Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1901 — The Weekly Panorama. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Weekly Panorama.

Mary JE. Taylor'* Worl(, Fully 500 persons were present at the reception tendered by the steward-

esses to the Rev. Mary E. Taylor at the First African Methodist Zion : church, Brooklyn, ‘the other evening. The Rev. Dr. Jacobs, pastor of the church, has gone as delegate to the ecumenical council In London, and Miss Taylor will occupy his pulpit until his return. In October. She wore her clerical black gown, with severe whlta collar and yoke, and during the

evening, by request, recited the dialect poent, "The Party,” by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The festivities Included a programme of recitations and music anil refreshments and, as is usual on occasions of this kind, the guest of honor was the recipient of donations more or less substantial. Although only 28 years old. Miss Taylor began her evangelistic work fourteen years ago, having been ordained as a local preacher In Knoxville, Tenn., before she was 15. "We In the south have not yet reached the place where we can demand respect for our women and no race can rise higher in morality and intelligence than its mothers,’’ she said, the othor day. “There are a lot of things to keep our women down. One Is the natural Indolence of the colored men of tho south and their willingness "to let their wives and mothers work their knuckles to tho bono to support them and the children. Another Is their wretched poverty and poor housing, anil the consequent herding together of entire families lu one or two small rooms.