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/ REV. J, W. SMITH, D. I)., Editor REV. G. L. BLACKWELL, A. M., D. D., Bubiness Manager. •# Published every Thursday at Charlotte, N . C. 206 S. Colh\n tit. Entered at the Post Office at Charlotte as sec ond-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: |1.00 per annum; x months, 60 cents; no three month's subscrip six tion. IS&’Whety you see this paragraph marked, take notice that pour subscription has expired, and with out renewal at once we shall be compelled to discon tinue your paper. TO CORRESPONDENTS: To insure publica tion write with ink and extra carefulness on one side of the sheet only; do not abbreviate; avoid personalities; deal with live questions and give us items of chut eh and race news; condense, so as to occupy column or a half column: do not, if possible, exceed 650 words. When writing about re vlvals, anniversaries, dedications, donations, mar riages, receptions, death of church members, Easter or Vklldreii'e Day, and the like, write on postal cards. If you write long-winded articles, the Edi tor will “boil them down." Send all articles to the Editor and all business matter to the Manager STAFF CORRESPONDENTS. Mrs. Bishop C. C. Bettey, Editor of Woman’s Column. Rev. G.W. Offley, D. D., Rev. E. G. Biddle, B. D.» Rev. J. H. Anderson, Rev. J. E. Mason, D. D.) Rev. W. H, Marshall, Rev. W. A. Blackwell, Rev. G.S. Adams,DD, Rev. E. D. W. JoneB, A. B.» Rev. F. H. Hill, Prof. B. A. Johnson. A. M.> Rev. J. H. McMullen, Rev. T. A. Weathlngton, _ » ...._4 if T XX Monlnir T1 T1 . Prof.E.L. Thornton,A.M.,Rev.J.H. Manley, D.D., Prof.D.W.I'arker,A,B., Rev. J.A.D.Blolce, A.M., Prof. W.F.I’onvellle,A.B, Rev. O.W. Winfield, D.D. H.O.Weeden,Esq., Prof.W.M.Provlnder,A.B. Rev H. W. smith, Rev. D. 0. Covington. Thursday, February 25, 1897. EDITORIAL. Rev. J.'Stanard, of Cleveland, Ohio, and the wife of Rev. L. G. Hemphill, of Washington, Ga., are very ill. We hope for their recovery. Jr Bishop J. B. Small is the first Zion bishop to wear a robe. He wore it at Tuscaloosa, Ala., last'December i when ordaining his men, and at com jRUnion services a few weeks Ago in York, Pa. We are not opposed to robes. The Gleaner sent out last week by Editors Blackwell and Bruce is an up-to-date Sabbath-school monthly paper. It fills a long-felt want. It is Scriptural in its character, and of inestimable value to superintendents and scholars. The editors are learned. We hope it will at once find a welcome in every Sabbath school in Zion. Editor A. W. Scott, of the Wil mington (N. C.) Sentinel is an appli cant for Inspector of Customs in that city. lie has strong endorsements. We hope he will win ; for he is able, representative, a splendid party .-—worker, and worthy of the position. In the last campaign he did telling work for the Republican party. Press! and Printer, one of our most valued exchanges, comes to our desk this week enlarged from an eight to a twelve page paper and generally improved in its typograph ic appearance. We congratulate its publishers upon their enterprise and wish for them the continued success in the management of this excellent journal which they so justly deserve, ¥ Rev. J. Francis Robinson, of Cambridge, Mass., who by invitation of Mr. Booker T. Washington is en route to Tuskegee, Ala., to lecture to the students on “The Origin and Ac complishments of the Negro,” preached three thrilling sermons in ~Charhjtte.lasc Sabbath and delivered two fine lectures. He is one of our most talented young meD.and we hope the Bishop will use him to help build up Zion. Prof. R. A. Morrissey who has an interesting letter in the Star, is North iin the interest of Greenville (Tenn.) College of which he is presi dent. That is really one of our best schools, ranking, we are told, next to Livingstone College; and Prof. Mor rissey, who is a graduate of the ClaBB of ’91 of Livingstone College, is a brilliant English and classical schol ar, a ready speaker and an erudite theologian. We hope the North will respond to his appeals. Bishop G. W. Clinton has an en couraging letter this week concerning his men. We wish the other bishops would occasionally send us such let ters concerning their men and not leave it entirely to the pre siding elders to do. A few cheer ing words in print from the bishops would greatly stimulate the minis ters and make them work with a will for every church interest. It pays for a general to ride down the line and encourage his soldiers. Bisb:op Walters informs us that the