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# —. . ■' II The Afrieo - American Presbyterian V? Established'in 1879. CONSOLIDATED WITH THE SOUTHERN EVANGELIST Rev. H. L. McCROREY, D. D. LL., D~ Editor. W. E. HILL, Associate Editor. Rot. C. P. PITCHPORD, Business Manager. Devoted to the Educational, Mate rial, Moral and Religious interests of cur people in the South, aad pub. Uahed at Charlotte, N. C., every Thursday. All questions arising under the va rious subjects above indicated arc discussed from a Christian point of view. Each number contains the freshest and best news from the Southern Held and from the Church at large. There is carefully selected reading matter suited to all classes of our people—the farmer, the me. ehanie, the artisan and the profes sional man. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION: Single copy one year-$1.50 Six months- .75 Three months- AO Send all money by P. O. Money Oder, Registered Letter or Bank Check, otherwise it might get lost and the sender alone will be respon sible. Entered at the Postoffice at Char, lotte, N. C., as second class matter. THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 1980 THE EFLAND HOME FUR DELINQUENT NEGRO GIRLS The North Carolina Industri al Training School at Efland for delinquent Negro girls should be enlarged and supported by State funds. In other words, it should be a State institution instead of simply an institution of the State. The institution was founded six years ago by col ored women of the State. These women through various wom en’s clubs have supported this home with the exception of $2,000 a year for the past three years. This small amount was given by the State. The accommodations of , the home are far too limited and 'the financial support tho meagre to enable the institution to meet the needs of that class of persons for whom it was found ed. It should, therefore, ’ be taken over by the State and en larged and supported. Some years ago a few colored men of the State bought a tract of land on which to build a reform training school for in corrigible Negro boys. The property was later turned over to the State and as a result we now have the Morrison Train ing School for colored boys. This institution is a credit to the State and a blessing to the Negro race. The project, how ever, was not taken over by the State until after the State Leg islature had been appealed to three or four times jby a com mittee of colored men during a period of six or eight years. A similar thing should be done for the Efland Home ::or delinquent girls. The matter of having the State take over and finance the Efland Home should be taken to the State Legisla ture and constantly kept before that body until favorable ac tion is secured. DEDICATION OF NEGRO BUILDING AT THE ORTHO PEDIC HOOSPFTAL The $25,000 Duke Memorial Building for crippled Negro children at the North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital in Gasto nia will be dedicated Sunday afternoon, November 23rd. This is the first effort of this kind in America to provide hospital facilities for the ex clusive care and treatment of Negro cripples. Dr. W. S. Ran kin, a former Secretary of the State Board of Health, will be present, representing the Duke Foundation. Representative col ored men and women have been invited to attend the dedication and some of them will speak. Music will be furnished jby sing ers from Livingstone College, Lincoln Academy and the churches of Gastonia and Charlotte. Lieut. L. A. Oxley, of Welfare at Raleigh, is of arrangements for the dedica tion. WHO IS READY? Albion Academy, Franklinton, N. C., Nov. 12,1980. About two-thirds of the ec clesiastical year has passed. Each church will make its re port to its own Presbytery, and the records will be completed for publication in the Minutes of the General Assembly. The Minutes of the General Assem bly are a barometer of the Church. The Synod of Catawba, in its recent meeting, by resolutions, handed down to the several Prefebyteries within its bounds the work of promotion and field activities. The organization of the local churches depends up on the activities of the Presby tery itself, and each minister should take special pride in the advance made by his own church. . The Synod of Catawba points out two main objectives for this year. The first and most impor tant one is the saving of souls. We must have more members in each of our two hundred churches. The two and three thousand mark must be passed. The second objective is the raising of funds to pay our lo cal expenses and the budget of Benevolences. “Pay as you go” is a wise suggestion. Bigger and better churches and Sunday schools are the prize of the mark of our high calling. Who is ready to report a marked success this year? If all our ministers and offi cers would put as much energy and loyalty