KNOW THE TRUTH. AND CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, J, ARY 6,1927. fcLOWMG TRlBUTf ' »*** ' •:? J i " (From The Petersb A large, impressive gathe of friends and admirers and quaintances paid fittingly t last tribute of homage to the emplary career of Mrs. Ma; Louise Worsham-Seabrook terday afternoon at the fur services held over her rem at 3:45 o’clock in the Gill cimkf to St. Sttephe&t estant Episcopal church, the^reqtorship of the Rev. MiHer, B. D.» deemed inadec to accommodate its men and friends of its departed m unicant, granted its use. The body/«f Mrs. Seal whose end feme rather pectedly last Sunday, foil an illness since Tuesday o week at her home in Fa vflle, N. C., where she had ed since becoming the bi Prof. James Ward Seabro< sistant Principal of Faye State Normal School, o tember 2, 1926, arrive Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Seabrook, nee Mayme Louise Wors. native of Chesterfield graduate of * the Virgi: mal- and Industrial 1916 and assistant the Home Economic de. 1919-’25; also a grad| Temple University of phia and of Columbia ty, of New York ( daughter of William r'-Hfiti prominent and citizen and a succea of Chesterfield county Rectdr Emmett E. D., of St. Stephen’s P. ' conducted the beau ness; wi tioU, “Crossing the Bar,’ quartet of the V. N. & IJ tute—Misses Gwendolyn Brown and V. Beatrice son, Messrs. W. A. Rog< Archie Richardson, witl Robert C. Bolling, orga^ St. Stephen’s, accompi which occupied the choir,] Cor. 15:20-28, whicl marked by a fervent pn fered by the pastor church, the Rev. Sai Brown. Concluding whil Robinson gave a touchi| rendition, “The Sweetes Ever Told.” In its wj F. L. Atkins, of North read a list of senders grams and letters and tions of condolence. Then came a beautiful! from the lips, brains anj of Pastor Samuel A. which he paid to the d] closing with words cheer to the grief strickj ily. “Lead, Kindly LigJ lowed, rendered by the and at its close Recto] brought the Very imj services to a finality inj quent eulogy of the character and useful,.] service of the decease municant, consuming teen minutes in his afft livery. As the proces mourners was moving in] tread from the church to the last resting place] body of the departed tl tet rendered “Abide W] with consoling effect as of the numbers. Surviving the dece sides her husband an< are: her step-mother, monia C. Worsham; a si two brothers, Miss In« sham, Messrs. Conley Vi and Lewis Worsham, 01 delphia, Pa.; two*^untsj unde, Mesdames Alice and Louise Rivers a Worsham, all of Phi Pa.; other relatives an "id lovely, requiring a coach -ir transportation to church e they appeared as a florist en, and to the little Church st cemetery, ^whgre in the. tear. of lirs.; Mayme Louise Wor i-Seabrook were tenderly reverently committed to lov|ng embrace of Mother th lunder the soft, . sweet dns|of “I Lay Me Down to p” tendered by the quartet, gtaker James W. Wilker (fcs- in charge of the funeral rurial. A^iong out-of-town relatives id|frien£s were the following: esters. John* Will (ind Lewis Jqjrsham an 1 Mrs. Louise Riv of Pa.; Prof. W. M. Brew I Washington, D. C.; Mr. and Z. S4 Hargrave. Mr. and Irs. T...D, Parham and Prof, rank L. Atkins, of North Car liiia; and Mesdames Coleman faid Green of1 Virginia. IrNCOLN UNIVERSITY DE BATERS DEFEAT OXFORD TEAM, (Columbian Press Bureau) Baltimore* Jan. 1.—In the first nternational interracial debate ver held in this cbuntry, a team rom Lincoln University, Penn ylvania’s famous colored insti tution, won the decision over three picked debaters from Ox ford, England’s oldest universi ty, By a vote of 803 to 376, a nixed ish the negative pf the subject: ‘Resolved, That This House Op poses any Change in the Eight eenth Amendment.” The de bate was held in Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. * Debating from Oxford were ' Gyles Isharn, former editor of rsis, an Oxford publication and ■ former President of the Oxford Dramatic Society; Patrick Monkhouse, former editor of Oxford Poetry and Oxford Out look; and Michael A. E. Frank lin, winnner of the British Em pire’s Shakespearean Association Prize for 1925. Lincoln was re presented by Richard Hurst Hill, Mark Gibson, of Oklahoma, and Esdras Turner, of Arkan sas. MEETING OF NORTH CARO LINA ATHLETIC CONFER ENCE. - The fifteenth annual session of the North Carolina Athletic Conference will hold its sessions in Avery Auditorium, N. C. Col lege for Negroes, Durham, N. Co Saturday, January 8th, 1927. The first session will open at 9:30 Saturday morning. Presi dent R. L. Douglass is asking that, as far as possible, dele gates leave home early Satur day morning so as to not make it