It was God's right hand that brought him out of slavery. It was those mysterious providences which toned up the north until they were ready to say, "We are willing to die that freedom for all may become a fact." His future lies in the lap of a high resolve, which shall make him build up himself in virtue, in truth, in honesty, in integrity and in the word of God. To succeed, he must reject the tempting proffers of Rome, and stand for God and the right. Success comes from succeeding. Prosperity comes from prospering. The key to prosperity is within more than without. It has been ordained that honesty, industry, integrity, fair dealing and brotherly kindness shall enable any man to unlock the gates which to others are closed and barred, providing the conditions of honesty are met. The people of color who believe in God and follow the lead of Jesus Christ can grasp and hold this key to prosperity as well as others. To do it, they must be true. Negro churches must be trained to drop out of them all that distinctively disparages the race, and bring into them all that enlarges and ennobles. In Christ there is for the black man an open door.

Two trusts have been committed to our keeping-that of liberty and that of humanity. Betrayal of these trusts imperils. Lightning rods tipped with steel and pointed skyward, with their conducting coil on our chamber floors, are as safe when the sheeted flame is at work as it is for anybody to ignore the claims of God upon them. The color-bearer is in the advance. Hear him. The cry goes out, "Bring back your colors!" His shout is heard; it runs along the line; listen to it: "Bring up your men!" Do this, and you thall shed light upon the pathway of millions; you shall build up she nation in righteousness, and save yourselves. May God guide and keep and bless the men of color in this and in all lands, and permit them, with their white brothers, to save and exalt the nation.

ROMANISTS NOT THE FIT EDUCATORS

OF AMERICAN YOUTH.

"Fight the good fight of faith." These words sound down to us from the ages past. They were addressed to the believers in the word of God. They teach that there is a good fight of faith as well as a bad fight. Our enemies have faith, and they are willing to fight for it. They are unscrupulous, far-seeing and very brave, and marshal their forces with exceeding skill. Paul says: Match them. "Fight the good fight of faith" with as much bravery, skill and plan. God's children must fight if they would win. Truth must face error and, if possible, stop its mouth. Freemen must face the opponents of liberty and oppose them by every means in their power, and resist the aggressions of a sleepless foe that seeks to capture the citadel of our hopes and, if possible, turn the guns we have planted to protect our homes upon the shelterless and defenseless. These are not empty words. The battle has begun, and Protestants and republicans have surrendered. To surrender is sin; to fight, a manifest duty.

Popery in the United States is little known. It is hidden. It works in darkness. Such is the courage and faith of the American people that they consent to the existence of Roman Catholics, and to their carrying out their purposes and plans, as they do to the existence of Methodists or Baptists or any other religious denomination. They act as if it were ungenerous or unfair to uncover their wiles and disclose the perils which threaten this nation because of the aggressions of Romanism. In Canada, this is worse than it is in the United States. There Rome is dominant; the harvest has ripened and the power of Rome is consolidated.

Separate or parochial schools exist in Canada under the sanction of the law. They are sustained by taxation, as are Protestant. There are many ways in which Roman Catholics are permitted to place Protestants at a disadvantage.

Said Hon. James S. Hughes, superintendent of public instruction, Toronto, Ont. :

I. *Five Roman Catholics can petition for a separate school. The petition being granted, all Roman Catholics within a radius of three miles every way can be compelled to support it. No matter if they prefer the public school, the law compels them to support the separatist school. All known to be Roman Catholics, and all believed to be Roman Catholics, are taxed, and deliverance from the same can only be obtained by a process of law which is irritating, if not dangerous.

2. All Protestant teachers are compelled to go through a public examination, and must measure up to a certain grade or fail in obtaining a school. In Roman Catholic schools the Christian Brothers and nuns can be appointed without examination.

3. For the public schools books are selected by the board of public education. In Roman Catholic schools they select their own. 4. In the public schools the Bible is read—not in the Roman Catholic.

5. The public schools are inspected-not the Roman Catholic. 6. In the election of trustees for public schools a secret ballot is used. In Roman Catholic school districts the trustees are elected by their signing their names and voting aye or nay. This is the fight now going on.

As a result Roman Catholic children are growing up in ignorance. It is proven in Canada, as in Ireland or Spain or Mexico, that Rome hates education.

