Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1949-01-08

-hetooH I6Iupfe III MeIupHlS, LIN
ington, Miss, and the Eiian
Brooks Coffee Rest home in De
troit, can be evaluated in terms
OF millions OF dollars.
There are more than a million
communicates OF the church who
are directly OF indirectly active
with the various departments.
Among the better known auXi-
liarieS of the hurch are the Wo-
mems department, headed by
Mother Lillian Brooks Coffey of
Chicago; Young Peoples Will
ing Workers group, the National
council, under direction Of Bishop
Williams; Home and Foreign
Mission board, the Sunday School
department, the Bible band, and
the Publishing board. Two ma
jor publications are issued on a
monthly basis by the church.
They are the whole Truth"
edited by Mrs. e. V. Sparks, of
this city and the Lifted Ban
ner" by Mrs. Alberta Mckenzie,
Of Omaha, Nebr.
Five missionaries from the
foreign fields were representa-
at the 41st session which closed
December IA. They were MI. and
Mrs. w. Rogers Of Iberia, Rev.
r. Hunt, overseer Of the Bahia
mas; and Mrs w. G. Ragland,
now on furlough from Cape Pal
mas; and Mrs. Dorothy Webster
of Haiti.
The Woman's department was
deeloped with incluence Of ma
tional scope under the late Mo-
Their Lizzie Robinson OF Omaha.
She was the first woman to hold
this position. Her death came
during the 1916 convocation IN
Memphis. Mother Coffey sue
ceeded Mother Robinson and has
carried the Woman's department
to even greater success. Part.
cularly pronounced has been the
development of the Mother Cot
few Rest home in Detroit where
IGIHou I1l0OIOllol les hAOAAOoe
adequate help can go fOr aid. This
project alone has been a great
rallying point for the women OF
the church. The Woman's de-
partment is brought down thru
state mothers, each OF whom is
responsible for activities in her
state. e
Mrs. ARENA G. Mallory, pro-
minent educator and club Wo-
man, who is a candidate for a
Ph.D. at the University of South
ern California, is president OF
the Saints Industrial and Lit
erary school at Lexington. This
institution, recognized from
the ground" by President NAL
lory, was one Of the first Negro
school to be accredited by the
State Department Of Education
in Mississippi. Valued at over a
quarter of million dollars, the
Saints Industrial school has an
enrolment of $40 pupils from
nearly every state Of the union.
1t uses a modern bus for trans
portation of its student and fac
ultv personnel and is annually
visited by many of the most
prominent leaders Of both races.
Educational day at the convica-
ton is usually marked by a pill
grimage from Memphis 70 Lex
ingt0n where the saints can per
sonally inspect the school. 1t al
so gives the pupils opportunity
to display their talents.
Greatest single development
within recent years has been the
construction of Hason's temple,
located here. 1t was built on
the same site where II years
ago, the old fran building with
it's sawdust floor had been used
through the years as the temple
was destroyed by fire.
The present structure can seat
1000 persons and houses several
spacious auditoriums, cafeter-
ia, barber shop and beauty salon
and hospital with nurses in at
tendance "A hours a. day during
the convication. The Temple was
named as tribute to Eide