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ORGAN* OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH IN AMERICA. 1*. ‘ '.i; } Volume XXII. Charlotte, N. G., Thursday, June 23, 1898. Number 27. BETTER DAY DAWNING In Zion For Our Cl urch Exten sion And Missionary Work. BY REV. J. S. CAUDWELL. I believe there is a better day dawning for our Zion. One of the great needs of the Church has been a strong well managed Church Extension Department. I believe that Dr. A. J. Warner is the man to build up such a depart ment. We have noticed with great interest his methods as he has travelled over the northern section of our Connection and I believe them practical. The min isters, almost to a man, have pledged him their support. Mite societies are being organized in almost all of the churches. If we will give our unstinted support to this department I believe in 1900 Dr. Warner w 11 be able to report churches bu ilt and our Missionary Department in a healthier condition than hitherto. I was glad -to not ce that the Board of Bishops, it their "last meeting took steps by which to keep Dr. Warner on the field. * This shows that our chief pastors are willing to sacriice still for the good of the Church. It was • mooted sometime sir ce~thiit settfe one of the Bishops was going to produce a plan by which a fund would be raised which would en able the Church Extension Board to begin to take up m ortgages and thus relieve some of our em barrassed churches. We hope that this plan will be forthcoming, for if this Department could carry a few of the mortgages which are hanging over some o:: our church es it would enable the Department by the interest which accrues from these mortgages, to soon get on a better basis and thus there would be a wheel within a wheel for the upbuilding of the Department. Np one can listen a ; the address es delivered by our Church Ex sion secretary without feeling that his soul is on fire and that he is in earnest about putting this Department on a firm basis. Let the watchword encircle the Church, “Rally around Warner and the Church Extension Department.” Philadelphia, Pa. ZION IN CUBA. let’s plant missions there. BY REV. D. C. CC YINGTON. ' It is clear to the mind of the most casual observer that the downfall of Spanish rule in Cuba is absolutely certain This I be lieve will result in a complete es tablishment of the religion of Jesus Christ in tha; island. To that end many of the great relig ious bodies have their eyes turned on Cuba and are preparing to send missionaries amidst terrific can nonading, roar of artillery, the dead and dying, to pant the cross of Christ and thus establish the Church of their choic e. \ y Shall Zion sit carelessly by for get ful of this movement? If the religion of the cross is to be planted by the other denominations on the Island of Cuba, Zion must share in the work. Our £ion now num bers about a half million members, and out of this vast army of Zion travelers can we not find one missionary who is willing to take the responsibility of planting Zion seed among those oppressed peo ple? I believe if a good suitable person could be found fully imbued with the missionary spirit, that the Church would make arrange ments for his salary. A campaign should be started in every foreign field, for Zion. Let Zion’s watchmen awake every where to her interest. We must not content ourselves with what we have accomplished in America, but we must go out beyond the seas and sow her precious seed, -pCharlotte, N. C. WELL PLEASED. BY REV. W. H. ELEY. The Star is a welcome • visitor to our house—a cheering com panion. I sell 12 copies weekly.' Mr. Editor I wrote an article to the SiAR.jrix years ago favoring you for editor. Your editorials give lustre to the paper. If your fitness for the bishopric will be as phenomenal as it is for editor you will be a great success and an hon or to our great Zion. You proved yourself a great controversial fighter when you crossed swords with Dr. J. M. Henderson, the champion of Beth el. You defeated him. I consider you an editorial pugilist, Zion’s David, who met and downed Beth el’s great Goliath on the historical field of one hundred years of Zion. Mt. Vernon, JY- Y. By order of the president of the Colored Teachers’ Association of Mecklenburg county, Prof. S. B. Pride, the teachers of Mecklen burg county are requested to meet in the new court house at 11 o’clock a. m., June 25th, 1898. Import ant business- is to be transacted preparatory to holding a colored teachers’ institute in this county. Ernest C. Byers. Hurrah for Greenville district. It is in a most prosperous condi tion. My men are rallying for Children’s Day and will increase the general fund.