Part 7

Among all the white ministers in the United States, only they themselves can tell how many of them peacefully feel within their secret hearts and contentedly feel within their reasoning minds that they are giving full reverences to God, full honor to their calling and full service toward all weak and suffering humanity through their Sunday preachings against all sins and crimes? And among them only they can tell how many of them, through advising words in reasoning talks, are trying each Sunday (if only for five minutes) to blow out and drown the sinful sparks of jealousy, envy, malice and hate that instantly flame up in the breasts of so many of their church members as soon as they see a Colored person, even if that person is well-behaved, well-educated, well-dressed and well-to-do. Such feelings merely on account of color are not natural and God has not meant for such to be; for if He had, He would have made the brown earth white, the green grass white, the blue sky white, the yellow sun white. These are the greatest things in the world and all of them are colored. Even the water, that covers three-fourths of the earth (while it is supposed to be colorless) is more colored than it is white. Those white people who wish that there were no colored on earth should remember that God in His infinite wisdom fully realized in making the universe that if He made all things white the glare would be so great and intense that every seeing thing would be driven totally blind. So God put soft and blending colors on earth in order that humanity might retain its sight to see His works and learn to love them but not to look upon any of His works with scorn and hatefulness.

While intelligent preachers of the Race upon quietly and carefully looking about them see that practically the entire earth is one mass of colors--the majority of internal and external earth elements, the foods, the clothes, inside and outside building materials and furnishings are colored; yet these Negro ministers teach their congregations that the white color God has placed here has as much right on earth as the big majority of colors. And there are such advising and logical talks going on every Sunday from the Colored pulpits in order to keep down race prejudice and friction. And Colored ministers are silently and hopefully praying to God that He will finally soften, melt and move the hearts of the white ministers so that they will at last come forward and do their parts by logic reasonings with their white congregations a few minutes every Sunday regarding the rights of all colors of peoples to live unmolested and progress unhindered here on earth. It has been left for the white press to come forward and take the lead (which it is nobly and increasingly doing) in this movement of reasoning with the masses of white people in America regarding racial discriminations and injustices. But the entire world, including the American white press itself, is looking on in puzzled and wondering silence as it continues to hopefully wait for the American white ministry to dutifully and courageously come forward in a mass and take its rightful lead in this Christian movement to help bring about a closer brotherhood co-operation, a truer Christlike understanding and a smoother racial adjustment between the white and Colored people living in the United States. The influence of the white church is the greatest human power in the world--it unintentionally encourages mobs and rioting in America by continuing to keep silent on the question, but it can intentionally discourage and prevent in a very short time the occurence of a second Arkansas, Atlanta, Chester, Chicago, Duluth, East St. Louis, Houston, Philadelphia, Tulsa, Washington and other race riots, if it will come out as a whole all over the country and speak to its congregations Sunday after Sunday against such barbarism and heathenism being constantly carried on here in the United States.

According to notices that have recently appeared in the white press, The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, spurred on by the barbarisms carried on at the riot of Tulsa, Okla. of a few months ago, has boldly come forward and denounced such sins and crimes. In order to bring about better relations between the two Races and help to prevent such future occurences, this Council has already appointed a Commission that has held a meeting in Washington, D.C. It is planned to hold conferences, composed of white and Colored clergymen, all over the country, and an effort will be made to have the white churches to educate their audiences regarding the sins of race prejudice and the crimes resulting therefrom. So just as God in His own time answered the prayers of American slaves that they and their children would some day become free; He is gradually and surely answering the prayers of persecuted Negroes of today that the white ministry will come forward and take its proper place as a leader in helping to swing into the right channels the public sentiments of white people regarding their Christlike treatments of Colored neighbors. Colored people must continue to work and pray and be hopeful that out of this movement will eventually come a second Henry Ward Beecher of modern times.