into the work of the church as is put into the day and State schools, every one would be happy. This is an ear nest appeal for prayer and the guidance of the Holy Spirit in this work of the Master. The Program and Field Ac tivities Committee has its ears to the ground. We wish to hjear the rumblings from beneath, and the mighty rustling of the mulberry trees from above. Very prayerfully, JOHN A. SAVAGE, Chairman. THE MINISTERS AND CHtJRCHES OF EAST TENNESSEE SYNOD Dear Brethren: An official statement of receipts from churches in the Synod of East Tennessee applicable upon the benevolence budget of the cur rent year up to October 10, 1930, is Ibefore me. Alongside of the statement is the amount allocated to the Synod by the Committee on Apportionment at Chicago, 111., on November 20, 1929. A study of the two documents reveals the fact that with the year more than half gone the receipts are just a lit tle over one-fifth of the amount allocated to the churches and accepted by the Presbyteries. From that we can see that un less something unusual happens the prospects for raising bur full benevolence quota are hot at all pleasing. But I believe that it can be done. And the job is ours to do. In urging that each church raise its quota and thus make ic possible for the Synod to go over the top I am not unmind ful of the fact that we are passing through some “peculiar times/’ and that many of the churches are behind in their lo cal expenses, the pastor’s gala ry included. But while that is true, it is also true that we haven’t been any less regular in making our requests and askings of the Boards and Agencies of the Church that are greatly dependent upon t|ie gifts and the liberality of the churches for the wherewithal with which to favorably consid er the number of demands that are.made upon them for finance and aid for one thing and an other. We still look to Pitts burgh, New York, and Phila delphia for help even in these “peculiar times.” We seem not to think that the kind of re ..■' ,j. J—Lll sponse we get'fromthese soure iscMi'ssrsS get from the churches plus philanthropy* Each is depen dent upon the other. __ j In view of these things, and as a matter of loyalty to the Church that has done and con tinues to do so much for us, and for which we have done com paratively so little, and out of Synodical self-respect, P am writing these lines to beg of you to give diligence to make possible and sure the rising of the benevolence allocated to our Synod. Whatever sacrifice it calls for, let us make it and pay our benevolence. Our quota is $2,051. The record shows that the receipts up to October 10th were $360.10. Fraternally yours, S. A. DOWNER, , Chairman P. & F. A. Committee TALKING BLACK AND I TRADING WHITE The Africo-American Presbyte rian, Charlotte, N. C. My Dear Sir: I am enclosing a* Circular de noting the big sale I have on, for which I circulated 3,000 co pies among white and black people in communities which trade at Laurinhurg. My reason, however, for writ ing you is to acknowledge be cause of my experience my cor roboration of the .statement Gordon B. Hancock made through the Journal and Guide,, that “Negroes don’t believe in Negroes no how; they talk black and trade white.” On the day of the sale I is sued 25 tickets to the first 25 customers who entered the store. Among the 25 who en tered was only one colored man; before the drawing came off there were quite a hundred of white men, women and chib, dren, but only the one colored man. When the drawing took place a little white child drew from the box one number and that number corresponded with the number that the only col ored customer present Mid, and he, of course, was* awarded the prize. In one sense I was glad the colored man drew the prize because it showed the bal ance of my race the chance they lost of getting free a set of Rogers’ Silverware by their not patronizing their own store or enterprise. On the other hand, a party remarked that by the measure of merit and equi ty some member of the white race ought to have drawn the prize because they co-operated one hundred to one in help'ng the colored merchant sell his merchandise and relieve his financial depression, while h's own race flocked to other stores and helped the white merchants up and out of their financial de pression. With this attitude of the Ne groes toward each other I fail to see how the race can hope to rise higher than mere depen dents or hewers of wood and drawers of water. I have during this sale fifteen colored clerks, some of whom are high school graduates. My situation reminds me , of the condition that Mr. Gordon B. Hancock spoke of that in Wash ington, D. C., The Fair, a large department store with forty two colored clerks, is! about to fail because colored Washington fails to give their reasonable support to the store that em ploys their own