second edition of Hymnals, with music, is ready. Price $1.00 each; by the half dozen or more, 80 cents each. It is useless to send for them without the cash. The Book Room and the Publication House, if they are to succeed, must, like the white Book Houses, run on cash bases. The “Credi; System" will swamp any Let every pastor have hii choir 'aifie sufficient piouuy in an en* tertaii iment and send to Bishop Wal ters tor our Hjymnals. Let us use our c wn literature or stop blowing about our “beloved" Zion. Th as Editor is not alone in asking each aastor to raise general fund and remit it promptly to the conference steward, and in contending for fair play in the distribution of it under the n ew financial plan. Every Gen eral Officer is behind us. Tbetfe words from Dr. W. H. Goler will have weigl it: “M 7 Dear Bro. Smith: I am surprised that he Bishops are attacking you. I cann< t see why—for surely your cause —wb ch is the cause of all of us—is just. Then i is no mistake, something must be done to help the other interests, or there will 1 e, must be, a revolution. I am with you f j»r fair dealing.” The above words from Dr. Goler show that the situation relative to the General Departments is serious, and hat our warning is timely. The danger can be averted if each pastor will set apart a Sabbath in the next two or three weeks and rally on the gene :al tax and send it to the confer ence steward; and after that, raise this tax monthly and remit to the stew ird. If this is done, we all may be sble to pull through until 1900. If it is not done, there will come a crash sooner than expected. W E have yielded considerable edi- j torial space again this week. Why ? To accommodate our writers. In or der io give all a hearing, w^jwight to have a larger paper. The Star is entiiely too small. We need a press to ri n off an eight or twelve page pa per. Bishop Small thiB week says he will be one of 200 to give $5 towards purchasing such a press. We will be another. We now need 198 minis ters and members. Can we get them? It so, the Manager and Editor will give Zion such a paper before Sum mer comes. The Colored M. E. Chu;-ch with only half the members that we have will change this week from a four to an eight or a twelve pag< paper. The A. M. E. Bethel Ohu-ch in the next few days will chai ge from an eight to a twelve or Bixtuen page paper. Shall Zion be content to drag along with a little four page paper ? We shall see. We long to see the day when our minis ters and members will be more on the alert, be ambitious, aggressive, and make the needed sacrifice to mal e Zion the equal of any other de nomination. All who will give $5 will please send us your names. Sha 1 Zion march side by side with oth< r denominations or follow behind ? Who Are Overpaid? C ur editorials on the new financial plan Bhow that it does make a differ ence whose ox is gored. Bishop Hood, a skilled master of controver sial debate who doesn’t lose his head nor hit below the belt, but who has a clesr eye, a steady hand and a han dy, frank and taking way of saying things, steps to the front this week w'it i a Scriptural Damascus biade, which is as ornamental as it is keen, and gives us a jab because of our edi torial on the December pro rata. He is an old fighter, and knows how to so put up his fences soas to make it dif ficrlt to |crawl through or climb over tosj;et at him. He thinks We ought to name the bishops who are overpaid. Of course he knows them, but we will do so. Looking over the General Secre tary’s “Statement,’’ Dr. Day says if he understands their reports that Bishop Small from June 1st, 1896, to Janu ary 1st, 1897, is overpaid five cents ; Bishop G. W. Clinton $70.14; and Bishop Holliday $183.84. These are the three. We owe each old bishop $711.18. After settling with the bish op<, this left four hundred and forty five ($445) dollars to be divided among Livingstone College, Star of Zion, Superannuated Ministers, Book Room, Sunday-school Union, General St( ward and expense, General Secre tai y, Quarterly and the three estates of the recently departed bishops. W ien it is seen how many had to get a bite at the $445.00, at a time, too, wlen the biggest pro rata comes in, is II a wonder that the General Offi ce] s cry out and warn the brethren th it unless they raise general fund m< nthly and remit to the conference st< ward a crash will come ? Bishop Hood says the bishops, aB a whole, have not received more than what was due them. Granted. What do bs it prove about the new financial plan? Why, that as we first said, it is a failure. The Bishop says had th s money gone into the treasury it would simply have gone to square tha accounts of the other bishops. T1 at is not only further proof of fail ur e, but shows that the General Offi ce rs wouldn’t have received a cent th iai M th^Jtany bishbp should attack^ us for opening the eyes of the pastors to the true situation of affairs and sug gesting a remedy which will give every man involved some show for salary ? Bishop Hood seems to think that a public criticism of the acts of the bishops will bring the office into con tempt ; that unless written charges are alleged, bishops’ acts should not be criticized at all. We differ. There is no office on earth, in Church or Na tion, that will shield a man from crit icism. Men are no more infallible in high offices than in low. All Presi dents from Washington to Cleveland have been undercthe fire of just and unjust criticism; yet they and this office are highly honored. The Bame is true of bishops in Zion and other denominations. The object of hon est criticism is to put us on our guard, whistle down brakes on us, and make us do right. Let every man have his say, if he will say it respectfully, and he will feel better. Let bishops and minis ters have plenty of elbow room to ap prove or disapprove of each other’s acts; and let us, without showing bad blood, or giving each other the cold shoulder, meet argument with argu ment ; and if we are defeated, retire in graceful order. No man ought to be a bishop, and no one Bhould try to get into that office, who, rather than take his argumentative gun and try to blow the boots off of a fellow, will, because he has the power,resort to un fair methods to “down" him. We, like Bishop Hood, respect a manly foe. Like him, we detest a treacher ous bushwhacker. When the time comes in Zion that a man will not respect our bishops, that man must put his “fixings" in his satchel and "get out of town” on the first wagon or train that comes along. This fi nancial dilemma is a question of the highest importance to Zion, and should be speedily adjusted by the Bishops, General Officers and pastors without any red tape circumlocution. Seventh Episcopal District. BY BISHOP G. W. OLIHTON, D. D. Since leaving home I have vieiled the following points: Athens, Cleve land, Kingston, Loudon, Fort Cheat* ham, St. Elmo, Thompkin’s Chapel, Chattanooga, Rockwood and Harri man in Tennessee ; and I also spent two nights with Dr.' R. E. Wilson at Cincinnati, Ohio, rendering him what assistance I could in his revival which is now progressing most encouraging ly. After a week’s effort he has had fourteen conversions, and his church is crowded every evening, and many are seeking and finding deliverance from Bin. Zion' must soon buy or build elsewhere to accommodate the people at Cincinnati who are anxious to enlist under her banner. Dr. Wil son is gaining popularity and success steadily. At Athens, Tenn., Rev. H. L. Mc Kinney, who graduated from the The ological Department of Livingstone College last year, is proving himself to be the man for the place in every respect. Quite $100.00 worth of im provements has been made on the church since he took charge. When painted, it will be one of the neatest and best equipped churches in the conferences. Mrs. McKinney is a help-me6t indeed who has contribut ed no little to his success and the general upbuilding of the church. The forces at Athens are better or ganized than in any church I have visited recently. Athens is the home of Presiding Elder Ferguson, and the headquarters of Presiding Elder Man son. At Cleveland, Rev. J. L. Witten, an educated young man of many strong parts, is meeting with encour aging success. The people are all pleased with him as a preacher and a pastor. He has inaugurated some much needed and healthful reforms, and the outlook is very promising. His accomplished wife, a lady of cul ture and a teacher of high standing in the schools of West Virginia, has recently joined him and will doubt less prove a great help to him in his work. Tennessee, it. Branner churo| i| Kingston is pastored by Key. J. H. Branner, a graduate of Greenville College, a young man of moral strength, a studious and forceful preacher and a pastor who believes in training the people up to the high est standard on every line. He is much beloved by his church and pop ular among the citizens generally. The churches are in a prosperous condition and have recently organ ized a thriving Varick