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GOD REIGNS.
BY MRS. E. B. BROWNING.
God reigns above, He reigns alone ;
Systems burn out and leave His throne,
And still His years roll on,
Mists of creation melt and fall
Around Him changeless amid all,
Whose ages still roll on.
By anguish which made pale the sun,
I hear Him charge His saints that none
While still Time’s years roll on,
Among His creatures anywhere,
Blaspheme against Him in despair,
Though darkly days go on.
For us whatever’s undergone,
Thou knowest, wiliest what is done,
Though our dark days go on.
the cup was broken here,
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v - let oi-T sys go on.
1 praise thee while my days go on,
I love thee while my days go on ;
The day-spring cometh on.
Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost,
With emptied arms and treasures lost,
My days are going on.
INTEREST IN MEDICAL EDUCATION.
Among the colored people there is
evidence of increased interest in med
ical education. Twice as many stu
dents as ever before are seeking infor
mation in reference to pursuing a
medical course of study.
To the young medical student there
are some difficult questions for him
to settle. If he intends to practice in
North Carolina or Virginia he will
be compelled to prepare himself thor
oughly. The examinations before
the State Medical Boards in both of
these States are very rigid. At the
May examination in North Carolina
about one-fourth of the white appli
cants were rejected for the want of a
proper understanding of the different
branches of medicine. As to the re
quirements in other Southern States
we are not so well informed, but we
venture the opinion that within less
than live years the white physicians
in every Southern State will see to it
that the colored medical student will
not be allowed to creep into the profes
sion or to practice until he has passed
an examination before a State Medical
Board.
There is no man in the South ttiat
has a better forecast of the future or
more fully understands the wants of
the colored people than Dr. A.G. Hay
good, of Oxford, Ga. In a recent let
ter he says: “l have one anxiety
about making colored doctors —that it
will be too easy”
Without doubt, the danger is in
imposing upon the colored people
half-educated physicians—those who
are not willing to give the time or
“ETHIOPIA SHALL SOO.X SIUEiWI OUT HER HAMJS LA TO GOD."
make the effort to prepare themselves
to become safe and successful practi
tioners. Our counsel to medical stu
dents is to take plenty of time and
make such sacrifices and effort as will
insure success and eminence in the
profession. Colored students have •
proven themselves equal to the most j
rigid requirements. So can you, whoj
are already in a course of study or aril
planning to enter a medical school. I
BIBLE TRAINING AND MORAL CULT! > J
OF GIRLS. jjß
The following paper was re^KnH
Miss Belle L. Pettigrew, of
versity, Raleigh, at the annua JL'/i
ing of the Women’s BaptistVDl*ne K
Mission Society, held at Asbu:aik.B
When 1 first entered Shaw ver-jj
sity as a missionary teache l!* con I
ditions were favorable f * ryingfl
out the wishes r f the been !•/ in re-B
gard to the Bible and m< ■.
of the girls. I was piavc»*,n chargdH
of tlte building occupu . Rely by th«
girls, and assumed at A- nhe responß
sibility of training < in the wpfl
they should go. v year I hay B
a crudo mass of m aU ’ 4t,l,an l
must jen:..y Jjßßi * the outtoiK
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often liea-fd, ’ an ‘, i ‘ f»
d people
uuaiur wonder when we consider the
lack of home training and the ab
sence of proper pulpit and Sunday
school instruction, of which from the
necessities of the case, they have been
deprived. So they come to us in this
needy condition, of all grades of
ability and all shades of color. They
nave a great respect for the Bible, but
are almost entirely ignorant of its
contents, not half of the girls even
owning one. To develop a knowledge
of the Bible, and an interest in and
love for its teachings, and the habit
of measuring daily conduct by its
truths, is a great part of the work of
the missionary teacher. Just as much
of this work as possible must be
crowded into the short school life of
these young women, limited as it is
in many instances by months. That
the Bibie may have the first place, my
girls learn a verse when they first sit
down to study at the morning hour;
this furnishes me a text for a little
talk when I meet the class at the
fourth hour. In this way several
chapters have been committed to
memory during the past session.
