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The Star of Zion. Rev. J. W. SMITH, D.D., f Editor. Rev. a L. BLACKWELL, D.D., Mgr. Published every Thursday. Entered at the Post Office at Charlotte, N. C.,as »econdclass matter. Subscription Bates: One ye ir, $1.0Ci; six months, 60 cents; single copy, 5 cents. No three months subscriptions. or Articles exceeding 5On words which make^ a olurtin . column run the risk of being boiled down. Postal card articles will be published at once. We do not promise to print articles from pet sons who are not subscribes 8 nor agents of this paper. Send all articles to the Editor; send all subscriptions and business matter to the Manager. STAFF CORRESF ONDENTS. Mrs. C. C. Pettey. Editor o' Woman’s Column. Rev.G.W.Offley, D.D., Prof W.F Fonvielle.A.B., Rev. J.H.Anderson, D.D., I.ev.J.E.Mason. D.D., Rev. W. H. Marshall, Rjv. W A. Blackwell, Rev. J. H. McMullen, Re/.E.D.W.Jones.A.M., Rev. F. H. Hill, Rev. J. A. D Bloice. D. D., Rev.E.G.Biddle.B.D.,Rev. W.H.Davenport,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. Prol.B.A. Johnson. A.M., Rev.H.W Smith. Rev. T J.. Weathington,D.D., Rev.F.M.Jacobs.B. D., Re\ . R. E. Wilson, A.M. Rev. G. C. CJement.A.B., Itev.R.A.Fisher D.D.. Mrs. A. Walters, Miss S. J. Janifer. Thursday, August 18th, 1898. EDITORIAL. Don’t forsake the church. Kicking a man when he is down is cowardly and mean. Perspiration is having a great run in the churches on Sabbath nights. A secret is like a hole in your coat—the more you try to hide it the more it reveals itself. As it takes him two weeks to ■write a reply to our stubborn facts, Dr. John Mouth Hender son did not sling mud at Zion last week. It should be a matter of princi ple with you never to mix your self with other people’s business— never to put your finger in your neighbor’s pie. As we desire to make up our Conference Directory we ask each Bishop to please send us a list of his Fall and Winter conferences, time and place of meeting. Mr. Chas. H, Kutz, (white] city editor of the Carlisle (Pa.] Daily Sentinel, a splendid family newspaper brimful of choice news, writes: “Your paper is a Jive, wide-awake journal, ably edited.’ Few persons £,re gifted with such discrimination that they car separate the preacher from his sermon. It is vai'i for the preach er to say, “Do as I tell you, anc not as I do,” for deeds are mor< influential than words. Since the ordination of Rev, Mrs. Mary J. Sn all as elder anc the increasing discussion thereor are attracting worldwide attention, and thousands ars anxious to se( her, we are arranging to run hei cut and sketch in the Star. The Star of Zion did itself proud las week in giving a write-up of its officia family, but then thnt’s nothing strange The Star is one of the best and newsies! papers published m America.—Bruns ■mck {Ala.) Herald. Somebody will please read this to Dr. J. M. Henderson and Rev H. C. C. Ascwocd. We repeat thaD all who expeci us to publish their articles musi either be cash subscribers or agents for the Star. Il; takes money t( pay printers for setting up arti eles, and if you nre too stingy t< help us financially do not Write foi this paper. We cannot lose tim< with deadheads. We regretted to lose the ser vices of our efficient and hustling local reporter, Mr. JohnE. Walk er, who retired last week, but his place will be well supplied by Mr: Napoleon L. Wyche who has a scent for city news that will be in teresting. Those churches and so cieties that expect to get in his column must compliment him with tickets to their entertainments. If the woman that Bishop Small refers to this week is the same one who joined the New England Con ference in 1883 and was given a church, it is an unfortunate refer ence; for when her Bishop desired to remove her, she kicked up and took the church out of the Con nection; and although after much diplomacy we got it back, still it feels to-day the effects of the dis ruption and disloyalty. Prof. David Williams Parker, who edits the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Chronicle, is a rapid thinker, ready writer and flowery orator. He is brilliant, diplomatic, and can, if he will, be of great service to his people. He says he helped to de feat Dr. J. W. Alstork for the bishopric in 1896 and now sees his error and is willing to lead the Alabama delegation in 1900 to help elect him. This is very magnani mous, and Dr. Alstork is deserv ing of the highest position in Zion. Prof. B. A. Johnson has sent in for the Star supplement the names of all the pastors and churches that have raised Chil dren’s Day money for Livingstone College. The presidents or secre taries of the other schools that re ceive this money will please. send their list in by conferences. Zion will have a chance to know this year what pastors and churches have failed to raise this money and no conference should let a guilty man escape. Those pastors who have not sent in this money had better do so immediately. Our good friend, sweet singer and fine gospel preacher, Rev. A. B. Smyer, of Citronelle, Ala., sent us for publication a few weeks ago clippings from such rabid white papers as the Monroe Democrat, Mobile Item, Globe Democrat and the Mobile Herald stirring up race passions and ap plying low, dirty epithets to our