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'fHUfc&DAtf, NOV; 26, 1925
A THANKSGIVING THOUGHT
O give thanks unto the Lord;
call upon his name; make known
his deeds among the people.
Sing unto him; sing psalms
unto him rtAlk ye of alThis won
idrdiis Works.'
—Psalrh 105, verses 1-2.
- *WhBre shall the he?,
, GRO LIVE?” .'V
fey t^p Sweet; case
tn Detroit and the' agitation
during .'recent months of the
f question of segregating the Ne
gro in many cities of the North
West, the Christian Work
of November 14th. prints a
symposium of articles in an
ffwer tb the question, “Where
Shall the Negro Live?” Among
:7 those ‘ asked to answer
this query were Dr. W. E.
J''-y B. Du Bols, James Weldon
Jphnson and Eugene Kinckle
w; Jopes; representative Negroes;
Sehator Blease arid Governor
McLeod of South Carolina; Dr.
H. W. Evans, head of the Eu
Klux Kian; Bishop John M.
’ /Moore.ofthe Southern Meth
odist Church; Dr. Will W. Alex
ander, of the Interracial Com
' m tfiission, Atlanta; Dr. James H.
Dillard, President of the Slater
^f^^u^aj^Koger N. Baldwin, of the
American Civil Liberties Union;
?rasf>h[pjr‘1 ^•jjP’arkes.. Cadihan; Bishop
: Chas. H. Brent, of the Epis
r>-b*‘‘copal Church; Father John A.
. Ryan> of the Roman Catholic
(jhurch; and Mr. Ellsworth
, Hnntington,' who is styled “the
x, j geographer and student of hu
[ ‘ 4^ r^ah relations in many . climes
" , and countries.”
w>di The Christian.. Work repro
■, fI H duces an editorial reference to
,, * segregation which appeared in
-io vj&Usaqe Pf September 26, and
.. then- submits the following:.
vvyx <!<it is pretty obvious that we
■ cannot make • white and colored
people live in houses side by
&-V' -aide Without inner vexations
,4 and, too often, outward fric
tion. • ^
*1‘‘What1 do you think is the
or’w righV Why tb solve the difficul
• ; vfl. Should we go on as we
\:. ;r ^.allowing the matter to be
V1f>fought opt?m... • K>rf;
\,v^e of£cjaJly .$et
. apart, streets or sections for.
the. Negroes?
-ms.-SWfflW-sP’L.SP^It’bsr.'r :rasrt
erf} ni To these questions Dr. Du
erfi Bois makes 'the fallowing chdr
sfeerTprittrasticvrepiyirirrfxe e-tern erf <
^r thihlr that th<i editorial in
-«h tfom&m1 Woflt 4hd" tRe' ques
erit yoUr?a*e-rf3dndilig
™™hboat*‘itffe »tiUM oN&
^ ^*^feeduEni^dd'st&rt Wh^ t&y*
-oeT i^ 'that cbloredJ W$ white
pie cannot live<'wtfdd)1>byf side.
Then you ask three questions.
First, shoulc
side
ey go on trying
side when you
?
is yi»n / nave aireany/ inti
mata<jf4he answer. And then,
thirdly, you ask disgenuously
for some - third method when
surely^thereia no third meth
od possible. ,,'V;
“I am continually astonished
at the way in which men who
ceil themselves Christians per
jure themselves when it comes
to great moral problems/’
>: James Weldon Johnson thinks
that “if a colored family legal
ly purchases a house in any
neighborhood and conducts it
self in accordance with the laws
of the community ahd of decen
cy, it has the right to stay
there , . - The fact that a
man.lives next door or in the
same block places no social ob
ligation upon his. neighbors
In this city families live in the
same house . and do not know
each other and do not seek to
know each other.”
