The Washington Tribune

Bishop Ransom Heads Churches' Fraternal Council

Fraternal Council of Negro Churches Formed at Chicago Meeting

CHICAGO, ILL., (CNS)—Representatives from the various major Negro religious organizations, known as the Fraternal Council of Negro Churches, met here for a two-day session last week, at the Bethesda Baptist Church.

The object of the meeting was to unite the various Negro denominational organizations for the purpose of making more practical the principles of Christian religion in their application to the civic, economic, and social conditions of the Negro in America and in the world.

Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom of Wilberforce, Ohio, was chief executive of the meeting.

Officers named were: Bishop R. C. Ransom, president; Dr. G. C. Coleman, first vice president; the Rev. Roland Smith, recording secretary; Bishop L. W. Kyles, treasurer; Dr. W. Y. Bell, statistician.

The denominational vice presidents and secretaries of the participating denominations elected were: A.M.E. Zion Church, Drs. B. F. Gordon and A. A. Perry; C.M.E. Church, B. J. Smith, O. B. Payne; A.M.E. Church, Bishop W. H. Heard, R. H. Bunry; Union M.E. Church, Bishop P. A. Boulden, B. M. Fernanders; National Baptist, incorporated, and unincorporated, W. A. Page, and J. S. Moten, George Harvey and A. Hubbard; Community Churches, Joseph M. Evans, Joseph A. Winters.

The Council voted to meet in 1935, the date and place to be determined by the executive board later. After 1935, biennial sessions are to be held.