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.