Eugene Kinckle Jones writes at
greater: length than either Dr.
u Bois or Mr. Johnson, citing
reasons why Negroes seek the
more desirable locations. He
says Negroes will not consent
to legal segregation nor will
they make any agreement writ
ten or understood that will con
fine them to . undesirable sec
tions of our cities.”! V
Senator Biease’s opinion is
what, one would expect from
him: “it would be an injustice
to both races,” he thinks, “to
set apart streets, but we should
most assuredly set apart sec
tions,” and he would embody
this idea in a national law.
V Governor McLeod is of the
opinion that “segregation is
vastly better for the benefit of
both races ... Whether or not
you should officially set apart
streets or sections for Negroes
1 am unable to say.”
Dr. Evans, of the Ku Klux
Klan, thinks “thatthe only way
to avoid friction is to have reg
ularly designated districts in
the cities for Negro residents.”
Bishop Moore believes segrega
ton would be best for both rac
es,-but says: “No city has the
moral < right to enact segrega
tion laws without at the same
time binding itself to provide
and maintain for the streets
and sections set apart for Ne
groes just as complete and ad
equate public improvements as
would be provided for white
people.” But he acknowledges
that “the injustice of segrega
tion has been right here.”
Mr. Roger N. Baldwin, of the
American Civil Liberties Un
ion, says:
v “There is never trouble when
Negroes live in white folks back
yards, however close. The al
leys of Southern and border ci-‘
ties are filled with Negroes; but
the moment one of them tries
to move on to the street on the
basis of apparent social equality
with whites, trouble starts.”
None of the other writers see
any solution in segregation. Dr.
Dillard thinks the matter will
adjust itself.
TWO MINISTERS GIVEN
CARS.
Some weeks ago we pub
lished an account of the giving
of an automobile to the Rev. E.
W. Carpenter by friends of
the church at Shinnecock.
Southampton, Long Island,
N. Y., of which he is the min
ister. We are glad to note that
another of our deserving min
isters, the Rev. H. C. Miller, of
St. James and Hannah church
es, at Greensboro, was recently
given a beautiful car. We are
sure such tokens of apprecia
tion on the part of these con
gregations will inspire their
ministers to larger service.
THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH
ERN CHURCHES LONG
■ "AGO. ■’
■f■ v <-<;• ru
It was stated in connection
with the meeting of the North
Carolina Conference of the
Methodist. Episcopal Church,
$outh, in Fayetteville, week be
fore last, .that the Hay Street
church in which the sessions of
the conference Were held, was
founded by a Negro preacher.
Another historical Sketch says
the First church of Charlotte, in
which thi white' Baptists of
6f the State held their annual
Convention last week,1 was or
ganized 93 years ago and that
39 persons constituted the orig
nal organization, 30 of whom
we*£- Negroes and 9 white per
sons. jp| . jpfcjy .A’.yatk. i
No "qoubt other like In
cidents could be cited, thus
showing the Negro'sPielpful in
fluence in Southern churches in
the, long ago. It is to be hoped
that some capable historian will
find this particular phase of
Negro, life a fertile field for
study. The results would cer
tainly be interesting, and,’ we
should think, profitable.
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THE STORY OP UGO NAKA
DA. •
By Homer Rodeheaver
Not so long ago Ugo Nakada
from Japan, broadcasted a Jap
anese musical program from
WLS, Sears and Roebuck broad
casting station, Chicago. Daily,
since he sang, letters have been
coming to him from all parts
of the country asking about
him, how he learned to sing the
gospel sings in English, and
about his life in Japan.
The story of Nakada, to me,
is the most interesting of any
true stories that' I have ever
heard. I never see him but I
think of the home from which
he came—and the tremendous
power of a song that would
reach him three thousand miles
away.
Several years ago he attend
ed a mission in Japan where he
heard several selections of gos
pel music played on a vjctrola.
Although he .could not under
stand the language in which
they were sung, there was one
song that went straight to his
heart. He asked permission to
take the record home. It was
granted. Day after day he
played the record over, learning
the words by note until he could
sing them. He did not under
stand their meaning, but* lie did
understand the spiritual appeal
of the music.
Finally, at the mission, the
words were interpreted for him,
and they made such an irnpres
sion that he wrote to jhe in
America to secure other Rain
bow Records. Of course we
mailed them, little thinking of
their destination.
