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VOL. XXXVI. FEBRUARY, 1882 NO. 2.
THE
American Missionary
“THEY ARE RISING ALL ARE RISING, THE BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER”
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
ROOMS, 56 READE STREET,
Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.]
CONTENTS.
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EDITORIAL.
Page.
PARAGRAPH—THAT THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS 33
THE NASHVILLE CONFERENCE 34
PARAGRAPHS—BENEFACTIONS 36
GENERAL NOTES—Africa, Indians, Chinese 37
CHINESE FUNERAL PROCESSION (cut) 39
NEW APPOINTMENTS 40
THE FREEDMEN.
BUILDINGS AT TOUGALOO, MISS.—By Rev. A. Hatch 46
CUT OF STRIEBY HALL 47
INDUSTRIAL WORK AT TOUGALOO—By Pres. G. S. Pope 48
MISSIONARY WORK AT NEW ORLEANS—By Miss Lena Saunders 50
STORRS CHURCH, ATLANTA, GA.—By Rev. Evarts Kent 51
AFRICA.
EXTRACT FROM LETTERS OF REV. H. M. LADD 51
THE CHINESE.
NOTES FROM THE FIELD—By Rev. W. C. Pond 52
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
TESSIE 54
RECEIPTS 55
AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC. 62
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American Missionary Association,
56 READE STREET, NEW YORK
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PRESIDENT, HON. WM. B. WASHBURN, Mass.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Rev. M. E. STRIEBY. D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
TREASURER.
H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.
Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.
Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.
COMMUNICATIONS
relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields,
to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the
“American Missionary,” to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York
Office.
DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, Rev. C.
L. Woodworth, Dist. Sec., 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass.,
or Rev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112 West Washington Street,
Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
Life Member.
The Annual Report of the A. M. A. contains the Constitution of the
Association and the By-Laws of the Executive Committee. A copy will
be sent free on application.
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THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
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VOL. XXXVI. FEBRUARY, 1882. NO. 2
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American Missionary Association.
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A portion of this number of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY is filled with
a complete list of the names of the persons appointed for the
current year to the missionary fields at home and abroad where
this Association carries on its work. The work and the workers are
earnestly commended to the sympathies and prayers of the disciples
of the Lord everywhere.
* * * * *
THAT THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
It is needed, and that is just why we fixed upon the amount. We are
not seeking to put forth a single effort or to carry out a solitary
measure not strenuously demanded by the circumstances. We think
Providence has plainly indicated to us that we should enlarge our
operations at some points and inaugurate new work at other points.
Of this we have been doubly assured by proffered gifts for specific
work that needed greatly to be done.
We have accepted the gifts in faith, fully aware that by so doing
we have placed ourselves under greater obligations than ever. If
God, however, has moved upon the hearts of good people to provide
buildings and funds for aggressive missionary endeavors, is it
not evident that He designs to sustain the work in its proper
development? His promises and providences surely warrant us in this
belief. The funds needful for carrying out the Lord’s plans can be
secured. Our concern is to understand and perform what we ought to
do to obtain them.
We make our appeal, first, to the churches. Is this Association on
your list of charities, and does it receive attention at least once
a year? Do you take the collection for it in the best way? Do you
give it a place in the monthly concert? Is it remembered in the
Sabbath School?
We appeal, secondly, to individuals. When you provide for the
charities of the year, do you make a liberal provision for the
redemption of the colored races in our land? Do you keep in
mind their relations to the highest welfare of the country? Do
you remember what part the negroes and Chinamen may take in the
conversion of Africa and China? May we not rely upon your gifts
even by hundreds and thousands as the months go on? We want that
three hundred thousand dollars; and nothing is more sure than
that it will come, provided churches in their several capacities,
and individuals in their large-hearted benevolence, will respond
promptly and prayerfully, according to their ability. If men and
women are ready to enter the dens of darkness and sin, to baffle
and destroy not the troublesome wolf—like young Putnam in our
nation’s early history—but Satan and his wicked devices, surely we
ought to be willing to furnish and hold the ropes.
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THE NASHVILLE CONFERENCE.
A Conference of officers and workers of the American Missionary
Association was held at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 26
and 27. There were present ex-Gov. Washburn, of Massachusetts, the
recently elected President of the Association; Rev. W. H. Ward,
D.D., and C. L. Mead, Esq., of New York, members of the Executive
Committee; Sec. Strieby, and Dr. Roy, Field Secretary. The teaching
force was represented by Pres. Cravath and Prof. Spence, of
Nashville, Tenn.; Pres. Ware and Prof. Farnham, of Atlanta, Ga.;
Pres. DeForest and Prof. Andrews, of Talladega, Ala.; Pres. Pope
and Prof. Hatch, of Tougaloo, Miss.; Pres. Alexander and Prof.
Jewett, of New Orleans, La.; Prof. Wright, of Savannah, Ga.; Prof.
Gordon, of Charleston, S.C.; Prof. Steele, of Memphis, Tenn.; Prof.
Hodge, of Macon, Ga.; and Rev. O. D. Crawford, of Mobile, Ala. Gen.
Armstrong, of Hampton, Va., and Pres. Fairchild, of Berea, Ky.,
though not directly connected with the Association, were present by
invitation and added largely to the interest of the gathering.
The meeting was convened to consider the whole educational work
of the Association in the South—with a view to its unity and
efficiency. Many of the teachers present had been long in the
service and brought to the discussion the benefits of large
experience and wide observation in regard to the educational
aptitudes and progress of the colored people.
Among the results were
1. That while the mass of this race must be educated for the
common walks of life, yet a competent number must be trained as
leaders in their progress; and as essential thereto, they need
many a Moses and many an Aaron, and these must be of their own
race. For these the best facilities ought to be furnished, and
such facilities should be near at hand. Statistics were presented
showing that at the West as well as at the South the students in
the colleges were from the immediate vicinity. Many a young man
gets a thorough education when the college is near who never would
get it if the college were distant. This is especially true of the
colored student, who can find work or teaching and cheap board near
home, which he could not find at a distance, to say nothing of the
expense of travel. In view of the facts, the Conference recommended
to the Association to strengthen the college departments in
Atlanta and Fisk, and introduce college studies in Talladega and
Straight as fast as the means and the fit student material would
justify.
