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diplomatic circles Africa is the most
discussed of the continents.
Africa is also inserting a question
mark with reference to the attempt
being made to put her under the
sway of what we regard as the ail
conquering Cross. She is anxious to
know it those who sing, “In the Cross
of Christ I glory,” would have the
world ruled by Christ or by Color.
Africa has also been compared in
contour to an ear, a listening human
ear. And she is assuming a listening
attitude. What message are we go
ing to pour into her ears. Those:
cf us who to ourselves have said,
“this is my own, my native land,”
see her in our vision?, and hear the
appeal “come over qhd help us.”
The first to hear this appeal and
star^ the crusade for African Re
demption was David Livingstone.
His consecrationt fidelity, labors of
love, bis refusal to leave with Stan
ley because liig work was not finish
ed, and lUs lonely death on the shore
of Lake Baugweolo, challenge us to.
daring deeds and heroic service.
It is April 1873, and the solitary
crusader arrivea at the village of a
Chief named Chilambo. He is weary,
worn and ill, and is being carried on
a litter by his fathful African at
tendants. “Lay me dowD, Susi, I can
journey no further.” They carefully
and tenderly comply with the feeble
request of tlie feebler Livingstone.
Stretched on a rough bed which
loving hands have improvised for
hia use, toward night he calls: “Susi,
light my cand’e, and then you go
to rest. Tell Majwara to stay within
reach, I may need him.” Majwara is
astir in the middle of the night. The
light is still burning in the hut. He
pushes open the door and peeps in.
Then he call® loudly for Susi and
Chumah. The three men enter. The
little candle is burning, but very
low. And this is what its flickering
light reveals: Livingstone is kneel
ing by the side of the bed as if ir
prayer with his face buried in his
hands. They touch him, but he net:
ther moves-nor makes response. The
earnest, God-fearing Christian Cru
sader has gone to be with Christ,
whom he served by feeding! His poor
lost, bl^ck sheep. Hail Crfisader Utri
conqueroH What a gloriou? end to s
work nobly begun, but yet undone.
Livingstone gave the la®t measurv
of devotion, the fullest proof - of lov
and loyalty. He made the supreme
sacrifice iu order that Africa, whicl
lie considered the cesspool of th<
world shou’d be healed.
Shall we who sprung xn>iu
bosom of the Continent; who are o
like hue with its inhabitants, am
companions in tribulations with it:
burden-bearers, we,„ whose sou1
are lighted and whose minds ur
trained, shall we to- them the lami
of life, the light_of knowledge, th
Gospel of Christ, deny?
The African Methodist Episcopa
Zion Church cannot justify her rfgh
to the name, unless she shares large
ly in the crusade now being wage
to redeem Africa. It is our task, ou
imperative duty, our privilege to c<
operate with the other Christia
forces', to labor with Christ, to th
end that our brothers and sister
who sit in the shadow of night an
in bondage of ignorance, may b
brought into the glorious light of
new day, and the freedom thi
comes from the knowledge of tt
.v'J::*
The “Church*’ will never <Me. But
there are many things which will
show forth where i,ts communicants
do not come up to the standard of
the Cburdh. Who is the Church? The
Church is the communicants, not the
building, th)e people in the Church
and the passersby. ^
If the Church workers exemplify a
true Christian life, it is1 impossible
for the Church to become dead. The
Church win never die, as long as the
name of the founder lives •
From an outside standpoint f the peo
ple may take a survey, when the
communicants' themselves do • not
Show forth a standard, to draw in the
outside world to its fold. For in
stance, we have one thousand pep
pie in many districts who do not at
tend Church at all.
Are the Christian people of tods:
by their slackness to their Church
, duties not attending ?"Are they pre
ferring social gatherings instead of
■going to Church? A Church is dead
whicli requires only attendailce and
money. They want to get real reli
gion to satisfy soul hunger and to
throw intp the' Church ti^elr talents,
^physical anct mental strehgtbf Sifd
knowledge.
• i A Christian’s duty is to be punctu
al at his post at every service of the
Church, so that he may show to c
er organizations that he is interest
ed in the Church and not social gath
erings.
Why is it that social gatherings
are more attended than the Church?
On many occasions those people
among the non-Church goers—have a
reflection upon the Church. Do th°
peop'e of the outside world have more
attraction than the Church goers’
No. The outside social crowd is doing
everything to detract the people from
the Church. When they are not at
tending Church> they are resting
from being with their social crowd.
This^ causes the Church to become
apparently dead.
Have you ever heard someone say
“Oh, I have lost the habit of going
to Church.” “I haven’t been in a long
time ” This is the first way whicl
leads the Church to Its death.
The Church is as old as the world
From the very beginning God ha!
asked us to use at least one day ii
Seven for the purpose of worshipping
Him and to learn more about Him
/By attending the Church earnestly
loyally and being of service t<
1 Christ, whether it be great or smal
1 will help towards keeping the Churcl
' alive. Lack of prayer on the part o
the membership will deaden an;
! Church. We have often heard that
Prayer is the Key of Heaven an*
’ Faith unlocks the door.
