Vol. 8. SPELMAN SEMINARY, ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER, 1891. No. 2.

HE IS OUR STRENGTH. But were my forefathers cultivated Many a dying slave has spent his Tired with the task of living, musicians and noted last breath on this See sobbing humanity stand, composers of earthly shore in Blindly and wearily groping song? If not, then the question For the clasp of a pitying hand. singing “I’m Trusting to man’s frail succor, naturally arises, whence came their going to live with Jesus; Hearts break with the breaking reed; Don’t you grieve after me ; Out from the infinite only power in song and the knowledge to Lord, i don’t want you to grieve after me.” Cometh the help we need. arrange the tunes, which by their Still there were times when he used None but His heart who made us mysterious sweetness have been made his talents for a Can fathom our own hearts’ woes, pleasanter purpose.— immortal? In order answer And teach us to bear the burdens to these It is one peculiar feature of the slave By which the soul strengthens and grows. Rest we content with time’s trials, questions and thereby judge the mu¬ that he sang most when most burdened Sorrow and suffering and loss, sical with mental or The only sinless earth-life capacity of the Negro, let us physical labor.— The Led straight to Calvary’s cross. analyze the music of his own com¬ wood-cutter in the forest seemed to Slow o’er the shameful mountain, position and consider the possibilities drive his axe with greater force when Close curtaining clouds arise, of his talented the notes some Where the Hope of the world is dying power. By the pre¬ of melody accompanied With the glory of God in his eyes. vious comparison of the mu¬ each stroke. From And angel songs in the shadow origin of early morn till Steal softly to souls new-born, sic among other nations with that of With a promise of Easter lilies night the echoing wood told the merry On the resurrection morn. my own, we can see in what ignorance songs of the slaves at work in the the Surely such splendor of loving Negro nursed his art, and unknow¬ neighboring fields. Their souls, oc¬ Should aid us when joys grow dim, ingly characterized his race. Yet To carry, not drag, the crosses cupied wholly in singing, left no room He asks us to bear for Him. when we think of the definition of mu¬ for over Take comfort! The rod of chastening, repining their heavy task. With mystical terrors rife, sic, what its classifications are, and This shows one blessing given the Is a branch of health and healing then notice the From the miracle Tree of Life. perfect meter in the ar¬ Negro in his power to use his voice rangement of the tunes, one cannot in Down from His holy heaven, song. The Infinite Tenderness leans fairly say that their souls were That the O’er ignorant plantation music was the His children struggling toward Him ofthe sentiments Through the death-land that intervenes. expressed in the lan¬ effect of original causes only confirms We have stumbled; our feet are bleeding; guage the fact that it not For rough winds the road from sin. oftheir songs, but that somehow is artificial, or like Dear Christ, with thy words of welcome, they possessed secret Let the weary wanderers in! knowledge of ordinary music, which is designed to Mary Lisbeth Macartney. rhyme and meter. Recall the old-time excite in others pleasing sensations. song— This came from within. Singing was “We are climbing Jacob’s ladder, also the chiefelement in their THE MUSIC OF THE NEGRO. Soldier of the cross.”— worship. Sermons were short and far between. Note the turn given to the measure, No faculty of the Negro strikes one which perplexes until one sees that Formerly, many bits of knowledge with more interest than obtained from God’s word were his musical the movement makes perfect trochees. pre¬ served faculty. His power of song is God’s From the slave’s by being put in song. After song we are able to each supreme gift. Whether this gift was obtain knowledge of his mental feel¬ Sunday meeting, the following realized and exercised in the mother¬ days of labor were shortened ing on different occasions. The mourn¬ by busy¬ land of the Negro, or whether it has ful air, ing their minds in putting in tune the been issuing late in the night from bits of developed by the trial and woe of a slave hut, told that some mother’s scripture they had just learned, and the next Destiny’s hand, the pages of history heart was bleeding over-the loss of her Sunday’s meeting wit¬ fail to nessed their success. In this record; nor has tradition ones way yet in¬ dear and she, having no hope of formed us. The Afro-American can ever they created meeting them in this life, prayed “ find Joshua was the son of Nun ; nothing more marked or that to meet them in heaven. It was He spoke to the Lord to stop the sun; leaves a was pleasanter memory in the his¬ amid God with him till the work was done ; griefs like these that they coined- ! God opened the window and began to look out; The ram’s and tory of his fathers than their power “My daughter, will you meet me horn blew the children did shout; in On Canaan’s happy shore ?” The children did shout until the hour seven; song. If we look at the German The walls fell down ; God heard it in heaven. The Redeemed! Redeemed ! and Italian as only chance the slaves had for musicians, such Hay¬ I’ve been washed in the blood of the Lamb.” den, Mozart, and Mendelssohn, we pouring out their feeling was in and and the familiar song, find that musical talent through their song. When bowed they inherited “Were you there when they crucified my Lord ? from educated with grief at their we ancestors, and were well oppression, have Were you there when he wore the thorny crown ?” their acquainted with all that thoughts in the words ofthe song, pertained to with many others as soul-thrilling, the art in which “My God, delivered thou Daniel, they strove to excel. Why not deliver poor me ? ” that tell at the same time both their 2 SPELMAN MESSENGER. knowledge of the Bible and the mys¬ The men thus served are entirely void inanimate; a menagerie and bazaar combined. A silk chair cushion and terious power of their song. of gratitude and think women are The Negro convicts at work find in bought property and should serve a basket ofkindergarten work show their lords with all their soul and further results of singing a means of lessening the irk¬ busy hours, and three hours of someness of their toil, and though such might. study every afternoon, a song as Any wife failing to come up to her including Saturdays, have cheated “Oh, roll! sun, roll! don’t roll so slow ; husband’s ideal can be taken back to Satan out of his time to find mischief* I’ve been toiling all day,’’ her parents