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The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 10
Author: Orishatukeh Faduma
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The American Negro Academy.
OCCASIONAL PAPERS NO. 10.
The Defects of the Negro Church.
BY ORISHATUKEH FADUMA.
PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.:
Published by the Academy,
1904
The Defects of the Negro Church.
The writer does not undertake to point out all the defects of the Negro church. He does not lay any claim to omniscience.
The limits of time and the scope of the subject prevent him from discussing even what he knows in part. It is only some of the leading defects in the Negro Church which will be presented for discussion. It may be necessary to state at the onset that the writer is an optimist in his studies of questions relating to his race. If at any time he is compelled to use the surgeon’s knife he will do so with the utmost sympathy and with a view to heal. It may also be necessary to state, in order to allay the fears of our friends and prevent the reckless criticism of our detractors, that the defects of the Negro church are found more or less in churches of other races. They are the same in kind but differ in degree, on account of difference in environment. They are not inherent in the race, but are found wherever the environments call for them. It may be laid down as an axiomatic truth that there has never been and there is not a perfect church. Of the twelve men who formed the nucleus of the Christian church and who had the advantage of the personal teaching of the Christ, one was a doubter, another was worldly-minded, a betrayer, and a son of perdition who sought relief from the stings of conscience by self-destruction; a third was a deserter and vacillator, who drew from the great apostle of the Gentiles a stinging rebuke for stultifying his conscience during