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K Banks, a former Charlott Kie^gaiii. Pnosa Marks is expected to returi Mrlotte tfcis week. jjife being dipped, committed an< wed—the poem found on first page E. J. Wright went to Hunters londay afternoon to spend a fev Ir. E. Caswell Byers, of Biddle, lef ■ his home in Davidson Monday after ifr. Wm. M. Flowers went to States ville Monday to accept the foremansbij of the Piedmont Sun. f\ Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Richardson, anc iiughtcr, Miss Edna, of St. Johns N. B. the city-the guests of Mrs. R. R i in rfio Irs. Alice Morehead-Weddington has been making Boston her home for some time, is in the city visiting elatives and friends. Mr. Hazel Mosley is in the city this week. He has been located at Hot Springs for quite awhile and will return thither upon leaving Charlotte. Mr. J. Henry Warren is all smiles now. Cause—J. Henry Warren, Jr., jund his way to the old man's home londay morning. Our congratulations. Rev. H. B. Bennett, of Mowingglade circuit, was called to Statesville this week by telegram to the bedside of a very sick sister-in-law. He writes that she is seriously ill. Mrs. A. W. Blackwell, wife of the neral Manager, Rev. G. L. Blackwell, rived in Charlotte last Thursday night. will no doubt be a great help in the ttle Rock parish of which her husband charge. She I The three Zion Sunday-schools of the y—Clinton Chapel, Little Rock and e—are considering plans by which a joint Sunday-school cxcur n at an early date to some point not it agreed upon. MeSdames R. R. Morris, J;. T. Williams and several other ladies of the city will give a Barbers’ and Waiters’ Centennial Convention at Varick Hall July 6th, 7th and 8th. No pains will be spared to make this one of the grandest events of the season. The Christian Endeavor Societies of the city and vicinity will please note the fact that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad | is making special inducements for trans 1 portation to the Christian Endeavor Con vention at Washington on July 7—18. See their statement on fourth page. Mr. John T. Jackson, instructor in tailoring in that department at Biddle University, has recently moved his shop into the city and is now located at 23 J W. Trade St. He respectfully solicits a of the patronage of the public. hisT ad elsewhere in these columns. lare Si , Attention, Comrades! As we find a great many veterans of Mecklenburg Camp who will-attend the Reunion at Richmond desire to go via the Southern Railway (which is the only line running through trains between Charlotte and Richmond without change ly) and have a day-light! trip, we have arranged for special coaches to leave Charlotte at 8:50 a. in., June 20th, arriv ving at Richmond at 6:40 p. m. without change, joining comrades at Concord, Salisbury, Greensboro and Danville and other points en route. As tickets sold for this occasion will not allow stop off at Petersburg the Southern Railway has arranged for a rate of 25 cents, Richmond to Petersburg and return for all who desire to visit Petersburg.. Tickets via this rate will also be good ^return via Norfolk by paying $1.00 lional. cmnd-trip rate from Charlotte $5.65, tickets good to return until July 15th'. All who will use this route please advise the undersigned at once in order that ample accommodations may be provided. J. Rosseler, D. G. Maxwell, J. R. Sos saman. The Athens district conference will convene in Simpkin’s Chapel, Aug. l^th, 1896, and will continue until the 24th, All the ministers are re quested to be present, also the local preachers and exhorters.' Brethren, take large collections oh general fund for we want good reports this year. Rev. L. G. Hemphill, P. E. Norfolk Notes. BY REV. R. H. DICK. The times are hard, but we are holding our own. The chnrch is in a good condition spiritually and finan cially. The Arizona Quintette clubi headed by Mrs. Susie E. Deans, B. leeler, . C. Billup, G. Gilliam, and Emma Thompson, is a great fac ar In our church. They gave a con cert May 11, and raised $35.50. Thi8 club is young in organization but is old in music as any in the city. I We bid the club God’s speed. Our church is small, but it is composed of some of the best people in the city. We are laboring hard to keep Zion’s banner floating high. Her staff bear valiant hearted man. Norfolk, Va. gun thismori ting at 11 i politan Weal, y A. M. E. Zion Church D Street betwei n Snd and 8rdSta, South west, where 1 he Philadelphia and Balti mpre confer snce haa been In senior since Wednei day. Bishop Ho< id presided at the morning session. Thi conference was regular 1 y called t o order, and the min utes of yesterday’s proceedings read and approved, al ter which the special order of the day—t tie observance of the Cen tennial of thi > denomination—was taken up. After an organ voluntary, the singing of hymns ant 1 religious