San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-23

the ooi''S
Reflections.
Bditor LIGHT:
Since I returned from the annual
conference at Calvert. Texas, Febru-
airy, have been kept quite busy, the
only excuse ! can offer for my retl-
cence. Together with, and aside
from ministerial, benevolent and col
lections, for current expenses, we
have planned to raise tins year 81 ,SOO
indebtedness on our church editice.
When we took hold in 1887 we found
the debt to be s., 500. We have man
AGED to cut it down to the above mini
mum. with sufficient amount Of grit,
grace. and green backs, we shall liqui-
date the entire debt this year. Be
sides. we will raise something for
Samuel Huston College. 1t is earnest
ly hoped that enough money will be
raised by the, middle of June, to put
with So, 600, to complete our ten thous-
and dollar Q building. Brother
Huston of Iowa made handsome
donation of $1,000 to what has been
known as the West Texas Conference
Seminary, which gives us new
name. which we trust will be worthy
worn. With such liberal-hearted men
we cannot fail, and we are deter
mined to use every eXertiOn for our
own success and elevation. If we
can't give the thousands we are going
to give the hundreds. The record of
the past foreshadows the future.
When we take a retrospective glance
of the work done among all nations,
by the Methodist Episcopal church, if
we were outside of her pales, we
would breathe sincere benediction
upon this poble work, fostered by a
powerful, aggressive denomination
through its multifarious auXilliaries
and agencies. God bless all the de-
nominations and strengthen them all,
MANY times, to prosecute their holy
mission.
Mr.. Editor, there is perfect bless
edness i'm giving to any worthy cause
of which God and humanity are the
objects, and sometimes it does seem
that those who have least give most
to these great causes. We know
statements like the above fall
with a thud on many ears;
but though the truth may
be blamed, it will ever remain the
ing. We are very much Inundated
A. Inc fact, that there are coIored men
and women in Texas who can give a
few thousand dollars to some noble
enterprise. and be the better off by so
doing, and erect to their memory
monument of greatness, more lasting
than marble and granite, but they DO
not. We may just as we'll face the
fn n
work for the elevation of the race as
a unit; however, there are those Of
the race more fortunate than the
masses, who have never thought of
ANYTHING outside of their individual
comforts and ambrosial feasts, and
brightest costumes. And still more,
they throw off all obligations to a
race, to whom they are allied by
birth and marriage. Mr.. Editor, we
mean to cultivate the friendliest re-
lations with all other nationalities, but
never will we, under any circumstan-
ees, seek the cOmpanionship of the
pygmies of the more noble class to the
exclusion of tho best of our own. We
cannot accept the phligmatic. When
we are educated, and the history of
the past is better understood, we will
n66O no race legislation Ill GIllS uoplo
land of the free, decorated by the
homes of the brave. What few
towards are now skulking IN the I'M
protected hooks, of our fair land, will
be driven out, or fall into the living
channels of good behavior; and not
arrOgate 10 themselves the right to
exercise positive justice to anyone
charged with crime. The courts of
our country and executives may con-
tinue to permit regulating bands to
roam over the country at will, carry
ing CONSERVATION with them, and
leaving death and ashes in their
corey track, because their opera
tons at first are confined
to "poor white trash, niggers
and Mexicans,n but when their
passions rise to the sublime point,
they usually take in people of better
fortunes. Men who have seen and
know of true soldiery both in the vol
unteer and regular armies, look with
pity upon such scape gallows. Yours
truly, MAC X. HENSON.
March 20, 1889.