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» I BISHOP E. D. W. JjONES DE LIVERS ADDRESS. By Dr. F. R. Killingsworth. Bishop E. D. W. Jones wa* the only colored speaker at the exercises preceding the travelling of the mon ument, erectetThy .united 5||thodiem to Bishop AslUffy &e’ first Mihop of American Methodism. He spoke on “Black Harry,” the Negro servant of Bishop Asbury—accompanying him on most of his travels and who was considered the most popular preacher in the earfy days of the Church. ' Bishop\G. C. Clement, who was associated with Bishop Jones as re presentatives of Zion . Methodism, were the only two Colored men on the platform. The spacious audito rium of the Mt. Vernon Place Mi E. Church, South, was packed. A choir cf a hundred voices sang.*Such great7 religious leaders as Bishop Hamilton. Bishop ' Canon, who presided, Bishops McDowell and McNeely and Dr. Mc Farland,'Or. Carrol, Bishop Bell of the United Brethren in Christ were on the programme, while for the un veiling President Calvin Coolidgd spoke, still car Bishop Jones was also on the program and spokfe as we have never heard him speak, be fore . His address was applauded and\ after'the meeting the Whites rushed to the pulpit to congratulate our hero. .;j r One of the leading country told Bishop Clement“It was the finest, address delivered." ! The highest compliment I^d Bishop Jones came froiu Dr. Tipple, President of Drew Theological Sem inary, who requested the Bishop to send him an autographed dopy of his address, and he in turn wouid send him the life of Bishop Asbury of which he is the author. Drs. Battle, Williams, Medford, Church Extension Secretary S. M. Dudley, Rev. S. A. Young, Editor LuValle and the writer were present and all united in the common praise of Bishop Jones for delivering one of the greatest addresses, filled with loyal race sentiments, that it has ever been our pleasure .to hear* He knows not only the history of Zion Methodism, but he knows ehurch history in general. Great, our Bishop E. D. W. Jones and long j may he live to bless the Church he loves so well. | Following is, the text of the Bish op’s address: , BLACK HARRY. It is interesting in reviewing the history of Methodism in this coun try to learn just how' important a part Negroes or oblored, people played' in its formativer'heriod. Negroes were not only attendants upon the' services of worship in the Rigging Loft a^d heard Babara Heck exhort, listened to the ragged oratory of Captain Webb, but when he in the early part of 1768 led the subscription list with the sum of thirty pound to build the first Methodist meeting house,’, Negro servants who were so poor that,Jhey only i»d a single word tor a name also subscribed. “Rachel” gave nine shillings and "Margaret” sevefi shil lings. It does not say Rachel who, or Margaret what, but .we learn that they were hired girls to take care of the preacher's house; and that they v ere colored servants • Is confirmed <?rs and pioneers to preach the gospel of the Kingdom to. fellowship , every creature. In 1794, Sunday, July 29th, hd says: “I preached at the new African church.^ Wedneday* Feb ruary 25thr 1795 hp says, “we had a love .feast for all the Africans.” In 1796, at Charleston, S. C., Wednes day, February 3rd he says, “I had nearly ?5f» of the African society at the love feast. Oh my^Ood, display thy power!0 Livingstone Creek,. N_. ■IS.-/ 1803—Tuesday/iTFetpiary Bishop Anbury says: “I met the peo ple offcolor, leaders and stewards. We have 1878 African and a few whiter in fellowship.” -,J. " In Philadelphia, Saturday, June 2ndt while Bishop Aabury was riding to Radnor, hia little Jane, ahorse, was horned hy a cow and lamed. He says, "She is done for ever for me,' but tt may he for the best, l am unwell and the weather le bad.” On Sunday morning, he continues: “I desired Isaan James to' ride thirty miles deling; and coming to purchase me andthep little Jane at 380. He did so- I came to Philadel phia and found that Richard Mien had bought me a horse for $90, ed I had two.” 7 ttienara Alien was tne nrHt coioreu man ordained by Bishop Asbury, and; the founder of the A; M. E. Church, now so prominent in the spiritual Pte of the bfegro today. I have said all this that I might get to ‘ Black Harry," Bishop Asbury’s Negro servantHis real name was Harry Hosier. He was perfectly black, small in stature, .unable to 't#ev^Ws?tast Idethqdiat r preacher in America. il^ums directed accom pany Bishop. Cook On his very first Episcopal; tour. At different times he, acted as driver for the carriage of -Bishops Ashnry, Coke, Whatcoat and Qarrettson, but your historians say, for we were not writing history* then. * that he excelled all his masters in popularity as a ^preacher; sharing with them in their^ public service nof only in the black, but also in white congregations.” * , . Xednum," in his history, relates on a certain occasion at • Wilmington, Delaware, where Methodism had not yet become .popular; g: number of the citizens who had but. a , moderate opinion of the body ‘ came to hear Bishop Asbury. Old'Asbury Chapel at the time was so. full that they could not get in, and they stood , outside io hear the Bishop’s sermon; which at its cl^se they complimented high ly saying: ‘‘If all, Methodist preach ors could preach like the Bishop, we should like tp be constant hearers. ” Some one repiled‘‘That wasnot the Bishop, but the Bishop's servant, Black Harry.” . It was frequently the case, since the people wanted tp hear" the gospel and since the gospel has no color, that Harry took his master’s place in the pulpit. Black Harry preached so well and .acceptably that it helped Bishop Asbury in that it gave- him higher