KNOW THE TRUTH. AND
CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, J,
ARY 6,1927.
fcLOWMG TRlBUTf
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•:? 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<j
of friends. The pallbearej
Honorary—Prof. F. L.J
President John M. Gai
Clarke, M. D., Willi
gan, D. D, S., Profs.
Bawley, ‘George W.
Thomas L. Puryear, M«
ther H. Foster, F. F]
W. M. Brewer, Z. S.
ess-index, Dec. 18.)
C. J/’Wartman.
I. A. Derbigney,
FlorencejvT. H. Johnston,
Fackson, H. E.
The floral contri
Jjons were in profusion, cost>
"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
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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
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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,
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