TRUTH, AND THE
VOL. XLVTH.
IDE FUNERAL OF DR. CARR
Within two weeks of the thir
ty-fifth anniversary of his pas
torate of the Holbrook Street
Presbyterian church, Danville,
Va., the last Sunday in July,
1936, m the midst of the prep
arations for this service, Dr.
W. E. Carr fell on sleep, at Ivy
Avenue Beach* Newport News,
Ya., at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Pinkett, the latter
Mrs. Louise Carr Pinkett, his
daughter, Tuesday night, July
13,1926.
His longing to return home to
Danville as the time of his an
niversary drew near was not
consummated, and what was to
be his anniversary plans were
transformed into solemn dirges!
He had gone home,—tired, may
hap, after thirty-five years of
toil, but not now.
Dr. Carr, with Mrs. Carr,
went down to the coast under
orders of his physician, in the
hope that his broken health
might be restored. He had
planned to go later to Ports
mouth, Va., to spend a little
time with Dr. and Mrs. Frank
Elliott, tne latter his younger
daughter, Mrs. Laura Carr El
liott.
The funeral was held from
the Holbrook Street Presbyteri
an church, Danville, Va.,
Thursday, July 15th, at 3:30
o’clock P. M. The body rested
in the church from its arrival
from Newport News, early
Thursday morning, till late
evening. During this time par
ishioners, friends, town’s peo
ple of both races filed by and
looked upon the familiar face
that every child knew.
The setting for the solemn
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was beautiful for its
_, consonant with *t*re
wishes of Dr. Carr who in his
best hours had made sugges
tions as to the final rites. The
casket was literally covered with
the choicest flowers, and others
ere banked in profusion
gjround the chancel, relieved
with stately palms adjacent to
the pulpit and choir in rear.
The service began with an or
gan processional,” from Betho
ven, .while the funeral party
was being seated. This was fol
lowed by “Lead, Kindly Light'
by the choir, with Miss Elenora
Reynolds at the organ. There
were two brief Scripture les
sons read, and prayer. Miss Ed
na Gunn sang impressively,
“Only Remembered by What
We Have Done.”
The service was in charge of
Rev. Geo. P. Watkins* of Mar
tinsville, Ya., assisted by Rev.
W. M. Fowlkes, Leaksville, N.
C., Rev. A. A. Hector, Rich
mond, Va.,Rev. A. Kendricks,
So. Boston, Ya.; Rev. George H.
Henderson, Charleston, S. C..
Dr. J. Cleveland Hall, Rector of
the church of the Epiphany
(white), Danville; Dr. W.
Doggett, Pastor of Shelton Me
morial Presbyterian /church
(white), Danville; Di>Levinson,
specialist (white)r Danville; Dr.
Geo. W. Goode. Calvary Baptist
church, Danville; Dr. W. T.
Hall, High Street Baptist
church, Danville; Prof. W. F.
Grasty pf the city schools; Dr.
Johnson, Trinity Baptist church,
and Rev. H. C. Miller,
of Crffeensboro, N. C., three of
made remarks,
series of resolutions was
entioned, two of which, one
the Presbytery of South
ern Yirginia, and one from the
city ministers, were read.
The recessional' by the.choir
was, “O, Rugged Cross,” and it
was then in the view of the great
congregation a most impressive
picture Was presented as the
rays of light from the going
down sun of a perfect day
streamed through the stained
glass window, in the west, back
of the pulpit, flooding all with
a soft glow, symbolic of peace
unlilcp what is
tomb in the
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Among the pall bearers were
officials oi the church and mutu
al citizens: Messrs. P. H. Dos
well, Prof. J. T. Page, Dr. A. L.
Winslow, R. F. Green, W. L.
Wade, W. T. Beavers, W. D. Ivy,
Prof. Hairston, U. S. Cunning
ham, L. W. Brooks, W. Thomp
son.
The final obsequies took place
in Harmony Cemetery, Wash
ington, D. C., at 2 o’clock P. M.,
Frdiay, July 16, Dr. H. Blanton
Taylor; pastor of the Fifteenth
Street Presbyterian church; of
ficiating.
