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HI : ' ‘ ’ =SS& IRUf? jgif*. „.j.S: 1 'm ilpicmi f MTWta yoom Ali P«*g»pb ^v«* tekt aotifli *k»t jrow *«► I r’Y 1i : «|U ta #ii!«IW ■ TTi iw<nl~~*r **“ »tt“tio11 n'Tiiinitfrr *- **- *«**■* y^WMWBWIliMI Ibe Clinton victory for tSb Dr. R. H Simn bragadocio qfet ot the Gordon type. Usual onr delieqaenta pay up or oat braduat secate as tone new aubscribetsVe will not hare money enough t#*Mk'v<& another issue. Brethren So yfm expect ue’to run Tbc Stab on nothing T tiftn, ■ flit fa4kr. tki r . -. »■'.■ "-t Gum attendance upon the Clinton sequent lb ojimm for writing is coin t on chapel trill editorialfloraolai in the world thie Thk profe has been in church, GN Uehnamee ewL axp«*^ te&m neztwiUtof states who are subscribers to the paper ? Brethren pay us what you owe, send in some money with your long articles and assist in extending ion Con* SKSently, id Attain colored people the wannest hind of invitation to be present, and ex pressedabiding interest in eur wel fare, Editor £ C. Danny, who was ffoarmaii of the committee on reso* forcibly and earnestly.. Hjs utter ances were warmly applauded. Edi Now that William Calvin Chase, editor of the Washington (D. C.) Bee, hits been found guilty of crim inally libeling Hon. 0. H. J. Taylor, Recorder of Deeds of the District of Colombia, the Negro press ~of the oonntry can say amen! and, with a sigh .of relief inhale1 a draught of ai? irom the direction of the Na tional Capital, devoid of its journal istic pollution, while the much abased .Recorder may sit in his easy ^}ia|r jtm? palliate himself in the koowleage that he has rid* himself and Negro journalism of one of the nost virulent slanderers with which the cotihti^liaS been afflicted. It. stiferoos intolowtnM or for the inouth of this “mnd ' editor. For a number-of egro office-hold , have been free s attacks., All, ither paid tribute l to his demands, Recorder Taylor to give ho t legal drubbing that he has heretofore never Jeared. During the trial much unsavory tes timony was given on both sides. It is to be hoped tiiit the country will not be afflicted with a repetition of it AJtOSG^UB EXCHANGES. The Massachusetts Legislative - <39kM£f.:i i._*. cm i» Washington, **W M spumlou Committee which is now touring the South to enquire into the causes of removal of cotton mills to tills sec tion of the country has one Negro sa a member. A Monroe correspon dent to the Charlotte Observer, has the following comment: -On. member ol the committee is colored, but was on by accident, he hating teen on the committee of manufactures, all of whom were ap to come. The committee lade plain that there was no n or desire to interfere with tionsof the two races in the The colored man will not go >tels for colored peo* he buys his lunches > train. $£e seems to and does not want to pfeion of desire to AH IMPARTIAL JUDGE AKD A i*ajb " i-U.: : - : JURY. ’ . It is well knowa to read#* that since Sept. Uth, our beautiful ohu rob known as C lin ton chapel' located at Charlotte, N. C., has been closed through dAvioes of J.1T, Gordon and some of his misgnided followers because they wanted to oust Dr. R. H. Simmons, the rightful pastor, and filch the property from the possession, and pontrol pf £ign connection. After beim? encouraged by the strange de a judge who either did not render a fair d*cision> op acking m course, to stand by buvu a decision when rendered the opponents of Zion have used subter fuge, technicality and falsehood to keep the door plflsed #nd thereby prevent Zion from the use of the church until Tuesday night 1:80 - jnry of twelve white decided that Zion is the rightful cl&imant of the ohurcb and property and Dr. R H. Simmons the author* ized and lawful pastor of the same. alone excepted, till the hour above named. Fifty seven witnesses were examined and 101 pages of legal cap testimony were taken and arguments presented by seven lawyers. The deed for the property was drawn in favor the African Methodist Ghuroh instead of the A* M, E Zion Church which was intended. The defend ants or opponents of Zion set up the claim that the so called African church was an independent and dis tinct church organisation and had never had any connection with Zion save to hire preachers to fill the pul pit, provided they suited and obeyed the wishes of the congregation. Zion’s representatives set up the counter claim that the said deed was intended to be made to the A. H. S. Zion Church, that no such organiza tion as the African Methodist church ever existed in Charlotte or else where, and therefore Zion’s forces should possess said property. The defendants in the case are now wor shipping under the ministry of Rev G. Q. Haines, formerly of our church, in a little structure once used as a Baptist church. Ringleader Gor don has made most strenuous efforts and resorted to all kinds of schemes, even to politics to obtain Zion's property, and has succeeded in keeping the door shut up to the date of the recent decision. The