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Larger Funds Needed. annual contributor for years, left it $5,000 ; and J. &new Futhey, of Parkesburg, Pa., Holland, the New York correspondent of who had been acquainted with the University the Philadelphia Ledgel; writing of the wealth and its work from the start, made it his residu- of Columbia University, and the large gift ary legatee, by which it is expected that ten recently left it by Mr. Kennedy, says: or fifteen thousand dollars may come to the “All the great leaders of American univer- institution. sity life recognize the necessity of obtaining It is hoped that others may follow the ex- larger and larger ample of these and funds. A univer- remember in mak- sity cannot stand ing their wills the still financially. If it needs and the de- grows as Columbia serts of Lincoln or as Harvard has, University in Ches- until each of them ter County, Pa. contains approxi- -t mately 6,000 stu- dents, there is a re- For a Negro lative need of addi- Jubilee. tional facilities, and this planning for Said President the future and the Taft in his annual providing of the message : financial ways and “The year 1913 means are among will mark the fifti- the most difficult of eth anniversary of the duties of the the issuance of the administrators of Emancipation pro- American universi- clamation granting ties.” freedom to the Ne- What is true of a groes. It seems white university is fitting that this equally true of a event should be colored. properly celebrated. Lincoln Univer Already a move- sity, as an institu- ment has been tion for the higher started by promi- and professional nent Negroes, en- education of the ten couraged by pronii- millions of Negroes nent white people jn this country, and the press. The $ought to be greatly South especially is enlarged and enabled to accommodate and in- manifesting its interest in the movement. It struct at least 500 students instead of ZOO. is suggested that a proper form of celebration Additional facilities ought to be provided for would be an exposition to show the progress it and greater plans made possible for the the Negroes have made, not only during their future. Wealthy nien and women can do no period of freedom, but also from the time of greater or more beneficent act for their coun- their coming to this country. I heartily en- try and for humanity than to give or bequeath dorse this proposal, and request that the Ex- to Lincoln University a million dollars. It ecutive be authorized to appoint a preliminary would accomplish untold good for the Negro commission of not more than seven persons to -race both jn America and Africa. consider carefully whether or not it is wise to hold such an exposition, and, if so, to outline a plan for the enterprise. I further recom- After the ahove had been written, there was mend that such preliminary commission serve announced in the papers bequests from two without salary, except as to their actual ex- .friends of Lincoln University. Miss Susan penses, and that an appropriation be made to E. Eenson, of Reading, Pa., who had been an meet such espenses.” 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. Lincoln University Herald. Negroes in the South. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. A writer from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to imparting information concerning it to the friends at the Charlotte Observer, says: a distance. “A Connecticut man, now living here, went Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. with the writer to the Xegro State Fair. To Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents him a Negro is yet something of a curiosity, each. though he employs many of them and has been Entered at Lincoln University ‘as second-class here several years. In New England he em- matter.. Subscriptions and communications may be ad- ployed people from Southern Europe, and he dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE,D. D., makes bold to say that his experience here 1328 CHESTNUTST., PHILA.,PA. with black ,me.n has proved to him conclusively or PROF.R. L. STEWART,D.D., that they are better laborers, will do more in LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. PA. a given time, that they bear no malice and are not imbued with that terrihle spirit of vendetta which makes not a little of the labor of South- Words in Behalf of the Black Man by ern Europe something to he feaped. We President Ethelbert D. Warfield, walked about among the Xegroes; they were D.D., LL.D. very well dressed indeed, polite and proud of their fair and the fact that they were alive and - participating. There was a smile, in fact, all Dr. E. D. Warfield, President of Lafayette along the midway quite a genial ripple, for this College, in his most admirable inenlorial ad- writer has many good friends among the blacks dress on Abraham Lincoln, in Witherspoon and thanks God for their friendship. Off went . Hall, Philadelphia, . February Izth, 1909, re- many a hat and there were. bows quite worthy ferred, near the close, to President Lincoln’s of any race, coupled with kind words. Of immortal address. at Fettysburg and to his course, we must have-a bite of barbecue, for allusion to the “new birth of freedom that this there was a -‘pig ‘scorched to a tnrn, with red nation under God shall have,” and then said: pepper set about in charming fashion here and “We may well count it a specific charge to there on the brown carcass, with cornbread LIS to see that the black man, no longer slave which would cure pellagra, and a bowl of very or freedman, but free born and with free born hot ‘sop.’ to be put upon the meat; on a side aspirations, shall share the privileges of this dish being Irish potatoes and onions put. to- great people once more united in prosperity gether in exactly the right proportion. My under the good providence of God. It is for Connecticut friend vowed that Wake County us to see that his ignorance is replaced through barbecue was a prince among dishes.” systematic education, that his passions are sub- Not far from Raleigh is Durham, a city of dued by moral training, that his capacities of 30.000 inhabitants, with a large Negro popula- mind and heart are called into activity by a tion. A movement has heen started to estab- generous sympathy, and that his manhood is lish here the National Religious Training challenged by a helpfulness worthy of the man School and Chautauqua for the colored race.. who gavehis life that this Union might be all Mr. Duke, the tobacco millionaire, is interested free.” in the project, and it is thought will contribute Now this “specific charge,” to which Dr. largely towards it. Wal-lield refers, Lincoln University, the first The President, James E. Shepherd, wants to institution to, bear the honored name of,the give students ,for the ministry, Y. M. C. A. martyr President, has for many years been. workers, and other religious work students, endeavoring to fulfill. the first preference, but others may apply, es- It invites others to share with it the fulfilling pecially those who can pay their own car fare of the charge. With more help, its success and present the best credentials of character must necessarily be greater. It can no more and scholarship, and who propose to remain sustain its work on its fixed charges than can in school long enough to complete a course. colleges for white students. No objection will be made to young men al- Contributions will be most thanlcfully re- ready in, the ministry or other religious work ceived by the Finapcial Secretary, Rev. W. P. to pursue an advanced course. White, D. D., 1338 Chestnut Street, Philadel- Lincoln University draws many students phia, who will also be glad to furnish any in- from North Carolina, and its graduates are formation. desired concerning the University among the most influential .ministers and ,re- and its work. ligioiis workers in the State. .. Some Peculiar Conditions. - business integrity when we speak-of character. ’ The Rev. John .A. Savage, D. D., of Frank- “ITOWto succeed one must study the environ- Iinton, N. C., a graduate of Lincoln University, ment and adapt himself. Some men succeed writes of the above, in The Afro-American, despite conditions. They are the real men. with regard to the Negro’s growth in mate- But not all are blessed with an indomitable rial, religious and mental development. He will. Where can the average man succeed finds that this differs materially among them best ? If he is an average preacher and desires in respect to certain belts or zones. As, for to build LIP a Presbyterian church, he should instance, he says : . put himself where the Calvinistic air pressure “The growth of the Presbyterian Church is is great. rust follow the Isobars. If he de- marked along the lines dividing North and sires an education, he will hid the best schools South Carolina. Beginning at Wilmington and in a certain zone. If he wants to succeed as going along the Seaboard Air Line Railroad a business man, then let him watch the trend to Charlotte and farther west,’ it. is easy to of things in certain localities. There are meet large Negro Presbyterian congregations. places in this State where Negroes can secure The men working in fields north, east and property that in a generation will make its west of the line passing through Raleigh are owner independent. Why not think and try?” put to their wits’ end to secure, hold and mold a Presbyterian constituency. If we consider - a line running north and south through the Lincoln’s Education Christian. capital and dividing the State into east and west, then we cannot but notice that all of The only way to make education Christian the large schools for whites and blacks, both is to teach the Christian religion to the stu- State and denominational schools, are west of dent. This is the natural duty of the parents. the eastern boundary of Raleigh. In this dis- But when the parents are incompetent trict or belt or zone, whatever we may be through ignorance, or are prevented by ,the pleased to call it, we find among the whites a necessity of protracted and exhausting toil, large majority of the mills and manufacturing it is the province and duty of the Church to establishments. The Negro is catching in- lend a helping and a guiding hand. spiration and business tact here, but his op- The heart’ of Lincoln University is the portunity is not so great as that of the eastern Ashniun Church, in which are concentrated Negro, who dwells aniong the masses of his all the ordinances of religion-daily public people. The Negroes’ business possibilities are morning and evening prayers, with reading of much greater in eastern Carolina than. else- the Scriptures ; the midweek lecture ; the Y. .P. where. In that section one would naturally S. C. E.; the Y. M. C. A.; Sabbath preaching . expect large companies and partnerships en- services; the Lord‘s Supper; and the Sabbath gaged in profitable business. Why this is not School, are features of University life. tru’e is due to several things. The rags and , The Bible is taught as one of the courses tags incident to the house of bondage Still cling of study in every class. One professor de- to the modern Negro as well as ‘to his less, votes his whole time to the instruction of the favored forbears. There are localities ’ where students in the Authorized English Version the old master class were honest and confiding of the Bible. It is a part of the duty of every and trustworthy: Tho.se noble white men and professor to exemplify in himself, and to women taught their slaves to observe those teach and enforce upon the intelligence and principles and to-dag the sons of those old conscience of his classes, the principles and slaves are honest and. trustworthy and pros- moralities of the Word of God. In the his- perous. The white people had confidence in tory of Lincoln University, the baptism of each other and the Xegroes had confidence in the Spirit has’ often accompanied .the faithful each other. Eastern Carolina Seems to have teaching and preaching of the Gospel. suffered before the war in many places and The Christian features of the University life ‘ in many ways, and so the masses of Negroes have been strongly manifested in the subse- are distrustful and each one endeavors to push quent .life work of the students. These grati- his way as an independent operator. Baronial fying. and satisfactory results are multiplied life was peculiar to eastern North Carolina all over our country in Christian homes, in one hundred years ago.. .Combinations outside. all departments of business and professional of family ties are almost out of the question life, in. schools of manual and mental industry, among. the whites of that section. The same: in .a. thousand churches and communities is true of the poor Negroes. This defect coulil where they have justified the bounty of God, be remedied if there were more character and and the good-will of their higher friends. 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY.HERALD.

Negro Land Owners. is indeed often austere, and many of her writ- - ings would have done credit to Jonathan Ed- The Negroes in Virginia own 1,464,648acres wards and others of that serious thinking age. of land, and in Georgia they own a tract equal in area to the State of Delaware. Not only -- are the Negroes increasing in number as land Rev. Eugene A. Mitchell, of’ the College class of ICJO~,and late of Big Stone Gap, Va., owners, but they are improving each year in has charge of oiir Presbyterian school and their methods of cultivating the soil. Irn- church work at Little Rock, .4rk. proved methods of cultivation mean increased production, and this means greater prosperity -- and greater independence. “From a philanthropic, a social, a moral and a religious point of view, there is a loud -- call for measures which will elevate the black A Negro Poetess. man, and make him a source of strength and not of weakness in the social fabric.”--. The first of the Negro race, on American Southem Paper. soil, to write poetry, is said to have been PhilIis Wheatley. She was also one of the most re- -- There is neither denominational nor religious markable characters in early American his- test for admission to Lincoln University, but tory. She came to this country, a slave, all students are required to conform strictly about 1760, at the age of only seven or eight, to the laws of morality and of gentlemanly totally ignorant of the language, customs and conduct, as well as to the special rules laid religion of Americans. In less thamten years down by the Faculty. she had so mastered the English language as to be the marvel of literary Boston. As early .at as 1768, when she was certainly not more than “Let us stop trying to make white men out sixteen years of age, she wrote verses in Eng- of the Negroes. God has not done it. Why lish: and in 1773, at the age of about twenty should we? Let us stop asking, what shall years, a volume of her poems was published in we do with them? Let us ask, rather, how England. It is this first edition of her poems may these fellow-citizens achieve their which is now republished by R. R. Wright, destiny? Whatever will help the black inan Jr., the editor of the Christian Recorder. The become the best black man the world ever saw, book contains thirty-nine poems of a religious will help this nation.” and moral nature. -4 reading of these shows that the writer was possessed of a very serious -- Dr. .J. G. Snedecor, writing in the Presby- religious nature, with a strong conviction. as to the reality of life after death. Her poems terian. Standard of North Carolina, says : “Only the reckless and thoughtless spend their time of consolation to persons who had lost their abusing the Negroes for their crimes and dear ones by death are both beautiful and worthlessness. The sober, thoughtful, Chris- pathetic, and give much insight into the real tian people of the South feel that G.od in His tenderness of her nature. The range of her providence has permitted these people to in- reading, as indicated by her poems, was quite crease in our midst in order that they might as broad as that of most young women of our be civilized and evangelized, that through them own day, even those of education. They re- light might he sent lo Africa.” veal intimate and appreciative acquaintance with the classics, and a familiarity with ancient .).- mythology rarely found among the graduates “I have heard some peopIe say that they of our leading colleges and universities to-day. were not willing to educate the Negro be- On the other hand, her frequent reference to cause it will dissatisfy him with his condition, Biblical illcidents and names shows that, in and he will not he a good servant. May .keeping with the customs of her time, she had God grant that‘that discontent may grow and delved deep into the mysteries of the sacred enlarge till it shall occupy every part of him book. Nor had she neglected the study of -soul, mind and body. I would not give a nature, and current politics. Her familiarity fig for a nian who is content with what he is. with the thonghts of liberty-loving Americans If you are satisfied with what you have done is quite explainable by her Boston residence. and do not intend to try to do better, go Her allusions to nature are, however, among higher and accomplish more, you would her most charming lines. Her description is better give up your place to some one else. vivid, stfong and dignified. Miss Wheatley I believe in ,people being satisfied; that is the 1iever descends to the light and frivolous. She object of education.”-’. L. M. Curry, LL.D. I

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VOL. XIV. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., FEBRUARY, 19 IO. No. 2.

