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«-V* xwuu, -Mrs. P. A. Wallace and tile eui 4or. Dr. Alleyne delivered a beau tiful sermon to the delight of the .host' on Sunday afternoon. Dr. H. J. Callis contributed to the .heightening of the spirituality of the conference by ins forceful sermon at the noon hour Friday After the sermon on Sunday night by the writer, the bishop - .read the appointments. One of the chief inspirations of the conference was th<e church "where it was he^d which we saw ior the first time in its glory. The Boosevelt Memorial Temple, the seat of the conference, is remem bered throughout the church as the achievement of .Dr. S. L. Cor 3*others, who inaugurated the move that brought about its pur chase. Dr- Corrotljers gave us our present situation in Newark and h s been its general over since. 1 rom the very beginning, Dr. C. S. Whitted has been with Dr. Orrothers in this work, and fur nished $7,000.00 to help make it sure for Zion. The Church has a seating capacity for 1,500 people. "Tiie gallery runs the length of both sides of the church and spans "the entire front. It has a spacious basement with rooms for various departments- The overhead inte rior of the auditorium is the most beautiful architectural decora tion of any of our largest church * 453, and it is the largest Negro church in the state of New Jer sey. It was filled on the first floor <on the evenings of the conference, and on Sunday the people who gathered from Newark and the prominent towns of New Jersey, 'idled the building to the brim. It -was £ glorious realization of the fond dream of Zion in New Jer sey. The big concert on Friday ev ening was participated in by a number of the city choirs and members of the conference. Mrs. iEdith Burgee, of Philadelphia, was the star soloist, and Mr. Wan Horn, Whitted, of Philadel phia, son of Dr. C. S. Whitted, was the star of the concert in hhs • performances It was the golden jubilee. The •conference was set apart fifty years ago from the New York conference. Bishop Wallace in his rgolden anniversary address, set the pace in his fine words partic ularly concerning the Negro’s part and place in nation build ing. The history of the conference, -collected and culled by Dr. J. E. Hodgers, presiding elder and a -man of personality and leader ssh£p among his brethren, was re ceived with gratification and great enthusiasm. It is a fine statement of history and the con ference decided to publish it in permanent form. Those elected delegates to the •Oeneral Conference were: Revs. I X B. Turner, Trenton, N. J., W. M. Langford, Red Bank, N. .J., J, E. Rodgers, Burlington, N. J. S. L- Corrothers, Newark, N. .J.'L^y delegates: Mrs. Amelia 'Wheeler Hoskins, Hackensack, IN. J., and Mrs- Emma Johnson, of Burlington, N. J. The alternates were as follows: Xlevs. J. B. Kirby, Somerville, N. J. M. Hoggard, Jersey City, "~W. H. Batchelor, Lakewood, N. -J. S. D. Conrad, New England, <]onn., Lay alternates: Mr. John iiMinge, and Mrs. Susie Jaundofn'** The statistical report from Dr. Uodgers’ district showed that the district has 3 members, ’2,642 ‘Sunday School scholars. There -were 207 conversions. The value -of churches, parsonages and oth er property was rated at $166, '585. Presiding elder’s salary. $1,500 and the pastors’ salaries -totaled $28,500. There was an in -crease of 281 members, despite the changes of 222 persons, dropped, expelled or migrated. ~Total raised for general fund, dur ing the year was *3.172 and for all purposes, $110,316. From Dr. W. M* Langford’s , district, the statist1'cs show that the valuation of churches, parsf-n ares and other church nropm-tv is $532.874, 85 conversions. 1060 - members, 1,205 Sunday School scholars, pastors’ salaries, $18, 160 nresidir*c» elder ’<= snhrv. ' *1.5*5° Conferenc" workers rais - ed *5°8 for the two districts. / aionary eoc'jety are, Mrs. Ida Hart, president, Madame A. M. Harper, superintendent of the “Y's,” Mrs. Charity Anderson, superintendent of Buds of Prom ise, Mrs. Charlotte Kennedy, president of the Varick Christian Endeavor and Mrs. G. M. Lang ford, district president of the Sunday Schools. Among the most actiye leaders of the women of this conference are, Mrs. B. F. Wheeler, of Haekensack, well kn^wn for her . leadership and fine culture, and Mrs. Emma Johnson, th^ most eloquent in the conference, next to Rev. Flor ence Randolph, and Miss Sylvia Pharr, formerly of Salisbury, N. C., and others. The most interesting meunber of this conference this year, was Rev. Mrs. Florence Randolph, who had spent 18 months in Africa, and had returned just in time to meet this conference. The addresses of Mrs. Randolph and that of