The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-18
IN The WRONG PEW.
Mrs. w n. FELTON,, ef Georgia,
Talks Righe Our.

Talks Right Our.
SOUTHERN METHoDlsTS
Forced to Hear Soma Unpleasant
Things Said About Thsir
Section and It's
Psopls.
Understanding as I do the excessive
bitterness of many English people to.
wards the south, I watched with con-
siderable irtereat for the first discus
sions at the Ecumenical council attend
ed by the followers Of John Wesley
from all over the civilized world. This
Ecumenical council is now in session in
the city of L,rdoa. The meetings sre
held in building which is intimately
associated with the active work Of Rev.
John Wesley during his noted career.
To this spot the hundreds Of dele
gates we're attracted and q program had
been arranged covering every hour Of
the entire session of ten days or two
Weeks.
Some Geo-gians are supposed to be
present and Bishop Gallsway preached
the opening sermon by Invitation Of the
committee on program. He IS south
ern Methodist bishop
So far, 80 good. Bishop Gallsway
preached his eermon a. 4 few hours
later negro bishop from the state Of
New Jersey took occasion to enouDce
the southern states as faVoring lynch
ers and persecutirr pegroes. This ne
gro bishop from NsH Jersey declared
that ninety negroes we're lynched 10
the southern states during the year
1900, and only eleven were found guilty
Of assault on the persons Of white
women.
The Britons cheered the negro bishop
to the echo and it is reported that a
good many southern delegates left the
building in disgust.
With the lights before me I respect
fully assume that the southern men
found themselves in the wrong pew.
and unless there is courage enough
uncovered in the southern delegation
to tell in detail of the Lss7epWorth
affair, the Akron massacre and the hos
tility Of dozens Of other localities in
the north and west to negroes, here
declare that our southern delegation
would do we'll to shake of the dust Of
Lordon and leave the negro bishop and
British negropholists to close comuu-
MON and racial sympathy without ut
tering another word in that presence.
Those who erjoy being kicked about
by British fanatics, led by negro
bishops, may Of course endure the kick
ing exercise, but I protest they have
ceased to be representative men from
Southern Methodist church if they fsil
to reply in strorg words to the Ne"
jersey negro, whose poses az = bishop,
before the Ecumenical conference.
The story told By the negro bishop IS
to tie number of rapists as before sta
ted, is palpsble mistake, to speak re-
epeetfully Of his utterapcss. Such
speakers as this negro bishop are among
the informers who have padded" the
reports Of the Howard association Of
London With falsehoods OF vicious mag
nitude in regard TO the excessive bru-
tslity Of the southern white men Of our
country towards the southern negroes.
And it is such cunning, crafty pre-.
yaricators who withhold all mention Of
the burning alive Of negro rspists in
northern and western states.
The same crime brings the same pun
ishment wherever white men are brave
enough to protect their own women
from violence and rspiue. And I
measure my words in the sight Of
heaven, and in hearing Of the Eoumen-
ical council, if need be; Shen l say it
is a sorry white man, unworthy Of the
name, that will refuse to punish the
black fend with quick and commensu-
rate punishment that has thus destroyed
his innocent daughter or wife on the
public highway or in her own bone.
1t nskos every drop of blood in my
anatomy tingle with Indignation to hear
of these apologists for rape fends, on
this or on the other side Of the Allan
tic ocesn.
Il passes understanding that the ra-
piss's victim irds nc sympathy among
such 60 called religionisss as cheered
the reero bishop over yonder IN the
city Of London.
Woman IS l am, I'd tell that crowd
of pietists few wholesome truths in
the presence Of the entire body Of dele
gates, or d wash my hands Of the con-
cern, and secede from the organization
quicker than you could ssy Jack Rob-
inson."
I'd tell the story of the Georgia wo-
man, we'll educated, the happy wife
and mother Of four children, in her own
home, at peace with all the world and
trying to do her duty to her Maker,
who was outraged for hours beside the
weltering, bloody body Of her murdered
husband, in the presence Of her o7n
young daughters, and I would ask that
ec1menicsl council to name the pun
isbment that would meet the indignity
and inhumanity Of the situstion. They
should reply, or the town Of London
would not be big enough to hold US to-
gether in So called meeting of preach
ers and official laymen of the Metho-
dist followers Of John Wesley.
After their applause Of the words Of
the negro bishop, that body Of Metho'
dists should hear the truth in plain
lar guage, or southern delegates should
eollo-obio aootbar