The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-19
DECLARES ADAM
WAS A BLACK MAN.
Holy Jumper Preacher Says
That Negroes Are
Jews.
MET WITH CHEERS AND JEERs
Grand Singing Of Chorus Choir
a Very Pleasing
Feature.
MET WITH CHEERS AND JEERs

1
II say we are Jews. for the .pews
Number over 100000. Some of the
tribes stayed over on the other side of,
Jordan But the Amorites, the Jebu-
sites"--and the speaker named hun
dred other "ites"-"rcfused Christ and
| were driven all over the world" said
| Chief Joe Crowder. of the Holy Jump
ers, in an impassioned Sermon" last
night before an audience of about three
or four thousand negroes in the True
| Reformers' Hall, on North Second
! Street.
Chief joe, as he is popularity known,
| was trying to prove that Adam and the
sons of Adam We're originally black.
and that the white race sprang from
Cain, upon whom was placed the curse
| of God for the murder of his brother
Abel. The speaker said that Cain was
smitten with leprosy, which turned
| him white. Crowdcr proved that Adam
| was black man by the words of st.
Paul who said Adam was the color
/ Of the earth.
/ Did you ever see any white earth?"
4 asked Crowder.
NO. no." came the response from
Il tllt converts. 4.
Then Adam was black man." said
/ Crowder.
Cries of ExecrntiOn.
The house was filled to it's utmost
capacity with negroes from all parts
of the city. Down In the front rows
| sat the faithful few, while behind them
| and above them in the galleries were
I. the numbcrless unconverted. who al
4 ternated the affirmative gestures and
/ cries of the faithful with their laughs
and their jeers. and occasionally the
heavy atmosphere was disturbed with
the low rumble of their threats. Not
| infreouently Chief Joe went far be-
| ycnd the mark of common propriety In
| the course of his address, and his low
/ wit and his slurs on the resident
| preachers of other denominations ana
I other creeds in the city were proFoca-
| tive of harsh denials and cries of exc
| era ton But the spirit of antagonlsm
in the air served only to warm the
/ sneaker the more to his subject, and
he strobe up and down the platform.
yoluminous as n wrathful gossip and
as illogical as an angry girl.
Tuncful Jumpers.
on the stage sat the Black Prophet,
4 silent and motionless. and big array
of other prelates in the peculiar faith.
Down below them, at the foot of the
stage. sat the choir, about 100 voices,
! male and female. whose singing was
| really the only pleasing part of the
program. All Of them We're dressed
in snowy white with crimson caps, ro-
settes pinned to their breasts and
their feet shod in white slippers, while
the men were CARRIED in white crash
suits and white shoes. Picturesque In
! the extreme they looked, beneath the
-, ! aln t,.t, irlX 10 NJ ,,1
4 colors showing up in sharp contrast,
and their swinging movements as they
sang adding to the weirdness and pc
culiarity of the scene. When they
sang. the house was filled with the
volume of their music. Full and loud
and long they hung on the. grand chords
of the refrans they sang, and their.
plaintive melodies never failed to quiet
the sometimes disorderly house.
storm of Abuse.
; On the stage Chief Joe was the CEN
ire of all attraction. for the Black Pro-
phet never shifted from his seat. Inn
movable, like a black marble statue.
he sat, With his head on his hand,
1 hardly lifting his eyes from the speak
/ er. The latter strobe backward and
e forward working himself into u
? frenzy of speech and perspiration His
words came thick and fast, and now
and then his voice would rise to a
plaintive shrek or sink to a mournful
4 sigh. He heaped vile maledictions on
:. the other colored preachers. lie told
: the audience that all their mothers
e We're liars; he told them that their
I preachers were the cause of the
2 lynchings in the South; in fact, he
I hardly stopped short of anything vile
X that suggested itself to his mind.
Il Az Cor ykr1,i
not to be counted at all, for the black
IS people wero the sons of God, and they
= We're the chosen people, He said thai
- the white people had brought a jim
Il Crow law on earth, and they woult
,r want to bring about Jim Crow law
~ in heaven
: Says Hebrews Were DluclS.
yc All the tribes of Israel, he declared
were black, Some OF the tribes wen
II down through the Black Sea into
:, Egypt and there they were lost. 9Th,
~ Egyptians" he said, came out o.
= these tribes. The Pharaohs came GU
1Iof the Egyptians, the Chaldean armie!
came out OF the Pharaohs, the armies
We OF the Modes and Persians come ou
hit OF the armies of the Chaldeans, thu
Ia armies OF Greece came out of til,
ed Ehaldean armies. and the armies of tn,
ne Romans came out OF the armies O
or Greece, and 1t was to these people,
he declared, that Christ uttered thes