The . ecause we trust not in the wisdomof the black mammy of the household when shesays: Didnt I tole you Friday is de fairesor de foules? Bereft will be the South whenthe black mammy lives only in history. Theonly mother who can love as her own the childof another race, and sometimes seem to loveit better, is the black mammy of the Southin the days that are past. When the crooningof her lullabies shall be heard no more, whenthe honey child of her warning is forgotten,the white race as well as her own will have losta heritage that was both a blessing and a curse THE GEORGIA HOM
The . ecause we trust not in the wisdomof the black mammy of the household when shesays: Didnt I tole you Friday is de fairesor de foules? Bereft will be the South whenthe black mammy lives only in history. Theonly mother who can love as her own the childof another race, and sometimes seem to loveit better, is the black mammy of the Southin the days that are past. When the crooningof her lullabies shall be heard no more, whenthe honey child of her warning is forgotten,the white race as well as her own will have losta heritage that was both a blessing and a curse THE GEORGIA HOME 43 to our happy land. For her sake shall not thestronger help the weaker to cultivate the bestof their nature and overcome the dark, evilpassions of their benighted ancestors, leadingthem into the better possibilities of their own race Mayhap there is more sentiment in sendingthe gospel to darkened Africa, but no less isthe need of the gospel of fairness and helpful-ness to the 8,833,994 negroes in our own CHAPTER IV HOME MISSIONSHEN God made man and found itwas not good for him to be alone,he gave him a helpmeet, bone ofhis bone, flesh of his flesh—not fromhis head to be above him, not from his feet tobe trod upon; but from his side, from near hisheart, to be loved; from near his arms, to be pro-tected. Ever since Miriam, with timbrel in hand, ledthe multitude in a triumphant march, and Deb-orah with military tactics overcame Sisera andhis forces, and gentle Ruth gleaned in the field,and Dorcas served as the first deaconess, womanhas played well her part on the stage of life. Realizing the dormant forces of the woman-hood of the great Methodist Church, a goodbishop in conversation with a frail little womanwho was said to be all heart and brain droppeda seed which fell on good ground. When Lu-anda B. Helm, of Elizabethtown, Ky., realizeda great need, soon a great effort was put forth(44) HOME MISSIONS 45 to meet that need; and when, in 1885, BishopHargroves heart
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