The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-05-14
BAPTIST CONGRESS MOVEMENT.
Nashville is ready to Entertain the
Delegates to the Sunday-SchooI
Congress and Young Peo-
pies Chautauqua, Which
Will Meet June g.
(Stewart's Press Bureau.l

Will throw VIDE lCS doors 10 entertain
the National Sunday-School Congress
and Young Peoples Chautauqua which
will be called to order in its fourth
annual session at Mount Olive Baptist
Church, Cedar street, by Rev. G. H.
Clark, D. D. The city is all astir
making preparations for the Con-
gress Movement, as the delegations
will represent religious workers from
all over the United States. Notable
among the delegates will be found
Sunday-school specialists, mission
aries and educators, who will come
prepared to discuss topics of vital in
terest to the religious and educational
life of Baptists. Among this number
will be Rev. E. C. Morris, D. D., of
Helena, Ark, who for fourteen years
has been president of the National Bap-
fist Convention, which is the largest
religious organization in the United
States; Rev. G. H. Parrish, d. D.,
President of Eckstein Norton Univer-
sity, Cane Springs, KY, and Chairman
of the Foreign Mission Board; Rev.
H. T. Musselman, Superintendent of
the Teacher-Fraining Course of the
American Baptist Publication Society,
with headquarters at Philadelphia;
Revs. ]. T. Thomas and E. ]. Fisher,
of Chicago, ILL.,; Revs. w. Bishop John
son. d. D., and Geo. Washington Lee,
D. D., of the District of Columbia;
Rev. c. T. Walker, D. d., Augusta,
Ga; Revs. B. j.. Prince and ]. w.
Bailey, of Cleveland, Ohio; Rev. Err
nest Hall, of Bloomington, Ill. These
are but a few of the number Of di-
vines and specialists who will be in
attendance during the six days ses-
sion.
The special feature of the Congress
will be-: First day, the meeting of the
National Program Committee, which
was called by President Morris and
Prof. Hudson, the Congress session
proper converting at noon
The Great Missionary Conference,
under the supervision of Rev. VIM.
Beckham, D. D., Field Secretary of
the National Convention, will open on
the second day with the home mis-
sionaries who are at work in the va
rious states.
The Educators Conference, in
which college presidents and repre-
sentatives from educational institu-
tons representing fifty-two denomina-
tional schools, will hold daily sessions.
The departmental meetings of the
Congress will be divided up as fol
lows: superintendent, advanced
teachers, intermediate and primary
grades. Each of these departmental
meetings will have special lectures.
Rev. N. H. Plus, d. D., of Spring.
field, Ohio, the National Chorister,
will have charge of the music. A
chorus of n hundred voices will
sing during the sessions. morning
and night. DR.. Plus will reach the
city about May 81 to select and pre-
pare his chorus.
Among those who VIII address the
conference on special topics is the
Right Rev. Bishop Geo. w. Clinton,
OF Charlotte, N. c., of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,
who will speak on Shall we a v the
boys or reform the men-which is
easier and better?" There will be
new subjects on the program each
day, as there are thirty-six impor.
tant themes to come before the Con,
gress. Already hundreds of letters
have been received at headquarters
asking for homes, and many are Sc
lecting subjects upon which they will
write.