case was one of the most remarkable and holding his first court, but the im partiality shewn to botygides, the business like methods punned, as well as his knowledge of the law bearing on the case give him oppor tunity to show that he is destined to prove himself one of the ablest judges of the Stae. The lawyers on the ride of the ohumfe were the The case began Friday afternoon and continued night and day* Sunday sd in the State. The was a new man and that only a few three year* since I gave Th* 6*a* the last letter concerning my district, [ hope no one will feel offended if I dare say a word just here about the growth of the work In 1888 when I took charge of the West Alabama Conference it had three presiding elders and the whole amount pud the three presiding el-‘ ders that year was about $800. In 1894;; w* hail fi«e each getting from fire to eight hun dred dollars, and at a time when, there fM mqoh %ss money among the laboring people ^f section The generel fund for 1887 was about twelve hundred dollars j the general fund for 1894 was #2247.74. The pastors’ salaries hare increased proportionately together with all other connections! interests I do not want any credit myself for this great improvement, but I do want the faithful ministers who have waded the swamps and oltmbed the umnt*in8 of Alabama to have credit. I believe tbat the ministers in faithfulness of duty, intelligence, and OQJWeetioimk pftye, w|4 equal those of any other conference in the connection. Now, I do not wish to take any partin the little war of words now going on between State Street and Big Zion ohurches, as to the f,ban ner church,” but l think I say this, they are the banner churches of the connection, the two having paid to the steward last year $386 each, general fund, or $670. I think Rev. P. J. JdoEntosh and JReV. C. H. Smith arc on to^in Zion as to gen cral fun) and other connections! money. Th re are a'so a plenty of others who havp^jne just as well as these according to their beithip i small mem State Street ana Big Zion are both preparing to remodel and beautify preparatory to the reception of the general conference. Her S M. Gains also at Hope chapel is doing well and desires to beautify his church soon. The people on Virginia street have a top pew church, and in fact the ministers aSd people through out the district ase working hard, beautifying and building churches mid parsonages. Bat I mast not make this letter too long, for to men tion all the great workers on my die trict, I would simply have to call the conference rolls. Bev. H. J. Starks has built a very toe, huge new church at Scranton, Miss. Bev, Green ft. £ Johnson builds either a new parsonage or beautifies the church wherever he goes. Rev. G. W. Gaines does the same. i2ev Eh Hunter is a safe man. He is doing a great work in &lma He is steward for the North Alabama conference And I will just announce here that Rev. P. J MoEntosh is steward tor the West Alabama conference. AH the breth ren will take due notioe and govern themselves accordingly. Bev. A. *F. TFarner, D. D., is Still holding the fort at Birmingham, as only an A. J. Warner can ho d it Be is really a great man -The more I see of him the more X love him. He is now chairman of the Board of Trustees for Jones University, and he seems to have thd connection at heart mom and more as he grows older The presiding elders are Be vs A B Smy er, H B Gaines, Wm Spencer, S P Collins and H G Banks. Theywere all reelected at,the last annual con ference by se ret ballot, notwith standing I nominated ten others, which shows how they are esteemed and beloved by the brethren. I hope to ‘Speak of the other conferences late* P 5.—Brethren of the North Carolina. West and North ise send in turning and he gets it 8KAPBHOT8 FROM CARTHAGE good volume of freedom’s air he railed his voice in denunciation of die slave power and in behalf of his Bhellaporger, Belva Lockwood and hundreds of others: "Fellow citizens, we want no black Ireland in Ameri ca. TFe want no aggrieved class in the Negro, we are stronger with him. The power and friendship of seven millions of people scattered all over the country are net to be despised." The Negroes in the eastern part of the State, notwithstanding they are as quiet and as inoffensive as ever, seem to have inflicted unutter able woe upon the editor * of the WiUmfngton hfeaseoger. Jle is having spasm »od is dy ing hard. Somebody ought to put the old man to bed and give him an opiate. Ife is suffering. The Fu sionists did i|, Isn’t it about time for preachers to stop writing to Tbb Stab, telling the public about "the bad condition" in which they found their work ? Nobody, out ids of their immediate circle, cares to know anything about it. It is unjust to their predeces sors. There are n great many men who don’t hno* any better than to think that that is the way to build themselves up. Now that all the conferences are over, and the minutes are in press, it cannot be said, without fear of personal