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ORGAN OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH IN AMERICA. S' j | -' _ ' , ;_■___}_. ____ . , , . | : . ■ ■1 _ *: ' , J Volume XXII. Charlotte, N. C., Thursday, November io, 1898. Number 47. TOPICS OF THE TIMES. Prof. Washington’s Speechf-Oov. | Tanner--A Mean Editor by rev. w. H. davenport. At the Peace Jubilee celebration which was held in Chicago the other day, Prof. BDoker T. Waslu ington delivered a very thoughtful and significant address. ^everal celebrated churchmen were there, and thousands of others, including the President ol the United States. Among the good things, Prof. Washington said: “We have succeeded in every conflict, except in the effort tc conquer ourselves in the blotting out of racial prejudices. We can celebrate ihe era of peace in no more effectual way than by a firm re solve on the part of Northern men and Southern men, black men and white men, that the trenches which we to gether dug around Santiago shall be the eternal burial place of all that which separates us in our business and civil relations. Let us be as generous in peace as we have been brave in battle. Until we thus conquer ourselves I make no empty statement when I say that, we shall have, especially in the Southern part of our country, a cancer gnawing at the heart of this Republic, that shall one day prove as dangerous as an attack from an army without or within. There is little heat in the above paragraph. Mr. Washington un derstood himself. Perhaps he has understood himself all the while. Perhaps he has bee nwTaiting until he was safely entrenched in the public confinence before he uttered any notes of warning. He has the ear of the country, and if it is wise it • will need ms aaraomuuu. When he predicts that the nation will suffer from a cancerous affec tion of the heart if it contihues its imposition upon the Negro, he utters a solemn fact. If white men wish to institute a reign of terror, the Negroes will help them. If they think that shot guns should be carried to the polls, the Negroes will be willing to as sist. If they wish to throw dyna mite and burn,' their docile, black pupils will do the same. Matches are cheap, and shot-guns won’t ex tinguish a flame. Dynamite is not expensive, and the lynchers’ rope will not prevent an explosion. The Negroes are a very irritative set, and they are growing more and more so every day, a fact which some gentlemen haven’t considered. George Tanner, of • Illinois, should be removed from office. When he transcends his authority and threatens to shoot Negroes to pieces at the State line with Gat ling guns, he perhaps never thought that he might not live tc get to the State line with Gatling guns. At any rate, if he starts there armed, the Negroes of Illi nois ought to put obstructions in his way. We are tired of being shot at in times of peace. * The white-haired editor! of the Wilmington (N, C.) Messenger is raving and frothing like a gerec bull because a few Negroes hole office in North Carolina. He calls the deceased Fred Douglass i scamp. Dancy he calls “ the Sambo of the Custom House.” Not content, this fossiliferous mountebank refers to certain “sa lacious conspirators” who are seeking to degrade the greatest race of the world to meet the con suming lusts of blaek beasts.” Wonder if he knows anything of the consuming lusts of “white bea'sts,” who seek to destroy the chastity of colored women and colored servants? Why don’t he roar at the white men in Wilming ton who are doing all they can to create a hybridinous population? He pretends to believe that the Negroes are seeking social equality. He believes a lie. Every Negro believes that God has a peculiar destiny for the race to work out, and it can’t be worked out by ab sorption. Just now the Negro is busy trying to educate himself out of the vices into which the white man educated hirti. The Negroes of North Carolina have never caused any trouble in that State. Dancy is one of its most conservative citizens. The white people of the State mistake the temper of the Negro when they reckon that he will not be in the shot-gun game from beginning to end. Let the band play. And when the Negro-hating editor of the Messenger dies, a tettered horde of naked savages should be imported to do him the proper honors. Ca m de n, N. J A GOOD WORKMAN. BY REV. M. D. SMITH. Logans lemple, in Knoxville, Tenn., Rev. F. R. White, pastor, is the leading church of color in the city and also of the Blue Ridge Conference, and has the largest membership. Elder White has worked hard this year. This is the fourth time that he has been a£ the Temple and the first time that he has been appointed from the annual Conference, and he is showing the Connection what can be done. He filled out the unex pired term of three other minis ters. The spiritual interest of the church is the best ever known. Something near 100 converts have been added to the church. He has fixed under the church one of the finest basements for the Sun day-school, and also covered, painted and repapered the interior and put electric lights in the church. Rev. Dr. Goler, on his way to St. Louis, Mo., stopped over and called on Rev. White and looked at the improvements and pronounced them grand. Rev. White is not only a model pastor, but he is an evangelist. He has attacked the worst places in Knoxville, where all of the cut-throats and gamblers stay, s He has gone there and rented i i house and started a meeting anc [ has set it on fire. Twelve have [ been converted. Let us pray thai i God will give us more Whites. Srrdthwood, Tenn. THE PEACE JUBILEE. Jubilee—Ca id well and Zion In It Also. i BY REV. J. H. M’MULLEN. Philadelphia, the city of “Brotherly Love,” often called slow by suchj cities as New York, Chicago and Washington, out-did itself, and moved tip among the most progressive of American cities during the memorable Peace Jubilee. j New York had received with pomp and splendor the return of our war ships under Sampson and Schley, after they had reduced the Spanish! Admiral’s fleet to nothing, and won the greatest naval victory on record. Omaha, in her Trans-Mississippi Valley Exposition,, with President and Cabinet as spectators, had demon strated the thrift and genius of the great West. Chicago in a three days’ Jubilee, had attracted much attention, duri»g which time the chief executive of the nation, Wm. McKinley, was. by the Chicago University honored with the degree of “Doctor of But it remained for the Quaker City, the city of William Penn, to celebrate both the land and naval