOLATION OF Virginia, announces that a
meeting Of the commission has been
called for next week. and will be held
at Richmond College, in this city.
This meeting of the commission, which
has IN hand the matter Of working up
plan for the coordination Of all the
Baptist schools IN the State, Is looked
forward to with the very greatest inter.
est Members Of the body have recently
been doing a good deal Of thinking in
connection with this problem before
them, and while 1t is hardly reasonable
yet to expect full, detailed plan, II is
get thought that the schools will assume
some definite shape at the meeting. IL
is more than likely that some step wiz
be taken toward setting on foot move
n.ent which will result ultimately in con-
nacting tho different Baptist academies
III the State with Richmond College.
At their meeting at Centenary yester-
day morning the Methodist ministers OF
the city discussed the paper read before
the body two weeks ago on sunday
Observance" by the Rev. r, NJ. Maxey,
and from all that could be learned dis
approved of two or llree OF inc 1nole
radical suggestions made by the pastor
of Asbury. No final action was taken.
The matter was not reached by the
Conference until a late hour. and the DIS
cussion was precipitated by MT AlaAes
himself He asked that the booy give us
consideration to the quesnon OF ounuaS
observance. DR.. John tdanhon.s " CiiAoii-
station. made a talk, in which ne ex-
dressed his opinion that MIR. Ma2eys
suggestions were little far-fetched. he
did not think the plaza for Tree chuicn
newspaper or for amusement houses ~
he conducted under religious influences
was feasible. The matter OF secul ihs =
better observance Of the LORDS LAY Was
recognized by DR.. Harmon 10 pc an M
nortant one, and one with which IL Wds
;,.rd 10 crapple, but he did not think
thnt Mr. Maxey had pointed out way
out If the difficulty. He declared that the
naner read before the Conference Two
weeks ago was an able one ana Vaiudole
in several of its suggestions, out SO lar
as concerned the paper anu one OF lMo
other features. dld not asiee wen ~
idea OF the matter.
Ono or two others engaged in the dis
cnssion and it appears that the body
agreed on the whole with DR.. Bannon,
Mr.. Maxey himself Joined in the discus
sion.
The Rev. George H. spoonnssr;, pr rhHrc,9
Sunday at Trinity Methodlst Shuien
on side Issues, discussing the cues
lion of the preachers scope aud the eN-
tent Of his field While he stated at the
outset that he was not answering any
naper or any person, but discussing
question that the press had given pup
iicity to Mr.. Spooners sermon loilo"s
up the paper presented by Mr.. MaAey
and was especially interested in view OIL
that fact. i
The Rev. c. A. Marks preached Sunday
night at the First English Luntheron
Church. taking for his subject the dis
aster at Martinique.
He took this incident as an example
of the power of God to visit destruction
upon a sinful world and declared that
the disaster pointed to the truth OF the
prophecy as to the destruction of the
world by fire.
Peonle boot at the idea that there is
n lake of fire and birthstone for the pun
tshnent of the wicked, said Mr.. Marks,
well, 20 and look at those people in St
Pierre. See their hands sticking out IRON
under the stones and the lava. as IL
they were trying to shield their races
from the suffocating atmosphere. II
God could fill the air with these sulphur
Gus fumes rain. fire and pour out streams
of boiling mud. il he can stir up the
waters as they We're stirred up around
the island of Martinique. how easily can
1le prepare a lake OF fire and brlmstone
for the. destruction Of sinners.
More scholars were present Sunday
morning at the Sunday-school of the
Pine-Street Baptist Church than ever be-
fore IN the history Of the congregation.
That record oe eight hundred and TWEEN
ty-two In March. 1897, was overcome by
sfxty-sewen. the attendance for Sunday
being as follows.
Senior department IVA; intermediate ue-
nartment, 42s; infant department. go.
~ Of aifhf hundred ana
eiehty-seven officers. teachers and schol-
airs present This is the largest sun
dsy-school ever assembled in the state
and perhaps in the South
childrens Day was fittingly observed
at Denny-Street NJ. e. Sunday-schooi
Sunday morning. The Sunday-schooi
room was packed to its capacity Win
the four hundred scholars OF the school,
their parents. and friends Of the school.
carefully prepared.
Two conferences Of the Catholic priests
OF the Diocese Of Virginia will be held
within the next two weeks. One will
tax. place at ST. Peters Cathedral a
week from today and Will be at
tended by all the priests in half the
diocese Those in the other half will
meet q week later in Alexandria.
At the conference at the Cathedral
H3CeCS VIII De IcdO uy tSihiiSi ny NIL,
of Roanoke; Father O'Farrell, Of Peters
burg: and rather Hanley. OF Portsmouth.
The subjects to be discussed will be
..Dormattc Theology Moral Theology
ana 1.-The Scriptures"
chiIdrcn's Day exercises We're held
Sunday in several OF the Christian
Churches OF the city. Each nsevicc was
largely attenued.
a, the seventh Street Church the exer-
csscs were held in the morning at the
Sunday-schocl hour. a contribution Of
SOS was 1n;,do for foreign missions.
DIR. W. E. Evans. Of Monumental Epis-
oopal Church. OF this city. preached the
baccalan-eate sermon Sunday for tho
Diocesan Female School at Staunton.
Tho Rev. Mr.. Gilmore. chaplain Of the
woodberry Forest School. preached here
for DR.. Evans
GIRLS CIRCLE PARTY.
Delightful Entertainment to Be Given at