Dr. Matthews, before the body, were the most informing on all lines that have come to the church di rectly fropi Africa recently. Mrs. Randolph will be able to tell the Church things that it has never known before, and it is for tunate that Dr. Matthews had mad^ the recent Visit to our fath erland to corroborate, and to some extent, reinforce the story that Mrs. Randolph is able to tell. Both of these gave very instruc tive and thrill'ng addresses at the missionary exercises Satur day afternoon. Bishop Wallace was at himself throughout the conference. His calm presiding judgment an l wise decisions, always supported by parliamentary accuracy and the law of the Church,, ^ive him a firm grip upon the respect of the conference, and he holds his men in the thrall of love. The largest collection an Sun day, in an annual conference, was raised by the little New Jersey on Sunday of its last session. $618 was laid on the table by the congregation that attended the worship.. | visitors were present repre senting other conferences as fol lows: Revs. *J. W. Brown, J. H. McMullen, W. C. Brown, ,Gr. M. Oliver, E. L. Madison, H. J. Cal lis, E. D. W. Jones, A. A. Crooke, E. B. Watson, C. C. Williams, 0. J. Rpmsen, Stephen G. Spotts wood and T. A. Auten. Rev Dr. Wragg, of the Ameri can Bible Society, and his Avife '.cere interesting visitors to the sessions. As usual Dr. Wragg’s speech was enlightening and prof itable. ON THE ROCKEFELLER ES TATE. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Thompson^ of Tarrytown, N. Y., resl.de on the Rockefeller estate. Mi. Thompson i;uns the express line that does the hauling for the Rockefellers and the wealthy ^landlords of that neighborhood. They live in a magnificent se questered spot, surrounded by comfort, and the yard teems with i life, both vegetable and animal. | Mr. Thompson is a man^of busi ness" and a considerable real es tate holder in New York City. Their two daughters, Misses Etta and Lillian, who passed away sometime ago, were beautiful pro- j ducts of Livingstone College. Mr. I Thomas Carter, their foster son, | manages the business while Mr.! Thompson is in the Pullman ser vice between Montreal and New York. To visit their home is to visit a nest of love and plenty. The Editor spent a rest night there whil^in New York recently °nd enjoyed the Lberal courtesies of this prosperous family. BISHOP CALDWELL THRILLS OLD CLINTON METROPOL ITAN. Bishop J. S. Caldwell enroute north from his Mid-year confer • ene 3 in South Carolina and Ala bama, stopped over in Charlotte, qnnday. May 13, and delivered an instructive and unique sermon at Hinton Metropolitan Chireoh. Bev. N. T). Kinor. pastor. The shirts remieed and the attention o* the ent' r'' nv>dienoe that filled all the auditorium of the old ^iis toric church whs rapt throughout' the delivery of this powerful and wise message by the bishop. He spent the evening at Salis bury at Livingstone College and with Dr. W. H. Goler, and turned home Monday.. re BISHOP LEE IN BOD-YEAR! SESSIONS. Bishop W. L. JLee held his Mid year ponierenees in boutn Car olina last week, ihe Dee Uee con ference was assemoled by dis tricts. Dr. VV. U. Carson’s district met at Cheraw and Dr? M. D. Dee’s district met at White Oak ciiurch, near Rock Hill. The edi tor joined him at the White Oak church.. me white Oak church is a new .dilice with two great apart ments, namely, the auditorium and the Sunday School room. It is one of the largest and most iinislied churches in the South Carolina conference. Rev. W. M. Robinson is the pastor of this church. Dr. Robin son is one of the ranking mem bers of our South Carolina min- 1 istry. For years he was presiding elder and has pastored some of the leading churches of the state. He is a leader by nature, and has done some noted °work in the erec tion of the church of his present pastorate. This gives him new claims on prestige among his brethren. Rev. W. 0. Carson and Mrs. R.' B. Bruce were present at the Mid-> year conference here. Dr. M. D. Bee, pressing elder, was ill at his home. Bishop Lee was encouraged over ^he success of the Pee Dee conference winch raised a, little more than $1,100 Tercentenary. We visited Dr. M. D. Lee at his home \n Rock Hill. We found him improving and deeply concerned about the school and the church. Revs. J. D. Virgil, R. W. Wade and Prof. J. W. Boulware carried the bishop’s party in their auto mobiles to Chester where the South Carolina M id-year confer ence was held. This ►conference did not collect as much as its sis ter conference, but $545 was its total. Drs. R. J. Crockett and J. H. D. Bailey, presiding elders, • were hn charge of this afield. They are hopeful of doing5- better