[ Let the'young element of toda;
s take a leading partf for we are great
ly in need of trained Church worker
’ of Religious Education,
j Sometimes the young element ea
5 pects the Church and community t
welcome them and, make mere1
1 friends of them. Then again we fin
t that sometimes they want to- get int
the thick of the work and expres
1 their religion in real active\gervice
r Then we are keeping th Churc
>. alive.
n When the spirit of the living Go
P ls exemplified the Church is usua1!
i. alive. Let us, therefore, strive to th
S best of our 8bIlt?V wIth the aid <
e our Heavenly Father whose life
a everlasting, to assist In keeping tt
,t Christian Church wide-awake th)
e she may reign forever and ever.
fr ' '
peoptewlil be go
ps. TheVotlre
irotmg pedp'e will
II vary, Some
s the thing to do
cular aim in life,
cause they have
that it will pay.
I will help them
iifcy. Others will
L thug Which Witt
ling well rounded,
Christian oharao
lrnished unto all
HR
tn beet
ulture
>uehl*
Many of people win
enter college aa,'" freBhmen. They'
may be ready t$|#teY »o-far as pass
ing their grade* I*, j^cjbOol, and yet
many of them rtglffee tar from read*
because they hai»'! not received the
proper moral. «ffl||pcrt^jious heflp in
the hom&,;tfe* dl|»:jttft.-the Church.
They may not any definite
purpose in going ^ ebllege • They
may not have the moral jgtamina aj/d
religious faith so. .necessary to keep
them from yieltU^^^to . the tempta^
tions' they are isaSR. to meet in jppl~
’ege. They may. |sj|r,lie well .enough
grounded in Bib|e knowledge and
Christian experience to know how to
make the proper |Me of what , they
learn in their courses of study and in
he lecture rooms, t
But some of the®© young ^freople
do know how to sly J<No” to evil and
5* »
BISHOP G. L. BLACKWELL, D. D
Second Episcopal District.
to resist temptation. They know how
to stand for the right against the
wrong and for truth against false
hood. They have character. They
have high ideals' of how a college
student shou’d act. They know that
there is much they can give to the
college as well as much for them to
get from the college.
We are thinking of the relation
of the home and the Church to the
! voting people who go. to college, to
1 whichever c’ass they may belong.
> Whatever may be their lack of pre
paredness or fitness for the Dew life
» college life, the home and the Church
1 owe them something. It is not toe
1 late to help those who are least read}
1 for the wonderful experiences aheac
f of them. Nor are those who are besi
T prepared and all who come betweer
• the two extreme® without the nee<
1 of what the home and the Church cai
he to them and do for them.
f They all need the daily prayers o
- ’oved ones and Christian friends
* “Pray ye one for another,’
“The effectual, fervent prayer of i
_ righteous man availeth much. *’ Th
0 1 devil’s chance to lead colleg
Y students astray i« greatly reduced i
1 they are remembered regu’arly ii
o prayer by men and women of faith
g College students need letters fror
home and need to send letters home
h These letter® should be frank an
full of love. They should be “chatty
j letters, the students telling of every
y day experiences, the fun, the trou
' Wee. the new friends, the doubts, an
ytetorie®. Tho letters^ from horn
g should tell of the happenings in th
vhome and the neighborhood and i
the Church. Advice -
may be invaluable. It is strong
that so many do not know how va
imble this sort ol weekly contact is.
Young people In edlege sPEford that
pastor, the young peopled society,
the Sunday schpol—yet, the Church
at home—a splendid opportunity for
service. Ail these can hare ft l*vt'
the preparation and training of the
students who have gone away to
college If they will only keep in
touch with them, pray for them, and
take an interest In their progress.
The college student should by all
means have the home paper, daily nr
weekly, and thb Church paper. It fs
not enough for the student to be able
to see these plptks in the library
reading room, fhe student should be
on the subscription lists end should
receive the papers through the mail.
-This - will add a few dollars to the
cost of sending lions and daughters
to coj^ege. A^d it may require close
economizing to send them at all .
'Bat ^ wUl/pay to see that they
get tW homo and Church- papers.
It there .He a locftl Church paper or
Bulletin, send that also.
One of the things to be regretted
is that so often home and commun
ity ties are greaty weakened, if not
broken, ere four years are finished
(Continued to page 5)
I —- ... ■
SCIPIO A. JONES
ELECTED CHAN
CELLOR IN ARKAN
SAS COURT.
'Scipio A. ^Jones, prominent color
fSri attorney of%ittle Ro$t, -Arkansas,
was elected' as Special Chancellor
in £he Pulaski, Ofcanceify '0$$,- i
^Uaneas, the court
jQuat^state/on Saturday, August 30tl
N. A. A. C. P, Press Service.
to a tfflegrtwm to Mr.
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth
Avenue( New York.
This is the first time in the his
tory of. the United States, that euch
an honor has been paid a Negro law
yer. Mr. Jones has had an eminently
successful career as a member Of the
Arkansas bar, his outstanding
achievement being the successful de
fense of the victims of the Phillips
County, Arkansas Riots of October,
1919, in which cases Mr Jones was
the principal attorney for the N. A.
