St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-09
Bishop E. w. Kelly
Speaks at Two
Great Meetings
By JAMES D. PARKSDALE

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inclusive; it is not exclusive" de-
clared Bishop Edward W. Kelly, ST.,
of St. Louis, in an evangelical ad-
dress before a crowd of more than
1900 people of both races who at
tended the Twin City Methodist
Victory Crusade Rally in the Ham
line University Field House, Sunday
evening.
"At this period in our life we are
more inclined to exclude people than
to include them in our contribution
to salvation. Christ loves all; we
love some. The result is a world
at war. Unless we can have the
peace of God we cannot have a real
victory" Bishop Kelly said.
Music for the service was fur
nished by the combined choirs of
the Camphor Memorial Methodist
Church, st. Paul, and the Border
Methodist Church, Minneapolis,
with Clarence C. Underwood, ST.,
of the Border Church as the director
and John M. Moultrie, of the Border
Church, as the pianist. The girls
chorus of Hamline University,
directed by Prof. Robert Holiday,
also sang. DR.. Robert ]. Rice
director of the Minnesota Million
Movement, announced that more
than $750,OOO.0O of the desired mil
lion, to be raised by Minnesota
Methodists, has been raised. Funds
raised in this campaign which was
launched in December last year, will
be used for postwar Christian re-
construction, for Hamline Univer-
sity and for building a Methodist
home for the aged in the Twin Cities
area and for retired ministers.
Bishop Ralph S. Cushman, resi-
dent bishop of the st. Paul area,
presided and introduced Bishop
Kelly, who was one of the three Ne
groes elected to the highest office
of the denomination, last year.
There are now five active and one
retired Negro bishop in the Meth
odist Church, the largest Protestant
body in America.
Bishop Kelly preached in the
Camphor M emorial Methodist
Church Sunday morning and dedi-
Gated the church after the sermon.
Bishop Kelly was assisted in the
service by the pastor, Rev. Clarence
T. R. Nelson, Mr.. Leroy Gardner,
local preacher, and Father Henry
W. Thomas of Minneapolis. James
H. Rideaux, chairman of the Trustee
Board, presented the church build
ing to the Bishop for dedication and
Mrs. Julia Lewis, a charter men,
Der and the president of the Wom-
ans Society of Christian Service,
formally named the church during
the dedicatory service. The church
is named in honor of the late Bishop
A. P. Camphor, who died in 1919.
Mrs. Winona Minis, of Minneapolis,
was the guest soloist for the SER
vice.
The Camphor church was organ
lied in 1919 by the late DR.. Gloster
R. Bryant, District Superintendent,
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Mcfarland, 493 Whitall Street. The
first permanent home of the new
congregation was in the old Danish
Norwegian Methodist Church, which
stood at 18th and Broadway before
being torn down. In 1881 the con-
gregation was relocated in the for
mer home of the Church of the
Messiah (EpiscopaD, the present
church building, under the pastor
ate of Rev. F. G. Walker. The in
debtedness on the church building
and parsonage at 631 St. Anthony
Avenue was liquidated last Novem-
Der and thus gave the opportunity
for the dedication on last Sunday.
Churches in the Methodist denomi-
nation are not dedicated until they
are free of debt.
Bishop Kelly complimented the
congregation and pastor on the ac-
complishments of the seven years
of the present administration. When
Rev. Nelson became pastor of the
church in April, 1888, there were
more than 100000 in old current
expense debts alone and the congre,
cation of less than fifty active mem
bers was struggling to keep up the
payments on parsonage and the
church building. In 1912 the Cam
phor victory campaign was launched