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and, worse than all, criticised by a
number of our own Negro Baptists. I
hope, sir, that you will not remember
it, and so far as my own brethren are
concerned, | believe their criticism
was sincere, for they had been told
that there was a Negro in the wood
Ipile.
Il think, siTe since knowing you so
well, that you simply prayed for them
as Stephen did his prosecutors. say
ing, Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they say
But, sir, | want to step from that
day to this day, and tell you that you
sowed in better soil, and better seed
than you were possibly aware that
you were sowing. From that little be
ginning eleven years ago l have In
yited you here to see a plant located
on four large lots, six brick buildings,
four of which we have erected with
our own hands. | shall not discuss
the first cost Of these. for it was not
more, perhaps, than $25, 000. But |
tell you, sir, that a wealthy syndicate
of Tennessee has asked me a third
time if our Board would consider a
cash proposition Of surrendering our
entire real estate and buildings for
$4,000, which proposition | have not
even so much as laid before our Board,
for they would only laugh and say,
This property is not for sale
Il fgl1 Won Gin thof mo hnxtn ,aooCpt
ly taken stock, and made out an item,
lied inventory, which shows our stock
and machinery are invoiced at $780,
600. Hence from that little beginning
the plates that you furnished us,
the advice and encouragement that
you gave us eleven years ago, took
root, sprang up and has .grown to a
plant that must stand valued in the
market to-day at more than $3.50, 600.
"As a small token Of our apprecia-
ton, or perhaps | had better say, as
an attempt to convey to you some Of
the gracious appreciation for allowing
US, the then 100000 Negro Baptists,
but now $500, 600 Negro Baptists, and,
ii possible, in your declining days to
give to you the assurance that you have
to-day more innocent Negro children
asking blessings upon you and youI
successors; more poor, yet proud and
ambitious Negro Baptist IGNORING the
name of j. NJ. Frost and his success
sors, than any other one mar in
America; to serve as a memory or a
sign, | to-day present to you this
ebony wood, gold-headed cane. Sir, this
ebony wood will remind you that two
million Negro Baptists honor the
name and appreciate the acts of j. NJ,
Frost and his associates.
"The gold upon this cane sir, is not
presented to you for the intrinsic
value of gold, but because it is the
purest metal known to civilization
we desire that this shall serve to re-
fresh your memory that the hearts OF
Negro Baptists, and the gratitude
therein to you, is as pure as the gold
that covers the surface Of this cane.
you will notice, again, sir, that the
knob upon the top of this cane il
round that is, it is endless. The true
appreciation and the gratitude of the
two million Negro Baptists are as end
less and as b%oundless as the circle thai
forms the head Of this cane.
eve have had simply engraved upor
the head of this cane five words
National Baptist Publishing Board
1896 These five words, sir, represenI
five million people 1.-TWO million Negro
Baptists and three million followers)
When you shall at leisure examine this
engraving, do not think of the little
plant of siy brick buildings, the dozer
or so printing presses, the binding ma
chinery, the boilers, steam engines, the
electric plant, s%tereotyping, the en-
craving, etc, which are in them, but
think of their meaning and read i,
from bottom towards the top, from
right towards the left, and you will
read, 1896, Board, Publishing, Baptist
National.
1--WE use the word Board here, sir.
to represent a Christian organization
We use the word Publishing to tell
hat this organization is spreading the
glad tidings of a rcsurrected Christ
throughout the United States, Canada,
Mexico, South America, West Indies
Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Philippine
Islands, West, Central and South
Coast Africa, calling the benighted
sons of Ham to awake from their
long drowsy slumher, and get ready to
r~aunitn with thnir brOthprc thn sons