The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-26
DAPTISTS TO MEET
ANNIVERSARIES WILL BE
HELD IN CAMDEN.
Two Newark Pastors Will Make Ad.
dresses at Seventy-eighth Annual
Convention Tuesday.

The New Jersey State Baptist ami
%versaries will be held in Trinity
Church, Camden, Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday, and many Baptist
workers in this city and suburbs will
TAKE part.
The first session, Monday afternoon,
will be the annual ministers confer
ence, the program for which is in
charge of the Rev. Judson Conklin,
pastor of the Clinton Avenue Church,
Trenton. Monday night will be given
yer to a rally of the Baptist Young
Peoples Missionary Society, of which
the Rev. William M. Barker. of the
Baptist Church. Bergen Point, is chair
man.
Tuesday will be the important day,
when the seventy-eighth annual meet
ing of the New Jersey Baptist onven
ton will be held. The morning will be
taken up with the reading of reports,
One of the first will be the necrolog-
ical. Among the Baptist ministers who
have died during the year were the
Rev. George A. Sowell, of Palmyra,
and the Rev. Henry C. Cordo, of Had
donfield. The Rev. Delavan DeWolf,
corresponding secretary of the v
ton, will give his report. as will David
G. Garrabrant, of Bloomfield, the
treasurer.
The Rev. w. Il. S. Lumbar. of the
Mt. Pleasant Church, this city, chair
man of the committee on denomina-
tional interests, will read a paper on
UNCONVENTIONAL Interests in the
State"
In the afternoon there will be three
addresses, each of which will be fol-
lowed by a discussion. The Rev.
Charles J.. Keevil, of the First Church,
Trenton, will speak on THE Mace
DOMAIN Call of the Home Foreigners"
the Rev. j. OBJ. Lowry, of the First
Church, Atlantic City, will treat the
topic, "Our Greatest Missionary Prob
lem-Finances," and the Rev. DIR.
Thomas J. Villers. of the Peddie Me-
mortal Baptist Church, this city, will
give a discourse on "Our Greatest
Work-Winning Men, A Baptist
clergyman Of national reputation will
address the night session, n there
will be short talks by pastors of some
of the fifty-six churches and missions
in the State that are receiving aid from
the convention.
The New Jersey Baptist Educational
Society will be in session "Wednesday,
and the Rev. DIR. o. p. Caches, OF
Hightstown. the president, is arranging
the program. There will be reports
by the treasurer, the Rev. DR.. l.. b.
Hartman, of Trenton; by the secretary,
the Rev. Frank A. Smith, of Haddon-
field. There are a number of questions
to come up regarding the future of the
two Baptist educational institutions in
the State-the Peddie Institute, which,
through the populations of Samuel b.
Hulse, former treasurer of the endow-
ment fund, has suffered a heavy t1nan-
cial loss. and the South Jersey Insti-
tute, at Bridgeton, which had closed UP
altogether. After having been in opera
ton thirty-seven years, this school had
such a small attendance and a so far
short of meeting expenses that 1t was
decided it had outlived its usefulness.
The closing function will be hello
Wednesday night, and 1t will be Tho
annual banquet of the Baptist Soelal
Union. Francis w. Aver, president oil
the MO is making the arrangements.
There will be a prominent speaker al
the dinner, to be announced later. Or
lcers will be elected for each of the
associations.
The total church membership In the
Baptist denomination in this State, ac-
cording to the last official report, is
1924, which is an increase of 1,SSq
over the previous year. There are 352
churches, an increase of twelve. The
church property is valued at $5,1S3,4oO,
which is s226, $50 more than the year
before. These buildings have a seating
capacity of 1888, $50. There are 44,SS4
pupils in the Sunday schools, being a
gain of 2,759. The number of Sunday
schools is 339, and the number of Off
GERS and teachers 5,674, this being 100
more than the previous year.