The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-05-23
COL. CHARLES E. STUMP. The
WOULD BE OLD TIME TRAVEL :
ING CORRESPONDENT FOR THE
BROAD AK, HAS LIT OUT FROM
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, AND HAS
LANDED AWAY DOWN IN TEXAS.

Of the trustees Of the church. and
was told BY his wife to make nv
self at home, and this I was willing
to do. a fellow without home.
must make every place he goes home,
and this is what I have to do. This
was new home for me, but they
have told me to come again.
Now regarding the convention. It
was presided over b. Rev. Thomas
Jefferson King, D. D., pastor of the
Fifth Street Baptist church, Rich
mond, and just a leader OF men. He
has been president for years and he
d such good conservative leader.
that he can just continue.
Pr. King is man who believes in
and breaches manhood. He Il one
OF the cranks who believes that color
has nothing to do with man, and
Negro can be a real man just as well
as a white man, and a white man can
be man Just as well as a Negro. all
depending on how much God the man
gets into him. He believes in that
doctrine OF Paul Numbered from Mars
Hill, And hath made OF one blood
all nations Of men for the dwell upon
the face Of the earth, !" and he breaches
that thing believe me.
The Virginia Baptist State conven-
ton is one more body of well trained
educated ministers, and they stand for
self-help. They do not believe that
the race should sit down and beg the
white man or any other man to carry
them around like children, but they
declare that every tub should stand
on its own end, and the race over 60
years old should stand up like men.
With the large number Of banks, in
surance companies, lawyers, doctors,
merchants, editors, college presidents
and professors, teachers in all others
of schools, capitalists, the race should
stand alone, and make every day
count. The wealthy colored men
should contribute to the uplift of his
own, and not wait for the white broth
er, who has burdens Of his own.
1t was pleasure for me TO come
in touch with these strong men. Il
met President Robert c. Woods, Of
the Virginia Theological Seminary
and college, the institution that has
turned out so many of the Baptist
preachers and teachers An institu-
ton that was born to teach the Negro
to hold himself, with G. w. Hayes
as its president, and Hayes has gone
to his reward, and this young giant
rs just finishing the work and max
ing many friends, and turning out
able men and women who are COM
batting with the world problems. Dr.
Woods is truly a philosopher, and
scholar, and he is just inspiration all
the time.
It was fitting that the meeting
should Be held in Newport News,
where an attack had been made on the
Negro by an editor, who said that
the Negro instead Of trying to find
himself was trying to get away from
himself and become a part Of the
white man, and he knew that he was
handling the truth in a careless man
ner when he wrote it, but | am going
to tell him 50, because / know better
We are proud Of our race, and it is
a rare thing in the north where you
find a Negro marrying outside of his
own. He is willing to take the black
woman and make her his queen.
Every session of the convention
was freighted with good things. Rev
w. W. Brown, pastor Of the Metro
politan Baptist church, New York.
could not Be present, but he sent his
assistant pastor who was his own dear
son. and sent along with it FIVE hun
dred dollars for the educational work,
and declared that he was going to do
more i'll the future He is a great
big hearted man.
Rev. Charles Satchell Morris, was
there representing the Foreign Mis-
sion Board Of the National Baptist
convention, and he was indeed sorry
to learn what his son, Charles sat
chell Morris IT., had said about the
Florida Baptists, and at once wrote
letter to President Brown express
ing his regrets. He wants his son to
do we'll
All eyes are now turned on the Ma
tional Baptist Sunday School and B.
Y. p. u. Congress to Be held in
Wichita, Kans-, June q.
1t Is wonderful how the Baptists |
are pushing things in this world
They are working together under the
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