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The Star of Zion. Rev. J. W. SMITH, D.D., - Editor. Rev. G. M BLACKWELL, D,D., Mgr. Published every Thursday. Entered at the Post Office at Charlotte, N. a.,as *econdctass matter. Subscription Pates: One year, $1.00; six months, 60 cents; single copy, 5 cente. No three months subscriptions. pT Articles exceeding 50n words wUchmake a lumn run the risk of being boiled down. Postal oo card articles promise to not subscribet articles to t business mat ill be published at once We do not int articles from pe> sons who are nor n gents of this paper. Send all Editor; send all svbsc iptions arid to the Mawger. STAFF CORRESPONDENTS. Mrs. C C.P Rev.G.W.O Rev. J.H.An Rev. W. H. Rev. J.H. ft Rev. F. H. Rev.E.G Bi Frof.W.M.Pr Rev. C. VV. 1 Rev. S. A. Cl Rev.H W Si Rev.F.M.Jac Rev. G. C. C Mrs. A. Wal ittey. Editor of Womar's Column. ey.D.D , Prof.W F Fonvielle.A.B. '.erson, D.D., Rev.J.E Mason; D.D arshall. Rev. W A, Blackwell Mullen, Rev.E.D.W.lones.A M. ill, Rev. J. A I) Bioice. D D. lie,B.D.. Rev. W. H .Davenport A.B vihder.A.B., Re'v.D.C Covington Vinfield, D. D., Prof . O.W.Parker aambers. Prof.B.A. Johnson. A.M nith, Rev.T A. Weath ngfou,D.D. lobs.B D, Rev. R. E. Wilson, A.M.. lenient.,A.B., Rev.R.A Fisher D.D ters, ftliss Si. J. Janifer EDITORIAL. Get r^ady for Thanksgiving. Let every minister study the grand old Bible in its entirety. Bishop C. C. Pettey, who has been very sick for several weeks, is very much improved. His great Church is praying for him. Whether you write once a month or once a year we shall cut your articles if you do not write short. Remember we aie always crowded with articles. T. McCants Stewart, the bril liant Negro lawyer of New York, with his family, has just moved to Hawaii to practice law. He will make that place his home. Dr. T- A. Weathington in forms us that Butler’!- Chapel, Greenville, Ala., Rev. A, S. Wat kins, pastor, was burned on the 4th inst.l Thanks to the foresighl of pastot and trustees, the church was insured. We would be glad if several of our best writers would pray and read their Bibles more and give the Star some religious articles. We do not want and wil not pub lish them if they are long. Keep them down to 500 words. Next Prof, hymn Dougla^ Shall L by thous; week we shall publish . Alonzo Sco ;t’s great and music on Frederick entitled “Bis Name veiling ive Forever. ” I was sung ands of people at the un of Douglass’ monument. Consi and bul Carolina the res Teason bloodshe because were w dering the ugly, bitter dozing campaign in North , no one is surprised at ult of the election. The that there was so little d from start to finish was the whites and blacks armed. ell The Democrats three weeks ago refused to let Congressman Geo. H. White make a political speech at Kinston, N. C. Last week they refused to let J. C. Dancy make one at Wilson, N. C. Shame! Shame! And yet somB colored men will vote Democrat ic tickets. The cationa] Day ar Genera' publish reports the sec reports from the five edu districts on Children’s B now in the hands of the Manager who will soon them and the Easter Day in a Star supplement. If retaries have any more re that al issue. ports, please send them at once so can be published in one The following letter, dated November 7th, has just been re ceived from the Senior Bishop: “I heartily endorse Secretary Warner’s appeal and Bishop Clin ton’s suggestion that we make a Thanksgiving offering to the Church Extension Department.— J. W. Hood.” We have received an invitation given by the request of the New England Conference to the silver marriage anniversary of Dr. S. C. Birchmore and wife to take place in our church at New Haven, Conn., November 24th at 7:30 p m. We wish this prominent couple long life and great happiness. About 20 persons who are neith er subscribers nor agents for the Star have sent articles here to be published. They will have to be one or the other if they expect us to publish them. Persons who are too stingy to subscribe for a paper should not write to it. Those min isters who have these people write about them should tell them our decision. Mr. J. C. Cunningham, an edu cated and talented young man of Charlotte, N. C.,> but whose busi ness is in Washington, D. C., is home on a visit, and also in the in terest of the Republican party. He is influential and shrewd and hustled and did telling work for the party of Lincoln, Grant and McKinley while in the State. He left for Washington yesterday. Bishop H. M. Turner, of the A. M. E. Church, says in the Voice of Missions that should he live to see another General Con ference, and he is not superan nuated on full pay, he will re quest to be left without work on the active roll. Neither thing ' will be done if the Bishop expects full pay. If he will agree to hal£ salary it might be done. : The editors of the Zion Trumpet \ and of the VaricJc Christian En ! deavorer pass for sanctified men; yet they have enough of the old Adamic nature in them to contin i ually and sneakingly rock the editor of the Star. We believe in sanctification, but not in the 1 kind these two chaps have. Let : them keep on and we will slip up : on the blind side of them some 5 day. President McKinley, the Christian and statesman, has writ ten a brief, clear, touching and patriotic Thanksgiving Proclama 1 tion, setting apart Thursday, the : 24th day of November, as a day of 5 national thanksgiving, and invites 5 the.American people “to come to 1 gether in their several places of ! worship