The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-11-22
me Negro Preacher.

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The negro preachera may be shAEply
divided into two classes, the edueaaed
and the uneducated; or as the phrase Il
the H1arnt" and the "unlarnt." Tht
former are Young men who have grown
up amid the new order of things, and
who by dint of their own industry and
trugality have managed TO defray part
of tho cost of their limited education
Some assistance having been afforded By
their respective churches. They read
with tOlerable f1uency, are slight smat-
terers in theology, and. write after fash
lOnwhich although almost wholly unin
telligible TO educated people, Is, l believe
deciPherable by their OWnrace, These
young devines, though they have higher
ideals for their race, and are gradually
them, do not as yet possess the sway of
the older uneducated preachers. Ii
would seem that they have learned just
enough to make them obscure; enough
to lift them out of sympathy with their
simple minded hearers, but not enough
to give them true breadth and insight
and while sticklers for polysy liables,
they fret in grammatical traces, inso.
much that the soul-gloW, the ebulllent
! spontaneitY of the RAGS, Is entangled and
smothered. Book lore il as yet clogs,
not pinions.
Itis among the older set, IL anywhere.
that We muet look for The traditional
black orator. His originality would
more than satisfy the widest apostle Of
the unconventional. Neither In point OF
rite or doctrine II he feitered, scarce even
guided, by rule or precedent. He man.
4 S1Ea H1aa01nRNR sE1fth Tho NJ hal q
| Of Jesuit, and coina words with the
facility of . Carlyle. He may just be
able 10 founder through g chapter of
Scripture, uncouth in gesture, barbarous
| In diction, yet earnestncss lends dignity
to his manner, and passion fuses his
iarRon into elOquence. He may habit
| ualIy outrage logic and occasionally
contravene Scripture, but the salient
points OF his discourse are sound, and
his words 60 straight home to the hearts
Of his hearers.
HIS power out of the pulpit is also
great, almost boundl0ss. Within his
own parish he is practically priest and
pope. accommodation itself il his
mOet trenchAnt weapon. Never was
papal anAfhema . more potent bugbea!
| than his threat TO "cnt Of" His cSni
sorshIp of the morals and department OF
4 11la uuCuI SA1U0A4 ~ O0A AAAsSN-G AASAP
poFtably annoying and humiliating. lie
undoubtedly wholesome and necessary
Though hIs discipline can by no means
escape the charge Of Inconsistency, bis
influence Is always exerted TO make
i them honest and faithful men and wo.
Il aen. and 70 restrain the besetling SIM
/ eG the race, In many instances he re-
sorts 70 their employers for Information
fouchiag their honesty and industry
Then monthly. On sisted Saturday
they are riSidly required 20 assemble
and give an account Of themselves. Al
the negroes poasess elm0st morbid
local attachment, they Are exceedInE
! 1OaGh 70 1ranaEeI their membership
Il When In quest Of employment they move
) 4c a distance, and In many instances
mis- monthly attendance Involves I
tramp Of forty miles OF more. But N
iaxca0o e taken, and upon failure to ct
tend fog thge0 consecutive m0nkhs the
tare unhesieAaingly cut OF. II II Ct ihes
meotings that all FumoFs touching tn
moralD and dsportme1t Of each membe
aEe YiRidly lagegtlgAted. and the cnlpEit
| summarily. though from orr standpoin
indlscIfminately. puniehed; the Sam
Il penaIky-eix nonkhn euspeasloa-be
Ing innIceed Tor deEcinG and tcr thefi
Tor WOEld liness and Sof unchastity.