Home Mission Monthly, Volume 29, Issue 6Presbyterian Church, Woman's Executive Committee of Home Missions., 1915 |
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Page 141 - GOD sends his teachers unto every age, To every clime, and every race of men, With revelations fitted to their growth And shape of mind, nor gives the realm of Truth Into the selfish rule of one sole race...
Page 156 - The women's boards of missions have organized the Council of Women for Home Missions and the Federation of Women's Boards of Foreign Missions.
Page 146 - God of all races, will you please, Sir, come in and take charge of de min's of all dese yere white people and fix dem so dat dey'll know and understan' dat all of us colored folks is not lazy, dirty, dishones', an' no 'count, an' help dem, Lord, to see dat most of us is prayin', workin', and strivin, ' to get some land, some houses, and some ed'cation for ourselves an' our chillun, an
Page 146 - ... spectable men an' women. Help us, Lord, black an' white, to understan' each other more eve'y day. " The prayer of this old colored man expresses, in a crude but effective fashion, the feeling and desires of the best Negroes and the best white people of the South. The sentiment of this prayer is becoming more and more universal, and it is actuating as never before the best thought and the highest aspirations of our Southern people.
Page 145 - ... Because the tongues of Garrison And Phillips now are cold in death, Think you their work can be undone ? Or quenched the fires lit by their breath ? Think you that John Brown's spirit stops ? That Lovejoy was but idly slain? Or do you think those precious drops From Lincoln's heart were shed in vain ? That for which millions prayed and sighed, That for which tens of thousands fought, For which so many freely died, God cannot let it come to naught.
Page 152 - Michigan, that a prize of one thousand dollars is offered for the best essay on "The Essential Place of Religion in Education, with an Outline of a Plan for Introducing Religious Teaching into the Public Schools.
Page 139 - The Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
Page 148 - as the 'spirituals' are the spontaneous outbursts of intense religious fervor, and had their origin chiefly in the camp-meetings, the revivals and in other religious exercises. They breathe a childlike faith in a personal Father and glow with the hope that the children of bondage will ultimately pass out of the wilderness of slavery into the land of freedom.
Page 146 - County is doin' his lebel bes' to make frien's an' get along wid de white folks. Help dese yere white folks, O Lord, to understan' dis thing. Lord, while you is takin' charge of de min's of dese white people, don' pass by de colored folks, for dey is not perfec'— dey needs you as much as de white folks does. Open de Negro's blin...
Page 151 - ... change in half a century ? Material aid and helpful sympathy have come from the white South. But it is mainly the result of the abounding intelligence and the better directed energies of the Negro, aided by those who believe in him. But who has guided and directed his uncertain, tottering steps up from darkest slavery into the beckoning future ? The answer is ready upon the tongue of nearly every Negro in this nation—