offense, that the people who purchase the minutes are tired read ing about “Brother Jeremiah Simp kins" lift'ng us up to the heavenly mansion by his “fervent prayer" If the conference opens with prayer it is understood that -somebody prayed. Just what they prayed and how they prayed are matters <f no concern to the readers of the min utes. They want to know of the transactions of the conference. That’s all. Fimply that and nothing more. Speaking of mid winter revivals reminds me to tay that that particn lar feature of our ohurch work baa not been forgotten. Ve conducted a seven da>’s meeting with very sat isfaotory resets* Carthage need not be dispared of. The people are de termined, with whatever assitance they can get, to bring it to the front1 May Qod speed them in their purpose. Let it be remembered that a can didate for the Bishopric should have acme other commendable qnal ties besides his aspirations. A great portion of the world’s history is spent in aspiring men who were put in holef that they were not large enough to fill. The Rev. A. Albertus Crooke and the good people of Monroe will scarcely be forgotten for the kind ness shown us while we were in their hospitable town. Kev. C. 8. SMITH IN AFRICA. ‘ [From The Bogle Blast ] In answer to an almost universal inquiry as to why I went to Africa, the following reasons are assigned: First, to gratify a long cherished desire to see that country; second, to see what the European is doing there; third, to see what the African himself is 4oing; fourth, to gain a knowledge of the operationsof mis sionaaTy efforts; fifth, to stndy the effect of the climate upon the human constitution; sixth, to see if there any openings for the employ ment of the skill and energy of in and industrious young of African descent. • are the direct causes which led me to visit Afiioa, and to make a tour of observation along its west southwest coast for a distance of 3,000 miles, from 8ierra Leone on the, north west to St Paul Ve Loanila on the southwest. My ob serrations extended to the territories belonging to the powerainAfric*. li.th# Mians. on titer M feraisseiM Wfc’fgte ssnrif <w.r' „Tr £». Liberia, touched at Monrovia, Sees Town and Grand Sess. The shortest stopping time at Sttj one place was one hour and twenty minutes at Banana, and the longest, four days and forty minutes at Cameroon. The total stoppages on the outward voyage from Sierra Leone to Sl Paul f e Loando was1 nine een days, twenty hours and thirty minutes. The total time oc cupied in going from Sierra Leone to 8t Paul De-Loanda was one month and three days—from September 18, to October 21. The time occupied on the homeward voyage from St. Paul De Loanda to Monrovia was. one month. 1 left Loanda Ootober 22nd and reached Monrovia Novem ber 22^ where 1 disembarked and re mained ten dayi. The voyage from Liverpool to St Paul De Loanda and from there to Monrovia, was continuous, and was made on the steamship Benguela X lived aboard this ship two months and seventeen days. X was absent 147 dayi from the time I left Nashville until I re turned 0£ thi* time, I wis 119 days at sea. X was on the west and southwest coast of Africa two months and three weeks, including the stop at. Monrovia of ten days and at Sierra Leone of six days. 1 carried with me my awn scientific instruments for making meteurolog ioal observations, aftd a »umber of books on Africa, so that I could com pare the statements of other African travelers with the results of my own observation#, I did not go into the interior at any point exeept as I asoended the Bio Del Bay, Cameroon and Congo rivers. I ascended the Congo for a distance of 110 miles, which is as far as ocean steamers can go, navigation being interrupted by a series of cat aracts. 1 give the foregoing details of my voyage in order that the intelligent mind may be able to judge as to the amount of credence to attach to whatever statements I may hereaf ter make in regard to Africa, either orally or in printed form. As to the inducing causes whieh led me to visit the west and southwest coasts of Africa, I do not hesitate to say that I had abundant opportunity to satisfy myself relative thereto. The atmospheric conditions throughout the entire voyage were most favor able, and the trip, which covered 20,000 miles by land and sea was made without a mishap to myself, and the only inconvenience I exper ienced alt any time was due to the effects of a slight attack of the fever ? ; C. 8. Smith. WHAT THE STAR WANTS. We want one hundred Zion minis ten to send ns three subscribers each atone dollar apiece, accompan ied by the cash. We want fifty Zi on ministers to send ns five sub seribers) each at one dollar apieee, accompanied by the cash. W e want every Zion minister who is in arrears to pay up by the first of April if he wants his paper continued. W ho will be the first to answer our wants notice ? We shall report each one promptly. NOTICE. All general officers and other visitors who expect to ^attend the New Jersey