e Normal department of Le Moyne School.

These grandchildren, one of whom in May, 1900, received from the
hands of the principal the same diploma that, more than twenty years
before, had been handed her mother, stand a proof positive, that may
be read by those who run, of individual and racial development, not
to be gainsaid or doubted. They possess a mental horizon far wider
and more luminous than that of their grandparents, direct from
bondage, and they are responsive to influences and emotions to which
both parents and grandparents were strangers.

These "children's children," and there are thousands of them
throughout the South, stand now as the hope and promise of the race.
They represent practically a new race, with new and higher ideals and
aims than their parents or grandparents could know. These ideals are
not only those of a wider intellectual life, they reach out to the
home, to industrial occupations and up to a purer, more practical
form of worship as expressive of the religious life.

If you would come at the fountain and source of this purer, broader,
safer life, in all these walks of life, come with me and look through
the various departments of Le Moyne Institute, or any one of a large
number of similar schools of the American Missionary Association,
founded and supported chiefly by the benevolent people of the North.
In the line of intellectual awakening a glimpse into classes in
history, in literature, science and mathematics, backed up by the
influence coming from personal association with trained, Christian
instructors, and you will not fail to recognize the means, entirely
adequate to produce the result in question before you.

Would you lay your hand on the springs that have transformed the
home, step with me to the sewing-room where, month after month and
year after year, the children are trained in needlework, in the
cutting, fitting and making of the wearing apparel that the home must
provide; into the experimental kitchen where every girl at the proper
stage of her training is taught the value of various foods and has
practice in preparing them, where in fact all that pertains to the
administration of the household is carefully studied and practiced
under the direction of a skillful instructor.

The well-equipped woodworking shop, with its orderly benches and its
system of drafting, of joining and of general construction, is giving
the boy the best use of his hands and placing within his