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[Leipold S. <spe...@dp...>]

Rain of the next hundred years will be what slavery has left behind
it--a vast and growing black population, and an imbittered race
prejudice. There is but one way to meet this strain of the coming
century, and that is by the education of the blacks. The task is great,
but if the American people will awake to its urgency and put forth the
needed effort, the crisis may be averted. We call upon all Christian
people, and upon all patriots, to begin this new century with the
purpose to increase their contributions for this great object. We ask
them to begin at once and to continue steadily--in church contributions,
in personal gifts, and, not to forget the object in the making of wills.
* * * * * CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA. Our readers are aware that there
are two Congregational Organizations in the State of Georgia. The
Georgia Congregational Association was organized in 1878, and is
composed of about a dozen colored churches, some of their pastors being
white and some colored. The United Congregational Conference of Georgia
was formed a little more than a year ago, is a much larger body, and is
composed of white pastors and churches. With a view to a possible union
of these two organizations, committees have been appointed by each, and,
in another column, we lay before our readers