THE BURDEN. tiful form, with rosy cheeks, strong If a carpenter should attempt to To every one on earth erect a beautiful God gives a burden to be carried down limbs, powerful chest; a clear-headed, building without The road that lies between the cross and crown ; warm-hearted first No lot is wholly free; girl who takes four- laying a strong foundation, we He giveth one to thee. mile walks before breakfast, rows the would call him insane ; but many in¬ Some carry it aloft, boat, pursues industrial courses in telligent people are making great ef¬ Open and visible to any eyes, to in men¬ And all may see its form and weight and size, cooking and sewing, reads Shake¬ forts reach the zenith their Some hide it in their breast, tal and And dream it there unguessed. speare and Browning, translates Lat¬ spiritual culture and disdain in and the idea of Thy ourden is God’s gift, Greek, plays the music of the cultivating their physical And it will make thee brave and calm and strong ; old masters; she is natures. Yet lest it press too heavily and long, proud of her He says, “Cast it on me knowledge of the practical arts and The brain, which controls the And it shall easy he”. her a And those who heed his voice physical strength, and the high¬ mind, is part of the physical nature ; And seek to give it back in trustful prayer, est compliment you can pay her is, therefore it is impossible to have a Have quiet hearts that never can despair, “She is a sound mind without a sound And hope lights up the way perfect picture of health/’ body. If Upon the darkest day. for this is a modern belle. we look into ancient history we find Take thou thy burden thus What has that the Greeks Into thy hands and lay it at His feet. wrought this change? recognized this truth. And, whether it be sorrow or defeat The growth ofthe idea ofphysical cult¬ They have surpassed all other nations Or pain or sin or care, Leave it calmly there. ure. in education. What did they lay at It is the lonely road When God made man he gave him the foundation? Physical culture. In That crushes out the light and life of heaven, But, borne with Him, the soul restored, forgiven, three natures, physical, mental, and that was the secret of their success. Sings out through all the days The first duties of the Greeks when His joys and God’s high praise. spiritual. These three natures are so Selected. closely connected that the power of they entered school were to learn their one depends largely upon the condi¬ letters and how to swim. Their phys¬ PHYSICAL CULTURE. tion of the one below it; the body af¬ ical education went hand in hand fects the with their mental, and we see the re¬ wo pictures—one of the past—the mind; the mind, the spirit. Is it sult in the other of the present. possible for men to be suc¬ greatest orators, poets, and cessful in life if The past:— A small, delicate form, they develop one nat¬ philosophers of the world. The train¬ ure at the with pale cheeks, wasp-like waist, and expense of another? No, ing of the Romans, the conquerors of for if wc the languid voice. Is this fragile being develop the physical at the world, was largely physical Think of the for use or ornament? Ignorant of the expense of the mental and spiritual, English. Their phys¬ we have such men as Sullivan and ical force is still maintained practical duties of life, proud that she by vigor¬ ous exercise taken is almost an invalid, can she become Corbett,—prize fighters,—worse than by all classes ; the mistress ofa homeor fill high positions brutes; spiritual development at the women pull the oar and take walks at the in the world ? No, there is no position expense of mental produces supersti¬ length of which many of our tion and fanaticism American women would be that will please this frail mortal better ; while mental cult appalled. ture without The Americans are considered the than to be seated at a piano in a beau¬ spirituality produces in¬ fidels. But of all most nervous tiful parlor singing sweet, sentimental faulty methods of people on the globe; education the cultivation of the men¬ women songs, or reclining upon a couch feast¬ insanity is prevalent and the tal and spiritual natures with a total are noticeably small. ing upon a novel. Why ? Because When we look upon this picture, we neglect of the physical is most com¬ they have but recently realized the im¬ mon. feel that we must heed the injunction portance of physical culture. A few of the poet, Many educators have seemed to re¬ years ago women were con¬ sidered “Take her up tenderly, gard the body as a rival of the brain, physically disqualified for the Handle with care, if not an ap¬ severe nervous and mental Fashioned so slenderly, enemy of it. They have discipline Young and so fair ” parently been filled with the idea that that is required to complete a college Does this butterfly being belong to strength and time given to the body course that their brothers could pur the earth or skv ? It is Miss Lacydo- are strength and time taken from the sue with ease ; but there was no prep¬ cia Lampkin, the belle of Mosquito mind. aration made that women might be¬ town. A cultivated mind without physi¬ come physically strong. Let us turn from the picture of the cal strength is like a fine engine with¬ Why is the physical culture of past to the present. We see a beau¬ out steam. women being discussed to-day with o SPELMAN MESSENGER such interest? Because new fields of The world is looking at the rapid Soon after, on a beautiful autumn labor are being opened to them year¬ progress that the American Southern evening, the young people, having ly and new duties develop upon them Negroes have made. But is their a holiday, went out nutting. daily. To be successful workers, they progress on a sure foundation ? Are It