conference which meets on the 24th prox. are requested to inform Rev J. H. Mason, 21 8cott street, Newark, N. J. . * .... £—> PERSONAL MENTION. Rev. W. A. Peggaos who is pastor of our church at Greensboro and a student at Bennett Celloae. was in th dty on Wednesday consulting about the erection of a new eureh in Greens boro He says Zion’s prospects in Greensboro are very encouraging and speaks in highest terms < f Bennett College and its effl uent faculty. Rev. W. J. Mo. re, D. D„ pn aiding elder of the mother North Carolina oenferencs and une of >he greatest Uying organisers, |ranchers and *ehareh builders of oar Zioa was at Charlotte during last week where he ’fas a material witness in tin church trial in which Clinton was involved. Although near! the M. E. Church, South, have ghn renewed evidenoe of their Interest in the “brother in •black’* and fliffr de •ire to protect true Methodism against bulldozers, braggarts and breakers of the peace of the J, W. Gordon tjpe. Bishop J. W. Hood, D. D., bee seldom rendered more valuable ser vice to Zion or fehowed up to better advantage as a well informed, even balanced and great man than when upon the witness stand during the Clinton chapel trial. Hia memory was almost perfect, his narration of drcnmstanoes was lucid and oouvinc ing apd had more bearing then any ether witness plaoed on the stand. The attempts of Gordon and hia abusive counsel to represent his work,, impugn his motives and make capiftult out oi hit work during the Babon* struotion period end in subsequent: annse<Ma]m S- - — a - - a# — - _ _ jsiii vinj Kreu^unenea mi muimoov* end heightened him iu the'estimatioia ot the best people of Charlotte. Our next issue will contain a com munication irom Rev. A. W. Rice of 8ummerville, Ga., announcing the death of Presiding Elder N. T. Hearn of the North Georgia _ Conference which occurred at his home in Sum merville oe the 6th inst We knew* Elder Hearn well and can testify tint; be was not only one of the ieerkeft >ut one of the best and most earnest men Zion ever had in the State ok Georgia. His death is a great loan to our work in that State. See next: issue. AY OPPORTUNITY FOB MIN ISTERS* Briefly it I* this: to spend the month of April in Chicago, with the Bible In stitute ms headquarters, for a special * oonrse in the English Bible, and a study » of the various methods of personal work, as applied ha the multiform mi* siooary activities of that peat city. The month of Aprli has been selected for this Conference as s time when many ministers might arrange to he absent ftrom their work wttbont serious detri meat thereto. In many ooontry places the roads an usually ha had condition at that time of year, and Utile parish work Oin be done. Foe city ministers, a change and season for Bible study, af ter the special meetings of the winter, would he n great boon and weald be the mesne In many eases of patting now ▼Igor into die entire summer campaign, INDUCEMENTS, The inducements In the Has of study an as follows : The regular work of the Institute will be serried on as wum. This will consist oi 1 A study of O d Tsetmment prophesy, with the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah as a basis, under the direction of Prcf, *r. W. White, at 9 a. in. b. A course In the hots and Epistles, under the same teacher, at 10 a. m. c. an analytical study of the first Epistle of John, by Sapt. B. A. Torrry, at 11 a. m. <L Prof. D.B. Towner, Superintendent, of the Musloal Department, holds eSasaen at 10 and 11 a. m. Visitors will he welcome to all them exerciser, They will he held daily, ex cept Sunday and Monday (whloh la rash day at the Institute.) SPECIAL OOUB8E. The epeelal course witt ecittpy two hours In the afternoon from Tuesday to Saturday inclusive. Mr. Torroy wilt speak at 8 o’clock on the great funds mental doctrines of tbeBkble, snehaa Regeneration, SmnoUfioation, Justifioar tion, the Hely Spirit, etn. Prof. White will give a book study at 8 o’clock each day. Ten studies will he taken from the prophetic literature of the Old Testament and tan from the New Testament. The evenings, so ft* as desired, may be spent in studying the various ses sionary activities of the city, Chicago, with Its large end miscellaneous popula tion, Ms many successful miss lone, ita motive churches, able pastors and aaooeaa fnl Christian workers, Its largnand ably officered T. M. O. A., and the rapidly extending eperntleaa ef The Bible Insti tute,in unsurpassed as a place in which *» study methods of Christian work, in nil its varied fora a If desired by those who attend, a series of Conf erenoes may be arranged on sub jeots relating to ebireb and pastoral lines. _ • ; f • -* xxPEpen.■ - <■ 6 - Thej total expense of this senna, la olndlngeeaas and boardf has bane glased mt 16 00 aweek This la, Without ques tion, exoepttoaably rssnonahle, as the In atitute to located In , the very heart of Chlosgo. The wives of iaintoters will be welccma
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