d pray that Carmichael will live through this great ordeal and
come back to us and continue his work of interpreting Negro life.

There are hundreds of other graduates and ex-students who have won
distinction in other fields and are doing equally as well as those who
have been mentioned here. We have their record at the school, and any
one can have them for the asking. I only wish to mention in a brief way
two other graduates because they have established a first and second
prize at Snow Hill. They are John W. Brister and Edmond J. O'Neal.

Several years ago the late Misses Collins (Ellen and Marguerite) of New
York, two of the most sainted women whom I ever met, established an
annual prize at the school known as the Sumner Peace Prize, of $15.00.
But at their death this prize would have stopped unless some one had
taken it up. Both Mr. Brister and Mr. O'Neal had won these prizes
several times while they were in school. So at the death of the Misses
Collins they came forward and said that they would be responsible for
the prize each year on condition that the school make a first and second
prize instead of one, Mr. Brister giving $10.00 in gold for the first
prize and Mr. O'Neal giving $5.00 in gold for the second. This they have
done for several years, and they constantly assure me that it will be
kept up during their lifetime. This shows that our graduates are
carrying with them the spirit of Christ, "Freely receive, freely give."

CHAPTER 13.

THE SOLUTION OF THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

All prophecies pertaining thus far to the solution of the Negro Problem
have failed. Men in all parts of the country are becoming alarmed over
the situation and are asking, "whither are we drifting?" And yet
although everyone admits that there is a Negro problem, few are agreed
as to the exact nature of the problem, and still fewer are agreed as to
what the final answer should be.

Generally speaking, the Negro problem consists of twelve millions of
people of African descent living in this country, mostly in the Southern
states, and forming one-third of the population of this section and
one-eighth of the entire population of the United States.
Notwithstanding the fact that we are far from an agreement as to the
answer to this problem, we are all agreed that the solution must be
sought in the answers to the following questions: What is to be the
economic, the political, the civil, and the social status of the Negro
in this count