was impossible for Philip to go must be physically strong, and one of we as a race physically strong? If so, until an hour later because of the ill¬ the encouraging signs of to-day is that why do statistics show that the rate of ness of his father, but as he was climb¬ women are realizing, as some one has mortality among the colored people is ing the hill, he saw a pair sitting hand said, “That there is no virtue in being alarming? in hand. As Philip looked into their sick and that vitality is as precious in The future success of the race will faces he seemed to read his doom, so the sight ofGod as intelligence.” depend largely upon the cultivation quietly he slipped away to be alone, We find to-day in all our best col¬ of physical strength by the pupils not caring to witness Annie’s and leges gymnasium facilities and com¬ who go out from our schools. Per¬ Enoch’s happiness, because of his own petent instructors, and physical train¬ haps too many of our girls are like grief. ing a compulsory part of the college Miss Lacydocia Lampkin, and the Later on Enoch and Annie were course. The question to-day whether young men,—but we will leave them married, and seven years of their lives or not the daughter’s health is safe at to criticise themselves. But let us were spent in complete happiness. college is absurd, for in our best col¬ young women take pride in our phys¬ Beautiful little children came to leges the health of the pupils is care¬ ical strength and seek for an ideal ed¬ brighten their home, so now it was fully considered. There is a thorough ucation, which is a symmetrical devel¬ Enoch’s chief endeavor to give his examination of the physical strength opment of the physical, mental, and children a better bringing up than of each pupil who enters Wellesley spiritual natures; always remember¬ either Annie or himself had enjoyed. and from term to term their strength ing that the corner-stone of ail edu¬ One day while Enoch was working is tested, and students take as much cation is physical culture. he was seriously injured, and was com¬ pride in the development of the body Fannie L. Showers, class of ’93. pelled to stay indoors. While he was as in the development of the mind. recovering another little child came, ENOCH ARDEN. but this one was As to individuals, what kind of men sickly, yet his father loved him all the more. fight their .way to the front ranks in /7'TV hundred years ago, there lived While Enoch was all callings and hold their places? As in a small village three little lying there, a rule they are men of strong bodies. children named Philip Ray, Annie thinking of the injury that had come For example—Washington, Webster, Lee, and Enoch Arden. upon him, and of the possible conse¬ Lincoln, and the great pulpit orators ; Annie was the prettiest‘little dam¬ quences to his family, it made him as Spurgeon, Beecher, and Phillips sel in the part, and Philip was the very sad, and he prayed God very Brooks. only son of a miller; while Enoch earnestly that no evil might come Since physical strength is so impor¬ Arden was a rough sailor’s lad who nigh them. During the prayer, the master of the tant, nay, necessary to the highest suc¬ was orphaned during a winter’s wreck. ship in which Enoch had cess in life, how can it be obtained? These children were very intimate¬ served, and which was about to start for Shall men, women, and children wait ly associated. They often played to¬ China, heard ofhis misfortune until and came to offer him the they can go to college and enjoy gether at keeping house. Philip was position as the one boatswain. He was privilege of fine gymnasiums or host day, while Enoch was the very happy over under skilled instructors at great ex¬ next, but Annie kept always the mis¬ this, and the only thing whioh troubled him was how Annie would pense, study the Delsarte system, as tress. Sometimes Philip arid Enoch get along without him. It was hard to make is being done by the wealthy classes to¬ quarreled because Enoch wanted* to day, before taking any physical train¬ claim both the house and Annie. up his mind to even tell her of his ing ? No, physical culture is within Then Philip’s eyes would fill with separation, but at last he did. the reach of This was the first time since Annie all, but before it is at¬ nears, and he would cry out: “I hate and Enoch had been married that she tained a few very homely foundation- you, Enoch !’’ Then the little wife went stones must be laid. One of these would try to keep him company, and against his will. How she did stones is proper food. Good muscles tell them not to quarrel for her sake, beg and entreat him not to leave her and the children ! But can no more be produced without nour- for she would be wife to both of them, though it hurt him ishingfood thansteam without fire, but but Enoch gained the mastery because sorely to refuse her in anything, most of us.eat to tickle the palate rath¬ he was the stronger of the two. yet he held to his will. So, very soon all er than to nourish the body. There is Soon childhood passed and each things were prepared, and the another stone—neglected by some, but entered upon manhood and woman¬ morning for his departure came. of great importance, for it is “next to hood. It so happened that these two His heart was very sore, but he godliness.” Another of the necessi¬ young men were in love with Annie faced the necessity with all the cheer¬ ties is pure air, neglected probably be¬ Lee. Enoch spoke of his love to her, fulness he could command, and tried cause so easily obtained. while Philip loved silently. Annie to make Annie cheerful, but with Now, remembering that healthy seemed kinder to Philip, but she loved tears in her eyes she said to him, bodies cannot exist without nutritious Enoch, though