The Denver star., 1914-10-10
Western Baptist Divine
Makes Important
Observations.
Continued from page ~

Revolutionary period. This, you re-
member, was the first capital of the
nation, where is still standing old
Liberty Hall, Liberty Bell, the home
of Paul REVERE, the home in which
the American flag had its birth, with
numerous other places Of interest
which call us into the immediate
presence of the Revolution. Here we
may see the room, with all its fur
nishings, where the Fathers framed
and signed the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. The home of William Penn,
of Betsy Ross, the hall of the first
with the rising sum-" have never
lost their historical interest.
During our stay in the Convention
al city our welfare was looked after
by Dr. Ebert w. Moore of the Zion
Baptist Church, who installed us with
in one of the most pleasant and COM
Portable homes in his parish, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bishop Mitchell, on North Cam
ac ST. DR.. Moore, who was my prede-
cessor in the pastorate of Zion
church in this city, is without doubt
the most influential negro minister
in Philadelphia, and Zion church, un-
der his leadership is one of the lead
| ing churches.
Philadelphia has the strongest
corps of Negro churches of any city
in the North, while the coloref people
in other branches of endeavor a.l6 IN
| dustry, to use common phraze, are
| making good" A growing bank un-
der the presidency of ex-congressman
White is an index to the thrift and
industry of the people. Here, also,
the National Benefit Association of
Washington, mentioned above, has
just erected magnificent office
building, where it has opened extern
sive branch offices of the Association.
The Provident and Douglass hospitals
here are as elegantly and handsome
ly furnished as any you would find
in our city, while the operating room
of the latter institution is the envy
of even Philadelphia hospitals.
have not the time or space to mention
in detail the numerous other relig-
ious, fraternal and industrial institu-
tions every one of which is credit
to the. city, but will conclude with ref
erence to Downingtown Training
School, under Dr. w. A. Credit, which
is doing magnificent work in train
ing Negro youth.
[ Shall not be able to speak of the
work of the National Baptist Con-
| vention, other than to mention the
usual multtudes with their eIathusi-
asm, reporting constituency o. near
ly three millions and enrolling IT that
meeting delegates from AfriclA the
Philippines. Cuba, Panama, Canada
and the United States. Almost the
entire official staff was reelected.
including myself as one of the vice
presidents. 1t was not my privilege.
on this visit, to preach to DR.. Moore's
congregation, though he had kindly
placed me on his Sunday programme;
instead, / was sent by the Convention
to deliver the message from the pull
pit of one of the large white churches,
in doing which, 1 did not forget to
remind the congregation that l hailed
from a place called Denver, Colorado.
took it, entirely, as compliment
to our city, when they asked me to
| come again.
The work of our Convention this
year was of such volume and impOr-
tance that our visit to New York City
was made necessarily brief. How
ever, we had the pleasure of enjoying
it in company with our old friend,
Rev. l.. W. Harris of Carrollton, Mis-
|
on City. Most of our interest center
ed in the business section of the city
where we inspected many of those
massive sky-scrapers which are the
wonder of the world. 1t is a sensa-
ton to stand upon the tower OF the
great Metropolitan Building which
| lifts it's head forty-five stories above
Madison Square. But this has now
| haan
since the building Of the Woolworth
Building, the tower of which is ten
stories higher. On lower Broadway
the New Equitable is being construct
ed which is bounded by four streets.
the entire body of which is lifted
thirty-six stories above the pavement
This is the largest office building In
| the world. hurried trip to the Bat
terry; Wall St.; Old Trinity Church;
the Sub-treasury and such places OF
interest in Lower New York complet-
ed our tour Of that city.
have neglected to refer to the
great Wanamaker stores in New York
and Philadelphia, especially the lat
ter which is the largest retail store
in the world. John Wanamaker, the
great Christian Merchant Prince,
showed his quality when he invited
our Convention and entertained 1t at
an afternoon session in the Egyptian
Auditorium Of this great store With
in the center of this great building
is a Grand Court extending upward
J eight stories and here is built the
largest and most expensive pipe or
gan in the world, the pipes OF which
are six stories high. At the appoint
ed hour business was practically sus-
pended, and as the two-thousand del
egates in column of fours filed in
to the building that great organ in
wonderous melody thundered out our
conventional songs. 1t was one OF