The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
ARn you 100 PER CENT
ABOVE Last YEAR

1vea I rough survey Of the previous
- win find the greater number OF us
balow the 100 per cent mark. IT y up
q avery woman, man, boy and glrl 70
Ike Inventory Of Themselves and una
ct whether they are worth more TINS
49, than last. Not money only, but in
svesy line that takes to play the drama
U life. We are living in an age that
everything counts, let it be good OF bad.
II viii grow and the harvest must be
reaped IL the good overcomes the bad.
We kre that much closer to the crust Of
10 hill.
or aficieucy viii even .uplift the
lowest Of humanity.
The responsibility Of leadership lies
e oueself. Whether he wants TO in
crease his efficiency and that is what ne
,nust do IL he ever expects to lead his
people to success.
No race or person can rise above their
teachers or leaders. Economic conditions
eat come to any race or country when
their peoples intelligence is below par
Ct oiyiization.
Tho school and colleges viii train us
u higher culture Of understanding, but
win not make M leader.
No bias teaching or self agrandizement
win never raise an ignorant class Of
people. but on the other hand will send
them deeper in degradation. a race
emerging from darkness as the Negro
race il like little child making its
Hrst efforts to walk and talk-its little
brain like new slate. Every lesson
GOOD a bad taught, is marked upon the
Late. and is much harder to erase than
what it was to stamp it there.
Let him or her be black OF white who
Inn gained money, land or 2 political
position BY false teachings and misrep-
ressnting the truth, they have decreased
their per cent, and retarded the progress
,of the race.
When we notice the crisis and calam-
III that il befowling as, we then cry
out, stWhere are the churches, what are
they doing to stem the tidei" They
seem 10 have gone to sleep. = The
q not the benefactory to the boys and
GIRLS Of today as it was Ia the days Of
eur father and mothers for sincerity Of
heart and purpose Of mind did they pray
md work until God made them 100 per
cent in Christ and gave us an even
chance in churches and schools equal 70
that Of other races.
I sometimes wonder il education
makes us stray from The old and work
Of our forefathers or treat it hypothe-
tis. U.
Our churches are filed with tribes and
dicks, formed in grades Of societies.
The church is made a place for club
meeting, instead Of place Of worship.
The less fortunate comes to the
shurch in love,i but is Inundated and
turaed away without q morning greet
ing, heart to heart talk CT warm hand |
shake. The aristocrat has overlooked
this grade Of Ch,ist;sns, that may drift
ii some other direction, that may re-
Aect upon the woman and manhood OF
tho race and these precious souls De
lost. In the day Of Judgment God WI:
command these souls to our hands for
appealing to pride instead Of God and
clcfing our hearts to our brother and
sis.er
Cons and daughters give me pour
heart and the k.ns dom shall be until
tbsne. We: are entering in the yeas OF
S2C---let us try AMI E.iI,' our Oh i:eb |
100 per cent perfect.
II know that that have a home can en- !
JOY the pleasure Of life and feel the |
Of prosperity.for there is
no place like home sweet home.
While in your comfortable and easy
home, have you invited someone not so