she did not know it, “Enoch, you are wise, but with all food, cleanliness, and pure air, let us and would have, no doubt, denied it your wisdom I know well that I shall proceed to exercise these bodies vig¬ had she been asked. never behold your face again.” It was now Enoch’s whole aim to orously, daily, either according to After Enoch had gone, Annie some fine hoard system of physical culture, upallof his savingsto purchasea mourned for him, and tried to do all or, like England’s “grand old man,” boat of his own, and a home for Annie, he had told her to do, but felt that it and after a Gladstone, whose gymnasium is the little, a better or more care¬ was a failure, and troubles seemed to wood-pile, engage in some hard man¬ ful fisherman could not be found. come oftener. But the hardest of all ual labor fora portion ofour time, and So, when he had reached the age of her trials was the death of her youug- we shall find that a strong, healthy twenty-one, he had made a very cosy est child. Annie became very poor home for Annie. physique is in the reach of all. indeed, and as it had been ten years SPELMAN MESSENGER. 3 since Enoch had left his home, and old days; his son too, looking so ! rooms to receive our guests. Our nothing had been heard from him, tall and strong. Still he saw another, associate principal and two other every one thought him dead. he saw his Annie, yet not his. teachers began to make their visits. Then was the time Philip came to- As lie turned from this picture of Every dormitory was inspected. They woo Annie, and to try and make her j happiness it seemed almost impossible seemed to enjoy their walk. After his wife. There was a hesitation on for him to restrain an agonized cry, that was over, we had the remainder her part, because she still loved Enoch but he knew if he should yield, all of the afternoon to ourselves, visiting and she their without thought there might be a pos- , happiness would be destroyed permission. This was quite sibility of his still living, so she put ! in a moment. So Enoch turned and a change and, of course, we enjoyed it. Philip off a year. The year flew away crept away softly as a thief might, After half past four the beautiful very quickly, and Philip came as he fearful lest he might step on something sun, which had been sending forth its had said he would to secure Annie’s to make a noise, and be discoverd. brilliant, dazzling light, hid its face answer. Even after waiting the year He made his way out into the fields behind a dark cloud and the remain¬ she was not ready to give the desired as best he could, and would have der of the day was dreary-looking, answer, but asked him to wait another knelt to pray, but his knees were but, nevertheless, our hearts were month. After th i s had ex pired, Ph i 1 ip too feeble; so, falling prostrate upon filled with joy. came again promptly for his answer, the ground with his fingers digging In honor of this day of national and at last they were wed. into the earth, he prayed. importance, the colors of our native And was Enoch dead ? How pathetic, how heart-rending land were seen proudly streaming in The ship “Good Fortune” had a ' was the cry of that heart-broken man the breeze from the top of our beau¬ to tiful Giles Hall. prosperous voyage, and at last landed ; the All-pitying Father! at China. There Enoch bought and “Too hard to bear! Why did they At a quarter to eight play ceased. sold the curiosities of the country tnke me hence?” We all went to the chapel to attend “ O God Almighty, Blessed Saviour, Thou, and so accumulated devotions. We had a quite a fortune, Thou didst uphold rue on my lonely isle, very interesting but on his return home he lost all, Uphold me, Father, in my loneliness lesson. The sixty-sixth psalm was A little longer! Aid me, give me strength for his ship was wrecked and only Not to tell her, never to let her know. read and a story was told by one of Help me not to break in upon her peace. our was man two men were saved besides Enoch. My children, too! must I not speak to these ? teachers. It “The with¬ These two died and left him alone They know me not. I should betray myself. out a Never : no father’s kiss for me,— the girl country”. This we were very So like her mother, and the boy, my son.” much interested in. After upon (he on prayer was little isle which they j Here nature first landed. failed, and there he lay offered and a few hymns were sung, in a At last Enoch was rescued and taken trance, but when he arose he was we all went to our rooms to retire, as more determined than before never to back to the little village in which was it was about nine o’clock. And thus let her his home. On reaching the village know; and so he made his way ended George Washington’s Birthday back to the inn. he stopped at a tavern in Spelman Seminary. kept by A few Miriam Lane, and there he became days later Enoch called Cornelia J. Fincher, class of'96. Mi riam Lane to sick. During his convalescence, she him, and told her all his story, but bound her to the OUR NORMAL WORK. told him the whole story of Enoch’s j family, little dreaming that man promise that not till after his death this should she tell Annie. Then he Spelman normal and training was Enoch himself. She told him of gave no Miriam a little curl ofhairtobegiven department is longer housed in the little one’s death, ofAnnie’s grow¬ the old “Number Six.” Annie, which she had taken from the ing poverty, how Philip had been so A visitor, after our head of one of her little ones, and had going through kind as to send the children to school, beautiful new Giles Hall a short time and then of his wooing Annie, and given him on the morn of his depart¬ ure. He asked Miriam to tell Annie ago, said, “With this building and of her slow