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SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ha- month*, 80 cents; no thru (ion. TO CORRESPONDENTS: To insure publica tion write with mlc and extra careful**** on on* lid* of th* that only: do not abbreviate; avoid rjroonalltl**; deal mth lint gueetion* and giu u item* of chmdhmdrao* new*; condense, to a* ■ ■'-’ column: do not, if to occupy a column at a half ooti . . oeeible, exceed 050 word*. When writing about re eiffb, anniversaries, dedication*, donations, mar rUaes, reception*, death of church members, Easter er Children' * Day. and th* like, write on postal j-ds. If you write long-winded article*, the Edi tor will “boil them down." Send all article* for publication to the Editor; tend aU subscription*; aH ckmgte and all butlnu* matter to th* Manager. \ STAFF CORRESPONDENTS. Mrs. Bishop O. 0. Pettey, Editor ot Woman's Column. Bee. (3.W. Offley, D. Dn Bey. E. G. Biddle, B. D, Bot. J. B. Anderson, Bey. J. E-Mason, D. D., Bot. W. H. Marshall, But. W. A.. Blackwell, Bey. G. S. Adams,DD, Key. E. D. W. Jones, A. B„ Bey. F. H. H11L Frol. B. A. Johnson, A. M.. Bey. J. H; McMullen, Bey. T. A. Weathlngton, Prot.E.L. Thornton. A.M.,Bey .J.H. Manley, D.D., Prot.D.W.Parker,A.B., Bey. J.A.D.Blolce, A.M, Prof.W.F.Fonyellle,A.B,Rev.O. W Winfield,DJ>. H.O.Weeden,Esq., Prot.W. M.Frovlnder, A.B. Hev. H. W. smith, Bey. D. 0. Covington. Thursday, March 10, 1898. 1 EDITOR UL. Do right and trust God. Every V. C. E. should carefully read President (Colbert’s letter and go to work immediately. Dr G. L. Blackwell is arranging to visit the Northern conferences. The boys will be glad to see him. Bishop J. B. Shall is writing and has nearly completed a great book entitled “The Human Heart.” It will A be pictorially illustrated. Mr. N. Wright Cuney, of Galves ton, Texas, died last week of consump tion. He was an able Negro and an influential party worker. It is difficult to get brethren to cease writing to the Star for four or five weeks so as to give us a chance to publish what we have. Articles pour in here fifteen or twenty a day with the request to get them in the next issue. Why not heed our re quest ? Brother pastor, did you raise an aftermollection last Sabbath in an swer! to Bishop Lomax’s appeal? If not,<uo so this Sabbath and report immediately as things are very criti cal! If you don’t do something this ^abbath you will hear something drop in three pr four days. Mr. John Johnson, colored, ha* been appointed postmaster of New Haven, Pa., by President McKinley He is the first Negro to receive ai. appointment of this kind in the North. The prejudiced whites arc kicking, .but they will not follow the example of those fiends in Lake City, S. C. For brief, concise reports of thei work, we doff our hats to Presiding Elders T. F. H. Blackman, S. C. Birphmore, W. H. Ferguson and A. L. Cowan. These brethren realiz! that space is valuable and that thers is nothing in long, windy, taffy re ports which occupy two or three col umns, and they have therefore put a world of meaning in each wore. Some presiding elders boom their men almost to heaven and when ths times arrives for their re-election numbers of their men turn them down and elhct other men. Breth ren who write. briefly like the abo-< e will receive first consideration. Lorg articles will have to wait until v e can boil them down. judge oimonton, ot Harrisburg, Pa., in granting hotel and restaurant licenses two weeks ago declared tbit the keepers of the same had no la v ful right accqrding to a statute of t ie commonwealth to discriminate agaii st any decent, well behaved person nn account of his race or color and that he would refuse to renew the licei se of any hotel or restaurant keeper who wilfully violates its provision. We are personally acquainted w th Judge Simonton. He is a fine man and is thoroughly versed in jurispru dence. If we had judges like him in • all the courts who would interpret the letter and spirit of the law im partially, a good deal of prejudice oppression and rascality carried on fry vaporing cranks and hateful fools to the detriment of the Negro would T soon.come to an end in this country. Each superintendent should send immediately to Dr. G. L. Blackwell for the Easter programs'. They nre i exquisite and'excel any yet sent out ' by him. He gives the Easter ca :ds and five jjrograms free to euch i school. He wants to raise $3,COO 1 this year, tmd it can be raised as e is- { ily as drinking water if each pastor 1 and superintendent will get interest- i ed and boom it from now on.! We i truBt gi oui bf loyal and