The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-03-04
THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER ON
RELIGIOUS PUBLISHING
HOUSES.

The CHRISTIAN 1NOSOl W. o.,
Inv the African Methodist BOOK In ~
Germ at Philadelphia, Pa, unqer Lne
management of Prof. K. II. "IlsnV'
Jr recognizes the far-reachlng lnhue
ence of religious publishing houses VI
1,-bicb the National Baptist Publlshlhg
House constitutes one, and the largest
one Of the four. Splendid results nave
baer achieved by the National Baptls'
r,,hIishing Board at Nashville, le'lh'
- leads all the other Negro plants III
~ world for the kind and style OF {
,,,oobinerv. as we'll as the grade OIL
~ turned out. The National bap
+ist Publishing Board, under the man
aoement of R. H. Boyd, speaks tui,
,,1oee for the future as well as Che
nresent achievement of the Negro anu
~ Pontist denomination. Few peo-
IL CON conceive the enormous circula,
tioo If Negro Baptist Sunday-scnooi
periodicals for 1909. Tney reacneu
the stupendous figures OF some'nlns
over 12OO0,000 copies, Wnlch, accolu
inc to Secretary Boyds report 90 no'
include song books and pastoral heips.
# was only last week that anotner
evnensive piece of machinery was
added to the already unsurpassed anu
,,neonaled lot of printing parapnerna-
Ito that is in operation by these PEG
Me Notwithstanding the SCOTS All
Size Rotary Press valued at SlS.VVu'
18th the new Fuller Folder Machlne
With automatic feeder large size, val
nod Of $4,000, that have been installeu
ond mt in operation since the adjourn
mont of the last National Baptist Con
vnntion which met in Columbus ".
The neople who read of these RAPID
strides made by the Baptist PuoIishine
Concern at Nashville Will llsCen III
amazement as you relate the sCoIy
hundreds have already asked II such
is possible. They have said: how
could DIR. Boyd within fourteen years
hring into existence publlshlns
nIanf for the denomination worm
py 1 100000 without the financial
hacking of the National Baptist Con
vantion?" The face of stubborn oppo-
sition on the part OF some OIL Cne
strongest and most eloquent olVlnes
With tbe same convention-men VINO
o,nosed the establishment and main
tenance of a Negro Baptist Publlshlns
BOARD from the very beginning, Dr.
Boyd has pushed right on not STOP
ming to answer criticisms Dut "OrK.
ing earnestly and faithfully to DO what
the National Baptist Convention or
dered him to do, which was to edit
nrint. publish, send out, Distribute
sell give away and to circulate III
every way deemed necessary BOOKS
catechisms. magazines newspapers
and everything that would dissent
nate RELIGIOUS matter in prose or po-
etrv In writing about religious pup
fishing houses Prof Wright says:
"Within the past year, there nave
heen vast improvements IN the pup
fishing interests of the great denoml-
nations lust a few months ago the
NJ d. Church installed the Southwest
ern Christian Advocate, which Is the
organ among the colored, in new
un-to-date building, known as the
Southwestern Building in New UT
leans. La, giving every facility to tnt
editorial staff to bring out the excel
lent paper which they now publish
"The latest instance Of improvement
is that the A. M. E. Zion Publishing
House. at Charlotte, North Carolina
few weeks ago, the old building il
which they have been for some years
was disposed of at a price OF NOR
than eleven thousand dollars, and
new building, we'll equipped and NOR
commodious has been purchased
New machinery has been put in, II
Guiding la linotype typesettlng ma
chine, and we are given to expet
other vast Improvements il the pu
fishing interests of this church.
branch of the A. NJ e. Zion Boo
Concern has also been established
philadelphia at 420 South Elevent
street. and Bishop ]. S. Caldwell
the custodian of the same. Thu
slowly the Negro church is waking l
to the fact of the great power of prin
ing"
When one studies the situation car
fully. he is not at all surprised IN
our printing interests have been
sorelv neglected. The great MAORI
of members of our churches for
wears ago we're illiterate, and it show
remarkable faith in education and
their better trained leaders, that tn
accomplished so much as they did
establishing the Book Concern and
supporting the Christian Record
nut with the establishment of c
ieges and with the throwing open
the public schools to our people,
increasing education is demanding b
ter material to read, and if we are
keen the young people whom we et
cate. we must furnish them W
some wholesome and interesting re
ing material. 1t is folly to teach tn