Day of Prayer. in the common joys, hopes and aspirations of humanity. The Day of Prayer for Colleges was ob- A letter of regret was read from Justice served at Lincoln University on Thursday, John M. Harlan, of the United States Supreme February Ioth, when the Rev. J. Kinsey Smith, Court, Washington, who had hoped to be pre- D. D., of the Shadyside Presbyterian Church, sent, but was prevented from coming by the Pittsburg, gave two thoughtful and stimulat- severity of the weather. ing addresses. In the evening, speaking on the need of educated Christian leadership, he -- A Letter from Liberia. showed how Germany and Japan have won the ,position they hold to-day by progress in educa- Following are extracts from a letter recently ‘tion. In the evening, the address was on the received from Rev. Harvey G. Knight, of the meaning of the Christian life, and was a call Class of 1905, who is now laboring in Arthing- to self-examination and service. Dr. Smith is ton, Liberia’: the Chairman “I have.. been of the Com- busy ever since mittee of Visi- I arrived; only tation of the one Sunday Synod,. and his have I failed to visit on the Day lift up the en- of Prayer, it is sign of the believed, has cross. Our left a lasting first sermon impression for preached on good. African soi! -* was delivered New Year’s Lincoln Day night in the Celebration. new A. 31. E. churcli at Sier- The celehra- ra Leone. The tion of Lin- seating capacity coln’s Birthday of the church has become an is 800, but there established cus- were easily one tom at Lincoln TEE PRESIDENT’S HOUSE. thousand ’Der- University. The sons in and exercises, held this year on the afternoon and around the building. It was not the large evening of February Izth, consisted of patri- number, however, that appealed to tis, so much otic orations, recitatioi1.s and music by the stu- as the fact that more than ninety per cent. of dents, and an address by the Rev. Dr. Henry those in attendance were Christianized natives. C. lMcCook, of Philadelpliia. Dr. McCook’s 0, Iiow inspiring it was when the choir, com- theme was “Lincoln and Emancipation,” and posed of native boys, assisted by the congre- he showed that the President had to contend gation, sang, “What owest thou?” and the for a time with a large minority-in the North “Gospel bells are ringing.” The bishop, his which favored the cessation of hostilities and wife and myself could not refrain from tears the dropping of the issues of the war, and that of joy when we considered what God has done against this opposition he sustained the Union, for these people. and saw a growing Union sentinlent upon the ‘‘We like Africa, not because it is a beautiful basis of the liberated slave. As contributing country, and a place where the Negro is not to the growth of emancipation senLiment, he humiliated on account of the color of his skin, mentioned the work of women’s anti-slavery but because there is so much to do for God- organizations, the conviction that the Union good fighting to be done all along the line. could be preserved only by emancipation, and We have been working in a double capacity, the feeling, developed by the popular Negro preaching and teaching : ; every day, every Sab- melodies of the period, such as those of hatli, finds LIS busy. The work is very inspir- Stephen C. Foster, of Pennsylvania, that the ing. It is glorious to know that one has been Negro was in the fullest sense a man, sharing sent with good tidings to a people who so .* 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. Lincoln University Herald. ’ A Friend of the Negro. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. - Mr. John McGill, whose death occurred at Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to his home in Philadelphia, January 3oth, was a imparting information concerning it to the friends at warm friend, for many years, of Lincoln Uni- a distance. versity, and attended a number of its Com- Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. mencements and contributed at times to its Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. work. Entered at Lincoln University as second-class He was much interested in the advancement matter. and improvement of the colored people, and Subscriptions and communications may be ad- aided very materially in the establishment of dressed to REV. w. P. WHITE, D. D.. the Bereaii Presbyterian Chnrch in the northern 1328 CI-IESTNUT ST., PHILA., PA. part of Philadelphia. or PKOF.R. L. STEWART,D.D., LINCOLNUNIVERSITY, PA. It was largely through his instrumentality that the Rerean Building Association, con- nected with the church, was organized, and so badly need them. It is inspiring to hear the successfully conducted for a term of years as people tell of the nien and women who came to enable more than a hundred families of here, endured hardness as good soldiers, and colored people to possess their own substantial , finally went down through the ravages of the and comfortable homes. fever. “The Mulenburg Mission is about six miles Since the last issue of the LINCOLNUNIVER- from ours, on the banks of the St. Paul’s SITY HERAJ.II,two $2,500 scholarships have been River. This mission is operated by the Rev. founded in Lincoln University by that well Mr. Beek, of the Lutheran Church, and he known Presbyterian elder and philantliropist, has a splendid lot of workers. These are the Mr. Louis H. Severance, of New York, for- only white nien within twenty-five miles of us. merly of Cleveland, Ohio. They are doing an admirable work there. Many of the missionaries of the Lutheran -- A Man and His Work. Church repose in their little grave yard, hav- ing given their lives for the good of the work; The editor of the LINCOLNUNIVERSITY and yet others step right into their places. I HFRALDfoiind recently among clippings made often think of the things you told us during in years gone by one with the ahove heading. the time we were studying. God is to be It was written by the Rev. Matthew B. Grier, praised for the missionary spirit that is preva- D. D., for the paper of which he was the edi- lent in this age. tor, I‘lte Prssbyierian. We quote the follow- “Attorney Dunbar, who went to school at ing portion of it as interesting to the friends Lincoln, is doing a great work among his peo- of Lincoln University : ple here, and is regarded as the best lawyer in ‘‘In the early youth of ,the writer there was the Liberian Republic. Rev. Mr. Massey is a well known and prominent fanily in the also regarded as a star of the first magnitude southern part of Chester County, by the name at the Liberian College. I saw Rev. Mr. King, of Dickey. Tire do not know much of its his- and he spolte of the old days at Lincoln, and tory or how long the family had been estab- the benign influence those days had upon him. lished there, or what its previous history had Every Lincoln man here is doing something.” been, but the first day we heard the name was Mr. Knight has a picture of the faculty in during- a meeting of the Presbytery of New his study. He says that Liberia greatly needs ‘Castle, held many years ago in the old church more educated men and more capital for the at Brandywine Manor. It was then impressed development of its resources. He has a bright on our youthful mind that the man of all little boy in his school, named Thomas Doeka, others who was a leader in the Presbytery was who could be supported and educated for Dr. Ebenezer Dickey, who was pastor in the twenty-five dollars a pear. early years of the century in the church at Oxford, where, we believe. he had a serious - contest iu his efforts to lead the church from Benevolent friends wishing to aid the Negro one of the seceding bodies into the larger fold through the agency of Lincoln University may of the Presbyterian Chnrch. He was suc- address their contributions or their inquiries cessful, but not entireig so, for to this day to Rev. W. P. White, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.; there is in Oxford a IJnited Presbyterian , or to J. Everton Ramsey, Esq., Treasurer, Church, which is the siiccessor of Chose who Swarthmore, Pa.; or to Rev. Dr. Richard S. in the past generation stood firm against the Holmes, Philadelphia, Pa.; or to the Presiclent, wiles of hymn singers, and the calm judgment Lincoln University, Pa. of the trnsted pastor as well. .. . LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. 3

“Tn the manse where Rev. Dr. Ebenezer ennobling purpose, has beaten them all in the Dickey dwelt for thirty years, a son was born race for immortality. His work will abide who was called John Miller Dickey. He was when theirs has faded out of men’s minds, and a Princeton student, and after a few years’ its fruitfulness will increase as the years pass ministry elsewhere, became the successor of on. When a century is gone, it will still show his father in the pastorate at Oxford. In how wisely he laid foundations, and how finely Chester County, in the day of his early min- those whom he called to his help have built istry, there was a strong anti-slavery feeling, thereon in the years when he has been sleeping which did not rest in feeling, but passed into in the churchyard.” constant action. There were stations on the Underground Railroad in various parts of the -- country. Eastward,’ some miles from his Lincoln Graduates. home, was ‘Longwood,’ and to Longwood came every year orators from New York and New Rev. James M. Roddy, M. D., a native of England, who thundered against wrongs and Wrightsville, Pa., received the degree of A. B. made very strong claims for rights withheld from Lincoln University in 1890. He after- and tyrannies borne. We do not know that wards studied two years in the Theological Dr. Dickey ever rode from his home to hear Department, and then went to Princeton The- any of the noted men and women whose sharp ological Seminary and took the three years’ harangues drew great companies of people to course, graduating in ~835. He was ordained Longwood. But he was already possessed the same year to the Gospel ministry by the with an idea concerning the welfare of the Preshytery of Elizabeth, and for two years Negro race which came at length to dominate served as stated supply of Siloam Church in his life, and direct his thoughts and plans for Elizabeth, N. J. From 1897 to 1906, he was the ycars which remained to him. It came to pastor of Liberty Street Church of Troy, N. him, it is said, as a chance thought at an or- Y., and diiring this time received the degree dination of a missionary to Africa. But it of M. D. from Albany ,Medical College. Dur- secured lodgment in a fertile brain, and it ing the year 1906, he taught at Cotton Plant, grew as he mused upon it. It prompted him Ark. During 1907-08,he was stated supply of to. seek companionship in the practical working Allison Church, T-ittle Rcck, Ark. ; and for the out of the: idea which ruled him. But whether past two years has been the stated supply of with others or alone, he held on to his thought; Zion Church, St. Paul, Minn. he transmuted it into a purpose; he set it defi- Dr. Boddy has heen il student of ethnology, nitely hefore him and worked up to it steadily. especially in reference to the Negro, and has FTis educational efforts for the Negro, always written considerahly for the press on this as with the underlying thought that the Negro well as other subjects. As the result of his might he fitted to evangelize Africa, began with investigations, he claims a Hamitic origin for Ashmun Institute, nearly fifty years ago, with powerful nations not heretofore so regarded,, few scholars and fewer teachers, hut with the including the Japanese as well as the Egypt- invincible thought in the heart of its founder ians. He aims to show that there were “Ne- that lie was establishing a needful institution groes of antiquity helonging to a powerful for the scientific, classical and theological edu- family of peoples;” “that they were the first cation of colored youth. The seed sown in men in the world to institute reIi*-~IOUS wor- weakness has developed into the institution ship. sacrifices and solemn assemblies.” which bears the honored name of Lincoln. His most recent article appears in the Afro- “We are persuaded that any one who knew dme~icaiiPresbyterim, and is on “The Negro Dr. Dickey thoroughly could point out the par- in Authentic History.” In it he claims that ticular traits in his character which passed into Negro soldiers formed an important part of his work, and gave it success. He was ten- the legions with which Julius Czesar conquered acious of purpose, we believe, to an extraordin- Gad and invaded Britain. He confuses, how- ary degree. He held on quietly, but steadily, ever, the ATumidian throwers and slingers of through the dark days which were so numerous Czesar’s cohorts with the Nubians mentioned and so very dark, and did not bate a jot of by Gibbon and Afillman, who were a very heart or hope. Down at Lonagwood they had different people from the Numidians and in- men of fine gifts, who charmed and quickened habited a country distinct and widely sepa- the inultitudes at times gathered there. They rated from Numidia. were eloquent and inspiring, and they were sincere haters of wrong and upholders of right. The Sunday school missionary of Cape Fear Rut they are gone, and no one comes now to Presbytery writes that “Rev. T. T. Branch, awaken the echoes of their splendid oratory. A. AI., of Fayetteville, is making things move The man from the manse, who heard the call down there. He is an ahle and earnest worker, of God in his son1 and gave himself up to an a graduate of Lincoln University (Class of 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. ,.

1go4), and Auburn Seminary. Several days the masses, higher education for the leaders were spent on this field, and in the country. of the Negro race, for their professional men, Dr. J. A. Savage (Class of 1882), Rev. Mr. their clergymen, their physicians, their lawyers Branch and the missionary, organized a mis- and their teachers, will make up a system under sion school. Perhaaps the most encouraging which their improvement, which statistics show part of the little organization for that after- to have been most noteworthy in the last forty noon was the gift of one acre of land by hlr. years, will continue at the same rate.” He Monroe, that the school might have a perma- also spoke strongly, in Augusta, Ga., January nent home. Two hundred and fifty dollars 5th, 1909, in favor of the maintenance of ex- will erect a little building for these anxious cellent universities for the education of Negro minds out there in the country, and we trust ministers, because of the remarkable influence funds will be forthcoming to meet the growing which sucl! men exerted over their people. demands of our new work.” To the same effect, Dr. William T. Harris, -.a late United States Commissioner of Education, declared in a public address that the greatest Lincoln University Education. need 0.f the Negro race to-day is an educated Christian ministry, It is this need that the The education imparted at Lincoln Univer- Theological Department Of Lincoln University sity is both liberal and technical. The aim of is attempting to supply, and its work is com- the course of studies is to cultivate and de- mended by the highest ecclesiastical authorities. velop the whole man, to qualify him for the 2.t practical duties of life, and to dispose him to In accordance with the recommendations of be a helper to his fellow-men. the General Assembly, each applicant for the The Christian features of our University life’ full theological course in Lincoln University . have been strongly manifested in the subse- shall produce evidence that he has good talents, quent life work of our students. These grati- is prudent and discreet, is in full.church com- fying and satisfactory results cannot be exhi- munion, and has had a collegiate course or its bited in an article or in a catalogue. They are equivalent. An English course of three years multiplied all over our country in Christian has been provided €or a few students whose homes, in all departments of business and pro- preparation and time necessitate a more lim- fessional life, in schools of manual and mental ited course. It embraces, also, a few courses industry, in a thousand churches and commu- of study in the Collegiate Department. Any nities where they have justified the bounty of applicant for the English Theological Course, God, and the good-will of benevolent friends. who is less than twenty-five years of age, shall The graduates of Lincoln University have be required to take the College Course. been at the front in the fields both of industrial and higher education, and in all forms of re- -.t Evangelism as a special topic of study has ligious work An honor roll might ’ also be made out of physicians and lawyers and those been introduced into the Theological curricu- in other professions who have risen to posi- lum by the action of the Board of Trustees. tions of honor and usefulness among their All the classes have been invited in the study. people. Tn its more than half centurir of his- The topics which engage the attention of the tory there has been a total of 1,318 students students are : in its Collegiate Department, 826 of whom The Idea of Evangelism as gathered from have received the degree of A. B.; and 476 the. Bible. students in the Theological Department, 260 The technical definition of Evangelism, of whom have received the degree of S. T. B. with each of its constituent elements. The wisdom of the policy of raising up men The Gospel and civilization, as forces for of thorough intellectual training and strong the world‘s betterment. Christian character to be leaders of their race The Gospel alone efficient and sufficient. has been emphasized of late by prominent The Gospel is good news for all peoples and statesmen of the nation. for all men. Said President Roosevelt at the laying of The conditions of the Gospel: Faith, Re- the corner-stone of the colored Y. M. C. A. ceiving Christ, Repentance, The Cure of Sin, Building in Washington, in November, 1908: Obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ. “It is to the great interest of the white people IC- no less than of the colored people that all In the preparation of wills, when it is in- possible educational facilities should be given tended to make bequests to Lincoln University, to the colored people.” care should be taken to use the exact corporate Similarly President-elect William H. Taft name as known and recognized in the courts said in a speech in New York, December 7th, of law, viz.: “Lincoln University,” and to add 1908: “Primary and industrial education for its location-in Chester County, Pennsylvania. ,. Lincoln University’Herald. eaders 1 men, wyers. VOL. XIV. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., MARCH, 1910. No. 3. under show forty The Theological Department. Fernie Ellison, Beaufort, N. C.; Floyd DeLos

