CHURCH AND NEGRO
NEW YORK CONTROVERSY. The vestry of St. Matthew’s Protestant" Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York, recently issued a statement to the press endorsing the action of the rector, the Rev. William St. John Blackshear, in discouraging the attendance of' negroes at the church. The statement, which both the rector and the vestrymen refused to amplify, reads as follow: —•’ “Due to the general misunderstanding of the real views' of the Rev. Mr, Blackshear as to his parochial policy, with which the vestry is in harmony, it is deemed advisable to make no further statement.”
Whpn informed of the vestry’s action, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, issued the following statement:
.“Approval by the vestrymen of the Rev. Mr. Blackshear’s stand convicts them to the same brand of bigotry. So far as they are concerned, the ethical standards of Jesus Christ, whom they profess to worship, stops dead at the colour line. St. Matthew’s amends the statement of Jesus, who said, “Come unto me all yet that are heavy laden,” by adding, “And have white skins.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 November 1929, Page 2
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