12 C O U R I E R N SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1961

Episcopalians Say No Jim Dixie ,

Plan to Snub Texas Segregation Laws at Houston Convention

HOUSTON, T«c—Bishop Clinton S. Quln of the Diocese of Texas of the Episcopal Church of America has erected the "no-segregation" sign for the coming world-wide Gen-eral Episcopal Convention in Houston, Tex., in 1955.

Appearing before the 104th Annual Council of the Diocese

Clara Ward Establishes Music House PHILADELPHIA — C l a r a

Ward of the Ward Gospel Sing­ers' fame announced In Phila­delphia this week the estab­lishment of "Ward's House Music" to publish religious mu­sic of alt faiths.

General manager of the new publishing house will be her mother, Mrs. Gertrude Ward, who currenUy manages the famed Ward Gospel Singers.

The initial publication of "Ward's House of Music" will be a fifty-page book contain­ing compositions of various re­ligious composers. The second release will be a series of sin­gle compositions by Clara Ward. Among these composi­tions will such renowned se*

~ lections as "How I Got Over," God Moves in a Mysterious

Way" and "In That Great Judg­ment Morning,''

Winner of nearly every vot­ers' poll last year to gain the nation's number one gospel singing honors, Clara Ward stated that the new publishing company will handle the works of both known and unknown composers regardless of faith o- creed so long as the com­positions o f the various artists represent quality.

of Texas, Bishop Qulnn appeal­ed to the conscience of those present to bar segregation at this meeting, because that wns n o ^ the policy of the church. The scene of the last general

meeting wax in Boston in 19.">2. • * •

PABAPHRA8ING FBOM n let ter of the Most Rev. Henry Knox Sherrlll, presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Quln made it clear that unless the dio­cese of Texas informed national church authorities that they could not meet the conditions of the' convention, plans would go for-j ward to hold the international; meeting in Houston in 1955.

It is known that American Ne­groes will attend the convention as well as representatives from Liberia, Japan, Cuba and South American countries.

Authorities of the Texas dio­cese are confident that they can hold an unsegregated conven­tion.

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BUT THEY are aware of the fact that there are certain state laws and municipal ordinances which separate the races and will have to be contravened, or re fcarded "passively" during the convention.

"The Bishop statetd that "I am a Christian. I don't believe that there should be any discrimina­tion because of race or creed In the Christian family."

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Who Is the Next Baptist kind? 1

The Scramble Is on for Post Vacated by Dr. D. V. Jemison

By B. 11. LOGAN (Courier HHifioua Editor)

president* who have proven of Howard University, Dr. John- He Is another outstanding themselves to be outstanding son was one of the nation* oat- leader who would be fine tun*

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — When executives and equal to the op- standing pastors and of the ber for consideration. Dr. C. C. Dr David V. Jeralson, decided PortunlOes which have been pre. leading church In the State of Scott, president of the Goodwill to retire as president of tha Na, •*$* * «">»• *n the group of West Virginia. His wait at Convention of Virginia is a tlonal Baptist Convention, U. S. f0"*** P»««Wents we take wide Howard has been ouUtandlng powerful leader and successful

In mentioning first Dr. Robert from the very outset pastor. He has made good P. Daniels, president of Virginia The first convention press- wherever he baa paetored and State College, Petersburg, Va*. dens who Is fins presidential wherever he has served the de-Dr. Daniels Is an outstanding timber Is Dr. J. Raymond Hen-president, a strong peacher and derson, president of the West-a worthy denominational lead* era State Convention of Call­er. Our next president, Is Dr. fornla. Dr. Henderson Is also a Benjamin E. Mays, president of successful pastor, and an out* Morehouse CoUege, Atlanta, standing denominational leader, who to also nastor of^'oTtiTe Ga,, Dr. Mays is likewise a toad. Hs Is In every way qualified to SatesT ^ S t chwcSs to I er of International fame, he Is mate the convention a worthy strong leaner.

A., Inc., he created an all-out scramble for ambitious aspir­ant* to the presidency of the largest religious empire con­trolled by Negroes In this coun­try.

The great question Is now, who will it be?

