body else
has done, simply because we are weak and unable to protect ourselves
against the insanity of the prejudice.

The Southern white people, in their haste, are making an unenviable
history at which they will blush in the years to come.

Three innocent people in the State of Mississippi have just been taken
from the officers and lynched, two of whom were women. Can a race of
people said to be friendly towards another race reach such hasty
conclusions? Would not friendship suggest an investigation in order
that the facts in the case may be had? But we are living in the midst
of a people whose civilization is christianized, thus having in it
that friendship which characterised Christ in taking the sins of
mankind upon himself. "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I
command you" (Bible). This text makes friendship conditional and
reciprocal; that is, there can be no friendship without mutuality; so
that the relation which now exists is not based upon friendship, for
the relation which is made to exist is not in accordance with that
moral rule given for the government of man, therefore things are not
what they seem to be in the Southland.

I tell you that the Negro is not satisfied with his condition and the
more he learns of the common rights of the human family, the more he
sees the great wrongs "perpetrated" upon him and the reasons for the
same. You cannot educate a people and crush them, history does not
narrate an instance.

THIRD PAPER.

HOW CAN THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS NOW EXISTING BETWEEN THE TWO RACES IN
THE SOUTH BE STRENGTHENED AND MAINTAINED?

BY REV. S. N. BROWN.

[Illustration: Rev. Sterling N. Brown]

REV. STERLING N. BROWN, A. M., B. D.

Rev. Sterling N. Brown was born in Roane County, East
Tennessee, November 21, 1857. He attended the first free
school ever taught in his county. He entered Fisk University
(Nashville, Tenn.) in 1875, and for some years, during his
terms of vacation, taught school to provide the means with
which to pursue his studies. He was converted when quite a
boy and has been able since, almost continuously, to lead
men to Christ. He began to preach early after his
conversion, and many revivals have followed his ministry.
The first great awakening where, under God, he was the
instrument, was at Kingston, Tenn., where every child in
school, of over one hundred in number, became Christians,