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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Independent Church of God of the Juda tribe of Israel: the - Black Jews - As a fade from black to pure white - -Author: Allan Wilson Cook - -Contributor: Robert Watson Winston - -Release Date: August 11, 2022 [eBook #68729] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Mary Glenn Krause, Thomas Frost and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The - Internet Archive). - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INDEPENDENT CHURCH OF GOD -OF THE JUDA TRIBE OF ISRAEL: THE BLACK JEWS *** - - - - - - The Independent - Church of God - - of the - - Juda Tribe of Israel - - THE BLACK JEWS - - _As a fade - from black to pure white_ - - [Illustration] - - [Illustration] - - By BISHOP A. W. COOK - Is RABBI HALING HANK LENHT - - - - - Copyright 1925 - - by - - BISHOP A. W. COOK _is_ - RABBI HALING HANK LENHT - - - - -_The Black Jews_ - - - 1. One God, One Aim, One Destiny. He created all nations of men equal, - of one blood, to dwell on the face of earth, Mother Church. - - 2. The charter of the Independent Church of God, the Black Jews of the - Juda Tribe of Israel and the Constitution. - - 3. This book is the first that has ever been published in this country - or any other country, of this kind, for two thousand years. - - 4. It opens up Biblical History and turns the light on the whole - world. Its author is an inspired writer according to the Spirit of God. - - 5. And a sketch of his life from boyhood up. It is interesting from - beginning to end. - - - - -_Subjects_ - - - 1. Black Jews. - - 2. Black Moon. - - 3. Negro Is Yet A Slave. - - 4. “Should the Color Line Go?” by Robert Winston, born at Windsor, - North Carolina. Mr. Winston is a leading lawyer of his native state - and was graduated from the University of North Carolina and received - the degree of LL.D. from Wake Forest College. He was a judge of the - Supreme Court of North Carolina from 1889-1895, when he resigned. He - is a well-known orator and also an authority on Southern problems. The - destruction of the Children of Israel, the Black Jews, and their many - names as they fade from black to pure white. - - 5. Will the Black Man Go Back to Africa? - - 6. The Unjust Treatment to Garvey. - - 7. Down on the Farm. - - 8. Defending the Honorable and Graceful Movements of Dancing. - - 9. Proper Training. - - 10. Unveiling the Prince. - - 11. My First Sermon to the World. - -This book will be sold for one dollar to help finance the work of -uplifting fallen humanity. - -Kindly tell your neighbors to purchase a book. - -All orders will be promptly attended to. - - - Headquarters: 135 Valley Road, Montclair, New Jersey - Tabernacle - - LAFAYETTE HALL, Room 1-2, 165 W. 131st Street, New York City - -[Illustration: BISHOP A. W. COOK _is_ - -RABBI HALING HANK LENHT - -_Tabernacle_: Lafayette Hall, Room 1-2 - -165 West 131st Street, New York City - -Headquarters: 135 Valley Road Montclair, New Jersey] - - - - -Charter - - STATE OF NEW YORK - OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE - ALBANY, N. Y. - - -_It is hereby certified that the Certificate of Incorporation of “The -Independent Church of God of the Juda Tribe of Israel: The Black Jews,” -with acknowledgment thereto annexed, was filed and recorded in this -office on the fourth day of January, 1921._ - - _Witness my hand and the - seal of office of the Secretary - of State, at the City of - Albany, this 19th day of - March, 1921._ - - JOHN J. LYONS, - SECRETARY OF STATE. - - - - -CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE INDEPENDENT CHURCH OF GOD OF THE -JUDA TRIBE OF ISRAEL: THE BLACK JEWS - - -WHEREAS, we the undersigned, each being of full age, citizens of the -United States, a majority of us being residents of the State of New -York, have associated ourselves together for the purpose of founding -and continuing one or more free churches, therefore - -KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we, the undersigned, each being of -full age, and each being a citizen of the United States and a resident -of the State of New York, have mutually associated ourselves together -for the purpose of founding and continuing a church, do hereby certify -and declare that said church is hereby incorporated, and that: - -_First_: The name of said incorporated church is “The INDEPENDENT -CHURCH OF GOD OF THE JUDA TRIBE OF ISRAEL: THE BLACK JEWS.” - -_Second_: The principal place of worship of said incorporated church is -the City of New York, in the County of Westchester and the State of New -York. - -_Third_: The purpose for which said church is organized is: (1) to -build up moral character so that more honest men and women may be found -among us who can be trusted in any home or business; (2) to learn to -live loyal to our God, our Country, ourselves and our fellowmen; (3) -to do charitable work among all people; (4) to learn to refrain from -taking part in any unlawful meetings against our country, or allow such -to be held in our churches or halls; (5) to study and preach the truths -found in the Holy Bible and live accordingly; and (6) to create more -love and unity among us and between all races of men. - -_Fourth_: The trustees who shall manage said incorporated church, five -of whom are persons who are not ministers of the gospel or priests of -any denomination, are seven (7) in number, whose names and addresses -are as follows: Rev. Allan Wilson Cook, 55 North Broadway, Yonkers, N. -Y.; Rev. Alexander Cook, 82 Linden Street, Yonkers, N. Y.; Dr. David -Rudy, 44 Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y.; Tony Benjamin Atkins, 84 -Linden Street, Yonkers, N. Y.; Richard T. Porter, 87 North Broadway, -Yonkers, N. Y.; Nathan J. Johnson, 50 Wells Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y.; -Mrs. Rosa Wilson Cook, 55 North Broadway, Yonkers, N. Y. - -_Fifth_: All of the foregoing trustees are citizens of the United -States, of full age, and residents of the State of New York. - -_Sixth_: The term for which said incorporated church is to exist is -perpetual, from and after the date of its incorporation. - -_Seventh_: The said church is incorporated under Article 9, of the -Religious Corporation Law of this State, and its seats and pews shall -be forever free for the use and occupation, during public worship, -of all persons choosing to occupy the same, and no rent, charge or -exaction shall ever be made or demanded for such occupation or use. - -In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our -seals this 11th day of December 1920. - - ALLAN WILSON COOK (L. S.) - REV. ALEXANDER COOK (L. S.) - TONY BENJAMIN ATKINS (L. S.) - RICHARD T. PORTER (L. S.) - NATHAN J. JOHNSON (L. S.) - DAVID RUBY (L. S.) - ROSA WILSON COOK (L. S.) - MRS. A. W. COOK (L. S.) - - STATE OF NEW YORK, } - County of Westchester } ss. - -On this 11th day of December, 1920, before me personally appeared -Allan Wilson Cook, Tony Benjamin Atkins, Alexander Cook, Richard T. -Porter, Nathan J. Johnson, David Rudy and Rosa Wilson Cook, also -known as Mrs. A. W. Cook, each to me known and known to me to be the -individuals described in and who executed the foregoing certificate of -incorporation of The Independent Church of God of the Juda Tribe of -Israel: The Black Jews; with a principal place of worship at the City -of Yonkers, N. Y., and they each for himself and herself acknowledged -to me that they executed the same. - - STEPHEN A. BENNETT, - _Notary Public_, - Westchester County, N. Y. - -I hereby approve of the foregoing incorporation of The Independent -Church of God of the Juda Tribe of Israel: The Black Jews, both as to -its expressed objects, and as to its form. - -Dated, White Plains, N. Y., December 13, 1920. - - WILLIAM P. PLATT, - Justice of the Supreme Court of - New York - - STATE OF NEW YORK, } - _County of Westchester_ } ss. - -_I have compared the preceding with the original Certificate of -Incorporation filed and recommended in this office on the 13th day -of December 1920, and do HEREBY CERTIFY the same to be a correct -transcript therefrom and of the whole of such original._ - -_IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal -of the office of the County Clerk of the County of Westchester, this -25th day of August, 1921._ - - LOUIS N. ELLRODT, - County Clerk of Westchester County - - - - -CONSTITUTION - - _“One God; one aim; one Destiny”; - He created of one blood all nations of men to - dwell on the face of the earth_: - - -We, the Independent Church of God, the Black Jews of the Judean Tribe -of Israel, of the United States, and its Jurisdiction, do desire every -person, members of the Church after having repented of their sins and -being baptized and by burial into water, upon confession of faith in -Christ Jesus, and received the unleaven bread and water for Christ’s -body and blood, and their feet washed by the Elder as written in John -13; 1:23, having agreed to keep the ten commandments, and having been -breathed upon with a holy kiss also being taught how to pray as written -in Matt. 16; 9:13. We do try to perpetuate a union among the Black Jews -and maintain a correspondence with all other Churches of God throughout -the United States and the whole world. We, therefore, propose to -maintain and keep the commandments of God and sayings of Jesus Christ, -according to the doctrine of the bible. - - - - - ARTICLE 1 - - - SECTION I. - - The district and General Assembly shall be composed of Bishops, - Elders, Evangelists and Deacons, and all members of the church, - who can furnish a credential by authority from the church shall be - entitled to a seat and also the daughters of Jerusalem shall be - represented by their Sarahs, and Rachels of each tabernacle, and the - Sabbath Schools by their teachers and secretaries of the tabernacle. - - - SECTION II. - - The members when thus chosen, when convened, shall be known as the - general assembly of the Black Jews Church of God. The Bishop or - Bishops shall preside at this assembly. The bible is to be used to - settle all questions. All differences to be settled by Matt. 5:8; - 18:24. The Bishop and all other officers shall continue to hold - their office as long as they maintain sound doctrine and keep the - ten commandments which will in no way permit them to fulfill the - lusts of the flesh. They must walk after the spirit and not be a Lord - over God’s heritage, or infringe on any of the bible rights of the - Churches; but shall be merely considered as lights of advisory or - counsel, according to their position. All members of the assembly must - respect all bible truths. - - - SECTION III. - - The Elder of each tabernacle will see that a record be properly kept, - giving a full account of all members received into the Church, giving - date received and when baptized. In like manner of all sickness, - death and expenses of same. A full account of all money received and - how expended, always giving dates. Likewise must the daughters of - Jerusalem and the Sabbath Schools keep a record done by them. The - Elders will bring with them, or caused to be sent to each assembly - meeting, a record from the preceding assembly meeting, same to be - signed by the Elders, a teacher and district mother of the daughters - of Jerusalem. - - - SECTION IV. - - Every church in the United States and Africa shall be entitled to - three delegates from each tabernacle to represent the church and - should any tabernacle be unable to represent herself with delegates, - she shall state the reason why in her first communication. - - - SECTION V. - - Whenever a tabernacle is organized anywhere in the United States - it shall be subject to whatever rules the assembly shall adopt, an - Elder or Evangelist shall send a copy of the names of the members and - officers to the secretary of the Independent Church of God the Black - Jews of the United States, and the secretary shall inform the Bishop - or Bishops of the same. - - - SECTION VI. - - Each tabernacle shall have one Elder and one Deacon, and the Elders - shall appoint his own assistant. There shall be three trustees to each - tabernacle, their duty shall be to look for a suitable place in which - to hold meetings, and to see after the money and property in general, - count the money at least every month and let the balances appear on - record. - - - SECTION VII. - - The district assembly shall endeavor to furnish a copy of the minutes - of all proceedings from every assembly meeting as soon as they are - printed. - - - SECTION VIII. - - When a question is brought before the assembly by any tabernacle, it - must be in writing and put in an envelope thus addressed “The Church - Communication,” and when it has been considered and settled upon the - word of God satisfactorily, it must so appear in the minutes. - - - SECTION IX. - - No Elder shall be allowed to interfere with any tabernacle, but the - one of which he is pastor. If he should interfere, the Bishop shall - silence him for three months except an acknowledgment be made with the - agreement not to be guilty of the act any more. - - - SECTION X. - - There shall no officer be removed from his station except a lawful - reason be given and the cause stated in writing. Any tabernacle - desiring to make a change in her pastor must write to the assembly. In - case the assembly is not in session, the church must write to one of - the Bishops. - - - SECTION XI. - - Every member of each tabernacle shall bring his tithes if possible - on the first day of the week at the close of the Sabbath, as it is - written in, 1 Cor. 16; 1:2. Shall a man rob God? Mal. 3; 8:10:11, - and all the tithes Lev. 27; 20:32, Jesus said, “If ye are Abraham’s - children you will do the works of Abraham.” St. John 8:39. Don’t - forget God’s tithes if you want to prosper in this life and in the - life to come. For we must support the Gospel from the store house. - Mal. 3; 10, and if you love God you will also love his cause, and in - this way you will help God’s ministers to preach the gospel to every - creature throughout the world. - - - _Instructions to Ministers_ - - All ministers shall follow these instructions when receiving members - into the Church of God; the members about to be received must first - make a confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, then be baptized - by burial into water, then receive the unleaven bread and water for - Christ’s body and blood, then have their feet washed by the minister, - taught how to pray, then breathed upon the forehead, then saluted into - the church with a holy kiss first by the Elders and afterwards by the - whole church. - - - SECTION XII. - - We believe that every one that has confessed Jesus Christ by - regeneration of heart, who desires to eat of the Lord’s body and drink - of his blood, has a right to eat at the Lord’s table. 