, liberty of
conscience, popular education, missionary activity and true
Christian Catholicity."

President Benjamin Harrison said of it: "The Presbyterian church has
been steadfast for liberty, and it has kept steadfast for education.
It has stood as stiff as a steel beam for the faith delivered to our
fathers, and it still stands with steadfastness for that essential
doctrine--the inspired Word. It is not an illiberal church. There is
no body of Christians in the world, that opens its arms wider to all
who love the Master. Though it has made no boast or shout, it has
yet been an aggressive missionary church from the beginning."

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY.

Lincoln University in Chester county, Pennsylvania, was established in
1854 under the leadership of Rev. John M. Dickey, D. D., pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Oxford, for the classical and theological
education of negroes. The extent and thoroughness of the courses of
instruction at this institution have been amply justified by the success
of its graduates; many in the ministry, and others, in founding similar
institutions of a high grade in the south, as at Columbia, S. C.,
Salisbury, N. C., Holly Springs, Miss., and a number of other places.
Its aim is to furnish trained professional leaders, and it is
accomplishing this object in splendid form. Established before the
Freedmen's Board, it has continued to be maintained without its aid.

IX

THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS FOR FREEDMEN.

ORGANIZED IN 1865.--WOMEN ENLISTED IN 1884.--BOARDING SCHOOLS.--TRAINS
CHRISTIAN LEADERS.--WORTHY OF GENEROUS SUPPORT AND ENDOWMENT.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath appointed me to
preach the Gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
broken-hearted and preach deliverance to the captives."--Luke.

The emancipation of 4,000,000 slaves, at the close of the Civil War, was
the sudden opening of a new and a vast field of opportunity and duty,
before the Christian churches of this land.

The education and moral elevation of the Freedmen became, in both church
and state, a very serious and vital question. Ever since the foundation
of the government, the church, through the voluntary establishment of
academies and colleges, has been co-operating with the civil government,
in the effort to develop in all parts of our land an intelligent
christian citizenship.

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