church. Let us take fresh courage and march into His service, for we
shall gain if we only trust in God and do the right He will help us to
persevere.

Time would fail me and my pen would fail to move if I should try to
enumerate all of the blessings that have come to us as a race. I hope
that we, as the hated negro race, will make a fresh start from this
night and do all that we can to forward the work in this church, and God
will send us a blessing.




Etiquette of Young Men


I was wondering a few days since if the men of the present day had lost
the respect that men used to have for the women. I was carried back to
the year of 1884 while in school with so many of the young men of my own
race, when I saw so much of the respect that they showed to us girls and
that was what caused me to write this to their honor. I think that true
etiquette is one of the greatest blessings that young men can have for
the women, for it is to them that we look to for the protection and
love, and if we fail to find it in them where shall we look? This is one
of the greatest fortunes that one can have, and it is that which makes a
young man what he ought to be. We, as the women, need so many of such
ones and the world needs them fully as much, and the God who made them
looks for more and when he does not find it in the dear creatures that
He has made it makes Him feel sad.