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egro Publishing House as there
is for d� e egro church ,
schoo or famili .... It never as
tru anywhere, and perhaps never
will be that a Negro can enjoy
every right in an instituti con­
trolled b hite men that a
[W)hite man can enjoy. There is
not as bright and glorious a future
before a egro in a [W]hite in­
stitution as th is for him in his
own, It cannot be denied that e
can better marshal our for and
develop our peop in enterprises
manned by us. e can more
thoroughl fill our peop e ith
f ce pride, denomi tiona! en-
thusiasm and ivity, by pr
tin to them for their upport
enterp , that are olly ours.
Dr. William J. Harvey. III and Mrs. Sarah
C rus, retired missionary of the Foreign
M' ion Board. rs. C rus s rv d 48 ears
and as retired in 19 2.
hievements of the omen's Auxiliary.
early th organization of the
Convention of 1880, Blae Baptists ere
a are of the need for Bl to write
their own literature. 0 longer hould
they depend upon th literature nor upon
the publication of White Baptists.
growing pirit of independence as
manifesting itself and more and more
Blac Baed ere becoming disen­
chanted ith th paternalism of the
Home ission and Baptist Publication
Societi .
t the annual 'on of 1896, a
Publishing Board as approved by th
Convention 'to encourage our literary
m and omen, and promo e the in-
t of Ba . literature" Once the
publishing venture had been entertained
there as almost total commitment given
to it by members of differing points of
. and philosophy. In his address
before the Convention in 1896, Past
President E .. 1..0 e summarized the ra­
tionale for the new Publishing Board:
... There . ong an argu-
ment in favor of distinctive
(Continued on page 22.)