On the following pages are named some of the highest men in the Colored ministry, who have been for years using every Christlike means within their powers to help bring about more mutual understandings and feelings between the two races:

Bishops J. W. Alstork, W. W. Beckett, G. L. Blackwell, P. A. Bouldin, I. P. Brooks, W. S. Brooks, C. S. Brown, R. B. Bruce, J. S. Caldwell, A. J. Carey, R. A. Carter, W. D. Chappelle, E. W. Chaver, N. C. Cleaves, G. C. Clement, G. W. Clinton, J. M. Connor, L. J. Coppin, M. W. Clair, E. Cottrell, Archdeacons H. B. Delaney and E. T. Denby, Bishops Derrick, J. A. Ellison, J. S. Flipper, W. A. Fountain, A. Grant, J. S. Green, T. L. Griffiths, C. R. Harris, W. H. Heard, J. J. Higgs, L. H. Holsey, John Hurst, J. A. Johnson, W. D. Johnson, Wyatt Johnson, J. H. Jones, R. E. Jones, L. W. Kyles, Isaac Lane, B. F. Lee, W. L. Lee, J. W. Lee, C. A. Moore, R. P. Morgan, H. B. Parks, C. H. Phillips, J. F. Ramsey, I. N. Ross, B. T. Ruley, Archideacon J. S. Russell, Bishops C. S. Smith, B. T. Tanner, P. Taylor, E. Tyre, W. T. Vernon, A. J. Warner, R. S. Williams, W. N. Winston and P. H. Wright.

From among the thousands of Colored ministers all over the country, the names below are those sent to the author from the following large cities, where immense congregations are ministered unto by their spiritual leaders, who are also Sunday after Sunday calmly pacifying and patiently advising their congregations in order to keep them on peaceful and frictionless relations (without sacrificing their citizenship rights) with the white people with whom they daily come in contact:

Alexandria, Va.: Revs. H. A. Haynes, L. A. King, S. B. Ross.

Atlanta, Ga.: Revs. R. S. Brown, P. J. Bryant, H. W. Evans, E. Hall, J. A. Lindsay, H. C. Lyman, R. H. Singleton, S. D. Thorn.

Atlantic City, N. J.: Revs. J. W. Brown, J. N. Deaver, J. P. Gregory, W. E. Griffen, A. L. Martin, L. C. Scott, W. Tyler.

Augusta, Ga.: Revs. Dorsett, C. Floyd, C. T. Walker, R. S. Williams.

Baltimore, Md.: Revs. G. F. Bragg, J. T. Colbert, M. H. Davis, W. H. Deane, J. R. L. Diggs, J. H. Dovey, J. Gray, J. W. Hill, Harvey Johnson, Earnest Lyons, C. E. Stewart, J. H. Dorsey, C. R. Uncles.

Birmingham, Ala.: Revs. C. W. Brooks, L. G. Duncan, J. W. Goodgame, R. N. Hall, F. W. Riley, T. W. Sherrill.

Boley, Okla.: Revs. J. S. Dawson, T. C. Martin, N. J. Johnson.

Boston, Mass.: Revs. A. R. Cooper, L. Ferguson, D. S. Klugh, W. D. McLain, A. L. Scott, M. M. Shaw, B. W. Swain, C. A. Ward.

Buffalo, N. Y.: Revs. E. R. Bennett, H. Durham, E. J. Echolson, H. A. Garcia, J. Nash.

Brooklyn, N. Y.: Revs. J. B. Adams, N. P. Boyd, W. C. Brown, W. S. Carpenter, G. F. Miller, H. H. Procter, W. P. Wallace, A. K. Warren.

Camden, N. J.: Revs. J. S. Braithwaite, H. W. Cummings, G. Morris, W. S. Saunders, J. R. White.

Charleston, S. C.: Revs. E. L. Baskerville, J. E. Beard, C. A. Harrison, D. J. Jenkins, W. J. Jones, R. Kemp, T. D. Nelson, J. R. Pearson, C. H. Uggams.

Charleston, W. Va.: Revs. M. W. Johnson, E. H. Whitefield, C. H. Woody.

