The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-03-30
WILL THERE EVER COME A TIME
When the Colored People as a Mass, Will
Follow Their Leader? a.
... .r. J. P Robinson .'.a
j. P. Robinson

them pastors of churches and not a
man among them pastoring church
OF more than two hundred active
memmers, who about month ago
had the hardihood and unmanliness
and unbrotherly kindness to offer and
pass resolution barring all other
ministers from their pulpits. / feel
ashamed to have to write such a !
thing and yet it is true. This means
that somebody has had little enough
sense to fool themselves into leader
ship. And they have gathered around
them, just such non-sensible persons
as themselves thus making bad mat
tiers worse And as long as this kind
of a thing is kept up, there will be
great division and upheaval in our
race.
Il started out by asking the question
as to the masses accepting and fol-
lowing a leadership and the more
study and think over it, the further
the answer gets away from me. 1t
should be an easy matter to answer
this question, but | find it very diff
ficult for we must remember that just
few short years passed, our entire
race was leaning wholly and bent
down fully in ignorance and it looked
as if the impossible was upon us. And
yet from that condition we emerged
safely, but it may be that now we
have forgotten God, and no man nor
race can hope to do much nor be
highly sensitive Of its civil duties or
racial responsibilities who in any
measure forget their God and boast
in their forgetfulness Of such a Be-
ing, for it was God who brought us
out of darkness into bein, and it Is
He who will divest us Of our being
To my mind there must be a gather
ing together of mental powers in the
race; a gathering that will sacrifice
themselves for the uplift of the peo
) pie. 1t is an awful shame and slam
on the intelligence Of the race thai
in every thing they get up, the little
foxes go after night and eat up thu
tender vine Those of us who had NJ
conception of how to begin and built
E up great things are the first ones t
lend our aid to help tear down tn
thing that some great man has buildet
:. up. Is
You take for instance the great Ma
tiona Baptist Publishing House, bull
for our denomination and which i
both an honor to the race and demon
. ination and you will find hundreds o
, men misled into the thought of al
= tempting to tear down and tear u
that which it has taken twenty year
: to build. And this brings me to tn
, point as to whether or not we ar
: : able to take into our minds the rea
Thought and conception Of Leadership
For If these so-called leaders wan
! the Publishing House why should the
struggle to tear it up knowing at tn
!, same time by so doing they must as
\ the people to rebuild, 1t for them.
they feel they can get 1t in legs
way, why do they not go after 1t l
way that is commendable to us al
! l must confess the way that, the Il
corporated brothers have gone at tht
matter has certainly made a dar
spot in. our racial and denomination;
( skies; and yet it seems as fthoug
H. they gloat in the thought that the
will eventually get hold of this pu
2 fishing house and rule and control
at will But what good would II d
: the denomination to have fe
g Bosses whose business would be I
dictate the policy and doctrine Of o,
~ church. Great care should be exc
cised in conducting great things SIM
. so much depends upon us as a rat
81 and denomination.