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Excerpt from Church Work: Among the Negroes in the South
Two special wavs in which the Church is influencing the negro race I take pleasure in mentioning. Arch deacon Russell is holding every summer on.11is school grounds at Lawrenceville a Farmers' Conference The negroes come from all over the county and spend the day together, asking and answering publicly ques tions about their progress or their failure, their cus toms, good or bad, praising dr criticising one an other, and listening to selected speakers, urging them on to the best lines of development for their race. I attended this conference last summer; and I was much impressed and greatly encouraged for the true pro gress of the negro. Another far different kind of in uence is going out from the Church in Arkansas.
Bishop Brown and his Council have made an entire separation between the whites and blacks in his dio eese. He has appointed a negro arch-deacon for the negro race, and has given him large power and wide discretion. Arch-deacon mcguire is appealing to the negroes both within and without the Church, attending all large negro gatherings, speaking to them about the Church, her customs and claims. He is getting a large and sympathetic hearing; and he and Bishop Brown have great hope of rapid progress for this negro branch of the Church in Arkansas.
Now, my friends, while the work is slowly going forward, as I have shown, while the average per cent. Of growth among the negroes is nearly that of the pro gress among the whites; yet conditions are not satis factory. \vhile we can excuse ourselves, if we will. By pointing to the changed conditions after the war: by telling of the days of re-construction, which did more to separate and to make antagonistic the two races than many wars; by speaking of the high moral standard, which we demand and which the in the mass will not accept; by deprecating the uw of our beautiful liturgy which they cannot understand: yet we ought to have, done, we ought to be doing I'm more with the negroes than we have done or are doinu. We are barely touching the edge of the negro www.
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