2. It was shown that more and better theological instruction is
needed for the Freedmen. No race can rise without an intelligent
ministry. The young colored people of the present generation have
had some education themselves and demand better educated ministers,
and the half million of children now in school will contemn
religion or become infidels if left to the teachings of ignorant
pulpits. The Association was asked by the Conference to establish,
in addition to the Theological Department in Howard University, a
Theological Seminary further South, as soon as practicable, and to
sustain in efficiency the Theological Departments at Talladega and
Straight.
3. The review of the Industrial Departments was interesting and
satisfactory. The farm at Tougaloo produces largely the supply for
boarding-house table, and furnishes something for export—especially
strawberries. At Talladega the land is neither extensive nor very
fertile, yet yields fairly. Both farms furnish labor for the boys,
and the boarding departments there, as also in Atlanta, Fisk
and elsewhere, give employment to the girls. These Industrial
Departments do not pay pecuniarily, but they _do_ pay in healthy
mental and moral stamina, and in a preparation for practical life.
In view, however, of the difficulty in management and marketing, no
additional farm industries were recommended.
4. Much time was given and much interest manifested in discussing
the grading and unifying of the normal and preparatory schools,
and their relations to the higher institutions. Our most effective
work is felt to be here, for in these schools we meet the wants
of the masses directly, and lay the foundations for what we do in
the schools more advanced. The results of the Conference in this
regard, will, we are persuaded, secure greater unity and efficiency
in object-lesson teaching, normal training and practical business
education, as well as in giving more thorough preparation to those
who may enter the colleges.
Among the important results of the meeting are the better
acquaintance acquired by the teachers of each other and of the
work; and by the officers of the Association of the great and
diversified interests intrusted to its care.
A significant and encouraging fact in the progress of the meeting
was the voluntary and very welcome presence of Dr. J. Berrien
Lindsley, Secretary of the State Board of Education, and Mr. Doak,
State Superintendent of Education. These gentlemen expressed, in
the strongest terms, their high appreciation of the work the A. M.
A. is doing in the South, and from their position and opportunities
few men have better knowledge on the subject than they.
The day is not far distant when the South and North will see eye
to eye, and will work hand to hand in the great endeavor to
elevate the colored race, and the A. M. A. may well rejoice in the
part she is taking in bringing about this harmony, and in the great
achievement to be attained.
* * * * *
WE would again remind our readers that our Annual Report is ready
for distribution, and we shall be glad to send it to any who wish a
copy, and will so signify to us by postal card or letter.
* * * * *
THE WORK AT HOME, a monthly record of the Woman’s Home Missionary
Association, is gotten up in an attractive manner; price, 25
cents per annum, subscriptions to be sent to Miss Laura W. Bliss,
20 Congregational House, Boston, Mass. We bid the publication
God-speed.
* * * * *
WE are happy to announce that through the liberality of Mr. Edward
Smith, of Enfield, Mass., we have purchased thirteen acres of land
in Little Rock, Ark., for a new institution of learning. A charter
for a college and plans for the first school building will be
secured without unreasonable delay. The character of the school
will be similar to that of our other chartered institutions.
* * * * *
BENEFACTIONS.
Wesleyan University has already received $550,000 of Mr. Seney, of
Brooklyn, for endowment purposes.
—The late Stephen Whitney Phœnix bequeathed nearly $1,000,000 to
Columbia College, New York City, part of it available at once, and
the rest on the death of his brother and sisters.
—Mr. J. B. Hoyt, of Stamford, Conn., has subscribed $20,000 for the
Connecticut Literary Institution at Suffield.
—The will of Mrs. Maria Cary, of Brooklyn, gives $5,000 to Antioch
College.
—Mr. A. E. Goodnow, of Worcester, has presented Mount Holyoke
Seminary with $5,000, to be invested as a fund for keeping in order
the estate of Goodnow Park, presented by him to that institution.
—The Worcester Free Institute, of which Dr. Chas. O. Thompson is
the Principal, has received during the past year, $26,000 from
Mr. David Whitcomb, and $6,000 from Mr. Stephen Salisbury, both
of Worcester, Mass. The Institute now has property amounting to
$680,000.
—Mr. W. C. Jones, of Warrington, Eng., has given $10,000 to
establish a preparatory institute at Hong Chow, China.
—_We published the statement in the October_ AMERICAN MISSIONARY
_that endowments were needed at Talladega College, of $25,000 each
for four professorships. We are happy to report that the late
Benjamin De Forest, of Connecticut, provided by his will, $10,000
toward such endowment._
GENERAL NOTES.
AFRICA.
—A German expedition, under the direction of Baron Muller, will set
out from Massaoua or Souakim for the country of the Gallas.
—Two English missionaries of Uganda, Messrs. Pearson and
Litchfield, have returned to England.
—During forty years, the Church Missionary Society sent 87
missionaries to West Africa.
—Captain Capello will have the direction of the civilizing station
which the Portuguese government intends to establish at Bihé.
—A Spanish association, the _Exploradoro_, is organizing an
expedition for the region comprised between the Bay of Corisco and
Lake Albert.
—The Church Missionary Society had at last reports but three
missionaries left of the whole number sent to Uganda, the capital
of Mtesa’s kingdom.
—The Governor of Sierra Leone intends to visit the chiefs of the
tribes who live along the Rokelle, with the view of establishing
among them a permanent peace.
—Messrs. Cuzzi and Michieli, agents of the Italian Society of
Commerce with Africa, have set out for Khartoum, where they will
make purchase of gum.
—Count Pennazzi, who has already explored the Soudan, will shortly
start for the country of the Gallas, from whence he aims to go
directly to the great lakes of Eastern Africa.
—Mr. Godwin, engineer at Cairo, has addressed a report to the
Egyptian government showing the necessity of prolonging the
railroads to the Egyptian Soudan, using alternately conveyance by
water and the railroad.
