e missionary preacher, and while the truth is general
and applicable to all parties, I trust that we may be under the
direction of the Spirit and take to heart these great traits we shall
be looking for in the preacher of the future in the South.

The missionary preacher is a man who, to be effective, should be a
man of spiritual morality, a man of irreproachable character. I
presume the colored man has been maligned in the South, as his
character has so often been brought out among us. One of our
enthusiastic teachers was asked, "How many Uncle Toms do you find in
the South?" And she replied, "About as many as there are in the
North." A truth was there that we ourselves may very well take.

There are three ways in which the Gospel is published. One is in the
book, one is by the voice, and the third by the life. The voice lies
between the book and the life, and the life is the great publication
of the message, and unless we have a voice of a man who is
spiritually qualified by a holy life, we have not a competent Gospel
preacher. In speaking of this matter of morality, we should have
something more in view than natural morals--there is a spiritual
morality. We want the higher. A man who has in himself the Spirit of
God, produces this type of morality. We can not canvass this subject
by the motives of worldliness. It takes two crosses to save the
world--the cross of Christ and the cross of the believer. A
ministerial brother said, in speaking of certain ones, that they had
undergone a deplorable religious transformation, that at one time
they held the Gospel of regeneration, but they had come to love the
Gospel of recreation. Ah, what a transformation has come over too
many of our churches and the community in loving this form of
worldliness!

It is a matter of great satisfaction that our schools in the South
are doing such efficient work in this direction, as reports indicate,
and as private information shows. I quite lately had information from
General Armstrong touching this point of high morality that is
developed in the school. The young men and young women, he said,
compare well with the young men and young women in our Northern
schools. This is a matter of great satisfaction, because the preacher
of the future is to come out of these schools.

The second essential in the missionary preacher, if he is to be
successful, is a mind which is spiritually illuminated, a man who is
intelligent in the truth. I presume