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jj i P< an The Rayo is a low-priced lamp, scientific principles, and there is not it is easy on the eye because widely diffused. And a Rayo Lamj Easilv lighted without removing shade Solid brass throughout, with handsome nicke' Ask your dealer to show you his line ot Ra> to any aaen Standard Oi (Incorpo i Church constitutes about one half of! its membership in the South, and one J tenth of its entire membership. It | constitutes one fifth of the entire col-1 ored or Negro Methodists membership j of the world. I believe that more | Negroes have been directly benefited j and "p lifted by this church than j by any other, r.nd that more men and women of eminence and distinction have been sent forth from its profesional schools and seminaries and from its colleges and universities than from those of all the other colored Methodist institutions combined. Among our colored membership we have 8 colleges and universities valued at $1,420,500; valued of equipment $70,000; total endowment $165,000; and productive and endowment amounting in all and exclusive of debts or encumberances, to $1,700,000 and a total number in facualty of 250 and about that number of college students. We have live proffesional schools 'with buildings valued at $160,000; equipment valued at $12,000; nd a Instructors and 773 students, 13 of whom are women. We have 17 secondary schools with buildings valued at $488,992; with equipment valued at $18,810; and a total endowment of $45,715; with 246 instructors and 614 scholars. Our contributions for total ministerial support amounted last year to $785,190; for foreign missions $18,265.62; for the board of home missions and church extension, $20,698.15', which appears to be a little more than an avenge of six cents a member for foreign missions and a little less than se\en cents for home missions and church extension. 'Tis true that the contributions of our entire membership for these causes aic less than the contributions of one of our Southern white con\ Terences?the Baltimore conference but we believe than this is partly accounted for by the fact that the total wealth of the entire membership of the Baltimore conference exceedsi that of the entire membership of our cohved conference. Still, ours is a very poor showing, and should he i greatly improved. The total amount1 raise 1 by the entire church l'or Froedlii.'t.i's Aid Society last year was $.">30,Ott'i. The twenty colored conferencesj reported c-t',7S."."0 which is nearly' oi:<? drllar for every four compared with what was received from the entire chttich. Aral it is especially; jrra;ifyp,i;;- to iv,o to state :.t u:y own con?' -reive H?" fasti- <'. ; conrcrccc?has for the- last six yon "s stood Il o head of not only all tl)e colored i wi'fi'KMicos, but of-1i the coilferrates in the church, in the amounts raised for this cause. To accomplish this lists (axed 'our pastors to their utmost and the accomplishment will stand to their credit through nil "he y a-s. The foregoing on this subject is incomplete without special mention !.< i::g made of the ceasel'rs toil. tire!' energy and heorie oiTo. ts of presid* nt h. .M. imton of Cla'liu University and his faithful and talented wife and co-worker. Dcsides. these 20 colored conferences raised approximately $12,000 for the cause of education, making a totol in round numbers of $33,0000 raised by the colored conferences of our chin eh. The total amount received by the board of education hist year from the entire church was $S2,2.">-t.oO. 1 feel safe } fhe Lamp That Saves The Eyes Children naturally never think of >ssible strain on their eyesight when >ring over a fascinating book. It L up to you to see they do not ruin eir young eyes these long evenings ' reading under a poor light. The Rayo Lamp is an insurance ainst eye troubles, alike for young d old. but it is constructed on the soundest : a better lamp made at any price, its light is so soft and white and o never flickers. or chimney; easy to dean and rewick. | finish: also in many other stylcr and finishes. ro Urnpc or write tor descriptive circular cy of the I Company rated! ^ ?i^ in estimating that the colored con- : ferences reported at least one seventh of this amount. 1 made every possibe effort bv writing to Bishops Turner and Salter of the African Methodist Episcopal i church, and Bishops Holsey and Williams of the Colored Methodist Epis copal church and Bishofls Hood and C'inton of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, to obtain data on the foregoing items for their churchies but the information was not sufficiently ample and accurate to enable me to use it in this article. Notwithstanding all this showing on our part it is a fact that our colored membership has not increased equally with that of the distinctively Xeg'-o Methodist churches either in the North or the South; and it is natural that we thy to find the causes or reasons therefor. Before undertaking this, and to prevent any criticsm or miscontruction of my motive, I wish to add a few words personal: I have received more fav ors and courtesies from some of the pastors,'colege profesors and bishopB of the Methodist Episcopal church South than from the bishops and the white pastors of my own denomination. Bishop Duncan once spent prac* tiaally an entire