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L. VIII.
30 YOUNG ST.. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. FEBRUARY 1. 1900
COPAL
DISTRICT
g the Year 1899—Five
onferenccs In Geor-
iree In Alabama.
Colleges— Failliful Men.
Erected and Debts Paid.
I nriier, I'rimate of the
It, Should He Con-
ulaleil—Her l'osi-
1 In th>=i General
'onferenee of
19C0.
1 Episcopal District, cora-
ls, of the states of Georgia
ma, is very remarkable
vs tban one. The fertility
>n of these states are most
a that thousands live here
irgely farmers. The mild
congenial weather make it
lep.l summer home. This is
le largest district in the
dbilities for the spread of
the work that must neces-
lone, makes this, in many
te most burdensome of any
he church. In the district
nore than 1,600 ministers,
.05,000 members, with two
vmdreds on hundreds of
ehools, and thonsands of
and women connected with
E. machinery; the buying
property, paying of debts,
ood and raiment to supply
sands, purchasing a home,
newspapers and looking
sand other things that annoy
1 make this one of the hard-
s for both the Bishop and
But whatever may be said
nen of this district, whether
deportment morally or in-
lly, to my mind, God has
le a more law-abiding, a
1 and faithful class of men
who compose this district.
> made the A. M.E. Church
is in this section. With
d dimes, poorly clad, ill fed,
posed, they have braved the
id, like the tenth legion of
sar, ignorant of their own
(1 health, they have tried to
the Master's kingdom in
>11 mountains—wherever the
m n. The claims of the church
met, when families have
ithout bread and clothing,
this district has put into
of the general church, to
ng of churches erected,
>oks and other necessaries,
$275,000. Can or shall we
;1 aside? Or can it be said
e not loyal and will not do
Turner came to the district
it of the transition period
rch, when the pent-up fires
and a deep consideration
(sent, and when the skies
itive of desperate efforts to
rd the work of the futnre;
ivhen the financial condi-
3 country was distressing;
-ains, storms, smallpox and
sr were broadcast; when the
ustice were arraigning some
itest men of the country be-
and when criticism was
of this had its effect during
(1 '98. Do you ask, if these
lrances? They speak for
very much of our success,
our harmony in getting to-
the circulation, monthly, of
'1 copies of The Voice of
md the 3,000 to 5,000 copies
The Christian Recorder,
se of these papers has been
deration to those sending
The editor of The Voice
s"s has run that paper at a
f his own personal needs in
affairs. Cicero was never
rminetl to lay bare the plans
£ than the invincible Dr.
d his very Christian wife have
3t out the Southern Christian
The Presiding Elders, sta-
iit and Mission men through
strict meant to rebuke every
woman who have attempted
in derision of the faithful
women of Georgia and Ala-
We have been told that there are too
many men in the field in Georgia, and
have been urged to have a primary.
o have been told that if we would
narrow our interests down, we might
eret what we want. Do 7C» votes in
this state count for naught? Do the
12 or 20 thousand dollars dollar
money yearly from these states mean
nothing?
Do the 1,603 ministers and 105,000
members mean nothing? Have these
states put a man on the bench or in a
general officer's chair who has not
proven himself a master? Are we now
asking to promote a pessimist? Taxa-
tion without representation is unjust.
There is not a man in Georgia or Ala-
bama who will cast his vote against
the Rev. Charles L. Bradwell's being
put 011 the bench. It's not Charles L.
Bradwell at this time, but it's the men
of the district who desire to have him
serve the church. If there's a man in
the state who would for one moment
raise his voice against this expressed
will of the majority of the people, he
either attempts to gratify his own
petty ambition, or personal interest,
and has no general interest for the
good of these states.
A goodly number of us have played
the fool at the General Conference
long enough. If our work and the in-
terest we have manifested count for
nothing, and, if we haven't the men,
we are willing to "hands off," and
step down for the church and for the
race. R. D. Stinson, Atlanta, Ga.
WORK FOB GENERAL
IN 1900
A Change of Law> New Law and
Retrenchment.
in
onferenee in the Sixth Epis-
rict (7) have raised this year
*40 dollar money above last
other expenses met, giving
Brown and Payne Colleges
)0 to $7,000.
truthfully say, that almost
'armony reigned during these
n,ial Conferences. Some ol!
