The Houston Informer (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 11, 1930 Page: 6 of 8
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VTIV i
Burroughs
WHY PEOPLE GO TO THE DOGS
INSTEAD OF TO CHURCH-
Negroes have invested more money
in churches than they have in any
other enterprise in the world.
When churches are used, properly,
the people get more out of them than
they do out of any other enterprise
R in the world.
The ministers are their only wel-
fare group for whose salaries and
upkeep Negroes seem to feel respon-
Up to the last decade the Negro
, took the church and his religious ob-
ligations most seriously.
% He felt it his bounden duty to build
churches and “spote” the ministry .In
return for the investment in property
and their fidelity to the cause, the
race has millions of dollars tied up
in churches that are shut up four-
fifths of the year, run down, going
to pieces, or standing still while the
leaders are wasting time and money,
‘ * fighting, masquerading, half preach-
ing, or preaching spurious doctrines,
in the name of the Christian religion.
A relatively small number are doing
anything like their duty in bringing
the people up and out of the mire and
the clay and establishing their going.
The colossal waste and bad man-
agement, that is so evident in Negro
, church life, would not be tolerated
nor suported in any other enterprise
or profession. 0, religion, religion,
what awful and enormous waste is in-
. dulged in, in thy name!
People put their money into church-
es for the dissemination of the truth,
the regeneration of mankind, the edi-
fication of the mind and soul, the
creation of a new earth wherein
dwelleth righteousness. But from
nine-tenths of our churches the peo-
ple are not getting anything that ap-
proaches the spiritual and moral re-
I turns that they should get on their
tremendous investments. The Bible
asks “Will a man rob God?" Yes,
any church that gets a dollars worth
' of sacrifice and gives back a dime’s
worth of results, is robbing God and
man. That is just what every church
that is, shut up four-fifths of the
time, run down, neglected, and allows
poor preaching, and questionable liv-
ing on the part of leader, represents
—a dime for your dollar—in some
cases, even the dime has a hole in it.
i Thousands of our churches are not
only locked up but are left dirty and
“topsy tiirvy” from Sunday to Satur-
day and are only brushed up on
Saturday. This condition is due al-
most wholly to lazy, standardless vi-
sionless, selfish leaders. Able-bodied
men who claim that they are called of
God, sit around all the week and al-
low their church yards to grow up in
weeds or become as bare of grass as
the palms of their hands are of hair,
the fences to fall down, the window
4 , lights to drop out and these men have
the temerity to come to church on
s Sunday and preach about how indus-
trious Paul, the tent making preach-
} er, was.
No, don’t put it on the sexton. If
he is hired to keep the church clean
1 he should be fired if he doesn’t do it.
He is not hired to keep, the church
to suit himself. Coming down to fine
points the trustees and stewards are
not responsible for setting up stand-
ard of physical excellence. The of-
ficers and members are responsible
for providing the means and cooperat-
ing in every way possible but it is the
"minister's job to get results or get
out.
, Negro churches are not living up
to their trust nor opportunity. The
masses have built, bought, and sup-
ported the churches. In return the
churches lock the people out doors all
the week and hold them up on Sun-
we day. “Feed my sheep” has come to
mean rleece my sheep. We criticise
the people for going to the dogs.
, There is nowhere else for millions of
hem to go. The churches for which
hey have paid are locked up. Thou-
hae sands of the churches have no pro-
gram. The dogs keep open house
as with something doing every minute
- in the day, three hundred and sixty-
five days to the year. The churches
could beat them at the game if the
children of light were wiser than the
children of the world. The dogs are
after the game. They stay open to
catch it. The churches get their game
on Sunday and turn the people over
to the dogs for six days. Many church
.leaders take six days to get ready to
give one poor performance on Sun-
day. The dogs have a perpetual per-
v formance—with variety. In this day
of competiting business and profes-
sional men stay on their jobs and
pren keep their specific business going the
entire week. Many of our preachers
1 lock up the churches and spend their
time resting or engagaing in worldly
5, business. The churches stand in the
w community locked up, run down, and
looking lonesome. A run down church
does not mean anything on earth but
- a run down, lazy leader. Mighty
plain talk, but ye shall know the
truth—even if it does hurt, the guil-
Talking about the high cost of liv-
ing what about the high cot of reli-
gion?Here are millions of dollars
put into buildings that are locked up
and the people who made the sacrifice
and paid for them have to go to other
places for edification and wholesome
F diversion six days of the week.
1 Churches brag about their num-
bers. Numbers are nothing. Quali-
ty and not quantity counts with God.
Only a handful of people are actually
engaged in Christian service. The
churches are not developing Chris-
tian leaders in proportion to the out-
lay in equipment and the opportunity
for encouraging the right use of
use The Bible definitely commands
of first Corinthians. Churches ’un-
der intelligent leadership can be run
very much like a school and be made
service stations. The Bible teachers
would come to teach God’s word, the
doctors to teach health and to heal
the people. The lawyers to give ad-
vice, the nurse to instruct mothers,
the musician to teach music, etc., un-
til all who have gifts are given a
chance to exercise them and all idle
churches and idle members are put to
work. The mases would be lifted up
and their investment in churches
would pay in this world snd in the
world to come. While the ministers
are asking the people “Why stand ye
here idle, the people are beginning
to ask the churches and the ministers
who hold the keys, the same pertinent
question. Here they are—idle mem-
bers, idle ministers, idle churches and
the people going to the dogs because
the dogs keep open house.
During the first eleven months of
1929 Texas brought in 4,717 produc-
ing oil wells and 522 gas wells..
During the fiscal year ended June
30, 1929, Texas citizens paid to the
federal government in taxes $39,465,-
989.50, of which 837,703,785 was on
incomes.
