The Detroit times., 1911-04-10
REV. BLACK HEADS
. PASTORS UNION
Ministers, Besides Electing Officers
Support Prohibition Bill and Take
Up Street Preaching.

President-The Rev. J. L.
Black. OF the Bethany Presbyter-
ian church.
-President-The Rev. j.
Percival Huget, of the First Con-
gregational church.
Secretary y-Treasurer-The Rev.
Francis B. Cutler, OF She Four
teenth-Ave. Baptist church.
The foregoing officers were elected
by the Pastors union for the ensuing
year In the regular monthly meeting
in the Y. NJ. c. A. building, Monday
morning President NJ. p. Fixes, In
retiring, thanked the members for the
courtesies extended to him during the
past year. The new officers were
elected unanimously.
The union, after listening TO an ap'
peal from Mrs. L. T. Field, OF Ann
Arbor, representing the w. G. t. u,
Of Michigan, passed q resolution re-
questing the Michigan legislature TO
pass favorably on the bill OF Rep.
Henry 4. Straight, OF Coldwater,
Mich, for the prevention Of the manu-
facture and sale OF intoxicating
liquors in Michigan.
Mrs. Field, commented facetiously
on the name OF the representative
who Is fathering the statewide pro-
hibition bill and the town from which
he comes. She declared that she be-
lieved the state was ready for con-
plete prohibition, and pointed out that
the w. c. T. U. was and had been
doing all II possibly could to make
the state dry" In the past year her
organization had contributed $2,S34.25
towards the cause OF local option, she
said. She also stated that the w. e
T. ". had gained 1000 members In the
past few years.
Tracy McGregor, of the McGregor
mission, spoke on the proposed plan
of street preaching in Detroit this
summer. He was heartily In favor OF
1t. President Fixes indorsed it, say
ing he had been thinking seriously OF
trying 1t himself, by speaking from
an automobile at Belle Isle on Sun
day afternoons.
VIM. Rice, secretary OF the religious
work department Of the McGregor
mission, also spoke In favor OF the
project He said the religious work
ers had "got tired training popguns on
the DEVILS battery, and thought II
was about time some OF the heavy
artillery from the Woodward-ave.
churches was being brought into ser
vice."
The Rev. ]. ID. Jeffrey favored street
preaching, saying 1t would do the min
listers good, IL not the people.
The Rev. Marcus Scott told OF sue
cess which had attended street
preaching, conducted by himself in
Detroit a few years ago. He said that
outside preaching was harder than in
side, but was sometimes more agree
able because the air was purer on the
outside; also preacher on the out
side had to make himself interesting
as his audience could easily move
away.
President Fixes was directed to APP
point committee OF five to arrange
for the street meeting.
The Rev Eugene r. Antrim, of the
North Woodward Methodist church,
speaking for the Methodist Ministers
association, requested the union to
pass a resolution directing the author
tiles of the different hospitals to learn
the faith of their patients, so that the
clergy Of the city could minister to
them. The suggestion was adopted.
The union decided to hold its May
meeting on the third Monday, instead
OF the second, so that the members
could hear Wilbur f. Crafts. superin-
tendent of the National Reform bu-
reau, Washington, d. c. He prom.
ised to speak before the union If the
date were changed.