The Washington bee., 1907-12-28
LIBERTY, WHERE IS THY
THRONE?
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the dust, reposing on thy broken harp
She cries out amidst the centuries: Il
scorned the idea of God and the I'M
mortality of the soul; | made Socrates
drink the poison OF the hemlock; my
sins and iniquity laid me here"
Righteousness exalteth nation, while
sin is a reproach to any people.
1t IS a lamentable fact much to be
deplored that in our country Of univer-
sites, schools colleges, Young Mems
Christian Associations, reformatorles
and charitable institutions, with a pub
lie school system that outrivals in splen-
dor and magnifcence any which the
genius of man has brought into requi-
sition for the glory of the people, with
churches scattered everywhere, from the
golden gates Of California to the rock
bound coast of Massachusetts,, from the
law lagoons of Louisiana to the rlcy
! swamps of South Carolina, and with an
army of teachers, ministers OF the gos-
pei, and missionaries who are busy in
every portion of the land, yet we fnd
crime everywhere on the increase.
Murder, suicide, hypocrisy, graft in
| high places the rottenness in govern
ments, the corruption in courts, domes-
tic inidelity, theft and the evil crime
Of lynch law abound everywhere. And
while these evil forces are at work III
an effort to strike down the govern
meut of the church, the nation IS gong
mad on the question of Colorphobla, and
in its desperate determination to keep
the Negro down the most awful crimes
are committed against liberty, against
justice against humanity and against
the sacred rights of man,
Some of the church OF this land, both
Catholic and Protestant, are WELDING
little if any influence among the people.
They care little about the salvation of
the souls of men, and are running at
ter strange gods-the gods of gold and
corruption. Too often they are but
nests honeycombed with corruption and
infested with a class of men who may
Justly be styled beadles and human scav
engers
These hypocrites join the church as
] Christians only for gain and to get the
confidence Of the people in order that
they may more easily rob and plumber
the unfortunate among them. AS a re-
suit these cormorants, these human par
asites have wrecked more banks, plum
dered more insurance companies, brok-
en- up more financial Institutions, de-
stroved mors homes, AID nave brought
bv their conduct more misery upon the
common people Of this country than am
other band Of emissaries that was eVei
let loose from the gates OF hades.
The Christian Church that is suppos-
ed to be dedicated to God like the Ae
gean Stables needs a cleaning out. Wltf
the righteous whip of Indignation, le
the ministers of the gospels where thes
sins abound chase from the temple, a
Christ did in the days of old, thes
despicable hypocrites, scoundrels, mur
derers, thieves, liars and robbers tha
> are endeavoring to make Gods house
den of merchandise and thus destroy tn
very object for which it was founded
and the spirit of influence which give
it life
. AS members of the Young People
Baptist Union and as American citizen
l claim the right, through our organize
:. ton to sound the tocsin, raise the battI
- and to do whatever in our power lie
- awaken new life in tne churches
order that they might carry out ii
. high mission for which they were estat
lished.
\ But the crime of murder, of suicid
of graft IN high places, Of lynch Law
of drunkenness and of profanity are nt
III the only evils that threaten TO sap OF
the very life blood of the Christ1a
Y, Church and 10 overthrow the republi
The denial of this nation to the co
ored American the fundamental Tigh
guaranteed to him under the laws of Il
at land Is the most serious problem whiC
c confronts the American people, and ol
We which, if not settled on the basis OF e
in act Justice, the doom of this republ
re is already sealed. There IS a grown
We tendency to re-enslave the Negro in tt
Ie, land, oppressed, Disseminated again