The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1942-08-22
Inter Denonlinational Ministers
Conference AT Culfside Sept. IA

BISHOP fbOU6TL n. JOKES was SpeCldl
lecturer at the Hampton Minister'S
Conference few years ago. Then
and there he decided that the Negro
Ministers of the Southwest should
have a conference following the pat
tern of the Hampton Conference.
Having the facilities of Waveland,
Mississippi, where he purchased three
hundred acres of land on which stood
the old Jackson House." April, 1928,
he Immediately began looking for
someone to duplicate the Hampton
Conference at Gulfside.
At the New Orleans Area Council
Meeting last August, at Gulfside,
Rev. Robert Moten Williams, pastor
Of Asbury Methodist Church, Wash
ington, d. c., was requested and
commissioned to launch the confer
ence. DR.. Williams was connected
with the Hampton Conference for
eighteen years, serving also as presi-
dent.
DR.. Williams has succeeded in Sc
curing about $50 of the outstanding
Negro religious leaders in America
as sponsors of the conference These
sponsors include nearly all of the
Negro college presidents of America,
and representatives of all denomina-
tons.
The Hampton Ministers Confer
ence in its 18th Annual Meeting
June LIS voted its unanimous ap-
prevail of this conference at Gulfside
and pledged its full cooperation.
The officers of the Conference are
as follows: Bishop S. L. Green, who
is now presiding over the work of
his church in the states of Louisiana
and Mississippi. Bishop Green of the
A. M. E. Church is president Bishop
Green began his career as pastor, ne
served as president of a college of
his denomination for six years, he
was trustee of the same school for
four years, and as bishop of the A.
M. E. Church he has presided in
South America, West Indies, Tenn,
Ark, Miss, and La EIe is singular
in having been chosen to represent
his church at conferences at home
and abroad. At present he is work
ing for the unity of all Negro Meth
odist communions.
The vice president are: DR.. j. G.
Austin, Chicago, ILL.,; Bishop w. M
Y. Bell, of the c. M E. Church;
Bishop M, w. Clair, of the Methodist
Church; DR.. D. v Jemison, president
National Baptist Convention; DR..
Mordecai Johnson, President, Howard
University; Bishop r. E. Jones, of
the Methodist Church; Bishop L. II.
King, of the Methodist Church, DR..
Benz. E. Mays, President Morehouse
College; Bishop c. L. Russell, of the
&C. E. Church; Bishop A. P. Shaw,
of the Methodist Church; Bishop
Benjamin G. Shaw, of the A. M. e.
z. Church.
The Dean is: DR.. A. Walter Will
liams, President, Natchez College,
Treasurer; DR.. H. T. Medford, Secre-
tary foreign Missionary Board of the
A M. E. Church
Director: DR.. Robert Moten Viii
liams, Pastor, Asbury Methodist
Church, Washington, D. c.
Associate Director: Dr. j. Oscar
Lee, Virginia Union University
Richmond.
A most complete faculty has been
secured by the director which includes
DR.. A. Clayton Powell, pastor
Emeritus of the Abyssinian Baptist
Church of New York City, who will
conduct seminars on The City
Church" and deliver several adj
dresses. DR.. Powell was awarded
the coveted Harmon Award, a few
years ago for having the best orga-
nized church in America He became
the nations No. l builder by pur-
chasing a large piece of land in
1920 in Harlem, and erecting on it
$334,O0O Edifice and community
house. The institution boasts of
having 13 full time workers and
part time workers. DR.. j. H. Jack
son, successor to the late DR.. L. K.
Williams, at Olivet Baptist church,
Chicago, Ill.,, is graduate of Jack
son College. Jackson, Miss. Colgate
Rochester Divinity School, and with
a M. A. degree from Creighton Uni
|.versity, will deliver several addresses.
Dr. Jackson visited Africa in 1885
and made survey of the mission
/ fields in several countries on the
West Coast. He visited the League
of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
when the Ethiopian question was be-
fore the League. He also delivered
the special Centenary address il
British Guiana, South America In
celebrating the 100 years of free-