Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-26
MORE MONEY FOR
NEGRO MISSIONS
NEEDED, He SAYS
Bishop Query Deplores mac
tivity of Episcopalians in
This Direction.

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opened the business session of the de-
partment in Trinity Episcopal Chufeh.
Rev. DR.. Holden, of Long Island, one
of a committee to whom the wonan's
auxiliary and board of religious edu-
cation matter had been referred, re-
ported as follows.
Resolved, That this council requests
tina each diocese in this department
send one representative of the wom-
ems auxiliary and one representative
of the board of religious education to
attend the next missionary council
without the right to vote
This same committee offered a second
resolution that the council request the
general convention to make such
changes in Canon 80, Article ?, as
shall permit the women's auxiliary
and the board of religious education
to have representation in the mission
airy council, At present the eonstitu-
ton does not permit the women TO
vote.
When the conference session started
Trinity Church was almost filed, many
men being present. IT was announced
that at the public meeting to be held
this evening in the New Auditorium
Bishop Partridge, recently of Japan,
where he conducted missionary work
would speak. Bishop Partridge now
has charge of the Kansas City diocese.
| Bishop Beecher, of. kearny, Neo.'
Bishop Van Buren,, of Porto Rieo'
! George Gordon King, of New York
city, and Talcott Williams, of Phila-
delphia. will also speak at the meeting
this evening.
Bishop Lines, the Newark Episcopal
clergy, and the lay men and women OF
this city were earnestly thanked by
| the members of the department FOR the
courteous treatment the visiting deie-
| gates received while in this CITY.
Bishop Lines declared that a better
| time would be provided if the council
met here again.
The Right Rev. Bishop W. A. Guer-
ry. of South Carolina, spoke on the
ehurch's work anon the negroes OF
! the South. The importance Of this
race. the uplifting Of its members and
its progress since the civil war IS
demonstrated by the fact that in one
Southern State negroes own 1,400,O0O
acres of land, worth SIS, 600, 900, de-
clared the speaker. lie asserted that
the negro is capable of Improvement,
as was shown how they quickly pick
up the elementary studies in schools.
The trouble lies in the fact that his
intellectual advancement is moi curbed
by a moral education as well.
Think of this American church CIV
ing only $107, 900 for missions among
0 1000, coo of people, declared the
j bishop, and out of this sum $4,000
100 =. al,,-,l ;oeffta,ftapo for church
mission work and only $4,000 is left
for the evangeIization of these people
at our own doors. 1t looks as though
We were standing with our hands be-
hind our backs"
Bishop Query urged the Northern
ers to attend to negroes in this sec
ton of the country. as a great num-
Der Of them had moved up here.
The evening session of the conference
was devoted chiefly to consideration of
| practical and financial methods for
promoting missionary work. Those
present were delegates to the annual
conference of the second missionary
department Of the Episcopal Church.
There We're 300 laymen and clergymen
present.
Negroes Natural TiIIers.
- OitSSOI L. DiGSlNCill v
the Jeannes fund. asserted that the
race feeling was not confined to the
South, but was evident in all places.
The negro is a natural tiller of the
hsoil, and ii would be better for the
| race il he could be persuaded to re-
main in the country. for too MANY
negroes drifting to the city make them
become oilers. asserted the professor.
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should be improved, and every encour-
agement given 10 the Normal School
for Training negro teachers which was
maintained by the John f. Salter fund,
said the speaker.
Professor billiard agreed with Bishop
Query that you cannot put a white
mans mind in a negroes body and
that 1t was essential for the uplifteof
the colored race that colored people be
trained TO each among their people.
other elergymen advocated the CO.
operation of The Northerners in the
missionary work among the negroes,
AS has been remarked before 1t vii
AXE negroes to convert negroes. Jap
anese to CONVEX Japanese and so on
among all nations said Rev. H. St
George Tucker, of St. Paul's College
Tokyo, Japan. The national japanese
church will ave to be organized II
Japan before that peiple will welcome
Christianity, declared the speaker, bui
remarkable improvement had beer
shown during the past fifty. years
when the Japanese hated Christians
and all forms of Christianity. There
are $50, 600 Christians among the Jap
anese. but these were distributed
a. t-