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ai The Rayo is a low-priced lamp, scientific principles, and there is n?It is easy on the eye becaust widely diffused. And a Rayo Larc Easily lighted without removing shade Solid bran throughout, with handsome nicke' Ask your dealer to show you hu tine ot R> to any age Standard O (Incory Church constitutes about one half of its membership in the South, and one tenth of its entire membership. It constitutes one lifth of the entire colored or Negro Methodists membership of the world. I believe that more Negroes have been directly benefited and vp lifted by this church than j by any ot:.. . and that more men and women of eminence and distinction' have been sent forth from its profes-1 I Is and seminaries and from I and universities than from ! 1 the other colored Methoitions combined, ur colored membership we leges and universities val,420,500; valued of equip00; total endowment $165,productlve and endowment in all and exclusive or j acumberances, to $1,700,000 al number in facualty of iout that number of college b five proffesional schools lings valued at $160,000; ~!A&etft of $$25,666; with 8 rs and 773 students. 13 < IH Vke women. V ^Le 17 Becondury schools wit ft JP valued at $488,992; wit B valued at $18,810; and ^ wlowment of $45,715; with 24 J and 614 scholars. Ou Th?ons for total minister!* Jt amounted last year to $785 WWor foreign missions $18,265.62 flie board of home missions an SlWi extension, $20,698.13, whic] L ^ s to be a little more than a jsc of six cents a member fo ' " 'nfluenq tlft*11 m*8sl?n8 an(* a little less tha If i f? cents for home missions an "1 v #Jch extension. T 'Tis true that the contributions o our entire membership for thes causes arc less than the contribution of one of our Southern white con feronces?the Baltimore confereno but we believe than this is partly ac counted for by the fact that the tota wealth of the entire membership o the Baltimore conference exceed! that of the entire membership of out colored conference. Still, ours is i very poor showing, and should b< greatly improved. The total amount raised by the entire church for Freedman's Aid Society last year was $">30,000. The twenty colored conferences reported $20,785..70 which is nearb one dollar for every four compared with what was received from the entire church. Ami it is especially gratifying to me to state that m. own conference?the South conferece?has for the last six yea**s stood at (he head of not only all the colored conferences, but ofr.li the c?n? fercnres in the t'ntire church, in the \ amounts raised for this cause. T? accompli8ih this has (axed our pastors to their utmost and the accomplishment will stand to their credit through all the years. The. foregoing on this subject is Incomplete without special mention being made of the ceaseless toil, tireless energy and heoric efforts of president h. M. Dnton of Claflin University and his faithful and tal ented wife and co-worker. < Hesidcs, 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 church. The total amount received by the board of education last year from the entire church was $82,2r>4.5t?. 1 feel safe * " - / '** V. * ..*'i - t. > V }. \ , The' Lamp "^^it Saves The Eyes Children naturally never think of ossible strain on their eyesight when oring over a fascinating bock. It L up to you to see they do not ruin leir young eyes these long evenings y reading under a poor light. The Rayo Lamp is an insurance gainst eye troubles, alike for young 1 I V aa old. , but it is constructed on the soundest .1 a better lamp made at any price. ; its light is so soft and white and ip never flickers. i or chimney; eaiy to clean and rewick. finish: alio in many other ctylcr and finishes. iyo Umpii or write tor descriptive circular ncjr ut the il Company orated! ; in estimating that the colored con-|] J fercnces reported at least one seventh j ' of this amount. I made every possibe effort by writ- j I ing to Bishops Turner and Salter of l the African Methodist Episcopal!; church, and Bishops Holsey and Will| iams of the Colored Methodist Epis- t copal church and Bishops Hood and \ I C'inton of the African Methodist j I Episcopal Zion church, to obtain data : | on the foregoing items for their | ch.urch.-e3 but the information was i J not sufficiently ample and accurate to i enable me to use it in this article. ; ! Notwithstanding all this showing on 1 our pari it is a fact that our colored i j membership has not increased equally ] | with that ol the distinctively Negro i 1 Methodist churches either in the No> th j 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 mlscontruction of toy motive, I wish to add a few words pastors, colege profasors and bishopi of the Methodist .Episcopal church h South than from the bishops and the h white pastors of my own denominaa tion. Bishop Duncan once spent prac" 6 tiaally an entire Sunday with us, r 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. Kllgo, both of whom k were afterwards consecrated bishops, found it a pleasure to preach for me The late sainted Dr. James H. Carslile more'than once eavp mw nonni? - o ? T uuf Ul U J 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 e if rny, pastors of our church, who s 'h.^.- > (had plesantcr relations with the ministers of our several colored p Methodist families or been more highly honored by them. It has been my 1 privelege and pleaseure to have re. ^Iceived from and extended courtesies i' to Bishops Holsey and Williams, and r 'for a time to have been for two weeks 11?losely and pleasantly aassoeiated with; [with Bishop Phillips. The same is I true with referenee to Bishop Walters. I have entertained the late Bishop i PettV filirl Imm 1 I j "*" " ' , I both the Uis'oops Clinton, the younger i . . , who:a Pas !,,i-u : .ru nd o! nu.uy years II | standing awl a. uiio time school mate, j jIMshop Salter, my father's friend and .; my own friend, once bestowed upon ; me the unusual honor of having me ; preside tompororily over one of hisj {annual conferences, and participate (in the funeral obsequies of my dear , father; and president Chappellc of I Allen University some years ago 'placed nie under lasting obligations to him by voluntarily using his good ' olllccs to have an academic degree1 confered upon me by their leading ! university. No one can, therefore, accuse me of bias prcdjudice or sectarianism. The lirst and greatest of our heroes in the South since Emancipation were the i Godly men and wometo who came I South InuiKKliately and soom after ; the Civil war. sonio from the best i Northern homes; serving, some of them, in the Union army as nurses and chaplains, and later ocming among us to welcome back into the fold I of the old church both her white and colored members. Most of these heroes and heorines are gone to their - L { f ' j 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 twin ?' * W^IU6 A CV/CI * CU and welcomed into some of the homes of the best white people of the South. There were colored heroes also? the Wilsons, Westons, Middletons, Sasportases, Smiths, Eulkley 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 First. 