The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-09-20

Take IL 10 Inc LOrQ In prayer.
Can find q Friend so faithful,
Who will all my sorrows share?
Jesus knows my every Weakkness,-
Take 1t to the Lord in prayer.
Anonymous.
Bill Arp.
Bishop Turner lectured here last
Sunday night on africa" He has
been there and went for a purpose. 1t
Is on his mind and in his heart that
his people in the south must sooner
or later 90 back to the land of their
fathers, and he went out to see what
kind Ofa land 1t was. His narrative
sounds like Munchausen tale to
those who have read Livingston and
Stanley. The "dark continent Is
looming up and is now attracting the
attention and the wonder Of tine civil
lized world. Bishop Berkley said :
"Westward the tide Of empire takes
its way" and it did when he wrote,
but now it is rolling back to the east.
DR.. Henry NJ. Field, the gifted edi-
tor of the New York Evangelist, is
now in northern Africa and the week.
ly letters of his travels are full of inter-
est. All that beautiful region on the
coast of the Mediterranean is filling up
with the best class of French, German
and English civilization. The historic
land, where Carthage wa. and where
Hannibal and Hamilcar marshaled
their mighty armies, is now the peace
full, prosperous home Of Protestant
Christians. After thousand years
of sleep, northern Africa has been
awakened by new birth and IN the
growing city of Borie, that was the
ancient Hippo, magnificent calhe-
dra is being erected in memory of st.
Augustine, the last great man of
Africa.
Some years ago DR.. Field travelled
over that country and rode hundreds
of miles on camels and slept with the
Arabs i'm the desert, but now rides In
palace cars to Jerusalem and rests in
hotels along his journey, and all
along the line are towns and villages
and cultivated farms, and all this
wonderful change is The fruit of Chris
tian civilization. The inscription on
the statue of the good st. Augustine
in The new cathedral explains 1t all
"If I do not perish I owe it all to my
mother" His father was pagan, but
his mother was a Christian, and her
constant prayers and pleadings and
teachings made him the wonderful
man that he waS-the most wonderful,
perhaps, who ever lived, considering
his litework and the result of his labors.
But for the negro. the Congo region
seems to lie designed by Providence for
q permanent home. 1t is described by
ali the travellers HI the most fertile bu-
sin in the world having 200, 0,OO0.OOG of
square miles as fertile as the valley of
the Mississippi and the hill country
adjacent abounding in copper, tin
and iron mines. General Sanford
saws it is destined to become the
granery of the world and Bishop
Turner declared the climate to be ex-
actly suited to his race.
Well now it is becoming more and
more APPARENT that they must and will
20 somewhere. The conflict between
them and us is irrepressible. 1t is
widening and deepening as the years
roll on. There is no rest, mol abiding
place, no security for the negro in the
United States, neither North nor South.
1t is idle to discuss whose fault it il.
The duty of our thinking men, white
and black, Is TO look. the facts straight
in the face and take some mold and
decisive action. There is race trouble
now in North Carolina that has requir-
ed the militia to suppress. The ne
groes who recently were sent from
Birmingham to the Northwest to take
the places of the strikers were not
allowed to stay. From several towns
in Ohio and Indiana they have been
banished. Even in Atlanta, the cos
mopoliiian, conservative city of the
South, complaint is made in the news
papers that the negroes monopolze
the side walks and will not give way,
and are growing more and more in>o-
lent and aggressive. Every day papers
publish new outrages and usual lynch
ings that follow them.
I have been reading "An Apreal to
Pharoah" by Carlyle Mckinley and am
more than ever profoundly impressed
with its truth, its argument its phios-
ophy. The author is one of the most
advanced thinkers of the age and deals
with the race problem in such fair,
candid and considerate way that until
his name was disclosed it was imuossi-
BILE to surmise where he lived, whether
North or South or in ngland or
America. am pleased to know that
he is by birth and education Georgi-
all. BY some it was attributed to-
Hinton Rowan Helper; by others, to
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, and by
others to Rev. Josiah Strong. 1t is
book fiji to be read and pOndered by
every patriot. Mr.. Mckinley proves
every proposition as lie goes along, and
does it SO tenderly and kindly, and
modestly that the reader is obliged to
fall In love with him, and If not con-
vinced, he admits that he cannot
answerit. The negro must 60, go some
whe.e, not in a hurry or ut the point
of the bayonet, as did the Cherokees,
but he will 60 willingly and gladly
when the ways and means are provi-
ded. 1t may take ten years or twenty
years, but it is no very great matter 50
far as the cost is concerned. During
the ten years just passed, over 6,O0O, 900
of pauper foreigners have been brought
here from Europe aud it will be nearly
as easy to take G,OUO, 600 of negroes
away. Ten millions of dollars year
will do it. And that is but tritie
compared with the peace and prosper
ity of the race. Just let the ships be
ready in the ports and the money be
provided TO plant the families in Africa
say 500 per capita, and they will
flock to the seashole ut every port.