Chapter VI: Section VI (2)

As soon as we but make a co-operative start toward negro migration and colonization and cease the vain attempt to pour two gallons of water into a one-gallon vessel--to bestow citizenship upon the negro in the South--his condition will improve. What satisfaction does not get from reading documents like “The Negroes’ Progress in Fifty Years”? Of what avail are houses, land or education, forsooth, to one in a state of bondage? Better ignorance and poverty for him. Shall the promise be kept to the ear and broken to the hope? I cannot agree with Mecklen, in “Democracy and Race Conflict,” that the race question is essentially insoluble. The negroes are tractable and, looking upon themselves as a “peculiar people,” will follow such course as their leaders may map out for the “race”; a course which should be thought out, it must again be insisted, not along the impossible, makeshift lines of racial equality in the South, but in the quite opposite direction and in terms of hundreds of years. While permanent plans are under way, every energy should be exerted to educate and fit the negro for a new, a saner life under ampler skies. America may not justify herself at the Final Assize until she lives up to the truth that the white man is right, that the negro is also right, and that of these two contradictions neither is wrong.

_Will the Black Man Go Back to His Country, Africa?_

In order for me, in my book, to answer you that question, I will have to take up the words of God’s prophets, because they can answer that question better than I. For this reason I will call your attention to prophet Amos, 3:7. Surely the Lord God will do nothing but to reveal his secrets to his servants the prophets.

In this chapter, your question will be answered, send back the stolen goods, for justice is on your trail.

God has promised through his prophet Ezechial 36; 24:28:32.

For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people and I will be your God.

Not for your sake do I do this, saith the Lord, be it known unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

Ezek. 36; 5:9. Therefore thus saith the Lord God. Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey. For behold, I am for you and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown.

Now my friends, if the Lord God of Israel says that we Black Jews shall go back to our own land, no one can stop it.

The nations must give up their stolen goods.

Now the God of Heaven and Earth is directing the minds of the good white people, they are coming together, and giving justice to all people, so the curses may be raised up off of them. The black man wilt soon come into his own.

Now my friends, whether I want to or not, I am compelled to present to you at this period in my book--at two o’clock, a. m., Jan. 17, 1925--the spirit of God made me get up out of bed, and write the truth, whether the world likes it or not. I have the honor to present to you one of the greatest black men that ever lived on earth, and the greatest in these last days. The honorable Marcus Garvey, president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He has the spirit of Ezechial and the vision that God gave him. Allow me to present to you the words of God, and this man, Marcus Garvey is in the same shoes.

First I want to call your attention to Numbers 12:6, and if there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream.

My friends, this is not the first prophet that the Lord has sent among the so-called American Negro. In nineteen hundred, God sent us Prophet William S. Crowdy, and he got two hundred and eighty thousand who keep the seventh day Sabbath and the Passover, and set up the Church of God and the Saints of Christ, and the Black Israel fought it until they stopped his progress; then the Lord God of Israel took him down before he finished his work. The carnal part he never finished. He was an old man--he gave up the ghost and left us without material and racial leader. So the Lord God has sent us this man, known to the world as Marcus Garvey, and the stiff necks of Israel have gone after him with sticks and stones, but it is their last chance.

Now I shall put this man in Ezechial’s shoes, that you may see him and be blessed if you stop fighting his works, for it is none other than the works of God.

Now allow me to direct your thoughts to Prophet Isaiah 55; 7:8:9:11.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man, his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth, it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing wherever I send it.

So we are as foolish galatians, have been bewitched by others, trying to turn white, trying to take this government by politics, and the white man’s education, which is destruction to Black Israel.

This is God talking to Garvey. Ezekiel 12; 1:2:3. And he said unto me, son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.

And the spirit entered into me, when he spoke unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spoke unto me.

And he said unto me, son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their fathers have transgressed against me unto this very day.

Now my friends, you know we black people as a nation have obeyed every nation in this world except God. Through his commandments which were handed down to us by the nations, and all the God that we know is the God that they have told us about, and we as a nation are obeying the Gods of this world, and fighting the God of Israel.

