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01 "R SEVENTH TSAR.
ning of our seventh vealr in the new
th the consciousness that-from ou
d to improve in the tone and qualit
tuv?How well we have succeeded i
jest say.
\ve are in position to say about Th
eade.rs n\ay hot know; and shoul
numerous papers' with which we e
able that we would.know how you
ltry at large.
not a colored newspaper of any .siz
uairge lm> been requested. bup~whi
st : and likewise many requests- to
us, which We have gladly granted,
lot usual for such papers as The D
;i\ The Whip, The Bee, The Am-tt
Age The?Washingtim- Tribune-; Th
mati I"moTdand others, to exchaiig
ip-tb a'high standard of journalisti
is respected is shown further by th
torials by the black and white pre>
....L tll.it illmCll'l lifimr ti, 11
11?. t . i t i <)" f r(jtljulu r:_-u(litorda-h-patfe-.-nrst
issue <>f the new year is to yi\
tto leader that has ever appearei
tiiind wt? wish for air our readers
O-, r?
GFCL MINISTRY. <
a^-'hid-^tiilL-un. earth that "ilcf war
oofl irVThosti days. jn~sras in tiros
::J'or after aTI Sufferers are all wl
Christ's work found its expressioi
nony whom he moved mental peac
i>t have been, and have been affec
doiny yood since he was placed o
_!_ n.oeption trf a Christ like ministr
in -onr community durintr the na.try.
many more, of our ministers wli
lit' one of1 whom we spvak is doing!
nys. tliat we say about hinr yp fc
> worry on that score however fo
[t unselfishly and not for publicity,
v. -I. K Keeder, successor to the Re1
hinvh. durintr the Christmas sea so
his church, for the.old people wh
Services on account-of their aye an
mre-mrr TTn^HTiemners of his congr
t-ion rf^iitles to use them in helpin
> and from the church: Under hi
y done. ,
irch services the Rev. Reeder visite
>osed and held prayers and service
e left provisions, and irrsomo phvcc
nates Uuvard })eacefulness of mini
served on his pastoral pilgT'TmffjJe
many people this young minister r
the cooperation of all their friend?
; gather up all their cast off clothin
delivered to the church for?<1istrih
eports tlfat cooperation beyond hi
iug t lu.'se garments, Out of sum
ered t?> the church by Saturday las
wishes it 1e be known that -his car
I will be until so much suffering i
I all who have any old clothes" n
lot 11im know just whore to come <
them and make them available fo
I ynniitf-miui U facing this crisi
a_mini'-trations in Ids day are \ah*
dmng good, _ :
?O ?
'() EVERY NEGRO
of ?>rofit to call to the attention <1
nation that might otherwise escap
pleased to learn fhat our effort
ve been acted upon by not a few c
uh-nU who are desiiuus of boromiii"
the* Negro.has done and is doing i
ind out very much about it becaus
where to find the information,. U
rcation is dependent upon knowin;
vhat one wants tojuiow. The bes
nation should be* among one's hw
TJillikl a usatiladibrarv as
<: net ore, us. as \Ve write, a book a
Egive the student of Negro liter
at that literature comprises-. It i
ro Literature" edited; with an intr
_The_j2QokLiii_-dodieated to Watte
coiirage in 1 hecaiiac of bin peoph
that tine, inspiring warmth which
THE PALfl
h'r<v?~fniirwl in hi.- fHendTdyTp
This Anthology is one of
published in 1929. The
a price below a dollar. Any
make the necessary sacrifice
water to"buy a book that will
Cajyertonbs introduction t
n turc Fiction is divided ir
and the novel. The, short s
} the famous author of Cane
5 Charles Waddell Chestnut, w
of his..time: "The Yellow On
tor: and "Blades of Steel" b?
often appeared; in-t+rcr Atlar\
resentative novels is given, ij
- K B. DuBois. Walter Whita
Larsen. and Rudolph Fisher.
