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Saturday. October 30 1Q9R. **" - ' IIs A "Political Pull" In .The -Chd REV AT.RF.RT ~~7' 5" " . ;^XK^X"X"XK"W~X?<>:?X?X?:"M Millions of men and women have no faith in the current religion of our times. If we affrmed that the current religion Of our ttmei"Ts TfpT _ the Christianity of Jesus Christ, we ^W6hld IflfTrhV that - ho~dhe can . truthfully deny. It does not square it3 expression by the GoIdewT Rule. -? TOWrhay'lfhy"icIea of tqklng-the men sure it gives. The current religion ~ of our .times has made .infidels of thousands of honest men and women.. Thev see in it. n,rt?> thing in-.thaory i and quite another thing in practice. 1 It fights for correctness in creed and dogma, bitf it is careless in life and i conduct. It 'Will eRpell a man from! a church for not believing the right ihing, and it will keep a ' million In the church who openly do the wrong thing.?If the question were raised = why preaching in so many placet) has lost it3 power, it might truthful- . ~:Ty~I?8 "stated that- the reason -for?it i that the current religion of our times forceg many men to preach j that that they do hot believe, and to believe - many things that?they - dare hot prieach." The traditional view of God is with the current religion of Aim ti*vNoo TU.%4- X -11 ^ * At- -1 nmvp. mat view ICilS ITie ~XTiat the imperfect religious yiews of men ' who were our religious leaders in? - say. 1G25 must be my views of today. But, what makes so many men think that they must have a politi?_?crtl "PULL' so as to^ succeed in the church of God today ? Well, first of all, the current religious views of our times are vitally ----- respsrtsible for the condition in ques- . tion. This view has commercialized ^ religion in a hundred different ways. It' has kept "BAD" men in the hiinis' try who . can collect money, and it _ hut} kept "BAD" men in the churcF who can pay money. It has no fellowship in suffering -in the service of Christ Jesus, and it cares nothing about, living the "crucified life." Joseph "Neesama of Japan, advanced ?:?un his- knees, but the man with a po- ~ litical "PULL" advances: on his -- ."THICKS."- Forty-eight years ago, my grand fathers. home was a home : for all of the ministers who came our _ way. In those days, ministers?did not have it as easy as they even have it now. Some times their circuits _were thirty-five and forty~miles long. Many times these men were Toot ~ sore "and Wary with no "certain a-" " biding place a(^; night. Quarterly meetings utrI annual conferences were great times for them.. Hun near came to those mcetingo.?These old soldiers of the cross" of Christ, prcavhud. prayed and wept, and"" thousands were brought. -into the kingdom of God by . their labors. attended was forty-seven years ago. Bishops Payne and Campbell presided over that conference. Many 1 old ministers who had not seen each 1 other .in -several years, hugged each other in the chOTch and even-oiT'the _ ~?streets. They . held"prayer meetings ; in each home jn which they stopped- 1 Long "before the Bishop opened the ' conference each morning, the. old gospel war horsese, had the spirit---1 j ual-firH "FiiYmiig " id that church.? L^ ?see them now, as tears of joy coursed down their rugged cheeks. They loved each other. They had not the bickering apd the strife that we ' have today." They joyfully went to _ TUnir l* n f Vint ' Vllvd ' ?>4411 Ci lllgi x i\utYT uiav naiuships awaited "them. Tears <?f,'sM_ness filled their eyes when they said to each other "Good bye."?We may J nev^r meet again. But if~we never H ? ?meat again, meet?me?up yonder, J ?' where there" will be no more parting." ~ God bless you, my brother. God 1 prosper the way you take.' These ' humble men, laid the foundation _of . 