Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-08-19
State Baptists
Close Annual
Sessions Here
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL
SESSION HELD HERE
Separate Convention
For The Auxiliary
Recommended
Message Delivered
By Conference Head

Beginning Wednesday, August o.
ard continuing through Sunday
August Is, The Wolverine State
Baptist Convention held its fif-
teenth annual session at the New
Mt. Zion Baptist Church here.
According to the consensus of
opinion, the Convention was ore
of the most successful ever held in
the State of Michigan. The pro
gram was large and varied. includ
ing information both spiritual and
intellectual.
Numerous sermons and address
es were delivered by leaders pro
minent in the work OF the Michi-
gan State Baptists. All were of In
terest and had certain definite
values; but there were some that
stood out in clear relief and will
find permanent preservation in the
annals of the Convention.
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Among these was the address by
Mrs. Ida Pope of Second Baptist
Church, delivered Thursday after
noon. Mrs. Pope is president of the
Woman's Convention. auxiliary to
the State Convention. She has held
this office for fourteen years. and
by her competence and consecra-
ton TO the work of the women
throughout the state, has won the
admiration and respect of not only
the women but also of the men.
Her address was fraught with
clenchirg statements. She revealed
the need and Importance Of mis-
sionary work, emphasizing the fact
that progress in missions means
not only spiritual development but
development in all phases of life.
Mrs. Pope recommended that the
woman's CONVEX ton be given per-
mission by the parent body to meet
separately from the mems con-
yention in order that the women
might have an opportunity to &C
complish more of their own aims.
This recommendation was hailed
with much jubilation by the
women ard was approved by the
men.
Reverend e. l.. Todd, president
of the mems convention. brought
his third annual message TO the
assembly. He told how he had tri-
ed to dignity his office by refusing
.he bride of politicians and by
refusing to engage in the disputes
arising in various Baptist church
es throughout the State. He also
made the significant statement
that the church as a whole has
been peculiarly blessed despite the
precarious situation in which 1t
has found itself.
At the evening session, Reverend
THOMPSON of Grand Rapids,
preached on the Unity of Chris
tianity." He reminded his audi
cree that the intellectual life If
not to be emphasized at the ex-.
pense of the spiritual. He stated
however, that knowledge Is an
essential in salvation.
Mrs. Mapp, of Chicago, pleaded
that the church give more support
to the foreign Mission Board in
order that missionary enheavors
in foreign lands be carried on CT
fectively and efficiently
Departmental meetings were
held Friday morning. Problems
confronting the b. Y. p. u. and the
Sunday School, methods, and solu-
lions were studied at this time
with Mrs. Colvert presiding as
president of the Sunday School,
and w. c. Ross presiding as presi-
dent of the d. Y. p. u. Prominent
in these departmental meetings
we're Mrs. Edna Nance Bronson
Mrs. Mary r. Cole, Mrs. Birdie
Wilson, Mr.. Penick, and Reverend
Lewis, president OF the Detroit
City b. Y. p. u.
In the afternoon, Reverend
Smith preached to a Joint session
on Spiritual Power" II was HIS
conviction that the church of today
should not be concerned with
economic, social ror intellectual
power but with spiritual.
Following Reverend Smiths
sermon. the reports Of the Conven-
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