Evening star., 1933-05-18
BAPT|STS LAUNCH
Z WEEKS SESSION
OF GREAT SCOPE
South Represented by 1900
to 4,W0-Many Coming
From North.
JOINT CONFERENCE
SIGNIFICANT FEATURE
Cancellation and Cooperation OBJ
ject of May % Gathering-Sep-
arate Programs Arranged.

For two weeks, beginning today, the
National Capital will be host to the
largest and most significant conferences
OF the Baptist Church probably ever
held in the United States. From the
South and North delegates are coming
here by the thousands for two separate
conventions, but with the purpose of
joining together, on May %, for the first
time in SO years in a combined session
Of conciliation and brotherly CO.
operation.
Between 5000 and 1000 delegates
from every Southern State to be fol-
lowed next week by others from the
North, were filtering into Washington
today for the first of these conventions,
but preparatory to its opening tomor-
row morning, the women of the South
began their own individual conference
today in Constitution Hall Represent
ing the Women's Missionary Union with
a membership of 563 800 in a total of
81 $40 organizations they were conduct
ing their forty-fifth annual meeting. At
the same time Baptist Mems Confer
ence, under auspices Of the Baptist
Brotherhood of the South. began hold
ing morning, afternoon and evening ses-
sions in Calvary Baptist Church.
In the absence of President F. F.
Brown, Knoxville. Tenn. who was de-
tanned at home by physical break
down. the Southern Baptist convention,
which opens tomorrow morning at $50
O'Clock in the Washington Auditorium.
will be presided over by Dr. NJ E. Dodd.
pastor Of the First Baptist Church of
Shreveport, La. one of the leading Bap-
fists in the South. who was elected first
~ L,
Officers Of the Southern Convention
already have reached Washington and
registration has begun.
Committee Meetings.
Committee meetings Of the Women's
Association were held yesterday, it was
announced. Nineteen Southern States
and the District of Columbia are in
cluded in the missionary union. each
being entitled to As delegates, for whom
seats were reserved. The meetings
however, are open to all interested
women.
While there is no thought Of a mer-
ger Of the Southern and Northern con-
ventions, numbering about 100000
communicates, there is widespread con-
f1dence that the fraternal feeling surely
to be engendered by this years signi-
flcant and historic meeting, cannot but
be far-reaching in its results.
The message of Mrs. w. j. Cox, presi-
dent of the Women's Missionary Union.
featured the morning session of that
organization. She is from Knoxville,
Tenn. While stressing the wide-hung
activities Of the organization, she
pointed out that its home mission work
is in Cuba and Puerto Rico and among
foreigners, mountain people and Negroes
in the South. Its foreign mission fields
are in China, Africa and South
America
The address Of welcome was given by
Mrs. Earl w. Chafee, chairman Of the
local committee. with response by Mrs.
F. w. Armstrong of Missouri. An Or
gan recital of Is minutes by Mrs Emily
G. Dickinson CT Washington is given be-
fore each session, the afternoon session
being at 2 o'clock and the evening pro-
gram starting at o'clock Mrs. Eva
w. Lovette, also of this city. IS acting
as hymn leader This evening the
Lovette Choral Club will give choral
program.
Reports on Program.
In addition to the presidents mes
sage, the morning program included re-
ports of the boards of managers; re-
pOIL VI Illc ucdSuIcl, MuS. w. ~.
Lowndes of Maryland; greetings from
the Baptist Bible Institute by Mrs. A.
J. Aven of Mississippi, and from the
Southwestern Training School by Mrs.
B. A. Copass and Mrs. j. M. Dawson Of
Texas
A period of intercession for nations, by
Southern Baptist missionaries, was led
by Miss Blanche S. White of Virginia.
There were talks on stewardship. by
Mrs. G. R. Martin, Virginia; personal
service, by Mrs. P. B. Lowrence, Ten
nessee; mission study, by Mrs. Una
Roberts Lawrence, Missouri. and
strength in union, by Miss Kathleen
Mallory, corresponding secretary.
At the afternoon session Miss Mallory
will discuss proposed changes in the
W. M. U. plan of work. This will be
followed by plans for a December week
of prayer for foreign missions by Mrs.
R. K. Redwine, North Carolina, and
for a March week Of prayer for home
missions by Mrs. r. A. CopaSs. Texas.
Reports on the W. M U. literature de-
partment will be by Miss Ethel Winfield,
secretary; the Margaret fund, by Mrs.
Frank Burney, chairman; the w. M. U.
Training School, by Miss Carrie U.
Littlejohn. principal; and the w. M. U.
young peoples organizations, by Miss
Juliette Mather, secretary. An address
on Christian Conquests in the Sunrise
Kingdom" by Mrs. Carrie Hooker Chiles
Rowe, Japan, will feature the evening
session, starting at 7:30.
Brotherhood Session.
The meeting today of the Baptist
Brotherhood Of the South included ad-
dresses this morning on "Associational
Brotherhood" by j. M. Edwards Of
johnson, S. c.: by w. G. Doyle Of New
York, representing the Northern Baptist
Men, and by John Lake, missionary to
China.
This afternoon ]. L: Willis Of Coium-
bia, S. c., will speak on What the
Brotherhood Means to My Church"
The principal speaker at tonight's
session will be Pat M. Neff, former Gcv-
ernor of Texas and now president of
Baylor University, Baptist institution.
at Waco, Tex. His subject will be
Manhood on the March" Gov. Neff is
q noted orator.
Others who will address the evening
meeting, which will be presided over by
j. H. Anderson of Knoxville, chairman
of the Executive Committee, include r.
E. Gaines of the University Of Rich
mond on 1.-THE Layman's Place in
Christ's Program" and j. L. Kraft Of
Chicago on The Challenge"
SONGS FEATURE SESSION