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August 18, 1909.
A GREAT HOM]
Of the ninety millions
States, about one-ninth, t
ing those of pure African
mixed blood. That the t
black, may live in the sa
injustice to either, and b<
and complex problem, \vh
many years by the wises
tion must be committed, a
to him who worketh all t
sel of his own will.
Nine millions of the n<
the States of the South,
cess to other parts of the
ise held out to them in
chosen as a race to rema
found by experiment that
as to climate, opportunity
make it home to them,
essential struggle for exis
has been the spirit of
Booker Washington tells
of the North and to his o^
is in the South that the
same in labour, industry
passed anywhere." The i
whole country, but to th
and of most serious cone
With all the trouble th
has given, the failure to 1
the crime, the cost of c<
and some discouraging ii
has been progress. If w<
tion of the races in Afr
barbarians, brutal and vie
at the general condition o
in this country, no one
brought here for their go
in the Southern States, w
cruel, cannibal existence
It gave government and
restraint. It gave the neg
est type on which to de
merciful and kind. The
negro began when he was
of Africa into the light o
Especially was the Afi
Christian land, and into
religion. From fetichism
craft, he came to the lam
and grace of God found
version of many and to t
of all. The story of the s
of the South by the Chris
directly, materially and s
auately told. Out of th
company came to Christi;
ten erringly, yet truly an<
Our outlook upon the f
and of the ultimate resul
i ne widely amused wor
tion given freely to th<
whites has not been altoj
of those who seek yet I
THE PEESBYTERIA]
? MISSION FIELD.
of population in the United
en millions, is Negro, includdcscent
and those who are of
wo races, the white and the
me lanci, witnout wrong ana
; mutually helpful, is a great
lich may remain unsolved for
t and best of men. Its soluis
are other serious problems,
hings according to the coun:gro
race in this land are in
After forty years of free accountry,
with much of promthe
North, the negroes have
in in the South. Many have
: the conditions in the South,
r and freedom from restraint,
rhe negro knows that in the
stence the spirit of the South
kindliness and helpfulness,
in all sections, to the whites
Am race in the South, that "it
black man finds an open seand
business that is not surlegro
problem belongs to the
e South especially it is vital
ern.
at the lower class of negroes
keep promises, the vagrancy,
ourts and penal institutions,
icts, it is yet true that there
2 look far back to the condiica,
and its lowest grade of
ions in the extreme, and then
f the ten millions of Africans
can doubt that they were
?od. Slavery itself, as it was
as an upntt trom the savage,
of the forests of Africa,
discipline and industry and
roes a white race of the highpend,
enlightened, Christian,
; progress of the American
> brought out of the darkness
f America.
-ican blessed in coming to a
contact with the Christian
t and the most horrid witchd
of the Bible, and the truth
their way down, to the conhe
betterment 2nd happiness
iervice rendered to the slaves
tian religion, directly and in
ipiritually can never be adee
grossest darkness a great
an faith and life, humbly, ofd
savingly.
uture of the race in our land,
ts is increasingly optimistic,
th of common school educa;
blacks by the tax-paying
?ether in vain. The number
nore of education steadily
N OF THE SOUTH.
grows. The effects in self-re:
industry and in morals are <
better class, who own lands ar
fortable homes, and strive t<
irom vice, and build churches
their race is steadily growing
cnce. From farm laborers, ii
years, a great number became
and then farm owners. The v
erty about sixteen millions o
two hundred and thirty milli<
man, white or black, who of tl
bought a home, is a hundred
With the home, in town or cou
of the importance of househ
growth of domestic virtues.
It is estimated that four m
negroes in the South are chu
millions mnrc arp nrttir?rr?n f c
of our negro population are
They are principally Baptist ;
the churches are doing some
ored people, and all are sovvin
dom.
Numerous are the method;
welfare of the negro in the
moral, educational and religioi
from the South money has b
sorts of schemes and institutic
ing number of educated teach
ing for their own people.
Among the methods of t<
which have promise of good r
Sunday-school for colored p
ducted by white teachers, i
White ministers as evangelists
the gospel in many places. 1
preachers by the white brethi
sympathy, is availing much,
regard and sympathy for the
tive. Let the prayers of 115
the lowly African at our doo
tected from evil and be brouj
the truth.
A significant statement is m;
of the Bingham School of As!
"during the last twenty years ;
in the north and four in the
death by hazers, and no has
murders." It is to the credit oi
any other of which it may b
hazing has ever occurred witl
trust that it is characteristic
south that they arc too brave
to the cowardly ar.u treache
overwhelming numbers, by n
trayal, torture the helpless vi
parents respect their sons ai
them the spirit of self-respect,
tutions of learning whose mora
mit of hazing.
If God can keep a little fl<
snow, amid clouds of black d
in like purity in his world of s
\
7
spect, in self-support, in
distinctly marked. The
id make decent and com5
protect their children
and seek the welfare of
in number and in influn
the last ten or fifteen
tenants, farm managers
aluc of negro farm prop>f
acres, is estimated at
Dns of dollars. And the
te sweat of his brow has
times the better citizen,
mtry, has come the sense
old protection, and the
illions and a half of the
rch members, and three
or more than two-thirds
.aI.uJ t.
IL'lilLCU LU dUlUC tllUILll.
and Methodist, while all
good work for the colig
the seeds of the king>
that are tried for the
South, industrial, legal,
as. From the North and
>een given freely for all
rns, and there is a growers
and preachers workiaching
the negro race
esults, the old fashioned
eople, taught and conmight
well be revived.
; will have a hearing for
Die help given to negro
-en, instruction, counsel,
And the expressions of
A~ : 11 ~a?
vv V.11-UVJII1^ Will UC ClltL"
churches be offered for
rs, that he may be pro^ht
to the knowledge of
ide in the announcement
leville, to the effect that
is many as fifty students
south have been put to
been punished for these
: the Bingham School, or
ie true, that no case of
lin its jurisdiction. We
of our boys in* the
and honorable to stoop
rous practice in which
leans of deceit and bectim
of their malice; as
nd would foster within
they should avoid instill
tone is so low as to ad
)wer stainless, white as
lust, can he keep hearts
sin??J. R. Miller.