Christian En deavor Society. All the Reading peo ple in Kingston, which >is one of, if not the oldest, towns i belong to our church, proposes to improve t; several ways during the . Ch W. Christmas wmmmm cellent wife ar< happiiy located at London, one of the points composing the London circ iit. This ja a splen did little town located on the Ten nessee river and throngh which pass es a branch of the great Southern railway. Elder Christmas who is one of our older preachers does not lose anyofhis popularity with the peo ple. The people here and on this entire circuit are devoted to him, and he is tnuch pleased with his work, fie thinks the outlook is very en couraging. A large congregation greeted me on iiy visit here. Rev. A. L. Cowan is successfully holding the fort it Fort Cheatham. He is one of the strong pastors and force ful preachers o? Tennessee whose la borsfor several years have contributed much toward the upbuilding of the work in that conference. He is do ing well as usuf.l, despite the sickness prevailing in his family. Rev. W. H. Tucker, recently trans ferred from the Kentucky Conference and stationed at St. Elmo, is build ing up that woik in many ways. I have seldom me ; a finer or more intel ligent congregation than that which I addressed at St Elmo church. The Sunday-school is second to none. They need a Yarick Christian En deavor Society, and then St. Elmo will be fully ia line with our most progressive churches. Tompkin a (Jhapel, Chattanooga, over which the conference steward, Rev. B. J. Jones,' presides as pastor, has not been sc prosperous in many years as now. When Rev. Jones took charge a little more than fifteen months ago, pressing debts, one quite large, and man ? other embarrassing conditions, ove:-shadowed the church, and general depression prevailed. But under his judicious and skillful management the debts have been liquidated to an amount less than $50. Confidence has been restored, the congregaticn has been greatly built up, and accessions from the best claes of pecple are constant. One of the strongest and best*manned Christian Endeavor Societies in the South is connected with this church. Zion owns a rery valuable lot on East Eighth Street, the same Street on which the M. E., Baptist and Catholics have very fine and spacious churches located. The stone founda tion for a new church was laid some years ago when Rev. Carter was pas tor. Elder Jones will build a new brick church oa the new site. Rev. R. W. Ballard is doing well at Rockwood, rind will make one of the best report ever brought from that church, :f his present success continues. Ho is esteemed by his people and the public generally. Rev. W. D. Scott who was recently appointed to I’arriman, vioe Rev. L. G. Brookins transferred to the South Florida Conference, has started off grandly, and has already begun a very hopeful movement to build a new church which is very much needed. Haniman, a splendid town of 3,000 inhabitants, with a wealthy population, is one of the most tem perate towns ii the Union. No whis key is allowed in that town in drug stores or elsewhere. The man who votes for or sells whiskey forfeits property according to a specification in the charter. Zion leads there, as at all the points I have named ; and when we get a new church, the lead ership will be more significant. Rev. A. Wakefield at Indianapolis, Indiana, is in the midst of a gracious revival. Sixty-five souls have been added to the church ; and the good work moves on. Sister M. E. Taylor, a noted evangelist, is rendering strong aid. Northern Spion Men And Churches. REV.'S. A. MORRISSEY, PRESIDENT oE Greenville (tenn.) college. On my way to the North in the interest o£ 3reenville College, I spent three df.ys at the Nation’s Cap itol. I was the guest of Dr. G. S. Adams and his estimable wife. I need not add that in their pleasant and cheerful home I was royally en tertaintd ; foi all ministers who have ever had the pleasure of stopping with them know that it is their de light to make it pleasant for the' brethren. Mrs. Adams, the wife of Dr. Adams, “ is a charming woman, whose gentle refinement endears her to all with vhom she may come in contact. Dr. Adams is one of our ablest and most popular pastors. He preaches on the Bishop Moore style; and we may < xpect him to write his name high up among those of Zion’s greatest preachers. He is carrying every thing before him. Rev. P. J. McEntosh, D. D., at the Metropolitan church, is one of Zion's foremost men in the pastorate. He knows