Charlotte, N. C.: Revs. F. L. Brodie, G. D. Donowa, J. E. King, A. Mason, M. D. Melodona, W. M. Miller, R. P. Wyche.

Chattanooga, Tenn.: Revs. C. G. Bell, W. H. Heath, J. H. Henderson, J. L. B. Johnson, C. M. Robins, C. C. Stewart, C. C. Tucker.

Chester, Pa., Revs. J. R. Bennett, E. E. Durant, H. J. Ryder, T. M. Thomas, H. Tyree.

Chicago, Ill.: Revs. W. M. Bennett, S. L. Birt, C. H. Clarke, W. D. Cook, J. M. Henderson, H. M. Jackson, J. H. Simon, H. E. Stewart, J. G. Walker, L. K. Williams.

Cincinnati, Ohio.: Revs. J. P. Blackburn, W. L. Brean, E. H. Oxley, Wilbur Page.

Cleveland, Ohio: Revs. H. C. Bailey, C. G. Fishback, J. S. Jackson, L. C. Jefferson, P. O’Connell, R. H. Suthern.

Columbia, S. C.: Revs. J. F. Green, M. F. Haygood, M. G. Johnson, J. R. Jones, H. M. Moore, J. Perry, D. F. Thompson, C. M. Young.

Columbus, Ohio: Revs. J. W. Carter, E. A. Clarke, H. W. Cooper, G. L. Davis, R. D. Phillips, J. B. Pius, H. W. Smith.

Danville, Va.: Revs. W. E. Carr, J. R. Cooper, G. W. Goods, A. Murray, J. A. Valentine.

Dayton, Ohio: Revs. J. D. Anderson, D. E. Bass, J. N. S. Belbader, O. W. Childers, W. H. Riley, T. J. Smith.

Denver, Colo. Revs. W. H. Thomas, S. A. Strippling, I. S. Wilson.

Des Moines, Iowa: Revs. S. Bates, S. L. Birb, D. W. Claybrook, E. S. Hardge, E. A. Liles, G. W. Robinson.

Detroit, Mich: Revs. T. J. Askew, F. Begnall, R. L. Bradby, A. Gomez, C. A. Hill, W. R. Rutledge.

Durham, N. C.: Revs. W. C. Cleland, J. E. Kiklaird, J. H. Pacheal, J. Smalls, R. Spiller, J. L. White.

Evansville, Ind: Revs. F. P. Baker, J. S. Haddison, H. B. Mayes, M. McIntyre, J. Rouse.

Fort Smith, Ark.: Revs. W. E. Guy, E. D. Hill, J. T. Jones, Wm. Jones, C. H. Whitted.

Fort Worth, Texas: Revs. A. L. Dotson, S. A. Nelson, S. R. Prince, M. H. Spencer, W. G. Upshur.

Gary, Ind.: Revs. M. Bolden, A. Kittrell, W. H. Saunders, W. T. Whitsett.

Greenville, S. C.: Revs. A. R. Burk, C. H. Copeland, C. F. Gandy, J. H. McAdams, C. F. Rice, S. J. Simkin.

Hampton, Va.: Revs. J. D. Baker, J. W. Brown, E. H. Hamilton, J. W. Patterson.

Harrisburg, Pa.: Revs. C. H. Fareira, G. W. Cregg, A. J. Greene, W. Parchment, C. F. Jenkins.

Hartford, Conn.: Revs. R. R. Ball, O. H. Brown, W. Byrd, C. L. Fisher, C. N. Gibbons, W. B. Reed, J. A. Wright.

Helena, Ark.: Revs. L. S. Arnold, W. E. Briett, H. W. Holloway, E. C. Morris, D. S. Shadd.

Hopkinsville, Ky.: Revs. M. Brooks, T. H. Copeland, M. Kirby, W. M. Newell, E. Williams.

Houston, Texas: Revs. C. K. Brown, J. R. Burdett, E. H. Bolden, F. L. Lights.

