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The Africo - American Presbyterian. ! W. Established in 1879. CONSOLIDATED WITH THE SOUTHERN EVANGELIST. Rev. H. L. MdCROEEY, D. D. LL. D., Editor. W. E. HILL, Associate Editor. Rev. C. P. PITCHFORD, Business Manager._ Devoted to the Educational, Mate rial, Moral and Religious interests of' our people in the South, and pub lished at Charlotte, N. C., every Thursday All questions arising under the various subjects above indicated are discussed from a Christian point of view. Each number contains the freshest and best news from the Sbuthem field and from the Church at large. There is carefully select ed reading matter suite dto all class es of our people—the farmer, the mechanic, the artisan and the pro fessional man. The Sabbath School and Mission ary causes will receive special at tention. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Single copy one year.——--$1.50 Six months - .75 1’hree months_ .50 RATES OF ADVERTISING. • Given on Application. We earnestly ask the sympathy id prayers of our brethren and friends at large in order that our efforts in this enterprise may be crowned with success. AGENTS WANTED—to whom a liberal commission will be paid. ' Send all money by P. 0. Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Check, otherwise it might get lost ahd the sender alone will be respon sible. Entered at the Postoffice at Char lotte, N. C., as second class matter. THURSDAY JAN. 29, 1925. LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. The Sabbath nearest Lin coln’s birthday has been set apart by the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., as a day on which all Presbyterian Sab ■ bath schools are to make spe cial offerings to the Division of Missions for Colored People, which is a Division of the Board of National Missions. Elsewhere in this issue we are publishing a circular letter which is being sent out by Dr. John M. Gaston, secretary ahd assistant treasurer, to all the Sabbath schools in the interest of the Division of Missions for Colored People^ The cause for whicn the ap peal is sent out is worthy, and because of the great need of the Board at this time for increased funds to meet the growing de mands of its work, both evange listic and educational, the ap peal is considered urgent. It is hoped, therefore, that there will be a liberal response on the part of the Sabbath schools. The day will furnish a splendid opportu nity to impress upon the young ' people of the Church the im portance Of contributing their mites to the advancement of the kingdom of Christ in the earth. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL MEN. (From “Progress Letter” is sued by the Department of Pub lic Instruction, State of North Carolina.) Palmer Memorial School at Sedalia, of which Mrs. C. H. Brown is principal, has recently been made a gift of $75,000.00 by Mr. and Mrs. Galen Stone, of: Boston, on condition that a like amount be secured from other sources. The Forty Million Dollar Ed ucation Foundation established by Mr. J. B. Duke, included, among other Negfro interests, a donation amounting to an en dowment of about one and a half million dollars for Johnson C. Smith University, of Char lotte, of which Doctor H. L. McCrorey is president. This should make Johnson C. Smith the most heavily endowed Negro college south of Washington. The North Carolina Athletic Conference held its annual meeting at Livingstone College, Salisbury, January 10. Among other things accomplished, the schools of the State were divid ed into two groups for the 1925 foot ball season, the first group to include Shaw University, Johnson C. Smith University, Livingstone College, A. & T. College, Bennett College and Durham State Normal School, and the second group to include all tiie other schools of the Con ference. This division equalizes to some extent the strength of the schools in foot-ball. Mr. L. A, Oxley, formerly of St. Augustine's School, has been appointed state director of Charities and Public Welfare among Negroes. Mr. Oxley's ap pointment comes through Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, who is State Commissioner of Charities and Public Welfare. Tne Cosmopolitan Club of Columbia University, with head quarters in the New National House, has elected to its mem bership Mr. W. M. Cooper ibid Mr. J. W. Seabrook, both of North Carolina. PROGRAM FOR LINCOLN'S DAY SERVICE. Division of Missions for Colored People, Bessemer Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. January 15, 1925. Dear Brother: I am writing to call your at tention to an attractive