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Hu? Africo - American Prenbyiierill Established in 1S79. CONSOL! DATED WTTTl . THE SOUTHERN EVANGELIST tu*v. H. L. MrCPORKY. O. I>. LI*.. D Editor w E. RILf* Amnnatf Editor. j Rev C. P. PITCHFORP,__ Business Manager. Devoted to the Educational. Mete riel. Morel end Religion intorw.tr of cur people m the South, end pub lished el Charlotte. N. O.. ev*ry Thuradey. ,k All questions arising under fn'f. va rious aubjecte above indicated are discussed from a Christian point of view. Each number contains the freshest and best news from the Southern Held and from the Church at large. There is carefully selected reading matter enit«d to el! cla«*er of our people—the farmer, the m*» ehanic, the aHisan and the pn.f»« •tonal man. TER Mb OK SlfBSCRIPTION Single copy one year ..... tl w Sin months . — ~ —.— V Three months - —. Send all money hy P. O Monet Oder, Registered letter or Bank Check, otherwise It might’ get !o«f and the sender alone will lie msoon, slble. Entered at the P<mt,offie»-At Cha»-. *«♦*• N C.. second dess matter1 •■- • d'i-' ■ i THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 19JO DEATH OF PRESIDENT . phenix In the death of,Dr. George F. Phenix, who was drowned October 4th while bathing in. the waters near Hampton In stitute, the cause of Negrp edu cation loses an able champion.. Dr. Phenix had been connected with Hampton for about thirty years, and became President about 18 months ago upon the resignation of Dr. James E. Gregg. He was born and edu cated in Maine and in his rela tions with Negroes exemplified the best spirit and traditions! of the New England of former years. He understood Negro-*s pirations and were sympathetic with them. His passing is to be sincerely lamented. 1 THE DEEP THINGS OP GOD The Rev. Robert Putsch, pbs tor of the Congregational church at Hanover, N. H., iii a sermon recently on “The Deep Things of God,” urged his peb-; pie to “aspire to ampler, more vital knowledge of the things of God.” Tr. the course of hisj discourse, he said: “Our environment, the world, in which we live, is full of three: elements—divine things, evil; things, commonplace , th'ngs. As different constituent ele ments float about in milk, so, the divine, the evil, and ther commonplace are mingled in, the world. Our attitude toward them is all important. “A searchlight throw* a hood of illumination upon, everything. Open such a light upon this room. All objects m it are equally illumined. But the light of the mind acts different ly. It is selective. The human mind does not see all equally, neutrally. It always has a bias.: It tends to select what it wants to see, what it is in the habit, of seeing. Our minds are quick and keen to discover the accus tomed, but sometimes they are as thick as boards in finding: out that which is foreign to our: habits of thinking. A botanist looks at a tree and notes its growth. He would like to cut it through and put a section under a microscope? He' is interested in its inner chanism. A lumberman looks at' the same tree, blind to the tiny 'structures in its leaves. He thinks of its marketability. Hrfw thick is it? How much, lumber does it represent? How difficult will it be to get it out of the forest? In short, what is its market value. All artists look at the tree with different eves from the botanist's or the lum berman's. The tree to him is a thin" of bee^tv. Each of us re ward* anv object with h*s own Was. ,i “DurbanV and a friend were mice walking down a city street id a roar of 1c. Sudden down anOTrom pemae me pave-; mentment liftedkarcricket. “ ‘But how could you hear in all this traffic ?’%^xclairped the friend. ‘Wasn't that marvefous P o,“'afliWfered Btnfcank. “He dropped a dime, and a dozen pedestrians looked to ward it. They’were listening, as Burbank w^dU glistening,- but there was a difference. Opr at titude toward an Environment is all-important. t.., “Here is a persbn who has de spairing moods. He picks out oifly the failures of the day, brooding over the things in which he has fallen short, and feeding , unhfil&hily upon his defects. IJere is^ cynic, selectj inur alwavs titye unworthy fronj the jdeeds of ms ‘fellbwmen, Bnt. if he wilt look, he will find that every dav l£has - also Hi good harvests. Each o|*iw tends to select ione: type-i-or another Out. of jtscts.