Indianapolis, Ind.: Revs. J. S. Bailey, C. S. Dusenberry, B. H. Ferrell, A. H. Maloney, G. W. Ward, B. J. Westbrook, C. S. Williams.

Jackson, Miss.: Revs. S. C. Greer, R. Isabelle, B. T. McEween, M. L. Vonadore.

Jacksonville, Fla.: Revs. W. W. Carter, J. E. Ford, E. J. Gregg, J. K. Salterwhite, S. H. Savage, W. R. Stephens.

Jersey City, N.J.: Revs. W. A. Byrd, A. Carter, A. C. Sanders, W. S. Smith.

Kansas City, Kan.: Revs. W. A. Boran, J. F. Griffin, D. A. Holmes, W. A. Johnson.

Kansas City, Mo.: Revs. S. A. Bacote, G. H. Daniels, D. A. Homes, J. B. Isaacs, J. W. Lowe, W. T. Osborne, M. E. Spatches.

Leavenworth, Kan.: Revs. Curtis, Hayes, Scott, and Wright.

Little Rock, Ark.: Revs. J. A. Booker, F. H. Cook, J. M. Mitchell, R. B. Porter, J. M. Reed, J. P. Robinson.

Los Angeles, Cal.: Revs. W. B. Butler, W. T. Cleghorn, J. D. Gordon, N. P. Cregg, A. P. Shaw, A. M. Ward, J. H. Wilson.

Louisville, Ky.: Revs. J. H. Frank, E. G. Harris, C. H. Parrish, W. H. Sheppard, W. P. Stanely, C. C. Steward, N. H. Williams.

Lynchburg, Va.: Revs. G. E. Curry, L. O. Lewis, B. Whitlock.

Memphis, Tenn.: Revs. J. Bell, R. L. Campbelle, T. O. Fuller, S. E. Griggs, J. Q. Johnson, W. J. McMichael, H. L. Patterson, R. B. Roberts, F. G. Snelson, A. M. Townsend, M. I. Warfield.

Milwaukee, Wis.: Revs. J. O. Morley, R. Russell.

Minneapolis, Minn.: Revs. J. A. Breedlove, V. S. Cooper, J. J. Evans, F. Leatled, T. J. J. Merritt, G. W. Mirchell, T. A. Smith, C. H. Thomas.

Mobile, Ala.: Revs. W. E. D. Claybrook, C. F. Johnson, G. W. Johnson, H. D. Parker, W. D. Speights.

Montgomery, Ala.: Rev. I. Champney, W. M. Madison, A. J. Stokes, P. W. Walls.

Mound Bayou, Miss.: Revs. A. A. Cosen, F. Morgan, J. R. Powe.

Muskogee, Okla.: Revs. T. M. Greene, S. S. Jones, J. Johnson, A. R. Norris, J. Roker, A. Wells.

Nashville, Tenn.: Revs. G. W. Allen, H. A. Boyd, R. H. Boyd, W. Haynes, E. P. Jones, W. Beckham, R. P. Russell, P. Taylor.

Newark, N.J.: Revs. Bonfield, Brown, Derrick, Ellerson, Flipping, Hubbard, Ricks, and Welcher.

New Orleans, La.: Revs. W. G. Alston, J. L. Burrell, H. H. Dunn, A. Hubbs, T. F. Robinson, A. Simmons, C. C. Smith, E. A. Wittenberg, E. A. White.

Newport News, Va.: Revs. J. W. Brown, A. A. Galvin, G. D. Jimmerson, C. E. Jones, J. T. McDuffie, W. H. Sayles, W. Scarborough, E. E. Smith, J. H. Smith, S. A. Snuggs, C. A. Ward.

New York City, N.Y.: Revs. H. C. Bishop, W. H. Brooks, J. W. Brown, F. A. Culler, E. W. Daniels, W. P. Hayes, F. Howard, F. M. Hyder, J. W. Johnson, W. R. Lawton, A. C. Powell.

