The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-02-09
BISHOP GAILOR'S
= GREAT SERMON
MEMPHIS GIVEN SHAKEUP
CONDEMNS SC0RN OF NEIGHBOR--W WHITES MUST HELP
NEGRO--T0O TIMlD IN ASSERTING
CONVICTIONS

are tuOubdnuS OF Negro DOyS ana
girls growing up in this city who
may be, probably will be, criminals
and who is it among you Christian |
people that is trying to make them |
honest and self-suppcrting and self !
respecting?
"Who has not heard the stories
that are told with laughter on the
trains, and elsewhere, of Negro is-
norance and credulity in the cotton
belt, exploited by base white men for
the white mems gain? What serious
and sustained interest have we taken
or are we taking in encouraging
worthy and hard-working and self
respecting Negroes to lift themselves
and their families cut of the sphere
Of ignorance and coarse living; and
10 protect them from the brutal in
suits of the low-browed whites?
The newspaper treats as a jest
the fact that the two Negro highway
men were sent to prison for life,
even before their victim was buried.
The ruling race says Thou fool and
in its arrogance, blind to the future,
shirks the responsibility.
MY brethren, these are things that
must be said, and said by southern
men, for | know that all you people
agree with me. The trouble is, that
that great class of southern men, who
want justice and fair play, and SYM
pathy and encouragement for the Ne
gro race, for one reason or another
have been silent, and have permitted
this tremendous problem to be handl-
, ed practically by that class-present
in every communicative do not
! know or who do not care for righ-
! teousness.
"This is no question of social
equality. There never was such q
question. There is no such thing
as social equality, even among white
People. This is such ting as social
familiarity; and we have rightly
settled that question in the south. 1t
is no question of political rights. |
Go not believe in any mans right to
vote. The suffrage is a privilege and
not right
But this question is one of human
lights-the human right to life.
to liberty under the fog, and to be
pOtected in the ownership of what
cne has earned by honest labor.
These three human rights we southern
people are ready to guarantee to every
man and woman in our land; and
here today, for the benefit of those
who crltic!se us from a distance, | am
ready and glad to say, that | voice
the conviction Of the best people OF
the south, when / say this: although
we have been altogether too timid
in asserting our convictions.
"Ah, brethren would have YOU
come with me this morning out of at.
mosphere of our petty contentious and
stihlng Jealousies into the free, fresh
air of the mercy and love of our
Heavenly Father-to realize for a
moment on OUR knees our kinship in
Jesus Christ-that the great and
the lowly, the living and the dead
are one family and one brotherhood
in Him.
This is that true love of hu.
manity of which the modern philoso
ply Is hut the Intellectual shadow
This is the philanthropy which does
not exhaust itself in idle dreams
OF what it might do for the ideal
race at large; hut which like charity
begins at home and shows itself in
the common duties of common life
tie philanthropy which is known first
of all in kindness and gentleness to
those about us--in the fulfillment oi
the duties of wife and husband
father, mother and friend-and which
expands out through the homely
duties well performed into the large
and deep and thoughtful regard for
the aims and hopes and life of hu
mankind-for His sake-who hatl
made us all of one blood, one com
mon clay, soon to crumble into dust
and hath also blessed us with the
houe of eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord"