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A. H. E. ZION CHURCH AT
PHILADELPHIA, PA., BAD
LY DAMAGED BY FLAMES
—ORGAN RUINED.
A spectacular fire at 9:30 A- M..
today gwept the Metropolitan African
Methodist Episcopal Zion church,
northeast corner 15th and Christian
Sto. ' • ‘
The entire first floor r.nd a portion
of the ground floor of the church
was gutted. A pipe organ was also
damaged probably beyond repair.
The loss ie expected to reach f50,000.
The blaze Started in a rear, corner
of the building. Mrs. Rebecca Rus
sel 1413 Christian St.' adjoining the
church, saw smoke seeping into her
house. She .was on the second floor
and ran to the street and sounded
an alarm. •
L. R. Small, colored, 1442 Christian
St., directly opposite the church,
saw the smoke at the same time, and
also turned In an alarm .
The flames spread rapidly and when
firemen ' arrived they had swept
through the entire Urst floor, on
which the pastor’s study and rooms
were Ideated, and were eating their
way along the second floor. This .is
occupied' by the Sunday School rooms
and church auditorium.
When the flames threatened the
roof of |the structure firemen sound
ed a second alarm. Dense clouds of
smoke attracted orowds of residents.
After an hour’s battle firemen put
the blaze under control,
The Rev. T, JT. Wynn is the pas
tor. The church was recently reno
vated and $5,000 was spent, accord,
fng to members of the congregation,
on painttn^ iuflkft- irepairfng the retract1
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—Bulletin, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov.
5th. ,V.
JOHN F. SLATER
FUND.
179 COUNTY" TRAINING
SCHOOLS,
Beginning with the session 1911-12.
at therequest of four County Super
intendents, the Slater Fund aided in
establishing County Training Schools
in these four bounties.
The proportion of the Slater
Board has been to appropriate $500
a year for salaries of teachers on the
following conditions:
1. The school property shall belong
to the state, county, or district, and
the school shall be a part of the pub
lic school system.
2. There shall be an appropriation
for salaries of not less than $1000
from public funds raised by state,
county; or district taxation.
3. The length of the term shall
at least eight months.
4 The teaching shall extend
through the eighth year, with the
intention of adding at least two years
ag soon as It' shall be possible to make
such extension.
The plan has met general approv
al.
Total amount session 1922-23 foi
all purposes' from public' funds,
3687,588. * -
The General Education Board b
also contributing to salaries in. dlmln
fcAfag amounts for a period of five
years, beginning with session 1920
21. The amount tor 1922-28 wa»
346.641.
The Jeanes Fuad, for the Improve
rnent of Negro Rural Schools- coop
orated during the session endinf
June SO. 1934. with public schoo
superintendents in 289 counties in U
States.
The 302 Supervising Teachefis, pah
partly by the counties and parti:
through the JeaUSs Fund. yi«ite<
regularly In these counties 9.98
country schools, making in a|l 41.31
vtaits.ahd miring fw the purpose o
school improvement *502 972. Th
total amount of salaiT to th
supervising Teacher* was $252,574, o
which the sum of $144,428 ww pal
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by the public school authorities ana
$108,151 through the Jeanes Bund
The business of these traveling
teachers, working under the direction
of the county superintendents, is to
help and encourage the rural teach,
crs; to introduce into the small
country schools simple home indus
tries; to give talks and lessons opk
sanitation, cleanliness, etc.; to pro
mote the improvement of school
houses and school grounds; and to
rrganize clubs foi* the betterment of
the the school- and neighborhood.
THE NEW NORTH
CAROLINA.
The story of the new North Caro
lina as told by French Strother in
The World'** Work draws the imag
ination like a magnet, so fascinat
ing are his Picture# of tie progress
of its peopled in the . last Quarter of a
century ^ Many A man looking at a
map of North Carolina, with Pamlico
Sound and the Atlantic Ocean on the
east and the towering Appalachian
range on the west, so that it is
blessed with eTery climate of tin
temperate zone, haS envied its inhab
itantg their natural advantages. What
a state to be torn in and to work and
play in, where the sumfner heats can
always be escaped by hieing to the
mountain forests, where the winters
ate mild and dhort, and where the
*611 yields of its abundance and. the
sea and its lagoons of their teeming
fish and game! But^to*North Caroli
na’s natural wealth the energy and
taxable material wealth, with the re
sult that, cities-have sprung up from
backwoods settlements, straggling
villages have become handsome
towns modern highways have been
constructed from sea to mountains,
and where were poverty and priva
tion not many years ago are now
plenty and luxury.- In brief, North
Carolina has risen from the ruins of
the Civil War to an almost incredible
prosperity. Her people owe much to
the inspired leadership of Charles B.
Aycock; who served them as Gov
ernor and died full of honors twelve
years ago. He had been ‘‘a plowboy
on a red--clay farm, his family of no
/ consequence.” His first passion when
he grew to manhood was schools.
