Twin City Observer

News of St. Peters
Church
By Wreatha G. Maxwell

St. Peters' members were lifted spiritually Sunday morning as they listened to a sermon by Evangelist Pauline Coffee of Chicago, Ill. The basis of her remarks was taken from the 139th Psalm of David, subject--"Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled."

She told us of our many shortcomings; she urged us to use more often the prayer of David-- "Search me, Oh, Lord. and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts." She pounded in the same kind of Gospel truths we hear every Sunday from our pastor, the Rev. A. J. Irvine, only she added the woman's touch. She foresees great strife and trouble for our Race Group unless we busy ourselves and turn back to God before it is too late.

Five came forward for prayers and one joined the Church, Mrs. Minnie Rhodes of Elliott Avenue.

The pastor has been announcing from time to time an important Church conference to be held Tuesday night. Nov. 9. All members are urged to be present. Election of officers will follow this important meeting.

Dr. Cole, professor at Columbia University and present head of the Intercultural Education Program, was a dinner guest speaker at the Federal Council of Church Women at Simpson Methodist Church last Thursday, where nearly a dozen of our Women proudly heard him speak, and make some shocking remarks to the nearly two or three hundred women present.

The Intercultural Education program is a program if Education that recognizes and gives credit to all minority groups in the forming of the culture pattern of America. As you probably recall ,in your study of American history the place of the Negro was only a menial and nothing more. He was the forgotten one in the story of what made America great. Naturally children, both white and black, never knew that we did much of anything except to be slaves for the majority group. No recognition was given the Negro for his great feats of exploration, colonization, invention, labor and all the other things that it took to make this the greatest nation on the earth.

Now this Intercultural Education program is being hailed by thinkers and educators of both races as one of the few plans that will eventually bring about better race relations and do away with race riots. It is being tried successfully in the city school systems of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit; and Dr. Cole's mission in this city was in the interest of placing such a program in the schools of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

He said some shocking things; for instance-Do you know how it feels to be a Negro? Were you ever told you were not wanted in a hotel, or were refused a meal in a restaurant when you were hungry?

He said the only remedy for such situations was a better understanding between the races and an application of the teaching of the lowly Nazarene.

Dr. Cole repeated the same talk at the Curtis hotel on Friday in 'the presence of three or four hundred teachers of Minneapolis and St. Paul Teachers Conference in session here. He said, I quote- "All can acquire these attitudes if they try and will do away with the teaching of their parents, in many instances. Whatever happens, the old "Boogy Man Prejudice" must go for the best interests of our Democracy."

To both groups he exploded the foolish Blood Bank theory now being used by the American Red Cross. He pulled back his sleeve saying "There is no more difference in my blood than there is in the blood of this Negro man sitting here," referring to Mr. C. W. Washington who was seated on his right at the table at the Curtis hotel. He stated that there should be a Negro on every faculty in every university in the country.

Those of our group that attended felt as did two disciples on one occasion when they had been with Jesus and said "Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked with us by the way?"

Miss Grace Walker was on a committee that displayed such a booth at the exhibit of the teachers at the Minnesota Educational Conference last week. Miss Walker is Girls' Worker at the Phyllis Wheatley House and is presenting the pageant, "Let Freedom Ring." at the Y. W. C. A. on Sunday evening, November 22, at 7:30 p. m. See this challenging dramatic, musical pageant being presented by a mixed cast of players. No admission charge, but hurry to get a good seat.