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The Negro in the South
His Economic Progress in Relation to
His Moral and Religious Development
Being the William Levi Bull
Lectures for the Year 1907
By
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Of the Tuskeegee Normal and Industrial Institute
and
W.E. BURGHARDT DuBOIS
Of the Atlanta University
PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1907, by
George W. Jacobs & Company
Published, June, 1907
All rights reserved
Printed in U.S.A.
The Letter Establishing the Lectureship
Bishop Whitaker presented the Letter of Endowment of the Lectureshipon Christian Sociology from Rev. William L. Bull as follows:
For many years it has been my earnest desire to found a Lectureship onChristian Sociology, meaning thereby the application of Christianprinciples to the Social, Industrial, and Economic problems of thetime, in my Alma Mater, the Philadelphia Divinity School. My object infounding this Lectureship is to secure the free, frank, and fullconsideration of these subjects, with special reference to theChristian aspects of the question involved, which have heretofore, inmy opinion, been too much neglected in such discussion. It would seemthat the time is now ripe and the moment an auspicious one for theestablishment of this Lectureship, at least tentatively.
After a trial of three years, I again make the offer, as in my letterof January 1, 1901, to continue these Lectures for a period of threeyears, with the hope that they may excite such an interest,particularly among the undergraduates of the Divinity School, that Ishall be justified, with the approval of the authorities of theDivinity School, in placing the Lectureship on a more permanentfoundation.
I herewith pledge myself to contribute the sum of six hundred dollarsannually, for a period of three years, to the payment of a lecturer onChristian Sociology, whose duty it shall be to deliver a course of notless than four lectures to the students of the Divinity School,either at the school or elsewhere, as may be deemed most advisable, onthe application of Christian principles to the Social, Industrial, andEconomic problems and needs of the times; the said lecturer to beappointed annually by a committee of five members: the Bishop of theDiocese of Pennsylvania; the Dean of the Divinity School; a member ofthe Board of Overseers, who shall at the same time be an Alumnus; andtwo others, one of whom shall be myself and the other chosen by thepreceding four members of the committee.
Furthermore, if it shall be deemed desirable that the Lectures shallbe published, I pledge myself to the additional payment of from one totwo hundred dollars for such purpose.
To secure a full, frank, and free consideration of the questionsinvolved, it is my desire that the opportunity