The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21

do as well" The audience az we'd
and admired him also. Stewart the
best mind and is the better schol y )ut
Browne is the man of affairs, an Z he
enterprise is most happy in poss, g lg
them both.
Hope for Africa.
Their great controlling purpose was
the elevation of their race-civil liberty
for the negro upon foundation of Chris
tian principle. They called themselves
negroes" with great satisfaction. I was
delighted to hear them and built my
hopes largely upon that fact. 1t is the
only self-respectful term they can use,
and the only true one, and the sooner
they recognize their race in thought and
speech, the sooner they will awaken the
sentiment of patriotism, and that strength
ened by cultivation, will turn for its true
home and country to the land out from
which they were taken. 1 rebel against
the subterfuges of "colored people" and
" "darkies" and black folks" and, worst
of all, freedmen" "Darkey" is certainly
derisive term black folks" is not spe-
cially respectful and freedmen" seems
to be continually casting the shadow of
painful past over the progress of the fu-
ture. would like them all abolished as
clogs and hindrances in the way of their
advancement.
These men gave me new views of the
mental possibilities of the negro, and new
interest in their race. And as l write
my mind glows with the desire to reach
some OF those excellent people of THE
same family in my own dear old State,
and wake in them the resolution to seek
a home in Liberia, where Prof Brownies
wall after an elevation unattainable here
could have no place; but where, on the
contrary, they would find room for all
their energies, scope for all their powers,
space for all their aspirations, satisfaction
for all their longings, and the possibili-
ties of gratifying their largest ambition.
Africa is their Fatherland to which, after
three centuries of absence, they are go
ing back, not as they came out, naked
and stricken, but laden with all the in
tellectual material and industrial discov-
cries of an age of unparalleled progress,
with which to endow and develope it.
Liberia, with a seaboard of 600 miles
and an interior of indefinite extent; with
rich soil, splendid rivers, and every vari-
ETY. of climate; with million of the
aborigines added to her 2t 900 colonial
inhabitants; with free government and
pure religion with schools and colleges;
with the greatest Kingdoms in Christen-
dom in friendly alliance, and with no.
( BILE language freighted with the wisdom
fof the ages, is FIT to be the nucleus of a
dominant power in Africa. And God by
every voice of His providence, seems call
ing upon the American family of Ham to
go up and possess the land of their faith
ers. Oh, that they would hear the call
and depart out of the country in which
after all, they are only "treedmen'" to
that in which they are heenaen by every
right of nature and color and history
o, that they could awake to their sub
lime destiny, the redemption of Africa !
An air of fulflment hovers about the
prophecies of that mysterious quarter,
aud while the eye of faith waits and
watches for the breaking of the dawn
upon the Dark Continent, the heart of the
Christian cannot but long and pray that
however suddenly Ethiopia shall arise
and stretch forth her hand it shall be
the black hand of her own brother that
shall clasp it, and lead her to Christ, and
teach her to utter her penitence and sing
her Hallelujahs in that same English
tongue in which ne had been told OF
Bethlehem and of Calvary. S. G. P. M.