He ~~ - Frances. Danville. Va. : Middleton Joel Nelson, 1’ Sumptei, S. c.; and William Woife, Johnson .-4t the opening session of the Theological Seminary, twenty-six students were enrolled in City, Tenn the Junior class. This is the largest number The Rev. William S. Miller, of Hollidays- which has been received at any time in tile burg, Pa., will be present at the examinations history of this school of the prophets. The Or On the day Of Commencement7 as a repre- sentative Of the Committee Of Visitation ap- total enrollment for the year, including the StU- dents advanced to the Middle and Senior pointed by the Synod Of Pennsylvania. classes, was sixty-two, an increase of thirteen The Easter vacation bins“Iarch R. ISth L. S.and over the enrollment of the former year. extends until March 28th. The attendance during the current pear has . -- a been exceptionally regular, there being but little Rev. G. carlile, now .pastor of in the way of sickness Or other hindrances to,. in T~~~,T\T. y., graduated from the interrupt the general course Of prescribed Theologicnl Department of Lincoln University study. in ~902,having spent seven years in the Insti- The Senior class has recently lost one of its tution. 13~was a Ilative of ~\r~~J~~~~~.H~ faithful and highly esteemed members, Albert preaclled and for years in B. Razard, of Kennett SqL1are, Pa., by death. Sollth. There appeared in the T7-oy Recoyd ‘Ie was “‘led away as the Of of February 23d, 1910, a sermon preached by a disease against which he battled hravely in him before the People,s Forum, on the theme, the hope that he might be permitted to serve ~~~:~~~~d~~~~pperiment.>~ the Master, to whom he had given the alle- giance of his heart, a little longer in the work -- of the Gospel ministry. , Distinguished Visitors. The present membership of the Senior class is sixteen. of this number, three are from On Sabbath, Ifarch Igth, Lip-oln University North Carolina, three from South Caroha, was favored with the presence of two &tin- two from Virginia, three from Pennsylvania, wished visitors, wl,o addressed the students at one from Georgia, three from the West India both morning and evening services. One was Islands, and one from Tennessee. the Rev. Samuel A. Martin, D. D., formerly In the Senior class of 1909 were three repre- a professor in the Institution, and one greatly sentatjves of the native Presbyterian Church l,eloved. H~ is now the head of the State of South Africa; and for several years preced- ~~~~~~lSchool at Shippensburg, Pa. ing there have been one or more from this mis- The second was the R~~.John van Ness, sion field in each successrve class. All Of these formerly pastor of the Holmesburg Presbyte- men have returned to their native land, and are rian Church, Philadelphia, and now Secretary now at work in the needy fields of South of the Pennsylvania Bible Society. Both of Africa, to which they have heen cordially Wel- these divines were listened to with much grati- comed. fication by faculty and students. For the first time in several years we do not have the names of any African students on -- the roll of our Theological Seminary, but in Our Work for the Negro. the College classes there are still four young men from Africa with us, three of whom are President King, of Oberlin, in writing upon from Cape Colony. “The Ethics of Jesus,” gives expression to a The examinations in the Theological Depart- very significant thought, which will bear reflec- ment commence on the Irth of April, and con- tion upon. He says: time until the evening of the 15th. “There is a great work we have to do for The Rev. Dr. John B. Laird, of Frankford, these people (the Il’egroes). But has it ever Pa., has heen chosen by the Faculty to preach occurred to you to turn it about the other way? the annual sermon before the graduating class God has given these people to US to teach 31s of the Seminary on the 17th of April. . service, to teach us humility, to teach us broth- The Theological Commencement will take erly love, to bring zcs hack to the foundation place at two P. A#. on the 19th of April. The principles of the Gospel. And the solution of speakers selected to represent the class are: the Negro problem is more important, not for James William Botts, Mt. Sidney, Va. ; George its effect on them, hut for its effect on US.” t j

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2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALP. < Lincoln University Herald. was born; that blood will tell and that heredity is destiny. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. Charlotte Walsingham was a handsome . Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to matron in life’s June, with a bright, handsome imparting information concerning it to the friends at family of two boys and two girls. Her hus- a distance. band was a man of sense, character, public Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. worth; but her parents! Her father was a Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. rogue, a drunkard and a libertine, who had de- Entered at Lincoln University as second-class serted Charlotte’s mother. But, oh, that datter. mother! She became a street walker after her Subscriptions and communications may be ad- husband’s desertion. She was a highly mixed dressed to REV. W. P. \Vi.ri-rE, D. D., blood and very fair; but she had children all 1328 Ci-IEsrxw Sr., PiuI.A., PA. colors ! And Charlotte’s sisters-they walked or PKoF. R. Id. STEWART; D. D., in the ways of their mother. They, too, be- LINCOLN[JNIVERSITY. PA, came notorious street-walkers. Now, people said such a career was what Ignorant Ministers. was to be expected of Charlotte’s sisters, see- ing what their father and mother had been. There are many of these among the colored Moreover, though Charlotte was one of the people of the South, who are utterly incompe- most honored matrons in her community, there tent as instructors, even if possessed of the were those who prophesied that she would necessary piety. A letter was recently received eventually tread in the ways of her mother. from one of these which gives such plain evi- “Blood,” they said, “will tell.” The mother dence of this fact that we here publish it just ran, the davghter is hound to pace. The sins as received, omitting names : of the father shall be “visited upon the children -- , Ala., 2-25-1910. ‘ unto the third and fourth generation,” quoted Rev. Phila. Pa. they. der Sir and Bro i seen one of yur Book and Well, evil prophets uttered their doleful pre- i feld in love With it and Want you to let me dictions and closely watched Charlotte to see No the charges on them and will you Send me her verify these evil prophecies by a life of a coppy of-it as i alii a young preacher and unchastity; but they waited for years and are Need a Book lilc that let me hear from you by still waiting; for Charlotte has not fulfilled the Return mail or Send me one C. 0. D. My their predictions, and at’ this writing gives no ExeSpress office -- , Ala. My St- evidence that she ever will, for she is one of Revre. God’s own. -- Now, the cases of Charlotte and her way- Fight Your Ancestors. ward sisters illustrate perfectly the command- ment just quoted. Those words do not mean BY PROF. YORKE JONES, D. D. that the sins of parerits are visited upon the children, whether or no ; but those words mean (Dr. Yorlce Jones took his full course in that the sins of parents are visited upon Lincoln University, graduating from the Col- the children, if the children walk in the sins lege Department in IS&, and from the Semi- of the parents-those sins are visited upon nary in ISSS. He has for many years been a sinning children “unto the third and fourth professor in Biddle University. The following generations of them that hate Me.’’ But if the article appeared in the Afi*o-Aiiaerica,it, and as children turn from the sins of the parents as evidencing the striking contrast in. ability be- Charlotte shunned the iniquity 0% hers, then tween a preacher educated at Lincoln Univer- those sins are not visited. Just as Charlotte sity and the one whose letter from Alabama was enabled by God’s grace to do right, so by appears ahove, we quote it entire.) the same could her sisters have done right. The way to reform a man, says some one, No, it is not true that we are not responsible is to begin the reform with his great, great, for our conduct when our ancestors were bad. great grandparents. That is to say, that each We can by the grace of God become better than of us, bodily, mentally and spiritually, is the we were bo,rn. True it is. that blood will tell; , resultant of ,all our ancestors. but the grace of God is stronger than blood. Into these time-honored words, “Visiting the The Holy Spirit can give us the victory over iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto our blood, over our ancestors ; and it is the duty the third and fourth generation of them that of each of us to fight against our evil ancestors hate Me”-into these sacred words what mean- and never give up the fight. ing do you read? And here is encouragement to fight not only Now, some say these sacred words teach against our ancestors, but to do battle for our that we are not responsible for how we behave posterity. That encouragement is in these since no one can be any better than he or she time-honored words : “Showing mercy unto I

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thousands of them that love Me and keep My A Lincoln University Graduate in commandments.” Arkansas. . “Thousands” refers to generations. The promise is, that if parents serve God they hand The Rev. Feaster, who left Lincoln down a legacy of blessing that shall extend to W. D. University in after the full seven years’ thousands of generations of their posterity. 1902, course in the College and Seminary, has been Let us not, then, give up the fight against engaged most of the time since in Arkansas, our ancestors and for our posterity. The blood laboring both as a preacher and teacher. He of our ancestor is, indeed, a mighty power; but, wrote us recently from Arkadelphia as follows : thank God, the Holy Spirit is a still mightier power. No matter what you are by nature, “We have been wonderfully encouraged with there is no limit t.o what you may become by the evidences of God’s ,blessing upon our efforts during this present season. The power of the grace. Christ’s first miracle: the turning of water into wine, is His coptinuous wonder Holy Ghost has been clearly demonstrated and work. He, in all the ages, has been performing we have been witnesses of the same. There that first iniracle, the turning of water into were thirty-four to confess Christ as their Sa- wine, the changing of the natural man into viour during the Week of Prayer. Twenty- something newer, nobler ! four of thix number have joined the Presbyte- rian church. This makes thirty-one during this -- ecclesiastical year. Hard Work, But Oood Work. “When we came here three years ago, the church was represented by about a dozen mem- This is what is said in the Asscmbly Herald bers, including the children; now it is repre- of one prepared for his mission in Lincoln : sented by eighty-six members, and many of “Rev. W. H. Mitchell located a few years them permanent families of the city and sur- ago at Allendale, S. C., and after much hard rounding country. There have been added work and patient waiting, has succeeded, gradually to the church year by year such as through the help of the Board and other should be saved, brit this year has witnessed friends, in securing for his work a commodious a greater ingathering than any of the previous school building, and establishing a day school years. All departments of the church are or- aiicl boarding school of considerable influence ganized and in good working order. Our hand- and .power in the community in which it is some church building, which was completed last located. Mr. Mitchell deserves much credit for year, is proving a blessing ’to the work. what he has accomplished in the face of many “We have completed and moved into our discouragements. A recent letter gives some $5,000 school building, and ei~erytliingis mov- idea of the kind of work he is doing. He ing along in a high spirit. It may be of inter- writes as follows : est to you to state that the entire community ‘r ‘This is a hard field and there is a lot of around Arkadelphia seems to be filled with joy hard work to be done. Students are still com- on account of the completion of such an under- ing in from the backwoods rural districts off taking. We have, indeed, an excellent building those large cotton and rice farms, and if you for the money and for such an insignificant were to see some of them you would think bx people as the Negro Presbyterians are supposed their actions and talk that they were from the to be by some-to be able to construct and center of Africa. But these are the kind I am operate the same is to work a miracle before looking for, for when they are properly trained, their eyes. I ani sure our building speaks well although it is hard work, they make far better for us as a denomination. Perhaps some of citizens and more sincere Christians than those our good friends of the North might realize a who are born and. reared in the cities and little of the value or results of their gifts and towns, for I am happy to say they are to a prayers for us if they COLII~drop in our school gyat extent free from, and ignorant of, the and church during these seasons of prosperity. city tricks and vices. Some of the best We are still planning to dedicate the church workers we have in the field to-day were boys April 17tI1, the last day of the session of Pres- of the type to which I have alluded. If you bytery. We are still hoping to have you and will allow ine to say so, we have in our work Dr. Rendall present. some of those once rural district boys who are “Our white friends of this city are raising now our best men. When they are either money with which to supply us with a shop called or appointed to a field, they stay there. of iron and wood work for boys. Our farm of They show by their Christian character and 163 acres affords us ample opportunity for ex- nianhood that they are worthy of the positions perimental farming, also settles the question which they are filling, while we have others concerning fuel, etc. who are always on the niove. So we are la- “I am convinced by some of my experiences boring here to train good nien who will not of &e past few years of what it tales to male he afraid of hard work and are not looking for the Presbyterian Church a success where peo- an easy place.’” ple are‘even hostile toward it. Almost every 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

colored nian you may chance to meet in Ar- propagate their religion, but it is only a ques- kansas is a ‘Raptist or Methodist,’ direct or tion of time. indirect, and if you chance to meet one that “These people are very susceptible to the is neither of these, he is ‘sanctified’ from the Gospel message to-day. Reports from Africa crown of his head to the sole of his feet. I of more than 800 persons coming to the min- ani told by those who have studied tlie make-up ister at Efulen in the last eleven months say- of Arkansas that every fifth man is a preacher. ing that they wanted to be Christians, and of That, I suppose, is a way of saying that. a large more than a hundred a month for six months percentage of the Negro men try to preach. at Elat, and of a still more wonderful relime~IOUS Only one who has tried has any idea how diffi- awakening at Lolodorf show that the Spirit of cult it is to lead such people. A man corning God is working mightily in the hearts of the to a people like this needs more than he would African to-day. likely get in college or seminary. It is a grand “The methods employed by the native Church thing to know and make demonstrations of of sending out their own members, supporting what we know, but we need to learn, if we have them with their money and their prayers, to not learned, that men will not love and follow evangelize the heathen villages about them, us for wliat we know. They did not follow make it comparatively easy to do great things Christ for His knowledge, but sought rather in Africa, .if we have courage to undertake to Id1 Him. But when Ile sympathized with great things. the needy, when He fed the hungry multitude “Eoth men and women are needed for Africa. and healed the diseases of the sick, they were The Church must face not only the question of wonderfully impressed that Iie was the man financing the work, but of giving more gener- they needed. I think that we need to be able, ously of her sons and daughters for the evan- somehow, to impress hostile, self-righteous gelization of these people.” people in like manner. “What we have been able to do at this point, -- I am sure, has gone much further toward im- Says TJze Interior, of Chicago : pressing people that the Presbyterian Church “Rev. Quincy Ewing, of Napoleonville, stands for what they need, than what I have Louisiana, a born-and-bred Southerner who is said.” exhibiting remarkable independence of thought on the Negro question, writes thus concerning -0. the higher education of the colored race in the Missionaries Needed For Africa. South: ‘If the Negro is a.human being, he has as much right as I to everything that is hu- manly uplifting. A denial of the Negro’s es- Rev. W. C. Johnson asks, in the Assembly sential huina~~nessis involved in every argu- Herald, “What Place is the Church Going to ment I have ever seen against his higher edu- Occupy in Africa as it Comes Under the Influ- cation-a denial equivalent to the affirmation ence of the Civilized World?” We quote the that the Negro should not be what he wants to close of his answer : be nor what he is capable of being, but what “Will the Church advance and once more other people, his superiors, find it agreeable to take her place with those at the front, or will themselves for him to be. The untrammeled she be content to remain in the rear? It is education of any subordinate race must be a thirteen years since we have opened a new painfully uphill work until the spirit of true station in Africa. This year we open another democracy becomes dominant among us-until rm miles east of our last station. But this is the mark of true aristocracy among us shall be 200 miles behind where the trader is at work. scorn of the idea that one man is born to serve “Those people can he given the Gospel in the another of a different kind, and love of the same language and with the same methods idea that every man is born to serve every employed where we are now at work. There other of every kind.’ We doubt if there has is no other society at work there. It is Pres- been worked out before quite so felicitous a byterian territory. The question is not whether definition as this last sentence contains of the we are going to do it, but wJzeiz? The people essential difference hetween aristocracy and will continue to wait for us; if we do not get democracy and the essential contrast between I there to see this generation we will find the servitude and service. It is a sentence that de- next still waiting. Waiting! did we say? serves perpetuation in literature.” Yes, they will be waiting, but there is little doubt but that they will be much less suscepti- -- ble to the Gospel message. A fourteen-year-old colored girl was “A few years ago there were no Mohamme- awarded a gold medal, the first prize, at the dans in this section of Africa. Now the Haussa Hoboken, N. J., graduating exercises last week. traders are coming down from the north by She had the highest average among the ten the score. They have done but little as yet to thousand pupils in the public schools, 99 1-3. Lincoln University Herald.. ies- the VOL. XIV. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., APRIL, 1910. No. 4. rica iin- - iay- Theological Cornmendement. son ; “The Conservation of Our Spiritual Re- of I- sources,” by Floyd DeLos Francis ; “Education tths The 1910 Theological Commencement of a Check to Crime,” by Middleton Joel Nelson ; ous I. Lincoln University occurred April 19th. On and “The Man for the Crisis,” by William t of Sunday, the I7th, the Rev. John B. Laird, Wo!fe. The addresses were, as usual, care- the D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, fully thought out and well delivered, and of Frankford, Philadelphia, and a trustee of closely listened to by a large audience. The rch Lincoln University, preached the annual ser- speakers are chosen upon their merits, and this ing mon. On the Saturday evening previous, Dr. year they all happened to come from the South to W. H. Vail, of New York, also a trustee, and to be all Presbyterians, although quite as em, addressed the students and faculty of the in- many of the class belong to other denomina- n gs stitution on the tions. ake subject of Tuber- Before the culosis. graduates were ica. On Tuesday f ore- given their diplo- of noon, the 20t11, the m a s, President ier- Trustees of Rendall addressed an- University lieldthz j: them as they stood meeting, and after before him 011 the a sumptuous lunch- platform. eon had been fur- PRESIDENT’SADDRESS nished the invited ille, TO GRADUATES. guests, the is Com- ght mei:cement exer-’ Y 011n g gentlemen ing cises were held in of tlie graduating tlie Mary Dod class, this is a the Brown Chapel, the grand age in which has exercises being to live. It is char- hu- opened with prayer acterized I:y inten- es- by Rev. John M. sity. Chis ti an ity gu- dU- MacInnis, pastor was never mort‘ ion of the Gaston aggressive, and yet to Church of Phila- never more at- iat delp hia. tacked. Mission- The graduating ary movements to were never nore led class consisted of :a the THEFIRST BUILDING ERECTED FOR LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. oL1t-reacllilig Or -ue young men : James far-reaching. And itil William Botts, Virginia; Matthew Stewart yet it is a cynical age. The charge is fre- Branch, North Carolina; William David Bur- quently heard that the quantity and the quality be I .ve gess, South Caroliria; *James B. Brandon, of the ministry is deteriorating, and their in- i .he Pennsylvania; *Roger George Cannady, North fluence is not as potent as it once was. Carolina; George Fernie Ellison, North Caro- The appeal to the mipistry is neither to lina; Floyd DeLos Francis, Virginia; *Joseph cupidity nor to ambition. I know that most AIwyn Kelso, West Indies; *John Haven Mid- of you are going to fields where your salary dleton, South Carolina ; hlIiddleton Joel Nelson, will be less than the conimon day laborer’s. South Carolina; Allen Newman, Pennsylvania; You will experience what it is to be an ‘‘attic- *John Ernest Robinson, Georgia ; Jonathan guest.” You will run little risk of dyspepsia Fitzherhert Robinson, West Indies ; *Josiah and other ills that come from faring sumptu- Johnston Thomas, West Indies; tCharles ously every day. I have no fear of your Nickles Walker, Pennsylvania ; William Wolfe, catching the “regius morbus” mentioned by Tennessee. Horace, or, in other words, the ills that are The addresses of five of these were as fol- acquired at royal tables. I cannot look ahead lovvs: “A School for Christian Thinkers,” by and see your wives wearing much silk or satin : James William Botts: “The Institutional and with the present tariff on wool your own Church a Necessity,” by George Fernie Elli- suits will have enough cotton soon to make them shine and glisten. Nor can I see honors *English Course. +Special. trooping out to crown you with garlands. . . .., 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