'aen, along any line in the
in this district. We are
'onfeBs, that Alabama, in her
v ^on^erences, simply beat
Many stations and circuits
toore than a hundred dollars
year. "We ask even our most
if this is uot an item of in
l'Georgia and Alabama?
m been said about the posi
s district and her attitnde
si Conference of 1900; so
A Notable Hanging.
Ed Fields, colored, was hanged
Jefferson, Ga., Jan. 5, 1900, for
hooting Virgil Griffith, colored, on
the night of August 20th, 1898, near
Hurricane Shoals. Rev. H. B. May
of the M. E. Church was the first
to visit him. January 3, 1900, Rev.
E. Pittman and wife of the A. M. E.
Church called to see him. Fields ex-
pressed his thankfulnass to them for
calling. He was asked if he was
ready to die.
His reply was, "I am ready and
willing."
Rev. Pittman, after a short talk
with him, prayed and sang, and bid
him good-bye, promising to call the
next day.
Jauuary 4, Rev. Pittman, accompa-
nied by Rev. H. B. May, called at 9
m., entered the cell where the con-
demned man was. Rev. May and
Rev. Pittman shook hands with him.
Sev. May asked him is he was prepar-
ed to die.
His reply was, "Yes, sir, I am ready
and willing.
He asked him if he had been bap-
tized.
His answer was, "No, sir."
"Do you want to be baptized?" said
[lev. May.
"Yes, sir," said he.
"How—immersed or sprinkled?"
"Sprinkling will do," said he.
Rev. May read John 14th chapter,
and invoked God's blessings upon
Fields and the wicked world. Fields
requested Rev. Pittman to baptize
iiim. They shook hands and bade
lim good-bye.' At 3:30 p. m. Rev.
Pittman and wife, accompanied by
Mrs. Harriett Hawkins and a number
of others, entered the cell. Rev. Pitt-
man read the order of baptism, and
on bended knees Fields was baptized.
Prayer was offered, then sung, "I Am
Trusting, Lord, in Thee." He said he
had some friends that he wanted to
send word to.
"Tell Joseph Wright,Maysville,Ga.,
want him to be a good boy and meet
me in Heaven. Tell Samuel Fields, my
brother. I want him to be a good boy
and meet me in Heaven. Tell this,
said he, "to the world: Don't drink
and fool with whisky; it has brought
me where I am. It is a bad thing. ^Iay
God save the world and the wicked."
We bade him good-bye.
January 5.—At 11 a. m. Rev. Pitt-
man and wife, accompanied by Revs.
May, Teasley, Poole, mother, sisters
and brothers, entered the cell. Rev.
Pooltf read Hebrew xi. Rev. Teasley
invoked fervently God's blessings up-
on Fields. Fields asked that "Am I
Born to Die?" be sung. While sing-
ing Fields walked around in the cell
and shook hands with all
iiis mother and all,
Heaven." He wept.
At 1 p. m. Fields was led to the
front of the jail where he was asked if
he had anything to say. His request
was that Rev. Pittman speak for him,
which was done as above mentioned.
He was then led to the gallows by
Sheriff Stevens and with Revs. Pitt-
man and May in front. There he
(Fields) selected "Amazing Grace to
be sung. Rev. Pittman lined and
asked everybody to join in the singing
Prayer was offered by
for Fields and the
"eThe sheriff then placed the black
cap over his head, the shroud on his
body and the rope
Pittman said:
"Fields, are you feeling all right.-'
His reply was: "Yes, sir; I am feel-
ine all right and willing to go."
The sheriff said "All right" below,
The trigger was pulled, and at 1:20 p
m he dropped through the death trap.
At 1:24 p m. Vrs. Smith and Hardi-
man pronounced him dead.
His body will be buried at New
Hope tomorrow.
and said to
'Meet me
in
Rev. Pittman
world of wicked
around his neck.
Imaginary Ills.
"Do you know," said the man in
the gray ulster, "that police statistics
show a total of nearly 20,000 persons
who are reported missing every year
bet more than half of the:
At all. They
Mr. Editor of The Voice of Mis-
sions—In looking over the columns of
your valuable journal, I see many
things referred to relative to the work
of the next General Conference of
1900, but very few are saying a word
respecting the changes in the law.
You will please read Book of Discip-
line,page 98, chapter 3, section 4.
This law is lame, and I cannot see
why the framers did not see it. The
idea of the signature of the Pastor and
secretary of the official board to a doc-
ument with the Presiding Elder in
the chair, is nonsense in the extreme.
Much more could be said as to its
folly, but I will refrain from doing so.
