I FEEL A PROFOUNDER REVERENCE FOR A BOY THAN AMAN. I NEVER MEET A RAGGED BOY ON THE STREET WITHOUTFEELING THAT I OWE HIM A SALUTE, FOR I KNOWNOT WHAT POSSIBILITIES MAY BE BUTTONED UP UNDERHIS SHABBY COAT.

Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong.

The publishers of this book have spared neitherpains nor expense in trying to make it as nearlyperfect as a book of this kind can be. The typographicalappearance and the illustrations willspeak for themselves.

We consider ourselves fortunate in havingbeen able to secure the services of the Rev. Dr.Silas X. Floyd as the author of this volume. Mr.Floyd’s life work, aside from his literary training,has made him the ideal man to speak to thecolored boys and girls of the South. Soon aftergraduating from Atlanta University in 1891, Mr.Floyd became Principal of a Public School atAugusta, Ga., and remained in that city for fiveyears consecutively as a teacher. In June, 1896,he was called from the school room into the Sunday-schoolwork, having been appointed by theInternational Sunday School Convention as oneof its Field Workers throughout the South. Hecontinued in this work for three years, retiringfrom it to become Pastor of Tabernacle BaptistChurch, Augusta, Ga., one of the largest churchesin the South. After a year and a half in the pastorate,he returned to the Sunday-school work,becoming Sunday-school Missionary for Georgiaand Alabama under appointment of the AmericanBaptist Publication Society. Two years ago,6he re-entered the school room, and is now oncemore Principal of a Public School at Augusta.His school is one of the largest in the State ofGeorgia.

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