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f-sus-, VOL’XV. LINCOLNUNIVERSITY, PA., DECEMBER,1910, AND JANUARY, 1911. No. I. usand thurch drop Contributions for the work of the University ferred to Negroes as a race of political chil- and for aiding worthy students, limited in their dren. Colored people generally took great um- resources, to obtain an education to be used in brage at this pronouncement. But I desire to helping their race to a higher level, are always say that the political performances of the race, thankfully received. They may be sent to the especially during recent years, more than jus- Financial Secretary, Rev. W. P. White, D. D., tify this characterization.” 1328 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. The Rev. Dr. C. Albert Tindley, who has been called the “Demosthenes of the Negro Rev. William Hallock Johnson, Ph.D., Pro- pulpit in America,” made an eloquent appeal fessor of Greelc and New Testament Litera- for his race. He took encouragement from the ture in Lincoln University, has been selected fact that many Negroes have become escellent by Princeton Theologic~lSeminary to deliver citizens, inferring from this that many others the Stone Lectures for 1913. This is a dis- would follow suit. But he warned his hearers tinguished honor, and one in which the Uni- that the process of uplifting the race would versity takes pride in having bestowed upon require time. The speaker pointed out that its professor. Dr. Johnson’s able article on every door was flung wide along paths on “Aliracles and History” in The Prin.cet0.n The- which his race might sink into corruption, ologkcal Reviczv for October, 1910, has been whereas the doors along the upward paths were published in pamphlet form. in too many cases shut against them. Bishop Mackay-Smith, in a brief address, ex- pressed his interest in the Negro race. “I have Rev. John W. Lee, D. D., pastor of the First a great deal of feeling of brotherhood for these African Church of Philadelphia, and a gradu- people,” said the Bishop. “I have always been ate of Lincoln University, in his report to the engaged in work for their betterment. I know Presbytery on the work among Freedmen there is an enormous amount of ignorance and stated that “in addition to the natural increase, ingratitude among the Negroes, but the same Philadelphia was receiving five thousand Ne- thing exists among the whites. God bless this groes. every year from the Southern States.” movement. and map it help us to lice closer -- together than we have in the past.” The American Negro Question. .).) Rev. C J. Trusty. D. D. -4n important conference on this question was held recently in the Young Men’s Christian Thc Rev. Dr. Fisher, of Pittsburg, writing Association, Philadelphia, at which Bishop to the Hqnld wid Presbyter, says: Macliay-Smith presided, and prominent re- “It is reported that Grace Memorial Church, ligious leaders of the denominations were the main colored Presbyterian organization of present. this city, will extend a call to Rev. C. J. Trusty, Professor Carl Kelsey, of the University of of Jersey City, who was at one time pastor in Pcnnsylvania, pointed out “the shortcomings Chattanoo,ga under the care of the Freedmen’s of the Negro as seen through friendly eyes.” Board. He is regarded as a very well-fitted €le spoke of Negroes as “unreliable as a man for this work, and Grace Church only group,” and said that the $300,000,000 of prop- needs a wise and earnest leadership to do a erty owned by IO,OOO,OOO of Negroes was not great work among these. people.” as good a showing as the $go,ooo,ooo obtained Dr. Trusty is a graduate of Lincoln Univer- by Italians who have come to the United States sity, of the Seminary class of 1892. Dr. Fisher since the Civil War. further says : “We must fill the Negroes,” said he, “with a “Many a member of the colored churches in profound dissatisfaction with themselves be- the South comes northward, and especially to fore a beginning toward their improvement is this city, in search of larger wages and greater made. There has been too much coddling of privileges, and should be reached and coun- the Negroes by a certain class of whites, who seled by the pastor and people of such a pitied the race because they were formerly church. It is not always a wise movement, slaves.” this pilgrimage northward, lured by. hopes of Mr. Stenions, a Negro, entered a scathing greater comforts and gains, for remuneration indictment of the dissolute, lazy and politically or wages is relative, and there is often as great dishonest Negro. He said: “It is a deplorable a loss as gain-a giving up of unappreciated fact that almost the entire performance of Ne- advantages for hopes not always gratified. * groes with the ballot has been to stroke the The slower progress in the old and familiar fur of the political cat in the wrong direction. regions is often more desirable. But there are A distinguished citizen of this country has re- soinc things which must temper our judgment.” 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.’

Lincoln University Herald. specting n:y qnalifications and the wisdom of granting such a request. In answer to ‘such PUBLISHED MONTHLY. fears, if you happen to have any, I would beg - .. Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to you to dispel them. I do not say this egotisti- imparting information concerning it to the frie‘nds at cally, but rather because I have been preparing a distance. myself privately while in America, for I was Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. aware that my health might not allow a pro- Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. I. longed residence there. Besides missionary Entered at Lincoln University as second-class work among our people calls more for Chris- matter. I tian piety and experience than it does in civil- ’ Subscriptions and communications may be ad- ized countries, for they follow more by exam- dressed to REV.W. P. WHITE,D. D., * ple. 1328 CHESTNUTSr., PHILA.,PA. “Some of lis suffered greatly while in or PROF. R. L. STEWART, D.D., America on account of our people, but we LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. PA. reckon that suffering as nothing providing we ~~ are enabled to serve them here at home by -$-AnotherLetter from Samuel Kuenene. endeavoring to blot out that indelible stain termed heathenism. Samuel B. Kuenene, of South Africa, a “My health has improved greatly since my natiye Zulu, was for a time a student in Lin- arrival, and it continues to do so. I have been coln University, but for, health reasons was very busy since I last wrote to you. I have advised by a physician to give up his studies been ploughing and doing other work at home. and return home. I dare say you know that Rev. L. N. Mzimba Jn our last issue we gave an interesting letter is pastor of the circuit around my home. I ! from him to President Rendall. A second has have not seen him as yet, because he has been since been received, which’we give in part. He away on a trip through eastern Cape Colony; writes from Burnshill, Cape Colony, under date in the meantime, I have been busy every Sun- of November 4th, as follows : clay preaching at some one of his stations. “I have been prompted to write to you so Ahout a week ago I was asked to deliver an soon by circumstances relative to our work address before the Women’s Auxiliary meeting, here. As you know, my.sole object while at comprising two or three circuits. The meet- Lincoln was preparation for the ministry. I ing was a success in every way; you would have not relinquished the idea of entering the he surprised yourself to see the religious enthu- ministry ; instead, I have redoubled my resolu- siasm which prevails here, especially among tions and energies, and if God so wills it, I the women. The people are simply overjoyed i intend to carry them out the best I know how. when they see Lis return, for some predicted “On meeting Rev. P. J. Mzimba, who brought when we left home that the experiment of that lot of young men there, I was advised, sending young nien to America would be a after explaining thc conditions over there and failtire. I have not had more than a day’s rest here attending my departure, and my present to myself, but I am taking good care of myself. qualifications, to write to you, asking you to “My mother sends her love to you. Give my send mea letter of membership in the Ashniun regards to all the professors. With sincere Preshyterian Church. I was also counselled to respect, Yours truly, ask you to send me a letter of recommendation “SAMUELB. KUENENE.” and certification as to my being a candidate +- for the ministry while at- Lincoln University. -- ! This I am now doing. Race Friction on Surface. “You may find this a sort of dilemma. I offer this reason in explanation. The harvest Booker T. Washington, speaking on a De- is truly great and plenteous, but the workers cember Sunday in the Fourth Presbyterian are few. There are a number of large circuits, church of New York, told the congregation some of them containing eight, ten and twelve “that the friction between the white race and . stations, witho~itministers ; and it is extremely the black race is all on the surface, and that necessary that they be looked after. Most of at the bottom the Southern Negro has the the ministers hare not siifficient time to look sympathy of the Southern white man in his after their own circuits. because these stations efforts at honest self-betterment.” He said : are far apart; yon will ‘therefore understand “When I see a successful Negro banker, and the peculiar position in which we are placed. ask him where he got his start, he will usually The letters are to be ‘presented before the point to some Southern white man and say: - Synod, which meets in January, 1911;it is of ‘That white man lent me the money and helped the utmost importance that they should arrive me with his advice.’ Iwfore that tinic. “That sort of relation shows that the prob- Yoti will no doubt he gravely concerned re- leni is 011 the way to solution. I know what LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. 3

race prejudice means; I know, what poverty the speaker was addressing these earnest, means; but there is a spirit of fair young men in the highest themes of knowledge .. play in the American people that will re- and life he could summon, he had a strange ward success, whether of a white man or a absence of any feeling peculiar to the audience black man.” and the fact that he was addressing men of There are many who will incline to question a different color from his own. He forgot he his assertion. was speaking to “black men,” and remembered that he was,only speaking to men, and a more - evidently intelligent, quickening, sympathetic A Visit to Lincoln University. and responsive company of listeners he never before addressed. Let no one go before the REPORTTO SYNODOF PENNSYLVANIA. students of Lincoln University with the idea that they cannot appreciate the best he can give BY REV. J. KINSEP SMITH, D. D. to them with as much facility and discrimina- . tion as the white students of any college in the Your Cornmittee appointed by the last Synod land. If, also, he will lay aside for the time to visit Ihcoln University would report that being his superior “race consciousness,” and they perfornied this pleasant duty, two of them address them as equals in the republic of in February last, the other attending the Com- knowledge and character, he will not receive mencement of the Theological Department any moral or social detriment to himself, and some weeks later. The Chairman was invited be greatly respected for his good manners. by President Rendall to speak to the students As a body regarded physically, sartorically, twice on the “Day of Prayer for Colleges,” and physiognomically, intellectually, mo,rally and re- I he found this one of the most interesting and ligiously, the students of Lincoln University stimulating episodes in his life., are a splendid society of men. They come The President, facult$ and their families and from all over this country and are the very the student body gathered in the commodious best representatives of their race. In their and pleasant chapel belonging to the Univer- general deportment and behavior they are a sity, both morning and afternoon. There was model community and present an example of the fine rythmic, sonorous, melodious singing courtesy, self-respect and self-control which by the students, led by a most excellent quar- would put to the blush many of our highly en- tette of young men, which one who knows dowed and aristocratic white colleges. They something of the instinctive musical ability of are reportcd by presidents and. professors as the colored race might reasonably expect to up to the intellectual average of white students find. It was an audience of strong, intelligent, and as apt, diligent and excellent in their i self-respecting, manly men, mostly 0.f the usual studies. The graduating classes send out into youthful age of college students, but inter- the country, and especially into the Southland, spersed with older faces, just as interesting where they are so much needed, a recruiting and with often an added touch of that deeper force of education, character and religion, ..“ earnestness which comes to men who have which is among the chief assets of the colored

3. seen the Vision later in life. It was an audi- race. Lincoln University is doing a work ence of quiet, orderly, cultivated Christian stu- among and for the colored people of the United dents, whose color and race did not seem, in States which is beyond computation in its wide- the least to shed on them any disparaging in- spread effects for individual and national good. c- fluence. They looked like men who had seen The institution needs a larger endowment ! the face and heard the voice of Duty, who had and some new buildings are needed, especially none of the foolish vanity .and sentimental am- dormitories. Its present equipment is up to a bition which is often imputed to .those members fair average, and is remarkably efficient, con- of this race who are found in our schools and sidering that it has had no large benefactors, colleges. like so many of our modern colleges, and has

Their superior advantages over I the great had to struggle along content with its modest mass of ,their people, the torch of learning progress. Dlaced in their hands and the garlands of This may not be an unmixed evil, as it has knowledge which they so modestly wore, developed among both professors and students seemed here to have failed to produce those a spirit of frugality and self-sacrifice which is disastrous results which are so often predicted one of the greatest forces in the exertion of by those who fear the influence of higher edu- influence and the building of character-some- cation on black men. Indeed, both in their thing which seems to be notably lessening in ’ passive aspect as an audience of listeners and so many of our highly endowed educational in- in their freer conduct in class room, library, stitutions. Nevertheless, friends are much dormitory, refectory and campus, the terrible needed at Lincoln, and their gifts, smaller or ogre of the demoralized, college-bred Negro larger, will receive a grateful and wise use. seemed to be strikingly absent. Indeed, while Of Dr. Rendall’s work and influence it is 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. .., unnecessary to speak. In his office the man to reach the colored population with the Gospel and the place have met, and he is recognized and train the colored children in Christian as po,ssessing ideal fitness for the head of this principles. . great enterprise. The members of the faculty One of the most interesting illustrations of are able, earnest and competent men, and the the work they are doing is to be seen at LouiS- greatest harmony and mutual kindly feeling ville, Ky., where the Rev. John Little, a white exists between them’ and the students and Southern Presbyterian minister, is in charge throughout all the various departments of the of two flourishing colored missions. This University, both collegiate and theological. Of work was hegun in-~ElgS,when six students this latter department of the University, one from the theological seminary organized a col- of the members of the Committee who attended ored Sunday school of twenty-three pupils. the Commencement of that department writes This work has grown until now there is a regu- to the Chairman that he was much impressed larly. organized church, with its own colored by the exercises and with the ability displayed pastor, a graduate of Stillman Institute. But by the speakers of the graduating class. The the work is not left to the colored pastor. Each . addresses were of a “high order and showed a week nearly nine hundred colored pupils re- careful training.” ceive instruction ‘in Gospel truths at the hands Lincoln University is one of the stragetic ,‘of forty-nine white teachers from fepresenta- centres of our modern educational life; it is tive homes of the city. At ‘many other points one of the necessary solvents of the so-called in the South, white Presbyterians of the race problem; it is Christian in its spirit, na- Southern Assenibly are carrying on similar tional and patriotic’in its aims, and it has al- i?roi-k on a smaller scale. . .. ready made an ‘honorable history for itself -4’plan for a far more extensive work by all among the institutions of the land, and it is Preshyterians working unitedly has been . on rapidly rising to an ever larger place and power foot for several years, hut has not ‘yet been in the life of the nation and the Church. put into snccessful operation. The movement The Synod is asked to commend it to the is heirig’ foktered by the Council’ of the. Re- prayers. gifts and sympathies of the who,le forined Chnrch’es in ‘America holding the Pres- Church, and to the whole nation, for whose hyterian System, which embraces practically all higher welfare, as well as that of the colored Preshpterians, and it grows out of the convic- race itself, its foundations were laid and its tion expressed by the first .meeting of the walls were built, a’mid the prayers and’ tears Council in 1907 that “the principle of co-opera- and hopes of far-sighted, courageous, patriotic, tion which has worked so admirably in the for- Christian men. eign field should he applied,’ as far as possible, to work among the colored people of oiir coun- -- try, as conducted by the constituent bodies of Mission Work among Negroes by the this council.” . It is felt that the work can best South. he conducted by Southerners; who understand best the “brother ‘in black,” but that all Pres- BY V:ILLL4M T. ELLIS. byterian churches should unite in. supporting the ’ enferprise. The United Presbyterian . There is no longer any doubt that the white Church and the presbyterian Church in the Christians of the South are getting thoroughly United‘ States ‘of America have long been en- awake to tlie duty and the opportunity which gaged in this work, the former beginning in are theirs. Indeed, self-interest dictates that 1863 and the latter in 1865, and they have spent it is a serious blunder to be indifferent to the large sums, .yet the results have not been large. moral condition. of tlie colored people; but it The United Presbyterians have but seventeen is a clearer caiiception of Christian duty rather colored churches. with-3,725 members, and the than self-interest which is awakening concern. Presbyterians in the United States of America ‘2 few prominent leaders, particularly in the report but 399 colored churches, with 23,325 Southern Pres1)yterian Church, have been for ~nembers. The,Southern Presbyterians began some years holding before the Christians of their work in r891 and report seventy-five col- the South their duty to the race. One eminent ored churches, with 3,000 members. It is Southern Presbyterian minister even took this thought that by working together the effort will be much more effective. . . . duty,as the theme of his sernion when retiring .. from the office of Moderator of the General *&-, Assembly, and at its last meeting the Southern . According to the Rev. Dr. W. G. Parkes, General Assembly made the work of colored Vice-President:at-large of the Negro National evangelization a part of the task committed to Baptist Convention, which met recently in New its Executive Committee on Home Missions, brleans. there are. Z,$~,OOO Negro Baptists in in order that the si.ibject might have the promi- Atlierica, having I8&j churches and ’ 17,6j2 nence thal it deserves in the thought of the ministers. .The. church property- of the de- Church. 111 an increasing number of instances ngininatio!i is valued’at $24,692,000. . There are white Southern Presbyteriaiis are teaching in ra,soo mission circles, 10,000 B. Y:P. U., and colored Sunday schools and otherwise seeking 660 district associal ions.

