The Washington bee., 1907-07-06

Rev J. NJ Young, to continued ap-
plause. The event of the morning,
however, was the welcome address on
behalf of the State, by Rev L. c. Simon,
DID,, of Opelousas, La. Rev. Simon is
pure type of the American Negro.
! He has a wonderful control of his voice
and electrified the audience with some
beautiful sayings Rev Simon said: In
/ bidding you welcome to this State,
would not forget to remind you that
the white folks run this State, all of
the officers from governor down to jailer
are white folks; however, we thank God
that in the running Of our churches, our
schools. our stores, our farms-in fact
our everything, we are not mOlested nor
burlesqued. We can do anything we
want in this State except a few things
that the white folks have reserved unto
and for themselves. These things we
must not touch nor eat for ''the day yeI
eat thereof ye shall surely die So in
bidding you welcome we do so to the
things that are ours. If you go beyond
that then we give you up into the
hands of the good Lord. bid you
welcome because I know that the people
of New Orleans, both white and black,
will treat you grand and make it pleas
ant for you"
The responses to the welcome ad-
dresses were equally entertaining. They
were made by H.A.Boyd and E. w. D.
Isaacs of Nashville. Rev. DR.. Isaacs
said that it looked as though God had
made this a Baptist world as there was
| three-fOurths more water than land.
After the opening exercises the topics
| for discussion were taken up in order.
| The first was THE Sunday School
Home Department and How to Conduct
It." A paper on this was read by Rev.
S, NJ. Fisher, DID, of Mobile, Ala,
while Revs. H. NJ Williams, DID, Of
Galveston, Texas, and Prof. R B. -,
of Selma, Ala, and Rev. J. R. Thomas,
of Chicago, ILL.,, joine din the discussion.
The next topic for discussion was "The
Work of the Home Mission Board and
Home Fields" This subject was taken
up at the informal session yesterday
but was not completed, so Rev. William
Gray of Chicago and Rev. J. B. Green
of Louisiana, with Rev. F. w. Lancaster
of Florida were assigned to continue the
discussion which was exhausted at The
morning session.
Mrs J. L. Burrell introduced at the
morning session Mrs. R. H. Boyd, whom
DR.. E. w. D. Isaacs had declared IL
responding to his welcome address, a!
the power behind the throne and that tC
her was due much of the credit for DR.
Boyd's success at the Publishing BoarC
at Nashville. The meeting adjourned
:, until 2.3o P. NJ.
The afternoon session of the Con
8 gress opened with devotions led by J
: L. Frazier and J. w. I. Cunningham
4 of Alabama. The subject in the after
= noon was The Ancient Bible Sabbatl
-. and Its Work in New Testament Times,
:, by Rev. William Hicks, B.A, DID, o
. Gibsland, La Rev. Hicks has the dis
. tinction of being one Of the best theo
6 logical scholars in the young ministry
His paper prepared on this subject wa
mastery effort. Many prominer
speakers discussed his subject after tn
papere was read.
The night session was devoted to reg
n ular church services. An able sermo
10 was delivered by Rev. J. F. Thomas c
n Chicago, Ill. The choir of IS wei
IL trained voices with the congregation
l. singing was an enjoyable feature of til
as Congress. The news of the harmonizir
is IF the differences between the two n
! gro Baptist State Conventions, confirm
ing the report of the consolidation, VIZ
brought by the Louisiana delegation tn
morning, which came down to the Coz
h gress In this delegation were Revs.
re H. Henderson and r. B. Green c
f Shreveport, La, William Johnson,
is Allen, Jr., H. B. n. Brown, John Mark
rs c H. Sims, R. D. Spikes, A. Hubbs an
to J. L. Burrell. Other later arrivals wei
lg H. NJ. Williams of Texas, F. W. Lar
caster of Florida, R, B. Hudson an
Miss Gibbs of Alabama. The session
- will open every morning at ten. Thel
in will be regularly prepared sermons eaC
oil night with special literary progra
ne for Saturday night
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