1 Cor. 11:28, - Mark 14:14. - - - SECTION XIII. - - We believe that it is a sin for the righteous to help the ungodly, to - do anything in the name of the Synagogue of Satan. Job 8:20, Acts 17; - 23:26. - - - SECTION XIV. - - We believe in the resurrection of the dead, and that none go to heaven - or to burning hell until after the resurrection and general judgment. - Job 13; 14:17, Psalms 115; 17. - - - SECTION XV. - - The Bishops and Evangelists and the Presbytery when assembled have the - only rights to ordain an Elder. - - - - - ARTICLE II. - - - SECTION I. - - The board shall be called the Presbytery Board of the Independent - Church of God the Black Jews, and it shall be the duty of the board - during the assembly meeting to recommend all ministers that have been - ordained since the last assembly meeting, and to adjust all errors and - to empower to discommunicate. - - - SECTION II. - - We also demand by the word of God, that every member of each - tabernacle, both great and small, to bring all the tithes into the - storehouse, or “Will a man rob God?” Mal. 13; 8:10. - - - SECTION III. - - There shall be for all the subordinate tabernacles a Sabbath School, - and a Sabbath School Fund, and there shall be one teacher, one - secretary and one bag carrier of each tabernacle. - - - SECTION IV. - - No minister or member shall have power to dictate to an Elder in - charge of a tabernacle or to instruct members, except when called upon - or by permission of the Elder. When anyone has become a member of - the Independent Church of God the Black Jews of the Judean Tribe of - Israel, no one has a right to erase his or her name from the church - records, as God himself will attend to that, in due time if necessary. - - - SECTION V. - - We further recommend that the Bishop or Bishops have, in the absence - of the assembly, power to ordain Elders, or dismiss any that preach - not the doctrine of Christ Jesus our Lord. - - - SECTION VI. - - The Bishops shall have power to appoint Evangelists and send ministers - to their respective tabernacles. They also shall state the different - districts for the evangelists. The fourteenth day of April shall - be the Feast of the Passover. The ministers of God shall teach the - principal things that pertain to our salvation. - - - - -_The Independent Church of God_ - - -This organization is entrusted to me by the trustees. - -I am an ordained licensed minister, sent out from the Independent -Church of God and Saints of Christ headquarters, at 82 Livingston -Street, Newark, N. J. - -In 1910 I was sent to Montclair, N. J., to take charge of a tabernacle. -For two years, I was in charge there, and did good work for God. The -people received me, both white and black. In 1913 I was called in with -my members, and my little tabernacle was broken up. In 1914, I was sent -to Yonkers, N. Y., to do a work for God. I built a tabernacle there, -and prospered. The Lord blessed me and gave me friends. - -When America joined the World War, my little church was called in -again; I sent the members who were with me down to headquarters, the -Mother Church, but I refused to go. - -For some unknown reason, I had become very unpopular at headquarters, -so I stepped out on the word of God, and submitted myself to His spirit -in all things. - -Men and women’s hearts are full of jealousy, and my leader cut me loose -from her. For the space of three years, I sat alone in the world, -without a member who could help me, spiritually or carnally. - -The white people did not turn me down, they stuck by me. My finances -came directly from them. They really befriended me, and I cannot thank -the God of Heaven enough for them. When my people laughed at me and -rebuked me, the good white people were with me, and helped me to preach -righteousness to my people. Allow me, my friend, to speak a word for -the Mother Church, whose leader is Evangelist M. D. Morris, the title -she holds is, the Queen of Israel. She is the chief evangelist, set -up over all of the daughters who are in the Church of God and Saints -of Christ. She and her ministers are the founders of this church. She -is helping people who cannot help themselves. She is their spiritual -mother, and she loves them. She wants me there until after the great -destruction on the earth, but I have a work to do. I shall go and warn -the people of the coming destruction among all nations. - -When we as a people of God learn to know and control ourselves, and be -guided by the words of God and His righteous spirit, then true love -will come in and a true smile will cover your face, and sunshine will -come out of your heart. The meanest man will feel good when he sees you -and will respect you, and encourage you to keep it up. - - - - -_The Black Jews_ - - -This is the most important part of my subject, in fact, it is the -most important subject of the world. The representatives of this name -have been, and yet are driven, sold and killed, some put in ships and -carried to desert lands, put there to starve to death. Some are chained -together and carried from their country and made slaves to all the -nations of the world. They are not known by their own name, which is -the Black Jews. God speaking through Moses in Deut. 28:37. - -And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb and a by-word among -all nations whether the Lord shall lead thee. - -About 586 B. C., Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem and carried tens of -thousands of Jews to Babylon, and the Black Jews have been slaves ever -since as a race. But we must admit that the nations have suffered and -are cursed for trying to destroy and keep us down. - -The nations have not made much headway with civilization, they are now -going back where they started from, so let us all come to the agreement -that the God of Heaven and Earth, loves all of His children if they -will do His commandments, whether they be white or black, it makes no -difference with him. - -This is what Jesus said to both Jew and Gentile, white or black. St. -John 15:12. This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have -loved you. - -My subject, the Black Jews, mean all the dark and black people of -the world--four hundred million of them, but all of them don’t know -that they are the real Jews, but they are turning back to their God -of Israel, and we are going to take our white brothers’ children with -us, and the mothers and fathers if they want to go, but the children -must turn to the God of Israel and learn of his ways and keep his -commandments. - - - - -_Proof That We Are Jews_ - - -Now my friends, allow me to quote some scripture on the subject and -make some comparison. - -I will take first the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy and the -thirty-seventh verse. - -And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb and a by-word among -all of the nations of the earth, whether the Lord shall lead thee. - -My friends, history will prove to you that we blacks are called by many -names. All nations have a different name for us. In America they call -us negroes, colored people, darkies, niggers and shines, because our -skin is slick and greasy. In foreign countries, we are known by many -different proverb, that the people see fit to call us by. - -You yourself can think of many names by which we are known. Our true -name is the children of Israel, The Black Jews. - -After we were in bondage for seventy years, then Israel took the names -after the fourth son of Jacob, about 500 B. C., and built up Jerusalem -the second time. Read Nehemiah, The Prophet Book, and if you read the -28th chapter of Deuteronomy, you will see and know who the real Jew is. -We black people have fulfilled the chapter to the letter, it fits us -like the paper on the wall. There is no other nation in the world who -has fulfilled this book as we have. - -Again my friends, that you may see the children of Israel, the Black -Jews more clearly. - -Allow me to quote Paul’s writing in Romans, Romans 1:20 1-2-3-4-5-6. - -For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are -clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even his -eternal power and God head, so that they are without excuse. Because -that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were -thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish -heart was darkened. - -Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the -glory of the uncorruptible God into an image, made like to corruptible -man, and to birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping things. - -Wherefore God, also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of -their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves. - -Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the -creature more than the creator, who is blessed forever, Amen. - -For this cause God gave them up to vile affections, for even their -women changed the natural things into that which is against nature. - -Now my friends, that is why we as a race have suffered untold -punishment from these nations. God has turned them against us, and we -are cut off from our blessing from God for the time being. Now he is -calling us to serve him, that the nations of the world may be blessed. - -To prove to you that you have never studied this subject, that the -Black Jews, our fathers were in Jerusalem at one time, about 2000 years -ago, The Book of Luke, 21st chapter and the 24th and 25th verse. And -they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive -into all nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the gentiles, -until the time of the gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs -in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth -distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and waves roaring. - -We black people are the only ones who have been captives as a race. We -were led away in chains and brought to America and made slaves. The -white Jew has never been a slave as a race here. They came on their -own account. He has not been made slave of to any nation, but he has -financed all nations and has become their money king. - -But we Black Jews have nothing we can call our own, and 80 per cent -of us now are keeping books with the animals in the forest, and are -hunted as you would hunt any other animal. Our backs are to the wall, -and God will soon answer our cry, for we can not stand it much longer. -The enemies who are boasting over the downfall of his black brother was -warned by Apostle Paul in Romans. Romans 11:24:25:26:27:28. - -For if thou were to cut one of the olive trees, which is wild by -nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how -much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grappled into -their own olive tree. - -For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of the mystery, -lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is -happened to Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles come in. - -And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written. There shall come -out of Zion, the deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. - -For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. - -As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as -touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. - -This part of the subject shows one that we should love one another -whether we be Jew or Gentile. The color does not make the man, it is -the high morals of righteousness for which he stands. - -In order to try to satisfy your minds on the Black Jews, and the wisest -men the world ever knew, allow me to direct your thoughts to Prophet -Job, Job 30:30. My skin is black upon me and my bones are burnt with -heat. - -Now Job was a Black Jewish Prophet, a man of God. There is some good in -some of us black people that you can trust. - -I will now call your attention to one of the greatest Black Jews that -ever lived. When Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem, this man was one -of the first to go in bondage, Jeremiah 8:21. For the hurt of the -daughters of my people am I hurt, I am black--astonishment has taken -hold on me. - -When this holy black man saw with his own eyes the destruction of the -beautiful daughters of Jerusalem by the wicked soldiers, he wept like -a child, but the God of Israel suffered it to be so. Now my friends, I -will direct your thoughts again to the book of books, that which the -civilized world recognizes to be the true holy record. - -Songs of Solomon 1:5:6. I am black, but comely; ye daughters of -Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar as the curtains of Solomon. - -Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun has looked upon -me, my mother’s children were angry with me, made me the keeper of -their vineyards, but mine own have I not kept. - -I draw your attention to these great characters, because we blacks of -African descent are from the same stock. You need not be afraid when -you have us around you or sit beside you in a car. If you train us in -the right way, my people will be your best friends. If we have not -got