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Show NORTH T0;pAR BURDEN OF THEvNEGR0 PROBLEM Episcopal Dignitaries Declare That Fate of Church and State Are Involved in the Solution. NEW YORK, Dec. 8. Before a missionary mis-sionary mass meeting In Holy Trinity church, Brooklyn, called to discuss the work of the Episcopal church among the negroes, Bishop Burgess of the diocese dio-cese of Long Island, who presided, declared de-clared that the fate of the church and State alike la involved In the solution of this problem. If the white people do not elevate the negro, he declared, the negro ne-gro will purely drag his white superiors to his own level. Christianity alone could do it, he added: The Rev. Dr. C. K. J. Wrig'.ey, archdeacon arch-deacon of South Brooklyn, feared that a. mistake had been made In the enfranchising en-franchising of the negro when he was hardly prepared for the solemn dufy. If this mistake had been made, great must be the reparation from the North in money and In work to bring the negro ne-gro to a state where he might work out his own destiny. Industrial education will be the means for this, Dr. Wrigley believed. Dr. Wrigley asserted that practically a state of anarchy existed in the South today. A great movement of negroes had et In to the cities, where they were living wretchedly. Before the war they had done practically all the labor of the South. The trouble, he believed, had come from a misconception of what liberty lib-erty meant. The negroes in this condition condi-tion were a menace to the church, the State and themselves. To remedy this, they must be educated, made to see God. They should be given a chance for Industrial development. Then, when the negro had his chance. If he took advantage of it, he should be received re-ceived at his true worth as a man. despite de-spite his color. In thi3 work of regeneration, regen-eration, the North must bear the burden bur-den for It alone has the money. |