The Washington bee., 1909-10-02

the South And DR.. Corrothers said
that II required quite a stretch OF the
imagination to call the Southerners
who had outraged and murdered
poor helpless Negroes, kind and cour-
teous, as our distinguished President
has done.
Then DR.. Corrothers said that the
| blacks Outnumber the whites in
South Carolina, by one hundred and
lseventy-fve thousand. They pay 40
per cent Of the taxes for education
and only receive 10 per cent of the
money expended for schools and col
leges by the State of South Carolina.
The blacks are recognized by the
constitution OF the United States,
which the Southern states are defy
iEg as citizens. They form the bulk
| Of the population in the South and
they pay a large per cent of the pro-
perty, personal and school taxes. and
are entitled to some political recogni-
ton. The principle of refusing to
appoint colored men where white
men object, carried out to its logical
conclusion would mean that colored
men in Boston, Chicago, New York
and Washington could be driven out
| CT Federal offices and out of the Civil
Service and completely eliminated
from the political life of the society
of which they form a part.
In conclusion, DR.. Corrothers said
that it is the duty of the Church and
Negro pulpit to look out for the Ne
gro's civil and political rights and not
leave them to politicians and ward
heelers The Church must point ou,
tc the Negro the path of Liberty and
life. The crisis is coming. The
country at heart believes in justice
nd fair play, and all the Negro needs
is TO be the being God intended him
tc be, when He formed him out of
the dust of the earth, breathed into
his nostrils the breath of a spiritual
life and charged him with God-like
hopes and aspirations which stretch
beyond this vale of tears. The Ne
gro needs character, built upon the
grace of God, education, and money.
Dr. Corrothers concluded his eloquent
address with an appeal for men to
consecrate their lives to God and with
plea for them to be true to the
mighty hopes which made them men.
A few came forward for prayers.
In the evening DR.. Corrothers
preached another strong sermon from
! Revelation xxi: 5th verse, There
shall be no night there" and spoke of
the home of the soul and its inhabi
tantS. So impressed was the congre
cation by this fervent discourse that
, ten men, one a white man, came up
for prayers.
During the past summE Galbraith
African Methodist Episcopal Church
, has had the largest following in its
history. People from every walk in
life came to the church and crowded
il to its doors. In the last few days
the public collections in the Church
have amounted TO over 5000. In July
the church raised over 5000 in public
collections, in August over $500, in
September over 5000 and the coming
fall and winter promises to beA the
most prosperous in the history of the
church, both from a spiritual and a
financial standpoint.
DR.. s. L. Corrothers is President
of the Pastors Congress of the At
rican Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church, whose object is to create a
revival in every Zion church through
out the world. An aggressive cam
paign will be introduced in every A.
NJ. E. Zion Church in the country.
DR.. Corrothers' morning sermons
will be radical and practical and his
evening sermons will be evangelical
III character, but his burning theme
in both his morning and evening dis
courses will be Men must realize
their end and destiny as spiritual be-
ings and rise to fulfill it.