Finally Nakado decided to
come to America to find tlfS mdn
who had sung “Since Jesus Came
Into My Heart” on the Rainbow
Record. At that time I was with
the Billy Sunday staff at Cin
cinnati. Ugo Nakado reached the
tabernacle at 9 o’clock the eve
ning of our last meeting in the
city. It was crowded to capacity
and he was unable to get in.
Finally he pursuaded the atten
dent at the platform entrance
to let him in. When the meeting
was over he asked an usher to
take him to me. The usher told
him in his ignorance, that I
would be too busy to see him.
You can imagine his disappoint
ment after coming that distance
to get me to help him sing gospel
songs. He returned to Japan be
lieving his quest had been in
vain
Several years later while
making a tour around the
world, I happened to be in his
home city in Japan. He heard
that I was there and sought
me out. It was then that' he
told me this story.
He accompanied me back to
America where he has been pre
paring himself for evangelistic
singing, when he returns to Ja
pan. I thought you would like
to hear his story, and under
stand what is back of his songs
when you hear them this fall
and winter on the air.
UNEMPLOYMENT
“Can you get me a job?" This
is the question that has been
put to us several times lately by
reliable men out of a job but
anxious to work. We have had
to answer the question in the
negative. These frequent que
ries have forced upon our atten
tion the fact that there are hun
dreds of men out of work. What
is the matter with the indus
trial conditions that there is
such a scarcity of work? With
unemployment so general the
outlook for the winter is not
encouraging. Those who are
employed should be grateful and
do all in their power to keep
their jobs by promptness and
dependability, for. jobs are
scarce.—Omaha (Neb.) Moni
itor.. ■ ' a/l
: -ii >.p,< ■1 jnfi-'''-’
Hear former Governor Morri
son Sunday afternoon at Sev
enth Street church.
ANGLO-SAXON CIVILIZA
TION PASSING?
two are of mixed blood, having
light and well-nigh wavy hair,
lig^grey'eyes, w-elT^propb^
tioned mouths, with noses ap
proaching the aquiline, sure
signs of Anglo-Saxon strain. V.I
turned from the window and
looked oyer an assemblage of
three hundred boys ana girls,
and a similar spectacle greeted
me—certainly not in the same
ratio. I asked what means all
this, after more than fifty years
of freedom for the black man,
and more than fifty years for
the white man cooperating with
the black man to reach a sta
ble moral, equilibrium. This af
ter more than fifty years of
freedom for the black man, and
more than fifty years of oppor
tunity for the white man to set
the seal of his disapproval un
mistakably upon race admixture
and demonstrate to the world
his boasted superior moral
worth. White men face about
and explain this condition by
calling it the moral weakness of
my race. I prefer to call it
the carnal weakness of the
white.man, an exhibition of his
unbridled lust—a veritable
death-spot on Anglo-Saxon civ
ilisation. This also gives the
lie to his boasted superior
moral strength and fitness,
and, in face of it, his as
sumed superiority in general
vanishes into thin air, his dog
mas and traditions on the whole
subject nothing more than
“cunningly devised fables,” and
he stands branded a canting hy
pocrite, since it requires only
the thin veil of night to change
all.
I go further—there is not a
race under the blue of the sky—
not a race beneath the sun
(where the Anglo-Saxon has
lived or moved) that does not
show some strain or taint of
Anglo-Saxon blood. Does this
show moral virility or moral pu
erility? Was F. S. Stribling
right when, in the June number
of “Current Opinion,” 1922 or
1923, he wrote, (directing his
shaft particularly at the South)
“The white man has dehuman
ized the Negro, and the Negro
has taken himself at the white
man’s valuation of him.” He
calls this the tragedy of the
South and goes on to say, “This
self-depreciation goes so far
that the Negro comes to regard
everything of value as white.”
He confesses that the attitude
of many white men toward Ne
gro women especially is putrid.