for a service of praise and thanks to Almighty God for ^ the blessings of the year.” In this issue Bishop A. Walters announces that the National Afro American Council will meet in ! Washington, D. C., December 29th. As Washington is always a ^ charming city to visit, and the railroad rates during the holidays will be cheap, and the race issues to be considered are momentous, there will doubtless be a large and representative gathering of Negro ’ leaders from every section of the . country. a Miss Josie Gaines, of Brewton, Ala., 1 writes that Titus Talley, the son of Bev. 1 H. Tally, is very sick; that Rev. Tally and family have been very sick. FOR AND AGAINST WOMEN. > The following clipped from the Pittsburg Christian Advocate will be of interest to Zion: “ Women were advanced one step in ecclesiastical position by theHlate Gen eral Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada. Women have been for years members of the quarterly conference, by being class leaders. Tae General Con ference has no\y matte ;be presidents of ladies’ aid societies members of that body. Memorials were presented ask ing that women be mac e eligible to the district meetings, and to the annual and General Conferences, tut these were not granted ” FAVORS IT, Birr NOT NOW. --P Thf Christian liwtex of the 5th in8t. publishes a letter from Bish op G. W. Clinton favoring organ ic union with all Negro Method ists, but not now. Believing that God has a work fojr each separate organization to do,; he doesn’t be lieve that God wants us to unite yet. Editor Phillips, of the Index, echoes the same sentiment. We believed this way six years ago when Zion and Bethel were going it blind on organic union, and that is why we killed the movement at that time. Numbers of Zionites who were severely mad with us then for writing ,a» we did are shaking hands and praising us now for the stand we took. ZION CAN HOLP HER OWN. That the A. M. l). Zion Church has always held her own in the joint meetings on organic union, no one can truthfully deny. The lamented Bishop Jones’ superb leadership and brilliant speech in a meeting of this kind in 1#64 won for him the. bishopric in 1868. That we came near swallowing or absorbing some denomination at one of these meetings in Harris burg, Pa., in 1892,'the fair-minded Bishop Turner t,firmed in his speech at Zion’s Centennial, over two years ago; and in his paper for this month he says: “ Doctor Henderson says that Bishop Walters told Dr. Carroll that we defeated the late proposed organic union between Bethel and Zion. If )ie means between the A.. M. E. Church -and the A. M. E. Zion Church, we thaiik God for being thus instrumental. We plead, worked, wrote, ‘wire-pulled’ f,nd did everything in our power to bring about organic union between the two Connections from 1861 up to 1892, and finally a platform was proposed which would have been a union of absorption; of the A. M- E. Church only, for the A. M. E. Z. Church would have simply shallowed like a king snake another snake for larger than it self; and we were opposed to it. And if we defeated it, we bless God for the power he honored us with.” Bishbp Turner will be roundly abused by the handful of sinless chaps in Bethel and Zion for ad mitting that he “ wire-pulled.” LET BOTH SIDES DO RIGHT. Bishop Hood says it is the law and not a ruling by the Board oi Bishops that they shall be paid in full in December before apportion ments are made to the other inter ests. That’s correct. See Disci pline, page 86, paragraph 111, section 3. Of course that law was made with the tjelief that each Bishop would raiste the entire as sessment levied on his district. The dictates of1 conscience and a sense of right and justice we be lieve will prompt Bishop Hood and his colleagues to concede the fact that the General Officers and other interests are justly entitled to tbeir share of the pro rata com ing from every November annual conference that has for any reason been postponed to December. Had the Palmetto, Western North Car olina and the* West Tennessee and Mississippi Conferences not been put off until December; and the North Carolina Conference not been put back until the last day of this month, which makes the general fund fall in December, every general interest would have received its pro rata from them without protest. Since Bishops and General Offi cers are not responsible for the causes which called for their defer ment, the General Officers have agreed among themselves that the Bishops love every interest too well to take advantage of the situation; and that they will order the Gen eral Secretary and General Stew ard to give every interest its pro rata from every November confer ence which lias been adjourned to December. IMPORTANT LEGISLATION. The Seventh General Confer ence of the Union American M. E. Church which, after two weeks’ session in Camden, N. J., ad journed November first, was com posed of 35 elders and 20 lay dele gates. This denomination has 3 bishops, 72 alders, 48 deacons, 120 local preach ars and a membership aggregating 3,500 members. Their territory stretches over the Dominion of Canada, the Mid dle States, and extends to the Southwest as far as Arkansas. They have one paper, The Messen ger, with ar estimated circulation of 400. This session was devoted in the main to the revision of the Discipline. After a hot and stub born fight the presiding elder sys tem was adopted. Candidates for the ministry are required to take a four years’ course of study. They mac.e provision