The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-18

i thought in the lives of the ancients. in
 the lives of the heathens and in the
 greatest of all, the fife and sacrifice of I Jesus.
 Classification by faith through the blood of Jesus Christ is the only soul sai- vation and the Bishop deciared that
 these who were trying to get away from
 that idea were goins back toward the | dark ages.
 l Another we'll expressed thought of the | Bishops was that the law of self sacri- ] flee, is the law of the heavenly king
 dom. from the lowest to the highest-for
 Jesus said. He that is greatest among l you, let them be your servant" and, that t, get to God, there is only one route l the route of self sacrifice and of self denial; taking tip the cross and "cross bearing" means giving up your will to the, will of God; 1t means asking; Lord | what wilt Thou have me to do.'' The Bishop then took up his favorite
 and strongest subject-that of the educa- | ton of boys and girls of the South. He said ..the Alabama man who does not | love the enlightenment of the Alabama | boy as we'll as the man of the North loves | the enlightenment of the negro, ought to
 be ashamed"
 | He spoke of the discussion in Alabama
 of the removal of the Alabama Confer
 ence Female College at Tuskegee. and he
 warmly denounced the proposition. | The chief reason for the proposed re-
 mcval of the college Is the fact of the | negro schools being located at that place
 The college has been there for more than | fifty years and the Bishop and pr. Mas- | sey. the president, opposes its removal. The Bishop said that the Bible tells us, that "one shall chase thousand, and
 two shall put his ten thousands to a l.A -l,,,A | kl,ar. | is putting to flight the 5s,000 Methodist people of Alabama.
 He said that the two Conference Col l leges of Alabama must be endowed, in order to, provide the best teachers and to help that class of boys and girls who
 most need the help. He gave figures | she wing the impossibility of making the colleges self sustaining and he said they l needed an endowment of at least $20,0oo O. failure in the work is inevitable. When endowment is spoken of the question is asked "who will endow. and
 the answer is "get somebody at the North" But" thundered the Bishop, | you aint black enough"
 In speaking of raising money for the
 colleges. the Bishop said that Booker T. Washington would not walk to Che- | haw for the amount raised in Mobile on last Sunday" He spoke of people wear ing diamonds to church and yet giving
 only $5.00 or 5000 to the great cause of the education of the boys and girls in | their midst and said that the people could
 support the colleges if they only would. and that the stinginess that makes such a situation possible offers itself as a reason for continued stinginess." The conditions are brought about by stingi-
 ness, call 1t by it's right name. he said,' and while people wear diamonds and live
 In luxury the educational facilities of
 the South remain destitute"
 The collection at Court Street Church for the Conference colleges yesterday
 morning was $1,5O0
 To a large congregation at the Dex- ter Avenue Methodist Church last night Bishop Candler preached strong sermon on 'sThe Debt to Posterity," and closed with an earnest plea for educational advancement among the white people of Alabama.
 Bishop Candler took his text from the 14th verse of the 1st chapter of Paul's Epistles to the Romans, T owe debt both to the Greeks and bar barians."
 His argument was clear and con- vincing, its gist being that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for every man made 1t the duty of every man to do all In his power for his fellow man. his chill dren and his childrens children. Speak ing his sermon in the most forceful language, punctuating it with incidents of -humor and pathos and clinching his points with oratorical eloquence, Bish- op Candler held the attention of his congregation for nearly two hours.
 At the close of his sermon proper. he made an eloquent appeal for the Methodists of Alabama to do some' thing in the cause of education. He urged that they stop lending their every effort to turning out dollars and lend them to turning out men and wo- men in the true sense of the words. He declared that Alabama as far as the white people are concerned, is far be- hind other Southern States in point of education and urged a liberal response to the call of the. Alabama Conference for a $100,000 endowment for the Southern University at Greensboro, and the Alabama Conference Female Col lege at Tuskegee.
 Most of the money expended in Ala bama. said Bishop Candler, In the cause