with a demand of the price for idle hands. produces a weird effect on the listener, paid to them for her. She may also But we have had play times, too. yet it proves a balm for the unfortu¬ be cuffed about by her lord, her chil¬ Five afternoons have been spent nate prisoner. Released from bondage, dren taught not to respect her, and romping in the woods, where black¬ they were free to assemble in arbors she may be sold to another, if she is berries, persimmons, and golden-rod and churches of their own, where the from a slave family, to be bartered in were gathered in abundance; and the hymns were “ lined off” by some one a far off district. In the case of a children returned tired and happy, who could read, two lines being read or loaded with woodsy treasures. and king’s wife’s failure to suit please sung alternately, until by degrees him, before the days of Christian The school examinations advance the Negro became acquainted with teachers in the Congo, it was common several little girls a whole grade from other families of the musical world. for such a one to be called out in the where they left off last May, showing With the matter thus furnished them that their summer’s work has not been presence of the public and her sister in are now to in hymn-books, they able wives (for the king’s wives are often vain. arrange many melodies A and their many) and be shot, or killed in a more strong word of encouragement praise worship is not limited to their cruel manner, for an example and comes from our good friend, Mrs. own compositions, as before. The or Swett, who declares there has been a children in the little warning to other quarrelsome diso¬ log school-houses bedient wives. wonderful improvement in conduct. arrange tunes poetry from found in Mothers often are stripped of their Our weekly Roll of Honor makes a their readers. power Though free, the children to be sent back to the town showing of from seven to twelve out of the Negro in song is being dis¬ of their childhood, as selling the girls of sixteen. More than two failures a played. On every plantation you will in marriage gives the fathers of their week excludes from the list. find a “ band of singers,” and though children no right to them, or to do Mrs. Swett brings us many tokens many are still in the gloom of igno¬ with them what is sadder still, sell of substantial good-will from her rance, yet they naturally cultivate them to friends, all the way from a cake of soap their strange, cruel slave-traders. power of song, and their voices, While domestic slavery is nothing in to handsome china and silver dollars. often rough and unrestrained, make Africa as was Little Lina, only five years old, spent music sweet and compared to what it in thrilling. the South, her precious pennies to send the chil¬ No feature of the institutions where yet it robs alike the homes and the hearts of what is dearest and dren some beautiful beads. the colored youth are being educated best, viz; the dear, innocent children. Mrs. Reynolds of West Newfield, gives more delight and inspiration to Me., sent us $5.00, through one of the the visitor than classes in vocal music. Despite all these and many other such trials, these dear Congo women teachers, and thus most unexpectedly We only need to look at the fame and can teach us a lesson ofcheerfulness the Lord raises up friends and means success of The Fisk Jubilee Singers and contentment. To hear them go to carry on our work and fills our to estimate the high musical qualities hearts with gratitude to the Giver of found in the singing along is, indeed, cheering. “plantation melodies.” And all good. —L. M. Lawson. God has well shown his yet with all this they lack the joy goodness and of the Lord. Put into their lives this wisdom in endowing the Negro with such musical ray of blessed light and you have as NATHANAEL. powers. Nature has beautiful lives in the midst of dark¬ done her part, and the remaining part ness as you can find in any place. The name of Nathanael or Nathan¬ is the work of improvement which is Oh, that the women of the South iel means “ the for us to do. Let the interested sons gift of God.” Of the may soon awake to the need of their Nathanael of the Bible we know but and daughters of to-day enclose with¬ sisters in no in the casket of Africa, and longer deny little, but what we do know is good. preservation, the pre¬ to them the privilege of hearing the He was cious material of our fathers, and let brought to Jesus by Philip, the future message of Him who said, “Daughter, and atoncebecame a disciple,attesting, history of the race show “ excellence in this talent which God thy faith hath made thee whole; go Rabbi, thou art the Son of God”. in peace!” Jesus has so bountifully giveu. paid a tribute to his guilelessness L. C. Fleming, Palabala, Congo. Rosalind L. Reid, class of’ 91. and added the wondrous statement,, “Ye shall see heaven open, and the an¬ CONGO WOMEN. ECHOES FROM “ THE HOME.” gels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.” Nathanael is Of all the wonders of the great Con¬ “No. 5” most gladly welcomes the mentioned only by John, who does not mention go country, her women are, in my Spelman friends and is happy to be Bartholomew, whom Mat¬ mind, the most wonderful. Knowing again wakened and sent to bed and thew, Mark, and Luke all mention, all the burdens they have to bear, one regulated by Spelman’s timely bells. but entirely omit Nathanael. His would be inclined to think that they We have spent a very pleasant and name is coupled with Philip’s as if should be the saddest and most piteous busy vacation. Little fingers have they might have been brothers; so is of creatures. It is their part of the pieced four quilts, one of them with¬ Bartholomew’s. It is supposed from family obligations to do all the farm¬ out basting, and two they have set this that Bartholomew was Nathana¬ ing, bring all the water and wood for together. They have worked in out¬ el’s surname, meaning son of Tholmai, family use, make all the pots, pitchers, line a marvelous bed-spread, illustrat¬ as Bar-Jona, Peter’s surname, meant son of Jona. The Bible tells us that cups, etc., also to cook, sweep, sell at ing things in the air above and in the the market, and mother the children. earth beneath ; figures animate and Nathanael was born in Cana ofGalilee. SPELMAN MESSENGER. 3