He ‘‘dropped.dead in the middle of a
sentence in a famous speech on ‘uni
versal education.’ ”
Mr. Strother speaks of Aycock as
‘perhaps the greatest orator North
Carolina hag ever produced, as well
ris one of its sweetest spirits and
bravest men.” No men’s ep’gram
was more stimulating. He declared
that “a democracy cannot be built
on the backs of ignorant men.” Oth
ers who helped North Carolina to
see “hep dreamA come true” wore Ed
win A. Alderman and Walter Hines
Page. The latter’s inspirational
speech on “Forgotten Man” was- read
and is s treasured by thousands of
North Carolinians. Well known also
is his- book “The Rebuilding of Old
Commonwealths.” Such cultivators
of natural resources as the Dukes
contributed powerfully to the pro
gress of the state. The road builders
brought the people of the highlands
and the plains Into such intimate
touch that no farmer now. lives far
from a metal highway. ,There are mo
more Isolated jnountelneew. The
poor white a* a type has vanished.
The further North Carolina goes on
the j road of progress jthe faster she
seems to move. Beven yeans ago aha
spent $1 006,006 a year, on school
maintenance. Last y«*r the amount
was $23.eaa.e0e. in wee the value oi
her school buildings warn $1,.066.600
Today it is $48 060.060. Tn three y»af»
she has spent $70,006,666 on coneset*
and macadam roads to connect- th*
i*«ats of her 100 counties. Her wealth
lias been multiplied by ten in twgh$
years. ,, In 1006 her bank deposit*
were $16 060.606. By 192$ thejrbnf
risen to $345 666.060. She has pree.
tleally no immigration. Her fortune
hate been piled up hy the brains an(
sinews of a native stock that is nol
afraid of work. She has become on<
of the richest per capita states in tin
rnfon. Her death rate Is “the lowcs
l» the country.”—New York Times
GET OUT IN THE OPEN
SPACES' OF LIFE.
By T. Thomas Fortune.
I like the open space® of the rural
• districts. I like what is called coun
try life. I find in such , a life the
conditions and the activities that
appeal to me. I do not feel as if I am
elbowed at every point I move by a
multitude of people 1 do not know
and for whom I: have* only sentT
mental Interest. I do not care for
large gatherings of people. I seem
to be out 6f todch With them. Per
haps it is because I ^know that they
are seeking after something they will
not find and are at bottom selfish and
cruel and vasciHating ready to crucify
today him they glorified yesterday.
It depends.
Anyhow, average; human nature is
wery fickle'; very selfish, very savage,
When things go wrong with it and its
passions are aroused. A Very small
partHlon divides the impulses of a
vengeful mob from the enthusiasm
and acclamation of an applauding
audience. Have you £ver considered
that?
We take Jesus as a supreme ex
most independent and carefree and,
happy if he can be satisfied, with
the farmer's life. And those who
cannot do so and go to the big cities
are never contented. They miss
something and they never’ find it in
the city.
Solitude is a splendid thing, if you
like it- If you don't it Ss much like
prison walls that shut you in and
deny you even an unobstructed view
of yonder blueses and blazing sun.
—Negro World.
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RELIGION MUST BE
TAKEN MUCH MORE
OR MUCH LESS SE
RIOUSLY.
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. \—(By the
Associated Pres**)—While asserting
that the country is on the eve of A
true religious revival- Dr. Kenyon
L. Butterfield* -president of the Mich
igan Agricultural College, and head
of the American Country Life Asso
ciation, in an address today before
the seventh annual conference of the
latter organization^ said “the time
has come either to take religion
NOTICE!
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To Tire Brethren :—
The American Bible Society, Endowment of
Livingstone College, Conference Schools, Special
and Ministerial Brotherhood Funds Please Do Not
Send to the Financial Secretary’s Office* 420 South
11th St., Philadelphia, Pa., But Consult Your
Bishop or Pay^3ver at the Annual Conference.
Signed: . , ^ ; '
: f . W.H.GOLER
Financial Secretary.
ample fa most things. When he
cquld address the multitude without
danger to it, when he could feed it
as well as instruct it and sometimes
surprise it with miracles that dazz’ed
and confused and parables they could
hot understand^ they were his devot
ed servants, his to command. And
Jesus loved the wide open space of
Palestine. He felt cramped and nar.
rowed in the^ village and the city
But, when the law laid its hands
upon Jesus, when suspicion pointed
the finger at him and wagged the
tongue, even Peter
the rock on
which he built his church, denied
Him, and wheh the hour of crucifixion
came He was quite deserted,' save
for a few women. The mutltitude
and instructed
It is much that way
that had been fed
faded away
With the, average When mtafoptune
comes ^knocking at the door of the
benefactor the ; teacher—they Just
sidestep the trouble and have a mind
only for their own-safety. You say
it is human. Very well. I don't like
it. I don't find it in the-hroad coun
try spaces, where you are atone.
for the most part, and live and labor
alone, except for the few whose lives
Sne wrapped in yours. And they ,are
always few, mostly memherg of the
•aihily. We have neighbors, yes; but
hey are seperte and apart and have
nterests and families and troubles
,t their own, with only a few JoyB.
