expenses
incurred in such sale, shall be given to "The Domestic and
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the United States of America," a Corporation existing under the
laws of the State of New York, for the uses of said Society.

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The preacher of the Hale Memorial Sermon shall always be a
clergyman of the American Church, commonly called "The
Protestant Episcopal Church," or of some Church in communion
with the same, or of one of the Orthodox Eastern Churches.

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The Western Theological Seminary has gladly accepted the Trusteeship as
outlined in the above extracts from the will of the late Bishop Hale.

It will be the aim of the Seminary, through the Hale Sermons, to make
from time to time some valuable contributions to some of the Church
problems of the day, without thereby committing itself to the utterances
of its own selected Preachers.

Church Work
Among the Negroes
in the South

CHURCH WORK AMONG THE NEGROES IN THE SOUTH

I take as the South the eleven old slave states, which stood at one time
in armed array against the rest of the United States, which are to-day
as loyal and true to the General Government as any other states in this
great and favored land of ours. They are Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana,
Arkansas and Texas. These states make up one-fourth of the area of the
United States, and their population is about one-fourth of that of the
whole country. These figures and the others that I shall give cannot be
exact, as we are so far away from the last census; but they are close
estimates, and present, I think, a fair idea of the facts as they are
to-day.

In this large section of our country, with only 1.6 per cent. foreign
born, the negroes make up 40 per cent. of the population. They are found
chiefly in the cities and towns, and in the country along the coastal
plains and on the first rise of the hills; we see very few in the
mountain districts.

What of the religious affiliations of the negroes? Nearly every negro is
a nominal church member. The first reason for this is that his childish
emotional nature is essentially religious, fearing or adoring the unseen
powers. The second reason is that the Church is not only the religious
but the social center for the negro,