MEMORIAL ADDRESS BY sire of his heart was the Christian females in appropriate language paid PROF. W. E. HOLMES. education of the women of the race, tribute to the beauty of her life. and one Nor in vain were the efforts to get Co-laborers in the Master’s vine¬ day, while in his study plead¬ ing with God that this might the sympathy and co-operation of yard :— be done, in the midst of his petitions those who at first stood aloof to cool It is with melancholy pleasure that he was interrupted by a gentle rap at the ardor of her zeal. Delicate and I unite with you to to-day do honor the door, and, on going to see who difficult as was this ofaccomplishment, to the memory our of departed sister, this intruder was, he was overjoyed to she succeeded, and years her the sainted before Sophia B. Packard. find as angels of our sister death she saw the best elements of Born and reared in New God, and England, her associate come to grant what he southern society cordially endorsing the home of the Puritan, of her career had asked. and giving encouragement to her work. there, before such a gathering, it does With characteristic energy, after But this brilliant light is now not become me to speak. That duty, giving them a cordial welcome, he out. For half a century its steady to therefore, I leave those familiar opened the basement of his meeting¬ flame sent forth its rays to make with her trials and triumphs in the house that operations might begin at brighter and better the world in which land of her nativity. once. And there, on the 11th ofApril, it burned. We mourn, but not as But of her labors of love in the dis¬ 1881, with eleven pupils, Spelman those without hope, for we are confi¬ tant South, for the regeneration and Seminary was begun. dent that her place of residence is now a race, redemption of long-neglected But the drawbacks referred to were among the myriads of millions whose and of her achievements there, I shall not all. In those days there were not garments have been made whiter than as a speak their representative, to bear few who questioned the wisdom and snow, and whose song is that of Mqses willing testimony to the worth ofthose advisability of the movement she had and the Lamb. labors and the value of those achieve¬ come to inaugurate. There were dis¬ With unfaltering'faith in God, in¬ ments. cordant elements, and these had to be spired by her example and ennobled I would not be understood as un¬ conciliated. by her influence, we shall take up the derrating the efforts she made during With sanctified common sense of the work where she left it, and, with His her long and useful life in her favored highest order, proceeding upon the assistance, reach the yet grander resnlts to section, uplift humanity and ad¬ theory that she could do all things which it was her wish to attain. vance the cause of Christ; for there through Christ who strengthened her, she left an impress upon mankind she labored to realize the possibilities IN MEMORIAM. and an exerted influence for good she saw before her. And what did she which shall continue to the latest gen¬ bring to pass? What came of all her Is it possible that our dear Principal eration. But I hazard the assertion sacrifices, her efforts, and her prayers? is gone ? Yes, she is gone to that beau¬ that at no time during her career did Were all lost? Were they worse than tiful home that Jesus prepared for her. she engage in a more important branch wasted ? There is where she has been laying up of Christian service than that to which Let Spelman Seminary speak. Ten treasures day by day. We, the stu¬ she gave the last ten years of her life. years ago without suitable quarters for dents of Spelman Seminary, feel that With a devotion to duty rarely a home; to-day owning a site of the place that has so recently been equaled and never excelled, imbued fourteen acres, with nine buildings vacated can never be filled. Yet there with the spirit ofthe Master, she gave thereon, and the whole valued at nine¬ is one left to be our leader and we love herself that others might be what she ty thousand dollars! In the begin¬ her; we do thank God for her. We was, intelligent of head and consecrat¬ ning, eleven pupils; to-day, in Geor¬ feel that, although Miss Packard has ed of heart and hand to win souls to gia and throughout the South, thou¬ gone, like Elijah, she has dropped her Christ. And not light was the task. sands proud to have had their names mantle on our beloved Miss Giles, who The work of her choice was of such a enrolled there. will carry on the work. We shall put character as to necessitate great per A few years since the Boston Board in practice the spiritual lessons that sonal sacrifice. It could not be done of the Woman’s American Baptist she so faithfully gave us. “ We loved at a distance. To reach satisfactory Home Mission Society voted to name her well, but Jesus loved her best.v results she had to leave “ congenial cir¬ after Miss Packard a building erected She has done what she could, ” and cles of life-long association to identify at Spelman through her instrumental¬ the Maker’s voice spoke to her, say¬ herself with the people for whose ity. This was beautiful; it is a monu¬ ing, “Well done, thou good and elevation she wrought. ment to that choice spirit. But before faithful servant, come up higher.” Following the star of God’s guid¬ she laid down her head in death she Everywhere we look on the cam¬ ance and direction, she settled in At¬ had reared a monument which shall pus of Spelman Seminary, we can see lanta, Georgia, a field to all human never know decay. The souls she the fruit of her labor and that her life appearance fully occupied and appar¬ reached and reclaimed, lifted to a was not wasted. ently well developed. Here, except higher plane of Christian life and ac¬ It made her heart rejoice to be in to her faithful colleague and compan¬ tivity, are and will be to eternity liv¬ our prayer-meetings and hear us tes¬ ion, an entire stranger, with no facili¬ ing testimonies to Miss Packard’s tify for our Savior. She could not ties to begin her great undertaking, worth and work. mingle her voice with ours in singing the prospect was far from promising. Nor do these alone sing her praises. our beautiful hymns which she loved But with sublime faith in Him whose The fathers and mothers of the girls, to hear so dearly, but she is singing in help is never sought in vain she looked and thousands with no children to ed¬ heaven with the angels. She often for assistance. ucate, thank God for the gift of such a told us she would sing when she The venerable Frank Quarles, late woman to the race. To estimate the reached her home above. Shall we pastor of Friendship Baptist church, high esteem in which she was held, not strive to meet her there and sing was a tireless worker for his people, services in honor to her memory were with her, too? We thank the blessed and for their uplifting he mingled his conducted during the past summer in Lord for sending us such a leader. prayers with his endeavors. The de¬ various portions of the state, and our Sallie Burton, class of ’98. 4 SPELMAN MESSENGER.

