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Norfolk Journal and Guide OTT CAREY FOREIGN MISSION CONVENTION OLDING TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION gates and Visitors Here What Promises To Be Epoch-Making Meeting Women And Children From All Parts Of Country Have Invaded the Homes Of folk And The First And Second Calvary Churches. Welcome addresses On behalf of City, Mayor S. Heth Tyler. On behalf of White Baptists of City, Dr. E. L. Barten. Baptists of Virginia, Dr. F. W. Williams. Baptist Ministers of Tidewater and Vicinity, Dr. A. S. Hoard. Response by Dr. C. E. Askew, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Annual Address by President C. S. Brown. Collection of Finance. Devotionals. Convention Sermon, Dr. David E. Over, Baltimore, Md. Report of Officers. Election of Officers. Introduction of Visitors. Collection of Finance. vage is all set for the most thrilling and colorful ultrism and missions ever enacted in the history of the Church. Men, women and children from all parts country have invaded the homes of Norfolk, and the Second Calvary Churches. Wide street, will be the most spectacular scene of religious enthusiasm caused in this section of the country. No group of the trivial pursuits of pleasure could be more happy earnest, thoughtful foreign mission workers who are there for the week's carnival of sacrifice and service. entire delegation is a choice assortment of unselfish civilian leaders from almost every state in the Union. them are widely known and exert a powerful influence in their own states and throughout the country. them are of national and international repute. Nor-doubtless witness the greatest demonstration of unity, comradeship, orderliness and Christian dignity it has ever before seen. The leaders and the rank of the convention, no matter from what state they men and women and even children of serious pur-ure dedicated wholly to the simple but holy task of help to the needy. Department is com- mending people of adoles- their program will take sunday afternoon from 8:00 and in orderly fashion conduct their program outside assistance. Miss Bullock the attractive mother daughter of Dr. CONVENTION EDITION O. S. Bullock of Raleigh, N. C., will preside over the sessions of the Junior Department. She will demean herself in a manner as sedate and refined as the most proficient and cultured adult. The young people who make up this Junior Department will also show great aptitude in the performance of their several parts. It is a pleasure to see them at work. No feature of the program for the week will be more highly edifying than the work of these young people. Girls' Junior Department The exhibit in clothing as represented by the Woman's Auxiliary and the girls of the Junior Department will be at the Calvary Church. Thousands and thousands of garments are made for the children in Africa. This feature of the convention has grown in four or five years from a trunk full of clothes to car loads of garments made by faithful and sympathetic people all over the country. Those who attend the convention should make a visit to the exhibit room and note the handwork of devoted women and girls from the various sections and states, from which they come. One of the special features during the sessions of the convention will be the dedication of a Memorial Corner Stone of a building to be erected in Liberia under the auspices of the Woman's Auxiliary. These dedicatory exercises will take place on Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Convention Hall. Nothing of the kind has ever before occurred in the history of the NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1925 Chairman Executive Board A. E. The subject of our sketch is Rev. William Thomas Johnson, D. D., who has had a varied experience in life. He taught public school for seven years; afterwards completing his theological course in the Richmond Theological Seminary, now Virginia Union University. Rev. Johnson became pastor of Mount Olivet Baptist Church, Chesterfield county, remaining there for four years and doing much to build up the people and strengthen the work of the church. He pastored the First Baptist Church, Lexington, Va., for nine years and at the same time he was engaged in teaching an independent school. For twenty-three years he has served as pastor of the First Baptist Church, Richmond and chairman of the executive board of Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention for twenty-four years. Rev. Johnson was for ten years moderator of Shiloh Baptist Association of Virginia. He now is chairman of the Trustee Board of Virginia Union University, chairman of the executive committee of Smallwood-Corey Institute, and a member of the board of the United Society of Endeavor. In 1903 Virginia Union city conferred upon himary degree of Doctor of Doctor of In 1905 he attended the Baptist Congress in Lor toured Europe. His favorite reading is and Biography. Among the secret orderings to are the Masons, Old Fellows, Good Sa Love and Charity, St. I National Ideal Benefit S being a member of the Directors in the latter belongs to the Grand Lod John the Watchman. He man of the colored brand Red Cross and during the chairman of various dr campaigns with office at East Leigh street. He is now serving as a of the Richmond Commun For the past two years taught Church Polity and Duties in the Va. Union city. convention nor in the history of foreign missions, so far as is known. The Woman's Auxiliary under the leadership of Mrs. J; H Randolph of Washington, D. C. which has been one of the most effective factors in promoting the work of the Lott Carey Society, is planning to erect at one of the schools in Liberin, a Memorial.Dormitory and the first step in the construction of this building will be begun in Norfolk in the form of this special dedicatory ceremony. Special Feature of Program Another special feature on the program for Wednesday evening at 8:00 o'clock will be the illustrated lecture of our Mission Fields by the eminent president, Dr. C. S. Brown. Dr. Brown who has traveled widely in Europe, Africa and the West Indies, will present a panorama of missionary achievement which will be highly informing and inspirational. The morning hours, from 8:00 until 9:00 will be given to Modern Methods in Bible Study and lectures on the Holy Spirit by Dr. J. M. Waldron of Washington, D. C., whose long career as leader and