consent, the marriage, all its that he died praying for and blessing appliances you are evidently and then the birth of Philip’s child. to become the normal school of this her and the children. In listening to this story not one Three -part of the South.” Buildings and muscle of Enoch’s face moved, neither nights after, Enoch Arden breathed his last. appliances are necessary, but the stu¬ did a shadow cross it. One would dents must make the school. Lizzie S. Gordon, class.of ’94. have thought who looked on, that he Letters have been received from cared nothing for the story, but he HOW WE CELEBRATED many sources telling of good work did care. How tenderly his heart WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY. done by our students and asking for yearned just to see her face again! more teachers who have had normal So The many times he would say to day began by looking very training. An extract from a letter himself, “IfI might look on her face cloudy. We arose at six o’clock, and may be of interest. again and know that she is happy.” prepared for breakfast, which was at “When I first arrived I was somewhat This thought seemed to haunt him. seven. We had devotions after break¬ disturbed in mind, as I was told that I need not So one night, as he was seated on a fast in the dining-room instead of the expect anything higher than third grade license, as neither white nor hill-top gazing down upon the village, chapel so that the young ladies that colored ever received first grade in this were invited out the light from Enoch’s house seemed might attend a lect¬ county. But I did my best in the exami¬ to lure him, and he arose and slowly ure at the Atlanta Baptist Seminary. nation and resign id the rest to God and The members of the the commissioner, and to-day, when his wended his way down to the house, j normal, mis¬ stalwart form shadowed the school-room Enoch had no thought of disturbing sionary and academic departments of door, my heart leaped for fear of disap¬ the the school were invited. The subject pointment, as I knew he had come on his peace of this family, for as he circuit distributing licenses. But what do looked in of the lecture was “Patriotism”. upon them through the you think he said ? That I Avas the first After devotions we went to our dif¬ window, he knew they were happy, colored teacher that had received a first ferent halls to for while standing there, he saw prepare our rooms for grade license in this county for o\Ter twen¬ inspection, which was to take place ty years, and that of twenty-five or thirty Philip sitting caressing his little babe, j colored applicants this year and more of at two o’clock. This we did with Bending over him he saw the great the whites there were only two to get first care. After dinner we all went to our grade, —Rosalind L. Reid, daughter so like the Annie Lee of . 4 SPELMAN MESSENGER.

SPELMAN MESSENGER. Nights, Mahomet, Roman supremacy, NOTES ON THE CONGO. the downfall of paganism, till we halt E. O. Werden, Publisher. he population of the Congo State at the first 94, with St. John on the is made up of many tribes which M. L Packard, " Editors. isle of Patinos. We will go one step differ from one another in personal ATLANTA, GA., MARCH, 1894. farther ; the angel appears to Zacha- appearance, language, industry, tat¬ rias; New Testament history begins. tooing, and mode of dress, or rather, Published monthly, during the school their wantof dress; for some wear loin¬ \ ear, by members of Spelman Seminary. Suppose some one should have said cloths; others, a few spires of grass, JSST'Terms: 25 cts. per year, in advance; just nineteen centuries ago, “It will single copies, 5 cents. bracelets, beads, and anklets; while be all the same in a hundred Club Rates : Ten copies, one year, $2.00. years,” there are some who seem to vie with Advertising rates will be furnished would it have been true? No, indeed. one another in taking around the least on application. ’Twas then that unto us a Child was possible burden in the shape of To introduce the paper we will send it are up on trial to new subscribers two months. born. ’Twas then the Sun of right¬ clothing. Tribes divided into clans or not Subscribers families and these do wishing to introduce the eousness arose to brighten all theearth. Messenger to their friends can have speci¬ huddle together, as is supposed, but in And now look we for him to come a sec¬ men copies sent free from this office to building their towns each clan will any address. ond time ! Who shall say, “It will be select its site and settle just a short Subscribers asking to have the direction all the same in a hundred distance from another, and so on. of a paper changed should be careful to years” to Here name not and there in the only the post-office to which they come? More than likely ere we again valley, and on the wish it sent, but also the one to which it tops and sides of the hills where the has been sent. write ’94, our King may come in his soil is fertile, are found these towns or Letters concerning subscriptions should glory. “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” be addressed to villages. They are nothing more If he than clusters of Spelman Messenger, tarry, the world will not be the grass huts surrounded 99 Leonard Street, Atlanta, Ga. same, we shall not be the same. It by gardens, and mango, zinsafu, and matters much whether we cast our palm trees. Entered at the Post-Office at Atlanta, Ga., The houses are care on Him or generally nicely as second class mail matter. spend a life in vain built, especially those belonging to worry. “Choose ye this day whom the king and his wives. Each wife Who has not been told at some ye will serve.” Your choice will has her own house, and where there time when