The colored American., 1894-08-11

both young and old, has been fairly es-
timated at twenty four hundred IN our
colored churches alone, and the next
| great blessing that followed was the re-
vival held by Mr. Moody at Convention
Hall. at which it is estimated that there
were about four thousand additions
made to the various churches in Wash
1ngton. During the time above ma
med. / have visited and addressed 81
Sunday Schools, mostly those which
are located in neglected fields, viz.
those schools in Hlllsdale, Howard
Town. Mount Pleasant, North East,
South East, South Washington, West
Washington and Willow Tree Alley.
In most of those schools | find very
great room for improvement especial
/ ly regarding an increase i'll the attend
ance. In many places visited, | have
found on Sunday morning at full
school hours, more chi dren out on the
streets, in the same square, than there
was in the Sunday School, and the
problem Chow to bring these children
under practical Sunday School infiu-
ence, that they may be made good
| Christian moral men and women, is
a question that concerns the immedl-
ate future welfare of the colored people
! in the United States. My experience
leads me to the conclusion that these
children must be brought in contac
with better people and more whole
some moral invironment, at-least sew
efal times a week, before good results
can be seen. and our present existing
churches are the centers from which
this moral light must begin.
| desire to emphasize the fact that the
eyangelization and moral training
the children of the S5, 900 colored people
In Washington, must in a great meas
ure come through the 81 colored church
es and Sunday Schools, therefore all
the existing Churches and Sunday
Schools should be the base of operations
for all missionary efforts and each
church can with a great deal of profit
to itself and the community employ at
least one missionary to work especially
among the children in each school,
whose duty should be, to look after the
ingathering of the children and young
folks and at stated times, bring all the
people together in the church on a
l Christian social level, and there let the
= better classes mix with the masses anC
inculcate religious and moral principles
this believe is the practical mode o.
! procedure that is destined to abolish
d and do away with the class and socia
a distinctions IN the Christian Church.
t The blessed Lord himself eat with
} publlcans and sinners, ard the WOrlc
y can only see God through life exem-
: plified his disciples and the great ar
J, my of twenty millions of church mem
d bers and ten million Sunday Scboo
e scholars and teachers in North Ameri
. ca, must be practically utilized in reach
e ing the masses of non church goers anC
n make the Church and Sunday SchOo
: special places of attraction for the world
a and this can best be done by provin.
to sinners, that we are sincere III ou
! efforts for their spiritual welfare, b.
l. showing him acts of kindness and love
v God cannot use us to accomplish tn
full measures of His glory, until selfish
ness and worldly pride has been con
quered, and subdued in the hearts 0
his disciples, therefore if we desire t.
bring about these much needed reform
K in the Church, Sunday School and tn
community, let us sincerely seek tn
aid of the Holy Spirit, through sin Ger
prayer to God. Very Respectfully, NJ
&. Maxfeld, Delegate at Large, Cor. Isl
and. q. Sts., n. W., Washington D.