The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-20
MINISTER'S WEEKLY MEETING.
The Methodist Diyines Discuss the Race
Question-Dr. Jeffery Before the Baptists.

Dr. Alabaster read review of Tourgee's ZAP
peal to Caesar" The Caesar appealed to in this
book is the American people. There were, be-
fore the war, two peoples in this country
known to outsiders as the United States,
known here as the North and the South
There was welldefined wall of division between
these two sections. Liberty was the watch
word of our section, mastership that of the other
During all this time these two parties loudly
protested that they were one. The Doctor
thought that the author makes mistake in his
estimate of the relative strength of the two par
ties There was a divided North against
a solid South. The South now seeks to regain
at the forum what they loSton the field of hattie
The South now claims a new transgression on
the part of the North by the Acknowledgement
OF the ignorant freedmen. Poor grounds for
ofense We have never exacted a test of intel
ligence that the freedman at his liberation could
not have satisfied. AS to loyalty, the black
man was par excellence. The author makes
the mistake of allowing that the South is the
CONSCIENTIOUS party in the matter, seeming to
lose sight of the fact that the North may have
some conscience as we'll as the South
THERE'S conflict of races in the South. Who is
responsible for the conflicts No instance of out
rage is on record where women and children
where left in the care of the black man. Why
the sudden change in his characterl Let the
white South remember that the Scripture says:
Woe unto him by whom the offense cometh'
The blacks will soon be in the majority in the
Gulf States. Then look out for white
exodus. The South has nothing to
hope. from northern emigration, for the
South welcomes nothing that does
not become Southernized Education may partly
solve the problem in question, but it will be but
partly. This question is the great problem be-
fore the American people. DR., Alabaster was
followed by Rev. E. w. S. Hammond in very
intelligent view of the matter from the stand
point of colored man. He was of the opinion
that eventually there would be black republic
DIR. Marine did not believe in this theory
We are to-day an amalgamated Nation,
with more mulattoes than blacks. The
whites will finally absorb the black
M. L. Wells said the black republic was bound
to come because the oppressed increase more
rapidly than the oppresser. Mr.. Farmer Of the
u. NJ. o. A., was present and invited the Metho-
dist preachers to meet the pastors of the city III
the lecture room of the Second Presbyterian
Church, Thursday at P. NJ, to perfect the ar
rangements for the coming of Mr. Moody to
Indianapolis The brethren accepted the invita-
ton.
At the Baptist pastors conference this after
noon at the parlors of the Denison Hotel, Rev
w. Jeffery read very suggestive exegetical
paper on Signs and Gifts under the New Tesla
ment Ministry" which was followed by gener-
al discussion of much interest. committee
was appointed to confer with the pastors confer
ences in regard to an occasional union meeting
of the city pastors.