perplexed with anxious make all the difference; it will not are eight, ten, or whatever number of care, “It will be all the same in a hun¬ be all the same in a hundred years. wives, the same number of houses are built near the dred years?” At such a time, perhaps, king’s house and all are surrounded by a closely built the thought ofthe littleness of our lives —Just as we go to press a letter grass fence; thus the “king’s place” is and the from Miss Clara Howard brings the fleeting nature ofall that wears separated from the other town’s folk. and worries has silenced our fretful¬ startling news of an insurrection of The average size of a Congo house the natives of the Congo Independent ness and we have answered “That’s is about nine by twelve feet for the State against the Belgians. There so!” But is it so? Do no changes has been the missiona¬ ground floor, and in order to permit fighting, and a come men a person six feet tall to stand erect in to and nations in hundred ries have been obliged to flee from it there would have to be an opening any one Lukungu for safety. years? Could have foreseen made in the roof for his head to pass a — All century ago the progress achieved rejoiced when our Principal through. If a person should sit in the by the United States in our day? announced that she was going to leave little opening called the door, it would us for a few And then France was undergoing the days to attend the con¬ be impossible for even a child to pass ference at horrors of the Tuskegee, Ala., for we in or out. There is no window for ven¬ reign of terror, This knew she would greatly enjoy the vis¬ tilation. The furnishings of a man’s backward step with its new point of it, and the cause would be promoted house are his gun, hunting-bag, a view leads us to take other steps in by her presence. To us her absence water-bottle, several fetiches, and a same seemed the direction, and each time we long, and most gladly was she bed made by driving some sticks into see new sights. In 1649 the first rice greeted home again. Miss Giles re¬ the ground, covering them over with turned filled with enthusiasm. She was planted in America. Thethird step pieces of board, and spreading a mat praises the meeting ; she praises the on top of these, and if the man of the back shows Queen Bess on the Eng¬ school; she praises everything. house possesses a blanket, this isadded. lish throne, and another brings us to —On the morning of Feb. 6 we There is no pillow. The furnishings of Columbus. Onlyfour hundred years received a visit from Dr. Hubbard, a woman’s house are|somewhat differ¬ since our half of the world was found ! vice-president of the American Hu¬ ent. She has no gun" nor hunting-bag, mane Education but Let us make a longjump now and set Society. He told us instead, hoes with handles two feet that he had spent long, wood baskets, and cooking pots. our foot on the tenth century back several weeks in Atlanta talking kindness and visit¬ There are no homes; they have no and we are vis-a-vis with Alfred the ing the public schools and colleges word in their language for such a Great, and the air is misty with legend in the interest of beasts and birds. place, and family discipline is un¬ and fable told by our distant ances¬ He told us many interesting facts and known to them. An angry child falls a humorous to the tors. Only a thousand years and our story of divorce on ground, yells, kicks, froths at to enforce his lessons on the mouth/and, if touched mother, the British nation, was but doughnuts by his kindness. There are now eighteen mother, fights and bites. A father, on newly-born. And now we run quickly thousand Bands of Mercy in the being asked to send his child to school, down the centuries, catching glimpses United States with a membership of answers,“Ask the child’s chief; lam of ever-varying scenes, Arabian a million. only his father.” SPELMAN MESSENGER. 5

“To-morrow I want as Men and boys are the lords. They to shoot me, that is your palaver; I many ofyou trade, fish, mould in brass and iron, must do God’s work.” For some un¬ as have them to bring me an egg to be used in the make cloth, and sit around and smoke, expected reasons, the chiefs did not celebration, and the while the wives and sisters, with the carry out that threat. Lutete is still boy or girl who has a great many eggs babies strapped to their backs, work in the same town as pastor of a church may bring one or two extra ones so that the the farms, make the quanga (bread), with one hundred and forty members boy or girl who hasn’t one make all the pots and water-bottles and there are at present fiv£ village may have one also.” of clay, and do the cooking. Women schools in the district. The teacher provided herself with and children eat together, while the Nora A. Gordon. a small-sized basket for the reception of these wives must prepare their nicest pots eggs, as each day added to the store. Of of food for their husbands, who are AN EASTER CELEBRATION course, there were some ill- starred urchins who not wanting in words to express their IN THE COUNTRY. dropped their displeasure if the food does not suit perishable treasure on some spiteful their palates. stone and whose miserly parents would waswasbeinffa used as a school-house It is believed that the heathen do X't in little log house which deny them another. In spite of these that this question was asked, “How love one another, but their love, mixed accidents, when Friday came, there many of you know what Easter is?” were with a superstitious fear of some un¬ fifty-five eggs all told. The school was made up of about known dreaded calamity, makes them “Now, children, what do you think thirty-five pupils and a lone teacher I am hunt out and kill each other as witch¬ going to do with