Sunday with us, preaching twice consecutively, and also in my absence officiated at a funeral service for me, and was my friend and counselor. Doctors A. Coke Smith and J. C. Kilgo, both of whom were afterwards consecrated bishops, found it a pleasure to preach for me The late sainted Dr. James H. Carslile more than once gave my people one of his inimitable lay sermons, and was for years, and until his death my friend and counselor and spiritual advisor. I doubt if there are many if any, pastors of our church, who hif. had plesanter relations with the ministers of our several colored Methodist families or been more highly honored by them. It has been my nn/1 nlAQCOIirn fA hfll'n fP J i ? I'icftv; aitu j'lraoc ui v w v - w? . ceived from and extended courtesies to Bishops Holsev and Williams, and | for a time to have been for two weeks ('lofcely and pleasantly aassociated with with Bishop Phillips. The same is I true with reference to Bishop Walters. I I have entertained the late Bishop | Petty and have been entertained by, both the Bishops Clinton, the youngerj wl.n.ii has l;e<-1 : .rit :id ol m.tny years, standing ami a or.e time school mate. Bishop baiter, my lather's friend and \ my own friend, once bestowed upon me the unusual honor of having me pieside (empororily over one of his: annual conferences, and participate it; the funeral obsequies ?f uiy dearl father; and president Chappcllc ofj A1IOI1 I lilYCilSH.f SUIilU J Cilia ?if," placed me under lasting obligations to him by voluntarily using his good c!!ices to have an academic degree confered upon me by their leading , university. No one can, therefore, accuse me of| bias predjndiec or secia. danism. The' First and greatest of our heroes in the! South since Emancipation were the Godly men and womoh who came! South immediately and soom after j the Civil war, soma from the best Northern homes; serving, some of, them, in the Union army as nurses I and chaplains, and later ocming aniong us to welcome back into the fold n*- the old church both her white and colored members. Most of these heroes and heorincs are gone to their reward, but their work and memory abide with us still. Many of them suffered ostracism, abuse and persecution. Thank God some of them lived to help mold a sentiment that eventually resulted in their being received I and welcomed into some of the homes of the best white people of the South. There were colored heroes also? the Wilsons, Westohs, Middletons, Sasportases, Smiths, Bulkley and Rosemond and Philips, and many others?men who bore the brunt of battle, some of whom chose rather to be humble ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church than general officers or even bishops in some distinctively, Negro church. I shall now proceed to assign some causes for our slow growth i'irst. The intense opposition to the mother church on the part of our Southern white people particularly those of the Methodist Episcopol church. Conditions prior to the civil war rendered this unavoidable. The southern white people felt, and rightly so. that the M. E. church was more largely responsible for the Civil War ana sent more soiaiers into the field and more nurses into 'he hospitals of the Union army than any other denomination. As a result intense feejing was manifested against any white person who undertook to organize among the colored1 people a Methodist Episcopal church. Later the fraternal spirit manifested by our white leaders caused reciprocation on the part of such men as Bishops Hagood, Duncan, Smith and Galloway, Dr. Jams H. Carslile and men of their tamp, and allayed this prejudice in a remarkable degree, and pTovoked such a fraternal spirit that for several years we have had a common church hymnal and church catechism, and in some localities the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church is the best friend our or any colored pastor has In the community. But for years the attitude of the ^Southern \^hite people toward the colored members as well as the white members of our church in the South was in marked contrast to their attitude toward the colored people of distinctly Negro churches. They were helped and encouraged. Secondly. The liberal appropriation by our missionary societies of morfey toward the support of our pastors and particularly our presid. lng elders, where the changes could have given them adequate support .The ministers of the distincitvely Negro churches having no such aid, were forced from necessity to get for the most part, their entire support out of their people, and were more aggressive, and in labors more abundnt. They found that success lay more in the heel than the head, and were ever present among the people. Third. The bitter opposition and prejudice our people had to encounter on the part of the members and (Continued on page 7) Saved! 