Among those present from
out of town, who journeyed to
Washington and those there for
the last rites, were: Mrs. W. E.
Carr, Danville, Va.; Mrs. W. W.
Pinkett, Newport News, Va.;
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Elliott,
Portsmouth, Va.; Miss Ellen
L. Fisher, Washington, D. C.;
Prof. Thos. A. Long, Johnson
C. Smith University, Charlotte,
N. C.; Miss Nannie Johnson,
New York; Mrs. Annie Wilson,
Baltimore, Md,; Mrs. Rosa
Brooks Daniels, Brooklyn, N.
Y.; Mrs. Roxie Brooks McNair,
Greensboro, N. C.; Mrs, King,
Reidsville, N. C.; Mrs. F. G.
Humbles, Paducah, Ky.; Dr. and
Mrs. Kelly Miller, Howard Uni
versity, Washington, D. C.; Mrs.
W. T. Carr, Mrs. W. K. Price,
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Inge Wil
son, Mrs. Lena Paine, Mrs. M.
J. Harvey, Dr. H. B. Taylor, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Jones, Miss M.
M. L. Gladman, Mr. W. P. Pope,
Mrs. Prater, Miss Prater, Mr.
Gray, Mr. Moon, all of Washing
ton. ' yp
offerings were -sent
from a great number of rela
tives, friends and organizations
out of the city; among them
were: Board of Elders and
Deacons, Holbrook Street
church, Danville; the Faculty of
the Industrial High School, the
church choir, Trinity Baptist
Church, Lynn Street A. M. E.
church, Woman’s Missionary
Society, Sunday school, Chris
tian Endeavor Society, the Ruth
Carr and W. A- Yancey Memo
rial Bible Classes, The Twenti
eth Century Art Club, Provi
dence Hospital City Pastors, all
of Danville; Mrs. E. L. Fisher,
Washington ; Rev. and Mrs. G.
P. Watkins, Martinsville, Va.;
Prof, ana Mrs. W. W. Sanders,
Charleston, W. Va.; Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Green, Miss Nannie
Johnson- and Mrs. Lizzie Harvey
Thornton; of New York.
Dr. Carr is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Evelyn J. Carr,
two daugntersA Mrs. Louise Carr
Pinkett, wifd of Mr. W. W.
Pinkettj^a'well known business
man* of Newport News, Va.;
Mrs. Laura Carr Elliott, wife
of Dr. Frank Elliott a practic
ing physician, of Portsmouth,
Va.; one son, Dr. John D. Carr,
of Knoxville, Tenn.; one sister,
Mrs. Annie Wilson, of Balti
more, Md., several grandchildren
and many relatives.
Dr. Carr came to Danville,
July, 1891, took charge of the
Church and .school, work—the
Holbrook Street Prebyterian
Church and the Danville Indus
trial High School—nand for thir
ty-five years went in and out be
fore the people with clean hands,
a pure heart, and an upright
life, and a worker of whom the
Master was not ashamed. He
saw the work grow and those
who worked with him loved him
for his fidelity to truth and
high Christian ideals. Intimate
acquaintance with him revealed
the man, strong, in character, a
presbyter, a citizen gentle, un
assuming, in the pulpit a man of
Godr
In Harmony Cemetery, in
the District of Columbia, all
that was mortal of him now
rests beside his loved ones on
a knoll overlooking the hills of
Maryland, his native heath. *
THOS, A. LONG.
Columbia University,
New York. :
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MANY COLORED DELE
GATES ATTEND Y. M. C. A.
MEET IN FINLAND.
&ew York—Ten colored men,
jseven boys, and two Negro col
lege students will be among the
American delegation to the
World’s Conference of the Y.
M. C. A., which meets in Hel
singfors, Finland, August 1 to
6. Most of these men and boys
Bailed from New York on July
16. The boys will be members
Of one of the “world friendship
tours,” conducted every year
under the auspices of the Na
tional Council of the Y. M, C‘. A.
here.
j Max feargan, a graduate of
Shaw university, who has
achieved an international repu
tation by reason of his work
for the Young Men’s Christian
Association in South Africa,
will be one of the speakers at a
night session of the conference
on August 2. At the close of
the meetings there, Mr. Year
gan will go to Denmark, where
he will attend a meeting of the
General Committee of the World
Student wuristian Federation,
Members of the colored dele
gation will also serve as discus
sion leaders of devotional exer
cises at Helsingfors, where fifty
two countries will be represent
ed.
