^OGTCfoER 9, 1924
WALKING ABOUT
Bishop J. S. Caldwell, D. D.
Mr Editor:
I am sending .you-a few lines for
publication frolfi the old historic' city
of New Bern, N. C., resting as it
does upon the banks of the Neuse
River. Sunday, September 21st, found
us doing business for the King rat
the old St. Peter’s at 11 A. j|.. aid1
at 3 P. M., six miles away at Ply
mouth chattel, and $Ut 8 P. M., we
held forth at James chapel, James
City, N. C. '
Tuesday, the 23rd, we met the dis
trict conference, presided over by
Rev. H. Bell, P. E., at Oriental,
N. C. We found the brethren here
ail happy In their work, and sweeping
on with great "success and anticipa
tion of gobd reports at the forthcom
ing annual conference. Rev. Bell
seems to havd ’liae love and respect
of the men Whom he is leading.
Wednesday, the !24th, we visited
Trenton, N. C.. where Dr. W. M.
Sutton had converted hfe -men in dis
trict conference". This was another
great gathering of Zionites. Dr.
W. M. Sutfon, preSiding elder, was
in the saddle.' Rep&ts of pastors
were all very encouraging. Every
department 0? ,'^he Phurch work re
ceived encouriil&ient from this safe
and sane presiding elder. ;
I was not .able to reach the dis
trict conferee pres|de:d over at
Hookerton, N. C., by Dr. J. H.
Love, presiding elder*; but wag. In
formed that it was One of the best
ever tot&jjjmk, him OH the district. Dr;'
Love astd^pB men c4n be depended
upon when it comes to bringing
*1- %4
tjlev..- j.. S. Shaw at Greenville*’
N. C.,. Is in the midst of the building
of a new chuich; The basement is
cow being occupied by his Urge and
enthusiastic congregation- The annu
al conference is to meet there De
cember 3rd.
On account of the. historic signifi
cance surrounding St. Pdter’s at Net?
Bern, N. C., the whole denomination
is very anxious about the outcome
of its rebuilding. No church of the
proportion of this one in our com
munion is simlarly situated - You will
remember that two-thirds of its mem
bership lost all -their belongings at
the time the church was burned. For
eix months after the fire the city of
New Bern cared for the fire stricken
sufferers by a fund provided for that
purpose. The people are attempting
to rise from their bed of ashes and
rebuild their homes, and at the same
time as Pastor Holt aptly putj it:
“We are with one hand laying a
brick or tacking a board on our own,
homes, and with the other hand lay
ing a brick on the church building.”
This necessarily makes slow work
in both directions. Notwithstanding
this handicap, the loyalty and mdus
tiy of this people cannot be question
ed. I stood on the old foundation
vails of St. Peter’s andi could scarce
ly refrain from, tears as I thought of
the blood and tears of the fathers
who laid the foundation and, built
the walls of that once beautififl and
well appointed-edifice that now lies
in a bed of'aches.' I thought off the
late J. C. Price who ns a boy, got
his first training in the Sunday
School of this old church, and the
late John C. Dancy In his young
manhood days who spoke from the
platform of this old church with such
effect and power. Likewise, the late
Bishop Rush was connected with this
church in his early days. I went
the parsonage under the spell and
*aid to Pastor Holt, a» did Jeremiah
of old to his peoples “Let us rise and,
build.” .The people here must he
helped. My plans to this end are in
Ike making and will be, made known
a little later.
Rev. W. W. Howard; D. D., re
cently of California, now stationed^ at
Salisbury, Md. lahd with whom I
spent Sunday, Sept, the 28th, is
starting off splendidly. A new
parsonage',
cost of
will
high day at Zion at this point.* Tb^re
were three services. Presiding EWer
M. "W: 43tovi#^ 0. D., at the Salisbury
district, preached the missionary ser
mon at 11 A. M. I preached at 3
P. M. The St. James congregation
of this city and' Rev''. 2. B. De
shields and several of hiB members
came pp.frbm Princess Anne, Md.,
and joined in with St. Paul at this
service: At S P. M., the missionary
ladies observed Woman's day wfth
• an ^rojM^ate Sidney
Wilson, the local president presided
Raised all day by the trustees,
$349.$2. /. J
; A FLATS WORD FOR A *
GRITICAL HOUR.