|p|4) - The South Highlajpi-f* High School, of Anniston?,t 'Alabama, has been made an accredited! high, school with Grade “A'! rating by the State ^Alabama. The schootwas ii^pected last April, 19^r, and wa^ accredited on June 7, but formal announce-; ment was not , made. until Mr. E. G. McGehe^tbe jState S \ pervisor qf ,-Negro , Education^ visited the school Friday morning, October 10th, 1930. This is one-.-jOf our Presbyter rian schools and the Principal,! Rev. A. W. Rice, is tjftJbe. (Con gratulated on thev-recognitioni his school has won from, the Al-i abama State J%pard o^^dtjca tion. ■: INTEKRACIAI4.Y 8PEA&INU, Current Comment oq... loiters, of Mutual Interest By R. B. Eleazer The cheerful proverb that “tevery cloud & i%,sJl$^Uh-; ing,r lsJ; not; course, but .iu moist cases WjL\ In that of the “Black Shiffs,” for example,. —.certjriitfjjiy a lowering cloud; pm ine^ rnterra cial. horizon, lashed into fury by the winds c>f' impassioned oratory and . the light- ; nmgs of prejudice.., ,mlpoke<3( pretty b»d. for'*!.wW)Olfa it . did have (fire possibilities, without do^W £ But note, thru the* cloud around and tiike. a lobk at* the l’ning arid you will ses that tftV substantial elfementoplri every1 community were'limted^and a<£‘ tiy| in opposition^ tMH&o^e-. merit. The rieiybpiapc*!s’mdfifhed! and scouted itj ' preachers** de-> nounced it. front3 th# jhiflpit^ of- P ficTals refused lithe us£‘bf the! streets and publM hidings;: civic and business Argsririantfcn s opposed it; tmipldjrertr of labor* frankly defied if. 5’ * s'- -V-' i Mth# ita jobmi^Wbr.l gariizatiOn did fflOt 'isuccefed inf turning a single IN&jfrb odVbf* his job here m ^»ta sfrfar as, we „haye been; able *fd * Now the move Seenwf a . hopeless : "driclirid* though1 some of its leaders ate StBltt]f~ ing to galvanize, it tiBG&FIttfc5* They may again succeted for a time and raise another ckHid »J but that, too, we hope aridbe lieve, will have its silver lining,f and will ultimat^y disappear before a growing sense of Ifr terracial friendship) and fair1 play. . -.V : v • „ ATLANTIC SYNOD M8BTS* rAT QM~ i On " the- 22nd‘ *0f October, 1930, at 7:80 F/’M:, Atlantic! Synod will open ftTfliiSt annual meeting. At tfcis raSetaf aft* Standing Cdmmitt«»'^tere pected to make brief atid‘«dm^ prehensive reports bri^pnpe* worth sending to the press: ^ Please do not forget to bring - or send your full Synodical as-’ *» Wk ij Clark, D. D„ <rf your intention of attending this meeting that' ample arrangements may; Ifey made for, your entertSSnmerit while at. Synod, , ;-47- , W.L.METfc, Stated Clerk Atlantic Synod. (In The Westminster Adult Bi ble Class). •; It has been my privilege to attend but two Presbyteries as an ordained minister. One of them was the Presbytery of Philadelphia, jj in June, 1928. The other was the Presbytery of Corisco, which convened at Sakbayeme, on November 27, 1929, and held sessions until December 1. In many respects these two meetings, were as different as the places in which they were held are far apart. The church where the Presbytery- met ?n Philadelphia was hardly three city blocks from my home, whereas the church at Sakbay eme w$s oyer thrive -hundred miles away from my African home. The church at Philadel phia'; was only six minutes away *, the church at Sakbay eme was six meals away. It topjk us twodpys, traveling over rough roads with the assist ance of a motorcycle, a Chrys ler car, a native raft to ferry across a swollen stream, a Ford c^r to carry us to the railroad station, two trains, and a tern passenger Ford “bus” known a§,the Xellow Peril, jointly be cause .jits color and the fear tjbat it instills in you for your lj£e as it speeds over the rough, rocky roads at the un-heard of rate of. fifteen miles an hour and 4eyen minutes. ’be. journey to Sakbayeme t^jS^jan African railroad. It was, interesting to sec, African boys, one generatipn removed frprn, the jungles, selling tpkets ajLfhe. railroadjatations, hTever have I seen si$ch,^a polyglot of clerks; for,, most of them i^Yfea knowledge of French, Elfish and German, and con verse..fluently in many of the Cameroun languages. The train on which we rode was manned entirely by natives. I was sur prised, to see African boys as engineers, firemen, . and ticket ' collectors.