rally as earnestly to the su pport of these general departments as they do to the local interests and to their own salaries. The new press ai id 8-page paper, the fitting np of another floor for the rapidly in cj easing business, and the liquida ti in of some annoying debts depend entirely upon the raising of this u oney. Pastors, rally this time by a .l means. The second Sabbath in April is Easter. lay will soon come wl nulnits will have men who will SIT KEEP COOL, GENTLEMEN. Rev. Bloice was doubtless a little i ettled at something the Bishop said, when he wrote his, last reply two weeks ago, and the same may be true of Bishop Pettey who this week (alls Brother Bloice an ingrate and tays if he had the opportunity he would take advantage of his superiors in office. All who know Bro. Bloice will certainly differ-with the Bishop, nnd the Bishop will revise his opin :on of this talented young divine when he kn#ws him as well as we do. 3ro. Bloice makes a manly apology ;his week which will give those who 3o not personally know him, a grand )pinion of him. The readers must aot allow the redhdt adjectives that these two brainy divines now and then hurl at each other to divert their attention from the points at is sue. As a referee it is our duty to Bee until one or the other lands a blow on the solar plexus that they break away when they strike below the belt and inform them that Zion knows them pretty well but does rot know the disputed subject so well. Bishop Pettey has reached the pinnacle in Zion, and if ability and merit count for anything Rev. Bloice, urhom the late Bishop Jones seven years ago at the conference in Balti more said was as keen as a briar in tellectually, will yet be Dean of the theological department of Living stone College. SHILL WE HELP HIM T Bishop B. W. Arnett, D. D., is busy gathering material for the history of our Church. He is*the man to give the Church the history that we need.— Southern Christian Recorder. We thought the learned and la mented Bishop Payne gave your Church the history it needed. He says on pages 4 and 6 of the preface of the History of the A, M. E. Church that he wrote that he had traveled all through his Connection, searched diligently for historical ma terial and copied every pamphlet, every Conference minute, quarterly and Annual, with every scrap of pa per that threw a ray of light upon the genesis and progress of the Con nection, and that that was all he could find that was reliable and in disputable. If Bishop Arnett expects to make any better headway he will have to do what Bishop Payne said he would not do—Lax his imagina tion and depend upon tradition. #It is too bad that Dr. Johnny Misinformed Henderson has not been made Histo riographer of his Church. Since he has has not, please hand this item which we copied from the Richmond (Va.) Baptist two weeks ago to Bishop Arnett: The A. M. E. Church separated from the whites in 1816. whereas the Baptists remained with the white people until 1863. HOXOR THE FATHERS. We heartily endorse the splendid suggestion of friend Caldwell in the last issue to honor the veteran fath ers of each Conference with testi monials. Dr. John E. Price before his retirement to the superannuated list was for years the courageous and able leader pf the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference. He has* been a power for good in that Conference. He was a close friend of Bishop S. T. Jones and sang and prayed over him nightly in Harrisburg, Pa., in a re vival until he was converted. The honored names of that tall sy camore, Dr. E. H. Curry, and his right hand friend, Dr. J. B. Johnson, are indissolubly joined to our west ern work. Bishop Hood said a few years ago that if the General Confer ence of 1876 had elected Dr. Curry bishop instead of Elder Hilliary, Zion would have had 100,000 more mem bers to-day. Dr. William T. Biddle s the father of the New Jersey Con ference and Elder N. A. Crockett q{ he South Carolina Conference. They ire worthy sires. Dr. Jacob Thomas—the very men ;ion of his name brings applause— or years Manager of our Book Con :ern, is the father of the New York lonference; Dr.' S. C. Birchmore, re ined, lovable, ^ent during the War is a missionary by Bishop J. J. Clin on and the Ne«r England ( = Florida where he organized churches, is the father of the New England Conference; Rev. J. W. La cy, oneb superintendent of Zion on the island of; Hayti, fathers the West ern-, New York Conference. The name of Wilbur G. Strong is a house hold word in Zion. We all know that 'he was our first pioneer and missionary sent to the extreme