The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-06
NEWS OF CENTRAL CITY
FAREWELL SERVICES TO LUCIUs
DeYAMPERT.
Young Selma Negro Who Goes as a
Missionary to the Congo Coan-
try-Meeting of the
Dallas Committee.
Advertiser Bureau.

Selma, August 5.
a farewell service to Lucius De Yam
pert was held at the Presbyterian Mis-
sion. colored, in this city Sunday last.
'DeYampert is a young colored man who
has been educated at the Tuscaloosa The
ological institute and is sent as a mis-
sionafy to the Congo by the First Pres
byterian Church of Selma. He has been
preparing for this work for. the past seven
years and is most thoroughly equipped
for missionary. taking course in mod
ioine besides his theological and literary
courses.
Rev. S. p Werner of South Carolina.
who spent three and half years in The
Congo country was here and delivered an
address on the occasion. air Verher nus
filled the pulpit of the First PresDy tcrltn
Church in this city, and all remember
his splendid description of the heart Of
Africa.
Mr. Werner gives Senator Morgan great
credit for the grand work that is noH
being done in Christianizing the Congo
country, for it was General Morgan who
took so much interest in Rev. Sam Laps
ley. who went out from Selma and was
the first missionary TO the Congo and
whose body now lies at the mouth Of the
great river that drains the Congo basin.
General Morgan gave Rev. Sam Lapsiey
letters of introduction to the King OF Bel
gium under whose authority the Congo
country is governed, and when he came
introduced by such a man as Alabanta'S
senior Senator, the ruler of Belgium
showed him every courtesy. Mr.. Werner
carried Virginia craper to Africa and
planted it on the grave of Mr.. Lapsley
and he says that when he saw IL last it
was growing beautifully.
Perhaps the most remarkable feature of
the occa sion were the responses to the adj
dresses of the Rev. s. p. Werner and w.
r. AAkins, of this city, who has been SO
largely instrumental in founding and con-
Quoting that mission, by Lucius DE Yam
pert and two other colored men of that
mission, J. w. Lee. who now succeeds
BeYampert as pastor of the mission. and
John Ford, a negro man Of the ante-bel-
lum type, who is an elder in that church.
Lee has been a student in the Sulman
Institute at Tuscaloosa and in his speech
earnestly urged his people to conduct
themselves so as to conciliatS the white
people among whom they lived in the
South. He said that he knew that the
Christian Southern white people We're the
best friends the negroes had. Mr.. Werner
in his address had pointed out the inevi-
table domination of the Anglo-SaxOn race
over all the other races Of the world aud
showed the colored people in the audience
how they must submit to that domina-
ton and seek to merit the favor of the
controlling race or their own race might
eventually disappear, as all other weaker
races have in time. TO this the colored
speakers responded IN the most emphatic
declaration Of their intention to teach
their people 10 live so that the white race
would have every reason to care for and
protect them.
John Ford, the gray-haired Old Cider
responding to Mr.. Atkins's statement
chat the hand Of God had been marvel
ously exhibited in this work reminded De
Yampert that the voice of the Lord had
sent Jonah to preach TO the heathen a
long time ago and taking the young mis-
sionary by the shoulder said; NOV. Lu-
cius. don't you be no Jonah; stand fast
in the liberty wherewith God hath sol
you free" In the beginning the old mans
speech convulsed the audience but in the
end left many of them, including the
White men, almost in tears.
The advise that the older colorcd men
gave to De Yampert and, indeed. to All
OF the younger negroes. was most happy
in the emphasis they gave 10 tha necessity
of their living deceaus and I'm full sub
mission to the b st interests of the white
people of the South. Indeed, this seemed
10 be the keynote Of much that was sad.
DE Yampert himself EXPRESSED tie high
est gratitude to the generous white peo-
pie of Selma who have educated HIM and
are going 10 support him entirely in
Africa.
De Yampert himself is quite a remark
able specimen Of his race. He Is coal
black Negro Of the most clear-cut African
type, tall. slender With large, expressive
eyes and much more nervous force and
mental activity than is usual in his race.
tie used good English and spoke with ami
lnatiCn, eXh,b ting a lively sense of hui
NOR, with tar pathetic Following close af-
Ter some Of his broadcast sallies.
De Yarnpert will travel ten Thousand
miles before the 1st of December next.
when h will have arrived at Lucbo. on
the Lulua River, in the heart of the Dark
Continent, over a Thousand miles nom
he coast. He does not expect to tlrn
for many years. He goes to a Tricky
settled district of the Baiuba and Bakuba
tribes. in a bout longitude p east and lSti-
tude s, south. The temper allure in lis
home varies from 50 in june to TO in
December. but the elevation is oyeN 2.03)
feet above the sea and the experience OF
his cOlored predecessors in the work
would indicate that lie will enjoy as good
health there as in Alabama. IT is possi-
Die that this work may lead 70 a cunelG-
erabla movement Of some of the Amcri-
can negroes to the land Of their origin.
as they are ia many ways better fitted Tor
such work in The TOPICAL parts of Africa
man any other pcapla.
Mr. Vcrlcr save that for many ccatu-
r!te ancient % ! 1 cal org aiz4ti MS have
been maintained whe he lablrcd ard
VII r. De NampeIt Is going. Some Alrl-
can chicftains or kings rule over sew
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