International Secretaries, 96 associations organized in Colored American educational institutions, with an enrollment of 15,000 male students, and forty-five city associations scattered over 23 States. The Colored women of the United States began organizing Y. W. C. A. work in 1896, and there are now 37 associations affiliated with the national organization, with 12 city associations for Colored women. In connection with church or religious matters, the work of the Colored Women’s Christian Temperance Union should not be forgotten. This great national association makes for morals, sobriety, good citizenship and education. With all these remarkably large and numerous opportunities, the young Colored American should be able to find an opening for his desired ambition to be an apostle among his fellow men. The spirit is working and inspires the race with noble ambitions, and all the human virtues possible to inculcate in this world. It may be said, in passing, that to lead the souls of men to eternal bliss in the world beyond is the noblest and highest attainable profession or calling. In preparing men for a future home beyond the skies, he is converted into an advanced man of morals and good qualities on this earth to fit him for the next world. Men and nations have sometimes forgotten God, but their end has always been untimely. 53 LEADERS OF AMERICA WHOSE EARS ARE CLOSE TO THE GROUND Americans, Regardless of Color, Who are Leading the People out of the Wilderness and Teaching the Brotherhood of Man. Americans, Regardless of Color, Who are Leading the People out of the Wilderness and Teaching the Brotherhood of Man. We have at the present time in the United States certain persons regarded as eminent in progress and advanced thought, who must be reckoned with when it comes to human improvement, and the removal of obstacles to man’s intellectual life and physical welfare. There have been numberless proofs in the years gone by, in fact, we have only to survey the pages of all history, to learn that it is a law of human nature, that there is no distinction between color and race, and that brains, intellect, soul, are and always will be the test, the criterion, the standard of human excellence. To review the past
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