—We are happy to announce the arrival of Mr. I. J. St. John and
Rev. J. M. Hall at Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Dec. 12, after a long
and rough voyage. They were in good health and hoped to reach Avery
Station that same week.
—Sir John Kirk, who has been so well known for many years as Dr.
Kirk, the British Representative and Consul General at Zanzibar,
and who earned his knighthood by his services in connection with
the abolition of the slave trade and the advance of civilization in
East Africa, is now in England.
* * * * *
THE INDIANS.
—A small congregation of full-blooded Chickasaw Indians lately gave
$400 for Foreign Missions.
—In the spring of 1881, seventeen Indian slaves at Sitka were freed
through the efforts of Captain Henry Glass, of the United States
ship Jamestown.
—The Baptists have built a steam launch of 100 tons measurement for
mission work in Alaska, British Columbia and Washington Territory.
She is 82 feet long, with a cabin 25 x 15 feet.
—The Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws and Seminole Indians,
to the number of 60,560, have over 16,000 houses. During the years
1879 and 1880, from the 273,000 acres they have under cultivation
they raised over half a million of bushels of wheat and 176,500
tons of hay. They have 195 schools with 6,250 scholars, or
one-tenth of the population. For education during the year they
expended $156,856, or $29.09 for each scholar, 2,650 of whom
learned to read the same year.
—At the Klawack Cannery, an Indian one day, abusing some others
with offensive epithets learned from the whites, they at once fell
to fighting. A trader inquiring what he said to them, they replied
they didn’t know, only when white men used those words they went to
fighting, and so the Indians thought that was the proper thing for
them to do.
* * * * *
CHINESE.
—The return of the Chinese students, about which so much is said,
it seems was occasioned partly by the fact that the Chinese
government wished to utilize their acquirements. Several of
them have been called into the service of telegraph lines just
completed, and others will enter the army, the navy and the
arsenals.
—The Japanese, the Yankees of the East, have lately been getting
up a corner in silk, and European silk traders have been forced to
accept the terms dictated by a syndicate of native growers.
—There are now in North China about 100 villages where there are
natives who have declared themselves disciples of Christ, and in
as many as thirty centres they meet on Sunday for worship and the
study of the Scriptures.
—In Japan, 90 per cent. of the people are able to read. In the
United States, only 80 per cent.; in England, 67; in China, 50, and
in India 5 per cent.
—China spends $150,000,000 annually in ancestral worship.
—Japan has set an example that might well be followed by some
continental nations. The government was requested for permission
to hold a lottery in order to dispose of such articles as remained
unsold at the national exhibition. They refused on moral grounds,
and went to the expense of purchasing all the goods themselves in
order to avoid the risk of an immoral example.
[Illustration: CHINESE FUNERAL PROCESSION.]
NEW APPOINTMENTS.
1881–1882.
The following list presents the names and post-office addresses
of those who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions
and Schools aided by the American Missionary Association, among
the Freedmen in the South, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, the
Indians, and the Negroes in Western Africa. The Berea College
and Hampton Institute are under the care of their own Boards of
Trustees, but being either founded or fostered in the past by this
Association, and representing the general work in which it is
engaged, their teachers are included in this list.
THE SOUTHERN FIELD
REV. J. E. ROY, D.D., Field Superintendent.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
WASHINGTON.
_Theological Department, Howard University._
Rev. W. W. Patton, D.D., Washington, D.C.
Rev. J. G. Craighead, D.D., Washington, D.C.
Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., Washington, D.C.
Rev. John G. Butler, D.D., Washington, D.C.
LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH.
_Pastor._
Rev. S. P. Smith, Chicago, Ill.
_Special Missionary._
Mrs. C. B. Babcock, Newburyport, Mass.
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VIRGINIA.
HAMPTON.
_Minister._
Rev. H. B. Frissell, New York City.
NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Hampton, Va.
Gen. J. F. B. Marshall, Treasurer, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Albert Howe, Farm Manager, Hampton, Va.
Mr. F. C. Briggs, Business Agent, Hampton, Va.
Mr. J. B. H. Goff, Engineer, Hampton, Va.
Mr. C. W. Betts, Printing Office, Wilmington, Del.
Capt. G. Le R. Brown, Com., Hampton, Va.
Mr. J. E. Fuller, Band Mas. Hampton, Va.
Mr. C. H. Vanison, Farm Man., Hampton, Va.
Dr. M. M. Waldron, Res. Phys., Otselic, N.Y.
Miss Charlotte L. Mackie, Otselic, N.Y.
Miss Mary T. Galpin, Stockbridge, Mass.
Miss Helen W. Ludlow, New York City.
Miss A. A. Hobbs, Bangor, Me.
Miss Jane E. Davis, Troy, N.Y.
Miss Myrtilla J. Sherman, Brookfield. Mass.
Miss Phebe C. Davenport, Quaker Street, N.Y.
Miss Sophia L. Brewster, Brookfield, Mass.
Miss Margaret Kenwell, Mechanicsville, N.Y.
Miss Anna E. Kemble, Camden, N.Y.
Miss Emma H. Lothrop, Pittsfield, Mass.
Miss Julia P. Brown, Farmington, Conn.
Miss Mary F. Dibble, Seymour, Ct.
Miss Louise K. Day, Elizabeth, N.J.
Miss Lilian N. Stoddard, Cheshire, Ct.
Mr. R. H. Hamilton, Hampton, Va.
INDIAN DEPARTMENT.
Mr. J. H. McDowell, Chg. Workshop, Hampton, Va.
Miss Isabel B. Eustis, Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Lucy A. Lyman, Hampton, Va.
Miss Laura E. Tileston, Boston, Mass.
Miss Joephine E. Richards, Litchfield, Ct.
Mr. Orpheus M. Mc Adoo, Hampton, Va.
Miss Lovey A. Mayo, Hampton. Va.
Miss Cora M. Folsom, Boston, Mass.
Miss Geo. J. Davis, Boston, Mass.
BUTLER-SCHOOL.
Miss Elizabeth Hyde, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Mr. B. S. White, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Miss Jessie F. Emery, Turner’s Falls, Me.
Miss Lucy Boulding, Hampton, Va.