church builder extends from Jacksonville, Fla., to Washington, D. C. Dr. Waldron has been recognized for his special gifts along the line of Bible Study by such institutions as Howard University and member of the board of trustees of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. In 1903 Virginia Union University conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. In 1905 he attended the World's Baptist Congress in London and toured Europe. His favorite reading is History and Biography. Among the secret orders he belongs to are the Masons, Pythians, Odd Fellows, Good Samaritans, Love and Charity, St. Luke and National Ideal Benefit Society, being a member of the Board of Directors in the latter. He also belongs to the Grand Lodge of St. John the Watchman. He is chairman of the colored branch of the Red Cross and during the war was chairman of various drives and campaigns with office at 201-203 East Leigh street. He is now serving as a director of the Richmond Community Fund. For the past two years he has taught Church Polity and Pastoral Duties in the Va. Union University. Tuskegee Institute and chauquais and Bible conferences throughout the country. The sessions of the convention as a whole will be didactic and entertaining rather than parliamentary. There will be no acrimonious debates or polemic discussions and no extraneous subjects will be introduced, no lost motion or waste of time. Every moment will be spent in reaching the single objective of conveying blessings to benighted lands. Each day will reveal a careful survey of foreign mission fields and will be an intensive study of methods in reaching them with needed help. Quite a number of candidates for the foreign fields are on hand. The sessions of the convention will undoubtedly be a source of much enlightenment to Norfolk and to those who are fortunate enough to attend. GARRETT'S A. M. E. ZION TEMPLE The Sunday school was featured by a large attendance. The lesson was reviewed by Mr. J. R. Green, the superintendent, Mr. W. Sledge and Miss Mabel Dixon, assistant secretary. The morning services were conducted by a visiting minister, Rev. H. P. Lankford, B. D., D. D., of Fayetteville, N.C., from Ecch. 7:14. "In the day of adversity, etc." The pastor spoke at the night service on "Paul's Second Missionary Tour." Acts 10:6-16. Recording Secretary REV. A. W. PEGUES, A. W. PEGUES, Ph. D., D. D., of THE NEW YORK TIMES REV. A. W. PEGUES, Ph. D., D. D., of Raleigh A. W. PEGUES, PH. D., D. D. Recording Secretary, Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention A. W. Pegues, the recording secretary of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, has held that position continuously since the organization of the Convention in December, 1897 at Washington, D. C. In fact it was he who called the conference in Boston during the setting of the National Baptist Convention in that city, September, 1897 to consider the propriety of dividing the territory of that great convention into six districts. At that conference the late Dr. A. Binga was appointed chairman of the committee to bring the matter before the National Baptist Convention. Of course, the National brethren would not hear to it, hence the ultimate organization of the Lott Carey Convention. Rev. Pegues has he and active not only inisions, but equally in education and other li ties. With exception when he was principal Carolina State School and Blind, he has he with Shaw University N. C., as teacher sin is now Dean of the TH partingout of that ins has been honored wit tion in the Baptist Station of North Carolina of president which po for a number of years been corresponding see Baptist State Sunday vention for twenty-seven seen that body has seen that body a small one to the lar Baptists that now as State. He has visit of the fifty association Corresponding Sec. nding Sec. Woman's Corresponding Sec. Woman's Auxiliary Mary E. Young Women's Christian Association The Young Women's Christian Association extends a cordial invitation to the visitors and delegates to the Lott Carey Baptist Convention, the Women's Missionary Society and other conventions to use the rest room, of the Y. W. C. A., 416 Cumberland street. A cordial welcome is extended all. Ph. D., D. D., of Raleigh Rev. Pegues has been interested and active not only in foreign missions, but equally in home missions, education and other lines of activities. With exception of some years when he was principal of the North Carolina State School for the Deaf and Blind, he has been connected with Shaw University at Raleigh, N. C., as teacher since 1887. He is now Dean of the Theological Department of that institution. He has been honored with every position in the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina up to that of president which position he held for a number of years. He has also been corresponding secretary of the Baptist State Sunday School Convention for twenty-seven years, and has seen that body grow from a small one to the largest body of Baptists that now assemble in the State. He has visited nearly all of the fifty associations in the State Woman's Auxiliary SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 PER YEAR Faithful Donors Who Give Consistently To Foreign MissionFund "CHIP OFF OLE BLOCK" HENRY ALLEN BOYD JR., who succeeded his distinguished father, the late Dr. Henry Allen Boyd, as secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention of America. The junior Boyd is already hailed as a success, having not only carried out the projects left off by his late father, but built creditably upon the business of the Convention by his own sagacity and farsight. Dr. Boyd is in the city for a brief period during the Lott Carey Convention, having stopped over from Chicago, enroute to his home in Nashville, Tenn. at some time during the last twenty years. Rev. Pques has also been active in the social and material development of his people. He has been closely identified with every uplift movement that has started in Raleigh during the last twenty-five years. He is one of the directors of Mechanics and Farmers' Bank of Raleigh and president of the Eagle Life Insurance Co., which has just been organized and capitalized at $100,000. By far the greater part of his life has been given to religious and educational work. MASS MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT At the Missionary Mass Meeting Friday night, September 4th, the