The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-10-14
Sayings and Doings Of the Colored PeO-
pie Throughout Clarendon and Else
where.
BY z. 4. STEWART.

S1 L. A. SIENhRt
! Miss Nathalie Mikclls announces he
readiness to form Glasses in instrumental
music. She is " performer on the violIt
also
The county iuir officers are very busy get
ting everything in line for the tair now II
progress. Let US all assist IN making 1t
success as far as it can be this year. Ih'
effort, if nothing else. should be encouraged
The hook and ladder company could no
render much assistance ct the fire last Frl'
day night. because the truck was not com
pleted. Let them have the truck, they are
bound to do some good.
A patron of the postof6ce here inquired
if We were giving away postal cards unit!
the end of the month as he saw the an
nouncement in the MANNING TINES. The
free supply has not reached this Office yet.
The advance in the price Of cotton pick
ing according to the published circular OF
Col. r. NJ Humphrey did not reach this
county to disturb the minds of the people.
il many quarters of the cotton section it
was regarded as an unhappy occurrence.
since the fsn in the prics of cotton is so
great. While we admit that the farmers or
other laborors have the undoubted right to
advance their own interests as the occasion
arises, yet the situation and fitness OF every
nan ought always to be Investigated.
Tie co,ored race, as such, ought to re-
member that unity is great element in
everything. and that unwise, erroneous
counsel, for evil and prejudicial purposes
on the part of men who have nothing but
themselves in view, should be brushed
aside as empty vaposdng of worthless
minds
We can always judge whether the we'll
being of people IS the main spring Of
some mems actions by asking ourselves the
question: Does it change any well ordered
or settled relation of the people?
Facts are distorted, talsehoods are told.
even palpible lies are advanced rather than
an sdherance to duty and first principles.
Ignorant people are uniustly imposed upon:
deceivers work upon their mental weakness
es, even taking the livery of heaven to serve
the devil in bringing to reproach and open
shame what o people have heretofore cher
ished.
A great deal of this huniliasing state of
affairs is brought about by elevating to
somewhat responsible positions persons
who have had their lung power taken for
intellectual force and vigor, who have
nothing to recommend them but their IN
bounded cheek and bold effrontery.
All good men Of whatever creed OF social
relation should unite to throw of this incu-
bus, this cancer eating out the harmonious
growth Of the people.
The lecture of Rev. L. w. Jenkins at
Nazareth Baptist Church, was very interest
ing and instructive.. Various Incidents Of
his Southwestern trip, instances of the
colored peoples prosperity in that quarter.
and splendid bits Of humor enhanced the
occasion. His remarks on education were
timely and interesting and suggestive.
Anent his remarks on education we might
incidentally mention that few persons
have been endeavor,ng for short while to
cultivate what, suppose, they would call
an educational interest in this community.
They have enGeavored to create an impress
sion that the teacher must belong to the pre-
dominant or largest religious denomination
in the community, or the denomination
nearest to which the school house (public)
is located or is taught. When one has in
telligent auditors he can always content
himself with the thought of receiving all the
consideration his words will command. As
is understood the public school system Of
this country is established for the benefit
and patronage of aN the people, regardless
of religious inclination. AL doctrines have
q perfect right to assemble there. but leay-
ing st the door of the threshold Of the pub
lie school house their religious bubbles
The law of the land places no ban upon the
teacher by insisting that he be Methodist,
Presbyterian, Buddhist, or what not; it only
requires that be be competent educati ionally,
worthy morally. and in possession Of such
good and estimable qualities as 60 to make
ateaeher. It does not prescribe as some
would seek to persuade the ignorant and
those unused to tricks that are vain, that
such and such people have right to call a
teacher because he may be persuaded re-
ligously as they would think.
While, of course, such things are good
per se it is impossible to claim for it the
power or efficacy of rendering the word
- cat" any more magic than it is by nature
or construction nor can it change the fact
that 2 and 2make 4. The worthy founders
Of the common school system which it IS
our proud heritage to enjoy. builded far
wiser than they .knew.piaced around this
citadel of civiiizing fnRuences, the pickets
and. batteries Of Observation-Disclosures,
inscribed upon its front: "No favored doc
trine here
In fact suppose we can well imagine the
reason for all this. 1t is the hrt duty Of
parents to teach their children to follow o
certain religious inclination and this re-
sponsibility cannot possibly be shifted or
placed in other hands. Secondly, it is the
churchs business to impart doctriua truths
void of all matters which concern the world
or is the business of distinct individual
cornmaaities;- Each has its sphere to per
form and the more consistently it adheres to
it the better it viii be, not for the things it
interiors with, but for the plain line ofwork
it is established to carry out or develop, or
preserve in its purity.
We, as q people, make one grand mis-
take. We do not appreciate as we ought
that the church is not calculated for the
transaction of worldly and foreign business
With which. men by association may be
called nponsto transact and 1T is for theiln-
teliicent mind Of the race to Insist t1at the
pure springs Of the church be not disturbed
in this way. Let as have the church dis
tinct from the State, the schools uncon-
taminated with UNCONVENTIONAL talnt
through self appointed Moseses. Let the
people appreciate the sanctity of each, the
equal importance Of all.
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