Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-03-09
RBV. DR.. JOHNSON
AND DR.. MORGAN
The American Baptist Home
Mission Society's Work.
Money OF the Oolored Bsptists. Wishes
to Get Credit. A Oaustic Article.
RAIr1,nnr Nh Mar,

tent1on TO some thing. DE-. L. ]. Nor
gan has to say in the February number
OF the University Journal For 1 cor.
slider that they need so be noticed, es
Pecisl)y on account of their mislesd-
ing tendency, IL not design; and ]
~ ust gay, tn. y sre greatly calculated
oOth TO mislesd, and deceive. So
re note some Of the things she Doc
tor has to soy.
He says:
"It 10 DOW nearly forty years since
the beginning Of the late civil war.
TIE OPENING auH AT suxrnR.
The opening gun at Sumter was
the death knell Co American slavery
IL sailed anew race into being and
summer cd the American people 70 Few
Soties and respon sibilisiee.
he American B ptist Home Mission
S)etety was one of the first Northern
organisations 60 respond 60 this new
call
1t may be worth while as we enter
upon . new century to look back upon
nearly four decades. and recall briefly
what the society has doRe for 1.-THE Ne
gro Baptists Of the South"
But the Doctor lesves out entirely
the important fact. that . great many
OF ne are, and have been members OF
the society, and that We have been
from its very earliest work among us,
20 the present, not heneficiaries, bet
bepefsceors; for the class Of persons
ana members OF whom / now speak,
were never pensioners on the bounty
OF the society. but helpers Co It's great
work, end 90 have been aidt to its
progress and succeEs.
NONE NOTICED.
Yet none Of these facts does Doctor
Morgan notice,-no. he does not even
hins &C them Deither does he tell the
public whom he so readily takes into
his confidence. Of the thousands upon
thousands OF collections taken In our
churches, all over this country, for
these forty years upon wbich he so
kindly calls ne TO look back. And
neither does he tell of the hundreds OF
thousands OF dollars at were gather
ed in those collections and sent on to
the society in New York, and yet, he
makes great professions of fair and
honest dealings with and for us.
DIR. Morgan, where are the records
OF amounts of money the society has
been collecting from our churches,
II
all these years For the society has
been the custodian of our money we
sent them, and the secretaries Of the
| society have been our book keepers.
| We call for this because the society
has kept strict account year after
year, Of every dollar and cent paid on
! TO our account, and proper book kept
| ing calls for o credit as well as debit
| side. Now will the society render Us
/ an account Of the money benefit, we.
90 colored Bapiists have been TO 1, ?
We wait to see.
oibE TO THEIR AID.
In further speaking of the suciety's
| work. he says: ST came TO their id
even before their shsckles were struck
from iheir lin bs. while they were vet
in bondage, poor, helpless and despis-
ee, ard during all the years that have
| gone by since, it has been their fast
srd unfsiling friend. It has PLAYED
the part OF q good Samaritan. It has
supported among them O body Of de-
vout, consecrated, self sacrificing, in
itelligent, sympstbeti heroic men and
! women, like Upper, King, Tefft, Cor
ey, Miss Packard and othere, who have
given their lives unreservedly in their
behalf"
The statements Just quoted from Dr..
inorganic article will give the reader
an idea OF the misleading and decep
tive character OF the Doctors paper I;
for it makes it appear that the friends
who came to US in the time of our
great need and distress. did go uncall-
ed and unsept. just as the Samaritan
did to the man who bad fallen among
thieves, when the fact IL, they were,
and are the employees OF q great COR
poration which is paying them suien-
old salaries, and has given them posi-
tions for life.
DRAWS A CONCLUSION.
Do you see. Feaderl The Samaritan
CHANGED to come upon the wound ed
man so was not sent. The Samari.
tan took his own money and helped
the wounded man. end did not beg it
from the wounded mans race and then
give IL back to him, and make it ap-
pear that he himself, had made great
personal ascrifcs, for his comfort and
relief. Bat the Home mission Society
has been begging money from as. the
wounded msn-and giving it back 60
ue In annual indictments, but taking
~~S~es ~ AsoCAA oAG
none Whatever.
THE QUESTIONS TO BIZ AHswrRxD.
IL this fair 2 Il Il hossst Il It lust
to as as race OF people who have .
record TO make ia the world, yes, and
that toe against the greatest odds any
people have ever had to make.
But what does the Doctor mean by
the followingf Does he not know the
force Of the language he uses, or 10 he
dealing with his subject thouRhtlessly
and recklessly :
Hear what he says:
ut has encouraged them in every
possible way Ia their Efforts at self
help. More than half the schools aid
ed by the society have Negro trustees,
Negro faculties; are owned and CON.
trolled BY the Negroes absolutely with
DO interference or dietation from the
Society. Il has eheerished Q peculiar
sffection for these independents Efforts
OF the Negroes 70 establish, develop
and maintain their own schools Il
has provided expert superintendent