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VOL. I, No. 10

CONSECRATION SERMON

Deliivered at the Illinois Natiional
Guard Armory by Bishop Henry
Blanton Parks, D. De

(Stenographically reported by Rev.
S. E. Churchstone Lord, B. D.)

Subject: “The Office, Its Require-
ments, Text: Tit. 11:6, 18; John
B1:15-17.

Inntroductory

My friends, I want to ask that you
pray for us this morning. It has
been a long time since we haye as-
cended the pulpit for the purpose of
delivering a message when we were
Physically in poor condition as we
fid ourselves this morning. Careful
as I have tried to be, it seems that

. I have truly failed to prevent my-
self contracting a cold. I come to
you this morning all broken up with
acold in my head. Therefore, I
shall be very grateful if you will pray
earnestly to God to bless us and to
deliver the sermon this morning. I
had hoped to have had my classmate
to deliver this message. I felt that
it was his duty'to do so. It was my
own to assume Bishop Coppin’s bur-
den at Louisville. I do not feel so
well, and wanted my good friend to
help me out this morning. I think
T left home Saturday a week ago. I
got here that Saturday morning, and
I_haye been up every night. One
night only since I have been here have
I reallysslept. We need to call up-
on God for help.

Dear Father, wehallow Thy Name.
And, we throw us at the feet of the
Cross to thank Thee, O, Father. ,.We
thank Thee that we live to, see this
moment; to come this far. +O, Jesus,
Saviour, meet with us today, and
speak through us today to this class

about tobe consecrated bishops in
Thy church. Without Thee we can
do nothing. All power is Thine.

Come, Lord, burn into their souls
a message that shall help them, until

Thou shalt translate the mto Thy
kingdom above. Save them until
Tho ushalt translate them to Thy

kingdom above. Save them from sin.
Honor and convert Thy church, for
Thy Name’s sake. Amen.

In nthe second chapter of the Epis-
tle of Paul to Titus you will find these
words: “Young men likewise exhort

to be sober minded”; and the 15th
verse of that chapter, “Let no man
despi: thee.” And in the twenty-

first chapter of the Gospel recorded
John you will find these words:
sed my sheep.” Also the twenty-
fifth chapter and the seventeenth
verse.

We are here in this presence this
morning for the consecration of a
elass of four men to the holy office
of bishop the African Methodist
Episcopal Church.

The Office, Its Requirements, Etc.

These are most beautifuly set forth
in this fourth chapter of the Apos-
tle’s second letter unto Timothy, in
the which it goes on to tel! him and
you the class and character of the
man who occupies, or who aspires to
this holy ambition. The beauty of
that life is seen in this, that it is a

« nation of a perfect mal

BISHOP EL B.PARKS
Who Delivered the Cunsecration Ad-
dress Yesterday at the Armory.
photograph ef the ecellent life of
Bethichem's despised Ftabe; the culmi-
\; the complete
man. If you will only read care-
fully the Gospels—the Sermon on the
Mount—there the Master concludes
that Sermon with these words: “Be

ye perfect, even as your Father which |

is in heaven is perfect.”—Matt. 8.

So far as human perfection is con-
“cerned, this life, this picture that the
apostle gives here, beautifully sets
forth these things. It is a require-

. Ment,-or an action, the exaction of a

whole ordained Christian manhood. I
have come this morning to discuss
with you the different requirements,
He offers it to us—a competent man-
hood under God, in the picture that
he gives us of the Cross. He was to
rule; he was to exhort;he was to
preach, etc. He tells Tiitus practi-
cally the same thing concerning what
he should do in regaard to his con-
duct as a man, in regard to his con-
duct as a brother, and in regaard to
his life as a minister. So, therefore,
there could be no mistaking the idea
of what you are expected to do, how
you are expected to do it; when and
where it should be done. It is all
laid out in clear and unmistakable
language, so that you must act, and
understand and govern yourselves ac-
cordingly.

It is a paleasure that we get the
other point that it brings out so cles

ly. It tells youn in so many words,
that anything lefe . . anything
left out of that is not a complete

Christian, or what is a Godly life.
Anything short of that will cause
me nto despise you.

Let no ma_ndespise you. And
that brings the thought, that the
Chureh of God is of Divine origin;
Divine from God the Father; and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against
it. It is one institution that is to
produce Goldiy men, and to fashion
the Kingdom of righteousness in the
world. And, the leaders, therefore,
or the fathers, that are to be the van-

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-Home address:

&

Ray. S. P. WEST, D. D.

Presiding Elder of the Cleveland
District of the North Conference,
Secretary of ‘the Third Episcopal

District Delegation and prominently
ment dnoisae,|f;] mt SHRD’MFWYL
mentioned as seeretary-treasurer of
the Pension Burea if it is established.
£00 N. Monroe ave.,
Columbus, Ohio.

ou

SIXTEENTH -ANNUAL KINGS

MOUNTAIN STUDENT CON-
FERENCE OF NEGRO

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Kiings Mountaiin, N. C_—The Six-
tennth Annual Y. M, C. A. confer-
ence of colleges and ‘schools of the
East an dSouth will meet at Lincoln
Academy, Kings Mountain, N. C.,
June 1-9 This conference represents
the largest intercollegiate fellowshi
among Negro students in Ame
The conference was established
William Alpheus Hunton,
the first traveling secretary among
Negro students. Out of the confer-
ence have come such important events
as the Atlanta Student Convention
of 1914; and such persons. as Mex
Yergan, who has projected the work
of the Association into South Africa.

Among the prominent leaders this
year are: Dr. A. B. Curry, Oberlin
College; Dr. Arnold Gregory, Talla-
dega College, Prof. B. E. Mays sec-
retary Tampa Urban League; Alford
Carleton, returned missionary from
Turkey; Dr. W. S. Nelson, Howard
University; Dr. C. H. Tobias, secre-
tary National Council Y. M. C. A.;
F. 0, Uichols, American,Social Hy-
giene Assoiation; Dr. Yohn Hope

delegate to the Jerusalem Conferece;
C, H. Corbett, Y. M. C. A. worker in
China; R. S. Eleazer, Commission on
Interracial Cooperation, and others.

Delegates will come from fourteen
states and the District of plumb la,
ani

representing eighty-five school
colleges,

RECOMMENDATIONS

x
We recmmend the following argu- >
ments of contents of the book of Dis-
ciplines:

Chap
1

2
3

Part I—Introductory and Rules
ter

Historical Preface

Articles of Religion

Special Declaration

4 Rules for Giving

5 Public Worship

6 Class Meetings
. 7 The Episcopacy .

8 Articles of Rel 1

9 Catechiism on Faith a
10 General Rules y
11 Rules. of Band Socitie

Part 11—Constitution and Laws |

Chapter |

1 Membership

2 Lay Helpers,

5, Local Preachers

pel
Ser
v

85

mrenes Or Pastors

Preachers

ence

Deacons

Elders

Presiding Elders *

Bishops

Bishops Council .

Trial for LLay Members

Tria lof Local Preachers

Trial of Itinerant Preachers

Triail for Bishops

Causes for Impeachment

Order of Appeals

Ministers’ Debts

Debts and Arbitration

Matrimonial Relations

Church Conference

Official Board L

Quarterly] Conference

District Conference

Annual Conference

General Conference oa

General Conference Rules

Publiciation Department

Parent Home and Fcreign Mis-
sionary Society

Constitution of Local Home and

Foreign Missionary Society

Constitution of Women’s Parent

Mite Missionary Society

Constitution of Conference

Branch Mite Missionary Society

Constitution of Auxi ies to

Parent Mite Missionary Society

Constitution of By-Laws Wom-

en’s Home and Foreign Mission-

ary Society ex:

Constitution of District Branch

in Ann’

Women’s Home and Foreign
Missionary Society
Constitution of City Board of
Missios

Financial Department

Budget System

Annual Conference Secretary

Treasurer

Dollar Money

Support of Bishops

Support of General Officers

Support of Missionaries

Aid to the Work of Education
~ Presiding Elder's Salary

Edueational Interests

S\mday School Union

Church Extension

Allen © Christian Endeavor

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; in this mighty battle against
io Garightesnsness and wickedness in
the world. And, in consequence of
h

that/fact, the muelves ehould and
Piast potas the life toward which the

i Apdeantle BA
He rat t be greedy pf filthy

must not glory in an
the glory of Jesus Christ.
must be to glorify God

Igere, i
thi
ffs

For when he became
o xe Church and of the
art ministry. After being

rist, he

dug up by the Lord Jesus Ct

comes out of the congregation of un-
righteousness, and is m vanguard
of the ammy of

: He must subjuge sions. He
: rust become conscic t his mas-
: ter is not lust. » is to sig-
nalize himself man, whose
duty i sonly t t and to per-
aistently stand for righteousness and
trath, ¢egardle (fr may come,”

to the anding.
the office of

thing to de-

tell you
It is good
great
ily good for

It is an
battle that
ylete victory
down It
aid “IT come to
And, only He ¢
m rule succe:

The real

e this

ne
Master who
tO, God,

own,
n ig self It is capable

z the wisest. There is

it is not sable of be-

j The great trouble in the
mation; the great lack of its citizenry
being a When
to put r foot down

mm by the rule of

n will the Kingdom of Gd
ita pristine glory and mag-
Whatever we may , ‘lo;

4. toe conquer self 4 man must con

Vaquer himself. His house is himself.
Let us look at it as expressive of him-
elf and of hia po s Let him rule
himaelf If he can not rule himself,

cannot rule God's people.
not manke any difference
» combined

nat y

y the Sanhedrin, by the Phar-
isees and the scribes, but you found
him brave In action in that trial. He
hore his burden He subdued the

the Church and

must first con-

olf « ta do riight.

{ will stand by the right God

nd one of you ix a majority, and the
pew vf hell iot prevail i

Yo man can h sar

deap ou, H » to despise

you only! in go far ats have trana-

greaaed and atard wrong side,

The moat pitiful m one who

w ade shipwreck hm OF
GAd, help ua te ata point

e next req mont is, “Feed my

fahoep,” There ia bat one thing in

this world that sinners, or that the

churclt la desiring to be fed upon, or

should deaire jand that ix the Gospel

} of Jesus, Christ There is no over-

“> whelming food outaide of it to take

if i@ place. Full, free and complete
anWwation through’ the preaching of
the Goeapel wauat be the posaeasion of
men, The Gospel must be given to
the world, You must give it. The
world had ouc hof other things be-
fore Jesus came to bear away the
ains ofthe world, But there was
nothing at that time that satisfied
the longing of he soula of men, There-
fore, the doctrine of redemption must
be preached. Jesus, the Truth, thé
Life, the Way, the beginning and the
end, past begiven to the world. Give
us that doctrine of redemption. Mana’
ig by nature 4 sinner; a tranagressor;
a violator of God?s holy law, And,
when he willhave bowed down to
things In the earth, or that Wy in. the
water under the earth, there ip not
power that will bring hi mback but
the power of the blood of our Lord,
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SERS le Ts are ee ea, be
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THE CHRISTiAN RECORDER

. \
MISSIONARY WORKER'S CREED
By Miss Florence Hadley,

O Lord, frant that today I may be
kiind
To those around me, that I may be
blind
To their faults and failures.
Help me to praise
Each honest endeavor, and through
the day’s
Hard task to smile. Help me to speak
A cherry word to all the faint and
weak,
To speak a word of comfort to the
saad
And when the day is done may hearts
be glad
Because I have been serving Thee,
O Lord, grant that today I may be
brave
Against each temptation; that Thou
wilt save
Me from my sin. Help e to be
All that Thou wouldst have me be
Speak to me
And gently lead me back unto Thy
way,
When from the path of right my feet
would stray
Teach me O Lord; upon Thy strength
to lean
And when the day is done may I be
clean,
Because I have been trusting Thee.
™ O Lord, grant that today I may not
complain.
However hard my lot. Help me to do
The things that I should od, faithful,
and true
To every trust; and when the day is
done
I wi recount Thy mercies one by one.
Wher death, O Lord, shall beckon me
away,
Grant that I may see the light of
Heaven’s day,
Because I have been loving Thee.
Amen.

build a church that will be health;
thata will be in unison with God; that
will be in tough wit hheaven. It is
not to build tp large congregations
you are called If the members of
God in thei earts, yau have not
done anything \in al Ithat endeavor.

The Church is the greatest institu-
tion on earth. It is more than a
social society. It is Kingdom of God
on earth. And if you feed it on the
right food it will grow. A man
nevér gets grown in Christian graces
and Christian living until God is
truly in him. Then he grows nearer
and nearer to perfection. Then when
he gets perfect God translates him.

“Feed my sheep,” “Feed my lambs.”
Here is the truth, I want you to see
If you will fill this people with

ake the ‘doctrine of redemption the
passion of your souls and gi,e it to
the cildren of men.

We are Methodist and we belive
in conversion. And, the world wants
to know that it cannot read its way
into heaven. It wants to know that
there is no philosophy by which you
can work your way in. The ancient
of days through the ages, “ Iam the
Word.” I am the way, I am the
truth; I am the life; he that believ-
eth in me shall have everlasting life.

We ask you to go out this morning
to feed the sheep. “Feed my sheep.”
Simon Peter and others have been
happy with Him. And now the
Cross has come. My Master is gone
He loo Simon and says,
aveat thou m And the second it.

time, “Lovest thou me?” And when foolishness and shams, you are going
the Lord said the third time, “Simon to have trouble. You are going to
lovest thou me more than all thesee,” have trouble. Yes, the time is here.
he answered, “Lord, Thou knowest It is hard to have them endure sound

doctrine. All the more careful we
should be with the meet and drink
which we furnish the Church of the
Living God. See that they receive
from Sour pulpits the pure and un-
adultered Gospel. You need not be
alarmed at the noise outside. It will
go on. What you need is to go to
your pulpiit with God’s Word upon
your heart; with the burning fire of
God directing you day by day, and
line upon line of His Trth pouring out
from your hearts. Jesus said: “And,
I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men
untd me.” Lift Him up. If you
lift Him up, He will draw men to
His cause. But do not try to lift
yourselves to a throne. Put your-
selvesdown at the foot of the Cross.
Lift up Jesus. “Lt, I come in the
volume of the Book it is written” is
the message that you are to give to

that I love thee.”

What are we getting from Jesus?
What kind of word? The Word of
Jesus Christ; the Word of God. Let
ns tell the children that Jesus is the
Saviour of the world.

“Feed my sheep.” You know that
the laws of health, hygenic metthods,
do their utmost to help America to
produce strong, vigorous men and
women. They look after the body.
But if it is without proper food, it
will fail. Good, wholesome and
healthy food is essential to the pro-
duction of strong, healthy, stalwart
bodies; and without you cannot make
it. There are so many children that
go about under-fed. And, there is
why we have so much trouble with
taberlosis in this country. The chil-
dren do not get enough food. They
are starved, and therefore, do not

produce healthy men and children the people . They will believe you;
What isgrue of men’s physical and sinners will tremble.
body In t) sesnse is trne of their T beg you this morning not only to

see that the food is pure; but I beg
you to give it them unstintedly. If
you do not give to al lof them enough,
it ig a certain fact that they are
_ bound to,be hungry. I have a pet

spiritual life in this sense. The
man is a apiritas well as a body, so
the spirit wants goo dwholesome
food. There is nothing but the Word
of God that wholesome for the spirit.

Nothing else will butld up a charac- at home. But if I do not take care
ter. Ambition is one thing, and of this pet, I will have trouble. If
character is another, You want to yo ado not take care of the spirit

of your con ation, you will have oy : d ay, May 22, 1928
trouble. One half of your troubles =~ :

in your congregations is due to the ¢
fact that you are not prea Oe
half of that ice-box,t |b hBaH
Gospel to them. If you will take one
half of that ice-box out of the pulpit,
and set the people on fire, youwill do eee
good. Take them out of self. Give
the mthe Gospel. The people are.

NSE TO M. E. CHURCH
FRATERNAL MESSENGER

By Rey. W. H. Peck
Kansas City, Missouri
. Rev. Sirs and Brethren and Sis-

ters —
‘It is a great pleasure to respond to
ese fine words of greeting brought .
to us by the distinguished represen-
tative of the Great Methodist Epis-
ed us, I know that yours has been a
copal Church. While he thus address-
copal Chureh, wh ilheeETAOIETA
common experience with mine in en-
joying to the highest degree this fel-
jowship of kindred minds, for we are
kindred and its non-existence upon
minorg in creeed or doctrine, with its
gonidn from the rubric and all form
or fashion has made a common bond

of fellowship which is felt by all who
have come under the baptism of fire
from the Holy Ghost. It is a pleasure
to note the true ring of the sweet
old evangelical note in your splendid

ungry- ;
Then, there is influence in the lead- é

er. Many have the influence to start SoG.

trouble in the home, in the official

board, in the stewards’ board, in the

trustee board, in the quarterly con- 2

ference, and in the annual conference. :

Because of these you will have a hard

time. But the people love their

church. They will not scorn you, feed

them with the truth.But they will

have a right to, if you have not given

them the words of our Lord Jesus

Christ. Don’t worry about the oth-

er things, but feed the people. Just S

feed His sheep. If you will feed

them, they will.grow fat. If you will |

feed them, they will be happy. Tell 1 you
them of a . words of greeting. It is fine to know
Jesus, the Name high over all, : ‘that Mother Church knows her place
In hell, or earth, or sky; ” - hat she is not carried here nor there

b yevery wind that blows, but that

Angels and.men before it fall,
And devils fear and fly.”

Don’t you know I want to enter in-
to the spirit of that song?

“How sweet the name of Jesus
in a believers ear!”

Don’t you know it? It is sweet. It
makes me happy.

