THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH.
Volume XXV Charlotte, N. C., Thursday, September 5, 1901. - Number 36
CROSSING THE OCEAN.
Pleasant Journey-Little Sea Sick=
ness-Concert.
BY BISHOP G. W. CLINTON, D, D.
Mia ucean, au?. zu, iuui.
Rev. J. W. Smith, D. D. Dear
Dr. Smith: We are on our sev
enth days’ journey aboard the
great steamer Majestic. Our par
ty consists of Zion six bishop, Mrs.
Walters, Mrs. Alstork, Mrs- Clin
ton, Mis. Randolph, Drs. Cald
well, Blackwell, Colbert, Jacobs,
Moreland, J. McFarley, Bradley,
Prof. Atkins, Dr. M. C. B. Mason
of the M. E. Church and his wife
and Mr. H. T. Williams of Afri
ca. We have had a little sea sick
ness in our crowd, but all are in
good trim to-day. Our fare is
first class and of the highest or
der. I want you and Dr. Hill to
make selection of Zion’s literature,
including the Star of Zion, our
Hymn book, new Discipline, Sun
day school literature, Quarterly
Review and everything that you
can get that will make a show and
send it to London by mail.
Our party has already made a
grand impression on board.
Speeches have been made by Dr.
Blackwell, Dr. M. C. B. Mason,
Prof. Atkins and Walters- The
singing has attracted the attention
of all on board. Mrs. Clinton has
been invited to sing in a concert
to be given in the large dining
room this evening in which most
of the participants will be white.
I shall write you when we arrive
at Liverpool.
Of the men who represented Zi
on before only two, Dr. Farley
and Bishop Hood, survive. Dr.
Farley is with us and has a copy
of the proceeeings, also the dairy
-which he kept. We are making
the journey in an eight day float
ing palace this time. It took them
twelve days before.
* * * *
Mid Ocean, Aug. 21, J901.
Rev. J. W. Smith, D. D. Dear
Bro.: This will let you know that
we spied land early this morning,
and at 10 o’clock we arrived near
Queensland where our vessel
“slowed up” that a small steamer
might 3ome from Queenstown to
take off passengers who were des
tined for that point in Ireland.
The mail was taken off there and
sent to Queenstown, Ireland, that
the mail for London might go on
via railroad, and mail for America
might return on the mail steamer
which awaits Am erican mail.
Our vessel has made the following
time. 1st day from Aug. li to
loon Aug. 15:
Date Miles Latitude Longitude.
A\g. 15
‘ 10
“ 17
“ 18
“ 19
“ 20
“ 21
1374
427
E 425
439
441
434
40-19
40- 43
41- 00
44-50
48 02
50-23
65-42
56- 21
47-00
38-33
28-54
18-25
399 to Daunts Rock at 10 o’clock a.m
Distance travelled 2,037. Passage
6 day&15 hours.
Remirks. Light breeze, calm
smootl sea; light to moderate
breeze 3 o u t h 1 y sea; moderate
breeze, moderate Southly sea;
moderate breeze S. W. Southly
sea. Fresh to strong wind rough
sea. Strobe to light breeze South
sea. v
Our parly are all well. The
concert last night was very good.
My wife sanr two solos. Drs.
Jacobs, and Colbert, with Mrs.
Randolph anaMrs. M. C. B. Ma
son sang a chorite with Mrs. Clin
ton; all the otheAperformers were
white. . The receipts taken in were
over $115. Our party has held its
own in every respect. Speeches
by Drs. Blackwell and Mason of
the M. E. Church. Prof. Atkins
and Bishop Waiters, with the
singing by our party, have at
tracted much attention. We are
to reach Liverpool to-night. We
shall remain on ship and take
breakfast and then go ashore and
leave on the first train for Glas
cow, Scotland,
Church Items.
HERE AJSD THERE.
The family of Rev.J.W.Wright
has arrived at Portland, Oregon
and been royally received.
Rev. Tilgham Brown, of San
Francisco, Cal., delivered a fine
lecture last week on “A plan for
the Protection of the Negro.”
Our church at Los Angeles,
California, has received the ad
ditional improvement of electric
lights. Rev. Hawkins is pastor.
The Zion church at Oakland,
California, gave their pastor and
family a large donation of good
things last week.
Rev, S. L. Stinson is very sick a
his post at RogersviUe,Tenn. He is a
successful pastor, and a pulpit ora
tor. Our Annual Conference convenes
there, October 16. Pray for his recov
ery.—W. W, Slade, Greeneville, Tenn.
