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country they have ever taken thelr
seats in the Hall of Fame.
Slavery waited on her bosom the
| sweet poetess, Phillis Wheatley, the
golden mouthed orator, Fred Doug
lass. Benjamin Banneker, the scien-
tific astronomer, and Crispus At
tucks. Americas greatest hero, pa
triot and martyr.
! Fighting beneath the folds Of the
Stars and Stripes sweeping the
fire-flushed fields of 1861, coming
back limping with the 18th and 14th
amendments in bis arms.
Staggering up San Juan's bloody
hill into the jaws of death, brave as
Caesar, %courageous as Hannibal, dar-
ing as Ethan Allen, the Negro has
followed the flag.
The muse of history seated on the
throne of Beethoven, touched by the
mystic cords of Virgil, will eve sing
of the bravery and daring deeds of
the Black Boys in Blue.
Our ia theirs who have gone down
started the mighty structure, sealed
and cemented it with blood and dying
transmitted their nantes to us.
Lynch and Langston. Bruce and
Murray in the Hall of Legislation
have done their duty well, Scarbor-
ough has written his Greek Gram
mar, and Latin books for all genera
lions to read.
Booker T. Washington, the wizard
of the South, before he died, set 1O,-
600, 900 wheels in motion.
Professor Wright of Georgia, has
told the world that we are rising.
Mitchell, Fortune and Cooper, in
the fields If Journalism, stands in the
foremost ranks. The c~onsecrated
Jackson, the Silver-tongued Isaac, the
Philosophical Griggs and a host of
elouent heralds of the Cross are at
their posts doing Woman service for
God and the Race.
The end is not yet, it is the hour
of morning glory, the birds are sing
ing their sweetest songs, the laugh
ing waters, flushed with purple light
of day move majestically to the dis
tant seas.
Brothers of united friendship, sis
tiers of mysterious ten. if you would
hasten on the glorious consummation
of the Race, continue to enlarge the
place of your tents, stretch forth the
curtains of your h%abitation, spare not,
strike telling blows against anorchy,
treason, lynchings and ~infidelity.
Weigh every a in the scales of
justice. The curtain of our order
is justice, e~ven.handed justice. A
pound for a pound, a penny for a
penny, without regards to persons.
Man for man, m for woman.
Justice is one Of the moral attributes
Of God, who is judge of all the earth.
Justice is the first Cardinal Maxim
of the U. B. F. and S. NJ T. A prin-
ciple that governs the world, that
opens the Gate of Heaven to the beg
gar as we'll as to the prince.
Justice carries no prejudice, has no
malice, dispises none, but deals to
every mar the measure of the law.
Christianity, a beautiful civilization,
with a prayer on her lips, benediction
on her brow, points to a wounded
Christ, a crucified and ~resurrected
Christ, whose word is the old fashion
ed Bible, with its doctrine, Il was
sick and ye visited me, lame and We
gave me a crutch, blind and ye ply
sicianed my eyesight, orphaned and
We mothered my soul. I was lost in
the mountain. and We gave me a home
in prison and We ministered unto my
wants.
| was lost or the mountains and We
heard my cry. l was stepped in sin
and We lifted me up from the miry
clay to the Rock of Ages that Cleft
for me.
/ was an out-cast and We found me
without shelter, We gave me a home,
removed my filthy rags, washed me
in the blood of the Lamb and made
me white as snow.
This is the christianity that you
are spreading throughout the world.
This is the religion of humanity.
Christ is the author and cannot fail
in erecting our temples, soothing and
sorrowing, relieving suffering human
ity, we go in Jesus name.
We cannot fail. He is u buckler,
our shield, our strength abides in his
bow.
He has always fought our battles.
He swore by justice on Sinai, that he
would deal justly.
He swore by mercy when he cross
the bridge of signs and stopped in
the manger for you and me.
He swore by truth when he shook
the earth with his groans on Calvery.
He took our hands in his hand and
promised to be our friend forever.
He put my hand in Gods hand and
declared that whatsoever the Son set
free, is free indeed. Since this craft
of oursha S been out on the sea of
life, you have heard thunders roll,
and you have seen the lightning flash
ing.
The enemy has sought to destroy
you, but Jesus promised to be with
you always. Do you know his name
He is the captain Of our salvation,
and has never lost a battle, armed
with the sword of justice since 1881
you have been on the warfare, bat
ting with sin in high places, with
treacherOus men and women in your