The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-04-05
ENTERED AT POSTOFFICE As SECOND GLASS NATL
SATURDAY, APRIL S, 1890.
CHRISTIAN PRE- IUDlCE.


A popular author informs US of
learned pundit who proved that man
could demonstrate that he was not de.
scended from the ape by the fact that
the former has and the latter has not
'hippopotamus major" in his Uranium.
We are orrowfully compelled to dissent
from the conclusion. Rev. J. B. Haw-
thorne, y. d., of Atlanta, Ga, evidently
has no hippopotamus, either major or
minor, in his brain. The American
Baptist Publication Society, with head
quarters, at Philadelphia, publishes "The
Baptist Teacher" for the use of Sunday
schools, which has large circulation
principally among Colored schools in
the South. The white Southern Baptists
have periodical ''Kind Words" Towering
the same ground as The Baptist Teacher.
Some months ago, three Colored minis
ters were invited to furnish articles for
publication in the Baptist Teacher.
Subsequently one of these men, while
on his way to Indianapolis, was one of
the party which was mobbed at Baxley,
Ga, and upon his arrival at that city
gave all account of the outrage. Shortly
afterward the Solid South was in heat
Of indignation over the fact that "these
Negroes had been invited to furnish
an article each for the Baptist Teacher.
The protests sent in so alarmed DR.. B.
Griffith, secretary of the A. B. P. S.,
that he notified the ''these Negroes'
that their articles would not appear in
the Teacher, but would he published as
tracts. DR.. Griffith, by the way, evil
IDENTIFY has a very large "hippopotamus
major" in his brain, when it comes to
matters affecting the circulation of his
socieIy's publications.; but he was i'm
paled On the horns of a dilemma. So
he issued a most abject apology to his
Southern brethren, a most monstrous
exaggeration of Uriah Heaps ne plus
ultra. He experienced the usual fate OF
those who daub with untempered NOR
tar. He failed, he fell; and great as
the failure, great was the fall. The Solid
South gloaled over his abject submission
while the Solid North was disguised ut
his lack Of principle and dignity. Rev.
Hawthorne D. D. then enters the arena
seemingly for the express purpose Of
demonstrating, that one true Southe rner
can lick five Yankees-in acting the
fool. In the Western Recorder, he ef-
fuses at length. He alludes to ''the
crooked methods of the American Ban
fist Publication Society,"" but magnam-
iously assures Bro. Griffith that IF it is
sincerely repentant for the errors it has
con fessed "'if its sorrow is real and
its promise of reformation is fulfilled, !"
the Southern Baptist will fairls and
gladly forgive. All these will ] give
thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship
me. After having thus conditionally !
granted absolution to Bro. Griffith and
his society. the D. D. adds: "The Bap.
lists of the South are a self-respec citing
people. They will not tamely submit to
insult-even from the American Baptist
Publication Society. They will not al
low Negroes who malign them and
threaten them with arson and assassina.
ton to write lessons tor their Sunday
school. They dared to rebuke the Pub
licatlon Society for attempting to lionize
three such Neg oes, and they are not
sorry for it, One ofthe Negroes re-
erred to is Dr.. W. Simmons, a man of