h Chorus as sung by the white choir be more acceptable to
God than that sung by the black choir?

Yes, the slave-holders did a great deal for the religious training
and the spiritual welfare of the slaves, and in consequence of what
they did, with God's blessing, the colored people of our country are
almost immeasurably lifted above their benighted heathen brethren in
Africa. Yes, that is all so. Does Dr. Edwards ask us to praise them
for it? We do. But, brethren, we must also add, "These ought ye to
have done and not to leave the other undone."

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A TEACHER'S APPEAL.

We publish the following from F. A. Chase, Professor of Natural
Science in Fisk University. He pleads, of course, for Fisk, yet his
plea holds good for all our higher institutions. We commend it to our
friends. The American Missionary Association could make good use,
say, of a "_One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund_" for the scientific
departments of its mission schools. It may be that some one whom God
has blessed with riches is waiting for just such an opportunity as
this particular branch of our great field opens. Special funds for a
designated institution, to be used for the promotion of Christian
science, as outlined by Prof. Chase, are earnestly solicited:

Are there not some friends of the work among the Freedmen
who can appreciate the need of a teacher for a _complete
scientific outfit_?

The race has been kept during slavery from all knowledge
of science. Their trades and occupations being of the
roughest, and having ignorant parentage, nothing has been
learned from the business of life, nor in answer to the
questioning of childhood and youth. There is no race now
admitted to the privileges of liberal education so barren
of scientific ideas and so lacking in scientific spirit.
Those who know this people solely from their fine
literary and oratorical abilities have no conception of
their great deficiency in science. It does not need to be
said that, until this is remedied, they cannot be
expected to hold their own in a scientific age, and in
competition with a scientific race.

Though our course of study is brought down to the very
minimum of college work, and the instruction is of a
most elementary character, still there are eight sciences
to be taught. But this teaching, to be successful,
requi