National Baptist world., 1894-10-19

for the emancipation of the soul
the mind, the will and the intellect
we must look toward the church.
1t is the source Of all moral reforma-
ton. Judge Tourgee, Drs. Morgan
and MorehOuse still live to cham
pion our cause.
RETROSPECTION.
America is the ro-American'
home. Our all is here. We have
demonstrated our capacity for the
highest intelligence. Fred Douglas,
the lecturer; Langston. the scholar;
Lynch, the Statesman; Simmons,
the author and preacher; Bishop
Payne, the poet and theologian;
Granville T. Wooes, the electrician;
Williams, theahistorian, t. Thomas
Fortune, the journalist and econom-
ist; Straker, the eminent jurist and
lawyer; Booker L. Washington and
Prof. Fl Page are illustrious charac-
ters among many others who are
examples worthy of emulation.
Their names are linked with the i'm
mortal But what of the 100000
young men and young women that
are coming on after them? They
must have place in the industrial
army of the nation. Americans are
a money-getting and money spend
ing people. [ apprehend that with
in the next 100 years this oppressed
and deluded race will give to the
world a genius, who, by modern
electric appliances will make it pos
sible for a Congressman living at
Parsons to breakfast with his family,
arrive at Washington in time to per-
form his Legislative duties, and re-
turn home for supper the same even
ing. Is this strange picture? TIC
us nothing seems impossible. O.
fathers, apprecentice your children
to trades! We ought to have SOC
boys and girls attending the agricul.
tural college. Manhattan; 100 at the
State University, Lawrence and 20(
at the State Normal, at EmpOria
Our University is one of the best in the
Union. Mr.. B. K. Bruce, Principal ot
the South Lawrence public school, a
scholar and journalist, and Mr.. S. A.
Harvey, Clerk of the District of Doug.
las County are the only two graduates
from full course in the classical de.
partments, however, | am proud to
say, Messrs. Brooks, Gray, Ellis and
Townsend have honored the depart.
ment Of law.
There are few bright stars in the
world Of space. But let us have more
Of them. A few more great schools
like Shaw, Howard, Wilberforce, Lin
coin College, Tuskogee Manual Train.
ing school, State University, Kentucky
Ecstein Norton College will make il
possible for rs to batter down the
doors Of prejudice. Already the march
and tread Of young army of Negro
Americans armed with the panoply OF
the mechanic, the artisan, the architect
the engine and plano is causing the cas-
ties of the naughty to tremble. Oul
national life is changing. 'Tempors
mutantur, ct nos mutamor in Ills >
Soon the i'll winds offate and conditions
will cease to blow, and the race, still
fortified with youthful vigor-Chris
tianized-in the march of the life anC
death of empires and republics, rapa
coins ahd gaudy in their character, will
enter the temple of victory, shocked
but not conquered, covered will
matchless achievements and unendine
prosperity for centuries to como. I'm
til then
$50 live that when thy summon!
comes to join
The innumerable caravan that move!
TO that mysterious realm, where eacl
shall take
His chamber in the silent halls O.
death,
Thou 60 not like the quarry-slave a
night
Scourged to his dungeon, but sus
tanned and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy
grave
Like one who wraps the drapery o
his couch
About him, and lies down to pIeasan
Dreams"
The one great reason why we have
so MANY ignorant Negroes is because