Like the Conference, the Southern Education Board was a purely missionary organization, and its most active worker was Page himself.

He was constantly speaking and writing on his favourite subject; he printed article after article, not only in his own magazine, but in the _Atlantic_, in the _Outlook_, and in a multitude of newspapers, such as the Boston _Transcript_, the New York _Times_, and the Kansas City _Star_.

And always through his writings, and, indeed, through his life, there ran, like the motif of an opera, that same perpetual plea for "the forgotten man"-- the need of uplifting the backward masses through training, both of the mind and of the hand.
The day came when this loyal group had other things to work with than their voices and their pens; their efforts had attracted the attention of Mr.John D.Rockefeller, who brought assistance of an extremely substantial character.

In 1902 Mr.Rockefeller organized the General Education Board.

Of the ten members six were taken from the Southern Education Board; other members represented general educational interests and especially the Baptist interests to which Mr.Rockefeller had been contributing for years.