Congress Addresses. Messages of the Men and Religion Movement FWK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON

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1 Messages of the Men and Religion Movement Complete in Seven Volumesi including the Revised Reports of the Commissions presented at the Congress of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, April, 1912, together with the Principal Addresses Delivered at the Congress VOLUME I Congress Addresses FWK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON

2 THE CHURCH IN RELATION TO THE NEGRO PROBLEM BOOKER T. WASHIHGTON, LL. D. President Tuskegee Institute What can the church do to conserve and strengthen the ten millions of black citizens m this country? In a very large section of the nation we constitute one-third of the population. In the nation as a whole we constitute one-ninth. We shall either constitute one-third in a large section of the.country of the country's poverty and scholarship, or shall we constitute one-third of its wealth and prosperity. We shall constitute either one-third of its ignorance or its intelligence, of its crime and superstition, or of its law-abiding citizenship. Which, my Christian friends, shall it be? No nation or state can prosper with one-third of its population remaining in ignorance. What can the church do, then, to save and keep saved ten millions of black Americans, eighty-two per cent of whom live in the country districts and small villages? In the rural districts, the negro, all things considered, is at his best in body, mind and soul. In the city he is usually at his worst. Plainly one of the duties of the church is to help keep the negro where he has the best chance. In a marked degree the negro is a social being. The negro can more largely than is true of any i43

3 144 CONGRESS ADDRESSES other race, use the church as the rallying point for his social life. Whether it is a meeting relating to farming, business, education, politics, or a secret society, the negro church house is used. Negro population follows the church building. Few things delight the soul of the negro so much as to erect a church building, even though it be so crude and small as to be almost ridiculous in its appearance. Even though individuals may own no home,, and are without proper food, clothes or shelter, they will part with their last nickel to assist in building a church. This is all commendable. Christian civilization does not have to force the church upon the negro. Here, then, is the opportunity for us to use this great Forward Movement to improve the church life of the country negro and thus help to keep him on the land where he has a chance to grow a strong, healthy body, and be away from the temptations and complexities of large city life. How can this be done? Make church life for the negro in the rural districts as attractive as it is in the city. The negro problem is to a very considerable extent the problem of rural life everywhere. So long as the negro finds a poor, uncomfortable, unattractive church house in the country, and a good church house in the city, or finds a weak, ignorant minister in the country and a strong, intelligent minister in the city, or finds in the country house services held once a month and in the city church services held twice

4 THE CHURCH AND THE NEGRO PROBLEM 145 each Sunday, so long will the negro be tempted to leave the country and migrate to the city. So long, too, as the negro in the rural districts is fed upon the old, worn-out theological dogmas, instead of getting from the pulpit inspiration and direction in practical work of community building, connecting religion with every practical and progressive movement for the improvement of the home and community life, so long will he forsake the land and flee to the city. If we would save the negro, eighty-two per cent of whom, as I have said, live in the country, he must be taught that when the Bible says: ^The earth is full of thy riches," it means that the earth is full of corn, potatoes, peas, cotton, chickens and cows, that these riches should be gotten out of the earth by the hand of man and turned into beautiful church buildings and righteous, useful living. In dealing with the millions of negroes, let us in America learn a lesson from what has taken place in England, where agriculture and the farm have been neglected by the church and state, with the result that the cities of England are filled with millions of unfortunate misfits who are in the gutters instead of being on the soil and out in the free, bracing air where God meant that man should live. When I was in London recently I found that the churches and other philanthropic agencies of that vicinity alone were spending $50,000,000 annually not to keep people on

5 146 CONGRESS ADDRESSES their feet and help them make greater progress in positive, constructive directions, but to save the drunkard, the gambler, the loafer, the pauper and the destitute after they had fallen into the ditch. Happily, the negroes of America have not as yet fallen into the ditch; and I pray that, as a result of this great Forward Movement, a way may be provided, through the negro church and Sunday-school, that the negro, while he is yet part of a new, fresh and vigorous race, may, as the old plantation hymn puts it be kept from "sinking down." From a money point of view it is much cheaper to keep men from falling than to lift them after they are down., No class of people should be more interested in this Forward Movement, so far as it concerns the negro, than the capitalists, the captains of industry, those who directly, or indirectly, employ negro labor. Nothing pays so well in producing efficient labor as Christianity. Religion increases the wants of the laborer. The man without religion, is too often satisfied when he has worked long enough to provide himself with a little coarse food, a chew of tobacco and a bottle of whiskey. The negro workman with the spirit of Christ in his head and heart wants land, wants a good house, wants another house, wants decent furniture, wants a newspaper or magazine. He wants to provide himself with the means with which to maintain his church and Sunday-school, and his family with a Bible and hymn book. Some negro laborers have already

