The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-25
COLOR CASTE.
The Race Issue Before the American
Missionary Society.

missionary Society
| PROVIDENCE, r. l., Oct 24.-Rain did
not prevent large attendance ct the fore
noon meeting at the AID anniv ersary of the
American Missionary Society.
After prayer meeting led by Rev. r.
B. Howard, secretary of the society, Mr..
Strobey read paper upon Amer can
Freedom and African Evangelization, in
which he showed that the recent expert
encs of European and American missions
in Africa indicate that tue negro is likely
to prove able to resist the effects of the
malarious climate and to be an effective
missionary in other respects.
At the afternoon session Rev DIR. j. NJ
Sturtevant made an address, in which he
said that some one should teach the colored
people Of the south the idea Of brotherhood
mot equality. The southern whites ought
to be the first in such work The white
race, as whole; is sitting on the safety
valve
CHURCHES AND THE COLOR LINE.
Rev. DR. Brand, of Oberlin, O., made tie
closing address, his subject being THE
Church and the Color Line He said that
the church must exterminate the color line
or be itself demo-alized corrupted and Ell
feebled. One OF the other must 20 10 the
wall The caustic Of the sermon on the
mount must be applied freely and CON
stantly to 1t or it will corrupt and destroy
our life.
AT the evening meeting three colored
men spoke. First, Rev. Joseph E. Smith
OF Chattanooga, Tenn, spoke about the
evils Of caste TO the colored race. He
described the gross injustice which educated
and refined cOl5red yeople have to
endure everywhere in the south. They
have to pay first-class prices for second
class accommodate )ns, and they must ac-
cept these with humiliating and degrading
accomplishments. The resentment Of the
colored people at such things the speaker
claimed, was the reason why the cause Of
prohibition was defeated at the recent cleo.
ton in Tennessee and in Atlanta The
white ministers and churches have never
protested against the many sided injustice
OF caste. They do not realize how I'M
christian their conduct is.
LADY KINNAIRD's NEGRO GUEST.
President Taylor told of the colored dele
gate to the worlds missionery conference in
London, who was for ten days guest of
Lady klnnaird, and said he never knew
anything of the color caste feeling before
coming to America. He thought That this
prejudice is deeper than the color-that it is
q matter Of race
Rev. b. A. Jones of Memphis, Team. took
for his subject: Evils to the Colored Race
of Secret Societies. lie said secret societies
are very prevalent in the south, Memphis
having eighty-two of them, and almost all
adults of both sexes are members of one or
more of them, that they are formidable
rivals to the churches, waste much time and
money and give great facilities to bad men
to get power and influence.
PICNICs COME HIGH.
The annual picnics of the societies are
very costly-not less than 5000 year in
Memphis-while the money spent by them
for the relief of sick members was only
$500. Again, secret societies are a means
of bringing the worst and the best into
intimacleS very hurtful to those who
are trying to keep clean. The mysteries
that invest them arouse the supersttious
fears Of the ignorant, as do those of tie
voodoo aud of the Indian medlcine man.
Church discipline becomes difficult, if not
impossible. There are some hopeful signs
of successful revolt against the tyranny
of this great evil
NEGROES AND THE CUP.
Rev. J. r. Mclean of Paris, Tenn. smoke
on the evils to tie colored race of intemoer-
ance. He said that the charge that the col
ored vote was very effectual in defeating
prohibition III Tennessee, Alabama and
Texas, is to great extent true. We do not
drink as much as do toe whites, because we
could not pay for it, and we do not inherit,
as do they, an Appetite for it. Be
fore emancipation we had it only
at Christmas, and l think that
one of the chief reasons for our race voting
against prohibition is that they consider
liberty TO drink an attribute OF freedom.
Another reason is that it seems to promote
s7cial equality, dissolute whites often CON
descending to drink with negroes.
The saloon allows us to drink
alongside of the whites, but while
in the churches, restaurants, etc. ,
must take inferior accommodations,
Then, again, many colored preachers aud
church members think that liquor fiavors
the flow of religious feeling. This address
was given with great force, and was fire.
quently applauded