I most respectfully recommend the
following to take the place of the
chapter as it now stands:
no. 1. a change of law.
A. M. E. Discipline, page 98, chap-
ter 3, section 4.
District Conference, business of the
Conference.
(a) The conference shall make pro-
vision for obtaining the Presiding El-
ders' support.
application for local preachers' li-
cense.
Every person desfring to preach in
the A. M. E. Church, must bring from
his church a recommendation to the
District Conference, setting forth his
character, usefulness and ability
among the people. This recommend-
ation must be signed by the secretary
of the meeting held, and countersign-
ed by the Pastor.
(b) The District Conference shall
examine by a committee the
applicant or applicants upon the
books laid down for them; and
if they believe he or they will be
generally useful, the Presiding Elder
may license him or them, according to
the form of our discipline, provided,
however, that they are certain that he
or they are up in their studies, the li-
censes to be renewed annually, after
a public examination before the Dis-
trict Conference.
applicants for annual conference
Every applicant to the Annual Con-
ference for the itineracy must bring a
recommendation from the District
Conference as to his or their acquired
ability, his or their gifts, grace aud
moral characters, as well as their use-
fulness. It shall also take into con-
sideration the following subjects. All
after this we desire to stand as before:
class meetings chapter 6,section 1.
First, leaders shall be persons of
sound jndgmont and truly devoted to
God. All the balance we wish to stand
as before.
All laws or parts of laws running in
conflict with these provisions are here-
by repealed.
our women in the stewards' board.
We have a large number of stations
and circuits, with but few men. We
have women of ability that can act
equally as well as our brethren. My
object is to give the Pastor right to
nominate females when he thinks best,
for the good of the church, and the
Presiding Elder a right to give said
nomination to the Quarterly Confer-
ence. As the law now stands, some
Pastors think that they have no right
to nominate females, and the Presid-
ing Elder refuses to put said nomina-
tion if nominated to the Quarterly
Conference, because the law says they
shall be men of solid piety, etc. I
recommend the following to be adopt-
ed by the next General Conference:
A. M. E. Discipline, chapter 11,
page 390, section 1—on Church Stew-
ards.
Section 1. The appointments of
Stewards.
1. The number of Stewards for each
charge shall not be less than three nor
more than nine.
2. The Preacher in charge shall
nominate the number of Stewards
needed for his Circuit, or Sta
tion, apd submit the nomination to
the Quarterly Conference, which shall
confirm it, or, if see proper, reject it,
provided, however, that he shall not
nominate and the Quarterly
ence confirm more than nine. _
3. The Stewards then so nominated
and confirmed shall serve for the term
of one year; the same course shall be
pursued each year.
4. To be qualified for their office
they must be persons of solid Piety,
who both know and love the Methodist
doctrine and discipline. They must
be of good natural or acquired
ability to transact the temporal
business of the church. This para-
graph has been adopted by the Roan-
oke District Conference, also Chapter
3, Page 98.
NO. 3. RETRENCHMENT.
Of this subject much has been said,
but little I think in the right direction.
think that a law should be
the church to take up the work that
hundreds of societies are doing which
r. eating out the vitals of the choreh^
I know that a good "•a""1™?®' f ,
big man in our church. My idea is to
to make him larger. Let him be^ P
tain over his class; when a
gets sick let him send out fr^ his
class persons to set up with them eacn
nicht let hi/* report the member to
— - end of the week
the Pastojpl ^[yen when
*^r report
their contributions and fines all prop-
erly arranged in class aud church
book, and that no person not a mem-
ber of the church can have their names
enrolled to reap its benefits. Let the
Pastor fcnd stewards be satisfied as to
the justice of each claim; let our
churches be so arranged that each clasp
can l»e private. I do not blame the
people for belonging to some sociefy
to care for them when they are sick
and bury them when they are dead. I
belong to some societies, but I say let
the church do this work, and if I was
a delegate to the next General Confer-
ence I would frame a law and try to
have it passed. This is what I call
retrenchment.
iSo. 4.—new bishops.
The character, quality and ability of
this office have bee,n very ably dis-
cussed. I think there should be
twelve districts, including our foreign
work. Elect enough men for the dis-
tricts, without any view to our foreign
work, and let the appointments be
made. I do not think that a Bishop
should be elected especially for our
Mission work. I think in the selection
of the men, that God should be con-
sulted. I think, farther, that the
Bench of Bishops should be asked at
least whom they favor. This was
done years ago. I do not think a del-,
egate should vote for a man because
he likes him, or vote against him be-
cause he dislikes him. If I had a
thousand votes I would vote for Revs.