—Rev. P. H. Williams, P. E., Rogersville, Tenn. We rallied Sunday, the 12th inst., for our new church and raised $60. We are determined to have a new church before next conference. Our members are working like bees. A storm which did no harm swept over our residence Saturday night and our table was laden with eatables. It was led by Sisters Fanny Thom as, Lucy Ambers and others. Mr, Ross, our white merchant, is manifesting no little interest in pastor ana church.—-Rev. T. H. Jones, Meridian, Miss. MAJORS AND MINORS. The Ethics Olf True Greatness— “Shalt You, Shall I?” BY W. F. FONVIELLE. I have not forgotten to write, nor have I be in asleep. Perhaps you guessed me “only tired.’’ Nay! not this. Instead, I have taken* these days5—all of them —to think of and properly digest all of the strange things I have heard and seen during the past three or four weeks. So again I take down my - grey goose quill, and ask, let’s be friends again. Shall I tell you what these things are? Why bless me, yes. Why should not I? They were not giv en to me sub rosa; and, and—gra cious me, I want to tell you, so I am going to start a new paragraph, and you may :;ead what I wish to impart to you in the finis. ‘ ‘But for goodness’ sake, don’t say I fold you. ” Did yqu ever attend great gath erings and feel the pulse of indi vidual opinion as the current throbbed through the souls of those who made up the “meet ing?” If you have, then the writ er and the reader are alreacfor on “speaking terras,” and you cap ap '‘prec?ate Wliaf/r am "alJfrat to write. You must not start or feign to be surprised at any thing I may tell you, for the story is human; and did I not say there are as many currents in .the human soul as there are in the ocean? All do riot run in the same direction; all are not warm; some are not sweet—only in the soul th^t is a Sargasso is there no current; for the weeds of selfishness have choked up the currents and i;hey refuse to flow. lhe young ministers who are doing the greatest amount of good in every way in 4he Church, are not those whose beautiful names appear so often in the public prints, nor those who beat the tom toms the more often. They are not necessarily the men who are always such a complete success at the great and grand work of col lecting their salaries at the expense of the other Connectional claims. Instead, they are men like Revs. J. F. Lee of Greensboro, W. J. Sides of Monroe and W. A. Peg gans of Raleigh. It is this class of men who are to keep alive the spirit of the Church, after the fear ful charge has been handed down to the young men by the fathers. These three men alone have no su periors in the ranks of the younger men in Zion as great pastors. They have done something. Fol low in their wake, search the rec ords and you will find not froth, foam and bubbles—not destroyers, but builders. Some of us who aspire to be great and are: hi ready distended to bay- window-like proportions, do not know the first requisites ; to greatness. Search the annals of history, study the lives h of the quick or the dead and you find them • every time to be men who shrink from public gaze—modest, quiet, i nassuming. Not the loud, uncouth, barbaric, I-want-you-to know-I m-here individual is the great man, no matter how much he may be under this hallucination. Notwithstanding the damaging tes timony found in the size, shape and position of his ears, a certain animal might pass as respectful, could he be induced not to deliver that everlasting bray of his. One of the sorest disappoint ments which comes to the common people of the Church, is to find among i;he ranks of the ministry, young men, who were at one time themselves - laymen, engaged in a mean, contemptible, underhand fightagsinst the very men who put bread in their mouths. Having helped them, we, like Joseph and the butler, expect them to remem ber us ' ‘when all goes well with them.” Notwithstanding Joseph was forgotten by the butler, stu dents of the Bible know that in the course of time the Israelitish boy rode in the second chariot. Watch