CHARLOTTE, i,’or ;over a hundred year's this Church of ours has come down, tniough: changing scenes oi thJ ages playing its part in the -woUx oi the galaxy of the churches. fts organization and through. tjht sueceeuing years the church wuo .. • arfd has been composed in genera^ of .’Superintendents or Bishops, min isters and laity. Ojegts oi Its Organization. The objects of such important organization aside from its desire, to withdraw from its mother church where it could have a better oppor tunity to worship God; can be sum med up in the following: 1. To perpetuate itsellf as an or ganized ibody; 2. To prepare and send forth such a well-trained God-called min istry that it might do its part in Christianizing and evangelizing the world; . 3. To so educate and train the rank and file of its communicants that they might be fully qualified not only to fill any , position in the secular field, but to occupy, success fully operate and administer any i position given by the General Con ferenge the highest tribunS^ of our Church; _ _ | J| 4. 'to lay, foster and carry on \ , . - v r uaixj c.: financial system that all its opera tors and institutipns might be main tained; t>- The power to so legislate for the ^/harmonious working of the whole. InteclectuaeStandcoint. ■ -> In the early history of the it coula» be l^ttftl)iml sald. 'i V' try" was”tar above that of the large j. constituency of the church in gen eral. The Bishops, with the other parts of the ministry at that time, could promulgate, and of necessity was and should have been the great promulgators of the aws that should gowern the church. The part of the great body had by intel lectual fitness, personal contact and practical training prepared itself to j dictate the policies of ithis great body and see that the mandates of i these laws were carried out. In! this matter the laity was not pre pared to take an pqual part with the ministry. / But since then a mighty change has taken place. 'The first great step of civilizing any race or peo ple is to create a desire, and ways and means prepared to satiate saiu desire. If a race or people knows nothing, it desires nothing. If it sees nothing it willing follows wherever any one leads. Gov. Berkley, the tyrant of Virginia in colonial days, seeing the great pow er in*'educating his people, said, ’ thank God that there are no free schools and printing press; and 1 hope we shall not have any thes. hundred years.” a.s soon . pie begin to read, write and under stand^ they begin to feel their pow er and rightfully so, and they be gin to desire to assist in making laws for governing themselves. Does one think or say that the laity of our church are different from a like number in any other organ ized body? Should they not aspire for those prerogatives that any oth er intelligent people would content, for? Most as3unedly they should Fifty years of training ijf the sabbath schoos has given them a fair knoa. ist>e. j-i presiding, xa.es/. j i>usu*r. 'u^tiuisaatiou: s. aT; bitacdstioian, ;ijf Marshals, (Revs,* u. Bundy; li Derry. Ji-ijer the el« marks and Bishop the ^reached by K Me gave us a which was well iJ. Banders 3nee was electrified Sa-ryou felt like ttuaiki speech. lAt 7 p. m., 'Rev. Wl preached an acceptable sermon bash ing his discourse imainl; s on prayer as a theme. After the welcome exercises First on the prograd b ti lis service took place, was His Honor Mayor D. iM. MoJ Coy judging Irom the' length of his vere led to think that h n deeds than words, he conference tha| h( jsted in us and our v ark to the extent he would leave i iff his busi less acairs which wet s niujmerous ind important to be in He said that notwiths jact that only a ismaill Pampans 'were church he city is domnated nfluence. The humorous (Doctpri Pittman of Bethel Baptist church addressed on >ehalf of the twenty Negro church js and 4000 members ii^ the city or iampa. His address w as practical ind genuine and his w elcome cor lial. An ’excellent ipapar y religious Miss Juanta tagep, ahd Mrs. Stella, Alexander. Ilid program n given the he program in every igh class. .Following this splen fas the grand receptio onference by Mt. Sinai church lemjbers. This sumppuoois feast losed at high twelve or our homes. The ' veather was hilly overcoats and wjraps were a ecessity and oil heaters were in all (blast. FRIDAY. with short tidotes re emporarily. ng Eld errs (Rev. J. R. Business was light, I ocket hooks lin and the results < f the panic lore and more-apparent, 'visiting reaohers came in and -1 * vely speeches and ah vened the situation Reports of Preisi mature" of afternooji, hepard read his report j for the Jack inville 'District. This report show i that (both PresidinJ; Eider and i^3tai}S /bad " woi1kedfla|th£ully anid accessfully during t-fie year. A umber of missions had been organ :ed an'd one church bujllt. Rev. R. W. Ballard -(tread the re orts of 'the pastors of the Tampa •istrict. From these Reports Rev. . L. Higgs stands at' the head o' ie class. respect' was SATTTRDAYj The W. H. and F. IVf. vvomen ha*-’ ood programe -which i was enjoyed v all. - i SUNDAY. Preachers: Bishop Geo. W. Clik ■on, D. D., 11 a. m., Rev. J. k. ouiepaird, 3 p. m., Rev. 1. Sims at . :30 p. m. Appointments Jacksonville District: Rev. R. W. Ballard, P. E. c ■Walters Chapel—Rev. W. W. Blair High Spring Circuit—Rev. J. E. L*undy. L Evanston 'Circuit—Rev. F. (Sims. ! Orangebend Circuit-—'Rev. J. M Jenkins. Center , Hill Circudt-^-Rev. R. M Williams. Bartow Circuit—Rev. J. M. (Phillips. Lee£burg^-Rev. W. J. Adams. Haines City Rev.