The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-05
DR.HENRY COMES
 ID ELEVENTH AVE.
 METHODIST CHURCH
Graduate of Several Colleges and Universities, Is an Au- thor, and Much Travelled
 Thinker
By CAROLYN E. ELLIOTT

pr. w. G. Henry, the new pastor Of the Eleventh Avenue Methodist church, comes to Birmingham with genial smile cordial hand grasp, warm heart cool head and nice :ong string of degrees.
 He deserves every one of them, too II mean the degrees. Anybody should was deserving enough, like pr. Henry, to have won A.B. at Greensboro; AM at the University of Alabama; B.D. at Vanderbilt, and Ph.D. at Harvard. To these honors the minister has also add ed the laure1s of a graduate of the law class of Milsaps university.
 The choicest honor Dr. Henry ever won, however, is his charming wife. Indeed, MT. Henry is one of the happy acquisitions he brings to Birmingham, together with those four sturdy young sons and the little daughter who will make a sure enough home of the par sonage.
 EVERYBODY HAPPY
 The members of the Eleventh Ave- Inue church are unanimously extending Ia glad welcome to the pastor and his family, while they smilingly confade 10 members of other churches with Roose- veltian politeness how delighted" they are One of the board of stewards, H. H. Ament, who presented the parsonage key to Dr. Henry. might not mind tell ing how happy the Eleventh Avenue people were after he had sat up nights" at conference waiting for Bish- op Cannon to read the appointments so that this special one might be wired back to Birmingham. And prob lbly Mrs Cannon, the bishops wife, might be persuaded to disclose how this good Twill was reciprocated when, after the news was known, she casually observed: "Eleventh Avenue---I don't believe l know where that church is.''
 "Where it is!' exclaimed pr. Henry l in astonishment. Why, it's the best church in Birmingham
 ''--So it is, then everybody's happy" f AMONG FRIENDS
 l While not transfer to Birming- | ham, Dr. Henry is near transfer. He comes here direct from his pastorate ! in Huntsville, to which appointment he
 had been transferred from the Mis- JS1SSlDpl conference. GTGNlOuS to lnlS time, however, he had been member of the North Alabama conference, hav- ling served as pastor of Nthe church at
 Trinity, and the First church of Tusca- loosa. To Jefferson county he is no stranger, having ministered with grat- lifying results to the membership at
 Pratt City Methodist church.
 q feel that I have come among
 friends" Dr. Henry said. Last Sunday
 when l preached my first sermon at Eleventh Avenue, I found numbers of people who been members of other churches l had served.
 l T consider Eleventh Avenue the most
 promising field in Birmingham in point | of enlargng our membership" he con-
 tinued. There are between 10000 and many of whom this church should min | lister, because ours is the only Metho- dist church in this section of the city. My hope" he added eagerly, 'is to
 enlarge our building. The congrega-
 tion is already one-third larger than
 the house can accommodate, and in re-
 modelling the church room should be allowed for future growth"
 l Judging from Dr. Henrys successful
 accomplishments in other charges, the plans he has for his present appoint
 ment will be fulfilled. It was while
 he was pastor at Huntsville that w. H. lStockham, chairman of the cent tsnary Icommittee, declared the results of the centenary in Huntsville church was the
 greatest surprise to the conference committee, that the pledges went far beyond the expectations of the most sanguine. The development of the mis- | sicnary spirit in his former pasto-ate was also an outstanding feature of pr. Henry's work. as it has been in each of the appointments he has filled. MISSIONARY INTEREST Because of his absorbing interest in missions, pr. Henry made two trips abroad for the purpose of studying world missions. In 1913 he visited churches and. schools and hospitals of Egypt, Palestine. Turkey. Syria and Greece Last summer he spent touring Italy. Belgium, Switzerland, Holland and England. Having visited Europe just before and after the war, Dr. Heary's opinion is, the world rebounds so rap 1 idly that in two years time there will be no way to tell there was a war, ex- l lcept for the absence of certain historic buildings. The pastor believes that now is the opportunity of the ages to the churches to lend a helping hand to Europe and to turn the tides of athe- ism sweeping over the countries of the l old world
 1 Christian education. he believes will l find an open door in the countries where schools like those of Constanti- nople have adopted the English lam guage in order to teach science. He
 thinks the denominational schools he
 visited afe offering superior advan- ltages to many others not excluding the University of Cairo, with it's 10000 : tu- ldents who are permitted to study only one book, the Koran.
 1 In keeping with his missionary zeal at home as we'll as abroad is the book (which Dr. Henry wrote on "The Negro lAs an Economic Factor in Alabama .
 which is in the libraries of the state
 and in the Congressional library. Upon it's appearance. this contribution to
 Alabama economies and literature wal
 criticised in complimentary manner by The Age-Herald, and has since been lfavorably criticised by pr. Fr lncfs iGreenwood Peabody of Harvard, whe
 has placed it upon the shelves of that library. Another book now in the m1k ling that will soop be in the hands ei the printers from pr. Henry's pen is Ia psychological study called The Or.
 ganization of Personality
 COOPERATION
 In pr. Henry's pians for organized ef forts at the Eleventh Avenue churci
 along the lines of community and worit service. the entire membership of tn. board of stewards have pledged theil
 loyal cooperation as follows: c. N
 Bcwers. chairman; H. H. Ament. O. W Brasan. C. ". Burney, T. H. Conway U. S. coxe. T. L. Crenshaw, F. M. Fl ilott, J. B. Erwin. H. S. Farley c. w