The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-08-27
THE RACE PROBLEM
A New Light to Cast it's Refulgent
Rays on the Vexed Question.
An Afro American Says he Will Answer
the Prayers That Assembled to Hea-
ven on the National Day OF Fast
ing and Prayer
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The Christ said be was sent to preach
deliverence to the captivts to hind up
the broken hearts and to let the oppres-
sed 20 free and if you are one of Christs
you will do the same thing for it is his
spirit in you that furnishes the propel!-
ing power but of course if the spirit is
not in you, you are not apt to take hold
and do anything you are simply a would
be christian, so to speak, one who has
form of Goodness without the power. A
bee without a singer which are usually
called drones, and instead of being
helpmete which means a CO. worker you
are simply to help eat, a dead weight,
ever ready to help eat the spiritual food
that is given by the Ministers but re-
fuse to bear your part of the burden
which ia to tear down the works of
satan, this crushing of Negro manhood
had its origin in slavery and you help to
keep the slavish principle alive. Why
don't you lay aside those old grave
clothes and stand up like men and be
counted for the Lord for your race and
for yolr freedom as American citizens
first last and all the time? Some of you
get very loud at Sunday morning class
meeting and among other things you
are often heard to say you are doing all
in your power for the upbuilding of
Christ's kingdom here on earth. Will
you ever stop that lying against the
truth? Christianity does not consist in
telling week sf er week what you want
to do and see done but you must take
hold and help do it. There are num-
Der Of other things that 1 can bring to
bear 10 prove that a man who will dis
criminate on account of color is not
christian, but trust what l have said
will be sufficient to awake you to a sense
of your duty as men protesting Christ,
and desiring the liberation of the Negro
race from the inferior place it now &C.
cupies. another thing, for there is some
thing for all to do. If persons throughout
the country who act as agents for Colored
papers would have the editor to send
you few sample copies of his paper oc-
OCCASIONALLY even if you did have to pay
for them, which would be no more than
what is right, and then hand those
papers around to persons who you know
90 not take any PIPER you would in a
little Wild increase your number Of
'trons which would more than pay you
for your extra expense in ordering few
copies over and above your regular num-
Der, don't expect the editor to do it all,
a few EXTRAS one week might take the
profit off of the rest but you might make
1t back the next week, where if the edi-
tor who sends papers to great number
of agents all over the country had to
stand all of the expense in sending out
those extra copies you can zee it would
amount to considerable sum. Many
persons are heard to say that the reason
they do not care to take some Colored
papers is because they ars as rule 80
full of advertisements tn, there is very
little room left for news such as they
care to read. Well do you know the
reason of that? 1t is because you as a
people do not give the paper the proper
support it needs to make it real live
one and the editor has to resort to those
things to keep his paper going for none
of them want to have it said they failed,
it is not the loss of that particular en-
ployment that hurts, but it is the know
ledge that there are host Of persons
who are ever ready to say that they
were not enterprising enough or they
could have made the paper live Now
agents the editori' engaged in enterprise
that enables you to make somethi, 9
every week by selling his papers How
many of you will be enterprising enough
to order n few extra copies occasionally?
and then pass them around to those who
do not read; try it for in 80 doing you
will benefit the editor who is lahorine
for the Improvement of the race. You
will benefit yourself for you will increase
the number of YOUR patrons. and YOU
will benefit the reader for he will be
most sure to see something in the parer
that will interest him or her. and while
in most cases you would gain their
| natr0nape the paner would do tho uorl,
for which it is intended viz upbuildine
and enlightment of the race. See my
plan in next weeks issue for practical
solution of the much talked of Race
Problem.
BLACK MAN.