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The Star of Zion. Rev. J. W. SMITH, D.D., • Editor. Rev. 0. Ll. BLACKWELL, I .D., Mgr. Published every Thursday. Enter id at the Post Office at Charlotte, N.C.,as second-'.lass matter. Subscription Bates: One year, *1.01; six months, 60 cents; single copy, 5 cents. No \hree months subscriptions. pr Articles exceeding 600 words \ vhich make a column run the risk of being boiled down. Postal card articles will be published at one i. We do not promise to print articles from pet sons who are not subscribers nor agents of this paper. Send all articles to the Editor; send all subs'.riptions and business matter to the Manager. STAFF CORRESPONDENTS. Mrs. C. C. Pettey, Editor of Woman’s Column. Rev.G.W.Offley, D.D., Prof.W.F• Fonvielle. A .B., Rev. J.H.Anderson, D.D., Rev.J.E.Mason, D.D , Rev W. H. Marshall. Rev. W. A. Blackwell, Rev. .T. H. McMullen, Rev.E.D.W Jones,A M., Rev F.H. Hill, Rev. J. A. D. Moice, D. D., Rev.E.G.Biddle ,B.D., Rev. W.H.Da renport,A.B. Prof W.M.Provinder,A.B., Rev.D.C .Covington, Rev. C. W Winfield, D. D„ Prof.D.W.Parker. Rev S. A. Chambers, Prof.B.A.Johnson. A.M., Rev.H.W Staith, Rev. T. A. Weatt ington.D.D.,. Rev.F.M.Jacobs.B.D., Rev. R. E. Wilson, A.M., Rev. G. C. Clement,A.B., Rev.R.A Fisher D.D., Mrs. A. Walters, Miss S. J. Janifer. Thursday, July14te, 1898. EDITORIAL. Read the Bible daily. The Bethel General Conference will meet in 1900 in Columbus, Ohio. Bishop Hood drops a larger shell in Presiding Elder Snowden’s camp this week. The Richmond (Va.) Planet has enlarged to an eight-page paper. The brave John Mitchell still slings a scorching but effective Pen. _ The Star of Zion says Cubi will be a Negro Republic. We hope Editor Smith will prove in this ctse a true prophet.—Alexandria ( Va.) Leader. From what is transpiring now in war circles it needs no prophet to foresee that our prediction will come true. Bethel by counting her bap tized babies and children claims 600,000 members. Zon, not counting hers, only claims 525,000 members. If Zion world count all her sprinkled babies she would have 600,000 members, too. We received a telegiam from Mrs. G. S. ^dams last, week stat ing that her baby, George, died the 5th inst. It has only been a few months since her scholarly and successful husband passed away. May He who moves mys-f teriously comfort her in lier hour^ of sadness. The Manager and Ed; tor hope to run the cuts and brief sketches of themselves and of the clerks and printers of the Publishirg House in next iveek’s issue of the Star. Each agent should send for extra copies' as soon as he rea is this so that wd may know how many to print. You will have r o trouble to sell them. In accordance with tie recent proclamation of President McKin ley, last Sabbath was observed as a day of thanksgiving for the wonderful victories which the Americans have won aver the Spaniards, and as a day of prayer for the speedy consummation of peace. Thank God for a Chris tian President. Mrs. Perry G. Walker, a very accomplished teacher, fine scholar, excellent music writer and pianist, Has gone North for the Summer to solicit help for Clinton Institute in Rock Hill, S. C. She needs money to complete the Taylor Industrial bu lding. If is hoped that the Northern friends will help her. By a vote of 42 to 21 the Ha waiian Islands have been annexed to the United States. The popu lation is largely American, many being Negroes, and it is a valuable piece of property with only a $4,000,000 debt hanging over it which this country will assume. We are negotiating with Spain for more property. 4 - The Star of Zion, which by the way is, in our estimation, the only real thing in religious journalism, is to assume grander proportions. We are proud of its success and hope to see it continue its most excellent career.—San Antonia (Tex.) Advance. Thanks. We have assumed them and we expect to remain “the only real thing in religious journalism.” The other religious papers and many secular ones will have to hustle to keep up with us. Presiding Elder S. P. Collins informs us of the death of Rev. A. C. Cornelius who was one of the mcfct faithful and upright minis ters of the North Alabama Con ference. He died J une 30th at his charge in Woodstock. The fu neral sermon was preached by his old friend, Rev. R. Steele. He leaves a wife and several children. He was a strong pillar of Zion in the mineral district of North Ala bama. Servant of God, thy work is done. ” ' * After one of the most daring fights known to warfare, the American soldiers who drove back the Spaniards sat down next day and sang, “There will be a hot time in Santiago to-night.” Cer vera and his fleet decided not to stay for Shafter’s festival but dashed out of the harbor for home. Sampson’s fleet argued with them to stop or come back. They would not; and now Uncle Sam is strutting around with his hands in his pockets singing, “All Span ish fleets look alike to me.” The Star will soon issue an Easter supplement containing the name of every Sabbath-school by conferences that raised Easter money. If any of the pastors have Easter money and want to be in this list they had better send in the money at once. Let the presidents or secretaries of the schools that receive Children’s Day money this year make out a roll by conferences and send here by August 18th to go in the Chil dren’s Day supplement. These supplements will show who are supporting our departments. Our five pastors of the Wash ington churches need not make any further arrangements to enter tain the General Conference in 1900 if it is understood that the