If the people can get fed up over
our preaching, you and your congre-
gation will grow very fat. And, with ‘
that right kind of preaching, the Spir-
it of God will bear witness with your
spirit to the saving of many. Your
preaching shall go from heart to
herth, andyou shall make them glad. :
Give them this gospel. Serve the food na
right. Serve it up right. There is ‘
nothing I despise so much as poor
s@svi@. Give the people constant.
service. Serve it with patience; serve
jt with reverence, and with power. I
do not mean the power o fa club.
Leave the club in the alley. Take love
up there, in the pulpit. Most men—
will do.a great deal for you; they
will hear you, if you confess to them
that you love them. Now conquer —
the world with love. Men with war
and hate in their hearts may be :
against you, but all the powers of
hell cannot stop you. t

Let no man despise you. |

And I have talked for twenty min-
utes, the time I said I was going to
take. But I must close with this fact
—that with a full-fledged Gospel of
the Son of God delivered with unction
fro mon high, and backed up by the
Ancient of Days, all hell will give
way. Men will love you; sinners
sinners will fear and tremble; con-
gregations will honor yuo. All the
world will know that you are God’s
child and their brother through the
Gospel of the Son of Man;

she remains true to the faith once
“1 delivered to the saints, God grant
tha ton this rack we may continue to
stand even when we may not be
sure of the hosts that are with us, and
“when darkness veils his loving face
I rest on his unchanging grace
' In every high and stormy gale |
_ My anchor holds within the veil.
“On Christ the soli drock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand.
The task before the church today
\ js to teach the importance of keeping
every lamp of faith burning. To
blow out the lights of faith planted ,
fn our lives from early youth and to
leave only the vacant, dark, despond-
‘ent, void of doubt in their place, is
to be nothing less than the killer of
the soul and discouraged the spirit.
Let us employ our time in trimming
our feeble lamps. We have a common
t which has been lighted a,

in the new world—to this flame let
us be constant and true.

‘What Methodism is can be best
“‘aderstood by knowing what it is not.
J tI is no new ecclesiiastical in-

tute, it is not a new presentation

of Christian doctrine. It came. no

‘add one word to the many that

‘ hhda found their way into creeds and
confessions of faith. It did bring
a fresh and full experience. IIt did
pring a newness of life under old sys-
tems. It prevented Christendom from
‘being discouraged to believe that the
days of spiritual visitation were past.
It. brought to the printed pages of
theological discussion and to the set

)
God bless you, young. men. You formulas of the church a glow of light
are going to have trouble. You are “from on high. The Anglican Confes-
going to have trials. You are going , sion emerged from Methodism’s bap-
to have difficulties. My! My! 0, tism of fire, the true gold tried and

yes, the world loves its own. But ee.
“When Methodism came, England,

jt does not love anyone else. There-
fore, you must get ready. Yesterday
a ndthe day before was a great day.
You remember my Master, don’t you?
I see Him over ponder, when He said
to his disciples: “Go your ay into the
village; as soon as ye be entered in-
to it, ye shall find acolt tied, where-
on no man sat; loose him and bring
him.” And they brought the colt to
Jesus and cast their garments on him
and Hesat on him. And many
spread their garments in the way;
and others cut down the branches off |
the trees, and strawed them in the .
way. And theythat went before, and
they that followed, cried, saying, Ho-
sanna; blessed is that cometh in the ‘5
name of the Lord: Blessed be the ; [
kingdom of our father David, that
cometh in the name of the Lord: Ho-
sanna in the highest.” Don’t you

e citade lof Protestantism was on
its way to reject Christianity. This
century had produced as a natural
| 4' result of the indifference and coldness
* the Christianity prevailing and a
1ost of small skeptics—none of note
wut each creating his followers. Even-
Wy as this host broadened, there
e as a great scourge to faith, the
jon, skeptics of earth, Hume and
ibbon.>,Their pens of fire burned
their way through all Europe. These
two were followed by Rousseau
and Voltaire, Across the English
Ciatnell from France, their burning,
shaming satire stung and lashed the
faith of English Protestantism even
as the waves of the Channell had
beaten against England’s
iffs at Dover. Against this
vigorous assault of skepti-
came only a feeble protest from -

see Him. In my mind, I imagine that
I stand over yonder. You recall the ison, Swift, Gray and Thomson.
scene. I set a great multitude of ese were sincere but were no match

their opponents. Their cold crys-

truth seemed only to give off
or when thrown into the fire of
discussion. The fire of sa-
d of unbelief must be met with
e of truth with the fire that

people. They come from all Judea,
from the country around about. They
have come in wagons, in horse-carts, %
in wheel-barrows. I can see them is

stand on the top of the mountain, on os

the housetop; Jew and Gentile, and
Barbarian. 0, over yonder I see a — rock into pieces. It was
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rd it only needed the soul

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to carry it. © “There wasneedof a man
who, dared face social exile, who was

_willing to bear the apostolic and who

would covet the risk of martyrdom.
Behind the closed doors of Oxford—
God had his man—he the boy that
had been trained in the parsonage -f
Epworth, whose great evangelist haa
been his mother. This man God had
in waiting for such a time as this.
From 1658 the death of Oliver Crom-
well until 1738, came the dark 80
years — the 80 years of the fox-rid-
ing clergy; the 80 years of skepticism,
with its mockery and sensual mon-
archs; the 80 years of skepticism,
with its mockery and satire. If ever
the people sat in darkness, this peo-
ple did. Then came the dawn, when’
from the rooms of Oxford, within
the halls of learning, God sent forth
into the world Methodism a new ex-
perience and life under an old con-
fession of faith. It came ushering in
fervent prayers and living testimon-
jes; it came with its thousands of
hymns, its “God, Our Help,” “There
is a Fountain,” “Other Refuge,” “Je-
sus Lover of My Soul” etc.

These, like ships with spreading
sails, carried the Gospel revived into
the harbors of millions of discouraged
souls.

The Protestant religion, with its,
beautiful lines of| confession in the
common book of prayer, had received
its new birth, not of the earth but of
the spirit, and from that day we no
longer marvel at the words of Jesus
“Ye must beborn again.” John Wes-
ley, Chas. Wesley, Isaac Watts, these
namese stand out as God’s great sons
of thunder, not practical reformers,
not inconoclasts, but God’s great
evangelists carrying his torch burn-
ing their messages to the world. With
these facts of history we are pleased
to note you are indeed familiar. How
happy we should be to befollowers
of these great: spiritis. As great
as their history is, it has been our
pleasure to add our significant chap-
ters. Indulge us and pardon our
pridé as we repeat a story dear and
true to us. I am sure you know that
we are the sonsof Allen. We believe
that we speak a truth when we say
that the A. M. E. Church and the
African M. E. Church are tthe only
churches of Methodism that were in-
spired into organizing life through
the leadership of dynamic personal
ties. You had your John Wesley, the
one man of England’s dark héur. We
had our Richard Allen, the one man
who led out in a crusade against
‘wrong equally as sinister, and sinful,
as the day of John Wesley. It’ will
do us I am sure good to look at both
of these great apostles of Methodiism.
They came in the same century, one
porn free, the other born a -slave;
one in a home of culture and Chrisi-
tian refinement, that other under the
most discouraging life of
yet from out of it God was leading.
Richard .Allen hated* slavery,, he
toiiled until he saved enough to buy
his freedom. He walked from
slavery’s soil until his feet were sore
and bleeding stand on the soiil made
sacred by the tread of the liberty loy-
ing quaker, here in Philadelphia was
nursed into fathers of life the gerrhs
of Christian manhood that made him
the great leader of his people, We are
glad women, this esssion is Womaan’s
Centennial of recognition by the Gen-
eral Conference Church; that you see
us today in our general sessiion, how
God hath led us into life and liberty;
our leaving the door of our first love
can be likened into that life and lib-
erty that the chick finds in the
breaking of the shell. We are great-
ly indebted to you for your fine ex-
ample of progress, that you have held
up before us. We note with pride
your zeal for missions which has
carried the Methodist organiization
into the world-makiing real the words
of John Wesley, “The world is my
parish.” “World service” with you
has become a passion, it has inspiired
us. Again your fine board of tem-
perance and public morals under the
leadership of that great crusader, Dr.
Clarence T. Wilson,, has kept the
flame of evangelism burning in our
effort to make prohiibition real, Chris-
tian and not altogether a question of
law. Again,, your insistance upon
the spirit and practice of democracy

serfdom, .

even under the leadership of an epis-
copal form of government has been
the most healthy example, it is our
pleasure to note, none can gainsay the
legitamacy of your Episcopacy—none
can question the fine caliibre of men
you hav e called to leadership and
to. stand before the assembled halls
of preinodisy with such an Episcopacy
and with such a fine happy democrat-
is membershiip is to be a light not
placed under a bushel, but on a can-
dlestick tht all may see. Reverend
Sirs, return to your great hosts as-
sembled at Kansas City with our
kindest thoughts. Annd be safe that
Methodism is safe in our hands, We
shall not prove false. In that great
struggle for life and liberty through
the truth we clasp hands with you
and all who love the name Wesley
and Allen, join with us, in prophetic
realization as we repeat:

“Hail to the brightness of Zion’s glad
morning

Joy to the lands that in darkness
haye lain

Hushed be the accents of sorrow and
mourning

Zion in triumph begins
reign.

her mild

JOIN THE NATIONAL INTERDE.
NOMINATIONAL MINISTERIAL
ALLIANCE OF AMERICA

Every colored minister who loves his
race and desires to see it prosper along
the educational, civil and economic
lines should join the National Intedue-
nominational Minsterial Alliance of
AmericaCall on the President of the
Alliance , at office of Mr. J. A. Lank_
ford, and he will take pleasure in ex-
plaining the objective of the Alliance
The Rev. Dr. C. L. Russell of Washing-
ton, D. C., is president.

REV. E. H. COIT
Re-elected Secretary of Miissiions

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORSHIP

First District—Hudson Waters.

Second District—C. F. Rich.

Third District—W. E. Clements.

Fourth District—J. H. Sydes,
Lucas.

Fifth District—H. M. Pillow.

Sxth District—J. W. Englsh, C. John-
son.

Seventh District—R. W. Mance, J. W.
Douglass, W. M,. Allen.

Eighth District—L. M. Staves.

Ninth District—J. S. Swain.

Tenth District—R. S. Jenkins.

Eleventh District—R. A. Grant, Thos.

C. Calhoun, G. W. Hawkins.

Twelfth District—J. S. Dennis.

Thirteenth District—B. G. Dawson.

Fourteenth District—W. E, Spillman.
Fifteenth Dstrct—Mrs. Alberta Duncan.
Sixteenth District—H. M. Steady.
Seventeenth District—Charles Demas.
Eighteenth District—F. A. Stokes.

M. V.

The

Encyclopedia
of

African

Methodism

By DR. R. R. WRIGHT, Jr.

Here is the Greatest Historical Compendium of

Our Church. All have been sold except Fifty

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Tuesday, May 22, 1928
CONSECRATION SERMON

Continued from Page 2 ©

small man ride upon an ass, the foal

of an ass. We hear-peal forth that

stirring song: “Behold, thy King
cometh unto thee, meek and sitting
upon an ass, and’a colt the foal of

a nass. They wanted to make Him

king. That was yesterday. After-

-ward. (pause)

Two days ago I saw your brethren’
fro mthe rice swamps of Louisiana;
fro mthe cotton fields of Mississippi,
Arkansas, Tennessee, in the Church
of Allen; also fro mthe lone star state
of Texas. I saw them from Illinois,
Missourit, embrace you in their arms,
and carry you upon their shoulders
on the other side of the great divide.
I saw them lay hands on you and
pour out on you hossannas. But
hours later! That was agreat day»
And this is a greater day. But there
is another day coming. I beg you
to meet me four years later from to-
day, and tell me how it is. You stand
today as fair as a lily and formid-
able as an army with banners. No
man can touch your spirit. You are
beautiful. You look like men of war.
Meet me four years after you have
fought with the beasts of Epheusu.
When you are made one of the vic-
tims of the onslaughts of the samé
crowd. When you have encountered
men who are disrespe¢tful, rebellious
toward you ther brethren. When you
have worked with unconverted preach-
ers. When the devil has tried a
thousand temptations to bribe you;
to put you in their pockets; to draw
the whip and the lash over your head.

Let no man despise you. Don’t
think you are any better than the
Master. May God blegs I leave
you with this benediction. Young
men, you have dreamed dreams own

. yonnder about this place yo uhave
come to. Put them in practice and
tell me about them.

I want to tell you that you are fol-
lowing a great line of leaders; leaders
of great character. You will do well
if you live up to them. ~

. You wil Ipardon me, But mymind
runs back this morning. orty-nine
years ago, when I joined the Annuaal
Conference. As I stood ther a vig-
orous boy, the only child of a preach-
er’s widow, they asked me to go to
Louisiana, And I took Jesus with

‘me. Take Jesus nd he will take care
of you. Jesus will stand by you.

I recall to mind the scenes of for-
ty years ago,’the first general con-
ference in which I was a member at
Indianapolis. I remember that Big
Four. Yes, we elected the Big Four
at Indianapolis. You take their plac-
es today; and you will fill their places
together with us. We are now about
to go down from her. I do not know
that I will live to see another general
conference. I am not a boy. And I
don’t try to deceive you. I haye done
my work. I have done it the best way
Icould. Thirty-two years I have been
in service. Twenty years ago this
day on the 23rd we were consecrated
bishop. We have about wound up the
ball. I ask you keep your garments
unspotted. Walk and talk with God.
Climb to the Mount of Transfigura-
tion and talk with Jesus. God bless
you,

ON.. RECEPTION.. OF.. FRATERNAL
DELEGATES

First—District—Albert O. Sanders
Second District—Charles H. Wesley
Third District—Israel Ross

Fourth District—M. C.Wright

Fifth District—John Wilson

Sixth District—J. L, Butler, W.P 4ar-

ris

SeventhDistrict—J, L. Benbow, L. R.
Nichols, Green Jackson

Eighth District—A. 8. Blake |

Ninth hope! D. Hayden, Wm.

YOUNG PEOPLE’, DEPART-
MENT OF THR &

SOCIETY A. M. E. CHURCH

The Sixth Epiiscopal District

My Dear Co-dorkers and Children:
My _ heart and mind are full of

thoughts of you and the work o this

department, After greetings to all,

I earnestly beg the cooperation of

each Worker who is interested in this
work, s =

Begin now to have representatives
at the state convention, in Macon, as
Mrs. Flipper, the state president, will
give space on program each day for
the work of the department.

Local, district, conference ‘ branch
presidents, directresses and local su-
perintendents are asked to urge and
encourage the young people to use
this opportunity.

A five year campaign should be
launched by each society (adult) to
conserve the youth if the church is to
reap its greatest benefit from the
young people o ftomorrow.

Plans for 1928-89

1 Organize Mission Study of Bible
Classes. «

2 Young People’s
State Convention.

4 Demonstrations with TIllustra-
tions by workers in this department,
and others.

The object in organizing the class-
es is to hold the interest of the young
people after passing from the juve-
nile and intermediate divisions to that
of the junior division, and to train
them for leaders and teachers in this
department.

The proceeds from the booth will
be diviided between the Student Aaid
Fund and the home work. We will
thank anyone or sociietis eatld(uis

Program at

thank anyone or societies (adult or ‘

junior)sending anytthing for . the
booth, a

A committee of young people, as-
sisted by,Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs.
Montgomery, will have charge of the
booth. This committee will be glad
to place on\ exhibit anything made by
anyone of dny society. BO Si

A goo dylan for naming mission or
Bible classes is to use the name of
flowers for girls classes and the name
of trees for boys’ classes. Rose: beau-
ty, loveliness and joy; daisy: sym-
pathy and friendship; buttercup:
happiness, violet and faithfulness;
lily: purity of heart, etc.

Names For Boys’ Classes: Elm, pa-
triiotism and self-respect; cedar:
strength and faiith; oak: hispitaliity;
pine: darng, ete. The same plans
may be used for namng_ societies,
Provide each class or society with a
class-pin or banner made from silk,
wool or felt. Slash botton edge to
make frings. Then place the class
flower or tree on the banner. These
ean be found printed on Cretonne,
wall paper or in flower catalogues,
ete. Cut ont the flower and glue it
onto the felt, leaving it under a
weight until perfectly dry. Trees may
be copied from any book showing pic-
tures of trees, ;

Recreation Suggested

Umbrella Gift Game—Trim a large
old umbrella with red, white and blue
paper, cover the outside’ with red and
line it with white, usng strips of blue
for ribbon decoratons; use baby rb-
bon to suspend gfts and have the
lengths vary. -

Merrily round thi shappy ring

Skipping gaiily as we sing ,

What would this umbrella bring

If we changed to a hiippity-hop
» And our hostess called out, stop?

Umbrella Verses

All the conclusion of the verses the
hostess should call:

Stop for John and let him see

A. tiny gift for him from me,

Of course the names of the children
should be called one after the other
iin order a sthey stand in the circle.
Different colors of ribbon should be
used. for girls andforboys. This
game may be used to raise funds. :
eee one pay five or ten cents to

4 Pink Tea—(For 3

Ne a Me

_ ference that your committee has had ;

-PARTIAL REPORT OF _
EPISCOPAL COMMITTEE

The Epiiscopal Committee made a
partial report and informed the con-

under investigations the character of
all bishops and find nothing against

their moral, religious, or official
character, that the churches of all
ibshops have passed.

