Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-11-02
GOD SAVE THE CHURCH

GOD SAVE THE CHURCH
Ever since sIovery millions of poor underpriviIeged
coIoed people in the South have lived by who is coed
Christian hope
Their little rural churches, for the most part, with
the LOG cabin school houses nearby and not for away the
community grave yard where they comparatively buried
their dead was the symbol of that hope for better
Eoch Sunday these people went up to their meeting
houses to meet and to see and toIk with God to &c
that which spoken of whot not live without
even though they have abundance of bread
have seen then, there on Bonded knees God fear
inq emocioted ignorant, mony of them supersttous-
babes is on unfriendy world world wherein mothers
died by the thousands in childbirth from lack of medi
cal care an Insufficient noushment withstand whot
life in the poverty stricken dishes out to the hove
nots 1t wos there that used to strong cry like
bobes because the odds against them overwhelming
have been men, who knew God with the beauty of
God reflected their faces mount the rostrums in the lit
tie churches and have heard them speak with such force
and unvornished beauty that they made good and
women out of human liabilities who in turn laid the foundo
ton of goo dschoos oerno organizations, good homes
and communities They led to fear God to believe in
God to believe in man. to love monkind to serve humanity
work for peace and brotherhood and to recognize these
things the oImportont things, besides which nothing
else is important, absolutely nothing else
speak of the church of yesterday, the place where
POOR coored people went to get the courage to go back
and try dig living out of the bowels of the eorth year
otter year. after having been robbed of their crops by
greedy landlords and clerchns who had advanced them
white meo moIosses lard and homespun ond lorols
the latter to be made into clothing borey sufficient to
keep mony of them from being subjected to arrest for in
decent exposure Yes the Place where they got the
charging of the faith necessary TO try TO do the impossible
They looked upon the who spoke to them from the
pulpit of God, with messages from God for them
messages which authentic and promised victory for
those who held out These people had only way to
see God and that through their ministers. They be-
eved their ministers and their God they would hove
died
White men may not need God for the kind of world
the rocists built but black not live and
grow without oith in God For all eternity, the black
can not get along without God
Deep in the heart of the South at Daniel Poyne Col
Iege last week, saw assembled upwards Of thousand
ministers and oymen of the AE church. They had
bIed at the call of Bishop D. Word Nichols to hear him
recount the why's and wherefores back of the turmoil
raging within and rocking the foundation of the AME
church. He allied upon them to back the effort of which
he port ceon house from bottom to top when they
90 to Little Rock Arkansas in November for special
sion of the General Conference of the church. deal with
some bishops who it seems, determined to rule ruin
fashion which adversely affecting coored churches
everywhere.
When heard him say the bishops could not save the
church and that the Job up the Ioymen and ministers
scores of pastors proclaimed their undyng oyoy and de-
termination to back the effort ceon house from bottom
to top" sold myself This the AME churchs Singing
hour and by their resolving to clean house, they max
ing history"
1t is the people who get and have received from the
church the inspiration and strength to fight the good
fight who accomplish the impossible with The church