The National Baptist Conven­tion is fortunate to have a fine group of able pastors, college presidents and successful busi­nessmen who would make fine

nomination. * • •

DB. W. H. BORDERS, presl* dent of the Georgia Missionary and Educational Contention,

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presidents. Most every one Is thinking and holds the same promlence

about the presidency going to m the National Council of some worthy pastor or minister- churches of Christ, U. S. A. lal leader. But we must remem­ber that there are a multitude of laymen qualified for the posi­tion, more than there are among ministers. Of course, most every one will be expecting a worthy minister of one of the nation's largest churches to receive the honor and rightly so.

a member of the Central Com- iwvwmau*. ~ _ ._v mtttee o f t h . World Couiidl of • • • J £ - * 3 H •» " J S S J t f Churches, and i . a recognized DK. J. C. AUSTIN, president £™?r ' ^ ^ J " * »"£"; , D

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IBerrW AME In Plttfburgh

Church Or In 1827, Set For Anniversary

PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Bethel AME Church, oldest AME church west of the Allezhenies, is conducting a week-long program in commemoration of its 126 years of fruitful serv-K

successful pastor. Dr. Austin's entire personality Is

Our next president to Dr. J. n«lal and denominational loyal-M. Ellison, president of Virginia **• 5® to j t o a y a » s*ood man to Union University, Richmond, consider for a big job.

AS WE LOOK over the field and think about suitable timber for the consideration, we deem It altogether feasible to pass It on to our readers.

Va. Dr. Ellison to a successful president and was equally suc­cessful as teacher and pastor. He Is also an Inspiring writer. He once edited a Bible and his sermons have appeared in the best fifty sermons of the year. He la also a good finan­cier.

Dr. J. L. Horace, president of the Illinois General State Con­vention to also a fine leader and worthy of consideration. He to a loyal disciple of the old school.

Dr. E. S. Smith, president of the Virginia Baptist State Con* tion to a strong, leader and a outstanding pastor. Dr. Smith

the convention. Dr. L. A. Pinks-ton, president of the General Missionary Convention of Geor­gia, to a dynamic leader and sucseasful pastor. He may be considered a dark horse for the presidency.

In next week's edition we shall give the names of a few more convention presidents and pastors who may be considered for the post to be vacated by Dr. Jemison.

The president mentioned, Dr.

NEXT PRESIDENT to Dr. We shall name a few college Mordccal W. Johnson, president

has nude good In his own back Daniels to also vice president yard, so to speak. He to a power- at large of the National Council ful preacher and a dynamic of the Churches of Christ In leader. the United States of America,

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AME Bishop Nichols Maps Appeal From Connecticut Verdict

NEW YORK—Expressing: himself as head of the First Episcopal District of the AME Church, Bishop D. Ward Nichols declared that the decision recently handed down by the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut against the right of tne Bishop to make pastoral assignments will be fought to the end.

The Supreme Court of Errors Idecided that the Bridgeport

C h e w i n g - G u m L a x a t i v e [church, which according to Bish­op Dt Ward Nichols had been a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church since 1850, could refuse to accept the Bish­op's appointee. The church'has always accepted its responsibility as an affiliate of the general Church and has in the past ac-cepted pastors assigned to them by the Bishop.

The recent trouble began when Bishop D. Ward Nichols assigned the Rev. Julius Jenkins to the pastorate of the church in June 1951. The trustees brought about

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an Injunction against the African Methodist Episcopal Church to keep it from moving the Rav. J. G. Drake as pastor.

Although the Rev. Mr. Drake came to the church through an assignment by Bishop Nichols.

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THIS IS NOT the first time a Connecticut court has ruled against the Church," said the Bishop, "ior back in 1939 in a similar case at Hartford, Conn., when the Bishop of the district attempted to move the Rav. D. D. Davis from Bethel AME the same thing happened.

Tills is the only state where the courts have ruled against the authority of a church with an Episcopal form of govern* ment in making pastoral assign* ments. "The recent decision like the

former is contrary to those handed down by most states In cases of similar nature. If per

mltted to go unchallenged it will affect the authority of the epis­copacy of all denominations us­ing the Episcopal form of church government.

"Many members of the con­gregation/' said the Bishop, "have appealed to me to fight the case in order to keep the church in the AME Zion connection."

Until the decision is decided m favor of the AME Church a place of worship will be provided lot the loyal members of the con­gregation.

