The broad ax., 1923-07-14
Represent Ten States and Thirteen De-
nominations Dean Brown of Yale
Speaks on Lincoln DR.. Mordecai w.
johnson Pays Tribute to Service of Ne
gro Church Four-day Program for
Tenth Annual Meeting Rev. NJ. E.
Davis Reelected President.

for its sixty years of powerful, indie
pendent, and constructive service TO
community life and progress and for
its spiritual gifts to needy and as
piring race, was the conviction ex-
pressed by Doctor Johnson, who also
referred to the value Of the 10000 Ne
gro ministers in the United States and
to the Christian service Of educational
institutions which have been sup
ported by poor colored people.
Man-Building Program
The four-day program included a
conference sermon by the Rev. DIR.
William P. Hayes Of New York, pas
tor of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church;
three lectures on Social Hygiene"
by Franklin 0. Nichols Of New
York, associate director, department
OF field organization, American Social
Hygiene Association; four lectures
on THE Prophet Amos" by Prof.
Kemper Fullerton of Oberlin, O., Fin
ney professor of Old Testament Ian
guage and literature in the Oberlin
School of Theology since 1904; four
lectures on "The Church and the
Community by the Rev. Hermann
N. Morse Of New York, director Of
publicity, Presbyterian Board Of
Home Missions; and four lectures on
The Significance Of Bible Study" BY
the Rev. DR.. Edward "A. Clarke of
Cleveland. o., pastor Of St. Johns
A. M. E. Church.
The following officers of the con-
! ference were elected; President, M.
E. Davis, Portsmouth, Va; vice
presidents, L. L. Downing, Roanoke,
Va; 5. S. Morris, Norfolk, Va; d. J.
Lee, Norfolk, Va; J. T. johnson,
Hampton, Va; A. "A. Hector, Rich
mond, Va; z. E. Kicks, Newark, NJ.
j.; z. l.. Baskerville, Charleston, S.
: G.; M. w. Johnson, Charleston, w.
Va; E. A. Clarke, Cleveland, o.; j. S.
Brown, Rocky Mount, N. c.; w. c.
Cleland, Durham, N. c.; w. p. Hayes,
New York; H. P. Jones, Pittsburgh;
B. F. McWilliams, Toledo, O.; R. c.
Ransom, Oceanport, N. J.; L. E. B.
: Rosser, South Boston, Va; G. c.
: Sommerville, Portsmouth, va; re-
cording secretary j. W.. Lemon,
Ark, Va; executive secretary, Il. Fen
J ninger, Hampton Institute, va; as
! sociate executive secretary, II. IA. Boil
ling, Hampton Institute, va.
: Teaching Through Exhibits
The keynote of the exhibit Of post
ers and books = standard books for
ministers, books that suggest sermons,
recent books, church school books.
5 books for rural ministers, books on
! methods of building and maintaining
1.-THE church, and books by conference
lecturers-which had been arranged in
) Clarke Hall (Y M. O. "A. buildinR)
; for the ministers, was expressed in the
! slogan: where there is no vision
;; the people perish"
: a few Of the conference sugges-
tions follow: you can live anywhere
) and be preacher, but to be pastor
j you must live with your people"
When churches cease to wonder
! how to get people and begin to pom
der how to serve people there will
be no church problem" The worlds
greatest preacher was a country
. preacher In those days he came
. preaching in the wilderness. He had
a message~ Can your people say
that you lead them by the still wa
terss Jesus never intended that i
pulpit should be whipping post"
There is more religion on some
street corners than there is in some
amen corners"
The Ten Commandments do not
: need rewriting but rereading.D "The
Inon-Christian world is not illitcrate
because it has no desire or capacity
for education. 1t is 50 because 1t has
never had chance" "The spirit Of
goodwill among men rests upon spir-
itual forces" The peril Of the coun-
TRY today is not the uprising Of the
sinners but the down sitting Of the
saints "A religious education
should be the heritage of every child.
!. | Spiritual ilIiteracy is the greatest peril
Of organized society" sour evan
gelists should give more light and
; less heat"