Getting as much as 40c a pound,
T. J. Barton, Bastrop County farmer,
sold 81,500 worth of pecans from his
new orchard last year.
e
Green Cleaners
and Dyers
Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing end
Alterations
We Mend Year Clothes
Ladies’ Work a Specialty
POSITIVELY NO ODOR
OF GASOLINE
1321 Ruthven St
Phone Preston 2827
KNOXIT
LIQUID
Unnatural and mucous dis-
charges can be avoided by de-
stroying the germs of infectious
dicenees. $1 re At all druggists
DR. C. M. NICHOLS
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Taborian Bldg., Suite 220
Preston 4181
807 1-2 Prairie Ave..” Houston. Tex
Fairchild Undertaking Co.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
EMBALMERS
1015 Dowling Street
Phones:
Fairfax 1835
Fairfax 6464
Res. Phone Fax. 2751
Office Phone Pres. 6958
F. F. STONE, M. D.
SPECIALIST
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
Eyea Examined—Glasses Fitted
Office and Hospital Practice
Suite 406-407, Fourth Floor
Odd Fellows Temple
Louisiana and Prairie
FOR HIGH-CLASS SHOE
REPAIRING
Visit
LIGHTNING REPAIR
SHOE SHOP
FRED T. LEE, Proprietor
417 MILAM 8T.
PRES. 5373
Dr. 0. L. Lattimore
DENTAL SURGEON
4091 MILAM STREET
AU Classes of Dental Work
Neatly Done. Bridge Work
A Specialty
Houra: 9 a. m. to 32 noon
2 p. m. to 5 p. m.
Sundays by Appointment
Phones: Office, Preston 1459
Residence, Cap. 8551
rches should be kept open
A. B. Fedford, jeweler, watchmaker
and optician, successor to B. F. Taylor
and Co., diamonds and jewelry; eye
classes accurately fitted. 219 W. Dal-
as Houston, Texas. Phone Fairfax
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11,1930
Chamber of Commerce Uses
Gives Sc hool $10,000.00 1
Salisbury, N. C.—(ANP)—The 1
Salisbury Chamber of Commerce H
gave $10,000 to the Price Memorial 1
campaign in response to an urgent ■
appeal of President Trent. This E
brings the campaign within 525,000 of ■
the total amount to be raised—$250, ■
000. The final reports were made I
by the episcopal areas here Decent-
ber 31. Bishop J. S. Caldwell of Phil- |
adelphia is chairman of the board of ■
trustees, and senior bishop of the A. ■
M. E. Zion Church.
Dr. E. A. Robinson of the class of E
1911 gave 8500 more to the drive, I
making a total of $1,500 he has giv- ■
en in this effort. He and Dr. W. H. ■
Higgins of Providence, R. I., are the ■
largest contributors of the alumni. ■
The latter has already given 81,600. ■
A similar amount has been given by ■
Bishop F. M. Jacobs of Brooklyn, N. ■
Y. All three of these men are mem-
bers of the trustee board of the col- ■
lege.
SHADO-GRAPHS
The stomach is abused more than
any organ of the body.
DR. T. M. SHADOWENS
Odd Fellows Temple Phon P. 2094
RT non DISEASES-No Mat-
DAVL ter How Bad or Old the
Case or What's the cause send for
FREE booklet about Dr. Panter’s
Treatment used successfully for over
25 years in the most severe and chorn.
1c cases. Write now—Dr. Panter, 178
West Washington Street. Room 412,
Chicago.
Office and Laboratory: 2619 Odin
Avenue, 5th Ward
Residence: 2519 Opelousas Street
DR. C. H. L. MOORE, M. D.
General Practice
Office Hours
9 to 11 a. m., 1 to 3 p. m.
' Sunday by Appointment
Phone Pros. 8888 Houston, Tex.
Office Phone, Preston 6350
DR. WALDO J. HOWARD
DENTIST A
Suites 201-202-203 Odd Follows
Temple
Louisiana St. at Prairie Ave.
X-RAY EXAMINATIONS
Houston, Texas
Hears: 11a.m. to 1 p.m. 8 to 8 p.m
Office Phone, Pros. 5288
418 Odd Fellows Temple
DR. CHAS. W.PEMBERTON
MEDICINE AND SURGERY .
Res. phone, Hadley 5440
Office Phone Pres. 5501
Rea. Phone: Fairfax 5247
Office Hours:
8 to 12 A. M.—1 to 8 P. M.
GEORGE W. ANTOINE M.D,
Physician and Surgeon
Residence: 2301 McGowen Ave.
Office: 401 Odd Fellows Temple
PARROTT AND SMITH
PAINLESS DENTAL CLINIC
Phones: orfiee Fairfax 0417; Res. Falr-
fax 9467; Residence Fairfaix 9890.
Free Extractions and Treatment Thure-
day Evening from 2 to 4 P. M.
Teeth Extracted, Crowns, Bridge Work,
Plates and Fillings.
PRICES ARE RIGHT AND
REASONABLE
222 WEST DALLAS AVE
Suite 214
Pilgrim Building
Houston, Texas
M. W. JORDAN
Notary Public
Office: 1502 Sydnor Street
Phone Capitol 5488-J
Prompt Service
Phones: Office F9860 Res. F-0727
Hours: 1 P. M. to lit. P. M.
J. M. LAWSON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
217 Pller'm Bids.
Res. 8287 Reeves Ave.
PRESCRIPTIONS
OUR SPECIALTY
Peoples Pharmacy
viRGIL B. BYERS, Ph. C.
415 MILAM STREET
Same Phone: Pres. 1909
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Richardson, Clifton F. The Houston Informer (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 11, 1930, newspaper, January 11, 1930; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1637694/m1/6/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.