Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-11
From the
Watch Tower
BY Rev. L. A. Clark, Sr., o. D.
Pastor Second Allen A. M =
Church, ITO Anderson Street
Laurel, Miss.

o the many members of the
M. e. Church Connection Greet.
ings, The General Conference has
passed and is counted HISTORY
and some of the acts of the Cen
al Conference have been count
ed as a blessing and some as de.
termental but all have been cast
in the lap.
AS I sit here in my tower look.
ing over the field of workman in
this great church. I see men
coming up from every quarter OF
these United States of America
from far off Africa and South
America, Saying to the church
like lsiah after his lips had been
touched by the live coal of fire
saying here am l send me. I win
CO. all offering themselves to the
church to serve in that coveted
office as a Bishop, indeed il is
great honor, a great task and
a great responsibility, when a man
is elected a Bishop he has not
only the destiny of the church
in his hand, he hos the physical
economical and moral destiny OF
minister, wives and children of
the church in his hand. many
good home have been broken I'm
because the minister sick to. his
obligation and was not able to
realize enough form the congrega.
ton he serve to support his family.
and his wife some times filled an
earl grave from being underfed
and unable to secure proper
medical care, and the children ara
tempted to follow the object
crowd, and generally when a good
person is overcome by temptation
he is driven into respiration. SO
we see that the office a Bishop
should not be filled by any man
Or set OF men covet it, just to
lord over his brethren, and for
the honor and salary, we need
conscientious and conscrated men
Tor the Bishopric in the church
A Bishop should not allow him
self to be bewitched, by a certain
group of men who desire to make
MIN think SINE one needto be
killed so hecan succeed.
And the men in the an Episco.
pal istrict ought not to promis.
sucosly jump on a Bishop because
their friend doesn't like him or
their friend was moved, from that
lstrict. We need men with ex
perience and abilitry.
Tchurch ran wild few years
ago after men with egree. and
some times tht was all he had,
some people think because man
happen to raise a few thousand
dollarsin local churches, he ought
to be elected Bishop in the next
General Conference reguarless to
how bad he is needed as a pastor
l still hold to this idea that we
need strong young men in the
pastorate, the strength of
house is underneath and the beau
ty is above. l think the most
beautiful person in the world is
an elderly man of woman sitting
in the midst of a group of young
people and is able to point to life
of service for God and humanity.
Bishop should be a father in
the church, when We say Rev.
Grand Father in God he ought be
that, ought not to be a tradition
al formality just an old saying
handed down through the church.
we need men who will fathre the
church and not get off in a coner
with group of men, and say this
is my thing and set out to rule
or ruin, now to get the kind of
men the church need they must
be picked from the stockpile. now
since l have a part in this great
task I take the initiative to offer
for your, consideration a few OF
the very fine men to select from
Drs ]. w. Hair, F. Jordan, J. E.
Reese T. j. Davis G. Wayman
Blakley, o. Sherman, w. D. Ball,
F. H. Cow, M. e. Jackson, J. S.
lBrookins, and H. j. Bryant. ]
have known DR.. Hair for number
Of years he has served the church
with all his heart in MisSissinni