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THE NEQKO CHURCH.
Edited by
W. E, Hurghnrdt Du DoIb, Ph. D.
Atlanta University has Just publUh
cd an oxtonBlvo study of Negro relig
ion In America. It Is a volumo of 212
pages and Is divided Into forty sec
tions. Tho Jlrst twelvo sections, cov
ering thirty-six pages, aro historical,
covering tho question of primitive No
gro religion, tho slavo-trado, Voodoo
Ism, and missionary effort In enrly
days. Nino sections, soventy pages,
aro dovotcd to a study of tho present
condition of churches; ton sections,
forty-throo pnges, to a study of tho
great denominations, and tho remain
ing fifty pages contain opinions and
miscellaneous roports.
Religion In Africa.
It Is noted that tho prominent
characteristic of prlmltlvo Negro re
ligion la nnturo worship, with tho ac
companying strong bollof In sorcery.
Thoro la n thelstla tendoncy, hut tho
slavo-trado so mingled and demoral
ized tho west coast of Afrlcn for four
hundrod years that It Is difficult today
to find thero doflnlto romnlna of any
great religious system. Tho effect of
tho slavo-trado Is noted as demoraliz
ing rollglous and social Ideas, and es
pecially did slnvory ovorthrow tho
Bclf-protoctlng homo.
Slavery and tho Homo.
At first Bight It would soom that
Blavory dostroyed every vestige of
spontaneous social movement among
tho Negroes; tho homo had deterior
ated; political authority and economic
inltlattvo was In tho hands of tho mns
tors, property, rb a social Institution,
did not exist on tho plantation, and,
indood, 'it Is usunlly assumed by his
torians and sociologists that ovory
vcstlgo of internal dovolopmont dls
uppoarod, leaving tho slaves no means
of expression for their common life,
thought nnd striving. This Is not
strictly tTUo; tho vast power of tho
priest In tho African stnto has nlrcady
been noted, his realm alone tho pro
vince of religion nnd modlclno re
mained lnrgoly unaffected by tho plan
tation systotu In many Important par
ticulars. Tho Negro prloBt, thoreforo,
oarly becamo nn Important figure on
tho plantation nnd found hla function
as tho intorprotor of tho supernatural,
tho comforter of tho sorrowing, nnd as
tho one who exprossod, rudoly, but
plcturosquoly, tho longing nnd disap
pointment and resentment of a stolon
pcoplo.
RIso of tho Church,
From such nroso and spread with
marvolous rapidity tho Negro church,
tho first distinctively Negro Amorlcnn
social Institution. It wns not nt first
by any means n Christian church, hut
n moro adaptation of thoso heathen
rites which wo roughly doalgnato by
tho torm Obo Worship or "Voodoo
ism," Association nnd missionary ef
fort soon gavo theso rites a voncor of
Christianity, and gradually, after two
conturles, tho church became Christ
ian, with a simple Calvlnlstlo creed,
but with many of tho old customs still
clinging to tho services. It is this his
toric fact that tho Negro church of
today bases Itself upon tho boIo sur
viving social Institution of tho African
fathorland that accounts for its extra
ordinary growth and vitality. . .
. , . This Institution, theroforo,
nnturally assumed many functions
which tho other harshly suppressed
Boclal organs had to surrender; tho
church boenmo tho center of nmuBo
merits, of what llttlo spontaneous eco
nomic activity romalnod, of education,
and of all social Intercourse
Slavery and Christianity,
Tho history of tho connection be
tween slavory and Christianity Is fol
lowed by first tho controversy as to
whother Christian Negroes could bo
held as slaves and next as to whether
Christians could bo slave owners.
Tho first point sottlod by the declar
ation of Virginia In 16C7: "Uaptlsm
doth not alter tho condition of tho per
son as to hla bondago or freedom, In
order that diverse maatora freed from
this doubt may more carefully endeav
or the propagation of Christianity."
Tho second among tho Methodists,
where thoro aro already 2,000 Negro
pill llWf Ml I ' I HI " 1
(ConUawd mxI week)
Unfitted for Citlcnsh'p.
WO mn nnnrnrpfl In tlin filrmilt Court In Chi-
" Icngo as applicants for naturalization papers.