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Lincoln University Herald. pathy, one contains a couplet which may we11 represent the spirit of this University in PUBLISHED MONTHLY. the years gone by: Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to imparting information concerning it to the friends at “Steady and strong it did its part, a distance. And kept its hold on the world’s great heart.” Sent one year to.any address for 2s.cents. That that spirit may prevail. in the days Sent in clubs of five OT more at the rate of IO cents to come, we must keep our feet. firmly planted: each. Entered at Lincoln University as second-class upon the solid ground of an ever advanc- matter. ing practical problem demanding patient toil Subscriptions and communications may be ad- and ready devotion, but with the vision broad . dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE, D. D., and the guidance from above: CHESTNUTST., PKILA.,PA. r328 “As sailors through the long. night keep or PROF. R. L. STEWART, D.D., LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. PA. Upon the stars a watchful eye And guide their bark across the deep, Reading their pathway in the sky.” dealing with the great problem of tubercu- losis. A recent visitor was Mr. Earl W. - Clark, who brought an impressive and up- A Gratifying Bequest. lifting message of the power of Christian enthusiasm and faithful prayer, as illustrated By the will of Mrs. Emily H. Moir, of by the various activities of the Christian and New York City, recently deceased, Lincoln Missionary Alliance and especially his own University is made a beneficiary, along with peculiar work in Bolivia. The Rev. George several other educational institutions, of her H. Trull, Sabbath School Secretary of the large estate and will receive, it is believed, Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; quite a large sum of money for its work. paid us a flying visit, and left us a most Mrs. Moir was the widow of William M, suggestive charge emphasizing the impor- Moir, the jeweler, who for a number of tance of extending mission information and years had a store on the corner of 6th Ave. enthusiasm among the rising generations of and 23d street. EIe was a contributor to our Sabbath Schools. AI1 such visitors add Lincoln University, but not. to as great extent untold force to the more systematic and rou- as Mrs. Moir became after his death. She tine labors of the class room and study, and endowed a scholarship a few years since and. we cannot too highly estimate the obligation also gave a number of yearly contributions we owe those who come from far and near of considerable amounts to. the financial sec- to bring us such messages of encouragement retary, who felt assured that Lincoln Uni- and incentive. versity was remembered in her will. Our driveway and public buiIdings are. She attended a commencement at the Uni- brightened by the glow of electric light, and versity, the year, unfortunately, of the rail- a few more weeks will probably see the road accident. She very highly esteemed homes of the professors enjoying the same the Rev. Dr. I. N. Rendall and was much radiance. All who were familiar with the interested in work for the good, of the Negro. past condition of the campus will join in She had a number of colored people in her gratitude to those who have made possible employ, and it is gratifying to note that she this advance step, and that gratitude will be left bequests to all who had been with her only the more complete when other friends a year or more. She also left her pastor, lift from the light and heat plant all burden the Rev. Dr. Duffield, who is a trustee of of debt. Lincoln University, $5,000 and his church A new organ has been installed in the $50,000 and remembered the Boards of the Chapel, and its simple beauty adds to the Church. adornment of the house of worship, and its sweetness of tone and charm of melody add -- their own touch to the power of the service Dissolution of Pastorate. of song and sacred music. This acquisition was made possible through the well-known The Presbytery of New York recently dis- liberality of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who met, solved the pastorate relation of Rev. Concie L. half the expense, and the quiet labor- and Butler, D.D., with St.. James Church, one of offerings of a number of good friends of,the the two Negro churches in the city to take ef- University. fect March rst, and gave him permission to la- Among the new books of the Holiday bor outside the bounds of the Presbytery. Dr. Season, was a collection of poems, “Lays of Butler graduated from Lincoln University the Lake,” which comes from one of the in the class of 1899. He was pastor of St. homes of the campus. Among many of its James. Church for twelve years and it grew choice bits which breathe the charm of na- steadily under his ministry reaching a mem- ture and touch the chords of human sym- bership of between six and seven hundred. / LINCOLN UNIVERSITY’HERALD: 3 Pastor Installed. purity of the home, the holiness of life, the cleanliness of body, the guilt of adultery. Rev. M. J. Nelson, a talented and promis- Nothing that these Christian teachers are . ing graduate of the last class of the theolog- doing is of SO much importance as the ical department of Lincoln University, was persorial example, the watchful oversight, the recently installed by Birmingham Presbytery, advice and warning they give concerning this pastor of the Greenleaf Presbyterian Church, crime or tendency which the past has made Keeling, Tenn. The installation sermon was SO prevalent, and which the present encour- preached by Rev. T. R. Machio. Rev. E. ages. For the sin is everywhere apparent, M. Clark gave the charge to both pastor and and its very circumstances make its rebuke people, the third member of the committee or warning difficult. I have seen in one of appointed failing to be present. Mr. Nelson our useful boarding schools half a dozen girls was invited by several fields to cast in his whose fathers are white men, and of course lot with them, but .he chose a most needy one unmarried to their mothers. Those fathers where he felt his labors would tell, and his send their children where they may receive congregation rejoices in him. a good Christian education. What a task to induce those children to understand God’s .).t law, to face the fact of this sin in their own Need of Religious Teachers. homes, to realize it is a crime against God and man, and learn tg keep unspotted from Writes Rev. Dr. S. J. Fisher in The As- the world! The whole of life as they have sembly Herald: been taught from infancy is to easily violate Today the separation between religion and this law. And where this is thus sanctioned morality is one of the greatest evils of the concerning the white race, can it be easily Negro character. Religious they are, or can opposed or uprooted among themselves ? be. Prayer is easy-faith is easy-religious Far more important is such a deep religious enthusiasm is easy. Quotations from the training, than to make good farmers, or me- Gospel are ready on the tongue, and men and chanics, or cooks, or seamstresses, or workers women grow rapturous over the songs of in a home. Immorality eats the heart out of heaven, the comforts of salvation, the “Swing all material prosperity or learning. Indif- . Low Sweet Chariot.” and even of tlie near- ference to purity cannot be atoned for by ness of Christ. Yet side by side with this skill, or industry, or religious emotions. is an indifference to the Seventh Command- *- ment among that large class yet uiireached by a pure Gospel. Purity of heart and life Need of Trained Leaders. is by many of those descendants of the slaves utterly unknown ; and it seems unnecessary .From an address before the Eastern Stu- in the Christian and even in the minister. dent Conference, at Silver Bay, Lake George, There is a wide-spread opinion among many by Franlc S. Woodworth, President of Ton- Negroes that this sensuality is a venial fault, galon University, Mississippi, we quote as and in a few instances some of the older follows : “The training for leadership among ministers and elders connive at it. No wonder the Negro race is a most important thing. the editor of the Atlanta Comfitution said: No saviour of a race was ever of alien “The darkest shadow that sits upon our blood. The Lord Jesus Christ was a Jew, destiny today is the menace of the encroach- but he was the Son of Man, and as such ing disease; the intruding vices of this race the Saviour of all mankind. The great thing so inextricably embedded in our social struc- to do with the colored people is to train up ture.” And wisely did he add: “The greatest leaders who shall be of their own blood, problem of the day is the permanent reclama- and shall transform them. So the higher gon through evangelizatioii of the race.” But -education of the Negro is absolutely justified. it must be a complete evangelization. Tt is said that out of the ten thousands and And here is where our Christian boarding hundred thousands of colored people who go schools, with such earnest, intelligent and con- in for a college training, only about two per secrated men and women as teachers and cent. gain in college work. That may be true, but examples and guides, are so necessary and is it true of the colored people only? Many a are doing such a useful work. Say what we Yale man WOUICI be better behind a counter! may of industrial training-and it should be When we speak .of the higlier training of the . carried on even more thoroughly than we. colored people, we do not mean that every boy are yet supported in doing-say what we may “;id girl is to go to college, hit that some- of giving these people any education, little where or other there shall be a place where or much, and this also we believe to be a those who are competent can get a collegiate great necessity ; a little acquaintance with education. There are schools in the South this race, and its ideas of sin and purity and now which give a very full collegiate train- morality, will convince any one that of most ing. Young women, if you need a college importance is the teaching these people tlie education to fit you for the best work in 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

life-you who were. brought up in the at- cold water shall be kept. beside the pulpit mosphere of education, with education in the during service. Another rule forbids whis- air-how much more do those need it, who pering and talking during service, and a have been brought up in no such atmosphere? third says that nobody will be permitted to And they have justified this need. An in- enter or leave the church during service. creasing number of colored men and women There must be no slamming of doors and of the colored race have shown evidence of no intoxicated persons, are to be admitted. it, men of great importance as physicians It is hoped that some white churches might and lawyers and teachers of renown. Mr. learn something from the revised procedure Booker Washington is one of the great men of this colored congregation. of this country, and we hear a great deal -. of him, but he is not the only colored man - by any means who deserves fame. There Help Sought. are hundreds of men who are leaders of their people as truly as he, who are managing The Rev. Q. E. Primo, of the class of 1909. institutions as truly and as well as he, who Theological Department, Lincoln University, are giving their lives for their people in the located at Limerick, Ga., writes to Rev. truest and highest way; and there are women, George Johnson that since corning there, “he too, of the same cast of character. Do not has found out the great need of the people let Mr. Washington so fill your mind that especially in church and school work.” “The you forget that army of other men and building in which divine service is held,” women. It is useless to say that you cannot he s?ys, “is in a very dilapidated condition. We educate a Negro; there are too many eyi- are at work for a new one so we kindly dences on the other side. You cannot say solicit your help in this matter. We are the Negro is not human, although books have expecting to have a rally and raise burselves been published which tried to prove that he about $500. It will take $2500 to complete is not. A man once said, “Booker Washing- a building. Will you please inform me of some ton is just a .great imitator.” Some of us kind friends who will help us out with our. would like to be as great imitators as he! work?” There is perhaps some truth in the say- - ing that education spoils them, that they won’t Negro Education in the South. work any more for the same wages. But why should they? Why should a Negro work We are told by a member of the Freedmen’s for seventy-five cents a day, if he can earn Board that large numbers of Negroes and a dollar and a half? There was an article in many communities have no true public school, a paper recently about the conditions of serv- except as the Board provides it. He says: ice some years ago-how beautiful the ma- Recently in Virginia, where one of our hogany was ‘kept, how the cook brought in congregations has, by their unassisted ef- the dinner, with a smiling face, and so on. forts bought and paid for ten acres of It is true that you do not now find so many ground and erected a little church, not yet good cooks among the colored girls, and it finished inside, a school has been carried on may be that the mahogany is less shiny in by one of our Presbyterian colored women, your homes than it used to be. Why? Be- despite the fact that she has nine children. cause they are cooking for their own hus- This school is seven miles from ..any other bands, polishing the mahogany in their own of the least thoroughness, and recently, as homes ! this earnest woman felt unable to carry 011 The Negro is improving day -after day. the school because of her family demands, He needs just what all other men need, com- she sought an appropriation for a teacher mon school ,education for all, industrial from the public school authorities of the schools for all, technical schools for all, district, of course, being willing to conform a higher school education for those who are to the public regulations. She was informed competent to take higher school education, that no appropriation would be made unless and infused through all the spirit of our the building and one acre of ground should Lord Jesus Christ. be deeded over by the congregation to the county. Naturally these people, having strug- - gled to provide a house of worship and ground Commendable Action. for a manse, do not feel like handing over c_ At last a church has been found which these possessions in order to obtain a teacher bars chewing gum, at least during Service. for the school. This school is the only attempt to meet the needs of the Negroes of that * This is a colored congregation in Lynn, Mass., whose pastor, the Rev. W. A; ‘Williams, in- region and now this woman turns to the sists upon this rule-and his official helpers Board for aid for a six months’ term at $20 back him up. The church has adopted eleven per month, and in the midst of numerous rules in all, governing the conduct of the similar appeals the Board hopes some hearts church, one of which is that a pitcher of will be moved and some purses unclasped.

I )it S- Lincoln University Herald. at to ’ :e. VOL. xv. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., MARCH, rgrr. No. 3. id d. . ht The Gift of a Friend. first regarded as enemies to be feared, then as re a prey to be despoiled, then as forced members One who makes the sole and simple proviso of a confederation, then as a mission field, and that the only name in connection with the gift finally as contributors to the welfare of the shall be “A Friend,” has sent $6,000 to Lincoln world, “a blessing in the midst of the earth.” University. Such givers, though hiding from His conclusion was a stirring appeal to the the ken of men, are known to God, the Giver students to do all in their power to promote ’9. of every good 2nd perfect gift. the progress of the Church and of civilization. :Y, *-, he A Recent Publication. Lincoln Day at Lincoln University. Ile he Professors of Lincoln University have been Judge Charles V. D. Joline, of Camden, N. I,” wont in the past to honor the institution by J., was the principal speaker at the annua! ?e their publications. To these the wife of one celelx-ation of “Lincoln Day” at Lincoln Uni- 1Y of them is now to be added. versity, on Saturday, February 11th. Judge re The following, from a recent issue of The Joline was a contemporary with President J. es Contiizent, will explain : B. Rendall at Princeton College, and reminis- te “IAYS OF THE LARE.”by Mrs. Emma Smuller cences of student days and mutual compliments ne Carter. Thjs is a book of lyric poems by the were the order of the day. The address, which ur. gifted wife of Professor Janies Carter of was greatly enjoyed by students and visitors Lincoln University. It is ‘illustrated, several present, was an interesting and thoughtful re- of the cuts being from photographs of the sume of the causes which led up to the Civil striking scenery at Lake Mohonk, which dear War, of the preparation of Lincoln for his old Dr. Cuyler was wont to call “Smiley Land.’’ task, and of the part he had to play in the There are two divisions to the book. Part I great struggle. The student body was repre- is entitled, “Lays of the Lake.” Part 11, sented by Pinkney Ernest Butler, of the Semi- “Rhisings and Memories.” The pocms are on nary Class of 1911, who gave a short address many themes, in various meters, and appeal to on ‘‘The Unfinished Task.” In the evening ir almost every. sentiment of the heart. Lovers there was a popular concert by the student f- of Mohonk, and they are legion, will find here orchestra and quartet. 3f Suggestion of first experiences among these .c.l. et enchanting mountains, and memory will recall Folbwing closely the exercises of the Day )n hours when a new sense of the majesty and of Prayer and of Lincoln Day, came a visit n. power of God ‘broke upon their souls. Of Mrs. from Rev. John Mayhew Fulton, D. D., 0.f n. Carter’s thoughtful poems, here is a sample. the General Assembly’s Temperance Com- 2r It is called “The Divine Tragedy-Personze.” mittee, on Monday, February 13th. Dr. FuI- iS “‘The I\ing--of a condemned, and rebel race. ton gave a strong and earnest plea, well forti- I11 The High Priest-entered in the Holy Place. fied by facts and logic, for the suppression of s, The Atoning Victim-on the stone. the liquor traffic and for abstinence on the part :r A Man-to intercede before the throne. of the individual. e One-Jesus Christ.’! -..l Rev. Beverly NI. Ward, of the Class of 1901, . Day of Prayer at Lincoln University. has resigned the pastorate of Hope Presby- terian Church, Chambershurg, Pa., and ac- The Day of Prayer for Colleges was ob- cepted the pastorate of Faith Presbyterian served at Lincoln University on Thursday, Church, York, Pa. February gth, with public meetings morning * -- and Evening. and other exercises among the Rev. Humphrey J. Rendall, third son of students. President J. B. Rendall, who took the college In the morning, the Rev. John Wythe Lewis, course in Lincoln University, and afterwards of the Union Presbyterian Church, Coleraine; gr?duated from Princeton Theological Semi- Pa., gave an excellent and helpful address on nary, recently resigned the pastorate of Marple the theme, “What Is Your Life?” Church, Chester Presbytery, and accepted the S In the afternoon, the Rev. George A. John- pastorate of the church at Irwin, Pa., Presby- S ston Ross, of Bryn Mawr, preached from the tery of Blairsville. He will now be in the text, Isaiah xix: 24, 25, which he called the same Presbytery as his brother, Rev. John B. “‘high-water mark of Old Testament prophecy.” Rendall. Jr., who is pastor of .the Westminster 1 He said that foreign tribes or nations were Church of Grcensbnrg. 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. Lincoln University Herald. there is left to be raised every year for the support of the Institution from religious and PUBLISHED MONTHLY. benevolent sources, even while its number of Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to students is limited to two hundred, nearly imparting information concerning it to. the friends at $15,000. Unless this is secured, a deficiency a distance. will appear in each year’s accounts and a debt Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. be incurred. Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. With increased contributions to the work Entered at Lincoln University as second-class of the University from outside so,urces, an in- matter. creased number of students could be admitted, Subscriptions and communications may be ad- and, as a consequence, there would be increased dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE, D. D., usefulness for the Institution. 1328 CHESTNUTST., PHILA.,PA. -4 number who have steadily contributed to or PROF. R. L. STEWART, D.D., LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. PA. the work for years have within a short time passed away. Others are needed to take their ~ ~~~~-places. An appeal is made fo Churches, Sab- Rev. E. G. Hul,,ert, D. D., of the Class of bath Schools and Young People’s Societies for 1S88, has been transferred from his former contributions. Benevolent and patriotic indi- charge in Asbury Park, M. J., to Woodbury, viduals everywhere are asked to aid an insti- N. J. tution that has done, and is doing, so much to proride an intelligent ministry and leadership -- for a numerous race, so greatly in need of Early Recollections of Lincoln University . these in order to wise instruction and guid- ance. There is no better way than this for Tn the recently published address of Rev. the solution of a problem that vexes so many W. P. White, D. D., Financial Secretary of minds. Lincoln University, at the Seventy-fifth Anni- The Financial Secretary, Rev. W. P. White, versary of the Honey Brook Presbyterian D. D., 132s Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., Church, he pays: “My first knowledge of Lin- will ?>e glad to enter into correspondence with coln University (then Ashniun Institute) came interested parties or to visit them if so desired. from hearing Rev. W. VV. Latta, early in the fifties, tell of Dr. Dickey’s effort at Oxford, -- Pa., to found a school for colored men, that Pennsylvania’s Gifts for the Negro. -. they might be prepared as missionaries for Africa.” The following is quoted from the report of Dr. White’s recollections of Lincoln thus, the Standing Committee of the last Synod of doubtless, antedate those of any other now Pennsylvania : connected with the University. “Our Synodical contributions are far in ex- cess of any other Synod, though of the -- eighteen Presbyteries reporting, nine have Give Us Your Help. fallen behind in their gifts in comparison with last year. The average contribution in our For carrying on its much needed work of Synod is about forty-four cents per member. race elevation and improvement, Lincoln If we cxclude the large gift from the Wo- University is dependent, to an extent, upon men’s Societies of Pittsburgh Presbytery. the religious and benevolent aid. For this it average is lowered to al>out fourteen cents per makes earnest appeal to churches and indi- member. In only three Presbyteries (West- viduals. minster, Beaver and Butler) have all the Its plant is entirely free of debt. Its pro- churches contributed. Take off your hats to fessorships are mainly endowed, but the ex- these three. In the average gift per member, pense of board of students amounts to over Pittsburgh leads, Northumberland coming $IO,OOO yearly. Its coal bill is about $3,000. next, Butler occupying third place. In the Jts laundry bill over $1,000. Nearly $3,000, on total antount contributed, our Synod not only an average, is called for every year for repairs leads, but gives more than all other Synods and improvements. Several thousand dollars combined. The Board received from, all are needed for salaries of Treasurer, Super- Synods $207,797. Of this amount, about $116,- intendent and Assistant, and smaller incidental ~64.64came from the Synod of Pennsylvania. expenses. It will thus be seen that some The Presbytery of Pittsburgh is deserving of twenty or more thousand dollars must be pro- special mention and honor, reporting $13,568 vided yearly for the institution. contributed by the churches, $58,746 contrib- A few thousand dollars are obtained yearly uted by the Women’s Societies, $5,264 from from the students; a few thousand from the the Sunday schools, and $9,285. from the Board of Education, and about four thousand Young People’s Societies, making a total of from permanent scholarships. Without tak- $%,862, practically three-quarters of the ing into account any advance or improvements, amount given by the Synod, and more than I