i Negro soldiers. We do not care to .f prostitute these columns and give ' these contemptible sheets any * free advestising by publishing their diabolical and vulgar rot. Hell is hot with unquenchable fire ^ for all Negro-haters who will be out of our way some day. Let us 1 do right and trust God. * Dr. A. J. Warner, known as ‘ “ Swamp Angel,” came to Char lotte, N. C., last week and lectured on “The relations between the [ white and black man of the South ” . and preached twice last Sabbath ; and stirred the city from center to circumference. Nearly every white and colored church was empty and the streets deserted for awhile last Sabbath night—the people had gone to hear Warner. He preached . the sermons of his life. They . came away saying he was the \ smartest Negro preacher and lectur t er that had ever struck this town. The street cars for the first time ran } all night hauling the people from . the camp-ground. The entire city 5 is talking about “ Swamp Angel ” and want him to come back. Read the clippings in this paper about him. Dr. G. L. Blackwell preached ; a powerful sermon in the after noon. Since the Manager has in formed us that he cannot until he pay8 some pressing debts give us the use of brevier type to run ar ticles nor pay for unleaded articles we shall be compelled to cut arti cles still shorter in order to give every one a little hearing. This may not please several big writers, but we must ‘cut the coat accord ing to the cloth.” If each pastor would be or appoint an agent to sell the Star to the members and friends and remit monthly, all of the ads could come out of the Star and articles fill up those col umns. But t wo-thirds of the pas tors won’t'do this; consequently, we must always be overcrowded with articles which will have to wait two, three and four weeks be fore they can be published. If yq^do not want your articles cut you had better count and see that you do not exceed 500 words. If you are too lazy to count, we will count for yo 1 when they reach us. There are more self-supporting churches in Zion than the Bishops can find well qualified men to pas tor; and yet Rev. A. Mclver, who is playing for notoriety and try ing to taffy the Bishops to get a bigger church, is becoming men tally razzled-dazzled because some of the General Officers are holding small churches in connection with their work. It is a criticism and a questioning of the wisdom of the appointing powers. The General Conference of 1892 op posed General Officers holding churches, and passed a law against it. Seeing it1 was a bad law, the General Conference of 1896 re pealed it. When the Connection pays her General Officers what she promises, none of them will want a church. If he wants to see the cash receipts of the General Officers, let him write to Doctors Day and Alutork who pay out the general fund. He will get none from us. It is not our fault that he has not s tudied and risen in Zion to be a General Officer and hold a church. What is possible for one man is possible for another, if he will work his rabbit foot. There is a movement on foot to have the United States Senate pass a bill to incorporate the Fred erick Doug] ass Memorial and His torical Association and to erect on the old homestead at Cedar Hill, Anacostia, 13. C., a Douglass Muse um of History to the memory of Mr. Douglass. There is a desire also to take him up from the fam ily lot in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Ro chester, N. Y., where he rests be side his first wife and bring him to Cedar Hill where he shall be per mitted to rest beside his second wife. The. Douglass children are very indignant over the bill, con sider it an insult, and the son, Mr. Charles R. Douglass, says in the last week’s Colored American that his father will never be removed while a son, daughter and grand children live, and that he would willingly give up his life resisting such an attempt. It seems that the wishes and feelings of the Douglass’ children have not been consulted ii this matter, and pub lic sentiment will accord them the right to see that their honored father sleep undisturbed according to his wishes with his first wife or know the reason why. Frederick Douglass, in buying that lot forty years ago, requested his children to see that his remains and their mother’s remains rest together. Common decency demands that they be allowed to rest together in peace. F*HYSICALLY UNFIT. A woman is not physically able to pastor a church. She is too timid and fearful to get up at one or two o’clock in the night, unless some man is with her, and go across the ci1y to see the sick or pray with some one ready to die. She is not able and would be a pitiful looking object standing in the river trying to baptize a lot of heavy men and shouting women. It would be too hot and dusty in the Summer and too cold and slushy in the Winter for her to walk ten* fif teen and twenty miles on a circuit in the country to try to preach the gospel. There isn’t an official board in Zion that would let a woman pas tor control them, and if she spoke sharply to any of the women mem bers, they would either speak sharply back to her, lick her, pull her hair or leave the church. These are common sense facts. No Bishop has a right to give a mar ried vroman elder a