The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-04-05
OUR COLORED SOCIETY.
ms and Outs Of the Local Colony
and Their Friends.

Reuben Gaines, Of Coopertown, was
visitor in the city this week.
Earl Hubbard in letters to friends
in the city announces his safe arrival
at Portland. Oregon.
Henry Lee. of Buxton, was visitor
in the city Friday and took in THE
County Chairman" at the. opera house
in the evening.
The mems meeting that was to be
held at the A. M. E. church Thursday
evening was postponed owing to the
revival meetings in progress at the
church. s-..a-a.#
Rev. T. H. Lockwood, formerly pas
tor of Wesley Chapel, returned to the
city Friday and is engaged in prepar'
ing for his removal to his new charge
at Armstrong, Mo. He will leave
some time next week.
Rev. ]. A. w. Young, the new pas.
tor of Wesley Chapel, arrived in the
city Sunday morning and held ser.
vices during the day. He made a
very favorable impression upon his
hearers and bids fair to become pop,
ular with his church and the public,
Mrs. John Williams was taken seri.
ously i'll again Tuesday. She was
just recovering from a severe attack
of peritonitis and went out last Fri
day for the first time. The effort
proved too much for her weak condi'
ton and a relapse set in that has
again confined her to her bed.
Mrs. E. L. Howard, the noted lady
evangelist of Omaha and Des Moines,
has been conducting series of re-
vival meetings at the A. NJ. E. church
during the past week and will con-
tinue during next week. Few women
of our race have achieved so pro
nounced a success in the line of their
chosen work as k2s this lady. Born
in Omaha, Nebr., less than thirty
years ago, she received her education
in the schools of that city and was
to Christ at an early age
under the eloquent preaching of Mrs.
Lena Mason and soon after in obedi-
ence to the call of God took up the
evangelistic work herself. For the
past six years she has devoted her en-
tire time to the work. In the east,
south and west she has labored among
her people and has been rewarded by
seeing thousands come forward and
give their hearts to God and happily
start upon a better and happier life.
She is a forceful, magnetic speaker
whose whole soul Is thrown into her
work and her marvellous power to
impress the beauties and happiness of
a Christian life upon those who know
it not is almost irresistible. Mrs.
Howard will preach at the A. M. E.
church Sunday morning and evening
and everyone who can should hear
her. Her meetings have been well
this past week and much in
terest manifested, and new awak'
ening seems to have come to our peo-
pie in the city. Let there be an out
pouring of the people Sunday and all
of next week and let us all help God
and Mrs. Howard to do the work that
is so much needed in our city. The
strongest factor in the civilization of
man is the religion Of Jesus Christ,
and the highest and most powerful in
fluence for good among the negro
race in this country is the church.
Build it up with true, honest Christian
men and women and you build up the
race with an element that will be re-
spected and WELD an influence for
good in every community, Our
fathers and mothers laid the founda-
ton for our present position and OPP
portunities by strict reliance on a
Divine power and a high and reveren'
tiaI regard for the church of God,and
whoever would forget or disregard
them today are surely degenerated
sons and daughters. Of noble par
entage.