necessary for the institution that is our host, to be put to any inconvenience in an effort to care for us over night, since its lodging accommodations are at present limited. The members of the Executive Committee and the Special Com mittee on Conference Grouping are asked to meet Friday even ing. January 7th at 7:00 o’clock, and any others who have special business with either of these committees. All member institutions are asked to make a special effort to be represented by delegates because of the importance of ths meeting. Any school play ing any of the sports fostered by our organization is cordially invited to meet with us and study our working at first hand with a view to becoming a mem ber Especially is this invita tion urged ‘ upon High School Principals.—The Athletic Item for December. OF PAST YEAR irayian Church, Reviews Dining the Year. (From The Winston-Salem, Jan. 1.—The one hundred seventy-second annual Watch Night service was held at the Old Home Moravian, church last night, in celebration pt the passing of the old year aud tl e birtjh of a new one. The venerable Bishop Edward Rond t^>fc is now 84 jSa£ younc. presided and conducted his fiftieth Service. Tho first one was held at 8 o'clock when the always inter esting Memorabilia prepared by the hi-hop, was lead by him. It gave an interesting review of occurrences' at home and abroad during the yea* 1926—-also a brief record of the.., Moravian Church’s growth and (ISfaloiK irient hroughout the Southern province. lit 11:30 o’clock the'final or farewell service began when an appropriate program was ren dered, including singing by the congregation, a brief address by Bfshop Rondthaler, prayer, etc. As the old church clock began striking the midnight hour, the trumpeters in the church tower welcomed the New Year, f The 1926 Memorabilia, j Below is appended Bishop Rjondthaler’s review of Current events, abroad, in the South, State and city: ‘The original Moravian los£. his native country for the sake of/Jesus Christ and so it came iq pass tnai ne reacnea other lands and made at home in them. Often he called by Christian duty to land like Greenland or to tl forests of America aid even to minister unto the leper in Asia as being the most outcast of all people. Thus by the force of circumstances the Moravian: Church grew to be internation-1 al. If you visit our venerable Salem graveyard you at once see this feature illustrated by the grave stones in the very first row of the buried brethren. The first stone is that of an English man, the second is that of a Dane, the third is that of a South European, the fourth that of a Saxon, the fifth that of a South Carolinian, and the sixth that of an Alpine moun taineer. Thus the Moravian in terested himself in many lands the world over. How fully he did this we note from the fact that in the diary of one of our small congregations hidden in the western wilds of North Car olina a fuller account has been found of the Mecklenburg move ment for independence than in any other church record of North Carolina. This cosmopol itan feature still clings to our yearly accounts or Memorabilias as they are called, of which the present is the one hundred and seventy second in number. We, therefore, at once, in Moravian fashion begin with our brief world account and try to see how the earth looked in the year of our Lord 1926 and how it has looked irom the Moravian point of view which always centers around Jesus Christ. Asia “We begin with Asia. Its pres ent condition can be expressed in one word—Unrest. There is an uneasy movement from mys terious Japan extending all the way to unruly Egypt, which is historically a part of Asia. .The agitation passes over China, hot bed of civil wars at the present time, over the broad plains of India, across the shifting sands of Mesopotamia; it is keenly felt in the village capital of new Turkey, Angora; it ih^fiercely manifested in the mosque* of Cairo. Sometimes the move ment is identified with religion, sometimes not. Its basis is the feeling, We are Asiatics; we want to stand on our own feet and we want our continent to be really our own.’ This univer of unrest while trou to the politicians of is not necessarily hos Christian religion be iution often opens the the further spread for is the only salvation for and for any other conti -the Gospel of Jesus Africa e ‘Dark Continent’ may in t state be likewise de d in a single word—Need, lean woman was listening first time at the preach the gospel in her own e. As the missionary pro with his blessed gospel the woman whispered to ide her: ‘I always felt ere must be somewhere who loved us and now I it; I only wish that my had lived to hear the It was a woman’s voice, ix that most feels the deg on of African life—it was s voice that uttered intiment of Africa’s great mt need. e churches of Christ are ming to meet the inner the poor and oppressed and our own Moravian h with its limited means has jagain undertaken its blessed work in darkest Africa, half ruined by the World War. Europe single clause will truly the case of Europe at the ,t time. It is this: Europe ing through a slow state „__j!