Ezek. 2; 4. For they are impertinent children and stiff hearted. I do send unto them and thou shall say unto them, thus saith the Lord God.

And they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for they are a rebellious house, yet they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.

Allow me to ask the question, why is this man Garvey so bold and not afraid of anyone nor death. The ignorant men judge him to be boisterous, or a bully like themselves, because they do not know God and his works, the vision was not given to them.

Ezekiel 2; 6. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee and thou doest dwell amongst scorpions, be not afraid of their words, or be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house; 7. And thou shall speak my words unto them, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for they are most rebellious.

But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee, be not thou rebellious, like that rebellious house, open thy mouth and eat what I give thee.

Now my friends, Mr. Garvey has opened his mouth and has eaten the word of God, so he has got to do what God tells him; and it is strange to the people because it is not their ways, and the leaders of the people to try to hold them from this back to Africa movement, but the Lord God said they shall go, not all of the old mothers and fathers; they shall stay here and in their homes all over the world, but the young men and women will go to build up a government for themselves, so that we may be represented all over the world as a nation of people governing themselves, and not looking up to another nation, and their God to lead us, or to exploit us and keep us in ignorance. Ezekiel 3; 55. For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard tongue, language, but to the house of Israel.

But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for they will not hearken unto me, for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.

Behold I have made thy face strong against their face and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

As an adamant harder than flint have I made their forehead. Fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

Moreover, he said unto me, son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

And go get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children, of thy people, and speak unto them and tell them. Thus saith the Lord God, whether they will hear or whether they will forebear; 17. Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, therefore hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me.

Why does this great man go into politics? Why does a dog go into the swamp and the man with the gun stay on the outside?

Mr. Garvey goes into politics to run you out of the white man’s business, and to beat you at your own game. He knows if you continue to dabble in the white man’s business, when you are only parasites in their country, that you will put a man of a class of men in office who will see that we as a race will have to pack up and get out, because we are noisy. They will say, go to your own country and build yourself a government of your own, and all you want. If you know how to run our government or how it ought to be run, you can run one for yourselves, so go to it. For myself, I have not voted in twenty years. I have all I can do, to obey the laws that are made by the white man in this country, and all of them respect me because I keep out of their business.

How does this man Garvey know all things, how to unite seven million black people all over the world? The white man did not tell him, but he has done it. Let us search the holy scripture and find out. The secret comes from God, let us see Job 28; 12. But where shall wisdom be found and where is the place of understanding.

28. And unto man he said. Behold the fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding.

This man is one who loves the Lord, and when the Lord God picks a man to make a watchman out of him, he gives him wisdom. Let me get another witness, Psalm 111; 10. The fear of the Lord is in the beginning of wisdom, a good understanding have all they that do his commandments, his praise endureth forever.

Let us find another witness, St. John 7; 17. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself. This man has but one desire and that is to free a people who are crying to him for help all over the world.

Not only does God give out this wisdom and understanding to Mr. Garvey, but to all men and women who do his will. Unless you do the will of God, you cannot understand this great man. He is too far ahead of you, and you can only trust his word. Have faith in him and you will be all right.

Allow me to direct your thoughts back to the greatest of all prophets, that man is Jesus Christ.

St. John 8; 31:32. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believe in him, if you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed.

And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

It is the truth that destroyeth the carnal mind, which keeps you blind, so you cannot see the hand of God working through the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and it is only love that opens your eyes that you may see. All humanity has to get love, regardless to creed or color. Let us see what prophet Jesus says about it, as you say you are following him.

Matthew 5; 43:44. We have heard that it hath been said thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy.

But I say unto you, love your enemy, do good unto them that hate you, bless them that curse you and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you.

Now my dear reader, love is the only hope for us to get back to our country. It is the only way to world peace, the only thing that will make the nations lay down the sword, it will bring peace to your home. Love is the only thing that will destroy charity institutions, insane asylums and prisons, and we would have no need for hospitals. Love for humanity is like an eating cancer, it brings respect and demands respect of the high type. It will demand that you give up everything that attempts to disgrace or destroy the temple of God. It has power over the flesh and keeps it under subjection. Do God’s commandments and you will never go wrong.

