VOL. XXXIV. No. 2.
THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
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“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”
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FEBRUARY, 1880.
_CONTENTS:_
EDITORIAL.
PARAGRAPHS 33
ARRIVAL OF MR. NURSE IN AFRICA—KNOWING, GIVING,
PRAYING 34
TILLOTSON C. & N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS 35
WHO SHALL CIVILIZE AFRICA—ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 36
GENERAL NOTES 37
NEW APPOINTMENTS 39
THE FREEDMEN.
GEORGIA CONFERENCE REVIEW 44
EDUCATIONAL REPORT 46
ATLANTA MISCELLANIES 47
FLORIDA—Letter From Rev. Geo. Henry 48
LOUISIANA—Schools and Churches: Rev. W. S. Alexander 49
TENNESSEE—Labor among Convicts: Rev. H. S. Bennett 50
TENNESSEE—Woman’s Work among Women: Miss Hattie A.
Milton 51
TENNESSEE—Student-Teachers from Le Moyne 52
THE INDIANS.
BOYS FOR HAMPTON FROM FORT BERTHOLD: Rev. C. L. Hall 53
THE CHINESE.
THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONS: Rev. W. C. Pond 54
RECEIPTS 56
CONSTITUTION 61
AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS 62
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PRESIDENT.
HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.
Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.
Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.
ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.
Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.
WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.
Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.
Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.
Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.
Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.
Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.
Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.
Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.
Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.
HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.
Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.
Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.
DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.
Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.
SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.
Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.
Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.
Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.
Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.
EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.
DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.
Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.
Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct.
A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.
Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.
Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.
Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.
Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.
Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.
Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.
S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.
PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.
Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.
Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.
Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.
Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.
Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.
Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.
WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.
J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.
E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.
Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.
DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.
A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.
Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.
FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.
JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.
Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.
Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.
J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.
E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.
C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.
Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.
Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
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DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
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REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.
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CLINTON B. FISK,
ADDISON P. FOSTER,
S. B. HALLIDAY,
SAMUEL HOLMES,
CHARLES A. HULL,
EDGAR KETCHUM,
CHAS. L. MEAD,
WM. T. PRATT,
J. A. SHOUDY,
JOHN H. WASHBURN,
G. B. WILLCOX.
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. Geo. M. Boynton, 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, 21
Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
Life Member.
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VOL. XXXIV. FEBRUARY, 1880. No. 2.
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American Missionary Association.
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_A Public Opportunity to Contribute Once a Year._—That is, we
think, a modest claim for the almoners of your bounty to make. Will
you secure it for us in your church this year?
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We need very much two communion services—one for the Midway church,
Golding’s Grove, Ga., and the other for the new church at Cypress
Slash. Who will send them to us?
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A pastor of an M. E. Church South, in Georgia, asked us by mail,
the other day, for a hundred copies of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY to
put on a Christmas tree for members of his church, that he might
thus awaken more interest in the missionary cause. We sent them.
This is the first time we were ever asked to send our publications
as “Christmas greens.”
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How the angels must smile when they see a man whom God has greatly
prospered carefully take a hundred dollars out of a hundred
thousand that he has laid away, and hear him say to himself, with
a chuckle of self-complacency: “Yes, we are only stewards; we must
deal generously by these good causes; I will give that to the
Lord.” A pauper giving crumbs in charity to the King on whom he
depends for daily bread! But then there are some who do not give
even the crumbs.—_Congregationalist._
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In this month of February, we publish, according to our custom,
the list of our missionaries and teachers in the field; and we are
proud of it, not for its length or numbers, but for the high and
approved character of those who constitute it; nay, rather, we are
thankful to Him under whom we all labor, that He has given to us
and to each other so worthy a band of co-laborers, so intelligent
and so devoted. We do not forget that these pastors and teachers
are far from their homes, and that each is known personally to but
a limited number of the friends of the Association, and we bespeak
for them not only a general but a personal remembrance. Would it
not be well to select some one whose work you, reader, will follow
with especial interest, to whom you will some time write, assuring
of your interest and prayers, and with whom you may establish and
maintain a personal friendship? Pray for some one at least in this
list by name, and you will be less likely to forget to pray for all
the rest.
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“_Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of
Jerusalem._”—So, in that hour of unearthly experience as recorded
in the fifty-first Psalm, does David’s heart leap from the state of
penitence and of forgiveness to take in the welfare of Zion. So,
evermore, does the truest devotion inspire the missionary spirit.
The first burden of our Lord’s Prayer is for a heavenly Kingdom
on earth. His last prayer with and for His disciples, that they
might be kept, and sanctified and glorified, was, “that the world
may believe that thou hast sent me.” It is the instinct of a soul
in communion with God, that in every prayer it should utter at
least one petition for the coming of his Kingdom. So often do our
lyric hymns, which are but a transcript of Christian experience,
glance off from almost any line of thought and of feeling, to utter
the great aspiration for the crowning of Christ in His spiritual
realm. The nearer we come to God, the more do we long to have Him
enthroned in all hearts.
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ARRIVAL OF MR. NURSE IN AFRICA.
Mr. Miller writes: “I am very glad to be able to announce to you
the arrival of Bro. Nurse from America to join our work in Western
Africa. His voyage was rather longer than had been expected, and he
doubtless grew impatient as the ship neared this place, and stood
several days under the silent influence of a calm.
