NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
‘‘Glimpses of the Sunny South” 
Magnolia Minister Lectures Before Manchester Brotherhood. 
‘The meeting of the Baptist Brother- 
hood of Manchester, held Monday even- 
in the Vestry of the church, drew out 
a good attendance, as usual. There 
were more than sixty present. Rev. 
Dr. Walter E. Eaton of the Village 
church, Magnolia, gave an interesting 
talk on ‘‘Glimpses of the Sunny 
South. ’’ 
Rev. Mr. Eaton spent several years 
of his.life in the southland and in 
opening he made it clear to his hearers 
that people who travel from Boston to 
Palm Beach in palace cars and look 
out of the windows occasionally at the 
pickininies as they rush along, and then 
come home and lecture about the con- 
ditions in the South, know very little 
of what they are talking; to get an 
adequate idea of what the conditions 
really are it is quite necessary to live 
among the colored people for awhile and 
view their life at close range. I will 
ask you,’’ he continued, ‘‘to consider 
with me a few of the phases of their 
life as I saw it while living among 
them. 
‘‘In the first place they are very 
emotional. I was considerably disturb- 
ed one morning by terrible cries and 
moans coming from a room across the 
hall from my study and investigating 
I found a young colored man sprawled 
on the bed and taking on terribly, and 
on inquiring the cause of his trouble he 
told me he had pust received a letter 
by the morning mail telling of the mar- 
riage of his sister. They are suspicious 
of every white man no matter whether 
he comes from Manchester, Boston, 
New York, Philadelphia on any other 
place than the South. 
‘«They are very religious, yet steal- 
ing is very common with them, even 
among the best. They don’t seem to 
think it very wrong to steal. One 
morning I found my cook in tears and 
she told me some one had stolen her 
trunk which contained $300 in money 
that she had been years in saving, and 
a lot of her other valuables and trinkets. 
I learned afterwards that the thief was 
the woman’s own husband and he was 
a minister at that. 
‘<They are wonderfully imitative and 
fond of gaudy clothes. If they can’t 
get what they want to wear for finery 
in one way they will get it in another. 
‘hey are good musicians and quickly 
catch a tune, particularly of popular 
music. 
‘«They are very stubborn. I recall how 
one old deacon called Uncle Joe in a col- 
ored church, was famous for objecting to 
everything that was proposed by any 
member of the church. If a motion 
was made to increase the pastor’s sal- 
ary, he objected. If it was desired to 
repeair the church, he objected ,and no 
matter what was proposed he objected. 
Finally they hit on a plan to subdue 
the old deacon and a special prayer 
meeting was called and Uncle Joe in- 
vited to take a front seat and then one 
of of the elders arose and offered up 
a passionate prayer; ‘Oh Dear Lord,’ 
he prayed, ‘Uncle Joe is heah tonight 
an I wants yo toe make a diff’rent man 
ob him. He objects to eberyting we 
wants. He objects to gibing the pastah 
moah salary, he objects to fixing up de 
church, he objects to sending money to 
de heathen, he objects to eberyting; 
now deah Lord, can’t yo change him 
over, make a good, kind, generous man 
ob him and when yo hab done all dis 
take him to yoself, amen.’ ‘I object’ 
shouted Uncle Joe from his corner. 
‘They are very devoted and affect- 
ionate. I recall that it was two darkies 
that. carried the body of the great Liv- 
ingstone one thousand miles through the 
African jungles to the coast and then 
refused to give it up until satisfied that 
it was to be sent to England to be bur- 
ieu among those of the nobility. Cecil 
Rhodes went among the savages and 
won from them by his kindness thereby 
securing their confidence, things that 
could not be done by the sword. 
‘“There is much ignorance among 
them which is well shown by attending 
a meeting in a colored church and hear- 
ing the doctrines as propounded by a 
colored preacher, yet the colleges that 
have been established in the South are 
doing wonders in educating the young 
and some wonderfully keen minds are 
being developed. I know of one in par- 
ticular, William Pickins, a graduate of 
some of our highest institutions of 
learning, where he has distinguished 
himseff above all others and is one of 
the most brilliant men in our country 
today. 
‘‘There comes a time in every ones 
life when we do not stop to question 
whether a man is white, black, green 
or yellow. It is the man we are after 
and what he can do for us. There is 
in Jacksonville a man whose face is as 
black as my coat and whose lips are as 
thick as those of an African, yet he has 
access to all the best homes of the city 
because he is one of the most skill- 
ful surgeons in all the country. 
‘We have a great problem in edu- 
eating and developing the black race, 
but we are beginning to look upon it 
more in its true light realizing that in 
order to safeguard our own children it 
is equally necessary to safeguard the 
children of the black race; the inter- 
terests of one is interwoven with that 
of the other.’’ 
At the close of Rev. Mr. Eaton’s in- 
structive address, one of Rev. Mr. War- 
ner’s famous fish chowders was served 
which was greatly enjoyed by the com- 
pany bringing to a close a most en- 
joyable evening. 
It was voted to hold the next meet- 
ing April 28th., when Rev. Irad Hardy, 
pastor of the East Gloucester Baptist 
church will be the speaker who will 
give his lecture entitled, ‘‘On the Sun- 
ny Side of Life.’’ 
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