place in the estimation of the' people for they reasoned that if the servant were such a preacher, what must the master be? Bishop Asbury’s policy was to use gifts and talents from , whatever source he could secure them to plant the Methodism that the struggling nation so m*ch needed. He cared little for a black skin, he did not de spise hip servant because he a servant, but he gave him an oppor tunty to prove his matchless gifts, Bishop Asbttry ac When Amertci can try twenty-five' year* dieval. Now it is 'mo hospitals, *adfc boat, ^freedom df- ap« religion, unfettered n ambitious youth' a i coun cultured tell that the act may explode the «a*t xw iound the death knell of Europe, or it may usher in a new day tqflafl oppressed peoples . Who ^knowsf '* -> . ■ - ••••• ' ' x' America in the Philippine3 put colored men back into the American Congress. Hardly had the echoes of the eloquence ofc George H . Whit s died in the House of Representatives, before the voices of men Of color from these isles of the Jea Were heard in our national legislative halls Le BISHOP B.G. SHAW, D D. Eighth Episcopal^ Elistrict. grada, Quezon, de Veira, Cabal don, Yangco and othqre have filled the void left toy Bruce, Langston, Elliott, Cheatham, Miller and more of the Negro r^ce .’♦ho pleaded for the highest as do Filipinos advocate their ideals in season and out. Whether America has wished it or not the fates seemed to have decreed that the color question shall not down, shall not be Settled until it is set tled right. What that right is I do not pretend to say. 1 only know that the race question ^seethes in China, Japan, Persia, India, the Philippines and elsewhere. v Self-determination seems to be the talismknic. word which is putting steel into the spirit of peoples. Yet is no new idea with the Negro . Zion and other col ored religious * bodies, Negro lodges, schools and colleges, the Negro pressvand other enterprises, springing have strutted itf returned . as doc science, philos ophy and law ‘«TO9'» r ranks of Caesaiy^or with'Xenophoni, Ithont ^marching in the America has. not mismanaged the things in this country.' Her nationals in control have been on the main s crupulous. Some' ydars- ago I hoard a teacher at a conference at Baguio relate how he bad treated his native teachers.*o„ get certain results. A question from another teacher as to '■vhether the spencer considered it the pursue drove the braggart from the camp'. i .< One will ask, then, why is there a, pry for independence? Let him read the sighs, of the times. 'Why Is the unrest in India, China, Persia, Tapan and other parts? No, it is not ingratitude and were one inclined t<r think it so, he would remember that he early learned la'his moral philos ophy that love is ever Sftodger in him wha^hestows tbanhk him who receives. ' - a ‘A ' Of course, there is race feeling here,. Thescds^ race pride. Filipinos ere prou^ of their race, Negroes are proud of theirs ; and so it is with Chinese, Japanese and Caucasians, uot the leas^ of whom is the Amer ican white. And the Americans who have served their'Country here have not been altogether pigmies. One of them hag reached the presidency and chief justiceship of the natidn* On^ led our fofr&s in Europe, assisted by ethers whp had fOBOwed the dag m the Philippines. ^ *5he writer knows “But what of the J^ofero t’^ you ask - t>r. Carter J. Woodson was there "or, several years. Walter H. Lovirii has written his name internationally rjS'a musical conductor, and the only larcau American Chief Clerk and lisbhrsing officers in the ycountry :re Negroes. " ■ "... Ilagan, Isabela, P. I.v THE 14TH AMEND Ghicagp, IU.-r-A new EHreji Scot* decision is being sought by Bour bon Democratic party. In a suit* re cently filed in the Federal c<urt’in New Orleans, La .V an attempt is made by Democratic politicians '0 have tbe Colored collector of the Fort. Walter L. Cohen removed from office under the astounding plea that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Cpn stitution was ‘ illegally” adopted. “Every Negro and colored citizen of the United States 4s menaced with the loss of the last vestige of his rights under the law and what littl® civil liberties yet remain to his race if^this suit is successful in ,the courts,” declared Alexander Marky, Editor of Pearson’s Magazine and prominent Progressive, in a state ment made today. ” ‘Lynch law' will reign supreme. ” ^ , “Taken in connection with the chicanery and fraud \ by which the reactionary Democratic leadens of Louisiana soughf to par the names of Senators LaFollette and Wheeler from the ballot in their state, this suit bears out the charge made by those familiar with the, situation that the Democrats of the South are The ultimate pc the world is how which inhabit it i peace and harm* the expahsion of tory of the*pais$A been to xb^ke th< For betted or for Mar •• |iip>l N IBs wane Ian been brought closer together,, psy chologically they are in danger of drifting ^further apart. Having by its enterprise, inventions and eager pursuit of wealth succeeded in mak ing the world into a single whole, mankind ia now confronted with the more difficult task of establishing; a< moral unity. _ Ideas are being widely promulgat ed whic*, if ^accepte^ would ^d dt Preae. v luch and it is for the dnd as a whole tha* the ehbuld he- encduraged. thg blood, streaming through the unerring ; ity” that is going i !>nobIems and swaep i md nobler destinies \re consistent, to \ slood wherever they :hey refuse to do th if keeping to th'^ bail which, exhibit the hig rnoral qualities* begi "race,” which includ< is good strains, tlHft t their argument:
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