The Washington times., 1915-10-09
EVANGELIST TOHOLD
|. CAMPAIGN |N.CAP|.TAL
Cooperative Meetings, Involv.
Ing n Baptist Churches, to
Open October n.

Cooperative evangeiistic meetings. In
which twenty-one Baptist churches OF
Washington and vicinity will have .
part. will open october q and continue
three weeks under the direction OF the
Rev. DR.. Weston Bruner. Of Atlanta.
ana his corps Of evangelists and singers
DR.. Bruner Is now superintendent Of
evangelism for the Baptist Homo Mis-
sion board. and is widely known In
washington, having been patsor OF tho
Fifth Baptist Church here for several
years, In which field he was eminently
successful as an evangelist and church
builder.
Cottage prayer meetings and special
services are already being held in prep.
aration for a spiritual revival. and next
Friday night there will be a personal
workers meeting" at Emmanuel Baptist
Church. under the direction OF DR.. O.. O.
on that occasion will be the Rev. DR..
George B. Adams. Of Philadelphia, one
OF the leading men In the recent sun
day revival In that city.
To Hold Conference.
A personal workers conference will
be held at Calvary Baptist Church Mt
1870 every morning during the three
weeks services. Evangelist Raleigh
Wright being instructor. There will
also be meetings there Sunday. after
noons. DR.. Bruner 10 further planning
to hold special noon hour services In or
near the Government department build
shops shS in the sSsnssu ana i%
missions. halls. and on street corners.
The assignment OF DR.. Burners aides
to the local Baptist churches mas been
made As follows: an,
bine In these meetings. Evangelist f.
v. Lamb and }. p. schofield. singer:
Emmanuel. Evangelist Ray Palmer. and
]. A. Ruby singer: Fifth, DR.. Weston
Bethany, Evangelist T. O. Reese. and
W. B. schofieid, singer; West Wash
inston, Evangelist F. d. King. and J.
BlHnkenshiE nSn, sinssr snS ps'TGr'h
Rogers. Te'Id singer; FEN Metropoiitan. Evsnse:
list w. NJ. Anderson. and Plunket Mar
tin. singer: Second, Evangelist !. c:
Wolfe: Maryland Avenue. Evangellst
4; j. c9fass: Anaeos,ia, i;yS,s EySnse'ist LIST, ..
geiist F.. w. Fisher; Randle High
lands, Evangelist J. Z. McNanaway;
Clarendon, Evangelist Scott; Cherry
dale. Evangelist Henry Miller; 49,.
Church will be announced later and the
pastors OF the Del Ray. Herndon. and
Capitol Heights Baptist churches will
actively cooperate In the campaign.
Committees Appointed.
A meeting Of all the cooperating pas
tors has been held and committees ap.
pointed to look after the various
branches Of the work. Tho committees
and chairmen are as follows:
Schools and colleges. the Rev. DR.. J.
j. Muir. Temple Baptist Church per-
sonal work. the Rev. DIR. g. @. John
son. Emmanuel Baptist Church census
| the Rev. DIR. d. d. Cav. West WASH
ington Baptist Church: publicity. the
Rev John Il. Briggs. Fifth Baptis,
! Church; shops and factories. the Rev.
II. T. Stevenson, Bethany Baptist
| Church street and rescue work. the
Rev. w. w. McMaster. First Baptist
Church advertising. r. a. Ford; II.
nance. c. T. yrooman. The foregoing
and the Rev. J c. Ball. Of the Metro.
politan Baptist Church. constitute the
executive committee. OF which the Rev
John F. Briggs is chairman.
Dr. Bruner and his helpers are now
holding meetings In Norfolk and Ports
mouth, Va. and will come to Washing.
ton when they have finished there
| They have aided In campaigns In Rich.
mond, Baltimore. Louisville. Atlanta
Dallas. and elsewhere. and within the
/ last year their meetings have resulted
In more than 1900 additions TO the