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the one-half the amount given by the entire and spell well. He wants to come to Lincoln. xn d Church. I have another boy for you, a Congo boy by of “We most heartily commend the work that the name of William. rrly is being done by our Freedmen Board. Espe- “The Republic is in quite an unsettled state ncY cially do we commend the Women’s Societies at this time, although the war with the Ger- :ebt for their splendid support. We believe that boes is ended. American occupation seems the race problem is one of the biggest that we imminent, and I believe this will make condi- wk face to-day. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is its tions better for our people here, and conduce in- only solution. ‘We believe that the Negro to the spreading of the Word.” :ed, needs iildustrial and intellectual training, but Mr. Knight says that his good wife had a sed above all the Gospel and ‘a white man’s chance.’ serious accident to her hand, which led to He is efititled to it. He ought to have it. Let blood poisoning, but that “Dr. Luke Anthony, to us give it to him.: an old graduate of Lincoln University, very me skillfully lanced the hand, and saved the life.” ieir -- He is planning to build a boys’ dormitory for ab- The Negro Question. his school at Arthington, and wishes help in for order to secure %ne hundred sheets of zinc di- This was discussed at a recent mass meeting to cover us in from the rain.” ;ti- of the “National Association for the Advance- to ment o$ Colored People.” The Rev. R. C. - 1iP Ransom, of New York, said: The Treatment of the Negro. of “This great American nation has a greater d- opportunity to demonstrate its Christianity by SOME DIVERSEVIEWS. or its treatment of US. The Negro question is general and national in scope. I see it every- nY A short time ago, there appeared in the where and when I come to Philadelphia I public press an “Appeal to England and Eu- have a %hardtime finding a place to lay my rope.” aiming to controvert what it described head. This leads me to ask a question, Is the as an attempt to assure England and Europe North sincere? The North has the Negro in that the condition of Negro Americans in its midst in ever-increasing number. It up- America is satisfactory. It was thought to holds high standards of Christianity, education have been written by Burghardt DuBo,is, and morality; it pours out millions to uplift Dr. and was signed by some thirty prominent the yellow man, but it has the Negro at its American Negro representatives of this coun- elbow. 1s it willing to lift him up?’’ He said the Kegro was always willing to try. Of these, at least three were graduates of Lincoln University-Archibald Grimke, take his Share in everything in the running of H. the country, be it important or menial, and Esq., N. F. Mossell, M. D., and J. Milton Waldron, D. D. We quote a portion of this added that one evcn went up to the North Pole appeal : SO the Wegroes could at least claim half of that. He pleaded for an equal opportunity for the “To-day in eight States, where the bulk of the Negroes live, black men of property and race in every walk of life. He placed the university training can be and usually are by blame of many of the abuses of the Negro in law denied the ballot, while the most ignorant the South to the Northern people, who, he said, white man votes. This attempt to put the were guilty in depriving them of justice. personal and property rights of the best of the *- ,blacks at the absolute political mercy of the From Liberia. worst of the whites is spreading each day. “Along with this has gone a systematic at- Rev. Harvey G. Knight, of the Seminary tempt to curtail the education of the black Class of 1905,writes to one of the faculty from race. Under a widely advertised system of ArtIiingtoo, Liberia : ‘universal’ education, not one black boy in [‘The fioancial condition of affairs here is three to-day has in the United States a chance indeed deplorable, and there is great need of to learn to read and write. The proportion of clothing, foodstuffs, etc. We have to bear school funds due to black children are often hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, but spent on whites, and the burden on private none of these things have moved me from my charity to support education, which is a public determination to preach the cross of Christ. duty, has become almost intolerable. During my stay at Arthinaon, what I have “In every walk of life we meet discrimina- seen of the manifestation of the Spirit in the tion, based solely on race and color, but con- school and church, and the good influences of tinually and persistently misrepresented to the the Gospel upon the boys and girls, has more world as the natural difference due to condi- thall compensated me for the affliction and tion. poverty I have endured. Last October I bap- “We are, for instance, usually forced to live tized two Gholor men, who are now members in the worst quarter, and our consequent death of our church; and a few days ago I baptized rate is noted as a race trait, and reason for a Kroo boy by the name of Peter. This boy further discrimination. When we seek to buy is iii otir school, and has learned to read, write property in better quarters, we are sometimes 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

in danger of mob violence, or, as now in Bal- “C. E. Bentley, of Chicago, is a wealthy timore, of actual legislation to prevent. colored dentist, whose patrons are almost ex- “We are forced to take lower wages for clusively of the white race. equal work, and our standard of living is then “W. Justin Cater, of Harrisburg, Pa., is a criticised. Fully half of the labor unions re- colored lawyer who could not exist six months fuse us admittance, and then claim that as on the fees paid to him by colored clients. ‘scahs’ we lower the price of labor. “Frederick L. Magee, of St. Paul, Minn., is “A persistent caste proscription seeks to a lawyer with a white clientage. force us and confine us to menial occupations, “Edward H. Morris, of Chicago, makes more where the conditions of work are worst. money at the practice of law than any other “Our wonien in the South are without pro- colored man in America, and it is his boast tection in law and custom, and are then de- that not five per cent. of his fees come from rided as lewd. A widespread system of de- colored people. liberate ptiblic ilisult is customary, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to secure decent ‘‘Clement G. Morgan, of Cambridge, Mass., accommodation in hotels, railway trains, is a colored lawyer with white clients and was restaurants and theatres, and even in the elected Alderman by white voters. Christian Church we are in most cases given “James F. Needham was for thirty-one years to understand that we are unwelconie unless clerk in the oflice of the Receiver of Taxes of segregated. Philadelphia. “Everywhere in the United States the old “James H. Williams is a colored Philadel- democratic doctrine of recognizing fitness phian whose business is supparted by white wherever it occurs is losing ground before a people. reactionary podicy of denying preferment in “The salvation of the American Negro must political or industrial life to competent men be found, if found at all, in following the if they have a trace of Negro blood, and of plans laid down by Booker T. Washington, the using the weapons of public insult and humilia- greatest hregro who ever lived and one of the tion to keep such men down. It is to-day a foremost men of the present age.” universal demand in the South that on all occasions social courtesies shall be denied any VIEWFROM A WRITE’SSTANDPOINT. person of known Yegro descent, even to the Miss Elizabeth Lloyd, in The Frieizds’ I~z- estent of refusing to apply the titles of ‘Mr.,’ tell?geiaccr, says : ‘blrs.’ and ‘Miss.’ ” “Professor Du Bois is entitled to a hearing. We is for the higher education of the Negro, DISSEXTFROM THE ABOVE. and he believes that obstacles are purposely J. C. Asbury, a colored member of the bar placed in the way. Eooker T. Washington of Philadelphia, published a reply to the afore- 1)elieves that the way to elevate the Negro and said appeal, in which he defended Dr. Booker bring him to his best possible development is T. M’ashington, who had been referred to. in it. to make him independent by teaching him to We quote the following from it: support himself, not to be dependent on others. “Doctor Washington is an apostle of peace “Members of the Society of Friends are and industry. When he became prominent, quite as much divided on this point as are the he found the Negro of the South disfran- leaders of the Negroes, yet it must be evident chised, in fact; and a spirit of distrust and to any person that it is highly important that enmity existing between the races of that sec- the Negro be taught to work skillfully, to mas- tion. The white man of the North was not ter the economics of daily life, to be able to disposed to make further effort to protect the transact his own business, as the white man Negro of the South in the exercise of his right does, and, to be perpetually industrious. of franchise. He wisely decided that the best “The making of money is not the chief aim way to help the Southern Negro become a use- in life, and the critics of Booker T. Washing- ful citizen was to teach him to be industrious ton have found fault with him because he has and moral. placed the emphasis on the industrial side; yet “The American Negro cannot succeed with- he has not minimized the importance of train- out the good will and assistance of the Ameri- ing the minds and hearts of his people. can white man. Dr. Washington believes in “T feel that Professor Du Bois is a great helping others in spite of their hindrances; his leader and has done mnch for his race, yet critics believe in bewailing their condition. The he constantly chafes under the attitude of the difference between them is the difference be- white people toward the blacks. He is of tween honest effort and complaint. Northern birth, was educated in the North, “The records of the successful men who played with white children, and had a white signed this appeal are the best evidence of the father. Ne was treated as an equal in the hmerican white man’s willingness to encour- North, and cannot reconcile the methods of age the deserving, worthy and competent the South with his contention for social and Negro : other claims.” Lincoln University Herald. althy : ex- VOL. xv. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., APRIL, 1911. No. 4.

is a Death of Mrs. Prof. Carr. Calendar for University. mths The numerous friends of Prof. George B. The Easter recess will occur from April 7th n., is Carr, D. D., of the Faculty of Lincoln Univer- to 17th. sity, will learn with much regret of the recent' The theological examinations, the present more death of Mrs. Carr. The sad event occurred spring, On *Vi' 21St. Ither at the University Hospital, Philadelphia, Sun- The annual sermon to the Theological Semi- least nary will be preached April 23d. From day night, March 26th, after a few weeks' The 'rheological Commencement will occur illness. We feel sure that the readers of the ~~~ilasth, IgrI. [ass., HERALDwill deeply sympathize with Prof. Cam The events preceding the College Commence- was and his bereaved family, of whom Mrs. Prof. ment, which occurs June 6th, will be given in Wright is one. our next issue. rears :s of edel- vhite must : the , the E the

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Lincoln University Work. have become ministers in the Presbyterian, Baptist, 34ethodist, Episcopalian and other de- It cannot but be perfectly evident to every nominations; and the very large majority 'of thoughtful man and .woman in our country them all have met the expectations of the. that the only solution for what is known as institution. If the Church and the public the race question lies in a right and broad would give the money necessary for added education, and that this must be along the endowment and buildings for the institution, various lines which the want of the Negro sug- three hundred could be taught as easily as the gests. Ire came ont from slavery the veriest present two hundred. child, and with unnioral trend, and almost The instructors are men of high grade. without an idea of how to use his own abilities The facilities offered by the buildings and in the sxpport of his own life. Primary edu- other appliances are hardly equal to the pre- cation in the rudiments of learning is, for the sent demand. All it needs is added endow- whole mass of our Negro population, abso- ment, and for. this the institution appeals to lutely essential. Industrial education for the ' the Christian public, with the confident hope great middle class, who must do the work of that liberal-minded men and women will see the South especially, is also ai1 absolute essen- here a great opportunity for doing good and tial. And a Christian education in schools and will embrace it. Twenty-five hundred dollars colleges of high grade, to fit teachers and invested at five per cent. will support a student leaders, directors and guides for their own constantly in Iincoln University. people, cannot be overlooked. This latter Thc Financial Secretary, Rev. W. P. Whitc, work I.incoln TJniversity has been trying to D. D., 132s Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., do for fifty years. About two thousand stu- will be glad to enter into correspondence with dents have been trained ; nearly five hundred interested parties or to visit them if so desirctl. 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. Lincoln University Herald. An interesting feature of the meeting, which was much enjoye,d, was the music by the PUBLISHED MONTHLY. Negro Choral Society of one hundred Devoted to the interests of the Iiistitution, and to members: imparting information concerning it to the friends at a distance. -- Y: M. C. A. and C. E. S. inuniversity. Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents - each. A Young Men’s Christian Association has Entered at I,incoln University as second-class been in existence for many years in Lincoln matter. Univer$ity, and it is in full and vigorous activ- Subscriptions and communications may be ad- ity. The local ,Association is in organic con- dressed to Rirv. W. P. WHITE, I>. D., nection with the Pennsylvania State Associa- 1328 CHESl’NVl’ SI’., PI-III.A., PA. tions, and in friendly co-operation with the or PKOF.R. L. k?l’EWART, D.D., UNIVI~RSITY.PA. Association in the Southern States. In addi- LINCOLN tion a Summer Evangelistic League is main- tained, whose aim is to enlist students of the A Southern Pastor. University in personal effort for evangelism, -- purity and temperance during the summer months. Rev. Samuel T. Redd, who graduated from T.here is also a Young People’s Society of the Seminary class of 1900 in Lincoln Univer- Christian Endeavor connected with the Ash- sity, is now pastor of the Butler Presbyterian mun Church. The Society meets every Satur- Church of Savannah, Georgia. A picture of day evening. The first Saturday evening of this church appears in the Assembly Herald e\;ery month is a consecration meeting. Dele- of April, 1911. It was formerly known: as the gates are sent to, the State arid National con- Ezra Presbyterian Church, but Mr. Robert ventions. The members unite with other Butler, an Elder in the Independent Presbyte- Christian students to welcome the incoming rian Church of Savannah, interested himself students to the privileges .of the University, in so many ways in the securing of a new site and to throw around them the safeguards of and the remodeling of the building for church religion. and school purposes, that it was decided to rename the church after him. It has a mem- - bership of 94. The Sunday school numbers Missions.. 225. $729 was contributed last year toward self-support. The church is connected with The missionary work of the Church is also Ihox Presbytery. Of the thirteen ministers offcially recognized by the University. One . in this Presbytery, eight were students in Lin- o€ the chairs of instruction. in the TheologicaI coln University. Seminary is in part devoted to this object. In -1L. addition, a class for mission study and prayer , meets under the auspices of the Missionary Large and ,Enthusiastic Meeting. Committee of the Y. M. C. A. Missionaries from the field are from time to time invited A meeting in the interest of the 75,000 to address thk students. Negroes iii Philadelphia was held under the Many graduates of the institution have gone auspices of the Lemon Hill Evangelistic Asso- -,.:,2s foreig- missionaries. ciation in the large and prominent Arch Street -.t ilfethoclist Episcopal Church, on the evening of March 2d. The house was filled to its ut- Aid and Self-support. most capacity by an intelligent and interested audience, a large proportion of whom were The income from endowment, together with whites. the annual contributions of the bknevolent, Rev. ‘Dr. James B. Ely presided. The Rev. enable the trustees to keep the necessary Mr. Moore, of the Baptist Church, read the charges for instruction and for living at such Scriptures, and prayer was offered by the Rev. a figure that all worthy young men who are W. P. White, D. D., Financial Secretary of willing to make the effort, may enjoy the edu- Lincoln University. The address of the even- cational advantages here offered.. The student ing was made by Rev. Dr. William A. Creditt, must also be prepared to defray cost of trav- a distingnished graduate and a~yeryloyal son eling, to. provide his own clothing, and to meet of Lincoln University, who is also President all incidental personal expenses. Those who of tile Downingtown Industrial and Prepara- are unable to pay the entire bil1,in money can, tory School for Colored Young Men. The by special arrangement, defray part of the cost address, which was very eloquent and forcible, by work on college grounds and in buildings had as its theme : “Christianity for Negroes.” and refectory. Scholarship Aid.

