" The poet Burns labored under no misapprehension when he wrote
the following lines:

"Is there for honest poverty
Wha hangs his head, and a' that?
The coward slave! we pass him by;
We dare be poor for a' that--
For a' that, and a' that,
Our toils obscure, and a' that!
The rank is but the guinea's stamp--
The man's the gowd for a' that.

"What, though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hodden pray, and a' that?
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;
A man's a man for a' that--
For a' that, and a' that,
Their tinsel show, and a' that;
The honest man, though e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that.

"A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man's aboon his might--
Guid faith, he maunna fa' that!
For a' that, and a' that,
Their dignities and a' that;
The pith o' sense and pride o' worth
Are higher ranks than a' that.

"Then let us pray that come it may--
As come it will, for a' that--
That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth,
May bend the gree, and a' that.
For a' that, and a' that,
Its coming yet, for a' that--
When man to man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that!"

SECOND PAPER

IS THE NEGRO AS MORALLY DEPRAVED AS HE IS REPUTED TO BE?

BY PROF. A. U. FRIERSON.

[Illustration: Prof. A. U. Frierson]

AUGUSTUS ULYSSES FRIERSON, D. D.

Mr. A. U. Frierson was born in the State of South Carolina a
few years before the Civil War. His parents were slaves,
and, of course, were uneducated. After some preparation in
the public schools, he entered Biddle University, from which
he graduated with honor in 1885. The same year he entered
the theological department of the same university,
graduating therefrom in 1888.

The Summer of 1885 was spent as teacher and preacher to the
ex-slaves of the Choctaw Indians, Indian Territory. He
worked under the Freedman's Board of the Presbyterian
Church. For several years he acted as pastor of different
Presbyterian churches in North and South Carolina.

In 1891 he was called to the chair of Greek language and
literature at Biddle University, which position he holds at
this writing.

In 1893, his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of D.
D.

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