your school education, we have got good common sense and manners, -that our old mothers taught us in the cabins. It is not the color that -makes the man, it is the high principle for which he stands. Allow me, -dear reader, to call your attention to a question that Jesus, that -great prophet who faced the world unto death, who was born of the royal -family of King David, Solomon’s father, asked in Matthew 16:13. When -Jesus came into the coasts at Caesarea Phillipi, he asked his disciples -saying, “whom do men say the son of God am.” - -And they said, some say that thou art John the Baptist! Some, Elias -and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. My friends, Jeremiah -acknowledged he was black, Job was a prophet, and said he was black, -then all the other prophets must have been black, and if Jesus looked -like one of them, he must have been black also. - -In this subject I am not condemning neither Jew or Gentile. I am only -finding myself. My people are the lost tribe of Israel, and yet slaves. -I have repeatedly stated in my subject, that the so-called negro is yet -a slave. In order to prove it, I shall write some facts, and I know -that you, my reader, will agree with me. When the Jews were driven out -of Egypt about four thousand years ago, they were all black, and were -slaves in Egypt. They were in the jungles forty years, and God led them -out by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. - -Before they were driven out of Jerusalem, there was no mixed breed -allowed there. Forty years A. D. they went out a mixed multitude of -people of all colors. - -From 1920 on, they are going back to Jerusalem all white. They are the -only Jews that the Gentiles’ recognize as a race to this day. - -In the fourteenth century in Russia, the Czar issued a creed that they -could serve their own God, and have their own holidays. These Jews are -the nine and one-half tribes who rebelled from under Rehoboham. - - - - -_Black Moon_ - - -Dear reader, I have seen the red moon, the yellow moon and the -white, but on the twenty-fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and -twenty-five, I had the pleasure of seeing the Black Moon for the first -time in my life. He was so black, the white people on earth had to -turn on their lights, that they might see how to do business. He was -so black that he put the sun out of business. He was so black that you -could not see his features. He looked to me like a black ball traveling -from southwest to northeast. - -The moon that I see traveling from east to west is a white moon that -gives light on the earth by night. When you see him in the daytime, he -is white just the same. But the God of Heaven and Earth has shown his -power through a black moon. - -We as a people should give God praise for all He does. - -About four thousand years ago, he parted the Red Sea and let the -children of Israel pass over dry shod. - -I will make the statement here in my book, that the children of Israel -were black, and the Egyptians were black at that time. The seeds of the -ancient Israelites are yet black, and among the races of the world are -kept economic slaves. - -Now as God sees fit to use his red moon, his white moon, his yellow -moon and his black moon, let us work together as one great big moon for -God, that we may obtain his mercies on our children. - -I biblically and historically have proof to back up these statements -that I make, but it is not necessary that I should write them in my -book, for this book is the first step to world peace, and the first -step to destruction of race hatred. - -You cannot build up love in men and women’s hearts by telling lies, for -they are without a foundation. Tell the truth and back it up with your -honor, that God may bless you and your children upon the earth. - -Nine and one-half tribes of Israel rebelled from under Rehobohan, King -Solomon’s son, and went on and intermarried with the other nations of -the world, and they became white. There are only about fourteen million -that are known as Jews, the others are the nations of the world. The -fourteen million are going to become the greatest white men on earth. -He will redeem the Gentiles and save many of them from destruction on -earth, all business will be turned over into his hand. Through him will -the Gentiles receive the black man, that he may go and serve his God. - -This is a white man who has never changed his religion, he keeps to the -religion of his black ancestors, which was handed down by Black Moses -to us. - -Whether they want to or not, all nations have got to love the white -Jews that they may be blessed on the earth. - -The white Jew is right about Jesus; he was a man and had a mother and -father like all other children. The Romans killed him for talking -against the government. He was a black king from the loins of King -David. He was a great holy man who executed justice on earth and they -had to get rid of him, if they didn’t they were not friends of Caesar. -Now, I won’t go any further with that sentence because you cannot heal -a sore by picking off the scab. - -Let us love one another as this man Jesus has loved us. - - - - -_Negro Is Yet A Slave_ - - -The so-called negro is yet a slave, though free, some reflections on -the economic slavery which makes the race helpless victims. - -Three score years ago, Abraham Lincoln emancipated four million and -one-half negroes, this was a wonderful blessing to the negro, for he -had prayed to his God unceasingly, that the slave-chain which held him -fast might be broken. He had been under the lash, his women had seen -their children sold like so many cattle; they had met injustice at -every turn of the road. - -The negro, after a period of time, began to realize that after all, he -was not a free being, altho he was not subject to his master. The negro -probably thought that the emancipation meant freedom to him, but to -emancipate the negro only meant to give him a chance to free himself. - -To emancipate the negro meant to give him a chance to work out his -own destiny. No nation or race has at any time freed another nation -or race, they are too busy working out their own social or national -problems. The power to become free, lies within the race or nation -itself. The negro forgot that his own freedom had just begun, being -untrained, unskilled labor naturally fell to his lot, a hewer of wood -and a drawer of water, was his portion. - -But will the so-called negro be free as long as he remains at the foot -of the industrial ladder? Can he be free as long as poverty stares him -in the face? Can he take his place among the other races of the world, -unless he becomes a producer, and controls the economic forces about -him? Why is the so-called negro not free today? Why is he pleading for -an opportunity and for justice to be given him on every hand? There -is but one answer, he is a victim of economic slavery--a slave to the -economic force of this country. In the field of mercantile business -he is only a child, in the world of commerce he is yet a stranger, in -co-operative industries he is an alien, in all creative industries he -is at the foot of the ladder. - -If the negro would become free and independent, let him enter into the -creative industries in larger numbers. We must have a greater per cent -of negroes in business and fewer negroes in the so-called parasitical -professions, such as lawyers and doctors. We must have captains of -industries, we must have more negroes as manufacturers and bankers, -we must have more negroes, instead of looking to the white race to -support his boys and girls, the negro will then be able to protect -them himself. In proportion then, as the negro learns the spirit of -co-operation, in that same proportion will he be able to rid himself of -the existing evils that seem to befall him. - -In this martialistic age, any race, in order to protect itself, must -conquer those economical principles so necessary to its very existence. -Then let the negro enter largely into the creative fields of industry, -let him become a producer and not a consumer. - -When he has control of all the economic forces about him, prejudice, -jimcrowism and disfranchisement will cease, no longer will he have to -plead to the white man for justice. We will, with our finance, backed -by a spirit of co-operation, force every barrier down. - -When the negro succeeds as a financier, he and his posterity will be as -free as the mighty winged eagle that soars to the summits sublime, as -free as the fairest Anglo-Saxon that trod American soil. - -Then, and not until then, will the negro be free. - -I am drawing your attention to a source of facts that are among all -nations, the opportunities that would free a race, are ninety-eight -per cent cut off from the black man, he is only a consumer and not a -producer. He is not allowed to produce like other nations, not even in -his own country, Africa, the country that the God of Heaven and Earth -has given him. He is ready and capable to build up his country, and to -pick and back his own leaders, those whom he can trust. - -Ninety-eight per cent of the picked leaders have proven themselves to -be self-seekers and crooks. We don’t want them, but they must go for -the good of all nations that put such traitors over a people of God. - -My friend, I don’t mean that we will be free twenty-five years or a -century from now. I am not thinking about that. The time has come -now that the black man must have equal rights. We are coming out of -schools, grammar, high and colleges, by the thousands, and have nothing -to do. The common labor has been given to the foreigners, and the -American business men tell our boys and girls that they cannot employ -colored help, although we have a college diploma in our hands. - -Justice is looking all nations in the face and there is a wolf in the -back yard. - -Our fathers and mothers were put in chains and carried away, and have -never had a chance to free themselves, but the God of Heaven and Earth -put them in the hands of good white people all over the world, to help -free their sons and daughters. The white boys and girls are calling -for their black, brown and mulatto classmates who finished school with -them. They learn to love one another with a love that prejudice cannot -reach, matters not what the white father or mother says. They see no -difference in the race, as the northern schools teaches none. - -The government will stand by all people who stand for justice, and -it will see that justice will be dealt to all people in America who -have played their part as a race or nation, because God loves us all, -regardless to creed or color. Now, allow me to make an open confession, -as the Lord says it is good for the soul. My forty-five years of -dealing with the white man and his families, in the South and North. -I have found that they have met me half way. They have held out their -hand to me, as if to say, come on, you can walk. - -They have taken things from me, that I would not take from them. -They have tried to help me to walk, but I was not smart enough to -understand. We as a race, have let golden opportunities slip by, being -too stiff-neck to take heed. The love, that the white men and women -have for our wives, causes us men to get work to buy bread to eat -and a house to live in. The black women have power with God, and the -blessings of the world lies in her. - -In this work for which I have given up my life for the last twenty -years, I came to my own people, but they received me not, then there -was nothing for me to do, but go to the white man and his families. -From door to door with my vision, and the analysis of my work. I -explained it to them just as I saw it. They saw my honest desire, and -they held out their hands to me, and said, come on, you can walk. They -are as yet meeting me half way, and I began to walk. Nine souls out of -every ten have a kind word for me, and at times it has gone farther -than money. Some of them would say, my son, I don’t see where I can -help you now, but, you have a good work, and I appreciate it, you call -again. Some of the gentlemen would call up their neighbors and tell -them that I was all right, and to give me a dollar, and before I could -open my mouth, he would send me out a dollar or more. - -Some of the ladies when I saw them in their homes or businesses, when -they were not prepared to help my work, would say, My Dear ----, I -am awfully sorry that I cannot help you today, but I will send you a -small check. Her kind words fill me with the spirit of come on, you -can walk. To encourage me, I have had business men and women let me -look into their cash registers--make me look in them. Men turn their -pockets inside out to let me see that they have no change, others go -out and borrow money for me, that is telling me to come on, you can -walk. The same white people will tell you to come, you can walk. Try -it, they will meet you fifty-fifty, but they have no time for shiftless -or lazy black people. They want you to be a man or woman to your word. -If they can put confidence in you, they will do anything for you, some -of them will give up their life for you, but we must be honest to them -and give them a square deal, not an eye servant. If you are working -for them, give them justice, then they are compelled to do the same by -you. My friend, the progress of the race lies in the young white boys -and girls. I have never met a more friendly people than the young men -in their business. They have not much money to give, but they have that -hospitality, that friendly smile which is home-like. The young ladies -at their desks trying to make an honest living, they all have a kind -word for you, and a beautiful smile for you which makes you feel like -you have something to live for. - -I have an interview with a thousand white men and women every month. I -can honestly say that not one out of the thousand has tried to insult -me or try to take advantage of me because I am a