ELECTION OF GENERAL OFFICERS
» The following were aspirant for
the Book Concern: Revs, Stone, Grif-
fin, W. K. Hopes, J. H. Hughes, J. T.
Wilkerson, S. H. V. Gumbs, T. H.
Wiseman, P. W. Rogers, D. M. Bax-~
ter and Prof. P. C. Williiams; Prof. »
Williams announced to the confer-
ence that his candidacy was conting-
ent upon Dr. Baxter not being a can-
didate, but since Dr. Baxter was not
successful in the race for the bishop-
ric and was back in the race for the
Book Concern, he (Mr. Wiilliams)
wished to thank.all friends and dele-
gates for promises made and that he
was withdrawinig from the race.
Balloting began: Rev. Baxter receiv.
ing 554 votes, was declared elected.
The Christian Recorder Candidates
Revs. J. C. Beckett, R. R. Wright,
Jr., J. H. Hu Franklin, W E Guy,
George Singleton and J. A. Hill. Dr.
Wright receiving 538 votes was de-
clared elected.
Financial Department Candidate
Prof. W. B. Adams, Dr. J .R. Haw-
kins, Dr. W. F. Bodiie, Dr. Bodie an-
nounced his withdrawal from the
race. A motion prevailed that the
secretary cast the vote for the gen-
eral conference electing Dr. Hawk-
ins.
Missionary Department Candidates
Revs. L. L. Berry, E. H. Coit, and
M. C. Wright; before the count was
completed, Dr. Berry made a motion
that the counting stop and that the
secretary cast the vote for the gene!
conference, electing Dn. et
Biishop Parks objected and the count
Was finished; Dr. Coit was over-
whelmingly electe Bs
Motions prevailed that the secre-
tary cast the vote re-electing Dr. S
J, Johnson, Church Extension Seer
tary; Prof. A. S. Jackson, Education-
al Seeretary; Dr. W. H. H. Butler,
Historian . ,
Sunday School Union Candidates
Rev. T. J. Askew, E. H. McGill, P.
W. Walls and Prof. Ira T. Bryant.
Prof. Bryant receiving 537 votes was
declared re-elected.
A. M. E. Review Candidate
Dr. J. G. Robinson and Charles
Wesley. This was a close contest;
Dr. Wesley received 340 votes, Dr.
Robinson 383 votes, Robinson was de~
clared elected.
Southern Christian Recorder Candi-
date
Revs. G. W. Allen, John Harmon,
J. H. Jones: all were re-clected with
a large majority.
Western UChristian LRecorder Candi-
dates ;
Revs. J. D. Barksdale, J. H. Wil-
son and J. H. Clayborne. This was a
close contest. Two ballots were. tak-.
en and no election; the conference re-
cessed to continue thheh helections
onday.

NOUCE. ram

The Committee on Social Welfare
met May 10th at 1 p. m., for the pu
Pose of perfecting an organizatio
The following officers were elected: ~

Attorney E. P. Blakemore, =5
trict, chairman. 2
_Rev. A. F. B. Hoary, 7th district,
vice chairman. :

Rey. A. D. Avery, 2nd distriist, sec:
retary. \ i
_ Mrs. J. H. Hale, 14th distri e
sistant secretary. eee oe
Professor C. H. Joknson, 3rd dis-
trict, treasurer. He ah
, He T. N. Lewis, 1st district, chap-
lain. aie ¢
After some discussion in regard
to Hie secs Ati ON our church,
a motion was made by A. D. Aver:
that Prof. Johnson prepare a bill em
pay the sentiments ofthe Commit- iy

ee oe

members of the gre

Church. While it ue

good men were elevated to tI
opric by the 28th General Con:
ence; men ofoutstanding char:
and ability. I ame asking in all £;
ness, is it right to inflict so
punishment upon a man whi
years has given his life’s ener
ability to the church. Yet the qi
tions were frequently heard on |
grounds during the Genera

ence. Now what is the fact?

ty years or more ago as I un

it the Rey. R. R. Wright, Jr
liant young man fresh from
chools of thsi co
entered the iitiner:

Philadelphiia was a w.
Christian Recorder for #.

task to resurrect the Book Concern,
an dreyive the Christian Recorder.
With an undaunted zeal this Dale
preacher applied himsélf to the t
and the church has the factd/as
whether he made good or not.

the foundation for our great p
in ghouse recently erected in thi
of Philadelphia; and. giving,
church and the race, one of
church papers’ published in \,

world by negroes.’ To say tot
that you shall forever be If frone:

bishopric because 9 did Aot tom 'p
*y- er the “tFenches}) the ‘fact, is
that the church toc.“him out of the
trenches and assigned him to this
special work and has kept him the:

all these years uncomplainingly
no wraise these questions—Wh:

mote him? What kas he done for
church? Now I believe that men e:
best serve? y

DR WRIGHT'S i.
“FOURTEEN POINTS? \

A friend asked us the other day
what were some of the progressive ©
things for which we stand. Qur ans-
wer was “read the Recorder.” But on
his suggestion, we jotted down some
of the points of interest. An? we
shall discuss them from time to time.

1. A Strong Connection and
not eighteen separate districts,

2. A Churchwide revival, deep.
ening the spiritual life of Churc!
and race,

8. A Strong System of Theo.
logical training. “ trained,
consecrated man, a leader in .ev-"
ery church.” (May take 25 years)

4, Building up the rural
Church in the country districts
where most of the race now live

5. A Budget System: from lo- »
eal church to Episcopacy, but
starting with General ~Depart-

ments and Colleges. ure’ ea *
ba ade

ene

6. Elimination of

exaltation of Jesus in {he Church.
7. Strengthening ‘of Mission-

Depart-

ary and Educatior‘al
ments.
8... Re-codification of discipline
and demanding that everybody
~ respect the law.
"9. Strengthening our periodi- i
cals, putting all weeklies on the
_ same basis. -,
»10. Organization. of Men’s Ser-
vice Leagues similar to Women’s
Missionary Societies, to put the
laymen to constructive work. '

-11, Every conference student
@ correspondent or resident stu-
dent SOLO ‘ SSE SMa

i complete suryey of the
A. M. E. Church. S 4 ee a;
13. Closer Federation with
Negro Churches in developing
greater spiritual life among
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rene Lad, of the Virgin Islands,

SIDE LIGHTS

Of The Conference
By Dr. W. H. Wright

0 1 7—7A, 1928. 1D. Hansboro of Dallas, Tex., are attend_

ing the General Conference.

_ Mrs. H. E. Williams, a prominent

b business woman of Greenville, S. C.,

ig also a trustee of Allen Temple A. M.

REV R R WRIGHT. Jr, PhD, E. Church is attending the General
_Editor-in-Chiet Conference.

Mrs. Essie Cox Townsend of Arka-
delphia, Arkansas is attending the
General Conference.

Mrs. W. E. Guy of Springfield, DL,
is in attendance to the General Con-
ference.

X Mrs. M. L. Burch of Philadelphiia,
\ Pa., is attending the sessions of the

} General Conference.
Published at ‘the %h Regiment Armory _Mrs. Emma Richmond of Kansas
3511 Giles Avenue j

% Mo., is attending the General
Daily edition during the Conference of Conference, and is stopping ot 5924
it A Z Church, held at Chicago,

Michigan Avenue.
«70 May 7th to 2th, 1928, ——
. Baa ic Mrs. Euola Wagner of 5818 Mich-

TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1928

a

Av city, is attending the

a essiions

Recognition of meritorious and de- —————
voted services rendered on behalf of Rey. W. C. from Georgia,
the Charch has alw: been a po- preached la y at Gaines Chap-
tent ‘actor in ing Church to el A. M. E. Church of Michigan of
bold within her Communion men of which Rev. C. A. Moore is pastor.
eultural ideas and wide preparation. Sa ace
Those 4 honored are both native Mr. and Mrs. Lamb S. Patton of
Americans and foreigners adhering Montgomery, Alabama is attending

—\ t& our Church, the A. M. E. Conference.

In this connection we not the rec-
) ognition given by this General Con-
ference (1 the Rav. Dr. S, E. Church-

Mrs. R. H. Moreland of Birming-
ham, Alabama is attending sessiions
of the General Conference.

onfergnce has re-elected

whort met many of her old friends and the:

Orticial § ur! ““Yell-the verb- have been very kind to her. a
al addre { sermons delive.f ™ % ee

befere the General Conference and

published in the DAILY RECORDER Rev. W. G. Austin of the North Ga.
De. Lord. We compliment thie Conferenee is attending the General
brother on his success and for his Conference as an alternate from his
eficiency conference.

Rev. J. F. Jordan, pastor of Ay-
ery Chapel, Oklahom City, Okla. and
wife, Mrs. F. E. Jordan and daughter
Miss Floria Jordan are attending the
General Conferen Mrs. Jordan
will d&i n address to the Mission-

ON MEMOIRS

First District—E. T. Bruce
District—-Wataon Laws

District JH Maxwell, .D.uW.hx
Fourth District—Homer Williams

firth District—M, 8. Bryant, Thomas ary Soc’ Rev. Jordan received 9
Kennedy votes for the bishopric.

fixth District—J, R. Fleming, W. O nance
Slade

SeventhDtstrict—A.. P. B. Horry, W. B.
Boulder, J. 8, Shanklin
Mehth District—J. Topp

Mrs. L. M. Lawrence of Macon, Ga.,
State Superintendent of the Young
People’s Department of the W. H.

Ninth District~Mrs, Ella Dillard and Missionary Society A

anc Missionary Society of Georgia

Pe Cee C. B. js in attendance to the General Con-
t 0

ferer

Grieventh District~W. H. J. Powell
Thirteenth District—C. W. Williams

your'genth Distriet—J, W. Frasier ON UNIVERSITIES AND

\Fifteeath District—Mrs. Alberta Dun- COLLEGES
eam, J. W. Saunders
wand) District—H. M, Steady FIRST DISTSRICT — H,
enteenth District-Chalmers Nyom- Thomas.
Bole SECOND DISTRICT — L. H.

ighteenth District —C, B, Clements Midgette.

THIRD DIISTSRICT—Gilbert H.

ones.
FOURTH DISTRICT—H. A. Per-

trict—J, R. Reed ry, M. V, Lucas.
ya eect. A. Edwards beh i DISTRICT—F. J. Peck,
nird Diatrict—Mrs, Effle B. Carter, Annie B. Brown.
Teenie Cundi SIXTH DISTRIICT—J. H. Lewis,
Fourth Dtstrict—I, 8, Stone J. C. Lawrence, H. E. Davis.
Fifth Distriet—R. 8. Everett, Mrs. C. SEVENTH DISTSRICT—D. H.

, ON PLANS FOR CITURCH BUILDING = J

Hf. Burbridge Sims, Miss Mamie Lorne
Sixth District—E. Griags, J. W. Poreh, EIGHTH DISTRICT — Solomon
ff. W. Grant Porter Hood, S, P. Washington.
Seventh Distriat—N. A. Bethea, G. 0. = wINTH DISTRICT—E. C.Mitchell

TENTH DISTRICT—N. A. Banks,
R. D. Washi in.
ELEVE DISTRICT — A. B.
Cooper, T. W. Carter, J. P. Thomp-

son.
TWELFTH DISTRICT — A. 0.

Wilson.
awe DuteceB. T. Braas _ THIRTEENTH DISTRIOT—J. R
Thirteenth District—J, K, Washington amp! Mi .
panes District —W. H. Campbell FOURTEENTH DISTSRICT— E.
Fifteenth District—W, A. Ratteray FE. Wittenburg.

Sixteenth Distriet—Mrs, Hannah B, FIFTEENTH DISTRICT—Joseph

Steady Gomez.
Seventeenth District--F. Herman Gow SIXTEENTH DISTTRIICT — F.
- Eletteenth District—P. A, Hart Herman Gow.
EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT—Geo-

She has ,

THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER

RECOMMENDATIONS

Continued from Page 1
League

51 Historical and Literary Society

52 Fragment Gatherers
53 Church Property
54 Church Stewaards

55 Part
monies

56 Baptism

57 Reception of Members

ay sae Supper .. .

5: ‘olemnization of Matrimo

60 Laying Corner Stones my

61 Dedication of Churches

%2 Ordination of Deacons

63 Ordination of Elders

64 Consecration of Bishops

65 Burial Service

66 Part IV—Appendiz

67 Specific Examination

69 Recommendations to Students

70 Conference Boundaries

71 Episcopal Districts

72 Bishops and General Offi u
s Address pols
73 The following shall constitute

paragraphs 26, 27, Page 22

Bokk of Disciles. rt a

74 Sec. 26. That the giving or re-
ceiving of a bribe or the use of
money in obtaining or attempt-
ing to obtain any office within
the A. M. E. Church, orthe ut-
terance or issuance of any false
statement in aid of one’s candi-
dacy for any such office, is here-
by prohibited.

79 Sec. 27, Any person found guil-
ty of the violation of the pro-
visions of the preceeding section
if elected, shall be punished by
removal fromsaid office, and if
not elected, shall be suspended
from membership in the A. M.
E. Connection for the periiod of
one year. ‘

84 Page 206 Compositions of Gen-
eral Conference.

85 We recommend the Editor of
tthe Woman’s Missionary Re-
corder become a member of Gen-
eral Conference

87 Page 417 Paragraps 2 at the
end of last line, add the words

f except the Superintendent, who
shall be confined by thé Quarter-
ly Conference.”

REPORT OF DISCIPLINE
REVISION COMMITTEE

To the Bishops, General Officers and
Delegates to the 28th General Con-
ference of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church assembled in Chi-
cago, Illinois:

Dear Brethren:

We, your Committee on Revision
of the Discipline, submit our report
in part as follows:

1 We recomriend that from page
1 to page 27 inclusive remain, except

pages 14 to 17 inclusive, which
is held for certified copy of Ar-
ticles of incorporation. ©

4 Page 29, line, after the word

“abridged” substitute the words
“or modified any time to suit the
occasion.”

6 Page 30 to remain as is.

7 Page 31, paragraph 7, be added
after membership the words ‘upon

profession of saving faith in our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”

9 Page 119, paragraph 7, after
the word “time” on the last line
shall be added “and no money
shall be disbursed without his
knowledge and consent.”

12 Page 121, paragraph 14, after
the word “shall,” substitute the
word “urge.” After the word
“society” substitute the word
“he?

14 Page 140, paragraph 7, line 4,
strike out the word “five” and
substitute the word “eight.”

16 Page 141, paragraph 9, line 3,
strike out the words “District
until” and substitute the words
“Conference or his district un-
less.” /

18 Page 148, paragraph 18, line 1,
strike out the word “bishops”
and substitute the words “Fi-
nanciial Secretary.”

20 Page 144, Chapter 11, line 18,
strike out the words “Semi-an-
nual” and substitute the word
“Annually.”

2e Page 148, paragraph 1, line 2,
strike out the word “he” and

Il] —Riites and .Cere-

Tuesday, May 22, 1928

substitute the words “the Accused.”

24 Page 199, line 4, after the word
“with” strike out the word
“two” and substitute the word
“four.”

26 Page 206, Chapter 6, Composi-
tion of General Conference. Be-
ginning on line 12, after the
word “Standing” substitute
“thet President of the Paren
Mite and Womaan’s Home and
Foreign Missionary Societies.”

80 Page 206, paragraph 1, line 17,
after the word “every” strike
out “30” and substitute “40”;
on line 18, after the word “ex-
ceeding”

32 strike out the word “15” and
substitute the word “21,”

YOUNG PEOPLE’S DEPT,
Continued from Page 3

Do come to a Pink Tea Party ~*

Next Friday from four-thirty to 5
» Your welcome will be most hearty

For I’ll meet you at the door.

A girle dressed in pink at the door,
takes the tickets in a pink covered
box or small basket tied with pink
ribbon. Of course, the tickets are
sold two or more weeks before. A
pink and whiite cake, used for a con-
test and a vase containing three ros-
es, two pink and. one white, are ar-
ranged on a table. All lights are
shaded pink. Five cents is charged
those who enter the contest which is
carried out thus: Pass clothes-pins,
needles, thimbles, scissors, thread and
a basket containing bits of pink and
white scraps and request the contest-
ants to dress the clothes-pins like
dolls. _The one who produces the
best dressed doll wins the cake. Usu-
ally a boy or man wins. Lots of fun

The dolls are ‘given the contestants
for souvenirs. *

Requests

1 Do not forget to observe Allen
Day, Mothers’s Day, Blue and White
Day, ete.

2 Each society is requested to
send $2.00 for Student Aid Fund and
$3.00 for home work. Remember,
dear worker, that Georgia is expect-
ed to contribute her share to the
maintenance for our African girl stu-
dent. Our home work must not suf-
fer for lack of funds to carry out
the plans as outlined in this message.
Please do this not later than July 14.

8 Be sure to study your report
blanfls and return wih amount, name
and address of delegates and super-
intendents so that names will appear
on the program. Date of convention
will be known later.

4 We are asking your prayers for
this department. The success of it
depends upon the realization of the
need of God for the new day that liies
ahead; upon spiritual abilities to tap
new resources of power. This depart-

‘ment is intended to be the beginning

of a new advance. Gifts of money
will be needed but far more the en-
richment of personal lives and the
dedication of these young people for
service, “Let us advance on our
knees.”

ON RULES OI ORDER
FIRST DISTRICZ—Howard Nor-

dain.

SECOND DISTRICT—P. A. Rich-
ardson.

THIRD DISTRICT—N. B. ~Allen.

FOURTH DISTRIOT—S. L. Birt.

FIFTH DISTRICT—W. C. Wil-
liams, G. L. Vaughn.

SIXTH DISTRICT—J. R. Talia-
ferro, C. H. Harrold.

SEVENTH DISTRICT — B. J.
Ramsey, J. E. Christie, J. B. Beck.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT—G. E.
Curry, S. H. Betts, H. E. Daniels.

TWELFTH DISTRICT — S. A.

Jones.
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT — J.
Jackson. a
FOURTEENTH DISTRICT— F.
D. L. McDonald.
SIXTEENTH DISTRICT — S. B.
A. Campbell. P
SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT —
Chalmers Nyombolo.

FIGHTH DISTRICT—D. R. Mor-

ant, J. D. Brown,

NINTH DISTRICT—P. W. Walls,
J, H. Dillard,

TENTH DISTRICT—S. M. Kirk,
H. A. Young. :

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uesday, May 22, 1928 «

. CONSECRATION
OF BISHOPS

Consecration Service:
Hymn, 293, Biishop H. B. Parks.
Prayer, Bishop Wm. H. Heard :
Singing No. 235, Bishop J. Albert
Johnson
First Scripture Lesson, Bishop J. S.

Flipper
Introductory Prayer, Bishop Wm. D.
% Johnson

Ritual, Bishop R. C. Ransom

Second Scripture Lesson, Bishop A.

ym No. 133, Bishop W. S

fo. 1 jishop W. Sampson
Brooks : f
Sermon, Bishop H. B. Parks

. Robert Alexander Grant presented by
Revs. R. B. Brooks, South Fla. Con-
ference; G. E. Curry, East Florida
Conference; R. W. Whitehurst, W.

