. Crisis. omes, however, when the Negro, eagerto take responsibility, cries out forpower with which to bear it and isdenied such power. Denied highertraining for his leaders, denied indus-trial opportunity to make a living, theself-assertion and self-defense of theballot, denied even hospitals and com-mon schools. Thus the church gailytosses him stones for bread. Even the rock of Science on whichthe Avhite church rested with such beau-tiful faith, hoping to prove the majorityof humanity inhuman, so that FifthAvenue Presbyterianism would nothave to dirty its dainty fingers withFifty-third Stree
. Crisis. omes, however, when the Negro, eagerto take responsibility, cries out forpower with which to bear it and isdenied such power. Denied highertraining for his leaders, denied indus-trial opportunity to make a living, theself-assertion and self-defense of theballot, denied even hospitals and com-mon schools. Thus the church gailytosses him stones for bread. Even the rock of Science on whichthe Avhite church rested with such beau-tiful faith, hoping to prove the majorityof humanity inhuman, so that FifthAvenue Presbyterianism would nothave to dirty its dainty fingers withFifty-third Street Baptists—and blackones at that—even this Rock of Agesis falling before honest investigation. There is but the Golden Rule left—the despised and rejected Golden the church follow it? Is therecommoil decency enough in the millionsof white American church members todare to treat Negroes as they wouldlike to be treated if they themselveswere colored? The Negro problem is the test ofthe
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