The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-07-16
A. NJ f COLLEGE PRESIDENTS ASSOCIATION MEETS IN CHICAGO
HOUSTON BUSINESS MEN CONTRIBUTE TOWARD PRAIRIE VIEW SCHOLARSHIP
MINISTER'S TO WORK WITH
TEACHERS AND FARMERS.
Hampton Conference a Joint
Meeting of Leaders Of Each
Lays Out Program.

Leaders Hold Four-Day Conference
at Hampton Instltute-Education Bx-
ent Constructive Programs-Christian
Communities the Conference Objective.
By VIM. Anthony Aery.
Hampton, Va, July 14.-Ministers,
farmers, and teachers, are cooperating
heartily to improve life as well as to
develop the success qualities of in
dividual men, women, and children.
The recent joint meetings at Hampton
Institute of Negro leaders showed
munity program-making.
The interdenominational Ministers
Conference of Hampton Instituted Rev.
NJ. Il. Davis Norfolk, president, and
Rev. Laurence Fenninger, Hampton
together 255 CoIored leaders from II
States-16S from Virginia; 72 from
North Carolina; 4 from Maryland; 2
each from South Carolina, Arkansas,
and New Jersey; and one each from
Ohio New York, Delaware. District
of Columbia, and Texas-who repre-
sented 16 denominations, including
Baptist, 154; :; African Methodist Epis-
copal, 80; Protestant Episcopal, 10;
Presbyterian, 10; and Methodist Epis-
copal, 6.
Educational Exhibit.
For the benefit of 255 Colored min
listers from Virginia North Carolina
and neighboring States and for 115
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hibit of posters. containing slogans
and pictures, new and helpful books
on church work, especially church
work in rural parishes, and stere-
and rural health. was placed on dis
play in the main room of the Y. M
G.. A. building at Hampton Institute
This exhibits was thrown open to the
public and was visited by a large
number of men and women in search
of knowledge and inspiration.
A few of the slogans will indicate
the live-wire method which was used
TO. call attention to some serious ru-
raj life problems: The peril of the
country today is not the uprising OF
the sinners but the downsitting OF
! saints You can live anywhere and
be a preacher but to be pastor
you must live. with your people
There is an old saying to the effect
that God made the country In view
of the present religious conditions
there. it is time to win it back to its
maker"
Church Leaders Cooperate.
The following officers of the Min
listers Conference were elected: NJ. p
Davis, Norfolk, president; G. D. Jim
merson, Newport News, L. L. Down
iTng' Roanoke s. S Morris. Norfolk
Hampton, 4. A. Hector, Richmond. E.
e. Kicks. Newark, N. J., c. c. Som
merville. Portsmouth, j. s. Brown
Rocky Mount N. c., w G. Clleland
Durham, N. c., Reverdy c. Ransom,
Oceanport, N. j., f, l.. Baskerville,
Charleston, S. c., vice presidents; Lau-
renee Fenninger, Hampton Institute
executive secretary; Thomas ]. Boiling
Hampton Institute, assistant executive
secretary; and ]. w. Lemon, Ark, Va,
recording secretary. The conference
also elected about forty of it's mem
bers to serve on the executive board
which represents a dozen or more de-
nominations.
Rev. l.. l.. Downing of Roanoke,
chairman of the Committee on Reso-
lutions. expressed the thanks of the
Conference to the authorities of Ham
pton Institute for courteous treatment
to the speakers for their inspiring
talks, and to the executive secretary,
the Rev. Laurence Fenninger. who is
the chaplain of Hampton Institute and
founder of the Minister'S Conference,
for his untiring activity and keen
ness of vision; and the sympathy of
the Conference to DR.. James Hardy
Dillar of Charlottesville, Va, who has
done so much to help develop Negro
education throughout the South and
win new friends for Negro education.
Teaching and Inspiring People.
Hampton Institute would be dere-
lict in its duty said DR.. James e.
Gregg at the closing session of the
Minister'S Conference, "If 1t did not
keep in mind the fact that teaching
and preaching are professions which
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