These same white men apolo
gize for that attitude by say
ing, “Many Negro women invite
their fate.” This is another aw
ful confession of the white
man’s carnal weakness. Think
of the white man of rare cul
ture and refinement, with s
thousand favorable and forti
fying moral advantages, being
tempted to sin by a black, ig
norant, unfortunate, untutored,
Negro womam He is to be pi
tied in being exposed to the aw
ful temptation and even the se
duction of these inferior black
beings.
This tells and says to all
thinking race men and women
that the white man’s superior
advanatges resulting from
wealth, culture, refinement, and
what not, have served but to
render him more intensely hu
man, while at the same time it
makes him less humane. His
likes and dislikes, therefore,
should create no surprise. His
irreconcilable prejudices—deep
seated—are natural and have
been accentuated by the fullest
development of his mind.
I am ready to contend that
the Anglo-Saxon civilization has
not wrought a change in the
entire man. Moreover, the
wprld is in travail, and groans
in pain for a civilization born
out of the soul of suffering, as
its final redemption is to be
effected by the blood spilt on
Calvary. It cries for a civiliza
tion more human and not less
humane; a civilization that
puts into its program a plank
that emphasizes and exalts hu
man needs—social, physical,
mental, moral and spiritual.
Under this new civilization race
admixture,, miscegenation, so
cial equality fads, fantasies and
fancies will give place or way to
the law of “Natural selection.”
Under it man will interpret
aright the divine intention, his
be the work of any one all-pre
dominating race or people, but
a conglomerate, wttft sotnr ele^
BSS4m«3SLE1T
id arrangement for the
men. Under it man
the law
law of'©off. ©tflTof
the death throes of the old pass
ing ; civilisation‘jdl new civiliza
tion will be born. Tt. wjll
“The Magna Charta” will be
the Word of Uod—the BiWe. By
digression there can he -found
and quoted numerous, eminent
opinions from men like Edward
VI, Henry Ward Beecher, Dan
iel Webster, Abe Lincoln, Gen.
Grant, Woodrow Wilson ahd
others of like rating, showing
or going to show the part the
Bible plays: upon the individual
and public life, and the place to
which it is entitled in any en
during scheme of civilization;
However, the largest contribu
tion to this civilization will by
far be made by the subject rac
es of the world1 because they
have experienced and borne the
bitterness of the world's'scorns,
frowns and sorrows as no oth
ers have done. Sorrow and suf
fering have such a peculiarly
purifying and refining effect as
to become a specific in rounding
out and rendering human life
and character symmetrical.
There is nothing that so ef
fectually and effectively stiif$
and sets free the sluggish
springs of human kindness and
sympathy. This adds a new an
gle and a fuller meaning to that
beautiful passage of the Bible
which reads, “For it became
Him, for whom are all things,
in bringing many sons into glo
ry, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through suf
fering.” Heb. 2 :10.
We cannot lay fingers on any
part of the body of our present
civilization, which is Anglo
Saxon to 1 the core, Without
touching what seems to me a
sore, if not a death spot. When
the late world war broke out
and the nations were swept in
to a seething whirlpool of the
greatest' convulsion known tor
human history, the allied forces
Sought & cattse, - * --
Germany being a Militant
country by the ambition for
world empire, conquest; and
power, was at once indicted,
and convicted, as the greatest
standing menace to world peace.
The next step and final conclu
sion were easy and natural,
hence, the slogan, “Germany
must be reduced and eliminat
ed as an international factor
and power.”
If this were wholly true, the
subjugation and practical elim
ination of Germany should and
ought in a measure, at least, to
put an end to world disorder, or
hold out some word of prophecy
and promise of a stable world
peace.
If Germany’s ambition was
the prime cause of the great
est single catastrophe chroni
cled by the hand of man, ought
not the curbing of that ambi
tion span the crimson sky of a
suffering, bleeding world with
some bow of hope?
