The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-10

Miami, Fla.-I wish you could have
been with me, for / was with three
big men in making trip from Jack
sonville, Fla, to this place in an auto
mobile car carriage, with one of the
next bishops of the A. M. E. church
Rev r. "A. Grant, d. d., at the wheel
who was as cool as a cucumber and
as composed as a judge, but showed
that he was a master hand at the
wheel, and We were perfectly satisfied
to ride 800 miles.
But before going further and tax
ing up where left off, am sure that
you want to know who the men were,
and since yod want to know | will
have to tell you. They were Revs. K.
A. Grant, H. Y. looks and Grand
Master ID. ID. Powell Of the Masonic
fraternity, being at the head of the
Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge
of Florida. have been in good COM
pany and important company, as you
see.
When I wrote you that other letter
l was just in and around Jacksonville,
Fla, the guest Of DR.. H. Y. looks,
his wife and daughter, and they were
just giving me a great big time. 1
was glad to see them and they were
glad to see me, and so the world
moved along in gladness around me.
/ spent a Sunday there, and that was
we'll spent, for Sunday morning | was
invited to deliver the sermon at Ed
ward Waters college church.
Now when a fellow is invited to
preach for teachers and students he
just feels like he must get something
way up in educated G, and this is
what | tried to do. thought it neces-
sary to get some high sounds, some
thing which would sound like Greek,
Latin, Hebrew and extra English.
prepared my little essay-sermon, and
believe me, there were some words in
it / could not pronounce, but l just
called at them and went on with that
preaching business until almost every
body in the chapel church was asleep.
| just stopped and looked, and later
Dean Carter, the pastor and dean,
explained that they were just in from
long hike and were tired and sleepy.
l did not say it, but | thought why
in the hen feathers should they go on
hike on Sunday when they had Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, and instead Of
drilling their fool brains out and then
going on a hike, they could spend it
in reading and then going to church.
Perhaps the school is under army
regulations, and the soldiers fight and
die on Sunday as well as any other
day. But I am not school man,
and / was out of my place, yet think
some of those children thought I was
talking education-talking and could
not tell the difference.
In the afternoon, ! got with Rev.
Thomas w. Carter, dean, and his wife
had on her Sunday-go-to-meeting
clothes, and we made to Baldwin, just
twenty miles away, where the Masons
laid the cornerstone of an A. M. E.
church and burned the mortgage. It
was interesting to see them spread
baskets and eat after it was all over.
l just looked and looked until / could
hardly look. Rev. Carter preached
the sermon, and he is some preacher.
You see he must know something
about preaching, for his business is to
teach men how to preach and then
how to prepare sermons. He is one
of the best men they have in this
church, and some day he is going to
be president of one Of the leading
church schools.
We returned to the city, went by
St. Paul "A. M. E. church, and then
to the home of DIR. looks where
chicken was served, and the Revs.
looks and Carter went to Mt. Zion
"A. M. E. church and l remained in.
That church held until after Z
o'clock, for they had on a rally, and
had collected over a thousand dollars.
Rev Charles S. Long is pastor. i
Just hobnobed around town all day
Monday, but Tuesday, bright and
early, we were ready for that long
ride, but did not get started until
II o'clock. We waited on Grand
Master Powell, and for new wheels.
You know this Grand Master
Powell, for he is one Of the most re-
markable men of the race. Not a
college graduate, but graduate from
the university of common sense He
is just the leader Of men, When he
was placed in the Grand East (and
don't know just what they mean by
the Grand East, for to me east is east
and west is west), but at any rate