The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-09
IIIE I'll he, RACE

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japanese. rounded out and sloritled,
girded and coronated, with all thac IS |
most splendid and best from the races /
OF a world. She has marred no race S /
Ideal, she has sacrediy guarded ana
sglorified her own. What she mas
done and is doing the other races OF
Ethe world should strive to do. ca
must do, or fall below their possibil
ftfes. TIE NEGRO RACE, or that
ten millions of il in this country, is
nerba ps at this time most in need OF
realizing this truth, and laying hold
Of it with death-like grip and deter
nination. bring themselves up to the
hone and life wrapped in it. Because
white men, naddened by political in
toxication or success in battle, blum
dered into hypothicating that one race
could work out its destiny by taking
the helm of another, or struggling for
the possession Of that ideals helm,
I71ora i; no reason for pressing this
error to itswreckins conclusion. We
shall perhaps get the most unbiased
and clearest comprehension of this Vi
ital law if we make a study Of the ideal
| history God has left us for this very
purpose. The scope and purpose of
this paper, being simply to direct
/ mems attention to tle laws of racial
/ life and development for study, and
/ not in any sense full study of these
4 truths, must of necessity be brief.
i 1t was not because God was weak,
forgetful, or wanting in love and pur-
pose that Israel. though he went into
Egypt when Joseph was next to the
throne and came out when Moses
/ might have been in that throne, that
fIe caused the Nations time TO be
spent in serving in the brick kilns or
in the toll as manual laborers, instead
of amid the lobDies and Offices of the
court or splendors of the mental
4 schools arenas. Israel was sent to
Egypt. not to make slIillfui politicians
and polished Egyptians. but to get the
handicrafts and discipline of mind and
body that would be OF most service
in working out q civilization yet to
come, the pattern of which should
be shown in the mount Moses, as
Pharoah might and probably would
!, have made a magnificent one, but he
never would have been the world S
Moses the great light and g1ary
of humanity. No man, no race can
ever grow great by apirg another. Is
rael must leave Egypt with all of its
ancient and splendid civilization.
must cross that boatless, bridseiess
sea, and with awe and agony press on
, on, on, thirsting. struggling, trusting
| through that great and terrible will
, derness" to Eoreb's flame wrapped
: beneath the terrors of thar Divine
| nearness. receive his own Heaven
drawn IDEAL the working out OF which
should ultimately produce The Son OF
i Man. one and the same with THE
Son of God" Man making in the
| image of God" is the highest fruitase
of family, National or racial life. Sc
t the God man lay wrapped in the de
: velopment of Israel's own racial idea
r and never could have come from going
| to any possible height in that of the
> Egyptian. The skill learned in Egyp
t tian workshop enabled Israel to buil(
: all the material structure necessary
y to housing and homins of the visible
S parts of the ideal. and SO may tha
e gained by any race from any othel
q
d structon of the God-given ideals; bu
S the ideal must be it's oWn-must bt
} sacredly suarded-and to it must bs
Y heroica}ly and sacrificially given al
! that is nOblest and best in the race
F. Its ISaacs must be laid on its altars
S its Christ must ascend its cross. Thus
G and only thus, can any race develO]
= its manhood. IF l be lifted up l vii
s. draw all men unto me-" is the voice o
v the perfect life, pressing to it's perfec
4 ideal. The Son of Man" found tn
n appliances of rallying beaten human
"a ity, arresting a world from despai
s. and saving humanity from death, no
IS on Caesars throne, but on Calvary
s. cross, where he crowned and Slor
V fed IsraeIs ideal of life and sacrifice
l. Now then, fastening to the light an
g truth in the issue before us: The Ne
II gro race can never be apng the whit
4 man. 1t can never be safe attemptin
# to mar or manage the white man
d ideal of life. He must to his Ow
n mount. however deep The sea TO cross
n however great and terrible the wi
T. derness horrors may wait. He mus