-, ■ ipe# gorgeous landscape. High (HjllSicovered with trees of mul ticolored foliage and a beauti ful^river . winding in through ,t)ie farrow valley make a most pleasant prospect. • -Eighteen native pastors were present -and a host of nafive el «ders. Together with the j thir teen missionary pastors they made up the.Presbytery. No where perhaps. in all the world is there; a ^presbytery constitut 'jed^of -c^uch^ia heterogeneous .group: ef .(.Christian workers. The* native- pastors and elders came from, , eleven different jtribes and represented as many, tongues. The missionary pas tors, -though mostly American, indirectly represented many ethnic* groups ; there were Eng lish, Canadian* and a group of hyphenates—-Scotch-American, Irish-American,;; elsh-Ameri can, German-American, Anglo American, and Afro-American. As j the Presbytery was he’d in the land of the Basa people, and inasmuch as most of the other tribes do not understand the Basa language, it was ne cessary to hold the meetings in two languages. Bulu was the other language used. Every one knew either the one or the oth er* IW ggye me my first opportunity; >m its hr its place of eminence pad affords a view of a Undoubtedly tbe most epoch making action of the Presbytery was the establishing of a Board of Foreign Missions. The black Christians who have experi enced the joy of knowing Jesus anchHis saving grace want to send out their own missionaries to* the less fortunate tribes m the .interior. Most of the. Cam eroon churches are self-support ing/and now many of . them are raising if|inds«,to finance th’s missionary-project. This action on their part evinces .more, than anything telse. that their Chris tian experience, has been both deep and genuine. It aueurs well for the future of their Church, for a Church fired with the spirit of missions can never die. The dosing day of the Pres bytery-was most impressive. It was Sunday. The morning was given over to a service of , praise and worship and to the ordination of candidates for the = ministry. Pour young Africans, who had completed their ssifc nary courses, camje forward for the laying on of hands. I noticed mj v/n Ui uauuo. X UUWVCM Pastor Mejo at this’ stage of the service. His face was wreathed in smiles, and his eyes glistened as from joyful tears; for his Brother, Emvana, a tall, capa ble youth, was numbered among the four ordained. •«* I saw Emvana ' afterwards standing near Pastor . NdengS Pipa. What a qontrast - they made! Emvana—*tajl|and young, standing on the tfhresnold of his life’s wqfrk ^for the Master; Ndenga-^shbrfc and old, and le prous, nearing the cldse of an active ministry. But in this they were both alike—-their facqs beamed. They, too, had the spiritual birthmark of those wly> have found the Christ. SIMPLY A MISUNDEK- -s ' STANDING 1 I have refid with deep inter est the discussions through the Africo - American Presbyterian between Layman W. P. Evans arid Rev. A. A. Hector, conse quent to the question asked by Mr. Evans : “What must or can the Negro section of the great Presbyterian Church do to. at tract a requisite amount of the leadership brain of our strong young ipen to the Christian ministry ?” , - Knowing Mr. Evans as I, do and his life long sincerity in all matters pertaining to the real betterment of his church, his race, and Negro business inter ests, I am frank to say that Rev. Hector must have-misin terpreted the question, because in Mr. Evans, as his church \vili attest, there was no hypocr.'sy in the asking of -said question, ,To corroborate my statement of his sincerity, I will enumerate face-value instances of his in terest and worth to the church and to the race. V- Many years ago when the crash; happened to Bowers chapel church building during the session of Cape-Fear PresT pytery, at which the late Rev, Brown and several other minis ters were seriously hurt, the said church building was in completed and its foundation rested on wooden blocks. After the accident to the church Mr. Evans at his own expense