od at a future day
require the property he has loaned us?

We see you Northern folks seem conscious of this, by the
exertions you are using to advance the Redeemer's cause. This has
become a fortunate legatee, in comparison with what it was fifty
years ago.

We, down here, so near the equator, think we can discover the
upper limb of the millennium sun already. Will he not get clear
above the horizon by 1866.

A Georgia Planter.

_The American Baptist Magazine_, Vol. IV, p. 181.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] These extracts were collected by Miles Mark Fisher.

BOOK REVIEWS

_The Master's Slave--Elijah John Fisher_. By MILES MARK FISHER.
The Judson Press, Philadelphia, Pa. Pp. 194.

This work is a biographical sketch of one of the most prominent Negro
Baptist preachers of his time. The author, the son of the subject of
the sketch, believes that too little has been said concerning the
Negro Church, which is largely responsible for whatever advancement
the race has made. To stimulate interest in this institution and to
give it the proper place in the history of the race, this biography is
given to the public.

The book contains an introduction by Dr. L. K. Williams, the popular
successor of Dr. Fisher at the Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago, where
the latter faithfully served many years. It contains also an
appreciation by Martin B. Madden, Congressman from Illinois, who
personally knew Dr. Fisher and speaks most commendably of his
character and achievements in that State.

The actual sketch begins with the chapter entitled "Bound and
Branded," presenting the life of Dr. Fisher during the slavery of the
last decade prior to emancipation. Herein are set forth interesting
facts showing the connection of the Negro with Africa and his status
in the slave-holding South. The effects of the Civil War in this
section appear also from page to page.

Then follows that part of his career when he as a youth undertook to
secure an education by which he might be qualified for the serious
duties of life. How he began as a teacher during the beginning of
Negro education of the Reconstruction period, and how he finally
became an exhorter and developed into a minister acceptable to the
communicants of his denomination, make the story increasingly
interesting. The sketch reaches its climax through a detailed account
of Dr. Fisher's wor