The Sentinel=record., 1916-11-25
NEGRO SCHOOLS
 OF CITY PRAISED
OMMITTEE FROM BAPTIST CON MENTION VISIT THE LANG
 STON HIGH SCHOOL.
Declare There Is No Reason for Any One to Leave Hot Springs If They Are Looking for Practical Educa- ton.

to build jails and employ office off cers, declared Dr. E. C. Morris and l am proud of the fact that the first thing 10 claim the attention of the negro just after his emancipation was budding schools and churches. for they are the great civilizirg agencies.
 However you find a negro com nunity you will find negro churches in abundance. We believe in the Bible, and we believe preemmetly in that. If l were asked to name the most wonderful and farlreaching achievement Of the splendid all con quering Anglo-SaXOn race. l would ignore the Pass of Thermopolae, the immortal Six Hundred at Balaklave Trafalgar Waterloo, Quebec, Bunker Hill, Yorktown and Appomatox; would foget it's marvellous accumula- tion of edith, it's additions t0 the literature of the world, and point to the single fact, that it had done tho most to g read the religion of Jesus Christ as the greatest thing it has accomplished for the betterment oi the human family
 The eSsJ preserved the idea of one God and gave the ethics to reli. zion. tho Ten Commandments, the Lords Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount; the Greeks contributed philo sophy the Romans policy the Teutons liberty and the breadth of thought; but it remained 10 the Anglo Saxon i'm plicity to obey the divine command: Co ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature
 "it some man would ask me the one part of my own race, that gives 10 me the greatest ho for the negro'S ultimate elevation to the heights of civilization and culture. would not revel in ancient lore. to prove them the pioneers in civilization nor would point to their marvellous progress since emancipation that has surprised the most sanguine friends, but I would take the single idea of their unques toned acceptance of the dogmas and tenents of the Christian religions and promulgated by the Anglo-SaXon as the highest evidence of the future possibilities of the race.
 "Ours was indeed a wonderful faith that overleaped the barriers of ec- clesiaStical juggling to justify from Holy Writ the iniquitous traffic in human flesh and blood. forgot the elaring inconsistencies of a religion that rrayer on Sunday, our Father which art in Heaven, and on Monday sold a brother. who though cut ir ebony was yet the image of the divine The negro had in every truth, That faith that would shrink.
 In the name C eur Father we have been here all the week strug- ging in an effort to make our people better We are forgetting the past and come here from all parts of tho state to work for ourselves and for our own elevation We come to Hot Springs in the name of Jesus Christ We come here in the church estab- lished by Jesus Himself, for he said On this Rock I build my church
 and this is the church"
 Dr. Morris was given a great ova- ton by the convention when he con
 cluded his remarks He was pro- nounced as a safe and sane leader Following the opening Of the con vention the stockholders of the Ar. kansas Baptist college met. Owing to the death of the President John Fl. Sims, Dr. ?. A. Knowles, of Little Rock. was selected as president, and Rev. W. H. Holloway secretary; Rev. J. M. Harris of Pine Bluff, was elected secretary of the trustees of Arkansas
 Baptist college.
 We have heard the s lendid ad- l dress of our leader, Dr F. C. Morris" :"
 said President Knowles. and we are | proud of him. We want to thank the | white people of this state for the as sistance they have given us for we realize that we could not have ac- l complished so much if it had not been | for them. We are now facing the fu- ture and let us turn our attention to l the uplift work of the American | which is Jbefore us We have no
 time to close. It is with regret that we announce the death of our presi- dent, John II. Sims, who was with us
 one year ago" At this uoint the | convention stood with bowed heads and sung one verse of Shall We Meet | Beyond the River?" and Rev. R. E.
 Bryant, offered a special prayer. l Rev R. M Caver B. D., called at tention to what the negro had done
 for himself in way of education and he thought that next May he should 1 show a deeg CT interest in his educa- | tional work by attending by the | thousands the commencement of the Arkansas Baptist college, and camp ing out it need be. He declared that | the institution was one of the great ] achievements of the race. Dr Caver
 is a college graduate from the insti- | tuition and is moderator of the Union
 District Baotist Association, which
 is perhaps the largest and most in 1 fluential in the state.
 Dr. C. M. Wade, one of the negro
 physicians of Hot Springs was pre-
 sented to the convention and made l o ohort taIl- caneratuiatiua the con.