‘Storied urn and animated bust’
that hold the sacred ashes and commemorate the buried grandeur of so many illustrious personages—I catch a fresh inspiration and new impulse of the Divine missionary spirit of our common Christianity; and here in the presence of God, of angels, and of men, on this day sacred to the memory of an apostle whose blessed name was called over me at my baptism, and as I lift up my voice for the first, and perhaps only, time in any of England’s sainted shrines, I dedicate myself anew to the work of God, of the Gospel of Christ, and of the salvation of my fellow-men in the far distant isle of the Caribbean Sea, that has become the chosen field of my Gospel labors.
“O Thou Saviour Christ, Son of the living God, who when Thou wast spurned by the Jews of the race of Shem, and who, when delivered up without cause by the Romans of the race of Japheth, on the day of Thy crucifixion, hadst Thy ponderous cross borne to Golgotha’s summit on the stalwart shoulders of Simon, the Cyrenian, of the race of Ham; I pray Thee, O precious Saviour, remember that forlorn, despised, and rejected race, whose son thus bore Thy cross, when Thou shalt come in the power and majesty of Thy eternal kingdom to distribute Thy crowns of everlasting glory!
“And give to me, then, not a place at Thy right hand or at Thy left, but only the place of a gatekeeper at the entrance of the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, that I may behold my redeemed brethren, the saved of the Lord, entering therein to be partakers with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob of all the joys of Thy glorious and everlasting kingdom.”
Negro prejudice against negroes is likely to yield slowly, and will do so only for good reasons. The prejudices of the whites have so far given way that Atlanta has had its negro juror, who promptly joined in convicting a negro who was put on trial. But the next prisoner, who was also a negro, charged with murder, strenuously objected to having one of his own race on the jury. There was another such case in Virginia some time ago, when a colored prisoner made the same objection, on the ground that “niggers would hang a nigger just to see him kick.”
So against this we note the fact, that the Court of Appeals in Kentucky recently quashed an indictment against a negro, on the ground that the grand jury was composed entirely of white men, and that the law excluding all persons other than white men from serving on juries is unconstitutional.
Negro Teachers.—The author of “Other Fools, and Their Doings,” pays this somewhat rhetorical, but just tribute to the noble women who went forth to add value to the freedom, which, under stress of military necessity, the nation had given to the negro slave—a tribute which will appear more just as the history of our noble workers becomes better known:
“While from thousands of homes brave men came with flaunting flags, and beating drums, and booming cannons, singing as they marched,