The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-14
4 GEORGIAYS WARNING.
An Interesting Address to the
Southern Baptist Association.
SOLUTION OF THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

Rev. Mr.. Hawthorne Declares That "If
You DO Not Save the Negroes They win
Destroy You-A Christian Negro Is
Like a Christian White Man"
WASHINGTON, May 14.-The feature of
last evenings session of the Southern
Baptist convention was an eloquent and
earnest address by Rev. j. B. Hawthorne,
of Georgia, on the history, work and fu-
ture prospects of the Southern Baptist
convention. The occasion of the address
was report on the work of the home mis-
sionary board among the native white
population Of the south. The address was
a practical announcement that the time
for reunion of the northern and south
ern churches had not come, and so far as
the Southern Baptist convention was con-
cerned was thing of the indefinite future.
A full understanding of the work of the
convention, Mr.. Hawthorne said, would
do much toward harmonizing the north
ern and southern churches, not in one
body, because he said, that was not desir-
able but it would bring the Baptists of
the north and south together as Christian
| brothers, loving the same Lord and the
same faith and the same baptism Mr..
that many Baptists at the north were out
of sympathy with this convention because
they believed it was perpetuation of IN
| institution the occasion for the existence
of which had disappeared. They imagined
its present existence indicated sectional
feeling and hostility towards the older or
| ganization.
| This, he declared, was not true. The
southern Baptists regarded as settled the
| questions that were thirty years ago sub
lnitted to the arbitrament of the sword.
| Secession was dead; slavery was dead.
| Both were buried beyond the reach of any
resurrecting power No man could now
seek to revive them without receiving an
instant and overwhelming rebuke. But
| the question whether the southern Baptist
/ convention should exist had never been
submitted to the arbtrament of war; it
was not mentioned in the terms of the sur
render. No political significance should
be ascribed to the perpetuation of this
| body Its existence was continued because
if the two wings of the~Baptist church
We're consolidated the organization would
| be unweldy
In conclusion Mr.. Hawthorne referred
| feelingly to the negro question in the
( south. He said:
| II indulge in no extravaganza of speech
| when say to you that if you do not save
| the negroes they will destroy you. If they
were allowed to lapse into barbarism we
| shall be forced to use barbaric methods &c
protect ourselves, and l had rather see
this country from ocean to ocean and
from lake to gulf sink thousand fatn
oms deep than see such a reign of diabol
ism.
81 know as much of the solution of the
negro problem as any living man. he
continued, that is nothing at all. can
not even approximate solution. But
do know that the negro has a human body
and human soul; that he was descended
from the first pair, and that he is one oi
the sinners for whom Christ shed his atom
ing blood. Millions of them have sought
and found Christ, and have gone down tC
their graves with the shout of victory OF
their lips. A Chris tian negro is like
Christian white man, and whether he ul
timately goes south to Mexico or Soutl
America, or crosses the seas to the land OF
his fathers, so long as he is here in daily
contact with us our own security anC
peace of mind and the welfare of the state
as well as of our sacred obligations tt
God, demand that we shall give him tn,
gospel of Christ"