The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-29
EXPECTATION
OR ANNIHILATION
RACE EQUALITY IMPOSSIBLE.
REV. DIR. 4. VI. WILLIAMS On
CHRISTIANITY AND RACES.

| The American White Race Is ana
Ever Will Remain Superior, He
SaSs-"TO Undertake To Reverse
Condition Is TO War on GOd"-If
Negro Seeks Equality Expectation
Is only Sane solution, Says DIR.
MiIIinms-Not Legislation, Not
Education, Not Agitation Needed.
If the negro seeks equality with the
white race expectation or humiliation
! are the alternatives"
This statement was made last night
/ by Rev. Dr. A NJ. Williams in his
sermon on How Christians Should
! Treat Negroes" delivered at Trinity
! Methodist Church. DR.. Williams used
/ as his text: Thou shalt love thy neigh
! Dor as myself" He said in part:
Many read this text this way: Thou
shalt love thy neighbo2 as thyself,
provided he is not a negro From the
many points of constant contact, sure
ly the way in which we ought 20 treat
the negro is practical one to every
Christian.
1T cannot be ignored. No duty is
| discharged by Sinking. Every real
man treats every manly obligation in
manly way by meeting the issue
squarely. Persons may probe this
question, but in the end it must be
met and an account as to how given
unto God.
"Antipathy is not Christian and yet
often fear the antipathy between
the races. is on the increase. Mem
DRY is not the most conclusive basis
of judgment. IT, however, l had to
express the conclusions l have formed
on this subject, l would say there was
great increase of trifingness,
! treachery, wickedness, dissoluteness
among the blacks joined with inten-
sified bitterness against them by the
whites.
Doubtless many negroes have i'm
proved and are making quiet, useful,
helpful members of the community.
On the other hand IA larger proportion
| are reckless. The young negro is
more provoking, the young white more
! intolerable. than during the war. or
| during the reconstruction periods.
| The elimination of this racial antpathy
| is a duty of a Christian people.
COddIing Will Never DO.
christianity does not imply a
| maudlin, unrea sonable tenderness, or
/ the assumption of an imaginary crea-
| ture i'm dealing with this problem. The
! greatest plumbers have been made by
that class of religionists and reformers
| who treated the negro from this point
of view.
"Coddlng will make a puppy sick
no wonder it has DETECTED the Afri-
can 1t will ruin the tissue of the soul.
| 1t will react and multiply with the
| negro's enemies and the difficulties he
! must meet Christianity is sanity.
The duty of our generation to this
| race must be looked at with healthy
minds directed by healthy hearts.
"Racially considered two mistakes as
to the Negroes place have been made.
| The effort to prove him a brute is Il
failure and injurious. Equally so the
practice of cOddling him as a prodigy.
As an inhabitant of America he must
be regarded as a human and these two
principles acted on as sociological AK
IONS.
Can BE No Equality.
First, no two great races, as dis
tinct as the American white race and
the African black race, can live on
| terms of equality in any one territory.
Nature provides and history demon
strates this doctrine.
There can be no social, political, in
| dustrial, legal equality between these
| races. Every effort to produce it has
been explosive. Wisdom demands that
further experiment in that direction
| cease.
Second, the American white race is
and ever will remain superior.
"On these two axioms the Christian
! will predicate his treatment of the ques-
| NV no ct a mt
of the problem in his Creators terms.
| All that he does or teaches will be
understood as based on these condi-
tions.
Expectation or AnnihiIatiOn.
ITO undertake to reverse them is to
war against God.
1T becomes, then. the duty of the
negro to elect recognition of the
principles.
If he aims at equality with the
white race his best nature should
align him with Bishop Turner.
IF the negro seeks equality with
the white expectation is the only sane
settlement of the question.
Not legislation, not education, not
agitation, is needed.
Expectation or humiliation are the
alternatives.
This is not an incendiary statement,
1t is merely the declaration of sociology
ica1 terms that dynamite under proper
condition viii explode, or that water
accumulated must find an adequate
vent or work destruction. A Christian
homily on charity would deter one as
easily as the other.
Christian Treatment Clever.
with such an ambition avowed the
Christian treatment is clear-full as
sstance to peaceably remove the ne
gro to his own home and set him up
for housekeeping This will prove the
humane, the economical, the wise, the
Christian policy. Hot heads on both
sides may reason as they did in 90.
As in go capital and life viii pay the
penalty
Christian treatment demands the
suppression of negro vagrancy. Put
the young negro to work. Circulate
through all sections of the city as |
have to do and the hordes Of idle ne
groes, specially Of the younger class.
will overwhelm you. Work is the hui
mans greatest benefactor. his SUI
preme moralizer, his most perfect edu-
Gator"
FOR STEALING POTATOES.