Miss Sarah Banks, Hampton, Va.
CLERKS.
Mr. F. B. Banks, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Wm. M. Reid, Hampton, Va.
Mr. W. H. Daggs, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Geo. A. Blackmore, Hampton, Va.
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CARRSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Miss M. A. Andrus, Riceville, Pa.
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NORTH CAROLINA.
WILMINGTON (P.O. Box 207.)
_Minister._
Rev. D. D. Dodge, Nashua, N.H.
NORMAL SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Miss A. C. Chandler, Portland, Me.
_Assistants._
Miss H. L. Fitts, Candia. N.H.
Miss E. A. Warner, Lowell, Mass.
Miss Ella F. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.
Miss A. E. Bishop, Groton, Mass.
Mrs. J. F. Steere, Greenville, R.I.
Miss Janet Dodge, Nashua, N.H.
_Special Missionary._
Miss A. E. Farrington, Portland, Me.
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RALEIGH.
_Minister._
Rev. Geo. S. Smith, Raleigh, N.C.
_Special Missionary._
Miss E. P. Hayes, Limerick, Me.
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DUDLEY.
_Minister._
——— ——— ———
_Teacher._
Mrs. G. A. Rumbley, Phila., Pa.
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McLEANSVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Alfred Connet, Solsberry, Ind.
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WOODBRIDGE.
_Teacher._
Mr. A. B. Grimes, Woodbridge, N.C.
* * * * *
BEAUFORT.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Michael Jerkins, Beaufort, N.C.
_Assistant._
Miss Lydia Hatch, Beaufort, N.C.
* * * * *
LASSITER’S MILLS.
_Minister._
Rev. Islay Walden, Salem, N.C.
* * * * *
TROY AND PEKIN.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. William Ellis, Southfield, Mass.
_Teachers._
Miss Annie C. Smitherman, High Pt., N.C.
Miss Carrie E. High Pt., N.C.
* * * * *
SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON.
_Minister._
Rev. E. T. Hooker, Castleton, Vt.
AVERY INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Prof. W. L. Gordon, Jefferson, Wis.
_Assistants._
Miss E. E. Van Wormer, Auburn, N.Y.
Miss Clara Eastman, Wells River, Vt.
Miss J. E. Miller, S. Saginaw, Mich.
Miss Emma E. Miller, S. Saginaw, Mich.
Mr. E. A. Lawrence, Charleston, S.C.
Mrs. M. L. Brown, Charleston, S.C.
Miss M. H. McKinley, Charleston, S.C.
Miss H. E. Wells, Middletown, N.Y.
Mrs. E. T. Hooker, Castleton, Vt.
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ORANGEBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. Thornton Benson, Orangeburg, S.C.
* * * * *
GREENWOOD.
BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL.
Mr. J. D. Backenstose, Geneva, N.Y.
Mr. William Clark, Greenwood, S.C.
* * * * *
LADIES’ ISLAND.
Miss M. H. Clary, Conway, Mass.
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GEORGIA.
ATLANTA.
_Ministers._
Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. Evarts Kent, Chicago, Ill.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. E. A. Ware, Atlanta, Ga.
Prof. T. N. Chase, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. Horace Bumstead, Atlanta, Ga.
Prof. A. W. Farnham, Hannibal, N.Y.
Prof. Wm. M. Aber, Newark, N.J.
Miss Emma C. Ware, Norfolk, Mass.
Miss Emma W. Beaman, Amherst, Mass.
Miss Mary E. Sands, Saco, Me.
Miss Carrie H. Loomis, Hartford, Conn.
Miss Ella W. Moore, Chicago, Ill.
Miss M. K. Smith, N.B., Canada.
Miss Huntoon, ———, Vt.
Miss Rebecca Massey, Oberlin, Ohio.
Mrs. Lucy E. Case, Millbury, Mass.
Miss Susan Cooley, Bavaria, Kansas.
Miss Mary L. Santley, New London, O.
Mr. Chas. L. Rice, Atlanta, Ga.
STORRS SCHOOL (104 Houston St.)
_Principal._
Miss Amy Williams, Lavonia Sta., N.Y.
_Assistants._
Miss Julia Goodwin, Mason, N.H.
Miss Amelia Ferris, Oneida, Ill.
Mrs. C. G. Ball, Palermo, N.Y.
Miss L. H. Hitchcock, Leicester, Vt.
Miss F. J. Norris, Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Effie Escridge, Atlanta, Ga.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Lizzie Stevenson, Bellefontaine, O.
* * * * *
MACON.
_Minister._
Rev. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Mr. W. A. Hodge, W. Rosendale, Wis.
_Assistants._
Mrs. W. A. Hodge, W. Rosendale, Wis.
Miss Alice M. Lindsley, Avondale, Ill.
Miss Jennie M. Woodworth, Clyde, O.
Miss Carrie M. Park, West Boxford, Mass.
Mrs. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
* * * * *
MARIETTA.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. E. J. Penney, Marietta, Ga.
* * * * *
FORSYTH.
_Teacher._
Mr. W. F. Jackson, Augusta, Ga.
* * * * *
AUGUSTA.
_Teacher._
Miss S. A. Hosmer, Ashley, Mass.
* * * * *
THOMASVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. W. H. Harris, Savannah, Ga.
* * * * *
ALBANY.
_Teacher._
Mr. W. C. Greene, Albany, Ga.
* * * * *
HAWKINSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. E. P. Johnson, Hawkinsville, Ga.
* * * * *
WASHINGTON.
_Teacher._
Mr. E. J. Stewart, Washington, Ga.
* * * * *
CUTHBERT.
_Teacher._
Mr. F. H. Henderson, Cuthbert, Ga.
* * * * *
STONE MOUNTAIN.
_Teacher._
Mr. Eugene Martin, Atlanta, Ga.
* * * * *
ATHENS.
_Minister._
Rev. Geo. V. Clark, Atlanta, Ga.
_Teacher._
Mr. P. E. Spratlin, Athens, Ga.
* * * * *
BYRON.
_Minister._
Rev. N. B. James, New Orleans, La.
