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Show NEGRO PR0BLJ1 NAM WIDE i i Newark, N. J.. Oct 27. The evangelizing evan-gelizing of tho negro is no longer a Routhorn question, but one o national scopo, declared BlBhop Guerry, ot South Carolina at last nlsht'a session ses-sion of tho Missionary council of tne Episcopal church. "There are today more negroes In New York than thero are in New Orleans," Or-leans," continued the bishop, "and as many In Philadelphia as in any southern south-ern city outside of New Orleans. "You lynch negroes up hero tho samo as wo do it in the south. It is a national crime. Wo need you and you neod ua and wo "must work together to-gether In dofng our duty to theso people. peo-ple. It is tho greatest blot on the American church today that wo have trifled with the great missionary question ques-tion at our doors." Bishop Guerry saw a menace In the intellectual training of the negro wlth-( out moral education and said that education without Christian standards meant placing in the hands of the negro a dangerous weapon. |