After the verse, a few minutes of
study must he given to the Sunday
school lesson, and by Thursday night
the 20 teachers must he prepared to
teach the lesson at the teachers’ meet
ing. One lesson is given each week
to Old Testament study, also one on
selected subjects, as lying, stealing,
the observance of the Sabbath, the
sins of the longue, etc. I find many
of the Chautauqua methods for study
quite helpful. While our young peo
ple are learning these lessons from
the Word of God, it is of the utmost
importance that they should enter
upon the activities of a useful Chris
tian life. To facilitate this we organi
zed two years and a half ago, a Young
Women’s Christian Association. I.
did not know at the time that such
RALEIGH, N. C., ®)TOBER, 1886.
existed in any school
women, but I thought if
• Associations were good for the
Hug men, they must he good for
aiso; so we organized. Our
have continued weekly,
HO 1 the present time with unfailing
Fifty five of the S7 girls m
are voluntary members, and
civ give an hour of time from
IIBb
A;- his meeting tiie Sunday school
ftrV.' report Irom their classes in
Baptist churches, in one of
“ -.f our girls is supvmiten
' “U we hear from the four
m ’. ols, composed of children
gfIHKfF. ’ from the streets, and
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|g|Sfc£n. iren are rea-dieo in 1 his
iglJHpP’ w •• tn tiie poverty and in
jUJyS * - ; die parents, do not go to
BBT. V-.Tal Sunday school, and
be wholly without
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have a place in this Society. Many
of the members go outto teach during
the year, and on their return report
the Christian work they have engaged
in,the Sunday school temperance work,
attention to the sick and aged, etc.
The whole amount of the member
ship fees for the year is s2l. Nine
dollars has been expended on the
field, and twelve dollars have been
put into the treasury of the Young
Ladies’ Missionary Society. It is my
aim to make every girl in Estey a
temperance worker, and, truly, the
need is great. The habit of using to
bacco and snuff is almost universal,
and I think this accounts largely for
the drinking, especially among the
women. Little boys begin to use to
bacco, at five and six years of age, and
the girls of the same age to dip snuff.
I have carefully collected facts from
many teachers, and find this habit
prevails everywhere.
A few weeks ago one of my girls
wrote this: “All the girls in my
school dip snuff except one.” Unless
the children can be saved from this
degrading habit, I have very liitle
hope for the colored race. We have
not only to consider the physical harm
it inflicts, but that it also blunts the
intellect and the moral susceptibili
ties, and degrades in every way. How
can it be otherwise when associated
from early childhood with such de
filement? My girls recite every week
from the temperance catechism, and
are becoming familiar with the effects
of tobacco and alcohol upon all the
organs ol the body.
All the young ladies except two
have signed the pledge. They have
practical lessons in conducting tem
perance work, as well as the theory. I
have a temperance school in the city
numbering nearly 300 members. This
school is graded and arranged in
tweuty-two classes, according to their
ability to read. I depend largely upon
my girls lor teachers. The chases are
taught from the primary temperance
catechism, in which many have pas
sed examination and taken a higher
book. By the help of charts, black
board lessons, short talks from pastors
and others, and the blessing of God,
I feel perfectly confident that many
of these poor children will be saved
from the curse of tobacco and rum.
Our girls can see daily the cruel ef
fects of alcohol, in the case of little
Willie, only five years old, a child
driven from home by a brutal and
drunken father and an indifferent
step-mother. He came to us for pro
tection three months ago, and has re
ceived the best of care since then, the
girls making, washing, and mending
his clothes, and caring for him in a
way he has never known before. He
takes his place in the dining hall with
the students at meal time, but is be
ing taught to lead in the “ ■ [mno
School.” I am sure aii ol the Baby
Band who are old enough will he in
terested in Willie, and be glad to
know that the Home School is caring
for many little neglected souls who
are not much better off than he.
While our girls are learning to care
for the souls and bouies of their fel
low men in the neighborhood of
Estey, they are also learning of the
wants and woes of the whole world.
This knowledge is gained mainly
through the Young Ladies’ Mission
ti a OObiC ty y Oi « lCu iiCul y ju u«.
years ago. The Society has never
failed to meet once a month up to the
present time. Our circle is auxiliary
to both the Woman’s Baptist Home
Mission Society and the Women’s
Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of
the West.
We make a study of our home and
foreign mission fields. The last meet
ings have been devoted to Africa, in
which our students are specially in
terested. At Christmas time we sent
twenty dollars to the Home Society,
and a few weeks later the same
amount to the Foreign Society, desig
nated to the Congo field. A few days
ago we sent ten dollars to our noble
American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety, feeling that we, as a Society, in
addition to what has been done by
our school, would like to help in lift
ing the debt. The while amount con
tributed by these two Societies of the
girls, the Young Women’s Christian
Association and the Missionary So
ciety, for the school year of eight
months, is fifty-nine dollars. This
money has all been raised by mem
bership fees and contributions. It has
come easily and naturally, as the out
growth of missionary teaching. Africa
is even now stretching out her hands
to our girls and saying, “ Come over
and help us.” A letter just received
from the corresponding secretary of
the Women’s Foreign Society of the
West, asks if I can recommend two of
our girls to go to the Congo field next
fall. We have no one in the school
at present who answers the require
ments in regard to age and color, but
I can recommend a young lady who
graduated a year ago, and I think the
Lord has been preparing her for this
work.
As I stand before my class day after
day, which, with the city pupils, num
bers one hundred members, I keep
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