Channnig H. Tobias, senior
secretary of the Colored Work
bepartment of the National
Council, and Ralph W. Bullock,
national secretary for work
among colored boys, will head
the colored group from this
country. Local colored Y. M.,
C. A’s will be represented by!
the following prominent men:;
Louisville, Ky.—Dr. James
Bond, state Y. M. C. A. colored
work secretary, and interna
tional SfecfeUi'jrfui KeilMtWfll. '
Detroit, Mich.—H. S. Dunbar,
secretary of the St. Antoine
Branch.
Atlanta, Ga.—Dr. John Hope,
President of Morehouse College,
and a member of both the Na
tional Council and the General
Board of the Y. M. C. A.
Wichita, Kans.—W. L. Hutch
erson, secretary Water Street
Branch.
Denver, Colo.—L. H. Light
ened chairman of the commit
tee on Management, Glenarm
Branch tf. M. C. A.
Cleveland, Ohio—A. H. Mar
tin, an attorney, Vice chairman
of the Cedar Avenue Branch Y.
M. C. A.
Cincinnati, Ohio—Dr. William
T. Nelson, a member of the Ohio
State Committee and the Na
tional Council.
Bordentown, N. J.—W. R.
Valentine, Principal of the Bor
dentown Manual Training and
Industrial School and a member
of the National Council.
The boys who will make the
trip to Helsingfors as delegates
are: Burton Curry, Springfield,
Ohio; Kenneth Eldridge, Hart
ford, Conn.; Hightower Keal
ing, Kansas City, Kan.; Arthur
Method, Columbus, Ohio; A. V.
Smith, Fort Worth, Texas; (J.
C. Spaulding, Jr., Durham, N.
C.; and Thomas Tolbert, Dallas,
Texas.
Burton Curry is the son of
Prof. E. W. B. Curry, head of
the Curry Institute, Urbana,
Ohio. The Rev. S. T. Eldridge,
pastor of Shiloh Baptist church
at Hartford, is the father of
Kenneth Eldridge. Arthur
Method is the son of Dr. W. A.
Method, chairman of the Spring
field Branch, of the Columbus,
Ohio, Y. M. C. A. Spaulding's
father, C. C. Spaulding, is Pres
ident of the North Carolina Mu
tula Insurance Company.
Hightower Kealing is the son
Of the late H. T. Kealing,, pres
ident of Western University,
Kansas City, Kan. Tolbert and
Smith represent the Hi-Y clubs
of Texas.
Two college students also will
serve as delegates. They are:
John Dillingham, Yale Divinity
School, New Haven, Conn., and
R. W. Riley, Florida Memorial
College, Live Oak, Fla. Mr. Dil
lingham is a graduate of Shaw
University and a representative
colored student Y. M. C.
the National Student
With Mr. Yeargan he
attend the World Student
Federation meeting in
as official represents
of the Colored Student Ae
ons of this country. Mr.
State Council of Colored
is chairman of the Flori
nt Associations. ;»-t'j
e conference at Helsingfors,
it is believed, may re
in “the inauguration of a
working alliance between
investigation and the
of the Christian
v will be devoted largely
a study of boys and their
ems. In preparation for
ions there, a survey
been made in all of the fif
;y-two countries to obtain a clos
appreciation of the youth
ngh consultation with the
■s themselves.
iored boys in a number of
erican communities have
ipated in these prelimina
discussions. On the whole,
y seemed to favor more re
nsibility for youth. One
up believed that boys with
homes make better men,
that a boy who has a home
ould be responsible for help
to build it/’ and should be
id for his work and treated
a partner.”
to ABOUT DAILY VACA
1TION BIBLE SCHOOLS IN
CATAWBA SYNOD.