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A long strip of park overlooks the Hudson river and the heights, or Palisades, on the , opposite side. One summer night a young man In evening drese sat on a bench In this Riverside park. He had been during the evening?well, perhaps It Is better not to say where he had been. New York Is an artificial city and possesses many attractions for those Inclined to gayety and at night Is an Illuminated pleasure ground. In its streets, some of them bright almost as day with electric lights, one may see a mixture of every degree, from the highest to the lowest This young man, a student In Colum* * - ?1 onnnHlnir thp Dili CUII liiiu utcu o{/vmw*i.0 .? _ evening to suit himself and before going to his room near by wished to get the air in the park. It was deserted except by himself, and he found the change from the bewildering crowds in the streets refreshing. lie sat some time without a single person passing. Extremely drowsy, he was falling into a doze when he suddenly became conscious that there was some one sitting on the other end of the beach. Rubbing his eyes, he looked and saw a young girl, her head resting on the I back of the bench, her face, which J was vei-}' pale, turned upward toward the stars. She was flashily dressed. J and the student had but little doubt i as to the class to which she belonged, lie was about to rise and leave the park when the girl said iu a faint voice: "Take me to my room." "Are you ill?" he asked. "llnto death." "Where is your room?" "Not far. Come. I will show you." She put out her hand for him to help ; her to rise, and ho noticed that it was ' cold. In assisting liev he did not need j to exert any strength, for she was light ns a feather. Indeed, It did not . ...... seem to tiim tiiar mere was :u;> nuj.m at si'I in her. She put her arm through his and livni* d on liiai. but siiii thero was tio weight. "Travo vm'i no Iiopv.*?" ho ashed. She shuddered. "Don't speak to rre of homo. When a girl eolnes from the eoimtry to New York home is a tiling I of the past." "Not all girls." They walked on in silence. The arm ' resting uii his was not only cold, like her hand, but there was a dampness j about it that seemed to ehiil him to the very marrow. Moreover, he fancied he heard a faint gurgling. like runuing water. The route to her room j lay through lonely streets, and the i student would have been glad to be free from tier. But lie feared that if ' he disengaged himself she would fall. So he walked on, constantly yielding to the chill of her presence as if a woman of ice were walking beside I him. | There ia a park on the other side of jlMMMMMIIi 11 ^ii | n Leading Garages at a good tire is <^6, In properly inlated X.BY *J|: 3N WORKS the heights from the Riverside drive, and into this the two descended. Passing a bench, the girl sank down into It, saying: "I can't go any farther." Seeing that she was falling from the bench, he held her up, and, believing she had lost consciousness, he laid her out upon it. He chafed her hands and fanned her with his hat, striving to revive her. Finding that she still remained unconscious, he put his face down to hers to learn if he could detect warm breath. He could not Placing his band on her heart he could not feel its beating. The student felt troubled. He was too chivalrous to desert the girl. When she came to consciousness finding herself alone might turn the scale against her. And yet he was not ' sure that she was dead. Suppose he were found in such a situation with a Ommd girl. His whole life would be blighted. He knew not what to do. He tried once more to revive his companion and, failing, resolved to go for assistance. It would be far better for him to go, find some one to help and tell a straight story than to be found at dead of night with a dead woman. The park is narrow, and the student, crossing it, entered one of tho streets near by. Catching sight of a policeman, he called to him and told him there was a woman in the park who needed assistance. But a few minutes were required to go to her, and on the -- otiuinnf rn tha nun n hnre ?UJ (lie nuiuviiv ? v, ? outline of what had happened. As they approached their destination the student was surprised to flud the bench empty. Thinking he had mistaken another for the one on which he had left the girl, he went to the next on either side. Both were vacaut._ Then he looked up at the cop and said In a startled voice: "She's gone.""I thought you said she wrs dead or dying." "She was." The policeman went back to his beat, and the student went home. The next morning the latter saw an account of the suicide by drowning of a girl In the Hudson river off Riverside park. Toe body had not been recovered. The student gave up his college course. It was said that he had studied too hard. Be this as it may, lie went into a sanitarium, where lie remained u long while. Uur r-.rst steam warsntp. The Fulton, which at the time of her construction in the early thirties wasclassed as a "steam battery," was tlfte first United States warship that .vas propelled by steam. She was built under the superintendence of Commodore i Matthew Galbraith Perry and at the time of lier completion In 1837 was regarded as one of the world's wonders by way of naval architecture and power at sea. The Fulton was the cause of r.o little speculation on the part of European powers, for at that time she was looked upon by other nations a.s all but invincible. When this wonder of the sea was put in commission Commodore Perry, then holdinp th* rank of commander, was put In command of her, and he presently came to he called the "father of the steam navy." The Pulton was built primarily for defense of New York harbor, but she served as well to demonstrate the practical utility of steam oower for warships.?New York Times. * V