More anon.
•Vi
E. Stanley Jones.
Missidrtary In India.
i am writing tms entirely on my
own initiative and responsibility.
The reaspne that impel me to write
will or ought to- be. plain as 1 share
my anxiety. ■ ,'.-./'i,
I am told that the understanding
has }j>een passed down the line that
tfeeire are to be no more scares pre
cipitated bn the Church. With this l
have a good deal of sympathy.., The
Church and ite benevolent work must
not be run on periodic 'alarms. It Is
unhealthy a^id becomes as finally af
fective as tho chytsic cry of: *‘Wolf.
Wotf}*’ Not by peddle alarms but.
by consistent consecration tp the
je8UB
In spite of the above I confers my
self aiarmed-^^horoiighly' ’alarmedV 1
There is no necessity to Spring -a ■
scare on the Church- this time. Mere- j
ly state the facts and face them. The
factg themselves are the alarmi b\
When I returned from India - in
April Bishop Wame took me aside
into a little room at the Foreign
Board offices tin New York and, with
trembling lip> said: ' ?'§tapley, the
Missionary Society 4® two millions in;
debt, two millions in deficit over last
year, so that an actual < hortage of
four millions faces us. Lnlesg there
some miracle of giving before the
Fall Conference® an£ the Fall Meet
ing of the Board ( we will have to re
call-missioitaries, keep some from re
turning who :>„re now on f vrlough, and
will have to order, a twenty*five per
cent retrenchment of all our work.”
I could scarcely believe, it. I had just
come out of the greatest missionary
situation that the world has: ever
seen. ,1 had seen whole, nations turn-/
Ing in thoughVTdwara Jesus Christ;'
lines that we had sapped for decades
actually giving way in the .greatest
spiritual movement toward Christ of
the centuries. I .speak sober truth
when I say it. In India from national
leader to outcaste there , is a taping
toward Christ all along the line. And
yet we are- being compelled to face
retrenchment at an hour Jike this.
And at our moment of greatest ma
terial wealth. Please do not speak to
me of hard times and poverty. I am
not impressed.. I have seen them
both—stalking before me with gaunt
figure® . No, we are blessed with ma
terial -resources as no other people
of any age has been blessed. During
this time of our falling income, that
•a during 1923( the saving® banks de
posits increased $140,000,000, ,or at
the rate of $3,000,000 a day; one of
the great, banks of the country esti
mated that duffing 1923 the total gain
in the invested wealth of the coun
try was approximately $12,000,000,
000.
Thig is no mere scare about para
lysing the foreign work—it has act
ualy begun. Word from the field this
week tells me that the Finance CSpm
mlttee of one of the Conferences, see*
ing impending diiaster and in order
to soften the coming blow, ha® al
ready voted reduction. The Distri
Superintendent
w
•found tradition
Is more fro*
prison than an
1* again knock
s Who," for to
that roster we
is a good step
That old and
that the minister’s
quently an inmate
occupant of the pul]
in the head by “
the current issue o:
learn that the man
ping stone to fame.|In order t<^ se
cure information concerning the coin
par atiy®, success ot
the Editors of'"Wr
v • * .vf-<r£fr:
a questionnaire to
names appealed i
1922-1923, asking
tion of their fat
the returns race
pears that 2,895
per cent., inJhO ,
were the cdd^reh
addition^ a coi
the replies
•farmer and preac'
preacher,” etc.'it is
a brief study of
sent our
tose whose
edition of
the occopa
thfc bas^of
•1 pefe
2-1923
In
ot
American notables
latest volume of
further-in
ktherhood of
ared for, the
s Who'* by
of Indiana
Prof. Stephen S.
Imiversityf that
“At the 1870
est the birth of tb
were about 40,109
men in America 0;
time clergymen)
0-4 per cent. of all
it follows that in proportion to pop
ulation, clergymen [.fathered fully
(the one pear
notables) there
plergy
thapart
about
Thus
BISHOP J. W. WOOD, D. D.