'' athan Matheus are the dranu
' As might be expected the
= jong tfo be included fn this
Songs; Essays: Literary, f
graphy: and Biographical nc
_ anthology-- tile first of its kil
if a library.with this book-wou
>r XcwYCaC| . : 1
y HETWEEN
THE
. - LINES
| BY GORDON B. HANCOCK
: : " "The Burning Bush"
The Bible tells us that-Moses
a shepherd in the land of Midian
! i led tlie- thick to the backside of
S ari(' came to \he mountaii
(God. e\\-n to Horeb. And the ai
'r of tlu- Lord appeared unto him
V flame of fire, and the bush was
H consumed. Sunn- commentators 1
; seen the burning- bush as a symbc
J Israel in Egypt; others have see
1 I as a. symbol of the church in
d , world, lit cither castr1 ft feprcy
X i tire tribulations of an ideal. For
r ' tor or, worse the Negro church is 1
i ing its baptism of tire! The gat
guns of the white man's ridicule
,e the iNVgro's criticism !?? ? tiirn..4__y
It"" the'Negro church, and the onslat
if- I is -u-taine<i and terrific! The
j gro in tliis country has a grievs
. 'against tlu white man. which ha;
j effective means of expression; sc
'r turns upon his race and pours out
ie vial .of wrath bitter and vindicl
;e upon the struggling Negro chu
.. Simple indeed is that Negro who <
j not feel capable, of delivering abu
I and scathing discourses on the
gro church. I- or/ eypry young
is gro who feels that something is r
is with ;the church. a thousand can p
..pi v, luil -wxixug.?To critici-tr.
; find fault with tin church.is to m
V Negroes a mark of "intelligence;
' tact, herei<e lies a large part of the
a puted "intelligence"* of what is so
i times called the "New Negro." V
; a large part of the Negro pr(?*s,
'! criticism of the church and the su
defamation of the' Negro mini
;; constitutes the unly well-defined j
it' c\Y Tlte delhiQuenc'v of one insi
e. "lie a fit" and ignorant minister
more notice than a1 hundred well
formed consecrated Christian ger
'"1. .... .. .. i.,. i... n..u-.;.. ?u
" ?? U" I *4 ? v I I It'll Liill
It si'i-m'- ti> occur to a certain se
t- of the Negro press that in spit*
in lie shortcomings <>f the Negro mi
try. there?4s -n<? group -in- ATTnrr
t;. life which ..can give ,better accm
<>l its stewardship than the nvl
st aic.i.eii and o.'t di lamed Negin?r
|o-:ister. His object ie was church hi
f- if." nri'i lie 'IniitfnT,tTtrr('tllf^*,"T'J'^??*
Without-ibrubt there are manygro
ministers who should never h
h'.oi ~et .apart .?for t he - reason t
1 were' not prepared ,-in ..training
t. . ideals for a position of such gi
n !>'.n>ii)ilitv. Their counter?pi
() are to be found in all the other j
. fessTons as t.hn "fpinck doctor" _
hyster . lawyer"?amply -ithrstT
>y:trmly .rtrptofC.?
g unfortunate circumstance but reas
s ably expect , such as a by-product
: advancement. It should be borne
. mind 'that there, is not one th
wrong with the Negro Church
? ministry that time and training '
s ~Tn.il co'fVect". Tt hardly seems adv:
(] 1?K however to 6ui n the barn to
--M-hr- i.ijv--The rilllcr 'A't'tfl'OPs ~Ti
; built the Negro churches ant^it is
ii---"to the New Negm?to use thenvfor~
?, ' advancement of a constructive i
jr gram!
U j This fs written not to defend the 1
, cr part of the Negro ministry wl
s'| i> .upright and' honorable and st;
| ing to the hot" of its' ability to se
t j the present age. their calling o ful
II There need no defense! It is writ
s j m the name of uiUoming generati
lot .\igroes who will need the chli
1 j ami they will in ?'d it sorely, even
the present Nvgro needs it. The*
I'.-jgro church must move forward
s the fimes demand more ministers'
tin- I>etter typi tun to make the Ne
church a cultural scape-goat
eleariTTST"house oT racial grudge?