I I Neither of them could speak English except
of fifteen years in this country. Neither of
them knew how tho State and Federal Gov
ernments aro organized or how they aro con
ducted. They could not tell how Presidents aro chosen nor
what the dutlos of Congress are. They could not even give
the name of the Proildcnt now In office.
Judge M. W. Thompson, of Danville, who Is sitting
in the Circuit Court of Cook County, properly denied tholr
application for naturalization papers. His decision and
his reasons upon which it was based morlt tho consideration
of all Judges who may bo called upon to grant tho privi
leges of cltlzonshlp to aliens unfitted for It "This nation
of ours," declared. Judge Thompson, "has got past the
point wliere wo can safely admit all comers to cltlzonshlp.
Do you think we can allow you td como over here nnd
without any preparation glvo you all tho powers and privi
leges we have as citizens? I have lived hero always and
hnvo studied our national needs. You know nothing of
them. Yet you nsk mo to lot you have all the powers and
rights I and others havo."
Tho danger of admitting to full citizenship men who
havo no kuowledgo of Amerlcnn Institutions and no con
ception of tho responsibilities which citizenship Imposes is
pntont Tho fact that applications for naturalization are
now frequently made by aliens wholly destituto of these
qualifications indicates tho dangerous lengths to which the
practice already has been carried. Tho time has come
to adopt tho prlnclplo that, no mattor how freely aliens
may bo welcomed to this country, they shall not be per
mitted to oxorclso tho suffrngo nntll a long resldenco and a.
full 'understanding of Amorlcnn Institutions havo mado
them fit for rltlzonshlp. Tho sooner the naturalization laws
aro changed to conform to this prlnclplo the better it will
bo for tho nation. Chicago Dally News.
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Young Men and tho Church.
DIXOU 110 K is after tho preachers again.
Nino years ago, says Mr. Ilok, In tho Outlook,
ho wrote un urtlclo declaring Uiat tho lack of
vital preaching was tho cnuso for tho nbsoncc
of young men from tho city churches. To use
a ball phrase, ho was "batted all over the lot"
by tho proachcra for saying so.
In returning to tho lists, tho editor who has boen gath
ering statistics "nil tho time, says tho percentage of attend
ance of young men Is 8 per cent less than it was nine
years ago. It was only 30 per cent nt that tlmo. What's
tho troublo? ho asks. Klvo years ago tho ministers sold It
wns tho bicycle. For tho past threo years they have said
"golf." A few say Sunday papers. The blcyclo has dis
appeared from Bumlay amusements. The Sunday news
papers are moro numorous and larger. That lcavos only
golf, says llok. Hut bo takes up thlrty-ono churchos In
different cities whoro Sunday golf Is prohibited and shows
that out of a posslblo 1,010 young men only 427 attend
church.
So ho returns to tho old attack. Ho has Interviewed
hundreds of young men and tho majority say: "Nothing to
go for." "Don't got enough out of tho sormons." "It's
all words, words, words no vltnl message." Then he tells
how tho churches of Uuusaulus of Chicago and Italnsford
and Lorlmcr of Now York where tho big noto of spiritual
ity Is sounded aro crowded with young men. Truo, lie
quotes many young men who sny they nro too tired when
Sunday comos and allows for hard conditions nnd the
monoy madness of tho times, but ho sticks protty close to
his text: Lack of vital sermons. Dcs Moines News.
her drubbing. What then? Are we serious in imagining
that Japan is fighting the battle of the Anglo-Saxon? If
so, there awaits us a rude surprise. Tho goal of Japanese
statesmanship is tho liberation of Asia from European
control, nnd Asia includos India. When we back Japan
wo virtually indorse tho cry, "AbI for tho Asiatics," which
Is quite the roverse of tho watchword, "An Open Door for
Qreat Britain." Russian statesmen reallzo what an
awakening of the yellow races means for humanity aa a
whole. We approve that awakening, but must also realise
Its consequences. The resurrection of the Middle East led
to the invasion of Spain by the Moors and to battles be
tween Cross and Crescent at the gates. of Vienna Itself.
