The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-08-22


VIII also be there If miss this you will miss three
nights OF real joy Elder c. II. Butler, pastor
ing for SO long," he replied 'They feel clean honest
ABOUT their convictions They know it was
negroes In the past and they know they are
oohg right now. The result is new exhlaratino
spirit in Keiser's church.
To other pastors who may be hestant. the Reverond
helser suggests, You more on Christian CON
science than you realize"
Inc hour is late and there are many who feel that
christian conscience had better swing into action
from the deep South the voice of the Presbyterian
oynoo OF Alabama through it's Christian Relations Re-
port adopted by vote of 45 to g. tells u.s. eve are
with two nevitabes the Federal Constitution and the
conscience Both dictate that legal segregation
rowed time" ~ WI
ALSO from the South the encouraging word
that the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina has voted
70 invite Negro congregations to apply for membership
IN tne diocesan convention This the only Episcopal
aocese IN the United States not providing for rep
resehIa1lon Oh It's Negro congregations.
The luxury of the gradual approach NAV not be
available 10 us much longer For live in world where
coored peope-the brown of India the black of Africa
the yellow OF Asa-are looking over and appraisine
hls product called democracy in which we are irving
to interest them.
Young Dick Campbell put it this way to the other
couples at st. Andrews: "The color problem s world
wide in scope, standing with the problem of atomic
energy as the two most important of this century
How the United States meaning we as individuals solve
our color problem will largely determine whether Asia
and Africa, comprising twothrds of the worlds popua
ton, go Communist democratic"
AS long as we practice racism in our own backyard
we are Vunerable-as vulnerable the preachers who
opposed the whte-supremacy advocate Gene Talmadpe
IN George In 1916 Tamadges campaign manager simply
announced: when those ministers are ready to omen
their churches Negroes and seat them beside whites
will listen to them. Until them they are not worth
listening to-"
we get the same thing international scale
today The world wants to know "This democracy
you're peddllng-how does it work at homer"
Peoples from other parts of the world, and par
tcuarly those of other than the white race are pointing
accusing fingers at u.s. declared the 1850 Annual Con-
terence OF the Church of the Brethren American mis-
are pressed harder to expan why these
conditions (of segregation) exist in the country which
Goes so much to preach the Christian way elsewhere"
The Communists love it. Jim Crowsm in America
is INK for their propaganda presses Perhaps them we
ought to keep quiet about it; hush it up and pretend
IL 1snt there On the contrary insists the Reverend
James Pike, Dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of St.
John the Divine, in New York, 'the Communists know
all about it. So does the whole world The best thing to
do is to show that there opposition to Jim Crowsm
IN America, that not all of approve of it, that some
OF us are dead set against -and that we also speak
for America"
Dean Pike himself spoke in a loud voice in Febru-
airy when ne declined honary degree from the Uni
vers1ty OF the South, at Sewanee Tennessee can
ceed his plans to preach the baccaaureate sermon in
June Ills reason: Sewanee's School Of Theology had
refused to open its doors to Negro students.
From members of Sewanees own graduating class
the one he refused to address-Dean Pike received
this telegram Congratulations ON your defense of ChSs
Ch~rcb Fdtth can mountains Sewanee, by the
way, is an old Indian word meaning mountains. So
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