not going to benefit the Negro ri
?-Jnst as "Littler Willie" cannot eat
candy and have it too, neither
_..thn iiuluence of the Negro church
if it}< ministry be destroyed and in t
,, nnpioreu u? assist in putting over
, rate's program. The Negro race
' only needs the church but it need
'' better church. Inspite of the crit
sin heaped upon the NegrO ehui
pT there is no institution which has st
n such strain and stood it so well;
nearly three score years the Ne
church has been the clearing ho
* for the race's aspirations and an
{?" tions and for si-xty" years to'come
,t this be true? Today there is no c<
n munity prog rain that can he put o
for Negroes without the Ne
lilt1 more ettieient ^th^^rhurch
C more effective the program. If ii
a I difficult to see what the young Ne
0 ' wil do with the church, it is dou
Q I difficult to see-what he will do w
young educated Negro turns to
L. church when fic has some point
1 carry, some program to put o\
[E7TT0 LEADER
. :
the Modern Library books and ^
iem Library books are obtainable
school boy o^girl should be able
of gum. candy, ice cream and sj
unquestionably prove a mental to"
reats, "The growth of Negro Lit
lto two categories: the short sto
tories are "Fern," by Jean Toom
1 "Ttje Goophered Drape vine"?
he is among the most famous liter
e" by Eric Waldrond, a splendid 1
r Rudolph Fisher, whose works hi
tic ^Monthly. The gist of seven i
ldnding those by such authors as
i-Claude McKay, Jessie Fauset. N(
Georgia Douglass Johnson and ?]
itic writers whose works are used,
list of poets and their poems is 1
place. Spirituals: Blues; Lai
fistorteal?aild Sociological: Autol
>tes are all included in__thi? jspleni
h'd yet attempted.1 *To begin to bu
^1 be a constructive beginning of 1
1 Thi -?dqnoi ht (ui us tndiHFerei
i away until some more convenient s
j son until a like emergency ark
i The old Negro had for his object
the building ol chdrches and he
tained his objective in a way that
[ wprld . r.-engnLz^nu p??Ug to~
New Negro, to -use the churches
old Negro has given him. This c
Stitutps tho 11
r ...v ..ivov vvvvtriing L' 11 a 111' I
was to the younger generaions of Negr
and with educational opportunities and
the stead of maligning the church and
n of subtle strategies defaming the N'ei
ngel ministry, the younger Negro needs
in a realize that the burden of the rat
not program is still upon the Nej
tave church. There may come a time wl
>1 of the Negro rilce's program is still
n it on the Negro church. There n
the come a time when the Negro .race <
ents dispense with its church but t
t)et- time is not yet. Whatever misf
hav- tune, conies from'the attempts
l'nK weaken the influence of the Nei
and church and Us ministry is goiiur
fail upomtiie Negro race and not m
tstry. It is. much easier to br<
ince down and east out than to build i
5 J The next step in Negro advancenv
' ,.e is business expansion and slieh
. ,s pansion is impossible without a p
Ifressive church and wide-awake m
Jc * istry with -?their primary contai
.- ^ The anti-churchmen may. succeed
k, tearing down the chuitlt temporal
-iul they ought~to kneiw it ineiP.
returdatioii of the' race's progra
JjjV If-the arch critics of the church w
I as j^r .diiinii in their effort- _to h
the church and cooperate with
" in ;Preftt-',u disorganized program as tl
, re "are. in trying to expos.e its weakne
es, the race would speedily move f
inu- . .. .. *_M ..
fith wara w'th Us program. 1 he Nej
ehurch is the Twentieth Centi
''burning bush!" .
For sixty pears this , country 1
Soli- c?ddled the mob and thereby cruei.t
gni- c'1t" 'aws wbie-h are the country's sa
guard. TncielentaHy the Negro I
i jn". oeen the chivf sufferer from-lawle
)tje. ncss in its violent forms and manit
jng tations. The. laws of the land hi
t,tor oeen traninled under foot by the n
p 0? times without number and today
n:s. are one of the most criminal and la
less nntmnc ovi.f ,?-?l?><l !>. ?U.>
ICtWl ** V ,v. . VVV.V4VU ??| U.V .
ants nJ^s mankind,
jch- "The laws which have been crticiT
nTTH"1" be invoked fui a nation'.- sa
lild t-v- When a "ation is taurght to am
-the thirri pnth-dmtrTouTfeenttr' Xe
" ?hnt< it will not respect the,eighth
iavc th. Neither can the Negro race t
hey pect-tome-glee. discredit ' : l
and Negro church and expect to employ
-eaf in the program of the7 race's l'uti
irts advancement. Joday as- in old
iro- times, it is not meet to burn the ba
and to get the__rats. JThe Negro-you
ate. Negro if oou please cannot kill
tiu*- ibi. dMiui*..anri.u-itt U.Uo,>.a.nd. the t
ion tent to which he kills off or sanctio
of the killing off of the church, is t
in extent to which he kills off his hop
ing for a larger future!