Dr. Maguire, a Roman Catholic professor of the university of Dublin, and one of the officers of the Royal university of Ireland, has written a pamphlet on The Effects of Home Rule on Education, in which he declares that "A large and logical section of the Roman Catholic church is conscientiously opposed to the spread of education." He quotes the Dublin Review (Vol. XX, p. 192, second series), in which it is contended "that the absence of higher education is a powerful preservative against apostasy;" and tells a story of a leading archbishop, who closed a school, and, when one of the villagers asked how he was to send his children to school, replied: "What do they want with a school? Let them learn their catechism."

Washington in the Lap of Rome, p. 223-226.

Cardinal Cullen, in 1870, before the educational commission, said: "Too much education would make the poor discontented with their lot, and unsuit them for following the plow, using the spade, hammering iron or building walls."

As Macaulay said: "During the last three centuries, to stunt the growth of the human mind has been her chief object. Throughout Christendom, whatever advance has been made in knowledge, in freedom, in wealth and in the arts of life has been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe have, under her rule, been sunk in poverty, in political servitude and in intellectual torpor; while Protestant countries once proverbial for sterility and barbarism have been turned by skill and industry into gardens, and can boast of a long list of heroes, statesmen, philosophers and poets."

Says M. Emile de Lavelieye, in his work entitled "Protestantism and Catholicism in their Bearing on the Liberty and Prosperity of Nations" "It is admitted the Scotch and the Irish are of the same origin, and shows that since the Scotch embraced the reform religion they have outrun even the English, while wherever the Irish embraced Romanism they have retrograded. What a contrast between exclusively Roman Catholic Connaught and Protestant Ulster !"

Education is the basis of national liberty and prosperity. In elementary instruction Protestant states are incomparably more advanced than Roman Catholic, and representative government is the natural outgrowth of Protestant populations, while despotic governments are the congenial governments of Romanist populations.

De Lavelieye declares: "The control of education by the Roman priesthood leads inevitably to illiteracy, with its tendency to degradation, pauperism, and crime."

The Roman Catholic Review for April, 1871, said: "We do not, indeed, prize as highly as some of our countrymen appear to do the ability to read, write, and cipher; some men are born to be leaders and the rest are born to be led; the best ordered and administered state is that in which the few are well educated and lead and the many trained to obedience." This is Romanism. It ought to be fought, not for the sake of Protestants alone, but because of the imperiled interests of the children of Roman Catholics. Illiteracy imperils, here and everywhere.

In Canada, one-sixth of the population furnishes inore than fivesixths of the crime. All criminal disclosures reveal this point.

When the bill was introduced into the legislature of New York, pretending to secure freedom of worship, it was proven to have been proposed by a Jesuit; and it was introduced by Senator Gibbs, because, as he said in a letter to the New York Evening Post, of certain pledges made by the leading Republicans to the Irish Catholic voters for their support of James G. Blaine. If in America, with our centuries of training in the principles of republican government, with our hereditary devotion to the elementary principles of civil and religious freedom, such bargains can be made, and Irish votes can be sold in blocks for the betrayal of the principles of the constitution, is it not time to ask if popery be not in the way?

It is time to call a halt. For more than fifty years, because of the false security which has held the church in the arms of a delusive slumber, and through the cowardice or ambition of party leaders, the state of New York, with all of its unparalleled opportunities and responsibilities, has been drifting toward a surrender of the children of the state to the control of the priests of Rome.

There are in New York and its neighborhood twenty-nine societies for the care of destitute children of the city, from birth to eighteen years of age, which receive public money. During the year 1885 they had under charge, for longer or shorter periods, 19,256 individual children, at an expense to the city of $1,435,759.34. Rome gets $221,862.64 more for her 8,496 children than Protestant and Hebrew institutions with 10,504 children; and yet Rome, with her votaries driving out Protestants from every department of the public service, is ever crying for more.

In 1875, the children's law was passed (Chapter 173, Laws 1875), by which it was forbidden to send able-bodied, intelligent children, between the ages of 3 and 16 years, to a poorhouse or almshouse, and the various magistrates, superintendents of the poor or other authorities, were empowered to provide for such children in families, orphan asylums or other appropriate institutions, and the boards of supervisors were required to take such action as was necessary to carry out this law. The following clause was also added: "In placing any such child in any such institution, it shall be the duty of the officer, justice or person placing it there to commit such