Richmond planet., 1910-05-07

doing so much to hello the race that
they ought 20 do something for them
selves; consequently in this conven-
tion you find a great body of the
strongest men OF the country both
clergy and laymen. AS for the church
es, many Of the strongest churches
belong to this body, and in such cities
as Salem, Roanoke, Bedford City.
Lynchburg, Danville. Newport News.
Williamsburg. Suffolk, East Radford,
Clifton Forge, Martinsville and Staun-
ton and Petersburg, every church
with a very few exceptions belongs
TO the Virginia Baptist state Con-
vention. IN Norfolk the First Bap-
tist Church with twenty-five hundred
members. the finest church building
among the Negroes in the South, DR..
df. II. Bowling, pastor, the First Bap-
tist Church, Berkeley, the Shiloh Bap-l
tist Church and several others are
members of the convention. The great
Queen Street Baptist Church, OF
Hampton is a leading factor in the
convention. In Richmond the Fifth
Street Baptist. the New Baptist, the
Mt Vernon. Zion Baptist. Washington
Ward. Second Baptist. Washington
Ward, all belong to the Virginia Bsp-
City, Vermont Avenue Baptist Church
over which the late DR.. George w.
Lee presided. Second Baptist Church.
DR.. Bishop Johnson, pastor. Shiloh
Baptist Church DR.. ]. Milton Wal
dron, pastor, the Friendship Baptist
Church. DR.. a. Wilbanks, pastor, Mt.
Airy Baptist Church, DR.. Tyler, pas.
tor, Holy Trinity Baptist Church, DR..
J. Anderson Taylor. pastor, are all
members of the Virginia Baptist State
Convention. and we have IL from the
lips OF DR.. Walter II. Brooks that
the great Nineteenth Street Baptist
Church. OF Washington. ID. c., has
voted 10 cast its lot this year with
the Baptist State Convention, there
fore. let all the state and all the
North. turn their faces toward Suf-
folk. Va. next Wednesday morning.
May nth.
From the 18th 10 the SOth OF May
the great National Baptist sunday
, School Congress meets in Atlanta,
Ca. This is one of the grandest bodies
OF young people I'm all the country.
1t is expected that there will be no
less than three thousand delegates
from the various states attending this
, mighty body OF Sunday School work.
ers. DR.. r. II. Boyd the founder and
. Secretary Of our great publishing
. house at Nashville, Tenn, is the prin.
, ciple promoter Of the Congress. He
is anxious that Virginia and the
, Northeastern states be well repre-
sented. The Negro Baptists OF this
country feel proud OF DR.. Boyd, be-
cause he has given us a publishing
house which is now worth S35O.OOO.-
90, with a debt OF only $I1,OOO.OO.
Our publishing house is supplying
over fifteen thousand Negro Baptist
Sunday Schools, and the children OF
! the great National Baptist Convention
are not ashamed to read the literature
prepared by members Of their own
race. neither are they discouraged in
doing so by men who draw all their
salary from Negro concerns. The
publishing house, along with the
Home Mission Board. is in co-opera-
tive missionary work throughout the
southland. and the Panama canal, so
| that, hundreds OF destitute fields hear
the gospel through the agency of the
| Negro Baptist young folks. Virginia,
and Richmond especially, should rise
TO the strength OF her power I'm the
support of all Negro concerns. The
.NNSAO boJNibNS Suouiu lall IN line ana
| help support a publishing house that
is actually giving employment TO two
| hundred young ladies and men as
clerks, stenographers, secretaries,
boOk-keepers. book-binders, type-set-
ters, cashiers. etc. The cry now is "On
20 Atlanta, Georgia. for the Sunday
| School Congress.
w f GRAHAM