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The Star of Zion. Rev. J. W. SMITH, D.D., - Editor. Rev. G. L. BLACKWELL, D.D., Mj*r. Published every Thursday. Entered at the Post Office at Charlotte, N, C',,as second-class matter. Subscription Bates: One year, $1.00; six months, 60 cents; single copy, 5 cents. No three months' subscriptions. Articles exceeding 500 words which mal e a tolumn run the risk-of being boiled down. Pistol eard articles will be published at -once. We do not promise to print articles from pe, sons who are not svbscribeis nor "gents of this paper. Sent' all articles to the Editor; send all subscriptions and business matter 4o the Manager. STAFF CORRESPONDENTS. Mrs. C. C. Pettey. Editor of Woman’s Column. Rev.G.W.Oftley, D.B., Prof.W.F Fonvielle.A.B. Rev. J.H. Anderson, !D.D., Rev.J.E.Mason, J).D. Rev. W. H. Marshall, Rev. W A. Black veil Rev. J. H. McMullen, Rev.E.D.W.Jones .A.M. Rev. F. H. Hill, Rev. J. A D. Bloice, 1). D. Rev ,E.G.Biddle3.D., Rev. W.H.Daven port ,A.B Prof.W.M.Provinder,A.B., Rev.D.C.Covin ;ton Rev. C. W. Winfield, D. D., Prof D.W.Parker Rev. S. A. Chambers. Prof.B.A. Johnson, a.M. Rev.H W Smith, Rev. T A. Weathington.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. Ja lifer Thursday, September 29th, 1898 EDITORIAL. Envy wags a dirty tongue. Bishop Hood makes a rattling, strong, closing reply to Dr. Price this week. We publish a; common-sense ar ticle sent to the Star by Prof. Booker T. Washington. Livingstone College opens on Wednesday. Let the students be on hand so as to make their class es. Bishop I. fc. Clinton has sent us a schedule of his Conferences. Thanks. Now will Bishops Wal ters and Holliday do the same? Bishop G. W. Clinton changes the Tennessee Conference ::rom the second to third Wednesday in this month. His full notice came too late for this issue. An unfini name signed hed article witi no accompanied with one dollar reached us last week from San Francisco, Cal, We would like tb know the author. The General Steward requests the Conference Stewards to send him general fund by post-office money ordei* instead of personal checks. See his notice and take heed. As jin appropriate means ot cele brating the end of the century the Wesleyan Methodists of England at their recent Conference voted to raise $5,000,000 as a twentieth -century fund for educational, mis sionary and Church extension work. Here is food for thought for our denomihation. We have [two or three more ar ticles on woman ordination which hy urgent request we will publish, after which we will close down on the subject, as the advocates and opponents are simply giving us a rehash of arguments and the read ers are getting tired of it. Dr. J. H. Anderson presents a new phase of the subject this week. As soon as we can get the Chil dren’s Dayj reports from Atkinson College, Clinton Institute, Lan caster High School and tie Pal metto School the Children’s Day Supplement will be putlished. Let the proper authorities cf these schools send us their reports at once. Let the Connection see what deadheads failed to raise this collection I i Some of the Conferences make it a business to fight transferees and poison the people against them. It is wicked. Let the bishops call a halt on this tomfool ery and notify the jealous fighters that if they are not satisfied they can transfer or hand in their parchments. Zion has been largely built up by transferred men. Successful ministers do not fight transferees. The Christian Advocate, of New York, says that at a called meet ing of the General Board of the C. M. E. Church held recently in Nashville, Tenn., an assessment of one dollar was laid upon each bishop, presiding elder and pastor, and one cent upon each child in the Sunday-school in order to provide a nucleus for the immedi ate establishment of a Sunday school department in that Church. The Langston National Monu ment Historical and Emancipation Association of Alexandria, Va., is selling Souvenir Journals and taking subscriptions for the Lang ston monument to be erected at Washington, D. C. It is a worthy object and race-lovers should re spond liberally. Mr. Langston was a brilliant leader and was true to his race. Copies of the Souve nir Journal can be obtained by ad dressing President Magnus L. Robinson of Alexandria, Va. As an orator, J. C. Dancy, as he usually does, made a big hit at the Douglass monument ceremon ies at Rochester, N. Y., and his speech, which is a gem, beautiful in thought, is being published in full by the race papers and several white papers. Mr. Dancy, with his pathetic and silvery voice, is a natural orator—earnest, thought ful, logical, conclusive—and: he electrifies his audience Which gen erally bows before the shrine of his eloquence. He is the most gifted black orator to-day in this country ; Will the secretaries of the Kentucky, Missouri, Michigan and Canada, Allegheny-Ohio, and California Conferences who got pay for their work please send us immediately for publication the appointments. Where the minis ters are stationed is deeply inter esting to Zion Connection, and we hope the bishops and secretaries