Deserving students who cannot pay their The Robert Scott Prize Cn English Biblc, full bill are aided to a limited extent from the consisting of fifteen dollars, is given to that scholarship funds of the University. Nb. ear- rnem,ber of the Senior Class who passes the nest young man of good abilities and good best examination upon the course in English moral character should be discouraged from Bible of the Senior year. seeking the advantages which this college The Miss Lafie Reid Prize ill Sacred Ceog- offers. raphy, consisting of a ten dollar gold piece, Every student is under obligations of fair- is given to that member of the Junior Class ness and honor and honesty, and also of who maintains the best standing in the course benevolence, to do.all he can to support him- in Sacred Geography and passes the best ex- self, and thus share the benevolent aid, sup- amination. A second prize of a five dollar plied through the University, with others who gold piece is also given in the same subject. are equally deserving of encouragement. The M~=F.Cafhcrine &I. iZlcKnight Memorial Prizes in M~SS~OIZS,the first to consist of fif- -- teen dollars’ worth of books, and the second Theological Lyceum. ten dollars’ worth of books, are awarded to the two students in the Senior Class who shall The “Theological Lyceum,”. of which all hand in the best essays (consisting of not less theological students are members, meets every than two thousand words each) omsome as- week for the discussion of evangelistic and signed missionary topic. The topic for 1910- theological questions. The room occupied by I~TIis ‘‘-African Missions.” the Lyceum is supplied with a library of gen- eral afid special commentaries, and is fur- -- Dr. Washington. nished with religious periodicals. Booker T. -- Our readers will have noticed the unfortu- Rules for Attendance and Conduct nate incident in which this distinguished edu- cator of the, colored race was made to figure All students of the University are required recently in New York City. It called forth to attend daily prayers in the Prayer Hall, and expressions of sympathy and confidence from public religious services in the Chapel on the leading citizens, including the President of the Lord’s Day, and to attend the exercises of in- United States, which must have been exceed- struction and recitation punctually and regu; ingly gratifying. larly. An editorial in the Public Ledger 0.f Phila- There is neither denominational, nor re- delphia treats the incident in such a fair and ligious test for admission to the college, but enlightened way, especially in its bearing upon all students are required to conform strictly the race‘question, that we are led’ to quote it : to the laws of morality and of gentlemanly “Mr. Taft doubtless expressed the general conduct as well as to the special rules laid feeling of serious-minded persons everywhere down by the Faculty. 1 in his letter of sympathy to Booker Washing- Cigarette smoking is prohibited. ton in what he speaks of as his ‘misfortune,’ All smoking in the halls and public rooms is and it is right that this feeling should be thus forbidden. . unmistakably expressed. It would be a mis- ThC whole tobacco habit is discouraged. fortune, not for Mr. Washington alone, nor The use of distilled or fermented liquors is for his own people only, but for the whole . prohibited. country, if a man who has so well earned the No firearms or weapons of any kind are public respect should’ be allowed to suffer in allowed to he carried by students or kept in the general esteem, or to think that he so suf- their rooms. fered, through the curious chapter of accidents The advancement of a Student to the higher or coincidences that brought him into unde- classes depends on his success in scholarship, sired puhlicity in New York. and on his worthiness in character, and on his “It is Mr. Washington’s good fortune to disposition to use his, education for the benefit, stand as a useful, helpful, unassuming repre- of all whom he can influence for good. Ad- sentative and leader of his race, laboring con- vancement to each successive class and recom- sistently to guide the Southern Negroes espe- mendation for graduation depend on the vote cially into habits of industry, sobriety and of the Faculty. Any student whose general morality. He has never wished to separate influence is not regarded as desirable may be himself from his race. He has sought no dis- dropped from the roll, even though no particu- tinction except what attached to his work. lar charge may be made again:st him. The The prominence he has attained among. those Ten Commandments’ are ‘laws of the Univer- practically concerned in popular education has sity. I>ccn clue to his simplicity and integrity of 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

character, which is something much deeper though they knew that if the South conquered, than the color of his skin. it w6uld mean continual slavery for them. “But Mr. Washington remains a Negro, and Since that time, in all that they have suffered, . he shares the misfortune that the ignorant or they have been full of a great and noble for- unthinking white man makes no discrimination bearance. If the colored people had been vin- of personal character, but classes all black men dictive, the South would have been a scene of alike as objects of hostility or suspicion. It continual hloodshed. is altogether probable that the man who at- “The Negro songs are quaint and queer, but tacked Washington in New York believed often there is a profound wisdom hidden in fully that a Negro who was apparently loiter- them. The colored man believes in Satan, not ing about an apartment house could be there in an abstract way, but‘ as having a very vital for no good purpose and that he was justified connection with lis, and like a snake in the in pursuing hi:n with violence. grass, always lying in the Christian’s path. “This is really the pathetic feature of the incident. When we know who the Negro was, ‘‘If you want to see old Satan run, the suspicion appears, as the President says, Just pull the trigger of the Gospel gun !” ‘insane.’ But this man did not know and did “Paul says the same thing in other words: not stop to inquire, and the dignified character ‘Take the sword of the Spirit,.which is the of the college president was no defense Word of God.’ In his ‘time the sword was against the inherent prejudice of racei The used; the A’egra knows the gun better, that is assailant, in this case, was more truly repre- all the difference. There is a lot of practical sentative than the assailed. He is a type of wisdom in this rhyme: the inen who make our social problems diffi- cult, the other of the few who labor intelli- ‘Old Satan wears a hypocrite’s shoe, gently to lighten them, and many Americans, And if you don’t mind he’ll slip it on you !’ North and South, will be glad for the cheer- “111 slavery days, when all was as dark and ing word the president has sent him.” sad as it could be, they said, ‘My Lord deliv- ered Daniel; .He will deliver me.’ Sometimes -- they sing, ‘Steal away, steal away, steal away Rev. Edward F. Eggleston, D. D., of the Class of in Lincoln University, is now to Jesus.’ It is not only the words, but also 1886 the melody of such a line, which goes straight pastor of a Presbyterian church in Newark, N. to one’s heart. Eere is another line, often in J. €€is church gave him a reception recently the times of slavery, when the men and women the occasion of his third anniversary as on worked in the plantations under the hot south- pastor, and presented him with a gold watch as a token of appreciation. Previous to his ern sun, sung to the sound of the driver’s lash : ‘Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry going to Newark, Dr. Eggleston was for some me home’-home, where there was no slavery, years a pastor in Baltimore. no driver. “‘Lord, I want to be a Christian in my -- heart,’ is pathetic in its music, real in its mean- The Negro and Religion. ing. ‘You may lfave all this world ; I have my Jesus.’ They say it deeply, truly. Here is an- President Frank s. Woodworth, of Tonga- other one, full of a deep thought: 100 University, Mississippi, in lecturing before ‘If your sister treats you wrong, don’t carry the Student Conference at Silver Bay, Lake her name abroad, George, had the following to say: But take her in your bosom and carry her “The religion of any people, any nation or to the Lord.’ race, is of vital jflporfance; those who have been most truly feligious have effected the “Through all these religious songs there largest strides in civilization. The Negro is runs a vein of deep and profound faith. Faith naturally religious ; he is religious in Africa- is not necessarily connected with great knowl- superstitiously SO ; fie was religious in slavery; edge; faith may be deep where the knowledge he is religious now; and it is probable that is very limited. Often this religious faith was ultimately his feligioll will be one of special not co-ordinate with morality, therefore it was richness and beauty. The religiousness of the said, ‘There is no truth in it, for see what he colored people is tfue and real, though often does.’ The lack of co-ordination is not con- grotesque. fined to the Negro race. A white business “Their religion bad a great and profound man in Albany who was noted as much for . power during the time of Negro slavery. his church-going as for his double dealings in Without it, it seems impossible that they could business, said, when reproved by his pastor, have gone through the war as they did, re- ‘Why, religion .has nothing to do with my maining loyal to masters and mistresses, al- business !’ ” Lincoln University Herald.

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Collegiate Gom mencement. ing of the Board of Trustees will also be

c_ held. dJ?his will occur the first week of June. The Junior Orator Contest will take place On Thursday, June Ist, the members of the in Livingstone Hall the forenoon of Tuesday, Philosophian Society will hold their anniver- June 6th; and in the afternoon will be held, sary; and OI? June zd, those of the Garnet in the same place, the exercises of the College Literary Associalion will hold theirs. On Commencement, At these it is hoped that June 3d will occur the Obdyke Prize Debate. there will be a large attendance of the friends On June 4th, the Baccalaureate Sermon will of the Institution and of Negro education. It be preached by the President. Monday, June is expected that a special train will be run, Sth, will be Class Day, and the Annual Meet- as usual, from Philatlelphia.

The pictures are those of two South Africa The Theological Commencement. missionaries-Rev. William N. Bottoman, of -- Port Elizabeth ; and Rev. Thomas Chalmers This occurred April 25th. It is fixed thus Katiya, of Johannesburg, Transvaal. Mr. early in order that students in the Seminary Ratiyah was educated at Lincoln University, departnient may undertake supply and mis- graduating in 1903. .He was a native of sion and school work for the summer. South Africa, belonging to the Kaffir tribes, On Sunday, April 23d, Rev. John McDowell, and when he entered the University could Pastor of tlie Park Church, Newark, N. J., speak only broken English. During his seven preached morning and evening to faculty and years' course, he gained complete mastery of students, and greatly delighted them by his it, as also of his studies therein, graduating very practical and forcible presentation of with honor, and delivering at Commencement Gospel truth. an address which awakened the enthusiasm of On Monday evening, April aqth, there was all present. He was highly admired as a stu- an Organ Recital on tlie new pipe organ, re- dent by the faculty of the University for his cently installed in the Mary Dod Brown humble, sincere and earnest Christian charac- Chapel, by Ralph Kinder, organist and choir- ter. Since his return to his native land, he master of the Church of the Holy Trinity, has constantly been engaged in missionary Philadelphia, assisted by John Owens, tenor work among his people, and occasional letters soloist of the Church of the Holy Trinity. from him have appeared in the LINCOLNUNI- Jt included the most popular compositions of VERSITY HERALD.There is anticipated for most prominent musical artists, and was a .him, if his life is spared, a career of great great treat to the University audience. infltience and usefulness. On Tuesday, the astli, Coninieiiccmeiit .. 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

Lincoln University Herald. ADDRESS 017 PRESIDENT RENDALL TO THE GRADUATING CLASS. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. GENTLEMENOF THE GRADUATINGCLASS :- Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to Three hundred years ago, as unheraJded and imparting information concerning it to the friends at unsiing in the world’s pzeans as was the birth a distance. of Christ in Bethlehem, was published a Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. Book Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents in Idondon. Fifty-four men as the full com- each. plement, in three groups, one at Westminster, Entered at I.incoln University as second-class one .at Oxford, and one at Cambridge, with matter. -their splendid libraries, had been meeting for Subscriptions and communications may be ad- three years, preparing a complete .Bible in the dressed to Kw. W. P. WHITII,D. D., English language, known ever since as the 1328 CHESTNUT sr., PHILA., PA. or PROF.R. L. SrmvAiw, D.D., Authorized Version of the English Bible. LINCOLNUNIVISRSI1’Y. I’A. It is an interesting coincidence that the apostles spent three years in what might be called their theological course under the great guests, of whom there were quite a number Master, that three years were spent in the from Philadelphia and surrounding towns, preparation of this splendid version of the were entertained at lunch at tlie University Bible, and that three years to-day is usually Refectory or Boarding Hall. The Board of taken for the theological curricula for the Trustees met at the President’s house at two Gospel ministry. P. M., and at tliree the Commencement exer- That Book, containing the account of re- cises were held in the Chapel. demption by Jesus Christ, as predicted and The opening prayer was made by Rev. Dr. accomplished, and because of its vital content William Courtland Robinson, Pastor of the Book of books, in this version is the finest Northminster Presbyterian Church, Philadel- and purest English ever written. It is the phia. Four members. of the graduating class great classic of the language. Shakespeare delivered addresses as follows : and Milton did not write in as chaste and per- Alfred Ernest Dyett, of tlie West Indies, fect English. had as his theme: “The Gospel in the West Its lofty and precious thoughts ennobled lndics.” the thoughts of Abraham Lincoln. Its lan- Benjamin Franlclin Glasco, of West Ches- guage parificd and chastened into finest mould ter, spoke on “Slum M’ork in the Great Cities.” Lincoln’s utterances. He was a great Master John Walker Ilaywood, of Waxahackie, of the English language, and his text-book Texas, on “The Call of the South Land to the was this Book, sent forth in its present form American Church.’’ three hundred years ago. Herbert Williams Smith, of Phoenixville, During the intervening three centuries, on Pa., on “The lnflnence of Personal Character the desks of many ten thousands of pulpits in the n4inistry.” and 011 the tahles of many millions of homes, The addresses wcre practical, and indicated all over the English-speaking world, are not inaturity of thought, and were earnestly and a Hebrew or Greek or 1.atin Bible, not other forcibly delivered. None present but felt that older versions, or even the revised version of these young men had heen efficiently trained later years, but this same matchless version., to be competent and useful religious instruc- It is God’s eternal truth, not in words strange tors to their people. and Ii.ard to understand, but in the language The graduating class consisted of the fol- of the heart and the home,] so that all can lowing : Frederick R. Barnwell, South Caro- understand and “he that runs may read.” lina ; Richard F. W. Benjamin, Haiti, West Let me refer.to one more event, for it was

Indies ; Thomas C. Boyd, Arkansas ;I Robert ,an event rather than a passing incident in J. Butt, Virginia: Hardie Q. .Davie, North more recent history. Carolina ; John C. Downs, Maryland ; Alfred Twenty-five years ago, a Christian lady, E. Dyett, West Indies ; Benjamin F. Glasco, who read the Hebrew Bible regularly, en- Pennsylvania ; John Vlr. Haywood, Texas ; dowed in this school a chair of the English Lillmrn Hurdle, Virginia ; John B. Kirby, Version of the Bible, the first, so far as we h~larylancl; Allen W. Rice, South Carolina ; have been able to discover, in any school. We Fitz 0. G. Robertson, British Guiaiia, S. A.; were the pioneers. Since that time, many I-Ierbert W. Smith, Pennsylvania. colleges. and seminaries liave established this The degree of S. T. B. was conferred on chair, and the Presbyterian General Assembly most of them by tlie Board of Trustees, and has made the .English Bible an essential part to these a diploma was given. To four was of trial for licensure and ordination. granted a certificate of Iiaving completed an You and the people think in tlie language English course. of this Book. This is the language which you 117 presenting diplomas and certificates, must speak and which they will understand. President Rendall addressccl the graduates as This Book contains the mind and the will of follows : God concerning salvation as certainly and suf-