* * * * *
SAVANNAH.
_Minister and Sup’t of Missions._
Rev. Dana Sherrill, Forrest, Ill.
BEACH INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Mr. H. H. Wright, Oberlin, O.
_Assistants._
Miss Kate G. Phelps, Hebron, Conn.
Miss Julia Pratt, Essex, Conn.
Miss A. F. Daily, Fredonia, N.Y.
Miss Georgiana Hunter, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Miss Mary Lord, Fredonia, N.Y.
Mrs. Dana Sherrill, Forrest, Ill.
* * * * *
WOODVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, Savannah, Ga.
_Assistant._
Miss E. A. Thompson, Savannah, Ga.
* * * * *
MILLER’S STATION.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. L. A. Roberts, Knoxville, Tenn.
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LOUISVILLE AND BELMONT.
_Minister._
Rev. Wilson Callen, Selma, Ala.
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McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.
THE GROVE
_Minister._
Rev. Floyd Snelson, McIntosh, Ga.
_Teachers._
Miss Rose M. Kinney, Oberlin, O.
Miss Carrie I. Gibson, Boston, Mass.
CYPRESS SLASH.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. A. J. Headen, Talladega, Ala.
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FLORIDA.
FERNANDINA.
Rev. George Henry, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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ALABAMA.
TALLADEGA.
_Minister and Sup’t of Missions._
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
TALLADEGA COLLEGE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. H. S. DeForest, Muscatine, Ia.
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
Mr. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.
Mr. Ira M. Buell, Geneva Lake, Wis.
Mr. A. A. Southwick, Black Stone, Mass.
Miss Alice Bullard, Hartford, Ct.
Miss L. F. Partridge, Holliston, Mass.
Miss M. E. Cary, Huntsburg, O.
Mrs. Clara S. Rindge, Homer, N.Y.
Miss O. C. Moffatt, Perrysville, Ind.
Miss F. M. Andrews, Milltown, N.B.
Miss J. C. Andrews, Milltown, N.B.
Mrs. H. S. DeForest, Muscatine, Ia.
Mrs. H. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
Mrs. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.
Mrs. A. A. Southwick, Blackstone, Mass.
_Special Missionary._
Miss H. D. Fisk, Beloit, Wis.
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KYMULGA.
_Minister._
Rev. Spencer Snell, Talladega, Ala.
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SHELBY IRON WORKS.
Rev. J. R. Sims, Talladega, Ala.
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CHILDERSBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. Alfred Jones, Talladega, Ala.
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ANNISTON.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. H. W. Conley, Talladega, Ala.
_Assistant._
Mrs. H. W. Conley, Talladega, Ala.
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LAWSONVILLE AND COVE.
_Minister._
Rev. Peter McEntosh, Talladega, Ala.
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ALABAMA FURNACE.
_Minister._
Rev. J. B. Grant, Talladega, Ala.
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MOBILE.
_Minister._
Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N.Y.
EMERSON INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Miss Emma Caughey, Kingsville, O.
_Assistants._
Miss L. G. Merrill, Andover, Mass.
Miss Isadore Caughey, Kingsville, O.
Miss Carrie E. Ferris, Passaic, N.J.
Miss Ruby Smith, Belmont, N.Y.
Miss Helen D. Barton, Terre Haute, Ind.
Miss Clara R. Boynton, Andover, Mass.
Mrs. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N.Y.
_Special Missionary._
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MONTGOMERY (P.O. Box 62).
_Minister._
Rev. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.
SWAYNE SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Prof. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn.
_Assistants._
Miss J. S. Hardy, Shelburne, Mass.
Mrs. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn.
Miss M. B. Curtiss, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Miss Anna Duncan, Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. M. H. Davis, Montgomery, Ala.
Miss L. D. Fairbank, Claremont, N.H.
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SELMA.
_Minister._
Rev. C. B. Curtis, Burlington, Wis.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Mary K. Lunt, New Gloucester, Me.
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MARION.
_Minister._
Rev. A. W. Curtis, Crete, Nebraska.
_Teacher._
Miss Eliz. Plimpton, Walpole, Mass.
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ATHENS.
_Minister._
Rev. H. S. Williams, Wetumpka, Ala.
TRINITY SCHOOL.
_Teachers._
Miss M. F. Wells, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Miss Mary A. Maxey, Hyde Park, Mass.
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FLORENCE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Wm. H. Ash, Florence, Ala.
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TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE.
_Minister._
Rev. Henry S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.
FISK UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. E. M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. A. K. Spence, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. H. S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. F. A. Chase, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. C. C. Painter, Gt. Barrington, Mass.
Mr. E. P. Gilbert, Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. J. D. Burrus, Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Helen C. Morgan, Cleveland, O.
Miss Anna M. Cahill, Binghamton, N.Y.
Mrs. L. A. Shaw, Owego, N.Y.
Miss E. M. Barnes, Bakersfield, Vt.
Miss I. E. Gilbert, Fredonia, N.Y.
Miss Olivia Haskell, N. Bloomfield, O.
Miss Emma Shaw, Owego, N.Y.
Miss Addie L. Clark, Amherst, Mass.
Miss S. M. Wells, Big Rapids, Mich.
Miss Fannie Gleason, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Mrs. A. K. Spence, Nashville, Tenn.
HOWARD MISSION.
_Minister._
Rev. Wm. A. Sinclair, Washington, D.C.
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CHATTANOOGA.
_Minister._
Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
_Special Missionary._
Mrs. A. S. Steele, Revere, Mass.
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MEMPHIS.
_Minister._
Rev. B. A. Imes, Oberlin, O.
LE MOYNE SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Prof. A. J. Steele, Whitewater, Wis.
_Assistants._
Miss Laura A. Parmelee, Toledo, O.
Miss Ella Hamilton, Whitewater, Wis.
Miss Ella R. Pelton, Spring Green, Wis.
Miss Ada Lyman, Oconomowoc, Wis.
Miss M. M. Miller, Madison, Wis.
Miss Mary A. Cornes, Medina, N.Y.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Hattie A. Milton, Romeo, Mich.
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WHITESIDE.