will always see that the official Church organ gets the appoint ments. The secretaries take spec ial pains to see that local white papers get them. Why snub the Star of Zion and then criticize the Editor for not publishing what he cannot get? When a minister carries his wife to Conference, unless he has friends there who will feed and lodge her free, he ought to have pride enough to pay for her board. To carry her to Conference and drop her down uninvited on the the people and make no financial arrangement for her stopping is sponging. It makes the hostess mad and the wife feel embar rassed. Any minister who will carry his wife to Conference and put her in this predicament ought to have his back fed with 39 lashes. If you cannot play the man at the Conference let your wife stay home. No minister who is to care for the Conference is under any obligation to get her a place. Three times has a World’s Sunday-school Convention been held. The third and latest has just taken place in London, Eng land. The Cunarder “Catalonia, ” ' sailing the last of June, carried a boat-load of American delegates. A bird’s-eye view of the t ig meet ing and its salient features is to appear shortly in the Sunday School Times, written by Dr. Wm. Wright, of London, who delivered the welcoming address to the dele gates. A report of the indications of the 'convention as to Sunday school progress in foreign lands will appear in the same publica tion, written by the Rev. Henry Collins Woodruff, president of the Foreign Sunday School Associa tion of the United States. From the fight started by Prof. W. F. Fonvielle for more lay rec ognition, and backed up by Edi tor Dancy, Dr. R. S. Rives, Revs. J. W. Thomas, E. George Biddle, G. H. Miles, W. J. Sides and oth ers, it is beginning to look to a man up the tree that more prom inent and talented laymen will be honored with some of the general offices in 1900. It is useless for ministers to kick and howl against it. This question is gaining head way and will eventrill) win. There are three or four general of fices in Zion that could be filled very conveniently by such brilli ant men as Fonvielle, Atkins, B. A. Johnson, J. P. Scott, G. C. Scurlock and others. We do not mention the great Dancy because he has a general office. The Star is one of; the most widely read Negro papers in this country, and those persons who copy poems and articles from books and papers and sign their names to them and send them to this paper as their owr, will soon be detected and exposed. Some persons were exposed . last year. If any cannot write their own thoughts they will please not write at all for the Star. Anoth er plagiarist has been sjjotted, and we have sent him the letter from a white gentleman containing the following: -, N. Y., Sept. 19,1898. Dear Mr. Editor: In your last week’s paper there is an article, entitled-, purporting to have been written by of -. That article was originally written by me, and was printed in The Herald of the Coming One a few months ago. Mr.-has evidently plagiarized it, word for word. Now, if you wish to teach the fellow a lesson, io so; but do not use my name in relation to it. There is no correspondent to day of the Star whose articles are attracting more attention in and out of our Church .than those written by Dr. J. H. Anderson. He takes time to “think” and “say something;” and all the candidates for the Star had better keep their eyes on this prancing'dark horse. His shelling Dr. John Mouth Hen derson and calling him “a higgle haggle writer, in his normal mood easy, graceful, vain and catchy, but under nervous and mental strain labored, excited and impulsive, flying the track, and reasoning wearisomely at. random,” has wrung from the greatest white re ligious editor in the South, Dr. Hoss, of the Christian Advocate, this compliment: This is fine. ‘Easy, graceful, vain and catchy’ are adjectives that take our ear, and ‘reasoning wearisomely at ran dom” fits a number of our friends J We are half-minded to appropriate it. j X Editor T. Thomas Fortune seems to be in the slough of de spond. He is reported as saying at the League meeting in Roches ter, Nil Y., that he had lost confi dence in the race. Frederick Douglass years ago was in the same despondent mood and re mained so until a woman at a pub lic meeting where he was pouring out his woes arose and said, “Frederick, is God dead?