Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . from Me ex-cept I drink it Thy will be done. AndGods will was done. And what wasHis will ? That the lost be saved at anycost. Hereby perceive we the love ofGod, because He laid down His life forus. And hereby we know that He abideth in us by the Spirit which Hehath given us. But we grow into Hislikeness and it is the work of the mis-sionary society to train and inspire ourmembers along these lines. We know the work of evangelizing theworld is laid upon the church, but we areslow to realize and accept individual re-sponsibility. I like the spirit of Nehemi-ah, w
Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . from Me ex-cept I drink it Thy will be done. AndGods will was done. And what wasHis will ? That the lost be saved at anycost. Hereby perceive we the love ofGod, because He laid down His life forus. And hereby we know that He abideth in us by the Spirit which Hehath given us. But we grow into Hislikeness and it is the work of the mis-sionary society to train and inspire ourmembers along these lines. We know the work of evangelizing theworld is laid upon the church, but we areslow to realize and accept individual re-sponsibility. I like the spirit of Nehemi-ah, who, when news came to him of thelamentable state of affairs at Jerusalem,at once seemed to feel and say, I mustgo and build those walls. God has said to the church, I willgive thee the heathen for thine inherit-ance. Shall we accept our inheritance?We may when each individual feels thata part of the work is his,—when everyChristian is a missionary. Daleville, Va. CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO THEELEVATION OF THE NEGRO G. H. McDaniel. HEN a man proposesto discuss this sub-ject, he assumeseither that the idealconditions are not, orthat the negro is notthe same as othermen and subject tothe same laws or ruleof intellectual, moral,spiritual and materialdevelopment. Believing as I do in theFatherhood of God and the brotherhoodof man, I choose to contend that thenegro and the white man are essentiallyone in origin and subject alike to in-fluences, and that the differences in menas seen anywhere are the natural resultsof differences in opportunities and en-vironments. The Apostle Paul says, Of one bloodGod made all nations to dwell upon the earth and put no difference betweenthem. In the light of this fundamentalfact, and in acknowledgment of theother fact; viz., that the negro and thewhite man are not equal in civilizationand its fruits, we must contend that theessential conditions to this equality arenot, and also that it devolves upon bothwhite and black to bring them of the
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