Q. Is the A.M.A. agitating the color-line question?

A. It is not.  It always has proclaimed its principles for the interests of the oppressed, and always has championed the cause of God’s poor, pleading for the right because it is right.

Q. Why is the A.M.A. in the South doing its work in schools and churches among white and black?

A. Because the Lord has said; “Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.”

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THE CARS, THE CHURCH, THE COURTS.

Our esteemed brother, Rev. G.C.  Rowe, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Charleston, S.C., and his associates, on their return from the meeting of the Joint Committee on the union of the Georgia Association and the Georgia Conference, were forcibly transferred to an inferior car on the Georgia Railroad.  They were not driven from the train, they were allowed to ride, and the car in which they rode was connected with the cars containing the white passengers.  They were simply separated from the others and that only because they were colored persons.

The reception these honored ministers of Christ met in the Joint Committee was very much of the same sort.  The white brethren did not deny them their place in the church—­nay, the two bodies, white and colored, were to be connected together, but these colored brethren were to be kept separate and that only because they were colored persons.

An appeal will be made to the courts, but the interesting question is:  which will be first to recognize the equal manhood of the colored man—­ the cars, the courts or the church?  Would it not be a shame to the church and a dishonor to the Christian name if the church should be the last?

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Speaking of the race problem, in his baccalaureate sermon at Vanderbilt University, recently, Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi, of the Methodist Church, South, startled his hearers by the following vigorous declaration:  “It is a travesty on religion, this disposition to canonize missionaries who go to the dark continent, while we have nothing but social ostracism for the white teacher who is doing a work no less noble at home.  The solution to the race problem rests with the white people who live among the blacks, and who are willing to become their teachers in a missionary spirit.”

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THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION AND FOREIGN MISSIONS.

BY REV.  FRANK B. JENKINS.

The American Missionary Association has done both home and foreign missionary work.  There is nothing in its constitution or traditions to prevent its doing the same again.