Christendom was there confronted by Oriental invaders,
who possessed arms equal to her own. The same phenom
enon Is developing at the Far East Neither China nor
Japan has bowed before the Ideals upon which our religion
Is based. But Japan has adopted, and China Is in process
of adopting, tho weapons of modern warfare, and when
the yellow races have acquired our methods of destruction,
It Is posslblo that we may learn too late bow wise it would
havo been to allow Russia to remain as a counterpoise.
London Dally News.
T
DritUh and Japanese Interests.
T lias been lightly assumed that British inter
ests and Japanese Internals nro convertible
terms. We hnvo our doubts whethor this tho
nry has received adequato proof. For several
tgnrMtlgcncratlons dread of Russia has been a deep
aCeVeScJscnted element In the formation of British
opinion. It has determined our policy both In
the Near East and upon the Northwest frontier of India,
Hut Lord Salisbury was one of those who considered that
Ibis prejudice led us to put our money on the wrong horse,
and the effects of that error in the Near East have been
ppslllng. Let us suppose, however, that Russia receives
Don't Stop; Keep On.
HE head of a pumping engine company was
recently asked whether school trained men or
shop trained men are better equipped for work
In his factory. He answered:
"Tho practical man is likely to know more
than the technical school man aboutactual shop
work, but he Is also Ukoly to stop knowing
wnen ne snouia go on Knowing."
Right here Is tho point where the young man of broad
school education excels tho young manof equal natural abil
ity but only shop education. He goes on knowing.
Tho boy apprenticed to a skilled trado will learn to do
his particular work moro deftly than the boy who puts in
tho equivalent years In school. But the proporly schooled
boy, If ho has learned less how to do, has learned better
how to learn to do.
And what is wanted in every Industry nnd in every pro
fession Is not so much men who can do woll the particular
task of the day as mon who can readily past on to some
othor nnd more dlfllcult tasks men who can keep on learn
ing whllo they work.
The mind, Hko tho muscles, ceases to grow if It be not
exercised. The ordinary boy, set early at a trade, may
learn that, but in learning It he is in danger of closing his
mind, for lack of all round exercise, to learning anything
else. And tho subdivision of labor in modern Industry has
Increased this danger. From that danger the properly
schooled boy Is delivered. The soli of his mind Is so broken
up that It cannot become lncrustcd against new Ideas. He
keeps on learning whllo he works.
That Is what broad education docs, and that is why
the protests of certain exceptional and successful men
against broad education beat vainly against the dally ob
servation of common sense Chicago Inter Ocean.
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The Craze for Money.
T the bottom of all the too prevalent corrup
tion, commercial and political, is the prevailing
Idea that success consists in the gaining of
money. Joseph R. Burton, of Kansas, the first
United States Senator to be convicted of crime
while In office, testified that bemused his offlclnl
lnfluenco in consideration of a salary of SS00
a month from tho Rlalto Oratn and Securities Companies of
St. Louis, bocause he needed the monoy, Those convicted
of fraud in tho I'ostofltco Department at Washington, per
petrated the frauds In order to make money. Almost every
act of corruption In office Is done to get money; and the
monoy that is paid to Induce official corruption Is pntd to
obtain wrongful opportunities to make more money. All
the dishonest bargains between business men and corpora
tions aro merely attempts to make money. People who
havo no need of more money keep on trying to make money,
because that Is their only Ideal of success. Those who have
more monoy than they can count or use in any way, try
to add to it because thoy are lured on by the Idea which has
been burned Into their minds that making money is suc
cess and nothing else is success. Corruption thrives on this
false Ideal, and will cease only when this false idol it
thrown down from the high pedestal oh which it stands
before the minds of the American people. Boston Watchman.
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BRITISH SPEAKER'S POSITION.
A rraonan of Illub OSlclal Plgalty
and Boclal Consideration.
It is doubtless because tho position
of Speaker Is so onerous that the re
wards attached to It are Kft'iit. llo U
originally a member of parliament, like
the rest, and Is selected by the lender
of the house, who Is not ni'ccsinrlly
the prlmo minister, from umaiiK his
own followers for his personal chnrac
ter and dignity and his knowledco of
parliamentary procedure. Ho Is usual,
ly elected unanimously by vote of tho
liouso, and from that moment he
ceases to ho a party man, and his con.
tltuency Is divided in its feellnKS be
tween the honor of returning ttiti
Speaker and the disadvantage of being,
for all practical purposes, uuropreseut
ed In parliament.
