y Bishop Horatio Potter was cordial
in the extreme--the same by Bishops Littlejohn, of Long
Island; T. A. Starkey, of Northern New Jersey; T. M. Clark,
of Warwick, R. I.; M. A. De Wolf Howe, Central Pennsylvania;
William C. Doane, Albany; Alfred Lee, Primate, Delaware; W.
B. Stevens, Pennsylvania; H. A. Neely, of Maine; A. C. Coxe,
Western New York. He occupied the pulpits of the leading
Episcopal Churches in New York--Old Trinity, Grace Church,
St. Chrysostom's, St. Paul's, St. Philip's and others. The
leading churches in Brooklyn, Yonkers, Newport, R. I.,
Newark, N. J., Orange, N. J., Syracuse, Saratoga Springs,
Utica, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Newburg, Poughkeepsie,
Sing Sing, Barrytown, Tarrytown, Philadelphia, Germantown,
Ashebourne, Reading, Cheltenham and many others.

In 1883 be was sent to Jamaica, W. I., and the following
year he was appointed by the Provincial Synod (under the
auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel--London. Eng.) Rector of the Panama Railroad Church
and Arch-deacon of the Church of England Mission, and
Chaplain to the Panama Canal Company. In 1889 he made an
extensive missionary tour through Central America, where he
performed religious services at the opening of the Nicaragua
Canal, coming in touch with several Indian tribes, and
gaining considerable knowledge of their manners and customs
in their crude condition.

In 1890 he returned to the West Indies and was transferred
to the Diocese of Florida and made Rector of St. Peter's
Episcopal Church in Key West, where he has a large parish
and congregation and where he is highly esteemed by all
classes, white and colored.

My purpose in writing upon this subject is to investigate God's
disciplinary and retributive economy in races and nations, with a hope
of arriving at some clear conclusion concerning the Negro as a
Christian.

First, it may be just and proper to view the races of mankind in
respect to growth and mastery. The principles of growth and mastery in
a race, a nation, or a people, are the same all over the globe. The
same great agencies needed for one quarter of the globe, and in one
period of time, are needed for all quarters of the globe, for all
people and for all time, and consequently needed for this American
nation.

The children of Africa in America are i