program which has been prepared for a Lincoln’s Day Service for use in the Sunday schools on Sunday, February 15th, 1925. I am en closing to you the copy of the material to be used and have also mailed a copy to your su perintendent with the request that he send his order for the quantity desired to our office, which will be furnished free of charge. Our Division is supporting 136 Day Schools, 27 of this num ber being boarding schools. There are 18,765 pupils in these schools. We are using 500 school buildings and have, on the field, 718 workers in all. There is ur gent need for more teachers in nearly all of these schools and pupils are being turned away from them on account of the lack of room. The needs have never been so great, and the work has never been so prom ising as today. The results have been most gratifying during the last year. The contributions on the field, for all purposes, amounted to $398,818.44. What a splendid response on their part! There were 2,146 persons added to the churches in the South on examination. There are, in addition to the churches in the South, 65 in the North. Of these, the Board assists 25. Inasmuch as this Lincoln Day Program is concerning our work and for the purpose of securing interest in our own cause, we are very anxious that an offering be taken in every one of our Sunday schools. Will you not give your earnest co-operation to the Superintendent of your Sunday school in the observance of Lincoln’s Day by using the program which we have pre pared for this service and by making a liberal offering for the support of the work ? Fraternally yours, J. M. GASTON, {Secretary, and Assistant Treasurer, Division pf Missions for Colored People, Board of Na tional Missions. COLORED GIRLS’ REFORMA TORY. Thus far only one of the fine measures sponsored by the leg islative council of North Caro lina women has been presented to the legislature. This was a bill asking for an appropriation of $25,000.00 for the reforma tory for colored girls. This bill was introduced in the house by Miss Julia Alexander, of Meck lenburg, and was referred to the committee on public welfare to have a hearing later in the week. The reformatory for col ored girls mentioned in the bill is at Efland. It consists of a ten room house and 142 acres of land. This property has been ac quired through the untiring ef forts of the State Federation of Colored Women’s clubs and has been their goal for the past six years. The building has been put in repair and is nov* ready for occupancy. The amount asked ror m tins bill is to equip tms institution that it may be op ened and put to use and to main tain it for the next two years. The object of this institution is to do for the colored girls what Samarcand Manor does for white girls. Only girls under sixteen years of age and sent by the ju venile courts will be received. A reformatory for delinquent colored girls is not an experi ment. Virginia has quite suc cessfully maintained one for several years and other states have made provision for train ing and taking care of this por tion of human driftwood which, if left alone, becomes dangerous to the community.—> Mrs. J. H. Highsmith, Publicity Chair man of the North Carolina Fed eration of Women's Clubs, in Charlotte Observer. We are glad to say Ladson is tinoving along nicely. Our Syn odical Evangelist, Rev. J. E. Jackson, conducted a very suc cessful ten days meeting for us. Three were added to the church, and many were revived. We are glad to have had him, and we hope to have him again. We are looking forward to the evangelistic institute which will be held in Columbia February 3rd. We wish to ask the ministers of Fairfield Presbytery, who have members living in Colum bia, S. C., to give us their names and addresses, and at the same time to follow this up with a strong letter to them. During the holidays, a num ber of visiting Ladsonians were seen in the church. I can name only a few of them: Miss Mar jorie Butler, a student of How ard University, Washington, D. C.; and Miss Edith Butler, a teacher in the High School at Charlotte, N. C. Miss A. T. Taylor, of Con necticut, also a teacher in the High School in Charlotte, spent some time with Miss Edith But ler atthe home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F, K. Butler. Miss Olive Thomas, of Boston, Mass., came to spend some time with her uncle, Mr. W. H. Thomas. Mrs. E. Hines and two chil dren visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cornwell; Miss Geneva Cornwell, of the Ches ter city school. Miss Hattie May of Atlanta University, Mr. John, Jr., of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Mr. Alwood, of