member of the black -race, the ancient Jews. - -Some of the working girls open their bags and give me from twenty-five -cents to a dollar for my work. Some contribute a smile of regret -because they have no money, but that smile is worth as much as a dollar -to me. It says come on, you can walk, and my heart goes out with the -God of Heaven’s blessing on such people. I feel sorry for them, they -cannot help what their fathers and mothers have done to us. It is -not their fault that we have been made slaves of, and yet are to the -nations of the world, but we as a race of people should obey the law -and live clean and respectable, so our friends can uphold us to our -enemies and demand respect for us. When we as a people don’t live the -high morals with self respect, then our enemies use that to keep us -down and our friends cannot say a word for us, they only can say get up -and walk, our hands are open to you. - -The trouble with this race is, that they are suffering for the want -of true racial leadership. We want leaders to agitate the spirit to -produce. - -If the white man was to pass a law that the black man either had to -build factories or go naked, or say give us back our clothes we sold -you, and here is your money that the government made, or, if you want -your pork chops, buy your farms, raise your hogs, flour and meal, we -would be pretty bad off. - -We want leaders who will show us how to produce something, so we -can free ourselves from being dependent on our good white brothers. -Somewhere in this world, the God of Heaven has left us our inheritance, -let us find it, but we must put down these sorry cowardly leaders, and -pick up real men. - -Our white friends are not going to bother along with us much longer, -because they have trouble of their own. - -When you have only a ten dollar a week job, and live the life of a -twenty dollar a week man, there is not much sympathy that you can -demand from any one. - -I also want to thank my personal friends of my race. They are true to -me and this work. They have given me dollars when they need them for -themselves. They have fought many a battle for me, they trust me. They -have also given notes on their homes to raise money for me to go on -with this work. I can never forget them. Again I thank them, and the -God of Heaven will bless them for their righteous works. - - - - -_Should the Color Line Go?_ - -_By_ ROBERT WATSON WINSTON - -_The tendency to hide the facts about the negro problem--No real -freedom for colored people in the South--Migration of the negroes to a -country of their own is the solution suggested_ - - “_Reprinted by special permission from Current History Magazine, a - monthly periodical published by_ THE NEW YORK TIMES CO.” Born at - Windsor, North Carolina, Mr. Winston is a leading lawyer of his native - State. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina and - received the degree of LL. D. from Wake Forest College. He was a Judge - of the Superior Court of North Carolina from 1889 to 1895, when he - resigned. He is a well-known orator and also an authority on Southern - problems. - - -By what authority do I speak on this vexed subject of race relationship -in the South? For more than two centuries my people have lived in -the South, and I myself am a Southern man. My father was a Whig, a -thorough-going Union man, and opposed to secession. He followed Mr. -Webster and not Mr. Calhoun. In 1861, when one year of age, I became -the owner by will of a three-fourths interest in five negro slaves. I -sucked the breast of a negro woman, listened to the wonderful tales of -my father’s slaves, rode “horse” on their backs, swam and fished with -them, and ate their ash cake in the cabin. The negro, I think, is my -friend; I know I am his. Thus I ought to be impartial. - -Why do we of the South refuse to admit the facts, and when some blunt -fellow, like the late Senator Tillman, blurts out the truth, why do -we straightway fall to denying and disclaiming? On the other hand, -why do few people outside the South seem to understand or care what -consequences will follow the destruction of the caste system upheld by -a color line so rigidly drawn? - -A certain inexorable race law should be kept in mind if one would -understand the magnitude of the issue involved: No two homogeneous -races will long continue to exist side by side in the same country on -terms of perfect equality without race-blending. One is prone to think -of miscegenation as a thing foreign to the United States, and yet -ethnologists generally declare that such blending between whites and -blacks will take place, and that the Southern States will eventually -become mulatto. Shortly after the close of the Civil War miscegenation -societies were organized and leading abolitionists, Theodore Tilton and -Wendell Phillip among others, advocated mixed marriages. About this -time also the _North British Review_, in a calm statement, concluded -that not only England and Europe, but Africa, would be represented in -the new race which was growing up in the New World. - -A few years ago Colonel Roosevelt, in letters to _The Outlook_, told -of the rising tide of color in Central America--the fusing of whites -and blacks into a mulatto civilization; how a prosperous negro would -marry an impecunious white woman, how the male offspring would repeat -the process, so that, after two or three generations, they would become -a white family. And similar conditions exist today in Cuba, Brazil, -Mexico, Portugal and the French colonies, where marriages between -whites and blacks are well nigh universal. - -Schults in “Race or Mongrel” declares that “if conditions that now -exist continue nothing need be done with the negro; the problem will -solve itself. The immigration of Southern mongrels is ingrafting more -and more negro blood in our veins.” To the same effect is Hoffman’s -“Racial Traits and Tendencies”: “The process is now rapidly going -on and the black race will be absorbed; a condition which, though -unpopular, is not unwelcome to many thinkers.” Document 188 of the -Carnegie Foundation has valuable data showing universal race-blending -in Jamaica and Bermuda. Sir Sidney Olivier, Governor of Jamaica, -advocates the blending of whites and blacks “as a buffer to prevent -race conflict.” In Volume 79 of the Popular Science Monthly he takes -the ground that “we must make our account for a legitimate and -honorable interblending between whites and blacks, and must look upon -it not as an evil but as an advantage,” adding that “the black race is -everywhere eager to mix with the white race.” - -Viscount Bryce asserts that “the Brazilian lower classes intermarry -freely with the black people, the Brazilian middle classes intermarry -with mulattoes and quadroons”; and intimates that three-fourths white -is white enough for Brazilians and Portuguese. The Journal of Heredity, -October, 1916, contains a statement by Maynard W. Metcalf that the -union of the races is inevitable; and to the same effect speak the -Literary Digest of October, 1917, and the Century Magazine of March, -1903. In the “Future of Evolution” race-blending in the South is -taken for granted; the Mercure de France for August, 1922, finds much -hope for France from an infusion of African blood, declaring that the -French people betray no antipathy to the color of the men from Algeria, -Morocco or Tunis; and that all are “welded into lasting French cement,” -a condition vouched for by our soldiers returning from France. - -[Illustration: ROBERT WATSON WINSTON (_White_) - -Formerly Judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina] - -Reuter in “The Mulatto in the United States” implies that race-blending -will take place if the color line and race segregation are not -maintained: “Where no color line has been formally drawn against them -they have tended to ally themselves with the superior race--during the -process of reduction to a mongrel unity; it is biracial adjustment that -keeps them apart.” One writer has asserted that all religions come from -the black race; that extreme white and extreme black are departures, -and that Adam, as his name signifies, was made of red earth. - -We must conclude, therefore, that eventually the two races in America -will blend if they be placed on social and political equality, and if -they are in fact homogeneous. - -Are Southern whites and blacks socially and politically equal? Are they -homogeneous? And now we touch the first sore spot. We of the South -generally maintain that the negro is a free man, and that the law bears -on white and black alike, when we must know that this is not the fact. -Is a man free who cannot vote, hold office or serve on the jury; is he -free when he must ride in second-class coaches, sit in the gallery at -public places, occupy rear seats of electric cars and flee for his life -when suspected of being a dangerous character? Is a race free which has -been battered into submission by whippings and lynchings, and which has -no part in governmental affairs? Can man or race be free with a spirit -in chains? And does it lie in the mouth of the white man to charge that -the negro is but a race of bootblacks, when we have confined him to the -task of blacking our boots? - - -FACING THE FACTS - -We are not now considering whether these things should or should not -be; we are merely asserting that in the “Black Belt” they are. And -they are for a definite, a fixed purpose. As in slavery days it was -necessary in order to perpetuate the institution to make it a crime to -teach a slave to read or write, in other words to elevate him so that -he could realize his condition of slavery, so in the far South today -in order to maintain the present servile condition of the negro it is -necessary to put him under foot and to keep him under foot. Whippings, -lynchings, burnings--these represent the color line in crimson; and -the color line, as a recent writer points out, is but evidence “of an -attempt based on intuitive choice to preserve those distinctive values -which a racial group has come to regard as of the highest moment to -itself.” The great industrial awakening in the South is made possible -by this supposedly permanent settlement of the race issue, for the -color line properly enforced need not interfere with business--at all. - -Are the two races homogeneous? They are, undoubtedly. Some time about -1812 on the border line of two great Southern States there lived -a Presbyterian preacher named John Chavis, “admired for his noble -qualities as a gentleman, revered for his fervent piety as a Christian, -respected for his eminent ability as a teacher and preacher.” He had -been a student at Princeton under Dr. Witherspoon. Opening a classical -school in an aristocratic Southern community, he was patronized by the -best people and became the preceptor of future Senators, Governors, -and financiers; this man was a negro, a free negro--“without any white -blood in his veins.” About five feet seven inches in height, he was -robust and corpulent, having a round, clean shaven face expressive of -great benevolence. The pupils boarded in his home, and in their home he -was a welcome guest. Because of the Nat Turner insurrection in 1832 he -and other free negroes were forbidden by law to preach, and from that -time until his death he was supported by a Southern Presbytery. This is -an isolated case to be sure, but it is portentous. - -Are not two races homogeneous which have lived together in peace -for a hundred years, speaking the same language, worshipping the -same God, having similar church affiliations, impelled by similar -superstitions and prejudices, the weaker race imitating the stronger -in customs, manners, and modes of thought? Anyway, if the races are -not homogeneous, how comes it that there are so many mulattoes in the -South? In 1910 one-fifth of the negro population was mulatto. - -We are about to uncover another skeleton in the closet: sexual -relations once existed in the South between white men and mulatto -women, a condition which persisted until some time after the Civil War. -During the period of slavery and up to about 1876 sexual relations -between the races was frequent. Neither comment nor sense of shame was -entailed by what went on among white youths and colored girls. Nor -was it uncommon at that time for white men to keep negro women and -to rear children. Many a colored woman was proud to be the plaything -of the white man, whose passion she gratified without restraint or -responsibility. Public sentiment did not condemn the practice. Before -1876 there was no public sentiment on the subject, neither was there -race consciousness nor conflict; and the unhappy offspring could rise -no higher than the color of the mother. Once a negro, always a negro. - - -CHANGES IN SEXUAL RELATIONS - -After about 1876 sexual intercourse between the races gradually -decreased, and today has practically stopped. The law sustained by -public sentiment condemns the practice, which has become a badge of -shame. One would naturally expect the census table to reflect this -change in race relationship, and it does. In 1910, in a group of 100 -negroes, as we have seen, 20, or one in five, were mulattoes, whereas -in 1920 the proportion was one in six, or 16 mulattoes in a group -of 100 negroes. But bloody revolutions, much legislation forbidding -race intercourse of any kind, innumerable race riots, lynchings and -burnings in the “Black Belt,” together with the white womanhood of the -South--all these were required to separate the two homogeneous races. - -The Roosevelt letters made a lasting impression on the South. These -letters describing the process of race-blending showed how the crossing -of white and mulatto produced a quadroon; the crossing of quadroon with -white person produced an octoroon; the crossing of octoroon with white -person produced a person called “passing for white”; and the crossing -of “passing for white” with pure white produced “fixed white,” and -after “fixed white” there was no further reversion to black color. - -The total population of the United States is about 106,000,000, of -which 10,500,000 are negroes. It is interesting to note that of these -10,500,000 negroes about 8,333,000 reside in Southern territory. That -is to say, in the fourteen South Atlantic, East South Central and West -South Central States (omitting West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky), -there are 8,333,000 blacks and 19,000,000 whites. On the other hand, in -Northern territory there are 71,000,000 whites and 1,500,000 blacks. -In other words, in the thirty-two Northeastern, Middle Atlantic, East -North Central, West North Central, Mountain and Pacific States the -white population is 71,000,000, while the negro population is 1,500,000. - -If it were possible at the present time to blend the races, Southern -people would have more than one-third colored blood in their veins -and less than two-thirds white blood, and Northern people would have -about 3 per cent colored blood and 97 per cent white. Moreover, if -amalgamation were to take place now, the whole of South Carolina and -Mississippi and half of Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Louisiana would -grade about 50 per cent negro blood and 50 per cent white. The North, -on the other hand, would grade about 3 per cent colored blood and -97 per cent white, a mixture well within the rule of “fixed white”; -whereas the Southern mixture would not reach the grade of “passing -for white,” the offspring of such persons being subject to the law of -reversion to color. - -It is not possible to place Southern whites and blacks on terms of -social and political equality as soon as the blacks are fitted for -citizenship, as many philanthropic organizations are now insisting, -because the Southern white man is tenacious of his rights and on -this subject is regardless of consequences. With him a white man’s -government means a white man’s government. If Congress should pass a -Force Bill and undertake to put it into operation, the Irish upheaval -would be a mild affair in comparison with conditions in the Southern -States. Either the white man would exterminate the negro, or the negro -would exterminate the white man. The white man will brook no peer. -It is not a question of whether the negro is a good citizen or a bad -citizen; it is deeper than this; it has to do with race integrity, race -autonomy. - -So long as the negro “behaves himself” in the South he is safe. But -once let him cross the dead line of race separation and endeavor to -assert his manhood rights and he becomes a menace to the existing order -of things, after the manner of John Brown at Harper’s Ferry. With hat -in hand, the Southern negro is more than safe, he is happy--if he is -that kind of negro. For his sake and in memory of the old-time “darkey” -schools, hospitals and orphanages have been set on foot. Nothing, -indeed, is too good for him. A tender, patient relationship exists -between this unambitious, likable creature and the white people of the -South. This white man’s negro gets all that he is entitled to and often -more in the courts, as a domestic on the farm, with trowel or hammer. -The white man who undertakes to impose on a white man’s negro has his -hands full. Many years’ experience as a Circuit Judge enables me to -declare that in the Court House I never witnessed an act of injustice -to such a negro--who does not desire rights, social or political, and -could not be induced to leave “his ol’ white folks.” - -But what of that increasing number of negroes who are not the white -man’s negroes, and what of the widening gulf between races? Has the -situation improved since the return of negro soldiers in khaki from -France, where the black man from Algeria was a favorite of the Parisian -drawing rooms, a recipient of the voluptuous white woman’s favors? Did -Siki’s victory over Carpentier give a new turn to the race question, as -The _Boston Herald_ asserts? Is it true, as literature of “new negro” -type declares, that race war and revolution must presently follow if -conditions continue and race segregation be insisted upon? Perhaps -not. But so The Crisis is teaching and so one reads in “The Souls of -the Black Folks,” “The Voice of the Negro,” “Dark Water,” “The Black -Dispatch,” and like publications. The negro Leckey thinks that “race -separation and distinctions are a spiritual lynching and that the negro -must feel that he is a cursed, knee-bending slave, bound and shackled -by laws and customs made for slaves.” And the “new negro’s” call to -battle, how clear it is. Let us hear it: - - Oh! kinsman we must meet the common foe; - Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave; - And for their thousand blows, deal one death blow! - What though before us lies the open grave, - Like men we’ll face the cowardly, murderous pack, - Pressed to the wall--dying--but fighting back. - -Why is the negro not right? Self determination is of God, not of man. -But the black race must not underrate the task. They are lined up -against descendants of men who fought a four years’ war against the -world without salt, shoes or powder, and whose courage and endurance -no man questions. Men of the South place race integrity above -politics, property, religion, or life itself. The South alone among -nations is today making a fight against a universal ethnological law -of race-blending. The mistake is in not boldly admitting the facts, -flinging defiance to the future, spurning representation based on negro -population in the electoral college. - - -THE SOLUTION - -This, then, is the line-up. Can actual warfare be avoided? I think that -it can. There is nothing strange or alarming about the situation. The -negro desires to be free and he is right. The white man claims that the -South is his to rule and control, and he, too, is right. But a head-on -collision need not come from every paradox. While man has busied -himself in the endeavor to solve matters, in the wrong way, the God of -nations seems to have taken a hand, pointing the way of escape, even -as He pointed it out to Abraham and Lot in the land of Bethel: “_And -Abraham said unto Lot, let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me -and thee. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me._” Even so today is -God moving the black man to separate himself from the Southern white -man, and, by the thousands, are negroes leaving the South. - -Let the census tables again speak. The white population of the United -States in the last four decades has increased 100 per cent, while the -negro population in the same period has increased but 40 per cent. -In the far South during the decade 1910-1920 the negro population -either stood still or diminished. Alabama and Mississippi having 8,000 -and 75,000 fewer negroes respectively in 1920 than in 1910. The way -out, therefore, is to change our mental attitude on this subject and -vitalize every legitimate movement for negro migration North, East -and West. Let those States welcoming the negroes to equal rights make -known the fact, opening wide their doors, and negroes will continue to -leave the South as they are now doing, in great numbers, thus relieving -race friction. Undoubtedly the Southern States should cooperate in the -movement, instantly repealing such laws as impose fine and imprisonment -on emigration agents and giving up negro labor for the general welfare. -(The only good of the Ku Klux is to frighten negroes from Southern -States to other sections--and this is unintentional.) - -Organizations and associations for race betterment, heretofore assuming -that the race issue must be settled in the South and not elsewhere, -have given little attention to negro migrations, which have been -haphazard affairs conducted along business and not along racial lines. -With intelligent and sympathetic direction negro migration will be -greatly accelerated; and then, but not till then, the “Solid South” -with all its embarrassing consequences will cease to be. - -But I go further. Were I a negro, facing the future, concerned about -children and children’s children, I would cease to fight against white -prejudice, but raising the banner of “Pan-Africa,” I would herald that -“Unity of the Colored Races, sensed by far-seeing negroes,” as Dr. -Burghardt Du Bois phrases it, until my last breath. And why shall not -the National Government sponsor negro exodus, making ready a suitable -home for the race? President Lincoln recommended colonization “in some -place or places of suitable climate”; President Grant recommended to -Congress colonization on the Island of Santo Domingo. Why may not -French Guinea and Sierra Leone be added to Liberia, creating an ample -fatherland for such Afro-Americans as choose to go? - -But has not colonization in Liberia failed? By no means; it has never -been given a trial. In the ’70s a ship with about one thousand negro -emigrants sailed from Savannah for Liberia. Standing amid 10,000 of his -race and raising his black face heavenward, Bishop Turner prayed that -God would safely speed the little craft to a land where the color of a -man’s skin was not a crime. Ten thousand negro voices sobbed “Amen”; -an aged colored woman shouted for very joy. What has been America’s -attitude to such heroic incidents? Either indifference or disapproval -and ridicule. Our colonization societies have ceased to function, and -we give no further thought to Liberia, being content that the negro -shall remain in the South, “a people within a people.” - -Shall we not, I earnestly ask, speedily revive the old colonization -society, send another Goethals with means and equipment and make -Liberia as healthy as Panama--and above all, shall we not tell the -truth about Liberia? Plucky little republic, at our request, she -jumped into the great war and lost shipping and commerce; her towns -were shelled by German gunboats, and yet the United States is haggling -about making a loan of $5,000,000, promised by President Wilson and -recommended by President Harding. - -During the present year a British commission after nine months’ travel -reported to its Government that in the three essentials--climate, -productivity and health (with proper attention)--Africa is the most -favored of continents, that it possesses marvelous flora, wonderful -water-power, fertile soil, extensive mineral deposits, abundant -hardwood. - -In the face of discouragement, 100,000 civilized negroes, of whom -about 12,000 are American Christian immigrants and their descendants, -now reside on the Liberian littoral; and Monrovia, its capital, has a -population of 6,000 souls. A railroad running from Monrovia 150 miles -up the St. Paul River, across waterfalls and into the hinterland, would -open up a garden spot, with lowlands superior to our far South, with -uplands equal in climate and elevation to our North Atlantic States. - -As soon as we but make a co-operative start toward negro migration and -colonization and cease the vain attempt to pour two gallons of water -into a one-gallon vessel--to bestow citizenship upon the negro in the -South--his condition will improve. What satisfaction does not get from -reading documents like “The Negroes’ Progress in Fifty Years”? Of what -avail are houses, land or education, forsooth, to one in a state of -bondage? Better ignorance and poverty for him. Shall the promise be -kept to the ear and broken to the hope? I cannot agree with Mecklen, in -“Democracy and Race Conflict,” that the race question is essentially -insoluble. The negroes are tractable and, looking upon themselves as a -“peculiar people,” will follow such course as their leaders may map out -for the “race”; a course which should be thought out, it must again be -insisted, not along the impossible, makeshift lines of racial equality -in the South, but in the quite opposite direction and in terms of -hundreds of years. While permanent plans are under way, every energy -should be exerted to educate and fit the negro for a new, a saner life -under ampler skies. America may not justify herself at the Final Assize -until she lives up to the truth that the white man is right, that the -negro is also right, and that of these two contradictions neither is -wrong. - - - - -_Will the Black Man Go Back to His Country, Africa?