South in 1864 to plant Zion, and Florida and Alabama honor him for the great work he has accomplish,ed. Rev. Solomon Derry, who assisted in or ganizing the Alabama, Florida and Georgia Conferences, built over twen ty churches, built a school house out of his own pocket and gave it to the Tuskegee church (the Booker T. Washingten school began in that school house,) is now the father of Zion in Florida. Dr. William Howard Day, peerless scholar of Zion and one of the most polished orators living, is known in two continents. His mother was a a member of John Street Methodist, the mother church of Methodism in this country, and later on- she became a member of Mother Zion in New York. Dr. Day, when a child, was baptized by Bishop James Yarick. All of Zion’s oldest bishops, begin ning with Varick, were welcome guests at the home of his mother. Dr. Day’s life has been • devoted largely to missionary and education al work. He and old John Brown of Harper’s Ferry were intimate friends. Dr. W. J. Moore, with the exception of Bishop Hood, is the father and hero of North Carolina. He .met Bishops J. J. Clinton and J. W. Hood and unfurled the banner of Zion in this State. He has organized 68 congregations, licensed about 70 preachers,built Xt churches, was ont of the first to put down $50 to start Zion Wesley, now Livingstone Col lege, and was among that number who paid one dollar each month for nearly four years to give the Star of Zion a start. Some cheap ministers now kick against paying one dollar a year for this paper. Dr. Moore who has been presiding elder longer than any other man in Zion, is one of the best gospel preachers we have., Just announce that he is going to preach anywhere in North Carolina and there will be a rush for seats. He is in his glory when he is in the pulpit opening up the Scriptures. Let the respective conferences and Zion gen erally honor with testimonials all of these Christian warriors who have suffered and made great sacrifices to give las this grand told*Church. If we had young men like them to-day Zion would soon be as strong in the conferences superintended by Bish ops G. W. Clinton, Jehu Holliday and J. B. Small as she is in North Carolina and Alabama. The confer ences of these men will be ungrateful if they do not soon honor them. God bless them. RANDOM SHOTS. THE LOUISIANA CONVENTION—THE BAKER ASSASSINATION—DAY TES TIMONIAL. BY REV. W. H. MARSHALL. Much interest is being manifested in the proceedings of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, now in session; and its conclusions upon the suffrage question will in no-small de gree affect the future relations of the races in the “Creole State.” Louisi ana, according to the census of 1890, has the rather undesirable distinc tion of having a greater per centum of illiteracy than any other State in the Union. Said census shows that out of a total population of 794,643 persons over ten years of age, 45 8 per cent, or 364,184 persons were il literate. Of this illiteracy the “whites” furnished 20.1 per cent, or 73, 201#persone; the “Negroep,” 72 1 per cent, or 262,577 persons; Indiana, Chinese et al., 7.8 per cent or 28,406 persons. Now., as it is proposed that the new Constitution shall deny suf. frage to all illiterate persons it is readily seen that even a fair execu tion of the law would disfranchise three and one-halftimes as many Ne groes as it would whites. So far as I am concerned, I see no *reat misfortune to my people in this proposition if its provision shall al ways be fairly applied. The danger s not in the law but in the manner >f its .execution. It is true that a ionsidehiblg proportion of the Negro rote could nof cast at present if sducation shall be made a test in ex cising the right ol, the franchise; >ut it is also true that ibis denial in tead of discouraging the colored >eople of Louisiana will prove . to be l muchly needed stimulus. S(^ur ouths ther^ realizing that voting (Js if the citizens of the Re made a privilege < to be intelligently. will crowMtL ing, and rsii only to those who can rform that high duty, e institutions of learn gle generation will be sufficient $im 8 to nulify the purpose of th jse who are now framing this law. All the Negro can insist upon is the faithft 1 and impartial execu tion of the le w; but unfairness need be no cauffe ’or anxiety, for injustice has the habit > of returning to plague and condemn its advocates. The demagogue is eventually buried in the capacious grave which he dig: for others. However, such a law could not be efiective even temporari ly if the mi sses of our people in Louisiana