exercises, Bishop Hood delive ed the Centenary sermon. BISH >P HOOD’S SERMON. Bishop sai l impart: “We can trace the origin of every important branch of the Afro-Ar terican Church back to the latter part of the eighteenth or beginning of the nineteenth century. The move ment was widespread and nearly simul taneous. “Itrl796 the African Methodist Epis copal Zion cl urch was organized in New York; in IS 04 the Abyssinian Baptist church was i irganized in Now York; the Joy Street B iptist church was organized in Boston in 1805 ; in 1806 the Coloied Methodist C lurch was organized in Wil mington, Del., which resulted seven years later in the organization of the African Un on (Methodist) Church in the same cit; r * the First African Presby terian Chur :h was organized in Philar delphia in .807; about 1809 the First Colored Me hodist Church was also or ganized in I hiladelphia, which resulted seven years laterdn the formation of the (Bethel) African Methodist Episcopal Church. This was a most remarkable moycment, i nd, I repeat, unparalleled in the history i if the Christian Church. It was a general exodus of the color ed membert out of the white churches for reasons before known. Secessions from churcl cs are generally the result of differences of opinion on doctrine or church mov sment, but it was neither of these which caused this movement. The seceders in Jvery case formed churches of the samii faith and order, and the same form c f church government as that from which they separated. “In formi ag these organizations there were many difficulties to be overcome. The minist ;rs of the several denomina tions were opposed to the movement, especially I he Methodist ministers,. in cluding a n lajority of the bishops; and the Episco >al form of government was favorable t > the purpose of the Method ist minister i to hinder the'success of the colored brt thren in their efforts to be free. The Presbyterians and Baptists had only t) find three friendly presby ters in ord;r to secure ordination; but in the Me hodist Church the authority to ordain v as vested in the bishops and conference!. The conference elects and the bishop conducts the ordination. This beit g the case, it was much more easy to hec ge up the way of the colored Methodists By magnifying the impor tance of pa rticular forms it was an easy matter to s< >w discord in the ranks of the blacks, and this was freely done. DEVELOl >MENT OF THE BLACK MAN. “It is a r ^markable fact that the devel. opment of the black man has come al most wholly through his church, I be lieve that God has some great purpose respecting the Negro race; whatever sf i that purpd sc may be, I feel assured that the Negro church is, and will continue to be, the 1 cost important factor. “If ther s had been no Negro church he wotlld have had no opportunity for the development of his faculties, nor would he have had any platform on which to exhibit his vast possibilities. The Negro church was one of the pow erful insti umentalities by which the ac cursed syi tem of American slavery was overthrov n; it was an agency of the un derground railway by which communica tion was tept open between the North and the S >uth ; it was a magazine from which an( i-slavery missiles were drawn to be hur ed against the ramparts of the doomed iistitution; it afforded a plat form upon which anti-slavery agitators cried aloe d and spared not- No mortal can tell h )w much the Negro church con tributed to the emancipation of the slave. “It nun t be evident to all who think on the subject that without the African church al the period at which 4,000,000 of bondn en were freed they would have been abs< lutely without trained leaders of any onsiderable intelligence. And what mui ,t have been the state of things ? The whi te ministers of the South as a rule, foi the first five years after the emancips tion took no interest at all in the religi ous instruction of the freedmen; thousanc s of them have not yet conquer ed their i ndiffercnce. “Whal must have been the condition of thing! if the African Church had not been pr< pared* to take hold of the mass of sin ai d ignorance which was turned loose ui on the nation ? The Methodist Episcop d Church has done a grand, a glorious yea, a praiseworthy work in its schools n the South. If it had confined its work to thia ljne it would have been an unmi sed blessing to our people. But in its ittempt to establish churches among t lie colored people it has in many places h indered us from doing .what it could d< i; hence, in such instances noth ing wor ;h naming has been done where much m ight have been accomplished. 