The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-21
RACE WAR IN TWO DECADES
 UNLESS GOD INTERVIEWS
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FHOM fAGE 1s) ---~---~---~-~---------~ dying, and I asked him if he was all right, if he was saved, if he would meet the marster and the mistress, and the wife, for I knew my old nanny was in heaven, and he replied: I'll be there 1 tell you, friends, if I don't meet my nanny and that old man when I get to heaven I'll be mighty disappointed.
 But, If I ask you if the negro has a soul you will say that he mas. How do your acts measure up to your words when you say that the negro has a soul and you have never done anything to save 1t? How long has 1t been since you preachers prayed for God to bless the negro race? l would be ashamed and would tremble to have you answer.
 Take the suggestion of the committee which have read. Let 15O0 Presbyterian preachers pray for and preach to the negroes each month. and then let coco Methodist preachers and 4000 Baptist preachers follow suit, and see what won ders will be done"
 pr. Egbert Smith Speaks.
 Dr. Egbert Smith said that the point which he wished to emphasize was that the negro is test and a touchstone.
 Here lies the man who went down from Jerusalem and fell among thieves and there goes the priest and the levitc The priest is going to preach a great ser mon on home missions, eloquent and won- derful The Levite Is going to preach a rf rrf frer
 T wonder If they ever dreamed that if they loved the work of Christ they should have stopped and helped the wounded man. The real test God has put right at our doors, under our hands, in the sound of our voices, but he seems to have given us a peculiar blindness. I can not under stand it. Why, we pray for the Chinese and the people In the mountains, while the negro cries at our feet.
 T believe that when we stand before God in judgment that the negro will be our greatest condemnation. I suspect that we will meet him on that day. There is not sensible man here but knows that we are living on the crest of a volcano and sometimes the fire will burst out Like the people did before the food we're walking and singing and neglecting our duty Gods trying to wake us up Here's roar at Atlanta, here's a spurt of awful fire, now and again, as lynch ings occur, and still we wait.
 Years from now the great historian will take up his pen to write our fate and his greatest wonder will be why we Christians were so blind.
 
 that I offer to add to those of Judge Wells. Let the ladies teach the negro girls to sew. and let us substitute white women for the colored teachers in the public schools
 Negro Commissioner Speaks.
 The next speaker was Champney of Montgomery. You have the means, you have the desire, you have the ability. There is a question which many ask, DO the colored people want white people to preach and teach them? We do. We need your help, for we think as you do that a crisis is coming. but God Is above us and with your help we can tide it over and Gods kingdom will be glorified.
 Tn the name of my race I want to ask you to have patience with us, and many of you have. Your lawyers here in Ala bama use all their ability to defend the colored man. We understand you, and you understand us. If you use half the means, you can do more for us than those farther away.
 ''I know what the condition is now. Why in the country we have churches every three miles apart. Each one has 500 or 700 members and each church has about thir- ty preachers. l am ashamed to say it. but they are making the long coat nui- sance and shame.
 I'm glad to say the negro doesn't know how to strike. When he gets tired he just quits.
 ''The money you are spending God will bring back to you an hundred fold. say that for all times we will furnish you with servants in your kitchen and your barns. You don't want to get rid of us. The whole federal army couldn't keep us here if you did. We thank you for what you have done, and pray for what is to come.''
 Presses Home Three Thoughts.
 Dr. Lilly closed with the pressing home of three thoughts, the negro has many kinds of characters, every problem to face, and few helps. He needs the assist ance of his white friends.
 The vote for the adoption was then talk en by sections. When they came to the sum to be requested for the cause, Dr. Hardin of North Carolina said that after such meeting they should be ashamed of themselves if they did not double the sum asked, and it was done immediately. When the question of white evangelists came up, Champney and Austin, another colored commissioner, asked the privilege to move and second it's adoption. Before the close Dr. Snedecor announced that the collections amounted to $2S6.
 The best spring medicine is Hoods Sar- sanarilla because 1t purifes tke blood.