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MISUNDERSTANDING
The Greatest ColOred Mission in
America il Situated in
Delaware. @
ST. JOSkPH'SlNDUSrRiAL HOME
At Clayton and in This City the Big
Inst iitutions Flourish .-. Com.
ment on the Work
by Elizabeth v.
Mcguire.

Delaware stands first to-day in the
education of the negro. Principally Is
this due to the labers of the following st
the very Rev. John r. Sattery who e.
tablished colored mission, work in
America.
No State in the union boasts OF as
many coiored mission schools as Della
ware amt they have all 80 recently in-
creased in size and importance as to At
tract the attention OF the country at
large.
St. Joseph's Industrial Home for
coloaed boys in this city is the largest
asvlum in the United States. 1t was
founded by Father De Rnyter t'r the
educat ion and support Of colored orphans
and its inmates to-day number nearly
two hundred.
CONNECTED with this home is the
largest industrial school for colored boys
in America situated at Clayton, Kent
county. Many OF the boys at the Clay
ton School " Which is known as St.
Joseph's Industrial School, were pre-
yiousIy inmates of,tl,e Orphan Asylum
in this city till they became old enough to
engage in this manual work in the
higher school.
At the Clayton school some of the
finest religious statuary is made and
habits of industry are formed which
make a sturdy and sure foundation for a
strong, manly character.
Aguin ut Delaware City there is another
large mission TO which during the past
week extensive repairs and additions
have BEEN nia,te.
All this clearly points out to the
thoughtful mind that the negro OF the
South receives helpful and wise guidance
in Delaware.
In her history Of the founding Of St.
Josepil's two large missions in Delaware
and commenting upon the good they do,
Elizabeth V. Mcguire says:
Looking back over the long years
since emancipation released from bond.
age the black man of the South one can
scarcely imagine the prt dominance ui
that shameful barter Of humanity which
had it's closing in the setting sun OF the
war between North ind South. q
History records the almost hopeless
effort Of the Abolitionist when church
and State. press and pulpit, literature
and fashion, xeret prostrale at IT'S feet.
Laughs Of derision were the response
that greeted their appeals for justice,
and to the voice which pleaded for tile
helpless, dpwntrodden negr" OF the
nnyiSDutli, no ecio oans~ered. but Of
tentiiles the cruel missiles Of mob.
But faith, hope and enthusiasm
strengthened to go onward and adnldst
a generation who first despised and then
feared and hated them increasingly they
pursued their rough, broken journey in
tile path Of right and justice. And now
fur more than thirty years we have had
a free country, no slave treads It's soil,
sectional prejudices are snbsiding, tn.
bitterness OF the civil war has passed
away. While we congratulate one an.
other on the speedy emancipation OF IRE
slaves of the United States we must moi
forget that in granting them Freedom
new and mighty responsibilities devolveo
upDn lis, to aid. direct and educate these
millions, left free, indeed. but bea ildered
ignored and almost hopeless outcasts be
cause OF race.
"We have to undo the accumulated
wrongs uf two centuries; to renlake the
manhood which slavery unn,ade; to SEE
that the long oppressed black man has q
fair opportunity for developments and
improvement and tu treadN under loot
that bitter prejudice which bound 81
strong the territory Of Southern slavery
We must asverd to the Cm istian attitude
---and from there learn to leave un
marked the distinction If black ant
white. allowing that nobIest trait o
American citizenship, the br'therl'noc
Of man, to blend white and black mt,
an honorable union whose strength
shall find its echo in the equality o
man."