had the wooden pillars replaced with a substantial brick foun dation that created a commo dious basement that for many years was used to accommodate p parochial school. This was pone at not a cent of cost to the church. He was instrumental in having a parochial school es tablished and for six or eight years supplemented the sala ries of three different teachers, a Miss Fisher, of Newbern; Miss Amy Martin, of Charlotte, and Mrs. Tyson, of Carthage. ■N. C. Just a few years ago at a personal sacrifice he brought to the church $500 in cash which was used to redeem the manse from mortgage and provided ,repair work on the church build ing. He has always been and is contributor to the church, as the largest and most willing sessing himself f?pm $50 to a .hundred dollars a year for his church’s upkeep. Surely if Rev. Hector could have known these virtues in Mr. Evans or any Layman he would have long since bridled his tongue and subdued his tamper and assent ed to any layman’s right to crave for light, leading to a big ger and better; Presbyterian Church’ and a; more brilliant ministry. As a race man and a Negro business man Mr. Evans has manifested an unlimited: Taith in Negro farmers?; ability to do well and for years accept ed' the hazards1 of boll weevil ravage to furnish" fiShdredS^of Negro farmers to live and- to ‘make a living. Service has been his watch word even at his own peril. The race, like the churches, .com munities and the National Ne gro Business League^ rieeds more men'like him. LAYMAN, • > ; ' ■ • ■ , Unfriendly kindred are the1 greatest strangers and often the worst foes. ===== REV. PRINCE MARRIES MISS PEACOCK iy characterised by beaut^pand charming sim plicity, Miss Susan M. Peacock and the Rev. Abraham H. Prince were married at 7 :30 P. M., on October 4th, at the home of the bride, 218 Ashe Street, Wilson, N. C. The vows were spoken in the living room in front :of an array of ferns and flowers. The • officiating clergymen were: Revs. J. T. Douglass, of Calvary Presbyterian church, Wilson, the bride's pastor, and the Rev. L. B. West, D. D., pastor of Biddleville Presbyte rian church, Charlotte. Mrs. Maggie , Crawford, of Wilson, rendered the wedding music. Prior to the ceremony she sang “Because,” and during the ceremony she played softly “0 Promise Me.” The bridal party entered to the strains of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. Little De Vetta Peacock, a niece of the bride, was flower girl. She scattered flowers along the bridal path. The bride wore a handsome ensemble-; of ; powdered blue trimmed with velvet accesso ries. She carried a . shower bou quet of bride’s roses. She em tered leaning on the arm of her brother-in-law, Mr. Eugene Norman. -- The groom had as his best man the Rev. 0. E. Sanders, of Charlotte. The couple left via motor for Charlotte. They are at home, 1927 Oaklawn Ave. . r The bride is the third daugh ter of Mr. .and Mrs. Levi Pea cock. She was graduated from Shaw University. She is a young woman of bright intellect and* attractive "personality. She is prominent in social and reli gious circles where she is great ly admired. The bridegroom is a progres sive young Presbyterian min ister. After graduating from the College and Theological Departments of Johnson C. Smith University, he further pursued his studies at the Pres byterian Theological Seminary Chicago, 111. He possesses rare social gifts; and’as the minis ter of Brooklyn church in Char lotte, he has become widely, known for his successful work among young people. The couple received many i useful presents. AMERICA’S TENTH MAN OUT IN NEW EDITION , Atlanta Ga., Oct.