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VOLUME FORTY-NINE. CHARLOTTE. N.ORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1925 NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR CRUSADING FOR AF RICAN REDEMPTION. FERVOR AND FEVER. By Bishop Q. C. Alleyne. One can hardly, crusade in Africa without being fervent in spirit. One cannot expect to have fervor and not get fever. At Tafo I had my first at tack of African fever. Had gone to bed when a telegram came from Rev. Peters informing me that word had been received from the Bank of British West Africa that the draft was at last cashed. From that hour { began to mend. I shall never know1 whether that was the tonic; but the fever soon -left me. On arriving at the school chapel 1 found a large audience. The Oman bene, Kofi Peasah, was there. At the close of my address lie spoke for the people. Among other things lfe said: “We thank you for coming to our village. May God bless and prosper you. Our fathers told us that some j of our people were captured and car ried away across the sea. This is the first time We have been privileged to see any of their descendants. The occasion makes us both happy and sad. However, we are pleased that you have come. May your coming prove a blessing to us." Next morning, according to native custom we called to pay our respects to Nana Peasah. He received us in regal splendor. The chiefs and oub chiefs were in attendance; ,also tbe councillors. For the first time we saw and heard a native crier. Despite his peculiar antics one must maintain a decorus attitude. We found in the Omanhene a very progressive ruler. He evinced keen interest in the edu cation of his people. But complained that since the coming of the Euro peans, the young people ywere not as respectful -4fnd obedient as of yore. He insisted that we exhort our teach ers to urge upon ttiem the retention of their native manners. One of the chiefs also spoke. He asked that I send them trained preachers, and teachers. He likewise requested that I use my influence with the Government with a view of ■ securing a train stop at this village. “This,” he said, “would contribute much to the growth of the town, -and the strength of the mission.* A messenger was "sent by the chiefs of Twepiahse praying us to come and , open a school in his village. I sent word that I was instructing Rev. Eshun to proceed there at his -earli est convenience. His request would be considered, but he must see that his people build a school chapel and living quarters for the teachers. It will be the future policy of Zion mis sion to answer such calls .only when the people are willing to help to the j extent of their ability. At the public meeting the native pastor of the Scottish Mission spoke by request. He expressed delight in that the gospel of labor had been Preached. In his opinion Industry would save Africa. But everybody wanted to become a clerk or an ac countant; hence cultivation of the soil was neglected. “When,” he said, “my wife lived she knitted native socks for my use. These lasted about *'v° years. Since her death I have had to wear European made socks which wear about one month. Yet o'ir people are discarding all native hiade articles in favor of imported commodities.” His' was a fine, practk cal talk. Africa is awakening! The Omanhene put his fine Buick sedan at our disposal, amd at two o’ clock we arrived at Koforidua. We ^ere received in the usual way; save c?hly that they sung a piece which bad been composed for the occasion by Rev. Okyir. These are the linen: Thy kingdom come, O Lord we pray, ’Tis coming soon the world see, A better day begins to dawn ^'e’re marching on to victory.' . ‘ •- ' \ We’re marching onv we’re marchihg on, We’re marching on to victory; A better day begins to dawn We’re marching on to victory. Here the Wesleyan minister, Rev. Ernest Bruce was exceedingly, kind during the welcome exercises, put l^is pulpit at my disposal the following Sunday and gave us a substantial collection for our work. The Omanhente, Nana Kwaku Boa teng, also spoke. He expressed pleas ure on meeting, not an European Bishop, but one of his own race. He further said, "I am profoundly im pressed by the good advice gi?en to the young people by the Bishop.