The broad ax., 1916-05-06

High Point, N. C.-Getting over this
country is a nice thing yet there are
some hardships experiences as long as
you belong to my race, but L have
left the farm in Kansas and have been
trying to become newspaper man, so
I had just as well make up my mind
that I am going to stand the hardships,
come what may, and then I will be able
to say things to you.
I do not know just where I was when
L wrote to you the last time, but I
do know where I am today, and have
been to a few places since L wrote.
I sit down to write to you, and as you
read this letter general conferences
will be in session, and the preachers
will be down to business make church
laws. Of course in a general confer
ence it is just like in a legislature,
every man almost is hourly having new
laws born in his brains, and he must
be able to get them out to advantage
and tell the world about them. am
not surprised at this, hence I am not
going to say much about it now.
If you were at the general confer,
ence, then you would see just how it is
when the men get into the legislature
how they want to make a name and
how they want to let people know
that they were not asleep during their
stay in town and in the conference
I have met many of them and have
talked with them. Some will want to
change the world and others will not
want to change anything. Such is
life.
The making of bishops will be one
of the things in two conferences
mean in three conferences. I don Y
know who will be made, but I will say
here that I want to see Rev. DR.. W.
A. Fountain, president of Morris
Brown University, in Atlanta, made a
bishop in the A. NJ. E. general con-
ference, and that it is because he is
prepared and then he has won the place
by hard work for his church and his
people.
I had the pleasure of being at the
commencement at Morris Brown Uni
versity last week, and believe me there
were some things that happened up
there that was worth happening, and
then I saw the hand of trained man
in all. For instance they opened the
Fair Haven Hospital of Morris Brown
University. DR.. Fountain has been
working for this a long time, and he
has just been able to realize his real
work. Of course they have had nurse
training department at Morris Brown
a long time, but this has been in theory
only and not in practice. Now they
have the real thing and will use it
This is the work of DR.. Fountain.
Do you know that this is the only
hospital in Atlanta where members of
our race can go. There is a frst-class
hospital connected with Spelman, but
only White physicians can practice
there, and the Colored men can carry
them to the door and there leave them
and this is an institution for the train
ing of our girls and boys. I do not
mean boys, but girls. hope this i:
not true, but heard man say this
in his speech. Spelman has trained
many of our young people. hope
that it will turn out alright.
I have told you about Atlanta, from
time to time and will not say more
about it now. had the pleasure OF
meeting Bishop J. S. Flipper, and he
is a real bishop. He knows how to
deal with men and women, and how
to do church work. I am real proud
to know him. DR.. Fountain will be
another great man on the bench.
I would not forget to mention an
other great man in the A. NJ. E. church
who would make a great bishop If
elected, and he should be elected, and
that is Rev. A. L. Gaines, Of Baltimore,
one of the best men in the A. NJ. E
church, and a man Of rare ability.
was so glad to have the pleasure OF
seeing him, and talking with him and