132 THE UNIVERSAL RACES CONGRESS. 



Cape Prime ^Minister and Attorney-General had flung him must 

 have sent a thrill through all coloured South Africa and out- 

 weighed a thousand unjust decisions of white juries trving 

 coloured prisoners. 



Science knows no party nor bias, therefore one appeals with 

 confidence to a scientific association to promote in every way 

 possible the dealing with all our problems by the light of modern 

 knowledge, and anthropologists as well as statesmen are occupied 

 in Psyche's task of sorting the seeds of good from the seeds of 

 evil : even though the ideal time lie far ahead, " when the bars 

 of creed and s]:)eech and race that sever shall all be fused in 

 one humanity for ever."' 



Note. 



The following letter from the Rev. James Henderson, 

 Principal of Lovedale, was read at the last meeting of the local 

 Auxiliary Committee of the Universal Races Congress : — " It 

 has long been my opinion that the question of mutual race obliga- 

 tions and responsibilities should be dealt with on a basis wider 

 than that with which missionaries are primarily concerned. 

 The missionary passion is an experience limited to the com- 

 paratively few ; and the claims for racial justice based on 

 religion in the narrower sense of that term make efiective 

 appeal only to those who consciously submit themselves to its 

 guidance. But racial questions are coming rapidly to be the 

 concern not only of Churches and of Governments, but of the 

 individual citizen, and demand teaching on lines of policy and 

 general utility as well as of moral obligation. I have been con- 

 vinced that in such a country as Great Britain, of which so 

 considerable a proportion of her youth have to go forth to 

 lands in which their life must be lived in presence of backward 

 and subject races, there should be teaching on this subject in 

 the common school, and the State should see to it that, from 

 an early stage, broad, reasonable, and just views on this vitally 

 important subject should be inculcated. I consider that this 

 Congress may' prove the complement of the great Missionary 

 Conference held at Edinburgh last year, and I trust that a like 

 blessing from God may attend it." 



