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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH. Vol XXVI Charlotte, N. C., Thursday, flarch 19, 1903. No 13 FACTS VERSUS FICTION The Manner of Man a Bishop Mnst Be. by bishop j. w. hood, d. d., ll. d. LETTER NO. 10. “A lover of good men." it lias been said that a man may be known by the company he keeps. He certainly may be known by the company he loves. Circum stances may connect him, at times, with company, not entirely agreea ble. But the company that he especially selects, is the company he loves, and it is not unfair to measure him by that standard. The Bishop must be a man who appreciates goodness; a man who appreciates genuine excellence. This was a thing I noticed and especially admired in the character of Bishop D. A. Payne, the great est and best man his Church ever produced. He loved good men. The Bishop should love men, not because they agree to all of his suggestions, or assent, to all his opinions; not because they appeal to his vanity by lavishing praise; not because they play the syco phant with pretence of great ad miration; not because they can manage to make him expensive presents, when they cannot raise the benevolent claims named in their certificate of appointment; but because they are good, and true, and faithful in their duty to the church in every respect. •‘Holy.” We are told that without holiness of heart no man shall see the Lord. Surely, the man whose business is to be near enough to the Lord to learn how to carry on His work successfully ought to be holy. By this, I think, is meant a man who has complete victory over sin; and has the Spirit of God abiding in him. “Just.” This means, doing what is right by every man, so far as he knows what is right. And he must make every possible ef fort to know what is right. If, for the sake of ease, or on the ac count of indifference, he fails to get the necessary information, and some one suffers wrong,, then he is not blameless. —■-1111 mmmU many, •“'He must have a good report of them which are without.” This is the cap stone. The man who fills the highest place in the church should have a good name. The chorch is not in the world merely for show; nor yet that its members may boast of its wealth, or numerical strength; or of the splendor of its churches and other institutions; but to save the woild. It is to be the salt of the earth. Her light is to shine and reflect the glory of Him who led a per fect life, and then died a shameful death that he might redeem us from all iniquity, that we may be a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Since the church is in the world for the world’s sake, its chief of ficer should make a most favorable impression on the world. The Bishop is the most conspicu ous figure in the church,"and should show to the best advantage for the church. People who have goods to sell select the best and most at tractive and put them in the most conspicuous places. Jesus com mends to his disciples this worldly wisdom. If we want to win the world to Christ, we must put on exhibition that which is best The Apostle gives as a reason why the Bishop should be of good report with them which are with out, which seems to be for his own sake, ‘‘lest he fall into reproach, and the snare of the devil.” This seems to signify that if a man who has had a disgraceful charac ter should be made a Bishop, and his former bad character should be thrown at him, Satan might en snare him, by tempting him to sin again; since he had not much reputation to lose. It seems to have been the Apos tle’s opinion that he only is suited to the bishopric, who has always had a good moral character. Though he acknowledged himself the chief of sinners, yet declares that as touching the law, he was blameless. He was a Pharisee of the straitest sect, and was required to keep every jot and tittle of the law. Special mention is made of the early piety of Timothy. Every minister should be careful of his reputation, especially a Bishop. Fayetteville, N. C. Let Us Get It Straight. BY BISHOP J. W. <HOOD, D. D. ,LL. D, Mr. Editor: By your editorial on the Church extension money from the Fayetteville district the im pression is made that there is something which needs an expla nation. Let us see. Dr. Coffey visited Fayetteville froip which he reported $80, and from Red Springs $5, making $35. Beside this, the Presiding Elder’s Secretary turned over to Dr. Cof fey $18.95, the receipts from the other ten points on the district, making in all $53.95, which is the exact amount that Dr. Coffey re ported to the Star, So Dr. Coffey is all right, and the figures sent from the Fayetteville district are all right. The only error is a typo graphical one, for which the Star office is responsible. A figure (3) was put where a figure (5) ought to have been.® And now while writing, may 1 beg a little closer attention to the proof reading of my articles? I have noticed errors in each of them, but have neither the time nor disposition to be correcting every week. In the last article I wrote “It means the possession, etc,” it comes out, It “seems.” Is there a good excuse for such er rors, in setting up type written copy? ]<&yettevil\e, N. C. Corrections. BY W. H. COFFEY, D. D. Dear Bro.:—Please make the two following corrections to my article published in this week’s Star: It should read “Rev. J. H. Mattocks, of the Fayetteville Dis trict of the Central North Caro lina Conference raised $53.95; and in the report from Conferences it should read “Allegheny and Ohio” $80.25, Philade\phia, Pa. Bishop Harris’ Appointments. March. 