_ - - -In order for me, in my book, to answer you that question, I will have -to take up the words of God’s prophets, because they can answer that -question better than I. For this reason I will call your attention to -prophet Amos, 3:7. Surely the Lord God will do nothing but to reveal -his secrets to his servants the prophets. - -In this chapter, your question will be answered, send back the stolen -goods, for justice is on your trail. - -God has promised through his prophet Ezechial 36; 24:28:32. - -For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all -countries, and will bring you into your own land. - -And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye -shall be my people and I will be your God. - -Not for your sake do I do this, saith the Lord, be it known unto you be -ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. - -Ezek. 36; 5:9. Therefore thus saith the Lord God. Surely in the fire -of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and -against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession -with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out -for a prey. For behold, I am for you and I will turn unto you, and ye -shall be tilled and sown. - -Now my friends, if the Lord God of Israel says that we Black Jews shall -go back to our own land, no one can stop it. - -The nations must give up their stolen goods. - -Now the God of Heaven and Earth is directing the minds of the good -white people, they are coming together, and giving justice to all -people, so the curses may be raised up off of them. The black man wilt -soon come into his own. - -Now my friends, whether I want to or not, I am compelled to present -to you at this period in my book--at two o’clock, a. m., Jan. 17, -1925--the spirit of God made me get up out of bed, and write the truth, -whether the world likes it or not. I have the honor to present to -you one of the greatest black men that ever lived on earth, and the -greatest in these last days. The honorable Marcus Garvey, president -of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He has the spirit of -Ezechial and the vision that God gave him. Allow me to present to you -the words of God, and this man, Marcus Garvey is in the same shoes. - -First I want to call your attention to Numbers 12:6, and if there be -a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a -vision and will speak unto him in a dream. - -My friends, this is not the first prophet that the Lord has sent among -the so-called American Negro. In nineteen hundred, God sent us Prophet -William S. Crowdy, and he got two hundred and eighty thousand who keep -the seventh day Sabbath and the Passover, and set up the Church of God -and the Saints of Christ, and the Black Israel fought it until they -stopped his progress; then the Lord God of Israel took him down before -he finished his work. The carnal part he never finished. He was an -old man--he gave up the ghost and left us without material and racial -leader. So the Lord God has sent us this man, known to the world as -Marcus Garvey, and the stiff necks of Israel have gone after him with -sticks and stones, but it is their last chance. - -Now I shall put this man in Ezechial’s shoes, that you may see him and -be blessed if you stop fighting his works, for it is none other than -the works of God. - -Now allow me to direct your thoughts to Prophet Isaiah 55; 7:8:9:11. - -Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man, his thoughts, -and let him return unto the Lord he will have mercy upon him, and to -our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your -thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. - -For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher -than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. - -So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth, it shall not -return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it -shall prosper in the thing wherever I send it. - -So we are as foolish galatians, have been bewitched by others, trying -to turn white, trying to take this government by politics, and the -white man’s education, which is destruction to Black Israel. - -This is God talking to Garvey. Ezekiel 12; 1:2:3. And he said unto me, -son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. - -And the spirit entered into me, when he spoke unto me, and set me upon -my feet, that I heard him that spoke unto me. - -And he said unto me, son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, -to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their -fathers have transgressed against me unto this very day. - -Now my friends, you know we black people as a nation have obeyed every -nation in this world except God. Through his commandments which were -handed down to us by the nations, and all the God that we know is the -God that they have told us about, and we as a nation are obeying the -Gods of this world, and fighting the God of Israel. - -Ezek. 2; 4. For they are impertinent children and stiff hearted. I do -send unto them and thou shall say unto them, thus saith the Lord God. - -And they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for -they are a rebellious house, yet they shall know that there has been a -prophet among them. - -Allow me to ask the question, why is this man Garvey so bold and -not afraid of anyone nor death. The ignorant men judge him to be -boisterous, or a bully like themselves, because they do not know God -and his works, the vision was not given to them. - -Ezekiel 2; 6. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be -afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee and thou -doest dwell amongst scorpions, be not afraid of their words, or be -dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house; 7. And thou -shall speak my words unto them, whether they will hear or whether they -will forbear, for they are most rebellious. - -But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee, be not thou -rebellious, like that rebellious house, open thy mouth and eat what I -give thee. - -Now my friends, Mr. Garvey has opened his mouth and has eaten the word -of God, so he has got to do what God tells him; and it is strange to -the people because it is not their ways, and the leaders of the people -to try to hold them from this back to Africa movement, but the Lord God -said they shall go, not all of the old mothers and fathers; they shall -stay here and in their homes all over the world, but the young men -and women will go to build up a government for themselves, so that we -may be represented all over the world as a nation of people governing -themselves, and not looking up to another nation, and their God to lead -us, or to exploit us and keep us in ignorance. Ezekiel 3; 55. For thou -art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard tongue, -language, but to the house of Israel. - -But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for they will -not hearken unto me, for all the house of Israel are impudent and -hard-hearted. - -Behold I have made thy face strong against their face and thy forehead -strong against their foreheads. - -As an adamant harder than flint have I made their forehead. Fear them -not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious -house. - -Moreover, he said unto me, son of man, all my words that I shall speak -unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. - -And go get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children, of thy -people, and speak unto them and tell them. Thus saith the Lord God, -whether they will hear or whether they will forebear; 17. Son of man, I -have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, therefore hear the -word at my mouth and give them warning from me. - -Why does this great man go into politics? Why does a dog go into the -swamp and the man with the gun stay on the outside? - -Mr. Garvey goes into politics to run you out of the white man’s -business, and to beat you at your own game. He knows if you continue -to dabble in the white man’s business, when you are only parasites in -their country, that you will put a man of a class of men in office -who will see that we as a race will have to pack up and get out, -because we are noisy. They will say, go to your own country and build -yourself a government of your own, and all you want. If you know how -to run our government or how it ought to be run, you can run one for -yourselves, so go to it. For myself, I have not voted in twenty years. -I have all I can do, to obey the laws that are made by the white man in -this country, and all of them respect me because I keep out of their -business. - -How does this man Garvey know all things, how to unite seven million -black people all over the world? The white man did not tell him, but he -has done it. Let us search the holy scripture and find out. The secret -comes from God, let us see Job 28; 12. But where shall wisdom be found -and where is the place of understanding. - -28. And unto man he said. Behold the fear of the Lord, that is the -beginning of wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding. - -This man is one who loves the Lord, and when the Lord God picks a man -to make a watchman out of him, he gives him wisdom. Let me get another -witness, Psalm 111; 10. The fear of the Lord is in the beginning of -wisdom, a good understanding have all they that do his commandments, -his praise endureth forever. - -Let us find another witness, St. John 7; 17. If any man will do his -will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether -I speak of myself. This man has but one desire and that is to free a -people who are crying to him for help all over the world. - -Not only does God give out this wisdom and understanding to Mr. Garvey, -but to all men and women who do his will. Unless you do the will of -God, you cannot understand this great man. He is too far ahead of you, -and you can only trust his word. Have faith in him and you will be all -right. - -Allow me to direct your thoughts back to the greatest of all prophets, -that man is Jesus Christ. - -St. John 8; 31:32. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believe in him, -if you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed. - -And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. - -It is the truth that destroyeth the carnal mind, which keeps you blind, -so you cannot see the hand of God working through the Universal Negro -Improvement Association, and it is only love that opens your eyes that -you may see. All humanity has to get love, regardless to creed or -color. Let us see what prophet Jesus says about it, as you say you are -following him. - -Matthew 5; 43:44. We have heard that it hath been said thou shalt love -thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. - -But I say unto you, love your enemy, do good unto them that hate you, -bless them that curse you and pray for them who despitefully use you -and persecute you. - -Now my dear reader, love is the only hope for us to get back to our -country. It is the only way to world peace, the only thing that will -make the nations lay down the sword, it will bring peace to your home. -Love is the only thing that will destroy charity institutions, insane -asylums and prisons, and we would have no need for hospitals. Love -for humanity is like an eating cancer, it brings respect and demands -respect of the high type. It will demand that you give up everything -that attempts to disgrace or destroy the temple of God. It has power -over the flesh and keeps it under subjection. Do God’s commandments and -you will never go wrong. - - - - -_The Unjust Treatment to Garvey_ - - -On February 7, 1925 at 2 A. M., I was called out of my bed to warn -you, my people, the Black Jews, that you have caused the world to put -in jail, only to please you, the man of God, who is your children’s -saviour. You as a race are cursed, you shall never see Africa, but your -children shall go. - -This man, Marcus Garvey, has finished his work, and it is well done. He -is now having a well needed rest. He has only stepped in the shoes of -Moses and Jeremiah, who were put in jail, put down into a well, because -they told the truth, which condemns you Black Jews. Jesus Christ was -whipped and driven out of cities, until he was almost starved. At last -he was rebuked by wicked men and women. Then lynched by white men -because he dared to tell you Black Jews the truth. - -In the 15th century, you were chained and brought to all nations and -sold for two hundred and fifty years as slaves, and suffered all kind -of trouble. Then God raised up the good white people in your favor to -help you to get free from the yoke of bondage all over the world. - -Mr. Abraham Lincoln promised that if he ever got the chance he would -hit slavery a hard blow. - -The white people of America elected him to be president and he struck -slavery a terrible blow. He emancipated four million, five hundred -thousand so-called negroes, and was killed for doing it. - -Now, some of you mixed people are bucking the dead man and saying that -he did not mean to free us. Whether he meant to or not, he gave us guns -and ammunition to help free ourselves, and our fathers got on the job. - -Three weeks before he was killed, he had promised Frederick Douglas, -our leader then, that he would go before congress and present a bill -that would demand one state in this country or send us back to Africa. -We must have our name that we may know who we are, and can serve our -God. - -Our president, Garfield, picked up our righteous issue, and they -assassinated him for telling the truth as he saw it. - -Our late president McKinley hit the righteous trail, and spoke the -truth as he saw it, and they put him to sleep. - -Our late president, Roosevelt, stepped out in the path of righteous, -and invited Mr. Booker T. Washington to luncheon with him at the white -house, and when he was on his campaign in nineteen hundred and twelve -they shot him. - -When Mr. Marcus Garvey stepped out on the platform of righteousness, -they shot him twice while he was in his office, but God spared him to -rest a while in jail, until the good-thinking white people set him free. - -My open opinion of the man, I know a crook when I see one and deal with -him. I was introduced to Mr. Garvey in nineteen hundred and nineteen -at the Messiah Baptist Church in Yonkers, New York. I was chosen to -make the opening address on this night. He organized a division in this -church, one of the finest colored churches in the State of New York, -and I was one of those who joined. But this division went down through -jealousy among its members. Then I watched Mr. Garvey, his officers and -members and those who read his paper. By doing this I found out where -the trouble lay. It was in his crooked officers. Nine out of every ten -showed up at the conventions dishonest. When Mr. Garvey began to expose -them, they began to plot against him. The worst of it all is, that the -majority of them all were preachers who were all in, down and out. - -I found the work of this organization in the bible. In nineteen hundred -and twenty-one, I called my friends together in Yonkers, New York, and -laid the facts before them. I suggested that they should organize a -division of their own, which they did. I have been watching Mr. Garvey -from then until now. - -My opinion of him is that he is one of the most honest men of all time, -with a big heart, no jealousy toward any man. I do not believe that Mr. -Garvey would entertain any evil thoughts. He means good to all, both -white and black. He is the best colored friend that the white man has. -He is