The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-04-02


There has been no day in Nashville
for many months that has caused a
greater outpour of people connected
with any one Order, society or organi-
cation than did the thanksgiving SER
mon and rally commemorating the
forty-fifth annual thanksgiving day of
the Knights of Pythias of Nashville
The managers or the leading Pythians
of the city saw beforehand that 1T
would be impossible to have this vast
number of brave men and lovely wom-
en- connected with the lodges and
courts get into any one church to
hear a thanksgiving sermon and par
ticipate in an annual rally which was
in the nature of the thank offering,
the proceeds of which are to go to the
Pythian Temple, the magnificent prop
erty at the corner of Capital avenue
and Fifth avenue, North. The Off
GERS of the various odges readily
saw, as others have seen, that Nash
vile is suffering for an auditorium
where Negroes can have these large
gatherings, because they selected two
of the most spacious churches for
this occasion. The lodges and courts
were divided into halves, the first part
going to Mt. Olive Baptist Church, the
other half to st. John A. M. e. Church
A missionary Baptist minister, in the
person of Rev. T. j. Townsend, D. D..
preached the sermon at the ST. John
A. NJ E. Church, while an African
Methodist Episcopal minister preached
the sermon at the Mt Olive Baptist
Church. These two churches are in
close proximity to each other and fol
an entire block one solid mass OF
surging humanity lined Cedar street
unable to gain admittance to either
church. The program gave an exact
order of what would take place al
each church. The friends of the
Order were allowed their preference
and the result was a tremendous out
pour of people. 1t is estimated thai
the two churces had about five thou
sand peovle within their walls.
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AT MT. OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH.
Under the command of Mai. Bow
man, Captain Robert Gee, Lieutenant!
Hall, Duff and Kelly, of the Uniform
Rank, No. 5, knights of Pythias, the Mt
Olive department of lodges and courts
marched up Cedar street, over Capt.
tol hill and to the church It wa
soon apparent that the entire middl,
tier of pews would be taken up b!
the Knights and that the members o
the Courts of Calanthe would TAX
one half of the side tier and the tw,
amen-corners while the Grand Off
GERS and officers of the local lodge
and the clergy on the program woult
occupy the pulpit There were 81
many who gained admittance that tn
ushers were compelled to bring bench
es out of the basement in order t,
accommodate the scores standing il
the aisles The program was late il
starting on account of the tardines
of the Pythians in arriving but a
2;25 the choir sang an anthem an,
Sir Knight ]. Thomas Turner CAV
three raps of the gavel on the pulpi
and the vast audience was silent H
introduced Sir Knight ]. A. o. Brougt
ton, Master of Ceremonies, who rea
the forty-fifth annual thanksgivin
proclamation effective in the jurisdic
tion of Tennessee, city of Nashville
Another anthem by the choir and the
invocation by Rev. Henry A. Boyt
The ode was beautifully sung by tn
the audience, who Joined in afte
Pythians began the singing. TIL