these?” who was enjoying the novelty of her “Make a cake for es. They believe that death is not Easter,” said one. first school-teaching. It wasa genuine natural, and if a person dies, some “Fry ’em an’ eat ’em,” cried an¬ witch has “eaten his life country school situated three miles other. away.” from station, which is about forty “Set yer a hen an’ hatch chickens,” Christianity makes a wonderful miles south of Atlanta. As far as one change in the manners and customs of piped a little fellow on the front bench. could see there was nothing to feed hese people. Christians separate “No, I am not going to do any of the eye on save woods and well cul¬ themselves and will accept of no such these, but I am going to use them for tivated fields which were being re¬ compromises as church festivals, danc¬ you. No more guessing, but wait until plowed and fertilized for the reception Sunday and you will know.” es, theatres, etc., for the young ; all of the cotton seed. Meanwhile there were are one in Christ, and if any member being learned It was a fine day and just a week seeks amusement among his former appropriate songs and speeches for before Easter when the above ques¬ Easter. When Saturday came the companions, he is severely disciplined. tion was asked, and after a silence on A Christian man builds a taller house teacher, being a novice in the art of the partofthe pupils, the teacher told than a heathen, with respectable-sized driving, hitched the oldest mule (for them that it wasa day associated with door and one or two safety) to the cart and drove to the windows, goes to the Savior, and for which each person nearest school, town, Station , and buys his wife a dress, fondles living should be glad. his children, helps his wife on the farm, purchased three packages of diamond Just here a bright little fellow7 said, and “ dyes. That evening a magical change goes to the mission and learns how I reckon it’s Christmas.” was to make stools, tables, and a different wrought on the eggs, for what “No,” said the teacher, “Christmas kind of bed. Every night he collects was once the plain white egg became is the on was ; the day which Christ born blue, yellow, purple, red, spotted, people of his town together, sings, but this is a greater and gladder day speckled, and striped. prays, and talks with them about Jesus. than Christmas. What became of the After he has learned to read he carries At last Sunday came. It had been Savior after he had lived awhile here around his little book decided that the children should meet ( generally the on earth ? ” translation of at the teacher’s boarding-place and John’sgospel) and when “He was crucified,” they answered. march to the his caravan halts for rest or to camp he school, which was only “Yes. We all know the song, out a few rods takes his book and reads and talks ‘They crucified my Savior.’ away. They had all as¬ to the carriers. Thus the gospel is Don’t we ? ” sembled, with bright and expectant carried to regions beyond. A Cougo “Yes’m” was heard with prompt¬ faces, by nine o’clock and in a few moments marched to the Christian is fearless and ever on the ness, for every colored child in the school, two alert to do good. South knows and sings this song, by two, singing, “Onward, Christian soldiers,” One evening in a town near Lu- which is known and sung with be¬ the leader kunguthe native preacher was beating coming pathos by its race only. bearing a royal purple cambric banner with this the empty tin as usual to remind the “Well, children, after he was cruci¬ inscription in people that it was time for the even¬ fied, what became ot him ? ” gilt letters, “Christ is risen to-day.” The school-house was filled to its ing devotions, when a state official “He rose,” with the same prompt¬ utmost with visitors. Each feat¬ with his caravan came into the town. ness. ure of the celebration was When the people had assembled and “Certainly. Now the day on which heartily received and older ones seemed as the official, who was a Roman Cath¬ He arose is called Easter, just as the olic, had settled in his quarters, the day on which He was born is called deeply interested and pleased as did the children. preacher went out and said, “White Christmas.” When the last recitation man, come in and bring your men; After this preface of questions and had been this is the time for prayers.” answers, the story of the crucifixion said, the basket containing the eggs, A number of wicked chiefs with and ascension was told them, and which had been hidden meanwhile, their guns waited upon a preacher in very interested listeners they were. was brought to light. another town fifteen miles from Lu- “Now, children, suppose we have an What a look of mingled delight and kungu and told Lutete that if he per¬ Easter Day celebration. How many astonishment was on those little sisted in ringing the bell and preach¬ wish it?” faces and how their eves did sparkle! There was a ing to the people they would shoot lifting of great hands The teacher took one of these bright him. Lutete and little hands. answered, “If you wish See page 7.

