The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . Paul, come over into Macedonia and helpus. And he went over into Europe, and found your 292 The Relation of the Sunday-school to Missions race there; and you know that they were living in thewilderness, and eating the roots of trees, clothing theirnakedness with the skins of beasts, and drinking fromthe skulls of their enemies. And I declare in all earnest-ness, if the gospel could do so much for such an unpromis-ing set as it did for
The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . Paul, come over into Macedonia and helpus. And he went over into Europe, and found your 292 The Relation of the Sunday-school to Missions race there; and you know that they were living in thewilderness, and eating the roots of trees, clothing theirnakedness with the skins of beasts, and drinking fromthe skulls of their enemies. And I declare in all earnest-ness, if the gospel could do so much for such an unpromis-ing set as it did for your ancestors surely it can do muchfor my people. And so I say to you. Christian men and women fromthe North and South and from the provinces, who loveGod and love to have his way known, in order tosolve this problem and all the problems, to make ofevery man the best possible citizen that God wants himto be, let us not be stingy with the opportunities whichGod has given to us. Let us send men the gospel, theSermon on the Mount, the gospel that gives to everyman a mans chance to be and to do the best and highestthings that God wants him to be and to rhc Sunday-school and the Negro Problem 293 The Sunday-school and Church as a Solution of theNegro Problem Rev. D. WEBSTER DAVIS Pastor Second Baptist Church (colored). Richmond, Va. If I were asked to name the mostwonderful and far-reaching achieve-ment of the splendid, all-conqueringAnglo-Saxon race, I would pass bythe Pass of Thermopyl^, the im-mortal six hundred at Balaklava,Trafalgar, Waterloo, Quebec, BunkerHill, Yorktown and Appomattox. Iwould forget its marvelous accu-mulations of wealth, its additionsRev. D. w. Davis to the literature of the world, and point to the single fact that it hasdone the most to spread the religion of Jesus Christ, asthe greatest thing it has accomplished for the better-ment of the human family. If some man would ask me the one act on the part ofmy own race that gives to me the greatest hope
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