Richmond planet., 1904-02-27

SoEdiess OF the General Association.
Como cut Of Camp, Shoulder Your
Arms and Begin to March
to Portsmouth.
ssMEss ARE THE ORDERS OF PRES. WATTS

'fHEss ARE THE ORDERS OF PRES. WATTS.
Dear Brethren. Sisters and Friends:-
/ write 10 beg that we begin at once to
prepare to pay of our obligations at
Portsmouth. OF course you all have sent
your TWO dollars that the committee ask.
ed yen Tor a few days ago. This being true
we shall Chat Is the committee.) meet
IN Richmond in few days nd send to
the three schools, the money sent up by
You for them.
Now for the &3 92O which will give us
In round numbers 81 900.
Brethren, let Us raise this money
please.To do this would advise that ev-
cry man who belongs to The General AS.
sociatien will let the people of the Vir-
ginia Baptist State Convention alone.
and fttend to his own business, especial
~ those who seem TO be clamering for
peace and cooperation with those pco-
pie. notice that some of the brethren
seem 10 act as though they were called
On to leave the work of the General As
sociation and the pledges they have
made TO go over and see the brethren of
the Virginia Baptist State Convention
for tie purpose of making peace with
them and still hold their membership in
the General Association. Let me state
to those brethren that il they want to
make peace with the people of the Vir-
g1nla Baptist State cor vention that in
my opinion the best thing for them to
do is 20 leave the General Association
and 30 TO the Convention at its next
session in Washington at the 2nd Bap-
tist Church. bow at that altar and con-
fess their sins 70 Pres. Bowling and let
DIR. Harvey johnson pray for them, Rev.
DIR. Fox give the welcome address and
receive the right hand of fellowship
from the Rev. W. III. Cniles. or il this
is too much then let those people alone
absolutely ana 60 TO work and raise the
money that they have pledged to the
nine aeade mics being carried on by the
work OF the General Association for
mark you, brethren that those people of
the Virginia Baptist State Convention
are raising money and paying tn, ir
debts, and as such they are unwilling
to cooperate with any man or set of
men, Asso's. or any body else, who will
not raise money and pay their debts. /
glory in their spunk.
Ether one OF the things that / have
spoken am sure VIII bring about the
desired peace.
If yen go back and confess your sins.
they will make you go to work, hence,
take ter instance the man whom | re-
commended to give you the right hand
of fellowship, he has just recently gone
over to the brethren from us and he is
worth 500 more each year to that body,
than he was TO ours. This is because they
say he must work or get out On the other
hand il you will go 10 work in your own
BODY and the General Association,
raise money. pay your debts, your
peace with those people you will have
for they will certainly recognize men
who raise money, that is colored men
where ever they see or hear Of them and
DR.. Graham will give you the right
hand Of fellowship the fret time he sees
You, other than this i tell You now, DIR.
Graham may laugh at you as Iauch as
he pleases. bow his head and shak g your
hand but he cares very little for talker
who Is not q worker.
DIR. Fox has no regard for a man who
does not stand for something. When DIR.
Bowling shakes your hand you must 60
with HIM or he bids you good bye.
hear great many of our people talking
about peace with those brethren but
they mean no peace except work. So
Tar as am concerned am not worried
about the Virginia Baptist State Con-
venton, l think it is as little as / can do
to let those people alone since 1 have
left them.
Of course / see now where they are
lighting us just as hard ss they have
always been. They say that they have
won the victory over US, and that we
are all lying down at their feet and
from what can hear, great many of
our people are going around begging
pardon. but none of those things move
me. belong to the General Associa-
ton. didn't come ont of the Virginia
Baptist State Convention 70 fight those
people. followed You all ont to help
you work and SO am not worried about
what they say about me or about our
work. The only thing that worries me
Is that some of these would be big men.
whom L followed out of the Convention
wont dc a thing but stand mp in the
street and say. Il am leader.
Members of the General Association
get mp and go to work let us raise some
money, they say that some Of you don t
mean to do anything but beg white
folks Tor bread and their scraps, and
tell you what 1t is. some of those people
who have made those statements about
you. know you as we'll as do, for it is
true. Some of US are all talk and no
work.
1856 by the 9th of this month ss 9sO
On Tharsiay after the second Wednes-
day In May Is the Battle Cry. These
are the orders of Pres. Watts.
am yours,
II. l.. BARco,
Chairman Of Ex. Committee,