REV. HENRY H. PROCTOR, B. A.

Henry Hugh Proctor was born near Fayetteville, Tennessee,
December 8, 1868. After completing the public school course
of his native town he studied in Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn., from which school he was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, June, 1891. That fall he entered the
Divinity School of Yale University, graduating three years
later. He was assigned by the faculty to the post of honor
among the chosen orators of the class. He at once entered
upon the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of
Atlanta, Ga.

Mr. Proctor has lectured extensively in many parts of the
country, his best-known lecture being "The Black Man's
Burden." He has been active in preventing legislation in
Georgia adverse to the colored race, especially measures
designed to restrict the franchise and cut down public
school facilities of the Negro. He is correspondent for a
number of Northern periodicals, and extracts from his
sermons are published weekly in the "Atlanta Constitution,"
the leading daily of the South. At his recent seventh
anniversary as pastor many letters of congratulation came
from all parts of the country, one being from Principal
Booker T. Washington, whose esteem and friendship he enjoys.

In the historic development of Christianity race and religion have had
a reciprocal relation. Conversion has involved a mutual conquest. The
religion has modified the race, and the race has modified the
religion. Every race that has embraced Christianity has, by developing
that element of truth for which it has affinity, brought to the system
its own peculiar contribution.

In the Semitic race, the high priest of humanity, Christianity, was
born. "Salvation is of the Jews." Israel's code of ethics was the
highest known to antiquity. It was but natural that the Hebrew should
leave upon the new-born system the impress of his genius for ethics.

Hellenism may be regarded as the complement and contrast of Hebraism.
Hebraism revealed the transcendence of Jehovah. Hellenism declared the
divinity of man. The Greek, pre-eminent, in philosophy as a pagan,
became, as a Christian, pre-eminent in theology. He blended the
complemental conceptions of divinity and humanity. If the contribution
of the Hebrew was ethical, that of the Greek was theological.

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