3ROWTBLOF THE CHURCH. he fvondersthat the Afro-American church the black men deprived of the privilege of exercie ittg hie spiritual gifts; coming out he got his pulpit, in which he has developed into a workman of whom none need be ashamed. To reach the top, the black man must go up on his plane, must climb his own ladder. The white man will never step aside to make room for him. 1 need hardly state the feeling of superiority is inherent in the white race in this country. “With such feelings and such a claim no degree of merit on the black man’s part could entitle him to the first posi' tion in the white man’s estimation. •‘But'while white men may not feel it their duty to assist in the exaltation of one whom they look upon as belonging to an inferior race, yet when a black man, on his merit, and upon his own ladder, has reached the first position, there are many white men who will grasp his hand in recognition, and even in congratulation, because they do not have to stoop to take his hand. Hence, it came to pass at the Centennial con ference of Methodists in Baltimore, Md., in 1886, black bishops presided* in com mon with others. A PIONEER IN THE SOUTH. “A single black preacher is said to have kindled the fire of Methodism at Fayetteville, N. C., about a hundred years ago, which burned throughout that State and into the adjoining State of South Carolina. He first began to preach among his own race and formed a church. ‘Finally, out of curiosity the white people began to attend his meetings and many of them were converted, which ultimately resulted in the formation of many churches in that section. His spirit still lives in Fayetteville, and that vicinity has produced more preachers than any other seven towns of its size within our knowledge. Not less than fifty preachers have started out from that section in the last twenty-five years; among that number are three Bishops, Lomax and Harris, of Zion Church, and Beebe, of the Colored Methodist Episco pal Church. There is at least one white preacher who takes pleasure in telling thalt his father, who was also a preacher, was converted through the labors of Father Evans, the pioneer black preach er. The annual conference of the Meth odist Episcopal Church South, whenever it meets in Fayetteville, occupies some time in eulogies of Father Evans, and the speakers refer to him as the father of Methodism in North Carolina. “The church having opened the way for the development of the black man, other means have followed and still oth ers will follow, until his opportunities are equal to those of any other race, and his rights and excellencies are acknowl edged by all. Possibly there may then be a union of all who are of the same faith and order without race distinctions. The African Church will then have ac complished its special work—and not till then. Till then there must be no faltering, no looking back t6 the flesh pots of Egypt; every branch of the Af- \ rican Church must use all the means within its reach, to the end that the race may stand in the front ranks of civ il and religious liberty.” Howard University furnishes superior facilities for higher education. Nine dif ferent departments, with sixty profes Reduced Rates on Southern Railway.. National League Meet American Wheel men, LouisviUe, Ky., August 10-15,1896 : On account of the above occasion, South am Railway will sell lound-trip tickets to Louisvill, Ky., and return at rate of one first-class limited fare for the round trip, tickets on sale Aug, 8-9, with final limit of August 17th, continous passage in both directiohs. Summer Normal School for Teachers, Chapel Hill, N. C., June 28 to July 17th, 1896On account of the above occasion the Southern Railway has authorized rates of one farej going, and one-third fare returning, on the certificate plan from points within the State of North Carolina to Chapel Hill and return, tick ets to be sold June 18th to July 17th in clusive with final limit of July 26th; cer tificates to be filled out and signed on one side by ticket agent at starting point and on the other side by Dr. Qeo. T. Winston, and properly viseed by Mr. B. E. Teague, special agent, Chapel Hill, upon surrender of which to the ticket agent, Chapel Hill, ticket will be sold to the holder thereof from Chapel Hill to the starting point of passenger at rate of one-third of the first-class limited fare. The one-way rate to Chapel Hill from Charlotte is $4.85; from other points in proportion. United Confederate Veterans'Association, Richmond, Va., June 80—July 2,1896.