by1 the annual conference. Bishop Lee was a little unwell, I but much improved and was hap-' py as we have ever seen him in speech and counsel. He delivered two of the most comprehensive and most sane messages that it has been our privilege to hear. ; He left for his home in Brooklyn n the afternoon after the close of the conference. Rev. W. C. McCorkle the pastor, of Chester, being ill at his b°me *n Salisbury, %T. C., Rev. R. B. Taylor is in Large of the church. Paragraphic Personals, j North Carolina Mutual Life Insur ance Company announces the election of the following officers caused by the death of Dr. Moore; C. G. Spaulding, President; J. M. Avery, Vice-Presi- ( dent and Secretary; R. L. McDougald,; Second Vice-President and E. R. Mer- | rick, Treasurer. * * * Mr. Chas. Satchell Morris was in- j jured recently by an automobile in | Utica, Miss. The automobile in which he was being conveyed to the school, was stuck in the mud and while at tempting to push it forward, slipped and the rear wheels ran over his legs. He was rushed to the school hospital but it is stated that his injuries al though painful, were not serious. * * • Dr. B. G. Shaw recently conducted revivals in Hamtramck and Detroit, I Mich. In each place there were 100 I conversions and accessions. Pepple I were turned away from these churches during these tremendous services. • * * Bishop L. W. Kyles will deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon at the State Normal School at Fayetteville, N. C., Sunday, May 22. The commencement of this school is May 25. A new building will be dedicated. * * * W. M. Marshall is preparing to re i pair the church and' narsonage at Selma, Ala., and writes that the 1 church is in good condition. with paralysis about 10 days. He iiQr proves slowly but his family is still hoping for the best. Rer. W. M. Robinson, as pastor of White Rock A. M. E. Zion Church, Rock Hill, S. C., announces himself j as a candidate for the secretary of the Brotherhood to succeed Dr. Whit ted and his brethren are pushing him for it. • * * Rev. H. R. Jackson, oar pastor, at Eastbrook, N. C., raised $268.84 in his services Sunday. His people are loy al to him in both sunshine and rain. V • * * ■ Rev. C. L. Alexander, to£ Peters burg, Va., announces himself candi date as -follows: “I have firmly de cided to publicly announce to the Church of my choice through the col umns of this paper, after serving more than twenty years in the pastorate and three years in the Petersburg District as presiding elder, that I am a candidate for the Church Extension and Home Mission Secretaryship.’’ Rev. Alexander states that his dis trict is in splendid shape in every de partment. * * * Rev. W. F. McKee, Aberdeen, N. C., is in the midst of a great spiritual meeting^ He is being ably assisted by Rev. J. J.' Stubbs of Hamlet, N. C. Rev. Stubbs is one of the most forceful preachers we have in our ranks and is preaching to large crowds each night. Rev. McKee is making prep arations for his Mid-year Conference. * * • Rev. W. L. Hamblin, of Montgom ery, Ala., will preach the coifimence ment sermon for the Washington High School, Pensacola, Fla., May 20th. He writes that he is conducting a success A) l meeting for Rev. Tillman at Brewtnn, Ala. , v * * * Prof. J. E. K. Aggrey is still op a speaking tour. Last Sunday he preached at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa., and so thrilled the student body that he has been en gaged to preach again there next year. Prof. Aggrey is the first col ored mau to be heard in this col lege. THE BOOK COMMITTEE OF THE NORTHERN METHODISTS. The meeting of this Committee is an important event in the annual experience of the Methodist Episcopal Cbnrch There are twenty ■‘five mem bers, and the sessions usually occupy several days, with some public social function to add interest to the occa sion. There were present the edi tors of various official publications who are expected to make reports. The total sales of the last fiscal year were $5,035,256.01. The real estate has a valuation of $2,839,942. The sum of $300,000 was appropriated from the earnings for superannuated preachers. This sum brings the total dividends during the quadrennium for this purpose to the amazing sum of $1,175,000. The Publishing Agenjts were instructed to inaugurate a prdss bureau at Washington, D. C. The Committee chose Springfield, Mass., as the meeting place of the General Conference next year.