Norfolk, Va.: Revs. W. H. Bowling, J. D. Lee, S. S. Morris, L. E. B. Rosser, B. W. White, F. W. Williams, C. P. Madison.

Oakland, Cal.: Revs. J. M. Brown, C. C. Carter, G. C. Coleman, L. S. Goolsby, J. B. Holmes, D. R. Wallace, A. O. Newman.

Omaha, Neb.: Revs. W. F. Botts, J. A. Broadnax, T. A. Taggart, R. Taylor, M. H. Wilkinson, J. A. Williams.

Philadelphia, Pa.: Revs. M. Anderson, F. H. Butler, W. A. Creditt, W. F. Graham, W. A. Hannum, W. A. Harrod, L. G. Jordan, S. J. Jones, J. R. Logan, J. M. Moses, W. G. Parks, H. L. Phillips, C. A. Tindley, M. Winston, R. G. Williams, E. C. Young.

Phoebus, Va.: Rev. A. A. Graham.

Phoenix, Arz.: Revs. C. H. Gilmore, T. J. Sanford.

Pine Bluff, Ark.: Rev. A. W. Clark, A. H. Hill, I. C. Hodges, S. A. Mosely, H. W. Savage.

Pittsburgh, Pa.: Revs. J. C. Austin, S. H. Bishop, H. W. Childs, G. W. Gaines, C. Y. Trigg, C. H. Trusty.

Portland, Oregon: Rev. J. W. Anderson, J. R. Fox, J. E. Reynolds, W. W. Howard, A. C. Yearwood.

Princeton, N. J.: Revs. A. E. Bennett, A. George, W. H. Hicks.

Providence, R. I.: Revs. P. M. Brown, R. A. Carroll, W. S. Holland, W. J. Moss, I. S. Sisco, J. S. Blake.

Raleigh, N. C.: Revs. C. C. Asken, A. D. Avery, A. C. Cochran, L. A. Fairley, A. W. Pegnes, J. W. Walker.

Richmond, Va.: Revs. M. E. Davis, A. Gill, A. A. Rector, W. F. Johnson, Z. D. Lewis, T. J. Ring, W. H. Stokes, J. L. Taylor.

Roanoke, Va.: Revs. L. L. Downing, J. H. Hatcher, A. L. James, W. E. Lee, H. Mapson, Jr., B. G. Whitlock.

Sacramento, Cal.: Revs. J. A. Allen, T. A. Collins, T. A. Harvey, A. Prior.

San Antonio, Texas: Revs. G. F. Curry, S. J. Johnson, I. H. Kelley, L. H. Richardson.

San Francisco, Cal.: Revs. W. J. J. Byers, J. A. Dennis, J. Washington.

Salt Lake City, Utah: Rev. X. C. Runyon.

Saratoga Springs, N. Y.: Rev. T. R. Brown.

Savannah, Ga.: Revs. W. G. Alexander, J. H. Brown, T. J. Goodall, S. T. Redd, J. A. Richie, D. Wright.

Seattle, Wash.: Revs. J. B. Barbour, W. D. Carter, D. A. Graham.

Shreveport, La.: Revs. L. Allen, Jr., J. M. Carter, G. W. Mills, G. T. Stinson.

St. Louis, Mo.: Revs. B. F. Abbott, D. R. Clark, S. A. Mosely, S. W. Parr, B. G. Shaw, G. E. Stevens, C. A. Williams.

St. Paul, Minn.: Rev. J. A. Anderson, G. W. Camp, T. J. Carr, B. H. Hodge, A. H. Lealted, S. L. Theobold, J. S. Strong.

Tampa, Florida: Revs. W. J. Ballan, W. O. Barley, M. T. Culmer, G. Griffin, T. Gurley, S. A. Williams.

Terre Haute, Ind.: Revs. O. H. Banks, C. M. C. Hammonds, W. S. Hodge, C. L. Upthegrove.