collection will be for scholarships in Africa. Two thousand dollars is the goal set for Friday night. Every lover of missions and every well-wisher of the Republic of Liberia in Norfolk is called upon to contribute from one dollar up. At the Missionary Mass Meeting last year in Washington, D. C., the collection for scholarships amounted to over fourteen hundred dollars. A large number of the officers and delegates of the convention and auxiliary made personal donations of $25.00 each. It is expected this year that the number of Lott Carey workers giving $25.00 each will be greatly increased and Norfolk will be called upon for a generous response to this cause. Every organization, business firm and prominent leader in the city is urgently requested to give something for the scholarship fund for Friday night. Twenty-five dollars a year will provide a scholarship including board and tuition for a native African, child, and any one who desires to invest in the worthy cause of education will find an opportunity here such as is seldom offered. Liberia contains a population of probably three million and less than twenty thousand are fully civilized. The natives are mentally alert, brave and susceptible to high culture. Any one who will give a chance to one of these fine specimens of humanity will be adding to the future greatness of this outstanding Negro Republic. Our appeal is both religious and racial $2,000 is asked for Friday night Portsmouth Couple Stand Out As Most Consistent Individual Contributors For The Past Year. The most consistent individual contributors in foreign missions to the Lott Carey Convention for the year 1924-1925 have been Mr. and Mrs. John W. Jackson, of 1 Downs street, Truxtun, Portsmouth, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have contributed regularly a personal donation of $5.00 per month, making a total of $60.00 per year. These stunch friends of foreign missions made a like contribution for the year 1923-1924. They are examples of what can be done by those who are willing. This contribution has been wholly voluntary on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and is a most tangible expression of their love and devotion for a good cause. We congratulate them on their generosity as we know they have received more pleasure in the gifts they have made than those to whom they have given. The Woman's Auxiliary has led the organizations for systematic giving. This Auxiliary has contributed each month from $50.00 to $500.00 for the entire year. Much credit is due to the president, Mrs. J. H. Randolph, to the Women's Convention of North Carolina, under Mrs. P. G. Shepard of Oxford, N. C., and Mrs. M. L. Penn of Baltimore, Md., Corresponding Secretary of the Auxiliary. The White Rock Baptist Sunday School of Durham, N. C., Mr. C. C. Spaulding Superintendent, and Dr. McDowell, pastor, has also been one of the regular contributors for the year. It has a record of $50.00 per month to the convention for the past several years, and for the present year $25.00 per month for Haitian Missions. This Sunday School has long stood in the forefront of contributors for church auxiliaries. The First Calvary Baptist Church of Norfolk, Dr. O. J. Allen, pastor, has been responsible for the salary of one missionary, giving $50.00 per month for Mr. A. C. Faulkner. The Clark Memorial Baptist Church or Homestead, Pa., Dr. M. A. Talley, pastor, has been responsible for the salary of Mrs. F. B. Watson, paying $50.00 per month. Regular contributions will be made by the First Baptist Church of Rosnoke, Va., Dr. A. L. James, pastor, for one missionary's salary, and the Alleghany Association of Western Pennsylvania, will provide the support of one entire station in Africa, under Mrs. F. B. Watson. The Holy Trinity Baptist Church of Brooklyn, N. Y., under Dr. T. S. Harten, has provided for the education of Samuel Stubblefield, a native African in this country, pursuing a course of study at Union University, Richmond. Dr. Hatten will preach the Missionary Sermon Friday afternoon at 8:00 o'clock. Great Convention Takes Its Name After Pioneer Missionary--Lott Carey PAGE TWO Lott Carey is one of the outstanding characters in the history of the Negro race. He was born in Charles City County, Va., and was brought by his master, one Mr. Clay, early in life to the city of Richmond, where he was employed in a tobacco factory. He showed such aptitude in his work that he was soon promoted to shipping clerk and earned a salary of about nine hundred dollars per year. The exact date of his birth is not known, but the house in which he was born is still standing. Lott Carey did not begin to attract attention until he was probably 25 or 30 years old. "At this time he made a profession of religion, although illiterate, being converted at the 1st African Baptist Church of Richmond under the preaching of an eminent white Baptist preacher of that day, while seated in the gallery of the church. Soon after he became a Christian he learned to read, and write and gave himself with great zeal to the preaching of the Gospel. Lott Carey, the pioneer in missions, George Lisle, the first Baptist missionary to Jamaica, and Uncle Jack, the eloquent and able preacher of Nottoway County, and later Jno. Jasper, the renowned and picturesque preacher of Richmond, were four prominent Negro slaves in Virginia who were permitted to preach freely to both white and colored people before Emancipation. In many respects Lott Carey was the ablest of the four. He was a man of large vision and had a deep sense of responsibility to Africa. His famous text was "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." In 1821 Lott Carey purchased his own freedom and the freedom of his family and organized the first Foreign Missionary Society in the world among Negroes. At this time he became interested also in the work of the American Colonization Society. Under the influence of these two organizations, Lott Carey became: one of the first settlers in what is now known to the Republic of Liberia, on the west coast of Africa, in 1822. Lott Carey evidently was born and reared under the influence of the Episcopal Church, and how he became a Baptist is one of the strange incidents in his personal life as a Christian. Although he could not read the Bible at the time, at the very outset he believed in immersion as the proper and only form of Baptism, and became a strong and vivile advocate of