Evening star., 1933-05-14
Joint GATHERING
OF BAPT|STS.HERE
FIRST IN 88 YEARS
Northern and Southern Con.
ventions Will Dedicate
Church May %.
AFFILIATED GROUPS
ARRANGE SCHEDULE
Women's Missionary Union Ses-
sions at Continental Hall-Fel.
lowship Supper to Be Held.

lowship Supper to Be Held.
Bridging a gap of SO years, the first
joint meeting of Northern and Southern
Baptists since 1s45 will be held In
Washington. -....'.
Two conventions will be held, but
there will be one day Of joint sessions.
Starting first, the Southern Baptist
convention win open Friday and con-
tinue until Tuesday, May %. which will
be the day for the united meeting with
their brethren from the North. The
Northern Baptist convention, 1t was an
nounced yesterday, will start its own
separate sessions on the following day,
May "a, and close on Sunday, May 28.
Memorial TO Be Dedicated.
A feature of the joint assemblage will
be the dedication of the National Bap-
tist Memorial Church. Sixteenth street
and Columbia road. This memorial was
launched by both conventions and has
been supported by both.
While the conventions are here SIM
ultaneous gatherings will be held by
the various affiliated and allied organf-
cations. Pulpits of many churches Of
the city will be filled on the two Sun
days by prominent visiting clergy.
The Women's Missionery Union. rep
resenting the women of the South, will
hold its sessions in Constitution Hall
on Thursday, and the Baptist Brother
hood of the South will hold sessions on
the same day in Calvary Baptist Church,
meeting in joint session on May % with
the National Council OF Northern Bap-
tist Men at the same church, with q
Fellowship supper" following an after
noon mass meeting.
Luncheon Conferences.
The Northern Baptists will do as
the Southerners, hold daily luncheon
conferences during the convention
period, with the annual business meet
ing on May 25. The main sessions Of
the two conventions will be held in the
Washington Auditorium. The Raleigh
Hotel will be headquarters for the
Southern delegations. with the Powha-
tan Hotel for the Southern women. The
Northern headquarters will be at the
Mayf1ower Hotel.
Elaborate preparations for the con-
ventions have been made by the local
general council on arrangements which
held q final meeting at Calvary Church
Friday night. The committee Is headed
by w. w. Everett, moderator Of the
Columbia Association Of Baptist
Churches.
THE Columbia Association feels that
a great spiritual honor has been con-
ferred on it this year in that it has
been selected to be host to both the
Southern and Northern Baptist conven-
tions," he said. 1T recognizes the sig
nificance Of this occasion. and 1t be-
lieves that it is most fitting that our
National Capital should have been
selected as the place where our two
great denominational groups gather In
the same city for the first time in
many years. It hopes that the meet
ings this year will be the most inspir-
ational that have ever been held, and
that the discussions and the plans Will
mean much for the strengthening and
the upbuilding of the denominational
work throughout this Nation and the
world"
Joint Meeting Addresses.
At the combined meeting on May %
there will be addresses in the morning
by DR.. j. Clyde Turner. Of the First
Baptist Church, Greensboro, N. c.. and
DR.. John MacNeill, Of Toronto, president
of the Baptist World Alliance. In the
evening the speakers will be DR.. Clar-
ence A. Barbour. president of Brown
University, and DR.. George w. Truett
Of the First Baptist Church, Dallas,
Tex. The woman's mass meeting on
the afternoon of that day in Consti-
tuition Hall, with Mrs. o. E. Howe, presi-
dent Of the Woman's Baptist Missionary
Association of the District of Columbia,
in the chair, will be addressed by Mrs.
w. j. Cox, president of the Woman's
Missionary Union, Of the South; Mrs.
H. E. Goodman, president of the Wom-
ans American Baptist Foreign Mission
Society; Mrs George Caleb Moor, presi-
dent Of the Woman's American Baptist
Home Mission Society; Miss Katherine
Mallory, corresponding secretary OF the
Woman's Mission Union, and others.
The mems mass meeting at Calvary
on the same afternoon will be addressed
by E. w. Skies, president of Clemson
Tillinghast, headmaster of the Horace
Mann School for Boys, New York. Will
liam Travers Jerome, jr., OF New York,
will preside at this meeting, and j. H.
Anderson Of Knoxville, chairman Of the
Baptist Brotherhood of the South, at
the banquet, at which there will be
greetings by the presidents of the two
conventions. At the dedication Of the
church the main address will be by DR.
w. j. McGlothlin, president Of Furman
, University, Greenville, N. c., former
president of the Southern Baptist Con-
vention. on "Baptists and Religious
Liberty"
The prayer of dedication will be by
DR.. Bernard c. Clausen of Syracuse
N. Y, who will also deliver the conven-
tion sermon at the Northern sessions
There will be greetings from the presi-
dent Of the two conventions, with other
representatives Of both conventions par
ticipating in the exercises, which will
be at 7:30 am.
Reports by presidents of different or
ganizations and by chairmen Of com.
mittees will discuss all phases of the
| abroad. Mission study classes will be
conducted. and about one hundred and
fifty missionaries will be present, q
! number Of whom will speak.
Prof. I. E. Reynolds. head of the
music department Of the Southwestern
University, will direct the music of the
] Southern convention, and Raymond E
Rapp will be organist for the Northern
convention. The annual convention ser.
mon Of the Southern group will be or
Sunday afternoon. May 81, by DR.. J. L
White Of Miami, Fla.
| DR.. MOORE TO SPEAK
| Personalities in Development OF
| Washington" Topic.