Lincoln University Herald. Brief addresses were tilade by Rev. William S. Miller, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., a member of PUBLISHED MONTHLY. the Visiting Committee of the Synod, and ’ Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to William A. Creditt, D. D., pastor of the First - imparting information concerning it to the friends at Colored Baptist Church of Philadelphia, and a distance. an honored graduate of the ,University. Dr. Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. Creditt is also head of the Dowiiingtown In- Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. dustrial School, which prepares boys for en- Entered at Lincoln University as second-class trance to Lincoln University. matter. The exercises of Commencement were closed Subscriptions and communications may be ad- with the benediction by Rev. H. Alford Boggs, dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE, D. D., pastor of Princeton Church, Philadelphia. 1328 CHESTNUT SI’.,PHILA., PA. or PROF.R. L. STEWART,D.D., -- LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. PA. Modern Africa.

The Lord keep you humble and I have great The Rev. S. A. Martin, D. D., formerly a confidence that your people will keep you poor. professor; in Lincoln University, and later You will see prosperous Lincoln doctors President of Wilson College. at Chambersburg, riding by while you walk. They will own Pa., and now at the head of the State Normal ’ substantial and spacious homes, while you rent School at Shippensburg, Pa., ’recently deliv- out of a meagre salary a scanty cottage. All ered at Liiicoln University and also before the this I know. for I know the terms of the call Presliyterian Ministerial Association of Phila- “to free you from worldly cares and avoca- delphia, an address on the above subject. It tions.” was most interesting and instructive, and we But the appeal to you is to heroism. When regret that the size of our paper forbids the I first came here, tlie minister went forth at giving it in full to our readers. The close of least to almost assured leadership. Now you it was as follows: will be more like your Master, “the servant of “It is high time wc were inquiring what is all.” to be our cor?triliution to the redemption of May I not be charged in this parting word this continent. ’ No other country is so deeply with discouraging and dispiriting those who in debt to Africa. It matters not whether the ought to be heartened and cheered? Nay, spoil, we rarishccl from tliose shores proved verily, the appeal to heroism is to the best that poor investment, nor whether after all God is in man. Christ rislted it when He said, meant it for good to the race which with “Behold, I send you forth as sheep among wicked hands we brought here in chains to wolves.” serve in bondage. That does n,ot relieve us T take off my hat to those who are enlisting of the obligation. The account is open on the in this warfare as I never did before. If I books of God, and in the records of eternal did not know Him who will suffer with you, justice there is entered up a heavy judgment who will walk at your side and cheer you, who due from us to -Africa. will pay you your wages, and who will crown “Moreover, I verily believe that God in His you when the warfare is over, I could not re- long-suffering mercy is just now giving us a joice as I do to-clay. chance to square tlie long account and make The Lord bless you and keep you, and make atonement for our sin. But whether this is His face to shine upon you, and give you His so or not, there is a hand of Africa stretched peace which passes all understanding. out to us which we alone can fill. “On the west coast of Africa there is a little Each member of the class was presented State, not quite so large as Pennsylvania, a with Henry’s Commentary in six volumes by republic, foster child of the United States. a friend in Philadelphia, and with a work on Excepting Aliyssinia-the only part of that “Prevcntable Diseases,” by Dr. William I-I. whole continent that is independent of Euro- Vail, of New York. pean government, Liberia, known vaguely if at The Robert Scott prize of $15 for excellence all to most of us as the relic of a forlorn hope, in the study of the English Bible was given to the melancholy monument of a sentimental Middleton J. Nelson. scheme to make bricks with straw, a silk purse The first prize for the best recitation in of a sow’s ear. Sacred Geography was given to Pinckney E. ‘‘I am not much concerned just now to prove Butler, of the Senior Class; and the second that this impression of Liberia is utterly erro- prize to George Washington Cash. neous and unfair. I think I could convince It was announced that the Board of Trus- you that, all things considered, that feeble folk tees had elected the Rev. William P. Finney, have made a creditable record. But the point of Moorestown, N. J., Professor of Rhetoric I wish to make is that the day of opportunity and English Literature, in the Collegiate De- has come to us-has come as opportunity is parlm ent. ever wont to coiue, in the cry for help: for I . .. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. 3 hold it as a universal truth that ‘the people’s world must be met and answered by a like need is the hero’s opportunity.’ The commis- enthusiastic enterprize. It is the call of our sion recently sent by our government to inquire great Captain. into the condition of affairs in Liberia have ‘He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall reported distinctly on three points. First, Li- never know retreat; beria is in sore need of help. Second, she He is sifting out the hearts of men before His looks to the United States to help her. Third, judgment seat. the United States ought to help her and that Be swift, my soul, to answer Him-be jubilant, right early. my feet.”’ “France on the west and England on the east are crowding the very life out of the poor ‘piccaninny State,’ and will soon wipe it off -- Rev. Dr. I. N. Rendall. the map unless Lrncle Sam comes to the rescue. Let us read a few lines from Mr. George Sale, one of the Commission which have recently re- Rev. Dr. Isaac N. Rendall, Ex-honore Presi- ported to our President: dent of Lincoln University, now in his eighty- fifth year, is on a visit to the Southwest. He “ ‘And so Liberia, the Black Republic of the Dark Continent, looks across the ocean to the was invited to Arkadelphia, Ark., to aid in the rich and powerful neighbor out of which her dedication of a church and school building in national fathers came, after whose government which graduates of Lincoln University are her own is patterned, whose ideals and forms much interested, ,an account of which appeared of thought singularly abide among her people, in our last issue. He also spent a week at Hot asking the aid of that nation’s wisdom and Springs, Ark., and took the famous baths, with experience in the solution of her problems. good effect to his bodily system. He then vis- And the ground of her plea is all contained in ited a brother, three years his senior, at the good bishop’s words, “Mre are here because Shreveport, Louisiana. He returns in time to you sent us here.” ’ attend the General Assembly at Atlantic City, “‘All that is implied in this claim of the to which he was elected a Commissioner 1:y 1:ishop has been fully recognized by the United the Presbytery of Chester. States, notably in the able letter of Mr. Root to President Koosevelt, on the basis of which The Collegiate Commencement. the President asked for the appointment of a conitnission to investigate Liberian conditions This event this year at Lincoln University on the ground. Mr. ‘Root declares ‘that the will be given unusual prominence by the prom- conclusion reached by the State Department is ised presence and address of President Taft. quite clear that Liberia is very much in need The time for it is usually the first Wednesday of assistance, that the United States can help of June. It may he fixed a week earlier this her substantially, and that it is our duty to year to suit the convenience of the President. help her.’ ‘Liberia,’ he says, ‘is an American: If so, the fact will be made known to the pub- colony,’ and he further says, ‘It is unnecessary lic in good time, as also the arrangements for to argue that the duty of the United States the occasion. It is felt by its friends that no toward the unfortunate victims of the slave other institution of its kind in the country is trade was not completely performed by land- more deserving of a visit from the President ing them upon the cpast of Africa, and that of the nation. our nation rests under the highest obligation to assist them so far as they need assistance -- toward the maintenance of free, orderly and ’ Harrison College Burned. . prosperous civilized society.’ “Rut I ,have already detained you too long; The burning recently a second time of one yet, as you see, 1 have only sketched in briefest of the buildings of Harbison College at Ab- outline the story of Africa’s redemption. It beville, S. C., and an attempt to burn the Presi- is a vast and splendid story. But only the pre- dent’s home also, is another outrageous result face and first chapters have been written yet; of the race prejudice shown by certain elenients only a heginning has been made. Ethiopia has in the South. Three Negro men were burned only Ixgun to stretch out her hands to God, in the fire-one from Charlotte, one from but she is stretching them out in haste and the Anderson, and one from Carlisle. Several of people of God must not send them away empty. the ~ students received broken limbs jumping “Fifty years of progress such as the last out of the windows. ten have promised will put large parts of There was no doubt that the fire was of Africa in the front rank of civilized nations incendiary origin. Kerosene oil was found and redeem the whole vast continent from the poured in the front hall and veranda of the reproach of savagery. President’s honie. It is very gratifying to “Meanwhile, the Church must gird herself know that the best citizens held a mass meet- for effort on a scale proportioned to this op- ing and denounced the outrage. Five hundred portunity. This challenge of the business dollars was suLscribed by the town council of .. . -- 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

Abbcville, and $1000 was asked from the gov- Our colored people raised last year $15,000 ernment as a reward for the capture of the more than they did the previous year; 31 guilty party or parties who fired the building. churches became self-supporting, and over 1000 new members joined the Church. - ‘(Many of the Presbyterians of the South- Presbyterians and the Negro. land, migrating to the North and West, are lost to our Church because of the race feeling Rev. J. M. Boddy, of St. Paul, Minn., a in the white churches, and their desire to be graduate of Lincoln University, writes at some with their own race somewhere. Our Church length in the Afro-American. Presby teriua of would thrive in the several Synods North and the “Influence of the Presbyterian Church Wesi of the Potomac River if the Home Mis- Upon the Colored Methodist, Baptist and Epis- sion Committees in our various Presbyteries copal Churches.” He gives the names of many would ‘take up the white man’s burden,’ as prominent leaders in these churches who were Kipling says. educated in Presbyterian schools with Presby- “Let the mission committees in our various terian money, and says: Presbyteries, and all hands together, put our “So that the Presbyterian Church has not shoulders to, the wheel and push the general only helped to build up the numerical strength Church work among the Negroes, the same as of the Negro Methodist and Baptist churches, the white Episcopalians are doing, who in the but our Church money and our Church schools Southland have two or three archdeacons in have helped to give these sister denominations every State organizing churches of from two ministers whose educational qualifications are to six members, to begin with, and the white: second to none, and in many instances far Episcopalians are endeavoring to plant a church above those in the denomination in which they in all populous centres in the North.” serve the Lord ; saying nothing about the business and professional men who are influ- 1L.- ential laymen in these other denominations, The Southerner’s, Race Problem. who have been educated in Presbyterian schools and colleges.” “The race problem,” says the Rev. Quincy Speaking of the loss of many colored Pres- Ewing, a Southerner of Southerners, “is not byterians who come North, he ascribes it to the Negro as an objective burden to civiliza- the lack of interest shown in them by white tion. It is not his economic inefficiency, for Presbyterians. He says : the South wants him as a laborer; nor his “White men as a rule compose the Home excessive criminality, for he is not more crim- Mission Committee in our various Presbyteries inal than whites of corresponding social status : and the Committee on Freedmen in many nor his ignorance, for according to Governor Presbyteries simply consider it their duty to Vardeman, at least, it is the difficult, educated give an ‘annual report,’ while the interest in Negro, not the docile, ignorant one, who is the the oncoming Freedmen lags. Just like many burden. Neither has the Southerner any per- of our ‘chesty’ churches hand over the real sonal aversion to the Negro race.” work of the Church to the Salvation Army or On the other hand, Mr. Ewing asserts the settlement worker, so also do many of our race problem is distinctly subjective. It: Home Mission Committees in our various originates in the white man’s mind, in his Con- Northern and Western Presbyteries hand over victions that the Negro is “not human in the the work that lies hefore them to the colored sense that he is human, not entitled to the ex- Methodist and colored Baptist Churches-any- ercise of human rights in the sense that he is thing to get the responsibility off their hands. entitled to the exercise of them.” It is not “Other influential white Presbyterians will what the Negro man is or is not, but “how to tell you: ‘I see no opening for a colored Pres- keep him what he is in relation to the white byterian work; they will always be a drain on man, how to prevent his achieving or becom- our treasury ; they won’t become self-support- ing what would justify the belief on his part, ing, but always lean over on the whites.’ This or on the part of other people, that he and statement is, likewise, unsophisticated ; because the white man stand on common ground.’’ In the 24,334 members of our colored churches, Southern iisage, then, “bad nigger” means as reported to the Assembly in the last annual not the criminal Negro, but the one who shows Freedmen’s report, raised for all purposes signs of achievement and thus gets out of $143,466.64; while the 5,000 colored Presbyte- focus with the traditional view. rians in the North and West raised last year, “The problem arises only when people of for al! purposes, $41,043. The total number of one race are niincled to adopt and act upon communicants of color in our denomination some policy more or less oppressive and repres- is 31,348. Including the money raised by the sive in dealing with peoples of another race. native Negroes in Corsica, West Africa, the! It is the existence of such a policy, become Negro Presbyterians gave last year $1 1,032.70 traditional and supported by immovakle con- to the Boards. All of the colored churches, viction, which constitutes the race problem of put together, raised a total of $190,355.64. the Southern States.” 00 31 er h- VOL. XIV. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., MAY, 1910. No. 5. re 1g Commencement Exercises. nent, to teach their African brethren the Way be of Life. :h id The exercises of the graduating class will It has been well said that “Such an Institu- be held this year on Saturday afternoon, June tion as this depends, in a peculiar sense, on the S- es 18th. President Taft has promised to be good will of consecrated Christian men and as present. women. National and State appropriations do It is expected that a special train will be not come in these directions. The princely us run from Philadelphia, leaving there a little funds and foundations recently established do ur before noon, not look this a1 and that many way. as will attend. “Lin c o 1 n le The other Univcr s i t y in exercises of does not have Commenc e a wealthy ?O - te ment will oc- body of alum- :h cur the pre- ni to sustain . vious week. her work and enlarge her -- sphere of use- Lincoln fulness. God’s University. peculiar peo- :Y ple, who be- ot The founda- lieve that’ the a- tions of Lin- Gospel is the 3r coln Univer- greatest moral is sity were laid force in the n- before the world, is our S: Civil War, r e I i a nce. 3r when slavery Whether a :d was yet in the race of IO,- ie land. It was ooo,ooo human r- first known as beings within Ashmun Insti- our borders ie tute, and en- shall become It: tered upon its a menace or a n- formal work safety to this ie with four stu- nation, is one K- dents on the of the great is first day of questions star- 3t January, 1857. ing us in the :0 Its first face. :e President was REV. JOHN B. RENDALL,D. D.; President of Lincoln University . “There are 1- Rev. John .nany answers ‘t, Pym Carter. He was succeeded by Rev. John being given to this question. Such institutions d Wynn Martin, D. D. In 1865, after the close as this is the answer of the Church. Instead 11 of the war, the Rev. Isaac N. Rendall, D. D., of fourteen ministers a year going out of her S .became President, and continued as such for doors to the moral wastes of this and other ‘S forty years, being still President ex-honore. lands, fifty would be but a whispered answer If He saw the Institution grow from one pro- to the clamorous need.” fessor to twelve, and from one building to f twenty-two. The four acres of ground have -cI. n grown to one hundred and forty, and the en- In addition to the special Commencement dowment from nothing to half a million. train, the time of which will hereafter be More than 1,700 students have gone from announced, trains leave Broad Street Station, I the College, and more than 600 from the The- Philadelphia, for Lincoln University, at 7. 5 ological. Seminary. Thirty-one of the latter and I I. 04 A.M. Returning leavethe University have gone as niissionaries to the Dark Conti- at 2.15,and 5.17 P. M.