for district conferences which now gives them as many conferences as other Meth odist bodies have. Among the principal cb anges in the Discipline are the laws governing trials, the compositior of the conferences, and the rights of members. Pro vision was made for a court of appeals. No minister is to be removed from his charge in the interim of the annual conference for cause without a trial. Hereto fore the Bishops have had power to remove them whenever they felt so disposed.. The financial plan taxes each member one dollar a year general fund. A Sunday-school union was or ganized; also a Mite Missionary Society. The head of the latter society is called the General Mis sionary. A preacher must now travel ten years before he can be come a member of the General Conference. He must also travel the same number of years and must be £0 years of age before he is eligible for election to the bish opric. Lay representation remains as before—one layman from each charge. Local preachers must at tend Sunday-school or forfeit their license. The salary of the bishops is increased to $1,000 each a year. The transfer system was approved with great enthusiasm. One can see that this was a very busy ses sion of the General Conference and was a representative body of Negro divines. . > , > SHOOTING STARS. Rev. 3. E. Robinson, of Maxton, N. C., says the Wednesday night collection at the Rockingham district conference was $12.10 instead of $1.40 as reported. Rev. P. A. Wallace, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was given a hearty reception by the members of his church and the citi zens at large. He is much pleased with his church. He says the StAK is much sought after in his city. All who intend to visit the Louisiana Conference will write at onde to Rev. 8, M. Morgan at Tallulah, La.: He is hav ing grand success and will entertain the Conference which meets at Killarney, La. Rev. John H. Lore, of Newbern, N. C., writes: My church work; is healthy. We have succeeded in reducing $400 from the debt of $1,300, and added 80 to the church. I congratulate you on the manner in which you have sustained the dignity of our Church as Editor of the Stab. “I must request the congregation to contribute generously this morning,’» said Rev. Mr. Slimpay, sadly. “My sal ary is eight mouths in arrears, and my Creditors are pressing. I, of course, work largely for love, and love equally, of course is tender, but it isn’t legal ten der.”—Harptr'a Bazaar. Presiding Elder Wm. Sutton, D. D., of Henderson, N. C., one of the greatest hustling P. E’s in Zion, writes: We have bought a new church at Nueserion for $130, bought a site in Elm City for $25 cash, bought a site in Ba^ttleboro for $40, have the lumber sawed, and we are now in Sutton’s chapel singing “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” Scotland Neck and Rocky Mount are doing well. Peace reigns on my district* Lookout for a big report. Rev. L. V. Watson met with big suc cess at Newport, Tenn., this year before Conference met. He paid off a two hun dred dollar note, raised more Easter money than any church on the Green ville district, doubled the general fund, raised all the Connectional claims, or ganized a Y. C. E. Society with Mrs. M. J. Watson as president and went to the Conference claiming the prize offered by Bishop Harris. Such working men are bound to come to the front. G. W. Ball, of Johnstown, Pa., writes: Our new pastor, Rev. Smith Claiborn, is an able preacher. He is fine. We all \ like Mm very much. Our work here is steadily going on. Miss Narsissa Cook, the esteemed and devout secretary of Sabbath-school, has left to enter Living stone College. Our Sabbath-school passed the following: Resolved, That while we reluctantly give her up, we can send her to her Alma Mater knowing she will reflect credit on the school and people. As the greater part of us have observed her as a child and young lady, and as her connection with school and church dates from an early age, we find that she possesses ele ments that any and all of us could emu late with safety. She has been a faithful worker in school and church, exemplary in manner and deportment; modest and unassuming, chaste, respectful and cour teous to her elders, obedient to parents, a loving sister, a kind friend and a con genial companion. Reach ed, That she takes with her the prayers of the school that God may keep her, and that her cur riculum will not be freighted with any mishaps, but that a perfect understand ing will spring up between instructors and pupil that will make the finishing of her Bchool life one bright epoch in her existence. THE CITY OF MY DREAMS. Words by Rev. J. W. Smith, D. D., Editor of the Stab of Zion; music by Rev. R. Alonzo Scott, the singing and musical evangelist. It is one of the sweetest hymns on record. Bishop J. W. Hood told Evangelist Scott thfit the churches and homes in New England are carried away with it. . Mrs. Bishop C. C. Pet-* tey writes that It is very popular in the North and West. Rev. J. F. Waters, of Bridgeport, Conn., has ordered 150 copies. Several choirs and individuals have ordered copies. Don’t rest until you order a copy. Ballad, with words ana music, 5 cents apiece, or 50 cents a dozen. Address, Rev. J. W. Smith, Charlotte, N. O., Lock Box 546. To MjVMinisters: The minister that raises the most general fund according to membership, I will* give him a set of heological boeks.—Lancaster, 8. C. 1. C. Clinton,Bishop.. \\ \ :
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