This act of emancipation must be the model for Christian nations, so far as the circumstances are the same. There must be no preliminary apprenticeship, but immediate emancipation, followed by prompt, thorough, and persistent training of the people in knowledge, piety, and in acquiring homes. I call attention lastly to 3. The results and outlook of our own emancipation. Let us consider these, not as is usually done, from the standpoint either of the politician of the North, or the planter of the South, but from that of the negro himself. With all its glory, emancipation has brought to the negro three great disappointments. (1.) Education was to him the talisman of the master’s power, and above all, it was the key to open the long concealed treasures of God’s word. He stretched forth his hand for it as if it were Aladdin’s lamp, which by a few touches would reveal the hidden riches. But there was no magic in the lamp; it showed him only a long and difficult road, that by patient and persevering travel would bring him to the coveted knowledge. Then, again, the common school fund of the South gives him but few schools, and those are open but for a short time, while his own necessities bend him down to the struggle for existence, and allow him little means to educate his children, or power to spare them from work in the field. (2.) His next great disappointment was in the ballot. This, too, he had seized with avidity as the symbol of sovereign power--the one grand test of equality with the master. In two states he wielded it in uncontrolled majority, but his use of it was so disgraceful to himself and so ruinous to the state, that his friends were amazed and his foes exasperated. He showed that he lacked the intelligence to wield this great power, and the strength of character to resist its temptations; and now the symbol is wrenched from his grasp and he is once more helpless before superior knowledge. (3.) His last disappointment was as to the ownership of land. What visions floated before him of land that he could call his own and of a home that he might adorn and use for himself and family. It is wonderful to see how much he has done to realize this vision. But this, too, in large measure eludes his grasp. If he rents he must pay a rental almost equal to the value of the land; and if he buys, he must take the united toil of himself and family to pay for it; and hence his dilemma. If he buys his home, he cannot educate his children; if he educates them, he cannot buy the home! Do we wonder that with the crushing of these “great expectations,” and with as little hope in most cases of seeing things better as when he was a slave, he yields to despair, and rather than “bear the ills he has he flies to others that he knows not of,” and that Kansas becomes his refuge?