Sixth Episcopal District.
twenty-eight times the average num
ber of notables. About the year 1870.
one Protectant clergyman in each
fifteen had a child who later won a
place in ‘Whip’s Who in America.’
Hence Protestant clergymen about'
1870 contributed in proportion to
thein numbers about 2,400 times as
many eminent persons as aid unskill,
ed laborers, thirty-five times as many
as did farmers, four times as many
as business men, and over twice as
many as the average of other profes
sional men.” ,
Twd radically -different interpreta
tions, we are told by this investigat,
or, have been offered concerning the
comparative value of the several el
ements of the population in the pro
duction of notable men:
(Contirtiled to page 5)
ETHICS OF JAPANESE
EXCLUSION.
Speaking from the radio station
WH^T in New York Milton W.. Sut
ton discussed ethical aspects of Jap
anese exclusion. The fact that hie
address was made under, the auspic
es of the National Security League,
which yields to none in emphasis upon
loyalty and 100 per .cent American
ism, adds significance to what he
said, in part as follows: -“Jutet ^hv
our Constitution, draWn up by men
who thought they were penning a
bill of human rights, should, be in
terpreted as the exclusive property
through all the ages of three color
groups, red, white and black, and
only these three, is more "
great Christian College in Tokio.
should take up residence in this
country and desire to become a cit
izen he could not do so. Should he
be introduced as a Doctor of Philoso
phy from John Hopkins University
—as a Christian gentleman of forty
years standing—asjthe administrative
chief of every American missionary
who is appointed to work as a teachr
ei, in that great institution,, he
would, without more than a glance
at his passport, be ruled out as in
eligible. Dr. Nitobe may be invited
to come^khd "deliver i^lttfes^n po
litical and national ideals to the stu
dents of Harvard and Yale Universi
ties as ‘exchange’ professor, but he
can never qualify as a citizen of this
Republic. Why? Because he is net
ther an American Indian, a . Cau
casian, of a Negro. He was born
unassimilable to our Social and po
litical life, dont you see? It makes
no difference that for many years
he has been happily married to a
charming American lady—tha*. their
home in Tokio is a center of culture
and refinement, as well as Christian
patronage of every good cause. No
qualitative test is permitted and he
is debarred, together with Wellington
Koo, C. T. Wang,. Rabindranath
Tagore, Gandhi and more than 800,
000,000 other of the children of men
who live East, of Suez. ” Japan “has
looked to. America as an ‘Outet’ for
her people for years, as She ever did.
However, it means everything to
have them treated—either excluded
or admitted—on exactly the same
- * - - 'Mi. - - -■ -
basis/ai the people of other races,
When Ittis proposal was pressed at
one of the sessions of. the Senate Com.
mittee, the< unanswerable reply was
that the application of the quota to
would . recognize thW
racial equal Es^opea^
.that
Intolerable. If W9 hav«
a desperate time granting free- >
and equality of opportunity to
Japanese who are at this parties
uiar junction the most educated, pro.
gicssiVe and Amei^canlike of all the
people of the East, what is to becon .e
qf us when the millions of Chinas
India and Africa, tomorrow and the
' day after, struggle, to their knees
and then to their feet- and finally
stand facing us eye to eye, claiming
a place with us as ©«r peers*- If we
cannot make this adjustment, \thore
is nothing ahead, but disaster5; It is
not Japan, but America that is on
trial in this present situation.’?
ROOSEVELT DE
NOUNCES KLAN.
New York N. Y., Oct . (By The As
sociated Negro Press:) One of . the
outstanding parts of the speech of
Theodore I^oosevelt, Republican can
didate for governor,, in his speech
for nomination acceptance were the
paragraphs directed. against the Ku
klux Klan. He also praises the ad
ministration -.of President Coolidge
pnd denounced. the evils of Al
Smith's-regime in the state- The
paragraphs against the klan read'
“it there is one tenet of our Amer
ican beliefs' which stands out over
everyjjther, it is that men should b a
judged as>men and on no Other ba
sis. We maintain that racial; and re
ligious matters , should never find
their place in our politics. I deplore
their introduction into this campaign.
