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Title: Missionary Visitor, The (1912)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Brethren's General Mission Board
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
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are the natural results of differences in opportunities and environments. The Apostle Paul says, Of one blood God made all nations to dwell upon the earth and put no difference between them. In the light of this fundamental fact, and in acknowledgment of the other fact; viz., that the negro and the white man are not equal in civilization and its fruits, we must contend that the essential conditions to this equality are not, and also that it devolves upon both white and black to bring them about. Some of these conditions the negro ca neffect, while some of them the white man alone can effect. Those which the negro can effect alone are only such as mean the developmentof latent forces, or powers, the use ofevery opportunity and the making ofsome which are not in sight. It meansthe frugal husbanding of all educationaland material resources. It means a race-affinity seen everywhere else more than among the colored race, however natural this may be. On the white mans 156 The Missionary Visitor May 1912
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EEV. G. E. McDANIEL, Preacher, Educator and Lecturer. Founder, President and General Financial Agent of Enterprise Institute, Chicago, Illinois. side, it means a higher civilization and a purer Christianity. This is not acaustic arraignment of the white man, nor a sneer at his religion, but it is a fair arraignment of that unholy spirit of caste which manifests itself in race discriminations, bitter proscription and the inhuman barbarities to which the negro has so long and too generally been subjected without significant protests or hindrances. No man can deny and very few try to deny that the negro has made wonderful progress since the day of his emancipation. This is true in every element of his career—intellectual, moral, mechanical, material and religious. It May 1912 The Missionary Visitor 157 is a truism that society, even to a man, should be elevated as high as possible, and he who argues that the negro should not be given equal opportunities forestalls himself by allowing that the ne

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