SPELMAN MESSENGER. birth-day gifts, tokens of love. “As in, and wc have yet to learn of any school ye have done it unto one of the least provided with a more valuable E. O. Werden, Publisher. and beautiful L. H. Upton, of these, ye have done it unto me,” reading-room than the M. J. Packard, Editors. will Quarles Memorial Library. | guide us in the sending of many —Nov. 9 will be remembered here ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER, 1891. of them. But we love to make gifts for the distinguished visitors it Published monthly, during the school in brought person to those who are very dear us. year, hy members of Spelman Seminary. Ex-president R. B. Hayes, pres¬ to us. How we should delight to put ident of the Slater B^“Terms: 25 cts. per year, in advance; Fund, Dr. Curry, single, copies, 5 cents. something acceptable in that pierced agent of the same fund, Mr. Hayes, Club Rates : Ten copies, one year, $2.00. hand! What gift will son of the president, and Rev. W. H. Advertising rates will be furnished King Emanuel on Hickman, president of Clark Univer¬ application. accept ou his birth day ? The answer is went To introduce the paper we will send it in his sity through the various depart¬ word, “Son, give me thy heart.” ments of the on trial to new subscribers two months. seminary and expressed In Proverbs vre learn that a “man’s Subscribers wishing to introduce the gift themselves as much pleased with all Messenger to their friends can have maketh room speci¬ for him.” Surely we they saw and heard. men copies sent free from this office to want a any address. place prepared for us in the —During the weeks she was at Spel¬ Subscribers asking to have the direction heavenly city. We would scorn a gift man, Miss Fleming gave us a num¬ of a paper changed should be careful to ber of from an interesting talks which wc name not only the post-office to which they earthly friend who gave to us wish it wish all our readers could have heard. sent, but also the one to wrhich it grudgingly; so the “Lord loveth a has been sent. She told us of the Congo homes and cheerful giver.” Unlike us, however, Letters concerning subscriptions should their occupants, the various strange be addressed to the Lord expects nothing from us but characters found there, their customs, Spelman what Messenger, he has first given to us. He superstitions, and beliefs, and the 35 Leonard Street, Atlanta, Ga. work made man in his own image, therefore being done for their elevation, with its results. Of Entered at the he us intense interest Post-Office at Atlanta, Ga. wants to be like him. “Be ye as second class mail matter. was her description of marriages, fu¬ therefore holy, for I am holy.” “Let nerals, and the performances of the the same mind be in you which was witch-doctors. All a man’s property, also in Christ Jesus.” It is we are spirit¬ told, is buried with him; so each one !STb|/ys ual likeness; we are to be “conformed must “paddle his own canoe.” to the No one is born there with a silver image ofhis Son.” May all our readers who spoon in his mouth. There is a col¬ Holly! Yes, a holly leaf! Dear have not already done so lege at which the witch-doctors are readers, could you but look, you make this acceptable birth-day gift educated and from which they grad¬ would find a of themselves to our uate. holly leaf in many a Bi¬ loving Jesus; then, They have to promise secrecy ble in as Spelman. And why, do you as he is wont, he will return unto them to their tricks and practices, and do not believe in their virtue ask, have these leaves been treasured an hundred fold. Being then born at all, but so wilfully deceive the tenderly? Go back with us into people. This they again, they, too, will receive a birth¬ confess when our they become Christians. chapel nearly a year and gaze on day gift and “the gift of God is eter¬ are not We the only ones benefited our beautiful Christmas-tree. Is it nal life.” by Miss Fleming’s visit here. She not lovely ? See the noble, loving improved her time to the fullest ex¬ woman who stands beside it and lis¬ —On the tent, receiving those who came to learn evening of Oct. 30, the of her ten to her beautiful and words, “ As you pass out, library in Packard Hall was speaking in the various churches and schools of the all come round formally opened. If the spirit of Fa¬ city when by the tree and pick invited. Her whole heart is in the ther Quarles revisited earth that work. a leaf to put in your Bible as a re¬ night and peeped in at Being anxious to return to her station membrance of this Spelman Seminary, before the time happy time. ” It as un¬ we know he would, how he must expected, she has was her last Christmas-tree on have dertaken to raise the needed earth; rejoiced ! What a glad, bounti¬ price of now passage she beholds the ful fruition he would have seen from herself, fand thus to reach King in his glory, her his loved Palabala some months ear¬ and has plucked leaves from the tree sowing in the past! And tender, lier than was planned. Let us all of life. loving words were spoken in his mem¬ help her in her work with our ory. Miss Giles told the story of how words, our Thanksgivingjoys are past and soon prayers, and our she and Miss Packard first met him, pocket-books. We we cannot all do what she is hope to see the return of the day cel¬ of his encouragement and doing; we help during can ebrated as the birthday ofthe Prince the early daysofthe school, ofthestart- speed on her work. She pleads for fellow-workers, also. Who will of peace. In the gladness of this time, ing of the “Educational Fund,” of his go ? Does the Lord call you, our loved ones touching last words, and of his dear gone before can surely reader ? Have pathetic