victories in. a manner which has startled thej civilized world. All other demonstrations since the re view by Lincoln of the Union Army in Washington City, re turning hqme from the bloody fields of battle, in which battles freedom ha|J been declared and the Union savjed, fade away into insignificance compared with the gr.eat Peacd Jubilee celebrated in Philadelphia, Oct. 27, 28. The farhjous Tenth Cavalry of colored regulars, whose gallantry and valor sp,ve<| the Rough Riders in the battle of- El Caney, on San Juan’s heights, Cuba, was repre sented-in the military parade, and received the unstinted ovations of the two | million people who watched the parade. Everybody sought to do them honor. Among the sailor hoys who fought on sea were seenj a goodly number of Negro sailors marching to the sound of c^artial music. Among the thousands called to'service but who did not gd before peace was declared, and not yet mustered out, was the Ninth Ohio (colored) Battalion, the best drilled men in the volunteer army. The feature about this battalion which ought to interest every Negro is the fact that every officer is colored. Maj. Young is! a graduate of West Point and! considered one of the best officers ih the United States army to-day.f So much for this. But what about Zion Church ir 1 the Jubilee? Well, just this. Vis * itors from afar, unless they hap pened to see the outside of othei [ churches, did not know that anj ) other church existed in Philadel 5 phia but Zion. Caldwell, the pro gressive up-to-date minister o: Wesley Zifon Church, has the cit] i in his grasp. An effort was made by the colored people to entertain the Tenth Cavalry during the Ju bilee at their expense. Caldweli was elected chairman of the re ception committee. This caused a slight stir among some others. The Rev. H. C. C. Astwood led the fight and ten Bethel ministers revolted. No one need ask why. Because Bethel did not lead. But with Cl the Bethel ministers out, save the learned Rev. L. J. Cop pin', whose interest in his race rose above his Church prejudice, the colored citizens did comforta bly care for the Tenth Cavalry, and Caldwell and Zion were in it up to the neck. Zion Church held during the Jubilee a ‘"Harvest Home Jubilee,” and the church was packed every evening listen ing to a finely prepared program, while the active workers of Wesley were gathering money for the V^U U1 V/U| Thursday evening in the church a reception was tendered the Tenth Cavalry and Ninth Ohio Battalion. All the prominent col ored ministers of the city came out to find that Rev. J. S. Cald well had outwitted them. Rev. O. C. Connell and the writer had been programed to speak. Both did so, and the people say, with telling effect. Di\ Astwood was called on and made an instructive address to the colored soldier boys. It was a fine effort even if it were out cf harmony with his effort to keep the colored citizens from en tertaining the Tenth Cavalry. The first he was not in ; the second he was. See ? Tie following Zion preachers were there : Drs. R. A. Fisher and G. W. Offley, Revs. W. H. Davenport, B. J. Bolding, Thoma^ H. Scott, J. H. McMullen and J. S. Caldwell and many others probably whom we did not see. The most representative lay man of the Philadelphia and Balti more Conference, Prof. J. P. Scott, from Harrisburg, Pa., was also in attendance at the Jubilee. The Church has its eye on Cald well. Harrisburg, Pa. A CORRECTION. Daar Dr. Smith: Accept many thanks for words of condolence in Sta:2. My wife was perfectly con scious until within a couple ol hours of her death. We conversed freely together during which time she cheered me with hope of her recovery. The Philadelphia Tri Imrw made a mistake in saying thal she never regained consciousness, The operation took place on Mon day by two distinguished special ists of Philadelphia at the Gyne cean Hospital. A speedy restora ■ tion of health was anticipated Bui; on the following Thursday i change for the worse came, an< f she died on Friday. r J. A. D. Bloice. A WRONG IMPRESSION. It Is Not a Ruling of the Bishops, But a Law Made In 1896. BY BISHOP J. W. HOOD, D.D., LL.D. Mr. Editor: There are some things which I would prefer not to bring before the public, but if they must be published, they ought to be published correctly. Official matters published in the editorial columns of the official organ ought to appear exactly cor rect. I regret that this rule is not always followed. In the last issue we find the fol lowing: “ If the Bishops, accord ing to their recent ruling, are to be paid in full in December,” etc. This is the second time that this matter has been referred to in a way which misrepresents the facts. Now, that was not a ruling of the Bishops, but a law made by the General Conference. What the Bishops did was to call the atten tion of the General Steward, and General Secretary to the law, and to demand that they keep the law. The reason fordhis demand was, that $4,000, which should have been paid to the Bishops according to law last December, was paid to other institutions contrary to law. Some years ago the Bishops 1 permitted a part of the money which was due them to be used in the interest of other institutions, and thus a back salary account was made, for the payment of which provision wTas made, both in 1888 and 1892; but in 1896 there was due to four of the Bishops $3,365 each, and to the other two $2,850 each. The Bishops were asked in open General Conference if they would consent to leave that back salary to be paid to their heirs, after theirv' death (unless the Connection was able to^pay it sooner), on the con dition that in the future. they should be paid in full in December each year. They consented to this arrangement. The Discipline was amended according to this agree-* ment. Is it well to make the im pression that this public agree ment, in the General Conference, is merely “a ruling of the Bish ops?” The better thing to do is to urge the ministers to raise their assess ments ; then all interests can be provided for. * Fayetteville, IV. O, HE HAS KILLED IT, BY KEY. S. A. CHAMBERS. When Bishop Hood speaks the world must listen. When he roars every beast of the forest must . scamper off to their hiding places. His article on “Woman Ordina tion” has doomed it to an eternal - death. Gabriel will have to use extra force at his trumpet if he desires to bring it to judgment. 1 Seeing that such master minds as 1 Bishop Hood tmd Bishops of M. • E. Church, South, are with me, it makes me feel like I own Rock 'Hill.
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