Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
BAPTIST SPEAKER TAKES
A|HACK At DANCING FADs
Mrs. jamie Cree Bose Says There Arc
Too Many Other Good Things
for tho Youth.
TRAINING SCHOOL is OPENED
Grace Street Church Crowded ut
Meeting in Which Campaign for
S15,O00,O00 Is Explained by Ma
tional Church Figures.

Grace Street Baptist Church. at Fou-
shee and Grace Streets. was packed to
It's capacity Of 1.20o people yesterday
afternoon at O'Clock at the opening
session OF the twelfth annual training
which is conducted under the general
auspices Of the Baptist Sunday School
vcnabie Street BAPTIST Church. at
Twenty,first and Ncnablc Streets. on
Church Hill. was represented by a dele
cation OF zoo members, who. with the
pastor. W. T. johnson. marched in
a body the entire distance. carrying
banners and pennants bearing slogans
OF the $4,000. 600 campaign.
Rev. l.. r, Scarborough. ID. n. dircc-
tor general or tho campaign. was un-
able to be present. but Rev. Len O.
Baptis; Church of Knoxville. was pres
cnt; and Mrs. jamie cree Bose. Of Ken
tncky On the platform besides these
Vile. director OF tho training school
Rev j. 7 Watts. d. D.. and w L.
Austin. president of the Baptist sun
day School Association.
Explains Aims of Drive.
nr. Watts told briefly Of the aims
and purposes Of the training school
which was started in laos and of tho
training school in that it Immediately
preceded the S75,ooe.ooo campaign and
FOR THIS reason II would he used to
as sunday school work
Or. Watts called for the delegation
from Ncnablc street Baptist Church
to stand up. and a member of that con-
Gi"gation. Mrs Elsie Walters. OF Bar
ton ton lights. recited a poem from the
platform while the delegation con
Mrs. Bose spoke OF the cooperation
In ir,, ne forthootninS campaign which
the church in raising one-ffth of the
arrortionment of the campaign and
N n
self. is executive secretary OF the state
organ ization OF the Women's Mission
AIRY Union. OF Kentucky.
She divided the women OF the church
into two great classes. the Martins
and the Marys. declaring that all Zap
tist women must be Marys in this cam
paiSn.
Take. Rap nj Dancing.
Loud "AmcnS" greeted Mrs Bosses
remarks about dancing being taught
children In an incident she was rcia;-
ing in which her own small boy ng-
ured
q don, want my little boy dancing"
fist mother and there are too many
other good things for them TO do"
The executive secretary of the sun
t!St Convention, |. j. Naness, followed
Mrs. Bose. AS head OF the sunday
school work, he LAID special emphasis
on the part which sunday school work
ers and members OF the Is. Y. L. L.
had Din IN the camapaign.
ne Sto.tup,uND campaign mas got
to so over by sheer force OF Christian
will power" declared the speaker. He
CLASSIFIED the needs of the campaign
as interest. Inspiration, information.
orEa nization and vision.
1T Is vision based on organization
that VIII carry this campaign to sue
cess" he concluded
DIR. Len q. E:roughton, the PRINCIPAL
speaker Of the meeting. was then In
troduced
lie was conducting a series OF meet
ings in Grace street Baptist Church at
the time the building caught az. and
burned many years ago. lie referred
TO this fact in beginning his sermon
yesterday. He said THAT The manu-
scripts OF all his sermons were IN the
reached it, burned with noticeable
hcrCcncSS.
Then followed a sermon on Christian
stewardship from the text: 'Yc are
not your own tor W arc bought with
a price Even ones business and his
very life belong not TO himself, but to
God. said DR.. Broughton, and men and
women are but the stewards of worldly
goods and money which should be used
Tor the honor and glory Of God
lie spoke with emotion of his own
church in Knoxville and OF a member
OF his church who had given great
OF the twcnty-scvcn young members
of the First Baptist Church who were
PREPARING for The ministry and the
mi IS ionary hcld.
DR. Eroughron's final appeal to the
congregation was to give largely to
the campaign that the gospel of
m ght be spread