Friends of the Black Man

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 31, 1900

Friends of the Black Man

IN New York City, the other day, a colored minister, a missionary home from Africa, was obliged to remark that "there had once been a time when the Northern States were full of friends of the black man, who both dared and cared to speak for him at any and all times. But these friends are dying out, and their mantles have not fallen on the shoulders of those who remain." Possibly much of this is because the black man is now more in a position to speak for himself than he was in those days. Possibly some of it is, as suggested, in the greater dearth of such friends of the black man now than there was formerly.