The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-05-20
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Made by Dr.. Parkhurst. of New York.
in Atlanta.
TOUCH ON RACE QUESTION.
Says In Plain Language That the
North Made :; Great Mistake
in Making Negroes


in Making Negroes
Citizens.
The Atlanta Journal say a large
crowd heard DR.. Charles H. Park
hurst. of New York, deliver mag
nihcent sermon Sunday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock at the Baptist Tabernacle.
1t was tine conference sermon preach
ed to the delegates to the National
Conference of Charities and Correction
but there were many Atlantians there
in addition to the conference delegates
and the Tabernacle was crowded to
overfiowing.
DR.. Parkhurst took as his text the
fifteenth verse of the fifth chapter Of
st. Mark, read as follows:
And they came to Jesus and saw
him that was possessed with the
devil. and had the legion, sitting and
clothed and in his right mind"
Dr.. Parkhurst spoke in part as fol-
lows:
1--WE are met here in conference,
not in the interest of tenement reform
primarily, but in the interest Of ten
ant reform.
"There is strong incentive in the
fact that to wbiten and sweeten the
condition of man is an enterprise so
full Of large appeal that even Almighty
God moved upon his throne in re-
spouse to the appeal, opened personal
communication with the race, and
made man Of Himself that He might
make small Gods OF US.
The vermicular theory that we
give expression to when we sing such
hymns as % What a Worthless Worm
Am l does not square with the mis-
toric fact OF Calvary. God does not
die for grubs or echionderms.
No man can do great work who is
not impressed with the magniticence
of the material he is working in.
''Of course there are specimens OF
hulnaniJy--sick specimens, crazy
specimens, horribly deprayed speci-
mems, Afforded specimens, specimens
that are a prophecy only, with nc
prospect Of tulillment, that are an
awful Encouragement. In our dis
cussions together you will have good
deal Of this kind Of Encouragement tc
encounter.
But there is always great deal
left that includes thoughtfulness, and
with regard to any questionable resi-
due, want to adduce this principle
Of judgment and measurement that
we shall estimate men by the stand
ard of the hest. not the poorest.
What We du professionally never
enters into the personal life Of the in
dividual or the community that we
do it to. A reformer who reforms in
his capacity as reformer defeats his
own purposes: SO OF teacher,
preacher, humanitarian in any line.
Christ would have done nothing to-
ward saving the world if he had been
supposed to be working in his capacity
as a Savior, and would have done
nothing as God if He had not been
able tc forget that He was God.
On March 9Th, say, l read the
following paragraph, which had been
apparently telegraphed to paper
from Wisconsin: The iniatiatory
steps for the convention to settle the
race question we're taken in the SEN
ate this morning when Senator Pat
ten presented joint resolution au-
Ehorizing and requesting the governor
to cali upon governors Of other states
to appoint ten delegates to conven-
tion to be held in Atlanta, commenc-
ing July /.
Now, small thing that is stupid
does not count for much, but thing
50 colossally stupid as that is refresh-
ing, and not only refreshing but illu-
minatlng.
The sUlons from Wisconsin or
from the entire north, with the south
com uined, cannot put events upon a
double quick. We can hoe and har-
row and water, but the growing is
otherwise provided for.
There are two lines somewhat dis
tinct from one another, and yet mutu-
ally supplementary, upon which ef-
forts at amclioratiou can be prose
cuted. One line aims directly to i'm.
prove people themselves, the other to
improve their conditions-although
of course. with reference more or
less definite tu their personal better
ment.
'pruvjdentially, or as a result OF
the war--accordjng as each Que may
interpret the case-tbc slaves were
emancipated. ,,ow this was a great
event in the history of the colored
people. 1t a man has been in jail
even five years it is momentous in
Stant for him when the warden slips
the bolt and he steps out free man.
But if lie was a criminal five minutes
before he was set free he was just as
much. a criminal five minutes after
he had been let out into the fresh air.
Movirg the bolt reshaped his circum-
stances, but without doing anything
to him, and the proof OF that is that
according to prison statistics, inside
Of six months he is quite probably
back in Jail again.
This supposed instance OF the con-
vict is in principl exactly what oc-
Cured in the case Of the blacks.
Emancipation pushed the bolt for
them; it let them out into the sun
shine. There was a great deal OF
heroism in the course OF the war:
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