Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-04

Young People From Entire
Country to Hold Fortieth
Convention Here.

Baptist young people from all parts
of the United States and Canada Will
gather in this city next week for their
ifortieth annual convention. The van
guard of some 1000 delegates has al
ready arrived and on Monday morning
the national officers will begin to ar
rive for preliminary committee, meet
ings. The convention proper will open
at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening at the
Washington Auditorium with approx
mately 4500 delegates from Washing
ton and vicinity, and 1000 delegates
), from other States and Canada. 1t Will
= continue through Sunday.
= The Baptist Young Peoples Union OF
: America was organized more than 40
> years ago and meets once year IN
: open convention to promote fellowship
!. and inspire the membership in their
2 work. The Washington Baptists,
: through their organization, the Column
> bia Federation of Baptist Young Peo-
: pie, started to work for this convention
four years ago and are now ready to
entertain the visiting delegates.
Magnetic Fortieth."
This convention ) known as "the
magnetic fortieth," with the central
theme, THE Magnetic Christ" ana par
ticularly the words of Jesus: AND L,
if be lifted up, will draw all men unto
Myself" The program OF addresses Will
be built around this theme.
The convention will be opened by j.
Milton johnson of Los Angeles, ma
tional president of the Baptist Young
PEOPLES Union of America, Wednesday
evening. The opening address will be
given by Mrs. j. M. Dawson OF waco,
Tex, on the subject of IF 1 Be Lifted
Up" Mrs. George Caleb Moor, presl-
RonttSt
Home Mission Society, will speak Thurs
day morning on 1.-THE Perils and Privl-
leges of the Pathfinder" Rev. Joseph
A. Cooper of the field staff of the North
ern Baptist Convention, will speak that
evening on Fer Their Sakes." On Fri
day. Rev. Allyn K. Foster of the Board
of Education of the Northern Baptist
Convention, will speak twice, in the
morning on 1.-The Threatened City and
the Anxious Prophet" and in the eve
ming on The Cross and Creativeness.
DR.. Joseph Taylor, Baptist missionary
in China, will speak twice on Saturday
In the morning on How Goes the
World?" and in the evening on Where
Goes the Christi" Rev. Cooper will
= speak Sunday afternoon on Where He
Leads Me" Sunday evening the coro-
nation address will be delivered by DR..
George w. Truett of Dallas, Tex, on
i VIII FOLLOW.
The song leader of the convention
will be Robert H. Coleman of Dallas,
Tex The Magnetic Chorus of three
hundred voices has been in training for
several weeks and will render special
numbers under the direction of George
F. KortZenborn of Washington. The
keystone Quartet of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and the Apollo Quartet of
Washington will render special num-
bers. Raymond Rapp of Washington
will preside at the organ.
DIR. Adams to Lead.
The quiet half-hours each morning
will be under the leadership of DR..
Theodore r. Adams of Toledo, Ohio.
The evening devotional periods will be
conducted by William H. Rhoades, also
Of Toledo.
Special conferences will be held
Thursday and Friday covering various
phases Of young peoples WORK. Con-
ferences on the commission plan will
be conducted by j. Willard McCroSSen,
past president of the Baptist Young
Peoples Union of America, and Miss
Anna Duha, training department SEC
rotary of that organization. Mrs. Edna
. Umstot Mowbray, former B. Y. P. U.
secretary, will present for the first
time 1.-The Pioneer Plan" which she has
,W1lGLSIl 1OI WOTk. n COLL
ference on State and asSociational work
will be conducted by Edwin Phelps,
the national secretary, and one on the
young peoples meeting by Miss Irene
Lyons, the natioral life-work secretary
Richard Holland, young peoples
worker of the Am IN Baptist Publ
cation Society, wi cc-duct a confer
ence on Evangelism"
Three forums will be conducted at
the same time. Mrs. ]. M. Dawson of
Waco, Tex, will lead the one on The
Home" Prof. Rolvix Harlan of the
University of Richmond will lead a
forum on Christian Frontiers of
Thought including discussions on
race relations, world peace, ETC. Rev
Robert Corradini of New York will
conduct a forum on THE Truth About
the Eighteenth Amendment"
- A special visitation service will be
held Thursday afternoon at the Ma
tional Baptist Memorial Church, fol-
lowed by reception to all officers of
he Baptist Young Peoples Union of
America, and to all the convention
speakers and leaders. The delegates
will make pilgrimage Saturday aft
ernoon to the Tomb of Washington at
Mount Vernon. On Sunday morning
the delegates will be entertained in
the various Baptist churches of the
city and taken to the homes for dinner.