And thus both external and internal forces
have combined to make the young Negro morally better than his father.

5. And, last of all, the young Negro is turning his social and
political disadvantages to his best interest by relying calmly upon
the justice and wisdom of God's moral government. Life is, indeed, but
a conflict of forces, but the intelligent young Christian Negro knows
that the universe does not operate by chance. He feels the full force
of what Charles Sumner said in his eulogy on Abraham Lincoln: "In the
providence of God there is no accident--from the fall of a sparrow,
to the fall of an empire or the sweep of a planet, all is controlled
by divine law." And thus he lives undisturbed by the wrathful elements
that are at play around him. His full confidence in God at this trying
hour, and his firm belief that the wrath of man will yet be turned to
his advantage, are but the evidence that he trusts intelligently; and
the fact that he does so, and does not become an anarchist, is the
proof of his higher moral life. If it be said that his father did not
become an anarchist, the answer may be that slavery had dispirited
him. But the young Negro is not dispirited. He knows enough and has
spirit enough to make this country tremble; but whatever knowledge and
spirit he has which could be used for evil, he has restrained and will
yet further restrain, because he has abiding confidence in God, and
knows that "giant right is more than might;" and this confidence has
aided in making him a better man than his father.

SECOND PAPER.

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

BY REV. J. S. FLIPPER.

[Illustration: J. Simeon Flipper, D. D.]

REV. J. SIMEON FLIPPER, D. D.

The subject of this sketch was among the first to enter
Atlanta University the first day it opened, 1869, and there
remained until 1876. He taught school in Georgia for several
years. He was converted in 1877 and joined the A. M. E.
Church at Thomasville, Ga. He was licensed both to exhort
and to preach. In January, 1880, he joined the Georgia
Annual Conference. In 1882 was elected secretary of the
Georgia Conference, which position he held for five
consecutive years. In this same year he was ordained a
Deacon by Bishop W. F. Dickerson and sent to Darien, Ga.,
where he prepared for and took care of the session of the
Georgia Conference.

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