Fla. Conference
Consecrated by Bishops John Hurst,
J. S. Flipper, H. B. Parks

Sherman Lawrence Green pres. by
Revs. W. T. Pope, E. Ark? Confer-
ence; S. P. Felder, N. Miss. Conf.;
G. F. David, Kentucky Conference

Consecrated by Bishops R. C. Ran-
som, W. H. Heard, W. A. Fountain

George Benjamin Young presented by

_ Revs. P. C: Hunt, Texas Confer-

ence;M. F. Sides, New England
Conference; G. T. Stinson, N. La.
Conference

Monroe Hortensius Davis pres. by

Consecrated by Bishops W. D. John-
son, Joshua H. Jones, J. A. Gregg
Revs. L. R. Nichols, Palmetto, S. C.
Conference; G. B. Brown, La. Conf.
HH. E. Walden, Balto. Conference

Consecrated by Bishops J. Albert
Johnson, A. L. Gaines, W. Samp-
son Brooks

* Reading, Bishop“A. L. Gaines _

Prayer for Special Qualifications,

Bishop J. A. Gregg
_ Direct Examination, Bishop H. B.

Parks
Prayer, Bishop W. T. Vernon

Veni, Creator, Spiritus
Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire
And lighten with celestial fire
“wah the anointing spirit art _
A-Who dost thy seven-fold gifts impart
Thy blessed unction from above
Is comfort, light and fire of love.

Enable with perpetual light

The dullness of our blinded sight
Anoint and cheer our soiled face
With the abundance of thy grace
Keep far our foes, give peace at home
Where thou art guide no ill can come.

ab

\e 2

Teach us to know the Father, Son
* And Thee of both to be but one
That through the ages all along
This may be our endless song
Praise to thy eternal merit
_. Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

“s Consecration Prayer, Bishop Joshua
i ™ H. Jones
Bible Delivered, Bishop H -B. Parks
Sacrament and Closing Prayer, Bish-
op John Hurst, J. A. Gregg, io. Hs

Jones

Apostles Creed, Bishop yee H.

sit Heard

é Benediction, Bishop H. B. Parks
PASC,

{ OFFICERS OF THE LAY COLLEGE

OF TBE A.M. E. CHURCH
- GENERAL CONFERENCE

Atty. W. H. C. Brown, Newport News,
fy, Vie. ms Ghatmas ae
. E. P. Blakemore, Denver, Colo-
ee a .. Vice Chairman
W. H. Wright, Waycross Ga.
at Secretary
Edna Gullins, Pennsylvania ....

First Asst. Secretary

Emily C. Kinch, New Jersey
.. Third Asst. Secretary
Minnie Sheppard, South Caro-
e .. Fourt Asst. Secretary
, Nashville Tenn-
. Treasurer
er, Los Angeles,
seeniuenens Marshal

’ Springs High School, Crystal Springs,

THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER

A CALL TO THE YOUNG MAN

Young man be clean!
The world has need of cleanly men;
Enough there are who now defile
Their bodies and our atmosphere
With ranflk tobacco, liquor vile;
Enough impure in habit, soul,
In ways condemned in sister, wife;
You, too, are called to purity;
Be clean of heart, of lip, of life:
Young man, be noble!

Enough there are whose lives are
vile; 2
Whose words are false and base and

low; ‘
Whose thoughts are like desires of
beasts, ?
And daily they more peast-like

grow;
Exalt yourself by nobler thoughts,
And keep your mind strong, pure,
and clean;
Help lift the world a notch or two;
Young man, you're hit; it’s you I
mean:
Young man, be Christ’s!
Enough there are who, scorning
Christ
Rejecting Him, the Way, the Light,
Have falied of best in life, and gone
The ‘Christless way to Christless
night;
Be Christ’s make your ideal Christ;
Take him as Teacher to the end;
Take Him as Saviour from all sin;
Take Him, best Comrade and best .
Friend;
. Young man, be Christ’s!

NEGRO YOUTH WINS FRATERNAL MESSAGE

NATIONAL COMPETITION

Fraternal Message from the M. E.
Church by Rev. Ernest S. Williams,
pastor Metropolitan M. E. Church,
Baltimore, Md.; , Member of Wash-
ington Annual Conference.

Bishops, Fathers and Brothers:
Beloved:

At this moment ad in this presence
I begin to discharge a duty assigned
me by the Board of Bishops of the
Methodist Church, namely, to con-
yey to you in your Quadrennial Con-
clave the greetings and felicitations
of the membership ministerial and
lay of that church. So here I stand
embodying that group of Wesleyan
folowers to the number of more than
four and one-half millions, seattered
throughout the world, and extending
to you its right hand of fellowship,
voice the hope that God is with you.

This distinguished audience graced
by the presence of your college «*
Bishops is a replica of the one from
which I have just come and to which
I shall soon return. The General
Conference of our Church now as-
sembled in Kansas City, Mo.

IItl is significant that several Gen-
eral Conferences meet in the month
May. As surveyors of a great coun-
try take their observations from hill
top to hill top andthence make their
triangulations that reveal the entent
and character of the lower ground
so it seems that the representattives
of the General Conferences from, the
vantage point of experience and train-
ing look backward through the re-
ports of four years making their de-
cisions and rendering judgments con-
cerning the material things of the
»Kingdom..

Retrospect, ,meditation and forcast
these from the triune mind of this

Takes First Prize in Interracia], Com-
mission’s “Tenth Man’ Conrest

Atlanta, Ga. May 18—Fréeman
Ledbetter, student in the high school
department of the colored A. & T.
College, Greensboro, N. C., has just
been awarded first prize in the “Tenth
Man” theme contest conducted by the
Commission on Interracial Coopera-
tion, which was open_ to all high
school students in the United States.
‘A check for fifty dollars, the mount
of the prize, has been forwarded to
Dr. F. D. Bluford, president of the
college, for presentation to Mr, Led-
better.

The second prize of thirty dollars
was awarded to Ernest Paschal, of
Cleburne High School, Cleburne Tex.;
and the third prize, twenty dollars,
to Miss Peggy Williams, of Crystal

Mississippi. :
Hundreds of papers dealing with
the the contribution made to Ameri-

can history by the Negro, “America’s
Tenth Man,” were submitted from a

great number of schools scattered
upon the judges a long and difficult
task. Most of the papers were of
high order and the promoters of the
contest express themselves as greatly
pleased with the result. It is prob-
able, they announce, that a similar
competition on a larger scale will be
conducted next year.

PROF. J. A. LANKFORD
Architect

If thinking of
building, over-

hauling, or re- gathering. _LLook backward at the
pairing your. past, look thoughtfully at the pres-
church, school or ent, look forwaard to the future; at
parsonage, see _ the past with penitnet and humble

PROF J. A.
LANKFORD, the
noted Church Ar-
chitect while here
in the Armory.

He will make
your plans and
specifications, tell
you how to build and assist you in ar-
ranging your loan.

gratitude, at the present with firm
and holy resolution,, and to the fu-
ture with clam and earnest hope.
Permit me here and now to ex-
press to you our heartful sympathy
in the death of four of your Chief
Pastors, Bishops L. J. Coppin, con-
servative in thought and feeling, quiet
the very embodiment of dignity; W.
Continued on Page 3

Page Five

MEMORIAL FROM REV.
H. M. STEADY, P. EB.

To the Bishops in Council assembled

at 28th General Conference of the
Africann Methodist Episcopal
Church, Greetings:

Dear Fathers in God:—

I am compelled to lay before you a
personal memorial, but I desire to
say right here, that this memorial
has no selfish basis, as it is for the
cause that I represent, and not for
myself “per se.”

I believe that my years of long
faithful an dunbroken service for a
period of 25 years as your Presiding
Elder, an d37 years in the ministry
of our church in the Sierra Leone
Conference make me competent to
give you my authorities, a right view
of the conditions and outlook of our
work in the Sierra Leone Conference,
West Africa.

There are 8 denominational bodies
operating in Sierra Leone, recognized
by the British Government.

The Protestant Episcopal, the Wes-
leyan Methodist, the Romann Catho-
lic, the United Methodist, the Baptist
the United Brethren in Chriist, the
A. M. B. (Bethel) and the S. D. A.

Now there are occasions, when the
Heads of the bodies meet with the
Government by invitation and discuss
matters relative to the Educational
and Religious aspects of the Church;
in such meetings we have no repre-
sentation (to watch the interest of
our Church) for want of equal status.

The presiding officer of the Protes-
tant Epis, Church is a bishop presid-
ing in Freetown.

The presiding officer of the Wes-
leyan Methodist is a general superiin-
tendent of equal Status, residing in
Freetown.

The presiding officer of the Roman
Catholic is a resident bishop in Free-
town.

The presiding officer of the United
Methodist is a general superintend-
ent of squal status, residing in Free-
town.

The presiding officer of the United ._
Brethren in. Ghristis 4 genéral sup-
erintendent of equal status, residing
in Freetown.

Now as our Episcopal residence is
located in Monrovia, it places our
Presiding Bishop beyond the invita-
tiion of His Excellency the Governor,

o rthe Bishop of the Protestant Epis-

copal Church respectively, when such

meetings are called; what ever be the

result of such call meetings, we as a

church are expected to accept and

subseribe to it, though we have no

voice. L

In view then of this condition which
places us at a discount, I submit this
memoria lasking for the Status of a
Suffragan Bishop.

This status will give me general es-
teem and prominence in the commun-
ity, wide scope for better service, and
power to function with more commen-
dable success on behalf of my church.

I may add thie memori has no
mercenary motive behind it. I am
content with my present salary of
$75.00 per month.

I only ask for recognized status, to
reach higher quarters and achieve
more for my Church.

Trusting that this memorial will
have your Godly Judgment, that some
new made measures be adopted, con-
ducive to the weal of the cause I rep-
resent.

Conclusion: That the blessings of
prosperity may come upon our work
in Sierra Leone, that it may continue
to rise that high state to which it is
destined by God to reach, through its
progressive developbment, as to be-
come self-supporting is my cherished
wish and most fervent prayer, in
your generous consideration and de-
terminate action.

With due respects, I remaiin to be,

Yours for the cause,
H. M. STEADY, Presiding Elder

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AFRICAN METHODISM

By Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr.
Here is the Greatest Historical

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ON MEMOTES

, Pirst District—E. T. Bruce

< f Becond District

' { Third District—J.H Maxwell, T.D.uw hx
Homer Williams

Pitth District—M. 8. Bryant, Thomas

Wataon Laws

Fourth District-

SIDE LIGHTS RECOMMENDATIONS

Of The Conference

Continued from Page 1
League

Church Property

ME. CHURCH Mrs. Beatrice Hansboro and Mrs. F. 54 Church Stewaards

ing the General Conference. 55 Part Il —Riites and .Cere-
——s Soe ee monies
56 Baptism

Mrs. H. E. Williams, a prominent 57 Reception of Members
business woman of Greenville, S. C., 58 Lord’s Supper .. .
——— also a trustee of Allen Temple A. M. 59 Solemnization of Matrimony
E. Church is attending the General 60 Laying Corner Stones
Conference. 61 Dedication of Churches
i ie ines of Deacons
Mrs. Essie Cox Townsend of Arka- edinalonhge ier
delphia, Arkansas is attending the Se ceases anns Oe Bishopa
General Conference. urist Sorice
66 Part IV—Appendiz

67 Specific Examination

-Chief

Manager

Rev. J. D. Robinson, D. D. _ Mrs. W. E. Guy of Springfield, IL, 69 Recommendations to Students
4. Bev. G W Allen, D. D. is in attendance to the General Con- 70 Conference Boundaries
v, J. D. Barksdale, D. D. ference. 71 Episcopal Districts
wv. E. H. Coit, D. D. Se oe 72 Bishops and General Officers’
' Mrs, M. L. Burch of Philadelphiia, Address de
4 3 Pa. y attending the sessions of the 73 The following shall constitute
3 2 General Conference. paragraphs 26, 27, P: 2!
Pobiished at iy Regiment Armory Phage Belge Richmond of Kansas Bokk of Disciles. Bree
3517 flee Avenue Sity, Mo., is attending the General 74 ivi
Datly ed the Conference of Conference, and is stopping ot 5924 ; ee POF ae ie oy gaa

ceiving of a bribe or the use of

money in obtaining or attempt-

ing to obtain any office within

the A. M. E. Church, orthe ut-

terance or issuance of any false

statement in aid of one’s candi-
in dacy for any such office, is here-
by prohibited.

Michigan Avenue.

igan Avenu

i city, is attending the
sessiions daily.

Rey. W.C. Kely from Georgia, Ps
. been a po- preached Sunday at Gaines Chap- a eae ra Any person found guil-
selping the Church-to el A. M. Church of Michigan of nie € violation of the pro-
which Rev. C. A. Moore is pastor. visions of the preceeding section

if elected, shall be punished by
removal fromsaid office, and if
not elected, shall be suspended
from membership in the A. M.
E. Connection for the periiod of
Mrs. R. H. Moreland of Birmi 84 Page 206 Con

i - Moreland o ‘irming- age ompositi a
ham, Alabama is attending sessiions eral Conterneet WP Fant

Mr. and Mrs. Lamb S. Patton of
Montgomery, Alabama is attending
the A. M. E. Conference.

re-elected met many of her old friends and they tthe Woman’s Missionary Re-

corder become a member of -
ne os eral Conference Se
Page 417 Paragraps 2 at the
end of last line, add He words
except the Superintendent, who
shall be confined by thé Quarter-
ly Conference.”

Rev. W. G. Austin of the North Ga.
Conferenec is attending the General f
Conference as an alternate from his
conference.

REPORT OF DISCIPLINE
REVISION COMMITTEE

Rev. J. F. Jordan, pastor of Av-
ery Chapel, Oklahom City, Okla. and
wife, Mrs. F. E. Jordan and daughter
Miss Floria Jordan are attending the
General Conference. Mrs. Jordan
will d&iver an address to the Mission-
ary Soci Rev. Jordan received 9

To the Bishops, General Officers and
Delegates to the 28th General Con-
ference of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church assembled in Chi-

Kennedy votes for the bishopric. ea Illinois:
Sixth District—J. R. Fleming, W. G Dear Breriren’:
Slade We, your Committee on Revisi
» Y evision
SeventhDtstrict—A.. FP. B. Horry, W. B. M .. M. Lawrence of Macon, Ga., of the Discipline, submit our report

Boulder, J. 8. Shanklin
Mehth District—J. Topp
Ninth District—Mrs, Ella Dillard

State Superintendent of the Young in part as follows:
People Department of the W. H. 1 We recommend that from page
and F. Missionary Society of Georgia 1 to page 27 inclusive remain, except

. er W. Bennet, ©. B. j, in attendance to the General Con- pages 14 to 17 inclusive, which
feteventh District—W. H. J, Powell ference. is held for certified copy of Ar-

Thirteenth District—O. W. Williams
Fourteenth Distriet—J, W. Frazier

ticles of incorporation.

ON UNIVERSITIES AND { Page 29, line, after the word
“abridged” substitute the words

\ \Pifteeath District—Mrs, Alberta Dun- 2 5
" 4 eum, J. W. Saunders COLLEGES “or modified any time to suit the
bans tenth Distriet—H. M. Steady FIRST DISTSRICT — H. HF. _ occas i : (
\ veateenth District—Chalmers Nyom- Thonias. 6 Pa u to remain Ee e i
bole SECO? TRICT — L. H. 7 Page 31, paragraph 7, be added
B. Clements SECOND DISTR: after membership the words “upon

ighteenth District—O.

a An PLANS FOR CHURCH BUILDING Jones.

First District—J, R, Reed

Second District—G, A. Edwards

Third District—Mrs.
Prancis Cundii?

Pourth District—I, 8, Stone

Fifth Distriet—R. 8. Everett, Mra. ©,

Effie B. Onrter,

Midgette.

THIRD DIISTSRICT—Gilbert H. profession of saving faith in our

Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”

9 Page 119, paragraph 7, after
the word “time” on the last line
shall be added “and no money
shall be disbursed without his
knowledge and consent.”

12 Page 121, paragraph 14, after
the word “shall,” substitute the
word “urge.” After the word

FOURTH DISTRICT—H. A. Por-

ry, M. V, Lucas.

FIFTH DISTRICT—F. J. Peck,
Annie B. Brown.

SIXTH DISTRIICT—J. H. Lewis,
J. C. Lawrence, H. E. Davis.

SEVENTH DISTSEICT—D. H.

H. Burbridge Sims, Miss Mamie “society” A
Sixth District—E. Griggs, J. W. Porch, EIGHTH DISTRICT — Solomon é on substitute the word
Fan Distriat 4 Bork Se re 14 Page 140, paragraph 7, line 4,

Johnson, W, C. Crawford
Eighth District—J, 8. Mangum, D. M.
Dorteh

Ninth District—A. D. W. Mitchell
Tenth District—W. 8, Johnson, A. R. Cooper, T. W. Carter, J. P.
Bogan, Chas, B, Leaks oon,
Eleventh District—R. A. Grant, Mra.
Althea Ayers, Mra. G, Mille
Distriet—

Fourteenth District—W.
District—W, A. Ratteray
Distriet—Mrs, Hannah

Campbell

NINTH DISTRICT—E, C.Mitchell
TENTH DISTRICT—N. A. Banks,

R. D. Washington.
ELEVENTM DISTRICT — A. B.
Thomp-

strike out the word “five” and
substitute the word “eight.” »
16 Page 141, paragraph 9, line 3,
strike out the words “District
nee and ele Acs words
* F conference or his dist: un-
TWELFTH DISTRICT — A. 0. leas.” et

Wilson.
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT—J. R.
oa *
FOURTEENTH DISTSRICT— E.
FE. Wittenburg.
FIFTEENTH DISTRICT—Joseph

18 Page 143, paragraph 18, line 1,
strike out the word “bishops”?
and substitute the words “Fi-
_ nanciial Secretary.”
20 Page 144, Chapter 1
strike out the words
ubstitute

By Dr. W. H. Wright 51 Historical and Literary Society
-@ = Fragment Gatherers

of the General Conference. She has , 85 We recommend the Editor of —

- send $2.00 for Student Aid Bunda

“two” and substitu

“four.” har 2 .
26 Page 206, Chapter 6, Composi-

tion of General Conference. Be-

mil are

rs

THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER —

ginning on line 12, after the |
word “Standing” substitute
“thet President of the Pare

Mite and Womaan’s Home and _

- Foreign Missionary Societies.”
30 Page 206, paragraph 1, line 17, —

after the word “every” strike

out “30” and substitute “40”;

on line 18, after the word “ex-

“An ceeding”

82 strike out the word “15” and
substitute the word “21.”

