The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-28
BAPTISTS PLANNING
 GREAT ENCAMPMENT
Speakers of National Fame
 Coming to East Lake
BAND HAS BEEN ENGAGED
Howard College Will In a Measure Act as Host, and the Arrangements Are Being Made on Very
 Extensive Scale.

The eneampment to be held at East Lake from June to b by the Baptists of Alabama will without doubt be one of the most interesting, instructive and largely attended gatherings of it's kind ever held in the state. East Lake was chosen as the place for the meeting be- cause access will readily be had to Bir- mingham and Howard college. a Baptist institution which will in sense act as the host of the occasion.
 hospitable reception is being pre- pared by Dr. Montague and the faculty of the college. The programme has been arranged to include speakers in whom the general public will have much inter- est Many of them are famous lecturers and pulpit orators. w. B. Spillman the Sunday school specialist of the Nashville board will deliver his five lectures on the theme Enlargement" "The En largement of our Ideals" "The Enlarge ment of Our Teaching Foree,p "En- largement of the Numbers" Enlarge ment From the Outside" Enlargement in Alabama" L. P. Leavell Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. specialist of the Nashville board will give five lectures on the Improved B. Y. P. U. Methods Prof. w. J. McGlothin. professor of church history in the Southern Baptist Theological seminary, will appear five times with the general subject of 'The Expansion of Christianity"
 Prof. A. T. Robertson, professor of New Testament interpretation of the South ern Baptist Theological seminary, will speak daily. His series of eight lectures will be on the Gospel of St. John. Prof. Shuiler Matthews, dean of the divinity school of Chicago university and pro- lessor of interbiblcal and New Testa- ment history, will deliver a series of five lectures uon some phase of his spec ialty pr T. T. Easton, editor of the Western Recorder of Louisville. will give two lectures on Christian Science and "Egotisn." The Rev. M. Ashby Jones, D. D.. of Columbus, Ga. will speak on one of two subj ects, "fhe Claim of the Classics, or the Art of Life" The Rev. B. D. Gray of the home mission board, and former pastor for many years of the First Baptist church of this city, will speak twice on Home Missions in the Light of the Souths Marvellous Pro- gress."
 Tn addition to the speakers mentioned nine Alabamians will be heard The speak V. Rev. B. " Bomar, D. D.. Marion; Rev. C.. l.. Yates, New Decatur; Rev. J. l.. Rosser, Selma; Rev. w. M. Blackwelder, D. D., Greenville; Rev. R. S. Gavin, Huntsville; Rev. J. G. Dickinson Gads- den; Rev. Charles A. Stakeley, D. D. Montgomery, and Rev. W. B. Crumpton, D. D., Montgomery. About these nine addresses the entire programme will be made to revolve.
 The Rev R. J. Willingham of the for eign mission board will give two hours upon Foreign Missions in the Light of Progress and Opportunity in Foreign Lands" Ralph Bingham, the humorlst of national fame will be, heard several times The Vanderbilt quartette, which had remarkable success on it's southern tours, and which will most probably make a European tour after singing here, will visit the encampment for five or six days to give concerts.
 The committee expects to be able to arrange for former Gov. w. ]. Northen of Atlanta to speak on "Co-operation in the Solution of the Negro Question" and Col. T. G. Bush on the subject "The Ap plication of Christianity to Modern In- dustrialism."
 Not only will these lectures be given but band will be engaged to give open air concerts each afternoon The tennis courts will be put in shape and placed at the disposal of the guests of the en- campment and many trips will be planned for visits to points in and around Birmingham.
 The committee wishes to extend a cor dial invitation to every Baptist church, Sunday school and Baptist Young Peo- ple's union in Alabama to attend the en- campment