no failure. He is congenial, ference so cently at Mobile until it seems to be fortunate for the next General Conference to meet in the church of which he is now pastor. B. Colbert, A. M., Varick Christian I met Rev. J. President of the Endeavor Society, and pastor of Gal braith church. We had <$uite a lengthy talk on church matters. But don’t forget it; he did not leavo out the subject of the V. 0. E. S. in the South. No mistake was made in placing him at ;he head of the Soci ety in our chur< h. His highest am bition, it seems is to have all the pastors to orgar ize and thoroughly establish societies in all of our churches, both small and great. A laudable ambition, Brother Colbert. This is one of the long felt needs of Zion; and the sooner the pastors, North and South, adopt and put into operation their plans for the Varick Christian Endeivor work, tie better it will be for themselves as well as for the Connection. Zion has four churches in Wash ington, D. 0., and the one located in the moBt popular part of the city is the Connecticut Avenue.John Wesley church. It is pastored by that bril liant and irrepressible Rev. J. H. McMullen. Ho is holding his own in Washington, an he did in our big church in Louisville, Ky., which is now in charge of Rev. E. D. W. Jones, the son of the lamented Bishop Sones. With iiteva McMullen, Col bert, McEntosh and Adams to lead Zion’s forces in Washington, we have nothing to fear. We peeped lit on Rev. J. 8. Cald well, pastor Wesley Zion in Philadel phia, and found him just closing a great revival meeting in which there had been more than a hundred con versions. He ii carrying everything before him, as a Caldwell can do. His church wa* filled almost to an overflow; and as he made his con cluding appeal, it had such great ef fect upon the p jople until a brother who sat near ms said, "He is a great man, isn’t he?" I replied, "He is." The two names; Stitt and Caldwell, are so linked that you cannot think of one without the other. Zion has not many Stitts; neither will she have many Caldwells. At Mother Zion in New York, we have as successor to a long line of Zion's illustrious leaders, such as Bishops Jones, Thompson, and Wal ters ; Doctors J icob Thomas, William H. Decker, Rev. J. S. Caldwell and others, Rev. M. R. Franklin. He is worthy to hole, the pulpit held by these leading lights of Zion. He is a model pastor and a great preacher. Rev. Fraklin has every interest of the church at heart. Only a few words with hin on the question of our general Church reveals it: He wants to see our schools, our Stab of Zion, our Sunday-school Department and all of the different departments better supported. None of these in terests of the ei lurch will suffer be cause of any failure on his part to discharge his whole duty. Give us more Franklinn. 56 Grove JSiieei, New York New York Aye Wrong. BY Wli. B. V. GEAltT. The New York Age said recently that the condition oi' the Negro in Washing ton, D. C., is wonderfully immoral; that the situation is Rowing worse, and with more wealth, education and refinement, the more immoral the race is becoming. We brand this as an infamous lie. It went on to say that a few years ago when the colored people of Washington did not occupy the same sphere in life that they do now, the precentage of il legitimate births was much less. This assertion is made to support some infer nal white men’s devilish, low, contempti ble, mean, dia1>olical scheme which is black as the hinges of night, and whose object is to asiiist them in driving the Negro out of Washington, D. O. The Age sayt that 2d per cent of the Negroes born here were outside of the bonds of matrimony. What a falsehood t We have lived Li Washington for over 85 years; taught school here for 20 years ; been a superintendent of the Sunday school for over 25 years; been the secre tary of the Union Wesley A. M. E. Zion church for 20 years; and I am well ac quainted with our people in Washington. We know thut there is a scheme on foot to drive tl e Negro out of this city. There have bem some self-constituted committees watting upon the Commis sioners telling ,hem what is best to do with the Negioes, where is the best place for them to live, and to keep all oth ers out of the city. Such articles should not appear in a Negro paper. It is a burn* ing shame on the race to assist white men to carry cut this devilish scheme, and to degrade the poor Negro. We do not say all th»i people in Washington are angels, but t hey are above the average of other large