The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-11-22

He thanked God and took courage"
Acts 28:15.
NO man is in true health who can
not stand in the free air OF Heaven,
with his feet on Gods free turf, and
thank his Creator for the simple lux
ury Of physical ~existence;" and one
should be especially thankful who
lives in these times Of great world
movements.
am thankful for much Of our past.
But someone says, Before l could
be thankful for it l would have to for
get slavery" But a condition or
slavery is not peculiar to US; many
other nations have been in the same
or similar condition. I once heard
Frederick Douglass say, people Of
ten say to me, Mr.. DOUGLASS, aren't
you ashamed to say tina You were a
slave, and that you were beaten in
slavery?" And l tell them no, If the
great apostle Paul boasted that he was
five times beaten of the Jews with
forty stripes save one, why should I
be ashamed that I was beaten?" Per-
sonally l doubt if freedom will ever
give to us a more glorious page in
many respects. That period marks
the transition of my people from bar
barism to civilization; from a small
cargo in 1920 to a great part OF the
numerical strength Of the country
four millions in 1868; 1t marked tn
beginnings of some great movement
among us. It marked some real
struggles for manhood rights, On
some real protests against their de-
NAL instructions, U%ndergroun|
Railroad, the fugitives' flight to the
free North, following the light of t.
Polar Star; it gave us William ST.
and Harriet Tubman; it marked the
loyalty of slaves to their masters and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. confidence they
did not abuse, whose sacred trusts
they did not violate, and then to the
government in '76, in ~, in Gigs
the blacks of the South fighting side
by side with the whites Of the North;
they, without a country alongside the
freemen who ~purposed to- save the
Union-it was a spectacle for gods
and men. Whatever the glory the
conflict brought to others, it could
bring to them no more than it brought
to us, and I am thankful for that mer-
tied glory.
After all, it may be that the whole
wrought out plan was provtdential;
a course armed resistance bewteen
the races would have been neither
wise nor successful; the Indians tried
this plan to their detriment-thev
have been pushed almost into the sea
Norman and Saxon met In sanguinarv
conflict until thew fused their blood
as we'll as their speAch. A policy Of
pacifcaHon-yet with compromise OF
principle-of natural federation and
acknowledgements more to both
than anv other policy IAN.
I am thankful for the decline Of race
l cannot understand the logic which
claims that A or e is a barber-the
best one in town because he's colored
and x Y and 2 are s~o-called doctors,
lawyers and teachers-but the poor
est in town because they are colored.
You say it Is not color, it is experience
but didn't every professional man
start in his business as novice-where
did he get his experience? How
could he get it unless some body en-
ployed him? Men don't get expert
ence by heredity. And l can do as
much in 80, 40 or so years as any
other man. You insist that he does
mt have access-and that's it. Read
ing on hygiene, anatomy and phvsi-
ology do not make a doctor. You
make him. If you do not give him
access-you're to blame.
Your minister, your priest, is like
everything-everybody else around
you-pretty much what you make him
or it. You like REV. Dr." this or
that because he makes you feel good"
and he learns what you like and falls
into the habit of giving you what you
like-what makes you feel good" in
stead of what you need-a serious
mistake. You must know that facts
are more important than feeling, that
Christian life is more than a p%eriodi-
cal church shout. You must know
that successful ministry IS not Also
lutte, but relative not pulpit, but pull
pit plus, or pulnit related to pew.
If the pew reflects on the pulpit let
e new take the responsibility Of it's
a ion.
Yes, but you say he holds no d.
plomafrom Princeton, Chicago, North
western, neither did Peter nor Jesus,
Moody nor Amanda Smith. Paul sat
at the feet Of Gamaliel when a Phari-
see, but when a disciple he sat at
the feet of Jesus.
You thing because "Dr. A." or Or.
B" came from Cannon or Richmond