Raleigh, also, at a great meeting in London, said: "There is in these
people a hitherto undiscovered mine of love, the development of which
will be for the amazing welfare of the world. * * * Greece gave us
beauty; Rome gave us power; the Anglo-Saxon unites and mingles these,
but in the African people there is the great gushing wealth of love,
which will develop wonders for the world."

I feel that the Almighty, who is interested in all the great problems
of civilization, is interested in the Negro problem. He has carried
the Negro through the wilderness of disasters, and at last put him in
a large open place of liberty. There is not the shadow of a doubt that
this work which God has begun, and is carrying on, is for the mental
and spiritual elevation of the Negro.

TOPIC XXI.

DOES THE NORTH AFFORD TO THE NEGRO BETTER OPPORTUNITIES OF MAKING A
LIVING THAN THE SOUTH?

BY REV. J. H. ANDERSON.

[Illustration: Rev. J. H. Anderson.]

REV. J. H. ANDERSON, D. D.

Rev. J. H. Anderson was born June 30, 1848, in Frederick,
Md. Dr. Anderson is what is called a self-made man, he
having attended school only six months in his life and
studied a short time under a private tutor. By hard,
persistent efforts and close application to books, Dr.
Anderson has risen to a point in scholarship and prominence
that only a few college Negroes have reached. He is noted as
a pulpit orator and platform speaker. He has attained to
some prominence as a writer and takes front rank as a
preacher in his denomination. For his scholarly attainments
and usefulness as a minister of the gospel, Livingstone
College conferred upon him, in 1896, the degree of doctor of
divinity. Dr. Anderson was one of those heroic
liberty-loving souls who went to the battlefield in the
Civil War to fight for their and their race's freedom.

Colonization is a condition of cosmopolitan society as it is of races.
As "birds of a feather flock together," so the different races in the
American civilization form settlements or colonies, as far as
possible. The truthfulness of this statement is seen in the
thickly-settled German, Irish, Jewish and Italian communities in the
North. Their race affinities produce natural and social relations
promotive of their varied interests. The Negro's civil and social
privileges are more restricted in the South than in the North, owing