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ficiently as the very ultimate original Hebrew the next -4. M. E. .Z. Conference, The same or Greek manuscript. is true of A. W-. Rice. On your bended knee :the :Spirit of God will F. 0. Robertson rettirns to do Gospel work teach you the depth and riches of His truth. in Rritish Guiana. When you go forth to proclaim it in His H. W. Smith will be appointed to, a church name, He will put a live coal on your tongue. when his conference meets in May in Phila- Believe this Gospel in this Book from lid delphia. to lid. The.world never needed the message Of the West Indians who graduated in 1910, more. Proclaim it as if you would die if you J. F. Robinson is pastor of the Presbyterian could not tell it. Church in Arouca, Trinidad; J. J. Thomas W-e commend you and your flocks to which has charge of a Presbyterian 'Church in you shall minister confidently to the word of Jamaica; A. Kelso is pastor of a Baptist .His grace and to Him who is able to keep Church in the Bahamas. These men have

you from falling. God bless you. I caught the spirit of self-denial and loyalty, and are laboring. to uplift their people. The Following the conferring of diplomas was West Indies form a field that is crying loudly an impressive piece of music by the Univer- for men. sity Glee Club, after which the Rev. Herrick Johnson, D. D., LL.D., ex-Moderator of the -- General Assembly and formerly pastor of the Prizes. Firsu Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, and for years a prominent professor in AU- A first prize of ten dollars and a second of hurn and McConnick Theological Seminaries, five dollars, given by Miss Reid, of Mt. Plea- made a brief pleasing address, in which he sant, Ohio, to members of the Junior Class alluded to a visit made to the University maintaining the best standing in the course in many years ago, and to a graduate of the Sacred Geography, was found impossible by College Department, Moses -4aron Hopkins, Prof. X. L. Stewart to be awarded, as between who took his theological course in Auburn H. E. Jlaines. of Macon, Ga., and W. H. R. Seminary and made there such a favorable Powell, of Amburg, Va., and hence to each impression upon faculty and ,,students. was awarded a ten dollar prize. The Comnirzncement exercises closed with The Robert Scott Prize in English Bible of the benediction, pronounced by Rev. John fifteen dollars, given to the member of the Calhoun, D. D., of Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, a Senior Class passing the best examination in inember of the Board of Trustees. the English Bible studies of the Senior year, Tt will be of interest to present and former was awarded to J. W. Hagwood, of Texas. students cf the University to mention that a match game of base ball was played Com- -- mencement Day on the University campus Scholarship Endowments. between students of Lincoln and those of the colored institute at Cheney, Pa., in which the There has heen received hy the University Tincoln students were winners. the bequest of Miss Susan Benson, of Read- ing, of $5,000, less the heper cent. collateral FUTURE OF THE GRADUATING CLASS. inheritance tax. It has been used to found F. R. Rarnwell will take charge of a Pres- two scholarships, the income of each of which byterian Church in hfacon, Ga., relieving Dr. will support annually a sttident in the Uni- J. W. Holley. versity. Thus Kiss Benson's generosity to R. W. Benjamin will return to his home in the .Institution and its work while living is to Hayti to engage in Gospel work. be continually perpetuated. T. C. Boyd will -probalily enter Sunday We trust that many other friends will be school work in the South. as kind and thoughtful as she was in remem- R. j. Butt has a church in Winchester, Va., Iiering Lincoln Unirersity in their wills. The .ander the -4.M. E. Church. Institution needs larger endowments, if it is H. (1. Davie will go to California, to engage to be enlarged and I~niltup and made a still in church work. greater power for good in the elevation and J. H. Downs will probably teach for a time improvement of the Negro population of our at least. land. A. E. Dyett returns to his home in the West Indies to take up Gospcl and teaching work. -- B. F. Glasco will do mission work in New The Bible and Manual Training Institute at York City. Albany, Ga.. established hy Rev. Joseph M;. J. W. Haywood has charge of a Methodist I-Iolley, D. D., a graduate of Lincoln Univer- . Church -in l3rooltlyn. sity, met with a sad loss in October last in .L. Hurdle has charge of the Baptist Church the destruction by fire of tlieir hoys' dormi- in Princeton, N. J. tory. Dr. Holley is making an effort to raise I, J. B. Kirby will receive an appointment at $4,000 to replace it.

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I - as the teacher ,who shall spread education At the combined anniversary of the Freed- through the Negro ranks.” men’s Aid Society and the Board of Sunday School Work of the Methodist Conference, -- the ‘Rev. Dr. Mayeety, Corresponding Secre- A Graduate’s Work. tary of the Freedmen’s Aid Society, made a plea for more extensive medical, theological We have received the Bulletin of Arkadel- and other education of the Xegroes. phia Presbyterian Academy, a co-educational “The black man would have stayed in his institution, located at Arkadelphia, Ark., and home in Africa,” he said, “if he had had his designed to give a thorough graded, normal way. We forced him to come to this country and industrial training to colored youths. It and compelled him to serve us for more than is presided over by Rev. and Mrs. W. D. two hundred and iifty years, and with but Feaster, who are assisted by several teachers. scant supply, even of food and clothing. We Mr. Feaster is rememhered at Lincoln Uni- taught him niost of his bad habits, and now versity as a very diligent, faith,ful and earnest we want to avoid the responsibility of our student. His great desire was to be useful acts. If wo piit him aside socially and politi- to his race, and his desire is being gratified. cally, let us at least give him the spiritual He graduated from. the Seminary course in leadership of God. Left to himself, he will 1902, and after teaching and preaching for a fall back into savagery. We must go to him year or two in South Carolina, his native as we would to his brothers in Africa.” State, went to Arkansas, where he has since “The Negroes of this country must have been actively engaged, preaching and teaching. Christian leadership. If they do not, they The academy is a fine building, erected by the will be destroyed, and in their destruction we Board of Missions for Freedmen, where. the will suffer.” work o€ the school is carried on, and accom- He said that the problem of educating tkie modations afiorded for students, and a home Xegroes, of extending Christianity among for teachers. A limited number of boys are tihem, is just as important, if not more so, accommodated in a six-room cottage. West than the evangelization of heathen races; and End Church is a handsome structure adorning in educating them, it needs to be remembered the grounds, which consist of twenty-six that a race that has spent two hundred and acres. fifty years in slavery niiist necessarily be slow On a fine farm of one hundred and twenty- in devclopment. six acres. a mile from the school, is raised almost everything needed for the boarding - department. Says the Bulletin : Sentiments of President Taft. “We kept two boys last summer and raised the following products-corn, 800 bushels ; In the address that President Taft made at oats, 500 bushels; 30 bushels of peas; wheat, Lincoln tJniversity Commencement the sum- 30 bushels; potatoes, 50 bushels; onions, 12 mer of 1910,he said, among other things: bushels ; canned goods, 25 gallons ; molasses, “I ani glad to come here, and to an insti- 250 gallons ; pork, 1,500 pounds ; beef, 500 tution like this, to testify to my interest, as pounds, and a splendid quantity of poultry. President of the United States, in an educa- “Beside the course outliiied in books, we tional institute that is doing God’s work in teach the girls plain and fancy sewing, vocal that regard. It has fallen to my lot to give and instruinental music, and domestic science. a good deal of attention to the education of The boys are instructed in blacksmith, car- the Negro. I am a nieinber of the Board of genter and shoe work, and experimental Trustees of Hampton Tnstitute, of the Jeanes farming; also vocal and instrnmental music Trust Fund, created by a noble, charitable and typewriting. woman, a .Hicksite Quaker, of Philadelphia, “It is impossible to estimate the influence for the purpose of making better the rural, that has been exerted for good by our school priiiiary education of the Negroes of the and church on this coinmunitp during the past South. I have had the honor of being at four years. The church ‘membership has Tuskegee, and seeing that tremendous work grown from less than a dozen to over a hun- of the greatest Negro of the century, Booker dred; the school front a small parochial, with T. Washington. And I know from the spirit one teacher, to a first-class boarding academy, that is in all these institutions, that it is work with six instructors. of a, permanent, thorough character. And it “Our very best friends are among the white is \?orking out the race problem in a legiti- people, and they are planning and working mate, logical way, by preparing the Negro to for the best good of all concerned.” meet his responsibilities as leader or follower, Mr. Feaster’s work is hut a sample of that as agriculturist or niechanic, as the clergyman of many anotther young inan sent forth from who will lead his fellows, as the pllysician Lincoln University. or tion VOL.. xv. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA.,. JUNE, 1911. No. 6.

Board of Directors. Collegiate Commencement. del- mal The Board of Directors of Lincoln Univer- The various exercises connected with the and sity, at their last meeting, chose,. to fill vacan- above occurred between June 1st and 6th. mal cies in the Board, the following well known On the afternoon of the first named date was It gentlemen: Rev. C. C. Hays, D. D., Johnstown, held the Sophomore Oratorical Contest. On D. Pa. ; Henry L. ’ Davis, Esq., Germantown, ers. Philadelphia ; Mr. James B. Alexander, New Jni- York City. These will make the Board fo On the evening of June 3d, the Inter-Lyceum iest .‘ consist of twenty-three members. The Presi- Debate for the Obdyke Prize was held. The eful dent is Rev. Isaac N. Rendall, D. D.; Vice- question debated was : “Should United States ied. President, Rev. J. B. Rendall, D. D.; Trea- Senators be elected by direct popular vote?” in surer, J. Everton Ramsey, Esq. ; Secretary, The affirmative was supported for the Gar- ra Rev. John M. Galbraith, D. D. :ive nce -- B. Eell, Arkansas ; Alternate, Charles L. Rev. John B. Reeve, L). D. Emanuel, West Indies. The negative for the ng. Philosophian Society by J. St. Clair Price, the Congratulations are extended to Rev. John the of West Indies ; Brooks Sanders, of North B. Reeve, D. D., pastor of the Lombard Street Carolina ; Theophilus Nichols, of .. British Im- Central Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, me Guiana; Alternate, A. A. Pope, Georgia. The who has just completed fifty years as pastor, prize, as later announced, was awarded the and recently celebrated his golden anniversary. ‘Philosophian Society. The Presbytery met in his church and took On Sunday, June 4th, the Baccalaureate luncheon. A number of congratulatory ad- dresses were made by its members. Rev. Wil- liam A. Creditt, D. D., LL.D., pastor of the ing, occurred the Class Day exercises. The First Baptist Church of the city, and one of Board of Trustees also held their annual Lincoln’s loyal graduates, being present, was meeting in the afternoon. called upon, and thrilled the audience by his June 6th was Commencement Day. The very eloquent remarks. condition of the weather was disappointing to -- many, and affected the attendance, which, al- Lincoln Graduates at the General Assembly. largel; patronized. The Junior Orator Contest was held in the These were as follows: Rev. M. Thompson, forenoon. It was opened with prayer by the Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. E. A. Houston, Milledge- Rev. J. G. Carlile, of Troy, h’. Y., of the ville, Ga.; Prof. J. McC. Tutt, Augusta, Ga.; Seminary class of 1902. Six young meii Rev. J. W. Holley, D. D., Macon, Ga.; Rev. spoke. Joseph St. Clair Price, of the West W. J. Starks, Oklahonia; Rev. H. W. Camp- Tndies. had for his theme: “A View of the bell, Danvine, Tenn.; Rev. D. S. Collier, Co- lumbia, Tenn.; Rev. John A. Savage, D. D., ,... Franklinton, N. C.; Rev. C. E. Tucker, Chattanooga, Tenn. ; Rev. W. E. Carr,, Dan- “An Appeal to the Inert;” Joseph W. Rhetta, ville, Va. ; Rev. C. H. Williams, Mocksville, of Alabama, “Pass On;” James A. Norris, of N. C.; Rev. A. A. Jones, McConnelsville S. Pennsylvania, “The Ills of War and the Out- S.; Rets T. S. Williamson, Vineland, N. C.; look for Peace;” Charles L. Emanuel, of Rev. F. T. Logan, Concord, N. C. West Indies, “A Plea for the Helpless.” Among the eight speakers at the Popular Each spoke well and handled their subjects Meeting of the Freedmen’s Board on the with ability. i Steel Pier, were the following six Lincoln The first prize was given to Joseph W. graduates: Rev. A. A. Jones, Rev. Milton Rhetta; and the second to Brook Sanders, a Thompson, Rev. W. E. Carr, Rev. C. E. son of thc late Dr. Sanders, President of Tucker, Rev. 7’. G. Williamson, Rev. F. T. Biddle University. Logan. After a bounteous lunch, prepared by the At the Lincoln Alumni reception, about caterer of the University in the Boarding forty graduates were present. Hall, the students acting as waiters, the Com-

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Lincoln University Herald. The degree of A. M. was conferred on John C. Downs, of the Class of 1903; and John W. PUBLISHEU MONTHLY, Haywood, of the Class of 1907. The degree Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and of of D. D. was conferred upon Rev. F. M. Hy- imparting information concerning it to tbe friends at der, of Gristol, Tenn., of the Class of 1897, - a distance. and on Rev. W. D. Feaster, of Arkadelphia, Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. Ark., of tlie Class of The degree of Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents 1902. each. LL.D. was conferred upon Rev. William A. Entered at Lincoln University as second-class Creditt, D. D., pastor of tlie First Baptist matter. Church, of Philadelphia, of over 2,000 mem- Subscriptions and communications niay be ad- bers, and Principal of the Downingtowii In- dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE, U. I).. dustrial, of the College Class of 1885. I328 CHSSTNU’I‘%I’., PHILA., PA. Following tlie announcement of tlie above, or PI

plished this union. But I say it is not I, but it is true that this improvement is due in God, who has done it, for He it is that ac- a measure to colored people’s contact in a complishes such good things for His kingdom. domestic capacity with the dominant race, let Now I am able to write as that Roman gen- it not be forgotten that the majority of young - eral, “Veni, vidi, vici.” On the 29th of ‘March Negroes do not, because they cannot, get the whole congregation agreed to unite, and ideals such as are needed from contact with are to-day one body. the white people for the simple but sufficient On the 3Ist of March, we had a revival reason that they do not come in contact in meeting. I17 opening it, 1 read only three a domestic capacity with them. verses-St. Luke 12: 51, 52, 53-aiid my “Now, as it is the unwritten law that the preaching was from these three verses. Great races shall stay apart socially, if the young and good results were obtained, many came Negroes do not get the needed ideals in professing Christ. It was a grand work. institutions for higher learning, where will Now I am changed to the King Williani’s they get the ideals they need to make home- Town and East London Districts, a circuit like homes ?” between Messrs. L. Mzimba and S. Mantanza, so I am getting ready to go there at the end -- of this month. Rev. J. Elijah Tice, of the Class of 18g9, I have this to ask from the University, and who was for a time engaged in mii~isterial I am sure it will be granted: I ask that the work in Marion, Ky., has removed to South- University pray God for the Lincoln gradu- ern California, where he hopes to build up ates in Africa. They need to he prayed for. a church among his people. They are in the heart of all troubles, opposed by both whites and blacks, only because they -- are educated. Work Among the Colored People. Please make mention of me to all the pro- fessors and their families, and a special re- niembrance to Dr. I. N. Rendall. From the report of the Standing Committee i beg to remain, on the Board of Education of the late General Yours faithfully, Assembly, we quote the following : “Of 170 secondary importance is the work HARRY H. &’rANTANCA. among the colored people. The need of a trained Presbyterian ministry among the Ne- - groes of the South is imperative. No words Provision for Negro Schools. can do justice to the pressing need of this part of our population. The evangelization of Dr. Yorke Jones, in writing of “Honie- the Negro in the Southern States is our largest making the Finest of the Fine Arts,” says: hope. No mere industrial or economical “Some friends of Negro education (not efficiency can solve the problem of the Negro many) maintain that it is a mistake in insti- in his Southern home. Without religious edu- tutions for youth of color to provide up-to- cation, industrial efficiency only intensifies the date eqiiipments-fine buildings, elegant class problem. To meet this situation thrusts upon rooms, dining rooms with table linen and our Church a peculiar responsibility. We are ware such as white people use, and bath glad to note, therefore, that while large atten- rooms and toilets such as are provided in tion is being given to the economic uplift of many Negro higher institutions. The con- the colored people, the Board of Education is tention is that colored young men and wqmen seeking to provide a trained ministry of that do not need such things because they have race, who shall press the claims of the Gospel not been used to them. The view of those according to the principles of our Church.” philanthropists who provide these appoint- ments, however, is, that because Negroes have -- never had such things is the very reason that A writer in the New Yovk Observer says : there is more need of such appointments for “TOmany students, the most important mis- . colored than for white youths and maidens, if sion field before the churches of the South is the scions of Cush are to be civilized a!id that of the Southern Negro. Rightly cared uplifted. Where, indeed, except in the school for, he is likely to yield better returns for is there a chance for the majority of maidens what we invest in his moral and social uplift of African descent (majority, mind you), to than any other of the races on whom we ex- get those ideals they must have to make the pend far more of our sympathy and money. neat, refined homes the race needs to have Every particle of improvement we put into him made? One of the marvels of the age is the will contribute directly to our own security improvement colored people have made in and advancement, and help to advance the home-making since Appomattox ; and while came of Christ at home.” .. .. - ,-

