d assigns the Bishops to
their fields of labor.

He is now a trustee of Morris Brown College, Secretary of
the Trustee and Executive Boards, Treasurer of the
Theological Fund, Chairman and treasurer of the dollar money
committee of the Atlanta, Ga., Conference, Book Steward,
Chairman of Committee on Fourth Year's Studies. He is a
prominent craftsman and for one year was Deputy Grand Master
of the Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of
Georgia, Grand Representative of the Stringer Grand Lodge of
Mississippi to the Grand East of Georgia, with the rank of
Grand Senior Warden. He is now a Trustee of the W. E. Terry
Masonic Orphan and Widows' Home and Industrial School,
located at Americus, Ga., Associate Editor of the "Voice of
Missions," the missionary organ of the A. M. E. Church,
published in New York.

One of the greatest events of his life was the receiving of
Rev. Jas. M. D'wane of the Ethiopian Church from Pretoria,
Transvaal Republic, South Africa, into the A. M. E. Church,
and through him eighty preachers and two thousand eight
hundred members.

The difficulty of considering this question deepens as we consider the
young Negro from every phase of life. Universally it cannot be
answered in the affirmative, for the Negro is divided into classes as
well as are other races, and as no people are universally, morally
good, so such cannot be expected of the Negro.

The Negro possesses an upper class, a middle class, and a lower class,
and in a consideration of these classes we shall look for an answer to
the question. The upper class consists of those who have made
extraordinary progress, morally, religiously, mentally and materially;
who have outstripped their fellows in the race of life and attained a
standard of civilization commensurate with their opportunities and
proved to the civilized world that under favorable circumstances the
Negro is as capable of a high development in civilization as any other
race. This class is an improvement, morally, upon their fathers. For
their opportunities have been such as to render them more capable of a
higher conception of morality and of their duties to their fellowmen,
and in proportion as a man is enlightened on morality does he improve
in morality, other things being equal, and reaches a higher type of
manhood. Morality is always affected by one's religious