ion, forms permanent habits of industry and
strengthens the will or purpose to do right.

"Christian education emphasizes the fact that it is not merely book
learning--storing the mind with knowledge of facts or training the
hands to work, but includes moral elevation, as well as intellectual
development. It includes everything that tends to make the life
purer, better and more useful. It begets and fosters a spirit of
hopefulness. It develops that patience and perseverance that is
needed for the best performance of every day's duties.

"Christian education emphasizes personal purity, purity of the
family life and the sacredness of the marriage relation. Its whole
trend and effect is upward. Its genius is moral, spiritual,
industrial, domestic, social and individual elevation. It creates a
hunger and thirst for higher and better things. It is the mountain
summit from whose height one gets a broader vision, a clearer view
of the possibilities and demands of life and a truer conception of
all human relations.

"This is the provision that must be made for our black brother.
Nothing less will meet his needs. A great responsibility rests with
negro leaders who have attained a good degree of intelligence and
refinement, but a greater responsibility still rests upon the people
of richer blessing and greater power.

"If the spirit of true democracy, which declares, 'opportunity for
every one, according to his capacity and merit,' and the spirit of
Christianity, whose principle is, 'Help for the weaker as the
stronger is able to give it,' be exercised toward the negro, many of
the difficulties will vanish, better conditions will prevail and
more desirable results will be secured."

This cry of humanity from the black belt of our land is very touching
and suggestive. It suggests the negro's greatest and most urgent needs,
the Bible, the Bible school and the christian teacher.

It is the silent appeal of Joseph while passing through the pit and the
prison in the land of Israel's enslavement. Beyond these dark and
unpleasant experiences there awaited for Joseph a career of great
usefulness in the land of his previous imprisonment.

Let us recognize the fact that God has a great use for the Freedman in
this our native land, because he has providentially brought him here and
increased his numbe