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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.