Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-06
A. NJ. {. DELEGATES
PARADE TOMORROW
Bishops at District Building
to Review March Previous
to Field Events.

Coordination of general church &C.
tivities to promote unified program
Of Christian education was discussed
at the General Church School Conven-
ton of the African Methodist Episco-
pal Zion Church, in session at John
Wesley Church this morning.
Speakers outlined the work OF Sun
day school, Christian Endeavor and
other agencies, and emphasis also was
placed on the necessity for training
leaders for church work.
A feature of this mornings session
was the reading Of letters to the dele
gates from the Governors of Virginia,
West Virginia, Iowa and Wyoming,
felicitating them on the work of the
convention.
This afternoon the sessions OF the
convention were halted while pill
grimages We're made to Arlington and
Harmony Cemeteries.
Wreath for Unknown.
At Arlington wreath was placed
on the Tomb of the Unknown and at
the grave of Col Charles H. Young,
West Point graduate, who attained
the highest Army rank ever conferred
upon member of the colored race.
Rev. Thomas w. Wallace, Rev. A. Fl.
HAYWOOD and Rev. B. c. Robson, who
were first lieutenants and chaplains in
the A. Z. F., were delegated for this
duty.
At Harmony Cemetery the graves of
Bishop Singleton T. Jones, Mrs. Mary
j. Jones, Melyina Fletcher and John
c. Dancy were decorated
Sectional meetings today were
scheduled at Galbraith Church for a
curriculum conference for members
a OIL NI,x
publication, home missions, church ex-
tension and foreign mission boards,
and children's division; at Union Wes-
ley Church, the young peoples divi-
sion conference; Trinity Church, adult
and alumni division, and Metropolitan
Wesley, pastors, directors, superin-
tendents and presidents of organiza-
lions.
Bishop j. w. Wood will preside to.
night at o'clock over pageant,
THE Quickening Flame" depicting
negro progress from the primitive, at
John Wesley Church. followed by a
reception at 10 o'clock by the Wash
ington committees and patrons of the
convention to the visiting delegates.
The church school parade will form
outside John Wesley Church at 1870
o'clock tomorrow afternoon under the
leadership of Charles H. Anderson,
chairman, and Francis Wells, chief
marshal. The line of march will be
north on Fourteenth street to u
street, east on U to Sixth, south on
Sixth to II. west on H to Tenth,
south on Tenth to Pennsylvania ave-
nue., where the participants will be
reviewed from the District Building
by the bishops and general officers of
the church: to Fifteenth street, then
south on Fifteenth to the Monument
grounds, where the column will dis
band to take part in a field day. A
base ball match will be played be-
tween the girls teams of Shiloh Bap-
fist and Galbraith Churches and the
Philadelphia and Washington church
school teams. In addition there will
be a track meet.
Bishop and Prince Speak.
Bishop George C. Clement addressed
the convention last night at John
Wesley Church, on THE Church and
Race Relations" The theme of the
meeting at which President F. A.
Ray presided, was 1.-THE Church and
the Social Order, Addresses were
also made by Bishop L. w. Kyles on
1.-The Church and Christian Citizen
ship" and by Prince Blayechettai on
1.-THE Church and Africa" The con-
vention will adjourn Sunday night.
The convention pilgrimage to the
Lincoln Memorial yesterday after
noon was addressed by Bishop E. w.
d. Jones, who, eulogiZing Lincoln,
declared: 1.-THE Immortality of Lincoln
will cluster around his emancipation
Of the slaves, rather than the preser-
walton of the Union