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EDUCATION Is, • The First Step to Being Somebody 'Doing Something Helping Someone Getting Somewhere . *. YOUTHS CORNER LITTLE JOURNEYINGS NO. 2. t\ •• • - - . **1; ■ By Walter Raleigh Lovell. ... . ."Business belastea when pleasures .»; beckon”—.so runs an adage of my own making. And so I was detained in thfe ‘‘Land of the Sky’* twenty , four hours, after I should have been ■ on my way across the continent. . • Hawing planned to return via the 4 ' Royal Gorge, a trip that occupies ' just! a! little more time than the most direct1 route, 1} looked /forward to this most wonderful scenic trip with ‘' unusual delight. But, though I was • cdnipelie*d to forego this route for bne more quickly traversed, the one chosen was not without its 'surprises ■ * and scenes not seen on the eastward * trip. Leaving Asheville in the mid-after noon, fortunately made connec tion with the Memphis special ' .at •Knoxville. This fast train plying be tween New York and the West Ten nessee xhetropolis, took us via Chat . tahoga to Corinth, Miss., at which point we changed early in the morn ing taking the Mobile and Ohio for St. Louis via Jackson, Tend. Here ■ > were joined by my brother, Dr. J. rH. Lovell, who was for the past two years dean of Lane College, and now: enroute, to Chicago to study at ■ Northwesern. You can imagine that we had a jolly time together as we jour neyed to the Missouri city for we had hot seen each other since the summer' of '22, which we spent to^ feether in the mountains1 of Western North Carolina. The distance to St. Louis was all too short to permit com Iplfetion of the stream of conversa tion' which followed almost inces santly. We had a few hours in St. Louis, two of which, however, were “consumed in purchasing tickets ape ' ihakihg reservations made necessary ' by the change indicated at the be * giiming; After this was done we had a , sumptuous supper, and then called upon a number of friends by tele phone, later dropping in on a few including Dr. and Mrs. Moppins, w. our fine friends of “Little Journey . ings (No... 1)Time fleeting as it is .^wont, soon found us again at the station. .There ^ J. H. boarded the ^ ..C’tL, “Diamond Special" for the . yipdy 4 City, while I took my old fr^gn^l, ..the Alton’s “Night Hawk” 4^,.for K,ansas City, where I expected connection with the Santa . .(^e’s ”Xhe Missionary” for Casifrr .nia, After a £ne night’s rest we reached ,Kansas City on time, and , here.i We found the great terminal ..pppwded, with travellers bound for , - 'the West We could not have secured n. berth , had we waited until our ar Vi. rival to make the. reservation. » Here again we made u® of the A telephone* to get in touch with •-'friends, whom time would not per l-nut us to visit. Kansas City, always -••a1 city‘!of unusai interest, was just • recovering its breath from the tre •'•‘•meiidbus task of entertaining 75,000 Shriners and , their friends. The ^•mbneter grand stands, evidence of the magnitude of thp arrangements, were being torn down. Le&Vig Kansas City, wp left behind also cidttds and Cooling winds, only ’tb head into, a hot wave, Which rer lentlePsly bore down upon. us thru oiit’ the afternoon. As I sweltered ' ih the almost unbearable heait, I - ’ ibhged for the breezed from San Francisco Bay or those of Mt. Pisgah ' id mieii I had so recently exulted "When we stopped pleasure of stirring about and getting momentary relief from t'be stifling heat of the car. Shortly after our departure- from this beautiful little city, the sun set and in^ the twilight it began to^be cooler but did not reach a really comforable stage un til towards midnight, by which -time we were traversing the northwest corner of Oka^ioma, coming later in the moaning into that great and in comparable state of Texas- The early morning hours were delight fully cool and comfortable, and ev erybody arose with expressions of satisfactory rest; this added greatly to the sociability of the passengers. Our breakfast stop, Clovis, N. M. was not reached until 9:30, and -you know every body was hungry as wolves. As' soon as the train stopped, passengers rushed pell mell for the lunch room and dining room, the former is ala carte, while the othfer is table de hote. Some, of course, had to wait, foT our train of twelve, Pullmans carried passengers double the capacity of even the larger lunch rooms of the Harvey system, whose service, one must admit, is very fine. Having eaten to our fill, We wrote and posted our usual quota of post cards, purchased the morning paper, and road .of the nomination of Pres ident Coolidge and General Dawes f-.r the standard bearers of the G. O. P •/ Then we boarded the train and prepared to sit through, another day. - \ / , Western Texas, level as •••a floor, stretches out Into an immensity of space which baffles the human eye. Vevdant'fieldg there told U3 of recent rains, but as we, pushed onward in to New Mexico the greenish hue changed to a yellow cast which fn turn gave ^a'y to brown, with less and less vegetation, as the sullen, barred, hot hills loomed on the mi iaged, horizon. These flat-topped hills bespeak mute testimony of the, past centuries, and one contemplates retrospectively the ages necessary to effect the almost incomprehensible erosion which has so marvelously transformed the topography of these' wonderful lands. In terrified, but ro mantic fancy we gallop across the plain toward the'hills, w‘ith colorful redskins as our companions, groupes of which we see here and thefe, who, in our imagination, afe yet resent ful of the paleface's. civilization, which has necessarily robbed him of his vast hunting and play grounds. (Tp be continued.) OPEN LETTER.