and
??'i; ?
get f U 1 IN T Hi LI
uP ' , P O I N T S
ttrr
)ro- George A. Singleton
arg |
tieh POINTED POINTS
riv-i l]he weekly text: "I make all thin
rv; new." The Apocalypse of John 21
lill. j The weekly thot: "A small prixli
ten tion sells for more anil costs .less,
oils large production sells lor less, a
irch costs more."
i as | firant.ly in the Atlanta Goijstii
N'e- tion.
and | Hail 11W1. The old year with
successes, and failures, its triumj:
Rt'o ' and defeats, Its long and Short co
a,nd ings is now history Never again
1 ,s the experience of ITTe upon the eai
acy. will the year 19.10 be lived thru,
frte It is no more than natural, tl
can readers of this column recall to,mi
a no. | vicissitudes of last year. Tl
urn j writer recalls pleasantly his adve
-the | into Kentucky and the scores
not I friends and acquaintances made the
's a I Louisville, Lexington, Greenvil
ioi. I T-v Ml. 1 U .lU ?,ill li?> Ia
' x-' | L/ttli V ill" a I in r auuv.au win inc
rch. j in bin memory.
??(i I After all America seems to be det
For ly concerned about unemployme
Kro i and is waging war against it. S
use means to_fight ,it with dollars a
. * jobs. We have contended all alo
that the imperative' need g jobs a
,m" not charit". The latter will reach t
ver effect and not the cause..
%r(> Certainlv man is equal to any em<
lind yeney. Then iwiTTions rrf1 yeais ff
blocks, of centuries he has demc
t '8 | strated his ability to find'his way a
t?r? I surmount difficulties without numb
.b,y and he wili, repeat now. ;
ith- It is a fact that the depression
the^ worTtPwide hut Tt 7s the result of
the business CVcle. Progress ia not, ^
to tained by an escalator movement b
ter. a spiral*n^ovement. Busihess may
' ... .. :1 . ' 'i '
* ? ^
good today and off tpmorrow but in
the long run there is grn'lual ima
restoration. of life', spirit, and cun1
tCfidcncc in business.'
ida In rhe same season our re ulers will
lie. stand still and wait until their ehaii"v
pj._ come. They v will not spend other
' people's money hut spend their own.
w' If they have hot sufficient cash to .pay
01% for what they desire to buy they wjil
by- -refuse to buy. ? a(j
SgVenty-flw years ago. this was a
race of slaves., today ;t is free. The
ancestor^of?the Negroes wit;- f'ctcht
to this country against their will. In
t'Op 1865 hey numbered in round "ures
\V. 5,000.000. Perhaps thre 20.000,000
ijfa here at pres ?,?. * Hy tin- year 2000.
r__ the United States will have a Negro
and Negroid l oo.ooottttttr
Numbers count. Tile Negro nhv..
too sic jail has the, greatest opportunity
)or ?f a"- His supreme, task is toden(jj0
ghten the life-span <>? the group. The
lid l,as "ut a-s yet learmd U-s lesson
, ot cleanliness, sanitation and hygiene,
did In building a scale of values the bodi:he
ly are most fmwhmi. ?? ;.! Literature
painting, mus e, philosophy, economics,
aesthetics, recreation.' religion.?
==.' all rest upon the body.. When the
. . body Weals ^ill 1 :i 1 other r;ilmu cease'
What is the "greatest town in. South
ea- Carolina T The town where the- great
",eS- est people live. That town is Conway
'e, and the people are the good men and
a*" women who can say:" I knew, him he
.fore he -was horn."?Tln-ae?lues are
. e being writena f. iv rpd,- from tin pii^
where the writer came'into this world
a few-years ago.
'^e He has traveled much and journey.j
* ed far on three continents-ami-in near
^. ly every state in the union but never
' in all his life has lie had such awarm
. cordial reception as- Conwav accorded
1 lO i ? .