people. I believe the race would make greater and more substantial progress if the schools would for a while suspend text-hook education and teach race integ rity, racial traits, traditions, race interest, pride and love of race co-operation; the value of time, assuming responsibilities, and, like the Jew, make race first, last and always. j W. P. EVANS. Laurinburg, N. C., Nov. 11. Charlote folk have pleasant recollections of Mr. E. Fitz Fredericks, of British Guiana, and are gratified to learn of his success since he has returned home. teacher at the early age of 16 In the Colony of British Guiana where he was born. In 1906 he left for the United States and entered the Law Depart ment of Shaw University. In 1906 he completed the three years’ course of the school and obtained the degree of LL. B., and' id the spring of the same year before taking his degree passed the State Board exami nation in Law and gained ad mission to the State bar. He practiced law and taught school intermittently for some years in Charlotte and Moores ville, North Carolina. In 1911 he paid a visit to London and witnessed the coro nation of King George, return ing to America in the same year. He went back to London in 1913, and in June, 1914, en tered Gray’s Inn, England as a law student. In Michaelmas, 1918, he was called to the Eng- | lish bar as barrister-at-law. During the Great War, Mr. Fredericks worked in the War Office and also in the Inland Revenue Department at Harles den, London. In 1918 he was sent to.Paris as a delegate to the first Pan-African Congress by the African Progress Union of England. During his stay in England between 1914 and 1918 Mr. Fredericks became a popular figure on the Brotherhood plat form. He returned to British Guiana in 1919 and in less than three years had carved out for himself a prominent position in his profession. In 1928 he founded, along with Dr. T. T. Nichols, a graduate of Lincoln University, and Mr. E. P. Bruy ning, barrister, the “Negro Progress Convention,” which is now an effective force among his people. In 1926. he stood for the Leg islature as a member of South East Essequebo, and won in what wasr considered and agreed was the keenest contest of that election. In '28 the Constitution of the colony was superseded by a new one, and the districts re distributed, and, as a conse quence, a new election was held in September of 1930, when Mr. Fredericks was returned unopposed. The Governor, Sir Edward B. Denham, K. B. E., C. M, G., has now raised Mr. Fredericks, with the cpnsent of His Majes ty the King, to the position of a member of the Executive Coun cil. He is the first full-blooded Negro who has won that dis tinction in the Colony. Other worthy Negroes have been for years in the Legislature, but Mr. Fredericks is the first to get in the Cabinet of the Govern ment. He is a most unassuming man and entirely devoted to race uplift SYMPATHY OR SILENCE If I stand by with idle hands While opportunity commands, The" fact affords the evidence I underrate the consequence If everybody else should claim The privilege to do the same. If I look on with cynic eyes, And querulously criticise, When my assistance might achieve, Or my encouragement relieve, I then and there concede to you The liberty to do it, too. Suppose that every one should choose Co-operation to refuse, Or, faults and foibles to condemn Instead of rectifying them— Suppose that all the world should shirk, Who, then, would carry on its work? Let no unsympathetic word Or syllable from him be heard Who has withheld what he could do To pull or push a project through. Within our lips it never lies To ridicule or criticise A situation or defect We make no effort to correct. J. RILEY DUNGEE L Norfolk, Va., November 10, 1980. Copies of ‘The Recusant/* a monthly publication of which iRev. Baxter P. McLendon is ed 4tor, have been received in Car thage by citizens who sub scribed to the paper while the great divine was holding a feneeting here recently. This is sue, the first since the close of the Carthage revival, contains a rare tribute to the people of Carthage. “Cyclone” Mack seemed to have taken a liking to the folks here from the day he arrived' and said that he was going to sing their praise in the next issue of his paper. In a front page article head ed “Pour Evangelistic Cam paigns,” Mr. McLendon tells of a meeting he conducted at Lynchburg, Va., just before Coming to Carthage. He then writes about his campaign here, and closes with a few remarks about the ups and downs he is experiencing in Lexington, Ky., where he says the meeting is '“as cold as a bachelor's appe tite.” Here is what he had to say about us: “My next undertaking was a Week’s campaign at Carthage, N. C., under the auspices of Rev. Boykin, a Negro Presby terian preacher. He is one of God’s ebony-faced aristocrats with the decorousness of