The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-02-21
BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL CON.
GRESS AND B. Y.P. U.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES WILL BE
HELD IN JUNE-ALL OF THE
BIG CITIES IN THE SOUTH
WERE BIDDING FOR MEETING
LARGE REPRESENTATION Elk.
PECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN
THE EXERCISES.

Nashville, Tenn.-The city of Jack
sonville, Fla. has captured the next
National Baptist Sunday-School Con-
gress and Young Peoples Chautau-
qua This announcement was made
by the National Baptist Publishing
Board, the National Baptist Young
Peoples Union Board and the Home
Mission Board of the National Baptist
Convention, through their secretaries
in this city to-day.
There had been quite a contest as to
where the 1908 session Of this impor-
tant Sunday-school and Young Peo-
pies Union movement would be held
Many of the leading cities in the
South through their representatives,
had made application for this coming
UNCONVENTIONAL meeting Such cities
ais Galveston, Tex, Muskogee, Okla,
Little Rock, Ark, Atlanta, Ca, Bir-
mingham, Ala, Memphis. Tenn, Sa-
vannah, Ca, and Charleston, S. c.,
were in the race with Jacksonville;
but the majority of the requests and
the fact Of Jacksonville's important
location caused the boards to give
Florida's metropolis the Congress for
1908.
The announcement is made to-day
that the facts have already been com
municated to the officials of the Flor
ida Baptist Sunday-School Conven
ton, the Florida State Baptist Con
vention and to the pastor. officers ant
members of the Bethel Institutional
Church at Jacksonville, who had is
sued special invitations to the man
agement of the Congress to holC
their sessions with them.
Drs. Isaac, Boyd and Clark stat
that they had received two telegram
from Jacksonville while the Congress
was in session in New Orleans las
June asking that the next session
be held with them, but no answe
could be given them. Another urgen
request and a petition was sent by tn
state to the National Convention a
Washington, which could not be re
piled to, so to-day the announcement
is made.
The meeting will convene on Wee
Desdav June "a and continue throug
until Monday. June 20. The session
are to he held with the Bethel RaDtis
Institutional Church in the city {
Jacksonville, of which Rev John 7
Ford D. D.. is pastor This is n
doubt one Of the most costlv churchc
owned bv the Bapffsts in the Unite
States The church cost in the neig'
sborhood of 100000 and is well cap
bic of entertaining this young pc
pies movement.
These annual Sundav-SchOol ar
YOUNG Peoples MEETINGS are Gale
lated to do untold good for the rae
The fact that the meeting goes
Jacksonville. which is the largest CT
in the State of Florida. hrines to mil
that this movement had its birth
Nashville in 1906. The first sessic
was held At the Spruce Street Banti
church. It was largely attende
Nashville got an onrortunitv to she
inst what she could do towards entc
tanning national Orga niZatiOrs TT
nromoters Of the Sundav-Sch"nI Cc
eress are honeful of having the 10
session held in some Tennessee Gil
This. Of couree denends unon he ;
tivitv Of the reor1e. Rev. mr.. Ford
irhilant over the fact that the rnoot'
cor.es tn his church He has noSt0r
On long in the for West until siroo
has been rastorino in Florida. no
not know Just how enthusiast'" Il
neorle were along racial and demo
national lines.