The broad ax., 1925-07-25
The Funeral Services Held Over the Remains of the Rev.
Charles Stewart the Oivet Baptist Church, Thrtyrs
Street and South Parkway, Was Largely Attended The
Church Was Filled to OVERLOOKING It's Eloquent Pastor Rev.
Lacey K. Williams DID,, Preached Powerful Sermon

world is united; it's Gods world and
every one Of US is child and We are
brethren together. The vision then
therefore should have to do with a
worlds needs. One half the trouble
in our world problems today people
are coming forward with an antidote
to cure the worlds disease and they
have never been able to understand
what's the matter; not have they yet
known what to give the world.
| am arguing that the correct Wis
ion is not only vision Of some mar
row fenced-off corner Of the world,
some section that belongs to one per-
son, that the other fellow hasn't any
thing to do with it, but am arguing
that we need worlds vision Of the
inequalities that exist in human So
cIety in the industrial, political world.
in national life. All these INEQUALITIES
VIII be smoothed out if people viii
only consider that their greatest tie
and limitation on their lives ;s not
their family, not their own nation But
they are in debt TO the world. After
you learn that you got To ell your
common sphere in human society ac-
coFdlng to certain limitations self m
posed very often voluntarily; and
there are some Of those are imposed
By others Here i a man that lies
PROSTATE in death before us today that
believed in the world, but he believed
above everything in his own people.
lie believed he had vision IL III
possibilities Of the Negro race; and
you hear me today, the man who
doesn't believe in the Negro race has
no right to endeavor to Be a leader.
never want to hear man getting
up talking about the Negro race not
rising; the most outstanding set you
ever saw in you life is this set that's
building up. Nobody else would have
gone through what we have gone
through and hold Up our heads and
some on anyhow Take Russia az
compared with US today, 90 out Of
every 100 is in ignorance and thew
have had better opportunities than
we; the richest country with natural
resources in all the world is Russia.
We have reduced ours to 20 the last
time | heard of it.
The man that's going to lift our
people, my friends, is the man that
must believe in the possibilities Of our
people; he must be man that must
love his people. Moses loved his peo-
pie 50 dearly that he raised fuss
with God, if you will pardon the COM
mon vernacular. He said, IF YOU
don't go up with us to Philistine Won
take my name off the book" Here
was man linked with his own people
with hooks Of steel and he believed
in them, not believing in them 10 ex-
plot and get something out of them
but the man that has a vision is 4
man that's willing to lay down his life
for his people, like this man did.
How he decided after catching his
vision to dedicate his IifeF He de-
cided to dedicate his life to writing.
He wrote the vision. I think It was
pr. George Peabody said the greatest
accomplishment anybody on this earth
could make i the Transformation 81
ideals into flesh. It's the changing
Of thought into blood, putting dreams
to work on the earth.
If somebody can See the vision and
dream the dream and after while
a lot Of people can think and dream,
build air castles, but the greatest and
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