child and a colored child the
same environment and their progress or backwardness, I hold, would be
essentially the same under the same stimulants and encouragements.
Wherever colored and white children have been put to comparative tests
too little attention has been paid to difference of environment, and
too often there has been a dormant presumption that the same
environment would not have produced the same results upon white
children. Wherever these tests have been made it has been too often
overlooked that the facilities for their education were not equal;
they may have been nominally equal but the fact remains that they were
not really equal.

Considering the inequalities of environment and educational facilities
the results of most of the comparative tests are complimentary to the
colored child and demonstrate the similarity of his mental
susceptibilities--demonstrate that he is but a normal constituent part
of the great human race with substantially the same limitations and
capabilities as other members of the great human family.

FOURTH PAPER.

SHOULD THE NEGRO BE GIVEN AN EDUCATION DIFFERENT FROM THAT GIVEN TO
THE WHITES?

BY PROF. J. H. JONES.

[Illustration: Prof. J. H. Jones, D. D.]

REV. JOSHUA H. JONES.

The Rev. Joshua H. Jones was born at Pine Plains, South
Carolina, June 15, 1856. He professed religion at ten years
of age and joined the Shady Grove A. M. E. Church of the
Bull Swamp Circuit, South Carolina. At the age of fourteen
he was made Sunday School teacher, and at the age of sixteen
Sunday School superintendent. By the time he was eighteen he
had served in all the local spiritual offices of the church,
and was then licensed as a local preacher by the quarterly
conference of said circuit. The pastors soon discovered his
usefulness and aid to them. He was a diligent student and an
ardent churchman, and acquired education rapidly. At the age
of twenty-one years he entered the Normal Department of
Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, and in 1880
finished the Normal and College Preparatory Courses. He then
taught and preached one year, after which he returned to
Claflin University, and in 1885 graduated with the degree at
A. B. Not daunted nor yet satisfied with his attainments he
came north, studied awhile at Howard University, Washington,
D. C., thence to Wilber