. 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. Lincoln University Herald. ticians think it worth while to count. And the curious thing is that in whatever line a Negro PUBLISHED MONTHLY. inan is at work, there is also a Negro woman. - Devoted to the interests of the Iiistitution, and to The only occupation which the colored women - imparting information concerni:tg it to the friends at have allowed their menfolk to monopolize are a distance. those of the architect, banker and broker, Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. the telegraph and telgphone lineman, the boiler Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents maker, the trunk maker, and the pattern each. Entered at Lincoln University as second-class maker. you can hire a Negro civil engineeress matter. and an electricienne. There are 164 colored Subscriptions and coinniunications may be ad- clergywomen, 262 black actresses, and IO Afro- dressed to RIN. W. P. WHITE,D. D.. American female lawyers. One Negro woman 1328 CIIESTNUT $r., PHILA., PA. works as a roofer, another as a plumber, and or PROF.R. L. SmwARr, D.D., 45 of them are blacksmiths, iron and steel LINCOLNUNIVRRSITY. PA. workers and machinists: Three are wholesale and 860 retail merchants. Otheys are journal- Negro Attainments. ists, literary persons, artists, musicians, gov- ernment officials and practitioners of an infi- A magazine writer has outlined these in the nite variety of skilled and unskilled trades. follawing : “-4 large city could be formed without a -- single white man in it, and yet lack for no The Negro’s Association with the trade or profession. There are 21,268 Negro White. teachers and college prof-essors in the United States, and 15,530 clergymen. The Negroes One of the most striking and interesting could finance a railroad through their 82 things about the ,4merican Negro, and one bankers and brokers; lay it out with their 120 which has impressed itself upon my mind more civil engineers and surveyors ; condemn the and more in the course of the preparation of right of way with their ;a8 lawyers; make the these articles, is the extent to which the black rails with their 12,327 iron and steel workers; man has intertwined his life with that of the build the road with their 545,980 laborers ; people of the white race about him. While construct its telegraph system with their 185 it is trne that hardly any other race of people electricians and their 529 linemen : and operate that has come to this country has remained it with their 55.3’7 railway employees. in certain respects so separate and distinct a “Colored people complain that they have to part of the population as the Negro, it is also sit in the gallery in white theatres, but their true that no race that has come to this coun- 2,043 actors and showmen might give ,them try has so woven its life into the life of the theatres of their own in which they could people about it. No race has shared to a occupy the hoxes in solitary grandeur. They greater extent in the work and activities of the have 52 architects, designers and draftsmen ; original settlers of the country, or has been 236 artists and teachers of- art; 1,734 physi- more closely related to them in interest, in cians and surgeons ; 2r2 dentists ; 210 journal- sympathy, and in sentiment, than the Negro ists; 3,921 musicians and teachers of music; race. and 99 literary and scientific persons. The In fact, there is scarcely any enterprise of colored baby can be introduced into the world any moment that has been undertaken by a by Wegro physicians and i:urses, instructed in member of the white race in which the Negro every accomplishment by Negro teachers, sup- has not had some part. In all the great plied with every requisite of life by Negro pioneer work of clearing forests and preparing merchants, housed by Negro builders, and the way for civilization, the Negro, as I have buried liy a Negro undertaker. tried to point out, has had his part. In all “There are Negro bookkeepers and account- the difficult and dangerous work of explora- ants, clerks and copyists, commercial travellers, tion of the country, the Negro has invariably merchants, salesmen, stenographers and tele- been the faithful companion and helper of the graph operators. Negroes are in every man- white man. ual trade-carpenters, masons, painters, paper Negroes seem to have accompanied nearly hangers, plasterers, plumbers, steam fitters, all the early Spanish explorers. Indeed, it chemical workers, marble cutters, glass has even been conjectured that Negroes came workers, fishermen, bakers, butchers, confec- to America before Columbus, carried hither tioners, millers, shoemakers, turners, watch- by trade winds and ocean currents, coming makers, gold and silver smiths, book binders, from the west coast of Africa. At any rate, engravers, printers, tailors, engineers, photog- one of the early historians, Peter Martyr, raphers, glove makers-everything that statis- mentions “a region in the Darien district of I

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South America where Balboa, the illustrious Preachers’Waated. discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, found a race of black men who were conjectured to have McClelland Presbytery is ‘unfortunate in the come from -4frica and to have been ship- number and character of its vacant churches. wrecked on this coast.” For years this Presbytery has been running It is said that the first ship built along the short of ministers, although one of the best Atlantic coast was constructed by the slaves in the Synod of Atlantic. of Vasquez de Ayllon, who, one hundred years Fully a half dozen of our churches are va- before the English landed there, attempted to cant. Some or most of these churches are found a Spanish settlement on the site of what financially and spiritually good and have good was later Jamestown, Virginia. There were possibilities. The membership is small in thirty Negroes with the Spanish discoverer some instances, but new recruits can be se- Balboa, and they assisted him in building the cured as the result of wise management and ‘ first ship that was constructed on the Pacific spiritual power. There are good, in some cases coast of America. Cortez, the conqueror of new, church buildings on every vacant field. Mexico, had three hundred Negro slaves with We want preachers this spring to take these him in 1522, the year in which he was chosen churches, nieii who are alive and hustling and Captain-General of New Spain, as Mexico was not afraid of work. Our theological schools then called; .and it is ‘asserted that the town will graduate some men and some men may of Santiago del Principe was . founded by desire a change of fields. Let these men write Negro slaves who had risen in insurrection to me at Columbia, S. C., and I feel sure we against their Spanish. masters. . can arrange things all right. Don’t write if Tn the chronicles of the ill-starred Coronado you are looking for Fifth Avenue Church, expedition of 1540, which made its way from New Yorl, or if you despise the day of small Mexico as far north as Kansas and Nebraska, things. If you are converted, a child of God it is mentioned that a Negro slave of Her- and anxious for a place to serve God and His nando de Alarcon was the only inemher of the people, we will be glad to hear from you. party who would undertake to carry a message These vacant churches are anxious for such from the Rio ,Grande across the country to preachers and will pay you all they can and the Zuiiis in Kew Mexico, where Alarcon make you w-elcome. Angels would be glad of hoped to find Coronado and open communica- the opportunity involved in this advertisement tion with him. to preach the Gospel. G. T. DILLARD. Negroes accompanied De Soto on his march . -* through Alabama in 1540. One of these Ne- Let the Academic Sermon be the groes seeins to have liked the country, for he Old reniained and settled among the Indians not Story. far from Tmkegee, and became in this way The Rev. Dr. Yorke Jones, a graduate of the first settler of Alabama. Coming down to Lincoln University, and a professor in Biddle a ‘later date; a Negro servant accompanied University, in the following, taken froin the W-illiam Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expe- Afro-American Presbyterian, gives some ad- dition, which in ‘1804 explored the sources of vice which may be wisely heeded by white as the Missouri River and.gained for the United well as colored preachers: States the Oregon . country. Negroes ,were “Have you noticed how the academic ser- a,rnong the first’adventurers-who went to look * for gold in California; and.when,John C. Fre- mon is often not worth two cents, because the preacher. seeks to be tremendously learned- moi’t,. in 1848, made. his desperate and disas: dealing in technicalities? It is very unwise trous attempt to find a. pathway across the to make a sermon to a school a means of, Rockies, he was accompanied by a Negro ser- showing off one’s learning. Why? For three vant named Saunders. reasons. Matthew Henson, a Negro, accompanied “It is unwise to make an academic sermon Peary in his famous expeditions in search of a means of exhibiting one’s learning, because the North Pole, and was his companion on his to show off is small, puerile business in any last and successful journey.-Booker Wash- T. sort address or on any occasion, and to iiigton, ift The Outlook. of do this before young people (and there are no -- keener critics than students) is to discredit Says the dfro-American Presbyterilan: “One oneself as being vainglorious. If some of the greatest disgraces that the Negro race preachers that try to show how learned they has tied to it nowadays is the brute Jack are could only hear students’ criticisms, such Johnson, who has no control of his appetites ministers would see how far wide of the mark and passions. No less a brute, however, is they go in attempting to impress young nien that other fellow, Jeffries.” and women with their (the preachers’) trc- _. 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY‘ HERALD. I. ’.., ;

mendous, awful, profound learning! To make Americanizing the South. a display of what one knows is to lower one- - self in the estimation of young people. €I. Paul Douglas, in his Galuable work on “Then, too, to attempt to make the academic ‘(Christian Reconstruction in the South,” says sermon erudite and technical is unwise, be- that “in admitting that the Americanizing of cause so to do is to talk shop-to discuss what the South is primarily the Southerner’s p,rob- the young people toil over daily in the class lem, one must not forget the Southerner most room; consequently they do not want to hear deeply concerned, namely, the Negro himself. that. Such a discourse is. too much like what The ‘rise of this unprivileged race to bring engages their attention every day. salvation with its own arm is an unparalleled “Added to the two foregoing, is a third phenomenon. Beyond all its helpers, it has reason why it is a mistake to try to make the helped itself. It has expended nearly ten mil- academic sermon tremendously Iearned, and lion dollars for education, besides its share of that is, that unless the preacher is an expert, taxation. It has multiplied schools almost be- usually the students know more than he does yond number. The result in many details about the scientific, philosophical or literary show great crudity and inexperience, though truck with which he hopes to dazzle them; in inadequacy and wastefulness the educa- the consequence is, that many a preacher has tional policy of the Negro churches is scarcely made himself a fool by talking with a smat- worse than that of sectarian education tering of knowledge about something that his throughout the country at large. They have hearers know better than he does. simply been imitating their supposed superiors. “No, brother; the next time you are invited Both in bulk and in worthy accomplishment, to preach before an institution of learning, the Negro’s successes in elevating himself rise whether in term time or at commencement to colossal dimensions. If the South is to be time, you get your Bible and get out of it a praised for rapid progress in public education, helpful, Gospel message ; then deliver that how much more the N.egro for the zeal which message with all the force and simplicity with has built his hundreds of schools! In the which you can. division of labor between co-operating forces, “If you will get a helpful, Gospel message, he bears not the least honorable and responsi- and, with a heart full of love for souls, deliver ble part.” it in sincerity and simplicity, your visit to that institution of learning will be a benediction - to both pupils and teachers. But if you go Negro Population. there to show off, you will succeed in doing (Based on U. S. Census of 1900 ) so ; you will succeed in showing that you have not as much sense as you ought to have, and Alabama ...... 961,236 that the school has thrown away money in Arkansas ...... 418,813 paying your fare to get off that ashy, fruitless Delaware .. ”...... 32,774 discourse.” District of Columbia...... 96,613 Florida ...... 288,455 *+ Georgia ...... 1,1ga,5gg Kentucky ...... 2991663 Mission Work Among Negroes. Louisiana ...... 733,161 -- Maryland ...... 252,440 The Presbyterian Churcsh reports the fol- Mississippi ...... 1,056,008 lowing statistics in connection with the work Missouri ...... 171,105 it carries on among Negroes through its North Carolina ...... 681,345 Board, which does not include colored South Carolina ...... 866,338 churches in Northern States : Oklahoma ...... 86,407 Three Colored Synods-including sixteen Tennessee ...... 524,956 Colored Presbyteries-243 ministers, 399 Texas ...... 740,255 churches, 24,324 communicants, 371 Sabbath Virginia ...... 683,528 schools, 23,323 scholars. West Virginia ...... 53,080 $67,670 raised on the field last year by the All other States...... 916,013 colored people for the support of their own churches-average, $168 for each church; Total ...... 10,054,7& average from Freedmen’s Board to ministers under its care, $20 per month, or $240 per “There are three --Negroes in the Cabinet of year. the President of the Cuban Republic. The Added to the churches last year on confes- course of these three men and that of the sion, 1,879 new members. Negroes generally will be watched with in- Colored churches gave to the Freedmen’s terest by their friends in the United States.” Board, $1,039.52 ; to the other Boards, $2,342.95. -Selected. Lincoln University Herald.