death. A letter was read you listened for his us, on side the dark river voice ? join for that from Dr. If you hear him White of Augusta, who was bidding you they sing in sweeter strains the go to Congo, don’t fail to praises associated with him in organizing the answer, ofour “Here am I, send me.” great Elder Brother, who, near¬ Educational Society, and old pupils and friends bore ly two thousand years ago, came to willing testimony to —Rev. M. MacVicar, D. D., Su¬ his worth. This room earth, the wondrous Christ-child, is now in daily perintendent of the American Baptist use, pupils Home Mission Emanuel. It is the season ofgifts, and constantly consult the cy¬ Society, has been with clopaedias and books of reference, as us some time rightly so, but let us ever remember organizing a Missionary well as feast on the bounties provided the occasion of Training Department in this semina¬ their giving ; are they by other reading matter found there¬ ry similar to the Training School of SPELMAN MESSENGER. 5

Chicago. This department has opened SARDIS. en responsive chords in our nature. successfully. The young women “And unto the Might not this love of dress have been who have entered on the course are angel of the church a in Sardis legacy from the time of Croesus’ pro¬ attentive, enthusiastic, hard-working, write,” we read, but before verbial splendor? and we came to the writing my wits had imbued with the missionary spirit. Evidently, even the closing; words gone wool-gathering. defiance They will not fail to do good work. Bidding ofthat glorious promise could not avail The to time and space, I gazed on that an¬ course will extend over two years. to keep this congregation alive; for cient city in all its Five months of each year is to be magnificence. there is now no church in Sardis. “He Standing beside the lordly acropolis on spent on a mission field under the that hath an ear, let him hear what the summit ofthat spur of the Tmolus careful supervision of a Missionary the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Superintendent, six months will be range between which and the river E. 0. W. Hermus the city was chiefly built, my given to training here, and one month eye rested on an enchanting scene. for vacation. The work of the course The following is a letter from Rev. is Facing the north, before me lay a fer¬ W. J. White, I). D., of fully outlined by Dr. MacVicar, in tile Augusta, Ga., a circular which can be obtained here plain, dotted more or less closely written to Miss Giles on the occasion with mansions of utmost on magnificence. application. We hope many young ofthe formal opening of the Quarles ladies who have completed their col¬ Through the stately market place Memorial Library. ran the lovely stream Pactolus, a lege course and have a desire to help Dear Sister:—Your favor of yesterday branch of the and in the uplifting of their Hermus, along the informing me of the fitting up of a library people will street near in Packard Hall and avail themselves of the by, on his way from the inviting me to be pres¬ opportunity ent at the formal opening Friday evening is of temple of Cybele, followed by a nu¬ special training now offered received. It would be my great pleasure by merous and this school. Send for a circular and gaily-decked retinue, came to be present at the time mentioned and a king who must have been as “rich possibly I may get off; but, fearing that I understand what is being done here. as Croesus”, for it was Croesus him¬ may not come, I drop a few lines. That you have made this —Nov. 13, a temperance meeting library a memorial to self, the last Lydian king, under whom my dear friend and long time co-laborer is to was held in the chapel. Very encour¬ the city reached its greatest pros¬ me extremely grateful. Rev. Frank Quarles was one of the noblest and aging reports ofwork done during the perity. This was the most earnest capital ofLydia, men summer were I ever had the pleasure of made by the pupils. one of the laboring greatest cities of ancient with. To the cause of Christ he was heart Asia Minor. It Ofsixty-eight pupils in one school, for¬ lay two miles south and soul devoted. His love for souls was ty-five were for temperance. In an¬ ofthe river Hermus, and boasted of its of the deepest sort. His interest in the other school of welfare of his people was from the loftiest ninety, only seven age, being mentioned by Aeschylus. motives and no man of the race can be smoked. Another school of But the forty- reading goes on, “Thou found who labored so devotedly without nine all stood firm for temperance. hast a name that thou livest, and art money and without price. It was my priv¬ —As the memorial address deliv¬ dead.” Suddenly the view is dissolved ilege to be for several years, while residing in Atlanta, as one of Pro. Quarles’ family, ered and there stands before me in the val¬ by Dr. Morehouse at Tremont and our intimate relations enabled me to Temple is already published in book¬ ley a poor village, surrounded by ruins speak of the sacrifices made by him that he let form for of former might do most good in building up dear distribution, we do not greatness, and the a'cropolis old is Friendship Church. He loved to labor print it in,this number, as we had crumbling beside me. This was for the educational uplifting of his people, Sart or at planned to do. Sert Kalessi, the modern Sardis, and last laid his life upon the altar of de¬ votion to the education of “ our dear —Our last number in the midst of complete solitude, and girls.” being a memo¬ The Educational Society organized at Spel- rial one, “Echoes from the Home ” interesting only as the site of former man, that is, at the school in the basement which was