—A POINT OF OR DER.—BISHOP SMALL’S FIRST EPISCOPAL VISIT TO AFRICA. By S. Athari Pomeyie. (Delegate from Quittah, Gold Coast, West Africa.) As history is a record . of past' events for future guidance, therefore a reckless permission of a statement devoid of accuracy to ^creep into such record, usually divests it of what in colloquialism might be designated as its, “integumentary system.’’ In poniting out the error that has been appearing in the A. M. E; Zion press anent the first Episcopal visit of Bishop - J. B.. Small, of revered memory, to Afrcia, , I do so with an intention inadverse. . . Prior to 1889 Bishop Small had made a visit to Africa, but not in the capacity of a diocese nor was there any mission apart from that previously founded at Liberia by the late Andrew Cartwright, established by him. In the year above cited, the first A. M. E. Zion Mission at Quittah Gold Coast, West Africa,, was'how ever, by the instruction of the good Bishop, established by the Rev. Thomas B. Freeman, a native of the Gold Coast (now; living), and in 1902 ti&e, first 'Episcopal visit to that field was made by the Bishop, T^e Silver Jubilee referred to in connection with the twenty-five thousand . dollars drive should therefore be in com memoration of the founding of the work at Quittah by the order Of the good Bishop'. r MEASURED. By Df. E. M. Argyll y Since the adjourment of our last General Conference, I have received more than half, a dozen letters ask ing why I did not write something to The Star of Zion, etc. Now I have not been silent because of any per sonal soreness to the editor, or fhan agement of The .Star. I have not been _ nursing any wounds or sore toe'. One cause of my silence was that I have about written out under my old cap tion, for I.am not blaming anybody now fo*r not being a star in Zion. I 'have myself joined the constellation j of satellites, iand with no intention to be boastful or egotistic, I am a star of the lesser magnitude, and claim my right to a course in the milky way of the Church. I care nothing for the measurement of men. I care not what kind of an estimate men put on me. I know myself What I am, and what; I can do. Hence I do not see the necessity of jme paying some one to exploit my jvorth. There' fore I have taken vfiy good, time in oiling up my typewriter to thump off these musings. In the late unlament*d General Conference, one had a splendid op portunity to study the idiosyncrasies of the leadership of men. One only had to watch the foibles and inert adeptness of those who sought lead- j ership to finally see the ambitious PROF. AARON BROWN. President of V. C. E. Union. selfishness, and, sordid greed for power and authority. Much valuable legislation was overlooked, or side tracked because of the anticipatory legislation rushed over the protest of men who sought no special legislation j to further their personal interests. But machine politics were too strong, the steam roller was too well equip- j ped to stem thef protest of the men , who had no ax to’ grind. Then upon the recoil certain men who did not work ^ell in harness-with those who attempted to legislate for the whole i Church, but secretly for the benefit of a favored few, were given to un derstand that their times were about out, and that nothing remained for them but relegation or isolation. And some • of the men at our. last General Conference have become frightened. What is there to be frightened about? This Church does not belong to anyone set of politicians. It is all of our Church. I yield to no man the right to think for*me. And I assume the right to demand a square deal so lofng as my life comports with the gospel of the Son of God, end I harmonize myself to the botok of the discipline of my, church. Hence, let us all be men. It does not matter if ' some do call you cranky and cynical. s It does not matter if you are branded by some | whose heads are swelled with author- j ity and called pessimistic. Just be a man any how. No man'ever had a | thought of his own when he solely depended on some one to think for him'. Then there is a set of men Jhat are afraid of th© measurement of men" in authority over them. This writer has never in the mote than thirty yaers of active mniistry, met rtne man that actually knew the whole worth of an other man. In measuripg men we are usually actuated by our likes and disr likes of him. So often the fault is as much in us as it is in the man we /measure. This thesis on maesure ment of men. is aimed at no one par ticular. This writer blames no one in particular for his mismeasure ment. He has never paid a cent for an appointment in his life, and never “rushed in” where angels feared to/ REVERENCE Planted in Childhood will v Bear Fruit in Manhood in BETTER LIVES HAPPIER HOMES NOBLER CITIZENS SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Edited By Dr. J. Francis Lee. LESSON VII—Aug. 17, 1924. JESUS .CLEANSES THE TEMPLE. Lesson Text: John 2:13-2?. 13 And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusa lem. 14 Add-found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the! sheep and the oxen; and poured opt the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Fahter’s house a house of merchandise. 