22 Seville. 24 Kissimmee. 26 Homeland. 27 iiartow, Fla. 29 Lakeland, Fla. 31 Leesbury, Fla. April. 2 Evinston, Fla. 5 Cedar Keys, Fla. 7—14 High Spring, S. Fla. Annual Conference THE PIONEER FALLEN. Rev. Andrew Cartwright, First Zion Mis sionary to Africa. BY MISS CARRIE E. CARTWRIGHT. Elder Andrew Cartwright fell quietly into the arms of death between twelve and one o’clock p. m , Wednesday Jan uary 14, 1903, at his residence in Africa. He was born March 15, 1834, at Eliza beth City, N. C,, and was raised in the same State. He was not an educated man, but had a little learning. On Tuesday morning the 13th instant, after helping his wife to do some work in the house, boring a hole in a half barrel of flour, rolling it in its place, he sits down awhile talking in his usual way, then said, “I believe I’ll go to the farm,” which is about half a mile from town. A little after seven o’clock he returns and sits down and converses with his wife as usual of things about the farm and those while passing the road. He eats a slice of pine apple. After awhile his wife starts about her business and returning and seeing his Countenance so changed and such brightness from what he was awhile ago, she asked', ‘‘Elder, have you a Rev. Andrew Cartwright. pain?” “No, I have no pain. Well, now, I feel a little carious somehow. I think I’ll lie down which he did, and then he said, “Now Carrie, you hate to hear it, I love you, but I must leave you. I expect to get to heaven when I die. Don’t be uneasy about me.” His wife called in some neighbors. He spoke a few more words and cloeed his eyes, and slept occasionally, aroused and passed away quietly at the time stated. He took his bed on Tuesday about 11 o’clock a. m. He leaves a wife, one daughter and nine grandchildren in Africa, a son and two grandchildren somewhere in the U. S. A. But what has this man done in Zion and for the upbuilding of his race? He was converted in 1849; joined the M. E. Church, south, began to exhort in 1856 on Roanoke Island under Elder Rounds, M. E. Church, and under Elder John Williams the same year, he being th,e first A. M. E. Zion minister he had then seen, joined the A. M. E. Zion Church then brought over 300 members with him; was then licensed local proacher and put in charge of the church. At the Annual Conference, Beaufort, N. C., he was ordained deacon and sent back to Roanoke Island. He went to Elizabeth City and to Edenton, then down to the Currytuck and organized a circuit 40 miles long and built six churches—Newland, Mackbridge, More York, Good Hope, Pilgrims Progress, and Parkville- He found 93 members l on this circuit. “I have waded the I swamps in winter, walked from point < to point winter and summer, snow or ' hail, hot or cold, rain or shine, and left 1 1065 foi Zion,” said Rev. Cartwright, f Then Bishop J. W. Hood gave him the r name “Zion’s War Horse ” He was i sent to Plymouth, N. C., circuit in 1872, 1 the church at Plymouth he built with l his own hands, four other churches on ^ this circuit—Macedonia, Hebron, Beth- g lehem and Jamesville—in three years. 0 He bad the oversight of Greenville, , Washington Co., lower part of Beau- ‘ fort, Rodman, Bath, and Leechville f ind left over one hundred members at e iach place, and was in Plymouth when u Bishop Miles held his Conference in 7; Edfenton, but in Edenton before he ^ slosed it. t At the Annual Conference held in Elizabeth City, N C., November 1875, [ he was given a missionary appointment to Africa. Thus this is seme of the la bors of the well known Andrew Cirt wright before leaving America. He left Plymouth, N. C., for New York and embarked for Monrovia Jan uary 14, 1876 , and landed at Monrovia February 22, 1876, with a wife, two daughters, a mother and seven or eight other persons. A new country, anoth er nation, different climate, different spirits and various tribes and customs he had to learn and contend with, a family to care for, and such little means to fall back on. He thought and saw the nece-sity to hold so awhile, therefore, at about the time the M. E. Annual Conference was in session and the good Bishop Havens, presiding, asked him to join in with them, he informed the Bishop that he had a missionary ap pointment from the A. M. E. Zion Church and would not organize just yet, so he handed the Bishop his cre dential. He read it, laid it upon the table. Cartwright took it and put it back into hi3 pocket, and then said if the brethren would treat him like a brother, he would work awhile with them. The Bishop said all right, and gave him an appointment on the St. Paul River, but no credentials. During that year a great fame went out of OarW wright and his work on the St. Pau river, and at the next Annual Confer ence his report showed some near 300 souls had been converted, backsliders reclaimed and added to the various churches. In February 18<8, he organized the A. M. E. Zion church in Brewerville and incorporated it in session of legisla tion in 1878-’79. At Clay, Ashland and