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zines as a rule only publish the evil things some of the members of our race do, but fail to say one word about the many good things we do. Some of them never put a Negro’s cut in print, excepting it is when he is supposed to have committed an assault on a woman, or stolen a chicken. It was indeed a splendid piece of gratitude shown when Bishop Jones, President Gregg and the faculty of Wilber force University invited the descendent of Wilberforce, the great abolitionist, after whom our oldest school is named, to deliver the graduation address to the class of 1922. Will we let Father Allen’s request die or should we not at intervals in our Allen Day celebration devote a short time to Dr. Benjamin Rush and Mr. Robert Ralston. Long live these heroes in the minds of us; may they never be for gotten; may generations yet unborn come to revere their names as African Methodism covers the face of the earth.