The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-25
WORK FOR THE BLACKS
WHITE AND NEGRO nApTTsTs WILL
 fC0-OPERATE.
Px0fenser Couneilf Made semsibIe Speech and khe Commanmiem CSIn- pleteA Its Lahers and
 Ad10urneA-~

The representatives Of the negro Baptists .n the United states will %. % Convention in. doing mission work in the future and with such other bodies as will join with them. Fully $S0,ooO will be expended during the next twelve months in reaching the unreachsd ne- groes; to bring them out of the sac looms, to stop loaing and in every way possible lift up the men and women of the negro race.
 At the meeting yesterday of the ne- gro Baptist Commission in the Colunns bus Street Church, Revs. O. H. Clarl<s. D. D., of Nashville. Tenn, c. H. Par rish. D. D. of Louisville, Ky, and J. w. Willard, D.. D. of New Orleans.
 fSSaufs"q ssS S e. soHS Morria aaa D Df of Helena. Helena Ark, was elected Chairman, and Wtl-
 liam H. Steward. A. M. of Louisville. ky, was elected Secretary.
 This meeting means much to the negroes of this country" said. Dr. Morris, land we want to take our time in transaction the business for which
 we have met. The future os the ne- gro depends upon our action. am
 today. This Is an age of work. Look , at our people. See the young negroes who are loafing. We cannot expect to lift up our people with q large number Of our young people loafing. I believe that in the future we must look after the training of the heart. head and hands We are to lead our people in l the right direction. Education and re- 1 ligion, industry and thrift will solve the great problems in this country" Rev. c. M. Wells, State Missionary, I delivered an address of welcome. He | felt proud. he said, that the leading men c3 the Baptist Church had laid
 aside their business and had come to Montgomery to discuss the betterment of their race. He assured them that the best people of Montgomery, re.
 gardless of race pr color, extended
 Rev. c. A. stakely, D. D., of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery. | followed with an address. He said
 that he was proud to see men coming that all the people who were interested ! in the uplfft and betterment of man. kind should welcome it. He said that 1 men should get togethew. While there
 should do their work well. and yet
 there should be a plane on which all men should meet.
 we should get our hearts together" " he said, "get our minds together and get our hands together in this work Of reaching mankind. For this we havo
 been praying and working. Let us | continue to pray for it, let us continue to work for 1t, and am sure that the great desire will be accomplished" Rev. B. P. Mayo, D. D., pastor of Old 1 Ship A. M. E. C. Church delivered an address of welcome for the colored l ministers of the city. He assured the l preachers of Montgomery were pleased to welcome them to the city for what they represented and for what they l were trying to do for the elevation of
 the negro race throughout the coun- "You are the leaders of our race" he saids "and if the ministers fail to lead
 our people in the right direction then 1t will be dark for us alL."
 Prof. R. w, Forte delivered an ad- dress and at the conclusion Rev. A. ]. Stokes introduced to the commission l one of the most noted negro educators cill, A. M, President Of the A & M. College for negroes, at Normal.
 Professor Councill delivered an ad- dress. He said that while he was not a
 Baptist himself, yet his mother died Church, hence he had felt a deep inter-
 est in the Baptists.
 Forty years ago. he said, I've did
 not see anything like this. Forty years | ago. could only be a good niEEer' m this country and that was all that was
 expected of me. But of the negro today
 there is more expected. He has before
 him greater possibilities also greater
 responsibilities. Your work now Is a hundredfold more than mine was then.
 am proud of the work your church is | doing for our race. have watched you, ana om interested In your work in de- veloping the young negro and trying to
 make something out of him.
 There Is no human agency in this country which has done more to helu ! the black boys and girls to risa than the Southern white people. I look at what the South has done for our peo- ple in tho past three hundred years If
 has civilized 10000, 900 of us This number has been lifted up and this is the work. done by the white people of
 the South. I am sure that there are
 some of you upon whose intellectual stomach this does not fit well, but it is
 the truth, and the truth is what we are after now. The black man has work ed to lift himself up, and he has been a ing when compared with what the white Southern man has done for us, Tt is the better class of the Southern white men who havo stood and beat back the forces that would have crush ed the very life out of us. You may
 talk about Galilee being the land of miracles, but 1t is nothing when we
 look at the South. This is the land os miracles. Look at us. We were
 brought here over three hundred years ago to serve the white man. There wag
 TO other object in bringing here our parents, and today We are citizens Cf
 this country.
 The South Is the home of the negro.
 and here he is going to stay and work
 out his destiny The time will como
 when we will find more friends, if we
 will only be industrious and honest
 Be something. We have no time to
 stand around ana connplain when fha