DR. CLIFFORD AT SEVENTYFOUR.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13906, 3 December 1910, Page 12

DR. CLIFFORD AT SEVENTYFOUR.

IN PRAISE OP.A MODERN HERO. An' enormous audience faced Dr. Clifford when he entered the pulpit at Westboarne Park road Chapel, London, on a recent Sunday evening. The aisles were densely packed, and those unable to find & seat anywhere elsti overflowed into the pulpit itself. Dr. Clifford looked extremely happy, .youthful, and vigorous, and his voice resounded cleariy in eyerv part of th& building. Dr. Booker T. Washington was the "modern hero of faith" upon whose life and work ho dwelt. This man, he said, who lived to educate a race, began to educate himself by making lus way across 600 miles of country to a school for coloured people, and when ho got there engaged himself as sweeper, then as waiter, before ho got a place on the benches. Ultimately he became teacher, -ft was an almost unique dpggodness, determination to learn, which distinguished him. Heroism in intellect could be tjlaimed for Booker Washington. Ecually was he heroic in ideas. Think or the race problem with which he was confronted! Yet he never faltered. It was the same problems with much the British people wore confronted all over the Empire. How were > the peoples to be fused, or were they to keep distinct and separate? Dr. Booker Washington held tfcafc the races could maintain a distinct existence —as the fingers wero separate and yet together be one as tho hand is one. "Leave the mixtures," cried Dr. Clifford, "God takes care of His big family—let each be as faithful as h© can to the duties of the day." Nowhere does his heroism manifest itself more than in his work, To teach the uegro eelf-rererenee, self-respect, self-control was Washington's task, and at Tiiskegee College he aimed at that great achievement. The heroism of Moses finds a beautiful parallel in the work of Dr. Washington in his training of hie people. He kept before him a double purpose—to fit his fellows for their dUmsj in th© world, and to train them ior its highest duties. That was * problem, too. No dominating r^5L? "»« keep w! inferior race in the " >etons wonderful power of. wmnin* over any howe-v«r a£ta«ronistoc. Dr. <Hi8o& for«b*dowed «i wen more futwTfTgb vho was etstll in the vtvma of lif* ;» the taak of uplifting liTalW '