with them.

"The average Negro teacher of the South today must assume his share of
the burden of these problems along with other teachers, whether he wills
it or not. In addition to this he has to deal with the serious problem
of his bread and butter. This makes the burden of the Negro teacher of a
two-fold nature, and in this respect he is at a disadvantage of the
average American teacher. He has not as yet been able to live up to the
Biblical injunction, 'Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat,
or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.' No
teacher can do his best so long as there is doubt and uncertainty about
his daily bread.

"The Negro student who finishes at one of our higher institutions of
learning today, and goes forth to teach, does not find everything to his
liking. He soon learns that there has been no voice before him crying in
the wilderness saying: 'Prepare ye the way of the teacher, make straight
in the desert a highway for our educator.' He learns here for the first
time that in addition to the ordinary educational problems, it is for
him to exalt every valley, make low every hill and mountain, make the
crooked straight, and the rough places plain. He finds no way prepared,
he must make one; he finds no school-house ready, he must build one; he
finds no people anxiously awaiting him, he must persuade them. In many
cases the Negro teacher who is imbued with the spirit of sacrifice and
service can truly say as did the Master, 'The foxes have holes and the
birds of the air have nests, but the teacher who would redeem a poverty
stricken and ignorant people, has not where to lay his head.'

"The purpose of the Snow Hill Institute is to prepare young men and
young women to go into communities where they propose to work and
influence the people to stop living in rented one-room log cabins, buy
land, and build dwelling houses having at least four rooms, and thus
improve the home life of the people. Second, to influence the people to
build better school-houses and lengthen the school terms and thus by
arousing educational interest, assist in bringing about the needed
reform that is so essential to economic and upright living; and finally
to promote good character building. To some extent the purpose is being
realized, for more than one thousand different students who have been
more or less benefited by having spent a year or more under its
guidance, are leading sober and us