The Afro-American Courier

AFPO-AMERICAN, COURIER be more than doubled by our next grand sitting. WORK OF STATE ORGANIZERS State organizers work came up to the quota. Those who took part in the September Jubilee will live with the ages. Local Deputies and Financial Secretaries who came up to the standard are as follows: Mrs. Lena Lindsey, Greenville, Miss., organized the following new lodges: Lake Side, Winterville, Greenville No. 3, Priscilla. D. W. Kelly, Inverness, Miss., organized Flying Eagle and Indianola No. 2. M. S. Hazzard, F. S., leading with 20 new members. E. W. Barnes, Canton, Miss., organized Carthage, Greenwood, and Lexington No. one. Louis Jones, one Juvenile Band with 14 new members. W. B. Benson secured 22 applications. Morris Jones, one Juvenile Band with 14 new members. W. S. Hunter organized Jonestown, two Juvenile Bands and secured a number of applications. Jim Jones, one Juvenile Band with 13 new members. H. C. Thames organized one Juvenile Band. Those who wrote over the quota: C. H. Walker, Gertrude Simpson, John King, Willie Holman, E. H. Hays, Pillow Reynolds, Caldonia Lewis, Willie Mitchell, Peter Pool, Jr., James Ball, Sallie Simpson, Samuel Lewis, T. M. Outlaw, Mamie Fletcher, Jake Jones, Jessie Roberts, Maggie Helm. A. Banks, President of the Afro American Sons & Daughters, besides writing a number of applications, organized two new lodges. T. J. Huddleston, Custodian of the AfroAmerican Sons & Daughters, organized: Broad Lake, Jones Chapel, Anguilla, Lexington No 2, Enez Lodge Tchula, Yazoo City No. 7, No. 1 Money, Miss., Ethel lodge Sidon, and made one visit to Mt. Zion, Howard, Miss., added 30 members and visited other places and paid death claims. He added over 250 members. Rither Emerson, Durant, William Kimber, Mariah Howard, Louise; Angeline Amos, Belzoni; Evans Jenkins, Thirsty Zaldon. Blanche Robinson. All lodges must send in their education money. The law provides in case of failure a tax of 50 cents against every member. ARE YOU NEGLECTING YOUR BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY? The Afro American Sons & Daughters is offering to you and your famliy a class of fraternal protection, aid and profit not to be found in the South land. Protection against every form of sickness and accidents, and in every emergency, and profit on every dollar invested. Our quota for October will be 800 members-20 new lodges-5 Juvenile band families. Remember, our slogan is foresight, faith and endurance. Our motto is let down your bucket where you are. What I say to one, I say to all. Push, pull. The height to which we are to attain is before us. Guaranteed by the protective insurance system of the State of Mississippi. Only a small cost and absolutely no loss. From nothing to 8500 policies in 18 months. From not one cent in money to $20,000.00 ahead. We have made rapid progress in spreading the Afro American Sons & Daughters since the meeting of our Grand Lodge. Our writing force on the field had a mind to work. I am sure with such a bunch of officers on the field our membership will Annual address of Rev. P. E. Frisby, D. D., President of the General Baptist Convention of Mississippi, delivered in the OCTOBER 1, 1926. CUSTODIAN'S LETTER Dear Members: PAGE THREE Death List ADDRESS OF REV. FRISBY APRO-AMERICAN COURSE convention that convened with the Jackson Street B. C. in Vicksburg, Miss., July 20th. 1926. and a widening horizon, we sang, The World must be conquered for Christ. And here we pledge anew our life and love, to Him who went to the cross for us. We are glad to be here in the Hill City, the gateway of the metropolis delta. Dear brethren of the General Baptist State Convention of Mississippi, assembled with the Jackson Street Church of Vicksburg, greeting: I, your humble servant, called and set apart to this service by the authority of the churches, greet you in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen. This God is our God, yours and mine forever. He will be our guide even unto death. By the will of our convention, you are the delegates of our churches. To you has been given a great honor, because to you has been committed a great trust. We are continuing instant in prayer, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of Him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened: that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of His glory, of the inheritance in the Saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power towards us, who believes according to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power and might, and domain, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come; and hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all, if you be willing that God shall answer this prayer, you can not fail. But of you lean to your own understanding intsead of seeking and following the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you will certainly fail, and damage will befall the Church of God. May I remind you to keep in your mind that oft repeated word of our Lord and Master, which was also so frequently on the lips of the inspired Apostles. That word is "Watch and Pray." We have made our way in the gray dawn of the morning, up to the very top of yon historic mount, where with clarified vision, Where the waves of the Mississippi, Flow under the mistletoe hanging free; Where orange, fig, and trumpet vine, There odors mix from every clime. Where snowberry ends and true wort Down where the south begins. We have not gathered here today I trust as partners in a political rival, but as friends and brothers; not to promote our own selves, but the cause and interest of Christ Jesus our Lord. And we are not here to carry out any selfish plans that we have wrought all over the State, ere long before the meeting of this convention. For there is a large element of deception in all ambitious schemes, when something is brought to bear, for the benefit of the few. For oft times, when one is at the summit of selfish ambition, the other is at the depths of despair. The road that selfish ambition is too narrow for religion, too crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, too dark and hilly for happiness. We are made conquerer not over each other, but over self. No man should make a defeated brother the stepping stones of his preferment. It is too great a price to be paid for the success of any sort. For there are men today trying to rise on the death of another and to make defeated men their ladder to climb to the top. But that top may prove a dizzy height from which they may fall to the depths low and bottomless. Let us see to it my brethren, that the steps beneath our feet are not the conquered bodies of our brothers, but the subdued and conquered self. It is with deep and profound sadness that I come to the place in this message, where I must call the roll of some of our best leaders and workers, who went home to their reward since we closed our last meeting in Greenville. In scanning the list, I would record with high and un- PAGE FOUR OCTOBER 1. 1926 Our Blessed Dead