% , him. . *
He ajipreciajtcS the honor bestowed
^ and"the opportunity to be thup&mm
eipaion Day speaker, in the court
. " house before citizens " of both race
fan ,*rouPs- friends of other days.
Thru the kipdness of Re.V. W. 1.
> Gore, the w pi tor talkt on- Sunday
to morning to his old acquaintances and
_jr(> friends. The leaders in the communi.
ty are C .A. Jones, Paul .Smith. Join.
ei MoV(*, K. fTeihin'rway. Omrles l.atti
iih: nwH?e.?O'sear and Julian Ih-mirnrwny.
?ak ^ev. '! H. Wilson, ^fanu s I.ync.h ami
' j many .others. .llappv
Nt-w Year* to I'alim tt
" Leaderiles! y .
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T" Tin- - Xrnni?11 :i? < i i'i ?.- i i iiii ' !'. u
1 " The ervimr demand-- <?i" the tinn.
ami the iTecessities ! ( the- >i! li.-ii ini.
^ imisl .lustil y my a-.-unipt'< i.i < !' iTii11 Us
. lectual and moral' author ty in tli
H'- epistolary advice aljd admonition. \V.
' are ente-rinjr upon a new yi-ar whirl
" will witness inoinentous niovi-im ia.^lo
throughout the world. Our. o\viY na
tion is in the midst of transform 11
processes whose outcome,is not ap~
?a^ -parent' to* the""'wisest. TorTsitrhv. The*
^ city is depleting the cmintr.y, .llie...
u"-: yimd^TihemTdTTy^eiir'Tnv^ 'rTr"
s ,tion-widi-. Arjyiilture . and industry
,"s have come to grips.' Capital and la..
es." bor ate it1 a state of armed neutrality.
1Ne Man and the maehine are engaged in
1(10 a deadly duel,. The bosfsteil deinocrav
cy of an agricultural era is threatened
-by the.dictatorship 'of tin nia
i?n- . i 1..11: fTT.... .
cm in* aim u: inupiui a* ii.uiiijKuui'M v.
r?r -Kstnblishod reliemKV-n tHd+t-it-trlr srr^^
npmic and so> iai r amie- in. :of
present, .day . ajritation . ai-r in a
'l^L...tntr-: of uW rinnl In iin.i.?Hir~r
man wisdom knows not what ; ho 'on;
2IL" come wfl 1 be. The world; ha.- uo\i;i
known it on this wise bofpiv.
. " In tlicTnidst of thesTTVosmic 11ov7- j
' which are sweeping- arouml ami thru_
, us. the Nce-ln i- loiikii.p nii -n ..upm?
ieH aloofness as if he had nbco'ncern (or
iri; did not comprehend what it was al,
-about;* -We-4tii}i''to-forth*Htt-t-hrC>-L
. ncihv wluch he i> iiv'Q-Hed-. Wo are.
^TTTTtSf*1' nyr It!h>-?fAir hV'
'"s iv dramatizing our pmu* jjrie' '
11 of which the -world is-bored ahTTAJn
,e'* which it turns a deaf ear. We- an
sixty years behind the procession, and
ire tryin- to recall in IP.'fO the is.-ue
>f ISO. T}ie man with, the toothache,
is "a nuisance to his fellowmen win.....
. diave.-.uu..-mUa'v?i;si-.v?---t4it?utfotrtt-s-b-*-his
achinjf ogran .To him nothing
else maters; but it matters nothili<r tb
anybody else. The man with tin
n wound must utter the jrrnan else the
world would not be aware of his afHliction;
but too much ffr.oan iht; rend.
rs the world hardehed and .indrttt r
ent to it." Maiivfir grimaces and ,-hak
inj? tlu- imootent list of. detiame d<not
modify the onward sweep' of'e'bs
mic or nat'oieil forces.. Am! m-t 1 d-J
?-nrrt .Iihhi' cessa of. 1'ellloli -! rallCe"
'u' but sage experience teaches us tin
-'ineiricacy of impotent complaint a,
J*" '-adequate remedy, of the- tliiiifts com
plained of. At times it Jtvenm' tiun
m~ ttte" Tnore bitterly we" e-onKdatm t in- (
dnper?grow?ike if iToianoos?annum '
which we comnlain. History show.that
fi-oiip grievances .ire rarely . vei .
lat remedied by direct .action, but by the
n,d wider sweep of indirect and ulterioi
I HUM \ stlllll I lit* 11 1 > I?
