negro race needs to learn. This lesson was well presented to a drunken
white man by a sober old negro. The white man spent his money for
liquor, and then started for home. Reaching a river he must cross by
ferry, he found he had spent his last penny for drink. Seeing an old
colored man seated at a cabin door near by, he turned toward the
cabin. Nearing the old man he said:

"Uncle, would you loan me three cents to cross the ferry?"

"Boss, ain't you got three cents?"

"I ain't got one cent," replied the white man.

"Well, you can't git the three cents. Ef you ain't got three cents,
you'se just as well off on one side de river as you is on de other."

I said we may differ as to methods for solving this race problem.
Remembering as I do the days of slavery, how in Christian homes the
most merciful masters and the most faithful slaves were found, I
believe the best solution lies in the golden rule of the gospel of
Jesus Christ.

I now give the searchlight a swing and it falls upon the City Problem.

At the opening of the nineteenth century three per cent. of the people
of this country lived in cities, ninety-seven per cent. in the
country. At the rate migration is now going from country to city in
twenty years there will be ten millions more people in the cities than
in the country. This means a change of civilization, and new problems
to solve. It means a day when cities will control in state and