YOUNG PEOPLE’S DEPT.
Continued from Page 3

Do come to a Pink Tea Party *

Next Friday from four-thirty to 5
~ Your welcome will be most hearty

For V’ll meet you at the door.

A girle dressed in pink at the door,
takes the tickets in a pink covered
box or small basket tied with pink
ribbon. Of course, the tickets are
sold two or more weeks before. A
pink and whiite cake, used for a con-
test and a vase containing three ros-
es, two pink and. one white, are ar-
ranged on a table. All lights are
shaded pink. Five cents is charged
those who enter the contest which is
carried out thus: Pass clothes-pins,
needles, thimbles, scissors, thread and
a basket containing bits of pink and
white scraps and request the contest-
ants to dress the clothes-pins like
dolls. |The one who produces the
best dressed doll wins the cake. Usu-
ally a boy or man wins. Lots of fun

The dolls are*given the contestants
for souvenirs. * ;

Requests

1 Do not forget to observe Allen
Day, Mothers’s Day, Blue and White
Day, ete. be Be
2 Each society is requeste

$3.00 for home work. Remen
dear worker, that Georgia is e
ed to contribute her share to tl
maintenance for our African girl s
dent. Our home work must not suf-
fer for lack of funds to carry o
the plans as outlined in this mess:
Please do this not later than July.
8 Be sure to study your report
planfls and return wih amount, name

and address of delegates and super-

intendents so that names will appear
on the program. Date of convention
will be known later.

4 We are asking your prayers for
this department. The success of it
depends upon the realization of the
need of God for the new day that liies
ahead; upon spiritual abilities to tap
new resources of power. This depart-
‘ment is intended to be the beginning
of a new advance. Gifts of money
will be needed but far more the en-
richment of personal lives and the
dedication of these young people for
service. “Let us advance on our
knees.”

ON RULES O] ORDER
FIRST DISTRIC1—Howard Nor-

dain.

SECOND DISTRICT—P. A. Rich-
ardson.

THIRD DISTRICT—N. B. ~Allen.

FOURTH DISTRICT—S. L. Birt.

FIFTH DISTRICT—W. C. Wil-
liams, G. L. Vaughn.

SIXTH DISTRICT—J. R. Talia-
ferro, C. H. Harrold.

SEVENTH DISTRICT — B. J.
Ramsey, J. E. Christie, J. B. Beck. —

ELEVENTH DISTRICT—G. E.
Curry, S. H. Betts, H. E. Daniels.
TWELFTH DISTRICT — S. A.

Jones. ‘

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT — J.

Jackson. nk
FOURTEENTH DISTRICT— F.

D. L. McDonald, deg, Ane

Pig ts tae DISTRICT

_ Campbell.
SEVENTEENTH
_ Chalmers bolo.
TRICT—D.
aa

ee GH’

ie herman Lawrence Green pres. by

A CALL TO THE

Lesson, Bishop J. S. Enough there are

tory er, Bishop Wm. D.

|, Bishop R. C. Ransom 3
ond Scripture Lesson, Bishop A.

_ Be clean of heart,

No, 133, Bishop W. Sampson
, Bishop H. B. Parks

bert Alexander Grant presented by

Revs. R. B. Brooks, South Fla. Con-

es ference; G. E. Curry, East Florida

ahs Conference; R. W. Whitehurst, W.
Fla. Conference

‘onsecrated by Bishops John Hurst,

S. Flipper, H. B. Parks

vile;

beasts,
And daily they
TOW;

and clean;

Revs. W. T. Pope, E. Ark? Confer- Help lift the world

ence; S. P. Felder, N. Miss. Conf.;
G. F. David, Kentucky Conference
-Consecrated by Bishops R. C. Ran-
som, W. H. Heard, W. A. Fountain
George Benjamin Young presented by

Revs. P. C. Hunt, Texas Confer-
ence;M. F. Sides, New England
Conference; G. T. Stinson, N. La.
Conference

Monroe Hortensius Davis pres. by
‘onsecrated by Bishops W. D. John-
son, Joshua H. Jones, J. A. Gregg
evs. L. R. Nichols, Palmetto, S. C.
‘onference; G. B. Brown, La. Conf.
H. E. Walden, Balto. Conference
Consecrated by Bishops J. Albert .
Johnson, A. L. Gaines, W. Samp-
son Brooks ©
ing, Bishop“A. L. Gaines |
ayer for Special Qualifications,
shop J. A. Gregg
Bxamination, Bishop H. B. wRGRO YOUTH WINS
Sonia : : NATIONAL COMPETITION

mean:
» Young man,

Enough there are
Christ

Rejecting Him, the

Have falied of best

night;

Friend;

op TT. Vernon
oe ae

y ‘host, our hearts inspire
ind Ii ighten with celestial fire
u the anointing spirit art _
) dost thy seven-fold gifts impart
essed unction from above
comfort, light and fire of love.
ae:

y

Takes First Prize in Interracia]. Com-
mission’s “Tenth Man” Consest
Atlanta, Ga. May 18—Fréeman
Ledbetter, student in the high school
department of the colored A. & “Ts
College, Greensboro, N. C., has just
been awarded first prize in the “Tenth
Man” theme contest conducted by the
- Commission on Interracial Coopera-
tion, which was open to all high
school students in the United States.
A check for fifty dollars, the mount
of the prize, has been forwarded to
Dr. F. D. Bluford, president of the
college, for presentation to Mr. Led-
better. 4 3
The second prize of thirty dollars
was awarded to Ernest Paschal, of
Cleburne High School, Cleburne Tex.;
and the third prize, twenty dollars,
5 to Miss Peggy Williams, of Crystal
* Springs High School, Crystal Springs,
Mississippi. ‘
Hundreds of papers dealing with
the the contribution made to Ameri-
can history by the Negro, “America’s
Tenth Man,” were submitted from a
great number of schools scattered
upon the judges a long and difficult
task. Most of the papers were of
high order and the promoters of the
contest express themselves as greatly
pleased with the result. It is prob-
able, they announce, that a similar
competition on a larger scale will be
conducted next year.

Snable with perpetual light
‘he dullness of our blinded sight
- Anoint and cheer our soiled face
With the abundance of thy grace
sp far our foes, give peace at home
here thou art guide no ill can come.

mes
ostles Creed, Bishop Ne: H.
eard -

tion, Bishop H. B. Parks
4

PROF. J. A. LANKFORD
Architect

If thinking of
.. Vice Chairman building, over-
Wright, Waycross Ga. .. hauling, or re-
.. Secretary pairing

, Pennsylvania ....
Secretary

. Blakemore, Denver, Colo-

Young man be clean!
The world has need of cleanly men; *

_ Their bodies and our atmosphere
With ranflk tobacco, liquor vile;
* Enough impure in habit, soul, i
In ways condemned in sister, wife;
You, too, are called to purity;
Young man, be noble!
Enough there are whose lives are
Whose words are false and base and

low;
Whose thoughts are like desires of

g :
Exalt yourself by nobler thoughts,
And keep your mind strong, pure,

Young man, you’re hit; it’s you I

The Christless way to Christless

Be Christ’s make your ideal Christ;
Take him as Teacher to the end;

Take Him as Saviour from all sin;
Take Him, best Comrade and best .

Young man, be Christ’s!

YOUNG MAN

who now defile

of lip, of life:

more beast-like

a notch or two;

be Christ’s!

who, scorning

Way, the Light,
in life, and gone

FRATERNAL MESSAGE

Fraternal Message from the M. E.
Church by Rev. Ernest S. Williams,
pastor Metropolitan M. E. Church,
Baltimore, Md.; , Member of Wash-
ington Annual Conference.

Bishops, Fathers and Brothers:
Beloved:

At this moment ad in this presence
I begin to discharge a duty assigned
me by the Board of Bishops of the
Methodist Church, namely, to con-
yey to you in your Quadrennial Con-
clave the greetings and felicitations
of the membership ministerial and
Jay of that church. So here I stand
embodying that group of Wesleyan
folowers to the number of more than
four and one-half millions, scattered
throughout the world, and extending
to you its right hand of fellowship,
yoice the hope that God is with you.

This distinguished audience graced
by the presence of your college «°
Bishops is a replica of the one from
which I have just come and to which
I shall soon return. The General
Conference of our Church now as-
sembled in Kansas City, Mo,

IItI is significant that several Gen-
eral Conferences meet in the month
May. As surveyors of a great coun-
try take their observations from hill
top to hill top andthence make their
triangulations that reveal the entent
and character of the lower ground
so it seems that the representattives
of the General Conferences from, the
vantage point of experience and train-
ing look backward through the re-
ports of four years making their de-
cisions and rendering judgments con-
cerning the material things of the
»Kingdom..

Retrospect, ,meditation and forcast
these from the triune mind of this
gathering. _LLook backward at the
past, look thoughtfully at the pres-
ent, look forwaard to the future; at
the past with penitnet and humble
gratitude, at the present with firm
and holy resolution, and to the fu-
ture with clam and earnest hope.

Permit me here and now to ex-
press to you our heartful sympathy
‘in the death of four_of your Chief
Pastors, Bishops L. J. Coppin, con-
servative in thought and feeling, quiet
the very embodiment of dignity; W.
Continued on Page 8 »

MEMORIAL FROM EEV. ate

" M. STEADY, P. E.
To the Bishops in Council assembled

at 28th General Conference of the

Africann Methodist

Episcopal,
Church, Greetings: ft

Dear Fathers in God:—

I am compelled to lay before you a
personal memorial, but I desire to
say right here, that this memorial

has no selfish basis, as it is for the

cause that I represent, and not for
myself “per se.”

I believe that my years of long
faithful an dunbroken service for a
period of 25 years as your Presiding
Elder, an d37 years in the ministry
of our church in the Sierra Leone
Conference make me competent to
give you my authorities, a right view
of the conditions and outlook of our
work in the Sierra Leone Conference,
West Africa.

There are 8 denominational bodies
operating in Sierra Leone, recognized
by the British Government.

The Protestant Episcopal, the Wes-
leyan Methodist, the Romann Catho-
lic, the United Methodist, the Baptist
the United Brethren in Chriist, the
A. M. E. (Bethel) and the S. D. A.

Now there are occasions, when the
Heads of the bodies meet with the
Government by invitation and discuss
matters relative to the Educational
and Religious aspects of the Church;
in such meetings we have no repre-
sentation (to watch the interest of
our Church) for want of equal status.

The presiding officer of the Protes-

tant Epis, Church is a bishop presid-
ing in Freetown.
The presiding officer of the Wes-
leyan Methodist is a general superiin-
tendent of equal Status, residing in
Freetown.

The presiding officer of the Roman
Catholic is a resident bishop in Free-
town.

The presiding officer of the United
Methodist is a general superintend-
ent of squal status, residing in Free-
town.

The presiding officer of the United ,
Brethren in-Ghrist-is 4 general ‘sup-
erintendent of equal status, residing
in Freetown.

Now as our Episcopal residence is
located in Monrovia, it places our
Presiding Bishop beyond the invita-
tiion of His Excellency the Governor,
o rthe Bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church respectively, when such
meetings are called; what ever be the
result of such call meetings, we as a
church are expected to accept and
subscribe to it, though we have no
voice. L

In view then of this condition which
places us at a discount, I submit this
memoria !a g for the Status of a
Suffragan Bishop.

This status will give me general es-
teem and prominence in the commun-
ity, wide scope for better service, and
power to function with mo ommen-
dable success on behalf of my church.

I may add thie memorial has no
mercenary motive behind it. I am
content with my present salary of
$75.00 per month.

I only ask for recognized status, to
reach higher quarters and achieve
more for my Church.

Trusting that this memorial will
have your Godly Judgment, that some
new made measures be adopted, con-
ducive to the weal of the cause I rep-
resent.

Conclusion: That the blessings of
prosperity may come upon our work
in Sierra Leone, that it may continue
to rise that high state to which it is
destined by God to reach, through its
progressive developbment, as to be-
come self-supporting is my cherished
wish and most fervent prayer,, in
your generous consideration and de-
terminate action.

With due respects, I remaiin to be,

Yours for the cause,
H. M. STEADY, Presiding Elder

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AFRICAN METHGOOISM

By Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr.
Here is the Greatest Historical

Compendium of our Church. All
have been sold except 50, and they
are here at this General Confer-


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READ AND COMPARE

Read What the Manager of the Metho.
dist Episcopal Church South Says
And Amount Paid — Deficits

Rev. James D. Barksdale,

Dear Sir:—

Replying to your enquiry, I send the
following statement

“As per our conversation this morn-
ing and at your request, we are writ-
ing you concerning the loss incurred
from the publication of the Christian
Advocate, general organ of the church,
during our last fiscal year. Prom March
1923 to March 1924, this loss amounted
to $13,000.00. It might be of interest
to you to know that during the quad-
reninum ending in 1922, the deficit on
Chrstian Advocate amounting to
900.00. However this loss is steadily
For the fiscal year ending
amounted to $23,000.00.
ar ending March 1924,
$13,000.00, as stated above.
ms for the
ation of the
of paper used

With refer_
ns, which
r conference organs, which
number, we learn from
onsider reliable, that
» subsidized to the
amount of 360,000.00 during the past

out of this
a subsidy of
ese three re-
years ago
to it. We
dvocates of the
of $676,000
x Our ex.
at i tis a very dif-
to make a religious
Of course, the
for the church
ancial loss

perience has been

feult problem

weekly pay, financia
wt

hh tt

LAMAR £ .<BARTON, Age
By TR. Wiggins, Mz

lager

ON ENTERTAINMENT OF THE NEXT
GENEBAL CONFERENCE

District—C. P. Cole

econd I

Third Wistrict—J. W. Arnold.

Fourth District—R. L. Pope, J.P. Q
Wallace.

Pifth District—L. H. Harris.

Bixth District—J. D. Counts, 5. R.
Rountree.

feventh District—-E. A. Adams, I. EB
Thomas, T. J. Miles.

Eighth District—D. EB. Rice, R, O. Perry

Ninth District—J. B. Carter.

Tenth District—J. H. Hughes, B. lL,
Jackson.

Eleventh District—R, B. Brookins, G. B.
Curry, Mrs. A. L. Lewis.

Twelfth District—W. L. Taylor.

Thirteenth District—P. W. Rogers.

Fourteenth Ditarict — Hubbard #@.
Brewer.

Fifteenth District—Edward Duncan.

Sixteenth District — William Taylor
White.

Seventeenth District—Charles Demag

Eighteenth District—A. E. Hubbard.

The Ocean Link

By Emily EB. Vernon

Twenty-five South Afrienan let-

ters written fro mthe field. Every

worker should get a

ee: |

missionary

copy.

Rasuto—Nyasaland Foundation

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THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER

COMMITTEES

ON THE CHURCH EXTENSION
DEPARTMENT

First District—S. T. Boyd

Second District—L. H. Midgette

Third District—W H. Truss, M. M.

Lewis

Fourth District—I. N. Daniels

FPiftth—District—W.C. Williams

Sixth District—E. W. Graham, J. 8.
Coe, M. J. James

Eighth District—S. W. Foster, D. Dil-

lard

Ninth District—G. R. Polk
Tenth District—J. V. B. Goins, 0. O.

Hammond
Eleventh District—R. L. Murrell, R. D.

Morgan
Sixteenth Distric—W. H. Ketter
Seventeenth District—P. Herman Gow
Eighteenth District—A. R. Dobbins

ON TEMPERANCE

karst District—Nus Goldsboro.

Second District—Luke Grady.

Third District—P. J. Blackburn.

Fourth District—Dr. Mary G. Evans,
Mrs. Lillian Jamison.

Fifth District—Mrs. Annie B, Brown.

Sixth District—F. Moore, J. W. Wilcher,
Cc. H. Bell.

Seventh District—E. B. Mack, D. L.
Jones.

Eighth District—Mrs. M. L. Felder, Mm.
Bingham.

Ninth District—E. L. Miles.

Tenth District—H. P. Evans, E. J. Hoff-
man, Mrs. M. C. J. Smith.

Eleventh District—L. Dickerson, G. J.
Oates, N. W. Williams.

Twelfth District—G. H. Evans.

Thirteenth District—I. S. Gordon. _

Fourteenth District—T. W. Melson.

Fifteenth District—Mrs. E. E. Vernon,
Mrs. Ionia Morgan.

Sixteenth District—S. B. A. Campbell.

Seventeenth District—F. Herm-n Gow.

Eighteenth District—J. S. Smith.

ON STATISTICS

First District—S. T. Reed.

Second District—C. M. Reid.

Third District—Mrs. Lavada C. Norris,
W. A. Lucas.

Fourth District—O. C. Miller.

Fifth District—F, D. Helm.

Sixth District—D. W. Stephens, W. C.
Kelly.

Seventh District—I. H. Wellborn, D. A.
Jones, C. E. Grice.

Eighth District—R. D. Davis, J. M.
Campbell.

Ninth District—R. A. Daley.

Tenth District—E. L. Grimes, J. A.
Jones.

Eleventh District—N. B. Kellix,L. R.
Robinson, Mrs, H, G. Smith.

Thirteenth District—T. Tucker.

Twelfth District—A. A. Fleming.

Fourteenth District—&. T Buford.

Fifteenth District—Percy Harper, Ed-
ward Duncan.

Sixteenth District—W. H. Ketter.

Seventeenth District—F. Herman Gow.

Eighteenth District—J. L. Moseley.

ON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES

Pirst District—J. C. Beckett.

Second District—Dean Dent.

Third District—L. O. Ridley.

Fourth District—W. D. Shannon, H. A.
Perry.

Fifth District—A. W. Ward, L. H. Smith

Jr.

Sixth District—W. G. Alexander, A. l.
Sampson.

