Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-12
AUXILIARY HALTS
SESSION FOR DAY
Women Given Opportunity to
Attend Joint Convention
Meeting and Reception.

Regular sessions of the Woman's
Auxiliary of the Protestant Episcopal
Church were suspended today to enable
delegates to take advantage of the priv
ileee extended to them of attending the
Joint session of the Houses of Bishops
and Deputies and other meetings in
which the women are particularly in
tereSted
There will be a tea at the Washington
Club, 1701 K street, from to s o'clock
this afternoon for the diocesan treas
urers of the United Thank Offering and
many of the women will attend the gen.
eral reception to all delegates to the
convention this evening at o'clock in
the Corcoran Art Gallery, Seventeenth
street and New York avenue.
Sessions of the National Council
Training Institute, which opened this
morning in the Y. w. c. A. Building.
which filled IN the working" day for
many of the members of the Woman S
Auxiliary. will continue daily through
out the convention. Very Rev. Robert
s. Chambers Of st. Matthew's Cathedral
Dallas Tex. is dean of the faculty. and
trained men and women leaders in
church affairs will conduct the classes
dealing with various phases of church,
educational and mission work.
Work Among CoIored.
An appeal to Episcopalians to regard
the work of the church among the
negroes of the South as national
rather than a diocesan problem was
made by Bishop Theodore Bratton of
Mississippi, In discussing Problems Our
Negro Churchmen Are Endeavoring to
Solve" before the triennial meeting of
the Woman's Auxiliary late yesterday.
More men and more money" has
been and will continue to be the chief
need in the extension of such work.
Bisho? Bratton emphasized.
The time has come when we ought
TO regard this as a common problem, !"
ne told the delegates. I'm the diffusion
of population. have found that most
OF our own trained negro leaders have
moved to other fields. Missions for the
negroes are we'll night depopulated.
There leaders are scattered over the
North and Middle West and wherever
hear reports of them, they have
proved to be good churchmen.
In view of this migration of coIored
church workers and church members.
Bishop Bratton declared that the South
must be regarded as feeder for the
whole chuch so far as it affects the
colored race. Especially since the do
ceses In the South are so small in men,
bersnip. he declared the need arises to
work out the solution of problems
Affecting the negro as a national task.
Educational Work Explained.
One OF the chief concerns of the
Episcopal Church in its work among the
race, he pointed out, is the tremendous
urge to the negroes to join the Baptist
Cnurch, which has come to be regarded
as the negroes church." Sometimes
tnev are unjustly placed in the
attitude OF being disloyal to their own
race, Bishop Bratton said, by afiliatino
with any other church.
he explained educational work ac-
complished among the negroes and de-
clared there is an "unselfish desire" tn
contribute to the mental and physical
growth OF the race as evidenced through
the work of the American Church IN
stitute for Negroes.
Blshop BrattOn emphasized the inn
portance OF training members of the
race as teachers and pastors as best
suited TO work among their own people,
Influence Of Politics.
Politics is doing more than anything
else in the South to handicap and re-
strict sanitary and medical work among
the colored race, he declared, telling OF
his own difficulties and those Of county
health authorities who found their
hands tied because politicians had con-
troll of the manner in which appropri-
ations for such work were to be eX-
pended. In jackson, Miss. however
he declared the church had erected a
$4,000 medical clinic for colored peo-
pie with a staff of colored doctors
which has afforded foundation for
health work among the race.
Bishop j. Craik Morris of the Panama
Canal Zone, who discussed domestic
problems along the Highway OF the
World" as his diocese is known, de-
clared the Canal Zone also has it's
problem In caring for West Indian
laborers, most of whom are of the Epis-
copal faith. 1t Is the duty of the
church, he declared, to aid them as
British nationals.
Others who discussed domestic prob
lens" at the conference on this subject
were Bishop John D. La Mothe of
Honolulu, Right Rev. w. Blair Roberts,
Bishop Suffragan of South Dakota, who
took up Indian problems; Rev. DR..
Thomas Burgess. secretary of the
foreign-born American division. de-
partment of missions Miss Ethel M.
Robinson of st. GATHERINGS School. San
Juan, Porto Rico: Mrs. G. F.. Mosher OF
Manila, p. l., and Mrs. Grafton Burke
of Fort Yukon, Alaska.
Conference on Evangelism.
Earlier In the afternoon conference
was held on Personal Religion and
Evangelism" conducted by Mrs. e. A.
Stebbins OF Rochester. N. Y. Speakers
included Rev. DR. w. H. Milton OF
Wilmington, N. c., chairman Of the
commission on evangelism; Miss
Georgina Gollock of the Church OF
England missionary committee, and
Mrs. Harper Sibley of Rochester. N. Y.
Referring to the union of men and
women In England by which great
strides are being accomplished in mis-
sion work, Miss Gollock explained that
this cooperation was made possible by
the good will of the men and the good
discipline of the women" She told Of
plans for a. great missionary conference
in England next November, the purpose
of which is to promote the influence of
the church through the political and
industrial arteries OF the Nation.
Following the sessions, the Woman's
Auxiliary attended the reception given
by Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg at the Pam
American Building In honor of the
presiding bishop and Mrs Murray; Miss
Grace Lindley presiding oficer OF the
auxiliary, and the Bishop of Washing
ton and Mrs. Freeman.
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