In 1889, at Indianapolis, Ind., before this body, the Rev. Mr. Walker preached the National sermon and that with telling effect. At its conclusion, the Rev. William J. Simmons, D. D., L. L. D., Pres. of the State University of Ky., walked up to the minister, shook his hand and said, “You have won your D. D., and I’ll see that you get it.” The following summer, at the close of the school year 89-90, Dr. Simmons, true to his words had the trustees of the State University of Kentucky to confer upon Rev. C. T. Walker, the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity which he has worthily borne ever since. Writing up this session of National Baptists the Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Gaddie, took occasion to say the Rev. Mr. Walker was “a young man full of life and piety, beautiful and attractive in delivery. He is an electrifying orator and waxes warm in the end. He is a great revivalist, a finished and pointed workman.” In this same convention Rev. Walker won for himself a national reputation for his wise and conservative stand when the body had under consideration the outlawry, lynch law and other outrages of the South. He was referred to, by the leading newspapers of the country, as a strong man in a crisis. The other members of the body, almost to a man, indulged in wholesale abuse of the South; maligned its name, hit the white people of the South some death dealing blows; excitement ran high, Rev. Walker gained the floor and made an able speech counseling wisdom and moderation and stating that he believed that the best element of the white people in the North were trying, to create a public sentiment so powerful against these outrages that they will become impossible. On 21st, of May, 1882, Rev. Walker delivered the annual address before the Atlanta Baptist and Spelman Seminary on the Needs and Responsibilities of the Colored Race. It was a masterly effort. In opening the speaker said: “When our mind like the swiftly passing scene of a panorama take a retrospective view of the past history of our race, and when we remember that for over two centuries, ignorance, the mother of bigotry and superstition, the bane of society, the prolific mother of weakness, held our people with its slavish chains, we must admit that many of our people have made commendable progress, and that the influence of religion, morality and intelligence is increasingly felt.” The speaker dwelt at length upon the Needs, and then took up the Responsibilities. Said he: