Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-17
CHURCH CONCLAVE
NAMES OFFICERS
Disciples of Christ Defer
Resolutions Until After
Elections.
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AZ the washington Auditorium and
Graham Frank, secretary of the inter
national convention, will address the
audience in Constitution Hall on the
Ministry" The evening sessions will
be divided by sessions in equally i'm
portant fields. At the Auditorium John
H. Wood, president of Culver Stockton
College. and at Constitution Hail. Ar
thur Braden, president OF Pennsylvania
College, will speak on The Place of
the Church in Higher Education" at
the same time.
Final impetus will be given to the
pension fund movement tomorrow at
seven luncheon conferences throughout
the city, which will be addressed by
trustees and other administrative off,
GERS of the fund
Addressing the convention on the
pension movement, which is being
urged to revitalize the ministry Of the
brotherhood. Mr.. Pierce declared today
that no apologies are necessary in this
crusade.
Money Taboo Attacked.
"There is. disposition to apologize
on the money question: he said. Most
interviews having to do with money are
introduced with an apology. In my
opinion, our present national dilemma
may be traced directly to this apologize
position regarding this worlds goods
and the reluctance to make it a ma ior
issue in the advancement of the King
dom Of God. have heard ministers
of the gospel of Jesus declare from their
pulpits that financial messages were
taboo, yet the Master himself majored
on the discussion of mans relationship
to his worldly possessions"
Mr. Pierce declared that the crusade
for the pension fund has a more sig
IL
to every mans conviction. 1T mearS
the restoring of our morale at time
of great encouragement" he said. This
is . crusade for the restoration OF our
fighting spirit"
One-Minute Talks Made.
feature of today's session was one
minute addresses to the convention by
missionaries in attendance here at the
World Convention of the Disciples Of
Christ, which opens Sunday night.
From Africa, the audience heard
what was being done in the cannibaI
congo and other districts of the mis-
sion field by Mr.. and Mrs. Roger T.
Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis A. Hurt,
Mr.. and Mrs. e. A. Johnston, Miss
Gertrude Shoemaker, Mr.. aad Mrs
p. d. Snipes, Mr.. and Mrs. David L.
Watts and Miss Georgia Bateman.
w. E. Macklin, one Of the earliest
Christian medical missionaries to
China. who established the first
Christian hospital there, told of his
experience and the need Of support
to the mission field in that war-torn
country Others interested in the
Mrs. G. A. Burch. Miss Mary Kelly,
Miss Emma Lyon. Mrs. c.. w. Sorrell.
The representatives of the brotherhood
in India who gave one-minute talks
were DR.. Mary Longdon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald McGravran, j. E. Moody, Dr.
Hope Nicholson. Miss Virginia Young,
Dr.. Elizabeth Lutz and DR.. and Mrs.
Harry C. Saum.
Governor Nat Present.
Others on the program were Miss
Jesse NJ. Trout and Prof. Hirai. for
japan; Miss Edna Lick, Miss Pearl
Gibbons, Miss Elma Irelan and Miss
Eta Num-, for Mexico; Miss Sylvia w.
Siegfriend and Sylvester Morelos, for
the Philippine Islands: Mrs. Minnie
Ogden and Miss Grace Young, for
Tibet and Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Lennon
and Miss Lillian Binns, for South
America.
The Spirit Of Pentecost, the obser-
vance Of the booth anniversary of
which Is one Of the features Of the in
ternational and world conventions, was
delt with in messages from Mr.. Nc
Gravrar, for India; Miss Chen Hsi Rem,
for China: +. d. Snipes. for Africa
Prof. Yokchi Hirai, for Japan, and Miss
Irelan, for Latin-America.
Alexandria Paul. Oriental secretary
Of the United Christian Missionary
Society, spoke on world missions.
Gov. Myers Y. Cooper Of Ohio, who
had been scheduled for an address this
morning, was unable to come TO Wash
1ngton and his place was taken on the
program by Mr. Pierce, who spoke in
support Of the pension fund.
Enlargement Needed.
Enlargement of the brotherhood,s
facilities for caring for the aged and
the needy was advocated before the
convention this morning by F. M
Rogers, indianapolis, the secretary of
the department of benevolence Of the
United Christian Missionary Society.
Mr.. Rogers told his audience that the
brotherhood had been content with six
homes for children, ALI of the same
type, and six for the aged Of the same
type.
For q number of years I have
strongly felt and suggested that the
equipment for our benevolent ministry
Is inadequate" he said, mot so much
so with respect to the number of homes,
AbA SAAOpC VIC hdNN GONCE QuilC well JIlC
areas TO be served, but they are all of
the same type, whereas what we need in
order to do well rounded benevolent
work is homes of different types"
This Is necessary in the ministry to
children, he said, and especially true
with regard to the ministry to the aged
Mr.. Rogers urged establishment of three
types of homes for the aged to supplant
the charitable or strictly benevolent
HOFaPG not int
home. the self-supporting type of home,
and the sanitarillm type.
Trend Is Criticized.
"After all these years of fairly sue
eessful achievement in the Bureau of
BeneEolence, We can point today to but
one small hospital as representing our
entire brotherhood's organized effort, in
behalf Of sick and suffering humanity
in the homeland" he said.
Mr.. Rogers asserted that benevolence
cannot be treated as an ordinary mis-
sionary program. In this day." he said
there Is increasing concern on the
part OF all men. There is tendency of
the church TO relegate to civil, fraternal
and other philantrophic agencies the
care OF the poor and the sick. In doing
so, the church is not only Sinking one
OF her greatest responsibilities, but she
Is forfettng one of the most effective
ministries for the winning of men"
Mr.. Rogers told the convention that
his experience indicated to him that
ordinary methods and ordinary presen-
tations of the missionary program will
not Sufhce in bringing about giving
commensurate with the needs OF the
brotherhood's benevolent homes. He
said that in order that the program
Of benevolence might succeed, there
must be not only a national program
but regional, State and local programs
Lack of such coordination is in part