The Secretary of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America writes:
"All ordained men on our missionary staff in Africa, from the Bishop
down, are colored men. I think we have concluded that, all things
considered, except for the work of higher education, colored
missionaries are more available in that field than white." He refers
with gratification to the career of Bishop Ferguson, the only colored
man who has a seat in the American House of Bishops, who was born in
America, educated in the mission schools, and has risen through the
positions of teacher, deacon, priest and rector, until he was
consecrated the Bishop of Cape Palmas in 1885, and has worthily
filled all these positions. The Church Missionary Society of London
refers to the remarkable career of Bishop Crowther, who was born in
Africa, put on board a slave ship, rescued, and landed at Freetown,
educated in Sierra Leone and in England, and at length entered his
chosen field on the Niger, reduced the language of the people to
writing, and preached the gospel to them in their native tongue. In
1861, there were reported to be 1,500 converts as the result of his
labors. He received the degree of D.D., from Oxford, England, and was
consecrated in 1864 African Bishop of the Niger. This society also
mentions others, one as possessing "special educational and
linguistic powers;" another as a "pastor and evangelist with
remarkable power and spiritual influence;" another as "a practical
organizer and administrator;" another as "very successful in
educational work," and it adds: "Many others have also shown
considerable power as educationists, pastors and evangelists."

From all these facts, the inferences are plain:

1. That Negroes have succeeded in this work, and that those in