2 that we have today. They forged ahead, amidst hungeT, poverty and often ?with no prospective salaries before them, and brought to pass ' all that we have today.They had . no '.'political pulls." They lived on their knees. More people were sav- " (7 ingljT converted in Their house to tf ? house "prayer rrieeFi rigs than are now eonverfced in -any of our- largest - churches, Why the difference? Well we have the political "PULL," while they sought power with God. God ~ and the political* "PULL" do not 1Tbide in the same camp.. The , camp, that needs and must nave the politi- " "political pull" is not found in sllf- 1 consecration, or in the spirit of self ~ surrender to God. It is found a- ' midst the thing8 that have no vital ^ relation to the kingdom of God and ' His righteousness. So the reward ' thai has come to us for having -sought thia "PUiL^is*. the godless conditions about us and the spiritual drouth in Our churches. Well what has this "PULL' that many of us so earnestly seek done for us and for ? sent??-?- ??i JThe first thing to note is tha^ the 1 ' i .? Necessary to Succeed_| ^4aft -^fitiTrefi? H. TiQNG, I>. P. \ I men who must have such a "PULL" jare accomplishing nothing for Christ l?r Hvs_causo. Sonip_nf the turn wha? TIave had this "PULL" have hurt the Afridan Methodist Church. They ' have'^cept sTome of tVie brightest young men of our gropp out of the serviro nf ^hiirrKpSn rj f,hni|T hnu*-; linn* flimf >iuut 'tn?BtHTTO- BrthuCottlin Kr i trVl f oe t linnnm iwflM "*?? -^Vie church. The, men who want . this J "I'lHiL" mu,st. have pimps in their j rorvipc. So they gather together a group of men around'them who will do anything. They stand before the public, representing one thing, and jwhen thev think it to ha g?fa|'tht>v dash out and-do something different. They forget, that nothing can be hid these daysr?: L?' . . ihey have rushed men into the ministry. T?f our church from the third, frmrth and fifth prndnn They^j paeity, se multiplied the numbef of i such men, that the ministry of the church is. burdened with a number ?T men "who can nofmeet the issues ] that confront them both here and there. ?These men disorganize' each church" tq which they aTr~sgnt ~ by "fighting off the intelligence in them, and or-j ganizing rings of ignorant people to control them. If they., being up the| required amount of money, they are called great men. 1 Now, everything goes well with such churches until a man is sent there who has a real program for chat field. What happens ?.__Well, the rings that the brother with the "PULL" organized begins at once a fight to drive that man away from that church. Thev make a canvass jT~nieirTuruFamong the members of ^he.church, and then "they call a meeting._ The next thing is to draft a petition to the conference, asking for a change. Where ig the section found in our book of Discipline that confers?upon?the sinwards?of any church the power to petition the conterence> "for the kind of preacher that they want? Is it a part - of .heir duties as defined bv the law r?f the A. ML E. Church to make a "DEAL" with another minister to come to a* given church before they nave been assured that the minis--. ' tor wohld be changed? What rierHt to accept the promises of. another preacher?that he will do?this that ' and the other If you will "LAND" me?at your?church previous- to the meeting of the annual confernncg? These are some- o?_-the conditions . that the man with the ."PULL" have' given to the A. M. E. Church. Men . xre fighting today for what they call PLAGES" who have not done" anything for any place. Take the men in our conference classes. You can- always tell the man who'has. told the Bishop and conference a lie about having the books. Hi^ first effort after one goes Sifter his ignorance, is to offer him money, to pass him. Scores of them juy their way into our conferences annually.. Simon Magus was never more wicked than are the men who iccem, morrev of men in thiy respect. fc..Ha.ve -visited but few - conferences within the past .34 years', but in wiiicn I saw the expenditure of money in this direction. It is as clear as a sun' beam that the man with the 'PULL" can not standardize -the ministry of?our church.