THE NEGRO'S NEEDS.
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G. Stone, of Maiden, Mass., by whose benevolence it
was erected. It is a building perfectly Spartan in its
plainness. But there it stood, and there, too, stood
the president at his wit's end as to how and where he
should secure enough to furnish it. The school with
which I am connected has its needs also, and I am
not too proud to acknowledge it here. We are now
-desperately in need of a good library, a choice collec¬
tion of books wherein the students may rummage for
themselves. I know the needs of this department,
for I have charge of it. A thousand dollars would
give us a fair start; but we haven't it; and yet right
here in Brooklyn, and over there in New York
there are millions and millions and millions lying
idle in iron safes. God doesn't give us money to
keep in iron safes. He places it into our hands as
into the hands of stewards, and blessed will he be who
at the last day can render up the account of a good
steward.
But more than buildings, more than apparatus,
more than scholarships, the Negro needs to-day to be
fairly represented before the people of the North, to
be pictured just as he is, not in too bright nor yet in
too dark colors—just as he is, and not just as somebody
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