The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-05-26


he VIII BE- brought out 81 the ranks /
this tine
Perhaps you want TO know where
/ have been and what ! have been do
maj / am not ashamed to Let il b
known. but Il would take too papers To
.cll. hence. YOU just take q much = |
tel YOU and the rest of It IS none OF
your business. I was mixed up IN the
Race Congress in Washington. when
/ wrote YOU that other letter. 7 left
there. spent night with Dr. Robert
I. Brown. the tooth dentist doctor il
Norfolk. and then made II to the Nir-
GINA Theological Seminary and col
lege. ! ynchburg, and was the guest
of President r. @. Woods and his fam
ilT. There were also guests in this
house. The. Rev. Dr. J. G Austin, Of
Pittsbure. the Rev. DR.. T. J. King, OF
Richmond, president OF the Virginia
Baptist State convention; the Rev. DR..
Davenport, Of Wheeling, w. Va, and
believe me when joined this celeb
racy it was something doing. But.
honey. they just made me make ali the
speech in the chapel Tuesday morning
OF that week, before going IN that au-
tomobile car carriage from Lynchburg
10 Roanoke to attend the Baptist state
convention
/ viii not be able to tell you about
the convention, Tor have been 10 so
many other places. failed to tell you
that / had doctor in Norfolk, nurse
III Lynchburg, and al in Roanoke ii
was a. great big meeting and they
raised Tor their missionary end educa-
tional work and endowment sums as
follows: Education and missions. sl4,-
$500; cash on the table; Superinten-
dent Of education and missions. ST.
84s.l7: BY DR.. wv. r. Graham, financial
agent, l,500; Mid-winter rally, $3.50;
cash on endowment S468: pledges.
So. 400; total, S5l,277.s7. This is what
my people are doing for themselves,
and this Is not the gift from the white
man
We returned to the Seminary and
college, and were accompanied by that
great missionary secretary, Rev. J. E
East, OF the National Baptist oonven-
ton. Virginia j. now doing its foreign
mission work through the National
Baptist conventions I spent Sunday
morning IN TOWN. fact all day Sun
day and left Monday morning on the
2.45 train for Richmond. where spent
three hours. and then TO Washington.
spending two hours there, and then to
Philadelphia where ! spent the whole
rest OF the night ID q good bed and
had a good breakfast the next morning
before going to New York That IS
some town and had some experience
I'D there IN the town. There is where
/ am going TO get me new suit Of
clothes, and my head viii then be too
big for my body, because I viii have
suit of clothes direct from New
York and it is to reach me Oh my
birthday Get out OF my way when
you see me coming.
New York. back to Philadelphia,
Washington, Richmond and before you
can say @scat" win be in Atlanta and
Tuskegee Institute and may send my
next letter from Birmingham Then
l 20 to New Orleans, Texas and other
points.
/ see where Editor Webster L. Por-
ter, of the East Tennessee News Is
trying to make himself useful He is
III position to say some things to the
people, and he i not only putting
brains on papers but he is going to
the people with a word Of cheer and
hope. He Is making some great
speeches these days, and saying some
practical things 10 the young people
congratulate him upon the splendid
work he j. doing, and would like to
SEE useful young man ike that called
10 L4lE Il1lltS49s 4 TX A-lAA AILAS HIM.
/ have an invitation from the Rev
Laurence Fenningerm, executive sec
retaly III The Ministers Conference Of
Hampton Institute, inviting me to at
tend the conference this year, june q
p to get my spiritual soul renewed.
He announces that among the speak
ers already secured are Rev Charles
n. Brown. DID, Dean of Yale Divinity
school. New Haven. Conn: Rev. Ed
ward A Clarke, DID, Cleveland
Ohio: DR.. James H. Dillzrd. Of Char
Iottesville, Va; Prof Kemper Fuller
ton 81 Oberlin; Rev Mordecai W.
Johnson, III Charleston. WI. Va Rev
Herman Morse. ar New York City. and
Franklin 3. Nichols Of New York !
vii tell you more later
CHARLES E STUMP.