The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-08-12
TEACHERS AND MINISTERS
COOPERATE

Ga, in his address on "The Aims of
the Negro Preacher" declared that
those who act as race leaders must
modify the present program, carried
out by so many men. of making peo-
pie shout, of merely getting" people
into the Church. and of seeking popu-
larity. He referred to Christ's method
of teaching through His preaching, of
saving men for service to others, and
of speaking the truth in boldness and
in love.
Professor Butler, who halls from
Oklahoma, outlined the work which
teachers have been doing six hours
every day, regardless of heat, to pre-
pare themselves for a better grade of
teaching service to "a happy, faithful,
struggling, working people" He de-
clared that the conference at Belts
Academy is making Negroes more
Cody and law-abiding at a school
which is built on faith and is sprung
from the sand-hills of South Carolina.
B. c. Caldwell referred to the con-
structive work in Negro education
which has been done during the past
eleven years by strong and we'll
trained white Southern men who have
served in thirteen Southern States as
of Negro schools. N. c.
Newbold of Raleigh, N. C., State su-
pervisor of Negro schools, spoke on
'The Relation of Spiritual Growth to
Educational Progress" He declared
that the time is soon coming when
people will be willing to spend more
on churches and schools and
when the ministers who believe in
can be of even greater serv-
ice than they are now to the cause OF
education.
NEED OF TRAINED LEADERS
w. T. B. Williams reported on the
work of summer schools for Negro
teachers and called attention to work
It the following centers: Tuskegee
Institute, Montgomery, Selma, HamP-
on Institute, Petersburg and Nash
lille. There has been a marked in
.rease of public interest in the train
ng of colored teachers" said Profess
or Williams. The masses OF Ne
Eroes must be educated in public
chools. Negroes can only meet eff
ectively the future as they are intelli-
TENT Through increased intelligence
We shall get better church members
md better farmers"
Rev. G. Lake lines OF Tuskegee In
titute declared that people, whether
or educated. are hungry for
piritual gifts by which they must live.
lie made plea that all Negro minis
erS should help their congregations
o understand God better and to do |
his they must initiate the teachers by |
tudying more thoroughly the best
of doing their everyday !
asks. He placed upon the teachers
he burden of helping the ministers
through the Sunday-school work |
which needs everywhere to be done
much better than it is being done
Prayer Life of Negroes
At six o'clock every morning the
minister's met for a service of song
nd prayer. The petitions that were
aised were for strength, courage. and
onhdence in the white man. Some
nen poured out to God their longing
or a release from constant misunder-
landing and mistreatment, from the
nending burden of struggling for
read with no outward sign Of reward,
nd from the white mans contempt |
others gave thanks that through /
rayer they had won victories over
Still others gave in quaint
nd picturesque language an account
I their earthly stewardship. All who
rayed talked earnestly with God in
manner which all men and women
Fould do well to ponder over.
Negro ministers and teachers at
'ettis Academy live under the inAu-
nee of self-sacriheing leaders. They
lady come together for worship and
tudy. They deepen the best white
copies fundamental belief that Ne
roes are kind, patient, loyal. God
airing. !