Washington, D.C.: Revs. W. H. Brooks, T. J. Brown, W. H. Carey, M. W. Clair, F. J. Grimke, J. R. Hawkins, W. H. Jernagin, C. L. Mitchell, W. D. Norman, C. M. Turner.

Wichita, Kan.: Revs. S. B. Butler, E. F. Fishback, E. P. Geiger, J. R. Ransom.

Wilberforce, Ohio: Rev. T. G. Steward.

Wilmington, Del.: Revs. H. Y. Arnett, H. C. Jones, J. U. King, B. F. Moore.

Wilmington, N. C.: Revs. J. R. Bormes, W. H. Moore, J. A. Jackson, A. Williet, A. Wilson.

Aside from the foregoing list of Colored ministers, there are many thousands of others whose names the writer did not get in his research but who are known to be faithfully serving on similar or smaller but none the less important scales in the above or smaller cities, towns, villages and country districts all over the United States.

IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS

In no surroundings of childhood, except the home life, is there a more suitable or fruitful place in which to spiritually nourish and grow up Colored youths than in the forty-six thousand or more Colored Sunday Schools where over two million boys and girls are regularly having impressed upon their tender and open minds the religious teachings of the Bible.

As a step toward further broadening the Sunday School work among American Colored children and at the same time enabling them to get better teachings about the Christian religion, The International Sunday School Association began in 1911 to organize classes for specially training Sunday School teachers among the young men and women attending Colored colleges and large schools. Many white friends to the Race became interested in this good movement, especially Mr. W. N. Hartshorn of Boston, Mass., who gave of his own personal money $15,000 to pay the expenses of a fair trial of the work. This Christian effort has aroused so much interest and has grown so rapidly that at present upward of two hundred Colored universities, colleges and large schools have accepted and given this Sunday School Teachers’ Course a regular place in their class room studies.

Some of the foremost religious leaders who are helping to direct and carry on this much needed work among American Colored children are Bishop Geo. W. Clinton and Dr. R. H. Boyd, both life members of the International Sunday School Association; Prof. Wm. B. Matthews, member of the Executive Committee of the above association, Dr. H. G. Lyman, Supt. of work among Colored people, and Mr. M. L. Finckel, President of the American Sunday School Union. (Ref.: Work’s Negro Year Book, 1918-1919 edition, pgs. 1-257-8).

THE YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

THE GIRL RESERVE

If she’s a three-angled, true “Y” Girl Reserve; The world she is willing to Christlike serve: Her sunshine smiles will come thru rains; Her kind heart will guide her fertile brains: She will love to work as well as play; She will have “good times” but not too gay: She will swim the streams and camp the woods; She will love all sports that are pure and good: And thus she learns “the simple life” reader To make her some day a great woman leader. --_Harrison._

Under the sisterly and wise supervision of Miss Eva D. Bowles, as the first salaried Y. W. C. A. Colored branch secretary in New York City and since then Executive of Colored Work, the Young Women’s Christian Association for Colored girls and women has made wonderful progress, since 1907 when Mrs. Wm. A. Hunton was appointed by the National Board to investigate and arouse interest in the work. As Special Student Worker, Miss Catherine Lealted greatly aided in building up and strengthening this work in Colored schools until she took up work in another field of uplift.

Today there are over fifty city Y. W. C. A. Colored Branches in as many cities in 23 states and the District of Columbia; while there are at least 100 such branches in Colored schools located in 18 States and the District of Columbia. Just as the school branches are the means of helping to build up and fortify the practical Christian minds of the girls who join them; the city branches prove sheltering havens and protections for self-respecting and self-supporting Colored single girls and women when they leave such schools and respectable homes to embark upon the rough oceans of life and desire to nightly anchor in places of moral protection, social uplift, mental development, sanitary conditions, congenial companionships, pleasures of innocence and Christian influences. For the safe arrival and calm anchorage of such Colored girls and women, the writer assures them that the following list of addresses is a true compass needle that will, when they set-sail for a new city port, safely guide them into any of the following beacon-lighted Y. W. C. A. Christian Harbors: