The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-05-02
FROST AND WEATAERfORD ON
The WHITE MANS BURDEN

| iUL VUIIl MAN UunuIN
At the United chapel recently
Pres. Frost took for his text the
words Of Christ in the twenty-fifth
chapter of Matthew: "lnasmuch as
ye did 1t not unto one of the least
of these ye did 1t not to me-"
Pres. Frost began by saying: This
has been a world of cruelties." He
gave vivid sketch OF the building
of the pyramids under the lash of
/ the taskmasters, the Roman triumph,
heaped by the pillage of thousands of
homes, and the expressions which
led to the French Revolution and
the Siberian exile today. "Moses
said to the children of Israel: Re
member that thou vast a bondsman
in the land of Egypt This exper-
fence In bondage gave them the pow
er of sympathy. Homer. heather
poet thousand years before Christ,
said that God protects strangers and
outcasts. Rome began a law of jus-
tice, not for all hut for the upper
classes. the patricians. Christ stated
the Golden Rule; the one thread
that illumines history is the growth
of liberty. human rights, and regard
for the lowly."
He then inquired how far the ideals
of the Declaration of Independence
were realized in Chicago, where the
juveline court is being overthrow,
in Pittsburg. where great expressions
have lately been discovered. or in
our own Southland. where an Alaba-
ma grand jury declares that slavery
is being re-established in practical eff
feet.
The chief time of the night was
given up to important extracts from
the book by Dr. Weatherford, OF
Nashville. Tenn. published by the
Young Mems Christian Association,
on Negro Life in the South" as
follows:
The Real Question
Now. the real point of the race
question is not shall we have social
Observation-Disclosures shall we recog-
nize that the other man has a soul.
is real human personality-in spite
OF the fact that he often lives on a
back alley, wears poor clothes, uses
broken language. and has a black
skin. | have sometimes felt that we
really do not believe the negro is
possessed of human personality.
This fact came to me with inten-
sity some years ago as / was riding
on Pullman car through Alabama.
We stopped rather long at some small
station, and | noted, without asking
the cause. that very large crowd
OF colored people were gathered on
the station platform. After the train
had started again. a travelling man,
who had gone out to see what was
wrong, returned TO the car, and was
asked by his companion the cause
of the delay. ooh, nothing" replied
the drummer, zone niger shot an
other. and they were loading the
wounded one on to carry him to the
nearest town with a hospital" Then
and there 1t dawned upon me that
we really did not appreciate the
sacredness of humanity provided
that humanity be clothed in a dark
skin.
Professor Dubois describes in beau
tiful and art.searching English
the death of his own baby boy. He
tells how dark the day seemed TO
him as the carriage rolled along
through the crowded streets of At
lanta behind the hearse, which car
ried the lifeless form of the child
as dear to him as life. AS the crowd
parted for moment to let the pro-
cession pass, some one inquired who
ii was that had died. Professor Du-
Bots heard the reply as II broke in
upon his saddened heart-"Just mig
gers" Do you wonder that he is
sometimes bitterp
One would be disposed TO charge
him with over-emphasizing the I'm
difference of white men II we had
not lived all our lives in the midst
of these conditions and had not heard
such expressions hundreds of times.
Test of White Civilization
We have heard much discussion of
whether the negro would be able TO
stand the test of contact with a