—Nashville Christian Advocate. Commencements. The Lancaster Normal and Indus trial Institute, Dr. M. D. Lee, Presi dent, closed May 16th. ~ The Bacca ; laureate Sermon was preached by Dr. J. Francis Lee and the commence ment address was delivered by Rev. I H. P. Lankford. j Greenville College Commencement j was held May 13-18. The Bacca I laureate Sermon was preached by Bishop L. W. Kyles, annual sermon ' to the societies was delivered by Dr. J. W. Martin, Secretary of Education, j The annual address, commencement day was delivered by Dr. W. J. Walls, ' Editor of the Star of Zion. Commencement of Lomax-Hannon College, Greenville, Ala., will be held May 23rd. The annual sermon will be delivered by Bishop J. W. Wood, the commencement address by Dr. W. J. Walls. The Tuskegee Institute, Ala., holds its commencement May 20-24, The cdn, Ga. Chicago, 111,* and-, *presi dent of the National Baptist Convention, will de liver the ^commencement address. The 25th Annual Commencement of the Agricultural and technical Col lege, at Greensboro, N. C., will be held from May 27th to 31st. The Baccalaureate Sermon will be preach ed by Rev. W. S. Ellington of the Baptist'Church, Nashville, Tenn. Ad dress to the Agricultural Literary Society will be delivered by Prof. T. W. Turner * of Howard University. Address to tile Technical Literary So ciety, will be delivered by Rev. . Walls, Editor'of the Star of Zion. Dedication of the new building, ad dress by Prof. O. B/ Martin, depart ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., annual address bjr ^udge William H. Harrison, Chicago, 111. EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK. THE MONUMENT TO “COLORED MAMMIES.” The Senate committee lost no time in reporting’ favorably on a resolu tion proposed by a Senator from Mississippi authorizing the Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a monu ment in Washington to the “faithful colored mammies of the South.'’ These same Senators, however, spent endless days and restless nights in filibustering, which brought into play every instrument of speech known to. that class of politicians trained:in the narrow and provincial school of hate and spleen, to defeat a measure proposed for the pro^ tection of the loyal American sons of these “faithful colored mammies,’’ against mob violence and to make their country a better place in which to live. : The colored woman of slavery days and many days since, was tae greatest asset in human flesh the South has ever had, and will ever have in years to come. She served as father, mother, daughter and wife, the mistress of s many aristocrats. She rocked the cradle, made and kept the home, aftd played a big part in the building of an ungrateful South. She was faitnfui, and she left a legacy in patience, forbearance, loyalty and a belief in “all^'that“is white, that has passed thru years, and to-day per meates the being of a large majority of black folk. She, could always be depended upon. She answered every call of the master, Whatever the call— she knew nothing else. She had a place made; for her, and she ever lastingly stayed in that place. This fact alone prompted these Southern gentlemen to build a monument to such faithfulness, that they might from time to timo^ view a reality of iiie past mat is almost incomprehen sive, a litre condition that will never exist again. It would have been a fine thing, a humane th.ng a right thing, and ap preciated by these dear old mothers, and perhaps looked upon by the later generations with a more forgiving spirit, had they been privileged with the rights of life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness in . all its fullness while they lived. Though they were “mammies” extraordinary, they did not ride in carriages with their “sons.” They enjoyed little of the pleasures of their day. They were servants and they served twelve hours of the day and more, and had they been privi leged to enjoy all the fruits of their labors; that would have been monu ment suffice. • - i < < Day after day the black sons of these so-called mammies are heart-* lessly murdered, and brutally burned | and lynched- ” In the same measure ' their black daughters are subjected to I all sorts Of abuse abd insults. They ■ to a' largemeasube are forced to serve | the purpose, passion and whims of Southern brutes, parading as gentle men^ Girls with the purity and vir tue-thdt Eire' brought, and gave to I the heathens ahdChristians alike, are victims of circumstances. We Urge upon the Senators to au | thorize the Daughters of the Confed eracy to ptit forth the same effort in I moulding Sentiment and raising funds | tos protect colored men, women and i girls from the mahy nefarious prac I ticeg against them', and their “colored I mammies” will speak in their graves and call them "Blessed.”—Louisville , Leader. ' ’ '■ - .A.l
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