—O. E. Griffin. Gainesville—IRev. J. R. Montgomery Seville idtrouit—Rev. S. M. Davis. Putnam -Hall 'Circuit—Eli Martin. East Port—-fliev. W. W. Spann. .Romeo Circuit—‘Rev. J. W. Whig ham. - Key West District, Rev. W. J. Sanders, P. E. Oonish Chapel-—(Rev. J. R. Sheuard Mt. Sinai—-Rev. Cihas. A. Ransom. Plant City and Seffner—Rev. A. L. Higgs. lAlafia—Rev. G. W. Cook. 0Jbor City circuit—'Rev. L. L. Whit fg field.' " j:St. Petersburg—Rev. Jas. A. Dud K le* Palmetto and Bradento—Rev. F. R. If McIntyre. piomelahd. Circuit—Rev. W. O. Perry. W:. .-Kissimmee—Rev. J. E. Westberry. ‘Miami and Coca nut Grove—‘S. A. f; Chambers. Fort Lauderdale and West Pallm Beach—Rev. iW. G. Clark. Nassau-—.Rev. W. A. Bain. Dir. 'Clement:— Happy Mew Year to you, the force of the Stab of Zion and to all the readers of this article, 1 am still at the old stand 3600 Federal Street doing (business for the church I love so well. We have been in this city over three years, organized a Zion church and have (kept it in first class running order ever since. Dr. iH. J. Callis is the hero of Waiters A. IM. E. Zion church.* -His recent rally shows that he is the right man for the place. He raised $il2.5.!0l0, Hurrah for (Dr. Callis! yes he* won the fight, a bitter indeed! Dt. Callis is in the race for the Bishopric well he is a good man and should he considered by the Church. I must congratulate you for the splendid work that you are doing, you are doing your work ‘well and why not the Church gratify your greatest ambition (by electing you Bishop in 1916. The man who was born in Zion, sucked Zion’s milk, rocked in the Zion jDradle raised up in Zion worked in Zion all of your life, suffered in Zion as well as having a good time in Zion and is still ^working and looking after the church, you are the man who ought to he honored to the Bish opric and I trust that you will be one of our next Bishops and the Hon. John C. Dancy he placed at the head of the Publication House. Our Bishop the Rt. Rev. G. L. Blackwell visited our city and preached a great sermon the sec ond Sunday in Dec.. (His visit whs very satisfactory to the members and 'pastor of ‘Walters A. M. E. Zioh . church Mjss Stubbs one of the nurses of the Providence Hospital treated Transue Gospel Temple, Sunday school with a nice Xmas tree which was enjoyed by the little folks. Mr. Wm> Birdine is the Chicago correspondent to tne Western Star of Zion. He writes some good news. i Chicago, 111. * New Hymnals, 60 cents each by mail perpaid. This is the regular Dollar Hymnal with music. Send for one. Six Dollars per dozen express not prepaid. Send for a dozen SOME REFLECTIONS By Rev. J. H. McjMullen. Bet us "forget the things that are behind and reach forth for those which are betore us," is the ad vice of the great apostle to the Gen tiles- The year la 14 is a thing of history, but it holds many sad inci dents, forget it. In this connection let us forget the unpleasant state meiits the intended assaults, and un intentional injuries hurled at us during the past year, and remem ber, all of us are thinking beings, and that wisdom does not die with any man or (with any* set of imen. Dr. J. H. Anderson is one of the fairest writers among the staff of correspondents to" the Stab of Zion and one who is not afraid to give credit to one deserving it, no mat ter whom it offends t He is the only writer to our connectional organ who 'believes and says that the Rush Church in New York Git$ should ha-ve 'been built to save Zion there and who does not curse the man who made it a possibility, even though the General 'Church was in volved heavily for its maintainence. Being human, ,Dr. Anderson has us under lasting obligations to him for kind and truthful compliments, whqn the sting of ibitter criticisms have ipelted us for the thing which our ordination to the Zion min istry demanded of us and which our chief pastors send us forth to do. Thank you 'Dr. 'Anderson. If your election to the Stab editorship was dependent upon us you are elected now. Fairness is a most commendable trait in an editor and you possess that quality in a high degree. If iwe have entertained ill feel ings toward any. one |we have left it behind us in the old year, and, the only thing we are unwilling matters which concern us'as greatly as they concern any others with respect to our Church. A sad day that will be when to think dif ferently from even, the Bishops, one must be put to death, or exiled as they do policemen in New York City (when they dare carry out the law, or do their full duty as their oath of office requires. And so with malice toward none we must think and act as we see it, and not in the groove of another’s mind cir cle; I wonder if any other Zion preach er has dared run to shelter of the old “ship of church’* in a crisis in order to save the local situation, and if so, we shall “wdtch and wait” to see if he is crushed ibetween the ujpper and nether mill stones of (bitter criticism. Our recent fair realized the sum of One thousand sixteen dol lars ($1016.66) and sixty-six cents, and we are now engaged in a re vival for the salvation of men and women (with fair prospects for a successful campaign. Between the Democratic admin istration and the European (war there is no telling what 1015 will bring forth, but one thing is most certain that after two years more the Democratic (party will end its control of the government, and the youngest voter now will Ibe an old man before it gets control again. Away with the "new freedom” and Democratic “forward looking” as-^ advocated President Wilson. To one and all we (wish you a happy New Year. We shall do our whole duty by the General Church but /we shall not forget that with out the local church there can be no General Church. Rochester, N. Y. New Disciplines, Name in Gold Engraved on Cover. One of our men in Our Own Job Department will put your name on 1912 Discipline in Gold Leaf, Send us One Dollar and we will t send you a Discipline with your name on the cover for^ Fifty Cents more. Fifty Cents for the Discipline and Fifty Cents for Engraving name.