The present membership of the church is only seventy-nine. The appeal in this case will be close­ly watched due to the vast effect it will have on all other similar denominations that use the Epis­copal lorm of government

ce in this city. High church and civic leaders

of the metropolitan area will par­ticipate in this year's celebration. The f oUowing are listed to appear oh program: the Revs. J. M. Wil­liam!, Park Place AME; Harold R. Tolliver, Grace Presbyterian; Jamea B. Cayee, Ebenozer Bap-tilt; D. W. Bass, Carter Chapel CME; J. W. Henderson, Calvary AME; Arthur Marshall Jr., Johln Wesley AMEZ, and Samuel I*. Spear, Metropolitan Baptist.

Amohg the highlights of the celebration will be the sermon by Bishop A. J. Allen of the Third Episcopal District, Sunday, Feb. 8, at 11 A. M.

The banquet c.i Monday, Feb. 9, will also be a highlight. Princi­pal speaker will be the Honorable Judge John Drew of Common Pleas Court Atty. Wilbur Doug­lass will introduce the speaker.

Presiding Elders B. M. Mo* Linn, J. W. Storms and C N. Thompson will also speak at the banquet. According to the Rev. A. A. Hughey, pastor of the church, the largest crowd is expected in the history of these celebrations. Bethel African Methodist Epls-

a school. This was the first ef­fort to educate Negro children. Three years later, in 1835, the church was moved to Wylie and Sixth Avenue.

Fire destroyed Bethel Church in 1845, and in 1850 the congre­gation purchased a lot at the cor ner of Wyllt Avenue and Elm Street and built and dedicated a new church and Installed the first organ in any Negro church in Pittsburgh. The church was re­modeled in 1866.

In 1904, the Rev. Mr. Townsend designed and built the present edifice,at a cost of $75,000. The building today is worth $300,000. In 1921. Dr. J. C. Anderson re­duced the mortgage from $35,000 to $12,000. In 1945, the Rev. John D. Bright launched a financial campaign which resulted in burn­ing the mortgage and paying all other debts and purchased a par­sonage. Since 1948, the affairs of Bethel have been in the hands of the Rev. A. A. Hughey, who was appointed by Bishop A. J. Allen. Many improvements have been made under the watchful guid­ance of the Rev. Mr. Hughey.

Improvements include redeco­rating the auditorium, remodeling

copal Church was organized on j the kitchen and the replacing of the site of the old Monongahelaldoors and other things aggregat-House on Water Street in 1827. The African Educational Society was organized in 1832 and opened

ing more than $15,000. Bethel has stood on its present site for the past 103 years.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The board of education of the Central Alabama Conference of the Methodist Church held its annual meeting Tuesday at St. Paul Methodist Church and outlined a broad program of youth edu­cation and Christian action.

Plans were developed lor em* phasizlng youth work during the quadrennial; widening the Chris* tian i jogram leading into an un-derstanding of the way of Christ; and, finding Christian answers to the many problems facing a Christian in today's world.

Four district youth assemblies and one conference youth assemb­ly for 1953 were approved. Lead­ership training school for work­ers in the field of ChrisUan Edu* cation is tentatively set for March 13.

tilted la attendance were the Re*/. 1. C. Wilson, board president and supsrln* undent of the Birmingham District; the Rev. J. B. F. Williams, supervisor of ths* Tuekeiee District; the Rev O. M. Holmao, superintendent or the Montgomery District; the Rev. X. L. Leach, superintendent of ths Hu.iUvjUe District: Dr. J. P. Brs.w-ley, president of Clark College, Atlanta; Dr. It. V, Richardson, President. Osm-

'mon Theological Seminary, Atlanta; Dr. R. J. Marcus, Mre. Grace Cll*t of Hunt«. vi'te. supervisor of youth work; Mrs. Ran-••n Durr, supervisor of youth work, Mrs. W. L, Turner, children's worker; ths Rev. O. W. CHbson, conference director ol youth work and the Rev. J. Hehois Low* ery, eseeutlve "secretary of ths board and paster of fashionable Warren Methodist Church, Mobile.

Jemison Quits, Stirs Ambitions priTSBURGH, Pa.—When Dr. David V. Jemison de­

cided to retire as president of the great National Baptist Convention, he stirred the ambitions of those who would like to be considered for the position.

From now until September, when the annual session is held in Miami, Fla., we hope to keep the people informed on just what is being said and done.

We hope to have an expres­sion from some of the leading ministers of the nation on the type of person that should be elected and just whit his quali­fications should be.

Dr. Jemison did a fine job as president of the convention notwithstanding the fact that he lost his eyesight during his first five or six years in office. His program of expansion in­cludes the purchase of the Na­tional Baptist Bath House located at Hot Springs, Ark. He was an inspiration to every board of the convention.

