Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-12-08
1.-THE NEW ROUTE ]" THE SUBJECT OF AN ABLE LECTURE BY BISHOP
 DERRICK. Wherein He Tells the Negro Race That They Can Rise Only by Merit, and ifThey WOuI Keep Pace With the Times, Must be
 Moral, EcOnOm-
 icaI and In-
 telIigent.


 Church, delivered free lecture at St. Johns A. M. E. Church last (Monday) night to large audience of colored people, among whom were several white citizens.
 The subject of the distinguished Bishops lecture was the New Route, wherein the Bishop tells his people of q New Route" for the fu- tare-the twentieth century-where the train of ears is drawn up at the depot and only those can get on board who are moral, industrious and intelligent, and that fl the ne- gro race is to prosperuin the future it must turn it's back to the past and adopt a new standard of morals, manners and methods. The present condition he regards as crucial one for the negro race. The great advocates of the eolored man Charles Sumner, Abraham Lincoln, Scyler Cofax and other great aboH- tionists-are dead and the negro race, the Bishop claimed, is now forced to rely OH their own resourc- es. Therefore the colored race must raise up men out of their own ranks who will command the respect of their brethren, white and c0lored, by their moral excellence, business sagacity and intelligence.
 What the negro race needs, thought the Bishop, $ an industrial ducation-hands and brains train ed to perform skilled labor That education which makes idle dudes out of the boys and lazy and useless society women out of the girls was a detriment to the race Education is only of value when it teaches men and women to be useful. Education should not spoil the eoored race for industrious handiwork, but should teach the men to be better farmers, mechanics and artisans, and the women to be industrious seamstress- es, expert cooks or intelligent teach CTS.
 The Bishop also urged upon his race to have less sympathy for law Iessness. The guilty black and the guilty white should be alike punish ed, and the black race should be as ready to punish 8 negro culprit as a white maIefactor. The colored race, he continued, could not gain the full confidence and respect of the white man until they become moral and industrious citizens and the champ ions of peace, law and order. The South is the home of the black man, he continued, and the prosperity of the black man is the prosperity of the white man, and the prosperity of the white man is the prosperity of the colored man. He therefore urged them to stand together in the common bond of citizenship for the upbuiIding and advancement of a common country
 He also urged upon his people to be frugal and economical and buy homes for themselves. This, he said, was the first step to happiness and good citizenship.
 The GRAPHIC in the limits of this article cannot give a full account of the Bishops most able and excellent address, but an idea of the trend of his thoughts and the tenor of his re- marks can be gained from the synopsis given above. The Bishops address was full of the truth, pre- sented without fear or favor, and he inculcated into the minds of his hearers a wholesome and beneficial philosophy, that, we trust, will re- dound to the advantage of the color race in this community. The colored ed man can advance in the scale of civilization and in material prosperi- ty only along the lines laid down by the Bishop. Their growth has been retarded in the past by the lack of knowledge of these truths, and it must be gratifying to all lovers of their country to know that there is one among them who knows the philosophy of their advancement and the conditions they must con- front, and dares to tell if to them in language that cannot be misunder- stood
 We wish that the Bishop would deliver his lecture in every village and hamlet in the South. The doc trines he breaches are sound and wholesome, and when the truths he teaches are put into practice, the condition of the South will be i'm measurably improved.