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introdaced by President Rendall. They were as fo!lows : Latin Salutatory, Clarence Augus- tus Brown, of Pennsylvania; “The Effaced Im- age,” Augustus Eugene Bennett, Georgia ; “Condition and Needs of South America,” Hampton Bennett Hawes, Georgia ; Valedic- tory, David Miller Scott, Georgia. Excellent music mas furnished by a band and by the University Glee Club. The following prizes were announced : Obdyke Prize Debate awarded to the Phil- osophian Society. Their debating team com- posed of David Miller Scott, Theophilus Nicholls, Aiken Augustus Pope. The medal for the best individual debater to Theophilus Nicholls. The Junior Orator Contest medals awarded : First, to Alexander Dennee Bibb; second, to Aiken Augustus Pope. The Bradley Medal in Natural Science awarded to David Miller Scott. The Class of ’99 Prize in English awarded to Louis S. Brock Lemus. The degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon Matthew S. Branch, Allen Newman, James S. Botts, George F. Ellison. The de- HON.WILLIAM €1. ‘L‘AFT, gree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred President of the United States. upon Prof. Thomas A. Long, of Biddle Courfesy of Public Ledger. University. Collegiate Commencement. An enthusiastic welcome was given President Taft and those who accompanied him upon Visit of President Taft their arrival by the audience, and the band played “My country, ’tis of thee.” Part of the exercises of Commencement The first thing that followed was the grant- were held at the usual time, but in order to ing of diplomas to the graduating class. They suit the convenience of the President of the were handed to each of the twenty-eight rnem- United States, who had promised to pay the bers by President Taft as they passed beforc University a visit, the graduating exercises of him They were as follows: the Class of 1910 were fixed for Saturday Veo Beck, Texas ; Augustus Eugene Bennett, afternoon, June 18th. Georgia ; Samuel Timothy Berry, Alabama : In order to accommodate the numbers who Harry G. Bragg, Maryland ; Clarence ALI~US- were expected to he present, it was decided to tus Brown, Pennsylvania ; Henry Cashen Col- hold them in the open air. A platform was lins, California; Gordon Sprigg Dana, Africa ; accordingly erected in front of the Vail Memo- Reid Sumner Gibson, New Jersey ; William rial Library, and seats constructed 011 the Henry Glover, South Carolina ; Terry Mitchell campus, sloping to the south, capable of ac- Hart, Georgia ; Hanipton Bennett Hawes, commodating between three and four thou- Georgia ; John Benjamin Isaacs, British sand. The front of the Library was decorated Guiana ; William Randolph Jones, Pennsyl- with flags and bunting, and an oil portrait of vania ; Louis S. Brock Lemus. Virginia; Wil- Abraham Lincoln. The colors, orange and liam McCloud, South Carolina ; Herbert Ed- blue, and a row of ferns, fringed the platform. ward Millen, Pennsylvania ; Edward Imbrie The exercises were begun with prayer by one Miller, Pennsylvania ; Alonzo Bond Persley. of the Trustees, Rev. William A. Holliday, Georgia ; Josiah Eniannel Peterkin, West In- D. D. dies ; Walter Roscoe Pettiford, Alabama : The members of the graduating class se- Emile Edgar Raven, West Indies ; George Ed- lected to deliver the honorary’ orations were ward Sanders, North Carolina ; David Miller 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

Lincoln University Herald. Mr. Butler spoke as follows: “My spirit moves me to say only this, that PUBLISHED MONTHLY. I will appreciate the friendship which we have Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to had uninterrupted all these years, if you will imparting information concerning it to the friends at not ask me to say anything. The President a distance. of the United States has graced us with his Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. presence on this occasion. I know, in.a small Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. way, of the labors he has to perform being Entered at Lincoln University as second-class great and mighty. The demands made upon . matter. him every day and all night, make the compli- subscriptions and communications niay be ad- meiit to us the greater that he came to Lincoln dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE, D. D., to-day.” 1328 CHESTNUT ST., PHILA., PA. Governor Stuart said : or PKOF.R. L. STEWART, D.D., ‘‘My friends, I am just here as a guest of LINCOLNUNIVRRSITY. PA, Dr. Rendall. It has been a great honor to accompany the President on his trip to this Scott, Georgia ; Isaac Edward Showell, New place. I cannot say anything to welcome him Jersey ; Frederick Grant Slade, Pennsylvania ; to Pennsylvania, for he is welcome here at all I-Tarry Daniel Tunnell, Delaware ; Charles John times. If you had been with us since we‘left Herbert Walker, Virginia ; George Roscoe Philadelphia, and seen the reception that the Whitfield, North Carolina. people of Pennsylvania gave him upon the hills and the mountains, you would agree with me PRESTDENTRENDALL’S ADDRESS. that that is 2. greater tribute than any other. President Rendall, in ii?troducing President I am glad to be here to welcome him to Penn- Taft, said: sylvania, not only as a President, but as a “Lincoln Vniversity considers herself un- man.” usually fortunate to-day in having with us the President Rendall then introduced President most distinguished and honored citizen of our Taft with these words: “It is the pleasure of land. We all k~io~how the cares and burdens my life to introduce our honored Chief Execu- and hopes of the nation are pressed down on tive to this audience at Lincoln University.” his broad shoulders. And he always carries them with a smile. Arid the world loves the PRESIDENT TAFT’SADDRESS. man who cm smds and at the same time work. “My friends, after what you have heard, do I douht whether in the Iiistor~of this country yoii wonder that I came? The day has been there ever has been a period when life has full of pleasure. I have had the honor of ac- been as intense, when the world, and especially companying the Governor of Pennsylvania and the new world, has been as restless; and it is the Representative of this district in Congress, an occasion for profound gratitude that God and I have seen the most beautiful part of has given us a man with calmness to lead in near!y the most beautiful State, and certainly the van and prevent po’ssible excess to which the best Governor and Congressman. I thank all kinds of enthusiasm may sometimes lead Dr. Rendall for giving me the opportunity of us. The welcome must be very brief, and I speaking here. I do not have much opportu- want to unite with Lincoln University in giv- nity to speak, and I am criticized for saying ing this welcome to a man to whom I acknowl- what I do. But, nevertheless, this is an occa- edge my obligation this day for his tact and sion ilia! awakens the interest of every lover his earnestness, Coiigressman Butler. N,ow he of !,is country, and of every man who has is a Quaker. and a Quaker is supposed to have studied the problems that we have to solve in a quiet spirit, but I do not know of any man this country. This institution stands as one of with more energy than Congressman Butler. the hest euemplars of the hi,yIier education of He is the hardest man for any one to say ‘No’ the Yegro. We have in this country a race to, if he asks a favor (I don’t know but what problem, presented in a little different form our President can testify to that) ; and he is from that in which it has been encountered in the easiest man to say ‘Yes’ when you go to any other country in the world. Four million him and ask for anything, and I don’t know slaves freed forty years ago have developed any man who will work harder to accomplish into ten million citizens, most of them living the ‘Yes.’ We are all proud of our Congress- in that section of the country where their an- man, who so well represents this district. I cestors were in bondage. When the statistics want him to add a word of welcome, and 1 are examined, it will be found that the progress want also our good Governor to add his word they have made in that forty years in educa- of welcome. He is the best Governor of the tion, in economic development, and in prosper- best State in the Union ! And 1 want him to ity, ought to he the marvel of historians and add a word of welconie for the whole State.” students of history. The problem has not been I

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solved as yet; but I believe with those who was the best education for the colored man as look at it with a proper optimism, that it is in he was found after the war, and for the In- the process of successful solution. dian, that led General Armstrong to adopt the “In the first place, these four million slaves system of industrial education that is spread- were, all but five per cent. of them, absolutely ing all over this country, and will be furnished illiterate. To-day the illiteracy is less than ta both whites and blacks. In the third place, fifty per cent. And I think that the census will the Negroes and whites, while they live to- show that it is less than forty-five per cent. of gether, do not amalgamate, and it is not neces- those of educational .age. It will also be seen sary that they should. They conduct theni- in the statistics that the colored men have gath- selves independently as a people, and if they ered to them property, through the Southern are to live independently as a people, they must States, where they are in great numbers, and have their leaders among them, as every other that a large part of the agriculture of the people have. They must have their physicians, Southern States is carried on by Negroes, and their lawyers, their teachers and their clergy- is being carried on from year to year with nwn, in order that they shall have the benefit greater success and profit. The problem is to of having leaders as well prepared to meet the carry on this work of progress in such a way responsibility of leadership as every other race. that. the illiteracy shall be reduced to nothing, And if you would have suitable leaders, you and that the kcnowledge of the industries in must give those leaders the best education, not which they are to be engaged shall be imparted only professional, but also academic, on which in the best may known to the modern science to found the professional. of pedagogy, by the system of industrial edu- “I am glad to come here, and to an institu- cation for the great mass of the Kegroes, as tion like this, to testify to my interest as Presi- it is best adapted for the great mass of the dent of the United States, in an educational white people. institute that is doing God’s work in that re- “Severe criticisin has been made in times gard. It has fallen to my lot to give a good past (I think it is growing less), as to the use- dea! of attention to the education of the Ne- lessness of spending large sums of -money on gro. I am a member of the Board of Trustees thc higher education of the Negro, when what of Haniptoil Institnte, of the Jeanes Trust ought to be done should be directed toward Fund, created by a noble, charitable woman, a the primary, secondary and industrial educa- Hicksite Quaker, of Philadelphia, for the pur- tioii of the race. I agree that we ought not pose of making better the rural, primary edu- to educate all the Negroes with a university cation of the Xegroes in the South. I have education. I am willing to grant that premise. had the honor of being at Tuskegee, and seeing But I would like to add, what prospect is there that tremendons work of the greatest Negro for our ever doing so? How much capital is of the century, Roolcer T. Washington. And I now invested in the plant for the university know from the spirit that is in all these insti- education of tlie Negro as compared with the tutions, that it is work of a permanent, thor- nuinher of Negroes in this country? Add UP ough character. And it is working out the the hundreds of thousands of dollars and find race problem in a legitimate, logical way, by how small, how pitifully small, is.the total of preparing the Negro to meet his responsibilities the capital invested in that kind of education, as leader or follower, as agriculturalist ‘or as compared with the total number of the race. mechanic, as the clergyman who will lead his There is na need that economic students should fellows, as the physician who will teach them be sitting up at night. worrying about giving the hygiene of life, or as tlie teacher who shall the Negro too muc!i university education. sprcad education through the Negro ranks. ‘Wre are told that it is impossible for two “My friends. I have said more than: I ought races to live together, get along well and pros- to say. I didn’t come here to make a speech, per, and that in some way we have to get rid hit to respond to the spirit as if I were a of the Negro and get along with the whites Quaker. T have responded. The advantage only. MTe11, there are a number of answers of Quaker nieeting, which those of us who do to that proposition. First, we have been living not !xlong rarely appreciate, is that when the with the Negro for more than a hundred years ; spirit stops, you sit down. I have been for more than forty years lie has been in free- through the district of Member Butler. The dom, and we have got along fairly well. evidences of prosperity of the good people Secondly, we are getting along better each de- who live here, whom he represents, have been cade than in the previoas one with the race so many to-day, that I understand what a good problem. The education Hampton gives to her inan lie is. I can see how his constituency has gradiiatcs has furnished a lesson, not otily for made him. Ke says, and it is true, that there Negro education, hut bas led the way to the isn’t an office-scelcer in his entire constituency adoption of the best industrial education for of two hundred thousand people. He says the whites. It was in the desire to learn what that his postmasters live until they die in office.

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Ne came into my office the day after the inau- with a hearty reception. The number in at- guration, and szid that he was going to stand tendance was variously estimated from 1,500 by me to the end (and he didn’t know then how to 2,500, hut the former figure is probably . much that might mean). He said he would nearest correct. Two brass bands were pre- never ask me for an office, and he has kept sent-the Reading and West Chester-which his word. I don’t wonder, when I see these furnished music suitable for the occasion. good men and women here, that when they get one in office they keep him until he dies. -- Letter from South America. I hope you will keep your Congressman until he dies, and he gives every evidence of living INTABETEMBA,ALICE,April 20th, 1910. a long life.” REV. J. B. RENDALL,D. D., The exercises mere closed with the benedic- Lincoln University, Pa. tion by the Rev. Dr. J. W. Rolley, of Albany, Dear DY.Rendnl1:-It is with the greatest Ga., a graduate of the University; and then pleasure that I convey to you, as Principal of followed a private reception to the President Lincoln University, the thankfulness of our at the residence of the Rev. Dr. Rendall. people and gratitude for educating our African Arnong others of distinction present at the students. They have returned ta us a great afternoon exercises were Chief Justice Fell success. Six of them are ministers. The fol- and Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia. lowing are with us, and have charge of con- -- gregations and have opportunities of preaching Forty Ago. to the heathen : T. C. Katiya in Johannesburg: Years L. N. Mzimba in Tyumie in the District of Alice; Nxiweni at CaIa Tembuland; H. Forty years ago a body of prominent states- J. W. Mantanga at Tumbu Grigwaland Er-st ; and S. . men came up from Washington and attended the commencement exercises of Lincoln Uni- T. Mantanga at Tsomo Fingoland. We have versity. I-Ton. Washington Townsend, of been so much encouraged that we desire to Cljester County, accompanied them. The fol- send another group, and I would be very glad to know if they would be received as the others I(wing account of it appeared in the Oxford were. Prcss of June md, 1870: We would not trouble you were there a col- COMMENCEMENTAT LINCOLN UNIVERSITY. lege for natives of Africa in South Africa. The commencement exercises of this insti- At present it seems yery difficult, or even im- tution took place on Wednesday of last week, possible, to try a school of our own. Our and passed off to the satisfaction of all present. people have an idea that a school which is in- The graduates acquitted themselves very credit- dependent from the white man is not worth ably, reflecting much credit on the faculty and the name of a school. It can give no educa- those having charge of the University. After tion. This is because our schools have always the graduating exercises were concluded, the been supervised by white men, and this has visitors from Washington were introduced, been preached to them from childhood. I amongst whom were the fallowing gentlemen : speak this knowing that it has been tried sev- Senator John Scott, Pa, ; Representatives John eral times, and is even now at a place called Covode and C. W. Gilfillan, Pa. ; G. Vir. Whit- Sheshegu. These efforts are not very prom- more, Texas; W. F. Prosser, Tennessee; W. ising. People are not inclined to support them Townsend, Pa. ; First Assistant Postniaster- with money and children. Still, we look for- General John W. hfarshall; Gen. John S. ward with hope, for success is much sweeter Eaton, U. S. Superintendent of Education ; J. through difficulties and opposition. R. Garrison, Educational Bureau; 0. 0. Remeinher us in your missionary prayers Howard, President of Howard University ; and services, for it is still midnight, though John M. Langston, Law Professor; Joseph . the dawn of day approaches. Add Thomson, of the Consular Bureau; Wil- With hope and sincerity yours, liam J. Wilson, Cashier of the Freedmen’s P. J, MZIMBA. Raiik, and Colonel Richards, U. S. A. The writer of the above letter was the one €Ion. Washington Townsend made a brief who brought the former native Africans to this speech, and thcn introduced Senator Scott, country and to Lincoln University to be edu- General Eaton, General Howard, Professor cated. He is the foiinder of the Native Pres- Langston, and Honorable M. Prosser, to each byterian Church in South Africa. Fifteen of whom he gavefive minutes in which to make years ago the Presbytery of Kaffraria was their speeches,. reinarking that this rule was a organized. To-day it has 13,335 menibers, over powerful condenser-at least it had been found 30,000 adherents, 37 ordained ministers, and 42 SO in the halls of Congress. The speeches, in churches. This is entirely native work and obedience to the order of Mr. Townsend, were scli-sust+iing. The memliers are ZU~US,Kaf- necessarily short, but to the point, and met firs, Becliuanas and Fingoes. Opening of Fifty-sixth Year.

The entrance examinations for the Uni- versity took place on September zIst and 2zd, and quite a large number of students were admitted to the Freshman Class of the College and the Junior Class of the Theo- logical Department. Others are arriving, and still others expected, at this writing. The University grounds present an attrac- tive appearance, and the faculty look forward to a successful year. The new pipe organ secured for the chapel, through the kindness of friends and Mr. Carnegie's generosity, is being constructed by C. S. Haskell, of Philadelphia. Having waited for some time on account of lack of funds to introduce the electric dynamos and other accessories to the steam heating plant, so as to provide electric light for the grounds and buildings, it was resolved to wait no Ipnger. Hence it is expected that modern and greatly superior illumination will soon be enjoyed by the University. Several gen- erous contributions toward the expense were m8de by friends, but there is still needed about $3,000 to cover it. Appeal is hereby made for this to the readers of the HERALD and all those who would help our work along. *- Report of Lincoln University to the General Assembly.

This is made each year by the President. In addition to facts given concerning the faculty, the graduates, finances, needs, etc., two observations were made under the head of general remarks. They were as follows: I. The call to the ministry. Since the days of Emancipation there has been no dearth in the Negro ministry 'such as there is now. We have repeated it over and over, that nine-tenths of their ministers are unfitted to be real leaders and guides. They can scarcely read intelligently, and their moral standards are low. The Southern white Baptists have just held their annual meeting in Baltimore, and the Northern Baptists sent a committee to confer with their Southern brethren, es- pecially as to how they can co-operate in the better training of the Negro Baptist ministry, asserting that 9,000 out of the 10,000 Negro Baptist ministers are deplorably unfit to be the religious leaders and teachers. Perhaps no other Theological Seminary has turned a stronger or steadier stream of the best edu- cated and most consecrated wen into the ministry than ours. We press for the man that has had the preceding college training, especially with Presbyterians, and the large 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALP. Lincoln University Herald. to it before it was so well and widely known. . It is a great gratification to enjoy Mrs. 1, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. Turner’s continued interest and share in her Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to generous beneficence. imparting information concerniag it to the friends at a distance. -- Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. Lincoln Graduates in the South. Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. One has but to look over successive issues Entered at Lincoln University as second-class of the Afro-Aiite~icaiz,of Charlotte, N. C.,. matter. which is the leading Presbyterian weekly of Subscriptions and communications may be ad- the colored people of the South, to learn of dressed to REV.W. P. WHI’rx, D. D.. 1328 CHESTNUT ST., PHILA., PA. the prominence and usefulness of the gradu- or PROF. R. L. STEWART, D.D., ates of Lincoln University. Recently the LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. PA. first and leading article of an issue of the paper was by the Rev. R. Mayers, D. D., of upon the campus at Lincoln, finishing college Knoxville, Tenn., of the Class of ‘93. Its theme was, “Miracle and Prophecy Com- at 15 and the Seminary at 22. He died at the early age of 25. pared.” The second -article was on “Keep- ing of the Sabbath Day,” by Rev. R. H. Arm- -- strong, D. D., of Germantown, Pa., of the Mark Twain and the Negro. Class of ’80. Another article on “Thou Hast c_ Left Thy First Love,” was by Prof. Yorke W. D. Howells, in “My Memories of Mark Jones, D. D., Professor of Theology, in Bid- Twain,” in Ha@ei’s Magazine, says : “He dle University, of the Class of ’85. In an-. held himself responsible for the wrong, which other article account was given of the work I the white race had done the black race in of Rev. C. H. Uggams, of Ferguson, S. C., slavery (he was a Southern man), and he of the Class of ’go. The writer says: . explained, in paying the way of a Negro stu- “Ferguson is a large lumber mill settle- dent through Yale, that he was doing it as ment on the Santee River, about midway be- his part of the reparation due from every tween the cities of Columbia and Georgetown, white to every black man. He said he had and contains 1,500 people, most of whom are never seen this student nor wished to see Negroes. In the colored settlement the com- him or know his name; it mas enough that pany has built a beautiful church-unsurpassed he was a Negro. by any in the section-which has a seating About that time a colored cadet was ex- capacity for 500 persons. It is sad to say, pelled from West Point for some point of however, that notwithstanding the vast num- conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentle- ber of people about here, only a few, com- man, and there was the usual shabby philos- paratively, attend the church. The highest ophy in a portion of the press to the effect ambition seems to be gambling, drunkenness that a Negro could never feel the claim of and adulterous living. There is ample need honor. The man was fifteen parts white, but, for five active missionaries. Ignorance and “Ah, yes,” Clemens said, with bitter irony, superstition here are as befogging as any “it was that one part black that undid him; Egyptian darkness. it made him a ‘nigger’ and incapable of be- “But in the midst of thi.s barbarous and un- ing a gentleman. It was to blame for the godly people I find a very good, strong and whole thing. The fifteen parts white were capable man-Rev. C. H. Uggams, with his guiltless.” family-sending out beams of Christian light and intelligence in the unselfish interest of - humanity. Though he is struggling hard Lincoln University Losses. with indefatigable zeal and accomplishing T,he Institution is continually losing, by much good, he is in sore need of assistance. death, the friends who have stood by it and The hard sacrifice he and his family are encouraged it for many years. The past year forced to make will soon exhaust his physical its loss has been unusually heavy. Mr. John force. The people, happily, are beginning to H. Converse had long been a,generous con- recognize and appreciate in him a leadership second to none, for its exemplary Christian tributor. Rev. Dr. S. W. Dana, of Phila- ,. delphia, had been a trustee for 36 years and life, its willingness to suffer with and for had secured, during all that time, offerings them and its patience to teach. No night is for it from the Walnut Street Presby- too dark, no camp too unclean, and no gam- terian Church, of which he was the pastor. bler’s retreat too fierce for this man of God The Rev. Charles A. Dickey, D. D., was also to leave his loving home on errands of duty for a time a trustee, and Dr. Charles F. to minister to the sick, to advocate peace or to Turner, an elder in the Arch Street Presby- enforce good order. He also enjoys the re- terian Church, of Philadelphia, was also an spect and esteem of the whites.” old friend of the University, and contributed The friends of Mr. Uggams will deeply I

.. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. 3 a. sympathize with him in the death, the past gone back into barbarism, but if he would rs. 1, summer, of an accomplished and beloved go to the sugar-cane regions of Louisiana he er daughter, 16 years of age. would find the condieions among the Negroes Another item spoke of the strenuous efforts as bad as in any other part of the United being put forth to build a ‘church at Mt. States. He went to Louisiana, and again he Tabor, Tenn., by Rev. D. S. Collier, of the found, not barbarism, but progress. There Class of ’95. he was told that he would find what he was In’ another issue of the paper allusion is looking for in the Yazoo Delta of the Mis- -es made to a layman who graduated from the sissippi. In Mississippi he was told that if d.,‘ College Department in the Class of ’84, Sam- he went into Arkansas he would not be dis- of uel H. Vick, of Wilson, N. C., who has ac- appointed. He went to Arkansas, but there, of quired considerable wealth. He was formerly also, he found the colored people engaged U- postmaster of Wilson. He owns 108. houses in buying land, building churches and schools, he in Wilson of an assessed valuation of and trying to improve themselves. After he $3OOJO. that he came to the conclusion that the Negro of He also owns 71 acres of land just out- was not relapsing into barbarism. .tS side the town limits, valued at $5,000, and “The Negro is making progress at the pres- n- also owns property in Raleigh, Charlotte, ent time as he made progress in slavery P- Goldsboro and Rocky Mount. In addition times. There is, however, this difference: In n- Mr. Vick and George H. White, who sent slavery the progress of the Negro was a he two sons to Lincoln, former member of Con- menace to the white man. The security of the rst gress, own the colored settlement of Whites- white master depended upon the ignorance of ke boro, in New Jersey. Mr. Vick is a ruling the black slave. In freedom the security and d- elder in’ the Presbyterian Church at Wilson, happiness of each race depend, to a very n-. and has always identified himself with active large extent, on the education and the progress -rk work. of the other. The problem of slavery was to d-, keep the Negro down; the problem of free- -- dom is to raise him up. e- Progress of the Negro. “The story of the Negro, in the last analy- le- sis, is simply the story of the man who is ‘n, Says Booker T. Washington, in The Owt- farthest down; as he raises himself he raises re look: every other man who is above him. n- “The story of the American Negro has “At the present time the Negro race is, :d been one of progress from the first. While so to speak, engaged in hewing its path lg there ’have been times when it seemed the through the wilderness. In spite of its diffi- Y, race was going backward, this backward culties theJe are a novelty and a zest as well 1- movement has been temporal,, local or merely as an inspiration in this task that few who 1- apparent. On the whole, the Negro has been have not shared it can appreciate. In Amer- st and is moving forward everywhere and in ica the Negro race, for the first time, is face every direction. to’face with the problem of learning to till “In speaking of his experiences in the the land intelligently; of planning and build- South, Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, whose arti- ing permanent and beautiful homes ; of erect- cles on Southern conditions are in many re- ing school-houses and extending school spects the best and most informing that have terms; of experimenting with methods of in- .been written since Olmsted‘s famous ‘Journey struction and adapting them to the needs of in the Seaboard Slave States,’ said that be- the Negro people; of organizing churches, fore he came into the South he had been building houses of worship, and preparing told that in many sections of‘the country the ministers. In short, the Negro in America Negro was relapsing into barbarism. He, of today is face to face with all the fundamental course, was very anxious to find these places, problems of modern civilization, and for each and see for himself to what extent the Negro of these problems he has, to some extent, to had actually gone backward. Before leaving find a solution of his own. The fact that in New York he was told that he would,find the his case this is peculiarly difficult only serves best example of this condition in the low- to make the problem peculiarly interesting. lands and rice-fields of South Carolina and We have hard problems, it is true, but in- Georgia. He visited these sections of South stead of despairing in the face of the diffi-

,. Carolina and Georgia, but he did not find any culties we should, as a race, thank God that traces of the barbarism that he expected to we have a problem. As an individual I would see. He did find, however, that colored people rather belong to a race that has a great and in that part of the country were, on the whole, difficult task to perform than be a part of n .. making progress. This progress was slow, but race whose pathway is strewn with flowers. . it was in a direction away from and not It is only by meeting and facing manfully toward barbarism. hard, stubborn, and difficult problems. that “In South Carolina he was told that the races, like individuals, are in the highest de- people in that part of the country had not gree made strong.” 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. The Negro in Business Life. teaches you not to whine and cry about privi- leges you do not happen to have, but to Over a thousand Negro delegates from all make the best of opportunities at your doors. parts of the country attended the eleventh “Every tumbled down and slatternly Negro annual meeting of the National Negro Busi- cabin is a reflection upon the race. The col-

ness League, which began its session in New ored man who lives an idle and vicious life , York City, on August 17th. Among them is doing badly, not alone for himself but for were bankers, farmers, editors, insurance men. his people. If in any community the Negro dry goods merchants, doctors, ministers, and quarter is wretched and one of potential representatives of many other professions and criminality, there is as much of menace to industries. The sessions were enlivened by the white man in that condition as to the stories and incidents, were dignified by seri- black. ous presentation of what has already been “You colored men and women, set your achieved by the race, and were inspired by faces like flint against those who would hearty hope and purpose for the race’s future. preach to you only the gospel of hate, envy. Dr. Booker Washington, with real tact and and bitterness. Realize that the only way skill, and also with invariable good humor, to help your race is not by preaching vin- brought out the best that the delegates had dictiveness and hatred, but by leading yqur to give, and his own address abounded in people up to prosperity through good citi- , stimulating influence. He urged his people zenship. . . . An ounce of performance is not to make the mistake of dwelling over- worth a ton of complaint. much on the things they have not, but rather “It is the duty-the pre-eminent duty of to glory in the opportunities they possessed, the white man to render aid to good citizen- and he declared that in this country “the ship. No man that is a good American but Negro enjoys freedom of opportunity to get recognizes that the only safe motto for our education, freedom of religious worship, to future is, ‘All men up and not some men a degree not afforded any similar group of down.’ ” our people in the world.” Dr. Washington did not, however, neglect to hold up to shame - The Negro’s Love for the South. the blot cast upon civilization by the con. .. tinuance of lynching ; he referred to the fact Prof. George E. Davis writing of this that within the present summer no less than says : twenty-six colored men have been wantonly “The Southern born Negro loves the South. murdered by mobs without wrongdoing on It is the place of his birth. He wants to be their part. He pleaded for equal and exaci proud of his State-her mountains and enforcement of the law, in the interest not wooded hills are dear to him. The dear alone of the colored race, but of all races. As Southland holds all on earth that he loves. an evidence of the prosperity of the Negro Here are buried his dead. Here are all the race, Dr. Washington stated that the Negroes traditions of his. people. Here are those of the country are adding from twelve to friends of his youth with whom he has grown fifteen million dollars a year to their holdings up into manhood. We are going to work out of land, and that he believed that they are our destiny here. I verily believe that what- now worth in the aggregate not far from sia ever may be the storms that ruffle the sur- hundred million dollars. When, he added face, there is a general regard and interest he spoke of this great advance to President on the part of the educated and thoughtful Eliot, of Harvard, Dr. Eliot declared, “NO white people of the South for -the Negroes race in the world has made such progress in who are striving day by day to rise above the the same time.” On the last day of the con- tyranny of low birth and iron, fortune.” vention the delegates received ex-President Roosevelt with immense enthusiasm, and , - listened to the first general public address The Prize Fight. he had made since his return from Africa. This address was strong in appreciation The Rev. Solomon Porter Hood, one of of what the Negro has done and in practical. the early graduates of Lincoln University, encouragement and advice. A few sentences now pastor of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, may be .here quoted to show the trend of Trenton, N. J., expressed in a Philadelphia Mr. Roosevelt’s suggestion of the right line paper his feeling in reference to the above of conduct for the Negro in America: as follows: “When your neighbor likes and respects “I feel that fight was a disgrace to our you, you have won your battle. The white American civilization, and I do not feel any man of the North does his worst work in more glory nor as much in a victory as I interfering between the two peoples of the would if one bulldog had beaten another.” South, and his best work when he improves In this we have, no doubt, the’feeling of their relations. This League represents gen- a great majority, if not all, of Lincoln Uni- eral constructive work for the race. It versity graduates. I

