Identifier: spiritofmissions80epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ex-aggeration. Without doubt he wasin many ways the greatest man whichthe negro race in America has pro-duced. Some have even called himits greatest leader, though it must beborne in mind that the leadership ofBooker Washington, though wise andfine and discriminating, was not uni-versally accepted by his own race.There were many who thought thathe truckled to white men and soughtthe money-bags. Smouldering raceprejudice flamed up sometimes abouthim, first on one side and then on theother, but through it all he kept hisaim clear and his purpose steady. Hebelieved both in the inherent worth ofhis own race and in the ultimate jus-tice of the white man, and being agreat man he could afford to wait thedemonstration of the years. But heset about proving both, and becamethe greatest point of contact which hasever been produced for a right solu-tion of the bristling difficulties whichsurround what we call the negroproblem. His educational enterprise at Tus-kegee was, it should be remembered,
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j H * 2 toS ® 68 SB ©t> «5 •So S * S .flr2 o < o <o I—I mw h4 < Oi—i oa 828 The Progress of the Kingdom 829 the development of that which hadalready been given to this ex-slave inthe older institution at Hampton,where the spirit of General Arm-strong still abides. It .was also of thesame sort as our own work in St.Pauls, Lawrenceville, St. Augus-tines, Raleigh, and other more recentschools in the South. But BookerWashington summed up these thingsin his own personality. He was theincarnation of an ideal, and never doideals so make their way as whenthey have become incarnate. THE national missionary cam-paign, which is well under waythroughout the country, is showinggratifying results.The National In many places theMissionary enrolled member-Campaign ship (and thismeans actual paidregistration) is nearly double that inthe same cities during the campaignof six years ago. Should this rate ofincrease be maintained the total ofdelega

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