228 EDUCATION. 



" Your Church of Enijkind " it must be understood that 

 the relations between the Anglican and the Itomisli clergy 

 in Trinidad are, as far as I have seen, Iriendly and tolerant 

 '"does good work among its coloured mendjers. But 

 it does so by speaking, as we speak, with authority. It, 

 too, hnds it prudent to keep up in its services somewhat 

 at least of that dignity, even j)omp, ""ivdiich is as neces- 

 sary for the Xegro as it was for the half-savage European of 

 the early Middle Age, if he is to be raised above his mere 

 natural dread of spells, witches, and other harmful powers, to 

 somewhat of admiration and reverence. 



" As for the merely dogmatic teaching of the Dissenters : we 

 do not believe that the mere ISTegro really comprehends one of 

 those propositions, whether true or false. Catholic or Cal- 

 vinist, wliich have been elaborated by the intellect and the 

 emotions of races who have gone through a training un- 

 known to the Negro. With all respect for those w^ho dis- 

 seminate such books, we think that the Xegro can no more 

 conceive the true meaning of an average Dissenting Hymn- 

 book, than a Sclavonian of the German Marches a thousand 

 years ago could have conceived the meaning of St. Augus- 

 tine's Confessions. Eor what we see is this that when the 

 personal influence of the white Missionary is withdrawn, 

 and the Xegro left to perpetuate his sect on democratic 

 principles, his creed merely feeds his inordinate natural 



