A Success

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 4, 1909

THE negro has proved the falsity of the predictions of his enemies, and dispelled the fears of his friends. They said he would give himself to riot and plunder; but he earned the gratitude of the South by his fidelity to the family and the plantation, while his master was fighting against his freedom. They said the freedman would not work, but he raised in one year nearly four million bales of cotton. They ridiculed “Sambo” in uniform, but the steady lines at Petersburg and the charge at Fort Wagner attest his heroism.

What grander enterprise could there be than to take up the cause of a race like this,—the pariahs of the peoples,—distrusting their old guides, and suspecting their present leaders, and prepare for them with timely zeal, and by wise methods, an army of educators who shall give tone to their character, direction to their ideas, and by molding the now plastic material, secure a well-laid foundation, upon which the workmen of the future shall build to the honor of the race and of the nation?—Selected.