>n^ bitterly complained of the unjust Kn
01 glish ovcrlordship fwr .seven hundred
re- years., and yet relief came as an inci ;
,1c, dent of the world war with which h< r
nK historical grievance had no relation
tFhe?Pleheaiis?were?at com liuious
'P- strife with the Patricians for half a
nt, thousand years but equality was-at
he tained as outcome of Home's imperial
nd, policy. T4w?- natives nf- -India have inng
dulgcd in complaint aainst British
nd rule ever since the days of Warren ~
he Hastings; but relief seems in light only
when the British Empire is on the
iT- brink of dissolution. Evan our r:n-.
rwF'lal rlgllLK, IlillW'ff?1- We enj'oy. arc,
?n- the result uf economic and political
nd adjustment between sections of the
rer country differing in soil and climate.
The Nogfo needs a larger visions
is His erievartffes- will be removed hm 1
a wrongs remedied, not by specific, .but j
ut of the syndicate and the merger. 1
be Economic, political and social process- j
~J- "'Saturday, January. 3, 1931.
i es operate on a nat,on-wide scale.
There is 1 i111 < or no room for class
?mi n'd.?\cym-^mpt.rtnttirest him
sel f [in what the natior^ is interested?
. how to adjust, social order based upon
oti'grown 1 <iols to the demands of
-i-nnchiiu age. In this pew align.
men1 1 i s the clii f hope that long
. i'U'jr -landing prejudices, wrongs and
'n ;ust ices, whether dT race, class, or
_?L_^- y- 'ii he ipol|ilied or removed. si_
r I .i t i;,e. now" :vo a specific illustration
of tht'" for< going general
i>? iiwiM-h?'s. Iliii ntr the next two
to n vefy de'?;hs by the fate of the
* viendment. Moral agi
. tatiiit; \V lib til; invato in poiit eal action.
While tlte uatiou-nbe-Jiv-fever heat ol"
lomTiiotion o.Vi-r the issue of prohibi
?i on ""if will boot the Negro little .to
^1 '"-I p 1' riy.~.l?*'- mill?on?the? ??lit
;yu.i*.zation of bis specific griean
its', however just I v grounded. It will
1 uiol b iti better. a hundjed fold bet;
r. in ..ioiiW. . I be natitm dry.
w lit .i .-urance that relief wiij be
-Cult, -t a I : *ts of racial lire its
?hi?>tft?rrC?tlii* iini; ,-il?reform.
With salutations.
Yours truly. .
Kelly Miller.
may zio.\ aVm. k. chlrch '
NKWS? WISACKY, S. ?'C.
(By Emma Bfadlcy)
Church Conference of the Conference
year Nov. 0 th and organization was
etfected. Quite a number of the \
young boys and girls pf._the church
were drafted for servicer?iX?program
of work for the year was adopted.
The Budget has been pro-rated out
(to the. different organizations, according
to the strength of the organization.
The assessment for the yeai V .
"is as follows: the Stewards.,$225.00; . '
. Stewardesses $155.00; W. H. & F. M.
;Htr(iO; Sunday School $00.00; a. c."t
K. League $50.00; Willing \Vorkers
. .S5.UU; Sun Beam $8o.OO; Boys Boos
j tors' .Club $25.00; Boys.Hustlers' Club
I :;5.<h); Little Busy Bee Cjub $25.00;
Lslu-fs Board $25.0iL-_Tmstees $422.xiib
T"L>1 f.u; ^lye Yi-tyr S2.372.00, r'-;
I be iuluiv looks brospit ioiis.
j The ; ilr>t *".!!ftlfly in December
Hi; rks t'He beginning of the . first ,
Quarterl* Conference for the -now 5 ;?
Conference year. After paving "a
t U hd.id Sunday school, Dr. A. P.