_The Unjust Treatment to Garvey_

On February 7, 1925 at 2 A. M., I was called out of my bed to warn you, my people, the Black Jews, that you have caused the world to put in jail, only to please you, the man of God, who is your children’s saviour. You as a race are cursed, you shall never see Africa, but your children shall go.

This man, Marcus Garvey, has finished his work, and it is well done. He is now having a well needed rest. He has only stepped in the shoes of Moses and Jeremiah, who were put in jail, put down into a well, because they told the truth, which condemns you Black Jews. Jesus Christ was whipped and driven out of cities, until he was almost starved. At last he was rebuked by wicked men and women. Then lynched by white men because he dared to tell you Black Jews the truth.

In the 15th century, you were chained and brought to all nations and sold for two hundred and fifty years as slaves, and suffered all kind of trouble. Then God raised up the good white people in your favor to help you to get free from the yoke of bondage all over the world.

Mr. Abraham Lincoln promised that if he ever got the chance he would hit slavery a hard blow.

The white people of America elected him to be president and he struck slavery a terrible blow. He emancipated four million, five hundred thousand so-called negroes, and was killed for doing it.

Now, some of you mixed people are bucking the dead man and saying that he did not mean to free us. Whether he meant to or not, he gave us guns and ammunition to help free ourselves, and our fathers got on the job.

Three weeks before he was killed, he had promised Frederick Douglas, our leader then, that he would go before congress and present a bill that would demand one state in this country or send us back to Africa. We must have our name that we may know who we are, and can serve our God.

Our president, Garfield, picked up our righteous issue, and they assassinated him for telling the truth as he saw it.

Our late president McKinley hit the righteous trail, and spoke the truth as he saw it, and they put him to sleep.

Our late president, Roosevelt, stepped out in the path of righteous, and invited Mr. Booker T. Washington to luncheon with him at the white house, and when he was on his campaign in nineteen hundred and twelve they shot him.

When Mr. Marcus Garvey stepped out on the platform of righteousness, they shot him twice while he was in his office, but God spared him to rest a while in jail, until the good-thinking white people set him free.

My open opinion of the man, I know a crook when I see one and deal with him. I was introduced to Mr. Garvey in nineteen hundred and nineteen at the Messiah Baptist Church in Yonkers, New York. I was chosen to make the opening address on this night. He organized a division in this church, one of the finest colored churches in the State of New York, and I was one of those who joined. But this division went down through jealousy among its members. Then I watched Mr. Garvey, his officers and members and those who read his paper. By doing this I found out where the trouble lay. It was in his crooked officers. Nine out of every ten showed up at the conventions dishonest. When Mr. Garvey began to expose them, they began to plot against him. The worst of it all is, that the majority of them all were preachers who were all in, down and out.

I found the work of this organization in the bible. In nineteen hundred and twenty-one, I called my friends together in Yonkers, New York, and laid the facts before them. I suggested that they should organize a division of their own, which they did. I have been watching Mr. Garvey from then until now.

My opinion of him is that he is one of the most honest men of all time, with a big heart, no jealousy toward any man. I do not believe that Mr. Garvey would entertain any evil thoughts. He means good to all, both white and black. He is the best colored friend that the white man has. He is only trying to take a great curse off of the white people that God is about to send on them, because they won’t let the Black Jews go back to Africa. He sees it and knows it. I myself have seen the same thing. The destruction is coming if these stiff neck black people are not sent from among you whites. You must let them go and serve their God. This is the road to peace and prosperity.

Now my white and black friends, this subject was written with a spirit of love, for love is the only way, and the only sources that the nations or races can get together.

Moving picture shows the power of love. They show every crooked step that the lover makes and its results. This should be a warning to others, that they should marry for love and not for money. For true love is the only step to righteousness and honor. Without true love, no man can respect his wife or no woman can respect her husband. The vow which is made at the altar cannot be kept without true love. Money can not keep it. Let us marry because we love and we will be happy on this earth. Without it our life struggles are in vain. The movies will help you, if you go there to learn and not for a good time. You will show respect for one who has true love in his heart.