all the doctrines of the Baptist Church. His expositions of the Scripture were clear and thoroughly orthodox, and his devotion and allegiance to the fundamentals of the Faith were both sound and intelligent. He was a clear thinker, brilliant and powerful as a preacher, and was wonderfully impressive because of his earnestness and the force of his rugged and persuasive personality. He preached as acceptably to white congregations as to those of his own race. He was allowed the right of free speech in matters of religion and was thoroughly trusted by white people who knew him. Lott Carey was the first Negro missionary of any denomination to Africa, and probably the first American missionary of any race to the benighted continent. Dr. J. F. Love. Corresponding Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, writes in the Religious Herald as follows: "Virginia's first human gifts to this work were two black men. Lott Carey and Colin Teague of Richmond, head of the list of these immortals. Deacon William Crane had helped to organize the Richmond Baptist Mission Society, and as its head he taught as a gratuity what he called a triweekly night school in the old African Church, and in this school came to know and to value Lott Carey. This society selected Carey and Teague for work in Liberia, Africa, and with the help of both black and white Baptists of Virginia they were sent forth by the Triennial Convention in 1821 to represent Southern Baptists as missionaries to the colony of Liberia largely made up of black people from America who were either born free or had been given their freedom b y their masters. A number of both classes, had gone FIRST AND FINAL SCENES OF LOTT CAREY The Birthplace of Lott Carey The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale image with a dark background and some light areas. There are no discernible text or images that can be clearly identified. LOST The Grave of Lott Carey from Virginia and the South. Dacon Crane speaks of Carey as "a man of unusual intelligence and energy." His name has become a missionary watchword a mo n g many colored Baptists of this country. He was a pioneer both in religion and matters of State; as he was one of the founders of Liberia and gave the best of his life to the development of this Republic. His name today is greatly revered in Liberia and although he lived more than an hundred years ago, his memory there is now as fresh and green as when he lived up on earth. In the very heart of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, stands the Providence Baptist Church, which he established in 1824, the oldest Baptist Church in the country. This church is built of concrete and presents a rather picturesque appearance from the elevation on which stands, overlooking the main square of the town. It is in sight of the president's mansion and enjoys a commanding view in all directions. In a quite meadow, scarcely beyond the waning shadows of this ancient church, almost lashed by the sparkling breakers from the shore, stands the marble tombstone beneath which forever sleeps the mortal remains of this hero of the Cross. About sixty miles westward from Monrovia is the little village of Careysburg, named in honor of Lott Carey, and everywhere one goes through this little Negro Republic are to be seen footprints of this noble man of God. The history of his life and achievements has been an inspiration to Negro Christians the world over and a source of special pride to Negro Baptists everywhere. A little more than twenty-five years ago, the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Society, U. S. A., 1973 LOTT CAREY was organized under the inspiration of his teachings, and was named in his honor. The society is the only organization among Negroes in the world devoted exclusively to the work of foreign missions. Its initial work was confined almost solely to the Baptists of the State of Virginia, the native State of Lott Carey, and the Baptists of the State of North Carolina, and began with only one missionary employed in the Congo Regions of Africa. Today this society has about forty-free missionaries on the various foreign fields, including Africa, Haiti and Russia. About 20 of these missionaries are employed in evangelistic, educational and industrial work in Liberia. This year, the Lott Carey Society is laying the foundation for the first industrial plant ever established in the country. About ten thousand dollars worth of machinery, including saw mill, planing mill, shingle mill, etc., is being set up, and various implements for farming, road building and the clearing of land, have been sent out under special mechanics and industrial experts, to begin an era of NORFOLK JOURNAL AND GUIDE nown among its sole suppo- contributions of America. nous dol- They Entertain Guests of Lott C What was voted a most unusual pitality by those who witnessed and training hitherto unknown among Liberians. This society receives its sole support from voluntary contributions of the Negro Baptists of America. It has received five thousand dollars for a hospital in Liberia, from the estate of the late Miss Carrie V. Dyer, a white woman of the north, who devoted her entire life to the education of Negro girls in the South. This society, aside from the work which it is attempting to do in the countries inhabited solely by Negroes, supports two native ministers and one native educational worker in Russia. Its workers include Negro Baptists of practically every State in the Union. very State in blessing de- signing foreign position by the very, among arches of Ais- marviles cherches them- tle to appeals has been ex- pontaneous, every each life. The made foreign treatment of their amounts Mrs. F. W. Williams on the wide p- dining room were being laden with thing was in readiness Dr. Williams he and Mrs. Williams with a smile guests. As the visitors had not be- long enough to rest from traveling, ther were sharp, but evidently no sharper and hostess anticipated they would b menu was more than sufficient to ap- petite of every one present. Double required to serve all the guests, y witnessed not a hitch or flaw to mar- k of the occasion. Both the host and sonally supervised every detail of the left not a stone unturned to heighten of the evening. Mrs. Williams was assisted in se- Armetta Leary, Mrs. Clara C. Holl- nie Roberts, Mrs. Joanna, Brown and Perhaps the greatest blessing derived from this growing