M. M. Moore, C. L. Bradwell and L.
J. Coppins "for Bishops; Prof. Haw-
kins, Secretary of Education, and Rev.
A. L. Gaines of Virginia for the editor
of the Christian Recorder. These are
only some of my views, and I hope-
they may be considered.
J. Strange.
Roanoke, Va.
Dr. Walsh on the
Theory of Evolution.
PROGRESS OF MISSIONS
BORING PiST CRSTORY
[Extract from "Missionary Annals
of the Nineteenth Century," by D. L.
Leonard, D. D., copyrighted 1899 in
England and United States by F. M.
Barton, publisher, Cleveland, O.
Pric?, 81.50 postpaid.]
A hundred years ago nearly a third
of the globe was absolutely unknown,
while much of the remainder was so
remote, with commerce so slight, and
means of communication, whether on
land or sea, so meager and clumsy, as
to be practically inaccessible. When
Carey sailed travel and trade were com-
pelled to resort to facilities scarcely bet-
ter than those in vogue in the days of
Paul or the patriarchs. From five
months to seven were required,when a
vessel happened to be going in that
direction, to make the passage from
London to the Orient, or from Boston
to Honolulu, and an entire season was
expended in crossing to the mouth of
the Columbia or to the Golden Gate.
All undreamed of was the magic po-
tency of steam and electricity, of the
Confer-
Oue of the most notable articles that
the Catholic World Magazine has pub-
lished for a long time is a review of
the wonderful discoveries during the
last fifty years in the science of biol-
oly. It is astonishing how much bio-
logical thought and expression has en-
tered into our daily life, and while we
imagine that biology is a science fo>-
scholars, a little consideration will
make us realize that. it has an in-
tensely practical side, and of the many
scientific truths there is none that is
able to conduce to our comfort and
safety as its deductions. Dr. Walsh,
the author, is a man of mature stud-
ies, and he possesses the latest infor-
mation from the European schools.
He makes some most interesting state-
ments about the theory of evolution
which should be everywhere noted.
Among other things, he says in effect,
that the "Origin of Species," which
now has been published for forty
years, was accepted in the beginning
without question by a great many, but
is now subjected to the white
light of scientific criticism, and
many conclusions that it stood
for are now entirely rejected.
For example, the theory of sexual se-
lection has been entirely rejected and
natural selection has taken its place.
Dr. Walsh also says the opinion as to
whether one species may ever be trans-
planted into another is more generally
doubted now than it was ten years
ago. He finally makes the following
admissions concerning the theory of
evolution:
As a matter of fact, far from being
able to show how species have been
converted into one another,we are not
even able to point out a single case of
the undoubted transmission of even
one acquired character. A good many
cases presumed by various observers
to be examples of such a transmission
have been reported, but all of them so
far have proved to be illusions when
submitted to the judicious criticism of
serious biological criteria. Medical
men still cling to the idea that ac-
quired characters are transmitted, and
that, too, very commonly. A great
many of the claims now so frequent as
to the heredity of predisposition to
disease, and even of disease itself, as-
sumes that the transmission of ac-
quired characters is an accepted prin-
ciple. As time goes on, however,
medical men have learned that at least
it is not disease itself that is transmit-
ted. Tuberculosis and leprosy, aud
like diseases, have been removed from
the category of directly hereditary
diseases within the last few years, and
the predisposition to disease is now
recognized to be rather a general low-
ering of resistive vitality than a spe-
cific tendency to the acquirement of
any particular disease, or even a lack
of organic resistance to one rather
than to any other disease.
"Occasionally in the medical jour-
nals we meet with
where mutilations
been transmitted.
