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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-08-07

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Jack and Sharon Bradshaw of
Berkeley, California, are in the
city, the guests of their father,
Mr.. Homer Bradshaw. Also a vi
sitor is Donna can Jones who is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Thomas
Jones. The three children were
brought north by their grandma
Their, Mrs. Leila Barbee, who spent
a month in the California cities
visiting daughters Mrs. Frances
Bradshaw and Mrs. Anita ones.
The Children will remain until the
opening of school.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-08-07

the Alien ANIL. SUNDAY SCnOOl
for the month of August. Music
for September will be furnished
by Millicent Jones.
Mrs Arthur Branch and Brs.
Alfred Washington of Seattle, en-
Beth Pierre Wilson of Berkeley,
tertained with a garden party on
Sunday afternoon, honoring Mrs.
Driving over for the event were
California, formerly of Tacoma.
the following Tacomans: Reverend
and Mrs. Don Stephenson, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Beck, Mrs. Laurel S.
Covington, Mr.. and Mrs. Wendell
Stafford and daughter, Betty
Anne; Mrs. Fred Chew, Mrs. Tho
mas Duffel, Mrs. Druetta McCabe,
Mr.. Ray Gibson with Bob and
acqueline; Mrs. Alice Roberts and
Mr.. and Mrs. Thad Tate. Mrs.
Wilson and small daughtel, Diane,
who have been visiting friends and
relatives in Yakima, Seattle, and
Tacoma, left Monday afternoon
for Portland.
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
WEEKLY REVIEW THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

fathers killed them. AZ So we are
witnesses and consent unto the
works of your fathers: for they
killed them, and ye build their
tomhs.
w. Tension with Antagonists
So Woe unto you lawyers! for we
took away the key Of knowledge;
we entered not in yourselves, and
them that were entering in We him
dered.
So And when he was come out
from thence, the scribes and the
Pharisees began to press upon him
vehemently, and to provoke him to
speak Of many things; 81 laying
wait for him, to catch something
out of his mouth.
Notes Analytical and REPOSITORY
/. Ceremonielism in Social Life.
The host was a Pharisee and evil
IDENTIFY a critic of Jesus. The meal
was breakfast (or lunch) served
latter the return from morning
prayers in the synagogue Matt.
22:4), not the very early meal
Robertson.) The invitation came to
Jesus while he was speaking and at
once he went in and reclined fol-
the meal. The Pharisee was amez
ed that Jesus omitted the eersmo
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characterl Many are like unmark-
ed and purposely hidden sepulchers
with their communicating eopses
which men unwittingly contact and
thus become defiled. Their inward
evil is eorrupting and ought to be
cleansed.
8. Legalism in Civic Life. See the
divine lightning strike at the legal
ism practiced and proclaimed by
the experts in Mosaic law. % Woe
upon legalsm in the heavy burd-
ems Of life ! The doctors of the law
actually added to the human burd-
ems so painfully borne without the
lift they could give with little
finger! (2) Woe upon legalism in
loyalties to religionl Building
monuments to martyred prophets
may identity the builders as sim
ply the sons of murdcrous sires
still carrying on their deadly work.
What shackles to enslayc!
A. Antagonist in Religious Life
Did the experts in the Law have
charge of the House of Knowl.
edgel They claimed possession anc
the people assented. Bat they did
not enter and enlightea and en-.
joy. On the contrary, they kept
out others who wished and sough'
to enter; and, worse still the
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ial washing Of his hands, for "it
was the Jewish custom to dip the
hands in water before eating and
often between courses for ceremon-
ial publication" (Robertson). He
had no doubt bathed earlier in the
day and now had no need or Time
to repeat it or he may have de-
liberately faced a conflict with
csremonialism. At any rate, he ans
wered the Pharisee with a sharp
statement on the clean personality
inside as we'll as outside and the
forgiving of a clean heart through
a cleansing life.
2. Journalism in Individual Life.
Listen now to the thunder of wrath
upon externalism. W Woe upon
hypocrisy in giving! 1t may 1.-THE
much more than the Law requires,
including even the medicinal herbs
Of the garden, bus it is utterly vain
and valueless if it overlooks the
love of God and the good Of men.
(2) Woe unon hypocrisy in worship
The chief scat may not mean the
chief sanctity or service. Saluta-
tons in the store or devotions on
the street corner may be the
sole reward for the formal
list who seeks fawning and flat
: terry. (9) Woe upon hypocrisy |
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matters was measured by the hon.
or they got in performing their du-
ties.
(4) Sham In Appearance. Jesus
denounced sham in appearance as
exhibited by their tomb-concealing
character, for the spirit Of phari-
saism poses as an angel Of purity
while in reality II is a putrefying
corpse.
(5) Sham in Profession. Jesus
denounced sham in sympathy as
shown by the professed love of
their fellow men whose burdens
they would not lift.
(6) Sham in Patriotism. Jesus
denounced sham in patriotism as
exhibited in their martyr-honoring
customs while actually engaged in
making martyrs in their own day
(7) Sham in Propagation. Je'
sus denounced sham In instruction
for they were guilty of knowledge
hiding when they should have beer
expounders of the truth. Had en-.
tertaining Pharisees or critica
lawyer ever heard such thunder.
bolts as these which fell from thu
lips of Jesus7 OF course they were
bitter toward him, but they mus
have felt that no was right in hi
> hatred aud exposure Of sham.
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
Conference Eyes Plan To
MoboIize Churchgoers