—? Rates one cent per mile—Tickets from stations in Virginia, except Danville, will be sold June 29, 80 and July 1 and 2 for trains scheduled to reach Richmond not later than noon of same date. Tick ets from Danville, Va., and from stations in North Carolina EaBt and North of and Including Charlotte, Salisbury, Wilkes boro and Greensboro, will be sold June 29 and 80; and from stations West and South thereof June 28 and 29. Fina limit of tickets from all points extended to July 10, 1896. HOWAR DUN IVERSITY washinoTom, d- o., B. F. Wheeler, D. •r of the New Jersey conference and Mies A. Gertrude Craig e, Rev. W. M. Edmondson, officiating. Dr. W. H. Goler was to associate him, but was delayed by missing, tho proper train in New York. Hon. J. C. Da'ncy, the close and trusted friend ot Dr. Wheeler, was present and contri buted life and cheer on that occasion. Dr. Wheeler was Mr. Dancy’s best man when he was mailed, and Dr. Wheeler would not thiak of not hav ing him present. It is indeed a well Hatched couple. Dr. Wheeler is well-kaown as one of the brightest scholars und leaders in Zion connection. M ss Craige was organist of the obnroh for several years and is alike'brigit and interest ing. She has enjoyecl splendid ad vantages and is loved and respected by all who know her. ;■ Dr. Wheeler certainly exercised rf.re good judg ment in the selection of his better half. Refreshments were served aftef the happy couple were male oue and bon voyage was wished them across the matrimonial sea. May their lives be of much usefulness and great joy. EDWARDS—TIOMAS. 1 At 8'30 p. m., June 11th, there was an exceedingly pretty wedding at the residence of Presiding Elder J. W. Thomas, the contracting parties being Mr. Bennie E. Ed war 3s and Miss M. Roberta Thomas, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. The mas. For this happy occasion both the parlors were beautifully decoratec; with choice flowers. The weddiDg march was played by Miss Emma Hall, while Rev. J. S. Settle officiated. Miss Jane Thomas was maid of honor, and Mr. James A. McCoy was best man. About 100 relatives and friends of the couple were present to witness this happy union, and when the cere mony was concluded, Mr. Edwards andjria bride were overwhelmed with congratulations. Th jy also were the recipients of numerous and usefnl presents given by their many friends. Soon after the marriage an elegant repast was served in the dining room. The tables were exquisitely decorated with **^autiful flowers, and were tempting WiJh the feast spread upon them. We w.sh them a fair sail on the matrimonial sea. GIBSON-CARR AND .KILLER—CARR. Misses Julia and Roberta Carr, the daughters of Mr. aid Mrs. Greene Carr, of China Grore, N. C., were married to Meesrs. H. C. Gibson and Henry Miller, resp actively, on the evening of June 16th, Rev. H. S. Mc Mullen, officiating. The happy couples were ushered to the altar in Miller’s Chapel by the brides’-maids and brides’-grooms at 7 p. m., where a cheerful number of people were as sembled to witness the ceremonies. The brides and grooms were dressed in grand style, also the attendants. After many congratulations by their friends the happy couples left for "the home of the brides, where a grand re ception awaited them. This was the climax of the whole affair. at n ight Jonesboro. Blood and S!dn Diseases Cured WANTED 1—An 18 years’ experienc proofs, would like i Opelika district runs within fifteen miles of this place. Rev. L. S. Peterson is Prssiding Elder. The work has prospered greatly under his administration. - There are on this district fire local elders and dsaoons, twenty-four local preachers, seven ex horters,' 1,592 members, 15 circuits and stations with two mission points. The pastors are Revs. C. L. W. Ham ilton at Auburn station, and A S. Watkin at Opelika station. The fat-’ ter has recently closed a revival meeting with good results. The Easter services arranged by the ener getic superintendent, Brother Eddie Williams and teachers, were grand indeed. Rev. D. W. Wright is said to be the man for Little Zion circuit. He leaves no stones unturned in the line of his duty. Rev. W. M. Meadows on the St. James’ circuit is keeping pace with the times. Brother Meadows-was re cently married to Miss Pearl Miliner, of Camp Hill, Ala. He is doing well in his church work. Rev. M. Mahorn has built a “View church and had it dedicated by the Presiding Elder a short while since. Rev. 0. P. O’Neal on the Shiloh cir cuit is making a fine mark as pastor and church builder. A new house of worship will soon be completed by him which would be a credit to any community. Rev. S. M’Clain on the Filton Chapel circuit is carrying things well for Zion. Revs. Wm. Butler, at Camp Hill and G. W. Ber ry, at Jackson’s^Gap, have the high est confidence of their people and are hopeful as to the future. Revs. J. W. Booker, of Talladega station, and Mc D. Sharp, of Anniston station, have been instrumental in breathing spir itual, financial and social life into the Northern section of the Opelika dis trict. Rev. Booker, amid th$se hard times in one rally raised $76.50 to pay on the new organ purchased by him for the church there. Revs. C. F. Brown at Cove, and J. W. Scott at Birmingham have mission work and the hope is that succes. will crown their labors. - v Rev. C. T; Green, at the Uches cir cuit is keeping abreast with the times. Opelika, Ala. Mr. Aaron B. Bennett, father-in law of Rev. 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