that some poor layman now in the toils de es not ride in the chariot next olcl Pharaoh. Really, I intended to say that after Eyron, England’s greatest epic poet, had written his “Hours bf Idler ess,'” theurritie*, headed by Jeffreys of the Edinburgh Review slashed him with their pens and over their coffee and wine said many things about the young po et that were not at all compliment ary; but the world knows that Byron paid them back handsomely in their own coin in “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,” and it made Byron the great poet that he was. I have said all this to get one line: “What! Shall coarse Jfitzgerald bawl? snail i stop my plea in behalf of the common ality because some few men are jealous that the laity may get something they have their eyes on? 'Well, hardly. Some time ago I begged that some strong ministerial champion take up the cause fc r us. The Lord has raised him up. and he has spoken with the trump of an archangel. Rev. J. W. Thomas is the man. He is one of the most lovable characters in the-Church and universally con ceded to be one of the greatest presiding elders any Church has ever had. The laity should, con gratulate itself upon the fact that every c^eat man in Zion is with us, while most of the little fellows are again ’em having anything. But with men like the old war horse W. J. Moore, “Old Swamp Angel” Warner, S. T. Mitchell, E. Geo. Biddle, G. H. Miles, J. M. Hill and F. M. Jacobs, we shall pay but little attention to men with narrow souls. Such men as Thomas are as sure to go to the top as i:he stars are to shine at night. He would go there if eve ry P°PgUI1 in the Church w.ere to fire, upon him. Nothing car} keep him back, because G(*lr£nd one are a majority. We may nev er be able tp repay him for the stand hs so nobly takes for the ])etyple a bng with the rank and file mi [Zion; but there is such sweet consolation in knowing that, God and the mgels vyi}Jreward him. ! CHURCH AND CLERGY. Succinct Reports Indicative Of The Progress Of Zion. DOING A GREAT WORK. We wish to commend the mem bers and friends of Cooper’s chapel for their faithful and ear- / nest work for Grod and Zion. \\ which is to be credi ted to the Star ' for it always represents Zion. Permit us to thank you for the eight page paper.—Rev. J. S. Cooper., Mercer, Pa. j —o— Rev. S. C. Harris, P. E., held my second quarterly meeting at Brakesville and the people say it was the grandest that they had ever witnessed. Boys, you ought to have heard him preach. The Holy Ghost came down.—Rev. W. L. Mills, Way, Miss. Rev. P. W. Laramore, financial ly speaking, is a hustler. Up to date he has raised more money for all purposes than has ever been raised here. He is planning to, “get there” on Children’s Day. God bless the man. We need more preachers like him—J. W. Hitchey, Union Springs, Ala. —o— Our beloved pastor, W. W. Talbot, ia hringing thing# to. the front at Mallard chapel. He has had several rallies and raised the neat little sum of $23.2:7 and has , reported to the conference steward $10 general fund. Rev. J. W. Cooper, P. E., is the man for the Union Spring district.—M. B. Davis, Notch, Ala. Zion’s head is above the waves here. Bishop made no mistake when he sent ns Rev. R. B. Hen dricks. He is the test man we have had in ten years. Rev. E. J. Carter, P. E., who says this point is tetter than he has ever seen it, held a successful quarterly meeting here May 29th, and he carried us off on Zion’s ship.—dJ. C. Clay, Memphis, Tenn. —o— The church here is very pros perous. Rev. A. L. Cowan, P. E., and Rev. S. T. Davis baptized by immersion 18 persons last Sum day. Three were sprinkled at the church. It was quarterly meet ing and 92 persons communed. Collection $14.38. As a presiding elder Rev. Cowan is giving satisr faction and is strengthening the weak places in his district.—Rev. J. H. Branner, Rock wood, Tenn. —o— I congratulate you and Dr. Blackwell for giving our Zion the greatest Negro Publishing House in the world. Energy, pluck and education can accomplish much when they have the benediction of God’s smile. I congratulate you on your success as Editor and on the great victory scored recent ly on the Hymnal controversy. The handwriting on the \yall points to. higher hpnors for you in ‘**‘A —Miss S. J. Janifer, XTTt-' felsfai—’—
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