Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-17
500 NEGRO MEN
 HEAR PREACHER
 TALK 0N MANHOOD
Dr. Steel Gives Support to Revival Meeting at St.
 John A. M. F.. Church.

dress to the 300 men present and pre- sented Dr Adams to the congregation. Among other things, he said:
 "I was glad to receive the invita- ton to attend this service, for, after reading the account of the services and the extracts from the sermon in the daily papers, I knew that you were doing much good and wanted to come and be with you and encourage you in the work. l congratulate you on this building in which you worship God and the progress you are aiaking. am in favor of this movement 10 reach and save men, for God cannot save the world without men. He nee ds men and calls men to help him save ths world. We have been de- pending> too much on the women for the success of the church. work, and we want to arouse the men to do their part in this great world work of saving humanity"
 Announcing as his subject, "Exalt- ed Manhood,' the evangelist pleaded with the men to reform their lives and live such lives as God will ap- prove. He pleaded for physical q sober manhood, d moral manhood and a Christian manhood. Tho following arc pointed sayings from different diversions of the address:
 Physical Manhood-You talk of conservation of the natural resources conserving the water power, the coal supply, the trees, the birds and fishes, but I tell you the most important phase of conservation is the conser- Wation of physical manhood and wcmanhood. Among negroes, l know that dissipation, eXcesses, drunken ness and venereal diseases are play ing havoc with the men. We talk of the race problem, but unless we can get the people aroused and stop this physical waste, the probleia will solve itsf 1.-the race will die out--and it will be long, lingering death. Three four;h of the nsgro men are unfit for married life and it's duties, because of these conditions.
 Approves "Vag" Law.
 industrial Manhood--I am ia fav- or of the vagrant law which declares that every man who is able to work must do so. Of course, the laws Ought to bs administered imnar,ially. There is saying that "A bird that can sing and will not, ought to be made to sing and l say, man whu can work and will not work ought to lG made to work. If he will not work voluntarily, he ought to be put on the rock-pile or elsewhere and made to work for the state; for the man who will not work is menace 10 the safety and wellbeing of the will live, and that means 4hat he will live on the labor of others which is both inequitable and against the con- mand of God. .e
 "A Sober Manhood drink is the greatest enemy of the human race and ought to be outlawed for ever The greatest service the white people of the South ever did for the negro was to drive whiskey out of th's SC southern states and remove from the negro the greatest hin |drance to his progress. l thank God for the white ministers, lawyers, edi- tors and others who have had reli- zion enough and courage enough to fight and win in this cause
 Prom an econola ical point of view. the negro cannot afford to drink. When the white man spends four or five dollars a week for drink, he has something left for his family; but when the negro spends that much, he has nothing left but curses and black eyes for his wife, kicks and starva- tion for his childrsn.
 II pray for the hastening of the time when drunkeness shall be driven out of the churcaes and the churches purgea of whiskey drinking members and ministers as we'll
 "A Moral Manhood-A man may be. moral without being Christian: which fact is seriously doubtful, but he can never be Christian and be immoral. We are to know that rcli- zion is inte ended to enter into our every day life. to purify and regulate church life. social life, fanily life and individual life. The question of morality is up to the men," Get the men right, bring them to sense of their duty to the woman, and we will close up every house of shame in the nation and in the world
 Fall 10 Understand.
 "The trouble with negroes has been that many of them have not under stood the purpose of religion, and therefore have thought that they could be Christians and yet do what ever they chose to do. They have a little song which runs, I know l got religion, in my heart; know I've been converted, in my heart; I feel the love of Jesus, in my heart; I'm going home to heaven, in my heart I've little stone a rolling, in my heart; there's little wheel a moving, in my heart;' and while they have all of these wonderful things damned up in their hearts they are living no toriously ba moral lives I am pleading for a circulating religion, something that will not remain shut up in the hs sart, but something that will flow put of the heart into the life: out of he heart into the hands and make hem honest; out of the heart into he tongue and make it tell the truth; ut of the heart into the feet and l nake them take the man home rather