whole matter very _
the realm of coincidences, where it
belongs. In general it may be said
that this is the great crux of the theory
of evolution, the corner-stone which
must be secured before a permanent
scientific edifice can be built. We are
no nearer a demonstration of the ac-
tual transmutation of species now than
we were forty years ago, when Dar-
win's theory first disturbed the scien
tific world. On the other hand, it
must not be forgotten that forty years
are not much in the history of human
knowledge and that the theory of evo
lution,far from being definitely settled,
is, in the opinion of present day biolo'
gists, only just beginning itB develop-
ment. Professor Henry Osborn, of Co-
lombia University, said not long
 y last word is that nre entenf
the threshold of the evolution Pro^s_n«n
ioste»d oi standing within the PorLrisil
~ ' He' '-   "
reports of cases
are said to have
This brings the
properly back to
nol
locomotive and the ocean greyhound
By comparison with what we easily en-
joy, only the slightest communication
was had between remote regions, or
even between peoples dwelling side by
side. With the multitude at least,
whatever was more than fifty or a
hundred miles away was also out of
sight aud out of mind. As for Africa,
it was as little known as the surface of
the moon, except a narrow strip along
the Mediterranean border, a tiny space
just at the southern tip, or upon the
West Coast where the slave-stealers
had established themselves. More
than nine-tenths of North America
was still an uninhabited wilderness,
upon whose trackless spaces the eyes
of civilized men had never gazed. The
nineteenth century has been pre-emi-
nently one of discovery and explora-
tion, that the truth might enter aud
righteousness might prevail. The in-
ventor also has paved the way for the
Missionary.
In other ways also was the world
closed against the entrance of the
Gospel a hundred years ago. Igno-
rance, conceit, suspicion, prejudice,
fanaticism, irresponsible tyranny, had
reared their solid bulwarks to exclude
the very best that Christian nations
had to bestow. China, Japan, Korea,
whose inhabitants constitute a fourth
of the population of the globe, had
most resolutely fenced themselves in,
and fenced all foreigners out. Whoever
ventured to cross the border [was sub-
ject to instant deportation, if not death,
for his presumption. The entire Mos-
lem world was shut and barred against
the entrance of all who would proclaim
Christ. Even yet in some respects the
case is about as bad, but in other par-
ticulars a marvelous chauge for the
better has been wrought in the provi-
dence of God. For, two or three
generations since throughout all that
vast realm the political power was
wholly in Mohammedan hands, whereas
this has since been almost wholly
transferred to rulers who are Christian,
like "Britain, Holland, France, and
Russia, while Islam as a political force
has dwindled far towards insignifi-
cance. But still further, for shame! A
century since the bulk of Christendom
was intolerant, religious thought aud
worship were restrained by statute of
church and state, the popular use of
the Bible was forbidden^ to teach a
faith and practice purely spiritual was
to commit a heinous crime. Only in
Protestant countries were reason and
conscience free. Everywhere else, in
Russia, Catholic Europe, America
from Mexico southward to Cape Horn,
intolerance was enthroned in realms
both ecclesiastical and religious. How
changed from that condition as this
first Missionary century nearB its end.
Most incredible of all,even in India,
then a possession of Protestant Eng-
land, though nominally ruled by the
John Company, Christianity was con
traband, illegal, its proclamation for-
bidden under severe penalties. This
was, to be sure, in part because of al
most hysteric fear of uprisings on the
part of fanatical Hindus and Moham-
medans, but also in part because of
disrelish for an evangelical type of
piety which had resulted from the
VVesleyan revivals, the teaching and
example of fervid Missionaries would
be too severe a rebuke to the exceeding-
ly loose morals of the "old Indians."
Sydney Smith's famous essays in the
early numbers of the Edinburgh Re-
view, which overflow with biliousness,
which appear to exhaust the language
of contempt, enable ns to appreciate
in what slight esteem Missionary ac-
tivity when bestowed upon the une-
vangelized world, was held, even by
many who were by no means un-
christian in heart and life. Not en-
tirely until the century was well ad-
vanced did these barriers disappear
through the potency of the Hand di-
vine. Surely, no other century, not
all the Christian centuries combined,
ever witnessed the opening of so many
doors that the work of the Lord might
be undertaken, that the word of the
Lord might far and wide be proclaim-
in the ears of the perishing.
Though the number of foreign mis»
sionaries is wofully inadequate, arJ
utterly insignificant, for the task of
evangelizing the 800,000,000 who are
ignorant of the way of life, neverthe-
less, sincev^arey's first convert was
baptized,-* least 10,000 ordained min-
- - jjive gone forth from Protestant
tetidom; most of theur; ateo with
who in many cas-sa are worth
y whit ae mnob as haabands
in various capacities, and not far
from 4,000 unmarried women. Not
much less than 30,000 is the contribu-
tion made by Christian countries of
ti ained intellects and consecrated
hearts. In recent years the number
prepared and willing to go is greater
than the ability of the societies to
send. A marked change from a few
generations since, when it was next to
impossible to find clergymen willing
to take the risks and endure the toils
involved in crossing oceans and bury-
ing themselves in regions where sav-
agery and superstition were supreme.