WASHINGTON, Apr. 16 (ANP)
Projection of a working pro-
gram for modifying more than six
million Negro church-goers and
their families in every section OF
the country as an active, artlcul-
ate force for winning the war,
will highlight the special two-day
conference of the Fraternal Coun-
Gil of Negro Churches which will
be held in Cleveland, Apr. 1928.
Plans for the conference, which
will be held at Cleveland's s.. John
AME church, were revealed in a
Joint announcement made here to-
day by DR.. William II. Jernagin
and Bishop Il. r. Wright, Jr,,
president and executive secretary
respectively of the council.
According to program worked
out by members of the councils
national working committee, pam
el discussions at the conference will
center around the following top
les. "Jobs in War Industries"
"Negro Farmer Workers and the
War Effort" Civilian Defense"
Morale" "How Can The Negro
Church Work for Victory" 'Eval-
uation of the Church. as a Chara-
cter-Building Institution Among
Negro People in the Present Cri-
SIS" and "Should We Build Both
A National and Local Council OF
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locked the door and took away the
key Of knowledgel No wonder Jc-
sus denounced them But of course
his plain speech enraged them.
They huddled together as if to
lay in ambush for him. They tried
to trap him in his talk. They fu-
riously cross-qucstioned him. Their
hollow hypocrisy was exposed and
hate ranked in their hearts. But
they hated him without cause, for
his woes were the reverberations
of exlauster mercy.
The Lesson Of the Lesson
Abhor and Avoid Sham
% Sham in Behavior. Jesus de-
nounced sham in ceremonialism as
exhibited in pharisaic handwash-
ing before meals, since honest food
is better than a clean plate.
(2) Sham in Benevolence. Je-
sus denounced sham in bcnevol-
ence as exhibited by herb-tithing,
for they perfbrmed microscopic
duties even to tithing mint and rue
from the gardens, while their su-
previously neglected the weight
Ter matters.
(3) Sham in Ambition. Jesus de.
nounced sham in prominence a:
shown by the fsme-seeking eccles'
isssics whose interest b, religion
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full of extortion and wickedness.
40 Ye foolish ones, did not he that
made the outside make the inside
also al But give for aims those
things which are within; and be-
hold, all things are clean unto you
II. Tension with Journalists
az But woe unto you Pharisees!
for ye 1.-THE mint and rue at every
herb, and pass over justice and the
love Of God: but these ought We to
have adone, and not to leave the
other undone. 43 Woe unto you
Pharisees for We love the chief
seats in the synagogues, and the
salutations in the marketplaces.
Al Woe unto you! for We are as
the tombs which appear not, and
the men that walk over them know
it not.
III. Tension with Legalists
45 And one of the lawyers ans
wering saith unto him, Teacher, in
saying this thou reproachest US
also. 46 And he said, Woe unto
you lawyers also, for ye load men
with burdens grievous to be borne,
and We yourselves touch nct the
burdens with one of your fingers.
a. Woe unto you! for We build the
tombs Of the prophets, and your
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
Father Divine Cult
Asks $5OO,OOO For
$4,000 Hotel

