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Title: The Demand and the Supply of Increased Efficiency in the Negro Ministry
The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 13

Author: Jesse E. Moorland

Release Date: February 18, 2010 [EBook #31323]

Language: English

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Occasional Papers, No. 13.

THE AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY.

(FOUNDED BY ALEXANDER CRUMMELL)

The Demand and the Supply
of Increased Efficiency in
the Negro Ministry.

BY JESSE E. MOORLAND.

Price 15 Cts.

WASHINGTON, D. C.
PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY,
1909.

Press of R. L. Pendleton
609 F St. N. W.
Washington, D. C.
1909

The Demand and the Supply of Increased Efficiency in the Negro Ministry.

BY JESSE E. MOORLAND.

In the discussion of this subject I fully recognize the opportunity men
have to serve God in any honorable vocation. The Christian lawyer or
physician is called of God as truly as a minister. Such men are putting
the emphasis on service and not on getting. The condition confronting us
is alarming and this warrants the earnest plea in this paper for a greater
number of efficient ministers.

This is probably the most important question confronting the colored
people to-day. After all, a race or a nation is measured by its religion,
and the greatest fact about a people is its religion. The efficiency of a
nation depends in a large degree upon the character of its religious
principles. When the good Queen Victoria was asked what made her realm so
great, it was expected that she might point to her well-equipped navy or
her efficient army, but she modestly held up a little book, called the
Bible, and said: "By adhering to the principles contained in this Book,
greatness has come to Great Britain." China is what she is to-day because
she adheres to certain principles taught by her religious teache