“Yesterday was Thanksgiving-day with you at home—not less so with
him and his mother, from whom he had been separated for many
years, as they met in warm embrace. How freely the tears rolled
down the cheeks of that overjoyed mother, as she looked upon her
son returned to her and the ‘dark continent,’ a missionary of the
Gospel to assist in lifting up degraded, perishing mankind. Bro.
Nurse is a little worn-out from his long voyage, but will soon get
well rested, and we shall leave for Sherbro.”
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KNOWING, GIVING, PRAYING.
These are the three strands of the rope by which the car of
missions is drawn. This is the trinity of Christian work. The three
are one, and each one is only itself fully as it is with the three.
One can have little interest in knowing of a work for which he
neither gives nor prays. His knowledge will be indefinite and
easily forgotten. It has no grip in it such as comes from a
personal connection. In the nation’s war, men and women thought
of it, read of it, were eager to know the latest tidings, because
their sons and their wealth had been given to the cause which they
believed was God’s, and their prayers were daily following as they
traced the progress of the day.
No one will give generously or sufficiently when he has not taken
pains to know. You cannot get up much enthusiasm over a mere list
of stations or catalogue of workers. Dr. Albert Bushnell says that
half the Presbyterian churches in the United States give nothing to
the cause of foreign missions, and that many who do not give do not
pray. We should be willing to go further than that and say that
none who do not give can pray effectually. They may repeat prayers
possibly in public for missions, because that is the proper thing
to do, but such are but “vain repetitions” against which we are
warned.
We all agree that missions need the prayers of Christians; that
such prayer is the duty of all who bear the name of Christ. Then it
is equally a duty for all such to fulfil the conditions by which
they may be able to pray aright. It is a duty to know about the
progress of the Redeemer’s cause. If He bids us say, “Thy kingdom
come,” He will not be content with us if we sit with closed eyes,
indifferent to the signs of its coming. But how many Christian
people take pains to keep themselves informed of the affairs of the
nations of the earth, their wars, their acts, their commerce, and
skip the paragraphs which tell of the contests and conquests of
Christ’s kingdom! How many who know of the strifes and supremacies
of parties in Maine and Mississippi, know nothing at all of the
religious state or progress of our land! Is it likely that such
will give much, or pray earnestly?
Nor will they pray aright unless they give. That makes it their
work. That establishes their interest in it. That, if it be
real giving—not mere throwing away to avoid the trouble or the
embarrassment of saying No—based on intelligent appreciation of the
need, enlarges and emphasizes and doubly underscores the prayer
which, then, with the alms ascending, will surely find their way to
God together.
Friends, we want your prayers for us, for our workers and for our
work. But we want prayers that are weighted by your gifts—they
will rise the better for it; and that are illuminated with your
intelligence—they will be read the better for it, even by the
Father who “dwelleth in light.”
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TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
This school was founded on the same comprehensive scale as
the other chartered institutions of the American Missionary
Association. In 1876, a beautiful site of eight acres, overlooking
the valley of the Colorado River and the mountains beyond,
was secured in the city of Austin, the capital of Texas, and
subsequently paid for by the originator of the enterprise, Rev.
Geo. J. Tillotson. Efforts were commenced at once to raise the
funds for the first building, which is to serve all the purposes of
a boarding school until the growth and ability of the institution
shall necessitate and provide others. Dea. David Allen, of
Connecticut, headed the subscription with $1,000, and to this
amount has since added $250. David Banks, of Stanwich, Conn., a
gentleman over 80 years of age, raised $1,200 more, subscribing
one-third of it himself. The remainder of the amount we now have
on hand was collected for the most part by Mr. Tillotson, who has
kindly added the gift of his services to the enterprise founded by
his liberality. The principal benefactors of the institution are
all over seventy years of age.
Work on the new building was commenced last summer, and is still
going on. It is being constructed of brick, with some trimmings,
and will have accommodations for seventy boarding students. The
funds at our disposal for the object are barely sufficient to
inclose the building. We need $7,000 additional in order to finish
and furnish it for occupation by the 1st of October. The money
already given, amounting to about $11,000, exclusive of the $5,000
paid for the site, was subscribed largely in sums of $400 each by
persons who are to have the privilege of naming the students’
rooms, of which there will be thirty-five. A grand example has been
given. Are there not others ready to follow?
The burden of debt, and the struggle required to maintain the
institutions already under way, has deterred this Association,
during the past three years, from pressing the claims of this,
our only school in Texas; but we believe the time has now come
when we should earnestly solicit the gifts needful for its speedy
completion. Already we have received the written indorsement of
seventy-six of the leading citizens of Austin, saying, “We believe
that such a school is very much needed, and that the enterprise
will be hailed by very many of our best citizens as of great
importance to the welfare of the State.” Texas has a territory
larger than France, and constitutes no mean part of “the whole
world” where we are commanded to go and teach. Will our friends aid
us to go up at once and possess the land?
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WHO SHALL CIVILIZE AFRICA?
We copy from the _Tribune_ the following opinion of Col. C. Chaillé
Long, the African explorer, who preceded Stanley by a year in
visiting Mtesa:
If the heart of Africa is ever reached by civilizing influences,
Colonel Long thinks the work must be done by intelligent colored
people from the United States. They, if anybody, could keep
communications open, introduce trade, and gradually train the
natives in habits of systematic industry. Last spring, when public
attention was attracted to the exodus of negroes from the Southern
States, Colonel Long wrote a letter to the King of Belgium, who
is President of the principal European society for exploring and
civilizing Africa. In that letter he proposed that the King should
stimulate, through the medium of his society, a movement to take a
large body of the discontented blacks from our Southern States and
settle them in Central Africa, opening with them a line of trading
and missionary posts from the West Coast to the lake country.