BRIGANTINE, N. j., Apr. 16
(ANP)--The skyscraper Brigan-
tine hotel, purchased by members
of Father Divine's cult recently,
has been offered for sale to resi-
dents Of this seashore island COM
munity at a price Of $500, 900 City
Commissioner John Lloyd, Jr.. an
nounced last Tuesday. He stated he
received a letter from Tia B. Hail.,
white, one of the purchasers, in
response to urgent pleas by a group
of taxpayers that they be given
opportunity to buy the property.
Situated in the center Of mid
die class white families, the IL
story structure was built in 1927
at reputed cost Of 81 600, 900. A
copy of the letter bearing a post
script was displayed the commits
sioner. 1t read:
1T is distinctly understood that
not any of the owners desire to
sell for any price whatsoever, but,
as told you, we would all be will
ing to do whatsoever we are con-
WINGED would be pleasing and JUS
tifiahle in the sight Of God and
man. We have set this price just
to answer your request to make
some offer, which we all agree una
miously is not extortious."
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
He that is not with me is again

He that is not with me is against
me; and he that gathereth not
with me scattereth. Luke 11:23.
One may not be of our circle
and yet be on our side, as John
was told when he tried to stop an
independent miracle-worker. "The
miracles were a more conclusive
proof of a divine commission than
merely association with the Twel-
We could be-" So "the absence Of
hostility may be sufficient evidence
Of friendship"
At The same time, under certain
circumstances, "ths neglect of
positive rooperation is itself
proof of enmity" So Jesus said,
"He that is not with me is against
me-" That is. neutrality in the
cause Of Christ is impossible.
The two extremes are in har-
mony since there is no neutral
zone. Therefore the one who "is
not for is against" and the one
who sis not against is for"
Daily Readings
Apr. 13--Mose upon the Phari-
sees, Luke l1:37-44.
Apr. 1.-THE Growing Opposition.
Luke li'a6-54.
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of vegetables, the vitamins and
mineral salts, usually goes RUM
ing down the drain. In this day
Of waste nothing, and saving what
you have, there is little of any
thing going down the drain.
NOW THAT SPRING is COM
ing it will be easy to serve your
vitamins uncooked. There are
those healthful through-th garden
salads; lettuce, radish, spring on
ions, tomatoes. and so forth, all
combined to give you dish OF
Vitamin Plus.
Then there is Nitamin 2, the
zest vitamin. 1t comes as a result
of a balanced diet. 1t is the sum
total of health, vigor, and zest
for living in spite of dark days.
You can't have 2 unless you have
A, B. ONE, and TWO, c. and D.
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
Conversation
Piece
BY Marc Moreland, Phi d.
GO, ON, OR DE-;
HARRIET TUBMAN

Earl Conrad's essay on "Har-
riet Tuhman, Negro Soldier and
Abolitionist' international Pub
fishers, New York; AZ pages; l5c)
needs only to be read to stir the
heart and strengthen the resolve
of any lover Of freedom, any be-
lever in the essential dignity Of
man. There is not in the whole
of American history one who loved
freedom more robustly nor be-
lieved more sincerely in the essen
tial dignity of herself and her fel-
lows than black Harriet Tuhman,
whom John Brown himself called
General Tubman," saying Of her
she sis the most Of a man natural
ly that I have ever met with"
Conrad's essay, based on a full
length book study of Harriet as
yet unpublished, is simply and
knowingly written, and will serve
as a splendid introduction to this
truly great American for those
who have not hitherto known her
as character, symbol and promise.
Born about 1920, Harriet Tub
man lived through brutal hard
ships, beating, clubbings, back
breaking toll, through sickness and
sorrow, to the ripe old age Of 90,
dying in March, 1918, of pneumon-
ia. Near death while still a young
girl, when she was struck on the
head with a two-pound counter
weight by a brutal overseer as she
attempted to defend a slave man
In danger Of his life, she pulled
through, coming to fuller conscious
ness of her hatred of slavery and
to a stronger determination to Go
her utmost to destroy it. The
blood of life ran strong and steady
in the viens of Harriet Tubman;
and the will to live was remarked
In her as it has been in few 9th
ers. 1t was as if she had resell
we'd not to die before the work she
had set her hands and heart to do
had come to contamination.
From a poor, illiterate, brutal.
lied slave girl, she felt and
thought and worked and fought
her way to the forefront of the
fight for freedom, standing beside
John Brown, Garrison, Phillips,
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
STATE pREssrHE PAPER ADERs
Baptists Of Oklahoma To Greet Henry Allen BOYD

