The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-05-12
The Colored Baptist Convention.


This great representative body o
the colored Baptists in this State held
their annual convention in the colored
Baptist church, this city, during last
week. The representation was pro
badly three hundred delegates or
more. They were as q body O very sub
stantial and respectable people, and
among them q large number Of edu-
Gated intelligent ministers. Engaged
throughout the United States In the
educational and mission work OF the
colored church were representatives OF
ability and e~arnestness. An hour spent
watching their deliberations impressed
us that the negro in the South Is max
Ing progress--and he must climb the
ascent towards civilization with in
State is now giving him in liberal
educational appropriations. We take
1t that the negro problem, as it is
called, will be worked out slowly, in
the next two centuries, and under pres
emit conditions few OF us will be here to
bear witness to the solution.
At the convention we heard several
mulattoes discuss right ably the mat
tiers before the body; we were anxious
to hear a specimen Of the coal black,
genuine African type, but were dis
appolnteu' NOV. y. L. prOcklnBtOn,
quite dark, of Darlington, presided
had to handle it with much industry,
as these son Of Africa. are initiative
OF the whites, in their deliberative
bodies, as VIGOROUSLY elsewhere. A
dozen would be on legs at ono and
clamoring for q hearing. Points of
order and parliamentary tactics we're
much resOrted to-. The Methodists of
the colored church rendered it's use to
the body during its sessions.
Among the we'll known characters
attending we met Jenkins of the col
ored o%rphanage and school in Charles
ton. He will be remembered as the
negro, who carried fourteen of his lit
tie blacks to London during last sum
mer and undertook to give concerts
and other entertainments in the streets
OF that city. But the police of that
city thought otherwise and the result
was the whole band was stranded and
helpless on q "foreign Shore" How
ever the people of that country. know
ing the problem was O difficult one
here, raised the necessary funds, and
packed them off to their sunny homes
in the South--the cotton and the rice
fields
This is the country,
Where the negro,
And the cotton hoe,
Go.
Carroll, q bright young mulatto, is
also here. He represents some publi-
cation society of Sunday School litera-
ture. Carroll will be remembered as
the negro who called on Gov. Tillman
at his home and interviewed him some
years ago or SO, and published the in
terview all over the country. The ne
gro is an enthusiast in his religion
Whoever heard of a negro ATHEIST or
agnostic d. Bob Ingersoll. This, it
must be allowed, is u strong element
towards progress and final elevation in
morals and with moral development
must come gradual civilization. One
thing; writer's and statisticians + &,
constantly arraying the property on
which negroes are paying taxes. They
are probably eight millions in the
years of freedom. Their property
holdings even under the conditions ex-
listing are not large. They are not q
thrifty race and not inclined to save. 1t
must be set down as a fact that modern
civilization is based on the talent for
shekels and the negro car never figure
as a social, moral or political factor
until he has learned the lesson of get
ting hold of. dollar and making it do
the work of human hands. The white
people of this generation, North and
South, meaning to be the dominant
race and dominate the civilization of
this country will aid the negro in
moral and material progress.
AT 5 p. NJ. Friday a collation. vas
served to the delegates by the co]ored
people of the town, with pleasant so.
cial features and thanks extended to
the city for its Inequalities.
Make Yourself Strong
If you would resist pneumonia,
bronchitis, typhoid fever, and per-