Charleston, were the guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cornwell. Mrs. Estelle Perrin Johnson and two children are spending some time with her mother, Mrs. Mary Perrin. Miss Genevieve, of Batesburg High School, and Mr. H. N., Jr., of the State College, were with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Vincent. Miss Gracie Lowndes, of Pittsburgh, was seen shaking hands with old friends and rel atives. Mrs. Mamie. Bradley, who spent some time with friends and relatives in Chicago, is back in the capital city again. Mrs. Belle Brown Killings worth was also in the capital visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. F. E. Shelton, who has been yisiting her daughters, Mrs. I. D. Davis, of Columbia, and Mrs. W. R. Coles, of Win ston-Salem, will soon return to Chicago. Mr. George Reese, one of Co lumbia’s landmarks, has passed into the beyond. His sons and daughters with their families from New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, etc., were home for the funeral. The death angel recently came to the home of Mrs. Ophelia White and took with him her loving,daughter, Sara, who was a graduate of Scotia College, and at the time of her death was a teacher in the city High School, where she labored under Prof. C. A. Johnson for ten years. She indeed was a lovely character. She was an active worker in the Sunday school and Christian Endeavor, represent ing these bodies in the Presby terial and Synodical conven tions. Miss White was a model Christian girl. The pastor was assisted in the funeral service by Drs. Long, Dillard; Farmer, of the C. M. E. church, Adams of the A. M.. E. church, Smith, of the M. E., and Moore of the Baptist church. I. D. DAVIS. Columbia, S. C. CONFERENCE ON EVANGE LISM. To Be Held At Greensboro, ' February 6th. Our School and Conference on Evangelism will be held at Greensboro on the 6th of Feb ruary, instead of the 4th, as I first announced. Dr. Klein is un able to get to us until Friday, February 6th. We .had to invite a limited number because we are going to take care of the. expenses. All of the brethren are cordially in vited, but the pastor and church can only entertain the number that has been specially invited. Hoping this announcement will reach the number that has been invited, I am Yours fraternally, I. H. RUSSELL, Synodical Evangelist and Di rector. Durham, Jan. 28rd. A. M. L ZION CHURCH BISHOPS ISSUE AN ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY. (From Charlotte Observer.) Bishops E. D. W. Jones, of Washington, D. C., L. W. Kyles, of Winston-Salem, and W. J. Walls, of Charlotte, representing the board of bishops of the Af rican Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, which met in Charlotte January 13 to 17, inclusive, yes terday issued their message to the country. This was adopted in general outline during the meet ing here, but the special com mittee was named to give it proper form and then send it out. The bishops favor the enact ment of a federal child labor law as well as for compulsory school attendance. A call is also sounded to members to support legitimate business enterprises operated by colored people. A plea is made for justice in courts for colored defendants and the present disregard for inhibitions of the constitution in general, and the prohibition amendment in particular, which is alleged to have “had its beginning in keeping from the black man his inalienable rights as a citizen. We must come back to the con stitution in all points or it is useless to punish men for break ing it at some special point.” The Negro press is commend ed for its vigilance and a!1 are “advised and warned” to read and subscribe to the journals devoted to the Negro cause. The bishops emphasize that Negroes are the best missiona ries for Africa, “for they are the one group ox unnsuans wno go without the suspicion of being exploiters of these people and their lands.” The settlement of interna tional disputes in an interna tional court is favored. Removal of American troops from Haiti is urged, on the grounds that the Haitians have shown themselves “to be quite as capable of self-government as Mexicans, Italians and Span iards are now proving to be.” Had Haiti been populated by white people, the bishops be lieve the forces of the United States would have been with drawn long ago. The bishops also foresee con tinuous bickerings between the United States and Japan Over immigration restriction. Outline Program. Summing up, the message says: “Our objective in 1925 should be, among other things, a lynchless