The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-15
NEGRO WORK DISCUSSED
Southern Bishops Deliver Ringing Addresses Be
fore Convention in Joint Session...Negro
Pichon Alec Cna,1,c
Bishop Also Speaks.

groes must be carried on more jealous
ly or II must be given up.
II were asked II 1t should be given
up should say a thousand times no.,
he declared. we. want to make for
ward strides in the work, and ! say
me thing which should be done Is to
further education. Education is the
WORD. and always education. for until
we nave given to these people q sense
Of duty; we cannot make Christians of
theH- should build schoolhouses be-
lore l should build churches for the
negroes, negroes. and ! should use the school
two-edged sword: II is dangerous; but
when education IS linked with religion
IT Is a great and uplifting power"
continuing. Bishop Bratton said that
are yet to come to educate the negro.
He said 1t was our duty to the negro
race, and that he felt sure that SPLEEN
did results would follow. He called
to remember that the results OF gen
erat!ons of education had not made
them perfect. and asked why should tn e
negro be perfect in almost one gener-
alton.
He said that the great way to up
IHt the negro race was To educate
negroes. who in turn would lead their
own people. for he said that the me-
men who led their own race to Chris
tian1tH would be heroes. Bishop Brat
ton was strong In his opinion OF the
need Of schools. saying that the South
mad enough Of negro colleges; that
what this part OF the country needed
was good schools. His time being up,
the audience urged him to 20 on.
but he declined. simply calling at
tentton to one fact-the need OF more
money for The work In the South
were that there We're $4,000 negroes
IN his State. and that he had only
s11oO year to carry on the work
FOR all these people.
Negro bishop Speaks.
The great congregation then sang
with. fine effect From Greenland's
Icy Mountains" and the Rt. Rev. S.
spoke OF "The West Africans
Bishop Ferguson is the only negro
| bishop attending the convention, and
one of the two negro bishops entt-
tied to a seat In the House of Bishops.
He made one Of the best and one OF
and probably said more in the short
sp.dce OF time allotted him than did
any of the other sneakers. Bishop
Ferguson made r. fine impression on
graduated at the end OF his address
by crowd of churchmen who locked
around him to shake his hand.
Tho Bishop of Cape Palmas began
| Dy telling what prominent part Vir-
ginians had played In the work OF the
church In Africa He said that no
FEWER than seventeen VirEinians, and
men from the Virginia Seminary, had
gone out to labor in that field, among
them the Rev. DR.. Thomas S. Savage
in 1896. followed the same year by
! the Rev. John Payne and Lancelot B.
Minor. Bishop P;tyne. be said. 1t was
who had confirmed him and who had
taught him theology.
4 Bishop Penlck also had come from
Virginia, and he said he felt as though
he had come from the same land, maxi
ing three bishops in all, for his inspi-
ration had been derived entirely from
Yirginians. He went on to say that
when he was confirmed no Episcopal
church was near. and that Bishop
Payne Tad confirmed him In Presby.
Iterian church.
I'm, the name OF Africa I thank ir.
ginia and all the good people of these
United States for all the work and
money which they have expended
there for the good OF Christianity.''
In these words he closed his intro
Sductory remarks. and began at once tc
Ispeak of practical things on the work
In Africa; He said that when he took
and now there are 2,372; that when he
took charge there had been 1909 bap-
i tisms, and since that time there have
been 5,s7a; that there had been con
/ frmed before his coming 1.035 people
and since that time 2914: that there
were 192 boarding school pupils in the
schools. on his arrival. and now there
were ST.; that the day pupils numbered
4 145 and now they number Lots; in the
Sunday-kchool there were 65S; now
4 there are 2228.
/ There were fourteen catechism teach