Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-02-19

We simply wish to live on better terms
With them by getting out OF their sun
hine. We purpose to MAKE sunshine
or ourselves.
IL was in 1892 that the Rev. J H.
Frank, ID. D., OF Louisville. Ky, offer
ID resolutions looking TO the beginning |
81 this work. The National Convention /
that year held its session in Savannah,
Georgia, in that great church of over
5000 members pastored by the same K.
K. Love, ID. D., whose Sunday School
article had been laid aside in Difference
to race prejudise.
TIE ORIGINATOR OF THE MovENES~-
DR.. Franks resolution preambularily
set forth the creation Of Baptist Pub
LEGATION and Book Concern as a necessi-
ty; that intellectually and financially
we had the ability; that So great de-
nomination we should never attain Co
responsibility while our literary pro-
auctions are left unfinished, our work
disorganized and left TO our friends
optionary prosecution and that since
much literary work. the production of
members OF our denomination, OF mer-
it and worth, was then unpublished
and therefore was loss to the denom-
nation, it was resolved to appoint
committee composed of one member
each representing all the states and
territories there represented, with i've
committeeman at large. to proceed 60
effect plans, organize and establish the
Negro Baptist Publishing House. This
was done in the year 1892 at Savannah,
Georgia. The National Convention
met in 1898 in Washington. ID. Q with
the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church,
Rev. W. Lee, ID. D., pastor. Here
again the Convex tiOn ratified, req fdrm
ed and reendorsed the proposed
scheme. In 1894 the Convention met
in Montgomery. Alabama. No practi-
csl work had as vet been done. But Rev
r II. Boyd, D D., the undsunted Sec
rotary of our Publishing House, offer
ed a resolution TO the effect that the
work must commence il they had to be-
gin through the columns OF newspapers
or in pamphlets. After some discus
sion and modification the proposition
was adopted. Yet no work was done
that year. Agitation, comment, Bit
terest opposition and direst threaten
ings pregnant with impending calami-
tous results darkened the heavens
But the time had come. Our white
benefsctors had taught us to oe MEN,
not pygmies; the clash OF 81 ms, the
rafting fire Of musketry and the aw-
| full tbunders of contending cannonades
siQnified the Negroes political destiny
not in the sense of ward or depend
emit babe, but either as . MAN or q
SLAVE
THE SCHOOLS TAUGHT Us.
That is what the Christian schools
have taught US. that is what she white
/ friends of the North mean when they
say the black man must help himself
| We are free, we are citizens. Shall
we not rise in the strength and might
of our power and demonstrate to the
world that our emancipation was not
a mistaken A thousand time has II
been Wanted to the thoughtful world
that the Negroes only hope OF progress
is under the dlrectOrship OF the white
man that left to himself retrogressior
to barbarity, not to say saveragery II
sure and certain. Shall the leading
Negroes make such a monstrous asser'
ton true in their inability 20 conduct 4
missionary society or run a Sunday
School publishing house? We say no
A thousand times mol We are sue
ceeding; we will continue to succeed.
We said that the year 1894 passed
away with no tangible results in th'
way of putting into execution DR.
Bovd's proposition. The year 1S9
came CD. and the National ConventieI
met in Atlanta. Up TO this time on
National gathering was triple in organ
ic constituency Three conventions il
une-the Foreign Mission, the Ameri
can National Baptist and the Nationa
: Baptist Educational Conventions. A
that session all three consolidated int
the National Baptist Convention witt
three boards through which TO do thei
work. The Home Mission Board locat
ed at Little Book. Ark was given tn
work of publishing our Sunday SchoO
literature. Another year passed ant
for obvious reasons no work was done
THE WORK AT ST. LOUIS.
The convention met in 1895 at 81
Louis, Mo. A committee was agai
appointed to begin the publications b
been so many bitches and DELAYS unit
the opposers began to say. those Ne
groes are not going TO do anything
. But the old Negro did wake up of tn
bale OF cotton, and he did do some
{ thing. He is at it now. The HON
Beard appointed from it's number
Publishing Board as follows: Revl
6. w. Gaines, ]. Jeter, Little Rocl
+, Ark G. M Moore, Georgetown, KY
f. E r Carter, ID. d, Atlanta, Ga. +
2 II. Boyd, ID. D., San Antonio, Texas
and elected Rev. E. q. Morris, d. d
Helena, Ark, as Editor-in-chief of tn
Sunday School series This Board pro
ceeded with its work beginning Jar
p uary l, 1897, with the following ev
, dences of success by the time our Ma
. tional Convention met in Boston Sci
TENDER. 1897 about eight months