cal ethics that differ but little from
the ethics of the pagan.

"Our state schools have no place for the God of the Bible, nor for
the Bible of the only living and true God. The poetry of Homer and
Horace are sufficiently honored, but the finer poetry of Moses, Job
and David are unknown in the courses of study of our schools, except
now and then as specimens of Oriental song. The wise sayings of
Plato and Socrates are reckoned worthy of profound study, while the
vastly greater sayings of our Lord Jesus and Paul are unknown.
Cicero and Demosthenes are commended as great models of public
address, while Isaiah and Ezekiel are seldom mentioned in the four
years of college life, or in the longer years of the secondary
schools.

"That education is incomplete and inadequate for life's best,
which does not include the whole man, and put first things first. If
the heart be not educated and the conscience be not enlightened, the
best trained hand may strike in a wrong manner, and the best trained
mind pronounce wrong judgments.... Our citizenship must be Christian
if it is to promote a Christian civilization."

IV

THE AMERICAN NEGRO

RELIGIOUS INSTINCT.--LOYAL AND PATRIOTIC.--THE FREEDMAN.--HOMELESS AND
ILLITERATE WHEN EMANCIPATED.--FIRST SCHOOLS DURING THE CIVIL WAR.--FREE
NEGROES AND COLLEGE GRADUATES.--50th ANNIVERSARY.

"All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship
before thee and glorify thy name." David.

RELIGIOUS INSTINCT

In commendation of woman's loyalty and sense of obligation to our Lord
Jesus, it has been said of her, "She was last at his cross and first at
his grave, she staid longest there and was soonest here." In recognition
of this fact when he rose from the dead he appeared first to one of
them, Mary Magdalene.

To the credit of men of African descent, it may be said, that one of
them performed the last act of kindness to our Lord Jesus, and the first
individual conversion, of which we have an account in the book of Acts,
relates to another one.

Simon, who assisted Jesus to bear his cross to the place of crucifixion,
was a native of Cyrene in North Africa. The eastern church canonized him
as Simon, the Black one, because his was the high and holy honor of
bearing for the weary Christ, his cross of shame and pain. Our Lord
Jesus was not long in the black man's debt. A few hours l