foreign mission spirit, set in motion by the teachings of Lott Carey, among the Negro Baptist Churches of America, has been in its marvelous effect upon the churches themselves. Their response to appeals for Foreign Missions has been exuberant and almost spontaneous, invigorating, inestimably every department of the church life. The churches that have made foreign missions a special feature of their programs are without exception paying larger salaries to their pastors, raising greater amounts of money for education and home missions, and are more systematic and generous in their contributions to the life of the community in general. They manifest both a fuller conception of their responsibility to the world at large and a keener sense of duty to the work of the Kingdom building at home. They have been enabled through the quickening power and guiding influence of foreign missions, to greatly multiply their strength, in the erection of buildings, in the payment of mortgages, in providing equipment, and in making advancement in all other activities of the local church. Above all, foreign missions has filled them with richer experiences of spiritual power. The Foreign Mission Church is alive and militant, and is winning souls for Christ at home as well as abroad. It palsizes with fervor. Its members are alert, prayerful, and estem it a privilege to be stewards for God. Lott Carey is really just beginning to live among the Negro Baptists of the world. A. A. GRAHAM, Corresponding Secretary Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Society. STELLAR LITERARY ENTERTAINMENT LAST NIGHT A very elaborate and impressive literary and musical program was rendered at the Second Calvary Baptist Church, last night, under auspices of the local committee of arrangements for the Lott Carey Convention. The house including galleries was literally packed to capacity. packed to best talent paperb. The and Singers acter. The the ordi- appropriate essiah. The presses were The pro Hymn; in- selection. on, Sunday mg, Mrs. T. jggie Gray; marette; Blow; solo, on; instru- ssa Hobbs; B. Hughes; bilibile Sing- Modana; minifee; re- on, Sunday diction, Dr. was ma- ss Cora L. D. J. Allen, Welcome Supreme Lodge Kn PIONEER ORGANIZAT Invites you to o during yo A BENEFICIAL ENDOWMENT MEN, WOMEN AN HEADQUARTERS: 1063 CHU REV. J. J. MAINOR, S. C. NEW GORED The Perfect Dress F Home from Vir- rd. in E. property A number of the very best talent of the city proved superb. The rendition by the Southland Singers was of a stellar character. The renditions ranged from the ordinary Negro melodies to appropriate selections of the Messiah. The readings, solos and addresses were of a very fine quality. The program follows: Song, National Negro Hymn; invocation, Rev. J. Stith; selection, Junior Choir; selection, Sunday school orchestra; reading, Mrs. T. D. Lee; solo, Miss Maggie Gray; selection, Southland Quartette; reading, Miss Mable R. Blow; solo, Miss Minnie L. Paison; instrumental solo, Miss Adassa Hobbs; reading, Miss Lillian B. Hughes; selection, Southland Jubilee Singers; paper, Mrs. D. E. Mdodana; solo, Miss Georgia Minifee; remarks, pastor; selection, Sunday school orchestra; benediction, Dr. A. Hobbs. D. H. D. Edwards, was master of ceremonies; Miss Cora L. Colden, organist; Dr. O. J. Allen, pastor. MONTANA 429 Gra Beautiful Home located one block from Virginia Beach Boulevard, in E. Brambleton. This property will make an ideal home for business or professional colored man. It has four lots with beautiful gardens, flowers, shrubbery and fruit trees. 7 room-house in excellent condition. Out buildings and chicken house on property. It adjoins a fifty acre park on the north side. Excellent terms can be arranged with the right party. IN DAY Call 21253 AT NIGHT Call 36937 They Entertain Distinguished Guests of Lott Carey Convention What was voted a most unusual and elaborate expression of hospitality by those who witnessed and enjoyed it, was the given What was voted a most unusual and elaborate expression of hospitality by those who witnessed and enjoyed it, was the banquet given the executive boards of the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention and of the Women's Auxiliary Tuesday evening by Rev. Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Williams at their residence, 884 Avenue C. Dr. and Mrs. Williams extended an invitation to the entire boards of both the men and women's bodies, comprising close to 150 persons, and of this number more than half were present. The whole first floor of their spacious home with its commodious porch was turned over to the guests at 6 o'clock, who included several local pastors. While these guests chatted pleasantly in the big parlor and library and on the wide porch, two long tables in the double dining room were being ladened with a sumptuous menu. When everything was in readiness Dr. Williams swung open the front doors and he and Mrs. Williams with a smile of welcome received the numerous guests. As the visitors had not been in the city long enough to rest from traveling, their appetites were sharp, but evidently no sharper that the host and hostess anticipated they would be, because the menu was more than sufficient to appease the appetite of every one present. Double settings were required to serve all the guests, yet there was witnessed not a hitch or flaw to mar the excellence of the occasion. Both the host and hostess personally supervised every detail of the service and left not a stone unturned to heighten the pleasure of the evening. Mrs. Williams was assisted in serving by Mrs. Armetta Leaty, Mrs. Clara C. Holland, Mrs. Jen- Rev. F. W. Willianis nie Roberts, Mrs. Joanna Brown and Mrs. George W. Millner. HEADQUARTERS: 1063 CHURCH ST., NORFOLK, VA. REV. J. J. MAINOR, S. C. F. E. PURVEAR, S. S. NEW GORED OXFORDS The Perfect Dress Footwear For Men $5.95 MONTAGNA'S 429 Granby St. P Those partaking of the hospitality of Dr. and Mrs. Williams were: Mrs. J. H. Randall, Washington, D. C., president of the Women's Auxiliary, Lott Carsey Convention; Mrs. Annie A. Blackwell, treasurer; Mrs. A. L. Penn, Baltimore, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Mary Puryear, secretary; Mrs. E. L. Bradford, members of the executive board; Mrs. O. S. Bullock, superintendent Junior Department of Auxiliary; Mrs. A. Binga, vice president and Mrs. P. L. Anderson, member executive committee. Dr. William Thomas Johnson, chairman of