which will
force the recognition of his antagonistic brother and convince him
that the same high sense of morality governs the Negro as does the
Caucasian, or any other highly civilized race upon the globe.

God grant that the refining fires of truth may burn until all the
dross of prejudice shall be melted and consumed, when,

"Man to man united,
The whole world shall be lighted,
As Eden was of old."

TOPIC XV.

IS THE YOUNG NEGRO AN IMPROVEMENT, MORALLY, ON HIS FATHER?

BY EDWARD MACKNIGHT BRAWLEY, A. M., D. D.

[Illustration: E. M. Brawley, D. D.]

REV. EDWARD MacKNIGHT BRAWLEY, A. M., D. D.

Edward MacKnight Brawley was born at Charleston, S. C.,
March 18, 1851. His parents, James M. and Ann L. Brawley,
were both free. Before the Civil War, in order that he might
secure good educational advantages, he was sent to
Philadelphia, Pa., where he passed through the grammar
school; then he entered the Colored High School, of which
Prof. E. D. Bassett was principal, and there prepared for
college. In the fall of 1871 he entered Bucknell University,
where he was graduated Bachelor of Arts in the class of
1875. During his college course he also pursued theological
studies and was ordained for the ministry on the day after
his graduation, by a council composed largely of professors
of the university. He was the first colored student to
attend Bucknell, and in 1878 he secured from his college the
degree of Master of Arts. In 1885 the State University of
Louisville, Ky., conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of
Divinity, and Rev. E. M. Brawley has this distinction, that
he has held this degree for a longer time than any other
living colored Baptist minister. For eight years he was
State Missionary in South Carolina for the American Baptist
Publication Society.

In 1883 he was called to the presidency of Selma University,
Selma, Ala., and devoted several years to educational work.
He then became District Secretary for the South for the
American Baptist Publication Society, which work he resigned
in 1890 to accept the call to the pastorate of the First
Baptist Church of Petersburg, Va., the oldest colored
Baptist Church in the country, which he subsequently left to
go back to the work of the Society, at its earnest
solicitation. He ha