* Shears ascended the rostrum. and
; !t livi-rei) an excellent sermon front
fActs' : J. Our hearts were made to
v ie'iiv while the man of God preachj
ed t lie g <>>eI. Dr. Spears is a real
i i.spel pre; cher and one of the best
! , residing elders in. the -state. On
'.M'.ndav night 1 >? . Spears accompanfrmtiiiy
his wifeT AfrS-. Sinter amfhtf"
n-th.-r Mis. Jeremiah Bradley and
! William Majdi.ay two of our young
pie n w ho are attending school at. Lin
j -?!ii Hi. uttived at seven thirty to.
| ..old- the ipiarter. The pastor and '
i .dicers' had already furni sited the-- fi[nance.
Tiie 1*. 1'. lineal-hymn - No.
pLlli.X'. A!.,- led in ..prayer himself. Af--~??
j er re.iiii.-.g- a short Scr;"' lesson ?
' '"nen PreyentrTt--itr-V."ll. W. Walke*
pa-tor of New Bethel- A. M. E.
:church-, also principal t?f the Cooper
!AJ ill school. who?in a few hut well
;? h'. sen- woids delivered a fine address.
After a few words in response by
:hu_lC E.; he then took up the Disciplinary
uuestions and -calling xfar the
remainder of the reports left from
Sunday. Finance as follows ifor;_i. - ??. .
rresjdiim; ?Jvlder _ $55.00 ~ '
('i II' Indent : ??ga.On
'Missiuiis
J'aSt")- ~ .aJ-.. 7.90 <
11' il'lio <diedtotr-. 'v: _ ' 3:Q0~~
, P. Jlhe quarter $99.70
-F t in?pa-tor this quarter 31.00
...JUiiiiui , total C__ $130.70..
After 'which 'a grand reception was
sdv?i?._l.y__t.he several hoards of Stew ?
I arile~<"ses ih hot\or of the Pastor^ P^?
; 1; '.la.,ir wivu* otui .?>IUeev.? of the ?'
j ehurrh. Other truest s were Mrs.
! <e > Later, Charlotte Pdmpey a-rs1
leaehers of tht. Cooper Mill and St..
I'aa! seh? .ils whiyh was enjoyed by . . ^
KKSOLl'TIONSi ' ~tfH|
1 tile OilieeiA and Members jot the
First Qxiarterlv Confereaice of
~ :V?/ion A. M. K. OiJrch: . "" ,'i
Kev. S. Chism, l'astoiv?
Whereas our church has within the
lit." .,?-U
I- > \ - 1II< " l lll>i 111 till I U \> VIIUITI"
i'uI sucee^s under our present jj^istor
! lev. S. Chisifi. .
Whereas, Key, A. P. Spears, 1'. ft,
'?ef tii,. Sumter District, for th^ past
.lin e years has 1 >eeiY so fatherly in
f 11iadministration, so hrdthely in his
all\?if ami council, so interested in
'to- success of tii,, churches' of his
jijonii jiiui our church in particular.
lirv-'ltt. - Rev:' U. c. llan>-m
tile District Prcsidim; Bishop of (
tile Seveiith ftpisi-opuW has iieen so
liiehly spoken of and represented hy
jH' I'aMnt, as i.eino a tiod-setit ides- *? ~~
sine' to- the state. ' ': ,
Hi-solved, that we the officers and
inemliers .of the ?abov(, named church
pled tie our loyal support. tf> all of
these our leaders, namely Bishop, P.
K; anil Pastor.
That we by the help of (iod'will
mi-.<?ur oil 10 neip xne cnurcn to put
.over a great program for humanity
and for (rod. ...
Resolved.* Because of the day in
which?Wf?now live, and seeing?ttrc ??
great need of education in our group . ;
s we now see it, we pledge ourselves
t<? do more,for Christian eduin
general and our school Allen
1'niversity in particular. ' \
Signed: Bros. II. W. Wilson, W.
Samuel, Wesley" Bradley, (leorgp A. 4ft
Tone.v, Anderson Isaac, David Brad1,,,
<T I_l._ T> <?
iii-ui.> i.-Minc, iiiiiui rnmpny; rsi-S- ZZ
**!rwti-"^!rfTTTfT'T7,"T?TTTT?fa vviison,
Amelia Toney, Hannah Henry, HHie
Toney, Emma Bradley, Mary Bradley,
Ethel Isaac. Ella Bradley, Mary
I'ompey. ' . ,i
1 * >
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