But what are the facts? The
ending ot this terrific strife
marks the beginning of the
greatest of upheavals. Peace
conference after conference has
been held, and still there are
vexing international questions
which from time to time grow
more or less acute
Then, if we are to accredit
our daily papers, periodicals
and magazines, we are passing
just now through an epoch of
blood. Murders in high and
low places threaten to cover the
earth. Vice and crime, with
hand in hand, stalk unblushing
iy, abroad in the noon-day
light.
All this moi£ or less grows
out of the fact that war has
left the world unstrung. Every
scheme of readjustment and re
construction seems doomed—
hopelessly doomed—hence, of
fers little or no relief. Stable
peace and final adjustment and
reconstruction will not, and
cannot, come until the; prime
element of foreign and domes
tic discord is found, and re
moved. I verily believe that
there will and can be no real
and final settlement of the dis
turbing and divisive forces
among men, until out of the
death throes of the present civ
ilization springs a new civiliza
| :,^W»ow|^frtteiBjPbgr to an
|red « post tcffibolaa of tile
|km B e,3|ycm|Bfrp (^a cmccc
rapr«ftToldr" umaffes- and
leaves upon my mind. Viewed
from the several points suggest
§d now
own de
lis own
SI, does
already
has
appeared, and has even begun
tb£%i*rftng on the Wall?
Any civilization whose leading
tenet and chief propaganda are
the inherent and ineffaceable
difference of races; deifies man,
hewe, cannot be ^du^j.
f ully pieet j^ h^hM needs is a
ilization,,., TM». fcind ’albne ac
knowledges Godtei’athe^of SI,
deifies Jesus Christ* ‘i&ii pro
claims all men brothers. ft alone
cries
?0 blood of the people! change
less tide, through, n century,
creed and race!',00ms
Still one as the sweetaalt sea
d is one, the? tempered i^y sun
\ rr 1 and place; teo btmwa ■
The same in the ocean cur
ii rents, and the.; same o in the
) sheltered seas^/i hurnffts-.
Forever the fountain^ o£> com
mon ; hopes and kindly sym
pathies; i i<j 8i di od omob
Indian and Negro, Saw* and
Celt, Teuton and Latin and
rodGfcilfe** biogirii bemso
Mere surface shadow! and sun
;s shine, while the! sounding uni
fies alUioxsa-oI^nA ydj
One love,, one; hope, i ; One duty
s theirs! no! matter rf then time
*I’ioor ken,£.f'd;:'v/ dim _h&qtq
There never Was separate, heart
beat in all the races of men.”
f : The fiHng of the lait big gun
Sunday, November 2!g> was a *
lovely church-going day, and
the members of our church took
advantage of it. We had a
splendid audience in the morn
ing. Our pastor, Rev. J. H.
Clement, preached a soul-stir
ring sermon from Luke 10:18,
“And he said unto them I be
held Satan as lightning fall
from heaven/’ -His theme was:
“War in Heaven.” 0 /)/? •>
As he arose to deliver the
message sent from God through
him to us, he said, “Let us go
into heaven a little while and
imagine Satan being there and
causing war in heaven and be
ing cast over the balustrade of
heaven. He said war' had' been
on ever since. Evenr i& our
hearts and churches Satan is
the master of evil.1 *Th$'devil
appears in our different1 homes.
One of the worst devils is the
society devil. The society dev
il sneaks into our homes and
destroys our wives and. hus
bands and daughters. He thus
carries many of our £hurch
members to ruin. ‘
Elder W. M. Massey has been
on the sick list, but f.w$V were
glad to see him in dim hudst
Su“dw- . „ ' na sL .
Mr. and Mrs. Henry, Davis
were called away, to,attend the
funeral of Mn T,|ether.
They have our
The Woman’s Misisonary So
ciety will hold their next meet
ing at the parsonage.
Our Sunday schools is doing
nicely now. diaino
• Mrs. Ada Whitlock will as
sist the shepherdess in training
the children for the Christmas
exercises. .bwitr @d
■v Mr. Gilmer Franklin; is ex
pected home to spendrf the
Christmas holidays. We'will be
glad to have bis presence in the
Sunday school.