Colonel Long believed that thousands of the most industrious and
best educated colored men in the Gulf States could be induced to
go. Their presence in Africa would, he wrote, create no surprise or
hostility among the natives, and they would soon acquire influence
over the native tribes and start the work of civilization. In this
way the experiment of opening the dark continent would be tried
under the only conditions that afford the least promise of success.
King Leopold wrote in reply that the project deeply interested him,
and that he should give it his careful investigation, but nothing
further has been heard from him. Colonel Long says it would cost
a great deal of money to carry out the scheme, but the African
exploring societies in Europe could raise it if they tried. He is
not enthusiastic about the success of his plan, but is confident
that it is the only one not foredoomed to failure. Equatorial
Africa, he insists, will never be civilized by white men.
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ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
MACON, GA.—Pastor S. E. Lathrop is getting under way his
Circulating Library for the colored people. He sends out a
circular, printed on his own “Gospel Press,” that was given him
as a home missionary in Wisconsin, appealing for the gift of new
or second-hand books for this purpose. Gov. Colquitt and Senators
Gordon and Hill have furnished some. Pres. A. L. Chapin, of
Beloit, Wis., is putting up a trunk full. Sup’t Roy sent in a
“carpet-bag” full. Who’ll follow up?
MACON, GA.—A graduate from the Lewis High School writes: “I have
worked faithfully for three months. I was assigned to a place where
there was no school-house or church. The people had their meeting
under an arbor. I worked with the patrons of the place until they
built me a school-house. Since that they have erected a church at
the expense of $350. It is 35 by 45 feet. We are holding protracted
meetings. Three persons have been received in full connection,
and many more are hovering around the altar. Our Sunday-school is
prospering. Many are coming in. The old folks are more interested
in this great work than the young. We are hammering down upon them.
My school numbers thirty-nine scholars. I have received several
petitions from the colored people, asking me to come again and
teach for them.”
MCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO., GA.—A pleasant and profitable Sunday-school
concert and Christmas exercise was held in the Dorchester Midway
church. Mr. McIntosh, the superintendent and teacher, and Miss
Douglass, the missionary, are doing good and successful work. Rev.
Floyd Snelson is the pastor, and his children gave some exhibitions
of their African treasures and experience. A watch-night
prayer-meeting was held at his house New Year’s eve.
CYPRESS SLASH, GA.—The people are getting up timbers for their new
meeting-house.
TOUGALOO, MISS.—We have had a blessed work here this week. Several
of our pupils had been very thoughtful for a great while, some of
them a year, and one or two even longer. They had held out stoutly,
but last Sabbath afternoon one yielded. Saturday night, several
asked for prayers. After church, three young men were converted.
Monday morning, twelve more yielded. Monday afternoon, one of the
most stubborn cases I ever met came into the fold. She had been
trying to climb up some other way for more than two years. Tuesday
afternoon another gave up, making in all eighteen within two days.
Our term closed on Wednesday. Several went to their homes very
anxious. I hope they may still be brought within the fold.
FLORENCE, ALA.—The new church edifice mentioned in our last number
was first planned through the benevolence of Mrs. J. Fowler,
of Mendon, Ill., who contributed fully one-third of the total
cost, and thus laid the foundation of this good enterprise. The
completion of the work was made possible by “Howard.”
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The American Missionary Association has called
Rev. Simon P. Smith to a missionary work among the colored people
of Washington. The Lincoln Mission, a Sabbath-school enterprise
connected with the Congregational Church, has offered its capacious
building, and here may yet arise a colored Congregational church.
Mr. Smith is a colored clergyman, a graduate of Howard and then of
Chicago Seminary, and well fitted for his work.—_Congregationalist._
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GENERAL NOTES.
The Freedmen.
—The school work of the Presbyterian Church among the Freedmen
reports 39 schools, 4,184 scholars, 58 (or, including 16 ministers
and 6 catechists engaged in teaching in addition to their other
duties, 80) teachers; making in both departments, including a
few assistant teachers, 140 missionaries. Five of their higher
schools report 1,126 pupils, of whom 145 taught part of the year,
reporting 7,513 pupils. Of the teachers from four of these schools,
77 superintended Sabbath-schools while teaching, and reported 4,043
Sabbath-school scholars. These four schools report also 51 students
preparing for the Gospel ministry.
—The M. E. Church, through its Freedmen’s Aid Society, has aided
in establishing and supporting 6 chartered colleges, 3 theological
and one medical school, and 9 institutions not chartered. In
these institutions the number of pupils taught during the year
is classified as follows: Biblical, 453; law, 20; medical, 60;
collegiate, 74; academic, 270; normal, 1,020; intermediate, 242;
primary, 371. Total, 2,510.
—A colored lawyer was recently admitted to practice in the Court
of Appeals of Virginia. He is the first colored man who has ever
enjoyed this privilege in that State. The motion for his admission
was made by the son of ex-Gov. Wise.
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Africa.
—On the 8th of July, Mr. James Stewart, C. E., then in charge
of the Nyassa Mission, wrote to the Convener from Livingstonia.
After building a dwelling-house for the head of the mission at
Livingstonia, he sailed north to visit the stations of Marenga and
Kaningina. He found all well. The Mangoni chiefs had presented
the mission with eleven cows, but insist on their being used only
in the country around Kaningina. Our own cattle—most precious
property—were in good condition. At Livingstonia, advancing
cultivation had driven off the pestilent and fatal tsetse fly.