—A new edition of “America’s Tenth Man,” remarkable sixteen-page survey of the Negro’s contri bution to American history and progress, has just been brought out ,by the Commission on In terracial Co-operation, with headquarters in the Palmer Building in this city. This is the fourth edition of 10,000 co pies of this booklet that the Commission has published, or a total of 40,000 copies, of which more than 3Q,0OO has been dis tributed,, chiefly to school teach ers and pupils throughout the country. ' _• The pamphlet has been wide ly used as a stpdy text in high schools and has beep .highly commended by educational leaders of both racial grqups. The new edition is now ready, for distribution. A sample copy * the pamphlet will hie sent U any one sending /postage, or it may be ' had i*i quantity at twenty cents per dtogn. --—r—? REMAINS OF MISS McCRO INTERRED HERE Last Sunday at la o’clock the; . eceptacle containing the ashe of Miss Madeline De Arona McCrorey, daughter '6i Presi dent and Mrs. H. L. McCrorey, of Johnson C. Smith University, whose body was cremated in New York, was deposited in the family plot in Pinewood Cemtery, Charlotte. As the fun eral service had been conducted in New York, only members of the family and a few friends withered the interment here. Beautiful floral designs were given by the faculty and stu dents of the University. II Sunday, October 5, Dr. H. C. Miler peeached fromfienesis B5:3, “Let us arise and go up to Bethel.” By way of introduction'the speaker said the' history of Bethel is tflascindting because! of the thrilling incidents con nected with the place. Abram on his journey touched Bethel and there erected an altar. The beartiful vision to Jacob was given at Bethel. The meaning of the word Bethel is : “House of VGod.” Itr was :the place at vision and inspiration; tfie place where God was met in an especial way. The Call to Return to God The crowning glory 0f our age depends not upon educa tion; but the return to Bethel This will inspire us; give us courage to pioneer. If we are satisfied with our achievement we need not go back to Bethel. A Fresh Vision of God Such a vision was Jacob’s. It will cause us to see duty and fire us to perform. It will cause us to see obligation. Jac ob vowed the tenth of Gcd'a bounties to Him because of the vision at Bethel. What wonder ful results will be had here in St. James church if every mem ber w;ll give one-tenth to Gcd. The secret of the Apostles' power with God; and men was not because of great intellect, not material holdings, but men took knowledge of them be cause they had been with Je ;u>—had been to Bethel. The church cannot fail when her builder is God. The gospel has been apd is the power of God urito salvation. This gener ation, this group of members here can only fulfill their high mission by returning to Beth el. Not simply Bethel, the Ilouse of God, but Bethel, the God of His House. The Senior choir rendered very effective music. Prof, A. D. Lomax and Mrs. E. B. , Meares sang ^“A .Clean Heart.” Pr'e^e&ing the sermon Miss Su sie Miller sang, “I Come to Thee.” There were many visitors present; among them were Mrs. Reba Graham, field representa tive of the Board of Foreign Missions, and Mrs. M. D. King, of Macon, Ga., who is visiting the Itfeares families. Sunday afternoon Mrs. Gra ham spoke to the Ladies’ Mis sionary Society. Mrs. Graham lectured especially on Foreign Missions and gave demonstra tions by chart, Visitors frojn the Baptist churches were present. The following visitors from the Lexington Presbyte rian church were present: Mr. and Mrs. Bitting, Mr3. Dixon. Mrs. Gilchrist, Mrs. Bingham, and Mr. Wm. Tapley. Quite a crowd attended the lecture. Sunday night Rev. C. 0. St. John spoke on the Board of Pensions. The Junior choir .was at, its best for the evening ser vice. Mrs. Lucy Clement is out again after having been ill for a few days. Mrs. Maggie Alexander leaves the last of this week to teach in Moore County. The Lucy Laney Circle met with Miss Juliet Phifer Mon day afternoon. Plans were dis cussed for a Hallowe’en enter tainment. The Ladies Missionary ooer ety met with Mrs. Bray last Thursday. The meeting was very interesting ahd largely at tended. Mrs. Jones was a visit or and made a talk to the la dies. Other visitors called on to say a few words were Miss Mary Donnell, Miss Newton and Mrs. Waugh. Misses Don nell and Newton will leave soon to resume teaching in Iredell County* The next meeting will be held with Mrs. 3. W. Carter. “If the Church is Christ’s body, it is the organ through which His Spirit now finds ex pression in the world. He did not commit His Gospel to writ ings, but j';o a society .Which shouid alike interpret and ex emplify His scheme of life.
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