Bishops and ministers are to pay for board and lodging while there. We haven’t had to do this and there are several cities yet who will be glad to have the Gen eral Conference that will not ex act this. Either Philadelphia, St. Louis or Charlotte, N. C., will take the General Conference free in 1900. If Washington is going to charge us, let the Board of Bishops next month at Asbury Park, N. J., change the Confer ence to one of these cities. The Woman’s Missionary Con ference of the Western North Car olina Conference, organized last year by Mrs. M. A. Marable, con vened last Thursday in Clinton Chapel, Charlotte, N. C., and held four days’ pleasant and profitable sessions. She was ably assisted by Mrs. C. R. Harris, Mrs. R. R. Morris and Miss Mary A. Lynch. Several influential women dele gates were present.? Several pas tors for some reason do not seem to be interested in this movement but it is going to succeed anyhow. God is in the missionary move ment. Let these noble workers continue in the good work, for they shall reap if they faint not. Presiding Elder J. W. Coop er of the Union Springs district and Conference Steward of the Alabama Conference desires the brethren to report the general fund monthly instsad of keeping it in their pockets, so that the General Steward can get it and the General Officers can get some of it. Some of the preachers’ stewards ought to collect pastor’s salary and keep some until Con ference meets and spend some. This is the way that some breth ren . do with the general fund. Brethren, the Bishops say they do not want any of you to collect general fund and save it until they come, but to send it in according to law so that both Bishops and General Officers can live. Zion has been thinking all along that Bishop Holliday was simply a great preacher, powerful on his knees, and a successful church builder, but he has fooled the boys by showing them that he can push a pen when aroused. His last article of defense has pro duced convulsions. If he writes many more sensational articles like that we shall ask the nexi General Conference to make him Editor of this paper and let us fill his shoes as Bishop. The little flim-flam Bethel Editor of the University Herald, of Little Rock, Ark., in its issue of. July 2, desir ing to advertise his “larnin” by quoting Latin, butchering Eng lish and spelling common words with capital letters devotes over two columns sneering at Bishop Holliday’s education and says there appeared in the Star the following: “Bishop Holliday Scholarly Answers Bishop Der rick.” If this college Editor will call in some little school boy he will tell him that no such heading appeared in the Star; that that word is “scorchingly” instead of “scholarly.” We io not propose to argue with a co|lege(?) Editor who cannot spell and read cor rectly. Rev. H. C. C. Astwood’s claim in the Defender that Bethel has the ablest bench of Bishops, the ablest ministers and the most en lightened pulpit of any individual race Church in the world, and that Bethel which is 20 years younger than Zion is the mother of Zion, is all moonshine and is only believed by him and his crow d. He has only two, not over thres, college-bred Bishops on his bench, and Zion has three. Some of his Bishops have already said that while they could excel us raising money that our Bishops and ministers could excel them preach: ng and speak ing. The great M. E. Church is the mother of both Zion and Beth el, but Rev. Astwoc d doesn’t mind falsifying history. When he says that the Christian .Recordeft' is the greatest religious paper in the world and the Star of Zion comes next he causes the newspa per fraternity especially to grin from 'ear to ear. Read what the Negro Editors say this week. One of the biggestGeneral Officers in Bethel told Presiding Elder Fisher, of Zion, the other day if we were a Bethel Editor giving them such a paper as we are giv ing Zion that they would elect us a Bethel Bishop in 1900. Poor Brother Aslwood! The trouble with such a presumptuous man is it would be better for him if, like the Dutchman’s dog, “he did not know so blamed much.” PROUD OF HIS IGNORANCE. Rev. H. C. C. Astwood, who has served politically abroad for Uncle Sam and is now preaching the gospel and running a splendid newspaper at Bryn Mawr, Pa., and has been appointed by the Bethel Bishops a missionary to Cuba, glorias in his ignorance when he publishes in The Defender the following: Our able contemporary, the Star of Zion, is trying to overdo itself; false im pressions are :ict the best evidence of success and progress. The statement in a recent issue that the Zion Publication House was the largest and best in the country and i;hat the membership of Zion had reached above 800,000, is an in flated statemert, either wilfully or ignor antly trying to mislead public judgment. Surely the Editor has not visited the Publication Department of the A. M. E. Church, No. 631 Pine 8treet, Philadel phia, or the Sunday School Publishing Department at Nashville, Tennessee. We have never published that Zion had n membership that reached above 800,000, and no such untruthful statement has ever appeared in this paper. Un less Rev. Astwood can show such a statement from us, or one that appeared in the Star, we shall re gard him as a man of powerful imagination, assumption and fab rication, and we would not give a piece of Confederate money for all the religion lie thinks he has. We have visited the Bethel Publishing House several times and know what is in there, and we stick to our claim that Zion has the largest and best-equipped Publishing House in