only trying to take a great curse off of the white people that -God is about to send on them, because they won’t let the Black Jews go -back to Africa. He sees it and knows it. I myself have seen the same -thing. The destruction is coming if these stiff neck black people are -not sent from among you whites. You must let them go and serve their -God. This is the road to peace and prosperity. - -Now my white and black friends, this subject was written with a spirit -of love, for love is the only way, and the only sources that the -nations or races can get together. - -Moving picture shows the power of love. They show every crooked step -that the lover makes and its results. This should be a warning to -others, that they should marry for love and not for money. For true -love is the only step to righteousness and honor. Without true love, no -man can respect his wife or no woman can respect her husband. The vow -which is made at the altar cannot be kept without true love. Money can -not keep it. Let us marry because we love and we will be happy on this -earth. Without it our life struggles are in vain. The movies will help -you, if you go there to learn and not for a good time. You will show -respect for one who has true love in his heart. - -I want to state here, that I have made a round of a number of moving -pictures, and studied the characters, and the power of love, and the -destruction of false love. - -I am compelled to say, that the movies are doing a lot of good now, -to mend up the broken hearts, that some of the victims may start life -over and count yourself unworthy of their love if you have not the -true love in your heart. You are the man or woman that is on your way -to destruction, whether it be a race or nation, its leaders must be -of true brotherly love for mankind, for out of the mouths, the heart -speaketh. - - - - -_Down On the Farm_ - - -Down on a farm in the south, of the year of eighteen hundred and -seventy-two, I was born in Louden County, Virginia. Son of a black, -who was bought by Josh Fletcher from a slave trader, an Englishman by -the name of Cook, for about two or three thousand dollars. The slave -masters called him the buck. If I had been born in the time of slavery -by black Jewish mother, I would have been worth about one thousand -dollars to my father’s master, but my mother was a mulatto and I was -born free, so-called. Now I am not worth thirty cents to any one. They -won’t have me in jail unless some of my own people put me there. - -Twelve years of my life was spent on the farm. My father taught me how -to farm, milk cows and do a man’s work. When between eleven and twelve -years of age, I sought the Lord for three weeks and days. I found him -and he filled my heart with joy and love. At the age of twenty-eight, -he called me from the world and I started to clean up. - -I was a clean man, sent to the world with this message, The Black Jews. - -The black boys do not need gymnastics to help make him a man. He only -needs to be on a farm and made to work a few years. Then he will be -able to take care of himself. The black man has got to get back to the -place where he can produce the food he eats. He has been forced off of -the farms, as these farms have been given to others, to work, who are -not of the black race. - -We must find a farm somewhere in this world that we may produce the -things that we need. - -[Illustration: HALING HANK LENHT _is_ A. W. COOK] - -During my farm life, God was preparing me for this day, because he -wanted to use me for a good work among my people. - -After seven years of country school I came North and fell into the -hands of a good English family in Montclair, New Jersey. They taught me -how to do house work, and gave me more schooling. They left me lacking -for nothing, so I could make an honest living. When I left them I was -able to do any kind of domestic job. - -In nineteen hundred I stepped out into the professional world, and I -saw the weak part of my life, that was: If I hoped to measure arms -with my brother, I must go back to school. So, in nineteen hundred and -five, I took a three years’ course in a business college in Newark, -New Jersey, and made good. For the past ten years I have conversed -with representatives of all races or nations of the world. They talk -freely with me, and I am yet learning. I don’t know it all, and my -ears are still open. This boy, Haling Hank Lenht has grown to a man of -responsibility, and has gained many friends among all nations, because -they can trust him. - -In nineteen hundred and three I came before the world as professor A. -W. Cook, a dancing master and a teacher of etiquette to my people. At -that time, all the dancing that my people could do, was jigging and -buck and wing dancing. I did that old stuff down on the farm. So I made -up my mind to teach my people a new kind of dancing, the way the white -people dance. I went to a book store and bought a book on etiquette and -a ball room guide. I studied these books from cover to cover, and when -I opened my dance halls, I was a success. In 1904 I had dancing classes -in different cities and towns. Every night except Sunday night. - - - - -_Defending the Honorable and Graceful Movements of Dancing_ - - -As it is so popular and brings happiness and joy, when nothing else -can, to thousands of human beings, if it is used in its proper place -and in the right way. - -It will do little or no harm. When in sorrow or down cast, dancing is -a good medicine. It gives you a stronger mind and a new determination. -You feel like you have something to live for, and are able to meet the -terrible struggle of life. It drives the treacherous thought out of the -being and makes room for happiness and kindness. It also makes a man -or woman proud, honest, honorable and respectable. It gives power to -command respect from every one. - -Can you keep the race from dancing? Never! For it was handed down from -God. It is the race’s nature to dance; it was born to the art, with -music in every joint to give God praise. Disturb this happiness and -you will find a monster within them. What will you do about it? They -must dance. Teach them the proper way, tell them the danger, tell them -they must not worship this gift, for they should respect it and give -praise to God for his blessings. We should remember that these earthly -blessings are from God. We must know how and when to use them. We as a -race have reached the stage of life where we must begin to accept the -good examples set by others, as we are not yet leaders of the world. - -It is preached from our pulpits and by the elder members of our secret -societies, that if you go to a dance, reception, or any place where -dancing is allowed, that you have no religion and are on your way to -hell. That style of preaching is an old chestnut tree and does not -take effect on the race. We have learned to love and serve God in an -intelligent way. Our leaders must find a better and more substantial -method in order to make any impression on the race. The warning that is -connected with this subject will not answer and they believe you not. - -[Illustration: PROFESSOR A. W. COOK] - -If our churches believe that it is a great sin to dance, why is it that -they rent excursion trains, dance halls and picnic grounds, furnish the -best of music, and invite the members and friends to come and enjoy -themselves? All of the secret and Christian societies give these great -dances. - -The question is easily answered. They know if you go with the intention -of respecting the place, the people you mingle with and yourself, there -is no sin. You have been blessed with strength and a clean mind to meet -your friends with joy and happiness. - -It has been stated that dancers and drunkards cling together. This -is not necessarily true, because not many drunkards have a passion -for dancing. They are not allowed to mingle with respectable people. -Without being trained properly, it is difficult for one to glide over a -waxed ball room floor even when sober. - - - - -_Proper Training_ - - -Which bring joy, happiness, wealth, long life and a resting place in -the heaven above? - -I will not picture to you the history of our great men and leaders who -have climbed to the top rung of the ladder of life, from the proper -training, and the great battles that have been won for God and man, but -a few needed points of our home life and ourselves, because we have not -this great power. - -First, we as a race do not know how to serve God and be a valued -soldier and defend our race, because we have not had the proper -training. - -We do not respect our country, towns, churches, societies, homes, wives -or husbands and our children do not respect us, schools or teachers. -Because a large majority of the race have not had the proper training. - -This is a sad and serious question that I picture to you, and without -being remedied it will drag down the moral standard of Israel and blot -her out forever. - -But with the powerful brain cultivated and that strong mind properly -trained she will be as brave as David of old, as powerful as a giant -and a God-fearing citizen. - -What power has proper training? It has the power of the professional -boxer who sidesteps many death blows, which if landed, would have -blotted out his life forever, but he played with his antagonist because -he feared him not. The great power of training was at his command. - -The proper training only fits us and prepares us to meet the severe -struggles of life, and to overcome the terrible death blows that -are delivered and struck at us. We walk in his ring, and we must be -prepared to dodge his blows. - -The ballrooms, picnics and excursions are some of his strong blows, -because he strikes the untrained, who cannot defend themselves. The -only way to dodge him is to train your boys and girls before they enter -society or the ball room. - -A boy or girl who goes to a public dance or picnic without a guardian -or the proper training, usually becomes the victim of some society -shark. If this shark can successfully drag the untrained party over the -floor and make him think he is having a good time, then he has fallen -into the shark’s power and is at his mercy, and the parents have lost -all control of the child. Nine out of ten never recover. He may be like -the bread that is cast upon the sea and tossed by the great waves. -Perhaps he may have been picked up by a beautiful seagull, only to be -dropped to the filth of the earth, or to the depths of an unfriendly -sea. To dodge this blow, you must be trained by a professional who -is of a good understanding, knowing his business, an honest and -respectable God-fearing person of good standing. - -During my twelve years’ experience as a dancing master, I discovered -the foundation of the great sin which is connected to the great art of -professional movement, no dancing master has published. They have not -stopped to give a thought. But for the sake of the people as a race, I -must picture the facts to you and trust God for the results. - -The facts are a modifier to this subject. As a race of people, we have -proved to the world that we must have music and public receptions, -and most of us have better than we can afford; results are that our -expense is beyond our income. Such being the case, we do not stop to -consider our ball room etiquette or the moral training of our guests. -We are glad enough to take a nickel or a dime, regardless to his or her -training. - -We come out of our churches and societies and form a committee to -give this reception, as we call it. Some of us have never worked on a -committee before. - -You will send your child to a dance without the proper society -training. Why? Because one of your church members is on the committee, -and he himself has not the proper training, then how do you expect him -to protect your child. Its like trying to make a square brick fit snug -into a round hole. - -You would not send that child to a dancing master’s reception, one -who is of a good reputation and knows how to conduct one, or let him -come to your house and teach your child the right way, how to shun all -snares. Why? Because you have not the proper training yourself, and -stand in the way of your child. - -Carefully look over these facts, which I have outlined to you, and if -you are honest with yourself, you will bear witness with me. - -I am also prepared to back up this subject with facts of my life. - - - - -_Unveiling the Prince_ - -THE PRINCE OF THE WORLD AND HIS POWER - - -In this subject I will prove the great mistake we are making as -representatives of the race, which are leading us from the strong arms -of God, instead of drawing us to Him; we are fools and glory within -ourselves. - -First: I want to introduce the prince of the world, who rules and -governs this whole entire earth, and all things on it are subject to -him, except a man’s soul, and that will have to stand before the bar of -God to be judged. - -This prince is better known as the devil, who once was an arch-angel in -Heaven, now he is in war with God. He is here disguised as a gentleman; -he also is a noted actor and a deceiver; he does not wish the world -to be destroyed; he hopes to prove to you that this is as good as the -Heavens above. - -A public gambler, or a common drunkard, or a murderer or any common -act, he dislikes. Why? Because such action gives away his plans and -frightens the children of God and brings down their wrath on his works. -He would like for you to be happy with the comforts of the world and -forget God. This prince is an important character; he is next ruler -to God; he is more important than all the angels in Heaven; his power -is the greatest success of the world, and the power of man is under -his control, and he is gradually crushing the Godly thoughts and real -christianity out of the hearts and minds of the human family. - -In order to do great work for Christ we should study more about his -great enemy, who is the prince of the world. - -Two nations study the conditions of one another in order to conquer or -win a battle. This prince is known as a gentleman, he rules the highest -positions on earth. - -The kings, and presidents, judges, and ministers of the gospel have to -take their hats off to him, and bow low. At such times they deny Christ -as Peter did; the prince commands and they are compelled to carry it -out to the letter, they have not faith enough in Christ to resist, and -if you are saved at all it is only by grace. These are the conditions -that face the world today, real christianity of the human family, is -almost a thing of the past. - -Christianity is today used as a cloak for money grafters. The higher -the position is that you hold in the church, the more money you can -get; these positions are in the power of the prince; the better -preacher you are the more money you can get, not souls for Christ. He -is out of it. It is not souls and better conditions that our leaders -are calling for today, it is money they want and money they must have. -Why? Because the prince has power over them and nine out of ten have -sold out to the prince, and without a successful remedy it will destroy -the world. The negro leaders are selling their churches and their -societies to the prince. - -I have very plainly showed to you the work of the prince, and have told -you of his power. - -Gold and silver money, the fruits of all evil, are the valuable things -in his kingdom; that is what he puts up such a terrible fight against -the God-heads with; that is what he betrayed Christ with; that is what -he is buying the ministers and kings, presidents and judges with, and -the supposed to be christian churches with, but some of them are a -devil’s hell, and the world would be better off without them and their -leaders. That is what buys a human life. The lust for money causes our -ministers and leaders and the great trust companies to feather their -own nest by taking the last penny from a poor starving family without -mercy. The prince knows that you want it and would do any crime to get -it, so you rob the poor, you are branded in God’s sight as a thief, and -that is against the Golden Rule. - -What does the race need? We want leaders, men who are manly enough not -to throw themselves on a weak race and make them take care of them and -their families who are not able to take care of themselves. - -The greatest progress of the world has been built upon the poor and -unfortunate race. They have been drove, and whipped, and sold, and -robbed of their rights before a just God by man. The negro leaders have -taken up the plan of the white man. I will add with a few exceptions, -the height of their manhood and education is to fool the weaker of -their race, and make them take them for their leaders whether they want -to or not; they are not willing to sacrifice one hour for the race -unless they can get paid for it, they study the Gospel of Jesus Christ -and sell it for a large sum of money, when the gospel is free for all. -Their ambition is to build a fine church and tax a poor race to pay for -it. - -[Illustration: PROFESSOR A. W. COOK] - -What should they do? They should teach the congregation to save their -pennies for a rainy day, for they have nothing to give; any man that -has not saved from two or five hundred dollars has nothing to give to -a world’s church. Where can we meet in order to worship our God and -praise to Him? He tells us wheresoever two or three of His children -meet there shall be a God in their midst and some soul shall be blessed. - -We first should run the prince out of our homes and dedicate them to -God, and make a church there; when that gets too small, He will find a -larger place for us. - -The strong race that has robbed us, according to the Bible, knows of -their crime, and knows that no thief can enter Heaven. - -If we prove ourselves worthy of taking care of what God has intended -for all men, their rights, the white race is willing to give it to us. - -The christian white people are willing to help us and give us the -percentage of our money if we can take care of it and use it God-like. - -God doesn’t intend for us to have it until we prove ourselves worthy. - -In order to prove to the world and God that we are obedient people we -have got to back only real leaders, those leaders must be men that will -shoulder the musket and be the first men to sacrifice their lives. Not -a man who is willing to stay behind the ignorant and suffering race of -people and feather his own nest off them, and shout “see what I have -done.” He must be a man that is brave enough to go before the white -people in an intelligent way and demand the support of our people in a -manly manner. - -They know that we have not anything to build churches with, when we are -living in chicken coops and can’t buy a square meal three times a week -without suffering for it. - -The white people will give us all the churches we need if we are worthy -of them in the community. - -My friends, in order to build this race we need more men like Abraham -Lincoln, Fred Douglas, Booker T. Washington, A. Foraker, Marcus Garvey, -and others that have proven themselves manly men, that will face the -world and demand their rights for the negro race in a God-like manner. - -The money is waiting for you if you have got the sense to get it, and -prove to the stronger race that you are manly and honest enough to -handle it for your people. - -You have first got to prove yourself a man, and not let the prince -poison your mind so that you will be low enough to sell your people for -your own big name before the world. - -Leaders; tell your congregations to save their money and buy themselves -a little home, and their pennies for the support of their children and -to give them a start in life, fit them for some kind of business; you -cannot do this work by standing in the pulpit and asking them for every -cent they have and telling them to put more in their pockets for the -next time, and giving them that old song, that “God loves a cheerful -giver.” God does not love any one that throws away the opportunities He -gave them to get an honest living in the world. - -If you wish to help someone, give a penny to that poor baby that has no -one to care for it, or the drunkard that is captured by the prince, or -give a glad hand to the tramp who is friendless in the cold world, give -bread to that unfortunate man or child that is begging for it, or that -outcast mother, and a kind word to the unfortunate gambler; take them -to your home and try to reason with them in God’s name. - -Those are the kind of gifts that God loves; give your time, your love, -your pride, your bread and a good word to those that need it every day, -not on Sundays only at a fine church, for in this world our churches -are the headquarters for the prince of the world; he is two-thirds -owner of them. - -Every negro church should have a charitable institution attached to -it to take care of their poor and aged mothers and fathers, and poor -motherless children, that are begging you for help on the streets. - -Then as men and women we could have the courage to ask our white -friends to help us, and they would give you their hearty support, and -be glad to do so. And then we would be doing what God wants us to do. -We could have money without begging our old mother and father for it. -If we would be manly men and women, help those that need it. - -The Bible says, “thou shall not walk in the path of the ungodly,” and -our leaders teach us the same and tell us we must stay out of barrooms -and the gambling houses, and the houses of immorality. But my friends -that is a mistake, those are the places we should go in, in the Lord’s -name. - -I understand the meaning as, you should not crave for those evil -things; when you do, then you are walking in the path of the ungodly. - -If your heart desires to murder someone, then you are a murderer; in -God’s sight the crime is committed. - -If your religion cannot last long enough to go into those dens and -speak to your brother or sister and try to bring them out, then you -haven’t faith and you glory in yourself, and you will have to answer -before the bar of Judgment, and with such pride of the world your -whole church will be lost, for you are too proud to stoop to falling -humanity and help them, for that is what you must do. - -An appeal to the young educated and manly leaders: in your financial -affairs be a manly man, a real man, don’t accept a nickel or a dime -from your old mothers and fathers who have toiled for years and put you -on the platform you are now on. - -An old mother at fifty or sixty, it is a disgrace for any church to -accept money from her, when they have to toil hard every day for bread. - -Young leaders you should take care of them, instead of taking from -them, then you are showing the spirit of a hero, and a manly man, don’t -let the prince buy the manly part of you, so that you cannot excuse -your old mothers and fathers. Money you want, but you should not accept -it unless it is honorable. - -The facts and conditions that are in actual existence among our people, -there should be some remedy for them, someone has got to open the eyes -of the race, they cannot be honestly contradicted, they are not of -myself, I am commanded to right them from a pure and honest heart, I am -willing to devote my time and money in every way for the upbuilding of -humanity. - -My greatest knowledge of this subject is from the Bible. - -If you study God’s word instead of just reading it over, you will -understand it better. Then try to live accordingly. - -The prince of the world studies his word and uses it to condemn you -before God. He puts another meaning to it and tries to make you believe -he is right, so it is best to know for yourself. - -If you study in faith He will give you understanding. - -I trust that you will read carefully and weigh every sentence, and -place the right meaning to them: there are exceptions in all cases, -some are not guilty, but slow in action. - - - - -_My First Sermon to the World_ - - -When I was called to the works of God, my first sermon was preached on -the ball room floor at one of my cake walks, the last big one that I -rendered to the public. - -When I marched out with the cake walkers, instead of introducing them -to the people, which were about four hundred in number, my heart was -so full of joy that I forgot all about them and began to speak. These -are my remarks: Ladies and gentlemen, we as God’s people have assembled -here tonight to give God praise, for ourselves and the happy times -he has given us. The great pleasures come from God, let us go to the -churches and thank him. - -In our sorrows and troubles he gives us happiness. Let us men do no -smoking in the hall where the ladies are, let us show the light of -godly respect for all people. I hope to meet all of you at the church -on Sunday next. - -Then someone touched me on my shoulder and asked about the cake walk. -I started the cake walk and all had an enjoyable evening. My troubles -began that night, because I fooled the devil, and have been ever since, -and this book is putting another one over on him. - -This is a true saying. You can fool all of the people some of the time, -and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the -people all of the time. - -Ecclesiastes 12; 13:14. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, -fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. - -For God will bring every work into judgment with every secret thing -whether it be good or whether it be evil. Prophet Jude 24; 25. Now unto -him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless -before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. - -To the only wise God, our saviour, be glory and majesty dominion and -power, both now and forever. Amen. - -I remain your humble servant, Bishop Allan Wilson Cook is Rabbi Haling -Hank Lenht. - - - - - _May 8, 1925_ - - BISHOP A. W. COOK - 135 VALLEY ROAD - MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY - -_My Dear Mr Winston I thank you for your picture that you sent me for -my book. Here is your Book. I trust that you will like it. I speak in -it with an honest heart, goodwill to all man kind. The Business men -were glad to read your words that is in my Book. They are with you -thanking you for Passovers._ - - _I remain your umble servant - A. W. Cook_ - - - - -Transcriber’s Note - - -In this file, text in _italics_ is indicated by underscores, and text -in SMALL CAPITALS is in uppercase. - -The last section of this book is a handwritten note of thanks, from the -book’s author, A. W. Cook, to the contributor Robert Watson Wilson. It -has been transcribed without alteration. - -The “Subjects” section in the original book contained two errors. It -listed as the seventh section “The Power of Love”, which is not present -in the book, and had “My First Sermon to the World” listed before -“Unveiling the Prince”, which was the wrong order. These errors have -been corrected, and the list renumbered accordingly. - -The following other changes were made to the text as printed: - -Page 4: “well known orator” changed to “well-known orator” - -7: “prepetual, from and after” changed to “perpetual, from and -after” - -“in noway permit them” changed to “in no way permit them” - -9: “the works of Abraham. St. John 8:39” changed to “the works of -Abraham.” St. John 8:39” - -“general judgment Job 13” changed to “general judgment. Job 13” - -13: “I biblicly and historically” changed to “I biblically and -historically” - -“friends of Ceasar” changed to “friends of Caesar” - -16: “authority on Southern problems” changed to “authority on Southern -problems.” - -“equality without race blending” changed to “equality without -race-blending” - -“data showing universal race blending” changed to “data showing -universal race-blending” - -17: “keeps them apart. 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