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States, but even the President himself, does, 

 at times, show, let us say, " human weakness " 

 in the direction I have been talking about. 

 May God help us. not only in dealing with 

 the hired man and the housemaid, but in 

 whatever we have to do with the affairs of the 

 town, city. State, and nation. May we also 

 remember that the fervent effectual prayer of 

 a righteous man availeth much. 



Dear friends, as we step out into this new 

 century we have certainly one thing to rejoice 

 about and to thank God for — the decision of 

 both House and Senate in regard to beer 

 among the soldiers. For a time it seemed as 

 if those in power were all against us ; but we 

 are, as a rule, a praying people. I knew of 

 the fervent prayers of righteous men and 

 women that were ascending to the great 

 throne of Him who judges all the earth, and 

 in view of this I ought not to have been sur- 

 prised when some of our great officials in 

 Washington said they would vote for the ab- 

 olition of beer, not because they believed it 

 was best, but because of the iiiiportunities of 

 the people. Truly the fervent prayer of a 

 righteous man does avail much, not only in 

 humble places but at the very head of our 

 government. Let us have faith, and let us 

 believe that, if we follow the teachings of 

 God's holy word, we shall prevail, not only in 

 the home and on the farm, but at the very 

 head of the government of this nation. 



In closing, permit me to quote some beauti- 

 ful words that came from the Bible Truth De- 

 pot, Williamsport, Pa. : 



When you are forgotten or neglected, or purposely 

 set at naught, and you smile inwardly, glorying in the 

 insult or the oversight — that is victory.'. 



When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes 

 are crossed, yoir tastes otTcnded. your advice disre- 

 garded, your opinions ridiculed, and you take it all in 

 patient, loving silence — that is victory. 



When you are content with any f?od, any raiment, 

 any climite, any society, any solitude, any interrup- 

 tion — that is victory. 



When jou can bear with any discord, any annoy- 

 ance, any irregularity, nnpnnctuality (of which you 

 are not the cause)— Wa/ is victoiy. 



"When you can stand face to face with folly, extrava- 

 gance, spiritual insensibility, contradiction of sinners, 

 persecution, and endure it all as Jesus enduied \\.—that 

 is victory. 



When you never care to refer to yourself in conver- 

 sation, nor to record yo.ir good works, nor to seek aft- 

 er conimt ndation. when you can truly "love to be 

 unknown" — that is victory. 



PLACING THE NEGRO ON THE SAME FOOT- 

 ING WITH WHITES. 



I have been accused of this in our two last 

 issues ; but permit me to plead not guilty. 

 All I undertook to do was this : To hold the 

 colored people responsible for their behavior, 

 which is something they can help, but not 

 hold them responsible for the color of their 

 skin, which is something they can not help. 

 Where I spoke of having a colored man or 

 woman sit down with me at my table, I sup- 

 pose I gave the most offense to some of my 

 good friends in the South. My position was 

 and is that behavior should decide whether he 

 is fit to sit at the table, and not color. Who- 



ever works for me, outdoors or in my home, I 

 shall try to teach good manners, truth, and 

 righteousness ; and if having a person sit 

 down with me at the table, say once a day, 

 would help in lifting him up, I should be will- 

 ing to put up with whatever inconvenience it 

 might cost. If he persistently refused to be 

 decent and respect tble, I presume I should 

 give up the experiment. Quite a number of 

 letters have come, protesting against what I 

 have written along this line. Just tivo have 

 ordered their journals stopped. But there is 

 one other subscriber who said he had decided 

 to take Gleanings another year just because 

 of my defense of the colored people ; so at 

 present writing we have lost only one sub- 

 scriber. The Country Gettilenian was so well 

 pleased with my treatment of the hired girl that 

 the editor copied my article entire, and here 

 is what he says at the conclusion of it : 



One of the editors of the Country Gentleman has em- 

 ployed only colored servants for fifteen or twenty 

 years ; and it is fair to add that in all the number 

 there has never been one that was not scrupulously 

 honest. 



Perhaps the colored help mentioned in the 

 above were brought up in the North. And 

 then another fact seems to stare us in the face 

 right here. It makes a difference as to whom 

 the colored help (or white help either, for that 

 matter) is working for. Some employers 

 would discourage any form of dishonesty at 

 the very outset, and I am sorry to say there 

 are others who would without meaning it tend 

 to encourage it. 



In regard to Tuskegee, so large and influen- 

 tial a periodical as the Outlook has just em- 

 ployed Booker T. Washington to write them 

 a series of articles in regard to his industrial 

 school and his lifework. 



Now, dear friends, I am sorry to have even 

 one of our readers order his journal stopped 

 because of any thing I may do or say ; but 

 when I feel sure that I am doing " as Jesus 

 would do " I do not know how I can change 

 my views or teachings. 



Temperance. 



The following from State Superintendent P. 

 A. Baker will certainly be of interest to all 

 Ohio people, and it ought to interest, and I 

 rather think will, everybody else, no matter 

 what State he lives in, especially if he is inter- 

 ested in the matter of getting rid of the sa- 

 loons. 



I presume you have heard of the splendid victory we 

 won last week at Lebanon in putting out 14 saloors, 

 thus adding another county-seat to our temperance 

 belt, making six county-seats in Ohio without s-aloons. 

 I believe we can make Warren County a dry one in a 

 short; time. 



The six county-seats referred to in the above 

 are as follows : Lebanon (Warren Co.); Belle- 

 fontaine (Logan Co.); Cadiz (Harrison Co.); 

 Jefferson (Ashtabula Co. ); and last, but not 

 least, Medina (Medina Co.). Now can't some- 

 body tell us of another county-seat that is al- 

 most ready to be included in the roll of hon- 

 or ? 