Seventh District—J. W. Murph, L. F.
Vance.

Eight District—R. A. Scott.

Ninth District—R. E. Brooks.

Tenth District—I. M. Burgan, T. A.

District—D, A. Graham.
District—F. Herman Gow.
Eighteenth District—T. M, Green.

ON ALLEN CHRISTIAN EN-
DEAVOR LEAGUE

FIRST DISTRICT—J. J. Derrick.
SECOND DISTRICT—F. G.. Rus-

sell.
ae DISTRICT—F. A. B.
aoe DISTRICT—A. L. Mo-
ee.
FIFTH DISTRICT—J. W. Young,

Wm. Dow.
SIXTH DISTRICT—A. E. Clark,

Miss C. L. A
SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT—S.
J. Dobbins, E. R. Anderson, W. R.

Bowman.
EIGHTH DISTRICT—J. M. Camp-

NINTH DISTRICT—Wm. L. Chap-
TENTH DISTRICT—J. A. Howard
P. B. Boales.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT—S. 4H.
Betts, J. D. Moore, I. A. White.
TWELFTH DISTRICT —S. E.

Kolen.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT—H. A.
Belin.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT—J. B.
Foxhall.

FIFTEENTH DISTRICT — Mrs.
Louise Stewart.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT—S. B.A.

Campbell.
SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT —
Chalmers Nyombolo.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT — E.-

Waters.
%

ON REVISION OF DISCIPLINE.

FIRST DISTRICT—T. J. Askew.

SECOND DISTRICT—W. H. C.
Brown.

THIRD DISTRICT—W. Hs H.
Butler, W. T. Anderson.

FOURTH DISTRICT—C. L. Up-
thegrove, E. W. Guy, S. Joe Brown.

FIFTH DISTRICT—H. A. Wells.

SIXTH DISTRICT—John Harmon,
R. V. Branch, Jesse Brinson.

SEVENTH DISTRICT—M. A.

Hollins, J. L. Benbow, R. L.L Lee.

EIGHTH DISTRICT — W. T.
Strong, A. S. Blake.

NINTH DISTRICT._J. R. Bur-
ghes!’ ;

TENTH DISTRICT—H. SS. Sims,
P. D..Saddler.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT—R. B.
Brookins, C. S. Long, Ellis Brown.

TWELFTH DISTRICT—V. M.
Townsend.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT—B. G.
Dawson.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT— W.
Wiseman.

SIXTEENTH DISTRICT—D. A.
Graham.

SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT—S.
J. Mabote.

EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT—J. H.
Wilson.

ON ITINERANCY

FIRST DISTRICT—I. A. McCoy.
SECOND DISTRICT — C. H.
Stepteau.
THIRD DISTRIICT—H. L. Hughes
FOURTH DISTRICT—J. W. Wiley,
Homer Williams. -
FIIFTH DISTRRICT—W. H. Peck
SIXTH DISTRICT—H. J. Peeples,

L. D. Gamble, J. W. Douglass.
EIGHTH DISTRICT—Wm. Bingham.
NINTH DISTRICT—D. T. Babcock.
TENTH DISTRICT— J. H. H. Frank-

In, M. L. Peel.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT—James Mur~
ray, J D. Jennings, N. P, Hamilton.

TWELFTH DISTRICT—W. 8. Shel-
ton.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT—W. H.

Mayhew.

FOURTEENTH DISTRICT—O. W.

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| Tuesday, May 22, 192

TRUSTEES OF MONROVIA F 5

COLLEGE ‘
Rey. W. Taylor White, Cape Palms,
Rev. 8. B. A. Campbell, Grand Bassa,

Hon.

Hon.

Hon.

Mr. C.

Mrs.

Mrs. F.

Mrs. R.

Hon. W.
mas. ‘

Mrs. S. J. Brown, Des Moines Ia.
Mrs. J. G. Robinson, Philadelphia,
Pa.

Rev. F. E. R. Johnson, Monrovia.
Hon. T. J. R. Fatiiker, Monrovia.

L. Pope

Fifth District—J. H. Grant

-bixth District—C. M. May, J. M
AR. Easter

Seventh District—J. E. Dixon, J. C. Mc-~
Clellan, J. F. Player

Ross,

Eighth District—J. L. Cunnings, J. Mo:

Campbell, Chas Isaacs \
Ninth District—-E. M. Jackson
Tenth District—L J. Sanders, Mrs, B,
Eleventh District—L. R. Robinson,

James Murray, H, K. Kinnon Page
Twelfth District—H. H. King |

_ Thirteenth District—Nixon Andrews: |

Fouteenth District—E. E. Underwood |

Seventeenth District—S. J. Mabote
Highteenth District—W. H. Twine

ON BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION
AINE SN + alates

First District—M. A. Allen.
Second District—Berry O’Kelly.
Third District—P. A. Nichols. i}
Fourth District—J. E. Crisp. SA
Fifth District. J. Brooks. 4p
Sixth District—M. W. Webb, 8. Fields.

Seventh District—J. S. Coe, J. f. ©

SI t
Eighth District—Wm. Barnes, f
Ninth District—E. H. Kendrick, J. B. |
Johnson. : ‘
Tenth District—S. M. Sanders, Miss L. —
A. Alexander. {er
Eleventh District—N. H. Leath, D. D.
D, Belliny, Miss M. A. Yellowhatr.
Twelfth District—J. A. Routen.
Thirteenth District—Wiliam Watt.
Fourteenth District—Ira T. Bryant.
Fifteenth District—Henry Talbert. {
Sixteenth District—Mrs. Hannah B,
Steady. 4
Seventeenth District—S. J. Mabote,

|
Eighteenth District—J. W. Price, if

ON BIBLE SC JIETY os

First District—H, 7. Anderson, -”
Second District—O. H. Johnson, ‘R,
Brevard. Pe
Fourth District—J. D. Costen.
Fifth District—Eugene Bell. ;
Sixth District—W. J. Jones, T. E. Beott.
Seventh District—9. Simmons, M. J. ~
Sumpter, J, W. Murph.
Eighth District—t. E. Fields.
Ninth District—W. D, Dickson.
Tenth be mis gma C. Walker, W. O.
Boyd. set
Eleventh District—R: W. Whitehurst,
H. Brown, J. D. Moore. :
Twelfth District—Mrs. winnie U,
chard. é
Thirteenth District—J. Brown. ai
Fourteenth District—W. H. Davis.
Fifteenth District—Mra, Louise 8

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Tuesday, May 22, 1928
CONSECRATION SERMON

Continued from Page 2

small man ride upon an ass, the foal
of an ass. We hear-peal forth that
stirring song: “Behold, thy King
cometh unto thee, meek and sitting
upon an ass, and a colt the foal of
a nass. They wanted to make Him
king. That was yesterday. After-
-ward. (pause)

Two days ago I saw your brethren’
fro mthe rice swamps of Louisiana;
fro mthe cotton fields of Mississippi,
Arkansas, Tennessee, in the Church
of Allen; also fro mthe lone star state
of Texas. I saw them from Illinois,
Missourit, embrace you in their arms,
and carry you upon their shoulders
on the other side of the great divide.
I saw them lay hands on you and
pour out on you hossannas. But
hours later! That was agreat day.
And this is a greater day. But there
is another day coming. I beg you
to meet me four years later from to-
day, and tell me how it is. You stand
today as fair as a lily and formid-
able as an army with banners. No
man can touch your spirit. You are
beautiful. You look like men of war.
Meet me four years after you have
fought with the beasts of Epheusu.
When you are made one of the vic-
tims of the onslaughts of the samé
crowd. When you have encountered
men who are disrespectful, rebellious
toward you ther brethren. When you
have worked with unconverted preach-
ers. When the devil has tried a
thousand temptations to bribe you;
to put you in their pockets; to draw
the whip and the lash over your head.

Let no man despise you. Don’t
think you are any better than the
Master. May God blegs yeu. I leave
you with this benediction. Young
men, you have dreamed dreams own
yonnder about this place yo uhave
come to. Put them in practice and
tell me about them.

I want to tell you that you are fol-
lowing a great line of leaders; leaders
of great character. You will do well
if you live up to them.

You wil Ipardon me, But mymind
runs back this morning. orty-nine
years ago, when I joined the Annuaal
Conference. As I stood ther a vig-
orous boy, the only child of a preach-
er’s widow, they asked me to go to
Louisiana, And I took Jesus with

‘me. Take Jesus nd he will take care

of you. Jesus will stand by you.

I recall to mind the scenes of for-
ty years ago,the first general con-
ference in which I was .a member at
Indianapolis. I remember that Big
Four. Yes, we elected the Big Four
at Indianapolis. You take their plac-
es today; and you will fill their places
together with us. We are now about
to go down from her. I do not know
that I will live to see another general
conference. I am not a boy. And I
don’t try to deceive you. I haye done
my work. I have done it the best way
I could. Thirty-two years I have been
in service. Twenty years ago this
day on the 23rd we were consecrated
bishop. We have about wound up the
ball. I ask you keep your garments
unspotted. Walk and talk with God.
Climb to the Mount of Transfigura-
tion and talk with Jesus. God bless
you.

ON.. RECEPTION... OF.. FRATERNAL
DELEGATES

First——District—Albert O. Sanders
Second District—Charles H. Wesley
Third District—Israel Ross

Fourth District—M. O.Wright

Fifth District—John Wilson

Sixth District—J. L. Butler, W.” dar-

ris
SeventhDistrict—J. L. Benbow, L. R.
Nichols, Green Jackson
eee pure t—A. 8. Blake |
lct—C D.~ as Wm.
_ Cartwright meh:
Tenth District—C. W. Abington
Eleventh District—P. L. Johnson ~
Thirteenth District—J. W. Washington
€ istrict—Miss Martha J.

THE CHRISTIAN RECORDEI

YOUNG PEOPLE’S _DEPART-
MENT OF THE W. H. N F. M.
SOCIETY A. M. E. CHURCH

The Sixth Epiiscopal District

My Dear Co-dorkers and Children:

My heart and mind are full of
thoughts of you and the work o this
department. After greetings to all,
I earnestly beg the cooperation of
each worker who is interested in this
work. J

Begin now to have representatives
at the state convention, in Macon, as
Mrs. Flipper, the state president, will
give space on program each day for
the work of the department.

Local, district, conference ' branch
presidents, directresses and local su-
perintendents are asked to urge and
encourage the young people to use
this opportunity.

A five year campaign should be
launched by each society (adult) to
conserve the youth if the church is to
reap its greatest benefit from the
young people o ftomorrow.

Plans for 1928-89

1 Organize Mission Study of Bible
Classes.

2 Young People’s
State Convention.

4 Demonstrations with Tlustra-
tions by workers in this department,
and others. ,

The object in organizing the class-
es is to hold the interest of the young
people after passing from the juve-
nile and intermediate divisions to that
of the junior division, and to train
them for leaders and teachers in this
department.

The proceeds from the booth will
be diviided between the Student Aaid
Fund and the home work. We will
thank anyone or sociietis eatld(uis

Program at

thank anyone or societies (adult or ,

junior)sending anytthing for . the
booth.

A committee of young people, as-
sisted bysMrs. Lawrence and Mrs.
Montgomery, will have charge of the
booth. This committee will be glad
to place on’ exhibit anything made by
anyone of siny society.

A goo dplan for naming mission or
Bible classes is to use the name of
flowers for girls classes and the name
of trees for boys’ classes. Rose: beau-
ty, loveliness and joy; daisy: sym-
pathy and friendship; buttercup:
happiness, violet and faithfulness;
lily: purity of heart, etc.

Names For Boys’ Classes: Elm, pa-
triiotism and self-respect; cedar:
strength and faiith; oak: hispitaliity;
pine: darng, ete. The same plans
may be used for namng_ societies,
Provide each class or society with a
class-pin or banner made from silk,
wool or felt. Slash botton edge to
make frings. Then place the class
flower or tree on the banner. These
ean be found printed on Cretonne,
wall paper or in flower catalogues,
ete. Cut ont the flower and glue it
onto the felt, leaving it under a
weight until perfectly dry. Trees may
be copied from any book showing pic-
tures of trees.

Recreation Suggested

Umbrella Gift Game—Trim a large
old umbrella with red, white and blue
paper, cover the outside’ with red and
line it with white, usng strips of blue
for ribbon decoratons; use baby rb-
bon to suspend gfts and have the
lengths vary.

Merrily rqund thi shappy ring

Skipping gaiily as we sing

What would this umbrella bring

If we changed to a hiippity-hop

And our hostess called out, stop?

Umbrella Verses

All the conclusion of the verses the
hostess should call:

Stop for John and let him see

A tiny gift for him from me.

Of course the names of the children
should be called one after the other
iin order a sthey stand in the circle.
Different colors of ribbon should be
used for girls andforboys. This
game may be used to raise funds.
Each one pay five or ten cents to

play.

A Pink Tea—(For Junior or Adult)
Cards made of pink card board

worded something like this. :

(Continued on Page 4)

‘PARTIAL REPORT OF
EPISCOPAL COMMITTEE

The Epiiscopal Committee made a
partial report and informed the con-
ference that your committee has had
under investigations the character of
all bishops and find nothing against
their moral, religious, or officiial
character, that the churches of all
ibshops have passed.

ELECTION OF GENERAL OFFICERS
. ‘The following were aspirant for
the Book Concern: Revs. Stone, Grif-
fin, W. K. Hopes, J. H. Hughes, J. T.
Wilkerson, S. H. V. Gumbs, T. H.
Wiseman, P. W. Rogers, D. M. Bax-
ter and Prof. P. C. Williiams; Prof.
Williams announced to the confer-
ence that his candidacy was conting-
ent upon Dr. Baxter not being a can-
didate, but since Dr. Baxter was not
successful in the race for the bishop-
ric and was back in the race for the
Book Concern, he (Mr. Wiilliams)
wished to thank.all friends and dele-
gates for promises made and that he
was withdrawinig from the race.
Balloting began: Rey. Baxter receiv-
ing 554 votes, was declared elected.

The Christian Recorder Candidates

Revs. J. C. Beckett, R. R. Wright,
Jr., J. H. H. Franklin, W E Guy,
George Singleton and J. A. Hill. Dr.
Wright receiving 538 votes was de-
clared elected.

Financial Department Candidate

Prof. W. B. Adams, Dr. J .R. Haw-
kins, Dr. W. F. Bodiie, Dr. Bodie an-
nounced his withdrawal from the
rac¢é. A motion prevailed that the
secretary cast the vote for the gen-
eral eonference electing Dr. Hawk-
ins.

Missionary Department Candidates

Revs. L. L. Berry, E. H. Coit, and
M. C. Wright; before the count was
completed, Dr. Berry made a motion
that the counting stop and that the
secretary cast the vote for the gener-
al. conference, electing Dr. Geits
Biishop Parks objected and the count
was finished; Dr. Coit was over-
whelmingly elected.

Motions prevailed that the secre-
tary cast the vote re-electing Dr. S.
J, Johnson, Church Extension Secre-
tary; Prof. A. S. Jackson, Education-
al Secretary; Dr. W. H. H. Butler,
Historian .

Sunday School Union Candidates

a 3
W. Walls and Prof. Ira T. Bryant.
Prof. Bryant receiving 537 votes was
declared re-elected.
A. M. E. Review Candidate
Dr. J. G. Robinson and Charles
Wesley. This was a close contest;
Dr. Wesley received 340 votes, Dr.
Robinson 3883 votes, Robinson was de-
clared elected.
Southern Christian Recorder Candi-
date
Revs. G. W. Allen, John Harmon,
J. H. Jones: all were re-elected with
a large majority.
Western LChristian LRecorder Candi-
dates

Reys. J. D. Barksdale, J. H. Wil-

son and J. H. Clayborne. This was a
close contest. Two ballots were: tak-
en and no election; the conference re-
cessed to continue thheh helections
onday.

NOTICE

The Committee on Social Welfare
met May 10th at 1 p. m., for the-pur-
pose of perfecting an organization.
The following officers were elected:

Attorney E. P. Blakemore,.-5th
trict, chairman.

Rey. A. F. B. Hoary, 7th district,
vice chairman.

Rev. A. D. Avery, 2nd distriist, Sec-
retary. : 2

Mrs. J. H. Hale, 14th distriet, .as-
sistant secretary. %

Professor C. H. Jonson, 3rd dis-
trict, treasurer.

Dr. T. N. Lewis, 1st district, chap-
lain.

After some discussion in regard
to the social problems of our church,
a motion was made by A. D. Avery
that Prof. Johnson prepare a bill em-
bodyine the sentiments ofthe Commit-

e.

By common consent the Committee
decided to meet every morning at
9:30 a. m. Adjournment.

E. P. BLAKEMORE, Chairman,
A. D. AVERY, Secretary,

WHY PROMOTE j
HAS HE DON!
CHURGH?

Headquarters (0
tion—May 19th/ 1!
Dear Dr. Wrigot:—
While these words
heard, I am writing this let
members of the great A.
Church. While it is true tha
good men were elevated to the bish-
oprie by the 28th General Confer-
ence; men ofoutstanding character
and ability. I ame asking in all Fae,
ness, is it right to inflict so great al
punishment upon a man who
years has given his life’s ener;
ability to the chureh, Yet the qpes
tions were frequently heard on}th
grounds during the General Corfe
ence. Now what is the fact? iA
ty years or more ago as I undegstand
it the Rey. R. R. Wright, Jr. a bril
liant young man fresh from the best
chools of thsi cdantry and Europe
entered the iitineracy of the A, M. =
E. Church. Our Book Concern at qj
Philadelphiia was a wxeck; and the ~~
Christian Recorder for #-tim :
suspended; and the church looked tots. Jf |
a man to stand in the trench. ‘This ") 5.
young man was selecte dand given the a
task to resurrect the Book Coneern, %
an drevive the Christian Recorde
With an undaunted zeal this your
preacher applied himself to the ta
and the church has the fact:
whether he made good or not

Now I am asking our ¢
—it is fair to him after
years of faithful service
the foundation for our grea
in ghouse recently erected
of Philadelphia; and. giv
church and the race, one of t
church papers’ published in
world by negroes. To s
that you shall forever b:
bishopric becz xX
seat tite “tFenches

that the church t
trenches and his “aie?
special work and has kept him tl
all these years uncomplainingly
no wraise these quest Be o-
mote him? What has he done for th
church? Now I believe that men cay
best serve?

