{"product_id":"2940015798395","title":"From Darkness to light; the story of Negro progress (1909)","description":"IT is with full appreciation of the complex and complicated character of the subject that the Committee sends forth this new text-book, \" From Darkness to Light.\" Of all the problems that press upon our national consciousness perhaps none is of vaster dimensions, more difficult of solution and more urgently insistent, than that of the social and religious uplift of the millions of black folk, for whom America is responsible, and to whom an assured and self-sustaining place must be given in the body politic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurely no nation was ever confronted by a more stupendous undertaking nor one more certainly destined to strain every fiber of the national mind and soul, than this of providing for the needs of a child-race, so different in colour and kind, suddenly released from all former conditions of labour and social life, and unused to self-support or self-reliance in any phase of life. Mistakes certainly there were, in dealing with a problem of such inherent difficulties; were they not to be expected ? But we must realize that on the whole the desire of the people of our land was to deal justly and helpfully with these dependent ones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author has written from an intimate personal knowledge of the subject and with sympathy and true discernment. Thank God the story as one of progress, though the upward way is darkened by many shadows and discouragements. It is a weary road by which this great dusky host, with faltering step, has struggled towards the light, God's unseen hand leading and guiding and still leading on to the time when they shall find place to live and love, to aspire and think, to work and to attain to that high ideal the Heavenly Father holds for all His children. For them also the Christ said, \"I am come that ye might have life and that ye might have it more abundantly.\" A study of this earnest, discriminating volume cannot fail to bring a fuller knowledge of the coloured American and his development, and a greater faith in the possibilities that lie before him when his hands shall have been trained to better service, his brain to clearer, truer thinking, his heart to finer perceptions of the pure and the good.","brand":"Sweet and Maxwell, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147849974000,"sku":"2940015798395","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015798395_p0.jpg?v=1763624899","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015798395","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}