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 and Bent more soldiers into the field and more nurses into the hospitals of the Union army than any other denomination. As n roc?u ? >_ tense fee]lng was manifested against any white P' .3on who undertook to organize among the colored1 people 1 Methodist Episcopal church. Later the fraternal spirit manifested by our fc'hite 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 provoked 3uch 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 \qhite 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 die> Secondly. The liberal approprla i tion by our missionary societies o > rnorfey toward the Bupport of ou: - pastors and particularly our presid ins elders, where the changes eoufc > have given them adequate support ,TJhe ministers of the dlstincitvelj negro churches having no such aid were forced from necessity to get foi the most part, their entire suppor out of their people, and were mor< aggressive, and in labors_niore abund nt. They found that succest lay more in the heel than the head and were ever present among the peo pie. Third. The bitter opposition anc prejudice our people had to encounter on the part of the members ant (Continued on page 7) I Saved! I Eb| "I refused to be operated ra on, the morning I heard H l H about Cardui," writes Mrs. B? I Elmer Sickler, of Terre H Haute, Ind. "I tried Car- B dui, and it helped me B greatly. 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He had been dnrint r the evening?well, perhaps it la bettei MWV w ??/ TT ucic uo uau UCVU? I York is an artificial city and possess es many attractions for those inclinec r to gayety and at night is an illnmlnat ed pleasure ground. In its streets, soiru 'r of them bright almost as day witl t electric lights, one may see a mixture , of every degree, from the highest tx the lowest. This young man, a student in Colum 5 bia college, had been spending the evening to suit himself and before - going to his room near by wished U get the air in the park. It was desert I ed except by himself, and he fount) the change from the bewildering crowds in the streets refreshing. II< sat some time without a single per son passing. Extremely drowsy, he was fallinj into a doze when he suddenly became conscious that there was some one sitting on the other end of the bench. Ilubbiug his eyes, he looked and saw n young girl, her head resting on tin? back of the bench, her face, which was very pule, turned upward toward the stars. She was flashily dressed, and the student had but little doubt as to the class to which she belonged. He was about to rise and leave the park when the girl said in a faint voice: "Tako me to my room." "Are you ill?" he asked. "Unto 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 he noticed that it was cold. In assisting her he did not need to evert any strength, for she was light as a leather. Indeed, it did not seem to him that tlicrr was any weight at a'! in her. She put her arm through his am! loaned on him. but stili there was no weight. JTave yog r.o home?" lie asked. She shuddered. "I>on't speak to me of home. When a girl comes from the eountry to New York home is a tiling of the past." "Not ail girls." They walked on In silence. The arm resting on his was not only cold. like her hand, but there was a dampness about it that seemed to chill him to the very marrow. Moreover, he fanha lioo ?..?!? ,M - . ..? ?. nEuiu ? imiii. kuiK'UIKI ilrit" running water. The route to her room lay through lonely streets, and the student would have been glad to he free from her. Rut he 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 him. There ia a pork on the other side of I * ft 'V' j rfy on Leading Garages | that a good tire is I I :Kji properly inlated I g CK .BY-41| I ON 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 aud 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 hand\ on her heart, he could nob feel its heating. The student felt\roubled. He wa*4^9^H0HfcM she came to consciousness V A\ s herself alone might turn the Vale 1 against her. And yet be was not r sure that she was dead. Suppose he r were found in such a situation with a - dead girl. His whole life would be 1 blighted. Ho knew not what to do. - He tried once more to revive his comj panion and, failing, resolved to go for j assistance. It would be fnr better for , him to go. find some one to help and y tell a straight story than to be found at dead of night with a dead woman. The park is narrow, and the student, 4 crossing it, entered one of the streets ' near by. Catching sight of a pollce) man, h? called to him and told him thprp wns n \rnmon lr? 4l?o ?. w?u cut; & n. wuu I needed assistance. But a few minutes , were required to pro to her, and ou the way the student frave the cop a bare outline of what had happened. As they approached their destination the , student was surprised to find the . bench empty. Thinking he had mistaken another for the one on 'which he had left the girl, he went to the nest on either . side. Both were vacant._ Then he looked up at the cop and said in a starI 1 tied voice: "She's gone.'* "I thought you said she was dead or * dying." "She was." The policeman went hack to his beat, and the student went home. The next morning the latter saw an account of im? kuiciup py drowning or a girl *a' the Hudson river off Riverside park. The body had not been recovered. The student gave up liis college ' course. It paid that lie liad studied 1 too hard. Re this as it may, he went 1 into a sanitarium, where he remained 1 u long while. Our hirst steam wars nip. The Fulton, which at the time of her construction in the early thirties wag. classed as a "steam battery," was the first United States warship that was propelled by steam. She was built under the superintendence of Commodore Matthew Galbralth Perry and nt the time of her completion in 1837 was regarded as one of the world's wonders by way of naval architecture and pow| or at sea. The Fulton was the cause of no little speculation on tlio part of European powers, for at that time she was looked upon by other nations ns all but invincible. When this wonder of the sen was put in commission Commodore Perry, then holding tho rank of commander, was put in command of her. and he presently came to he called the "father of the steam navy." The Fullon -v^ns built primarily for defense of New York har1 bor, but sh^served as well to demonstrate the practical utility of steam power for warships.?New York T'TTgOMM J