executive board: Drs. J. S. Brown, C. S. Brown, president of the convention, A. A. Graham, corresponding secretary; J. H. Randall, auditor; George W. Moore, of Raleigh and W. A. Waldron, of Washington, D. C., members of executive board, and Miss Audrey Bradford, daughter of Mrs. E. L. Bradford. Drs. J. H. Moore, assistant secretary; G. W. Watkins, W. L. Ransome, A. D. Daly, G. W. Goode, Danville, G. H. E. Washington, and W. J. Howard, executive board, and Emmet Starks. Mr. W. P. Epps, Prof W. E. Robinson, Drs. Daniel Smith, David L. Coshy, South Orange, N. J.; Keysville, Va.; T. D. Lee, Norfolk; J. M. Armistead, Portsmouth; D. J. Bradford, Richmond; R. H. Johnson, Richmond; E. Payne, Richmond; William H. Stokes, Richmond; R. J. Bass, Richmond; J. J. Carter, Richmond; Quinn J. Shelton, Richmond; J. H. Brinkley, Richmond; A. W. Brown, Richmond; G. E. Read, Richmond. Drs. C. M. Long, Norfolk; E. E. Ricks, Newark, N. J.; F. D. Spinner, Dunbar, W. J.; Charles C. Coomer, Washington, D. C.; J. Thomas Reid, St. Albans, W. Va.; Joseph H. Lee, East Arlington, Va.; W. H. Crawley, South Boston, Va.; A. Hobbs, Norfolk and C. L. Williams, City Editor, Journal and Guide. Several of the distinguished guests spoke appreciatively of the splendid hospitality shown by the host and hostess. The menu consisted of: roast chicken, Smithfield ham, mashed white potatoes, candied sweets, green corn, stewed tomatoes, string beans, bread, butter, cake, ice cream, mixed pickles, fruit, ice tea and sweet mints. In Patent Leather and Tan Russian Calf. PETER H. BURGESS NATIVE AFRICAN MINISTER HERE One of the notables attending the Lott Carey Convention this week at Norfolk is the Rev. Charles M. Bryant of Kiapoo, Liberia. Rev. Bryant is a native of Liberia whose ancestors were from the United States. He was 'never beyond the Walk-Over Welcomes THE LOTT CAREY BAPTIST FOREIGN MISSION CONVENTION and invites them in to inspect our fine line of Fall and Winter footwear, for Men, Women and Children, where you will receive courteous treatment. Bonney&Hudgins' Walk-Over Shoe Store 267 Granby St. come knights of Gideon TION OF THE CITY call on them our stay T ORGANIZATION FOR AND CHILDREN BURCH ST., NORFOLK, VA. F. E. PURYEAR, S. S. OXFORDS Footwear For Men $5.95 They are the ideal Shoe for men. It is a happy combination of attractiveness with practicability and remarkable comfort. AGNA'S Sunby St. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER Liberia to the he is ap and un and never main or the other are to duct of sks the most influential and useful in the, whole Republic of and is a man of conscience matters of State. He is a al friend of President King beria and is clothed with a by the Baptists of his cone cement the bond of fellow cooperation between the N Baptist workers there and Carey Society of America. confines of the Republic of Liberia until he began his visit to the United States this year. He is apparently about 50 years old and until he left Liberia in July had never before seen a railroad train or trolley car, nor many of the other modern conveniences which are to be found in this country. He is well educated, a product of mission schools, and speaks the English language as fluently and practically with the same accent as the people of America. To meet him one would scarcely dream that he was a foreigner. He shows thorough acquaintance with modern ideas and civilization and with the ordinary problems of society, and is possessed of all the qualities and amenities of an up to date product of the most advanced civilized land. Rev. Bryant will address the Convention Thursday at 12:00 o'clock and will narrate in detail a story of the contribution made to the Republic of Liberia by the Lott Carey Society. Rev. Bryant is the president of the Liberia Baptist Sunday School Convention, Financial Agent of the Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention and of Ricks Institute, Liberia. He is one of the Negro Press A Grow Influence him one would scarcely dream that he was a foreigner. He shows thorough acquaintance with modern ideas and civilization and with the ordinary problems of society, and is possessed of all the qualities and amenities of an up to date product of the most advanced civilized land. Rev. Bryant will address the Convention Thursday at 12:20 o'clock and will harrase in detail a story of the contribution made to the Republic of Liberia by the Lott Carey Society. Rev. Bryant is the president of the Liberia Baptist Sunday School Convention, Financial Agent, of the Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention and of Ricks Institute, Liberia. He is one of the "It is rendering invaluable ice in keeping before the rite country the worthy achievement of our people by advocating son and out of season the pro of justice and fair dealing the legitimate aspirations of race. I sometimes think the casual reading of our journals we fail to grasp the significance of their work is no one of us but who has spired by their stories of of achievements in business in literature, in social work education, and in religion the story that keeps hope that strengthens confidence in greater effort. I small outlay indeed that these papers to our home the service rendered to us way is out of all proportion cost." Clearance Sale of ART LINENS Big savings off all of our choice selection of the finest quality in Art Linens. BUY NOW! A Few of the Many Specials: Glance Sale of LINENS your choice selection of the finest quality! of the Many Specials: - Hot Roll Covers, pure crum en, Italian cut work. Special ... $12.00 - 13-piece square Linen work, worth $15.50. Linen work, worth $15.50. Special ... $7.65 - Pillow Case, hand-colored brodery, pure linen: were $6.50. Special ... $3.98 tion of Gowns, Teddys, Pajamas MAR'S Lace Sho GRANBY STREET to buy Xmas Gift Ask Us About Our Xmas Savings Cl ART LINEN Big savings will all of our choice selection of the finest quail in Art Linens. BUY-NOW! Most wonderful selection of Gowns, Tedd negligees in the city. DOUMAR' Norfolk 332 GRANBY STREET A New Way to buy Xn You save for the first week. 10c the second 15c the third week, and so on, until December. During this time you will have saved $2.60. We give you $2.35 Interest. Making a total of $10 to apply on any gift select, and allow you to pay the balance terms to suit your own convenience. The is open to EVERYBODY. We invite 15 join. Stop in tomorrow and let us tell about it. The first payment reserves any in our store until Christmas, or you may selections later. 