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African Expositor. VOL. IX. IttSXJED QUA RTERD., TERMS: Fifty Cen 4 s a Year, in Advance. CSP Those who have not subscribed and receive the African Expositor, owe us only good will. ft&iT' All communications should be address ed to P. O. Drawer 8. relating to subscriptions, the for warding of money, and any failure to receive papers, should he directed to Rev. 11. M. Tupper. s@““Bend money at our risk by Postofflcp Order, or Registered Letter. copies forwarded upon appli cation . 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, ‘ • .. ’«• ■ ’ • mil Ut-ct* -**•■ v clear— 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 - ' ■' "'vJh u m ‘ a!l T V K kTi-w' y: ,mark 1 [""1 1 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 HHB Neal iv |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 -Mk 1 • t iin . -iting 'imt - .. • nvc, ?' 'f & ' plk . ‘wfe’ jing ■DfpgMH wk mBBBBmi-i HMBHfipy i Wmßmßmßm 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 NO. 4.