I want to state here, that I have made a round of a number of moving pictures, and studied the characters, and the power of love, and the destruction of false love.

I am compelled to say, that the movies are doing a lot of good now, to mend up the broken hearts, that some of the victims may start life over and count yourself unworthy of their love if you have not the true love in your heart. You are the man or woman that is on your way to destruction, whether it be a race or nation, its leaders must be of true brotherly love for mankind, for out of the mouths, the heart speaketh.

_Down On the Farm_

Down on a farm in the south, of the year of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, I was born in Louden County, Virginia. Son of a black, who was bought by Josh Fletcher from a slave trader, an Englishman by the name of Cook, for about two or three thousand dollars. The slave masters called him the buck. If I had been born in the time of slavery by black Jewish mother, I would have been worth about one thousand dollars to my father’s master, but my mother was a mulatto and I was born free, so-called. Now I am not worth thirty cents to any one. They won’t have me in jail unless some of my own people put me there.

Twelve years of my life was spent on the farm. My father taught me how to farm, milk cows and do a man’s work. When between eleven and twelve years of age, I sought the Lord for three weeks and days. I found him and he filled my heart with joy and love. At the age of twenty-eight, he called me from the world and I started to clean up.

I was a clean man, sent to the world with this message, The Black Jews.

The black boys do not need gymnastics to help make him a man. He only needs to be on a farm and made to work a few years. Then he will be able to take care of himself. The black man has got to get back to the place where he can produce the food he eats. He has been forced off of the farms, as these farms have been given to others, to work, who are not of the black race.

We must find a farm somewhere in this world that we may produce the things that we need.

During my farm life, God was preparing me for this day, because he wanted to use me for a good work among my people.

After seven years of country school I came North and fell into the hands of a good English family in Montclair, New Jersey. They taught me how to do house work, and gave me more schooling. They left me lacking for nothing, so I could make an honest living. When I left them I was able to do any kind of domestic job.

In nineteen hundred I stepped out into the professional world, and I saw the weak part of my life, that was: If I hoped to measure arms with my brother, I must go back to school. So, in nineteen hundred and five, I took a three years’ course in a business college in Newark, New Jersey, and made good. For the past ten years I have conversed with representatives of all races or nations of the world. They talk freely with me, and I am yet learning. I don’t know it all, and my ears are still open. This boy, Haling Hank Lenht has grown to a man of responsibility, and has gained many friends among all nations, because they can trust him.

In nineteen hundred and three I came before the world as professor A. W. Cook, a dancing master and a teacher of etiquette to my people. At that time, all the dancing that my people could do, was jigging and buck and wing dancing. I did that old stuff down on the farm. So I made up my mind to teach my people a new kind of dancing, the way the white people dance. I went to a book store and bought a book on etiquette and a ball room guide. I studied these books from cover to cover, and when I opened my dance halls, I was a success. In 1904 I had dancing classes in different cities and towns. Every night except Sunday night.

_Defending the Honorable and Graceful Movements of Dancing_

As it is so popular and brings happiness and joy, when nothing else can, to thousands of human beings, if it is used in its proper place and in the right way.

It will do little or no harm. When in sorrow or down cast, dancing is a good medicine. It gives you a stronger mind and a new determination. You feel like you have something to live for, and are able to meet the terrible struggle of life. It drives the treacherous thought out of the being and makes room for happiness and kindness. It also makes a man or woman proud, honest, honorable and respectable. It gives power to command respect from every one.

Can you keep the race from dancing? Never! For it was handed down from God. It is the race’s nature to dance; it was born to the art, with music in every joint to give God praise. Disturb this happiness and you will find a monster within them. What will you do about it? They must dance. Teach them the proper way, tell them the danger, tell them they must not worship this gift, for they should respect it and give praise to God for his blessings. We should remember that these earthly blessings are from God. We must know how and when to use them. We as a race have reached the stage of life where we must begin to accept the good examples set by others, as we are not yet leaders of the world.