land, more indepen dence and power in politics, jus tice in the courts, segregation routed, more co-operative busi ness, a confederation of Negro Churches, a revival of religion in the home life, a 10-months’ school for every child, a race moved to Christian evangelism from the college to the slum and a greater concert of effort for the redemption of Africa.” Excerpts from the measure read as follows: “We urge that parents send their children to school, and im plore them not to permit their children to stop school and en ter life illy prepared to meet its demands. Education being one of the chief means of making individuals fit for society and the tasks of civilization, we should favor a federal law on child labor and compulsory edu cation. “We further urge our mem bership everywhere to encour age and support Negro business enterprises; commercial, insur ance and co-operative organiza tions, and to repose confidence in the ability of members of the race to manage and control big business_:_We urge, there fore, that whenever substantial effort is being made to conduct legitimate and honest business among us, that such causes re ceive from our constituency vig orous support.— By some means the world, and particularly this nation, must be trained to change its standards of judgment in matters inter racial. The world’s scale of judging men is by their color, monetary status and national power. Justice has but one standard, the standard of right eousness. Crime should not be judged by the color of the man’s face who commits the crime. Virtue, excellency, gallantry and valor and fitness have no equiv ocation and are oblivious to rank. Color has no epidermic taint. Character knows no race. Justice knows no color, but is executed in love. No one has a right to mistreat a Negro and deny him equity simply because he is a Negro. “It is a terrible state of af — fairs now threatening our re public that men are losing con fidence in judges and the courts in the administration of law. When we break down in justice I before the courts, we break down . in order and regulated life. We then have that which is worse than bolshevism—anarchy. Why this attack by the third party in the recent presidential cam paign on the final adjudication of all legal differences by the su preme court ? Why all this howl about law enforcement? Has the time come when a republic can not enforce its constitution al enactments? Yes, and that period has been going through a slow process from hamlet to town, to city, to nation; that the constitution had no clauses or statutes to be interpreted for the Negro. Men found out that they could defy the constitution at its very root—for government is predicated on the consent of the governed, and, therefore, they have attacked this sacred docu ment at every point where there was seeming advantage until the republic is roused to a high: pitch of excitement over the breaking down of law and or der. We must never submit ourselves as a race to the de spair of those who abandon themselves to a feeling of hope lessness. Let us keep the opti-: mism that characterized the early Christians. But in our op timism we must not obscure the true conditions, but face and combat them on every foot of ground.” ST. JAMES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, GREENSBORO. Mrs. J. W. Jones, Reporter. On Sunday morning our pas tor spoke from Acts 1:8: “Ye shall receive power (dynamite) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” His sub jet was “The Guncotton of God, the Need of the Hour.” Stress was laid on prayer as the primary condition for success. At the close of the Sunday school yesterday every one wore a smiling face. The superinten dent, officers and teachers were greatly uplifted because of the great interest that has been awakened, not only from a finan cial standpoint, but from a mem bership drive as well, for if we get the members the finance will take care of itself. Yester day we had the largest attend ance we have had in years and the largest collection in the his tory of the Sunday school. On Thursday evening, Janu ary 22, Adult Bible Class No. 2, taught by Mrs. H. C. Miller, held a class meeting at the parson age. It was a business meeting and many plans were laid for work for the church. At the close of the meeting refresh ments were served. The Ladies’ Aid Society met with Mrs. R. E. McNair on last Thursday. Quite a number of la dies were in attendance. It was suggested that three circles be made of the M. S. S. Society for the greater efficiency of the work. For the benefit of the Mis sionary Society the chorus con