The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-15
AT DWIGHT PLACE CHURCH.
REV. E. T. WARE SPEAKS ON
 NEGRO QUESTION"
Chaplain of AtIansa University Ous. fines Situation and Suggests PrOced- ure of ReIief-His Address In Detail.

Atlanta university, SpOhe al the eFen- | ing service at Dwight Place church last evening. His theme was Chris i ton Brotherhood and the Negro Prob lem" MT. Ware is the son of Edmund | A. Ware, who was the founder of Atlan- ta university, and it's president until his death in 1885. The speaker said that | there was one note of truth which ill decades past sounded forth like a clarion call to battle encouraging the 1 down trodden and giving strength to 1 their helpers, and it must always sound I in the hearts of men if their work for 1 the negroes is to be in the long run wholesome and helpful-that Is the note of the brotherhood of man. Mans best possessions are the things of the mind and soul. There is no people under the sun who have exclusive right to these possessions. In years past the Jewish people thought that the kingdom of God was to be the kingdom of the Jews. They were mistaken. The inheritance of of the kingdom Is for any man of any nation who is willing to receive it, 1 whether he be a lew or gentle. It l has been the habit of the world to look upon the negroes as the Jews looked upon the gentiles: but the vision of | heaven which came to Peter upon the housetop at Joppa and which speaks in 1 the heart of Christians to-day says that we have no right to call any man com- mon or unclean. s
 This is the vision of humanity in ob- l ofr rx,I,t O people went from New England south in the educational crusade of the eos. 1 There is a tendency to underestimate 1 the value of the work then done for the negroes. We are told that those earn est young people though sincere were mistaken in supposing that the negro was capable of any real development and that their work was lacking in the saving grace of being practical. In a narrow mategial sence of the work the schools then established were not ''prac- tical," but in broad sense they were practical, for they not only developed the character and ability of the stu dent who attended. but they prepared the way for the public school system for | the negroes, and for the industrial schools which soon became such an im- portant factor in their education.
 As such schools as Atlanta university, with the normal and higher training were necessary as f0rerunners of. the present educational work among the negroes. so they are necessary to-day to maintain the standards of that work. It takes more than a grammar school training to make a good teacher of a grammar school. and one who is to be at the head of an industrial school must be more than a good carpenter, This is not theory imposed upon an unwilling and unconvinced south At the recent Richmond educational conference Chan cillor Hill of the University of Georgia, a southerner of the southerners and a true friend of the negro, said, after speaking on terms of high praise of Hampton and Tuskeges, 'The Negro Race Must Have Its Teachers and Preachers-its leaders of thought. The higher education is necessary in order that the lower education suitable for the masses may be rationally planned land conducted"
 MT. Ware spoke of the development and work os Atlanta university and of the work of the graduates, SO per cent. of whom are teaching among their peo- pie in the public schools, industrial schools and state schools of the south, land others of whom are exerting a wholesome influence and doing large service for their fellows as professional linen.
 The following statement explains the Immediate purpose of MT. Wares visit to New Haven:
 Statement, June 10, 1903.
 For the past three years the generous gifts of our friends have enabled us to meet all our current expenses and last year to reduce our debt by $3,000 and to add a like amount to our permanent funds, thus making a net gain of $6,O0O. During the year now closing. while our general donation income has been near iy equal to that of last year, there has been a large decrease in the amount of special gifts and legacies available for current expenses. In consequence of this we find ourselves in this, the last lmonth of our fiscal year. with pros- lpective need of at least $10.0O0 in addi- tion to the usual donations of the month to enable us to close our books without a deficit, and thus repeat the good rec ord of the past three years.
 At our recent commencement we graduated thirty-three young negro men and women. nearly all of whom will soon be engaged in teaching and other work for the uplifting of theil race. Our eighth Atlanta conference held during commencement week, fol the careful study of the negro problems was one Of the most profitable of the series. A new building for a practice school and kindergarten for our norma department is to be immediately erected with funds already provided by the gen. eral education board o9 New York anG a few other friends. Our course o1 study has just been carefully revised and strengthened. In a word, the out. look for the continued and increasing usefulness of our work was nevel brighter than now, and we appeal witt confidence to all our friends to tide us over our present financial emergency and to plan for a more liberal support for the coming year.
 Horace Bumstead, President