The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-20
IMPORTANT WORK | AT PELHAM HEIGHTS
Few Preachers Leave Con- ference Today, But Will
 Return Tomorrow

Pelham Heights, June 19.-(Special) few of the preacher students who serve churches nearby left in order to fill their engagements for sunday. All of these students will return on Monday
 The importance of the Pelham Heights school is shown by the faci that all the leaders of the denomina- ton in Alabama come to visit and to lay their causes before the men who are studying here.
 Dr. John w Lowe. who has been 16 years in China as a missionary. was here and made wonderful imnession on the school as he presented the great spiritual needs of China, the wonderful successes of mission work there and the noble and heroic character of Chi- nese Christian leaders pr Lowe has been called home by his board to as- sist in raising the Judson centennial fund" fund of a million and a quar- ter dollars to be invested in perma- nent equipment on mission fields.
 Before pr. Lowe left the preachers gave him subscriptions amounting to $500 toward this fund and many of them will take subscriptions in their churches.
 Dr. Bomar Arrives
 pr Paul Bomar. the president of Judson college the Baptists college for women in Alabama, at Marion. just out after an operation for appendi- citis. has arrived to visit the school Dr. j. W. Phillips, the pastor of the First Baptist church in Mobile, mas completed his work as one of the lee turers in the school and returned ta l his home on Saturday. His lectures were upon Bunyans "Pilgrims Pro gress," and proved unusually popular and u1 nr ic t,f England and an enthusiastic student and admirer of the great Bedford Bap- l tist progenitor and author and inter prets the allegory with peculiar in- 1 sight.
 Mir. Landrum P. Jeavell of Oxford, Miss. arrived Saturday morning to teach for the last week. MT. Leavell is 2 layman for many years working with the Sunday school board of Nash l vile and Is the most expert practical 1 Sunday school man among southern Baptists. He has recently been elect ] ed to a professorship in Sunday school pedagogy in the Southern Theological 1 seminary, where he will he the first layman to sit in this theological fac ulty He had an enthusiastic welcome to Pelham by Drs. Sampey and Car yer, who had not before seen him since his election to their faculty.
 MT. Leavell has a cousin Birmlng- nam, pr. Berry the physician. 1 Mrs. Maude Reynolds Mcclure, a na- tive of Alabama, the head of the large W. M IT. training school In Louisville completed her work Saturday and left to visit her son in Chester s. C.
 Dr. Carver. who has been sick Is now fully recovered and is completing his lectures on the general epstles and will devote the last five days of tho school to studies in the Revelations a book in which the men are showing | keen interest
 Sampey to Preach
 pr. John R. Sampey Is to preach 1T the auditorium building on the heights on Sunday, June 20.
 Miss Metcalf of Montgomery has ar. rived and will assist the ladies in the w. M. U. work.
 The Woman's Missionary hour was devoted to a demonstration in commit tee work. A Pelham Heights society having been formed, an ideal business session was enacted. The presiding Of. ] ficer was Miss Addie Estelle Cox, tho regular president. Miss Laura Lee Pat. rick, being absent. Miss Annie Dob l bins acted as secretary and Mrs. D. z Woolley treasurer.