This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...such conflict between Anglo-Americans and Afro-Americans in the future will be what it has been in the past. The General Convention is the political arena of the government of the Anglo-American Church, just as much so as Congress is of the government of the United States. What has been the history of the Negro in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...such conflict between Anglo-Americans and Afro-Americans in the future will be what it has been in the past. The General Convention is the political arena of the government of the Anglo-American Church, just as much so as Congress is of the government of the United States. What has been the history of the Negro in the political arenas of Diocesan Councils? But our Diocesan Councils are playthings compared with the General Convention. Who can see the slightest ground for the least hope that the Negro will succeed in that great national arena in spite of his complete and uniform failure in every Diocesan arena?. In the very nature of things, as it is revealed by the whole history of Afro-Americans in the politics of both State and Church, there is not, and there cannot be, anything in a racial "Missionary" Episcopate with "representation" in the General Convention but the most humiliating defeat in every effort at self-assertion in opposition to Anglo-Americans. What is true of the Missionary Episcopate would be equally true of the Suffragan Episcopate. There is therefore absolutely nothing for the AfroAmerican Churchmen in any form of the Episcopate except only the one which will give them a completely independent and autonomous Church. Such an Episcopate would be a great good to them because it would give them a perfect school in which to learn the allimportant and indispensable art of self-government. Let then Afro-American Churchmen at their next Conference give up the idea of a Missionary or Suffragan Episcopate, which would be worthless and much worse than worthless to them, and ask for an Autonomous Episcopate the only one which possibly can be of any value to them. And let Anglo-American Churchmen not only create such an Episcopate...
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