ware educated. We trust that the lesson will not be lost. Ed ucate ! . Educate 1! Educate the masses!!! Next to Christ, Educa tion !, This Convention is slso consider ing an outrageous proposition. It is nothing less than a proposal to in sert in the Constitution a clause vir tually expunging Sunday from any protection c'r recognition in the laws of the State. Christians everywhere are filled with horror; and ae they recall the fact that the French Convention which abolished Sunday in France also inaugurated the “Reign of Terror” they say, “Peo ple of Louisiana, be warned; God still liveth In the fiendish killing of PdBi mas ter Baker the dignity of the United States was, grievously insulted, and all true patriots demand the speedy apprehension and summary punish ment of th3 guilty parties. Nogreai difficulty ought be experienced ic discoving vthe murderers. Indeed unless the detectives, before starting the investigation, get some friend tc blind-fold them and stuff their ears they may experience4 some difficulty in not discovering the criminals The President owes it to himself tc &ee that Mr. Baber is succeeded by e Negro whi should be given adequate protection in the performance of the function cMhe office. Who will take the place ? Hie name is legion The Negr i is not a coward. Wbal right has the nation to burn witl rage at foreign insults unless it de fends itself against domestic con tempt? j,How long, 0 Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge anc avenge our blood on them that dwef on earth ?’’ * * f * * As Treasurer of the executive com mittee on Howard Bay Testimonial I would suggest that'those intending to contribute will please do sc promptly. As fast as money is re ceived personal acknowledgements are sent to donors. The literary part of the Testimonial will be a con spicuous success. Again, let me urge Dr. De.y’s friends to sent ir contributions at once. We have been receiving encouraging re sponses. Send all moneys to W. H Marshall, Treasurer, G25 Briggs St. Harrisburg, Pa. Let Zion give sub stantial recognition to one of he] nr ost brilliant sons. Harrisburg, Pa. PEARLS OF INFORMATION. j BEY. H. W. SMITH. After one of the most pleasant sessions of the Palmetto Conference, under the leadership of that godly and gool man, Bishop I. C. Clinton, D. D., I 'greet you. He is tru’y a great man in experimental knowl edge ar-d has a well cultured mind. He is a bishop, brother and father in Christ Tesus. We love him. The ministers acquitted themselves grand ly as pulpiteers while in Columbia. The wri ter preached to Allen Univer ty students and at the C. M. E. church and in Zion. One man said “You have preached yourself to Union.'’ This is a firBt-class church. When we arrived here we Were met with a buggy >y some of the “Gossetts” who are among Some of the mo^t reliable men in the town. My com ing was hailed with delight. The people are crowding the sanctuary. The general interests of the Connec tion aro being looked after at once— $5.25 .general fund , has been tor warded to the Conference Steward. Clintor Chapel is up-to-date. We have organized several auxiliaries in the church; one is the “Bible Holi ness end Prayer Service’* every Wednesday evening,v conducted by six members each time, one of them being the leader. The hospitality and welcome that the pec pie oi Union gave us are surely hard to surpass. The Editor is well known in this region round about. We hove had and accepted invita tions to tea from the following fami lies^—with many more to follow: Davises, Neals, San-, Wat laces, Colemans, Thompsons, Abrans, Bensons, Silei, Saltes, Moores, Wash* ingtone, Smiths, Laytons and many others. The courtesies shown Mrs. H. W. Smith in town are worthy the emulation of the parishioners of any pariah. There an address of wel come was* delivered in behalf of the church by Prof. J. A. Cunningham, teacher in our Palmet to Institute, of which the writer now enjoys the honor of vice-president, being elected by the annual confer ence. The ministers certainly treated me as a welcome guest, and may God blew Bishop I. C. Clinton, who also spoke in commendable terms of the Missouri transferee. We now can tri.ly say “Our lines have fallen in pleasant places.” We loved old Missouri and our co-labor ers; now we rejoice that we have met other brothers at “Appi Forum” of Zion and an* taking courage, and go ing forward. We want the Editor to come and sej us—so say many. Union, S. C. CPMI’LIMENTS BISHOP SMALL. The first business of the day was hear* ingtherepor; of Presiding Elder Sam uel Sherman In this report he brought before