CHAPTER VI.
THE SECOND CAMPAIGN.
Under God's blessing their labours had saved the
University from suspending, or even curtailing, its
work. But their success, so far, in raising money
was chiefly valuable as evidence that a way had
been found for obtaining the much larger sum that
the necessities of the growing work required. The
Singers had received an invitation to participate in
the second World's Peace Jubilee, to be held in
Boston in June. Stopping in Nashville little more
than a week, they again took the field. Giving a few
concerts in Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio, they went
on to Boston. Parts had been assigned them on
the programmes of several days' exercises. The
immense audience of 40,000 people was gathered
from all parts of the land; and the colour prejudice
that had followed the Singers everywhere reappeared
here in the shower of brutal hisses that greeted their
first appearance. But the air of that radical New
England city is not kindly to colourphobia, and a
deluge of applause answered and drowned the insult.