Arthington he organized these places but in private houses. At Cape Palmas he organized twice by letter, and at Johnsonville he helped to build the house which was dedicated by Elder Sam Barber and named Kelleys Chapel. Then the brethren seeing the necessi ty of more ecclesiastical powers, wrote to the Board of Bishops of our Zion to authorize or make Elder Cartwright bishop. The appointment came from the Board of Bishops in 1883, and was ratified in the General Conference of 1884, and he was styled General Super intendent. He has held two Annual Conferences in this country, and held and filled most all the important offices in the church from a class-leader to the bishopric. He has served the presiding elder’s post twice, from which post he falls into the arms of Jesus. He visited the General Conferences in America in 1892-’96, also the Centennial in 1896 He made four visits to America in the interest of the church, in 1882, 1886, 1891, 1896, and crossed the Atlantic fourteen times. Is that all? No. In this country, Brewerville, he stopped the unlawful ‘binding out of children ” His good counsels are being whirled from lip to lip tc*day, more especially from the women, “A good man is gore.” He organized the A. M. E. Zion mission school October 3, 1887., which ran ten years. He was appointed Chaplain of the Liberian Senate 1900. As to Lodges, be belonged to the Masonic, Odd Fellows, Love and Char ity in North Carolina before he left, and here he belonged to the I. O. of G. Templars and Christian Endeavor. Thus a good man is gone. Who will follow? Who is willing to take the yoke upon them and bear the heat and bur den of the work in this field? Church of the living God, do send us a pastor who can lead, and that right early, for the old pioneer is asleep in Jesus. JBrewer'viWe, Africa. A Minister Dead. BY REV. H. F. MARTIN. Rev. B. J. L. McCollougb, a j nember of the South Carolina , Conference died March 9, 1903, at ' ) p. m., in triumph of faith. He , vas a good and faithful Christian j ind lover of the cause of Christ, , Che funeral service was attended >y the writer, Revs. G. W. Mur- g )hy and E. S. Anderson. Rev. G. j V. Murphy and Rev. E. S. Ander on were at their best in the offi iating service. The funeral was irgely attended by relations and riends. He leaves a wife and sev n children to mourn his loss but I eaven’s gain. We pray God’s 1; lessing upon the family. Peace i 3 his ashes. Richburg, S- C. 3 CANNON BALLS. Purity of Horae. REV. S. A. CHAMBERS. kT believe in the purity of tho home lies the greatest secret of race progress, and for this I am living.” —Mrs. Lenra E, Stan back. In conversation with Mrs. Stan back on the future of th^ Negro race quite two years and a half ago she made use of the above quota tion which should be the sentiment of every woman who is or who ex pects to raise a family. Although she has been dead nearly seven months, these words shall never die. She was a woman of the highest type, a true wife, a loving mother, a peaceable neighbor and a consistent Christian. She was just the personification of all that is good and pure in woman. We heartily agree with Mrs. Stanback that in the “purity of the home,” or the impurity of the home, lies the destiny of races, nations and governments. All else is subser vient. All else awaits the action of the home. Nothing goes before it. Impure homes give us impure society; impure society creates im pure sentiment; impure sentiment is the parent of bad government; and bad government tolerates bad order; and this is the rock on which things social, political, and indus trial are wrecked. Applications for the place made vacant by the untimely demise of Mrs. San back may be pouring in, but she will not easily duplicated. The fittest does not always sur vive, Bowling Green, S* & Wright Chapel. BY MRS, JENNIE E. GREENE. I wish to say a few words in brief of our church and in favor of Key. M. F. A. Easton who is doing all he can to raise up Zion and put her on her on feet again. After the deplorable condition that Rev. I. S. Simpson left the church in, it is quite an uphill job but he is getting along nicely, and is well liked by all denominations both white and colored, and es pecially by his own members. Sunday evening February’ 2nd the choir gave a sacred concert assisted by the church orchestra and it was grand. The house was packed. Collection for the even ing $13.60. On Thursday evening the 5 same musicians gave a con cert in the church for the benefit of the pastor composed of the fol lowing persons: Mrs. Daniel Mill— bi , pianist, Miss Della Walters soprano; Airs. Willie Dellard, alto’; Mr. G. Wicks, tenor; Mr. B. brown, basso; Mrs. Jennie Flauni =an, elocutionist; Banking John son, first violin; Frank Bolden, second violin ;Edward Dexter,flute tlenry Bolder, trombone. After he concert, refreshments were served, and a flashlight picture vas taken of this famous group of nusicians. A neat sun was real zed. I pray the Lord that Zion D.^ sret on higher grounds, nth the help of God and the as istanee of our noble pastor, Rev. F. A. Easton. Washington, Ta. Married. Rev. I. M. Jackson and Miss lary Trent were united in the ho t of matrimony by Rev. R 1. Moorman March 2, 1903, at p. m. at Wagoner, I. T.
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