And what differences in the color of the families! Even as we so often achingly notice in many places. Brothers and sisters from the darkest shades of ebony to the fairest of the fair calling the same woman mother! Any who get close to humanity, either on the plantation or in the city, see enough to fully realize the conditions. Such then were the homes from whence these women came to learn to read and write; to hear talks concerning their home life; how to wash dishes; the necessity for having more than one room and how the house should be cleaned before going to work; care of the garden, chickens and cows, together with raising their children.

Let us now notice some results of this work among the mothers.

Several years later as we chance to be passing this way, we see a gray haired woman carrying a large printed Bible on her way to the Mothers' School. She has learned to read the precious Word which is the leading study, and many verses have been committed to memory. On entering her home we find in addition to that Bible, the "Life of Sister Moore" and her book "For Mother." There is a large class of such women now and several letters have been laboriously written to the same Sister Moore, and the hearts of the writers gladdened by

answers to them. What means this addition to the house? One of the mothers has been seen cutting logs to build another room. On visiting another we find her bedroom divided by a curtain, thus providing another room for the children; still another has taken a box and with a curtain in front and shelves inside has a commodious closet for storing away loose articles otherwise thrown under the bed or behind the door.

At the close of the sessions of these winter schools for women open performances are given by the scholars who recite, read essays and debate on subjects pertaining to the home-life, often inviting the fathers to join. These mothers are now better members of the church. By learning to read the Word of God and committing it to memory, they are able to follow the minister in his preaching and help greatly in selecting intelligent men as pastors. They pay their church dues willingly and aid in the repairs and painting of their own churches. As for education, they resolve that their children shall have what they see they failed to get. Even those who will not anger the ministers of the church, who have forbidden their attending the mothers' meetings because led by members of another denomination, will do double duty in the field that their children may be educated by

competent teachers. Time enough has passed to show the results of such efforts on the children. Many of these plantation mothers are made happy by the receipt of letters containing gifts of money from daughters who are teaching. These daughters, many of whom have been trained, even in the homes of the missionaries, having been turned over to them from their own homes, contribute their share to the uplift of the rest of the family of children.

What is the social standing now? Homes consisting of from three to five rooms are neatly kept, for what planter would want to part with a tenant who respects himself and family? So he thus provides homes as demanded by progress made.

Instrumental and vocal music may be heard after a hard day's labor; socials with quiet games and refreshments are held by the young people, and fathers and mothers are rapidly learning to converse on intelligent subjects.

And now concerning those yet living in sin. The members of this same mothers' meeting during the past year together with other good women not members, signed up a petition asking the landlord to help them in some way to rid the plantation of such transgressors of the law. He looking upon it with favor, decided with them that for the sake of those who do live right

and are endeavoring to train their children, as well as for the children born in sin, something should be done.

So though ignorance and denominational prejudice are rife, yet now and then, we may see evidences of the Day dawning on the plantation. SOPHIA COX JOHSON,

Millers Ferry, Ala.

ALL HUMAN BLOOD IS ALIKE-INTERMARRIAGE

BY BISHOP J. W. SMITH, D. D.

(Contributed for this book.)

That the Negro is one of the great races of the human family is a fact as solid as Gibraltar. Why Jehovah made men of various colors is not only unexplainable but His business. It is a fact beyond truthful contradiction that He did not make a white Adam, a black Adam, a red Adam and a yellow Adam.

All mankind descended from one Adam and Eve. The origin of the human family is one, for the Apostle Paul in Acts, 17:26 says God "hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth." After careful chemical examination of the blood of human beings and that of animals the scientists