The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute HAMPTON, VIRGINIA H. B. FRISSELL. Principal H. B. TURNER, Chaplain F. K. ROGERS, Treasurer What it is Object An undenominational industrial school founded in 1868 by Samuel Chapman Armstrong for Negro youth. Indians admitted in 1878. To train teachers and industrial leaders Equipment Land, 1200 acres; buildings, 135 Courses Academic, trade, agriculture, business, home economics Enrollment Negroes, 1285; Indians, 82; total, 1367 Results Needs Graduates, 1554; ex-students, over 6000 Outgrowths: Tuskegee, Calhoun, Mt. Meigs, and many $125,000 annually above regular income Any contribution, however small, will be gratefully received and may be sent to H. B. FRISSELL, Principal, or to F. K. ROGERS, Treasurer, Hampton, Virginia. FORM OF BEQUEST I give and devise to the trustees of The Hampton Normai and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia, the sum of payable dollars, THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN was founded by Samuel Chapman Armstrong in 1872, and is a monthly magazine devoted to the interests of undeveloped races. It contains reports from Negro and Indian populations, with pictures of reservation and plantation life, as well as information concerning Hampton graduates and ex-students who since 1868 have taught more than 250,000 children in the South and West. It also provides a forum for the discussion of ethnological, sociological, and educational problems in all parts of the world. CONTRIBUTIONS: The editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed in contributed articles. Their aim is simply to place before their readers articles by men and women of ability without regard to the opinions neld. TERMS: One Dollar a year in advance; ten cents a copy CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Persons making a change of address should send the old as well as the new address to THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN, Hampton, Virginia. Entered as second-class matter August 13, 1908, in the Post Office at Hampton, Virginia, under the Act of July 16, 1894. A complete list will be sent on application. One dozen will be sent free to Southern teachers and superintendents. To all others the price is fifty cents per dozen. Address: Publication Office, The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia The Southern Workman VOL. XL JUNE 1911 NO. 6 "The World in Boston" Editorials This great Missionary Exposition, the first of its kind ever held in America, was closed on Saturday, May 20, having been open since April 22. From the beginning it has been visited by tens of thousands of people daily from twelve o'clock noon until ten in the evening, the morning being given up to classes of children from neighboring towns and from various parts of Boston. The Exposition has been most comprehensive, embracing foreign, home, and city missions of every kind. Fifteen thousand stewards-volunteers from many churches who paid for the privilege of being enrolled in classes for instruction during the winter-have given their services to explain the various exhibits. The aim of the Exposition has been to show conditions on the mission fields, what has already been accomplished, the methods of work, and what remains to be done, doing this through the eye rather than by the voice. Twice each day a pageant depicting great historical missionary events in the four quarters of the world-North, South, East and West—has been given on the stage in the immense Auditorium. This has been beautifully staged and has had musical accompaniment of great volume and beauty. An illustrated account of "The World in Boston" may be expected in an early number of the Southern Workman. The Indian and the "Great Mystery " It is probably true that "his religion is the last thing about the Indian that the white man will ever understand." We have frequently been told that the Indian possesses a distinctly religious nature and that his religion is a part of his daily life. But until the appearance of Dr. Charles Eastman's latest book, "The Soul of the Indian," we have not been told how this religion manifests itself nor in just what way it enters into his daily life. We have seen or read about some of his ceremonial customs, but these strange rites convey to us little understanding of the spiritual aspirations which are more often cloaked than revealed by ceremonies. Dr. Eastman's book deals little with ceremonies. It is rather "a sincere and earnest attempt to portray the human soul communing in its nakedness with the Infinite". He calls it, "An Interpretation," and in it is revealed a depth of sincere worship and reverence for the " Great Mystery" which must come as a surprise even to those who know the Indian well. This book, though small in size, is therefore of no small significance, since it affords opportunity for one man to look straight into the soul of another—a thing rare enough between men of the same race, but much more rare between men of differing races. Manifestly no white man could have written it. Probably none but a Christian Indian could have done it, and perhaps no other Indian of to-day than Dr. Eastman could have done it so successfully, for it requires a rare genius of insight and interpretation. The gifted author of this book is well qualified for the task, because he possesses the vision of the poet and idealist, combined with a knowledge of both races which enables him to interpret the spiritual longing of his red brother in terms that are comprehensible to the white man. Indeed, so convincing is the sincerity with which it is written that no one can read it without being moved to a higher appreciation than before of the soul of the Indian. Nor will he fail to realize as perhaps never before that "all religious aspiration, all sincere worship, can have but one source and one goal, and that the God of the lettered and the unlettered, of the Greek and the barbarian, is after all the same God, and that in every nation he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness is acceptable to Him.'" Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who died recently at Cambridge, Mass., was almost the last of that famous company of New England's sons who wrote and fought to free the slave. He was active in the anti-slavery agitation and, for his part in the attempted rescue of a fugitive slave, was indicted with |