The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-12-09

who are doing so.
FOR his stand everywhere against
extremists of every kind, and in be-
half of good morals, the Christian re-
ngion and all their various agencies.
For his growing influence and pow
! er IN movements of worldwide move
ment, economical conferences, Worlds
Christian Endeavor. Worlds SUNDAY
School Convention, Worlds Peace Con-
gress, Worlds Missionary Convention.
Worlds Race Congress, ETC., etc.
am thankful for our bouyancv of
spirit, our resiliency of disposition
our powers of spiritual recuperation
| we are cork-not lead Our trou
oles 40 not strike in so deeply; we
TURN them as the ducks back, turns
water. Slavery would have crushed
MIN had he been otherwise.
"A few days since, as you know.
our walters were discharged by Car
| llng's Uptown. AS one of our bows
came downstairs he was unexpected-
ly handed his time with the message
that his services would be no longer
| required. He turned on his heel and
called, BUS boy! Oh, bus boy! Please
call my driver and tell him I'm ready
to co."
| If there's bright side to anything.
we'll find it.; if there's a joke in any
thing, we'll see it. We can whistle
better than anybody, and louder. We
can laugh more heartily than any
body, and more merrily. We can sing
more sweetly than others.
BY the law of compensation, nature
! pays in one place for her deficiency
in another. When you've deprived a
| bird of freedom, he sings a sweeter
song. When you've crushed the rose
| ruthlessly, you get the sweeter per-
fume. When you've given one. capa-
| city for deep sorrow, you've supplied
the capacity for great joy. Lincoln
! was a great wit, but he was one of
! the saddest of men.
1t isn't because we have no soul
that we are cheery-it's because we
have. He's the most soulful man in
| the population-warm hearted, SYM
pathetic, patient, generous to a fault.
| courteous by nature, accommodating;
he supplies the balance for that cold,
! calculating, bloodless, unsympathetic
class--too busy to be civil, too sus-
picious to be confiding, too preoccu-
| pied to be companionable. If these
are the head of the nation we are the
heart OF it. If they have lost the
sweetness out of life, we have found
it.
| am thankful for the Negros great
soul, deeply religious-it's breathed
IN his song of past which tried men
as by hre. His Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot Couldn't Hear Nobody
Pray, Pm Troubled in Mind"
ANY analysis of them will show a
chlldlike faith, superior to circum-
stances-a love that is deep and wide,
nope which can not but be realized.
resignation which, if it were not
religious, would be pitiable.
Simple and powerful, direct and
searching, gentle as morning dew
numbering with impending Judgment
Walllng and wierd-the agony of
tortured soul, the soothing touch of
an Anglers wing, the compelling mel
ouy vi soul serene and calm and con-
fdent-God is all and in ALL
AND I'm thankful for these pro-
aucers and interpreters of later times
| Tor 5. Coleridge Taylor and his Atone
ment and Hiawatha, for Harry Bur
leigh and Azalia Hackley.
I'm thankful for our remembrance
OF Him whose bountiful hand supnlies
our needs, of Him without whom we
can do nothing.
snort while since l heard Prof
John R. Hawkins speaking eloouentlv
upon the subject, "Uncrowned Heroes
and the Agencies That Make Them "
He used, in one place, this exnras-
sion:
Il stood, few days since, in the
capitol at Washington before that
magnificent painting representing
Ferrys victory on Lake Erie: but as
remarkable as are the conception and
the execution, more interesting to
me was that "black spot" in that
great picture. I left Washington and
went to Philadelphia, and in a cert
tain gallery of fine art saw another
painting more remarkable still. It
represented the Christ on the way to
Calvary; he has faltered, fallen un-
der the weight of the Cross, and
there is Simon of Cyrene-that black
man bearing on his brawny shoulders
the Savior's cross AS stood there
with my friend, transfxed, gazing up
on this marvellous creation, my friend
suddenly raised both hands and ex-
claimed, mo wonder Jesus Christ had
power to rise from the dead when God
Almighty had Negro to bear his
Cross God Almighty and the Negro
that's an uncomfortable cOmbina-
ton. Douglass used to say that
one with God makes a majority
1T is true. Prescription, preju-
dice, hatred, malice, ostracism, may
separate us from everything else,
but we've not lost so much until we
separate from God, who is more than
all that may come against u.s. Amen
The foregoing is the great sermon
which was delivered at Pilgrim Bap-
fist church on Thanksgiving Day, and
is published at the request of the fol-
lowing named gentlemen who were
present and subscribed the money nee
essary to pay for the same, viz:
Messrs. J. H. Dillingham;, DR.. Waldo
Turner, Andrew Jackson, Walter Root,
O. H. Allen, c. A. Allen, c. H. Booker,
w. G. Hood, M. A. Boiling, j. H. ,Hick-
man, Jr., N. Coins, J. B. Johnson, T.
Bush, o. c. Hall, S. s. Furr, w. r.
Douglass, H. G.. Petticord, N. D.
Kicks, w. T. Francis, G.. w. Wills, B.
F. Edwards, e. G. Walker, Vernon
Barksdale, B. J. Jeter, ]. H. Officer, A.
Stewart, j. H. Hickman, ST., J. @.