- A part form all;? of this, the thought that comes to me now is: many of u.i . should do better Than we are doing. Our records should be clearer. Oh yes, hundreds uf men have' thetr " characters^ pass at our conferences who hav.e no characters. No otwp ifi all "of thisl world knows this better than "themselves. Many people setting about them, set there treftibhng ' for them when the character test is being - passed. Men set there with the personal confessions of thetr drunkenness, graft and ther things before thenu - - They watch? them as fields, so as to gu there and repeat"" IhomgolVPi; in nffa pf dPmP"*'"" j'lg* as they -did--in the field that they just left. We must conclude that the* man with the "PULL* is not the best friend our cause?has* The man of faith, of prayer, of efficiency, of cqu^ ragO'in the beat friend our cause hag God give us more such.?men. Among these, we shall discover a lead i r>: a ii?? uruu ;aube 01 viuu ?*nu rwcuuiu ?v itii them we shall face the gates of hell j ] and put ovor a program for' 'God and suffering humanity. -"Read - i THE LEADER , . A New Day Has Dawn (B> Kev. J. F. .Washington) It is the saving of St. Paul in TTr>~ m nn? 11 'J5 vnrco u/Kt/?Vi ia oo #" rvl ^ lows; ""O the depth of the riches, j both of the wisdom and knowledge I of God; how unsearchable are his j ing out.*' In the above quotation, ^we-find ^St. Paul ackonwledying the j infiniteness and supremacy . of God.1" f^~ All rRtmwnl miwi hnlp hiit. ,-to confoBo that his ways are past | M. E. Church and school" were headed by the intrepid and aggressive la'meritcd Bishop W. D. Chappelle. Unj/ler his leadership the church o#->our "hoice has errown hv leaps and bounds ; Alien University hag made phenpmMrial^prugijess. 1 At the fame of his demise, it was a question as to whom would be the next.*bishop'?to take?up the work which was so nobly begun by the late JBishop Chappelle in South Carolina, Men have thought, men have differed in their opinipns; but when Ged=takes an Elijah, he always has an Elisha. r- ' . ~ This^i^fully^ realiseth-4n-the cowk ing of the Rt. Rev, John Hurst, D. D. H'-l TT ? 1 ? o-f tVtn fircf Disnup nursi is a icauct ui mw ??*~ ~ jnagnifude. Th?r writer remembers "hearing the bishop with this-exorea^ sion (in the year' 1915 while he was prosecuting his prefcentennial drive). At that time the Writer was a local preacher in Mt. Olive A. M. E. Church. . ' - ?r: That night the late Bishop Tyre made the speech of his fife.' After Bishop Tyre had taken his seat, and the applause was over, Bishop-Burst arose and?said- "When L_ came to . vou. I came as a novice in this work? but y?u remember that I told you that I was going to make every mair my man, and no man my -special man." Such a leader is needed in South Carolina at this particular time. I- incontrovertably. believe that God // THE M ?: Rv J- W. V V Cool Nature's blanket g< Of- earth. In muiasu still While saunters',: forth t.hi ? ?-Homeless, -she wanders 1 JCcchelp.-some.. royer^iYho Herself quite lost she c, Blushing the more to t "~'i The lucid air she makes ' And oars herself while ?? The rolling landscape sc And fields and pastures O, silvery queen, the gc ?:?Serenly light earth's m The wanderer_?gropes fc I'll view the" scene, and PROV _By'_A\L Mark . ThS~~ summer revivals h? * They've given old satan You say you are strong And will sin know long< A ? .7 :?l ]?STTC nuu intcnu IU live iign Now prove it. fThe burden of your testi "I'm on my way to h<j&\ I'm "Jiving truetT My faults are. fewer,." .* - Thi* is your talkJust prove it. '* You've sung. "Zion's soi 7tncTyou belong to tne You testify the later,, . ? Bu^.wkatr4s the mallei, Your action's,fail -y- Tor .prove if; ; You promised the pre ? -The dollar money to rais The time is at hand, Yet the preacher must s __ . __AncLpIead with you To prove it.; Each day in the week, he ? Trying hiri beat, hig ohlig He may bow pri his kh^ef When the collector he see . Butj his honesty, money musi prove it. The approaching. Confers It is earlier this year tha If you want tb earn, YOur pastor's"return. Be honest, pay up, ^ And prove it. ^ I -REESE'S DF MKSrFrR. R: A Full Line of Paten Cigarettes and Tobace Madam C. J. Walker't j Times. Ice Cream anjj ; ? ? phone l 1422 Assembly Street, [TO LEADER ? "will always take cure of his chupch; this must be done through huhia'h agency however and we feel tha^t thig agency is in bishop Hufsti A wisp anil sagariniia li-iuW it?. he,. a preacher and an educator 01 tne first magnitude. South Carolina is. proud to have this woderful prelate at its head. ; Allen University will .xeach its destined glory umWr the leadership of Bishop Hurst, and with the efficient president, Dr. D. H. Sims, It is an acknowledged fact that Dr! SlffiiS IS Aft-feflUCAWr1 ot-. no mean, ability; yes, he will rank equally with uny college president in the South. And too, Allen University has every reason to be proud of its faculty, ft.