The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-10-31
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL HOLDS
GOOD SESSION IN EAST TENN.
Bishop Jones Presiding Large Attendance at Opening Session
Bishop Declares egOeS are not Atheists nor Anarchists
Says Press is Unfair-A Better Day
Ahead-Reports Best in Many
Years-SpIendid Effort for Ed
ucation and Missions APP
pointments.

Fayetteville, Tenn, Oct 27-The
thirteenth session of the East Ten
nossee Conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church came to
cos. touay III the afternoon The
amount of dollar money collected was
IS1,14S40 Iue Womans Home ana
Foreign Missionary reported $2S6.22.
Otter repo. Is are as follows Easter
Day, SO; Chndren's Day, $47.50;
Education, S113; Educational rally,
SOLO; members IN the churches, 4,10S;
conversions, 924; accessions, 1885,;
amount paid presiding elders, $1,540,-
So; amount paid pastors, $S,399.23.
Wednesday morning, October 22.- :
The session was opened by Bishop j.
II. Jones, of Wilbei force, o., at the
ST. raul A. Nj. h. Church, Wednes-
day morning, October %. The annual
sermon was preached by Rev. j. II.
Turner, of Chattanooga. The theme
of the speaker was "rhe Gail to the
Ministry" The sacrament of the
Lords Supper was administered by
Drs. A. F. Gray and j. F. Griffin. The
conference was then organized. Rev.
j. H. Smith was elected secretary:
N. B. Morten, recording secretary,
and j. H. Turner, statistical secrela-
ry. The conference then elected re-
porters to the daily press and to the
church periodicals.
On Thursday morning DR.. ]. w.
Cherry, of the M. E. Church, South,
was introduced to the conference. He
said he was glad to welcome the
conference to the city and rejoiced in
the progress made by the Negro as
a race, and especially in the work
of the church. "The problems of free
dom could be solved by affection,
am not afraid of the future. The
problems of the South were not
nearly so grave as those of the North.
The atheistic and anarchistic foreign
ers of Europe have superinduced upon
the North a problem of a serious ma
ture. The Negro minister has a work
to do that no one else can do; God
has a use for the colored people or
else he would not have made So many
Of them. | believe that God is in
the midst of and round about this
people. The world is getting better
and things are on the upward move"
He closed his remarks by saying that
the pastor of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church in this city was do.
ing great work, and that was per-
perhaps the most active pastor in the
town.
Bishop ]. H. Jones, in reply to DR..
Cherry's words of greeting, thanked
him for his expressions of good will
and declared that it was on account
of the influence of such leading white
ministers as Dr. Cherry that the re-
lations between the races in the south
were so amicable. CAS- u slave on u
rice plantation in South Carolina, l
was one of 900 slaves who, being left
with the white women on that great
estate, protected them and looked
upon them as very angels, and worked
for the support of the armies at the
front, who were fighting to rivet the
chains of bondage. The Negro is
neither an atheist or an anarchist
but is a conservative force in Ameri-
can life. The injustice of the secular
press in molding sentiment against
a whole race on account of the crimes
Of the criminal element is unfair to
say the least. Rape is not a racial
trait of the Negro, but is a crime
found among all races. Over three
fourths of the lynchings in our coun-
try are for crimes other than the
usual one alleged. But as long as the
Negroes life is cheap, the white mans
life will be so too Injuries inflicted
upon Negroes reflect upon the whites.
This is a government ruled by white
men. They have the presidency the
congress, the supreme courts, the state
legislatures, county and municipal
courts and judges. All of this legal
machinery and power should make
the Negro an object to be pitied The
white race occupies the headship of
the forces Of modern civilization.
They are masters of science and IN
vention, they control the financial,
economic, moral and religious forces
of the world But such has not OIL
ways been the case. He has been
nearly 1000 years reaching this de-
gree of advancement. 1t took the
white race a thousand years to evolve
its first gentleman. Christianity
found this white man a barbarian in
northern Europe. Caesar said that
the aboriginal inhabitants of Britain
were not fit for civilization. Chris
tianity has been the chief moulding
factor in the upward progress of the
white man. The same rude and nm
compromising race now controls the
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