Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-02

and most lasting religion Is that which Is
not marked by blatant demonstration, but
that which is exercised In daily life. He
then spoke Of the stereotyped prayers, and
said: How tired we become of continually
hearing a preacher reel of a dozen stereo-
typed phrases. Again and again he will re-
peat. Go where we will, we hear the same
old petitions In the same old way.
I'm sure God dislikes 1t; certainly it is
wearisome to congregation of hearers
Then there Is need of reform In preaching
That preacher who gets up and breaches
because he can preach or who breaches
just for the pleasure of tickling the emo
tions is untrue to his congregation. He
should be earnest sincere and anxious
only to send them the message of the gos-
pel.''
Address Of Register Vernon.
AT the session late yesterday afternoon
w. T. Vernon, register of the United States
treasury, delivered an address on the
theme The Work of the Negro Minister
in the Solution of Pending Problems" In
the course of which he said, in part:
For more than nineteen centuries the
gospel of the NaZarene has been proclaimed
to erring mankind, and the best hearts and
best brains of the world have been given
to Its fostering ] take up no pessimistic
strain-I rather cite unvarnished truth
when | say that there are wrongs to be
righted that shall yet call for the supreme
efforts of the good, the pure and holy.
I'VE believe the pulpit is calculated to be.
as ever, one of the greatest forces in social
progress. No one doubts the work to be
done. Furthermore. we know 1t will not
be done of itself. The laws of cause and
effect inexorably require effort for the
accom- plishment of results.
An intelligent diagnosis of the con-
dition affecting society as a body has re-
vealed a mortuary list doubly increased be-
cause of a disregard of the laws of health.
and the promoters of public morals and
human rectitude are astounded to find our
great cities incubators of crime. The dis
closures thus manifested can but arouse to
activity those desiring a betterment in the
condition of mankind
Against such condition and results our
present leaders must battle.
Rectifying of Ills.
THE causes that lead to rectifying of
humanity's Ills must be the result OF q
growth of sentiment having it's hopes CEN
tered In the words, And l. II / be lifted
up from the earth will draw all men unto
me-
Il observe here that the greatest efforts
for reform socially. for the l>etterment of
the oppressed of earth, have come from
efforts to put In force the teachings of
Him who died to make men holy.
Twas the go-Len rule that turned hui
manity's batteries on slavery and wiped
the tears of four million slaves from their
faces. 1t will be the golden rule in force,
when 1t comes, which will make the whitest
man and the blacklist man of America
shake hands and say, Verify, all we are
brethren
Daniel Webster once said, y, here have
the nfe-givfng waters Of civilization ever
sprung up, save in the track of Christian
ministry? Further, he said: contend
that no literary efforts, no adjudications
no constitutional discussions nothing that
has ever been done or said in favor of
the great interest of universal man, has
donesthis country more credit at home and
abroad than our BODY of ClerRymeu.'
Application of Laws.
The supposition that laws externally APP
piled can rectify ills is decidedly erroneous
Laws can be repressive in the case of the
criminally inclined but nothing can be
substituted for the creation within of
clean heart, the lifting up OF Il soul out of
the quagmire of low thoughts and vicious
aims. To this end all are bending ener-
gies to the confronting of the mind of the
individual to the better things of life to
the planting within of g. hope of greatness
the result of goodness. We have learned
this; that men can only be made wise and
strong from internal causes working out
ward in accordance with an awakened
conscience.
"Out Of the effectual effort for improve
ment has come the acknowledgment that
God gives men certain inalienable rights
life, liberty and the pursuit OF happiness
and that the man who overrides or usurps
these is worse than thief and a murderer.
Christ taught the duty of man to man.
To this more and more we must come.
The sea-born gale, the rolling plain for
hundreds of years have brought the echo
of the tocsin of war-but the wars of this
latter day have not been for the sport and
zest of kindly murderers. They are the
results of some dispute as relates to the
liberties of people who would no longer
be enslaved.
ITO train out of the lower self to the
higher self, to raise out of the ignoble into
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mind, to make better the ever-evolving
soul. to put to work the idle hand, directed
by the enlightened brain inspired to nobler
deeds by an illumined spirit-tis that which
makes man, no matter what the race or
color, Gods noblest workmanship and
earth's ALL
British Government In South Africa.
Bishop C. S. Smith of Detroit, Mich.
delivered an address on 1.-The Relation of
the British Government to the Negroes of
South Africa" He said, In part:
THE entrance and advance of the British
in South Africa can be summarized as fol-
lows: The British flag was first raised at
Signal Hill In 1920. The population at that
time numbered %, 100 whites, 20 300 slaves
and II, 600 free Hottentots. The minister
stated that il was the wish of a large pro-
portion of the white population of that
country to force the expulsion of the ma
fives and to make South Africa white
mans country, and that this proposition is
in South Africa as it is in Georgia or Mis-
sissippi
He said that the aIarmists of South At
RIGA declare that the greatest evil that has
befallen South Africa is the organization of
a black church. for which the African NJ
(. Church of this country stands spon-
scr, and that they argue that independence
in church on the part OF the natives ulti-
mately means independence In government
affairs.
The presence of the American negro In
South Africa. he said. has been source Of
positive heipfuiness to the natives and has
awakened aspiration and ambition in them
and the American negro will find South
Africx, most hostile region. Present con-
ditions do not point to success for the
American negro church. and these condi-
lions will continue to exist until the sue
cess or failure of the present fixed pur-
pose to Europeanize South Africa.
Evening Session.
The afternoon session adjourned at
o'clock Until the evening at o'clock.
Among the speakers in the evening were