It is preached from our pulpits and by the elder members of our secret societies, that if you go to a dance, reception, or any place where dancing is allowed, that you have no religion and are on your way to hell. That style of preaching is an old chestnut tree and does not take effect on the race. We have learned to love and serve God in an intelligent way. Our leaders must find a better and more substantial method in order to make any impression on the race. The warning that is connected with this subject will not answer and they believe you not.

If our churches believe that it is a great sin to dance, why is it that they rent excursion trains, dance halls and picnic grounds, furnish the best of music, and invite the members and friends to come and enjoy themselves? All of the secret and Christian societies give these great dances.

The question is easily answered. They know if you go with the intention of respecting the place, the people you mingle with and yourself, there is no sin. You have been blessed with strength and a clean mind to meet your friends with joy and happiness.

It has been stated that dancers and drunkards cling together. This is not necessarily true, because not many drunkards have a passion for dancing. They are not allowed to mingle with respectable people. Without being trained properly, it is difficult for one to glide over a waxed ball room floor even when sober.

_Proper Training_

Which bring joy, happiness, wealth, long life and a resting place in the heaven above?

I will not picture to you the history of our great men and leaders who have climbed to the top rung of the ladder of life, from the proper training, and the great battles that have been won for God and man, but a few needed points of our home life and ourselves, because we have not this great power.

First, we as a race do not know how to serve God and be a valued soldier and defend our race, because we have not had the proper training.

We do not respect our country, towns, churches, societies, homes, wives or husbands and our children do not respect us, schools or teachers. Because a large majority of the race have not had the proper training.

This is a sad and serious question that I picture to you, and without being remedied it will drag down the moral standard of Israel and blot her out forever.

But with the powerful brain cultivated and that strong mind properly trained she will be as brave as David of old, as powerful as a giant and a God-fearing citizen.

What power has proper training? It has the power of the professional boxer who sidesteps many death blows, which if landed, would have blotted out his life forever, but he played with his antagonist because he feared him not. The great power of training was at his command.

The proper training only fits us and prepares us to meet the severe struggles of life, and to overcome the terrible death blows that are delivered and struck at us. We walk in his ring, and we must be prepared to dodge his blows.

The ballrooms, picnics and excursions are some of his strong blows, because he strikes the untrained, who cannot defend themselves. The only way to dodge him is to train your boys and girls before they enter society or the ball room.

A boy or girl who goes to a public dance or picnic without a guardian or the proper training, usually becomes the victim of some society shark. If this shark can successfully drag the untrained party over the floor and make him think he is having a good time, then he has fallen into the shark’s power and is at his mercy, and the parents have lost all control of the child. Nine out of ten never recover. He may be like the bread that is cast upon the sea and tossed by the great waves. Perhaps he may have been picked up by a beautiful seagull, only to be dropped to the filth of the earth, or to the depths of an unfriendly sea. To dodge this blow, you must be trained by a professional who is of a good understanding, knowing his business, an honest and respectable God-fearing person of good standing.

During my twelve years’ experience as a dancing master, I discovered the foundation of the great sin which is connected to the great art of professional movement, no dancing master has published. They have not stopped to give a thought. But for the sake of the people as a race, I must picture the facts to you and trust God for the results.

The facts are a modifier to this subject. As a race of people, we have proved to the world that we must have music and public receptions, and most of us have better than we can afford; results are that our expense is beyond our income. Such being the case, we do not stop to consider our ball room etiquette or the moral training of our guests. We are glad enough to take a nickel or a dime, regardless to his or her training.

We come out of our churches and societies and form a committee to give this reception, as we call it. Some of us have never worked on a committee before.

You will send your child to a dance without the proper society training. Why? Because one of your church members is on the committee, and he himself has not the proper training, then how do you expect him to protect your child. Its like trying to make a square brick fit snug into a round hole.

You would not send that child to a dancing master’s reception, one who is of a good reputation and knows how to conduct one, or let him come to your house and teach your child the right way, how to shun all snares. Why? Because you have not the proper training yourself, and stand in the way of your child.

