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THEOfTICIAL ORGAN Of THE AfRI METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH NUMBER THIRTY-SIX. CJH-AJtLOTTIf NORTH CAROLINA* THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1921. VOLUME FORTY-FIV¥ Political Honors Forced Upon One of Zion’s Foremost General Officers, EDITORS, PULPITEERS ANE PASTORS, THE REV. C. C. AL LEYNE, A. M., D. D., EDITOR OF THE A. M- E. ZION QUAR TERLY REVIEW AND PASTOR OF OUR ZION CHURCH AT NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, By Dr. J. F. Lee, Dr. Alleyne is a very modest, unas suming, hard working A. M. E. Zion preacher. In a very qdiet manner he has been unconsciously winning the hearts of his fellow citizens, both white and colored. About the middle of August he awoke to find himself pressed into service by his towns men to be the standard bearer, indeed the political standard bearer in a great municipal contest in his home city, for even against his own vigorous pro test he is being run for city council man by the Republican party of his city. Says the Daily Star of New Ro chelle, “But if appearances count for anything the colored people who have asked and received recognition in this section by the designation of the Rev. C. C. Alleyne from the regular ward Republican committee, are united and will wage a vigorous campaign for him as their choice for the city Coun cil.” The call from his fellow citizens has forced Dr. Alleyne into the political limelight at a very opportune time, a time when strong and honorable men are needed. And.the .citijiiftns have apt, honored Dr. Alleyne alone, but have honored themselves, the race and the church, for Dr. Alleyne is the embod iment of those qualities which char acterize great men; and he is just the kind of man that should come into the forefront at such a time as this. Right leadership will never down; just such leadership as the men of his community have seen in the Rev. C. C. Alleyne, the men of Zion have long since seen in him; and as they are planning to use that leadership now, his church is purpos ed to use such productive leadership four years hence, and use it in a more exalted way. I do not want New Ro chelle to claim to have discovered such leadership, for Zion has long since discovered it. That the Rev. C. C. Alleyne is worthy of such leadership will be evinced by the service he will render and the balance and poise he will maintain throughout the days, the months or the years of his tenure of office, should he be elected, which we hope he will. Three cheers for Dr. Alleyne, for his community and for our Zion, the church of his choice! PROGRESS IS NEEDED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, By B. F. Grant. The pen is one of the potent factors to spread and advance the religious knowledge among the people. And do believe that the pen and the press are the world educators either in Church or State. And the A. M. E. Zion Church has been one of the great Negro Keys that help to unlock the door of Negro education and the building up of the Christian religion on earth. Yes, the A. M. E. Zion Church was among the first of the Methodist bodies to strike a blow, and a heavy blow too, when she said in her dis cipline against the damnable curse Negro slavery, that no one who owned slaves could be a member of the A. M. E. Zion Church. And under the leadership of that determined and foresighted Gospel prelate, Bishop James Walker Hood, lead on the solid phalanx against that demon of all demons of hell the intox icating cup who did help to drive it to its nature den that is out of exis tence. Yes, it was the A. M. E. Zion Church that dealt them both power ful and crushing blows, from which they will never recover. But the mission of the A. M. E. Zion Church is not ended yet. Yes, they have a great and mighty work before them, and the pen and the press the world’s great Educators must be brought into play for they are the swift wing messengers, carry ing intelligence throughout the land dragging down the power of darkness, and the works of the devil. Therefore, in these crises, the A. M. E. Zion Church should put on all her armor, and strengthen her borders through its great Christian official organ by enlarging her columns to a sixteen page paper. Some say that cannqt be done where there is no effort to do it. But we say where ever there is a will there is a way. We claim that we be long to the Lord, and this work is His work, that is of the Church. Also to carry on the work belonging unto the Lord. And David said, 1 have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken nor His seed begging bread. . And is it impossible that a great ,,S8|J»8£&eiL- likft. Jhe A.... M*.. R, ,JZ&p Church with her five hundred thou sand membership cannot run a six teen page paper. We say that it is a grand mistake, and wanton fidelity, and Connectional pride and great the lack of confidence ence in the power of the Church. If our fathers way back in the dark days of slavery had that self-confi dence in God and His power to make a fight on that old hellish devil slavery and intemperance, why should not we of today have that Christian faith to attack the ramparts of hell and its formidable powers and to do this the people must be educated in the Church up to that state of mind through their Church organ. Now, if there are five hundred thousand mem bers in the A. M. E. Zion Church and if the one hundred per cent would subscribe for the paper that would give the organ five thousand five hun dred dollars. It seems to us there should be one member out of every one