*’ It cheered and inspired him, and he took courage and went forward battling for his rase and lived to see the day when the chains of slavery fell from their limbs. Let Mr. Fortune remember this. Never lose confide ace in a race as long as it is agai nst great odds making wonderful progress in nearly all the wait s of life. It is as certain as death and taxes that the Negro race will get to a place some day where scoundrels and bullies who imagine they have su pernatural powers to do as they please and also think they hold in their hands the keys of earth, heaven and hell will have to quit their deviltry and treat them in a legal and decent way. AN ABLE PRESIDENT. When T. Thomas Fortune, be cause he has lost confidence in his race, declined to be elected presi dent of the National Afro-Ameri can Council, the delegates imme diately turned to Bishop Alexan der Walters, D. I)., and informed him that he was the only man ill sight now that could keep the or ganization togeth er to help legal ly fight and crush out the wrongs perpetrated against the Negro. He was unanimcnsly elected and this makes him the logical leader of our race. If the race will rally to him he says ae is determined under God to make the organiza tion a success. He thinks of call ing a meeting soon of the National Council somewhere in the South to consummate plans for the contin uance of the work. The Bishop is pre-eminently a man of brains and character, a religious and po litical leader and instructor, an orator, debater and writer, in tensely loyal to and enthusiastic over the future of his race. Edi tor Fortune^ in the New York Age, says: The election of Bishop Walters as president of the Council was a fortunate outcome of the matter. He is able and earnest and has plenty of faith, and Mr. Fortune wil give him all the sup port in his power. We need an organi zation national in character, but it can not be obtained ujiless the thoughtful men and women of the race take hold of the matter. A CHANCE TO SETTLE IT. Rev. D. C. Cc vington, pastor of Clinton Chapel, better known in Charlotte, N. C., as Big Zion, and his good people are raising money to finally settle the complicated, vexing and costly lawsuit of said church which hs,s been before the civil and supreme courts for the last six years. This case is too well known throughout Zion to need rehearsal. But for Bishops Hood and Lomax and Dr. R. H. Simmons, who are thoroughly fa miliar with our Discipline and could not be tangled up on the witness stand by expert lawyers, that church would have been lost to Zion long ago. The deed is a little defective, and Rev. Covingtori for $375 will'now secure a good, sound one for this church which will stand the test of all ages. This will be a big feather in his cap and will cause the local and general Church to give him a rising vote of thanks. He raised $240 on it in his rally -*...: ■ ===== last Sabbath and will raise the bal ance—$135—in three weeks. There will be a grand jubilee among the members and friends when it is settled. Elder Covington, who is an aggressive and progressive young man, and conducts an Af ro-American Sunday column in the Charlotte Observer, the lead ing white paper in North Caroli na, is a very successful pastor, and has managed the affairs of this old historic church in a very commend able manner. Any church in Zion will be safe in his hands. MEN LIKE THESE WANTED. Some of the ministers that have joined us from the great M. E. Church are quite intelligent, loyal, excellent gospel preachers and splendid church workers. Rev. J. Sulla Cooper is a polished speaker. Bishop Hood says he is one of the finest preachers of the age. He is building a fine church for Zion at Hartford, Conn. Rev. John F. Moreland is an able gospel preacher. His preach ing is full of unction. He is also a successful pastor, a church build er and financier. He begar, the erection of one of the finest churches in Zion in Harrisburg, Pa., which will be completed by Rev. J. H. McMullen in a few weeks from now. He did a great work at State-street church in Mo bile, Ala., and now he is putting new life into our church at St. Louis. The brave and brainy Dr. W. JL Coffey, of the First A. M. E. Zion church in Providence, R. I., is not one whit behind Revs. Cooper and Moreland on any line in church work. He is a master speaker, whether in the pulpit, on the con ference floor or on the lecture or political platform. He is draw ing large congregations, and the fine church started some years ago by Rev. J. B. Colbert will soon be finished by him. Bishop Walters this week writes us the following about Dr. Coffey: Dr. Birchmore and I are in Provi dence,^. I , helping Dr. Coffej' in a grand rally. He collected to-ds.y one thousand and sixty-five dollars. Coffey is a great financier and, like Moreland, a valuable acquisition to our Zion. He has broken all records as pastor of this church. There can be no righteous ob jection to men like these filling any church in Zion. They have made their marks in Zion. They did not get the very best churches when they came to us. They had to work up to their present places. Let all others who come clo the same. HIS WIFE LOOKED BACK. Remember Lot's wife—St. Luke 17:32. * The story of Lot’s wife is very interesting and instructive. Is it true or fabulous? The Jews be lieved it to be true. Christ, who must have known whether the ac count was true or false, mfide no effort to have the Jews doubt or disbelieve it. If it were a, mere fable, Jesus would have sfiid so. On the contrary, He cites the in cident of the death of Lot’s wife as something to be remembered. Christ must therefore considered it history. We should do like wise. But why remember that sad his torical occurrence? Because it is replete with solemn admonitions. Lot’s wife perished because of her
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