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Show A GREAT LOSS. I Rev. James W. Washington died in this city H last Tuesday night. He was a black man, but H no whiter soul than his ever took its flight from H this city. He long ago learned the truth that the H way a man can best serve the Lord most accepta- H bly is to serve his fellow man. Thenceforth he de- H vc 1 his life to fellow men. He wanter his race H .in more knowledge, to live purer lives and H ne as great enough to understand that for the H first they must have better schooling, for the sec- H ond something must be offered them to awaken H their hopes and to quicken their honest self-re- H spect. For these results he toiled ceaselessly; he H wore out his life to exalt his race through practi- H cal ways and the good he wrought can not be es- timated, the loss his death brings to his race can H not be computed. He was born and reared in ob- H scurity, but in his soul was from the first a coles- H tial light which continually expanded until he H was called away. He was a negro. He was all H the same, in every fiber a superior man, and his H soul was white as a planet's light. , H |