hundred members to subscribe for the paper Form themselves into a Zion Club to enlarge the paper. When we consider and look at the A. M. E. Church organ, The Christian Record, we hang our head in shame, the oldest Negro Church of Method ism. When we see and hear men and women singing, shouting, and hol lowing saying how much they love the Church and the cause of Christ, al ways ready to go to heaven; and at the same time their hearts are so nar row and fist closed. We say there is no space for thhe Holy Ghost to abide in their hearts and their fist closed. They are like an empty barrel go ing down a hill; nothing but noise. The churches in the Washington Presiding Elder’s district, of the Phil adelphia and Baltimore annual con ference are doing nicely. TO FIGHT EXECUTION OF AR KANSAS NEGRO FARMERS. The National Association for the ■Advancement of Colored Feople, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, today an nounced that efforts would be made to obtain from the Supreme Court of the United States a writ of cer tiorari in behalf of six Arkansas Negro farmers condemned to die on September with the Ai is then cont federal court corpus. It was foji ernor of Art men that lin was ham missal, by Virginia Six other be tried at October. Receipt egram from| tion’s counst said in part! of victory ij proper assist for their connection Insas riots of 1919. It ipiated applying to a ■ for a writ of habeas appealing to the Gov isas in behalf of these fessor Robert T- Ker a resolution of dis Board of Visitors of »ry Institute, egro farmers are to irianna, Arkansas, in announced of a tel le National Associa f in Little Rock which lave great confidence inal outcome if given lee.” CAMPAIGNS TO REPEAL POST OFFICE 4aG. CIVIL LIBER TIES UN&N TO ATTACK LAW IN CONGRESS. An active campaign to repeal the one remaining section of the espion age act under which a number of publications pre now barred from the mails wij| be undertaken by the American Crfil .Liberties Union, as soon as Congress reconvenes. That section make®! non-mailable any pub ■advocaAtes “treason, forcible resistance the United States ” aster General Hays in his rulings, the rship of political ractice interferes lieation wh: insurrection to any law Although P' has been li law create^: opinion m come hibited language. The interpretation put upon a phrase in the old ob scenity statute by the Court of Ap peals of the District of Columbia in the New York Call case shows how far the courts may stretch language , which looks definite on its face. Senator Wm E. Borah, who spon sored the repeal of the war laws, j will probably take charge of /the j repeal of the section in the Senate Under this section and the old ob | scenity statute, one or more issues ! of 43 radical publications were barr i ed by the Post Office Department from March 4, when Postmaster General Burleson left office up to Aug. 1. Of these all but 8 were for eign language publications, of which three were published in foreign countries. Of the eight in English three were Communist, two socialist, one I- W- W., and one presumably anarchist. On the other hand the Post Office Department re-admitted to second class privileges up to Au gust 26 eleven periodicals whose orivilege had been taken away under Burleson. All but one of the period icals still published, whose privileg es were taken away under Burleson for their political views, have now regained second class status That one is Solidarity, the official I. W. W. weekly. The elaborate macnmery oi cen sorship built up under Burleson has ] been dismantled- The forces of translators in New York have been reduced, and all but one of the spe- ; cial assistants to the Solicitor at ; Washington have been let out Un- , der Solicitor Lamar a roomful of : clerks were occupied as censors. 1 Under Solicitor Edwards since June i 1, the work is done by him and an i assistant, who with Postmaster General Hays, give personal atten- : tion to all complaints of unfairness ( in barring publications. There is now I no secrecy about the decisions of the 1 Department, the names of the pub- r lications nor the reasons for the ac- v tion taken, as was the case under r Burleson. The Postmaster General f has publicly encouraged personal in- e terviews with Editors of radical pa- L pers who think they have been un- n fairly treated- _ s The Situation in Korea. Present conditions in Korea are clearly summarized by the presi dent of the Union Christian College at Seoul, Rev- O. R. Avison, in a re cent letter to the Commission on In ternational Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. It is of such wide interest to the churches that it is here printed in part: Seoul, Chosen “July 19, 1921 “Conditions on the whole are quiet. In a general way it may be said that while the Koreans have not given up the idea of independence, they do not look for it so soon as they did a couple of years ago, and they begin to realize the fact that the provisional government at Shanghai can do little more than propaganda. They are con sequently trying to work out their own salvation by turning their at tention to education, to participating in the rather limited measure of local self-government granted to them, and also, as the Seoul Press pointed out not long ago, to making representa tions to such a Commission as the Educational Investigating Commission as to reforms desired in the existing educational law. The chief obstacle to fuller cooperation is the distrust of the bona fide intentions of the Japanese felt by' many influential people. “It is a pleasure to testify to the more cordial feeling