A. C. P. These cases were fought
doggedly by Mr. Jones through all
of the Arkansas courts and through
the United States Supreme Cour,t
where he was associated » with Mr.
Moorfield Storey. These cases, it
will be remembered, established a
new precedent in American legal pro
cedure in that the decision gained in
the United States Supreme Court
acted not only as a reversal of the
Arkansas Court but, in effect, was a
reversal of the Supreme Court itself.
In the case of Frank vs. Mangum,
the famous Leo Frank Case, 237' U.
S. 309, 335, the Supreme Court ruled
that the Federal court had no right
to interfere'in a trial even though it
was shown that the trial of an appel
lant was dominated by a mob. The
decision in the SPkansas cases gained
through the argument of Mr. Moor
field Storey based on the splendid
records in the Arkansas Court® made
by Mr. Jones, the Supreme Court
ruled that "even though a lower
court hag given an outward sem
blance of a trial, if it can be shown
by an appellant that such lower
court was so terrorized by mob dom
ination that but one verdict could
have been rendered, then the federal
courts areT obligated to furnish cor
rective processes. Louis Marshall, o{
New York, one of the great Ameri
can authorities on constitutional
law, who was attorney for Leo Frahk
at the timte of that decision, y wrote
the N. A. A- C. P.:
...Tregard it (the decision)
&s a great achievement in constitu
tional law. Due process of law now
means not merely, a right to he heard
before a court, hut that it must be
before a court that; is not, paralyzed
by mob domination.”
The N. A. A. C. P. has extend
ed its congratulations to Mr. Jones
which has come th Mm lu.
By ENter &
’And the Spirit of God was brooding
upon the face of the waters, Gett* X:
2. The Hebrew word transited
brooding .j* from the verb rsohaph,
which means to fosfltr or cherMtM-to
br°od over. The same word is used
by Moses when speaking of the eagle
hovering her young, (Deut. 32:11.)
and Scripture in mind when He said
with tears, “0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem
....How often would I have
gathered thy Children together, even
as a hen gathereth he* chickens un
der her w^ngs and ye Would not.”
Matt. 23:37.
Sang the Psalmist, “He shall
cover thee with Hds feathers,
under His wings ®hialt thou*'take
fuge.” (When reading' thb
Testament I remember with joy
frequently Jesus quoted from it.
The Holy Spirit is Btfll in
world—brooding over fallen puma
bringing life from death, border
of chaos, dispelling the- darkness
sin and sorrow; saving, cleansing '
sanctifying; then anbinting
power ail who by faith open their
hearts to receive him. In the Math*
odist Review. (MajfJune ’24.> there?
(is ‘a very enlightening symposium^
.“the Holy Spirit In Jlrl
Thought,'’ and an inspiring/edito^l
on ^ire Baptism.”
the Weil ifeowp^^eiaeii^ .jof'* ‘tf&m
Jfcr uhwip^,fo : a "Society in
^Bdorsgate $iteet, where/ one was
lre&c|ing.Luther’s Preface?to the Epis.
fie to the Romans. About a quarter
heart through faith in Christ. I PELT
MY HEART STRANGELY WARM
ED. I felt I did trust in Christ,
Christ alone, for salvation; and an
assurance waa given me. that be had
taken away my sins, even mine, and
saved me from the law of sin and
death.” And says the Editor of The
Review, “Pentecost is the birthday
of the Christian Church, May 24 is
the birthday of Methodism- Its prima
ry slogan, the Witness'of the Spirit,
t .cn u.w. r__rth in the heart
C%
of our ratner in uoa. Ana tnai
word “warmed” points toward one
of the supreme natural symbols of
the Ho’y Spirit. It is> noteworthy
that of the four so-called physical
elements of primitive phi osophy—
fire, water, earth, and air—that stat
ic, sluggish one, called earth, is the
only one not used as a symbol of the
Spirit of God. It is the other three
plements that image the Holy
Spirit.” Methpdist Review, ip. 455.
Thie blessed Holy Spirit, who is
also the Father and the Son is still
brooding over us to hatch out of Our
shell of inertness and indifference im
mortal life, and to shelter and pro
tect us, that we may rise ^nd -soar
with Christ “in the heavenlies.”
When our Heavenly Father wou’d
reveal to Abraham and Sarah that a
child should be given them in their
o’d age, and that he would not only
be a Father, hut also a Mother to
them and their posterity, He for the
first xtime mentions His name El
Siiaddai—“the nourisher.”' The word
is formed from the Hebrew word,
“shad.”—the breast, invariably used
in Scripture for a woman’s breast;
see, Gen. 49; 25. Job 3; 12. and
many other Scriptures, (a. very H
luminating note will he found in The
Scofield Bible; Gen. 17th Chapter.)
So God tells Abraham and Sarah as
He tells us, that ag,a Mother broods
over, nourishes and cares tor her
children, so He will care for us and
our offsprings. In very many precious
<=!crip^ures this truth is brought otft.
“He shall gather the Iambs with hia
arm, and carry them in His bosom,
and shall gently lead those that tire
with young.” Isa. 4d; 11. and Isa.
49; 15. “Af one whom bis mother
comforteth, so will I comfort you.*
13;.
Said the