To these figures must be added a
native agency aggregating at least 80,-
000, of whom 6,000 are ordained pas-
tors, aud the others have been trained
to efficiency as preachers, teachers,
catechists, Bible readers, zenana work-
ers, etc. Therefore an evangelizing
force of considerably more than 100,-
000 has been raised up and sent for-
ward at the average rate of 1,000 an-
nually through the entire century. As
compared with the ability and the
need, this is not much, but the entire
fifteen centuries preceding did not
produce an aggregate to match this
exhibit of love and zeal.
A survey of the money cost of all
this is next in order. The sum ex-
pended cannot be less than §300,000,-
000, and is likely to be nearer $500,-
000,000, especially if home expenses
are included, and all such auxiliary
instrumentalities as Bible, tract and
other publishing societies, aud the
cost of translating and printing, of
producing the vast mass of literature
required Tor the educational work.
This sum, though large, is not a tithe
of what is imperatively required, or of
what might easily have been bestowed.
From many professed disciples of
Christ not a penny was derived, most
were possessed of no sort of concep-
tion of their obligation or privilege in
this great matter, and only the few
presented that which cost the least
self-denial aud self-sacrifice. It re-
mains, however, that no generation of
saints can be named which gave so
generously as.this one does, to such a
host of good causes. This results, no
doubt, in some considerable degree,
from the fact that the average human
of our time is easily able to procure
five or ten dollars where his brother
of former days could not add one dol-
lar to his store. It was barter then,
instead of payment in hard cash. Our
mines are fairly pouring out their
stores of gold aud silver. But, be-
sides, nothing is more certain than
that the beneficent spirit, the readi-
ness to give liberally, has kept full
pace with the ability to impart. Time
was, and not long ago, when benefac-
tions like Astor's of S400,000, Smith-
son's of 8500,000 and Girard's of
!£2,000,000 stood almost alone, and
were accounted phenomenal, whereas
now scores and hundreds are far out-
doing them. Large numbers of both
poor and rich are rapidly coming to
esteem themselves as literally not
their own, and their worldly posses-
sions as only held in trust for the
Master's uses. By the ten thousand,
godly women pledge and pay five, ten,
twenty-cents a week for Missions.
Twenty thousand Endeavorers have
already enlisted in the Tenth Legion,
thus engaging to tithe their earnings
for the direct furtherance of the king-
dom. As a result more has been laid
on the altar to be employed in the
spirit of the Good Samaritan since
Carey died than was offered between
that date and the death of the Apostle
Paul. The calls are many and defi-
nite, the whole world is brought near,
and the sense of brotherhood is grow-
ing, the sense of responsibility also
for the well-being of others. When
the facts are plainly set forth, and
wise methods are fashioned for gaining
access to purses, the gold and silver
will be forthcoming in abundance.
What becomes of the $15,000,000
more or less which the Protestant
churches are giving annually to sustain
the toreign work? That the mainten
ance of the working force, whether
European or native, is looked after
may of course be taken for granted.
Beyoud this the educational phase of
Missions requires a passing notice,
By most who have bestowed intelligent
thought upon the matter, the convic-
tion has been reached that mere
heralding of the glad tidings with
the voice is far from sufficient,
would be utterly inadaquate V
change the world from heathen -°
Christian, no matter how long
tained. Converts must be trai
intelligence, at least to a certr
tent civilization must be int^ nee ,
with various institutions w>c * me8»
society in the western wop*' J1 Par
ticular a native ministry Anst >e
cured, and the multitn
Judge Rideout, Who
Recently Left This Conatry
i
read
a book aud
was "Wise aud
I say anything
no trace or track
it made when it
*1
hut foBT.
weiake
foolish and far awsj^e^utfiu
such words. But 1
Now we're in Cap^Mi
ex-
abled to read the Wop'.1
sums therefore are^*11
tional purposes,
ri"'""' 8e«
p must be en-
of God. Large
uired for ednea-
0T"schools of every
grade fpom'thlTlo^8*
mast be housed ^
structors. AsA ru e eve 7 - , .
has a school ».stem to meet its» intel-
lectual nece*!*"*' whose climax is
seen in Rrjert College, Syrian Pro-
testant C»ege at Beirut, Lovedale
others irthe chief clties in Indl!l'1 ba.lf
a dozen*0 China, and the Doshisha in
japan The American board alone
snsta/is eighteen theological schools
and twelve colleges. Not far from
1 <*0,000 pupils are now under m-
si^iction, and since the century open-
A. probably 10,000,000 have been
nelped toward true intelligence. But be-
sides,in many cases these schools have
stirred Oriental churches, Romanists,
Moslems and others, in self-defense
to'provide facilities for gaining at least
a smattering of knowledge,where hith-
erto the masses had been left in abject
ignorance. Let it not be forgotten,
this grand educational system
p.tss: f? *he globe "
fou idatwc to capj
> nrju.ed year*.