_Teacher._
Mr. G. W. Jackson, Tougaloo, Miss.
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GREEN BRIAR.
_Teacher._
Miss S. E. Tichenor, Green Briar, Tenn.
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KENTUCKY.
BEREA.
_Minister._
Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky.
BEREA COLLEGE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. E. H. Fairchild, D.D., Berea, Ky.
Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky.
Prof. L. V. Dodge, Berea, Ky.
Rev. Charles G. Fairchild, Berea, Ky.
Prof. P. D. Dodge, Berea, Ky.
Rev. B. S. Hunting, Sublette, Ill.
Miss L. A. Darling, Akron, O.
Miss Kate Gilbert, W. Brookfield, Mass.
Miss Lillian M. Brown, Berea, Ky.
Miss Jennie Lester, Berea, Ky.
Miss Ida M. Clark, Berea, Ky.
Miss Eurie J. Hamilton, Berea, Ky.
Miss Maria A. Muzzy, Berea, Ky.
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CAMP NELSON.
_Teacher._
Miss Juan Kumler, Oberlin, O.
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LOUISVILLE.
_Minister._
Rev. J. D. Smith, Louisville, Ky.
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KANSAS.
TOPEKA.
_Minister._
Rev. R. F. Markham, Twelve Mile, Kan.
_Missionary._
Miss A. D. Gerrish, Leetonia, O.
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LAWRENCE.
_Minister._
Rev. H. R. Pinckney, Lawrence, Kan.
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ARKANSAS.
LITTLE ROCK.
_Minister._
Rev. B. F. Foster, Little Rock, Ark.
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MISSISSIPPI.
TOUGALOO.
_Minister._
Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, O.
TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, O.
Prof. D. I. Miner, Bavaria, Kan.
Rev. Azel Hatch, Oberlin, O.
Miss Kate K. Koons, Sulphur Springs, O.
Miss Mary Scott, Amherst, Mass.
Miss Fannie Webster, Berlin, Wis.
Miss Ernestine Patterson, Providence, R.I.
Miss Emma Cunningham, New Lisbon, O.
Mrs. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, O.
Mrs. D. I. Miner, Bavaria, Kan.
Mrs. Anna Hatch, Oberlin, O.
Miss S. L. Emerson, Hallowell, Me.
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CALEDONIA.
_Ministers._
Rev. J. D. Witherspoon, Caledonia, Miss.
Rev. S. B. Witherspoon, Caledonia, Miss.
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LOUISIANA.
NEW ORLEANS.
_Ministers._
Rev. W. S. Alexander, Pomfret, Ct.
Rev. Isaac Hall, New Orleans, La.
Rev. Henry Ruffin, New Orleans, La.
STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. W. S. Alexander, Pomfret, Ct.
Prof. J. M. McPherron, New Orleans, La.
Mr. G. F. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.
Miss E. C. Wakefield, Sibley, Ia.
Miss M. L. Todd, Harlem, Ia.
Miss M. M. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.
Miss Flora Austin, Nashua, N.H.
Miss Hattie Blood, Nashua, N.H.
Miss Abby B. Fay, Fostoria, O.
Miss M. T. Andrews, Portland, Me.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Lena Saunders, Boston, Mass.
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NEW IBERIA.
_Minister._
Rev. W. R. Polk, New Iberia, La.
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FAUSSE POINT.
_Minister._
Rev. William Butler, New Iberia, La.
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TEXAS.
AUSTIN.
TILLOTSON INSTITUTE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. W. E. Brooks, W. Haven, Conn.
Prof. J. J. Anderson, Beloit, Wis.
Miss Isabelle Hunt, Richmond, Mich.
Miss Alice Topping, Olivet, Mich.
Mrs. M. E. Garland, Austin, Tex.
Mrs. W. E. Brooks, W. Haven, Conn.
Mrs. R. W. Brown, W. Haven, Conn.
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GOLIAD.
_Minister._
Rev. B. C. Church, Goliad, Tex.
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HELENA.
_Minister._
Rev. Michell Thompson, Helena, Tex.
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CORPUS CHRISTI.
_Minister._
Rev. J. W. Strong, Talladega, Ala.
_Teacher._
Rev. S. M. Coles, Corpus Christi, Tex.
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FLATONIA AND LULING.
_Minister._
Rev. Thos. E. Hillson, N. Orleans, La.
_Teacher._
Miss M. E. Green, Flatonia, Tex.
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PARIS.
_Minister._
Rev. J. W. Roberts, Savannah, Ga.
_Teacher._
Rev. Byron Gunner, Talladega, Ala.
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AMONG THE CHINESE.
MARYSVILLE, Miss M. A. Flint.
MARYSVILLE, Lee Sam.
OAKLAND, Miss Cora M. Fisher.
OAKLAND, F. M. Church.
OROVILLE, Miss Helen Ostrom.
PETALUMA, Miss Carry L. Jones.
PETALUMA, Wong Ock.
POINT PEDRO, Miss M. C. Waterbury.
SACRAMENTO, Mrs. S. E. Carrington.
SACRAMENTO, Lem Chung.
SAN FRANCISCO, CENTRAL, Mr. J. H. Pond.
SAN FRANCISCO, CENTRAL, Miss Jessie Worley.
SAN FRANCISCO, CENTRAL, Eva Snook.
SAN FRANCISCO, CENTRAL, Jee Gam.
SAN FRANCISCO, BARNES, Mrs. C. A. Sheldon.
SAN FRANCISCO, BARNES, Miss J. M. Sheldon.
SAN FRANCISCO, BARNES, Lu Lune.
SAN FRANCISCO, BETHANY, Mrs. J. C. Snook.
SAN FRANCISCO, BETHANY, Hong Sing
SAN FRANCISCO, WEST, Miss F. N. Worley.
SAN FRANCISCO, WEST, Lou Quong.
SANTA BARBARA, Miss H. E. Clark.
SANTA BARBARA, Woo Young.
SANTA CRUZ, Miss M. Willet.
SANTA CRUZ, Him Wong.
STOCKTON, Mrs. M. B. Langdon.