outstanding leaders in govern
ment, labor and civilian life who
have been invited to participate
in the conference as speakers and
discussion leaders: Gen. Osborne
Mrs. Crystal Byrd Fauset, Office
of Civilian Defense; Ferdinand
Smith, national secretary, Nation
al Maritime union; DR.. Frederick
d, Patterson, president of Tuske-
gee Inst; Bishop Reverdy Ransom,
AME church; the Rev. Robert Ban
gal, Episcopal church; Miss Nam
ME ii. Burroughs, Woman's Bap-
It's, leader; Miss Abbie Clement
Jackson, AME Zion church; Miss
Christine Smith, AME church; the
Rev. William l.. lines, Preshyter-
ian church; Bishop Robert Lawson,
Church of Christ: Mrs. Rosa
Scragg, AME church; BISHOP Ia
vid II, Sims, AME church; Bishop
b G. Shaw, Bishop W. j, Walls,
both Of AME Zion church; Bishop
c. l., Russell and the Rev. Bert
ram w. Doyle, CINE church; the
Rev, Henry Allen Boyd, secretary,
Baptist Publishing house, Nation
al Baptist convention, unincorpor-
ated; the Rev. ]. B. Adams, Sec
rotary, social service commission,
National Baptist convention. u.
S. A., Inc; Theodore Berry, Of
flee Of Facts and Figures; Bishop
r. f. Jones, Methodist church, and
others.
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
National Chorister And
Congress o|Iment Clerk
To Look Over Confab Site

OKLA. CITY, Apr. l6, CAMP
Representatives of 10000 Baptists
here in this oil-producing state
will send their key men to this
city to meet Henry Allen Boyd,
secretary of the Sunday School
congress, along with DR.. II. b. P.
Johnson, the national chorister, and
Miss s, B. Wilson, the enrolment
clerk Of this national gathering.
They will arrive In Oklahoma City
on Sunday morning, May 8, as the
vanguard of the host of young
religious workers who will be here
for June 10-l4.
This trio of the advanced guard
will spend Sunday and Monday in
this capital city. Sunday morning
there will be flying squadron
visiting every Sunday School in
the city. Sunday at II a. M. the
Rev. Mr.. Boyd will be guest speak
er at one Of the local churches. the
Rev. Mr.. johnson will speak at an
other church, and Miss Wilson will
he presented q. s.:ll q third. On
Monday, a meeting is planned to
be held at 9Th Street Baptist
church where the Rev. VIM is
pastor. Rev. Cooksey, president of
the state convention, the moderat-
ors of the several associations and
leaders in the state Sunday School
and BYPU work will be present
so that plans can be checked over
for the coming congress sessions.
On Monday night there will be an
enrolment ITO begin the building of
. 500-voice chorus that will be
trained, coached, instructed and
prepared to render services dur
ing the annual confah.
The principal of Douglass High
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school will sit in on the meeting
Monday because this edifice with
its several auditoriums, gymnas-
ium and 32-class rooms, will be
the real seat Of the congress. 1t is
further understood that definite
plans have already been submitted
for housing and care of 5000
messengers, visitors and workers
who are expected to arrive.
Seey, Boyd informed DIR. VIM
of his special train movement COM
ing out of Nashville over the
Louisville and Nashville railroad up
to st. Louis and then to Oklahoma
City over the Frisco, arriving in
this city at $50 on the morning Of
June 10. DR.. VIM has secured
permits for the first parade when
the congress special train arrives.
Every church in the city, prospect
i've Of denomination, through the
pastor, has expressed willingness
to cooperate with this coming
meet.
Among the guest speakers al
ready announced will be Mrs. Cry
stall Byrd Fausett of Washington;
the Rev. +. c. Smith. Metropoli-
tan Baptist church; DR.. r. J. Jor-
dan, Kansas City, Mo-, and DR..
c. II. Bell, Indianapolis, with the
usual departmental conductors
numbering more than rs persons.
Rev. Vim, the entertaining pas
tor, is planning to care for at least
1000 boys in the cadet Depart
ment, as Secy. Boyd is bringing
two brass bands on his special
train for them to use during the
week in training future Americans
for defense.
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
Judge HASTE In
Puerto Rico

WASHINGTON, Apr. 16 CAMP
Attending the caribbean con-
ference, Judge VIM. HASTE of the
war department is in Puerto Ri
co where he will remain about a
week.
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17

