SOME SOUTHERN SENTIMENT

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 2.

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SOME SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.

WHILE it sometimes appears that the anti-negro sentiment is growing stronger in the South, there are some prominent Southern men who advocate the amelioration of the colored man's condition. The following expression is from Ex-governor Worthen, of Georgia, who is also a prominent Southern Baptist, and it is published approvingly in some Southern journals:—
Negroes have souls to be saved, minds to be developed, and their own spheres of usefulness to be filled. Christian white people should do everything in their power, under the grace of God, to help the black man meet and discharge the conditions that are upon him. He needs material support. Help him to employment as cheerfully as you do any one else. Teach him the best means of support, and we need not be humiliated if we are found engaged in the same employment, and working at the same place. Help him to the fullest education of which he is capable. Build schools, colleges, and universities for him, and prepare him for the highest conditions of usefulness. Preach the Gospel to him in Christian sympathy, tenderness, and love. Help him to build churches, and co-operate with him in every proper effort to advance the kingdom among his own people and throughout the world. It should be our special delight to see him grow in grace and in the knowledge of God, as well as in the knowledge of men and the utilization of things.
Bishop W. A. Chandler, of the M. E. Church South, is reported to have said quite recently:—
The Gospel, enlightenment, and brotherly kindness in the direction of teaching the negroes self-helpfulness, are the main things the white people should give the negroes, and these things they are giving to “the brother in black.”
The Watchman, of Nashville, Tenn., is sponsor for this statement:—
President A. P. Montague, of Furman University, thinks that the Christian white men should “evince profound and abiding interest” in the spiritual life of the colored people, and that they should do this “by conferences with their preachers,” by “visiting their religious services,” and by encouraging them to send their young men, called to preach, to worthy institutions of learning.
And the Watchman itself vouches for the South in the following very positive manner:—
All these letters confirm the statement made in our issue of October 30, namely, “Do anything you wish for the negro, educate him, teach him trades, make him sober, industrious, cultivated, and the South will bid you God speed.”