The broad ax., 1923-01-06
CHARLES E. STUMP, THE OLD REG
ULAR TRAVELLING CORRESPOND
ENT FOR THE BROAD AK, CON-
TINUES TO BE HELD UP In CHI
CAGO THROUGH A BAD SPELL OF
SICKNESS.

is here right now as l sit down to
write this letter and to say few
things to you to inform you Of my
health. ! am not well at present and
hope when these few lines come to
hand they may find you enjoying good
health.
OF course you are thinking of
what last year meant to you. won
der if it brought you sunshine or sad
ness or both. It stepped into our
flower garden and plucked few Of
our choicest flowers, and then con-
signed them to mother earth. This
was among the unfortunate things
that happened during the year The
flowers that were carried away from
US had their names, but they filed
important places in the flower garden.
I would not begin to name them
all, but may mention few Of them.
DR.. R. H. Boyd, who was known this
country over because OF his connec-
ton with the National Baptist Pub
fishing Board. This country will
know him. He made place for his
son, and handed it right down to
Henry Allen Boyd, and then he folded
his arms and went to sleep, leaving
three daughters and two sons and his
widow. Just as we were reading
about him, then came the word that
DR.. E. c. Morris, the great leader of
the Baptists in American, president Of
the National Baptist Convention, had
returned to the God who gave him to
US, and his sons and daughters, to-
gether with his widow and the whole
nation, were thrown into sadness. If
you know anything about Elias Camp
Morris, you know that he was
leader of men, and the greatest living
Baptist. But he is not with us any
more, for he has gone to his home,
7Isre many of us will some day join
hi
zen followed the death Of DR.. W.
q PARKS, who was the direct sue
cesz9 to Morris, and followed him
on 70 his home. He was another
great lower, but he has gone away
frorr IS, and then that great must
clan, the songbird, Mrs. E. Azelia
Hacl1ley, who also has joined the
heavenly choir, and l am sure that
she made a splendid addition to
heaven. She was among the best in
America, and am saying nothing
about race or color. But we shall miss
her with others.
There is S. LANG Williams, a
young man, who made his way up.
Attorney Williams worked in the
pension Office id Washington for a
long time, and resigned, came to Chi
cago, and became a law partner to
F. L. Barnett, the firm was known as
Barnett and Williams. do not know
how many years they were together,
but / do know that they separated,
and Williams received an appointment
from the President Of the United
States as an attorney for the govern
ment. But he has cashed in and is no
longer with US. His widow is one Of
the best writers Of this age, and /
am proud Of some Of the work she
has done.
The old landmarks are passing out.
l would just like to go back and talk
to you about a few Of them, com
mencing with John Q. Grant, Lloyd
G. Wheeler, John Jones, John G.
Jones, D. w. Dempsey, Solomon Tay-
Tor, Blakemore, Grant, Bryant, and
host of others.
Chicago is filed with interesting
events, if l could only go back and
talk about a few of them. If I could
talk about the days when Charles
Winter Wood used to play Shakes
peare, and that would bring up |. 2.
Hale, Ada D. Brown, Mcdowell, and
host of others.
But, friends, we have all stepped
over into 1928, and no doubt we have
turned over another leaf and started
to write on il. We may not be able
TO fill the page, for death is so GER
tain and life is so insecure. One by
one we are stepping out But we
are not to stop because we are born
to die, but we must just work as It
we were to remain here thousand
years and knew ii, and then leave the
rest with God. We plan to live now
and hereafter. There is rule for
the hereafter and if we are only
shrewd enough to follow that rule,
then the future viii be all right. We
do not need to leave of any sleep on
account Of it