The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-08
VIRGINIA BEACH
BAPTIST MECCA
FIFTH ANIMAL SUMNER ENCAMP-
1EST WILL he FORMALLY
OPENED TOMORROW
CONTINUES fen DAYS
INTERESTING AND GIVE
PROGRAMS PREPARED FOR
SYSTEM or DEPARTMENT
tai MEETINGS.
CONTINUES TEN I EN- DAYS

Virginia Beach will be the mecca
from all over the Old Dominion, for
tomorrow will mark the Inauguration
of the annual Baptist summer en-
campment. to which members of that
faith have been looking forward for
a long time.
This will be the fifth season OF the
eucampment plan. and the recent inn
provements made on the grounds for
the comfort and convenience of the
Baptist hosts viii render the outing
more attractive than before. This
year the campers will he enabled TO
use the fine new auditorium, which
has just been completes 1t viii seat
in It's present shape. about fifteen hun
dred persons and when the two
auxiliary buildings are added 1t Will
accommodate comfortably two thou$-
Z and. besides providing eight large
rooms for depart mental work during
the week and Sunday school work on
Sunday The assemblies and depart
mental meetings will be held this year
IN the new auditorium, the Baptist
church, which adJoins the encamp-
ment grounds, and other nearby as
! semhly rooms.
Ample Encampment Grounds.
I The encampment grounds have
frontage OF three hundred feet on
i Seventeenth street and run back
thousand feet to Twentieth street. al
/ lowing ample room for development.
( One Of the permanent improvements
/ In an ample summer house. Those
/ who attend these ancampments find
/ board and rooms at the hotels and cot
tagesfor the most part, though maay
of them live In the tents supplied by
the association which are furnished
at very low rates.
The encampment, which begins
I Tuesday, continues through July sth,
/ and a varied and instructive progra m,
/ divided into departments, is presented
/ for that period
( Sunday School Workers.
The training school fer sunday
school workers. OF which Rev, Joseph
I T. Watts is director, Is one of these.
I The program for this department
embraces such noted workers III the
Baptist church as Miss A l.. Williams.
! elementary specialist Of the Sunday
school board of Birmingham, Pro-
| fessor L. p LeaveIl. OF oxford, Miss.
HSiI E&StSAdI "a kAtS QUINCY @~+N>~t
| board; Professor II. f. Gaines. Of
| Richmond college. Professor J. H.
! Highsmith, Of Wake Forest college,
| y. G.. and the sunday school score
! tary ef the church, Professor h. l.
| Alddietoa, OF Raleigh, y. G
| The Baptist Young Peoples Union
| department will hear sach speakers
as Or. =. ;. G. Wallace, OF Baltimore
| DR.. r r. Ray, educational secretary
| of the foreign mission board ana
| others
The conference Of pastors will he
| held daily under the direction OF Pro-
lessor A IT. Robertson, OF the South
ern Baptist Theological seminary OF
! Louisville. Ky. and distributed
through ths weeks program will be d
| number of general platform addresses
and sermons from prominent Baptist
1 ministers, among them Or, Il. +. Naf1fi,
| OF Raleigh, \. g; Or. Edwin NJ. Po-
teat. of Greenvilie. s. c; Or. Garter
| Helm Jones, OF Oklahoma city, ana
DIR. Lincoln HUXLEY. OF DeLaAd. FIR
Women To Cooperate.
| Tho Woman's Missionary Union of
Virginia liz cooperating with the en-
campment this year and every phase
Of their work Will be presented IN
the program prepared for this or
/ ganization of which Mrs. j w Wills
is president. and Mrs. Julian r,
! Thomas director. They will hear ad-
dresses from "a number cf prominent
mission workers.
The real feature of the encamp-
| rnent Ia the chautauQua program, with
lectures by noted workers and lee
/ turers on a variety Of topics, inelud-
| Ing Illustrated lectures, series OF
1 stsreopticon views, musical programs
ana "A special lecture on the mission
| Of The cartoonist by Clifford n, Berry
| man. If Washington, illustrated with
| pencil pictures OF prominent people.
The musical program this season
| will be ia charge of the Jones Concert
| company with the assistance OF a
/ chorus choir organized especially for
I TYe euEBTTIrTTEnr, -----.-7----- 80 90
I The officers Of the encampnenf arr
| DIR. w W. Hamilton. president; Rev
I ats, of Richmond. general
| secretary; j. A. Saunders. treasurer.
| f. u Foster. recording secretary
| Frank T Grump. Of Richmond. is
! chairman of the finance COMMITTEES.
/ The association is incorporated
under the laws of Virginia and owns
the property where the encampments
| are held