The MUSIC SCRAPBOOK, page 46 ‘That the Negro a race ha, and stl as, a outlook on life which i quite his own, and that his songs expret of hie own peculiar experience and which are al with him, may strike many a8 new. But how ‘the strong unwavering note of hope of final recompense and the assurance of the perfect: neat of another ie to come, unless ones willing to admit hat the slave Brought with him fom Africa a religious Inheritance which, far fom being shaken in any way, w strengthened by hit American experience?” =R. Narmanien Dern, in hin Foreword to Religions FallrSones of the Neere Sperry eee tel telecast sama Ede rio ‘nce the pralmists of Isral relieved ther butdened bears and exprsted ther exaltation. Nor wll they di, because 2 Thaw ota in he barn, my Lar, ib owt art they spring like these, from hearts on fie with «sent of sign kag hare, my and the reality of spiritual truths and their power to recom- ‘Ga Sedge Ba. pent fr lies disartert—a joyous cetsnty born of darke Tanta seer depbryt hey tees and despsir—and therclore expres not the Negr't ‘Alone but every man’s common experience” Eoin Anusrsono TaLto.