a Chesterfield and the humility of a first century saint; a colored man in whom is no guile. For months he had been endeavor ing to get me to hold a meet ing in this beautiful little burg. He wrote and wired me in sea son and out of season, and had some of his prominent white folk write me. Finally, I ac cepted the invitation and ar rived here one Sunday after noon and found every nook and Corner of a large warehouse seated, and everything in per fect order, and, multiplied thou sands of people of every color, Walk and strata of life waiting for me. For eight days the in terest and crowds never abat ed. The white folk occupied about two-thirds of the build ing and platform that was built for the choir and the colored people surely were conspicuous by their presence in their sec tion. The whites would sing a few choice selections and then turn it over to their Ethiopian neighbors, and right there and then the fire works were on. It is doubtful whether John on the Isle of Patmos heard any better singing from the hun dred and forty-four thousand. If so, I don’t know how he lived through it. They fired my soul, fed my faith, inspired my hopes, and fixed my heart affec tions on a country where the flower never withers and the rainbow never fades. To use succinct expression without the sacrifice of clarity, in my 17 years of evangelistic work from Ocean to ocean, and lake to gulf, I have never been among a more hospitable, appreciative folk, both white and colored, than I found in Carthage. I hope the time will come when I can return and give them several weeks’ campaign that will fill their churches, crowd their prayer-meetings and overflow their Sunday schools.” INTERRACIAL CONFER* ENCE OF WEST TENNES SEE. (From Jackson, Tenn., Sun, No vember 6) False pride and indifference to racial adjustment brings about racial prejudice, James D. Burton, of Oakdale, Tenn., told the West Tennessee Inter racial Conference here today. Burton, Executive Secretary of the Inter-racial Commissions in Alabama and Tennesee, said that “racial strife and mob vio lence usually come from com munity neglect of its civic re sponsibility to build the right meeting on the subject of law and order. The conference is a state wide movement organized elev en years ago. Since its incep tion into the welfare program of West Tennessee it has prov en a gratifying success. TO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS OP I take this opportunity to in vite you and two of your offi cers to a series of Saturday Conferences on Sunday School Work. The meetings will be held at Seventh , Street church and will begin Saturday, No vember 29th, and continue for six Saturdays, closing Satur day, January 10th, 1931. There will be no conference on Saturday, December 20th. The meetings will open promptly at 3 F. M., and close at 4:30 P. M. The following topics will he taken up at the Conferences: November 29th, ‘The Work of tHe Superintendent. Hthe c vbgkqj December 6th, “Improving the Teachers.” December 13th, “The Work ers’ Conference.” December 27th, “School Im provement Through Records and Reports.” January 3rd, “Improving Working Conditions.” January 10th, ‘Testing Spir itual Results.” All the topics are taken from the book, “Improving Your Sunday School,” by Paul H. Veith. Price, 75c. It will be well for those planning to attend* the conferences to secure a copy of this book and read up on the topics to be discussed. Please let me know by No vember 24 whether you can at tend, We are limiting the num ber because the room we are to use is small. FRANK C. SHIRLEY. 506 N. Myers Street, Charlotte, N. C. OAKLAND CHURCH NOTES By Mrs. Mattie Payne Grand Annual Home-Coming church services wore held at Oakland church, October 29th to November 1, 1930. Wednesday night Rev. Wm. Cross and his choir and congre gation failed to be with us as it was very stormy. But Rev. J. H. Ward delivered an inspiring message. Thursday night Rev. G. W. Griffin was delayed on account of a funeral, but after aU he brought to us a thoughtful ser mon. Friday night Rev. C. A. Washington and his choir and congregation, of Mt Tabor church, worshipped with us. Rev. Washington delivered a very thoughtful and edifying sermon and the choir rendered excellent music. Sunday, November 1, at 11 A. M., Rev. J. H. Ward gave us another heart felt sermon. At three P. M. the home coming sermon was delivered by Rev. j. G. Murray. The ser mon was brief but touched the heart. The death of one of our choir members, Mr. Willie Phifer, threw sadness over the home coming. A short history of the church was given by Elder Miller and Dr. J. G. Murray. At 7:30 P. M., Sunday, Rev. R. F. Dodds, and his choir and congregation were present. Rev. Dodds brought to us a soul stirring sermon, urging us to duty and warning us of sin.
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