Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-15
LARGEST OF ITS KIND
Negro Baptist Convention
Never Surpassed in District.
THEMES OF THE ADDRESSES
Appeals to Colored People for Saliva
ton of Race.
STATISTICAL REPORTS READ
New York Selected as Next Meeting
Place-AssiGnments to Local
Pulpits.

The national convention of negro Baptists
which has been in session here since last
Wednesday will close tomorrow afternoon,
and the delegates will leave for jamestown
to visit the exposition. a mass meeting
will be held in the Negro building there
Tuesday. when addresses will be delivered
by some OF the leaders in the convention.
Yesterday was a busy day among the
members. What were cassed common
sense addresses were delivered and good
advice given to the coiored people. The
convention is the largest of it's kind ever
he'd in the District of Columbia. Among
the most remarkable addresses to the con-
ycnt:on was that made yesterday morning
by DR.. r. H. Boyd. secretary, and among
the most important papers was the report
read by the Rev. Henry Alien Boyd. as
sStant secretary DR.. X. II. Boyd said, in
part:
In 1896 you elected to this position
and sent me out to do your work, and did
not place one cent in my hands. but. he
Heving that the negro must do something
for himself. | went to work believing in
you. knowing that 2OO.0OO negroes should
do something. and have the larg
est printing plant in the world. owned
and operated by negroes, and furnish en-
ployment to at least 300 OF our own edu-
Gated men and women. | am not a college
duutlc ain piouu liidl l
can employ them to do my work. and 1t
is because the Baptists have united their
forces.
Becomes an Inspiration.
Il have had much said about the Ameri-
can prejudice. but l have no unkind words
to say about it. If anything at ALL l would
thank God for it, because of the good
we have gotten out OF it. I have only
used 1t for acknowledgment and to en-
courage and inspire my race in this coun-
try. 1t is like a cyclone or contagion. A
cyclone cleans up a malarial district and
puts it in a healthful condition: conta gon
forces the people to observe the hygienic
| la ", the law of health: the American pre-
JUDGE forces my people together and makes
US do for ourselves.
We should not complain, for the preju-
dice says to us when We are refused in
places established by the white people for
white people only, We should get the such
places for ourselves. The refusal of glass
of soda in a white mans drug store says to
the negro go to your own drug stores and
get your soda and if you haven't got drug
stores. then get them We should not
whine about eating in a white mans res
taurant when should have own and
thus make ourselves rich.
If the white people had given US an
opportunity desired some months ago we
would not have had this printing house
today. Let every negro be true to himself,
true to his God and true to his race, and
he VIII be able to do wonderful things In
this country. Let him carry his own
skillet and fry his meat where he pleases,
and thereby get the respect of others.
THE negro Baptists are doing their own
home and foreign mission work. You heard
the report. of our secretary yesterday Rev.
l.. G.. Jordan. We are doing a church ex-
tension work looking after widows and
orphans, printing our literature, putting
our men before the world, and striving to
reach the unreached members of our race
through our B Y. p. L. department We
are putting forth every possible effort to
make men and women out of our people.
To this we have all agreed, though We split
UP and fight at times
Assistant Secretary's Report
Rev. IT. A Boyd. in reading his report
told about the. machinery owned by the
Baptists; spoke of the buildings and one
now in course of erection and of the mis-
sionary work done at home through the
home board and many other things. The
receipts for the department. during the year
he said. had been s16O IA, and the ex-
penditures. $4,000 The receipts for the
home mission board were $40. 1886.
The publishing board, i'll its manufac-
turing department, was compelled to start
out by employing a cOnsidera BILE number of