the b shop and conference each pastor and h s church or churches, and what each church had done during the year for the Connectional interests as well as its own work. By this means the Bishop will know the qondition, temporal and spiritual, of each church in the conference. As each church is brought befc re the Bishop, questions are asked either of the pastor in charge or the presiding elder, and the Bishop either commends or condemns as the case may require. In condemning or censuring tl e Bishop does not mince words. His language is simple and plain enough for a child to understand AVhile he is stern and inflexible, he is kind and approachable, and as gentle as a woman. He does not make ’enemies. He will thrash a fellow to the bone and then heal his wounds before he leaves him. He is highly esteemed, dearly be loved, and implicitly obeyed While hearing a report of a zealous brother who stated that he had succeeded in ! breaking up all of the other churches in his neighborhood, the Bishop replied that he—th3 brother—was not sent to break up cEurches, but to break up the ’ devil’s camp and bring sinners to Christ. —Mobile (Ah.) Daily Register. MINISTER SMITH TO SAIL SOON. Wilson, N. C., Feb. 36, 1998. Rev. J. W. Smith, D. D., Charlotte, N. C. My Very Dear Sir and Brother: This may inform you that I expect to leave my home—Wilson—enroute for Mon rovia on Friday, March 18th, add arrive in New York on Saturday !morning about 6 o’clock and will stop over with Brother Fr anklin of Mother Zion until Wednesday, March 23rd. On that date —March 23rd—I expect to sail on Steamship Majestic, United States and Royal Mail Steamship, for Liverpool. I expect to take my wife and baby with me. James R Spurgeon, Esql, Att’yat Law, Maysville, Ky., has been appointed Secretary of Legation at Monrovia, Liberia. The government supplies the Legation*of Foreign Minister? and Con sul with ;wo American newspapers se lected by he Minister or Consul. While in Washii.gton, this week, I filed my ap plication 'or the Star of Zion and the New York Tribune to be sent to me at United S'.ates Legation, Monrovia, Li beria. Zion in North .Carolina has no cause to abuse President McKinley—two con suls to foreign courts, and one collec tor of ccstoms. I think this is well, when we consider that this is from mere worth. God bless you Let me hear from yoc, Brother Smith. 1 desire to know what Zion is doing in America. Truly yours, Owen L. W. Smith. GOVERNOR MAY BE PRESENT. Rev. J. J. Adams, the popular pastor of the Oi k Street A. M. E#. Ziou Church, of Petersburg, Va , made a flying trip to Richmond on Thursday and called on the Governor and extended an invita tion for l>is Honor to be present and ad dress the House of Bishops and General Officers of the A^-M. E. Zion Connection at their iemi-annual meeting at the Oak Street Church in April next. The A. M. E. Ziou Connection has nearly 600,000 commun .cants, 6 institutions of learning, several church papers and magazines, a Publishiag House where the Sunday school aid all other church literature is published. It has 9 Bichops and over 3,000 active ministers, and the first inde pendent Negro Church organization in the world, organized in ■ 1796, in New York Ci;y. The Governor replied that he is inter ested in religion and in the moral and intellectual elevation of the colored peo_ ple of his State. He requested Rev Adams to keep him informed as to the exact date of the meeting, and if-the cir cumstances permitted he wonld be pleased ;o be present and say a word to the high officers of this grand religious body. , Rev. Adams was much pleased by the attention shown to him, that although it was a busy time, being the closing days of the legislature, every courtesy was paid to him by the officials at the state house and he had no difficulty in seeing the Governor.—Norfolk ( Fa.) Daily Re tarder. Wha enport Wasn’t 8 the matter with Brother D&v ind the Walters’ reception affair? it alright ?— V. O. Endeavorer. 