ABSTRACT
We owe him the best education-in art, science and religion-which our civilization affords, and he will repay us by intelligent toil, by cultured art, and above all, and richer than all, in the example of a religion that is emotional, spiritual and practical
-American Missionary, XIV (March, 1870)
In fifty years the negro race will have artists, poets and merchants in the first rank
-General Clinton Bower Fisk, American Missionary, XI (July, 1867).