the North, but who has wakened with the
awakening of the New South.

Writing of the educational movement, in a recent book, he says: "Not a
few of the best men and women of the North have come to teach in these
institutions for colored youth: their motives and their work have not
always been understood, but the Great Day will make manifest how they
have been constrained by the love of Christ, to spend years in work
which has had many discouragements." ('The New South' by J.C.C.
Newton.) A few statistics may give some general idea of the extent of
this movement.

The State of Alabama has 104,150 colored pupils enrolled in the public
schools. It pays an average of $25.97 per month to nearly 2,000
colored teachers, and expends altogether $198,221 upon these colored
schools. Georgia has 49 per cent. of its negro school population
enrolled; that is, 119,248. In 1871, this State had 6,664 only in all
public and private colored schools. Its teachers of this race now
number 2,272. 40,909 colored children are enrolled in Louisiana, with
672 negro teachers, who receive an average of $23.73 per month.

Mississippi had last year 154,430 colored scholars. It employed 3,124
colored teachers who receive an average of $28.73 per month. North
Carolina enrolled, in 1886, 117,562 colored pupils, employed 2,016
teachers of the same race, paying them about the same as its white
teachers, $23.38 per month. The colored school population of Tennessee
numbers 158,450, of whom 84,624 are enrolled in her 1,563 common
schools, which are taught by 1,621 teachers of the same nationality. A
county superintendent voluntarily adds: "I should do our colored
teachers an injustice not to speak of them. Most of them are earnest,
zealous workers, doing all in their power for their race."

Turning now to Texas we find that this State has nearly doubled its
enrollment of colored pupils in three years, which now number 62,040,
with 1,696 licensed colored teachers who receive on an average, $41.73
per month. Virginia has 111,114 out of a school population of 265,249
with 1,734 colored teachers who receive $28.65 per month.

That is, in eight representative States there are eight hundred
thousand colored pupils who are now being trained by over fifteen
thousand teachers of the same race. Now the simple but grave question
that every Christian patriot ought to ask himself is, "What kind of
teachers are these, and where are they to come from in the future?" I