Persons who desire the presi­dency should be frank enough to let the voting constituents know their aspirations. Xf any person feels himself qualified to fill the position satisfactor­ily he should submit his case to the people all over the coun­try in order that they might have a chance to scrutinize his record and to give some study to his background and prepara­tion for such a big position of leadership.

May God guide both the se­lection and election of a presl* dent of the National Baptist Convention, U. S. A., Inc.

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CINCINNATI, Ohla —Some 1,800 leaders In the field of re­ligious education will .gather here the week of Feb. 8, to study methods of integrating the work of the church with community life, family serv­ices, and programs for chil­dren.

The first session of the

roup will open Saturday, Feb. with a three-day session of

program planning committees, and continues through Feb. 14, when the Executive Board of the Division convenes.

Both National Baptist Con­ventions will be represented, the AME and AME Zion and CME Churches will also be represented.

Bishop William C. Martin of Dallas, Tex., newly elected president of the National Coun­cil of Churches, is scheduled to speak at the installation serv­ice which will be presided over by the Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert, general secretary of the council. The Division of Christian Education which suc­ceeded the International Coun­cil of Religious Education when the National Council of Church­es was constituted in 1950, has

for the last four years met in Columbus, Ohio.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Board of Directors of the Na­tional Baptist Sunday School and BTU Congress will meet in Cincinnati during the ses­sions of the Division of the Na­tional Council of the Churches of Christ. Dr. Jernagin and Dean A. Franklin Fisher will present plans far the annual session of the congress which will meet in Brooklyn, N. Y., hi June.

• e e LOS ANGELES, Calif—We

recently read an article by Dr. J. Raymond Henderson on what he thought should be the qualifications of the person to fill the office of executive secretary of the National Bap­tist Convention, USA, Inc.

We admire Dr. Henderson for h i s * courage to strike straight from the shoulder on matters pertaining to the lead­ership of the convention.

We also congratulate him for stating that he would like to be elected president of the con­vention four years from now since a four-year tenure will be followed when a new adminis­tration is inaugurated. Dr. Henderson is an able leader, is pastor of one of the nation's leading churches and is presi­dent of the Western Slate Convention.

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NEW ORLEANS, La.—With conflicts in several districts, the annual session of the AME Bishops here three weeks from now will be a busy one. With a few disgruntles fighting Bishop Gomez in Texas, and with a minister filing a suit against Bishop Hemingway in Washington, D. C , and with a decision against the church in Connecticut wil* give the Bish­ops a busy agenda.

We pray that God may give them strength to carry on in a most effective way. Entirely too many cases are taken to court these days against the church. Christians should set­tle their differences out of the civil courts. This thing of tak­ing church squabbles to the civil courts should be stopped.

It is a waste of money and besides gives the judges of these courts an opportunity to

Bishop Hatcher Is Sailing Soon

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Bishop E. C. Hatcher will sa from New Orleans on Feb. 20 for Liberia where he will be­come presiding Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Conference, covering churches in Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast.

Accompanying Bishop Hatcher will be his charming and compe­tent wife, Oretha. and the Rev. and Mrs. John F. Little, of Wash­ington, Pa.

The Littles will serve as mis­sionaries for the next four years under the program of the Afri­can Methodist Episcopal Church.

The party will sail on the liner, Del Oro.

A bon voyage party is being

find out just how inconsiderate church folk can be. If we fight less and pray more we would be better off. We must leam to endure hardness like a bold soldier. Christians just must learn to take some things.

All church fights are not the fault of the laity or the little pastor. Some of the "big shot" leaders are the real "hell" raisers in the church.

Some pastors won't do any­thing and there are others who try to do everything. These lit­tle things continue to multiply until the first thing you know a court scrape is in the mak­ing. Preachers in particular should stay out of the courts, but instead should go to your secret closet and remain their until you receive the satisfac­tion of knowing you have fair­ly presented your case to the Supreme Court of the Uni­verse..

Again, may I admonish, keep the church business out of the civil courts.

planned for the Bishop and his party before the sailing date, ui der the direction of Dr. L L Berry, secretary of missions, a-Mrs. Anne E. Heath, preside: of the Women's Missionary So-cieiy.

Bishop and Mrs. Carey A Gibbs, Dr. G. N. Collins, pastor «»i Union Bethel, together with thr ministers and missionary work­ers in the New Orleans area, will sponsor the bon voyage party.

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