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Hi.hop It. W. Lan>pton, D.D., LL.D.
THE greate t need of any people is Uleir moral and religiou education.
All other training or education is econdary. There is no true
life which will meet the appro\'al of God without a correcl moral status.
There can be no real race ele\'ation if we unden'alue the moral and religious
pha e of our existence. The Hol~' Scriptures truly say:
"Righteou ness exalteth a nation, but sin i a reproach to any people."
In the tudy of the Book, we ha\'e the in piration to a correct moral
living, and the ba is upon which we may build for the ele\'ation of the
race, There is no more important work than that of training the young
in the truths and command of the Bible. race.
The needs of the moral and religions
education of the Negro are clearly
manifest. His opportunities for ethical
training in orne section of our country,
before his emancipation, were very
meager, yet there were indiyidual types
of moral excellence even in the dark days
of slayery, howing conclusively that if
under the most adyerse circumstances
they could produce these characters of
superior goodness, all they need at the
present time is opportunity in the race
of life, and the door of desire and expectancy
left open that they may enter.
It could not be reasonably expected for
any race of people to reach the zenith of
our ambition in tbe short time that we
have been free. Dr. John Lord, in his;
"Beacon Lights of History," says: "It
took one thou and years to elenlte the
Germanic Barbarian." If the same
period be allotted to the Xegro, judging
from the progress he has already
made in a little more than forb.' .year,
it i: afe to ay he will, at the end of
a thousand years, be far superior to
. man', and as highly cultured as any,
people upon the globe, and that i worth striying for.
The greatest need of to-day i a consecrated, educated, and business
ministr~'. No people can rise aboye their religious instructor. It is
important that the right kind of instruction be given in all our schools.
The real progress of races can be more clearly traced to the gospel
ministry of the Christian Church, assisted by good home training and
the education acquired in the choolroom, than to any other sources.
Every effort should be made to give the Negro an educated ministry,
and in our Southland, where the masses of our people dwell, none but
the ablest, consecrated teachers should be employed in .the schoolroom,
-Christian men and women, who will teach by example as well as
by books, to bring about desired result.
Through this method, and thi alone, all other thulgs being equal,
will the race of which I am a member be in the scale of Christian
ci\'ilization and usefulness and measure up to their pos ibilities in all
departments of human endeavor. The s.ystematic stud.\' of the Bible
must be t'ncouraged and the work of the Sunday-school i to be heartily
commended. These are orne of the great needs of the egro
BISHOP EDWARD W. LAMPTON, D.D., LL.D.
Negro Race
Residence: Greenville. Ki...
Bishop E. W. Lampton,
D.D., LL.D.
A. K. E. Church
Greatest Needs of the
BISHOP LAMPTON preside over the six
conference of Low iana and l\li issippi,
known as the" Eighth Episcopal District."
He was born in Kingsville, Ky., OetolX'r
21, 1857, of lave parents. His grandfather,
the Rev. Edward Wilkinson, was tile first
preacher of the African Methodi t Episcopal
Church in Kentucky. Mr. WilJ,..inson was
arrested and sent to pri on in 1857 for attempting
to organize the cburch of which
ills grandson is now an honored bishop.
Edward Wilkinson Lampton was converted
at the a"ae of seventeen year and shortly
aftenvard prepared to enter the miwstry.
He is an alumnu of Alcorn College, Alcorn,
l\<liss.; Campbell College, Jackson, Miss.;
Shorter College, Little Rock, Ark.; and
Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce,
Oillo.
He was successful as a pastor in many
leading appointments of the church, and has
been very helpful to the church as the author
of two books, "An Analysis on Baptism"
and" A Digest on the Rulings and Decisions
of the Bi hops of the 'Vrican :\lethodist
Episcopal hurch, 1847 to 1907."
In 1902 he was paymaster of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
with headquarters in Washington, and was elected without oppo ition. He
has always been considered oue of the leading financiers of tlJe church. At
the la.'lt General Conference, held in I orfolk, Va., May, 1908, he was elected
bishop. llnd hi election wru received by ilie church at large with great satisfaction.
