and infinitely better to give our means for the prevention of evils through the agency of the Gospel, than to suffer the losses and to repair the damage that may be wrought by these un-American and un-Christian agencies, left to their own tendencies. Our religious duty to the souls of these misguided millions is so plain that a statement thereof is unnecessary.

There is undoubtedly a feeling that the thing should be done. We hope the good men composing the Board may solve the question, how to do it. For, surely, with the incoming of so large a French Catholic element in New England, and with its rapid. natural increase, the day draws nigh when it will be a menace to many of our cherished interests, so that unless we now do our duty by this people we shall receive the penalty of our neglect. We owe it to the darkened souls of these benighted subjects of

OLOGICAL DEPARTMENT

AT NEWTON?

The able article in the September MONTHLy, by our General Missionary to the French in New England, in advocacy of a French Theological Department at Newton, has been favorably received. The paper was originally prepared for the Committee of the Board of Trustees on such a Department, but it is worthy of wider circulation.

The subject is one to which we have given considerable thought for several years, and concerning which we have corresponded with the President and others at Newton. Recent correspondence has shown that the matter is under consideration. That there will arise objections and difficulties, is to be expected. But we believe none of these will be insuperable to Christian faith and determination.

The work must necessarily be begun in a small way at first, as it was in the German Department at Rochester and the Scandinavian Department at Chicago. As its importance becomes apparent, resources will be provided for enlargement as may be needed.

Mr. Williams makes an excellent point in

showing how such a department would inci

by the best agencies we can provide for this purpose. What Brother Williams has done is well known. His work has been greatly The efficient laborers are blessed of God. few. There is now no proper training place for them. Shall we have one? We would be glad if some friend of this work, after reading what is herein said on this subject, would say to Secretary Mills, of Newton : "Here is a thousand dollars with which to begin the work." It would be taken as an indication of Providence, we think, that it

should be done.

We have a German Theological Department in the Rochester Theological Seminary.

We have a Scandinavian Department in the Baptist Union Theological Seminary at Morgan Park, Ill.

Both have rendered invaluable service in our mission work among the Germans and Scandinavians.

Now, shall we complete our operations by having a French Theological Department at Newton Theological Institution?

American students, whose future settlement may be in towns containing a large French population.

PLUNDER OF PUBLIC FUNDS.

whereby that ring's candidate for Mayor was supported and elected by the active influence of Catholic priests, who in return received between $200,000 and $300,000 for Catholic parochial schools in New York City. The names of priests and other dignitaries are given with particularity. This is a specimen of the dirty work of Romanism when it can further its own interests.

Dr. McGlynn asserts that the mass of Catholics do not want these parochial schools "which are forced upon them by the fanaticism of bishops and priests, so that the support of the schools has to be extorted from the people by never ending scoldings from the altar and pulpit," and by various other unchristlike acts.

But, nevertheless, it is a most significant thing that parochial schools, of late years, have rapidly increased. In our judgment there is imminent an effort on the part of the Catholic hierarchy to secure "their share" of the public school funds for the education of Catholic children in Catholic schools. To the unthinking and sympathetic, their arguments and appeals will seem to have justice and equity on their side, while corrupt politicians now as in the days of the Tweed regime, will be only too ready to favor their schemes for the reward of Catholic support to political preferment.

Here, then, is a powerful crafty combination waiting its chance to accomplish its object. Who is watching it? What combination of influence either in directing public opinion or in opposing such legislation by practical measures, exists among us? As Baptists, there is no proper organization through which our sentiments can be voiced, or which can engage in active opposition to such iniquitous schemes. If the proposed "American Baptist Education Society" is formed, proper and timely expression could be given through it, by way of argument and protest, as well as in other ways to which even politicians would do well to take heed. Such a society would find important work in this direction, sooner or later; of this we have no doubt. It constitutes a strong argument in itself for such a Society.

THE "SOCIAL EQUALITY"

BUGABOO.

Just now, in some portions of the South, politicians and prelates are vigorously using the bugaboo of " social equality" to frighten white people into compliance with their wishes. In advocacy of the outrageous "Glenn Bill" just passed the Lower House of the Legislature of Georgia, the author of the measure is reported as saying "that co-education meant ultimate intermarriage." What nonsense! The two colored men who voted against the bill, while 124 voted for it, are reported as denying such a conclusion-nay, more, denying that such desire exists among the colored people. Mr. Wilson said:

"Schools do not mean intermarriage; God forbid that they should! The words that I utter, as you all well know, come from an uneducated negro; but I am here to represent my people, and I am conscientious in all I say and do. I disclaim the hunger and thirst of intermarriage that has been attributed to our race. It makes no difference what the people and the press say in reference to the matter; I make the assertion. In closing I ask you to vote intelligently on this bill and give us our rights."

Mr. Crawford uttered similar sentiments with even greater emphasis.

The horrified advocates of the infamous measure which affixes a penalty of $1,000 or service in the chain gang to the crime (?) of teaching a white child in a colored school of Georgia, even though it be the child of a professor in a colored school supported by Christian benevolence, have invented the phrase "intellectual miscegenation." We should certainly say that it would be a decided improvement to the intellects of some of these retrogressionists if they could have an infusion of common sense, even though they got it by association with educated colored men.

Again: It is credibly reported that certain citizens of Montgomery, Ala., incensed at something published in a colored paper, applied to the city court for an injunction to restrain the State officers from advancing the

funds or proceeding with the erection of the building. "The injunction is asked for on the broad ground that education inspires negroes with ideas of social equality, that as they are an inferior race they must remain so, and that the white race must rule. The first State contribution of $4,000 is due in October, and the injunction is specially asked for to prevent this."

