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There was nothing spectacular, nothing new a
bout their entrance into Bethlehem—Mary on a
donkey, Joseph on foot, the halter in his hand. No
one noticed; no one cared. They were poor, ord
inary, lowly Nazarenes, common peasants come to
sign the census-rolls, foot sore and weary, typical
of others who had come for days in steady streams
to the city they called their own. Bethlehem, tiny
village, lay prostrate on a Judean hill.swollen
with strangers, aching with activity, moaning aloud
in drunken music and lustful laughter.this was
the village through which Mary and Joseph picked
their way, searching for a room. From inn to inn
they went in desperation.but always there was
no room, not a single bed, even for Mary, heavy
with child, whose time had come. At last, alone in
the quiet outskirts, they chanced upon a rude shel
ter built for cows, and here beneath the breath of
beasts Mary brought forth her son, and wrapped
him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a man
ger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Somehow nature went wild that night, the world
turned topsy-turvy,_all Creation shook for joy
and bowed toward the stable. Angels appeared to
shepherds on the hillside and sang the news that He
had come, He of whom the prophets spoke, for
whom the world had waited. Phenomena popped in
the heavens like fireworks; planets swerved; a
giant star fell from its orbit and traced a route a
cross the midnight sky. Wise men saw the star
and set out on camels to adore. Nature rejoiced
and laughed for joy for He had come, this Child of
Mary, on CHRISTMAS Day,_He, the Christ, the
Saviour of the World.
Aged prophets, centuries before, had told about
His coming,......holy men with bushy beards, on
speaking terms with God. For God had told them
Adam’s crime would one day be reversed; that He
would send His only Son to ransom Adam’s child
ren. God had promised, and now His word was
Flesh; Christ had come to save the world from sin.
Strange birthplace for so great a birth.a stable
filled with cows! Strange place to cuddle at Mary’s
breast, to feel the touch of gentle hands, to listen
to her lullabies! Strange birthday for the Son of
God!
But that is what He chose_a strange beginning
for a strange career. For thirty years He would
live unknown, as Joseph’s son in Nazareth, earning
His bread with labor and sweat, a lowly Nazarene.
And then one day He would leave His home and
foot His way through Palestine, raising the dead,
curing the sick, giving sight to the blind, his heart
on fire to do the work for which He had come.
People would follow Him, praise His name, on
Sunday try to make Him King, and on Friday nail
Him to a cross.
Strange career for the son of God, nestled now in
Mary’s arms. Strange, indeed, that this little
Child should come to earth that all men might be
saved. Wondrous, that this Child who suckles
should be the God who made us. Strange, but true.
And breathless, we adore!
Dr. John Adams Sr. Made Presiding Elder
of Kansas - Nebraska Conference District
At a meeting of the trustee
board of Western University and,
Douglas Hospital, the Rev. John
Adams, Sr., of Omaha, was eleva
ted to the highest post in the gift
of the bishop of the 5th Episco
pal District of The African Me- \
thodist Church. He was appointed
presiding eider of the Kansas
City, Kansas District to succeed
the late Dr. R. A. Adams. He was
elected to the trustee board of
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CHRISTMAS
IS THE TIME
for friendliness, for
the open house and
the open heart %
It is the time too, for
us to greet our
friends, to thank
them for their consid
eration of us and to
wish them all a very
Happy Christmas.
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Western University, the trustee j
board of Douglas Hospital and
made corporation counsel for the j
same institution.
Douglas hospital is the largest
and most modem institution of it’s
kind owned and controlled by the
Race of America. It is located at
Quindaro, Kansas and sponsored
by the AME church. At the trus
tee meeting the hospital was put
under a special committee of man
agement composed of the follow
ing: The Revs., Carl A. Flipper,
C. A. Williams, L. H. Hayes, T. J.
Burrell of Kansas, Missouri, S. H.
Clark and S. A. Lewis of Kansas,
City, Kansas, Russell S. Brown of
St. Louis, Mo., and John Adams,
Sr., of Omaha, Nebraska.
Douglas Hospital was moved
from the old location where it op
erated for thirty ye^rs at Kansas
City, Kansas, to it’s new home on
the campus of Western University
where it was formerly opened to
the public last October. The Uni.
ted States government gave the
AME church this new enterprise,
one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars. The Rt. Rev. Noah W.
Williams, D. D. Bishop of Ne
braska and the 5th spiscopal dis
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THE NEW NEGRO
by John Haynes Holmes,
Minister, Community Church of
New York; Chairman, Americ
an Civil Liberties Union
) An attempt to suppress per-j
formances of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin’
| in Bridgeport and New Haven,
I Connecticut, caused much discus
sion recently. A plain violation
of civil liberties, it was an unfor
tunate episode, and happily un
successful. Progress in thought
and life is not to be achieved by
burning books and banning plays.
But there was a conviction be
hind tnis attempt at censorship
which is important. Clergymen,
social workers and Negro leaders
in Connecticut were outraged by
the depiction and glorification in
this historic play of the “Uncle
Tom’ type of Negro. The subserv
ient, submissive, obsequious, obed
ient Negro who is always ready
to kow-tow to the whites! Of
course, there is more in Uncle
Tom than this. Mrs. Stowe por
trays mm as a erne Christian, mov
ed by a humility and forgiveness
which are the final graces of the
soul. He is the martyr who would
rather die than hate and kill his
enemy. In this religious sense, he
is a spiritual hero. But Tom, nonc
the less, has come to represent
traditionally the man who accepts
inferiority and bows in bondage to
his master.
Now, in our time there is a new
Negro. He is the Negro who
walks straight and tall, an equal
among equals. This Negro knows
the dignity of manhood in black
as well as white flesh. He is con
scious of his rights as a citizen
under the law and as a human be
ing under God, and is quick to
defend and vindicate these rights.
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trict raised in money and land a
sum to equal this gift. The build
ing is completely new with mo
dern elevator system and built un
der the supervision of government
engineers.
Dr. Adams district will cover
parts of Kansas and Nebraska.
He has converted a part of his
spacious home, 2622 N. 25th
street into district headquartei s
where his wife, Mrs. Hattie E.
Adams, will serve as district se
cretary. Mrs. Adams is a gradu
ate of Talledege College and is by!
experience qualified for this new
duty.
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Greetings to All Our Friends
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And again may the meaning of \
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Deep and still more true
Bring faith and hope and gladness i
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He is sensitive to injury and in
sult, and resolved to submit to
neither. On the lower levels “of
experience, he is belligerent, ag
gressive, arrogant, and as such a
source of danger in a delicate sit
uation. On the higher levels, he
is brave, strong, sacrificial, hero
ic, a champion of rights not mere
ly of his own race but of mankind,
and thus a source of hope in the
darkness of this hour. But in eith
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pole from Uncle Tom. What
wonder that the ancient play,
even as an historical document,
has suddenly become offensive!
In all this, whatever the mis
takes and ills involved, I see the
thing to cheer the heart. The
Negro has had a long and painful
journey. From slavery he moved
into a freedom which was no free
dom at all. In this twilight zone
of emancipation, he found him
self entangled in a two-fold strug
gle. One was an outward strug
gle with law and custom, to win
a freedom which was really free
dom. This struggle is still going
on. The other wag an inward
struggle with the inferiority com
plex which years of servitude had
implanted within his soul. This
second struggle is already far ad
vanced toward victory.
Everywhere today the Negro is
discovering his manhood, and
learning to live up to its full dig
nity and power. He propose* now
to enter upon his heritage as a
human being. And this means a
new era for the Negro, for Amer
ica, and for humanity.
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