St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-05-07

Radisson hotel Thursday evening
to attend the convocation banquet
and hear Rev. A. J. Carey, first
alternate delegate for the United
States to the United Nations and
prominent Chicago AME pastor,
The banquet was the climax OF the
two day convocation.
As far as could be checked, the
convocation was the first time IN
recent history OF the church that
this large number OF bishops at
tended an affair of the church
other than the general conference
OF the denomination.
The oonvocation was opened
Wednesday morning by Rev. Mel
son Pryor, presiding elder of the
st. Paul district that includes TIE
Twin Cities and Rev. William
ogieton gave the invocation.
Rev. ]. p. Q. Wallace read the
scripture lesson and Rev. r. r.
Washington gave the decalog.
The hymn How Firm n
Foundation" was led by Rev. q.
w, Brewer.
Bishop Frank M. Reid. seventh
district, preached the opening ser
mon. Mr.. Reid halls from South
Carolina where he leads over i00,-
600 church members. He has also
been In the forefront OF the fight
for suffrage for Negroes In the
Palmetto state.
The invitation was given by
Rev. ID. A. Blake and the bishops
and presiding elders took COM
lmunion together.
Following the presiding elders
council meeting the convocation
adjourned for lunch.
That afternoon panel discus
sion was led by Rev. G. T. II. Wat
lISins and the discussants were
lReverends c. H. Stewart, Hymen
Mills, j. w. Stratton and John
Hunter,
The panel was titled The Chris
tian Church and the Atomic Age.
Later that same afternoon there
was another panel, titled, "fmpli-
cation Of the World Council OF
Churches"
Discussants in this panel were
Rcvercnds A. w Ward, A. y. Ev-
ans, J. A. DANES. T. II. Smith and
A. n. Parks
At the close of the last panel,
popular Bishop !. II. Bonner OF
the ninth district. who lives In
Birmingham, Ala. gave a talk
entitled THE Pulpit Hour"
Wednesday evening the WILDER
force university choir gave a con-
cert at Central High school before
n capacity filled auditorium.
Raymond w. Cannon. Mime
apolis attorney and member of the
Min city FEpC commission head
cd up list Of distinguished lay
and church people who were given
citations by Bishop George w.
Baber, who presides over the
fourth district for their work In
the field OF human relations. Can
non Is the second Minnesotan to be
so cited Cecil Newman, Twin City
publisher received a similar cite-
ton In 1861.
Those cited with Cannon were
John sengstacke, publisher OF the
Chicago Defender. Or. G. Merrill
Lenox: Virgin Islands Gov. A. AL
exander. John G. Dancy of De-
troit. Rev. A. J. Carey and Frank
Beckwith
In addition to the bishops at
tending the affair, other honored
guests al the convocation were
Drs. @. l.. Hill, r.. III. Nance, Fred
Hughes, e. A. seiby, s. l.. Jones
and George A. Singleton.
Thursday morning the eonvoca-
tion reconvened at $3.50 with a
morning service conducted by Rev.
Benjamin Moore. former pastor at
St James In 81. Paul Of which
Rev. r. J. Jones Is pastor
After the service the convoca-
ton had breakfast as body at
the church.
Al 10 a. m. a panel discussed,
Evangelism Or WHAT" and the
participants were Reverends U. >.
Robinson, A. L. williams. J. A.
Charleston, Lyman Parks and
Mary w. Stewart
Mrs. Ann Danes led q sing
spiration that was followed by an
other panel on Recruiting Priests
and Prophets for Tomorrow"
Discussants were Reverends c.
8. spivey. u. J. Moore. NJ L. Sim
mons, host pastor. @. N. Reid and
8. ID. Hardwick.
At noon Bishop w. r. Wilkes.
twelfth district. also gave q tale
on the Pulpit Hour"
The presiding elders gave their
final reports that were followed
by panel discussion titled.
New Horizons For Christian I'd