-strong set of teachers has she; AU departments are functioning as never before. " The Scientific Department this year is headed by Professor D. -Mai Lin Duw, Who Is a Wonder among teachers. TK~one cannot learn science under Prof. Dow, it means -that he cannot learn it all. Professor Dow hales from .the" in Africa, England and- Wilberforce. JUlen University iB fortunate indeed. to have such h profound teacher of science. Taking all of the' above under consideration, I feel justified in .saying: "A new day^has daWn^foF African Methodism in South Caro, Una. ^ ^ . I =g= Martin & "fhurman ~ LICENSED AND BONDED Phones 8723?8854 ' Columbia, S. C." *, [QQN. ? ' fithftrapqon ?__ " ? 1 sritly wraps the breast ness far and wide iemen fail to resfT 2 nights, desultory bride. sj ^0 some distant isle almly smiles the while 'd * J her silvery boat; pensive stars stand by;. ;cm all set afloat, ??1 ? \ ioin and kiss the skv. / >t r,,'rrV,f f J1UCI1 Oiai VL 11AK xiu aiifluent atrgama;? . ' ? >r thiL_bcnigaiit light, ? fall away, to dreams. ' E IT. : m Thompson , ' . live., come-to a close, a number of blows ; er? ? ^ t; . . . p' ... ?- J -- 1. monies have bebn,; '< t ren ,I'm f^ti-?rom sin; ? icrs in a strancre- larrtf^ hoty band ; ' ^ ' acher your best to do, his salary too;?-??? stand, * . ^ ' - . . i has"been on his feet, atitms-tcr Tnceti | __ s, ; ; tnce is at tfre^door, in ever before; r ; p ?_^*r 1 rnssrv :. " 1?1 ? ' ' r .. J agi ITG STOREEESE, Prop. . I t Medicines, Cigars,? os. A Full Line of i Preparations at all 1 Sodas. \ h MW ?- - -tfi: Columbia, S. C. 8 ? q I?wyHjjtEg 1 ; M. H HARRtSQfef? I CONTRACTOR & BUILDER I' ' . 1li?stnnates Furnished on Application ..... ytr JtmTCHXL AltGE j-"'"'-. ? ? NONE TOO SMAI.L 1 I 1112 Richland Avenue -?Aiken, S. C. |~ ? y. .yw,- . .^-^yV.Sxv.;.,; OOOOOOQOObOi^v>Oi.M....M.,yv>.-C'v?>yOC'vOvOOOO<^vv">.^-v->.OtOi>o6<ubjOttaa f tjmrhks g - ? SATSFAC. 1 IOJN ? I IT? ? IN OUR ' fw Ok^MANS'HlP ^SKRVICtT ~ Slij; OUR FALL & WINTER M i vynpivSAupi i;s ? ~~= !~T WONDERFUL VALUES AT S3tT& S35 ? OWEN & PAUL 1117 \ V A Si l l NiGXO N SWEF.T ' | CA^L 6963 FOR SaMtBFSM AN ? Oi->i"iooooonnr.rior.r>c*^:M'.L<Ar.r_.,-.r.'Nr.o.%^w " T V Office Phone '(>020 ' Residence Phone fi?9ft 1' "ii N. J. i'lUJDKRICK ?V- ni ? Attorney -at - La w and Notary Public. ' ' !! ;; . Practice in. all Courts?State an'ij" Federal. " i' s J |?1119 Washington Street. ; j Columbia, S. (J. ^ : * p who wm Help ? T ? --- Deserving Yoyng Poet j !j! ; :.ia'e xl' a local '.Sanitarium,has com- X ' ? !|, !'|Ua1 a bouk of Poems! lie has shown !*! )!* HHk?x wonderful ambition and will power jf, 1 ' ' ,1m preparing these Poems, as mnstfr ?j? ' ' . h'S "t'ilili^s'"'as dune while can-% ' 1 *! . ^C ^V ; - Il(' '-"I us, so lie says, to write his j* ' " ' ' " . . wjwjjrJ imillL> acl'u'-\ *be fair skies of the Li- *?* jt ,?-- ? 1' ''''" *' ''''j^ett'rcJhc-CmbOTks oh ,{1' - . | ' ' 'j?&!?S& \ ^ 'ulitavy journey.- 'X $ aBfn? ** !-vl : : v.i;.. u..., h this should pro->: |i* .' ( \t cure one of-his books, and show apr *{* | T y~ p. n^ho^i i)0Ct? who has^" ' \>u-~ ' \ - S \* mail 30.C. ' For sale at The Palmetto ? . : ; ??--- - ifir bthco, liklo Assembly StTeet, % ? )l* ~ Columbia, ?>. -Qz -? r~? ~ y' :": v.- -l_ , - -+-; - - . A . I ?jj ~~^z BEV> Jt Jt lIAKlflSOX state Maatar ^ THE UNITED SONS OF ABRAHAM & D. OfTl is an .organization v/hich is doing, a great, worJt_fur the- poor"and ? infirm people of South Carolina. It has at its head Rev. JT J. Harrison,'State- Master, Prof. J. A. Kink, State Secretary and D. V. McCfae, State Treasurer. ; It pays to its members while alive and gives to the beneficiary something after death. If pays from fifty to one hundred dollarspfor hospital benefits and from 525,00 to $100.00 in case of total loss by fire of house and household*goods. It pays from $1.50.to $3.00 per week for sickness and up to $10.00 on Doctor's bill. > Think of it; gtKfCar-any information writq -- ? KIRK- S. Sec.. BennctUvilla. S. C. >~ / 1 - - / . _ y '.