Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-19

j. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, Editor,
Office:
1915 +. Broad St. Richmond. Va.
| The Fifth Street Baptist Church
held fine services Sunday. The Pastor
preached an extraordinary sermon
Sunday morning. and about as well
Sunday night. Giving his flock hne
advice. The choir initiated the same
| spirit along it's line of service and
has put on an extra touch. Miss Rosa
| B. Johnson, Miss Pearl Smith and
! Mr.. James Walls. charmed the con-
| gregation with a sweet trio and Miss
| Louise Scott delighted them with
| fine solo. One and all sung sweetly.
The Sunday-school is still moving
| on. Supt Prof. b. n. Peyton. is un-
| firing i'm his effort 90 bring the sun
| day-school upon "a still higher plane.
| He believes there is always room for
| Improvement along all lines. One of
his mOttos is Come. YOU are wei
| come" The services in the Sunday
school are interesting and instructive.
The attendance last Sunday was large
and everything encouraging and
points TO greater success.
The b. Y. p. L. will meet every
| Friday night at S O'Clock. Let all the
members come out Our President,
John W. Howard. together with other
| members. is doing all ne can TO make
| these meetings pleasant and lovely.
/ Come ont and spend an hour famil-
| iarizing yourself with the scriptures.
IL will be OF great benefit In future
years.
The Usher Board, Of Fifth Street
! Baptist Church, Is well organized.
| They held q well attended meeting
| with their Chairman. j. h. Holmes.
presiding, and J Edward shell,
| Secretary, looking forward 20 the an
I niversary OF the church. They are
! always found in the front rank do
| ing whatever they can for the benefit
/ of the church. They have secured the
! services OF Rev. Dr. ID. Webster Da-
| Wis TO lecture on Monday night.
| Mach "a, 1910. Subject, "Fitz and
4 Miss Fitz' for the benefit OF the
! church. Admission ten cents. See full
! program later. Don't forget the date,
! Monday night. March IA. 1910, at
Fifth Street Baptist Church.
|
| The prayer service is stin grow
ing and becoming more and more in
| teresting, each Wednesday night. We
pray the time is not far distant
/ when every member will interest
himself more about the prayer ser
! vice and come out every Wednesday
night. Remember that prayer is the
| key to heaven; and faith, prayer,
! charity and obedience 20 God will
conquer all things.
The National Baptist Sunday
| school Union, held memorial exer-
| cises, Sunday February 13, 1910, at
$3.50 o'clock, at Zion Baptist Church,
Manchester, Va. Pres. b. H. Peyton.
presiding. The following program
was well rendered:
Devotional, conducted by Rev. 4.
II. Gallop; Song Union, Shall we
meet beyond the river; Stephen, as
a Supt. Dora B. Glenn; Stephen, as q
| Sunday-schoOl worker in general, Mr..
| A. w cambridge; stephen, as an ad
| vocate OF National Literature, Mr..
V. l.. Hawkins; Solo, Mr.. Joseph
Matthews, THE Gospel Train;
stephen. as a missionary, Mr. r. II.
| Fauntleroy. Remarks by Rev Gal
lop and Dea. Bibbs. Solo. Mrs. Char
lotte Taylor. We shall meet beyond
the river"
The pastor reported DR.. George w.
Lees funeral largely attended. Two
hundred and fifty preachers were
present and the people fiocked TO the
church. by tens OF thousands. The
funeral was ably preached by DR..
Norman, OF the Metropolitan Baptist
Church, assisted by Drs. Walter II.
Brooks, w. b. Johnson and others. |
The Richmond Baptist Conference
was represented by a committee OF
seven The pastor read the resolu-
tions from the conference Dr. z. d. |
Lewis assisted in the divine services. |
Our church is all alive looking to |
its Thirtieth Anniversary. A warm
and interesting meeting was held by
the Deacon Board and other officers
last Monday night, to make recon-
mendations for the anniversary. A
report OF this meeting will be made
tomorrow morning Let every men, |
ber be present.
The pastor will preach tomorrow
morning on Justification, at p. |
M. ''The Hand Writing on theSwall",
at night THE Guiding STAR.
No church in our city can boast
of more talent among It's young peo-
pie than ours. Great numbers OF
them are graduates from some Of the