Rev, E. D. W. Jones, A. M.,
the brilliant pastor of Avery
Mission, Allegheny Pa., is still
popular with his mem bers and
the community and is having
glorious success.
Rev. J. D. Corrothers, the poet
preacher, of Hackensack, N. J.,
has raised over $400 in three
months, completed a new gallery
in his church and put a new roof
on the parsonage.
Rev. R. S. Rives, D. D,., for
merly pastor of Opelika Station,
is now stationed at Washington,
D. C., and Rev. J. H. Manley, D.
D., of Pensacola, Fla., has been
secured to carry out the unexpired
year.—Alabama Headlight.
My article on the district con
ference was published all right
with one exception. It should
have said theF. and A. A_ York
Masons (national compact) laid
the corner stone.—Wm. Rowan.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Rev. J. C. Temple, one of the
most popular divines of Pittsburg
and who is pastor of the John
Wesley A. M. E. Zion church,
who was the founder of Atkinson
college at Madisonville, Ky., has
had the degree of doctor of divin
ty conferred upon him by that in
stitution.—Pittsburg Indepden
dent.
Within a month the A. M. EL
Zion church of Amsterdam, N.Y.,
has raised $50 among its congre
gation to repair and paint the
church and parsonage. The work
is finished, everything has been
paid for, and the property is
greatly improved. The pastor,
Rev. T. A. Auten, had a success
ful pastorate last year both spirit
ually and financially.—New York
Age.
I find several typographical er
rors, in my reply to Rev. E. Geo.
Biddle of August 25th. I said,
“Who has ever.” The printer
makes it “even.” I said “Who
have lost their heads.” Printer
sets it “hearts.” I said “makes.”
Printer set it “makers.” Where
I said touch, the printer puts it
“fiave.” That printer Ought to
be careful and corect his proof.—
Rev. D. C. Covington, Wilkes
boro, N. C.
THE EXPOSITION. j
— ,
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEGRO j
BUILDING IS FAR ADVANCED.
NEWS NOTES FROM CHARLESTON, i
_ t
Interest in the coming Exposi- j
tion is on the increase, and the J
grounds are attracting hundreds'
of visitors. Every stranger who
comes to Charleston wants to see
the Exposition grounds, and as the |
ity the seating capacity of this im
mense building will doubtless be
taxed to its utmost.
Labor day will be very generally
observed here. The various trades
have been actively engaged in or
ganizing, during the past year,
and should all the Unions parade,
fully one half of the adult male
population in Charleston will be in
line. Last year for the first time
in the history of our city, colored
Negro Building, S. C. I. and West Indies Exposition.
street railway company gives spec
ial rates on Saturday, numbers of
residents here visit the grounds
for a Saturday afternoon outing.
A special committee from the Pan
American Exposition visited our
city during the past week, and
after inspecting the grounds and
looking over the plans of the Ex
position, gave it their hearty en
dorsement and recommended ex
hibitors at the Pan-American to
arrange for space at Charleston.
The progress which is being
made in the erection of the build
ings, has astonished those who
have no idea how rapidly such
things can be done. One month
ago there were many who declared
that it was impossible to have the
buildings completed by December
1st, the date for the opening, and
prophesied that we would have the
Paris Exposition fiasco repeated at
Charleston on a much smaller
scale. These doubting Thomases
are now able to see that they are
convinced.
The Cotton Palace, which will be
the largest building on the ground
is well under way, and its impos
ing dome can be seen from across
either the Ashley or the Cooper
River, miles away. The other
buildings are in various stages of
completion, all giving promise of
being finished in ample time.
The work of constructing the
Negro Building is far advanced,
frame is up and the roof is being
put on. One can get but an imper
fect idea of this building from an
illustration; it is only when the
building itself is seen that we get
home idea of its proportions. Al
ready applications for space are on
file and those who intend to exhib
it in the Negro Building should
not delay making application.
“Come early and avoid tne rush.”
Mr. Booker T. Washington will
be in Charleston on September
12th, to lecture in the interest of
the Negro Department of the Ex
position. The lecture will be de
livered at the Thompson Audito
rum, a building which will seat
about 7,200 persons. Owing to
Mr. Washington’s great popular
and white men marched in the same
procession, and the colored sur
passed the whites both in numbers
and appearance. The recent strike
in various sections of the country,
and the strike of the local machin
ists and boiler-makers, and the lo
cal bakers, have drawn attention
to the labor organizations. They
have promised a fine parade and
Labor Day is looked for with in
terest.
Notice.