@‘ -I in Lincoln University Herald. a et 1g - VOL. xv. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., JULY, 1911. No. 7. et th Summer Evangelistic League. nt This is the class that on Sunday are never in found in church or Sunday school. If they One of the actiye Christian agencies of are to be reached, some other way must be Lincoln University is the Y. C. A. Dur- le M. found. My own personal efforts have been ing the months of the year when the Univer- in helping the church services and teaching in sity is in session, it carries on its work among in the Sunday school.” the students in ‘attendance. Its aim is to ill e- reach every man in the University and bring before him the Gospel of salvation in its wid- On the Boats. est application-physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Not only so, but the Y. M. C. A. During the past few years, not a few stu- endeavors to maintain its work during the 19, dents have secured employment on the various a1 vacation period by means of the Summer steamboat lines running out of New Yorlc City h- Evangelistic League, which is simply the Y. up the Hudson and down the Sound to the M. C. A. of Lincoln University scattered far IP New England cities. Some idea of this work and wide in the land, but endeavoring to do and the opportunities it affords for social ser- the same kind of work as is carried on dur- vice may be derived from the following letter ing the school term in a more restricted dis- from P. E. Butler, ’12 Sem.: trict. Most of the members are at work in “We have in the steward’s department various capacities during the summer. This seventeen colored men. About twelve of work brings them into contact with their fel- these are students, and are employed as ee low-workers in hotels, on boats, etc. Here is waiters, hall-men, cooks and in the various a1 a splendid opportunity to put into practice other departments which go to make up the those things for which the University and equipment of a boat for passenger service. :k the Y. M. C. A. stand-evangelism, temper- The boys are from Howard, Shaw and va- a ance, purity, social uplift as wide as the pur- rious other Southern institutions, as well as e- pose of the Master Himself. During the from Lincoln. One is from the University of is months of July and August, the HERALDwill Maine. The food furnished us is not as good is pay special attention to this work, and will as that giyen in the schools, but will compare If publish from time to time some information favorably with the usual provender provided st as to what is being accomplished. for the ‘help’ in hotels. Our sleeping room 31 is in what is known as the Men’s Steerage, ‘0 -- At Work.in the Brickyards. and is above the water line, and has fresh air !j Mowing through it all the time. We make I, Moses L. Collins, ’13 Col., has his summer three round trips per week, as follows: leav- I work in that great centre of the brickmaking ing New Bedford, Mass., on Sunday evening, I industry, Haverstraw, N. Y. He writes con- at seven o’clock, we reach New York at seven I .i cerning his surroundings as follows : o’clock Monday morning. We leave New “Through the summer, nearly a thousand York at six that evening, and reach New Bed- S colored people live. in Haverstraw. Only ford at six next morning. So it goes until t about three hundred are permanent residents. we reach New Bedford Saturday morning, i :I Those who come seeking employment are where we lay over until ready to sail on Sun- from the Carolinas, ‘Virginia and Maryland. day evening. The average wage is less than Only a few are students working during vaca- five dollars per week. All the boys on my tion to get money to carry them through the boat are, with few exceptions, members of next school year. The religious needs of the some evangelical church. We attend the colored people are very great. There are two churches of New Bedford, and find opportu- i. 3 churches-a Methodist, with a seating capacity nity to help in various ways: by taking part ~ I of 130, and a Baptist, with a rented hall able in the Sunday school as teachers or scholars, to seat 115, The Methodist church has no in the choirs and in the prayer meetings. pastor at the present time. With a few ex- Often we are invited by the pastors to preach. ceptions, the colored people have as yet made We thus have a good opportunity of meeting no economic advance. The exceptions are one the people and seekg their needs. Church merchant, one real estate dealer, and one services, especially in the morning, are sadly keeper of a restaurant. The majority of the neglected. The people seem inclined to go to men are day laborers in the brick yards. a place of amusement rather than listen to a Many of them spend a large part of their sermon. On the other hand, the Sunday earnings for intoxicating liquors and for many schools are, as a rule, very well attended, other things not necessary for their welfare. many, not only children, but also adults, com-

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Lincoln University Herald. last General’ Assembly. Prof. Geullum, noted far his musical ability, has taken charge of PUBLISHED MONTHLY. the same, and is assisted by Dr. Giles, a den- Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to tist and a graduate of Howard University. . imparting information concerning. it to the friends at Dr. Giles will be remembered as the one who a distance. led the Howard University band that came so Sent year to any address for 25 cents. .% one inany years with their foot ball team to Lin- Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. coin University. With the marked ability of Entered at Lincoln University as second-class snch men, the choir will be one of the best matter. in Atlantic City. Subscriptions and communications may be ad- Another feature of the work is the organi- dressed to REV. W. P. TVHITE, D. D., zation of a Literary Society. Its members 1328 CHESTNUT ST., PHILA., PA. and officers are students of Lincoln, Howard, or R. L. STEWART, D.D., PKOF. Riddle and other institutions. The interest is LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. PA. growing, and a most delightful summer is looked for along literary lines. Drs. Terry, ing to Sunday school, even when they do not ’gSC., Lewis, ’ogC., Harris, ’ozC., Bowen, and attend church services of another kind.” others, will spealc on some phase of medicine To niuch the same effect writes John T. during the summer. Cuff, ’12 Seni., who is employed on another Thc congregation is working hard to raise of the boats. “Our boys here on the boat at- $600 by the last week in August, in order to tend church at least once a day, and find get into a larger place of worship. The fu- plenty to do assisting the pastors. I gener- ture outlook for Emmanuel Church is very ally go to the Congregational Church in the brigh t. morning, and the Baptist at night. In the latter, I 1iave.preached once for the pastor, -- The Whiteville Mission and Industrial as well as making an address on Children’s Day. The churches here in New Bedford School. seem to be in a decline. The people do not take any interest in going to church, but fre- This work is conducted by the Rev. T. G. quent the parks and attend clam-bakes, etc., Williamson, ’95 Col., and ’00 Seni., and was instead. The young people especially are out founded in May, 1909, and is situated at of church, and one of the problems is how Whiteville, N. C. It is for the special train- to win them back. New Bedford, as YOU ing of the colored youth of Columbus County. know, is a large ~nanufacturingtown, situated It runs twelve months in the pear, with a few on the shores of Buzzard’s Bay.” weelcs’ vacation, “according to the exigencies.” Mr. M~illiamson has sent an account of his -- school, from which we take the following: Ernmanuel Presbyterian Church, “This school is connected with the Second Atlantic City, N. J. Presbyterian Church of Whiteville, and is its creation. Its idea and construction are purely B. F. Giasco began work with the congre- Presbyterian. For more than twenty. years ago gation of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, 21 the Rev. Henry C. Malry, D. D., put into the North Ohio Avenue,. hpril 3oth, 1911, with minds of the colored people of Columbus an attendance of about ten persons. The con- County the idea of such a school. Its prime gregation is worshipping i~]a hall, with a purpose is to lift the colored boys and girls seating capacity of not more than eighty to acceptability, usefulness and citizenship, by persons. training them to be intelligent, manly, obedi- The congregation is growing rapidly in num- ent, decent and .industrious. One means of . bers and ir? interest. Seven persons have pro- fostering this aim is ‘The Little Folks’ Finan- fessed faith in Christ recently, arid one of cial Society,’ This society grew out of the this number has already lecl another to Christ. idea that too much sweets are not good for The work is being reorganized, with good thr system; save some of the pennies, and success, but one of the greatest difficulties that they will save you from cold and hunger. confronts the congregation is that they have “The school is located at the county seat, not adequate room for the people. Last Sab- on the A4tlantic Coast Line Railroad. Like bath morninrj, the hall was almost filled, and the sun, it occupies a central point, and may at the night service people stood outside, while it shine all over the county. It carries seven others left., All of the night services are grades, and has three teachers and eighty evangelistic, and much interest is being mani- pupils. Many of the children come from fested. homes in which the parents are compelled to one of the new and interesting features of be away most of the time. The school is thus thc werk is the organization of a splendid in a very real sense in the place of the pa- choi; of sixteen persons, two of whom are rent. The coiirse of study includes the Bible, Ridtllc University students, who sang at the catechism, reading, writing and spelling, arith- I

:d metic and algebra, English, geography, history, If elenimtary physiology and physics, civics. force University. Finally, at Howard Uni- 1- We also give lessons in agriculture; and for versity, Washington, D. C., the Science Hall, Y. . the girls, nursing, sewing, basket making, for which the Federal Government gave IO cooking. We teach all how to sing aiid also $90,000, was dedicated. An appropriation of io how to behave. $60,000 was also made to purchase a new site 1- “To encourage the study of Scripture, we for the M Street Colored High School. If offer a prize of five dollars for the best ex- The General Education Board appropriated st amination on the Old Testament. We also $60,000 to Fisk University, on condition that encourage good cooking by giving two dollars $po,ooo be raised. Of this amount, there has i- for the one who is most proficient in the been secured $IOO,OOO, of which Andrew Car- -S science and the art of this essential accoin- negie gave $10,000. The General Education 3, plishment. Board also gave $10,000 each to the following : is Aside from the current expenses of the €lampton Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Lane is school, the trustees have bought eleven acre5 College at Jackson, Tenn. : Spelman Seminary, Yt of land, at a cost of $1,200, for an experi- Atlanta; Howe Institute, Memphis, Tenn. ; d mental farm and as a site for a suitable Thompson Institute, Lumberton, N. C., and IC building. One-half of this tract is woodland. the Florida Baptist Academy, Jacksonville, The other half lies within the corporate limits Florida. ;e of Wliiteville, and has a good house on it, The hlississippi Conference of the Colored 0 which rents for $70 a year. The school needs M. E. Church gave $11,000 to the College at I- a building, with recitation rooms, library, din- Holly Springs, Miss. Miss Alice M. Curtis, Y ing room, assembly hall, laundry and kitchen. of RIassachusetts, left $5,000 each to Hamp- This could Be built for $5,000. The colored ton Institute, Tuskegee Institute, and Atlanta patrons of the school have subscribed $2,000, ‘Jniversity. Miss O’Hagan gave $10,000 to I1 which they are gradually paying in in small the Kegro Catholic Schools of Baltimore. smis according to their ability.” Miss Virginia McCormick gave $4,500 to the Mr. Williamsoii has the endorsement of his A. and M. College for Negroes at Normal, white neighhors, and in particular that of Alabama. A colored man gave ground worth I. The Nrzus-Repol-fcr, published in Whiteville. $7.000, .S the income from which is to be used Lt His sorrow is that he has done so little and for maintenance c;f students, to Campbell Col- has had so little equipment with which to do , I- lege, Miss. An unknown donor gave $10,000 it in a field of such rare opportunities. His to Curry Industrial School in Champaign Co., 7. joy is the marvellous effort the people are N Ohio. Andrew Carnegie gave $10,000 to Chey- ,, making to help thenlselves. Those who may ney Institute, Penn., for. the erection of an wish to help this good work may do so S agricultural building. Wilberforce University through the Board of Missions for Freedmen, received $2,000 to found . a scholarship in d 51.3 Bessemer Building, Pittsburg, Pa. memory of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Under S the will of Enimet Densmore, Tuskegee Insti- tute will ultimately benefit to the extent of . Y -- 0 Gifts for Negro Education. several hundred thousand dollars, while under e the will of Mrs. Moir, Lincoln University may $45,000. S That the stream of money for the education receive e of Negroes is not entirely drying up, may be These sums aggregate not far from $900.- 000. They show that so far from it being S see]? from the following notes, taken from impossible to raise funds for the education Y the reports made from time to time in the - daily press and representing the benefactions of the Negro, large and increasing sums are l&ng given. f. reported since January, 1911: - As State aid, over apid above the current - e appropriations for school purposes, we notice It is proposed to erect a $50,000 building r the following: Tennessee is to erect a Normal in Montclair. N. J:, for the colored Y. M. C. d Scliool Building in Nashville, at a cost of A., as a memorial to the late Rev. Amory H. $5o,ooo, and a building for an Agricultural and Bradford, who was always a great champion t, Tndustrial School in Davidson County, at a of the cause of the colored people, and as e cost sf $Fjo,ooo. North Carolina agreed to President of the Congregational Council for Y give thc Slater Industrial School at Winston- , :i~:iny years did much for them. n Salem, $IZ,OOO, if the colored people would Y show their interest by raising an equal -t I1 amount. Virginia made a grant of $25,000 to 0 Hampton Institute. Pennsylvania gave $20,000 Professor E. L. Rann, ’05 Col., was mar- S to the Downingtoivn Normal and Industrial ried June 14th to Miss V. M. Free, at Blue- School; $5,000 to the Cheyney Institute, and field, West Virginia, where Ah-. Ram is en- $5,000 to the Industrial School conducted by paged in educational work as Principal of the Rev. hlatthew Anderson in Philadelphia. the Colored High School. .. 5

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A Speech by Booker T. Washington. cotton growing. Cotton is being consumed in __. larger quantities every year throughout thc One of the striking Commencement speeches world; that means an increase in price, that of the year was that delivered by Booker T. also means that it will he harder in the future Washington at the Commencement of Wilber- to get cottoii producing land than it is now. force University, June 16th. We give extracts ‘‘We must remember that the forces of na- from this address. It was a memorial occa- ture draw no color line. Sunshine and rain sion, being the one hundredth anniversary of are as helpful to the black hand that tills and the late Bishop Daniel A. Payne, the founder owns the soil, as the white hand that tills and of Wilberforce University, and a leader in the owns the soil. The history of the civilization establishment of the African Methodist Epis- of the world teaches that the people who own copal Church. the soil are the people who are going to grow in independence, grow in education, grow in ”1 sometimes fear that we, as a race, do moral and religious strength. not rightly appreciate the advantages and ‘‘I know of no one influence, no one element opportunities which we enjoy in this country. that would add more to the irdependence and “111 numbers, we constitute, as it were, a the progress of the g,ooo,ooo of Negroes in the nation within ourselves. We are IO,OOO,OOO South, than for 11s to have, within the next strong...... We must learn to use the strength . twenty years, IOO,OOO to 200,ooo more intelli- of numbers and improve our condition. gent, successful, independent farmers, scat- “This means that we should cultivate, in an tered throughout this country; and these far- increasing degree in every part of the country, mers should not be composed of the ignorant pride of race. If there is any one human be- element of our race, but should be composed ing whom I detest, it is the man or woman of the educated of our race. who is ashamed of the race to which he or “Our vision need not be limited to owning she belongs; who is all the time trying to get and cultivating the soil. There are great op- away from the race; who would rather be a portunities in the direction of manufacturing : third-rate white man than a first-rate black cotton manufacturing and furniture manufac- man. The Negro in America must learn to turing...... have as much pride in his race as the French- ‘’If we do not want to go into either agricul- man or German or the Irishman has in his ture or manufacturing, there is a vast field racial identity. open for the educated colored man in the direc- “The foreigners who are fast flocking into tion of merchandising. the Southern States see visions, and the Negro “If none of these openings suit the ambition must see them or the time will come when he of our educated colored men and women, there will be’ shut out from the many opportunities is another field that is ripe for the harvest- now offered him in the Southland. We have that of education. There are a million and a a right by inheritance, a right by the labor of half Negro children of school age who do nat our forefathers, to share in the riches of the enter any school in the South, and there are South, and we must not let prejudice nor in- hundreds of thousands of others who are in convenience frighten us away from sharing in school only three months out of the twelve this birthright of to-day. months. We need 30,000 additional school “While men from all parts of the world are houses built in the South, and we need at least seeing their opportunity and getting land, I 20,000 additional Negro school teachers. There want the Negro to do the same thing, and I are individual locations in the South for at am glad to see that many of our best colored least 2,500 additional doctors and 3,000 addi- men throughout the South are seizing this tional pharmacists, 2,000 additional dentists, opportunity and are buying large tracts of and 1,000 surgeons.” land. A landless race means a poverty- “Wherever in any community there are stricken race; a landless race means a depend- 2,500 or more colored people, they are capable ent race, with uncertain employment, one that of supporting a Y. M. C. A. building. There lives by picking up odd jobs here and there; are 56 cities in the country at least where Y, a landless race means a non-tax-paying race, ill. C. A. buildings could be established and an unsettled race, a thriftless race. Every- supported. where let us encourage our people to enter into “We must not become discouraged. by racial the possession of soil of this country, North relations. True, we have prejudice to con- and South. tend with in the South, as elsewhere. The “miere is only a small territory, so far color line is often unjustly drawn throughout found, where cotton can he profitably pro- the country. We have to endure injustice ; duced. That territorJr is in our Southern we have to contend with injustice; but instead States. The black man can get this land. He of letting prejudice discourage US, we should can share in the immense profits of the present iise it as a spur to urge LIS on to higher efforts, and the still greater profits of the future, in to renewed enterprise.”

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George Isaac Read, A. B. ’11, has been ap- graduated. Since that time he has followed pointed Principal of the Colored School just his profession in this city with very marked established in York, Pa. success, and was one of the best thought of and respected young colored men in the city, Rev. Thomas H. Lee, a Lincoln graduate of and greatly loved by the members of his race. the class of 1887, recently resigned the charge The siiccess with which he met in his business of the church at Richmond, and will in the is exemplary of what can be accomplished by future labor as a city missionary in Baltimore. a young man, though handicapped by the odds The church in Richmond, which is now vacant, of circumstances and disadvantages. is an important one, and it is hoped that very ‘‘hIr. Flipping died in the beginning of his soon a suitable man for the place.and people young manhood, his twenty-ninth year. He will be found. Richmond is a large city, with was well connccted in church and other charit- a large colored population. able work, and was prominent in benevolent -- fraternities of the city.” Help. -- Downingtown Industrial and The friends of ‘Lincoln University and those Agricultural. interested in the uplift of the colored race through the provision for it of conipeteiit re- Lincoln University has been the mother of ligions instructors and ministers, are asked to schools. Not a few of her graduates have remember that funds are needed for acconi- organized schools and colleges in various parts plishing efficiently what is aimed at. The of the land, which have proved of great bless- address of the Financial Secretary, Rev. W.P. ing to the people for whom they were in- White, D. D., is 1328 Chestnut Street, Phila- tended. Here in Pennsylvania is one of the clelphia, Pa. most notable. It was established by the Rev. IYilliam A. Creditt, A. B. ’85, D. D. and LL.D. - ’11. He is now Principal of the school, and Letter from Oklahoma though pastor of a church in Philadelphia, Pa., whose membership exceeds two thousand, and The Rev. H. C. Cousins, A. B. ’05, S. T. B. closely connected with other interests of great ‘OS,is now at Lima, Oklahoma. He writes as importance, he has kept from the start in follows : closest touch with the work done by the “We are all well and getting ‘along as well faculty. Principal Creditt is ably seconded by as could be expected. I am working very the Rev. French M. Hedgman, who graduated hard, but I take pleasure in it, for it is pioneer from the College in ’04, and from the Semi-. work. I have two small churches and one nary in ’0;. A4r. Hedgman acts as Assistant missioii. The churches are 112 miles apart, Principal, and resides at Downingtown. and I walk eight miles to preach at the inis- The Downingtown Industrial and Agricul- sion. This spring we organized a Presbyte- tural School is situated near Downingtoivii, rian church at Lima. T~LEthe Lord is bless- Pa., on the main line of the Pennsylvania R. ing the work of our hands. We are in great K., thirty-two miles from Philadelphia. need of good men out here. Encourage all the This school has made great progress since good young men you can to come to this field. its organization in the year 195. While its The people are as spiritually inclined as those name would seem to indicate that only indus- of the east.’’ tries are taught, this is by no means the case. - Great emphasis is put on industrial work. A Alumni Notes. . trade or a working knowledge of a trade is - expected of every one who graduates from the We regret to record the death of John H. course of instruction given. Flipping, A. R. ’03, in Atlantic City, N. J., on The trades are correlated with literary work. July 7th. The following account of his life , ,4 sludent who desires to.fit himself for the is quoted from one of our exchanges : f College Department of Lincoln University, to “hfr. Flipping came to this city with 111s which institution Dowv.ningtown serves as a parents from Fishersville, Virginia, the place fitting school, niay at the end of the seconcl of his hirth, when quite a lad. He attended year academic work enter a class known as Iincoln IJniversitp, and after his course in the “Lincoln Preparatory Class,” and remain that institution, he took a course of under- in that class two years. At the expiration of taking and embalming in the Ecels School of that time, he may, if he has done creditable Embalming in PhiIadelphia, from which he work, receive a certificate of his standing,

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Lincoln University Herald. we hear of mobs attacking prisons, of at- tempted lynchings, and 0th- manifestations of PUBLISHED MONTHLY. hate toward the blacks, which only serve to Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to increase the tension between the races. The imparting information concerning it to the friends at future of the newest dominion of the British a distance. Empire depends upon amicable relations Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. among its diverse peoples, in which the lower Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. races ma?; be elevated and trained for good Entered at Lincoln University as second-class citizenship.” matter. .. subscriptions and communications may be ad- -- A Message from Tennessee. dressed to . REV. W. P. WHITE, D. D., 1328 CHESTNUT SI’., PHILA., PA. or PROF. R. L. STEWART, D.D., The Rev. Middleton J. Nelson graduated LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. PA. from ,Lincoln University, the College in ’07, and the Theological Seminary in ’IO. He at once took charge of the church at Iceeling, which certificate admits him to the Freshman Tenn. He writes: Class of said University. Special attention is “The Presbytery of which I am. a member given those in the Lincoln Preparatory Class, covers all the States of Alabama, Mississippi that they may be properly fitted to take up the and half of Tennessee. In all this vast region work as outlined for the Freshman Class of we have only seventeen Presbyterian churches Lincoln University. To become eligible to a among our people, and these not properly sup- certificate, one must have done satisfactory plied, for in some cases one man has three work in English, Bible Study, History, Geog- churches under his care. Of the twelve min- raphy, Botany, Physiology, Latin, Greek and isters, three are graduates of Lincoln, three Mathematics. are graduates of Biddle, and the rest can -- hardly be said to have enjoyed any systematic The Race Problem in South Africa. tlteological training. “The greater part of this section lies in the We quote from the Halifax, Nova Scotia, river basin, and is very fertile. During Feb- Witmss the following : ruary and IMarcIi, great fields of vegetables are “One of the greatest blots upon the Ameri- planted, and these without any cultivation or can Republic is its treatment of the black fertilizer yield during May and June thou- population. To the great crime of the slave sands of bushels of produce, which are shipped traffic, with its unspeakable cruelties, there has directly to the Northern markets, and bring lieen added the alinost equally great wrong of from fifty cents to three dollars per bushel. casting out this people in their ignorance and “Just as soon as the money reaches the weakness, and leaving them to become a prey shippers, the Sunday excursions Ixgin on the to indolence and vice. To this neglect and its railroads, on which the poor, ignorant colored inevitable conseqtlences have been added from people throw away the greater part of tbis year to year a long list of the most barbarous easily made money. After the vegetables are killings, lynchings, Imrnings, etc., provoked by gathered, the fields are planted in cotton ard race hatrcd, and in which the innocent as well yield in many cases a bale to the acre. The as the gnilty often suffered. country is rich not only in its vegetable pro- “We have been accustomed to chide our ducts, but also in minerals. Birmingham, .4merican neighbors for their cruel and inhu- Alabama. is full of foundries, where many man treatment of the Negro. But unless our able-bodied colored inen work. They lack re- own govern~nentin South Africa takes a firm ligious, moral and scientific teaching. and wise stand on the race questioll in that “Our work is in a sinall country village, dominion, we shall not long he in a position owned largely by colored people. Our church to read lectures to others. The race situation is a historic one, dating back over one hundred in South Africa is one of the most diflicult years, but at the close of the war it was given problems with which this new federation has over to the colored people. It was under the to deal. There are about six times as niany control of the Southern Presbyterian Church IiIacks in this colony as there are whites, and until about eight years ago. During the past they are multiplying very rapidly since their fifty pears it has been served by twelve dif- inter-tribal wars Iiaee been ended by the white feilent men, hut not one was pastor until the inan’s rule. The hlacks have always been ihter was installed as the first pastor at the treated with contempt and cruelty by the jubilee July last. Boers, and while the British have always “On reaching this field, I found a great deal shown a disposition to befriend and protect to do. I soon realized that I was religious, wraker races, yet of late years the tendency moral, civil and medical director for a host even among the British population has been of pcople. Our church building was scarcely to keep the hlack man in his place. And now suitable as a place of worship. Our parsonage ! I

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HEKALD. 3 at- was not finished. The school only ran during under the yoke of hard taskmasters. The of August and September, January and February, people are wicked. Gambling, drunkenness, to the months in which the children could not adultery and even idolatry are all herc. Every ?he be used in the fields. Sabbath, as one passes on his way to God’s ish “My first task was to repair and paint the house, he sees gambling in various forms, in 111.5 church. This was easily done, for the hearts the groves, under the green trees. God’s name ver of the people clesired it. The money was col- is profaned, and dice, cards, betting on horse Bod lected, the materials bought, and by personally races and even on the amount of money that assisti!ig and directing, we soon repaired and will be contributed in the church, is observed. painted the building throughout, making it the “With 211 this, there are many inducements prettiest church in this section. This work be- for educated men to come here. The most ing finished without debt, we turned om at- wicked even give reverence to the leader and :ed tention to the parsonage, and repaired and contribute to his support. They consider it painted it, in order that we might be in a posi- 379 their duty to keep the leader from manual toil at tion to set an example of cleanliness and to support himself. The first and best of ’g, sanitation at home. We could see the effect every harvest field is brought as a gift. The at once, for many who aforetime lived in huts good white citizens are kind and do all possi- ier aroused themselves and prepared themselves ble to aid one who tries to make better people ipi better homes. out of this great host. 0 that these condi- on “The ,school now came in for attention. In tions might impress the hearts of those young es this matter, the people had been so abused, inen who have been educated at our 1:est P- disappointed and disgusted, robbed so many schools, but who, on account of greater com- ee times by dishonest and ignorant men, who col- forts and attractions elsewhere, will not come n- lected money and promised months of school back home to bring the good news. A great ee that they never gave, that the people refused multitude is waiting in ignorance and sin, 111 to hear us. To show them that we meant to waiting for .the example and precept which ic help them, we opened school and taught IIZ alone can save them. Would that the great children two months for nothing. At the end :nultitude of trained men of color who settle le of those two months I called the parents to- in the iTorthern cities might heed this call, see b- gether to see if they had noticed any good the great need, and be able to give answer to :e being done. At this meeting great interest the King of kings as Paul answered King )r was shown, and they had us keep on teaching Agrippa, ‘I was not disobedient to the heav- 1- until May, at which time we had a school enly vision.’ ” Id exhibition, an unknown thing in this section. -*. U If you had seen the great host coming up on this occasion, you would have thought that -After Fifty Years. le John Robinson’s or Sells Brothers’ big circus REV. R. S. FIOLhlES. n. 1). e was in town : but with all this host, the great- CY d est of good order prevailed. They were sur- IS prised that children could be taught to act There are signs in the national sky that real e as those did who sat on the stage. freedom is coming to the Negro in America. d “We are distant from the centres of culture Freedom by proclamation broke shackles, but e and refinement. Forty miles from Memphis, did not break the bonds that had held him in - two hundred miles from Nashville. .The near- mental and spiritual subjection. Abraham est colored, Presbyterian church is 250 miles Lincoln made merely a race possibility. Only 1, to the Negro himself can make that possibility Y away. It is twenty miles the nearest graded school. In fact, we live in the wilderness. real. Freedom by reclamation is the demand With all the fertile land, the people are poor; of the hour, and if the American Negro ever the families are large; ‘the average home is a achieves an honorable place in the nation, it two-roomed log house. Father, mother and will he by self-reclamation from the conditions daughters sleep in one room, the boys’ dormi- imposed hy the past. tory, kitchen and dining room are in the Almost half a ccntury of legal freedom has other. There is not much chance for common been required to convince a few of the colored decency. On the Sabbath hundreds of the .race that the colored man himself is to be the young roam the fields and woods, associating sliaper of his destiny, and not the bettering, with and assimilating the habits of the beasts. buttressing, holstering power of Mr. Lincoln’s Why do they do this? Because they Iiav. historic proclamation. Here and there one, nothing to wear to go to Sunday school. ThE.1 sometimes a man, sometimes a wonian, begins people are ignorant. Few men can take a to realize that the race to which he or she be- dollar to a store, spend part of it and know longs must be lifted to a plane of recognized that they have the right change. It is worth and power from within and not from common to see young men and women alJout withont. To General Armstrong and his to marry who can neither write a letter nor Ilampton School, first, and to his disciple who read one. All their business having to be en- has founded Tuskegee, next, the race owes trusted to merchants. they are like free slaves this idea. 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

Emancipation meant opportunity to do, and be, received with even a semblance of equality freedom from being done for. Slavery was by Atlanta’s abundant white citizenship, and to the Negro a condition of irresponsible to the credit of these people, be it noted, they rhildhood. Only now, after fifty years, does (lo not expect or care for any such thing. the Negvo begin to understand that freedom They are sufficient unto theniselves. In the means individual responsibility for individual midst of this great Southern city they are solv- uplift. The next half century will see the ing the problei11 of separate-togetetherness in Negro making for himself cleavage from the praiseworthy fashion. whites, on the ground that he is black and Mound Bayou, Mississippi, is a village of not white. And he will say generally what two thousand inhabitants, more or less, all of one has recently said, “We are black, of a whom are Negroes. No white man owns a different race from the whites, and do not foot of land there, we are told. Perhaps no wish the whites to think that we want to be white man would if he could. The village is what ihey are, or to be dependent upon them. prosperous, with houses of good style, stores, What we want is an equal chance to be what shops, banks, a railway station, an express we want to be. VVe want the same pay for office, churches, school houses, offices for law- the same work that the white laborer gets, if yers and doctors, and a good hotel. The vil- it is done as well, and we want the same privi- lage is the outgrowth of the far-sightedness lege of choice of occupation that the white of two men who had been slaves. Here is a laborer enjoys.” concrete illustration of the possibility of Negro The Negro already is beginning to recognize development when right opportunity is given. that color separates absolutely the two races, Here in a white county is a black town, mak- and that his largest independence lies in the ing a complete presentation to the United full development of this idea that between States of the practicability of separate exis-t- white and black peace and harmony is to de- ence without enforced segregation. pend on their living together in separation, but One of the most hopefu! signs of an awak- each recognizing the other’s rights. Altruism ening realization of the value of separatism is has not yet reached the point where a white the enthusiasm with which in Chicago, Phila- man will give to another white man an equal delphia, Dayton, and other cities, the idea of chance with himself, if the giving is to cost colored Young !ten’s Christian Associations anything worth while. The other white must has been received. There will be buildings for see or take or make his own chance. And the the Negro Associations in these cites ere very black man’s dificulty in the struggle for what long. In Dayton, the Negroes have given may mean to him the power to rise is multi- $13,000 toward the cost of the building to I:e plied many times by the strength of the bond erected. In Chicago, one black man, whose that binds him-his color. No white man can salary is $1,300 a year, has subscribed $1,000 understand that limitation. No white man toward their building, and has already paid was ever black. The Negro understands it, one-quarter of the amount. Besides this, a and would accept it, were it not used by the movement is on foot to organize a training white man to make unfair discrimination school for Negro secretaries for their Asso- against hiin. That unfairness fills him with ciations. The purpose is to have it coi~nected hitterness. PIis only escape lies in his power with Howard University at Washington. to mark out for hinisclf a separate, independ- All these are hopeful signs. A real freedom ent way, and to pursue it to its end. will come to the colored race in America when Tii a Pennsylvania town is a Negro plumber. once it has, as a whole, broken from depend- T-le is the product of an institution for juveii- ence for initiative on the white race in the iIc reforiii. In it he learned his trade. There midst of which it must live. In a Negro de- was no work for him in the city where the cently dreswd, industrious, sober, provident, institution is located, when he went out free. law-abiding and courteous, without swagger No labor union would have him in its mem- and without debasing vices, the white man will bership. The IJOY was wise beyond his kind. find no cause of offense. The high road to [le souglit a country locality where several character of such sort is up the hills, along hamlets centered, and where there was no ways which the individual man, black or white, representative of his trade. There, by himself, must make for himself. Abraham Lincoln away irom all competition, he has become a gave the Negro the right to the open road. well-to-do, independent citizen. When the After fifty years the recipient of the gift is black inan can supply a need, out of all com- l.re~inniii~to show that he can walk it as an petition with white labor, his problem is solved ?i?&pendh citizen. There is no such thing This man’s only rclations with the whites are as a citizenship trust. The man who becomes ihosr of supply and demand. He makes 110 a mnii hecoines so hy building on such founda- other claiin. tion as life has given him the best replica of- Tn Atlanta there is a large population of thc great niodel of nianhood, .Jesus Christ, as cultured, cdticatetl, prosperous colored people, hc is alile to 1)uild from the hlock that he him- wlio uiitlcrstand that they cannot he. will not sclf is.

, I ality and they VOL. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, OCTOBER, 1911. 9. ling. . xv. PA., No. the olv- The University Opens. the exception that Mr. Maurice Picard, a re- j in cent graduate of Columbia University, New Lincoln University opened for the Fifty- York City, has been engaged to give instruc- ! of seventh Academic Year on Thursday, Septem- tion in Greek and Latin. ’ A course in Biology, 1 of with laboratory work, for those preparing to her PIS^, at five P. 14. As usual at this time IS a of year, the Canipus is most beautiful, and study medicine, will also be given. Of the t no the .surrounding wbods and fields offer to the professors, Dr. R. L. Stewart passed the sum- e is gaze one of the most attractive landscapes to mer on the Pacific coast; Dr. G. B. Carr was res, be seen in this favored part of one of the in Great Britain, and Professor James Carter res most charming districts of Pennsylvania. on the continent. Professor Carter was given aw- Up to date, twenty-eight men have been en- leave of al.)sence in March, and expects to re- vil- rolled in the Freshman Class. This represents turn about November 1st. He has been en- qess a selection from the sixty or more who made gaged in research work in Italy and France, is a application. Each of the applicants accepted and represented the University at the meeting :gro was able to meet to the satisfaction of the of ArchEologists held in Rome. yen. Faculty the fourteen units of preparatory !ak- work demanded as a condition of entrance. - Alumni Notes ited It may be remarked that these units are those :iSt- adopted by the Carnegie Foundation as the Rev. W. A. Creditt, D. D., LL.D., of Phila- standard for an institution of Collegiate rank, delphia, of the class of ’85, President of the rak- and that they represent a four years’ high n is Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural school course or its equivalent. Lila- School, was re-elected the past summer Presi- Of the twenty-eight enrolled, seven are chit of the New Engktiid Convention of Col- of graduates of well equipped, up-to-date high ,011s ored Ministers ,and Laymen, by acclamation. schools, mostly in the Northern States; six for The convention is composed of representatives are from academies; eight are from Down- of the ten Northern and Eastern States, and .erY ingtown Normal and Industrial School, where veil outnumbers any other like body of Negroes in a Lincoln Preparatory Class is trained each he the section. year, under the efficient nianagenient of Dr. ose Creditt and Professor Hedgman ; three com- 000 Rev. Lawrence Miller, Principal of McClel- aid pleted the college preparatory course at land Academy, of the class of ’So, received Haiiies Jnstitute, Augusta, Ga. ; and four were the degree of D. D. the past summer from 1, a privately prepared. The States and countries Illg Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga. represented are : Pennsylvania, 5 ; Virginia, 4 ; so- ted North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, The Synodical Sabbath School Convention 3 each; New York, New Jersey and South of the Synod of Catawba met in September ?Imerica, z each ; Delaware, Maryland, Okla- 0111 with Rev. John A. Savage, D. D., of Frank- ien homa, South‘Africa and Canada, I each. linton, N. C., of the class of ’Sz. Among the It is now four years since LincolnUniversity 1d- alumni of Lincoln University taking part in the discontinued all sub-f reshman work, and re- the proceedings were Prof. Thomas A. Long, 3e- solved to confine the education given to work Ph.D., of Biddle University, of the class of :11t, of a collegiateorder. This is theonly institution ’92;Dr. York Jones, also of Biddle University :er for the higher education of the colored man in of the class of ‘Sg; Dr. G. C. Shaw, of Ox- rill the United States that has taken this step ; the ford, N. C., of the class of ’86; Dr. L. E. to bulk of the work done and the majority of the Fairley, of Raleigh, N. C., of the class of ’gz: stiidents enrolled in all the other similar insti- and Rev. A. B. McCoy, of Americus, Ga., of tutions is of grade equivalent to that in the the class of ’04. grammar and the high school. This nieans that the faculty is hampered in the attempt to *.). carry on‘worlc both in the Preparatory De- University Notes. partment as well as in the College. Sooner or later, however, all will doubtless have to Professor Frank H. Ridgley was elected come to the adoption of that part of the con- -4ssistant Lilrarian. stitution of the College Entrance Examination Board which says, “There shall be no prepara- A course of four lectures on “The State and tory department under the government or Religion,” were delivered to the student body instruction of the college faculty.” during the opening week by Dr. Coleman, of The teaching force remains as it was, with the Reformed Presbyterian Church. 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

Lincoln University Herald. air, cold water, etc. All this .demanded special means and trained men to spread abroad the PUBILISHED MONTHLY. information needed if this curse is to be wiped Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to out. .. imparting information concerning it to the friends at “Dr. Allen J. Smith, Dean of the Medical a distance. Sent one year to any address for zg cents. School of the University of Pennsylvania, Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents gave every encouragement and finally secured each. for me an appointment for a time with the Entered at Lincoln University as second-class Phipps Institute, where an opportunity was matter. afforded to study the conditions. The first Subscriptions and communications may be ad- two menths were spent in visiting the colored dressed to . Ihv. W. P. WHITE, D. D., patients in their homes, trying to persuade the 1328 CHESTNUT ST., PHILA., PA. or PROF. R. L. STEWART, D.D., other members of the household to come and LINCOLNUNIVERSITY, PA. be examined, to see whether they had con- tracted the disease, and if so, to take remedial At the thirteenth annual session of the Na- measures at once. At the clinics from 8.30 A. M. to 10.30 A. M., I had charge of these tional Medical Association (composed of col- patients. Afterwards was assigned the ored physicians), held at Hampton, Virginia, I in August, the following Lincoln men had study of a block of houses inhabited by col- prominent places: Austin M. Curtis, ’88, was ored persons. This was under the direction President ; W-illiam M. Stowe, ’97, was Dental of Mr. Neuman, Executive Secretary of the ’ Philadelphia Housing Commission. The con- Vice-President ; George E. Cannon, ’93, was Chairman of the Executive Board; and N. F. ditions found were most depressing. The one *. room cabins of Georgia have at least fresh Mossell, ’79, and George C. Hall, ’86, were air and sunshine. These one room homes, i members of the Board. S. Outlaw, ’88, was J. where whole families often live, are fre- State Vice-president of California ; while I Norman Lassiter was a member of the qnently cut off from both sun and air, all the Program and Censor Committee. On the air coming through another room already oc- cupied and often saturated with tobacco fumes, I program were the names of the following : in addition to exhaled gases. The children Thomas H. Slater, ’87, read a paper on “Pel- born in such surroundings are often deformed lagra;” -4. M. Brown, ’88, conducted the dis- cussion on “The Practical Surgical Importance physically, and how can they grow strong fed at the breasts of mothers not seldom satu- I of Extra-uterine Pregnancy ;” E. P. Roberts, rated with hrewed hops or bad rum? ’91, read a paper on “Jnfantile Gastro-Enter- “Although tuberculosis is far more preva- itis;’: James A. .Wimbish, ’or, read a paper on lent among the colored population of Philadel- “Some Aspects of Dental Surgery;” H. F. phia than it is among ‘the white, yet not one- t1 Gamble, ’88, as Chairman, presented the re- tenth of the patients treated at the Phipps port of the Committee on Medical Education ; ! Institute are colored. The reasons, found out W. G. Alexander, ’99, read a paper on after a house-to-house visitation, are interest- “Rickets.” In the Dental Section, R. G. Baker, ’97, was the Chairman of the Section ing: Ignorance of the existence of the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment and l Meeting, and Norman Lassiter gave a demon- Prevention of Tuberculosis in Philadelphia ; stration in electrical gold fillings. fear of going to a hospital; because tubercu- -- losis is not accompanied by pain. Most of Anti-Tuberculosis Work Among Ne- those questioned seemed to be perfectly indif- groes in Philadelphia. ferent to the progress of the disease and to care little that there was at their doors almost Charles A. Lewis, after graduating from an institution of the most advanced kind, Lincoln University, studied medicine in the where every one is welcomed to the clinics University of Pennsylvania, graduating there- coiiducted by the most competent physicians, from in 1910. He became interested in anti- and where the best advice and treatment are tuberculosis work among Negroes in Phila- freely given.” delphia. The following interesting account of “It is most distressing to find the ‘large the work is from Mi-. Lewis: number of colored young people affected with “Upon the completion of my medical course, this preventable and curable contagious dis- the desire came to me to to attempt to do ease in the wards of the Philadelphia Hospital. something for the unfortunate members of They are, however, merely representative of my race afflicted with tuberculosis. While the the large number of Negroes throughout the means of cure were within the .reach of most, country who have tuberculosis. In Africa, yet there were great ohstacles in the way- the Negro is not nearly as much affected. the peculiar habits of the Negro, his indiffer- Why, then, is he so subject to the disease in ence, ignorance, the superstition of the masses the United States? The explanation seems to with regard to this disease, resistance to sani- be that tul)erculosis is a disease of ‘civiliza- tary measures, avoidance of fresh air, ‘night’ tion,’ a ‘house’ disease, and its cause is the y: . i

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:ial Negroes’ housing condition in the large cities, ”On every Monday morning during my six the which, coupled with the intemperate and un- weeks’ tour, I met with the ministers’ meeting, )ed hygienic habits of so many of the race, puts involving representatives of the various de- a heavy strain on his constitution.” nominations in the different cities. They are cal almost without exception men of intelligence, -* understanding and probity of life. the iia, ’ Colored High Schools. In -ed cities, the general character of the pews is the such that it demands a corresponding intellect- Professor Kelly Miller is Dean the Col- (as of ual and moral quality in the pulpit. lege of Arts and Sciences, Howard University, rst “I am extremely anxious to turn the atten- Washington, D. C. He is an office bearer in red tion of our educated young men to the - Chris- the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, :he tian ministry as the best available field for .nd WaAington, D. C., of which th.e Rev. Francis the outlet of their talent. My latest pamph- Grinike, a graduate of Lincoln, class In- J. D. D., let, entitled, ‘The Ministry as the Field for lial of ’70, is pastor. Prof. Miller has just com- the Talented Tenth,’ is devoted to this pur- pleted a trip of six thousand miles, during pose. The ministry furnishes a wide, open -30 which he visited fourteen States, paying par- ese field for the exercise of the best character and the ticular attention to the Colored High Schools. intelligence and power which the race can In an account of his observations in the New produce.” PI- Age, he says: on Yo?% “There has grown up within recent years :he ’ -- in- almost without public notice a series of high C,olored Y.M. C. A. Work in Baltimore. In e schools with courses and facilities comparable :sh with approved standards of secondary educa- tion. These schools are to be found mainly W. F. DeBardelaben, who, since his gradua- es, in the tier of the Middle States reaching from tion at Lincoln in 1903, has been engaged in -e- the Colored M. C. A. work, formerly in he Maryland to Kansas and dipping southward Y. including Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Montclair, N. J., and latterly in Baltimore, K- In the southern part of Indiana and Illinois, writes of the surprise and gratification which ?S, the colored men’s department of the Y. M. en as well as in the State of Kansas, there are separate high schools in towns of sufficient C. A. of Baltimore heard of the generous gift ed of Mr. Julius Rosenwald, the wealthy Hebrew 2d colored population to justify their establish- ment. These schools everywhere take the of Chicago. $25,000 is offered by him to the U- same grade as white schools of the same class colored people of any city in the United States and are carefully supervised by the local su- for the purpose of establishing an Association la- perintendent of schools. and equipping it, provided the people of that “The .Sumner High School building in St. city or community raise $75,000. Louis is the largest and best appointed struc- Baltimore has a colored population of over ture devoted to the education of the Negro ~O,OOO. The males constitute 45 per cent. of to be found anywhere in the world. Its cost that number. Yet no modern, well-equipped and equipment amount to something like Y. 14. C. A. building is possessed for their $5oo,ooo. By reason of the liberal provision use. It is believed that within the next three made for these high schools, they are able to years one may come to be enjoyed. secure well trained and experienced teaching “In our present building, we are trying to staffs. ‘In this regard they are in a much better accommodate 150 men and 30 boys, an es- position than the vast majority of Negro col- tremely difficult thing to do in small quarters. leges and universities. . The opportunities offered our membership are “During the year, I addressed twelve such -religious meetings, Bible classes, educational high schools. The graduates are distributed classes, reading room, billiards, bowling alley, between the sexes in the ratio of something shooting gallery, shuffle boards and other fea- like three to one in favor of the girls. To tures of a social nature.” meet this contingency, courses in household The physical training phase of Association economy, technically 1cnown as domestic work is almost entirely neglected. art and domestic science, are being established “During the summer season, a base ball and cond~~ctedaccording to the best approved league is organized, through the efforts of the methods in these hranches. Such courses are Association, among many of the Sunday calculated to furnish an outlet for young wo- schools, which has meant much to quite a men either as teachers of these subjects or in number of the young men so inclined. their own household management, or as wage “The religious influence of the Association earners in the households of their employers. has been felt among the men of the city. At The technical courses for boys such as are the session of the Bible class on last Sunday usually listed in schools of this order lead to afternoon, two young men who are now no such immediate opportunity as those for superintendents of large Sunday schools in girls.” two of the most influential Methodist churches What Professor Miller says concerning the here remarked that they owe their training Negro ministers is also interesting: and inspiration for the special work that they 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

are doing in their churches to the Young’ two kinds of oxeii or two horses of different Men’s Christian Association. breeds or colors,” there would be force in The “Every year (February, March, April, May) Bamier’s comparison, but they do not say this. large evangelistic meetings for inen only are The comniand is to not yoke together “an ox held in halls and churches, and at these ser- and an ass,” animals of different genera. Or vices many inen are led to accept Jesus Christ if the Idack man did not ,belong to the genus as their Saviour. . homo, but to some inferior order of creation, “Last fall and winter, three different Bible there might be force in it; but the Scriptures classes were conducted-one in the building say that “God has made all illen of one blood.” (taught by a well known Lincoln graduate, There is something in human nature which Rev. L. Z. Johnson), and two outside (exten- protests against yoking a man and a beast. sion work). One of the classes held outside We have seen a man and a cow yoked together the building is known as the ‘Home Social’ pillling a plow. We have seen a woman and Bible Class. It bids fair to be one of the best a dog hitched to a milk cart. This did not classes conducted by the Association. It seem to us the proper thing, though we should meets alternately, once a week, at the homes not quote Deuteronomy xxii: IO, to condemn of the inembers of the class. After each ses- it. There was a special reason for keeping sion, the ineml>er serves a light supper. The the ox and ass apart. We certainly should sessions run from four to five months, and not quote it to forbid white men and Negroes with twenty or twenty-five members, the class working together, either in the field or in the visits each member’s home only once. The church. Christians in the early Church were third class was conducted in a Social Settle- “voke fellows,” but they were not all white- ment house in South Baltimore. skinned. They were men of Palestine and “The Employment Department of our Asso- Greece and Rome and Arabia and Ethiopia. ciation is also making itself felt. Many of They were not all free men ; some were slaves, our boys and men come to the city ill pre- hit they were brethren and saints. Philemon pared for the demands of the city life. They was a fellow-laborer, and so was Onesimus, have but few acquaintances, if any, and very his slave, who was received not as a servant, little money; hence so many are thrown on but as a “brother beloved.” the mercy of the public. The Association in The Czrirzbcrlniid Baiinrr does not represent many cases takes the young man, gets him a the best sentiment of the South when it quotes position (gratis), and acquaints him with the Deuteronomy xxii: IO, as an argument for the men of the Association, and some nzember color line in religious work.-Herald a91d takes him to church and introduces him there, Prrsby tcr. and in this way throws around him protection that would be hard to get otherwise. It is - true, the employment agencies in the large Says Negroes Came First. cities seek positions for such men, but they do not guarantee a place, and care absolutely The following is quoted from The Chr-isiina nothing for the individual, and hence he sel- IVorlz aiid tlae Evangelist- dom gets the job he seeks and for which he “Were Adam and Eve black? Maybe. The has paid. Then, too, the young man coming question has long been discussed, and new in- into the city for the first time, needs more terest in the problem has been aroused. In than the mere job. the hope of proving his theory that Negroes “Our Associations are serving our men and inhahited this earth anywhere from 3,000 to -. boys splendidly in this capacity, but we must 4,003 years before the birth of Christ, and that make advancement or other agencies will leave the ancient Greeks and Egyptians were Ne- us far in the rear. That we may be able to groes, Bishop Easton, of the Diocese of Pitts- do better work and serve the community more Ixirgh and Cleveland of the African Church, efficiently, we have secured an Assistant sailed to make researches, in Rome, Naples Secretary.” and throughout the Holy Land. The Bishop bore letters from Secretary of State %ox, -- Speaker of the House Champ Clark, and other The Color Line. well known men. ‘It has always been my be-. lief,’ said Bishop Easton, ‘that Negroes were TIzc Ciimberlaiid Bniiiicr objects to the an- 011 this earth 3,000 or 4,000 years before the nouncement of “no color line” at the Chris- birth of Christ. Researches that I have con- tian Endeavor Convention at Atlantic City. ducted lead me to believe that Negroes were It says: the first humans on this earth, and that the “Jf the Scriptures inhibit the yoking of Greeks and Egyptians were at one time of our viilike animals, why should nature be chal- race. I am sailing to make further researches leilged with inipunity in disregarding her along this line, in the hope of demonstrating marlcs in distinguishing colors and traits of to the world that my theory is correct. I hope character ?’I to demonstrate to the entire world that the ’ Tf the Scriptures said: ‘‘T~OUshalt not yoke Negroes were God‘s people.’ ”