Cape Town, South Arica,
December 4, 1899. >
Bishop H. M. Turner, D. D., LL. D.,
Editor-in-Chief of Voice of Mis-
sions:
Dear Sir—I once
the title of the same
Otherwise." Should
wise relative to the subject matter in
finding myself, wife and daughter, af-
ter a month and fourteen days' travel
from the great metropolis city of the
northwest—Seattle—extending over
five days before reaching Greater New
York, and within that time the electric
batteries, with its rotary power of
mind, brought this serious question to
me, "Will the embarkation at the port
of Greater New York bring in its ha-
ven results as pictured by the various
periodicals of the justification for such
a journey?" After taking leave from
the port named, it took seven days to
span between the port named and Liv-
erpool, the great manufacturing center
of the world. After landing, we were
ushered into the English carriages
on the Northwestern Railway at
4:00 p. m. and at 8:10 p. m. we
fouud ourselves standing in the great,
city of London, a distance of 208 miles|
from Liverpool. It is au old aud
quaint city. The most cosmopolitan
in the world, and the most metropoli-
tan. In its march of progress it is
nearly at a standstill. For science,
literary and art, its thoroughness is
complete. For commercial and mone-
tary powers, it is rightly called the
mistress of the world. Her people are
a different type from that of the Amer-
icau. Not flavored with that dash of
snpercedeousness, commonly called
cheek, but are open and frank,, aud
come near to doing the right. After
visiting the mauy places in this great
city for three days, we were agaiu
ushered into the English carriages of
the Southwestern Railway, and a few
minutes over five hours and 24 min-
utes we found ourselves at Southamp-
ton, where we again took voyage upon
the steamer German for this place.
Our accommodations were par excel-
lent, although on board of said steamer
was the Rifle Brigade, or regi-
ment, numbering 1,485 men, in>
eluding officers, enroute to the
Boer and English war, which is now
in full action, aside from 118
passengers. Our voyage from South-
ampton, crossing the Bay of Biscay,
was all that one could hope for. Ten-
eriffe was our first shopping place.
Quite a pretty little island reared its
lofty head in the midst of the great
deep in defiauce of the waves and
tides of the mighty Atlantic. The
city of Teneriffe was beautifully situ-
ated on the slopes and plateaus of this
island, and is quite a busy place, num-
bering some 15,000 inhabitants. It is
a Spanish island and city, and its gov-
ernment under the Spanish rule. We
remained in the harbor six and a half
hours, and the signal was given and
the anchor was hoisted and we again
turned head too and to sea we put.
After several days we cited Cape Verde,
where the route is taken for Liberia,
the great Negro Republic—the place
that's not the coming, but is now the
true development for Negro manhood
and womanhood; where, without let
or hindrance, the freedom of right is
the insigaia written upon the brows of
each and all of its inhabitants, and is
not the death knell that it is said
to be by those that know pot
of it. After citing Ascension
island that had struggled beneath
waves and billows; she, too, rhowed
defiance within a night and ier head
stands lofty and superb abeve them,
and is now the habitati»n of man,
where commercial intere?*-8 are devel-
oped, and she is suppling coal ^ and
other commodities Iff th® happinesa
aud comfort of human family.
Still on our rt^te» we crossed the
equator and for the firsfc tim0 in our
lives on that ,»*ght we saw in the starry
elements th- southern cross, which is
an embl^u °* peace and good will to
man ^»at a Savior had died for
his re*BmP*i°n- O'lr next stop was at
Xel©na Island, that historic place
w)^re the most ambitious man and
military genius and resources un-
bounding had been able in his days to
have been the victor at Waterloo, the
entire map ' of all Europe and the
eastern hemisphere would have been
changed. That man was Napoleon.