After a fortnight’s holiday, the school-boys and girls had returned
to Christian instruction. Mr. Stewart had distributed toys and
handkerchiefs as prizes at the examination. Namalambi, “a fine,
promising boy,” was dux of the school. Mr. Stewart had already
started for Lake Tanganika before the request of the London
Missionary Society was telegraphed, and was hoping to meet and, if
necessary, aid Messrs. Hoare and Hutley.
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The Indians.
—The Hon. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior, devotes a large
portion of his annual report to the Indian question. He states that
the hostile Indians at the West are few compared with the whole
number of the race. He states the Indian policy of the Department
to be as follows:
“The ends steadily pursued by it are: _First_, to set the Indians
to work as agriculturists or herders, thus to break up their
habits of savage life and to make them self-supporting; _second_,
to educate their youth of both sexes, so as to introduce to the
growing generation civilized ideas, wants and aspirations; _third_,
to allot parcels of land to the Indians in severalty, and to give
them individual titles to their farms in fee, inalienable for a
certain period, thus to foster the pride of individual ownership
of property, instead of their former dependence upon the tribe,
with its territory held in common; _fourth_, when settlement in
severalty with individual title is accomplished, to dispose, with
their consent, of those lands on their reservations which are not
settled and used by them, the proceeds to form a fund for their
benefit which will gradually relieve the Government of the expenses
at present provided for by the annual appropriations; _fifth_ when
this is accomplished, to treat the Indians like other inhabitants
of the United States under the laws of the land.
“This policy, if adopted and supported by Congress, and carried out
with wisdom and firmness, will in my opinion gradually bring about
a solution of the Indian problem, without injustice to the Indians,
and also without obstructing the development of the country. It
will raise them to a level of civilization at least equal to that
of the civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, and probably to
a higher one, considering the stimulus of individual ownership in
land. It will not take away from them by force what in justice and
equity belongs to them, but induce them to part with what they
cannot cultivate and use themselves for a fair compensation. It
will open to progress and improvement large districts now held by
Indians, which will then be of no real advantage to them and are
now to nobody else.”
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The Chinese.
—Last February, Congress passed the bill prohibiting Chinese
immigration which was vetoed by President Hayes. The very next day
the new anti-Chinese constitution was adopted by the convention in
California, denying the Chinaman the right to land, to labor, to
vote, or even to live in any town or city. Soon came on the other
side a decision of the Federal courts, adjudging the queue-cutting
ordinance to be an unconstitutional violation of personal rights;
and another, asserting that the treaty with China, granting its
people a right of residence, gave them also a right of labor, and
forbade any State to prohibit their employment. Chinese merchants
meanwhile, unwilling to give up the commercial advantages assured
to them by treaty, are establishing a line of steamers from China
to the Sandwich Islands, and a connecting line thence to the
Pacific coast. This record of the year’s events is memorable and
full of suggestiveness.
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NEW APPOINTMENTS.
1879-1880.
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 Theological
Department of Howard University is supported jointly by the
Presbytery of Washington and the American Missionary Association.
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. Alexander Pitzer, D. D., Washington, D. C.
Rev. John G. Butler, D. D., Washington, D. C.
HOWARD MISSION.
_Missionary._
Rev. S. P. Smith, Chicago, Ill.
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VIRGINIA.
HAMPTON.
_Minister._
Rev. J. H. Denison, New Britain, Ct.
NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Hampton, Va.
Gen. J. F. B. Marshall, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Albert Howe, Hampton, Va.
Mr. F. C. Briggs, Hampton, Va.
Mr. G. B. Starkweather, Hampton, Va.
Mr. E. B. French, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Daniel F. Cock, Hampton, Va.
Mr. M. B. Crowell, Hampton, Va.
Mr. J. B. H. Goff, Hampton, Va.
Capt. Henry Romeyn, Hampton, Va.
Miss Anna M. Hobbs, Hampton, Va.
Miss Charlotte L. Mackie, Newburgh, N. Y.
Miss Mary F. Mackie, Newburgh, N. Y.
Miss Isabel B. Eustis, Springfield, Mass.
Miss Helen W. Ludlow, New York City.
Miss Julia A. Wilson, Hampton, Va.
Miss Lucy S. Shepard, Hampton, Va.
Miss Angelina Ball, Hampton, Va.
Miss Laura E. Coe, Hampton, Va.
Miss Lucy D. Gillett, Hampton, Va.
Miss Grace Harding, Hampton, Va.
Miss Jane E. Davis, Hampton, Va.
Miss Abby E. Cleaveland, Hampton, Va.
Miss Mary J. Sherman, Hampton, Va.
Miss Phebe C. Davenport, Hampton, Va.
Miss S. F. Sheppard, Hampton, Va.
Miss Mary T. Galpin, Hampton, Va.
Mrs. Eunice C. Dixon, Hampton, Va.
Miss Elizabeth P. Hyde, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Emily Kimball, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Thomas T. Brice, Hampton, Va.
Mr. James C. Robbins, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Frank D. Banks, Hampton, Va.
Mr. John E. Fuller, Hampton, Va.
Mr. W. M. Reid, Hampton, Va.
Mr. W. H. Dagge, Hampton, Va.
Mr. G. J. Davis, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Booker Washington, Hampton, Va.
CARRSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Miss M. A. Andrus, Riceville, Pa.
