The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-03-05
CHILDREN COME UNTO ME-"

me after close observation and many
with those who fairly
represent the people of African Me-
thodist belief: that there are some
where in their secret thoughts and
aspirations mighty under current
of sentiment that tends to bring
into race pride and utilization in
because of this, all Texas welcomes
you.
1t is an instinct that does not
recognize itself, that does not argue,
that cannot express itself in words.
but that moves straight on to its
ends; steady, resistless and in the
end triumphant for this we
welcome you.
He who gave the "STORK" know
ledge of "his appointed time" in his
flight through the heavens has i'm
planted this strong instinct of race
pride in the breast of your leaders
and for the wisest and most bene-
ficient of far-reaching and saving
ends. and because of this. we well
come you.
The A. M. E. Church is perhaps
on the whole the most Independent
ecclesiastical organizations among
the Negroes in the world. That is
to say they depend upon self, more.
They take more pride in race enter
prlses, etc. and for this we wei
come you.
It's disbursements of money in the
prosecution Of your educational and
religious works is for the Negroes.
with the Negroes and by the Ne
groes.
No Alien Church Society has a
mortgage or "DEED OF TRUST
upon the A. NJ. e. Church. It's
Bishops with those whom they may
take in Council transacts all the
business that comes under the CON
troll of the church. To an old max
ium-"you live at home and board
at the same place, on this account
we the citizens of Texas welcome
you.
Your membership in Texas is over
10000 souls; your church property
Is valued at over One Million Dol
lars, while your school and college
property is estimated to be worth
over $250,000, and for this reason,
we welcome you TO Texas. =.
MORAL CONFLICT.
Bishops and Christian friends, il
is not the religious glories of Afri-
can Methodism on which I shall
dwell. African Methodism has be-
come a household word among us
and will thrill the Negroes heart
in every quarter of the United States
of American as long as a drop of
Negro blood remains in American
or the world.
It is the Moral Character of the
conflict which l chiefly wish to H.
lustrate and it is that which l trust
Will secure the unanimous applause
of every Christian. The African
Methodist were assailed by numbers,
they met them by skill. They were
assailed in some cases by rapine-
the encountered 1t by religious dis
cipline; they were assailed by cruel
ty-they vanquished it by religious
humanity. They were assailed by
the powers of sin and wickedness-
NhNJ llltln ny lu6
stancy of a religious virtue.
Some men no doubt will deny the
reality of these moral qualities, but
he must not forget the contempor-
aneous testimony of those who have
received their protection and exper-
fenced their hostility. In Texas, II
was the African Methodist Episco-
pal Church that drove /. S. Camp
bell. William Massey, w. w. Hay,
A. r. Griggs, q. II. Pardee and 9TH
ers. at the head of one hundred and
seventy thousand men. women and
children with shame perhaps If not
disgrace) out of the FOOT WASH
ING DOCTRINE" with all it's un-
clvilizing practices? If the career
of the A. M. ,E. church was attended
with failures at times. it was only
because such. a calamity is inseper-
able from the path alike of pa
triotic. heroic band of Christian
workers as of the religious con-
queror.
They wove the wealth of their
church with their own good religious
labor. The glory of a conquering
religious band is nothing new. Other
ages have been ,dazzled with the
phantom of religious renown: other
ages have been beneath the yoke of
false doctrine and oppression of re-
ligious falacies; and other ages have
seen the energies of mankind with
er before the march of victorious
truth and power. 1t has been re-
served for courage alone to wit
ness-it has been the high preroga-
tive for African Methodisn1 alone to
more animating spectacle
to behold religious power applied
only to the purpose of benificience
and for this reason we welcome you.
Victory made the means of a re-
ligious moral renovation. A religious
conquest became the instrument of a
national resurrection.
Before the march Of your victo-
rious powers. the energies of the
race has revived, your triumphant
voices have awakened a fallen race
to noble duties and recalled the re-
of their prestine glory.
Your tanners waving over the in
FAINT religious armies of an enamel
patad. renovated people, and the
track Of your religious Chariot
followed by the sight Of cor
iemned sinners and the blessings of
a liberated Christian people. You
may say a liberated nation. for it
was your firmness which first OPP
posed the hither irresistible waves Of
false practices ard doctrines Of my
church the Baptist church of Texas.
It was your opposition which traced
out the path of essential baptism
and your victories which re-ani-
mated the all but extinguished spirit
Of Baptist resistance. 1t was from
he pulpit of African Methodism
hat the doctrine of race pride" was
preached finally was permanently es-
abolished in the hearts Of Texas Ne