The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-07-12
STRONG SPEAKERS
FOR CONFERENCE
One OF Leading Preachers in North
field Next Month

EAST NUR1HFlELD, Mass, July L.
heN. fredefic =. SPUR, pastor oI Ike
gents Park baptist church, London, viii
&c one OF the ieadng speakers az Uh,
General Conference o. CHRISTIAN " OK
ers 10 be held here from JuIy ii 10
Aug. ii, il Is Announced BY W. Il.
uoudy. Rev. Mr.. Spur formerly was a
preacher IN Australia, and is a seen be-
never IN the need OF satisfying lntelec
Lual as wei as spiritual cravings IN re-
nglon. Other notable foreigners who
VIII speak at the General Conference
include three others, who are coming
90 TINS country and Northfieid for the
hrst time: Rev. Charles W. Abel OF the
London Missionary society whose IN
dustllal missionary work at kwato ana
papua, New Guinea, has given him q
nigh standing; Rev j. W. e. Ward. sue
cessor TO Rev. Dr. q. Campbell Morgan
al the New Court congregational
church, TolIington Park, London, one OF
che leading EngIish CongregationaIists
and Rev. W. d. Mcleod of Edinburgh.
scotland.
Among those returning To Mortified
FOR the General Conference will be Rev.
j.. ID. Jones OF BouTnemouth, England,
often referred to as the leading Congre-
gational divine, IN England, Rev. j.
stuart Holden of london, Rev DIR. Al
bert i. Clay, curator of the Babylonia
collection, department of archaeology.
Yale university who viii throw Light
on the Old Testament from Babel, by
che story of his researches in Babylonia
and Assyria.
The Noman's Home Mission confer
encc. which has been in session here for
4 week, broke up today, aud the 5OO
delegates are leaving for their homes.
The conference studied the problem oil
The Negro in America.
The women of the South do not
understand the educated colored women
Of the present day They do not realize
there are any. The gap between the
white women of the South and the edu-
Gated Negro women Is wider-much
wider-than that between the old Ne
gress servant and her white mistress,
because there Is abSOlut nl-- no contact
between the two of today" This state
ment was made BY Mrs. Charlotte Haw-
Sius Brown, principal of the Alice Free
man Palmer School for Girls at Sc
dalia, y c.. and made deep impression
apon the conference. Mrs. Brown said
that while the bars were temporarily
lifted during the war, and Negro women
worked side by side with the whites in
liberty loan. thrift stamp and welfare
drives. right after the war the old iso-
lation was resumed. She declared that
women of the North are largely to
blame for allowing their ideals to fade
out of sight whenever they 90 South
frequently treating Negroes with more
contempt and disdain than the southern
ers, so as not to displease their white
friends in the South. She pleaded for
IN equality of opportunity and recogni-
ton for education, culture and merit
regardless of color.
Approximately 200 delegates reached
Mortified today for conference for
Women's Foreign Missionary societies
one of the largest groups of the season
here. Rev. Mr. F. c. Spur of London
win lead the Bible class Among noted
missionaries who will speak are: DIR.
ida Scudder and Miss Elizabeth Tencate
# India DR. John f. Williams of Nan
king university China. and Miss Kath-
srine Crane and Miss Laura White of
China.