sisting of the Christian Endeav or and choir, repeated the “Holy Nativity.” Quite an appreciative audience to joyed the rendition. All the participants did credit to themselves. Special mention should be made of Mrs. W. J. Mears, who sang the soprano solo, “In a Lowly Manger.” Mrs. Mears excelled herself. Mrs. Mears has also been elected as chorister of the church choir. A Junior Choir has been or ganized and we feel sure it will add greatly to our services. Mrs. Sarah Barber is organist and Rev. H. C. Miller is director of music. The choir consists of twenty-two voices. The Juniors will sing for the dramatic ser mon, “The Prodigal Son,” to be rendered next Sabbath night. The church membership drive begins February 1. It is hoped that each member will get a member to join by Easter. Several persons have been added to our staff Ojf ushers. They are Messrs. Wm. Bergin, Alvin Oldham, James McNair, and Edward Jones. The St. James chorus regret that they must decline invita tions owing to the fact that they have begun rehearsing for the Easter cantata, “The Living Christ.” Almost every little child in our Sunday school had a re membrance from Miss M. L. Taylor at Christmas time. Miss Douglas H< ital, of Philadel >f many important places when called to the U. S. V. Hospital it Tuskegee. We wish for Miss raylor all success and we assure tier that our little folks ;voice our sentiments ‘and extend to her their thanks for her Christ mas remembrances. We are fclad to note that Dr. W. L. McNair is much im proved. He was out to services twice on yesterday. He is plan ning a stay at Hot Springs, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Car ter are also going to Hot Springs for a few months’ stay, h DEATH OF REV. I. A. JAMES. Rev. I. A. James, the oldest citizen of Liberty Hill, S. C., passed from this life into the beyond triumphant in the faith of Jesus Christ, Sunday after noon, January 11th. R^v. James lived 81 years. He served the Presbyterian Church, North, 27 years, and the Presbyterian Church, South, 18 years, Mid served the community in which he lived 33 years as a teacher. He retired from the active min istry eight years ago because of declining health. We mourn the loss of a friend and brother, but his work was finished and God called him from labor to the great reward. Rev. James will be greatly missed out of the community in which he lived, but we thank God that our loss id heaven’s gain. He leaves a loving wife, Mrs. Polly Ann James, and six chil dren to mourn their loss of a faithful husband and father. The children are Mrs. Margaret Belk, of Catawba, S. C.; MJr.C. A. James and H. G. Janies, of Liberty Hill; Mrs. N. H. Dickin son, of Red Hill; Rev. J, C. James, of Darlington, and Mr. T. C. James, of Plant City, FJa. There is a host of grand and greatgrandchildren. MR. JASTER BARBEE LAID TO REST. Elder of Pine Street Presbyte rian Church Funeralized by Present and Former Pastors. Mr. Ar. Jaster Barbee, a highly respected citizen of Dur ham, died Friday, January 16fh. He had been ill of pneumonia eleven days. His death was a great shock to his family and friends, as he seemed to be im proving nicely. > Mr. Barbee was an elder , of Pine Street Presbyterian church, and was faithful to all the du ties of the church and his home. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge. He leaves to mourn a faithful wife, one brother, one sister, and a host of relatives and friends. The funeral was held Sunday the 18th at 2 o’clock at..Pine Street Presbyterian church, conducted by his pastor, Dr. W. G. Avant, assisted by his former pastor, Rev. J. Lee White. In terment was at Violet Park cemetery. The pallbearers were the el ders of Pine Street Presbyteri an church: Messrs. W. H. Trapp, A. Armstrong, J. F. Haywood and T. David Parham. His neph ews were the floral-bearers. REV. GEORGE TO TAKE COURSE AT AUBURN. Rev. Arthur H. George, pastor of Calvary Presbyterian church, Wilson, has been granted a leave of absence for three weeks. He will leave February 1st for Au burn Theological Seminary, Au burn, N. Y., where he will take the Winter Short Course in Re ligious Education offered in that School. LOVE’S CHAPEL NOTES. On last Sunday* our pastor, Mr. W. R. Mayberry, preached a helpful and interesting ser mon from Ecclesiastes 8:1: “A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.” Mr. Parker, of Johnson G. Smith University, was a wel come visitor, and took a part in the young men’s class of our Sunday school. The school wish es to thank Mr. Mayberry, bur pastor, through the Africo, for the beautiful banner that he gave them. -sj J.T.S.