cities as New York, Phila delphia, Boston, Richmond, Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans and Cincinnati. While we have some bad colored people in Washington, we have some ladies and gentlemen of cilof. The Star Supplement. The Stab of Ziojt Supplement is a unique and artistic compilation of scenes and some interesting historical data. It is indeed a rich and rare treat for the subscribers and friends of our luminous Stab. Editor Smith is the personification of tact, energy, self-reliance, wit, wisdom and innate literary ability; and since his induction into the sanc tum of our Connectional organ, he has never lost an opportunity for the betterment of the paper; but is ever on the alert to introduce some new feature or devise some plan for mate rial improvement. In the upper left hand corner of this beautiful chart we have the im posing structure of Washington Met ropolitan A. M. E. Zion church, St. Louis, Mo. In the upper right hand corner is State Street A.4M. E. Zion church and parsonage. This is one of the finest churches in the Connec tion. Having been recently rebuilt it now contains all the modern im provements and fixtures. Standing out in bold relief with its gilded spire towering heavenward, it is a monument more durable than a shaft of granite erected to the zeal and la bors of the indefatigable and inimita ble Rev. P. J. McEntosh, D. D., who so grandly entertained the last Gen eral Conference. He is now pastor of Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion church,, Washington, D. C. Strange coinci dence indeed, but these two churches are grouped together. This verifies the popularity as well as ability of our good friend, Dr. McEntosh; he goes from one magnificent church to another. Prior to his going to Mo bile he successfully pastored Hunter's chapel, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Stockton Street A. M. E. Zion church, San Francisco, California. He is in great demand everywhere. I wish that a picture of Stockton St. church could have been obtained for the Supplement. Then we could have a glimpse of Zion's mammoth temples on the sands of two oceans. The upper central view is a picture of Rt. Rev. James Varick, our first Bishop. Just below this venerable saint is the Mother Church, corner West Tenth and Bleecker Streets, New York City. To the left is the Book Room and to the right is the familiar face of the lamented Rev. J. 0. Price, D. D., who was a scholar, an educator, theologian, an orator and a great race leader. His facial expression is very bright. He does not look like he has gone to sleep the long sleep, but appears to be active and ready to present the claims of Livingstone College or discuss the much agitated“Problem of the South.” Below the Book Room is the Var ick Memorial Building, our Publica tion House, Charlotte, N. C. To the left of the ladies of the Missionary Department we find the jovial and witty Temperance lecturer, Rev. J. H. Hector, who is also Collecting Agent for Livingstone College. He is now making a successful tour through England. To the right is the popular pastor of our church in Philadelphia, the Rev. J. S. * Cald well, B. D. He is also Editor of the Varick Christian Endeavorer. Just here a bird’s eye view of Livingstone College looms up before us. In the lower left hand corner grouped together we find the pictures of Rev. J. H. Anderson, Editor of Zion’s Year Book; Rev. J. W. Smith, D. D., 'Editor of the Stab; Hon. Jno. C, Dancy, A. M., Editor of the Quar terly Jtevieio; Rev. J. B. Colbert, A. M., President of the Varick Christian Endeavor Society, and Rev. A. J. Warner, D. D., Missionary and Church Extension Secretary. In the lower right hand corner we find the re mainder of the General Officers, viz.: Rev. B. F. Wheeler, D. D., Secretary ot Education; Rev. J. W. Alstork; D. D., General Steward; Rev. W. H. Goler, D. D., President of Livingstone College ; Rev. William Howard Day, D. D., General Secretary, and Rev. G. L. Blackwell, A. M., D. D., Gen eral Manager of the Publication House and Superintendent of the Sunday-school Department. In the centre of the General Officers we have a beautiful group of the present Board of Bishops. ' It would be fitting for everey mem ber and friend of Zion to have one of these beautiful souvenirs at home. Don’t only frame it and hang it on the wall, but use it as a medium to in* troduce your children to some of the acknowledged leaders of Ohurch and State. Teach them to respect, love and revere the heroes and hefoines of the race, for no people can rise higher than their leaders; and those who do not honor their leaders can never attain leadership. Washington, Webster, atpJpPI within themselves, bat honored as sac’i, and their mantles have been transmitted to thousands of American boy s. We must do this. The Afro-American boy will never possess the manhood, aspiration and sense of honor essential to his holiest possible development until he duly lea rns to honor the great men of his own race. Newbem, N. C. not Lire Topics. “TIM TIMPKINs’” DEFENSE OF TftE COL LEGE—THE “GULPED” MINNOW MAY NOT BE SO DIGESTIBLE. BY BEV. W. A. BLACKWELL. 