Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-02-26

Ane estimate value OF the church prop
erty OF the colored Bsptisss is 50 .OS2
6Sf. The estimated value of the A M
T. Church is about seven million dol
lars.
One million, tive hundred thousans
is said TO be the number OF the col orec
baptlsts- According to such there are
S6S'4oO more colored Baptists tn al
members of the A. NJ. E. Church ac
cording to such the A NJ E. Church il
the richest, for the wealth of the col
ored Baptists is not in proportion
TO their numbers. The value OF she
church property of all the eolored
Methodists is 1850. .780 with total
membership of 1 .O24 .548. All the col
orsd Methodists owning $868, ,143 worth
more OF church property than do all oi
the colored Bsptists.
What il the A M e Church is the
grandest Negro religious organization
IN the world? Does she not deserve il?
She has been forging ahead for mi
nence, while csiOred Baptists have
been splitting churches, dividing and
suD-dividiug into churches. asso cia-
t0ne and conventions, subsisting on the
white mans brain and money.
A DIsrISoTIvE coLoRED ORGANIZATION.
The A. M Z Church has come along
as distinctive colored organization
coiored man on deck as captain, a
coiored man at the wheel as pilot, a
colored man at the engine holding the
throttle valve, a coiored man at the
furnace managing the fires to create
steam
Her title shows she is distinctively
colored- She is by no n cans der end
ent upon white Nethodists, or borrow
from them leave to be.
Many colored Baptists can only
move at the approval of certain white
baptists. Some white Baptisss con-
troll some associations and conventions
among colored Bsptists. No white
Methodist has controlling inf uence
over the conferences, annual or gener-
al OF the A. NJ e. Church, We know
OF no parasites in the A. NJ. K Church
Are not the woods full OF PARASITES
among the colored -Baptists? They
subsist on white Baptist brain and
money. No independence about them.
They swallow at one gulp the whit.
mans camel, but strain at the black
mans gnat.
THE BAPTIST PARASITES.
OF ali that has been written or said
against what you wrote of the A. NJ. +
Church i have not seen anything dis
u.
that the more they, discuss the subject
the more is seen of the disunion. un-
business tact and parasitical position
OF the colored- Baptis.s, that many OF
them are penny-wise and found foolish
The idea OF owing $4,000 on a colored
Baptist Seminary and yet going to
found University at cost of half
million dollars. The American Ban
tist Home Mission Monthly saws.
= Half of a million dollars will equip
University" If the colored Baptist
cannot raise $4,000 to pay of the debt
on their Seminary. how can they raise |
1000 COO to equip a University. and \
hold 1t fee-simple and maintain IL? I 1
mention this that you may see the dif
ference in the hrain of the A NJ. I.
Church and the brain of some colored /
Baptists.
ooLoEED MEN OWN KvERYrHINo.
Everything of the A. NJ. e Church.
her conferences, her book concern. her
paper, her review, Der book Of discip
line, her hymn book, her schools, her
all are under the supervision. manag.
ment, compilation, control of colored
men of African descent.
Men i'm the A. M e Church obtain
position from the nation, not only be |
sause of their fitness, but because their
brethren do not knife" them to keep
hem from such. Many coIored Bap-
'lsts are SO filled with envy and jeal-
,usy that before they will allow one OF
heir number to obtain a government
position of prominence, or become an
eminent leader, they will sell him TO
he Ishmaelites, cruelty him or stone
llm to death, preferring at any time a
shlte Barrabas TO a colored leader of
and acceptability.
sCATHING REBUKE.
AS it regards to your endeavoring to
'e religious as well as secular. Ali
'ood, first class newspapers give secu-
ar and religious news. Some persons
re so amphibtious and hermophrodi-
nc, that they think everybody else
5 so.
We all know of colored religious pa
ers. that give as much, If not more,
ocular matter in editorials, clippings.
nd correspondence than they do re-
igious. Their correspondents is are far
rom being religious and they write
yer names more becoming to the Po-
ice Gazette than a religious paper. Last
Hmmer colored religious paper kept |
standing advertisement for Sunday
Thou hypocrite, pull the
cam out of thine own eye, then thou
anst see clearly to pull the mote out
by brothers eye
Let the colored Baptists cease fight
Dg each other, exercise more indie !
endence, not think that because they
lay have been beneficiaries, white
IAN educated them. that we must not ,
o anything for ourselves. but show ,
ur faith by our works, not by our :
ak, for talk is cheap then we can be- !
ONE grand, grander, grandest.
PLANErARIAN. :