* I shall call a special meeting of all the school children of the town in order to emphasize what has been said here today.” He arranged to accom pany me to all the schools. (Continued to page S) THE SOUTH TURNING CORNER IN RACIAL UNDERSTANDING. By Carroll Binder Special Correspondent to Chicago Daily News. The day of the Lord has not yet arrived in the South, but a goodly section of southern opinion has found the right path toward a Chris tian solution of the vexing race ques tion. That is the outstanding impres sion left with the visitor to the sev enth conference of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, which met in Atlanta, April 22-24. Previous con.-... ferences of these leaders of southern opinion of both races necessarily consisted largely of reports of ^'-^ creasing goodwill between the two races and discussions of how to in crease that goodwill. The fruits of the Commission's work and of the new attitude toward the race problem were manifest at the 1925 session. j Advance in Every Stale Delegates fronj every southern state except Arkansas were present, with reports of state and local inter racial commissions which were mak ing progress in dealing with the race question in ite various aspects. Texas reported on the way in which its sev eral commissions throughout the state backed up the sheriff of Orange In his brave stand to protect a pris oner*1 against local elements bent on staging a lynching—partly for ven geance and partly to “advertise the town” as the local editor put it—and how the law was enabled to take its course.. Tennessee, which had been proud of its place on the no-lynching "honor roll, reported how it had held a great protest meeting participated in by leading citizens six hours after Nashville had been disgraced by the lynching of a 15 year old boy dragged from a hospital. The Inter-racial Com mission bestirred itself in the search for the lynchers and reported how sheriffs had saved the lives of other prisoners against whom threats had been ma'de. From other states came similar reports of community activi ty to halt the lawless taking of lifer Every state was able to repqrt bet ter schoolhouses, parks, nurseries, playgrounds for the Negro citizens. The local commissions frequently en gineered these improvements, but the conference reported increased recog nition on the part of the Whole com munity that such things were the right of tfie Negro, citizens and tax payers. From certain communities came report® of new school buildings and other Improvements obtained by use if the Negroes’ voting power in bond elections^ Contrary* to impres sion in some quarters the Negro does vote in many southern communities, and often helms a balance Of power, tests pnd a Savannah cleanup elec conteets and a Savannah cleanup elec tion demonstrated. ^ ' (Cwtatal to mo » ; BUS OF COMMENT. - By Thomas Walker Wallace. Lift high the torch that' we may see. Hold it aloft with sturdy arm and let his rays strike the sweat stained faces of tireless workers striving to lift heavy stones and fit them into the eternal monument of * Accomplished Deeds. t t X The journey from West 10th and Bleecker streets to 137th on the west side in New York is not a great dis tance as the crow flies, but the jour ney has been arduous In the extreme and difficulty bestrewn at every step for pastors and people of historic ‘‘Mother Zion.’!. Looking back over the past SS^years of the history of this monument of Negro independ ence of spirit and unconquerable de sire for the highest and best, one recalls the old familiar class and covenant meeting expression “some times up and sometimes down.’’ But aftpr years of ardent toil on the part pf ministers and people comes the time when full recognition is-gained of tae uniqfie position held by the pioneer Negro religious organization in America; f and pastor, people and Connection arise to the greatness of the hour, and so appears the grea Cathedral of Zion Methodism. Dr. J. W. Brown stands out as the tireless worker, patient pastor, thorough or ganizer, and man of resplendent vis ion. Change one letter in his name and, it becomes “Brawn.” His task and its execution would do ‘honor to a “Hercules.” Change two letters and we have “Brdin.” Brown, the man of brawn and brain, has accomplished what every ardent Z ionite every where has long wished and prayed to see, Mother Zion standing truly at the head of the Negro’s greatest ef fort at self-realization. And certainly the task has required other charac teristics, notably, a great heart devot ed to the cause of the Master. He ha^ that, for, “How can a man do these things unless God be with him?” I X X Plain every day honesty and sin cerity'will not always go unreward , ed. Nine years of- patient seryice# in Cincinnati have brought Rev. Jain'et. P. Foote into the front rank of gos pel minsters whose aim is the build ing up of ^the Kingdom and yet he is the same unassuming and lovable character as he was when patiently serving to * secure the necessary equipment for his calling at Living stone College. Foote, the conscien tious and plodding student, has ripen ed into the consecrated and still plodding preacher of the gospel, whose greatest ambition is t& serve and build monuments in the Walls of Time. ' t Extremely hard working and full of energy and Divine Fire, we first knew Rev. S. D. Davis as pastor of St. Marks in St. Louis, and then we saw him as presiding elder, later as pastor in, Indianapolis, Ind., and no^ the sweeping success in historic State Street, Mobile, Ala., and the end is not yet, for there is reserved for him a secure niche in the hall* of Zion’s famous. t t t Twenty-nine years ago we first met three indomitable youths in Living' stone, all in the same class, each filK ed with great ambitions and possess ed of determined zeal and dogged tenacity. They left college wfth . these ambitions armed with the habili ments necessary for the' attainment1 of their ideals and the intervening years have been filled with intense labor and today, Clement is the great churchman. Walker is the great au thority on Tuberculosis, and Trent is th4 president of M^pdma* mater, Liv ingstone, Speak, 6 Tftf Years, and ' tell of the arduous liabors, of the un- - remitting zeal and constant aim of these stalwarts till they readied the ■umatit with broad vistas spread but around them, where men behold tlieiit "Princes of the Royal House' Of Deed Doers,” ' X X X "There is no'hostility to any other race in the hone of the white man that his will remain the dominating race." This from the pen of a Sup posedly great writer of present time. Of coursb logic was not one of his’ collegiate studies and why pay any attention to such a minute detail. Propaganda must be served. Certain ly one race can master another with out being hostile to It. History is full of illustrious examples. Rome was not hostile to Greece, to Carthage, to Gaul. Napoleon w£8 not hostile to the nations of Europe- Germany was not hostile to France when she Al sace-Lorraine, England has never been hostile to Indian—and^a-sjsurecLly /was not hostile to the American col onies when she tried to maintain her dominion over them. Oh, yes, nations and races may be subjugated by a dominant race • or nation without any hostility on the part of the master. It is all done without the least fric tion—each one recognizing that sue* must be the case. Mr. Arthur Bris bane needs a course in logic or eth ics, which? (Continued on Page 5) NEGROES AWARDED PRIZES FOR ART AND LITERATURE. 700 SUBMIT PLAYS, ESSAYS AND PAINTING FOR SPIN GARN THROPIES. - Production the one-act prize play,*“The Broken Banjo,” reading of prize poems and essays and tab leaux illustrating a prize storyswere features yesterday evening at the Rena Renaissance ^Casino, No. A60 West 138th Street/ when the Spingarn prizes for Negro literaTOit and art vere awarded to winners of the contest, conducted since August, 1924, by the Crisis Magazine. Sjfeven hundred Negroes took part in Ihe contest. Of the contributions, submitted, 330 were short stories, 139 were poems and -the remainder es says and plays. Twenty-eight paint ings were submitted. “The Broken Banjo,” was written ’:>y Willis Richardson, of Washington, D. C. The amateur actors wh6 ap peared in it were Bill Andrews, Dr Frank Horne, Mae Miller, Myles Paige, and Charles Burroughs. Mrs. A. G Shelton, o'? St. Louis received, second prize for play writing, and Miss Myrtle A. Smith, of Colorado third prize. Countee Cullen, of New York won first prize with his cycle of poems Frank Horne, of New York was sec ond and Langston Hughes, of Wash ington third. Dr. Rudolph Fisher of Freedmen’s Hospital, Washington, won $100 for the story entitled “High Yaller;” Mis' Marie French of Colorado Springs got second prize and Miss Anita Scott Coleman, of New Mexico third. First prize for essays was won by Miss Marietta O. Bonner, of Massa chusetts, who wrote “On Being Youm —A Woman-And Colored.” Secoru prize went to Langston Hughes, the«, third to G. A. Stewart of Ohio. For illustrations, E. A. Harleston, of South Carolina got first prize, Al bert Smith, now studying in Paris, second, and H. A. Woodruff, of In dianapolis, th|rd. The judges were: Fiction. Sinclair Lewis, Charles W. Chestnut and Ma ry White Ovington; essays, Edward Bok, J. E. Spingarn. and Benjamin Brawley; plays Eugene O’Neill, Charles Burroughs; -fiester A. Wal ton'tfS9<4>r. W. IS. B. DuBois, poetry William Slmtev Braith waito. Robert Monts Lo i nd T *>11* Plncknefr Hill; ft»ws*. V.Sn, W^r Jack Rani can, H. Glirfenkamp and Wlnold V-' THE RAINBOW ROUND ABOUT THE THRONE. Rev. E. George Biddle, D. D. h, yMrr-vpw-st£« ' - * “And there- was a rainbow round about the throne.”—Rev. 4:3. The Apostle John, “The Beloved Disciple." on “bleak and desolate Patinos.” He has just finished writ' ing the letters to the “Seven Church* es in Asia,” for. us, and tor all future generations. The cruel state of at* fairs which had caused his banish* ment were very distressing and die* eourdging. The Blessed Redeemer knew he needed help, so He „ called him to look away 4>o . heavenlyscenes, tqia%iq^w|)|Bpn^j^t. ' eousness should cdmpleteiy triumph over wrong. He calls him to' “epme up hither,” that He might show him the coming triumph. We must, at least in a measure, be dis-associated With earthly things, if we would clearly see heavenly things. Too much contact with earth blots out heaven from our view. John obeyed the heavenly voicetbat called him to “come up higher,” and he saw the “open door,” the throne, and He that sat upon it, and THfe BAIN BOW ROUND A 6 O U T ! Tfl B THRONE.” Doubtless this Rainbow had always been there, just as the plan and purpose of our Redemption had been from before the founda tion of the world.” , A clearer, understanding of the fu ture is always revealed to those who accept the invitation to “Come up hither.” It is then that God shows things which must be hereafter.” This statement to John that the “things” to be shown .him were to be of the future must be taken liter ally by Bible students; but unfor tunately great Bible Commentators, such as Dr. Albert Barnes, our own Bishop Hood and others have inter preted these “visions” as relating his toric events from the time of Daniel's prophesies to the decline and fall of the Roman , Empire, placing the “things BEFORE rather than AF TER John’s time. If ^ve were mors careful we wotild maintain the right prospective, and many of the “mys teries” and apparent contradictions of the Bible would vanish as the morning mist before the rising sun. This Rainbow of Promise had the predominating color of green, "like into an emerald,” to assure us of the reviving and refreshing nature ot this everlasting covenant. Doubtless the rainbow had been there from "before the foundation of the world,” ever since the ’'sun and the rain had known each other. Wicked men, N skeptics, infidels and some of . the •"modernists” of our day ridicule the Bible, becausev as they erroneously say, “God created the sun on the "fourth day,” their loose, careless reading is the cause of their trouble, for the Bible does not say that .God created the sun on the fourth day. The Hebrew word "bars” (created) is not found in this statement about the sun. What the niodernist reads as a work of "fourth da^” of crea. tkm was simply the shining forth of the sun. "When the mist hadr rolled away,” and the sun shone forth in all his glory, and from that time the sun and^ rain after every stonp, have kissed each other, and revealed the rainbow of the everlasting > covenant. Our heavenly Father' is so anxious to show us His love, and mercy that He gives us this picture promise, that all th^ world may look and be sav ed. The rainbow as ..well as the cross is a symbol of God’s tender love for ' us. "The Heavens declare the glory of God.” The regularity of the sea sons, the methodical revolutions of the planets, constellations and neb ala, the timely fulfillment „of the prohesies and promises, all attest the truth of the written word of God. *fhe rafi&dW Is Aur first flection and Hie of the
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