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NORTH CAROLINA.
WILMINGTON (P. O. Box 207).
NORMAL SCHOOL.
_Minister and Superintendent._
Rev. D. D. Dodge, Nashua, N. H.
_Principal._
Miss Isabel Phelps, Oswego, N. Y.
_Assistants._
Miss E. A. Warner, Lowell, Mass.
Miss H. L. Fitts, Candia, N. H.
Mrs. Janet Dodge, Nashua, N. H.
RALEIGH.
_Minister._
Rev. George S. Smith, Raleigh, N. C.
_Teachers._
Prof. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn.
Mrs. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn.
DUDLEY.
_Minister._
Rev. David Peebles, Dudley, N. C.
_Teacher._
Miss Alice M. Conley, Shelby, Ala.
McLEANSVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Alfred Connet, Solsberry, Ind.
WOODBRIDGE.
_Teacher._
Mr. William Ellis, Southfield, Mass.
BEAUFORT.
_Minister._
Rev. Michael Jerkins, Beaufort, N. C.
SALEM CHURCH, TROY AND HILLTOWN.
_Minister._
Rev. Islay Walden, —— N. C.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON.
_Minister._
Rev. Temple Cutler, Ipswich, Mass.
AVERY INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Prof. S. D. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa.
_Assistants._
Miss H. E. Phelps, Hannibal, N. Y.
Miss S. M. Tillotson, Wethersfield, Ct.
Miss M. E. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa.
Mr. E. A. Lawrence, Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. M. L. Brown, Charleston, S. C.
Miss Monimia McKinlay, Charleston, S. C.
Miss H. E. Wells, Middletown, N. Y.
Mrs. S. D. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa.
ORANGEBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. Thornton Benson, Talladega, Ala.
GREENWOOD.
BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL.
Mr. J. D. Backenstose, Geneva, N. Y.
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GEORGIA.
ATLANTA.
_Ministers._
Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. C. W. Hawley, Amherst, Mass.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. E. A. Ware, Atlanta, Ga.
[A]Prof. T. N. Chase, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. Horace Bumstead, Atlanta, Ga.
Prof. J. F. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga.
Prof. Frank W. Smith, Lincoln, Mass.
Prof. A. W. Farnham, Hannibal, N. Y.
Mr. J. K. Hannahs, Newark, N. J.
Miss Emma C. Ware, Norfolk, Mass.
Miss Susie A. Cooley, Honek, Kansas.
Miss Mary E. Sands, Saco, Me.
Mrs. Lucy E. Case, Millbury, Mass.
Miss Carrie H. Loomis, Hartford, Conn.
Miss Mary L. Santley, New London, Ohio.
Miss E. F. Moore, Chicago, Ill.
Miss Grace L. Robertson, Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. J. F. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga.
_STORRS SCHOOL_, (104 Houston St.)
_Principal._
Miss Amy Williams, Livonia Sta., N. Y.
_Assistants._
Miss Julia Goodwin, Mason, N. H.
Miss Amelia Ferris, Oneida, Ill.
Miss M. E. Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Miss F. J. Norris, Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Abbie Clark, Atlanta, Ga.
MACON.
_Minister._
Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.
_Teachers._
Miss Christene Gilbert, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss Belle Haskins, Delmore, Kan.
Mrs. C. M. Babcock, Newburyport, Mass.
Mrs. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
AUGUSTA.
_Teacher._
Miss S. A. Hosmer, Ashley, Mass.
MARIETTA.
_Teacher._
Mr. Cosmo P. Jordan, Atlanta, Ga.
ATHENS.
_Teacher._
Mr. J. G. Hutchins, Atlanta, Ga.
CUTHBERT.
_Teacher._
Mr. Richard R. Wright, Atlanta, Ga.
FORSYTH.
_Teacher._
Mr. William F. Jackson, Augusta, Ga.
HAWKINSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Miss M. B. Curtiss, Chattanooga, Tenn.
FORT VALLEY.
_Teacher._
Miss S. V. Whitic, Macon, Ga.
THOMASVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. W. H. Harris, Savannah, Ga.
AMERICUS.
_Teacher._
Mr. G. W. F. Phillips, Milledgeville, Ga.
MILLEDGEVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. Henry L. Walker, Augusta, Ga.
CARTERSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. T. C. Sheppard, Chattanooga, Tenn.
SPARTA.
_Teacher._
Mr. R. H. Carter, Atlanta, Ga.
ALBANY.
_Teacher._
Mr. Peter A. Denegall, Savannah, Ga.
WASHINGTON.
_Teacher._
Mr. Edw. P. Stewart, —— S. C.
SAVANNAH.
_Minister and Supt. of Missions._
Rev. R. F. Markham, Wheaton, Ill.
BEACH INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Mr. J. K. Cole, Boxford, Mass.
_Assistants._
Miss L. F. Partridge, Holliston, Mass.
Miss Adelaide Daily, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss Anna Burgh, New York, N. Y.
Miss E. H. Twichell, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Miss E. B. Willey, Andover, Mass.
Mrs. J. K. Cole, Boxford, Mass.
WOODVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, Savannah, Ga.
_Assistant._
Miss N. Headen, Talladega, Ala.
MILLER’S STATION.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. John R. McLean, McLeansville, N. C.
Miss E. W. Douglass, Decorah, Iowa.
LOUISVILLE AND BELMONT.
_Minister._
Rev. Wilson Callen, Selma, Ala.
McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.
THE GROVE.
_Minister._
Rev. Floyd Snelson, McIntosh, Ga.
_Teachers._
John McIntosh, Jr., Savannah, Ga.
Mrs. John McIntosh, Savannah, Ga.
CYPRESS SLASH.
_Minister._
Rev. A. J. Headen, Talladega, Ala.
FOOTNOTE:
[A] Absent at the Mendi Mission, West Africa.
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ALABAMA.
TALLADEGA.
_Minister._
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
TALLADEGA COLLEGE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. H. S. DeForrest, Muscatine, Iowa.
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
Prof. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.
Mr. George Atkins, Olivet, Mich.
Miss A. E. Sawyer, Boxford, Mass.
Miss Fannie Andrews, Milltown, Me.
Miss M. E. Carey, Huntsburg, O.
Miss H. P. Fisk, Beloit, Mich.
Mrs. H. S. DeForrest, Muscatine, Iowa.
Mrs. H. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
Miss J. C. Andrews, Milltown, Me.
_MISSION CHURCHES._
ALABAMA FURNACE, KYMULGA, THE COVE, LAWSONVILLE.
_Superintendent._
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
SHELBY IRON WORKS.
_Minister._
Rev. J. D. Smith, Talladega, Ala.
KYMULGA.
_Teacher._
Mr. Samuel B. White, Kymulga, Ala.
ANNISTON.
_Minister._
Rev. Peter J. McEntosh, Talladega, Ala.
CHILDERSBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. Alfred Jones, Talladega, Ala.
MOBILE.
_Minister._
Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
EMERSON INSTITUTE.
_Supt. and Teachers._
Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
Miss Kate Randall, Lorain, Ohio.
Miss Ella F. Grover, Kingsville, Ohio.
Miss Clara Boynton, Andover, Mass.
Miss May Hickok, Kingsville, Ohio.
Miss H. Jennie Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Mrs. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
MONTGOMERY, (P. O. Box 62).
_Minister._
Rev. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.
SWAYNE SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Miss Martha J. Adams, Columbus, Wis.
_Assistants._
Miss Jane S. Hardy, Shelburne, Mass.
Miss May Merry, Providence, R. I.
Miss Minerva Shufort, Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. M. Hardaway Davis, Montgomery, Ala.
Miss Anna Duncan, Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.
SELMA.
_Minister._
Rev. C. B. Curtis, Burlington, Wis.
MARION.
_Minister._
Rev. Geo. E. Hill, Boston, Mass.
_Missionaries._
Mrs. Geo. E. Hill, Boston, Mass.
Miss Laura Hill, Boston, Mass.
ATHENS.
_Minister._
Rev. Horace J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn.
TRINITY SCHOOL.
_Teachers._
Miss M. F. Wells, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Rev. H. J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn.
Mrs. H. J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn.
FLORENCE.
_Minister._
Rev. William H. Ash, Providence, R. I.
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TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE.
_Ministers._
Rev. Henry S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. Geo. W. Moore, 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. Edward P. Gilbert, Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. John Burrus, Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Helen C. Morgan, Cleveland, Ohio.
Miss Henrietta Matson, N. Bloomfield, Ohio.
Miss E. M. Barnes, Bakersfield, Vt.
Miss Mary O. Swift, Lansing, Mich.
Miss Irene E. Gilbert, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss Sarah M. Wells, Big Rapids, Mich.
Miss Sarah A. Stevens, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Miss Mary Farrand, Ypsilanti, Mich.
Miss Dora Ford, N. Abington, Mass.
MEMPHIS.
_Minister._
Rev. H. S. Williams, Wetumpka, Ala.
LE MOYNE SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Prof. A. J. Steele, Whitewater, Wis.
_Assistants._
Miss Laura A. Parmelee, Toledo, Ohio.
Miss Emma Rand, Whitewater, Wis.
Miss Ella Hamilton, Whitewater, Wis.
Miss Hattie Milton, Romeo, Mich.
CHATTANOOGA.
_Minister._
[A]Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
FOOTNOTE:
[A] Absent at the Mendi Mission.
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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.
Mr. Wm. Hart, Berea, Ky.
Rev. B. S. Hunting, Sublette, Ill.
Miss L. A. Darling, Akron, Ohio.
Miss Kate Gilbert, W. Brookfield, Mass.
Miss Jennie Lester, Berea, Ky.
Miss —— Warren, Berea, Ky.
Miss —— Clark, Berea, Ky.
Miss Clara A. Saxton, Oberlin, Ohio.
Miss C. W. Haynes, Oberlin, Ohio.
CAMP NELSON.
_Minister._
Rev. John Drew, Berea, Ky.
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MISSISSIPPI.
TOUGALOO.
_Minister._
Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio.
TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.
_Managers and Instructors._
Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio.
Prof. D. I. Miner, Bavaria, Kansas.
Miss Kate K. Koons, Sulphur Springs, O.
Miss Orra A. Angell. Greenville, R. I.
Miss Fanny J. Webster, Berlin, Wis.
Miss Irene C. Barnes, Greenville, R. I.
Mrs. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio.
Mrs. D. I. Miner, Bavaria, Kansas.
Miss S. L. Emerson, Hallowell, Me.
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LOUISIANA.
NEW ORLEANS.
_Ministers._
Rev. W. S. Alexander, Pomfret, Conn.
Rev. Isaac Hall, New Orleans, La.
Rev. Henry Ruffin, New Orleans, La.
STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. W. S. Alexander, Pomfret, Conn.
Prof. J. M. McPherron, New Orleans, La.
Mr. Geo. S. Ely, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss Caroline Park, West Boxford, Mass.
Miss H. J. Halleck, Success, L. I.
Miss Lucia G. Merrill, Andover, Mass.
Miss Frances Stevens, Oswego, N. Y.
Mrs. J. M. McPherron, New Orleans, La.
ABBERVILLE.
_Minister._
Rev. Charles E. Smith, New Orleans, La.
NEW IBERIA.
_Minister._
Rev. William Butler, New Iberia, La.
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TEXAS.
GOLIAD.
_Minister._
Rev. B. C. Church, Goliad, Texas.
CORPUS CHRISTI.
_Minister._
Rev. S. M. Coles, New Haven, Conn.
HELENA.
_Minister._
Rev. Mitchell Thompson, Goliad, Texas.
FLATONIA.
_Minister._
Rev. A. J. Turner, Flatonia, Texas.
AUSTIN.
_Teacher._
Mrs. E. M. Garland, Austin, Texas.
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AMONG THE CHINESE.
_Superintendent._
Rev. W. C. Pond, San Francisco, Cal.
_Teachers._
OAKLAND, Miss L. B. Mann.
Miss L. Duncan.
Mr. Lee Haim.
Mr. Jee Gam.
OROVILLE, Miss Jessamine Wood.
PETALUMA, Miss M. C. Waterbury.
Mr. Wah Yin.
SACRAMENTO, Mrs. S. E. Carrington.
Mr. Lem Chung.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mr. Henry M. Pond.
Mr. John Johnston.
Mr. Chung Mon.
Mr. S. Hackley.
Mr. Low Quong.
Mrs. M. A. Hackley.
Miss F. N. Worley.
Mrs. M. T. Huntling.
SANTA BARBARA, Miss Helen E. Clark.
STOCKTON, Mrs. M. B. Langdon.
Mr. Hong Sing.
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AMONG THE INDIANS.
_Lake Superior Agency, Wis._
Agent, Dr. Isaac L. Mahan.
Teacher, —— ——
Teacher, Robert Pew.
_Ft. Berthold Agency, Dakota Territory._
Agent, —— ——
_Sisseton Agency, Dakota Territory._
Agent, Charles Crissey.
Teachers, (Connected with the Mission
of the A.B.C.F.M.)
_S’Kokomish Agency, Washington Territory._
Agent, Edwin Eells.
Missionary, Rev. Myron Eells.
Teachers, (Supported by Gov’t.)
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MENDI MISSION, WEST AFRICA.
_Missionaries and Assistants._
Rev. A. P. Miller. Mrs. A. P. Miller.
Rev. A. E. Jackson. Mrs. A. F. Jackson.
Dr. Benjamin James. Mr. Elmore L. Anthony.
Mr. A. E. White. Mr. Nathaniel Nurse.
Rev. Geo. N. Jewett. Mr. Jos. H. Gerber.
Mr. Sam. H. Goodman. Mr. Buel Tucker.
Mr. James Pickett. Mrs. Lucy During.
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THE FREEDMEN.
REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,
FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.
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GEORGIA.
CONFERENCE REVIEW.
This review of the state of religion in the Congregational churches
of South Carolina and of Georgia, during this first year of their
General Conference, shows abundant occasion of gratitude for
general prosperity and spiritual blessing.
The fact that all of our fourteen churches except one, have been
represented in this Conference by their ministers and delegates,
reveals an interest in its meetings, and in the doctrine of
the fellowship of the churches, that is truly delightful. In
this connection we cannot refrain from noting the grace of God
conferred upon the churches in their custom of providing the
necessary traveling expenses of their delegates. We hope that such
messengers of the churches will reciprocate this consideration, and
magnify their office, by making a full report of this and all such
convocations to their respective assemblies for worship.
We gratefully recognize the increase of our total membership by
354, making the present number 949. One new church has been
organized, that of Cypress Slash, which reports to us a membership
of 54; a temporary cabin, built as a place for church and school,
with the purpose soon to erect a more comely and permanent
sanctuary; and also a new young minister who, with his wife, is
already reaping missionary fruit.
We note with gratification that every one of our churches is
supplied with the ministry of the word, except that at Marietta,
whose pastor, Rev. S. P. Smith, has been transferred to Washington
City for the purpose of building up the 2d Congregational Church at
the capital. So, with the same exception, every one of our churches
has its own house of worship. Some of these are commodious and
tasteful; others are very plain; but all are places of sanctuary
comfort, and the worshippers are striving each year to increase
their comeliness and convenience. During the year, three of these
congregations have added to their meeting-houses the attraction of
the church-going bell. Among a people, few of whom have clocks or
watches, the church bell is their time-keeper, and the promoter
of that promptness which adds a charm to the services of public
worship.
The doctrine of church discipline as a means of grace has been
illustrated by a heroic use of the pruning knife upon these vines,
that they may bring forth more fruit. The seeking of a clean
membership is essential to the healthfulness and well-being of the
churches.
The cause of temperance has been kept near the heart of our
members. One church, the Pilgrim, at Woodville, has a large and
influential Band of Hope. All preach temperance and require its
practice among their members. We are deeply convinced that the
habit of intemperance is the devil’s best grip upon the poor and
lowly people among whom we have our lot and our work, and that
total abstinence is the only consistent rule for Christians. In
a community where pastors and officers and members of Protestant
churches indulge in the practice of drinking liquors, we feel
called upon to bear an unremitting and uncompromising testimony
against this violation of the spirit and the precept of the Gospel.
