National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-05-10
PLEASANT REUNION AT WESLEY CHAPEL.
MORNING SERVICES At THE FOUNDRY.
Rev. DR.. Pierce, Of Tennessee, Upon
the Educational Necessities of the
SOuth-Inter eSting Facts in the
History OF Wesley Chapel
Names of its Pastors,
Elders, &c, &c.
Foundry II. E. Church.

The Foundry church services were opened in
eloquent prayer by its pastor, the Rev. DR..
Cleveland, in which, with all the play Of his bril-
liant Imagination he led his hearers successfully
from the passing Vanities Of the week to the con-
temptation Of faith in its application to our daily
needs He said, mot more rapidly do the
shadows fly over the plains than our lives
through the years." sc. This, with many simI-
lar touches Of graceful thought, rendered his in
vacations to Heaven peculiarly striking. Few
are so gifted in extempOraHeous prayer, which,
in his terse and sanguine style, arouses and en-
kindles evidently the congregation over which he
presides. DR.. Cleveland is slight in figure we'll
nodded and erect, with fine brow, black and
piercing eye, dark and abundant hair, wearing
Whiskers Of English type; he possesses in his
well-Poised head most eOmely set Of Pearly
other attractions. Judging by numerical repre-
sentation of the attractive and highly respectable
audience gathered about him, hls reputation as
an orator or magnet is not yet at its zenith or
o better and more rational presumption might be
that the few untitled seats were vacated by &C
quaintance with his determination to give
place to
REV. DR.. PRICE,
the representative Ct educational requirements
Of the South, who ELECTED unbroken attention
attention throughout his very interesting dis
Previous to the announcement CT his subject the
Sunday school children sung very prettily Light
q son-in.lav of Bishop Peck, Of N. Y, introduced
himself as from the Hoiston Seminary Tennes-
see, upon mission to the citizens Of Washington
to present new facts and figures in connection
with the lack Of appropriation by the National
Government for providing equal advantages of
Institutions Of the South for religious training Of
the white population.
Referring to Isaiah, xxxii:o: "And wisdom and
ton, he said have been ia6orinE in Churches
which Bishop Haven calls from II air limited
size, "boxes." You will therefore be prepared to
find my voice inadequate to fll your more spa
cious edihce than is wont to other speakers; but
as become accustomed to the sound l trust IL
will increase in elearness and power adaptable to
the occasion. / am Representative of our South
ern work, and come to ask your cooperation in 1t
for the future development Of the new South
of war and its saddening records made us a suE-
In defining knowledge in my text include the
whole range Of divine and human-moral, theo-
logical, scientific, physical. How shall we obtain
this Is the question on which wish to speak.
We give in our comprehension Of the term in the
text, faith to Gods Intention concerning our ap-
probation Of 1t, which embraces large range,
covering
AN ILLINITABLB FIELD
Of beauty and grandeur, of art physical and art
beauty. Education is the outward EXPRESSION Of
this basis in the soul, to which we turn your i'm
mediate attention, seeking to produce with you
the enlargement Of desire to cultivate the white
too plainly seen, is ignored By the Goyernmentin
Its dispensations OF bounty to the colored race.
In this would speak without prejudice censure
or reproach, being In sympathy with that race
We want development Of the ilIiterate mind and
We have found that the feeble religious influences
thrown about the poor whites are In various Sec
lions Of those States Incompatible with the fullest
sense Of duty as recognized BY our Church or
In the light Of facts we would modify our policy
in the Church. Some Of US believe that a white
man is at least equal to colored man, although
In hn0 al If
through the Freedmsn's Bureau over 100000
have been expended in advancing systems Of
education for their improvement, while but s25,-
900 have been given to the higher culture Of the
white population. If We admit the true policy to
be that we are one in Christ, neither bond or free
FITS, let rs shape for that end our Conference.
Let them be mixed when desirable, and let them
be separated when desirable. Determination
must be shown. White ministers have been To-
Gated among the blacks, without regard to this
IDEA OF CASTE,
class or color. In the population throughout the
South whites are numerically as two 10 one COM
pared Sitn cSiSIsd people financially a. any to
of the whites being superior, they must dominate
overwhelmingly. II It be the true pelieyto stop
class and caste distinction, must give free &C.
cess to salvation. 1t belongs to all. Yet the
Government has apparently failed to see the i'm
portanee Of this truth. We have membership
our sixteen most Southern conferences. or that
number . little more than one third are colored
lltLl6 less LQA0 TWO LllrQe are white,
In East Tennessee We have S. 900 white women
who cannot read or write, and 50, 900 colored in
the same condition. As the Government can
learning diused for its loyal citizens the Church
must supervise the moral and educational train
ing; nay, more, It must devise . system Of re-
hgious training for the Increase of moral sharac-
ter which il the vital want everywhere IN every
department Of the Government. Bishop Andrews
says out 2: Soo universities, colleges and Gsmina-
taken possession Of by the Church showing the
encouragement which Methodism, with its wealth
@ is nd FRs Of Es aHd 81:
nessee, loyal in the darkest days OF the fierce
national struggle, are loyal ItiIl-CathOIIc and
laW-abidIng-sre bound as . unit to the Govern
ment. Masses of these people are in sympathy
with Us, who long for the regeneration OF the be-
nighted and
ILLTTERATE CLASSES,
whose homes, Wretched before the war, are still
more destitute Of comforts now. Not long since
in travelling through this portion Of the State
night overlook nae, and was compelled to slight
from my horse at an humble cabin. No window
pierced its dark IideI, and although the noun
tain air was keenly cold, here We sat TO eat by
6s light OF pine 1nst exposed to the blast and
fast the door was again flung wide open that We
OF those who once led happier lives before the in
Tasion. Devastated by the Confederate troops
till 'eS, It was then occupied BY Gen. Burnside,
whose name, be 1t said, Is here remembered with
gratitude. Then LongGtreet followed, stripping
every farm and hillside Of every Vestige Of re.
sources. Houston Seminary, founded By BIshop
Asbury, was handed over to the Holston Confer.
ence last year. 1t requires larger funds. A lib
eral gentleman Of this city, Mr.. ]. Sibley, has
donated to rs four hundred acres Of land in Oar.
ter county, mile from the railroad, a. basis OF
endowment available In the future. The semi
nary at New Market, near Knoxville, is one OF
the greatest importance 70 the State. As in other
localities, We are reminded continually OF the
want Of moral reformation. It is the want Of our
whole country. We are standing upon
IIadstone IN his letter Of reply 70 the Lexington
Centennial. said that American Institutions were