Phoenix tribune., 1923-06-08
Week Day Semonette
By II. T. S. JOHNSON,
htervacial Secretary for Oklahoma

LET us be weary well doing: for in due sea-
son shall reap if we faint not Gal. SO.
In recent years the Negro is losing his smile The
disposition grows upon him to think more of his sorrow
than his joys more of the stumbling blocks to his pro
than OF the stepping stones to success more OF the
people who hinder than of those who help. More and
more he forges the counsel of the good hymn. Count
your blessings them by one" 1t seems well
therefore that reflect upon Paus advice to the Gal
aons quoted above We need study for the purpose
of getting for continued optimism. For be
sured that the only people who have made progress the
past and the only ones who will advance in the future
are those who keep hopeful Everything depends upon
facing the future with the smile of hope and the only
way do this is to heed the injunction of the textBe
not weary in well doing.
To the Negroes of America this means: Compare the
present with the past and the evidence that the
has done we'll And if has, do not grow bitterly impa-
tient because there many privileges still denied
have Tong since decided that the Negro not being hurt
by Drejudice. Unpleasant it is it dis
cipline in throwing off savery's greatest handicap
treachery toward the other The stripes the Ne
gr0s back not the most cruel marks of slavery Far
cruel those decisive marks which manifested
in lack of confidence of Negro in another and in the
unwineness to pull together for the good of all
cerned To stand well with cole Massa" in the days Of
slavery Negroes would betray anothers plans and
secrets This practice for two and half centuries made
dsoyaty to his the Negroes second nature The seed
was deeply rooted that nothing would develop
CONSEQUENCES effectively and speedily the conditions
prevailing in this country since the emancipation There
FORE instead of losing SMILE let in the very in
justices which prejudice has occasoned the steps by
which climb to solidarity. If watch up
ward march shall not s'grow weary in well doing
The text has promise that should keep us hoping
: or in DUE We shall reap" In DUE season. "
this means not when THINKS So but when God
KNOWS have acquired enough racial solidarity to
make the splendid history He intends shall be ours
That brings the question, what shall that splendid
history be? What the big thing God intends the Negro
shall do? In consideration of his traditional optimism
and ability forgive and forget convinced that God
made him to teach the world its greatest and most
sary lession-unversal brotherhood plead with you
and Of my race not to allow the nursing of
injuries to embtter your souls to unfit the
perform work without which this old world shall
be turned right side up and without which the life and
ministry of Jesus Christ shall to naugh In due
we shall reap, is the promise upon which
safely base our hope
Why? Because (1) God says so. We cannot look
into the history of mankind the laws Of nature with
out getting abundant proof that God and will keep
His promises to the children of men, (2 Because seed
planted will grow. a recent traveller found seed which
had been shut up the catacombs Of Rome for eighteen
centuries. They planted and to everybodys amaze
mentg gemnated and grew into most beautiful foliage and
flowers If natural seed did not lose their vitality in
eighteen hundred years. what may not expect of moral
and spiritual seed preserved and magned by the Holy
SpritY
I ye faint not is the one condition upon which the
realization of this promise depends If will continue
the habit which has kept hopeful in the past we shall
not faint. We shall keep optimism and smile if we
continue recognize that the white mans friendship has
made possible all the progress the Negro has made While
is true the white ensaved it is also true that
the white freed If the white deprived us of
education and denied the ballot white also have
given education and the ballot White men lynch u.s.
but white people, Southerners, are lifting earnest
and determined voices against this national disgrace
Oh, yes, if we look for them we find many rea-
sons for the conviction that the Negro need not go to
Africa Mexico anywhere ese On the contrary we
shall be assured that in the United States he shall reap
fullest liberty if he heeds the counsel of our text