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Last night ’twas snow and cold
Moon beams the creek enfold
There sat in one old oak
An owl whose hoot awoke
Sad Echos ’round about.
Then quiet did reign without.
When dawn came gliding in,
Our world to Alaska, akin!
The frost that clung to all—
The fence, the grass, the wall.
Ire crystals so well adorn—
The rose, the hedge, the thorn.
A transform’d earth in the night
We smiled on the lovely sight—
And gave—
Our thanks to HIM above,
For .beauty, for grace, for love.
—Florence Killinger
Dark MerU
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by
Kathryne
Favors
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Slavery
During the eighteenth century,
the church was an inviting field
for Negroes. As we studied last
week, the Methodists and the
Baptists gave the Negro a better
chance. They could present the
Bible to the ^egro in a simple
and interesting manner. This
was entirely necessary because
with the lack of education to such
a great extent, the Negroes were
not too easy, in many cases, to
catch on. After the Revolution
ary War, however, many of the
“poor whites” became slave
holders and were not so sym
pathetic towards the Negroes.
Soon the churches began to re
strict the membership to a few
Negroes at a time. Then as the
“poor whites” gained more power
the Negroes were restricted to
certain pews, to a certain section,
or to an entirely different build
ing. Perhaps this was the start
of our racial discrimination in the
church today.
The Negroes hated to give up
their freedom in the church after
they had it for such a long time.
One Negro ran away and his
master said, “He was raised in a
family of religious persons com
monly called Methodists and has
lived with them for years past
on terms of complete equality,
the refusal to continue him on
these terms gave him offense and
he, therefore, absconded. He had
been accustomed to instruct and
exhort his fellow creatures of all
colors in matters of religious
duty.” Many preachers ran away
to new communities. In the
North these free Negroes asserted
themselves. Richard Allen be
came the founder of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church. He
said, “I soon saw a large field
open in seeking and instructing
my African brethren who have
been a long forgotten people, and
few of them attended public wor
ship.” He started a prayer meet
ing in Philadelphia and he soon
had forty-two members. At first
he planned to have a separate
church for his race, but the
Negroes and “whites” dissuaded
him. His preaching attracted so
many Negroes, however, that the
“whites” soon desired to separate
from the Negroes. They became
so earnest in this attempt that
they disturbed Richard Allen and
two others by pulling them from
their knees when they were in
an attitude of prayer. This was
the beginning of the Free African
Society, organized by Richard
Allen and Absalom Jones.
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With Smoky
By Howard
“Smoky”
Molden
RICK ROBERTS
"Jackie the Great"
You get a line on Jackie Robin
son’s great gifts when you re
member that he fielded a pheno
menal .985 at a new position for
him, second base, in 1946.
To baseball experts, this is very
significant because it means he is
one of the ‘cleanest” fielders of
baseball history; a fact made
eloquent by noting that no Hall
of Fame second baseman—Collins,
Hornsby, Lajoie, Frisch, Evers—
have ever equaled it in any league
major or minor. Only the very
best efforts, Melilo’s .993 for the
Red Sox in 1934, and Bishop’s
.986 for the A’s in 1932, excel
Jackie’s. Look in vain for any
more, although Gehringer did
twice equal this figure of .985 for
Detroit, in 1935 and 1937.
This combined with Jackie’s
hitting and base running, could
mean but one thing: he’s at least
the greatest all-round athlete of
this generation. Too big for bias,
too terrific for prejudice—he’s
Jackie the great.
HERMAN HILL
Real All-America Teams
By the signing of one or more
Negro players to nearly every
team in the league, for the com
ing season, the All-America
Professional Football Conference
is proving itself to be “All-Ameri
can” in every respect.
The star-studded list of sepia
grid greats includes Buddy Young
and Archie Harris, New York
Yankees; Marion Motley, Horace
Gillom and Bill Willis, Cleveland
Browns; John Brown, Los Angeles
Dons; Bernie Jefferson, Chicago
Rockets; Bill Bass, Baltimore
Colts, among others.
Pigskin interest should be at
fever heat.
Never before in history have so
many of our boys been afforded
such a democratic opportunity to
make good in pay for major
league football.
K*
The All-America Conference is
to be sincerely congratulated.
We fans can show true appre
ciation by turning out in masse
and supporting the loop, the cost
of operating pro football teams
runs into the thousands of dollars
every season.
The challenge is ours and we
can ill afford to muff this golden
opportunity.
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