STOCKTON, Lu Pak Un.
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AMONG THE INDIANS.
_Ft. Berthold Agency, Dakota Territory._
Agent, Jacob Kauffman.
_Sisseton Agency, Dakota Territory._
Agent, Charles Crissey.
_Leech Lake, Minnesota._
Teacher, Rev. S. G. Wright.
_S’Kokomish Agency, Washington Territory._
Agent, Edwin Eells.
Missionary, Rev. Myron Eells.
_Spokan Falls, W. T._
Missionary, Rev. H. T. Cowley.
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AFRICA.
REV. H. M. LADD, Superintendent of Missions.
MR. E. E. SNOW, Missionary Physician.
MENDI MISSION, WEST AFRICA.
_Missionaries and Assistants._
Mr. I. J. St. John.
Mr. Sam. H. Goodman.
Rev. A. E. Jackson.
Jos. E. Gerber.
Mrs. A. E. Jackson.
Mr. Buel Tucker.
Rev. J. M. Hall.
Mrs. Lucy During.
Rev. Geo. N. Jowett.
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THE FREEDMEN.
REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.
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BUILDINGS AT TOUGALOO, MISS.
BY REV. A. HATCH.
The aim of the educational work here is, in a word, to fit our
students for practical life and to instruct in the art of teaching.
A course of six years, after that of our primary grade, completes
the regular normal course. In addition to a long and thorough drill
in the more common and elementary branches, this course requires
three terms each of United States history, Latin and algebra, two
each of philosophy and geometry, one of physiology, natural history
and science of government and four terms of Bible study.
A small one-story house neatly finished off with Southern pine
from ceiled roof to wainscoting is reserved for the primary school
where, in limited numbers, children from the plantations around are
permitted to attend. The chief object here is to furnish a model
school for our normal classes and a place where they can both learn
by observation and practice for themselves under an experienced
teacher who comes from the North expressly to have charge of this
room. Besides this teacher our corps of instructors is seven
strong, including one who is almost exclusively music teacher.
Something of external enlargement has fallen to the lot of Tougaloo
within a year past. The beginning of the last winter term brought a
crowd of students who, with difficulty, could find a lodging place
among us, owing to the lack of buildings. The young men, many of
them, had to make the best of the rudest sort of apartments. It was
when every available room apparently was full, and shortly after
a number of students had been sent away, that the “chapel,” with
its second floor devoted to rooms for twenty-eight young men, took
fire and burned to the ground. This building, never even in its
best days a very commodious, convenient, or cheery place, was the
best we had, excepting, perhaps, the “mansion.” On the first floor
were a low-walled chapel-room, serving the purposes of school-room,
assembly-room and church, and two small recitation-rooms. In one
of these was kept the small library of the institution. This
library embraced sets of the New American Cyclopædia and the Family
Library, some 300 or more Sunday-school books, a few miscellaneous
volumes—the gifts of individuals—and a considerable collection of
Congressional books, reports, etc., sent to the Normal Department
from Washington. The greater part of this incipient library was
saved. The sets above mentioned, however, which our students were
beginning to appreciate and use intelligently, were broken up.
[Illustration: STRIEBY HALL, TOUGALOO, MISS.]
There was an insurance on the chapel of $3,000. Something had
been previously accumulating through special solicitations and
the benevolence of friends, for enlarging the hall for young
women. That addition was in progress at the time of the fire. This
building contained the boarding and laundry departments of the
school. It had rooms for thirty-two young women. It was proposed to
enlarge it by adding another story to the long two-story structure
already on the ground, and also a three-story wing, furnishing
in all accommodations for seventy-two girls, besides containing
two good-sized sitting-rooms, a pleasant sewing-room, and private
apartments for the matron and five teachers. This has been
completed.
Early last spring, funds were forthcoming for a new hall for young
men. Work was immediately begun. A fair crop of “Mississippi brick”
was raised on the spot. A sufficient number of men were employed
to push on rapidly the work of building. A commodious and pleasing
hall 41 × 112 feet stands ready for students.
A deep, roomy basement extends under the whole building, furnishing
rooms not only for uses connected with the hall, but also those
connected with certain of the industrial departments. The
first floor affords us a large room for chapel, two convenient
recitation-rooms, an office, and apartments for a small family.
The second and third floors are used as dormitories. The rooms,
34 in number, are of good size, light and airy, neatly and
substantially, though simply, furnished. While in the construction
of Strieby Hall strict economy has been studied, modern ideas of
convenience have been introduced. Water is brought to each floor
from large tanks underneath the roof. A large bath-room is on the
second floor.
The large “mansion,” which has served a great variety of purposes,
has now been turned for the most part into school uses. It has two
large recitation-rooms, a library, a reading-room, two music-rooms,
besides an office and suitable rooms for one family and guests.
These four buildings, together with the neat little cottage for
the president and his family, comprise the chief externals of
Tougaloo University. The old building for young men, known as the
“Barracks,” is to take its proper and more humble place among the
barns and outhouses connected with the farm.
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INDUSTRIAL WORK AT TOUGALOO.
BY PRES. G. S. POPE.
In considering the desirableness of having Industrial departments
in connection with any of our schools, it is necessary, of course,
to decide as nearly as possible what the expense of establishing
and maintaining such departments will be, and what the advantage to
the pupil. In other departments of training it is found necessary
to secure liberal endowments in order to meet expenses. Why should
more be asked of this? We sustain our Theological departments to
train men to be successful preachers of the Word. We sustain our
Industrial departments to train them to be successful business men.
But one is direct Christian and missionary work. So is the other.
God first put man to pruning the garden, not to preaching the
gospel. And whatever is done to make the world again a garden is
evidently in the line of God’s plan. It is certainly possible for
us to give too little weight to the training of workmen. I suppose
it is expected that I will present my thoughts in the shadow of
experience.
The Industrial department at Tougaloo University embraces:
1. General Farming. 2. Strawberry Culture. 3. Gardening. 4.
Stock-Raising. 5. General Housework. 6. Work in Laundry. 7. Work in
Sewing-Room.
