The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-01-26
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
TO BE HELD AT TUSKE-
Gil B INSTITUTE
In APRIL.
WillStudy Condition
of Negro.
All the Leading Missionary Boards
In America will be Represented
Able Men and Women will
Discuss the Matter as they
Understand 1t.


number of acceptances of invitations
to he present at the International
Conference on the Negro to be held
at Tuskegee Institute, April 18th,
18th and 10Th, indicate that this is
going to be most successful gather
ing.
ALI the important missionary socie-
ties in the United States and many
societies in foreign countries will be
represented, such as: The American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions; Board Of Foreign Missions
of the Presbyterian Church; the Bap-
fist Missionary Society; the Central
Board of Missions of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church, the Seventh
Day Baptist Missionary Society; the
Board of Home Missions of the Pres
byterian Church in the U. S. A.;
Woman's Home Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
the American Woman's Baptist Home
Mission Society; the Board of For
eign Missions of the General Synod
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
of the U. S. A.; the Woman's Board
of Home Missions, Presbyterian
Church, L. S. A.; the Woman's
Board Of Missions Of the Interior;
the Woman's Board of Missions
of the Canadian Congregational
Chu; Oh; the Regions beyond Mission
airy Union with headquarters in
London, England, will be represented
by one of its secretaries; the Sven
ska Missions for bundets Expedition
of Stockholm, Sweden; the Evan
gelical Missionary Society of Ger
man East Africa, will be represent
ed by the President, Herr, E. V. Jo-
hansen, Bielefeld, Germany.
The Venezuelan Government will
have a representative at the Confer
ence. Jamaica, Porto Riea the Dan
ish West Indies and other West In
dian Islands will be represented. Mr..
Samuel d. Bawden, Manager of the
Industrial Experiment Station, On
COLE Gunta District, India, has signi-
fed his intention of being present.
Africa is going to be largely repre-
scented. Among those who will dis
cuss conditions on that continent are
DR.. Ernest Lyon, Counsel General Of
the Republic Of Liberia to the United
States; DIR. Roland P. Falkner, Chair
man of the late American Commits
sion to Liberia, the Hon F. e. R.
Johnson, Secretary of State, Mon
rovia, Liberia; the Hon. S. G.. Har-
mon, Vice-President of the Republic
of Liberia; Rev. Isaiah Coda Sis
huba, President Ethiopian Church,
Queenstown, South Africa; Rev.
Henry Reid, Secretary of the Ethio-
plan Church, johannesburg, South
Africa; Mr.. William c. Terril, Sup
erintendent Inhambane District, Meth
odist Episcopal Church, Portuguese,
East Africa; Mr. o. H. Scouten, Mis-
sionary, Lumbwa Industrial Mission,
Lumbwa, British East Africa, and
Mr.. w. H. Plant Kingston, Jamaica,
Headmaster of the Titchfield School,
Other persons who will present pa
pers to the Conference are: Rev.
Mark G. Hayford, native worker
from the Gold Coast Of Africa, whose
subject will be Educational Con
ditions on the Gold Coast of Africa"
DR.. w. w. Shepherd, Twenty Years
with the Bakuba and Baluba and
Zap-po-Zap Cannibals in Central
Africa" Mr. e. D. Morel, London,
England, Editor Of the African Mail
and Secretary OF the Congo Reform
Association, the Rt, Rev, I. Olnwole,
Lagos; Southen Nige, ia, West Africa,
"The Missionary and Trader in Re
lation to the Native;" the Rt, Rev.
w Edmund Smyth, Bishop of Lee
bombo, Southeast Africa, "The De-
lights of Real Heathenism."
In addition to the above the Inter
national Conference has provoked
wide discussion throughout the coun-
try and promises to be of incaucula-
BILE service in helping forward the
cause of the native in Africa and the
man o. African descent wherever he
may be found.