esbyterian board, especially intended for
girls, is so well and forcibly expressed, we are sure it will be
appreciated by every reader.

"The urgent call from the black belt is the cry of souls in
distress, the cry of humanity. Fifty years of unprecedented
progress, in every line of industrial and intellectual pursuits and
religious development, on the part of a considerable number of the
colored people, show clearly, that the negro is capable of receiving
and using to good advantage the education and training of the
christian school."

"Industrial education, that lacks genuine christian culture, does
not provide leaders of the right character to redeem the race, and
many of our friends in the south do not care to open to the negro
the doors of opportunity, to develop and manifest the best that is
in him. It is therefore to the christian church of the north and to
individuals, who have come to recognize the bond of human
brotherhood, to whom this infant race still makes its appeal."

"The sad and degraded condition of great masses of the race in many
localities of the south, ought to be an appeal, silent indeed but
sufficiently strong, to awaken the sympathy of every one, capable of
being touched by the cry of needy humanity. As a representative of
the great Presbyterian church, that has called me into a very
important and necessary field of her work, I earnestly appeal to our
people to do more for the establishment and fostering of christian
schools among the great masses of the black belt."

"The christian church and the christian school have something to
give, that can be gotten nowhere else. The public school where
established and industrial training where available are good and
necessary. But the christian school is still needed and very
greatly, to give moral and spiritual ballast to the individual. The
leaven of gospel power and purity is needed, to give moral strength
to the character and the highest degree of usefulness in life."

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

"Christian education is not narrow, it takes in every phase of
training that is essential to produce a well developed and useful
life. It touches and tints industrial training with a brighter and
richer glow. It quickens the faculties of the mind, adds keenness to
the power of percept