Richmond planet., 1898-04-23

homes. What has been done about it7
Have any lynchers been punished? las
the Presidents of the United Ststes or
Congress done anything about such
What is the Republican party doing to
give the colored Americans white
mans chance7 Yet colored men will
move heaven and earth to put the par
ty in power After il has obtained the
reinE Of government. what does it do
for the colored man2
We should take heed to what DR.. r.
Spiller says in his appeal to the Baptist
Brotherhood, in the Virginia Baptist
of the 10th inst. He says: Brethren
we can not afford to allow our feelings
TO get away with US to such an extent
as TO cause US TO say things which re-
fleet upon the intelligence of our Mate
Board and also our General Mission
ary."
A Petersburg pastor CD in the Vir-
ginia Baptist of she 9th inst. virtually
charges the said Board with putting
reed sycophant in charge of the great
work The said Board acts in con-
| junction with the Southern Baptist
! Conventions. the General Baptist AS
sociatisns Of Virginia and the AmerI-
can Baptist Home Mission Society,
therefore all four are virtually charged
with putting into the field as a General
Missionary. a servile hatterer, para
site. an informer or accuser. living
barely at the expense of another per-
son
There is too much pugilism in some
brethren in the ministry. They have
got up by self exultstion. They need
TO be taken down at least '-hutton
hole lower" / understand Brother
Lewis is prepared to prove all he said
about the New Era Institute in Peters
burg.
a writer in q religious contemporary
who signs himself "Layman" says I'VE
know too little of each other, and that
little imperfectlY." Before hs closed
his article he seemed 20 know great
deal about the colored peoplS. especi-
ally about their churches and minis
ters. He says, "rhe people hAVs no
definite Biblical knowledge. no posi-
lively defined ideas of the distinctive
doctrines of their denominations, no
conception as to wherein their polity
ldiffers from that of other denomina-
tions." Somebody" he says, has
not done his duty" That is a fact un-
,deniable. There has been ana is a
Theological Seminary, and other
schools in this state. say for a quarter
of u century Numbers of Missionaries
} have been sent out. The paper in
which the Eayman writes, Is four
years old. and yet we are told that
the conditions of the colored people
especially the cSlored Baptist is de-
! plorable.
Some colored religious papers, and
their writer's therein seem to ake
Lleasure in making sport and ridicult
of churches that have some spirit
some emotion, and some enthusiasm
about them. They seem to want uD'
: spiritual, Unconditional, unenthusiasti-
cal. dead, graveyard churches. They
ought to Join some fashionable white
church. where the still small voice pre-
: walls, and the Travelling brings forth 1
Z mouse.
No wonder some colored papers anC
preachers do not financially succeed
. because they are always throwing
: stones at the churches and brethreI
. whom they call "illiterate." Ask hon
= est, upright. judicious deacons, whC
y do not want to be ministers OF the gos
pei, govern churches, or dictate Il
pastors, when they shall open and close
their services, and they viii tell yoV
!, that it is the spiritual, emotional, en-
4 thusiastic 'illiterate" brethren anC
y sisters who maintain, sustain, keep nj
the churches, and their pastors by at
tendance and financially. The ele
ment to whom ''Layman" seems t
: belong are strangers to prayer-meet
: ings and do not give the churche
enough money to enable Uacle Sam t.
buy a steam launch to meet the Span
4 ish fotilla.