Gerrit Smith, Fred Douglass, So
journer Truth. In effective work
done Of the field, invictories won
in the thick Of the battle, there
was not her like among all the
Aplitionists. Her work on the
Under ground Railroad, her deeds
as guerrilla fighter, as trouble
shooter" for the Department Of
the South; as planner, organizer
and effective agent in fmthsring
the cause Of freedom and Union,
mark her with peculiar great
ness.
Sympathetic, warn in her impul-
ses, tender, Harriet Tubman was,
in John Browns phrase, as much
"a man naturally" as one was
likely to see. Typical Of her con-
Germ for others and of her manly
earnestness and resolve are the
accounts Of her experience with
the frightened runaway slaves
who wanted to return. The gun
she carried to use against betray-
ers and slave-hunters, she never
had to use; but when the frighten-
ed slave wanted to return to slav-
cry, "she would hold her gun to
the slaves head and say, Broth
er, you go on or die" "And',
writes Conrad, "he always went
on to his own freedom"
Here one cannot fail to reflect
what good thing it might be if
some modern equivalent of Har-
riet's gun to the head of the slave
should be found to drive the lat
terday frightened black man on :.
on to his own freedom; on beyond
the comprimises with Jim Grow,
complacency before a thousand
and one injuctices; on to deter
mined and unrelenting battle
against the forces which would
deny colored Americans the heri-
tage of freedom their toll and suf-
fering have made, their own.
Let colored Americans turn to
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17

man officer. He perhaps, sent this
Gospel along with his brief to
Theopolius who was to try Paul
Gnr this Gospel, was as a letter to
prove the social and religious val
ues of Jesus who was more than
worthy of the sacrifices made by
Paul, and worthy of all future sa-
crifices to be made by Christian
dom for ages to come.
1. He sets forth to tell Thoopo-
lius, "Jesus has come to bring SAL
walton and good news to the poor.
2. He is to preach and give re-
lease to the ean,ives and sight to
the blind. 8. And to proclaim the
one year of the Lord which men
must accept if they are to be saved
(a) To do this work there must
not be a delay, thus he sets his
face towards Jerusalem knowing
what awaited him there. a. He
must not remain in Nazareth with
his own people for he has world
to save. Father, forgive them
they know not what they do
These words still ring, from the
hearts of millions, whose souls
like Jesus, must suffer, the shame
of prejudice and hate, vice and all
types of discrimination.
Working for the principles of
richer, social lives, cleaner politi-
cal lives, and broader educational
lives, as a minority race, we must
remember, Jesus was alone IN His
struggle on Calvary. Peter, his
spokesman had walked away. the
others had ran off, but Jesus,
Jesus of Nazareth, the Lord OF
God, that taketh away the sin OF
the world. In this dark hour,
and we too are facing a dark
hour, but like Jesus we must ex-
claim, Father, forgive them; for
they know not what they do
No they didn't know that while
they were trying to Stamp out
the teacher of Justice, mercy and
love for all mankind, he was dy-
ing physically, but he was at the
same time being born spiritually,
and He lives today in the hearts
of men. who are now dying for
His cause Stephen, Paul, JOHN
Lincoln and thousands of others,
and last but not least, Sergeant
Foster, Of the 92nd Engineers,
who died an heroic death. A
young man, trained to serve his
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
JAWS Quartet

The JAWS Christian College Quar-
tette will appear in musical re-
cital att the Mt. Zion Baptist
church, Friday night, April II, at
3 p. m.
There will be featured some OF
the South's outstanding musical
talents in this program. You will
miss a treat by not hearing them.
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
-FSA Photo

Negro Churches as Effective In
struments for Rallying Negro
People in the Present Crisis"
This week members of the ma
tional working committee, head
ed by Bishop Virgin and DR.. Jer-
nagin, are holding fact-finding
conferences with the following GOV
eminent officials; Secy. of Agri-
culture, Claude Wickard; Gen. j.
H. Osborne, chief of the war de-
partment's special services branch
Dean James Lands, national di-
rector of civilian defense; Asst.
Secy. of the Navy Ralph Bard; and
Archibald MacLeish, director of the
Office of Facts and Figures.
Pu.ting the councils national
church victory program into prac-
tice, the announcement said, will
mean that issues of this war as
they relate to Negro people and
as a working basis for solving
problems that prevent fullest par
tieipation of Negro people in the
nations war effort, will become
part Of the working knowledge Of
ministers and laymen in the remot-
est sections of our country, and
upon this understanding will be
built the kind of church unity
among our people that will win the
war"
The following is a partial list of
Arkansas State press., 1942-04-17
Weekly Sermon

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@s~ s-ss> iTxxres- ..sssA. EYE
country and race, from one Of the
hest of homes, schools and at
time when America is threatened
from within and without, and be-
cause of prejudice, jealousy, hate,
envy, malice and strife, was kill
Cd. Thanks be to God, his death
like Jesus will not be in vain, for
his spirit of manhood and loyalty
to his fellow man is born in the
hearts of thousands of all races
and people who are lovers of right
eousaess and justice for all men.
AS christians We must pray for
our enemies, those who despite
fully use Us.
Father, forgive them for they
knew not what they do"