6 THE CHURCH AND THE NEGRO PROBLEM 147 reached the point where they want a prayer book! Through the medium of religion let us continue to multiply the wants of the negro, and they will render six days of honest labor in order to supply these increased wants, and thus become one of the most efficient class of laborers that the world has seen. Another thing which I hope this movement will do for the white man in the South and in the North is to convince him of and convert him to the duty he owes to the millions of negroes in the South, to provide them with education. There are about one million black children who entered no school-room this year, and another million who have been in school for only three or four months in the year. Putting the ignorant negro under arrest will not give him Christianity. Putting him in the jail or penitentiary will not give him Christianty. So far as the negro is concerned, there is supreme need for this Forward Movement. Do you realize that within this civilized land, during the year 1911, there were murdered in the United States alone 8,272 persons, including both races. In contrast to this there were only seventy-four legal executions as against seventy-one lynchings. This included both races. We do not know just how many negroes were included in this eight thousand who died by personal violence; it is very probable; however, that the number amounted to two thousand or more,

7 148 CONGRESS ADDRESSES which is several times larger than the number of persons killed by personal violence in the whole of Great Britain and Germany. Cursing the negro on the part of the white man will not work a reformation. Cursing the white man on the part of the negro will not do it. Nothing but the spirit of religion and education vitalized in every community. North and South, will do it, No mere negative and neglectful policy, which would push the negro outside as a thing not to be considered, will help the negro or white man, Here is a field for Christian endeavor. It is well that you have given the negro a part in this Forward Movement; for in the most vital things in American life, despite all the laws that can be passed, the life of the black citizen touches the life of the white citizen, and we rise or fall together. In a large section of our country, a large portion of the food consumed by the white man isi produced by the hand of the negro. A large part of the raw material used in clothing the nation is produced by black hands, When food is prepared and served, the life of the negro touches that of the white man. When clothes are laundered, the life of the negro touches that of the white man. When sickness and death come to the white man^s house, the life of the negro touches his. Crime draws no color line. Filth draws no color line. Contagious disease draw no color line. Another result of this movement, I hope, will be to cause every Christian to make an effort to

8 THE CHURCP AND THE NEGRO PROBLEM 149 \ know the negro better in his own town, in his own street. Unfortunately, in this country many of the best white Christians do not know about the best type of negroes by first-hand information. The white man in many sections knows more about the criminal negro than about the law-abiding negro. Without sacrifice of money or social prestige, you can get into helpful contact with the best negroes. To do this you will not have to cross the ocean; in many cases it will merely be to cross a street. I want the white man in every part of America to see more of the struggles and the progress that the negro is making in the direction of better homes. Young Men's Christian Associations, better Sunday-schools, better churches, better schools and colleges, as well as in commercial growth. In a large degree in the future the white man must try to judge the negro by his best types, not by his worst. In all these things the church furnishes a potent and practical agency through which the two races can know each other better and cooperate with each other more sympathetically. Mine is not a selfish plea to the church. I want to see the negro saved for his own sake, and I want to see the negro saved in order that the white race which surrounds him may be saved. All history teaches that wherever the white race has been surrounded by a weaker race and a neglected race of any color, there the white man has yielded to the temptation to dc-

9 150 CONGRESS ADDRESSES grade and weaken himself because of injustice perpetrated upon the weak race. It is a glorious thing to be permitted to live in this century. Changes are taking place in human civilization such as were never witnessed before. I count it a rare privilege to belong to a race whose ancestors were brought here only a few years ago as savages. You of the white race should count it a glorious thing to have had a part in transforming twenty slaves into ten millions of aspiring, hopeful American citizens. We are yet a new race. Our best is before us. Already we speak the tongue that you speak, wear the same clothes, eat the same food, profess the same religion, and love the Stars and Stripes as dearly as you do; and in traveling still further toward a more perfect religious life, gladly will be helped and guided by you. A few days ago on the banks of the Mississippi there was a great flood. It swept through that section threatening to devastate millionsj of acres of land. The white man were throwing in sacks of sand by the thousand in order to stay the rising flood. At one point their last bag of sand had been used and the water was still rising. There were four hundred black men, and when the suggestion was made that these black men lay down and with their backs keep back the inflowing water, almost without exception they lay there, and thus, for the time being, prevented the flooding of that great district. As by our backs

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