Their
darkened intellect now sweeps, unfettered, through the
realms of learning and culture. With his Saxon brother, the
African slakes his insatiable thirstings for knowledge at
the same fountain. In the Bible, he leads not only the one
unalterable text, "Servants, obey your masters," but also,
"Ye are all brethren." "God hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth."
"He is no respecter of persons."

The Negro in this country has begun to enjoy the blessings
of a free citizenship. Under the sunny sky of a Christian
civilization he hears the clarion voices of progress about
him, urging him onward and upward. From across the ocean,
out of the jungles of Africa, come the voices of the
benighted and perishing. Every breeze is freighted with a
Macedonian call, "Ye men of the African race, come over and
help us!"

"Shall we, whose souls are lighted
By wisdom from on high,--
Shall we, to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?"

God often permits evil on the ground of man's free agency,
but he does not commit evil.

The Negro of this country can turn to his Saxon brothers and
say, as Joseph said to his brethren who wickedly sold him,
"As for you, ye meant it unto evil but God meant it unto
good; that we, after learning your arts and sciences, might
return to Egypt and deliver the rest of our brethren who are
yet in the house of bondage."

That day will come! Her chains will be severed by the sword
of civilization and liberty. Science will penetrate her
densest forests, and climb her loftiest mountains, and
discover her richest treasures. The Sun of righteousness,
and the star of peace shall break upon her sin-clouded
vision, and smile upon her renewed households The anthem of
the Redeemer's advent shall float through her forests, and
be echoed by her mountains. Those dusky children of the
desert, who now wander and plunder, will settle to quiet
occupations of industry. Gathering themselves into villages,
plying the labors of handicraft and agriculture, they will
become a well disciplined society, instead of being a
roving, barbarous horde.

The sabbath bells will summon from scattered cottages
smiling populations, linked together by friendship, and