Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-19
Plea for Congregational
Effort for Negroes.
Many Other Subjects Discuss
ed al Convention.
Resolutions on Deaths Of Sen. DOL
liver and Julia Ward Howe.

Boston, Oct. 1S-There were inter-
esting addresses relating to four i'm
portant departments of the Congre-
gational denomination to close today's
sessions of the triennial conference or
the National Council Of Congregational
Churches. The work of the Con-
gragatiOnal Education Society was
considered in AN address by Kew.
Charles H. Beale of Milwaukee. Wis,
who spoke upon Training for Leader
ship He pleaded for a greater
domination of mans physical nature
br the moral and spiritual side. Along
the line of ministerial relief Rev. ,.
Fl. Woodrow of Washington, D. e.,
spoke upon pensions for Our Vet
erans," while the Congregational Sun
day school and Publishing Society De-
partment was considered in an ad-
dress upon "New Vantage Ground for
Religious Education" by Rev. +. ).
Ven Horn of Seattle, Washington.
The final address of the Vening had
to do with the Church Building So
cjety in which Rev. Rockwell H. Por-
ter of Hartford, Conn.,, dwelt upon the
meeting house and her children. TIE
triennial report of the Congregational
Church Building Society presented by
Secretary Charles H. Richards, showed
the receipts for the three years
amounted to 1927 1892, a gain of s3S,H9
over the previous triennium.
At it's business session the national
council adopted resolutions on the
deaths of Senator ]. P. Dolliver OF
Iowa and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe OF
Boston. The meeting of the Board
of Ministerial Relief developed
warm debate.
The afternoon was given over to
the meetings of the Congregational
Church Building Society and the Con-
sregational Education Society. "Out
of an experience of is years in the
heart of the South, I do not hesitate
to say that we Congregationalists have
done more toward the real solution
of the race problem than all other
denominations put together SAID
DR.. H. H. Proctor of Atlanta. Ga.
But now it is time to take for
ward step by establishing for the
colored people institutional churches
in the leading Southern cities. Danger
points in Southern civilization are in
the cues. Inc uHulSclDliIlcu ftisA
intlammable elements of both races
are rushing all TOO rapidly to the
civic centers and the tide cannot be
turned back. The most effective REM
edy for the situation is the institu-
tional church.
lone condition in the case is the
abolition of the saloon in the South
This is the victory of the church
But the saloon was the only social
resort of the black man. Now that
it is closed he is either in the street
or in the secret dive. I propose the
open church as a substitute.
Another reason for the movement
is the inadequacy of public facilities
for the colored race in view of the
stringency of the color line. By put
ing under the roof of the church the
facilities denied the colored people
by the color line. we should meet a
real need.
Another consideration is the inef-
Efficiency of the old-time churches
among the colored people. The insti-
tutional church is the dynamo that
will transmit the religious sentiment
into practical Christian service 1t
could utilize the young people we are
educating whom the old-line churches
are not reaching"