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sense of the term ? Was he not in many instances
destitute even of clothing to cover his nakedness?
I was told by a man of your denomination, a promi¬
nent educator in the South, a man whom I love, and
whom I delight to honor, a man whose worth will
never be known until he has passed away from among
men—I mean Edmund Ware, president of Atlanta
University. I was told by him that shortly after the
surrender, when he went to Atlanta to take charge of
the educational work of the American Missionary
Association, he saw there your lady missionaries
standing day after day, "from early morn till dewy
eve," standing, too, in the winter, with cold and stiff
and aching fingers, distributing clothing to the scores
and hundreds of wretched and destitute creatures
who thronged around the storehouse of charity.
Nor is this all. The Negro was not only without
land, without home, without clothing; but actually
without a name. It is amusing to listen to the ex¬
perience of those early teachers with regard to the
organization of their schools. Having gathered
around them a number of dusky faces, they would
naturally begin to take their names. " What is your
name?" the teacher would say. "Bob." "And
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