The Kentucky Conference, Mad
isonyille, Ky., will meet October
9th, 1901; North Arkansas Con
ference, Brinkley, Ark., Nov, 13,
1901; West Tennessee and Missis
sippi, Greenwood, Miss., Nov. 20,
1901. The California Conference,
Oakland, Cal., date to be an
nounced when I return home,
providence permitting. Say to the
brethren Zion will have almost a
full delegation at the Ecumenical
Conference. We are all well. Let
presiding elders, pastors do their
best to make this a memorable
year in the history of our Zion.
Let us have an increased number
of converts and accession, a full
financial report, churches repaired
and new ones built.
G. W. Clinton
A Good Investment.
One thousand mile tickets of the Sea
board Air Line Railway, which are sold
at $25.00, are good over the entire Sys
tem, and are also honored between
Richmond and Washington by the
Richmond, Fredericksburg a Potomac
and Pennslvania Railroads, between
Portsmouth and Baltimore by the Bal
timore Steam Packet Company (Bay
Line) and between Clinton and Colum
bia, S. C., by the Columbia, Newbeiy a
Laurens Railroad. This ticket is prov
ing to be a great convenience to the
public, and its favorable conditions
commend it to all. Ticket is good for
one year.
A Splendid Book.
The Quarterly Conference Record by
Rev. J. Sulla Cooper, A. M., D. D., is a
book which every church should pos
sess. Let every minister send to the
Publication House for a copy. Price
$1.00,
J. W. HOOD,
Senior Bishop,
Waterbury, Conn.
/ Ttr
The A. M. E, Zion Sunday
school and the Baptist and A. M. '
E. Sabbath schools of Sewlckly, <
Pa., helathsir picnics at Wane’s j
Grove, August 22. J
NEWS EPITOMISED.
By the Editor for the Delectation of
the Readers.
SWEEPING THE HORIZON,
The fire losses of the United
States last year were $161,000,000
Missionary receipts of the M.E.
Church for 1901, up to June 1,
were $696,050, against $637,737
for the same date for 1900.
The American colleges received
during the month of June in gifts
and in subscriptions $12,847,582.
Of this amount Syracuse Univer
sity received $533,000. j .
Dr.Immanuel Pfeifer whe broke
his 30 days’ fast at his country
home in Bedford near Boston July
31 by eating a hearty breakfast
says his next fast will be 60 days.
fTBishop Hartzell has arranged
for a new college ; at Ontolio, in
British South Central Africa, for
which the government has given
$15,000 and 13,000 acres of land.
Professor R. E. Houston, who
recently died, was the author of
130 songs. Among these were
“At the Cross,” “Pearly Gates,”
“Wondrous Love,” “His Yoke is
Easy.
f The United Pre s byteri a n s
which met in Des Moines, Iowa,
this year are not in love with Odd
Fellows and Masons. A motion to
allow a Mason to join the United
Presbyterian Church was voted
down.
The Rev. John Spurgeon, the
father of the famous Charles Spur
geon, now dead, recently cele
brated his ninety-first birthday by
laying the foundation-stone of the
South Norwood Baptist Church,in
England.
A statistician has figured out
that the people of the United
States pay $225,000,000 annually
for gettingborn; $300,000,0u0 for
getting married, $35,000,000 for
getting buried, and $1,415,000,000
for getting drunk.
The Odd Fellows’ Journal at
Philadeldhia, Pa., two wTeeks ac
cording to law, suspended branch
lodges in nearly every State in the
Union for being indebted to it for
two years or more and will not
pay their subscriptions.
London, July 24—A Parliament
ary paper issued to-day gives the
number of persons in the concen
tration camps, in Sout K Africa, in
June as follows: white, 85,410;cot
ored, 23,589. There were 777
deaths among the whites in the
camps, the list including 576 chil
dren. The deaths among the col
ored persons numbered 5.
auc .L/eague -oureau, ixaiionai
Afro American Council, has is
sued from its TPashington office,
2011 Vermont No. 1, giving in de
toil the case to test the validity of
the Louisiana Constitution of 1898
made in violation of the 14th and
15th Amendments of the Consti
tution of the United States. The
3ase is docked as No. 65,432, Civil
District, Parish of Orleans, Divis
ion of Orleans—State ex rel. Da
rid J. Ryanes versus Jerry M.
jrleason, Register, The attorneys
n the case representing David J.
Ryanes are Hon. A. E. Pillisbury,
Boston, Mas.; Hon. A. A. Birnly,
Washington, D. C.; Major Armand
domain, New Orleans, La.; Hon. *
jreorge H. White, Tarboro, N. .C;
Frederick L. McGhee, Esq. St.
?aul, Minn.