The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-11
BAPT|sTs PLAN BIG
EvANGEL|ST|C SERIES
Will Hold Meetings in All Churches
Of That Denomination In
Richmond.
ELLIS SPEAKS HERE TONIGHT
Famous Author and Traveller to Adj
dress Bankers at Second Baptist
Churcf-Unveil Tablet to II. H.
Ellett-Services in Local Churches.

Ellett-Services in Local Churches.
will be held in the twenty one Baptist
church of this city for period Of about
three weeks. beginning on October %
and lasting until November Is The
entire force of the department OF evan
gelism of the home mission board OF
the Southern Baptist Convention will
he here, and 1t will he one of tho
largest revival campaigns ever con-
Quoted. Rev. Weston Bruner, d D.,
former pastor of Calvary Baptist
Church. now superintendent Of the
department of evangelism, will be in
charge OF the meetings.
Plans have been made to hold n cen
trial meeting each morning In one OF
the large churches. In the evening.
services will be held at O'clock, Mt
which some Of the most noted evan
Eelists in the country will preach. On
account of the number of churches
In Richmond II will be necessary to
bring all of the evangelists and singers
similar campaign has recently
been held by a part of the evanEelistic
force In Petersburg. and meetings are
now being held in eight churches at
Roanoke and vicinity. In the meetings
held throughout the South in 1913 there
were S,4li baptisms and 12.24S addi-
ions TO the churches.
The evangelists and singers who will
ne here are as follows:
Staff of evangelsts-Rev. Weston
Bruner, secretary of evangelism: Rev
Henry Miller, Rev. w. NJ! Anderson,
Alabama: Rev A. j. Copass. Texas:
Rev. w. +. Fisher. Virginia; Rev. r. r.
Jaudon, Louisiana; Rev. S. w. Ken
North Carolina; Rev. e. v. Lamb. I'LL
nois: Rev. j. L. McNIanaway, South
Carolina: Rev. ]. w. Michaels. Ar
kansas; Rev. ]. c. Owen. North Caro-
line: Rev. Ray Palmer, Missouri: Rev.
It. .. Reese. Alabama; Rev. j. a. Scott,
Oklahoma: Rev. L. C. Wolfe, Oklahoma;
Rev. Raleigh Wright, Tennessee. Rev.
J. w. Hickerson.
Singcrs-M. j. Babbitt, Illinois: j. L..
Blankenship. Texas; I. f. Reynolds,
Georgia; J. =. Schoield. Alabama; p. r.
Wade. Texas: e. L. Wolslagel. North
Carolina.
Final arrangements have been made
for the special religious service at
the Second Baptist Church at Sis
o'clock tonight for local bankers and
delegates here to attend the fortieth
annual convention of the American
Bankers Association. Herbert W.
Jackson,' president of the Virginia
Trust Company. will preside over the
meeting, and the principal address will
be made by William T. Ellis. we'll
known lecturer and traveller. Mr..
Ellis will speak on The World Man
and the World War"
While the service has been arranged
under the auspices of the American
Bankers Association, especially for
delegates attending the gathering, such
seats as have not been reserved for the
bankers will be at the disposal of the
public. y large crowd Is expected to
attend the special meeting
Members of Clay Street Methodist
Church will celebrate the seventieth
anniversary Of the church with ap-
propriate exercises to- day. Many visi-
tors will be present. and a large crowd
lis expected.
The pastor will preach tonight on
What We AS a Church Pre- Eminently
stand For"
A special musical service will be
held tonight at s o'clock I'm the Church
of the Ascension, Highland Park
Under the direction OF Mrs Benjamin
Wheatly. a choir of twenty voices will
render the following program: Pro-
cessional, Onward. Christian Soldiers
CFuller) GLORIA Patrr' In (Tours):
"Magnificat" in b (Marks): Nunc Di-
mittis" in B (Marks); anthem, ''Ye
Shall Dwell in the Land" (Stainer); ;
hymn. Now the Day Is Over" (Mer-
riaD offertory, "Hark, Hark, MY Soul,
(Shelly); occasional, 1.-The Spacious
Firmament" (Hayden).
Rev. w. c. James Will preach at
both services in Grove Avenue Baptist
Church. An unwilling will be held this
morning of the tablet presented to The
church by Mrs. Dunbar Roy. of Atlanta,
Ga, ms a memorial to her father. T. H.
Elicit.
LOCAL CHURCH NOTES