We are confirmed in the wisdom of the union of the school-work
and the church-work in our evangelizing process. The school
prepares the way for the church. It brings along the young and
hopeful material for the church membership. The church garners up
such fruit. It reacts upon the school and the community by its
educating and elevating influence. In our ideal, both unite in the
one purpose of saving and edifying the souls of men. We desire
to express our sincere gratefulness in view of the devoted and
self-denying labor of the teachers in the schools associated with
our churches.
The higher schools and colleges within our bounds have gone along
upon the plane of their former success. The Avery Institute, at
Charleston, has passed through a change of administration without
any diminution of its members or lowering of its high grade of
scholarship. The Normal School at Greenwood, S. C., has held on in
its beneficent way, enjoying the fine building and campus of an
old time Baptist College. The Beach Institute in this city, with
its cultivated and consecrated corps of seven teachers, with its
fine body of pupils, with its thorough discipline and its decided
moral and religious tone, is a power for good in this community
and in this part of the State. The Dorchester Academy at Midway,
the Lewis High School at Macon, and the Storrs School at Atlanta,
have kept steadily upon the line of their extensive and beneficent
influence. The Atlanta University maintains its high position as
to classical and normal scholarship, and as to moral and religious
tone, approved by the authorities of the Commonwealth and also
by the favor of Heaven, in the enrolling during the year of a
couple of score of its students among the disciples of the Great
Master. Its independent Union Church, with 67 members, although not
belonging to our body, is to us a sister in Christ, for whom our
prayers and sympathies shall ever abound. Its Faculty consists
of three graduates of Yale and one each of Harvard, Dartmouth and
Amherst Colleges, and of half a dozen cultivated ladies. To these
it has just added Prof. A. W. Farnham, who is introducing the most
approved normal methods, not only for the benefit of the normal
scholars but of all in the University. More than a dozen of its
graduates are now teaching high schools in leading cities of the
State of Georgia, and so starting from these centres, radiating
influences that shall bless many more communities. We give thanks
to God for the bequest of $50,000, by which the University will now
be able to add still more to its spacious accommodations.
We greatly rejoice in the new feature of the work within our
limits, that of lady missionaries. We have four of them. One of
these has been located at Charleston, one at Miller’s Station, one
at Macon, and one in Atlanta. Woman’s work for women and children
in these communities, we consider a Christly service of the utmost
value. Woman can enter the homes as the pastor cannot; and yet she
will make work for him in following up her discoveries. Her ready
sympathy and happy tact will help her in stimulating to greater
domestic comfort, and will aid her in doing good through many ways
that are peculiarly her own.
We are comforted by the educated young men who are coming forward
to minister in our churches. Besides those who have been raised up
in the “Beach” to minister to the churches that cluster about it,
we are happy in the coming of four graduates of the Theological
department of Talladega College in Alabama, three of whom are this
week receiving ordination at the hands of our own church councils,
and the other is the moderator of one of these Convocations. We are
happy to express grateful obligation to that Christian institution
in another State for this gift of her cultured sons, who are to us
also a part of the ascension gift of our blessed Lord.
We are devoutly grateful to God for the spiritual refreshings that
have been enjoyed this year in our churches and schools. Some have
had special seasons of revival. Others have had the dew in the
fleece. Many souls have been brought into fellowship with Christ,
and Christians have, we trust, been advanced somewhat in the
process of purification.
We cannot conclude this annual narrative without recording our
gratitude to the American Missionary Association, which, under God,
has been the occasion within a short period of all this school and
church development as now represented by the Conference of Georgia.
We remind ourselves, also, that this is only one of seven of these
Conferences which have been the outgrowth of the same general
Christianizing process at the South. We magnify the grace of God
bestowed upon the churches and friends who have furnished that
Association with the funds, the prayers and the sympathies, that
were essential to this great work. “This is the Lord’s doing; it is
marvelous in our eyes.”
J. E. ROY.
JOHN MCINTOSH.
P. W. YOUNG.
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EDUCATIONAL REPORT.
At the Georgia Conference the Committee on Education make the
following report:
That “Education is the handmaid of Religion” has become an accepted
maxim. To be remembered everywhere, it is of especial importance
in this field. Religion has here been corrupted by ignorance, and
has often degenerated into superstition. A devout and imaginative
spirit has been betrayed into serious errors and gross excesses
in the name of truth and godliness. More knowledge, more culture
of mind, is necessary in many cases to prepare the way for the
perception of the truth. The one great object of the Church of
Christ in its labor among men is to save the souls of men by
holding forth the word of Life; but to attain this, the Church must
help to teach them what that word is, and how to read and study
it for themselves. The Gospel seeks to prepare men, not only for
the next life, but for this life also. It is fitted to bless the
whole man, physical and mental, as well as spiritual. Education
and Gospel piety must go together. The Committee would, therefore,
recommend the adoption of the following resolutions:
1. _Resolved_, That this Conference desires to emphasize the fact
that the past year’s experience gives new occasion for gratitude
that from the beginning of the American Missionary Association’s
work in this field, the school and the church have been closely
united.
2. _Resolved_, That it is the deliberate judgment of this
Conference that this field still requires the enlargement and
vigorous prosecution of the school work, as a necessary aid to the
upbuilding of our churches.