In our general farming we have confined our work to those crops
that we can consume on the place—corn, oats and potatoes. We expect
to cultivate cotton hereafter, rotating it with other crops. Corn
yields fairly, but not equal to the West, of course. The oat crop,
I think, can be made equal to the Western crop. We have done enough
with grasses to satisfy ourselves that grass can be very profitable
grown and marketed.
The strawberry crop can be grown, picked and marketed almost
entirely with student labor. We have to hire a little outside help
during the picking season. This is both a pleasant and profitable
industry. We can begin shipping about April 10, or earlier,
according to the season. Chicago is our market. The garden is a
great help in supplying our table, and in any of our schools we
ought to be able to cultivate a garden for the family with student
labor with good results. But gardening for profit must be _taught_,
and requires skill and means.
Four years ago we ventured to purchase a little thoroughbred
Ayrshire and grade Jersey stock. We had no appropriation for such
purchases, but felt that we must make a beginning. We needed
the milk to use. We had land and must utilize it. The scholars
needed to be taught the value of good cows. We have not only
awakened interest in the minds of the students, in the matter of
stock-raising, but also in the minds of some of the old planters
about us.
The general housework and the work in the laundry and sewing-room
have been well managed under the oversight of our matron and
others, but in these, as in other departments already mentioned,
the returns seem slight when compared with the expense of
sustaining the labor.
If we look at some of the difficulties, we shall perhaps feel more
forcibly the absolute need of sustaining industrial schools. The
people know nothing in the line of general farmwork, except the
culture of corn and cotton in the old way. They know nothing of
the value of rotation in crops, underdraining, fertilizing, etc.
They know nothing of the use and care of improved implements. There
has been no sense of responsibility developed in them. They break
tools, misplace them, lose them. A new set of hands use the tools
and teams each day of the week. In a jolly, good-natured way, time
is killed, and but little is accomplished. These faults must be
corrected. This takes time and patience. Meanwhile the leakage and
breakage and drainage is _costing_. In the strawberry field we have
not the advantage of skilled pickers and packers, but must put new
hands in the field each year. In the garden, the boys want to use
the big cotton hoes, and cut and slash as they do in the field, and
so they tear up the tomatoes and root up the rutabagas, and cut up
the cabbages. Many of the boys have never had a fork or a rake in
their hands. They know how to “gear up” a mule to plow, but would
be utterly lost if they should undertake to put a decent harness on
a horse and hitch him into a wagon.
In the housework the girls are no more responsible about their
sweeping and scrubbing, their washing and wiping, than the boys are
on the farm. In the laundry they often forget to kindle the fire
until it is time to commence ironing. Then they must stand and wait
for the irons to heat. In the wash-room they would as soon use a
box of soap as a bar. In the sewing-room they sew and then rip,
and then sew up again and rip out again. The girls have followed
the plow or trundled baby wagons, and know nothing about sewing,
knitting, darning, or anything else that fits them for real home
life.
Multitudes of young men have their hearts set upon the pulpit
and platform while there is scarcely one in ten thousand who is
learning a trade. Our carpenters and masons, our tinners and
shoemakers are men who are in middle life, or whose heads are
frosted for the grave. These young people that we are educating
will need school-houses and churches and court-houses; but the
way things are going now, there will be no one to build them
after their fathers are gone. In view of these facts, we have
urged the establishment of shops where trades can be taught, but
we are headed off with the fact that we cannot pay expenses. Do
other departments of training pay expenses? Wherever the work of
training is done, expense is incurred. But people will give to
make teachers and preachers. Ah! they forget that the Lord Jesus
worked in a carpenter’s shop before he preached the glad tidings;
that Peter learned the art of catching fish before he caught men;
and that Paul made tents for depraved men to use as homes in this
world before he told them of the heavenly mansions. What is needed
in these young people is the development of character. Manliness,
womanliness, self-reliance can only be developed by a course of
training that teaches hands, heads and hearts at the same time.
I have spoken of the comparative expense of our industries, but it
is by no means all outgo and no income. I have no balance sheet
to present with this paper, but the milk goes from the stable to
the pantry by the bucketful, the vegetables from the garden to
the kitchen by the basketful, and the strawberries from the field
to the fruit-room by the crateful. Besides the berries used in
our family, we receive from $25 to $100 net per acre from those
shipped. We have raised this year $700 worth of sweet potatoes.
At very moderate prices we have on hand now at least one thousand
dollars worth of thoroughbred and grade stock over and above what
has been paid for it. I think I am safe in saying that in spite of
all the difficulties, in ordinary seasons, our outside work brings
in enough to pay for the labor put upon it.
But suppose our industries bring in no returns, but are constant
sources of expense; still the fact remains that great value comes
through them to the boys and girls. There is a discipline gained in
being obliged to do work thoroughly, and a self respect developed
in them in the effort to earn something with which to pay expenses,
instead of being carried like babies, that is simply invaluable.
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MISSIONARY WORK AT NEW ORLEANS.
BY MISS LENA SAUNDERS.
The month just past has been replete with special Divine mercies,
though marked by much sickness in the families of those interested
in the school and church. One of our scholars went Home early in
the month and another lies “waiting for the boatman” close by the
river. She seems fully trusting in Jesus though suffering intensely
and praying to die. She asks that all her schoolmates at the hall
pray for her. She has walked six miles a day on her way to and
from school, and now in her feeble talks dwells entirely upon
the school and Heaven. My Sunday-school class has increased in
numbers to 53. The little ones have been specially interested in
the black-board exercises, and read the pictures in a peculiarly
quaint way. The account of the “brass snake” lifted up in the
wilderness particularly fascinated them. Reviewing the story of
Balaam a few Sundays since, I asked the class what kind of man
Balaam was, expecting them to remember the answer from the golden
text. One little fellow replied “a double-jinted man.” The pastor
opened the door in time to join in the smiling. I had to learn that
“double-jointed” is a term applied to persons who say one thing
and do another. The sewing-school is well attended. The mother’s
meeting is making its influence felt by the regular members going
out and bringing in those who attend no other service.
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STORRS CHURCH, ATLANTA, GA
BY REV. EVARTS KENT.