shown by the government officials as a whole to ernor General, Baron Saito, has in vited the writer and other mission aries to his home several times since I returned from America in March. The Seoul Press announced that the policy of weeding out undersirable elements in the police force was be ing carried out, and we do know that the chiefs of police in Syenchun and Wonsan at least have been changed. At the former place the missionaries had complained bitterly of their treat ment before the change was made. Several missionares report as a re sult of complaint laid by them against the conduct of officials, dismissals have been made especially in the Tai ku district. This corroborative evi dence of what the Seoul Press says | is the policy, is very gratifying. The government is also to be congratulat ed upon its appointment of Mr. Hirai as head of the Department of Educa tion and religion for the province in which Pyengyang is located. Pyeng yang, as you doubtless know, is a large center of Christianity in Korea, and the appointment of a Christian like Mr- Hirai is a piece of real states manship. Mr. Hirai represented the Governor of the Province before the annual meeting of the Northern Pres byterian Mission. He addressed the meeting at length in splendid Eng lish, and the cordiality, sympathy and insight of his words were finer even than his dictioh. He stated that the jrovincial government of which he is a member welcomed at all times the rind advice of the missionary body md aimed to co-operate with it. He ilso said that he already had, or was liming at, putting a New Testament n the pocket of every policeman in ;he province, in order that the police night study Christianity and know i vhat it is. While reports of torture are not I is common as heretofore, there is « ividence that it is still being used in i ireliminary examinations. In March t ast, the congregation of a church i ear the Italian Consulate in Seoul t rere arrested because a man in prayer c meeting was alleged to have prayed s or unlawful things. All were releas- 1; d but three men. One of these was ^ iter released and he reported to the j - n lis sionary in charge of bus church, I a lowing marks of torture on his body, j t: This missionary took this man up to the office of the Chief of Police in the Government General, let the offici als there see the case themselves, with > the result that the man was recall ed twice to the surburban police station for re-examination, and later a policeman called at his heme, and apologized, and left a 10-yen bill as a peace offering. The other two men were not tortured apparently. At Pyengyang and Chulwon cases of torture are also reported. The author ities will, no doubt, take cognizance of these cases and continue the good work of weeding out the undersirable elements in the police who do not yet seem to have grasped the spirit of the new administration. “Summing up, the country in gener al is getting back to normal. It is much to be hoped that the govern ment will continue its good work in removing abuses in the police system, in giving the municipal councils more power and the right to meet as' fre quently as similar bodies do in Japan, and in giving employment to as many Koreans as possible in the various government services. I believe it would also be the part of wisdom that on im portant bodies like the Educational Investigating Commission some rec ognition is given to the important Christian constituency in Korea.” PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS GREAT SUCCESS. National Association Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, today made public the text of a cablegram sent by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Secretary of the Pan African Congress, which stated that the sessions of the Con gress were being attended by dele gates from thirty countries, and that a permanent organization of the Con gress had been effected. The cablegram reads as follows: J. W. Johnson, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. Seven sessions successful. Thirty I Countries. Audiences two thousand. Permanent organization. Du Bois. At the session in London, En gland, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois read the manifesto of the Congress which protests against colored people being treated as uncivilized, and argues that the experiments of Negro self government in Haiti and Liberia, and of the mulatto democracies in South America have not been failures. The manifesto demands enfranchisement based on educational qualifications alone, and urges that it is the duty of the world to assist in every way the advancement of backward and[ suppressed groups of mankind.. j NEWS NOTES, . i The Southern Methodist Church has just held a week’s institute at Birmingham, Ala., for colored minis ters. Dr. W. W. Alexander, of At lanta, director of the Inter-Racial Commission, was in charge; and the courses were given by leading men if the two churches, white and col ored. Two hundred ministers from fourteen conferences attended. The expenses were met by the Southern Methodist Board of Missions. Savannah, Ga., has a colored officer n its juvenile court to look after he colored children brought before t. The white Social Service Federa ion maintains a worker among the olored population; and the white chool attendance officers work equal ly among the children of both races, ’he city provides a colored home emonstration agent and the county laintains a farm demonstration gent for work in the outlying dig ricts. 1 ; is 'S,
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