Hie Africo - America blished in IH79. lOUDATED WITH THERN EVANGELIST. Rev. H. L McCROREY. D. D.. IX. O. Editor. W. E. RTLL. Associate Editor. iRev. C. P. PITCH FORD, Business Manager. Devoted to the Educational, Mace rial,’ Moral and Religious interest* of our people in the South, and yuo Ushed at Charlotte. N. C., even Thursday. All questions arising under the va rious subjects above indicated are discussed from a Christian point of view. ■ Each number contains the freshest and best news from the Southern field and from the Chnrcb at large. There is carefully seiz ed rending matter suited to all class es of our people—the farmer, the mechanic, the artisan and the pro fessional The Sabbath School and Missioi. ary cause* will receive special at teatioB TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Single copy one year-- $1 60 Six months ...-.1- .76 Three months ..... ,- - .60 We earnestly ask the sympathy and prayers- of our brethren unn friends a* large in order that out efforts in this enterprise may be crowned with, success. Send all money by ’ . 0. Money Order, Registered Let cer oi* Bank Check, otherwise it might set lost and the sender aloiu will be respon sible. Entereu at the Postoffice at Char lotte, N. C., as second class mattsr THURSDAY, MAY 17, 19287 A NEGRO EVANGELIST IN NINGPO, CHINA. Some of the Boards of For eign Missions hitherto have questioned the advisability of sending colored missionaries to foreign fields. We have always contended that men and women of the Negro race with adequate preparation and with proper support can render efficient and effective service as foreign mis sionaries, especially in Africa We have been strengthened in this belief by the splendid ser vice rendered by Dr. Sheppard, Max Yergen, and other colored men and women as foreign missionaries. Mrs. Frank R. Millican, a Presbyterian missionary in Ningpo, China, in a letter to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., writes as follows of a Negro evangelist in that city: “We are having very wonder ful revival meetings in the city. Our church is packed every meeting. Our evangelist is an American Negro who was invit ed here by the Chinese church. In Nanking, where he held meetings before he came here, there were over a thousand who found Christ for the first tinje, or who found their way back to Him. They say the <£ty has never had such blessings as it has had in the last few weeks. Soldiers and army officers are among those who gave them selves to Christ. Though not an educated man, the evange list seems to have appealed as well to the college students. “I am very sure that we have never had so much interest shown in our meetings before. It may be that he is sent to us for just such a time as this.” 11 THE ZION METHODIST CON T FERENCE. m. News from the General Con ference of the A. M. E. Zion Church indicates the election of Dr. F. M. Jacobs and Dr. W. W. Matthews to the bench of bish ops. Dr. Jacobs had served the Church for a number of years as General Secretary and Dr. Matthews as Missionary Secre tary. Among general officers, Prof. J. Wells Young, of Green ville, Tenn., was re-elected Sec retary of Education and Dr. W. H. Davenport and Dr, J. Francis Lee, of'Charlotte, were re-elect ed editor of The Star of Zion and editor of the Sunday School Literature, respectively. The Church Publication House, in this;,city, which has been under the management of Dr. S. D. Watkins, for the past eight years, will have a new manager, Mr. R. W. Sherrill. THE GENERAL Witt thfe eral Awe: -m ting of the Gen at Tulsa, Okla., fust iPweSfc' away, there is Hve Jv speculation as to who the Moderator will be. Among those mentioned for the honor Dr. Cleland B. McAfee, of are Chicago; Elder J. Willison Smith, of Philadelphia; Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel, of Indianapo lis, and Drt Hugh K. Walker, of Los Angeles. CATAWBA SYNODICAL 1 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE. To the pastors, superinten dents, and Sunday school work ers of Catawba Synod: We are in the midst of a cam paign for 1,000 new members in the Sunday schools of our Synod. This is a progressive movement; it is most worthy and should meet the approval of every worker in the SynocL Rev. F. C. Shirley, Dean of our School of Methods, has se cured a pledge of support from the Superintendents. The drive was launched on Easter Sunday to be followed up with an inten sive effort until Children’s Day. Our goal, 1,000 new members, is a worthy one and we are ex pecting every Sunday school in the Synod to cooperate. Let us use every means possible to reach this goal. Helpful suggestions can be obtained from Dr. A. B. McCoy, Dean F. C. Shirley or any one of our Sunday school mission aries. By consulting the 1928 catalogue of Sunday School and Church Supplies, pages 2 and 3, you will find several splendid suggestions which might be used In almost any school. Let us so run that we may obtain. H. WILSON. 17 S. Georgia Ave., Concord, N. C. NEGRO YOUTH WINS NA TIONAL COMPETITION. Takes First Prize in Interracial Ccmnrssion’s “Tenth Man” Contest. Atlanta,tM&y 18 :-*^Fr|e man Ledbetter, student in the high school department of the colored A. & T. College, Greens boro, N. C., has just been awarded first prize in the “Tenth Man” theme contest conducted by the Commission on Interra cial Cooperation, which was open to all high school students in the United States. A check for fifty dollars, the amount of the prize, has been forwarded to Dr. F. D. Bluford, President of the College, for presentation to Mr. Ledbetter. The second prize of thirty dollars was awarded to Ernest Paschal, of Cleburne High School, Cleburne, Texas; and the third prize, twenty dollars, to Miss Peggy Williams, of Crystal Springs High School, Crystal Springs, Miss. Hundreds of papers dealing with the contribution made to American History by “Ameri ca’s Tenth Man,” .were submit ted from a great number of schools scattered over twenty three States, entailing upon the judges a long and difficult task. Most of the papers were of a high order and the promoters of the contest express themselves as greatly pleased with the re sult. It is probable, they an nounce, that a similar competi tion on a larger scale will be conducted next ye§r. DR. ANDERSON TO PREACH ATCOULTER. Dr. F. J. Anderson, of John son C. Smith University, has ac cepted the invitation to deliver the annual sermon, at Coulter Academy, Cheraw, S. C„ May 27th. Durham recently set a pre cedent in race relations by a public testimonial to the long antr meritorious service in the community of Prof. Wililam .G. Pearson, colored educator, phi-, lanthropist, and business leader, An interracial mass meeting was held under the augpices of a committee appointed by the Mayor, at whitfi the Secretary, of Duke University presented to Prof. Pearson a handsome cup. fi An occasion extraordinary was the appearance at LefafDM Presbyterian church, Friday night, May 11, of the. Girls’ Quartette of Coulter Memorial Academy, Cheraw, S.,C. Accompanied by their trainer, Miss Naomi Williams, musical directress of the Academy, who proved herself a most capable and acceptable accompanist, . this group of young ladies rendered a program of exceptionally high order which more than delighted the mixed audience which hoard them.. mAi) . - \Vith their melodious voices, expertly controlled, ' and their well nigh perfect hlendingrXif their various parts, the singers held the audience enraptured for an hour and a half which seemed to elapse in less than one third of that time. This was the first, appearance