n in all its forms of unbalanced feeling
lay far beneath His holy life. A righteous indignation against
Phariseeism He felt; He was moved with compassion when He saw the
people scattered abroad as sheep without a shepherd; in numberless
forms in the presence of sorrow and want His emotion was stirred, but
the machinations of wicked men against the establishment of
righteousness, He contemplated with imperturbable equanimity. It was
not merely that He had a strong faith that all such opposition was
the imagination of a vain thing. He knew that it was so.

It may not be given His disciples to walk so much by knowledge as
did the Master, but where He leads, they can follow in a faith that
shall sustain them and give them triumph in every path of duty.
Opposition may meet them. Difficulties may lie in the path. Evil men
may oppose them, and good men, misinterpreting their motives and
misunderstanding their work, may misrepresent them. But what matters
it? Conscious in the strength that they are doing right, they will
work on unhindered and undisturbed. Christian virtue finds in its own
development all the reward necessary to stimulate continuance in well
doing.

* * * * *

THE COLORED PEOPLE AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.

The colored people of the United States are just twenty years out of
the house of bondage. With long centuries of barbarism and two
hundred and fifty years of slavery behind them, they started out
homeless, landless, moneyless and experienceless. The New Orleans
Exposition was to have exhibits from all lands: Asia, with its
millennium of transmitted achievements; Europe, with its centuries of
enlightened development; the United States, with their wonderful
improvements on the best the world had produced, were all to be
there. What show could the twenty-year-old freedmen make in such
company? The very idea of their attempting to put in an appearance
would seem absurd.

But the colored people desired at least to stand up and be counted.
They determined to be there. The entire gallery in one end of the
immense Government building was assigned them, and the specimens of
their skill more than filled it. They came from nearly every State
and Territory in the Union. Their exhibits represented almost every
department of mechanical, agricultural and artistic skill. Excellence
in workmanship, fertility in invention, tastefulness in the fine
arts, were all displayed to a remar