Trial and Triumph

ress, Mrs. Harcourt looked the impersonation of contented happiness. Sorrow had left deep furrows upon her kindly face, but for awhile the shadows seemed to have been lifted f

schools as being necessarily disadvant

remain in this country as a component part of the nation, I cannot fail to regard with interest any step w

ed the disappointment of parents who have fitted their children for teachers and have seen door after door clo

-respect and the consensus of public opinion, will it not add to the depression of the race if our children are made to feel that, however well educated they may

t it is through obstacles overcome, suffering endured and the tests of trial that strength is obtained, courage manifested and character developed. We are now passing through a crucial period in our

with higher, nobler and holier purpose in the future than we have ever known in the past; and while I am sorry for the parents who, for their children's sake, have fought against the entailed ignorance of the ages with such humble weapons as the washboard, flat iro

I fully comprehend yo

, that he would buy the tract of land where we now live. Before he did so, he called together a number of his acquaintances, pointed out to them the tract of land and told them how they might join with him in planting a small hamlet for themselves; but except the few colored neighbors we now have, no one else would join with us. Some said it was too far from their wo

it; said he knew his own business best, and shut me up by telling me that he was not going to let any woman rule over him; and here I am to-day, Larkins gone and his poor old widow scuffing night and day to keep soul and body together; but there are some men you couldn't beat anything into their heads, not if you took a sledge hammer. Poor fellow, he is gone now and I ought

w, I'm sure,

d and said, 'I am Dick.' Of course h

nly one young school teacher, who had, it is true, passed a creditable examination. Now, when my daughter saw that the children of all other nationalities, it mattered not how low and debasing might be their environments, could enter the school for which her father paid taxes, and that she was f

his subject. Do you know," continued Mr. Lomax,[7] his face lighting up wi

ry coldly. "When you have summered and winter

ly mission in the great drama of life. I do not think our God is a purposeless Being, but his ways are not as our ways are, and his thoughts are not our thoughts, and I dare not say 'Had I his wisdom or he my love,' the condition of humanity would be bet

ddening maz

d by storm

d stake my

hat God

do for us what we have ability to do for ourselves. I think that our people need more to be taught how to live than to be constantly warned to get ready to die. As Brother Thomas said, we are now passing through a cruc

re among us, you will impart some of your ea

ugh very critical themselves and rather set and conservative in their ways, I hope that I shall have th

inst poverty, ignorance, degradation, and the cold, proud scorn of society. Before our public lands are all appropriated, I want our young men and women to get homesteads, and to be willing to endure privations in order to place our means of subsistence on a less

once the homestead of a colored man who came from Virginia and obtained it under the homestead law. That man has since been

d he lo

d it fell into the hands of the present proprietor. Since then our foresight has been developing and some months since in travelling in that same State, I met a woman whose husband had taken up a piece of land and was brin