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feeling. Guns and swords are to fight with. We have never found any other legitimate use for them. Every Negro family in the entire South is well supplied with fire-arms. The entire colored press and pulpit should condemn the use of fire-arms as a dangerous plaything, detrimental to the best interests of the race, and have them displaced by the spelling book and reader. Guns and swords are relics of barbarism, and any people, white or black, who hoard them are designers of iniquity and in league with hell! Every state in the union should have a law, compelling the owner of a fire-arm to be registered and pay a license fee of not less than fifty dollars per annum. And for the violation of this law a penalty of three years' hard labor on a state or county road should be provided.

All, or nearly all, secret orders claim their foundation in the Christian religion. Let us see whether this claim is a substantial one, or whether it is only a supposition after all. Our purpose is to show the reader of both races that if the secret orders are based upon the true Christian religion, they ought to constitute a tie that should bind the two races so firmly together that no trouble, of whatever nature, could possibly rupture that relationship. No fake brotherhood can tie the two races and make them one.

FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINE.-Inorder

to illustrate our point we will take out of the Sermon on the Mount the fundamental doctrine of Universal Brotherhood, which every Christian church and brotherhood, founded upon the teachings of Christ, must follow: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy; but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."

For what purpose are we commanded and persuaded by Jesus to do thus? For this sublime purpose: "That ye may be (regardless of race, color, poverty or riches) the children of your Father which is in heaven; (here he gives us tangible reason) for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, (those of your particular race,

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color or clan only) what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, (those of your particular lodge or church or society) what do ye more than others? Do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

We would like to quote more extensively, the religion of Jesus as taught by Himself in the Sermon on the Mount; but every reader who is willing may turn to the fifth chapter of Matthew, and obtain for himself the true doctrine, pertaining to the Christian religion. All other so-called Christian doctrines vanish into nothingness when compared with those of the fountain head.

The secret orders may all be founded upon the Bible everything, good and bad, is founded upon that but the religion of Jesus stands for a Universal Brotherhood, so broad and farreaching that it tolerates no sect, secret order, class, race or clan-"do not even the publicans so?" His religion makes every man a brother and every woman a sister.

Let these principles of Universal Brotherhood be taught from every pulpit and in every school in the land, both white and colored, and a great people, whose voice would truly be the voice of God, would be the ultimate result. And what

a magnificent country these United States would be with such a people, and such boundless resources at their command?

THE PINK-SKINNED MAN IS HIS FRIEND.-There are some things that the Afro-American must remember. The best friend the Negro ever had, since his pre-historic ancestors were driven into or entered the steaming jungles of Africa, is the man of pink skin. Then, again, remember that the Negro has always been the greatest enemy of himself, from the earliest recorded history to the present day. And that the treatment received at the hands of his white superiors during the darkest days of American slavery, never exceeded the atrocity practiced upon himself as a naked savage in the jungles of Africa. Let us remember also, above all else, that this white enslaver has left his mark on the black enslaved; and that through his failings he has humiliated himself, in the blood that courses through the veins of the Afro-American. But for this and their existence on the western continent, ten million more savages would still be groping in the trackless jungles, perhaps hunting their fellow man for food, sucking his blood and devouring his quivering flesh.

We have often heard the complaint that all white folks judge the colored folks by the standard of the criminal class. We know they do not.

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