The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-12

the branch sends it's call for the ma- tertals os life down Into the roots of the vine, which reach out and tap the measureless resources hidden in the deep below, and gets the answer upon the call, so do we, united to Christ, have only to send down into the abyss of Gods infinite resources tapped by the roots of His life, and the answer is immediate and all sufficient. The supply we draw is limited only by our capacity, and that capacity increases with use.
 Tt Is hard, then, that the world should ask us to give them more than they can give us--more of life, more of moral power. more of truth. more ofthose vital energies which are the drawing power of humanity? It is hard that we, who have all there s in this or any other world, includ- ing God. Himself, at our instant call. should give an overplus to those who have not?
 Errors of White People.
 God has brought the ends of the earth to America, the last and greatest battle ground of ideas and Ideals, that the glorious truths of the coming king dom may be fought out to victory here, and then turn back to sweep over land and sea. and bring all the Kingdoms of this world under the dominance of Him whose banner we follow. Why has every nation, kindred, tongue and tribe, been brought here, but that we should give them more than they can give us?
 Not to pause too long, let us be reminded that among the first to come was the negro. God brought him out of the darkness of Africa to live in i'm mediate touch with the home life in the days of slavery, that we might teach him truths he could not other wise learn, and thus help him to re- alize himself. He is here today, and the conditions that surround us appeal that we shall still continue to deal out to him, by our daily touch, things that make for his ultimate peace and pros- perity.
 ''Let us be frank, and admit that af- ter the war we made a disastrous blum der in stigmatizing and ostracising the Southern white man or woman that dared to teach negro school, or even Sunday School. We thus turned over the training of the generation then growing up to the Northerner, who neither knew nor could understand oul condition nor the negro's needs. The results of that error will be felt for generations to come.
 We are not abusing in the least those who maintained this attitude | We would do the same thing | aSaln. ana entertained lnese | feelings along with others. I re- member we'll when to say that South erH white man or woman began to teach a negro school was to say they | absolutely touched bottom.
 we would, I repeat, feel the same way again. It is expecting too much of poor human nature to ask that we | should act otherwise. But here, as elsewhere, we and our children are I laff f0 fns fafI t, y.sc fc the height of our opportunities. The Tuskegee School ''We are now in danger of making another blunder. There is a dlsposi- 1 tion among us to criticize anybody that comes into touch with the Tuskegee Norman and Industrial Institute. When | walked down Commerme street last Friday, grip in hand, on my way to lect- ure there, the friends who asked where was going, when informed, wanted to know what I was going there for My | principle in life has always been tu l talk to any group of people who might desire to hear what I had to say, and | in obedience to that principle, I went in answer to the call of Booker Wash ington
 And I should like it to be under | stood. while standing in this pulpit, in the heart of the Capital City of Ala bama, as pleading with all my might | that all our people shall keep in touch | with that institution, in order to get the pupils there to understand, from our standpoint, the conditions under which we are living.
 T talked Friday night to the repre- i sentatives of thirty-six States, besides foreign countries. Why has God pick ed up the negro in every quarter of ] the world and put him down in Ala bama? Why, if not that he should be educated in the atmosphere of a State that holds a frmer grip, perhaps, than any other State upon the principles of l the old South, and of the Confederacy Nowhere else in all the Southland are these traditions so vitai, perhaps, to | the people, so firmly kept up in our l thought and life, as here. Is it strange then, that these dependent people should be brought across land and sea and ptu down in out very midst, in the | atmosphere vibrant with patriotic l songs sweet precious memories of the good old days, loyal to the very best our people have been able to be and do
 The presence of this school, there fore, among us, is an appeal from tht African race that we shall as in the olden time, carry our message of tht higher life to those brought under oul tuition, Therefore, let every man 1T Alabama who has the opportunity, ac
 
 way possible, keep in touch with wha is going on.
 Knows Nothing of Teaching.
 T do not know anything about wha is taught there, about the atmospher, of the school, or the idea 1t holds ul for it's pupils. But if there is any
 thing wrong in that atmosphere, or il that teaching Sor in those ideals. wh, can better find it out and eradicate ii the Northern man who makes only oc casional visits. who cannot even ye
 understand the conditions under whicl we are living, or we urselves-South erners, Alabamians-reared on this, ou
 native soil? I am glad a number o our own men are trustees.
 If we sustain wrong attitude to
 ward this institution, hurtfl results ma
 follow. Who can tell what would b
 the effect of having these negroes fror
 all parts of the world learn first hand
 ed that we are antagonlstic to thei
 development as a people, to their -edu
 cation as a race? Who can say tha
 we would not thus send over the cart
 frebrands, whose disastrous work al 1, men may feel. The peril Is too grea
 fathers were before the war, we vii
 draw only the closer to this school.
 The same plea might be made fo every other colOred school in the lanC
 Paterson's school, in Montgomery, is . holy charge upon the sympathy, tn cooperation and uspport of the though . full citizens of our State.