Race prejudice is as much a fact as the law of gravitation, and it would be as suicidal to ignore the operation of the one as that of the other. Mournful complaint is as impotent as an infant crying against the fury of the wild wind. History has taught you that the path of moral progress has never taken a straight line, but has ever been a zig-zag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. Do not be discouraged, then, that all the wrongs of the universe are not righted at your bidding. The great humanitarian movement which has been sweeping over the civilized world from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present time, manifesting itself in political revolutions, in social and moral reforms, and in works of love and mercy, affords the amplest assurance that all worthy elements of the population will ultimately be admitted to share in the privileges and blessings of civilization according to the measure of their merit. The man whose education has resulted in practical intelligence, will find the largest field for the exercise of his powers. I urge you to bring your education to bear upon your practical tasks. You need not fear that your knowledge will carry you beyond the needs of the situation. In dealing with a people who exhaust their strength in working with blunt iron without sufficient knowledge to wet the edge your wisdom will ever be profitable to direct. PROF. KELLY MILLER. * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1898. * * * * * THE DANIEL HAND FUND For the Education of Colored People. Income for May $16,694.16 Previously acknowledged 37,197.68 ---------- $53,891.84 ========== NOTE.--Where no name follows that of the town, the contribution is from the church and society of that place. Where a name follows, it is that of the contributing church or individual. S. means Sunday-school; C. means Church; C. E., the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor; S. A. means Student Aid. CURRENT RECEIPTS. MAINE, $190.06--of which from Estate, $5.00. Bethel, 26.96. Eastport, Central, 6.43. Lewiston, Pine St., 39.40. Newcastle, Second, 21.50. North Bridgton, S., _for S. A., Talladega C._, 4.25. Norway, "Friends," 3. Orland, Miss Emma Buck, _for McIntosh, Ga._, 1.68. Otisfield, C. E., 12. Portland, Second, C. E., 6; Saint Lawrence, 5. South Paris, First, 13.64. Waterford, Ladies' Miss. Soc., 20 cts. and Clothing, _for Blowing Rock, N. C._ MAINE WOMAN'S AID TO A. M. A., Mrs. Ida V. Woodbury, Treas., $45.00: Augusta, 18. Brunswick, 1. Portland, Bethel, 26. ESTATE. Yarmouth, Estate, Susan S. Webster, by Harlan P. Prince, Administrator, 5. NEW HAMPSHIRE, $219.42.