ied to answer.

I have attempted no fine analysis of the case, but simply tried to
point out a few facts more or less familiar to all.

THIRD PAPER.

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

BY MRS. M. E. C. SMITH

[Illustration: Mrs. M. E. C. Smith.]

MRS. MARY E. C. SMITH.

Mrs. Mary E. C. Smith, daughter of Peter H. Day, was a
native of New York city. Her education was provided for by
her energetic widowed mother, to whom she ascribes the
secret of her success. From early childhood she showed
strong power of mind, and inherited from her mother that
force and determination of purpose which prefigure success
in whatever is undertaken. As a pupil, she was prompt and
energetic, and never failed to win one of the Ridgeway
prizes for good scholarship, which were given annually to
successful contestants. She was an excellent Bible student,
and when ten years old was elected a teacher in the
Sunday-school. At this age she was impressed with the idea
that it was her duty to go to the South to instruct her
people, who were just emerging from bondage.

By a strange coincidence she was led to Florida, when she
had finished her school course, the very place she had named
when in an outburst of childish enthusiasm, while preparing
a geography lesson, she had said: "O, mother, how I long to
go there and teach my people!" The "land of flowers" has
been the principal field of her labors as a teacher. Her
ability as a teacher was soon discovered, and in 1890 she
became principal of the Normal Department of the Edward
Waters College, under the presidency of Prof. B. W. Arnett,
Jr. Hundreds of students are better citizens because of her
faithful teaching and Christian influence. As a church and
Sunday-school worker she has few equals. The earnestness of
purpose with which she performs the slightest duty is an
example worthy of imitation.

This question is as grave as it is suggestive. There being a marked
difference between _character_ and _reputation_, its discussion
naturally leads to a consideration of the Negro as he really is, and
not as he is represented. The delineation of the Negro's true
character is one of the most effectual means of refuting the
columnious epithets so constantly hurled at him--a veritable blasphemy
against his higher a