Carefully look over these facts, which I have outlined to you, and if you are honest with yourself, you will bear witness with me.

I am also prepared to back up this subject with facts of my life.

_Unveiling the Prince_

THE PRINCE OF THE WORLD AND HIS POWER

In this subject I will prove the great mistake we are making as representatives of the race, which are leading us from the strong arms of God, instead of drawing us to Him; we are fools and glory within ourselves.

First: I want to introduce the prince of the world, who rules and governs this whole entire earth, and all things on it are subject to him, except a man’s soul, and that will have to stand before the bar of God to be judged.

This prince is better known as the devil, who once was an arch-angel in Heaven, now he is in war with God. He is here disguised as a gentleman; he also is a noted actor and a deceiver; he does not wish the world to be destroyed; he hopes to prove to you that this is as good as the Heavens above.

A public gambler, or a common drunkard, or a murderer or any common act, he dislikes. Why? Because such action gives away his plans and frightens the children of God and brings down their wrath on his works. He would like for you to be happy with the comforts of the world and forget God. This prince is an important character; he is next ruler to God; he is more important than all the angels in Heaven; his power is the greatest success of the world, and the power of man is under his control, and he is gradually crushing the Godly thoughts and real christianity out of the hearts and minds of the human family.

In order to do great work for Christ we should study more about his great enemy, who is the prince of the world.

Two nations study the conditions of one another in order to conquer or win a battle. This prince is known as a gentleman, he rules the highest positions on earth.

The kings, and presidents, judges, and ministers of the gospel have to take their hats off to him, and bow low. At such times they deny Christ as Peter did; the prince commands and they are compelled to carry it out to the letter, they have not faith enough in Christ to resist, and if you are saved at all it is only by grace. These are the conditions that face the world today, real christianity of the human family, is almost a thing of the past.

Christianity is today used as a cloak for money grafters. The higher the position is that you hold in the church, the more money you can get; these positions are in the power of the prince; the better preacher you are the more money you can get, not souls for Christ. He is out of it. It is not souls and better conditions that our leaders are calling for today, it is money they want and money they must have. Why? Because the prince has power over them and nine out of ten have sold out to the prince, and without a successful remedy it will destroy the world. The negro leaders are selling their churches and their societies to the prince.

I have very plainly showed to you the work of the prince, and have told you of his power.

Gold and silver money, the fruits of all evil, are the valuable things in his kingdom; that is what he puts up such a terrible fight against the God-heads with; that is what he betrayed Christ with; that is what he is buying the ministers and kings, presidents and judges with, and the supposed to be christian churches with, but some of them are a devil’s hell, and the world would be better off without them and their leaders. That is what buys a human life. The lust for money causes our ministers and leaders and the great trust companies to feather their own nest by taking the last penny from a poor starving family without mercy. The prince knows that you want it and would do any crime to get it, so you rob the poor, you are branded in God’s sight as a thief, and that is against the Golden Rule.

What does the race need? We want leaders, men who are manly enough not to throw themselves on a weak race and make them take care of them and their families who are not able to take care of themselves.

The greatest progress of the world has been built upon the poor and unfortunate race. They have been drove, and whipped, and sold, and robbed of their rights before a just God by man. The negro leaders have taken up the plan of the white man. I will add with a few exceptions, the height of their manhood and education is to fool the weaker of their race, and make them take them for their leaders whether they want to or not; they are not willing to sacrifice one hour for the race unless they can get paid for it, they study the Gospel of Jesus Christ and sell it for a large sum of money, when the gospel is free for all. Their ambition is to build a fine church and tax a poor race to pay for it.

What should they do? They should teach the congregation to save their pennies for a rainy day, for they have nothing to give; any man that has not saved from two or five hundred dollars has nothing to give to a world’s church. Where can we meet in order to worship our God and praise to Him? He tells us wheresoever two or three of His children meet there shall be a God in their midst and some soul shall be blessed.