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zleal of thine house hath eaten me.up. 18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest tho’u unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? / 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destry this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then Said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in threo days ? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body.. / ?2 When therefor# he was risen from the dead, his disciples remem bered that he had said unto them,* and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. 1, Golden Text: My house shall be called a house of prayer. Matt. 21:13. 2. Memory Verse: My house shall be called a house of prayer. Matt. 21:13-. * * 3. Time A. D. 30. 4. Place: Jerusalem. , 5. Leading Thought: His was a ministry of spiritual power, rather than a ministry of conquest.. 6. Historical Background. . There were quijte a number of Jewish ‘feasts;, among which are the Passover, Pentecost, of the wheat harvest, or the first fruits of the feasts of tabernacles. Jesus was a' loyal Jew, and so kept these feasts. In our lesso®. for today, we find him at Jerusalem, in attendance on the Passover. And he found men m the temple selling nad buying; nideed they had instituted a system of profit out of ^religion and t*>ok advantage of> the poor./'Hie wrath of Jesus was arous ed, and he overturned their tables and * threw them out of the temple with all off their wares. This was a bold stand for this youthful reform er; but he was more than a match for traffickers. 7." Topical Outlines, s I. The feast of Passover, v. 18. II. A ministry of refromation, v. 14-16. III. The protest presented, v. 17-18. # , The LeSson Supposition. IV. Divinity Affirmed, vs.. 19-22. A.The Feast of the Passover. The feast is held annually by the Jews in memory of the great deliv erance which came to Israel on the night of her leaving Egypt, the es caping of Israel from the enemy and the sparing of the first bom of the Hebrews. See Exodus* 12si. B. A Ministry of Reformation. As a Jewish teacher and leader, i Jesus came to lift his, people in mat | ters of religion, government, and the ! home. And hi* reformation begins in 1 matters of religion. “And found in the temple.” He soon made his way to the temple, i an4 expected to find ' suitable wor I ship in progress. He found a system of commercialism in full operation in the courts of the Temple. The law made provision for the selling of pig. | eons and doves, to them coming a j distance and cpuld not bring a sac/ ; rifiee from afar; but.it did not pro vide for nor approve of the system of graft which the Master finds ex isting in the name of religion. Lev. 22:19; Ex. 30:12. “He drove them out of the tem ple.” Jesus at once registers his dis approval of the grafting in the tem ple, or in the House of the Lord. Let us remember it was not so much the buynig and selling in the house of the Lord, as it was the abuse they had made .of the permission. “Make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.” In keeping witji the spirit of the spirit of Christ, a church would profit more fully, if all the members were trained to con tribute of their means for the support of the Gospel in proportion to the ‘ way God has blessed them financi ally, and stop all selling and buying. Let us make it a matter of conscience and not a matter of speculation, and govern ourselvs accordnig to the sit uation one finds himself. The action of Jesus perhaps forced the mind of thd disciples back to the Scriptures to find some justification for his ac tion. Then they recalled Psalm 69:9 “The zeal ' of my house hath eaten me up.” C• A Protest Presented. The actions of Jesus did not go unchallenged, for almost immediate ly those were offended, and no doubt the protest came from the leaders in the following words: “What sign shewdst thou unto us? These men are asking Christ to pre sent his authority on which he at tempted^ to do these things. Jesus, just in so many words, declares that “I am the son of* God,” and as evi dence of the same, “Destroy this temple and in three days,‘I will raise it up again.” These worldly minded persons could by no means understand the real meaning of these words.. PRACTICAL HINTS FOR THE HEART OF THE LESSON. 1. Keeping the feast expresses the loyalty of Jesus.. . 2 k Cleansing the temple implies a spiritual minority .. 3.. Too blind for spiritual things. CONGRATULATORY. ! • Wiisoto, N. C.. Aug. 4, 1924. Daer Dr. Davenport: , YoPr election pleased us very much, but the breadth and scope of your editorials have already delight ed us beyond expression. Keep the 'good work up. We have' been very fortunate here in Wilson in having as our pastor another staunch Liv ingstonian, a moving man o'f God. I refer to Rev. J. E. Kennedy. When Rev. CoWard* the former pas tor, was elevated to the presiding eldership we wondered how the work which this good man had carried on for twelve years would fare under new leadership. All of our specula tions have been put to rest in the glorious realisation" that God’s hand was truly at work in the* selection of his successor. Rev. Kennedy has gained for himself in the short space of a few months, a very enviable position in the lives and hearts of the people of this community. His gospel messages have fired the church with new zeal and members are be ing added each Sunday in large riumbers. The '-people in the com munity at large hav£ come 'td the conclusion that Rev. Kennedy stands like a rock for fill that makes for their spiritual development and he is deeply respected because of this • Yours fraternally, * ' B. B, Church« ^ ■
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