The American Missionary. Volume 50, No. 08, August, 1896

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Various. The American Missionary. Volume 50, No. 08, August, 1896

The Jubilee Year Fund

JUBILEE SHARES

LEADERS

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

THE HISTORIES OF OUR CHURCHES

DEER LODGE, TENN

COMMENCEMENT AT FISK UNIVERSITY

HOWARD UNIVERSITY, THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D.C

LINCOLN ACADEMY, KING'S MOUNTAIN, N.C.M

ALLEN NORMAL SCHOOL, THOMASVILLE, GA

SALUDA SEMINARY, N.C

BURRELL SCHOOL, SELMA, ALA

BLOWING ROCK, N.C

ENFIELD, N.C

LINCOLN SCHOOL, MERIDIAN, MISS

ITEM

A LESSON IN HOME BUILDING

AMONG THE INDIANS

CHINESE

Jubilee Year Fund, Additional Shares

WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS

MAINE

NEW HAMPSHIRE

VERMONT

MASS. AND R.I

CONNECTICUT

NEW YORK

NEW JERSEY

PENNSYLVANIA

OHIO

INDIANA

ILLINOIS

MISSOURI

IOWA

MICHIGAN

WISCONSIN

MINNESOTA

NORTH DAKOTA

SOUTH DAKOTA

BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA

NEBRASKA

KANSAS

COLORADO

WYOMING

MONTANA

IDAHO

WASHINGTON

OREGON

CALIFORNIA

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

NEVADA

UTAH (Including Southern Idaho)

NEW MEXICO

OKLAHOMA

INDIAN TERRITORY

NORTH CAROLINA

GEORGIA

FLORIDA

ALABAMA

TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY AND ARKANSAS

MISSISSIPPI

LOUISIANA

TEXAS

RECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1896

THE DANIEL HAND FUND

CURRENT RECEIPTS

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Our readers will notice that our jubilee share list is increasing in numbers. We have reason to be grateful to God in that he has moved the hearts of so many and led them to help our Lord's needy ones. We would that those who have responded to our appeals could see the things that we see, and hear the things which we hear. We have nothing but gratitude for the fact that in this time of financial distress and uncertainty, when money is so hard to get, the cause which we bring to the Christian love and patriotism of good people is not losing, but gaining in their sympathies and help. This trying year—trying to so many, therefore trying to us—brings a jubilee thanksgiving to us, in that we are not sinking deeper into the horrible pit and miry clay of debt, but are little by little being pulled out of the slough. We know not how long the pull may be, but if those who love the Lord Jesus Christ will pull all together we shall not fail, and we need not be discouraged. Our feet will get upon a rock and our goings be established; for which we pray.

"The Mission Society does not attempt to provide a college education for the multitudes of Negroes; even this would be a task beyond its resources. What it does aim to do is simply to secure, if possible, the education of a comparatively few young men and young women, who shall become leaders among their people; men and women who by their knowledge, training, culture, power, will be able to organize and direct the energies of the masses of the people. Leaders are needed, and these should be thoroughly competent for leadership; it is a hard task to influence successfully the development of a race of eight million people, and those who attempt the work require natural qualities of a high order and also unusual attainments."

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There are those who object to the constitutional rights of the Negro, and some who object to his Christian privileges, lest his recognition as a man shall lead to "social equality," whatever this may mean. The following from a leading Negro paper, i.e., edited by a Negro for a Negro constituency, is a testimony as to what is and what is not the Negro's idea of "recognition":

"That the Negroes in recognizing constitutional rights are at the same time seeking an arbitrary social equality with any other race is erroneous. From the time of emancipation, the colored people have had no disposition to force a social alliance with the whites. The colored citizens have all their civil and political rights, and these rights they demand. When honored colored men or women enter a first-class hotel or restaurant, or seek a decent stateroom on a steamer, they do not enter these places because they are seeking social contact with the whites, but because they demand their just privileges for their personal protection and comfort."

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