left over for this month “No. 5” greatness, and for its ruins, chief of afterward bloomed out into “ Spel- which are a man,” was organized in accordance with a is indeed a true home for the little ones stadium, a theatre, and the plan adopted by myself as corresponding who are so fortunate as to be received acropolis. secretary of our State Convention, to raise And now we strive to attend to the there. Good work, industrial, liter¬ money for a school for our girls that was contemplated before the establishment of ary, moral, and spiritual, is done by reading, and to grasp the meaning of the Spelman. I had a number of these organ¬ the woman message, as we noble at its head. angel’s but hear izations in the cities of the state and a the injunction to watch, hold fast, and good part of the three thousand dollars raised —According to custom, on Thanks¬ repent, and the threatened sudden de¬ by the colored Bapt ists, and which was a part giving Day, there was a praise meeting of the amount paid for the Spelman struction if not obeyed, we think of proper¬ in the chapel. Very many took part ty, was raised through these societies. It has the sad fate of the city before the time and there was manifest the true spirit always been tome a matter of grateful pride of writing to the church, “I have not that I was permitted in this early day of of gratitude to God for his bounteous found thy works perfect before God.” Spelman life to become closely connected mercies. One of the old-time students with its growth. I cannot It had been the residence forget my first, visit of the Per¬ to the school where I first met said that she was going to come to this you and the sian satraps after its overthrow. The sainted -Miss Packard. I remember well how school as long as she could walk, if she Athenians burned it. It was the seat deeply impressed I was that the Lord had didn’t learn but one word a sent these good women down to day. We of a Georgia to separate provincial government 1 ift were gladdened by the presence of up our women. I remember that I could under the Romans, and was of enough not resist the feeling that the school should dear friends who dined with us. The be importance at the time John wrote to largely for women and that it was not afternoon was devoted to social best to have little children taken in the enjoy¬ have its church rank as one of the ment, and beginning. I remember how hard it was astereoptieon entertainment seven. for you, Miss Giles, to give up the little gave us a “trip abroad” at night. It children after I had Even in Sardis, the angel said, were given you in writing was a the reasons truly day of thanksgiving. a few who had not defiled why I thought it better to re¬ their gar- strict. —The rain-fall for the month of the make up of the school to females ments, as the city was very corrupt. not below fourteen or fifteen years. But God November was 3.165 inches. “ They shall walk with me in white” has directed in the matter and to his blessed name must be the —The mean temperature for the and the promise of white raiment to praise. I greatly rejoice that the Holy Spirit is month of November was 49 those that overcome seem to 85°; the suggest leading so many of our dear children into warmest day, the 1st, reached 75°; the that fine apparel was much desired by the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus. May his continued coldest, 29th, only 31°; the coldest its people, as God, in addressing us, blessings rest upon teachers and students, is my prayer. night, the 17th, 18°. uses I am always terms calculated to awak¬ your brother, * — W. J. White. r, SPELMAN MESSENGER.

ASTRONOMICAL PHENOM¬ Dr, Hanaford's Card. ENA FOR DECEMBER. WIDE AWAKE. Mother and Child, giving, in plain lan¬ guage, the treatment of both. Price, $1.00. Moon—first quarter, 8th, 11.13 a. A few of Home Girls, treating of the physical and tlqe good tlqiqgs for ’92. mental m.; full, 15th, 6.53 a. m.; last quar¬ training, 20 cents. Anti-Fat and Anti-Lean, 25 cents. 100 pages each month; ter, 22nd, 11.39 p. m.; new, 30th, Good Digestion, or the Dyspeptic’s 9.19 p. m. She passes near Mercury only $2.40 a year. Friend, 25 cents. Stomach Regulator and Liver Invigo- and Venus on the 2nd, Jupiter on the Perfect Entertainment for the rator, intended for Dyspepsia, Foul 7th, Saturn on the 22nd, and Mars on Stomach, Indigestion, Nausea, Torpidity of the 26th. Passing Hour. the Liver, and all derangements of that Mercury may be seen in the even¬ organ. Price, 40 cents (stamps) for enough to last one “Fair Harvard.” Several members of the class month; $1.00 for three packages, ing about an hour after sunset, on the three months. The sick who will of ’91 have promised to contribute. carefully 11th and a few days before and after give their symptoms, diet, habits, etc., will the 11th. It is low in the southwest “Such Stuff a.s Dreams are Made of,” by receive medicine and advice to last six weeks, by letter, for $3.00. and will not be very conspicuous. JOHN MEAD HOWELLS, Good Bread and now to Make it, L5cts. Venus can also be seen in the son of W. D. All sent by mail, free, on receipt of the southwest after sunset each Howells, evening will appear in the Christmas (Dec.) number. price. (Stamps for change.) (The “Health and will become brighter and farther Rules” will he sent in Good Bread, Anti- “In a Thunderstorm,” by Fat and Anti-Lean, and with the medicine.) from the sun as the month advances. ROBERT BEVERLEY Wanted, Local or traveling agents to sell Mars rises before the sun, but is HALE, the above books. not conspicuous. son of Edward Everett Hale, DR. J. H. HANAFORD. Jupiter is bright in the southwest The clever second of the set, will be published later. in the evening. Serials, Saturn rises in the morning before THE LANCE OF KANANA. the sun and is bright in the southeast By Abd el Ardavan. A brilliant story of Oriental