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A. Now Or Never Now or never is the time to give, Before the fleeting years have passed, we have to live. Before old age hangs frosty clu- ters round our brow, And we'd wish we had been giving, Even now. Now or never is the time to pray. Before our strength and vigor ebl away. Before the tooth of time dig furrows in our brow, And we'd wish we had been praying. Now or never is the time to sing. Before our sweet and dulcet tones get on the wing. Before decrepitude and palsey make us bow, And we'd wish we had been singing. Now or never is the time to toil. Before the brewing pot of death begins to boil. Before our gallant ship casts anchor o'er her prow, And we'd wish we had been toiling, Evolution Evolution especially as it relates to man, is a theory and not a fact. It is a thing assumed, not proved, and is utterly void of moral essence or value. Whether theistic or atheistic, it hangs on a thread of probability so fragile that it can be broken into a thousand pieces by the weakest kind of reasoning or the most feeble logic. In the absence of incontrovertible evidence, concrete and tangible, it is surely more reasonable to believe that man and all forms of life for that matter, both animate and inanimate, were produced by some intelligent designer, than to believe that they were themselves evolved, from a single cell, in an orderly process and in symmetrical variety, by their own unaided power, and without understanding and guidance. No matter what resemblances may be found among them in biological research, in physiology, psychology, or in any of the other recognized sciences, the mere supposition that their resemblances and kindred properties, are due not alone to a common origin, but to the power to generate and develop the beings themselves which possesses them, is too flimsy to rest upon calm reason as a basis. The ant and elephant, the toad and the tiger, the man and the monkey, and all the other infinite varieties of animate existence, starting at the same time, or one upon another, feeding on the same quality of nourishment, and growing in the same habitat and under the same environment, all coming from one common cell, without aid except the passing neons, is too utterly mystifying to satisfy other than the most extraordinary type of mind. Or confine the discussion to the origin of the species, to the mammals or to any other related types of being, the same subtile logic will exist. When did these separate but similar and related types begin to diverge and how came them to travel in opposite and original channels? Why was one monkey and the other man? What gave rise to the various tangants of their cleavage? How many stages of development can be noted before a stationary species was evolved? What was the distance in years between these connotating stages? Is the evolutionary process in operation today? What is the proof? Do scientists believe generally that the power of perception, elaboration, in some degree, characterize all the diverse forms of life and being, as they exist today? Are all the multiform diversities of being still evolving. If so, into what are they evolving, are they changing into species already extant, or are they bringing into being varieties entirely new? If all these varieties are --- from a single cell, whence came this vastly potential cell, and is there a limit to its evolutionary power. If not, then what next? Is it not as easy or plausible to believe that creation came from one God, or from one supreme being who is omnipotent and omniscent, as it is to believe that creation came through the evolutionary process. In other words, is it not as easy to believe the Bible as it is to believe the theory of the evolutionists? Scientists claim, however that the facts of evolution are apparent only to scholars and men of great learning, that it is covered with a cloud because of only ignorance, that sapient and keen-witted men alone ade able to properly analyze the subject and adequately discern the complicated outlines it presents in the diagram. This is begging the question. It is also presumptious to deny the right of competent thinking to those who are not impressed with the line of reasoning and the character of evidence which they present. A man is wise indeed who can construct an animal in correct formation which has never been seen, from an isolated jawbone or a solitary tooth or who can determine beyond doubt that man and beast was derived from the same cell, because of a similarity in their physical form and structure. He is wise beyond measure when he is willing to rest his judgment and opinion of creation on the mute testimony of archeology or other sophomoric assumptions? Man has followed analogies a long way and has arrived at many wonderful discoveries, but when he challenges the Almighty and disputes the authority of God, he finds a mountain is his path which he will hardly have wit enough to climb. Who is The Denomination As is so often discussed by many so-called important men, under the caption, NEGRO BAPTISTS, the exact or precise meaning of the term, THE DENOMINATION, is rather vague and hard to define. As a probable answer to this baffling and doubtful question, I would like to draw an imaginary caricature—a mental cartoon, so to speak. I would portray on the brow of a hill a large pig-sty of angular formation. Within whose enclosure, I would picture a gigantic raw-boned sow, poor as a rail, but artificially puffed and bloated by mortgages, borrowed money, alms, doles, etc., etc. This quaint old sow with exaggerated protruding nozzle, sunk deep to the eyes in a ponderous swill-tub, is literally glutting herself, while a heterogeneous litter of plump sleek pigs-gobbs of fat—are unctiously nudging her breathless and straining her very vitals. Inside the pig-sty with the miserable old sow, faint and leaning on props, the sleek fat pigs knowing out her life, is another litter of pigs, wistful and famished runts, which have managed to squeeze through cracks into the pig-sty, near enough for a copious and tantalizing smell of the nourishing output from the swollen and fertile teets of the bloated old sow but never in tasting distance. These staggering starving runts are calling to the sleek fat pigs with sonorous and plaintive entreaties for standing room and space around