He was exiled and died there. It
brings to mind the utter littleness of
man's feeble efforts; for now that
island is the citadel for the pro-
tection , and supplies cable and
military camps of -—"ons
steamship linen plying between
this port and the ports of the world.
Its inhabitants are the descendants of
the African slaves that were trans
ported there some thirty odd years
ago, save the military officers, the
governor general and his cabinet, and
of course a few Jews that are in busi-
ness. The people are progressive with
considerable intelligence, surrounded
with pleasant homes and comfort.
Religiously, the majority belong to
the Church of England. That being
an island belonging to England. A
splendid field for the establishment
of the A. M. E. Church. Again signal
was given after being there for twelve
or fourteen hours and our journey was
continued. After being at sea
four days on the morning of the 5th,
we cited the west shores of Africa.
We cannot give a description
thoughts at this time.
with the thought that we would proba
turesque city with^
has an inhabitanc
people, with a clij&iate s?
ful and restorative, a
the ills of all characters'
We find the native or Negr?
partments of lousiness—thoui
them comfortably situated,
happy and com tented in so fai
world's good4 are concerned;
fact that thoy are hungry for;
tion, hungrjr for the word of <
hungry for/ the American Nc
come and live with them to < sstu
the true Christian influences that tl]
believe thfat they have within him. I
find no yscullionism in this com
and why is it that the lead^
Negroes of America can
things/ about Africa? We'
at the/gateway, and from ob
ance at the native church of ,K|
M. M. Mokone on last Sabt
met/Rev. J. Z. Tantsi, Rev?
and Chief Denzlutliti and Chiei xajPiz
liqsi of another great tribe in the in, .
terior of the Basuta Lands, that the
Cape Colcny is no comparison to their
sections. Their greatest reeds at
present are preachers, teachers aud
business Negroes.
Climate is much better than here,
more congenial and the entire realm of
their country is like the horn of
abundance out of which everything
flows that is good. Why some of the
heads of the A. M. E. Church and
professors in the colleges and schools^
and other prominent Negroet of th*
U. S. will silently submit to the twisj
iug of the laws of that countr y, outi
which comes disfranchisemen poj
ical ignorings, business boyeottj
the union labor organizations de
them the right to im-ke a living.]
courts scanting upon their civil'
and say they have rone. The
white ministers that proclf
gospel every Sabbath «re sih n^
the lynching and burning of
The thousands of Christian
and the Womeus' Christ
merj
sayj
ers
perance Union each and
abated breath and not a o
lynchers, stay thy h^jad.
Negroes we invoke ^fce v
God upon 'you.*^—It Is
understand tha t tese
of America have vak u
emigration of t
Africa. All we
misrepresentatii
trine. The A.
find to be the cc
Africa. The lc
aud members is
tation. Althoug
letter some time-
Recorder relatb
not in line wit.
church, caused
but of a minoi
is marchi
acceptal
should
tribes a
fice it to'
that the
church fii
I can i
see and be
rica.
Yours respect!
Co
Cape Town, South I
In my next letter
when I go to the inte
That Church
Mr. Editor
corder, date Deceml
there appears an ai^icle
tutional heaven:
The
r
!S!n
som q
■ "i t ura
onvm
pressor, o*
writer is
nown;
And dwells within a city
unknown!
The
who
r
enco in-
been reared from
ne within a single
hen and where in
,n audi aa iehei/r-
of our
So impressed
bly be landed upon the shores where J gueh
said some years ago by the
utterance,
it was once
late but ignorant of h-s
Kev. Henry Ward Beecher of New
York, that if the continent^ of Africa
were to sink in mid-ooeanf that the
good that it had
Ut»r*t*Mr* *aj& progteBV would uat©
writer sets forth, in
scription,
That such an institution Won
perdition.
He calls it a Church, this givaH
sideration;
But how it was conjured ip,|
imagination.
We know there are others
an institution;
But the A. M. E. Church
pollution.
We have Institute Chv
connection;
And you see everythiij
lection.
What more do we
these days,
When weTUrrer
monkey pli!
It seems almost inert
fancies;
We will soon reach
Institutional" <
And then, a step furthd
discard;
We will have the beJ
Institutional carf
And with checkers, dc
some bagatell,
We will have in f^U
tional h—f.
What we need most,.
tion,
Is a bml'Hag
tion.
Where all its efforts
sin,
And not the favor of <
an institution
towers;
Lighted up, both ni
costal showe
erected ;
Over the door I
Should
K/ev-: