The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-27
Rev. D. e. Butler Expects to Hold an
Advance Meeting Along Lines
Of the Philadelphia
Convention. :
TO LAST THREE DAYS
Dates Are February IS to 81 and Will
be Held In African Methodist
Church on Morgan
Street.

life Of the African Methodist church
at the Official meeting here, Rev. But
Ter said:
las We approach the one hundredth
birthday of the African Methodist
Episcopal church, the same to be cele
brated in the city of Philadelphia
during the month Of May, our local
society here will hold a pre-centcnnial
session February IS, 20 and 81.
/, Things religious. moral, social and
educational, will be ably presented
and thoroughly discussed.
I'VE have superfiuity Of religious
and educational institutions-they not
alone burden the community at large
but cucumber the progress of my race
lin fact, they are a curse to us. The
tocsin has been sounded for fedora
ton and cooperation, for concentra-
ton OF efforts"
/ Mr.. Butler stated that the claim that
the death rate among colored people
will receive careful consideration dur
ing the convention deliberations. 1T
will pay u.s." said Rev Butler. ito
emulate our white brother as much
along the lines Of hygiene and santa
ton. as along the lines of business and
education and white do not mean
3 tAiiI Tic NAlCCS- diC ~ toA
ahead Of us. but that our poverty. the
lack of interest and attention hinder
us nightly We purpose giving wide
publicity to the observations Of our
charity club and Doctor F>lournoy's
, Health Hints
! Comm cree and expansion, science
and literature. business and ctviliza-
ton demand the attention Of a great
Leople. Let the black man follow the
! trail blazed by the devoted pathtinders
and pioneers, remembering that the
one-room cabin and tho trundle bed,
were expedients, they never came to
stay.
|! District Superintendent l. N. Dan
ilels of Chicago, will. be with US
throughout the meeting while several
states will be we'll represented.
The assembly will come to ordef
properly at 2:3O p. M. Friday. Feb
ruary 1S. At night there will be an
evangeIistic meeting. Three services
will be held on Sunday, the twentieth
the night program under the auspices
of the Peoples Sunday Forum. The
affair will come to close Monday
night"
Mr. Butler stated that Keokuk has
TIE distinction of having among its
tstizenry the oldest living member OF
the African Methodist denomination,
in the person of Mother Dove, who will
speak at the forthcoming gathering.
A pleasing feature of the meeting
will be the music rendered. Arrange
ments are being made to have Prof.
John f. Augustus, who directed the
singing Of 500 colored voices at the
world fair in Chicago, to be present,
and take personal charge of the sing.
e-s, who will include the Taylor quar-
t,tte of Canton, Mo. An effort will be
made to have Helen Logan OF Boston,
oremost colored pianist, and winner
OF the Samuel Sanford foreign fellow
ship from Yale University conserva-
tory Of music, to remain for the oc-
! aston. Miss Hogan received a di-
pioma from Paris conservatory in
1914, and will play at Rev. Buffers
church on the night of the seven
teenth.
! Each session Of the celebration will
be free to the general public except
ing the night Of the seventeenth,
when Miss Hogan plays, a small fee
will be taken for local benevolences.
/ The A. NJ. E. connection has 1000
! 90 communicates. seventy-six annual
conferences including the Liberian,
Sierra Leone, Cape Colony, the Trans