DR WRIGHT'S ;
“ROURTEEN POINTS?
€

A friend asked us the othe
what were some of the pro:
things for which we stand.
wer was “read the Recorder.” }
his suggestion, we jotted down some
of the points of interest. An’ we
shall discuss them from time to time. j

1. A Strong Connection and
not eighteen separate districts
2, A Churchwide revival, «
ening the spiritual life of Ch

and race.
8. A Strong System of Th¢o-
logical training. “A _ tra

consecrated man, a leader in \év-
ery church.” (May take 25 yeaks) §

4, Building up the rufal
Church in the country districts
where most of the race now live:

5, A Budget System: from lo-
eal church to Episcopaey, but
starting with General\,Depart-
ments and Colleges. ira %

6. Elimination of pglitics andy
exaltation of Jesus infihe Church.

7. Strengthening fof Mission-
ary and Educatiokal Depart-
ments.

8.. Re-codification of discipline
and demanding that everybody
respect the law.

9. Strengthening our periodi-

eals, putting all weeklies on the
Same basis.
10.. Organization of Men’s Ser-
vice Leagues similar to Women’s
Missionary Societies, to put the
laymen to constructive work.

11. Every conference student
a correspondent or resident stu-
dent in theology.

12. .A complete survey of the
A. M. B. Church.

13. Closer Federation with all
Negro Churches in developing a
greater spiritual life among our
people. -

4. More active participation
in the great problems of univer-
sal Christianity.


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5 amr in this mighty battle against
-Barighteonsness and wickedness in

the world.

And, in consequence of
tht’ fact, :

omaelves should and
¢ life toward which the

jory in any-
Jesus Christ. 4

God

1» the Church. when he became
ve of the areh and of the
ministry. After being

dug up by the Lord Jesus Christ, he
comes ouk of the congr tion of un-

agsions. He
t his mas-
is to sig-
4 man, whose
and to per-
usneas and
come,”

ome to
He can
wm rule successful-
lyin a house of his own. The real
It is capable

the wisest. There is

tt t it is not capable of be-
in The great trouble in the
FS - the great lack of its citizenry

able to conquer itself. When

4 is able to put her foot down

on scifi and govern the rule of
right, ten will the Kingdom of God
ceorne its pristine glory and mag-
Gi vhatever we may » 40;

— be

WP rng
wort Shle Unless We arleee

enquer self A man mo
ner bimeelf. Hia house ia himself.

fof hia powers Let him rule
ff he can not role himself,

nnot rule God's people.

ef not manke any difference

» great the combined

* Sanhedrin, by the Ph
and the scribes, but you f:
» action in that trial. He
subdued the

rave
surdent He
f hell

the Church and
1 must first con-
n dare to do riight.
ad by the right God
» majority, and
ot prevail

will
threr

h

fq man can have ar

je place Full, free and complete

gaPvation through the preaching of will
healthy food is essential to the pro-
duction of strong, healthy, stalwart
bodies; and without you cannot make
it. There are go many children that
go about under-fed.
why we have so much trouble with
tnberlosis in this country.
dren do not get enough food.
are starved, and therefore, do not
healthy men and children:

the Gospel iust be the possession of
mien, The Gospel must be given to
the world, You must give it, The
world had mue hef other things be-
fore Jesus came to bear away the
sina ofthe world, But there was
nothing at that time that aatisfied
the longing of he aouls of men. There-
fore, the doctrine of redemption must
be preached, Jesus, the Trath, the
Life, the Way, the beginning and the
end, must begiven to the world. Give
as that doctrine of redemption. Mana
ia by nature a ainner; & transgressor,;
a violator af Gods
when he willhave bowed \down to

water under the earth, there ig’no

power that will bring hi mbaek but | ter.
the power of the blood of our Lord.{ character is another,

7;

re ee

ake the doctrine of redemption the
passion of your souls and giye it to
cildren of men.
» Methodist and we belive
ion. And, the world wants
to know that it cannot read its way
into heayen-
rs there is no philosophy by which you
t ean work your way in.
13 of days through the ages, “ Iam the
~ Word,”
truth: I am the life; he that believ-
eth in me shall have everlasting life.
We ask you to go out this morning
sed the sheep. “Feed my sheep.”
on Peter and others have been

us look at it as expressive of him- the

in conve!

Cross has come.
ft Tle looks at Simon and says,

“Lovest thou me?”
time, “Lovest thou me?” And when
» Lord said the third time, “Simon
thou me more than all thesee,”

love

But if it ig without proper food, it

produce

body in ¢ seanse is true of their
spiritual life in this sense. The
man is a spiritas well as a body, so
spirit wants goo dwholesome
food. There is nothing but the Word
things in the earth, or that fn. yy of God that wholesome for the spirit.

Nothing else will build up a charac-
Ambition is one thing, and

holy law. And, the

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{
THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER

\ \
MISSIONARY WORKER’S CREED
By Miss Florence Hadley,

O Lord, frant that today I may be
kiind

To those around me, that I may be
blind

To their faults and failures.

Help me to praise

Each honest endeavor, and through
the day’s

Hard task to smile. Help me to speak

A cherry word to all the faint and
weak,

To speak a word of comfort to the
saad

And when the day is done may hearts
be glad

Because I have been serving Thee,

O Lord, grant that today I may be
brave

Against each temptation; that Thou
wilt save :

Me from my sin. Help e to be

All that Thou wouldst have me be

Speak to me

And gently lead me back unto Thy

way,
When from the path of right my feet
would stray |
Teach me O Lord; upon Thy strength
to lean s
And when the day is done may I be

n,

> I have been trusting Thee.

grant that today I may not
complain.

However hard my lot: Help me to do

The things that I should od, faithful,
and true

To every trust; and when the day is
done

I hip aa Thy mercies one by one.

Wher death, O Lord, shall beckon me
away,

Grant that I may see the light of
Heaven’s day,

Because I have been loving Thee.

Amen.

not to build
you are called
God in thei
It wants to know that
tion on earth.
social society.

on earth.
tight food it will grow.

The ancient

am the way, I am the

and Christian
truly in him.

Him. And now the
My Master is gone
And the second

to have trouble.
have trouble.

k ou
we you have truns- he answered, “Lord, Thou knowest

side. that I love thee.” doctrine. All the more careful we
e who What are we gettmg from Jesus? should be with the meet and drink
\ O, What kind of word? The Word of which we furnish the Church of the
Gd, help uate see t Jesns Christ; the Word of God. Let Living God. See that they receive
The next requirement ts, “Peed my ay tell the children that Jesus is the from Sour pulpits the pure and un-
he There is but one thing in Saviour of the world. adultered Gospel. You need not be

hi yeld that sinners, or that the “Peed my sheep.” You know that alarmed at the noise outside.

{ church ja deatring to be fed upon, OY the laws of health, hygenic metthods, g0 on. What you need is to go to
should deaire ,and that is the Gospel do their utmost to help America to your pulpiit with God’s Word upon
of Jevus Christ. There is no over- produce strong, vigorous men and your heart; with the burning fire of
whalming food outaide of it to take ‘women. They look after the body. God directing you day by day, and

Good, wholesome and from your hearts.

unto me.” Lift Him up.

His cause.

And, there is yourselves to a throne.

The chil-
They

Lift up Jesus.

the people -

@ of men’s physical and sinners will tremble.

bound to,be hungry.
at home.

You want to

build a churcH that will be health;
thata will be in unison with God; that
will be in fough wit hheayen.
ip large congregations

If the members of
earts, yau have not
done anything \in al Ithat endeavor.
The Church is the greatest institu-
It is more than a
It is Kingdom of God
And if you feed i

nevér gets grown in Christian graces
living until God is
Then he grows nearer
and nearer to perfection. Then when
he gets perfect God translates him.
“Feed my sheep,” “Feed my lambs.”
Here is the truth, I want you to see
it. If you will fill this people with
foolishness and shams, you are going
You are going to
Yes, the time is here.
It is hard to have them endure sound

line upon line of His Trth pow
Jesus said:
I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men

lift Him up, He will draw men to
But do not try to lift
Put your-
xelvesdown at the foot of the Cross.
“Lt, I come in the
volume of the Book it is written” is
the message that you are to give to
They will believe you;

I beg you this morning not only to
see that the food is pure; but I heg
you to give it them unstintedly. If
you do not give to al lof them ¢
it i¢ a certain fact that they are
I have a pet
But if I do not take care
of this pet, I will have trouble,
yo udo not take care of the spirit

* if -
M 7
3

‘Tuesda3y May 22, 192
} t i
of your congregation, you will have |
trouble. One half of your troubles
in your congregations is due to the —
fact that you are not preaching the
half of that ice-box,t |b hBaH
Gospel to them. If you will take one
half of that ice-box out of the pulpit,
and set the people on fire, youwill do
good. Take them out of self. Give —
the mthe Gospel. The people are

Then, there is influence in the lead-
er. Many have the influence to sta!
trouble in the home, in the official
board, in the stewards’ poard, in the
trustee board, in the quarterly con-
ference, and in the annual conference.
Because of these you will have a hard
time. But the people love their
church. They will not scorn you, feed
them with the truth.But they i
have a right to, if you have not given
them the words of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Don’t worry about the oth-
er things, but feed the people. Just
feed His sheep. If you will feed
them, they will.grow fat. If you will
feed them, they will be happy- Tell
them of

Jesus, the Name high over all,

In hell, or earth, or sky;

Angels and_men before it fall,

And devils fear and fly.”

Don’t you know I want to enter in-
to the spirit of that song?

“How sweet the name of Jesus
jn a believers ear!”

Don’t you know it? It is sweet. It
makes me happy.

If the people can get fed up over
our preaching, you and your congre-
gation will grow very fat. And, with
that right kind of preaching, the Spir-
it of God will bear witness with your
spirit to the saving of many. Your
preaching shall go from heart to
herth, andyou shall make them glad.
Give them this gospel. Serve the food
right. Serve it up right. There is
nothing I despise so much as poor
s@evi@. Give the people constant.
service. Serve it with patience; serve
jt with reverence, and with power.
do not mean the power 0 fa club.
Leave the club in the alley. Take love
up there, in the pulpit. Most men
will do a great deal for yet they
will hear you, if you confess them
that you love them. Now conquer
the world with love. Men with war
and hate in their hearts may be
against you, but all the powers of
hell cannot stop you.

Let no man despise you. , _

‘And I have talked for twenty min-
utes, the time I said I was going to
take. But I must close with this fact
—that with a full-fledged Gospel of
the Son of God delivered with unction
fro mon high, and backed up. by the
Ancient of Days, all hell wil give
way. Men_ will love you; sinners
sinners will fear and tremble; con-
gregations will honor yuo. All the
world will know that you are God’s
child and their brother through the
Gospel of the Son of Man. )

God bless you, young. men. You
are going to have trouble. You are
going to have trials. You are going
to have difficulties. My! My! 0,
yes, the world loves its own. But
jt does not love anyone else. There-
fore, you must get ready. Yesterday
a ndthe day before was a great day.
You remember my Master, don’t you?
I see Him over ponder, when He said
to his disciples: “Go your ay into the
village; as soon as ye be entered in-
to it, ye shall find acolt tied, where-
on no man sat; loose him and bring
him.” And they brought the colt to
Jesus and cast their garments on
and Hesat on him. And many
spread their garments in the way;
and others eut down the branches off
the trees, and strawed them in the
way. And theythat went before, and
they that followed, cried, saying, Ho-
sanna; blessed is that cometh in the
name of the Lord: Blessed be the
kingdom of our father David, that
cometh in the name of the Lord: Ho-
sanna in the highest.” Don’t you
see Him, In my mind, I imagine that
I stand over yonder. You recall the
scene, I set a great multitude of
people, They come from all Judea,
from the country around about. They
have come in wagons, in horse-carts,
in wheel-barrows. I can see them
stand on the top of the mountain, on
the housetop; Jew and Gentile, and
Barbarian. 0, over yonder I gee a

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Me

RESPONSE TO M. E. CHURCH
FRATERNAL MESSENGER

By Rey. W. H. Peck
Kansas City, Missouri
t. Rev. Sirs and Brethren and Sis-

ters —
It is a great pleasure to respond to

to us by the distinguished represen-
tative of the Great Methodist Epis-
ed us, I know that yours has been a
copal Church. While he thus address-
copal Chureh, wh ilheeETAOIETA
common: experience with mine in en-
- joying to the highest degree this fel-
_ lowship of kindred minds, for we are
kindred and its non-existence upon
minorg in creeed or doctrine, with its
from the rubric and all form
‘or fashion has made a common bond
of fellowship which is felt by all who
have come under the baptism of fire
from the Holy Ghost. It is a pleasure
to note the true ring of the sweet
old evangelical note in your splendid
. words of greeting. It is fine to know
‘that Mother Church knows her place
hat she is not carried here nor there
b yevery wind that blows, but that.
she remains true to the faith once
i delivered to the saints. God grant
* tha ton this rack we may continue to
stand even when we may not be
sure of the hosts that are with us, and
“When darkness veils his loving face
I rest on his unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
_ My anchor holds within the veil.
“On Christ the soli drock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand.
The task before the church today
- is to teach the importance of keeping
every lamp of faith burning. To
blow out the lights of faith planted
fn our lives from early youth and to
leave only the vacant, dark, despond-
ent, void of doubt in their place, is
to be nothing less than the killer of
the soul and discouraged the spirit.
Let us employ our time in trimming
our feeble lamps. We have a common
* altar upon which has been lighted a,
<mighty flame, a flame of that oceans
"-"yast expanse has only increased, a
- flame born in the old world and in-
~ ereased into holy fury in its burning
jn the new world—to this flame let
us be constant, and true.
ys, What Methodism is can be best
derstood by knowing what it is not.
%. tI is no new ecclesiastical in-
titute, it is not a new presentation
of Christian doctrine. It came. no
to add one word to the many that
hda found their way into creeds and
confessions of faith. It did bring
a fresh and full experience. It did
pring a newness of life under old sys-
tems. It prevented Christendom from
being discouraged to believe that the
days of spiritual visitation were past.
It brought to the printed pages of
theological discussion and to the set
formulas of the church a glow of light
+ from on high. The Anglican Confes-
‘sion emerged from Methodism’s bap-
s ‘tism of fire, the true gold tried and

‘e.

"When Methodism came, England,
the citade lof Protestantism was on
_ its way to reject ‘Christianity. This
entury had produced as a natural
result of the indifference and coldness
of the Christianity prevailing and a
ost of small skeptics—none of note
+ each creating his followers. Even-
lly as this host broadened, there
e as a great scourge to faith, the
jon skeptics of earth, Hume and
ibbon.~,Their pens of fire burned
their way through all Europe. These
first two were followed by Rousseau
and Voltaire, Across the English
Channell from France, their burning,
i _ shaming satire stung and lashed the
5 faith of English Protestantism even
heme! the waves of the Channell had
sely beaten against England’s
0 cliffs at Dover. Against this

int vigorous assault of skepti-
m came only a feeble protest from -

ldison, Swift, Gray and Thomson.
hese were sincere but were no match
r their opponents. Their cold erys-
of truth scemed only to give off
apor when thrown into the fire of
ical discussion. The fire of sa-
and of unbelief must be met with
of truth with the fire that
th rock into pieces. It was
word it only needed the soul

these fine words of greeting brought .

to carry it. There wasneedof a man
who, dared face social exile, who was
_willing to bear the apostolic and who
would covet the risk of martyrdom.
Behind the closed doors of Oxford—
God had his man—he the boy +hat
had been trained in the parsonage <f
Epworth, whose great evangelist haa
been his mother. This man God had
in waiting for such a time as this.
From 1658 the death of Oliver Crom-
well until 1738, came the dark 80
years — the 80 years of the fox-rid-
ing clergy; the 80 years of skepticism,
with its mockery and sensual mon-
archs; the 80 years of skepticism,

. with its mockery and satire. If ever

the people sat in darkness, this peo-
ple did. Then came the dawn, when
from the rooms of Oxford, within
the halls of learning, God sent forth
into the world Methodism a new ex-
perience and life under an old con-
fession of faith. It came ushering in
fervent prayers and living testimon-
ies; it came with its thousands of
hymns, its “God, Our Help,” “There
is a Fountain,” “Other Refuge,” “Je-
sus Lover of My Soul” ete.

These, like ships with spreading
sails, carried the Gospel revived into
the harbors of millions of discouraged
souls.