I stand as I stood eighteen months
rgo, firmly and unalterably opposed
td any organization whatsoever,
whether it be the Ku Klux Klan or
some other group, ^hen it endeavors
to violate this fundamental princi
ple of the United States by the cre
ation in politics of false distinctions
between. American and American.
“If we are to exist as a nation, we
must be law-abiding. On the law de
pends our society. Destroy law, and
the country reverts to. barbarism
overnight. Civilization ceases. De
stroy law, and wo Will be back in the
days of slavery, rapine and pillage,
when the strong oppress the. weak
md when interest triumphs over
It is said that an *|Mj|^kvage
summoned to launch a boat-SMdd save
a man drowning injuidstream, calm
ly refused with the'w&bdi^ ‘He is not
of my village.” Bfow 'inhuman and
shocking, we th&lt! YetlSaii(Sh atti
tudes are being taken and expressed
by thousands of men and Women—
many of them the' life of
the various nation*—who would scorn
to be classed with1 the African’ sav
age. Holding That the barriers of
language, of culture, of race, insu
perably divide'The human speciesv
they deny that * God hath hxalie of
one blood all nations, of men,” and
groups, superior—in their own
thought—to all other groups,“and
having thereby-t&O right of mastery
over all other. It is of tMft, spirit—
and some other, el^ldjfentp-^tot, race
prejudice i8 engepdere%* V
Almost within this generation the
clash of color a&'
widespread and '
tralia has set
Japanese. The ’
Armenian and C
Africa the native
the suppressive measures of the in
vading whites; while oh the east coast
native born Indiana are depriyed of
rights and respect by white men who
brought their fathers there to labor.
Japanese look wit!
reans. in' Europe^
prejudice between
smoulders and flax
again.
| In 'our^pwii Tlnib
.but ■ to
esa,” “Negro
s -out the
anf GeatHe
res and smoulders
. V
to run over the epithets vulgarly Wp
plied to the various' foreign-born
fplkr-^and even to their natiVe-boTn
children to become consbibui of the
a,cute racial antipathies here. The
Missionary Education Movement and'
the Council of Women for Home Mis
sions have been; most timely la fix
lag as the subject for the year, “The
Way of Christ in Race Relations. ”
Surely here the way of Christ is
needed. It is needed to huipble racial
pride, to soften bitterness, to make
our approach to difficult problems,
patient and. un^uish,. to suppress the
hatreds that seem so easilyl^|^ak
out. But the way of Christ ij|-<meant
tov he more than a fife extinguisher.
It will not only suppress .;the 4vtt,
but by uncovering to us all-r-bleck,
white, yellow and brown .pnd red, the
wonderful qualities at each,. it-^Will
build a great' and marvelonsisp en
riched humanity—thp- kingdom of.
God on earth..
(Continued from, .page-1) -
WHEN
When Columbus andvWs-.,smAU, fleet
landed in Santo Domingo,in Decepif
ber 1492, in the hopetbatihey had
reached Japan, they-found- an island
of great natural beauty andirichBS.
inhabited by •'friendly Indians. En
chanted with the - surroundings, Co
lumbus immediacy -started the or
ganization of , a colonial go vern me nt
on the island; built a fort from the
wreckage of one of hie ships, and
later founded ;a cathedral. • It was
evidently his '^sirs td^ settle there
and be a of the
colony. But tbeVMiboljihdffir■ of San
to Domingo seei^; to-jbreedc conspira
cies . The explqrer wef* soon the ob
ject of a half doizen^i^StM nrhlch
kept him busy crossing and recross
ing the Atlantic in ordeb to explain
his motives tavtjra suspicious King
Ferdinand, andji a^3pgth; dttscoura&
ed and sick nt heartv he.’ docided to
lumbus each att^I»tedL>tu settle on
the ance3tral *Sf4-tO,ih\w|life. Domin
go, but were equally nftSdjfcfcwsful as
the result of political Intrigues.
Meantime - the.cp^ciiB^^SpWteh