>very* marked by the Cfc^Bte.^cuinstances .of .ftll recovery from dreadful disease. These circumstances are im provement in the health of the patient witn occasional days of backsets. The new spirit of dil igence in war-ruined countries like France and Germany is happily abroad and is producing very fine results; there is more of a desire for peace between mortal enemies than has ever existed for hundreds of years; commerce and manufacture are constantly gaining ground. Even the Balkan States and the little Slavic countries extending far to the North, as far as Poland, are no longer gleamipg with the fires of war, but are like fires smoldering away to harmless ashefe. But there are from time to time most, distressing back sets. There is a vast amount of unemployment; the middle class in several of the chief countries of Europe has been almost ruined. Even in strong and fa vored England this middle class, which is the cement of human society, is bending almost to the breaking point under excessive burdens. “In Latin Europe, by which we mean Italy and Spain, repre sentative government, upon which democracy prides itself, has almost failed and is ridden over roughshod by ancient ideas of dictatorships, under Mussolini in Italy and Rivera in Spain; while in France and Ger many, and even to some extent in steadfast England, parlia ments are riven into many con tending blocs which threaten to disturb all safe business pro gress. “We may ipention also in pass ing the strange dislike which has recently arisen in most of Europe against America, the only country that has really helped the others in war times and afterward, and is willing still to give help on practical and reasonable lines, while remain ing untrammeled and free from European political , disputes. Doubtless this symptom, too, of disordered disease will, in due time, disappear and more health ful views of Amepfea will pre vail across the seas!; South America “Again a single word will characterize the present condi ' • . ’ . r''... tion of this great and progres sive continent. That, word is Day-Dawn. “South America and North America are entering into ever closer anu more productive bus iness union. Feelings are grow ing more friendly between these two Americas, North and South, because the United Stated does not covet a single inch of Sodth American territory. The best news we have heard recently concerning our great Southern neighbpr is that‘the Methodists alone have already one hundred thousand Protestant Sunday school children in the valley of the Amazon. The competition of Protestantism is necessary for the best welfare of Catholicism, and with the progress of the Protestant faith, improvement in religion can keep pace with other great improvements iri South American work and life. North America “Thus we come to our own fa vored land, our dear America. In a single paragraph of his Thanksgiving Proclamation, our President has set forth the truth with regard to our present conditions: “As a nation and as individuals we have passed another twelve months in the favor of the Almighty. He has smiled upon our fields and they have brought forth plenti fully. Business has prospered. Industries have flourished and labor has been well employed. While sections of our country have been visited by disaster, we have been spared any great national calamity or pestilential visitation. We are blessed amongst the nations of the earth. Our moral and spiritual life has kept pace with our ma terial prosperity.” “Whether this last clause fits into the conviction of; every are just as much better off in moral and spiritual respects as we are in material prosperity, we are greatly in doubt; but at the same time we may humbly say and truthfully say that God has a good work which in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ •is being lived and done at the present time in our dear native land. “Secretary Hoover, than whom there is no man in the United States better fitted to give a keen and comprehensive and truthful account of the material conditions prevailing in our country during 1926, has made a searching analysis of business prospects and has come to the conclusion that so far as indica tions go the