the world. Bishops Hood, Walters and G. W~ Clinton, President Sanders of Biddle University, Editor Dancy and other men of national reputa tion who have seen both Houses say the same. Rev. Astwood has never seen cur Publishing House and is therefore incompetent to judge. Let him have Manager Hender son take an honest inventory of everything cf his House for pub lication and we will have Mana ger Blackwell do the same of our House, and then it will be seen who is overdoing himself. Rev. Astwood knows that we have not boasted about our Sunday School Department, which is self-sup porting, but since he has brought that in, we will say that Dr. Blackwell now writes and publish es our Sunday School Literature and does net buy it from David C. Cook, of Chicago, as another boasting Negro Church does, and put four or five pages of printed matter and a picture back on it to im,ke believe that the whole thing emanated from Negro brain. Did we ironically say something? GALLANT NEGRO SOLDIERS. In every war in which the Unit ed States has fought the Negro soldier has slood side by side with the white soldier defending the Stars and Stripes. He is doing the same to-day despite the preju dice and spitting of poisonous fire by white Jiools with flint-lock brains and hair-trigger mouthsi In that awful and terrific charge the other day between the Ameri can and Spanish soldiers at El Caney, an outpost of Santiago, the Tenth Cavalry of Negroes saved the day for Uncle Sam. The Spanish commander who was strongly intrenched behind the hills which were stormed and taken by this cavalry of Negroes and Rough Riders was amazed and said: “We have never fought such troops before. The more terrific the fire, the faster they advanced. We are not used to men who fight that way.” These black soldiers in the face of a hailstorm of Span ish shot and shell dashed up the steep hill with the Rough Riders, firing and killing the enemy as they went, having fewer men killed than the Rough Riders, and making the Spaniards take to their heels. The white soldiers declare that these black soldiers fought like mad tigers; others say they fought like devils. One black soldier who was shot in the thigh coolly knelt behind a rock loading and firing and when told by one of his com rades that he was wounded said carelessly, “Oh, that’s alright. That’s been there for some time.” When our white soldiers looked at these black heroes gallantly rush ing up the hills under a galling Spanish fire and putting the Span iards to flight after several. of the Rough Riders had been shot down they shook the earth cheering them from field and camp, cheer after cheer going up and swelling in volume, and when (;he black boys returned to the tents the white soldiers forgot their preju dice but took them up bodily and carried them around cheering. The Philadelphia Press corre spondent, unwilling to rob these Negro soldiers of any glory, says: “We could clearly see the won derful work the dusky veterans of the Tenth Cavalry were doing. Their accuracy of aim was proba bly never before equalled under like circumstances.” Three cheers for the Tenth Cav alry, for their splendid charge and thrilling heroism ! Let us not for get to cheer for the Ninth Cavalry and for the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry of colored soldiers at Santiago who are equal ly as brave and will alike distin guish themselves when given a chance. This is only an example of what thousands of Nej^roes now at home will do if the President and the Governors will cut away the barriers of discrimination and will give us Negro regiments manned by Negro officers. Then, and then truly, will we “ Remem ber the Maine and Maceo” and bring this war waged in the inter est of humanity to a speedy close. SHOOTING STARS. The Star of Zion comes to us this week in eight pages and much improved in ap pearance.—Southern , Christian Recorder, We congratulate Editor Smith and Manager Blackwell, of the Star of Zion, on the greatly improved appearance of their paper, the organ of the A. M. E. Zion Church.—Cleveland {Ohio) Gazette, The new form and appearance of the Star of Zion add much to the mechani cal value of that organ, and the Record er congratulates it upon its improved dress, shape and size.—Christian Record er. The Star of Zion, already the best Ne gro Church organ in the country, is now enlarged to a five-column quarto, on book paper, printed in the highest style of the art preservative.—Houston (Tex.) Van. f I The Star of Zion is out in a> new dress. It is now an eight-page quarto. It is nicely gotten up and well printed. It is in fact one of the largest and oldest col ored papers in the South.— Wilson (N. C.) Blade. The Charlbtte, N. C., Star of Zion came to us this week so much improved that we failed to recognize it. We con gratulate Editor J. W. Smith and the management upon the enterprise.—Rich mond (Fa.) Planet. The Star of Zion, the leading Negro Church paper in this country, has re cently moved up from a four to an eight page journal. Three cheers for Mana fer Blackwell and Editor Smith.—Pee he (N. C.) Herald. The Star of Zion has put on a new dress and now presents its readers with eight pages of excellent reading matter. Rev. Dr. J. W. Srlith is the right man in the right place.—New York Weekly Triumph. We congratulate Dr. Smith, Editor of the Star of Zion, upon the excellent ap pearance of his paper which pomes to us in changed form, being novs an eight page, brimful of choice matter.—Augus ta (Ga.) Union. The Star of Zion comes to us this week
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