'Fhe Livingstone College journal-—^. The Living-Stone—is before u9, beau tiful in appearance, excellent in ar rangement. Editors, however, are not always responsible for the ex pressed opinions of contributors. But I when we see anr important article in ’ a paper and it is not opposed, or, at least, criticized by the editor, we de cide at once that it is likely to be the sentiment of the editor. Sometimes college students disagree very much on subjects, however; and for the sake of presenting a good face, criticisms and differences of opinion are left out. In the last issue of the Stone, some “tattler” (as I suppose his profession must be,) in a very gentle and play ful manner gave me a scoring about ou r article in a recent issue of the Stab on the “carefulness" of the Col lege in conferring honorary degrees in this manner: 1 A good brother complained at the carefulness of Livingstone College in conferring those abundantly-sought honors. He thought that our school should not keep the standard so high ; that men who had raised considerable money* for the church, who had pastored a number of circuits and stations, or bad kept a multiplicity of cross-road schools, or made incongruous vociferations upon the stump' should have ‘d. d’s’, ‘a. mV and 'll. d’s’ and ‘p. q. z’a’ for the asking, or as numbers of them have come for the buying." No such claim was ever made by us. Nor do we want the "boys” to • ge; anxious about our ever saying so, or advocating such a thought. We said we thought the college was very • 'careful” about conferring degress, and that it was not the beat thing for Zion just now. We want th:.3 little '< fellow, “Tim Timpkins,” to know we hold that opinion still. We will never say or do anything we think will injure the College nor do we in tend to sit still and say nothing when wo think the College does not sub serve the interest for which its foun ders and constituents intended it. A denominational school is not to be a "hobby” upon which every man who desires, without regard to quali fication, must ride to recognition in the literary world. But it should be a safe-guard to the rights of such as have by dint of study, persistent ef fort, incessant labor and moral recti tude forged their way to the front. So you say the College is as far as is consistent doing its measurement of duty along this line ? I claim it is not. To say so, means that Zion has a host of jack-legs filling her pul p:.ts and only two or three score men who are fit to fulfil their mission out of the twenty-five or thirty hundred preachers. Such an allegation is false in the extreme. We can but say this in the face of facts and tha utterances of men capable of judging. Besides, this very class of "men(?),” an you were pleased to use the word, are making support for the school, and are.going out in the field doing yeoman work for the Master in shap ing the moral, intellectual and spirit ual manhood of our people. Of course, we are going to keep on working ; and no sentiment expressed by a flippant “prep” whose judgment in ffs'void of the knowledge of the sit uation as the “crane” himself, will ever hush our voice in crying for : r ght. If “Tim” will pull off his tat tling non de plume(?) and let Us see who he is, we will give him a chance to get "done up,” or at l$ast to take* us for a “breakfast." He "cham pions” the cause of the faculty, I guess; we shoulder the cause of the people in which wp are sure we will teach you the best lesson in Latin you ever were taught when we let you know that “the voice of the peo ple” is right in this. I think it goes “ Vox populi vox Dei." Next time we write we will give you some reason, for whioh we claim that the Alumni are responsible, i, n.„ il we ever hear of you again. Mr. Editor, pardon our intrusion upon your columns, but these little meddle
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