We first should run the prince out of our homes and dedicate them to God, and make a church there; when that gets too small, He will find a larger place for us.

The strong race that has robbed us, according to the Bible, knows of their crime, and knows that no thief can enter Heaven.

If we prove ourselves worthy of taking care of what God has intended for all men, their rights, the white race is willing to give it to us.

The christian white people are willing to help us and give us the percentage of our money if we can take care of it and use it God-like.

God doesn’t intend for us to have it until we prove ourselves worthy.

In order to prove to the world and God that we are obedient people we have got to back only real leaders, those leaders must be men that will shoulder the musket and be the first men to sacrifice their lives. Not a man who is willing to stay behind the ignorant and suffering race of people and feather his own nest off them, and shout “see what I have done.” He must be a man that is brave enough to go before the white people in an intelligent way and demand the support of our people in a manly manner.

They know that we have not anything to build churches with, when we are living in chicken coops and can’t buy a square meal three times a week without suffering for it.

The white people will give us all the churches we need if we are worthy of them in the community.

My friends, in order to build this race we need more men like Abraham Lincoln, Fred Douglas, Booker T. Washington, A. Foraker, Marcus Garvey, and others that have proven themselves manly men, that will face the world and demand their rights for the negro race in a God-like manner.

The money is waiting for you if you have got the sense to get it, and prove to the stronger race that you are manly and honest enough to handle it for your people.

You have first got to prove yourself a man, and not let the prince poison your mind so that you will be low enough to sell your people for your own big name before the world.

Leaders; tell your congregations to save their money and buy themselves a little home, and their pennies for the support of their children and to give them a start in life, fit them for some kind of business; you cannot do this work by standing in the pulpit and asking them for every cent they have and telling them to put more in their pockets for the next time, and giving them that old song, that “God loves a cheerful giver.” God does not love any one that throws away the opportunities He gave them to get an honest living in the world.

If you wish to help someone, give a penny to that poor baby that has no one to care for it, or the drunkard that is captured by the prince, or give a glad hand to the tramp who is friendless in the cold world, give bread to that unfortunate man or child that is begging for it, or that outcast mother, and a kind word to the unfortunate gambler; take them to your home and try to reason with them in God’s name.

Those are the kind of gifts that God loves; give your time, your love, your pride, your bread and a good word to those that need it every day, not on Sundays only at a fine church, for in this world our churches are the headquarters for the prince of the world; he is two-thirds owner of them.

Every negro church should have a charitable institution attached to it to take care of their poor and aged mothers and fathers, and poor motherless children, that are begging you for help on the streets.

Then as men and women we could have the courage to ask our white friends to help us, and they would give you their hearty support, and be glad to do so. And then we would be doing what God wants us to do. We could have money without begging our old mother and father for it. If we would be manly men and women, help those that need it.

The Bible says, “thou shall not walk in the path of the ungodly,” and our leaders teach us the same and tell us we must stay out of barrooms and the gambling houses, and the houses of immorality. But my friends that is a mistake, those are the places we should go in, in the Lord’s name.

I understand the meaning as, you should not crave for those evil things; when you do, then you are walking in the path of the ungodly.

If your heart desires to murder someone, then you are a murderer; in God’s sight the crime is committed.

If your religion cannot last long enough to go into those dens and speak to your brother or sister and try to bring them out, then you haven’t faith and you glory in yourself, and you will have to answer before the bar of Judgment, and with such pride of the world your whole church will be lost, for you are too proud to stoop to falling humanity and help them, for that is what you must do.

An appeal to the young educated and manly leaders: in your financial affairs be a manly man, a real man, don’t accept a nickel or a dime from your old mothers and fathers who have toiled for years and put you on the platform you are now on.

An old mother at fifty or sixty, it is a disgrace for any church to accept money from her, when they have to toil hard every day for bread.

Young leaders you should take care of them, instead of taking from them, then you are showing the spirit of a hero, and a manly man, don’t let the prince buy the manly part of you, so that you cannot excuse your old mothers and fathers. Money you want, but you should not accept it unless it is honorable.

