The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-05-07
SOyercome Evil With Good"

Rev. I. w. Thurston, pastor OF the A,
NJ. E. Church of Elkton, preached SER
mon last Sunday morning that ought to
receive wider recognition than is COM
| mensurate with the limits of his congre-
| CATION. The known sympathy of THE
| WING for the colored people, in their
struggle for elevation and education
justifies US in speaking candidly. 1t is
due to truth, due to candor, and due to the
| prospect 4 continued healthy relations
| between races that nature seems to have
severed but circumstance has made
| mutually regardtul, that the poison
instilled by frequent incursions of I'M
gided or misguided representations of one
race into the domestic sanctity of the
other, should be clearly indexsd. 1t is
extremely regrettable that some of the
oracles and orators of the African race,
take frequent and perilous occasion to
illuminate from their irresponsible puipts
thunder blasts and mimic pyrotechnics
that neither accord with their christian
pretension, nor are creditable to their
humauitarianism. The overture to burn,
poison, lie in wait, assassinate, and in all
hendish ways to avenge faucied Or real
wrongs is not only maddening in its
Invitations, but exceedingly unwise in its
drift and possibilities. If two races as
dissimilar as the Caucasian and the
Ethinpian tn ha #
America, they must cultivate harmony,
orotherly love, mutual regard, and, above
all, Adamite recognition of a common
creator. II this be lacking, there is
nothing left to refuge the weaker. Who
the weaker is in America, whether in
point of numbers or of average brain
power, either God or accident has
Enthusiastically settled. The thoughtful
preacher, who seems designed by innate
force TO be leader OF c0lored mel.
struck this keynote in the sermon to
which we refer. He took as his to xt the
Sixty second Psalm and eleventh verse:
Power belongeth to Cod. His
theme naturally drifted into allusion to
the painful exhibition of race antagonism
that has just had it's dire contamination
in the tiendish outrage committed on a
village physician going on mercy's errand
TO the dark lanes of a region where only
good will can play efficient poll ceman
Recognizing that the wantonness OF
narrow Drained youth had been wrought
to murderous intent he sought to re.
strain the heinou sness of impulse that
too often fails to count the cost, and made
many opposite illusions to the dependence
of his race on the good will of the other,
and endeavored to assure his people that
yengence for imagined or real injuries
and wrong belongeth not to the impatiens
| sufferer. Speaking of the cruel assassa-
nation of DIR. Hill, of Millington by a
group of half sober youths, he forcibly
impressed the truths as contained in
Romans, 70 Chapter and 49, 20, and
? verses, as being not only the mandate
| of God, but the inspiration of Christ and
and the hope of the African race in
America. 1t is pity that the people who
in the least decade of the Nineteenth
Century of Christian civilization, have to
deal in America with problem of suffer
| ing for others sins, of vengeance that only
christianity can rebuke, of charity which
| only Christ sufficiently taught, and OF
| the golden rule that admonishes "be not
overcome with evil, but overcome evil
with good" have not more such mission,
aries as Tburston to draw the fangs oil
envy and snap the bonds of hate. His
reference in the sermon of which we
have taken note, to the faith of the people
who by non. com bativeness, invoked the
aid OF the Almighty and resulted in the
drowning of Pharaoh and hosts, wat
peculiarly striking; but space does not
admit enlargement. No doubt he has
struck the keynote. Let his people
foliow, and the quarrel it requires tive
to make cannot rise higher. Christi
anity will have vindication and civiIiz
alton, its foster child, will grow with ;
mighty prowess.