This bugaboo has its prelatical keepers also.

The Episcopalians in the diocese of Charleston are much disturbed and perplexed about the admission of colored clergymen to seats in the Convention. A committee has re

ported on the subject, and make the following utterance.

They believe the seating of "colored clergymen in the Convention to be not only unconstitutional but dangerous." It is argued that there is no danger whatever to any of the social barriers between the races, if the colored people be taken into councils and churches as the equals of the whites, but the committee are confident that the actual and practical result would be to force negro social equality upon the people.

Well, well, well!! When will this bugbear of "Social equality," be laid away to rest? What power is there to compel a black man's family to associate with whites, if they don't want to? Or what power to compel a white family to associate with a black family? Or what power to compel one white family to associate on terms of equality with another white family? Does it follow, as a matter of course, that because certain white men sit together in an ecclesiastical convention that all their households must be on terms of "Social Equality.'

Alas, that any churches of Christ, in their conventions, cannot rise at least as high as do men in business and political conventions where black men and white sit side by side, never disturbed by the shadowy spectre of Social Equality. All Over our land, in Common Councils, in legislative bodies, in political nominating Conventions, etc., where political questions are to be considered, whites and blacks sit together, and there

is no whisper about the dreadful "Social Equality" consequences that may come from it. Alas, for the churches that instead of teaching the world in matters like this, yield to current prejudices, and bring themselves into contempt with the children of this generation who, in this particular, are wiser than many so-called children of light.

SOME THINGS THAT OUGHT TO BE STOPPED.

As appears in what is said elsewhere, we have no sympathy with the spirit of the Georgia Legislature in the passage of a bill against co-education of whites and blacks in that State. That bill is aimed at Atlanta University, an Institution founded by the American Missionary Association, (Congregational) and which receives annually an appropriation of $8,000 from the State for the education of the colored people.

The thing we now wish to say with the utmost possible emphasis is this: THAT AP

PROPRIATION AND OTHERS LIKE IT OUGHT TO BE STOPPED.

It is unnecessary to recount the circumstances which originally gave to that Institution this generous amount. We are dealing with questions not of the past, but of to-day.

There is no just reason why Atlanta University should be thus favored over other institutions in the State doing the same kind of work. There are reasons why it should not be.

The Society which controls it, though long claiming to be undenominational, is as intensely denominational to-day as any other similar organization. The institution itself is denominational; positively Congregational, pedobaptist in its spirit and general influence. To such extent has this denominational influence made itself felt in the institution that arguments and inducements have been held out to promising Baptist students to abandon the Baptist faith, and become Congregationalists. Of this we have ample

proof.

Now we assert that in the State of Georgia

where there are not more than three or four thousand colored and very few white Congregationalists, but where there are more than two hundred thousand white and colored Baptists upon whom taxation falls, the continuance of such an arrangement is manifest injustice. Congregationalists with almost no constituency get the marked advantage of an appropriation of $8,000 annually, while the Baptists get nothing and are compelled to maintain their institutions out of their own contributions and the contributions of Northern Baptists. This matter comes closely to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, which is compelled to carry on its educational work for the colored people of Georgia at great odds, with such a powerful competitor having State support behind it. And yet the schools of this Society have just as much right to that appropriation as has the school that receives it.

It is time that this whole business should stop. We do not ask for State support in our work. We protest against unfair appropriations to other denominations, however specious may be the arguments advanced in favor of them. Atlanta University, we assert, is a thoroughly denominational institution; and, having so long enjoyed these large gifts from the State treasury, would now do itself honor by renouncing them in the interests of fairness toward similar institutions. Let all denominational schools stand on a common footing-State aid for none of them. This, we are pleased to see, is the sentiment of the colored Baptists of Georgia in their State Convention in July, when it was

"Resolved, That if the honorable Legislature of Georgia should withdraw the annual appropriation above mentioned, we, the representative Baptists of Georgia, enter our most solemn protest against the use of public money to sustain any denominational school."

Strangely, however, they have got the impression that Atlanta University is not a denominational school, as there is incontrovertible evidence it is.

There are two other similar appropriations which ought also to be stopped. One is that of $3,000 by the State of Mississippi to the

Eastern Wyoming embraces Laramie, Albany, Crook, and part of Johnson Counties. Its area is 33,800 square miles, or something larger than the State of Maine. With the exceptions of Laramie and Albany Counties, through which the Laramie Mountains, the most eastern of the Rocky Mountain system, extends, the country is generally level, broken in places by rocky knobs and sandy | bluffs, and is really a continuation of the large plains of Western Nebraska.

The main industry at present is stock raising, to which the country is well adapted, and over 1,000,000 cattle, and about the same number of sheep, with many horses and mules, graze upon its widely extended plains. For agricultural purposes irrigation is mainly relied on, and wherever water has been introduced the most abundant crops are produced. This part of the territory is rich in minerals; coal, copper, iron, silver, and mica being found in abundance, and when once the railroads now in course of construction are completed, these will find a market, and the country will settle up rapidly.

As an illustration of the thrift and enterprise of the inhabitants, we only need to look at Cheyenne, where in 1867 there was only an expanse of desert, bleak and barren, with a single dwelling, and where to-day there is a thriving city of 9,000 people, with large and costly public buildings, five banks, seven