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NO: 20.
VOL. KLVIL
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(From the Charlotte Evening News.)
It is out of the question for
a race composing one-tenth of
the American population to live
among us without exerting a
tremendous influence upon us.
The Negro has been an Amer
ican one year longer than the
Pilgrim, came over here not
through any choice of his own,
but stolen from his home and
country, carried away in chains
and sold as a slave. The older
narratives record that the Ne
gro first made his appearance in
the United States in August,
1619, coming over on a Dutch
vessel.on which 20 of them were
transported here for sale.
In a condition of serfdom the
Negro remained for 250 years in
the New Country, having neith
er. liberty nor education and be
ing deprived of any chance of
self-betterment.
Practically none had any sort
of training or that discipline
that fitted them for self-disci
pline or guidance or initiative,
and then, in a day, 4,000,000 of
them were given their freedom
and cast out upon their own re
sources, having previously been
bound relentlessly to menial la
bor and without the slightest
opportunity to reveal what
strength they possessed to “walk
alone.”
They were, of course, sadly
unfitted for such a task. With
out training, they found them
selves faced with the necessity
of-working out their own desti
ny, Mke bh*nd Samson grinding
in the mills of the Philistines.
Perhaps the white man of
the South even has all too little
appreciation of what the Negro
has accomplished in its midst
or what it has amounted to as
air equity in our population. We,
of-course, have observed the
changed and yet changing con
ditions among the black men,
and, here and there, we have
witnessed the marvelous pro
gress some individuals among
them have made, sensing rather
proudly the development which
has featured their environs with
in the last few years especially,
but, even so, we pass over with
too little notice and far too little
of appreciation of the native and
resourceful abilities of the race
and many of the outstanding in
dications of .development which
can be secured.
Since, the day when the chains
were struck from the ankles of
the Negro in the United States
4,000,000 of them have turned
out to be 12,000,000 and three
fourths of them can read .and
write. They own 650,000 homes;
operate 1,000,000 farms; con
iuet 58,000 business projects and
have accumulated $1,480,000/
000. They have 50 colleges and
normal schools, and have 2,000,
000 children in the public
schools. Forty-four thousand
are teaching school. They have
$30,000,000 invested in proper
ty used for higher education.
More than 300,000 are in the
skilled trades and more than 50,
000 in the professions. They
have 45,000 churches, 4,800,000
church members, 2,250,000 Sab
bath School scholars, and
church property valued at $90,
000,000.
They nave written ana puD
[ished hundreds of books, sup
port half a dozen magazines and
more than 300 newspapers.
Ifcjhas been from the minds
of the Negroes that some of the
best literature of the age was
produced. The poems, for exam
ple, of Paul Laurence Dunbar
and1 “WftUiam Stanley Braith
waite, literary editor of The
Boston Transcript and the
essays of Miller and Grimke, the
mupc of Rosamond Johnson and
the paintings of Tanner are
aions not of the Negroes,
aor Qt the provincial localities in
they may have been
reared and in which they
wrought, but they belong to the
whole people of America. They
are national assets, and more
iven than that. There is a sense
nJwhich -they are the posses
sions of the entire world because
they ted a touch of genius that
raqks them with the best that
lasheen produced, of their kind,
anywhere.:
Lyman Abbott, fifteen years
ago, struck by the amazing de
velopment of the Negro, de
clared that it was a phenomenon
of history, that “never in the
history of man has a race made
such educational and material
progress in so short a time.
Surely, a race that has
achieved so conspicuously has
had its influence upon the white
and dominant race, whether we
are sensitively conscious of it or
not. /V
Their / yrtribution to the
world Ha^ oeen great and their
contribution to the South in
which they have largely lived
and wrought has been influential
in the material aggressions of
this section. The Negroes in the
South alone, we are told, culti
vate 40,000,000 acres of land,
showing the vital relation their
labor bears to the agricultural
independence and progress of
this Southern territory.'