church without her husband’s consent; for “those whoir God hath joined together let not man put asunder.” No man has a right, according to his marriage vows, to give another man the right to separate him and his wife for any length of time. These and other things, in the ab sence of Scripture legalizing wom an ordination, should convince Zion that she is not ready yet for wom en elders and women pastors. Why ordain women deacons or elders when our churches won’t let them pastor them? We have too much useless ordained male timber lying around in all of our confer ences: why begin now on the women? Since the white and col ored denominations in this and foreign lands (they are just as brainy and Biblical as Zion, and some more so), have never or dained women to elder’s orders, and many of these denominations are criticising us, Zion in the next General Conference should sit down hard on the business. We don’t need women deacons, much less women elders. THREATENS TO SUE US. Because we have fearlessly and successfully refuted his lying state ments about the A. M. E. Zion Church, and warmly resented his disreputable blackguard of us, and promised to “get even ” with him if he kept on saying we had “no idea of morals and religion,” poor Brer H. C. C. Astwood tries to in timidate us into silence by threat ening us with a libel suit. This gas-bag can’t frighten us into si lence, and while we live we intend to whack every bully that rushes into print to stab the denominatioh of our choice. When Astwood jumped unasked into the discussion that was going on between Editor Johnson and us he thought he was going to have a “ walk-over ” with us, but he soon found to his sorrow that he was monkeying with a buzz-saw. Fail ing to overturn our facts, he lost his temper and, finding billings gate much handier than logic, be gan to apply to us malicious epi thets which were beneath the dig nity of a gentleman. Finding us standing our ground and cutting him into mince-meat he now fran tically cries: “Don’t—Ouch! I will put the law on you.” Astwood calls himself our “supe rior in debate, in editorial and lit erary writing,” and says this makes it necessary for Zion to suspend us as editor and discipline us; that^ he has exposed our incompetency. It is not necessary to count the numerous words misspelled and his paper grammar butchered in since he began his bitter attack us, but in the last issue of The Defender, Rev. Mr. Astwood, who is sent by Bethel as a missionary to Cuba because he is such a fine scholar( ?) and can speak fluently( ?) many languages, especially Span- ^ ish, spells the following words ex actly as we print them: ‘ ‘volumnes, renumerative, devstation, oppera tions, developements, disatisfac tion, gratuitously, desended, hrain ey, ignorent, liabel.” Now let Astwood hunt ou r “ editorials and literary writings ” for misspelt words. V He says he goeis to Cuba with the best wishes for Zion, but with the uttermost (he means “utmost”) contempt for her ungentlemanly editor. We hope he will do more good there than he did here, the not Bethel withstanding one of Bishops said last week that he didn’t look for any good to be done, and1** that it was a useless Si,500 a year thrown away by Bethel. Brother Astwood says while away he will pray for our conversion, and yet, he goes away with the contempt” for us. His “ utmost learning how to spell will please us better His than his Spanish prayers, prayers for us will amount to nothing, for if hcs was as familiar with the Bible as he is with slang and abuse, he would know that David says in Psalms 66:18, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.” V SHOOTING STARS. Bishop J B. Smiall visited Atlantic City, N. J.. and assisted Rev. Bloice in , his rally two Sabbaths ago. Bishop J. W. Hood and wife are being tendered grand receptions by their ^ chnrches in the New England Confer ence. Rev. .T. Francis Robinson, of Halifax, N. S., lectured recentlv in our church at Paterson, N. J., on “Fits, Misfits and Outfits.” Prof. S. G. Atkins, of Winston, N. C., attended the Negro Conference at Hamp ton, and also visited New York and oth- ' er northern cities. Rev. N. R. Rhodes, of Jasper, Ala., congratulates the Stab on its newfdress and also the improvements made on the Publishing House. Rev. G. Penman, a noted divine of Bedford, England, writes: I am de lighted with the change of your paper. Go on and prosper. Rev. R. Alonzo Scott is getting along 4 grandly in Rochester, N. Y. The peo ple, white and black, flock to hear him. His family is with him. R. B. Hendricks, of Memphis, Tenn., says Bishop G. W. Clinton made the people happy at Harris Chapel by preaching a soul-stirring sermon; that he was truly eloquent. Rev. M. V. Marable held a great dis trict conference last week at King’s Mountain, N. C., and sent two dollars to the Manager of the Stab. Rev. D. C. Covington preached a brilliant annual sermon. Brother Marable is a fine man. Rev. P. C. Hilton, of Catawba, N. tl., has had five converts at Mount Pisgah church and six at Catawba. He has also bought a fine bell for $25 for the Cataw ba church, and raised $35 since last quar ter. Brothers J. J . Blanton and J. J. White have helped him greatly in his revivals.
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