The Protestant religion, with its,
beautiful lines of) confession in the
common. book of prayer, had received
its new birth, not of the earth but of
the spirit, and from that day we no
longer marvel at the words of Jesus
“Ye must beborn again.” John Wes-
ley, Chas. Wesley, Isaac Watts, these
namese stand out as God’s great sons
of thunder, not practical reformers,
not inconoclasts, but God’s great
evangelists carrying his torch burn-
ing their messages to the world. With
these facts of history we are pleased
to note you are indeed familiar. How
happy we should be to befollowers
of these great spiritis. As great
as their history is, it has been our
pleasure to add our significant chap-
ters. Indulge us and pardon our
pridd as we repeat a story dear and
true to us. I am sure you know that
we are the sonsof Allen, We believe
that we speak a truth when we say
that the A. M. EB. Church and the
African M. E. Church are tthe only
churehes of Methodism’ that were in-
spired into organizing life through
the leadership of dynamic personal
ties. You had your John Wesley, the
one man of England’s dark hour. We
had our Richard Allen, the one man
who led out in a crusade against
wrong equally as sinister, and sinful,
as the day of John Wesley. It’ will
do us I am sure good to look at both
of these great apostles of Methodiism.
They came in the same century, one
born free, the other born a -slaye;
one in a home of culture and Chrisi-
tian refinement, that other under the

most discouraging life of serfdom, .

yet from out of it God was leading.
Richard Allen hated* slavery,, he
toiiled until he sayed enough to buy
his freedom. He walked from
slavery’s soil until his feet were sore
and bleeding stand on the soiil made
sacred by the tread of the liberty lov-
ing quaker, here in Philadelphia was
nursed into fathers of life the gerrhs
of Christian manhood that made him
the great leader of his people, We are
glad women, this esssion is Womaan’s
Centennial of recognition by the Gen-
eral Conference Church; that you see
us today in our general sessiion, how
God hath led us into life and liberty;
our leaving the door of our first love
can be likened into that life and lib-
erty that the chick finds in the
breaking of the shell. We are great-
ly indebted to you for your fine ex-
ample of progress, that you have held
up before us. We note with pride
your zeal for missions which has
carried the Methodist organiization
into the world-makiing real the words
of John Wesley, “The world is my
parish.” “World service” with you
has become a passion, it has inspiired
us. Again your fine board of tem-
perance and public morals under the
leadership of that great crusader, Dr.
Clarence T. Wilson,, has kept the
flame of evangelism burning in our
effort to make prohiibition real. Chris-
tian and not altogether a question of
law. Again,, your insistance upon
the spirit and practice of democracy

THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER

even under the leadership of an epis-
copal form of government has been
the most healthy example, it is our
pleasure to note, none ean gainsay the
legitamacy of your Episcopacy—none
can question the fine caliibre of men
you hav e called to leadership and
to. stand before the assembled halls
of methodist with such an Episcopacy
and with such a fine happy democrat-

is membershiip is to be a light not
placed under a bushel, but on a can-
dlestick tht all may see. Reverend
Sirs, return to your great hosts as-
sembled at Kansas City with our
kindest thoughts. Annd be safe that
Methodism is safe in our hands. We
shall not prove false. In that great
struggle for life and liberty through
the truth we clasp hands with you
and all who love the name Wesley
and Allen, join with us, in prophetic
realization as we repeat:

“Hail to the brightness of Zion’s glad

morning

Joy to the lands that in darkness
haye lain

Hushed be the accents of sorrow and

_ Mourning

Zion in triumph begins her mild
reign.

JOIN THE NATIONAL INTERDE.
NOMINATIONAL MINISTERIAL
ALLIANCE OF AMERICA

Every colored minister who loves his
race and desires to see it prosper along
the educational, civil and economic
lines should join the National Intedue-
nominational Minsterial Alliance of
AmericaCall on the President of the
Alliance , at office of Mr. J. A. Lank-
ford, and he will take pleasure in ex-
plaining the objective of the Alliance
The Rev. Dr. C. L. Russell of Washing-
ton, D. C., is president.

REV. E. H, COIT
Re-elected Secretary of Miissiions

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORSHIP

First -District—Hudson Waters.

Second District—C. F. Rich.

Third District—W. E. Clements.

Fourth District—J. H. Sydes, M. V.
Lucas.

Fifth District—H. M. Pillow.

Sxth District—J. W. Englsh, C. John-
son.

Seventh District—R. W. Mance, J. W.
Douglass, W. M. Allen.

Eighth District—L. M. Staves.

Ninth District—J. S. Swain.

Tenth District—R. S. Jenkins.

Eleventh District—R. A. Grant, Thos.

C. Calhoun, G. W. Hawkins.

Twelfth District—J. S. Dennis.

Thirteenth District—B. G. Dawson.

Fourteenth District—W. E. Spillman.
Fifteenth Dstrct—Mrs. Alberta Duncan.
Sixteenth District—H. M. Steady.
Seventeenth District—Charles Demas.
Eighteenth District—F. A. Stokes.

“Oi PRRRED) Pei rey pee TT aes

3 The
Encyclopedia
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By DR. R. R. WRIGHT, Jr.

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FRATERNAL MESSAGE

“Continued from Page 5
_D. Chappelle, versatile, scholar mana
of God; Wm. Beckett, beloved, strong,
vibrant and fruitful in righteousness,
gracious and brotherly; I. N. Ross,
orator, apostle of brotherhood, friend
of men, given to hospitality, Chris-

tian statesmen all they wrought well —

on earth and have gone to receive the
coronation o fthe triumphant. It is
a matter of singular coincidence that
during the quadrennium just closed
we lost by death four members of
our board of Bishops: Thomas B.
Neely, parliamentaarian author, dem-
ocratic in manner;“Wm. A. Quayle,
orator, artist, poet, preacher. Hom-
er C. Stuntz, pastor, evangelist,, mis-
sionary. Geoge H. Biickley, opti-
mist preacher,, administrator. Death
is no respector of persons. Both
groups of us should repoice over the
fact that these in their going have
justified their faith and ours—“Bles-
sed are they who die in the LoLrd.”
From the ministry and from the laiity
" have gone many servants of God.
felicitate you upon your achiievements
during the years that are gone. TThe
Methodist Episcopal Church has not
been unmindful of your accomplish-
ments. The success that has crowned
your endeavors as your leaders have
travelled throughout the length and
breadth of the land callin gthe fol-
lowers of Richard Allen to action
pleading fo rlarger endeavor nobler
accomplishment, and greater conse-
‘eration to the service of our Lord
an dKing, ,has been followed with
marked administration by the mother
church. One can but admire the
spirit that prompted the eraly lead-
ers of the great African Methodist
Episcopal Church to launch out upon
an adventure of self-determiination
an dself-government. It required
courage and fortitude yet the invest--
ment made has been amply reward-
ed ot only by the numerical growth
of your membership, but as well bby
the development of racial conscious-
ness and members and the far reach-
“yee exerted among the peo-
t e_earth.. It may not be
amiss for’ me to-sa>ytlct}the Metht-
odist Episcopal Church, whose rep-
resentatiive I am, operating in all
parts of the world,- among the na-
tions of th earth, missionaary in
spirit following the visiion of John
Wesley our founder when he refused
to be proscribed within the limits of
his native land, cried out, “The world
is my parish.”. This church rejoices
with you in your success in mission-
aary activities and development. You
have just reason to be proud o fthose
men of God who have with zeal and
optimsi mfaced difficult tasks, given
of their life’s blood in the enlarge-
ment of missionary enterprise. This
is the spirit of the Fathers an dthis
is the spirittht must win in this new
day of opportunity. When our at-
tention is called to the world’s great
need ad the part we are to perform
on meeting this need—our ears are
attentivey unconsciously our breasts
heave with anxiety, our hearts vi-
breathe assentingly, we are encour-
aged to take up our accountrements of
warfare, go out upon the battle field
of life to do an dtto dare, for God
_and for right. Brought face to face
with problems that tax our energy
‘we recognize how enormous are the
tasks before us ofwhat is expected
of us. Above all how if we will suc-
ceed we must deserve to succeed. It
is here we take on new elements of
strength, it is here that we take the
tide at its flood in thefond hope that
i tmay lead us on to the goal of our
ambition. It is here that twe are
confronted with our supreme task in
grinding and directing thirsty souls
to wholesome living waters and hun-
gry hearts to fields of righteous fill-
ings. This is the missionary: spirit
this is the missionary passion. It
is significanat that missionary enter-
prise.and endeavor in the Methodist
Episcopal Church got its, impetus
from a negro, John Stewart, who with
wonderful singing andpreaching gave
to the Wynadotte Indians the mes-
sage of salvation. Betty, a negro
woman was one of five persons that
made up the first Methodist. Congre-
beet in America, and Black Harvey
rought hundreds to Jesus through |

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» the rough places

: jee ae
his preaching with Bishop Asbury.
Bishop Coke and Freebom Garrsteon.
These were helping to further the
kingdom of God. Just as Richard
Allen, Daniel Payne, Morris Brown.
Paul Quinn and an innumerable com-
pany o fothers le dthe forces of right-
eousness in the great African Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. ,

Just a sthe state believe that an
educated an dtrained citizenry is a
guarantee of the perpetuation of its
ideals, so our church belive in the.
education of all of its members.

As may be understood from the —
1414 institutions oflearning operated
for the training of the youth. Then
there are our Wesley Foundations
establishe das ‘base operations at
many state supported colleges and
tunity of bringing Christian ideals
before the’ students wh oare prepar-
ing for life’s duties. z

Our church is developing a pro-
gram ofreligious Education feeliing
that the youth of today must be
trained in the higher and nobler
things of flife. No training how-
ever ideal that leaves out of the equa-
tion an absolute abandonment of the
world, the flesh an dthe devil and a
complete surrender to Jesus Christ
as a personal Saviour with a definite
Imowledge of sins forgiven can sat-
isfy human needs, therefore our
church has departments of evange-
lism with constituted agencies that
emphasize the importance of person-
al salvation as the chief business of
the church. I quote from the Epis-
copal Address delivered a few days
aago in Kansas City, our Bishop said
“May our church never outgrow the
passion of Wesley and Asbury, nor
be led by our pholosophy or program
ot accept any intellectual readjust-
ment as a substitute for versiion. To-
day as yesterday the aim of Meth-—
odism is and must be that of our Mas-
ter, that the world shall be saved. We
cannot really as a church outline that
passion for if it should cease, Meth-
odism would be dead. f :

In this memorial year we might™
well revive our recollection of John
Bunyan and his immortal classic. If
we sit at the feet of this saint and
safe we shall learn that every chord
of emotion must be touched every
force of will called into play every
power of judgment, faith and love
be evoked. * The Pilgrim o fthe 20th
century who reaches the celestial city
must master the same difficulties and
subdue the same enemies as did the
thePilgrim of the 17th century. Like
wise he has need of the same en-
eouragement of the same vision,, the
can be no spiritual appeal comparable
with that which is based upon the
the publicity that shall mean most to
the church and world will be that of
the transformed life, the radiant
face.”

It is not enough that we win men
to Chriist, ,;wemust save them to the
church those converted at our altars
are but babies in Christ Jesus. It
is our duty to guide their feet over
and lead > them in
fields anew in the acquisition of
knowledge from God’s own store-
house, help thee, to drink from crys-
tal fountains of healin waters and
bathe in her rills atune th eear to
the music of heaven,helpthem see
visions of the Christ,, converse with
the fathers and commune with God,
fill their minds with enchantiing sto-
ries of the Christ and beautiful songs
instill in the ma love for the Bible.
Create in them a thirst for knowl-
edge and by our patience, sympathy.
and earnest devotion leave upon them
the impress of exemplary character
and their journey up the Kiing’s
highway of holiness will be well es-
tablished. c

The future—of this who can tell?

It is indeed a page as yet unwritten:
’ Not know the future. . Nay, we know
it; if we be Christians we know it.
Not, indeed, ,this little future of joys
that break as the bubbles break or
of ‘brief afflictions which are but for
a moment; not that little future of:
diseases, egotisms and contracted
selfishness which is not life, but that
great future of the single in purpose
andin heart that great future which
blooms to infinitetude beyond the
marge of death—that if webe children ©
‘od, we know. For we are press-

forward to the mark of the prize

of our high calling and that mark
cannot miss, an dthere it shines for-
ever before us—a crown of glory, a -
crown that fadeth not away. § .
Though the extreme indifference of
the world shall seem to conceal for-
ever! ou rlabors and sacrifices there
will be lelft to us the consolation of
the prophet—My judgment is with-
the Lord and my work with my God.

RESOLUTION. COMMENDATORY
TO BISHOP H. B. PARKS, SENIOR,
BISHOP AND CHAIRMAN OF THE
MISSIONARY BOARD F

Whereas, We have ha dthe wonder-
ful executive guidance and influence
of Bishop H. B. Parks as our -hairman
a courageous manly man, full of right-
eousness, a veritable spiritual dynamo,
electrifying our meetings. A man who
knows our churcch and missionary
life. And 2

Whereas, as he has led us to full
triumph of a worldwile record break-
ing quadrennium in our missionary ef-
forts. And, ‘

Whereas, as peace and harmony has
prevailed in all of our meetings, and

Whereas, Bishop H. B. Parks has so
ably presided impartially over all of
our deliberations, for four years giv-
ing his fatherly councilings which has
been helpful and wholesome, be it re-
solved that we tnder to him a rising
vote of thanks in token of the love
and esteem we have for him.

Respectfully submitted,
R. S. JENKINS.

¢

RECOMMENDATIONS

Chicago, Ill., May 15, 1928

To the Bishops, General Officers and
Delegates to the MTwenty-eighth
Session of the General Conference
A.M. E. Church: -

Dear Fathers, Brothers and Sisters:
Your Episcopal Committee beg

leave to report—We recommend first

that the Episcopal District be as fol-
lows:

First District—New ersey, New york
New, England, Delaware, Bermuda
and Nova Scotia

Seconé District—Baltimore, Virginia
North Carolina and Western North
Carolina ‘i

Third District—Ohio, North Ohio,
West, Virginia, South Ohiio, Penn.

. Fourth . District—Indiana, _ Illinois ©
Chicago, North Western Michigan,
Ontariio ;

Fifth Distriict—Missouri, Kansas,

Colorado, North Missouri, S. West
Missouri, Nebraska

Sixth District—Georgia, N. Georg-

ia, S. W. Georgia, Atlanta, Macon,

S. Georgia, Augusta, Americus

Seventh District—South Carolina,
Columbia, Northeast South Caro-
lina, Piedmont, Palmetto, Central
South Carolina

Eighth District—Mississippi, Central
Miss., North Miss., Northeast Miss.,
East Miss., Northwest Miss.

Ninth District—Alabama, Central
Alabama, East Alabama, South
Alabama, and West Alabama

Tenth District—Texas, Central, N.

~E. Texas, West Texas, Southwest
Texas, North Texas, Mexico, RRiio

Grande, East Texas, Northwest
Texas

Eleventh District—Florida, East
Florida, South Florida, Central

Florida, West Florida, Middle Fla.

Twelfth Distriict—Arkansas, West
Arkansas, South Arkansas, Dast
,Arkansas, Central Arkansas, N.

B. Arkansas é

Thirteenth District—Louisiana, Cen-
tral La., Southwest La.

Fourteenth District—Kentucky, West
Tennessee, Tennessee, East Tenn.
Fiftéenth District—California, Puget
Sound, Oklahoma, Central Okla-
homa, Northeast Oklahoma, South

California. ,

Sixteenth District—Monrovia, Liber-
ia, West Africa, Siierra Leone,
Gold Coast

Seventeenth District— Cape Colony,
Transvaal, Orange River, Zambesi.
Natal |

Lighteenth District—South- America,
West Inndies, Windward’ Islands,
Bahamas. Jamaica — ’

\VounG PEOPLE COMPET

“Sunday evening, May 20th under the

.the contest were won by Miss Jew

| RR. WRIGHT JR. MEDAL

‘An Oratorical Contest wa:

r

auspices of Allen Christian Endeavor
League, A. M. E. Church, This con-
test was the culmination of the Star’ |
Subscription Campaign and Oratori-
cal whiich was conducted during th
winter months by the Allen C. |
League Department. The honors in

Collier of St. Louis, and Miss Isimay
Fuller of Bermuda. More than 400
subscriptions came as the result the
campaign. “
e +
Five of the contestants accepted —
invitations to come to the General
Conference and compete for the R. R. >
Wright, Jr. Medals. The following —
young ladies appeared: #
“phe Conservatism of Youth,” Miss —
Wilhemenia Riley, Detroit Mich. ma

“A Plea for Youth,” Miss Winona
Hill, Louisville, Ky.

“The influence of the church upon _
Youth in the last generation,” Miss
Leola Barne, New York City.

“Youth the Church’s Asset,” Miss
Irmay Fubler, Crawl, Bermuda.

“The Conservatism of Youth,” Mis s
Jewel Collier, St. Louis, Mo. ie

General Secretary Morris arranged
the program. %

Bishop W. T. Vernon, president of.
Board of Contest presided. >

Dr. H. C. Terrell and W. A. Sulli-

>

* yan spoke on Youth and Allen Life

Guard. ovement.
Several

musical numbers were
rendered. ,

ON ANNUAL CONFERENCE
BOUNDARIES j
yee

FIRST DISTRICT—H P. Andér-
son, J. F, Vanderhorst, Edward E-.
Tyler, W. H. Jones, J..L. Link.

SECOND DISTRICT—C. E. Stew-
art, J. A. Young, C. M. Reid, A. D.
Avery.

THIRD DISTRICT—H G. Payni®
Geo. Maxwell, S. P. West. M. M. Le",
is, A. L. Brown, H. L. Hughes

EOURTH DISTRICT—W. E. Guy,
W. D. Shannon, C. F. Stewart, J. W-
Goddard. i

FIFTH DISTRICT— W. A. Bur-
nett, H. W. Kiing, A. W. Ward, J. B.
Isaacs.

SIXTH DISTRICT—M._ T. Robin.
son, R. J. Jefferson, J. H. Jones, S. H.

im

Charleston, B. V. Thornton, G. B
Jackson, E. B. Brown, J. E. Brown.
SEVENTH DISTRICT— BE. Bi

Mack, A. P. Spears,*L. N. Nichols,
L. Nae: D. H. Johnson, R. G. Brog-
don!

EIGHTH DISTRICT—T. SS.
Pendleton, E. Pullet, W. T. Stav
S. S. Stevens.

NINTH DISTRICT— R. C. Di
erson, C. C. Hatcher, S. Griffin,
Gray, C. G. Duncan, J. W. Walker

TENTH DISTRICT— J. H. S
L. C. Wade, E. D. Bonner, J
Swann, J. S. Powe, J. M. Bol
J. H. H, Franklin. E. W. Mo
T. F, Ferguson. "

ELEVENTH DISTRICT —
Josnhon, M. M. Young, R. B.
ins, E. Harley, J: A. Brown, J.
Young.

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT-

TWELFTH DISTRICT.
Sims, J. W. Stinson, J. H.
R. Ferguson, 0. L. Moody,
Coleman.

Washington, J. R. Brown, H.
in, J. H. Martin, W. H. M
D: Smith, Thomas A. Kenn

FOURTEENTH DISTRIC
W. Frazier, R. C. Hender:
Brown, W. A. Anderson,

ver.

FIFTEENTH DISTRI
Howell.

SIXTEENTH DISTRI!
A. Campbell, D. A. Grah:

SEVENTEENTH D
Charles Demas.
EIGHTEENTH DI
son Pryor.

Date

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