The Negro is entitled to soci
ety’s respect and admiration for
his strides, for his contribution
to its storehouses, for his eco
nomic. place in the scale
things and for that spirit of cwf
operation which, in the South
especially, has aided in material
ly in bringing this part of the
land to the front.
AFRICA ADOPTS AMERICAN
INTERRACIAL PLAN.
--
British and Native Committees
Set Up for Adjustment of
Relations*
Atlanta, Ga., May H.-7- The
plan of inter-racial adjustment
through conference and coopera
tion, as worked out in the South
by the Interracial Commission,
isbeinfc^tofced
also, according to
ent visitors
from that country. Dr. C. T. Lo
ram, British Commissioner of
Native affairs, has set up such
committees in Johannesburg,
Capetown, Mirianne Hill, Dur
ban, Pieter Maritsburg, and oth
er centers. These committees
meet monthly, discuss inter-ra
cial problems and the needs of
the natives, and seek to influ
ence public opinion and legisla
tion in the interest of needed ad
justments.
It is understood that the
Southern interracial plan ’was
first brought to the attention of
South African officials three
years ago by Dr. Thos. Jesse
Jones, of New York, who was in
Africa making a study of native
education for the Phelps-Stokes
Fund. General Jan Smuts, at
that time British Premier of
South Africa, is said to have
been greatly interested and to
have expressed the conviction
that British welfare work for
the natives should be reorgan
ized on the basis of the Ameri
can plan. Promoters of the inter
racial movement in the South are
gratified to find that it is being
observed with favor abroad, as
making a significant^pntribu
tion to the solution of race prob
lems around the world. Not
many weeks elapse but that one
or more distinguished visitors
from South Afriea, usually ed
ucators or missionaries, call at
the headquarters of the Com
mission in this city and make a
study of its principles and meth
ods.
SPINGARN MEDAL NOMINA
TIONS CLOSE JUNE FIRST.
All nominations for this year's
award of the Spingarn Medal,
to be presented at the Denver
Conference of the N. A. A. C. P.,
must be in the hands of the
Spingarn Medal Award Com
mittee on or before the clos
ing date, June 1st. Many nomi
nations have been already re
ceived. These arriving after the
clesing date cannot be consid
ered. All nominations should be
addressed to Bishop John Hurst,
Chairman Spingarn Medal
Award Committee, 69 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
A CHILDREN'S DAY MES
SAGE TO THE CHURCH
ES OF CATAWBA
SYNOD,
By Rev. Frank C. Shirley.
The month of June is the time
our churches observe Children’s
Day. We should, therefore, be
planning now for that event.
Superintendents should order
their programs right away if
they have not done so already.
If any school has not received
sample copies of Children’s Day
material with blanks or cards
for ordering programs notify me
at once and I will see that you
are supplied immediately.
The program and supplement
that the Department rsNSunday
School Missions has prepared for
^Children’s Day, 1925, are very
s ridhdid and comprehensive.
They are fully suitable for use
in our most advanced schools,
and yet they are not beyond the
comprehension of the smallest
school in Catawba Synod.
Let us decide that we are go
ing to make Children’s Day,
1925, one of the most, significant
days in our Church Calendar.
May your preparation be so
thorough and the interest so
keen that Children’s Day will
constantly remain a Red Letter
Day in the life of every child
under the care of our Sunday
gf>VwvVIa Mi
| Then let us remember that
aside from the educational value
of Children’s Day another im
portant feature is the offering.
It is the day set apart when all
the Sunday schools throughout
the Presbyterian Church are
asked to give to the cause of
Sunday School Missions. This
department supports 140 Sun
day School Missionaries, who
are laboring in 137 Presby
teries. Tnese men serve as the
Church’s Advance Guard in the
destitute and neglected sections
of our land, such as in the South
ern Mountains, the Mormon area
of Utah, Lumber camps and mi
grant groups of the West.
Twenty-three of these men are
Negroes, serving in eighteen
Presbyteries of the great South
land. Five of them are giving
full time service in our own Sy»
od of Catawba.
It is gratifying to state that
many of our schools have caught
the spirit of making liberal con
tributions to this most needy
cause, as is evidenced by the
gifts of the following schools to
the Department of Sunday
School Missions last year: Fifth
Avenue, Roanoke, $52.00; Sev
enth Street, Charlotte, $46.00;
Chestnut Street, Wilmington,
$27; Tradd Street, Statesville,
$26; St. Paul, Louisburg, $24;
Springfield, Leaksville, $23;
Carver Memorial, Newport
News, $23; White Rock, Kins
ton, $22; Woodland, Catawba
Presbytery, $21; Mt. Pleasant,
Franklinton, $15; Brandon,
Charlotte, $16; Calvary, Wilson,
$15; Russell Grove, Amelia, $15;
Richmond First church, $15;
with smaller contributions from
other schools.
We regret to state, however,
that out of the 178 churches in
Catawba Synod 81 did not ob
serve Children’s Day last year,
or if they did, they did not make
any contribution whatever to
the Department of Sunday
School Missions. We have a list
of these schools and will bring
this matter to the attention of
each one to the end that this
year we will have 100 per cent of
the schools in Catawba Synod
observing Children’s Day and
100 per cent contributing to the
cause of Sabbath School Mis
sions.
Another matter we desire to
mention in closing is the prac
tice of many schools in the Syn
od, of observing Children’s Day,
taking a large offering and us
ing the money collected for lo
cal purposes. We know of
schools that raise on Children’s
Day from $75 to $100 and only
send about $5.00 to the Depart
ment of Sunday School Mis
sions. To these schools we want
toi say that Children’s Day is
one of the Calendared Days of
the Church, set apart by the
General Assembly, and the offer
ing taken is for a specific cause
and should not be diverted from
that cause. So let us this year
send all our Children's Day Of
to the Department of
Sunday School Missions, and
use some other day to rally for
local church support.
A MEETING OF DISTRICT
NO* 5.
i
The Woman’s Missionary So
city of District No. 5, Catawba
Presbyterial, Mrs. J. L. Rollins,
in Wilson Street
church, Shelby,
at 11 A. M. A short
spent in devotional ser
by Mrs. Josephine
of Good Hope. The meet
„„ opened by singing hymn
No. 115 in the Chapel Hymnal,
>per then read Ooi. 3rd
and made a short talk
to Christian duty and
ess in the work un
. Prayer was offered by
ter, pastor of Wilson St.
._After singing hymn No.
•pel Hymnal, Mrs. Eol
charge of the meeting,
eties represented were
ws:
s Chapel, Mrs, Lizzie
Street, Mrs, Mary
Lincolnton, Miss Carson.
Good Hope, Mrs. Josephine
Titrmrj^i .
Wilson Street, Mrs. Byers.
jU| the societies in district
Ne. < , except one, were repre
sent! I. Lisbon Springs did not
send^ a representative, but sent
a let er of regret and also en
court jement to Mrs. Rollins,
leade y
Th ire were present also, Mrs.
Aims Shute, District Leader of
No, 1; Mrs. Alice Jewell, Secre
tary! f Associate Members; Miss
Anni< Chresfield, in the interest
of Hi i Board of National Mis
sions! Mrs. Nicholson of Third
Stree church; Dr. and Mrs. Fos
ter, o r Wilson Street; Dr. J. A.
Rollins, and a number of mem
bers #od friends of Wilson Street
Mrs. Rollins stated the purpose
of the meeting. She said that
the purpose of the District
Meetings is to stimulate inter
est, give and deepen inspiration
and encourage systematic and
intelligent giving to the mission
cause. After other interesting
and encouraging remarks, she
reported the amount of money
sent to the Boards by the Cataw
ba Presbyterial Missionary So
ciety. She also said that $50.00
of the amount contributed was
sent in by the Catawba Presby
terial Y. P. C. E. Society. It was
very interesting to the meeting
to note that such a nice sum had
been sent to Africa. Mrs. Rollins
next read a report of the amount
contributed by each-local society
in District No. 5. While some
had failed to send in their full
apportionment, she said she felt
greatly encouraged because the
work was growing in interest,
the societies were loyal in trying
to raise the amount allotted to
her district, and that she hoped
that each local society would
earnestly strive to send in its
full apportionment this year.
She asked the societies to read
and study “Women and Mis
sions, “The Year Book of Pray
er,” and “One Blood.”
Mrs. Mary Pharr then led in
special prayer for missions.
Mrs. Jewell next spoke on the
importance of the Associate
members reading and studying
mission literature. She said that
in order to become interested in
mission work, we must read and
study about the work and that
she could supply the Associate
members with the needed liter*
ature.
Mrs. Davis, the President,be
ing absent, Mrs. Shute next
made an interesting talk on Wo
men and Missions. She forcibly
impressed upon all that Christ
said, “I a mthe vine, ye are the
branches/* and as branches of
the vine, Christ, we should go
forth and bear much fruit. She
also urged the importance of the
missionary literature.
Miss Annie Chrisfleld, her
time being limited, next said a
few well chosen words relative
to the Board of National Mis
sions. After this Dr. Foster, fox
the instruction of the Mission
Study Class, gave an interesting
talk on “One Blood.” This im
pressed us anew with the fact
that we should give freely of dux
SOTO©
astz
jouraging words from Mrs.
in favor of WHson Street repre
lentative, Mrs. Byers, who saty
that she believed the meeting
would be an inspiration and help
Love’s Chapel was chosen as
the next place of
% few words from Dr,;
Dr. Foster pronounced the
jdiction.
All were then invited to the
Sabbath school annex where the
ladies had prepared a delicious
feast of good things.
After spending time in a
pleasant social way, we returned
to our homes feeling, l am sure,
that we hed been greatly bene
JOSEPHINE LEEPER.
^fountain, N. C.
HSS**
UNI
By Ksv. E. W. Carpenter.
I We see the Alumni of John
son C. Smith University (Old
Biddle) returning to the re-un
ion from all parts ofthe United
Staten. Dear Alumni, we are not
to meet so mueh to think new
thoughts as to rehearse old sto
ries of the past. Our purpose for
coming together is not to survey
ai new course for our Alma Ma
ter, but to relocate the old land
marks. We shall briefly reviept
the past, rot in order that we
return to it, but that we
may find in what direction,
straight ard clear, it points in
to the future.
We shall not return to the in
stitution with regrets or de
pressed by any memories of fad
ed splendor but, tp rejofce in the
possession Of hope fulfilled a:
to glory in the vision of desire
realized. We shall review the
success of our Alma Mater with
great joy, and thank God for
giving to the President and his
faithful teachers such a wonder
ful assurance that He answers
the prayers of the faithful.
Let us ask ourselves, What
mean these great buildings? As
we behold the wonder of all these
accomplishments, we realize that
they have been wrought by the
untiring efforts of Dr. McCro
rey, backed by an able body of
teachers.
It is to be hoped that the ap
proaching re-union may be a
source of inspiration to each
alumnus, and an untold benefit
to Johnson C. Smith Universi
ty.
Southampton, N. Y.
Box 45.
DEATH OF AN ELDER OF
LYNCHBURG CHURCH.
On the morning of April 30th,
1925, God called from our midst
Elder Moses Bock Tunstal. Elder
Tunstal was born about 80 years
ago near Chatham, Va., in Pitts
sylvania County. He came to
Lynchburg when just a mere
boy, and from that time onward
resided in this city. He joined
Central Presbyterian church,
and for about forty years re
mained a devoted elder, render
ing sacrificial service that
stands unparalleled.
He was a thorough Presbyte
rian; beyond and above all, he
was a Christian gentleman, and
for this reason he succeeded in
winning the highest esteem of
the citizens, both white and col
ored.
For forty-eight years he was
employed by the Western Union
Telegraph Company, and due to
ill health was retired with a pen
sion. His employer said of him
that “He was a cheerful, honest
and upright man.”
His funeral was conducted
from the church May 3rd. The
sermon was preached by the
pastor, Rev. J. Metz Rollins, whe
used as a text Rev. 14:13, sub
ject, “The Blessedness of Those
Who Die in the Lord.”
The Presbyterian church hat
lost a valliant soldier, and a vet
eran in the cause. May God raise
tip more in our midst like him.
He leaves many relatives an<
■ friends, ■ ' ■
<m:m nyH/ftfls*! -dind y.tsH/s
EDITOR
ASHE
Asheville, May 12. (Special.)
—Editor Benjamin J. Davis, of
The Atlanta Independent will
apeak in Asheville June 15th on
Eaee Newspapers and Their De
velopment. Mr. Davis is Presi
dent of the National Negro
Press Association and is one of
America’s greatest writers and
orators. He is noted for con
demning the wrong and protect
ing the right. He has been head
of the Oud Fellows in Georgia
fbr a number of years,
j As a writer and an orator, he
is fearless and intrepid—he is
Georgia’s spokesman. The world
has wondered how Mr. Davis
can write as he does and remain
ip Georgia, but the white citizens
of Georgia have the highest re
spect for him, especially those in
Atlanta. He is also one of the
wealthiest; Negroes in the State
of Georgia. His palatial dwelling
is one of the most artistic in the
South.
In' addition to Mr. Davis oth
sr speakers who will appear on ;;
this program^are: EditorsM. h.
Porter of the East Tennessee
News, Knoxville* Tenn., J. A. ;
Roach, of the' Recorder-Indica
tor, Columbia, S. C., and N. J.
Frederick of The Palmetto
Leader, Columbia, S. C.
The coming of these distin
guished educators is an honor
to Asheville mid all Western
forth Carolina. The Asheville
ter School for Colored
there will be in session at
tpis time and these gentlemen
Will have the opportunity to
Send a personal message to our
people through intelligent repre- •
sentatives from different sec
tions of this state and other -
states. This wiH. be a rare oppor
tunity for the Asheville Sum
mer school to hear these gentle
men and to meet them peraonal
begins June 10th and all our
teachers will be on hand in time
for this important meeting. The
Ministerial Union, fraternal or
ders, professional and business
men join hands in extending to
these honored guests an invita
tion to visit The Land of The
Sky.
CALVARY CHURCH ANJD
SOUTH HIGHLAND SCHOOL,
ANNISTON, ALA.
The prayer services Wednes
day evenings have increased in
attendance and interest. Spirit
ual interest seems to be awak
ening and the social side is en
joyable? The elders are the lead
ers.
Last Wednesday evening after
prayer-meeting, the Missionary
Society, through its President,
Mrs. M. F. Martin, in very fit
ting words, presented a gift to
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Kirby,
who were married recently.
Sunday, April 19th, at 11
o’clock, Rev. T. B. Hargrave
preached a soul-stirring sermon
to an attentive audience, after
which the following persons
united with the church: Mr. and
Mrs. J, L. Pittman, and Mrs.
S. B. Owens.
We were pleased to have with
us recently Rev. J. B. Barber,
of Chattainooga, Tenn.
Rev. G. E. Cooper spent the
week-end of the 26th in Bir
mingham.
Mrs. M. K. Spaulding spent
the week-end of the 2nd and 3rd
of May with Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Grier and family.
! Children’s Week is being con
ducted by Mrs. A. W. Rice.
South Highland School is now
having examinations. Its com
mencement exercises begin
Thursday night, May 7th and
run .through the 12th.
will run through the 12th. Dr.
C, J. Baker, of Atlanta, Ga., will
preach the annual sermon May
10th, at three o’clock.
The Senior Class of the South
i Highland School will be enter
tained Wednesday evening by
the Junior Class,
r MRS. M. PHELPS RICE.
i g The third annual commence
■ ment of the High School of the
i Berry O’Kelly Training School,
Method, N. C., will take place
Monday, May 18,10:30 A. M., in
the school auditorium.
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