By Frank C. Shirley
In Catawba Synod this
sen a wonderful year for the
ly Vacation Bible School,
te records when compiled will
>w twice as many schools as
■had last . year with more
than twice the enrofimen
It is indeed gratifying to note
how willingly the pastors and
Sunday school superintendents
are cooperating with the mis
sionaries in this project. There
are five missionaries and five
special D. V. B. S. workers em
ployed in the Synod this sum
mer, and we are all going like
bees to keep up with the calls
for assistance in putting on
these schools.
The work in all the schools
has been commendable. Many
of them have over a hundred en
rolled and many of the church
es are conducting “Standard
scnoois.
In several . places there has
been splendid community coop
eration. In some places the city
nurses have volunteered to give
the children talks on health and
lessons in first aid. In other
places the ministers, physicians
and other interested men and
women have volunteered to give
daily talks at the closing per
riod. In Goldsboro the Director
of the Community Center gave
her service in supervising the
recreation period for the chil
dren.
Catawba Presbytery will, per
haps, lead in the number of
schools according to Presbyte
ries. And the city of Charlotte
will lead in individual, commun
ities: four out of five churches
in the city will conduct schools,
namely, Brooklyn, Brandon,
Church Street and Biddleville.
A large number of our rural
churches are to carry on schools
during the latter part of July
and in the month of August.
On a recent trip I visited idle
Vacation Schools at Chad
bourn, Salisbury, Statesville,
Brooklyn (Charlotte), Kinston,
Wilson, Goldsboro, Rocky Mount
and Sanford. Each of these
schools enrolled over a hundred
children and some of them
maintained a daily average of
over a hundred, I have received
excellent reports of the progress
being made in the schools that
are in session in Carthage, Mon
roe, Lloyd (Winston-Salem),
Faith (Aberdeen), Westminster
(Concord), and other places. It
seems that the day is not far
distant wnen every -church in
the Synod will foster a D. V. B.
S, ^ ■
VILLE
; Efforts of
missionaries have not
vain. That Qpd
this work is e
lives of the people amoi
they labor. Building
roads by the gov
last few years in the
of Virginia, North
Tennessee has
sionaries to carry the
remote sections w
schools have been
family altars set up and
tained through our
Board. As a result, real
has been accomplished.
In many sections the only
religious teaching is through
missionary activity, there being
ho public schools or churches. It
is remarkable to note how con
ditions in these sectibns have
changed in the last few years.
Little corn patches here and
there in the foothills of the
mountains have almost disap
peared, wnicn means tnat tne
former moonshiner is no longer
dickering with illicit whiskey,
but since good roads and auto
mobiles have brought him. clos
er to civilization, and since his
children from the mission
Sunday schools are telling him
to obey God and the law, he
finds that Christianity and cit
izenship are so closely allied
that to be one, one must be the
other also, hence, he has sought
end found more honorable em
ployment, than moonshining.
. One day, or night, rather, a
moonshiner with eyes bleared
and breath tainted from the
constant use of whiskey heard
his little daughter pray just be
fore retiring. He Seemed wor
ried, having apparently spent a
restless night. ~ The next VIM&k:,
ing he asked: “Rosa, where did
you learn what you said last
night?” “At the mission school,”
she replied. “What do you mean
by kingdom come?” he asked.
“Our teacher says when men do
God’s will on earth as angels do
it in heaven then God’s kingdom
will come to earth, but we must
do nothing wrong nor attempt
that which our conscience con
demns. When we do these
things we are preventing and
delaying God’s Kingdom on
earth.” *
The father, who, according to
his own statement, had never
heard the Lord’s prayer before,
was converted, changed his
mode of living, applied for ah
honorable job and now his home
is one of peace and happiness.
But what pleases Rosa most
is, as she puts it—“Daddy goes
every Sabbath with me to my
mission Sabbath school.”
Be it said, then, to the credit,
of the Board of National Mis
sions, that the blear-eyed,
whiskey-soaked, beer-guzzling,
wife beater, as Billy Sunday
terms him, is a thing of the
past; and, better still, men pre
viously engaged in such activi
ties have caught the vision of
the new life, and, like Rosa, are
praying for God’s Kingdom to
come. Can you imagine a little
child praying for God’s King
dom to come, and a father, the
head and director of the home*
too drunk to understand? This
is what really happened.
Our Presbytery and- Sunday
School Convention convene Au
gust 4th with the Ninth. Street
Presbyterian church, Bristol,
Tenn. A large delegation is ex
pected. Members and friends
are making ready in anticipa
tion of a pleasant session. .
The meeting will adjourn Au
gust 8th and the members will
leave forthwith by autos for the
School or Methods which meets
this year at Barber College, An
niston, Ala. The lineup as partly
arranged is as follows: Cadillac
touring car, Packard touring
car, Studebaker touring car;
Hupmobile touring car, Essex
touring car, Hudson touring
car, Cadillac Sedan, Dodge Se
dan.
They will arrive in Chattanoo.
ga Sunday night fiat 12:15
Leaving Monday morning they
Dean* Rev. £ B.
lead us from , Ghai
Anniston as he is
with the zoads. I i
istering students to
of Methods. *
.u i 1. J. Sffl
Bristol* Tenn.
A VOICE FROM
N At this season of the year we
fere pleased to see so many re
ports of successful" Daily Vaca
tion Bible Schools all over the
country. It looks like the Va
cation School has come to stay.
At least that is what Mt. Olive
Presbyterian church in Okmul
gee has decided. Continuation
work will be carried on in the
form of a week-day church '
school, meeting every Wednes
day from 4 to 5.
Ours is the all-Bible school. $ v
This all-Bible type of Vacation
Bible School is, perhaps the best
evangelizing agency m exist
ence, when considered from the
youth standpoint. By eliminat
ing the hand work, With the ex
ception of drawing, and spend
ing much time on memory work
and dramatization of Bible sto
ries, the Word of God takes its
rightful place as the most im
portant tmng in the life com
mitted to our care. The writer
has tried uoth types of schools,
having served as, Supervisor of
this work' in the Metropolitan
District of Greater New York
under the International Associ
ation of Daily Vacation Bible
Schools wnere craftwork was
emphasized. The argument
that the ~.ole alone will become
monotonous when studied with^
out the hand-work is not true. 1
Nothing is so fascinating as the1
trained and consecrated fead
ers.
Our faculty was a,most effi
cient group of Christian lead
ers. Mrs J. M. White, oiir
Principal, is a Scotia Seminary
graduate, and served in an ideal
way. Mrs. Mary West, of N6w
York, wiu. her assistant, Mrs.
P. A. Watt, of Buffalo, gave iis
a first class kindergarten.'Mrs.
Clark, who comes with experi
ence from the Mississippi pu1>
lie school' system, did fine Work
with the Primary, as did Mrs.
Wilson, in the Intermediate De
partment. Mrs. N. C. Mayle
organized and taught the Boys'
Department. ‘‘
The music was in charge of
Miss Leontine Pettiford, Who
formed a Junior chdifwhieh
sang in several churches and in.
the Rotary club (white). A re
markable feature of the. wdrk
was a large High School Depart1)
ment, the members of which
have resolved to Complete the
required course bt study1 leading
to a Bible' ScHocfF diploma. This
class was, taught' by the Prih
pal and frequently reviewed by
the pastor, Rev. ‘ W. W. Mayle. ;
The school lasted five weeks,
having an enrollment of 142, ’
with an average attendance;
far in excess of the Slimmer '
public school.
Closing exercises wqre ‘ held ,
Friday night; July 16, ^iid there,
was a grand pmmehcement;
program on Sunday night. A
special sermon was delivered to
the school by Dr.' J. E, Toombs, ,
of the A. M. E. church. The
largest audience ever assembled
here greeted the school at its,
closing. The entire city is ex
pressing itself m the highest .;
terms of praise to the Presbyte- ‘
rian church and Pastor-evange^ .
list Mayle who put over the, finr), ,
est effort of its kind ever wit-V,
nessed in these parts. libra.;
than 1600 stars were ifryenrfbr
work done and perfect attajm-^
ments. Also several bg#ks aM}
a Bible, were awarded as noBm^
prizes. In|^^j| .by, the wprjK
done here, our pastqr was asked //
to assist in the organizingbfio
similar, school in Boggs, Weewct1;
ka and Sharps.' These* schtojk*,1
will run three weeks b^bnih^ J
next week: - '1 ,,v-/
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