The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-17

pearance of culture or wealth, pride and self-satisfaction. They are exceedingly difficult to reach. Settlement work is the only method which seems likely to be fraught with any results, We have little of it. and something of the same general kind is done in North Carolina. The attempts to reach them by handsome churches, ornate ritual, do not appear to have been successful.
 'They are temporarily affected by some intense excitement whether sensual or mental q can scarcely denominate 1t spir- ituaD, but the practical and permanent hold upon them of religious opinion is slight, as it is upon children, which in- deed they are in intellect and spiritual culture. The old and tested force of Christian love, expressing Itself in genu- inc sympathy. sacrifice and contenued service, Is the only power capable of reaching them. They present a problem which the church in the south is com pelled to study carefully and to push vigorously If any considerable number of them is to be won, but very little seems to be accomplished until their minds have undergone some training and their ideals of life raised above animal existence.
 Hope for Negroes.
 Church work among the negroes, as far as 1t has gone. contains many elements of hopefulness. When the negro becomes a Christian he gains totally different conception of the meaning of religion from anything in vogue among the racial sects
 They raise slowly to the standard of morals, but they appreciate the differ ence of that which they have accepted. have been told repeatedly by many of their best men that the Episcopal church is the only body which contains and pre- sents the true elements of redemption and elevation to the negro. There is a marked and observable difference in the morals, the manners, the worship of these children of the church and other members of the race.
 Dignity, modesty, temperance amend blity to authority are the early results of church training: and wnere they are not misled by bad teachers and guides they are tractable and steadfast. Our duty to them includes industrial training in company with definite church instruc- tion, and A fair amount of attention will find a rich reward. I cannot con- cude without some indication of the chief causes of our slow progress in the south, other than inherited difficulties and obstacles.
 Other Causes of Delay.
 T. EducatlOn. The SOutn IS siduuaiiy arising. not out of lethargy, but out of poverty, to meet the demands. The state and the church are both alive to the needs, but the church less than the state. While all the denominations have many respectable schools and colleges Tn every state, the church has not half a dozen grammar schools in the entire south. 2. We want larger force of consecrated men and women
 ~.to oIn clergyman for every three counties. Many of our missionaries cover territory of fifty square miles. An allotment would give to each 1000 square miles and one third of a million souls for each mans parish. Means. of course. are needed, but men first and the money will come. we want your sympathy. your intelligent appreciation, more than we do your money. We want you to trust us, to be- lieve that we are doing, as a rule, the best we can to rise to our opportunities"
 Bishop Kinsolving told of the situation in Brazil, and of the efforts being made there to bring about liberty in religion. Bishop Rowe described his efforts to carry the gospel to the natives of the far north and continue the church among those who have gone to that region in the past few years.
 Bishop Henry Goldman Potter of New York, who presided, spoke briefly on in dustrial problems. He s~'d that caste within the church in times past had done much to keep the working people out of it. He thought great lesson was to be learned from the recent visit of the arch bishop of Canterbury, who, although he came from a country where rank was more prominent than here. he was just as gracious to the humble as to those in high stations. The speaker told how the English primate, when in Coopers-