'A 1ST FUTURO. A JJOVBL LAW-SUIT IH 1998 f BY BKCCBtQBIT. CHAITEB IV. Written expressly for the Stab or Zion. —Who as he believed was the victim j of a vile conspiracy to rain him. It ap pears that certain persons had attempted ( to influence the vote of this Negro in fa- ' vor of a Negro corporation which sought ' by questionable means to obtain certain , franchises in the city of Atlanta, but which always met with reverses when ever the measure came up in the State Senate. The fatal opposing vote against this iniquitous measure was cast by this Negro Senator, Hiram Coleman, who . was reputed to be worth $500,000, though he had not been in politics more than I six years. All efforts on the part of the R. R. Lobby to control the vote of this £ Negro bad failed. Persuasion, threats ( and intimidation were equally unavail- 5 ing. He could not be swerved from the 1 line of duty which he had marked out j for himself. Finding it impossible to * control this vote, these conspirators •< proceeded to smirch the character of the 1 Negro Senator by causing to be circu- 1 lated a report that he had accepted a £ bribe and refused to comply-with the i conditions on which it was given. It 1 was also alleged against him that he had < grown rich by selling his vote and his 1 influence to other corporations, and that J it was impossible for any member of the * Legislature on a salary of $5,000 per an num to save $500,000 in six years. The ' scheme to ruin Senator Coleman was a < dastardly and desperate one, and but for i the timely interference and assistance of i Judge Corwin, might have succeeded 1 He had known Coleman from boyhood i and had unlimited faith in his integrity 1 and honesty. When he learned as he < did from the daily papers of the plot to 1 destroy, crush out this man who though £ of a different race than his own had s shown himself courageous enough to 1 spurn with contempt and loathing the offers of the agents of this corporation i to buy .his honor—his vote—he sent for 1 the Senator and congratulating, him up- s on his manly and courageous stand, as- : sured him of his entire willingness to ' defend'him from the attacks of his ene- 1 mies. After some conversation betweer. 1 them in which the Senator satisfied the * Judge as to the method by which he had 1 acquired the immense fortune attributed 1 to him, he authorized the Judgo to rep- * resent him as counsel in a suit against the R R. Co., for defamation of charac ter, and for damages in a good round sum. Several days after this interview liav- ’ ing gotten out that the Senator had re tained the Judge as counsel he received a visit from several persons representing the R. R. Co., who stated that they.had understood that he had been retained by the Negro Senator. Though they diii- * oelieyed the report, of course, they es- i pressed surprise that a white attornej', i an ex judge of the eminence that he had , attained to at the bar and in the com munity, would join hands with a Negro bribe-taker against so powerful a corpo- ^ ration as that which they represented. f They hoped the report was untrue and < assured him that a fee twenty times ti e } amount of what the Negro was able to pay, would be paid him if he would coil sent to represent their Company in this suit. E Judge Corwin smiled and assured his ) visitors that ho had given his word to this Negro, that the Negro had given* him his confidence, and that if the Com pany should offer him a fee of a half ^ million he would not be base enough to ] betray the confidence of a client who f trusted in his honor as a lawyer. This j wply produced a most unfavorable ef- . feet on his callers who could not quite comprehend why a white man, and a f southern white man at th&t, could be so 1 foolish as to incur the risk of social os- \ tracism by defending a Negro to the ^ prejudice of men of his own race, and that, too, when the latter represented ' millions of money, social power and j>o- 1 lilical influence. The Judge, however, k did not discuss the question further than t to say that he would represent Senator ^ Coleman, and that under no consider- j tion would he engage to represent the R. R. Company. Politely leading the c way to his parlor door, he gracefully bowed his callers into the spacious tall r and directed the men at the front door of his palatial residence to “show :he 1 gentlemen out.’’ 8 [to be continued.] r Albany, N. Y. 1 ACT AT ONCE. i t To the Pastors and Sunday-school ■Superintendents of the Seventh Episco pal District: At the Spiing meeting of the Board of Bishops in 1807, each bisLop agreed to raise $12(5.00 toward the payment of the fourth One Thousand Dollar payment on our Publication House. I called the atten tion of ail the ministers to this matter at our conferences and I have frequently urged upon the Presiding Elders add many of the pastors by correspondence, to raise a special amount to assist in meeting the note of $1,000 which falls due about March 15th. Only a few have reported so far. See to it at once that every pastor in the 7th Episcopal Dis trict not holding a mission, raise a sum not less than $1, and where it ca:i be done $5, and each Sunday-school lend in $1 to me at 415 North Myers Street, Charlotte, N. C., on