The Bpeakor of tho House of Com
mons Is a personage enjoying the
greatest official dignity and social con
slderatlon, He is the first commoner
In the realm; his Invitations to dinner
are almost equivalent to a royal com
mand; court dress Is worn by monition
who dlno with him otllclally. In the
houso he Is treated with oxtremo defer
ence, and ho receives a salary of o,000
and the use of a magnificent house,
which forms part of the palace of
Westminster. He retains office though
tho politics of the ministry may change,
through successive administrations un
til his health falls or he deems him
self to hare earned retirement Then
the sovereign bestows a peerage upon
him, and the country a munlflceut pen.
iqn.
The nouse of Commons has been
singularly fortunato tn securing for
(Speakers men of great dignity, unfail
tug Judgment, and unquestioned impar
tiality, and never moro so than at pres
ent In the person of the Hlght Hon.
Wlllam Court Gully, member for
Leamington, a Llbornl before ho was
raised nbow all party ties. It is a
splendid position, and though Its In
tellectual demands nro unceatdng aud
Ibt morely physical domnnds exhaust
ing, It Is splendidly rewarded,
Tho position is as exhausting as it is
distinguished. During a largo part of
the session tho Speaker must be in
the chair from 3 p. m. till after mid
night, except during the dinner hour,
from half-past seven to utno; and even
when the houso is in committee, and
the chalnnan of committer hi presid
ing, he must be In official dreta hU
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European and American military experts who have witnessed artillery
maneuvers In the Japaneso army have been loud In their praises ot the rapid
ity and precision with which the little brown gunners handle themselves. In
modern warfare the tendency la to fight at longer range than formerly, so that
the artillery Is constantly becoming a more Important ana of the service.
One difficulty with securing good gunners among the Japs, la said to be tho
poor eyesight that la a national characteristic. This obstacle has been over
come In a measure by choosing for artillerymen only those with the keenest
vision. Tho Japanese floldptece Is the Arlsaka twelve pounder, invented by
General Arlsaka, the master of ordnance.
with tho lobby behind his chair, ready
to appear at a moment's notice If sum
moned. Ho must, of course, know ev
ery member by sight and be able to re
call his name Instantly. It la astound
ing somotimes when from a back
bench there rises some member who la
utterly unknown by sight to his fellow
membors, who seldom attends and
hardly ever speaks, and has .nothing
whatever distinctive in his manner or
appearance, to hear the Speaker say
"Mr. niank," as readily as if he were
accustomed to address htm every day,
Century.
TIN FOUND IN ALASKA.
Ore Hollered to KsUt Tbsra In Pa-fitis
Quautttle.
The tin finds In tho United States
that have beeu periodically auuouuced
for so many years have tended to
mako men skeptical us to tho proba
bility ot tho oxlstenco of this valuable
metal in this country In large quanti
ties. Howover, contrary to past re
ports in this connection, tho value of
the tin-bearing dike recently discover
ed in Alaska seems to Increase with
time, says Mine and Minerals, It
baa been reported that or to the
amount of fifteen ton from the Alas
ka Tin Mining Company wag brought
to SeattU. ,Wh-, meat!.. Tk re
was taken out by sluice boxes and re
sembles ordinary gray sand (stream
tin) and samples taken from the cargo
assayed 08 per cent tin at a govern
ment assay office. This ore bad all
been worked by hand, but having dem
onstrated that the ore was In sufficient
quantity and rich enough to pay to
work it tho company plana to put In a
pumping plant and machinery that
will handle 600, ton of dirt a day,
The season, however, la limited to 100
working days.
A later report In regard to this Alas
ka ore has its source In an assay of
fice in Providence, B. I., which an
nounces that It la a very high grade or
almost pure casslterite, and needs no
concentration whatever; further, that
twenty claims havo been taken up by
different parties, two of whom have
sent to their office ore which averaged
nearly DO por cent tin. In view of the
fact that hitherto no tin has been prof
itably mined in the United States and
that for the year 1800 and 1903 tin
imported was worth about 27 centa a
pound at New York city on a cos
sumptlau of over 80,000,000 pounds,
the Importance) of this discovery la ap
parent. Women aakkm relhjton aa
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