adventure and patriotism; historically true. . after 1 or 2 o’clock. On Dec. 21st at 4.43 p. m., the sun JACK BRERETON’S THREE reaches the winter solstice, and be¬ MONTHS’ SERVICE. ATLANTA GEORGIA. gins to come north again. By Mrs. Maria McIntosh Cox. A true story of the Civil War, a Northern village, and a young home -! ¥®UNS MEN NND B©¥J3 ¥ hero. —We have had sermons during the “THAT MARY ANN!” month by Rev. E. R. Carterof Friend¬ Courses of Study By Kate Upson Clark. “Mary Ann” isagirl of our ship Baptist church, Rev. W. H. own day. Sure to be the gayest serial of the year. Tilman of the First Preparatory, Baptist church, THE WRITINGS DOWN OF and Rev. M. Mac Vicar, D. D., Super¬ DOROTHY HOLCOMB. Normal, intendent of Education of the Home Two Scientific and Mission common-sense, real-girl sort of girls; their Classical, Society. One very rainy Sun¬ experiences and various happenings, projects, day Miss Upton gave a most inter¬ opinions. Theological. esting Bible Reading which caused us For Catalogue and Information, to One Man’s Adventures, by forget our regret that the minister write to could not come. LIEUT.-COL. THORNDIKE. Rev. George Sale, A dozen thrilling adventures, strictly true. FROM AFRICA. President. In Arctic Pack-Ice. Lukunga, S. W. Africa, Aug. 19, 1891. A Tiger’s Breath. Nora has left Palabala, and joined us in Out of Paris by Balloon. the work here at Lukunga. I am very hap¬ Getting away from Gibraltar. py, she will be such a help to me. She is On Board a Pirate Junk. to have charge of the printing, and help me A Night with a Chinese Prefect. each afternoon in the school. We mean to make the best of our time and talent 35 Leonarl SI, 1. IIo w I became a Seneca Indian. for Him who called us to His vineyard. ATLANTA GEORGIA. 2. The Strawberry Feast at the Long House. Pray for us that we may follow Jesus very 3. With Seventy Sachems. closely in all we do or say. We are endeavor¬ For Women and Girls. 4. The Fire-fly Song of Indian Children. ing to make our schools the best in Congo- land. It is strange that in years gone by A New Kind of Indian Story, by It has Preparatory, Normal, and Higher we used to speak of and say when Normal Modern Africa, MRS. HARRIET MAXWELL Courses, also Courses in we came here, we would stop at the same Languages and the Classics. place, have a school, one of us would be CONVERSE. Special attention is given to the prepa¬ Miss Packard, and the other, Miss Giles; ration of pupils for teaching. now the Lord has brought us together here. The Normal Training School affords an But of course we are not so “proud” as to Short Stories; How Christmas Came in the, Lit¬ opportunity for practical work by the Nor¬ think so tle Black Tent, Charlotte M.Vaile; Christy Ann’s Rcz- highly of ourselves, for we are not mal students. Connected with it, is a worthy. But we are endeavoring to instil anoy Picnic, Mary Hartwell Catherwood; The Mori- Kitchen Garden. into the hearts and minds of those under our arity Duckling Fair, Florence Howe Hall; The War The Industrial Department is made a charge the blessed truths and words of life, of the Schools, (Two-Part Story), Capt. C. A. Curtis, prominent feature. and our ones were U. S. A.; and many others, by Jessie Benton Fre¬ be to them what loved The Nurse Training School is in success¬ and are to us. mont, Margaret Sidney, author of Five Little Peppers ful operation, under a competent Trained Sept. 7. A visit from my fever friend and Grown Up, John Preston True, L. T. Meade, etc. Nurse. afterwards work and indisposition have Ballads, Poems, Pictorial Articles, by Mary Board, (including tuition and room rent) $7.00 a taken all month in advance, $7.50 if energy. It is the first fever I have E. remaining unpaid till Wilkins, Susan Coolidge, Celia Thaxter, Mrs. the end of the month. had for six weeks. Don’t you think that is Jane G. Austin, and others. Street cars run every fifteen minutes, from the cor¬ doing well ? Have never gone so long with¬ ner of Broad and Marietta Sts., directly to Leonard. out before. By Mrs. Clahin’s coming, I have D. LOTHROP COMPANY, For catalogues and further information been relieved of the town schools. I have address now only the two station schools. It is a Publishers, Miss PI. E. Giles, 1 great relief, though I have never to hunt up work. —Clara A. Howard. BOSTON, MASS. Miss L. H. Upton, j Pri"ciPals' SPELMAN MESSENGER. 7

HEALTH DEPARTMENT. of the body, a perfectly natural result j ZklcarSs: Your H*i nen. of activity. With Indelible Ink Conducted by Dr. J. H. Hanaford, Read¬ This unusual activity is exerted un¬ 2 or O I.ctter ing, Mass., to whom all questions of gener¬ der very unfavorable circumstances, Monograms with al interest should be directly addressed. Bottle of Indelible more or less perilous to every function Ink, BO cents. of the ( Whether ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye body, unduly exhausting the Sent upon receipt do, do all to the glory of God.) vital forces. This human machine is ofprice. Address subject to the laws which regulate WM. BAU5IGARTEN, ALCOHOLIC STIMULATION. mechanical industries, every machine 213 E. Fayette Baltimore, Md, —Agents Wanted, -— run at an unusual speed producing un¬ What is stimulation? It is the fa¬ due friction, attended by loss of pow¬ vorite theory with certain practitioners ers and waste. The commotion and —in sympathy with the liquor traffic, undue activity of the internal organs, it may be—that some intoxicant must though less apparent, are just as ex¬ be given for the purpose of“bridging hausting, as those