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JUBILEE SHARES.
Our readers will notice that our jubilee share list is increasing in
numbers. We have reason to be grateful to God in that he has moved
the hearts of so many and led them to help our Lord's needy ones. We
would that those who have responded to our appeals could see the

things that we see, and hear the things which we hear. We have nothing
but gratitude for the fact that in this time of financial distress and
uncertainty, when money is so hard to get, the cause which we bring to
the Christian love and patriotism of good people is not losing, but
gaining in their sympathies and help. This trying year--trying to so
many, therefore trying to us--brings a jubilee thanksgiving to us, in that
we are not sinking deeper into the horrible pit and miry clay of debt,
but are little by little being pulled out of the slough. We know not how
long the pull may be, but if those who love the Lord Jesus Christ will
pull all together we shall not fail, and we need not be discouraged. Our
feet will get upon a rock and our goings be established; for which we
pray.
LEADERS.
The Home Mission Monthly of the American Baptist Home Mission
Society, in an article upon "Leaders," agrees with us in saying: "A
different style of men is needed as leaders of the colored people to-day
from that of those who aspired to leadership twenty-five years ago; the
race has made great progress; there are multitudes now of Negro men
and women who have had the advantages of the common schools,
many who have a college education, and some who have university
culture; to wisely influence them in their thought and action is more
difficult than to control the masses of the illiterate and untrained. It is
especially worthy of consideration that among the Negroes of the South
to-day are some men of power and of education who are leaders; but
whose leadership, unfortunately, is in the wrong direction. This renders
it all the more urgent that the Mission Society and kindred
organizations should seek to supply them with a class of leaders who,
by reason of their godly character, their knowledge, their training, their
consecration, will be able to counteract the evil influences now at work,
and to lead their people into paths of righteousness.
"The Mission Society does not attempt to provide a college education
for the multitudes of Negroes; even this would be a task beyond its
resources. What it does aim to do is simply to secure, if possible, the
education of a comparatively few young men and young women, who
shall become leaders among their people; men and women who by their
knowledge, training, culture, power, will be able to organize and direct
the energies of the masses of the people. Leaders are needed, and these

should be thoroughly competent for leadership; it is a hard task to
influence successfully the development of a race of eight million
people, and those who attempt the work require natural qualities of a
high order and also unusual attainments."
What is to prevent these people who have been enfranchised from
becoming the prey of demagogues and designing men who wish to use
them for unchristian purposes and in unchristian ways, unless they have
large minded, thoroughly educated leaders with knowledge of history
and of life who can lead their own people in the ways of righteousness?
Events now transpiring give significance to this question.
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The University of Pennsylvania has conferred the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy on Mr. Lewis B. Moore, who graduated from Fisk
University a few years ago. We listened to his "graduating address" at
the close of his college years at Fisk, whence he went to Philadelphia to
take charge of a branch of the Y.M.C.A. While attending to the
laborious duties of this position he has, during four years of earnest,
patient, and thorough study, earned his degree of Ph.D. in Greek and
Latin and Ethics, in one of the severest graduate schools in the country.
Dr. Moore is one of "our boys"; and there are many of them who are
preparing themselves, by their vision of a larger life and their
attainment of larger possessions, to be wise leaders among their people.
Dr. Moore is now an instructor in Howard University, Washington,
D.C.
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