St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-02-06
A Few Tips
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To Win Friends
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which had occurred in a football
game between Drake and Okla
homa AIM only the previous Sat-
urday afternoon. An old man in
a village in Pakistan asked me
about what happened in Cicero,
Illinois; a laborer in Hong Kong
discussed discrimination In Ameri-
can craft unions with factual ac-
curacy; and the headman of a
village in Jordan told me he wished
he could support the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People.
Eternal Questions
No people were more concerned
about our interracial problems
than our Christian brethren of the
mission lands. / was often asked
by Christian laymen and ministers:
"Why do you have separate
churches for Negroes and white
people 2" Can a church refuse
fellowship TO people because Of
their color and still be considered
a Christian church," How can
Southern missionaries Justify COM
ing to a foreign land to preach
the gospel Of Christ's love and the
brotherhood of all men to those
of us who are so culturally and
racialIy different, when they win
not show Christian love and broth
erhood toward American Negroes
who belong TO their own country
and faith?" why don't American
churches and church leaders give
more vigorous aid to the struggle
for racial justiee?"
Aslans win not tolerate dis
honest and evasive answers TO
these questions. Once established
my sincerity, I could carry them
with me when I told them Of our
efforts to achieve a more equitable
and Just society. There are similar
questions, too numerous to list In
an article like this. Nor Is 1t pos
sible to detail my answers to these
questions. However, they seemed
TO be satisfied with my interpreta-
ton Of the problem. largely be-
cause ] tried to present It in its
true light and did not excuse or
explain 1t away.
No question was more consis-
tently and pointedly asked of me
than when can we expect to
have Negro missionaries When
! raised the question as to how
long they had wanted Negro mis-
sionaries, several Christian leaders
in India. Japan. and the Philippines
showed me letters written as far
back as twenty-five years ago to
some OF the denominations Of the
United States asking for Negro
missionaries. There are perhaps a
dozen Negro missionaries in for
eign lands today from the u. s.
Among the most important rea-
sons why we have been so slow to
respond TO this modern call from
the ''Macedonias Of Asia" was the
resistance OF the colonial govern
ments which were in control OF
mission areas: the refusal Of our
government to make a strong eff
fort to support the requests; the
attitudes of our mission boards
which were no different from the
general cultural pattern; the social
pattern of our American race rela-
tons and our church structure:
and the encouragement on the
part of many Negroes who felt
they were not wanted. Consequent
ly, few applied.
The time has come for us TO
make a supreme effort TO select
carefully Negro men and women
to augment the forces abroad OF
both Christianity and democracy
Il don't equate these twoD On
the other hand, II win do the cause
of Christianity and the cause OF
democracy little good to send forth