and the work of the Holy Spirit, of character which shall meet the
tests of the Judgment Day and the needs of eternal association with
purity. In aiming at this ultimate result, our missionaries are doing
a work of inestimable importance for the nation and the world. They
are successfully working upon some of the great problems of this
country, which armies and millions of money have failed, and of
necessity must fail, to solve. Nothing but the "glorious gospel of
the blessed God," taught from the pulpit and the teacher's desk, and
illustrated in the eloquent lives of consecrated missionaries, can
change the idol worshiper from heathen China, the wild-man of the
West, the half-heathen Negro so recently in the cruel degradation
of slavery, those of our own race in the bonds of ignorance and
immorality--so that they shall have and manifest an intelligent and
worthy manhood and womanhood. Nothing else can meet cruel prejudice,
which would forever deny full manhood or womanhood to those called to
it by God himself, and pour oil upon its angry waves until they shall
be still.

Our plan of work in the South is often misunderstood and often
misrepresented. It is not our plan to force the races together. It is
not our plan to agitate questions which arouse the prejudices of the
Southern people. We do not agitate. Quietly, steadily, patiently,
lovingly, our missionaries seek to lift up the degraded, enlighten
the ignorant, and bring them all to Christ, well knowing that bitter
prejudice cannot forever stand opposed to an enlightened, cultivated,
Christian people, whatever may be their color or their past condition.
We have nothing to do with the question of social equality in the
South any more than we have in the North. We are not even trying to
force the races together in the churches. We have no principles which
would prevent our aiding two churches in the same town--one with a