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7 ' ASTRONOMICAL PHENOM¬ Dr, Hanaford’s Card, ENA FOR MARCH, 1894. Mother and Child, giving, in plain lan¬ guage, the treatment of both. Price, $T .00. The phases of the Moon are as Home Girls, treating of the physicaland mental training, 20 cents. new, a. m.; follows; 7th, 8.18 first Anti-Fat and Anti-Lean, 25 cents. quarter, 14th, 12.28 p. m.; full, 21st, Good Digestion, or the Dyspeptic’s 8.11 a. m.; last quarter, 29th, 2.28 Friend, 25 cents. Stomach Regulator and Liver Invigo- а. m. The Moon passes near the rator, intended for Dyspepsia, Foul planets as follows: 2d, Mars; 4th, Stomach, Indigestion, Nausea, Torpidity of Venus ; 8th, Mercury; 12th, Jupiter; the Liver, and all derangements of that 23d, Saturn; 81 st, Mars. organ. Price, 40 cents (stamps) for enough to last one Mercury is invisible month; $1.00 for three packages, during the three months. The sick who will carefully month. KELtlf^M § M0©RE, give their symptoms, diet, habits, etc., will Venus is the brilliant morning receive medicine and advice to last six Scientific Opticians, weeks, hv letter, for $3.00. star, and has its greatest brightness Goon Bread and now to Make it, 15cts. 54 Marietta street, opposite post-office, set up on the 22d. All sent and operated the first lens-grinding machinery by mail, free, on receipt of the Mars is also morning star, rising ever brought into this section, and have been the price. (Stamps for change.) (The “Health Rules”. will he sent in Good Bread, on the 1st at about 3.30 a. m. iirst to introduce every optical improvement. Anti- Fat and Anti-Lean, and with the medicine.) Jupiter is the Their retail salesroom is at 54 Marietta street, op¬ only planet that is posite post-office. Wanted, Local or traveling agents to sell evening star, and it is conspicuous in the above books. the southwest all the evening. DR. J. II. HANAFORD. Saturn is APDCATUnCAl nnrCDurrcn. Arena,The Publishersthe brilliantof TheBos¬ morning star, but rises ton Review, make the following offer which for in the latter part of the evening. It liberality is unparalleled in the history of magazine literature. Every new subscriber to the Arena who is quite near the bright star Spica or forwards the regular subscription price [$5.00], will ATLANTA BAPTIST receive in addition to a year’s subscription to The Alpha Virgin is. Arena, as a premium, a year’s subscription to The The Moon of this month is the pas¬ SSfh?pri«oi“hStMAGAZINE READERS. SEMINARY, chal moon, which regulates the pass- is $2.40 [old subscribers to The Cosmopolitan must remit $5.50] The Arena employs the ablest think¬ ATLANTA GEORGIA. over festival of the Jews and the ers on both sides of the Atlantic, who discuss the Easter festival of the Christian great social, moral, religious, psychic, economic, and educational problems which are now so pro¬ * ¥®UNS MEN HND B®¥g * church. foundly agitating the thinking world, more ful¬ ly in its pages than those of any other great review The Sun crosses the equator going published. The Cosmopolitan is probably the most popular strictly first-class family magazine pub¬ Courses of Study north on the 20th at 10 a. m. lished. It is profusely illustrated and, with The Arena, makes the finest combination ever made for There is a partial eclipse of the moon CAMDIC PflDV a reading home. In fact these Preparatory, oAlYIrLL uUrl i on the 21st, but it is invisible in the magazines form a PERFECT LIBRARY IN THEMSELVES that no thoughtful Normal, eastern United States. parent should be without. A sample copy of The Arena will he sent postpaid for 20c. Scientific and Address all orders to The Arena Publishing Co., Classical, Boston, Mass. —The highest temperature from Theological. Jan. 25 to Feb. 28, inclusive, was For Catalogue and Information, 70° on Feb. 9 ; lowest, 20° on Feb. 15; write to average, 44.13°. The rainfall was RICHMOND & DANVILLE R. R. inches. Rev. George Sale, The great through car President. —The English literature class, hav¬ Route to the North and East ing read the story of‘‘Enoch Arden/’ Via Washington. were asked to reproduce it in their own SPELMAN SEMINARY, words. We publish one ofthe papers The only through line to New York. 99 Leonard SI,, brought in simply as a class exercise. Three daily trains. ATLANTA GEORGIA. BAUGHMAN’S Solid trains between Atlanta, For Women and Girls. б.37ADJUSTABLE TAILOR SYSTEM, Washington, and Richmond. It has Primary, Intermediate, Grammar, and Academic Courses, also Courses in No more memorizing of numbers and Modern Languages and the Classics, a Nor¬ letters, no more square drafting or cut¬ The mal and Training Course, and a Missionary ting by patterns. Simply set the Adjust¬ Georgia Pacific Railway. Training Course. able Tailor System to the size wanted, Via Birmingham. The Missionary Training Department place it on the goods folded and you are prepares graduates of this and similar in¬ able, with a tracer, to produce a perfect Through Sleepers stitutions for mission work at home or in garment according to measure, and in Atlanta to foreign lands. harmony with any style fashion may dic¬ Memphis, The Primary and Intermediate Depart¬ tate. Atlanta to ments give an opportunity for practical The name Shreveport. of each particular measure is work to the student teachers in our Nor¬ at the head of each slide, in large type, mal and Training Department. and numbers to indicate the various sizes, —Best line to the West— The Nurse Training School is in success¬ so that any one who can read and take ful operation, under a competent Trained measures can set the machine and cut a Nurse. garment correctly. For tickets and all information The Industrial Department is made a It sells rapidly to private families. First prominent feature. class dress-makers and schools of indus¬ Apply to Board, (including tuition and room rent) $7.00 a try are quick to adopt it as they become month in advance, $7.50 if remaining unpaid till acquainted with it. A. A. Vernoy, Pass. Agt. the end of the month. Agents wanted in every'county and town; Street cars run every thirty minutes, from Mariet¬ W. II. Tayloe, Hist. Pass. Agt. ta St., directly to Leonard. write for circulars. For catalogues and further information Address all orders to No. 10 Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga. address J. S. BAUGHMAN Miss Harriet E. Giles, Principal. 138 So. 6th St., BURLINGTON, swa. Miss Lucy II. Upton, Associate Principal.