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- BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF LINCOLN UNIVERSITY. it 11 The Freshman Class. the Freshman Class of the College the course S .- of study, with the addition of Greek, ‘as at e present pursued in the better equipped pre- There are thirty-five men enrolled in the paratory and high schools. Each candidate Freshman Class. Of these, nine are from for unconditional entrance to the Freshman Pennsylvania; five from Georgia; four from Class must pass satisfactory examinations in North Carolina; four from New Jersey; three fourteen units of preparatory work selected from Delaware; two from Maryland; two from the following list of subjects: English, f from Virginia; and one each from New York, , Bible, History, Latin, Greek, Elementary District of Columbia, South Carolina, Okla- French, Elementary German, Elementary homa, Texas, Arkansas. Spanish, Mathematics, Science. This is the best prepared Freshman Class A unit of preparatory work represents a ever matriculated. Entrance requirements year’s study in any subject in such a school were raised last spring, and it was resolved to as those mentioned above. admit no applicant who had not completed a Of the fourteen units, each candidate inust course of preparatory training. In conse- present three in English, one in Bible, two in quence, all but two, who are special students, History, one and a half in Latin, one and a have completed a course of preparatory study half in Greek, and two in Mathematics. Thus in some preparatory school. nine units are specified. The other three may The purpose of Lincoln University is to be chosen by the candidate from any of the recognize as a requirement for admission to subjects in the list. 2 ..LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

were partakers in the late ZUIUuprising under Lincoln University Herald. Chiefs Bamhata and Dinizulu. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. J did not have much time in Cape Town, Devoted to the interests of the Institution; and to . because-we xrrived .late in the afternoon; *and . imparting information concernipg-it to the' friends at I had to ,transfer. tw-acother hat;-which deft a distance.. early the following morning. Sent one year to-any address for '25 cents. On the 15th of-'Septemher, we arrived at Sent in clubs of five or more at theprate of Io.,cents Port Elizaheth, and ? went ashore immediately. .each. 17'alsowent to my old- hoine at 'Vitenhage, Entered!. at .Lincoln University as i second-class matter. twenty miles from"Porf Elizaheth, to visit my Subscriptions and communications may be- ad- .aunt,. who. .reared me from a little boy. 'hTone dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE; D. D., . of my friends recognized me when they .saw CHESTNUT PA. 1328 ST.; PHILA.; me; not euen my aunt. I After stopping over or PKOF.R. L. STEWART;D.D., for the IJight,. I left in the mofning' for'Port LINCOLNUNIVERSITY;'. PA. ' E!izabeth, and ,spent.the rest of 'the forenoon visiting' f i-ieiids. Hon. J. Smith Futhey. . Leaving; we 'airi\+d 'at'East London on the 17th; from t.hence T-went ,home. I received a At the Union A. 34. E. Conference, which very- welcome- -reception. met in West Chester, Pa., in October, the Rev. The whole week I. 'spent at home, receiving Dr. Albert Price, of Wilrnington, Del., was friends and cutting timber for.. fencing, so T one of the speakers. Dr. Price is. a graduate have had .no time for. .anything. I 'am now of Lincoln University. In the course of his endeavoring to take a.niuch iieeded rest. My remarks, he said: health. is.improving,. and I hope it will con- "I rememher many years ago, when a b.oy, tiniie. to .iniproTre,.-God willing, for we are in attending Lincoln University' and. very pmr, His hands to order for 'the best. J. Smith'Futhey, who afterward became Presi- 'On Sunday, 'the 25th; I .was called to speak dent .Judge of the Courts of Chester County, in the afternoon. There was n large gathering, and also. published. a history of the. county, Mr. Albert Kwatsha officiating. In the ad- materially assisted me. He has lgng since dress I dwelt largely on "the missionary effort gone to his reward, in a land of peace, where in .America," and the need of a .like one in cares cease to trouhle." ' South' Africa. The people expressed .great pleasure in the address ; and resolved to. sup- port the inovenient here with all their might. , Going and Coming. I have not met any of the other boys as yet. but T will do so in the course of: a week or d Last July, Samuel B. Kuenene, of.Burnshil1, two. South -4frica, a native Zulu, returned to his Allow me, in conclusion; to tender, ,in behalf home. The following letter,. just. received, of-niy mother, and friends, their: most sincere speaks of his homeward journey and reception : .thanks and gratitude for the -care:.you have BURNSHILL, bestowed -on . US-.. wfi ile : at.Lin co hi" Uii iver sity, VIA MIDDLE.,DR~T;._ . both personally-and as the head of the Univer- : CAPE COLONY,September 26th, 1910. '' sity. We hope and continually pray that the REV. J. B. RENDALL, seed which you have sown will produce,abun- .. Lincoln University,. Pa. dant fruit. ':.Wany are'the prayers that we have 'Dear Sir.--I arrived safely, after. a rather sent up for aid such, as-we now receive through ' stormy journey; although my health was. not :.Lincoln ..University. :Your :memory &jsrther- impaired, I felt the strain of a six weeks' . .ished. . journeying after arriving. . Concerning .the rmney,. 1:lshall- write,to -you I had a short interval. of rest in- England, .. again. - I :shilL:be.pleased -to .receive an .answer lasting four days, during which- I took the ad- ..to .this.:letter. vantage of visiting places of interest and note, - Please give my. tenderest regard:..to.,Dr. I. which I enjoyed very much. .N. Readall, also to!the rest oftthe faculty. I left England on the 20th of August :for Yours respectfully, Cape Town, calling at Las Palmas, Ascension SAMUEL-B. KUENENE. Island and St. Helena. "The accommodations In .October,: .James James, - :another -;native

were far better than on the American steamer, . Zulu, I reached .Lincoln i.University. I We:.was notwithstanding that' the steamer .was crowded. senf.by the- Scotch Eree~Church missionaries, At St. Helena I went. ashore to visit the war L.to.,be.trainect.for. -the.ministry:and. then go back prison and Napoleon's grave; at the prison, we ..to .-:Africa. . Xis father :.-is .' the :,goxernment saw twenty Zulus servi.ng a twenty-year. sen- ' teacher. of..*he: young: King. of.Swaziland;,and . tence; five of their original number: are dead. young James was.. the *court.:interpreter untiJ

' The sentence is likely to' be repealed,' for-they b he s~rted:to~this..school~of the.. pqophets. ier Stilheeding a year of trafning .before enter- a sudden..change,of .sentiment, due to. t.he:,bad , ing the Freshman Class, .James has been. sent, ..conduct and criminality of.ihese stragglers. vn, ..to :the Downingtown- School; where he.:enters ."The -result is. most disastrous to, b.oth,the n d z.class,1xing;Stted: lor ,'our course. . Thus is social. and-political .status. of the Nggro: in.the eft .Ethiopia -stretching out her hands. And .thus . Xarthern States. Cut off from:industeial.-op- is the, Gospel being-placed in the: outstretched ,; portunity: in.skilled .labor,: he is oQly..tolerated at hands. ..when ,he.:tacitly .acc.epts a positionr of.,.perrna- :ly. I.!!.- :merit inferiority;.which, dooms: him to ?,position as: a mass:.lower than. that, he occ.upies..in,the se, "The"Negrd*Northarid South. ;Southern. States." nY ,- ne . Prof. "George"E. .Davis, Ph.D.; writing in . *-- %W The Afro-,4inarit-an-of "The Negro -in the Evangelization- of Colorkd ,Race. rer Kew-Era,". says : )rt ' "Some. of 'the'- hest- colored people of the . Mr;W.'T: Ellis, writing :of;this .in theLPBila- on delphia-Evening 'Biilletiit; said : 'I 'I South have gone into the cities- of the' North seeking better protection under the law; supe- "On.'the ' day that.. the- Southern Methodist he rior advantages for their children, and better .Conference, in -session . at Asheville,-+N."C., La homes in which to live. '-They have found un- . announced the assignments-of :bishops for:the sympathetic judges and hostile juries ; preju- -current pear. the -Atlanta 'Co~zstitutiorz..pub- ng ' dice. and ostracisni in ' the schools, and homes lished a stirr-ing.editpria1 on the duty of ,white T a+ailable only in noisome- alleys and. unsani- Christians of the South - with respect to :the >w .tary;quarters of the - city, where the white evangelization and .Chsistian uplift of the col- 4p plague walks on stilts. 'They have sought hon- ored race. It said: 'Japan, Korea, Brazil, 11 - orable em'ployment; only ,to- find themselves Mexicol-and- a- few- other-.foreigm stations are in opposed by hordes of recently arrived peasants provided with bishpps. That is admirable. It from Europe-Ru-sians, Italians, Hungarians is a scriptural injunction that the Gospel of alc and Poles-who, -seeing in .the. Negro- an - in- Christ should be. carried to the. heathen. But ' %, dustrial rival, have sworn eternal .enmity we look in vain throLigh these allotments for d- against him. ' There are- -certain- qiiarters. in bishops .to minister to the. mare than .~o,ooo rt New. York -City where a Negro dare- not go semi-heathen at our .. doorsythe mass of col- in alone for fear of being stoned by these bar- ored men, women and .'children. who. toLday at barians from- the other; side of the Atlantic. constitute one of the greatest sources of poten- P- Discouraged by - these unexpected ' bbstacles, tial menace to-the welfare of the Anglo-Saxon inany of these people' drift into-'crinie. The in the Southern States.' It proceeded to point ?t, young girls become a ready prey to the- vul- out in plain language that lingeri-ng race pre- 3r tures of the.tender!oin and sell their virtue as jv.dice was responsible for.. keepi!ig-.the : ivhite the price for bread. 'The young men in a few people of the' South' froin. doing what 0-ught to If short months sow their -crop of wild oats and be done for-the 'brother in black.' re then come hack to'the'south to rest upon the "The editorial was notable; but more note- ,re charity of kith aiid- kin. until consumption lays .worthy. was the. number bf -responses which Y, its ghastly banner on .their. form. . . it'drew forth from readers of the paper, com- r- "But it -is not the bett-er class that -1eave'the mending it for its. words and endorsing. the le South in large numbers. The property-holding view that more should be . done for -the .re- 1- and industrims r\Teyro:in the South is a good ligious welfare of-the colored race. "This inci- re citizen, and the hands. of the best white people dent illnstrates the new concern of .the Chris- $1 ' are r.eady to.help.,and-encourage.him. ..To such tians of the' South-.for'the race.which in inany r- : as -these it is a source of poignant regret ,that sections constitutes more .thaii half the popu- ' . at the present time there ,is an. influx of irre- lation. The conviction prevails that plain 111 sponsible and shiftless colored people from the Christian' duty has been neglected and strong :r ': South ,into the larger .cities of the North, such ' leaders in the white churches are pleading -for as ' Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New- York, a. more aggressive and better organized .cam- I. and into - the smaller ,manufacturing. towns. paign for .the evangelization of the cobred Many of these people.are-criminals, and others, man. seeking larger -freedom, take liberty for license. "Strajige as it may seem to, people .of. the "The results are disastrous to the better North,'the;spiritual welfare of the. colored race .e . class,.who remain in,.the South, bound by fam- in'the' days of.'slavery receixred .far more .con- .s . ily ties, property. interests and real patriotism. sideration . from white neighbors than ' it! doe? "The conduct of.these people in.. the North to-day. '.The colored people' then had_the bene- has curtailed the. henexolences..that. flowed fit .of the teachkgs hf-.white..clergymen -.and Southward since the war through the-channels ivhite- Sunday school teachers ,far more-gen- of the. Church,: Boards and Missionary' Socie- ..erally .than .these ,are.had to&y. ' Nanp of:.the tiw. Tt,is also true that the better. class. of .'old .'churches .sfill stand, with ' their galleries Negroes who have homes in these cities have built especially for the .colored people. -.Here felt most acntely a gradual and in some places they sat in ' the same house 5 w'ith .their white 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. ._ . ,

masters, listened to the same sermons, joined Plane Street Church of Newark, which the in the singing and participated in the sacra- Presbytery was ready to disorganize and drop ment of the Lord’s supper. At the altar col- from the roll five years ago, is now self-sus-, ored men ,and colored women were united in taining, has a parsonage worth four thousand marriage, and they felt that the church was dollars, and a sisty thousand dollar church not merely, a ‘white folks’ church,’ but their building, all free of debt. church as truly. Now they have their own For some cause, for a time, many Presby- churches, hiit they do not have, as a rule, the terian friends of the colored people grew in- same kind of ‘help from the whites. Those different to work among them, leaving it to the familiar with the situation in the South are Methodists and Baptists, and turned their at- convinced that it is better for all concerned tention to work among Italians, and their giv- that the colored folks should have their sepa- ing to industria! schools. But we are encour- rate congregations-better for the colored as aged to think that they are again awaking to well as for the whites; but all Christians who the inost pressing needs of the times and of pause to think about it are also convinced that the race; for they are erecting parish buildings the ‘brother in black’ needs the counsel and as- where they can help to solve this great sistance of his more intelligent white neighbor, problem. The good people of, Paterson and and that, further. there are great stretches of of Princeton have about completed such build- country inhabited by colored persons almost ings respectively for the St. Augustine and euclusively, which are as truly mission fields W-itherspoon congregations and communities. as any foreign country.” We also learn that the Presbytery of Pitts- burgh is contemplating the erection of a suit- -- ably situated and equipped church building for The Negro and the Presbyterian Grace Memorial, to which the Rev. Charles H. Trusty, D. D., of Jersey City, has been Church. called. The Synod of New Jersey is consid- ering the advisability of putting a man in the BY R. E. ARMSTRONG, D. D. field to seek out places where Sabbath schools can be organized, which may grow into Within the territory of New York, New churches. brsey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and What are the Synods of New York, Pennsyl- e District of Columbia, there are thirty-five vania and Baltimore contemplating in refer- churches and missions of the Presbyterian ence to this most needy people? The Board Church doing work for the Master among the of Publication and Sabbath School Work colored people. In the same territory there might he asked to consider the question of are, at least, 800,000 colored people. appointing a Sabbath school missionary and The South is daily coming North, and places colporteur in this territory. The Presbytery of service are demanding more servants, and of Philade1ph;a North has its first and only a larger influx from the South. Among those mission among the colored people located on coming North, there are many Presbyterians, West Coulter Street, Germantown. Surely the who have been trained in the churches of the call of God to this work is most imperative, in South, and a large number of sinners to be view of the needs and claims of the race. evangelized. The Presbyterian Church has but one minister and one church building to -- every 23,000 already at our doors. The Color Line. Seventeen years ago, the Rev. Horace G. Miller, of New York City, and the writer, In a recent issue of the Local News of West were so impressed with the great need of more Chester, Pa., Rev. Matthew Anderson, D. D., aggressive work in the North, that they called a Presbyterian minister and educator of Phila- together the colored Presbyterian ministers in delphia, very highly respected and esteemed by the above-named territory, that the situation leading citizens, on account of character, abil- might be discussed, and the needs, in a rnea- ity and usefulness, relates how he was refused sure, be met. Since then eight or nine mis- lodgings late at night in two of the leading sions have heen organized and are doing hotels of West Chester. The reason, for it, effcient work. This is an inadequate effort in although not given, was evidently on account view of the spiritual needs of the race for a of his race. One of a different race, no matter Christian education and development. how devoid of character, of purity and up- But by no means is this all that has been rightness, would have been admitted without done during these years. The First African hesitancy. The action. of the hotels, in addi- Church of Philadelphia has been saved, and tion to being unreasonable, and the result of a sent forward to greater and to better service; belittling prejudice, was also, we opine, in St. James’ of New York City, which the Pres- violation of the legal conditions upon which bytery pronounced dead twenty years ago, has they hold their right, to maintain a public put on new life and now leads in a numerical house. Dr. Anderson received his degree membership of more than six hundred; the from Lincoln Uniersity.