Mr. Herod is a graduate of Straight University, and is our pastor at Abbeville, La.  His face beamed with grateful joy as he told the story of the meeting and the wonders of the North, and of the warm welcome of Northern friends, while the brethren of the Association were held spell-bound by his graphic recital.  It is hard to tell which was the happier, the speaker or the audience.

Mr. Phillips, of Morris-Brown Church, New Orleans, is a zealous Christian Endeavor worker.  The State of Louisiana was represented at the Cleveland Christian Endeavor Convention by two colored delegates, Mr. Phillips and Dr. Nelson.  The reception these colored Endeavorers received at Cleveland made all of our hearts glad.  It was so refreshing to see this star of hope rising in the hearts of our long oppressed brethren, and to have them realize somewhere in the land the meaning and sweetness of the words of our Lord, and the Christian Endeavor motto:  “One is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren.”

The report made by our field missionary of the Sunday-school Convention held in London, Eng., also inspired the brethren with the hope that the good time coming will come ere long, when they will be measured by their worth and work, and not always be despised and oppressed because of the accident of birth and condition.  The Woman’s Missionary State Union, with Miss Bella Hume as president, held an interesting meeting.  They are assisting in the support of a missionary at our Indian Mission at Santee, Neb.  The Sunday-school State Association, Rev. J. W. Whittaker, moderator, also held an inspiring meeting.  Mr. Alfred Lawless, Jr., was appointed general Sunday-school superintendent to visit needy Sunday-schools in the State, and especially to assist in organizing Sunday-schools on the sugar plantations.

The neat little chapel built a year ago by the American Missionary Association at Thibodeaux was dedicated Sunday, February 3.  An impressive and helpful sermon was preached by Rev. Prof.  G. W. Henderson, of Straight University, followed by addresses by the pastor, Rev. J. E. Smith, Trustee Matthew Dickerson and the field missionary.

As the train left the little town the delegates sang, “God be with you till we meet again.”  The coach was curtained off, to separate the white and colored passengers, but as this song of benediction rang out on the train the curtain was lifted by the white passengers, and for a season we were all one company.  May the angelic song of the Nativity of “peace on earth and good will toward men” so abound that the curtains that separate men will be raised and its refrain of “peace and good will” extend to our common humanity, that we may all be bound together and united to Christ.

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