The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-18
EpWOrIh Leaguers at Detroit
 Are Enthusiastic
RACE QUESTION DISCUSSED
Ministers From Various Parts of the Country Give Their Views of the Negro and What Christi
 anity Owes HIm.

Detroit, July 17.-Beginning with watch service at 6:SO o'clock this morning, today's programme for the Epworth Leaguers who are attending the sixth international convention of the league. comprised twelve meetings during the day and evening. Despite the early hour there was a good attendance at the morning watch, which was presided over by the Rev. B. Towne of GreenCastle, Ind, in the Central M. D. church.
 At o'clock four departmental meetings began which occupied the rest of the morning. They were on spiritual work in the Central M. E. church, missionary work, junior work. literary work and so- cial work.
 The general topic of the three afternoon meetings in Epworth Auditorium Tent Ontario, and the Detroit opera house was witnessing" The same programmes were followed at each meeting.
 Subject Discussed.
 Following are the subjects discussed:
 "The Epworth League and Personal Testimony" The Epworth League and Our Unsaved Associates" "The Epworth League and the Indifferent Multitude" and The Epworth League and the Boy Problem"
 The Rev. George A. Hough of Los An geles discussed "The Epworth League and the Boy Problem at the Auditorium Epworth meeting.
 There was no lessening of enthusiasm among the Epworth leaguers at night, and Tent Ontario, Auditorium Epworth, the Detroit opera house and Central M. E. church. where tonights meetings were held, were crowded agaiu.
 The Field Near at Hand" The Field Far Away and My Part in the Worlds Evangelization" were the topics of the evening at all four meetings.
 pr. HamiII on Negro.
 Dr. H. M Hamill of Nashville talked on "The Field Near at Hand" at the tent meeting, and in his address referred to the negro question. We have made the negro" he said, thing to be batted to and fro by political parties. and we have forgotten his religion in a large measure. What we need Is to spend more time in putting the grace of Christ in the hearts of the black people. What we need to do to solve the negro problem is to transform any instinct of savagery that may exist in the few of that race, in order to stop the lighting of faggots and the raising of stakes. It Is our only hope. And when you of the north write resolu- tions condemning mob law, remember that 1t is not Methodist hands that pull the ropes and light the fires"
 fHa French of Chattanooga made the ad- dress on '"The Field at Home" He said:
 Our cities are the great problem. Here are the rich and the poor, the native and the foreign-born, the black and white in closest proximity very different kinds of soil which must be worked in different ways. The most neglected peo- pie on earth today are the rich men and women of our cities, and we need, while laying plans for the elevation of the submerged tenth, .more truthfully the nine-tenths, to remember that to all the Masters words are applicable, 'Ye must be born again..
 City missionaries, deaconnesses and institutional churches will go a long way if used plentifully."
 Race Question Further Discussed.
 In the Auditorium Epworth Rev. M L. Waldrup of Benton, Ark, was chairman and Rev. A. B. Leonard of New York spoke on The Field Far Away" Re- ferring to the negro question. he said:
 Whether 1t be Englishman, Frenchman, Turk, German or Portuguese that makes conquests in Africa. the African is his helpless victim Nor is America free from the shame and sin of expressing and cruelty treating the children of Ham, Brought here without their consent as human merchandise, liberated after two centuries of slavery by the exigencies of war they are now outcasts socially and politically and often denied the right of trial by jury. they are shot or hanged or burned at the stake. both in the north and in the south. American Christians must see to 1t that the negro shall have a fair In ho ra., 1.f1 If. A