relating to the out¬ over ” the supposed chasm, or “pulling ward members, as illustrated by the through” some almost impassable difference between moderate walking quagmire of disease, aiding the re¬ and the most rapid running. It is cuperative powers. the acknowledged law7 of all chemical I am not aware that any ofthis class stimulation that weakness and loss ol claim that alcohol contains any real vitality must result. This differs raHleboro nutriment, anything to sustain the mus¬ widely from what we regard as most Vh. cles, all admitting that it is a virulent “food stimulation”, attended by nu- i 159 TremcrU J5L Boston Mass poison. This being true, it is not trition and an increase ot physical Broad^Babama 5i\ strange that the human body should power, instead of waste. Atlanta ©a. be endowed with remarkable re-active The familiar statement that a jad¬ Send for Catalogue to and recuperative powers. When, there ed horse may be made to “ pull Estey Organ Co. , fore, alcohol, this active poison, comes through” a muddy ditch by a single Cor. Broad & Marietta Sts., ATLANTA. GA. in contact with any organ, muscle, blow of the whip, is often used in fa¬ nerve, or fibre, resistance alwajs re¬ vor of this alcoholic stimulation, but AMERICAN NOTION CO. sults. As soon as itreachesthe it is stomach, presumed that no wise and hu¬ T. N. WiNSLOW. Importer, Jobber, & Retailer, mane horseman the absorbents immediately commence would continue lash¬ Hosiery, Corsets, Art Embroideries, the work of Ribbons, Gloves, Dress Trimmings, ejection, arousing them¬ ing for the rest of the journey or Laces, Handkerchiefs, White Flannels, selves to their Muslin Underwear, W7hite Goods, greatest activity, remov¬ during its life time, because one blow Embroideries, Linens, Towels, ing the intruder. The remaining por¬ was successful. In the case of the Neckwear, Blankets, Quilts, Children’s Cloaks, Gossamers, Notions, tion is almost rudely thrust out into the sick, one sinking or in a fainting fit, Infants’ W'ear, Parasols, Umbrellas. bowels, where it is soon recognized a single dose of such a stimulant Agent for Struttgarter, Jaeger, and Ypsilanti San¬ itary Underwear, Double Ve and Equipoise Waists, as a foe to every function of the body, may be of service, simply putting Robinson Umbrella Covers, John D. Cutter’s Silks. Stamping done neatly and promptly. a the a part being absorbed, and quickly sent system in condition to receive,— 28 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. Telephone 282. to the various channels. Other por¬ nourishment, notstimulus, beingin di¬ tions remain there still, as pure alcohol rect demand. It is an acknowledged as when imbibed, since the digestive fact that all intoxicants tend always A. McD. WILSON, apparatus has no power to digest this to debilitate, even when taken by the poison, no power to render it available robust, all eventually yielding. It 40 Peachtree St., to the system. It is hurriedly forced seems reasonable to suppose that the along, eventually reaching the sensi¬ legitimate tendencies of intoxicants Atlanta, Ga. tive heart, where it is known as a foe upon the healthy, will be equally cer¬ and treated as such. This organ increas¬ tain to follow" the use ofalcoholic stimu¬ es its contractions, does its best to hur¬ lants by the sick, the poison not beiug PACKARD AND BALL, ry it to the lungs, where it is summari¬ changed in its character by being called DEALERS IN ly thrust into the six hundred millions medicine. If they will uniformly Confectioneries, Fruits, and Light of air-cells, still alcohol, to be distrust¬ break down the strong and vigorous Groceries, ed and eventually, why can we imagine dif¬ expelled, passing off in the 420 W. 9th St., CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. breath, in which it is readily detected, ferent results on the sick ? The great sometimes aid in the removal ofdisease is strength, producing combustion. It TEACHERS WANTED. has been known as differing widely the ability to array some efficient force For vacancies of all kinds in nearly every section from food, treated as a foe. The ag¬ against the disease. As we have seen, of the United States. Write and learn about the alcohol is not nutrition, imparts no wonderful success of our well-tried gressive assaults of this poison result CO OPERATIVE PLAN in a “war of real expulsion,” attended by strength, and that stimulation is of obtaining vacancies, and filling positions unusual activity, arousing every power but another name for debilitation; through local agents and members. Circulars and application-blank free. Agents wanted. to do its best in defending the sys¬ food is to be taken only when there is NATIONAL UNIVERSITY BUREAU, tem, protecting a reasonable appetite. its integrity, attended 147 Throop St., CHICAGO, ILL. by such a commotion as might be ex The learned Dr. B. W. Richardson pected in any assaulted country, while says, “the action of alcohol is to lessen SAMPLE COPIES FREE. intent the mtiscular power; upon the expulsion of invaders. that it weakens THE SUNNY SOUTH, our great Southern This is but the ordinary phase of stim¬ the muscles, and that, carried a little Family Weekly, should be taken in every house¬ hold. The price is only $2 a year, and a present too ulation. The attending feverishness far, it disables them for work al¬ which is worth that amount or more is sent ior ev¬ ery yearly subscription. A sample copy will he is but another name ac¬ for increased together, so that they can not support sent free to any address. Write at once to tivity, accompanied by increased heat the weight of the body.” J. H. SEALS & CO., Atlanta, Ga. 8 SPELMAN MESSENGER.

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