or before the 15th of March, to assist in raising the $1 which our district is required to r This building is not only one of the nqfct valuable pieces of property we have, put our Publication House is growing & be one of the strongest institutions oi the Church. ; All names and amount/ will be published in the Stab. .Act af once Geo. W. Clinton, >p 7th Episcopal BT REV. J. H. The above C n Tallahassee, Bishop T. H. Loi md a successful >p’s annual adc Che reports v Che ministeis have gor lew inspiration to increase lership and raise more finan< jion and to enlarge her Conference will meet in Cai ’’la., the first Wednesday in Ft ,ry, 1899. The following are (ointments: Pensacola district, S Brown, presic lder; Talbot Chapel, Pensacola, iaines; Mt Moriah, Pensacola, F L ' It Luke and WarriBgton .ee; Edwards Chapel, Nos. Lllen; Millview and Muscogee W Murray; Spring Hill and Quintet ircuit, R P Perry;- Escambia and iroon, B J Arnold; Molino and Pir larren circuit, J D Peterson; Chemuci nd Bluff Springs Circuit and Flomaton aission, S C Scarbrough; B iy Point and tobinson Point mission, H Jackson; )live and Cantonement mission, H J" )avis; Powelton and Cedar Town, 8am Glen; White Pine and surroundings, 1 Powell. Milton district, B F Stevens, presiding dder; Isaiah Chapel, Milton,-; Bs lad mission, Mrs M Y Anderson; Mt ;an station, J H Simons; Lake DeFul liak circuit, Wilson station and Flow liver mission, H Taylor; Point Wash-; ngton and Hogtown circuit and sur oundings, J L Cook; Jacob Chapel cir uit, Jacob Chapel and Mushy Bend, 6 Y Powell; Summerville and Yallie.mis ion,—-;Caryville station, T D Up haw; Holmes Valley and Spring Hill aission, M Sheffield. Tallahassee district, S Derry, presid ng elder; Tallahassee station, J N Ras lerry; Hilliardsville and CarrabellaKnis ion, M Mohorn; Monticelio,- ^ md Pin Hook mission, R H Hurst; ir Junction and Sneed missions,— iypress and Oxendine missions* — lottondale circuit, St Paul and Wynn ihapel, F A Hogan; Greenwood and iambelton missions,-: Oak Grove. md St Mark missions,-; Chopsopa md Neckasuck missions,-. OUR DEPARTMENTS. 7IIY WE SHOTTED CENTRALIZE TH] BY BEV. D. C. COVINGTON. We as A. M. E. Zionites can if having one of the largi Dost complete Churchs or] n this country. . While this is tru| ve should not fail to wide-i her lers, strengthen her stakes engthen her cords. One of the mos ubstantial ways to do this work is fc onsolidate the heads of the Church,1 rhich in part are the General Offi ers as well as the Bishops. I agree with the active and far eeing Editor of the Stab of Zicp vho spoke editorially two wetks ago ipon the necessity of bringing the Sreneral Missionary Secretary, the ’resident of the Varick Christian Cndeavor department and the Secre ary of Education to Charlotte and hus fit up their departments in ti ’ublishiDg House. To unite all tb orces here in Charlotte would be mild up one of the strongest, he strongest, Publishing ound among the colored people rhere in this country. Let Varner and Wheeler, and Rev ert be brought to Charlotti heir respective departmen hus build up the largest Negi ishiog House to be found ouDtry. While it is a fact that thesi ien’s respective departments* will ot afford them a living of them elves, yet on the other hand we have ice churches in and around Char jtte that they can take charge of as astors and get a living and thereby uild up these important depart lents. The Board of Bishops have ower in their meeting to order these epartments to come to Charlotte nd I believe that they should do so i the next meeting which meets in ’etersburg, Va., in April. Charlotte, AT. C. The Trustees of Greenville College are rgently requested to meet at Green ille, Tenn., Monday, April 11th, 1898. . President and other members of the acuity are to be elected and other busi ess of importance transacted. Trus ses who can not attend will please ap oint proxies who will be present-^*-*—* Signed: __C. •' V! President Board of Trustees. Presiding' "Elder J. S. Jackson is leased with the Meridian district and is men are pleased with him. He says od helping him he intends to Work »rd to build up Zion in that partW lississippi. WS Rev. A. D. Dunbar, Triplet, Ga : Thai :>uth Georgia Conference needs more! yal men it. We have some men that m t build churches, and if they cannot. :t the best churches that some one elsa is built they won’t take any but ound and fight the men the bisfl nds. ^9
The Star of Zion (Charlotte, N.C.)
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March 10, 1898, edition 1
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