the lige-giving protruding vents in the belly of the quaint old sow. In the distance from a thousand lanes leading in all directions to the pig-sty on the hill-side, are vast brigades with barrels, buckets and cans of swill, side by side with one behind another, emptying in a steady stream, the refreshing contents of their myriad receptacles into tiny throughs and supply pipes, which restlessly flow into the ponderous swill-tub from which the greedy old sow is incessantly feeding. Each industrious swill-bearer has an armed guard dogging his every footstep, whose business it is to see that not one ounce of swill is diverted from the channels leading into the swill-tub. Where Convention Is In Session ```markdown ``` FIRST CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH Yet stying on the hillside and in the valley below, I would picture a multitude with barrels, buckets, and vessels galore, carrying swill also. The latter multitudes are imputently and bravely striding in directions utterly opposite those who are obediently facing the brow of the hill and the ponderous swill-tub. They are laboriously but gleefully bearing the rich treasures with which they are ladened quite away from the gaunt and greedy old sow in the pig-sty. These in the picture are regarded as renegades and enemies by the armed guards, and ever and anon are violently pounced upon by stealthy and subtile snipers or made hapless victims of sudden and unexpected ambuscades. Last of all in the center of the pig-sty is a shadow, the faint outlines of a white man dressed in Southern colonial style. A flaming banner is streaming from his shoulder embellished and labeled BENEVOLENCE AND MORTGAGES. His face is radiant and wreathed in smiles. He is bending over, and gently caressing the sleek fat pigs with one hand while he is tenderly anointing the scrawny back and sides of the gaunt old sow with a soothing salve which he is holding in the other. He seems complacently oblivious to the battles which are raging without between the armed guards and the toiling swill-bearers. This completes the picture and illustrates, in fine, what some men actually mean by the term THE DENOMINATION. The gaunt old sow of course represents the property owned and controlled by THE DENOMINATION. The sleek fat pigs are the little group of men from the various states who monopolize all the emoluments and occupy the space in the newspapers, who make all the eloquent speeches, who are the great heads of THE DENOMINATION, the inspired leaders, the Baptist lawgivers, the bosses. The litter of famished and sickly runts are the near-greats, the men who have squeezed through to the inside but who cannot reach the pap, ever hopeful, ever expectant, waiting in vain for nudging room around the overworked breast of the gaunt old sow. The armed guards are the truckling henchmen scattered here and yon throughout the land whose business it is to see that those who do not bow down and worship the sleek fat pigs or carry swill to the gaunt old sow nor honor the heroes of THE DENOMINATION shall never get a hearing before the public nor obtain recognition among even the children of the Baptist family. Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and sects and creeds of every kind, may receive welcome and comradeship, but an unbossed Baptist never. The restless brigades with barrels and buckets and cans, etc., are great hosts of honest, faithful Baptists who are misled to believe that they own the property of THE DENOMINATION and that its profits will in time come to them. Breathless and fatigued, they plod wearily on, thinking they have denominational possessions of their own, or an equity in denominational property which they can call their own, when in truth they would be guilty of trespass, if they but cross the bristling boundary of the guarded pig- NORFOLK JOURNAL AND GUIDE ion Is In Session In Session CHURCH which they so generously swill. The straying hordes, denominated the multitude, are the unbossed Baptists of the land. The Baptists who are often persecuted and despised, and denied fellowship, but who elect to follow their own minds and endeavor to put Christ above and before even the greatest of men, who choose and prefer to command the riches of their own creation, rather than commit them to the whims of those who would use them for pelf and profit alone for themselves, under the attractive title, THE DENOMINATION. The stealthy ambuscaders and subtle snipers are the henchmen still who attempt to revile every upstanding Baptist, whether man or woman, whom they cannot boss. But who is the debonair white men of Southern benevolent mein and mortgages? One cannot know. He is only a shadow now. He may be friend, he may be foe. Time will tell. What do some men mean when they talk of THE DENOMINATION? They simply mean themselves, nothing more, nothing less. When they say THE DENOMINATION owns and controls so much and so much, they mean they themselves own so much and so much. The gaunt old sow belongs to them; hoof, hair and hide. They are the sleek fat pigs. Everybody else is only a starving runt or an honest toiler, who owns really nothing save his illusions and his credulity. OFFICERS' REPORTS SHOW TREMENDOUS PROGRESS FOR YEAR The Annual Meeting of the Executive Board of the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Society was held Tuesday evening at the First Calvary Baptist Church. It was the most harmonious meeting ever held in the history of the Convention. Practically every member was present. The Corresponding Secretary's report was A 1, and showed tremendous progress during the year of 1925. The Financial statement of the Financial Secretary showed a collection of more than $31,000.00 in the entering. Dr. W. T. Johnson of Richmond, Va., president of the Board presided and Prof. Nelson Williams jr., secretary of N. Y. Geam-Jacques a Native of Hawaii is one of the notables present at the Convention. He is here to tell the story of what the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Society has been doing in his country. AGENTS WANTED AGENTS—WRITE FOR FREE SAMPLES.—Sell Madison "Better-Made" Shirts for large manufacturer direct to wearer. No capital or experience required Many earn $100 weekly and bonus. MADISON M.T.G. CO., 501 Broadway, New York. NOTHING TO BUY—No money to invest. Write today for our great offer, tomorrow may be to late. 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