prospects ior are good and that with care and prudence the New Year, to use his own phrase,“will be all right.” To these conclusions of our President and of our Secretary we have but little to add. T^rue it is that there are some clouds in our material sky. The cotton situation in the South with a vast crop of eighteen and a half million bales; the farmer situ ation in the West, the textile in dustry; the startling amount of purchase on the installment plan and some other clouds may be token an occasonal spell of bad weather, but taking the Ameri can sky as a whole, there is a gleam ot God’s good prosperity shining over all our nation. North Carolina “Our old North State has come into the limelight of American conservation. News papers and magazines are full 1 of the praises of the progress of a State that was long backward j among the forty-eight common wealths. In North Carolina we are running some risk of the fulfillment of a saying of our l blessed Lord, ‘Woe unto you if I all men speak well of you.’ ! “For one thing we are honest ly governed. A close and careful I map of all the States of the Un ion was made some years ago in various coiors, in black or half black or white, according to the presence ot graft or the absence of it in our several States. If we remem per right there were (Continued on page 2) ===H!^==*S=S=™=S-9HH5SHHSSS5*=fi! SWIFT memorial col lege, ROGERSVJLLE, TENN.",fr^ -y N. Adrene Holst on Lev /. S. Lt>ng, preached a very forcible and touching ser mon Sunday morning, December 19, at St. Mark's Presbyterian church. His , text was St. Luke 2:10. and his subjecttwasL ‘"me ^ Great Birthday of Christ'.** jn. he discourse the speaker stated that great days are set apart for our National Holidays in the de velopment * of' our nation in ' memory of our great heroes. To'ay we are to commempr&te “ he birth of the greatest inter national figure in human histo ry.” Such phrases as above stat ed by Rev. Long held his audi ence spell-bound during Hie en tire sermon, making a deep im pression upon his hearers. Wednesday evening, Decern- .. ber 22, in the school chapel, tee , Female Choral Society of Swift presented a Christmas cantata,, entitled, “The Angel and the Star.” Miss L. B. Sullivan, su pervisor of the Music pepart meat, directed the play. Bo well °n ’ so masterfully r’ii the So e y present this cantata that it was agreed by all that the Cr oral Society, under the super vision oi Miss Sullivan, was hot only an csset to the institution, but also to the race. On Thursday morning the ma iority of th^ students departed "or their various homes to spend '•* . the Christmas holidays. „v. 1 At 8*80 A. M. Dr. Hargrave conducted devotional services before leaving to spend the holi- , days. We regret to say that the Senior Elder of St. Mark’s church, Mr. W. C. Wattersoh, was - bitten hy a, t»rabid dog ■<*** Thursday. His condition is not co” sidered serious, as first aid was rendered him immediately; ' Dr. Franklin, President-Emer itus, and Mrs. Franklin Were he guests of Dr. and Mrs. C. E, Tucker at a Christmas dinher December 28. The visitors, fac ulty end sludents were seated around tables heavily laden with turkey' and delicacies of the season. , CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ANNISTON, ALA. By J- W. Grier, Reported. The Calvary Presbyterian church held its Christmas ser vice, Sunday, December 26, at 11 o’clock. The sermon was preached by the pastor. His text was Numbers 24:17, “1 shall see him but not now: I shall behold him but not nigh; There snail come a Star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel.” These words were spoken by the prophet Ba laam more than 1500 years be fore the coming of Christ. This sermon was very forcible and striking. Our assemblage was somewhat smaller than usual, due to the absence of many who were spending the Christmas holidays out of the city. 1 The pastor called for a meet ing Wednesday of this week of members and friends of the community. The meeting is to afford an opportunity for all to check up on their lives of the past and mend their steps in the future, ........ The students, of Barber Col lege were greatly missed this Sunday, but we trust that those who went home for the holidays , enjoyed themselves in their re spective communities. The friends of the community were - invited to attend the monthy musical program ren dered at Barber College by a 1 chorus of fifty voices. These programs are always interesting /,nd inspiring as well as showing, laten1: talent of our people. Vis itors are always well paid for going to hear these programs. The church also missed the presence of Mrs. Ethel Shaw, (Continued on page 3)