The facts and conditions that are in actual existence among our people, there should be some remedy for them, someone has got to open the eyes of the race, they cannot be honestly contradicted, they are not of myself, I am commanded to right them from a pure and honest heart, I am willing to devote my time and money in every way for the upbuilding of humanity.

My greatest knowledge of this subject is from the Bible.

If you study God’s word instead of just reading it over, you will understand it better. Then try to live accordingly.

The prince of the world studies his word and uses it to condemn you before God. He puts another meaning to it and tries to make you believe he is right, so it is best to know for yourself.

If you study in faith He will give you understanding.

I trust that you will read carefully and weigh every sentence, and place the right meaning to them: there are exceptions in all cases, some are not guilty, but slow in action.

_My First Sermon to the World_

When I was called to the works of God, my first sermon was preached on the ball room floor at one of my cake walks, the last big one that I rendered to the public.

When I marched out with the cake walkers, instead of introducing them to the people, which were about four hundred in number, my heart was so full of joy that I forgot all about them and began to speak. These are my remarks: Ladies and gentlemen, we as God’s people have assembled here tonight to give God praise, for ourselves and the happy times he has given us. The great pleasures come from God, let us go to the churches and thank him.

In our sorrows and troubles he gives us happiness. Let us men do no smoking in the hall where the ladies are, let us show the light of godly respect for all people. I hope to meet all of you at the church on Sunday next.

Then someone touched me on my shoulder and asked about the cake walk. I started the cake walk and all had an enjoyable evening. My troubles began that night, because I fooled the devil, and have been ever since, and this book is putting another one over on him.

This is a true saying. You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

Ecclesiastes 12; 13:14. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

For God will bring every work into judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil. Prophet Jude 24; 25. Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

To the only wise God, our saviour, be glory and majesty dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

I remain your humble servant, Bishop Allan Wilson Cook is Rabbi Haling Hank Lenht.

_May 8, 1925_

BISHOP A. W. COOK
135 VALLEY ROAD
MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY

_My Dear Mr Winston I thank you for your picture that you sent me for my book. Here is your Book. I trust that you will like it. I speak in it with an honest heart, goodwill to all man kind. The Business men were glad to read your words that is in my Book. They are with you thanking you for Passovers._

_I remain your umble servant
A. W. Cook_

Transcriber’s Note

In this file, text in _italics_ is indicated by underscores, and text in SMALL CAPITALS is in uppercase.

The last section of this book is a handwritten note of thanks, from the book’s author, A. W. Cook, to the contributor Robert Watson Wilson. It has been transcribed without alteration.

The “Subjects” section in the original book contained two errors. It listed as the seventh section “The Power of Love”, which is not present in the book, and had “My First Sermon to the World” listed before “Unveiling the Prince”, which was the wrong order. These errors have been corrected, and the list renumbered accordingly.

The following other changes were made to the text as printed:

Page 4: “well known orator” changed to “well-known orator”

7: “prepetual, from and after” changed to “perpetual, from and after”

“in noway permit them” changed to “in no way permit them”

9: “the works of Abraham. St. John 8:39” changed to “the works of Abraham.” St. John 8:39”

“general judgment Job 13” changed to “general judgment. Job 13”

13: “I biblicly and historically” changed to “I biblically and historically”

“friends of Ceasar” changed to “friends of Caesar”

16: “authority on Southern problems” changed to “authority on Southern problems.”

“equality without race blending” changed to “equality without race-blending”

“data showing universal race blending” changed to “data showing universal race-blending”

17: “keeps them apart. One writer” changed to “keeps them apart.” One writer”

18: “a ract of bootblacks” changed to “a race of bootblacks”

“on th border line” changed to “on the border line”

19: “the process of race blending” changed to “the process of race-blending”

22: “in Ezechials shoes” changed to “in Ezechial’s shoes”

“whereever I send it” changed to “wherever I send it”

23: “Though his commandments” changed to “Through his commandments”

“another witness, Pslam 111” changed to “another witness, Psalm 111”

27: “take affect on the race” changed to “take effect on the race”