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HEALTH DEPARTMENT. a

Conducted by Dr. J. H. Hanaford, Read¬ Seeing; is Believing.’ ing, Mass., to whom all questions of gener¬ And a good al interest should be directly addressed. lamp must be simple; when it is not simple it is not good. Good—these 1 Whether ye eat, or drink, or rvhatsoever ye Simple, Beautiful, words mean do, do all to the glory of God.) much, but to see “The Rochester” will impress the truth more forcibly. All metal, tough and seamless, and made in three pieces EXERCISE. only,’ it is absolutely safe and unbreakable. Like Aladdin’s of Give old, it is indeed a “wonderful lamp,” for its mar¬ girls, like boys, the liberty of velous light is purer and brighter than gas light, the yard, since it is as natural, if not softer than electric light and more cheerful than either. as needful for them, like kittens, Look for this stamp—The Rochester. If the lamp dealer has n’t the geniiine lambs, Rochester, and the style you want, send to us for our new illustrated catalogue, etc., to run and skip and jump and we will send you a lamp safely by express—your choice of over 2.000 and engage in all sortsofdecent sports, varieties from the Largest Lamp Store in the World. as it is to breathe. Do not fear the ROCHESTER LAMP CO.# 42 Park Place, New York City. sunshine or the consequent tan, since that is but the diploma of Mother ^ “The Rochester.” Nature, conferred on her favorites. In this Continued way, let them make good from page 5. and sisters, I want you all to hear me, bones, muscles, nerves, brains, and eggs in her hand and asked, “What is ’case when I seed dat teacher git up a first-class this?” appetite, one demanding dere with dat egg in her han’, I sez to “An plain muscle food, in reasonable egg,” was the quick response. myse’f, 'Now dere she goes with a pack abundance. Do not confine them too “Does this egg seem to have life?” o’ foolishness.’ But I tell you all, much nor “No’m.” expect them to work like dat little yaller egg has preached de adults. They were made to play in “Can it move itself?” loudes’ sermon I eber did hear. For early life—and work afterward. If “No’m.” when de chicken gits ready to lebe de “But what is in the inside of the they sleep well, and are fully rested shell, it comes out in spite o’ all you in the morning, do not fear. Play shell?” can do. An’ brethern, when de Lamb and observation come first, then play “A chicken.” was ready to lebe de tomb, not all de and some study, then a compound of “How do you know?” gates of hell could keep him in dere.” play, study, and labor, some thinking, “Because when the old hen sits on Addressing the teacher, he said, “Sis¬ and then hard a it the chicken comes out of the shell.” study, with little play ter, will you please give me one o’ and more work. While “How rough long does it take the hen to dem eggs, ’case I means to keep it to plays are to be avoided, such as base¬ bring them out?” ’member dis day ?” ball sexes—an “Three weeks.” matches—by both So the eggs were distributed, one abundance of amusement exhilarating “Exactly. Now, children, when into each little eager hand, and a few is safe, at least till Christ was good muscles and crucified, buried in a great into larger hands, the owners of which bones are secured. stone tomb closed with another great seemed to prize and clutch them with stone, and soldiers put there to watch as much eagerness as did the children. his body, did it seem as if there could Addict M. Flyman, class —We wish to remind our graduates of ’97. that it is desirable that possibly be any life in that body?” they inform “No’m.” —Miss Joanna P. Moore, the pio¬ us each January of their work during neer missionary to the colored wom¬ “But there was an all-powerful the previous year and their address en of the Savior in that tomb and, after he had South, has come to make her at time of writing, that a perfect rec¬ home in Atlanta. Spelman Seminary lain there three arose, ord may be kept here. Will those days, he and feels honored to have her within her no one in all the earth could have who have not done so this year please borders. Miss Moore carries a blessing respond at once? kept him there a moment longer, be¬ where she cause God had said that his Son goes. Like Abraham, may she be blessed as well as a blessing! —During the winter the students should be raised on the third day, and of Atlanta Baptist Seminary have had God’s word can never fail. So we Happy and content is a home with “The Ro¬ provided for them a very interesting haveThe beautiful Easter eggs as an chester,” a lamp with the light of the morning. course of lectures, which the teachers emblem of the Savior’s resurrection. Catalogues,write RochesterLampCo.,NewYork. and advanced students of this school As the little chick seems lifeless in the have been cordially invited to attend. shell, so did Christ seem while in the This privilege has been highly ap¬ tomb; as the chick must be kept un¬ preciated, and we extend heart-felt der the hen three weeks, so Christ thanks for the kindly courtesy. Our was kept in the tomb three days; and brothers on the hill never forget to just as the chick bursts its shell and CAN I OBTAIN A PATENT? Fora share their us. comes forth beautiful and good things, with active, so prompt answer and an honest opinion, write to MIJNN it CO., who have had nearly fifty years’ Christ burst the tomb and came forth —Our experience in the patent business. Communica¬ Sunday services have been tions strictly confidential. A Handbook of In¬ conducted a living, glorified Savior.” formation concerning Patents and how to ob¬ by Mrs. Mial Davis of tain them sent free. Also a catalogue of mechan¬ And so the lesson was ical and scientific hooks sent free. Fitchburg, Mass.; Rev. C. P. Wil¬ taught just Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive as the teacher had been special notice in the Scientific American, and liamson, D. D., of Atlanta; Deacon taught ■ years thus are brought widely before the public with¬ before. out cost to the inventor. This splendid paper, Mial Davis of Fitchburg, Mass.; and issued weekly, elegantly illustrated, has by far the At the conclusion of this illustra¬ largest circulation of any scientific work in the Rev. F. C. McConnell, I). D., assist¬ world. #3 a year. Sample copies sent free. Building ant tion of Edition, monthly, $2.50 a year. Single corresponding secretary of the Easter, an old minister who copies, 25 cents. Every number contains beau¬ tiful plates, in colors, and photographs of new Home Mission Board of the Southern prided himself on his scriptural houses, with plans, enabling builders to show the latest designs and secure contracts. Address Baptist Convention. knowledge, arose and said, “Brethern MUNN & CO., New York, 361 Broadway, 8 SPELMAN MESSENGER.

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