V in the open country life I appear
to absorb everything worth while .^ln
.the big city it is different. I feel afe.
kgorbed by everything,, and neutralis
ed .N^nd the absence of forestation
and vegetation and bird and animal
'Ifife lb the big city pains me, gets ol
^suJL-aervea.
in ali, the farmer's life is th
much more or much less seriously.”
“Religion is either the most funda
mental, the most vital, the most
practical human interest, or it is a
delusion, a superstitution and of ho
consequence except historically,” he
said. ' '
‘ The time has come to take reli
gion either much/ more or much less
seriously. For use of the western
world the teachings of Jesus are
either applicable to every type of
personal and social problems of the
present age, or they are the theoret
ical abstractions of a dreamer.”
Quoting from a statement of i
church group op the social creed of
the' churches, Dr. Butterfield said
“this statement has for Its core the
thought of taking Jesus in earnest,
oi interpreting His teaching as it, ap
plies to the personal and social life,
of trying to infuse His spirit and Hie
attitude towards God and toward
man, into every individual life and
into all the relationship of all the
people., . .
Another essential to the Christian
izing of all parts of American life,”
the. speaker asserted, ‘ is that the
scientist and the religionist shall
come together |n their thinking.”
“The religionist ought to bo a true
scientist,” he said, “for the scientist
simply seeks to discover the truth
about the universe, the physical uni
verse and the universe of men,
“There must cease to he antagon
ism between the fact and power of
religion oaone 'hand- and' of science
on the other, if the largest possible
pi ogress is to be made in developing
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lull/rounded religious men and wo
men,
J
“An explanation of religion must
be arrived at in terms of the beet
human thing. Meantime, however,
the^e ought to be an, agreement on
what constituted real religion, even
if there i8 not agreement on what
constitutes the true explanation , of
religion,”
The leadership of the neur religious
revival, he said, “Is distinctly con
1 scions that the industrious struggle
end all pussling economic
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By E. M.
Musing®.
It i® a wonder if the solid South
does not feel humiliated at having
its solidity rdbuked ,by a solid Bast
and West. Sectional and racial hate
got a hot wallop in the cedar plena.
The leading democratic Negroes,
who were going to bettor the condi
tion, of, ov*race^g*oupi,4n the «out|i
no doubt feel like thirty bents with
three holes in it. ; ,
“Silent Cal" did not , declare him.
seif against tile ku Klux Klan. bat
he did declare against the party that
hist forstered the klan} and boasted
ihat this its the white main’s country,
and no others need apply.
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The fall conferences are In toll
sv/ing; and the bishop that handles
the least of the /general1 Church’s
money during the sitting Of these
conferences WiU be the moat popular
Episcopate at the end of the quad
lennium, and wl’l have lees odium
attached to hi* ermine.
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The pastor that has a fall year to v
raise his assessment ought to bo
ashamed to come up to the confer
ence with a pocket full, of excuses.
f}e ought riot to be allowed to B&T: .
cne word of criticism. of. anything
that ..happens: in. Z^on., He is in Zion,
but not a part of it. > ,
Do the work and then kick if ya.t
nr© not treated right; Just keep on
kicking and. the pendulum in the
kcrologue of ., public opinion win
swing your way. qomO-dayv You may
be put down, but don’t be pot out;
nor stay down. Climb up!. Climb
upt if your lip’d ~ slips. -Try ‘ again.
Don’t he faint-hearted. \.'t
the religions Ides.’*
Dr. Butterfield’s subject Wh
challenge to the Christian firmmf
To put over the new program of
the late General Conference, there
■should he the utmost caution that
there be no elasticity in the manipu
lation of the budget- It wan the pur
pose that the budget committee of
each annual conference make its re
port to the financial- secretary direct
If this is done there'witl be no ground
for grumbling.
Pastors should make their reports
to the financial secretary as the law
requires. This is the only way to
keeu us from failing back to our Old
Bishops’ receipts Custom - There are
too many claimants depending on ns
to collect the general claims and
hold them. Let us pay as we go, and
it won’t be so hard tor us to round
out at the end of the year- v
Bishop Kyles says that Pr. Daven
rort is a fine “jugglAr" of English
words. This was meant as a compli
ment rather than a criticism. Dr.
Davenport is an undoubted- linguist
of no mean ability. He is conversant
with most of the modem idioms of
this late date. He is a ripo scholar
end well qualified for his position an
editor of our Church organ.
It is too early to begin talking of
who is who for this or that, office at
the next General Conference. All off
us should bend our every energy to
function with the new laws. Let ua
pull together with these new law®
and relieve the Church ■ It will be of
more benefit right now than boosting
one another for office.
• All ey^p of the laity cf the Church,
are upon us, and we must not pre
sume that the laymen of our ChurcJs
are ignorant nin-com-poota. Some off
them are as wise as wp-http., and as j
interested, and .htewwv
square with fhpntf
uc to the last ditch. Give the laymen
a look in on bur affair* and we will
be able to count on them. Otherwise
All will be discontent ranichaos
Hickory, N. C.
vhich he said was
**To t*T to make
xrantry Christian;
wrts of the coon
•fid to organise a
imign of activity