The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1878-03-20
FoR TIE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
Endowment of Rome Female College.


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We the undersigned, were appointed a COM
mittee of the cOrporators of the Ron Female Col-
lege, to prepare brief statement in regard to a
work of benevOlence, which was formally com
menced in 1858.
The chief objects in view were to aid and relieve
INDECENT Presbyterian ministers, anO In doing this'
to promote the interests of education in the South
The simple, appropriate and practic plan adopted
vas to provide partially or fully o the board and
instruction Of their daughters, vi might be pre-
pared to teach, and thus Deoon sustaining
AID useful women.
During the last ten years more than forty MIL
listers, residing in eight ff,ren States, have thus
been aided. Their daughters ave been under In
Struction and training Tor two or three years
each, at an annual expense of Iwo hundred dollars,
paid semi.annually. Donors of fifty dollars or
more have usually selected the recipients OF their
benetsctions and have he put in correspondence
With them. The funds heretofore expended have
been contributed chiefly by benevolent men and
women in Northern s ates
When this work was undertaken, it was not ex-
peeted that it would be6ontinued longer than was
necessary to meet the urgent calls for help, which
moved our sympathies Immediately after the war.
The manifest poverty Of many OF our ministers,
the nature and number OF associations for help,
the continued weakness of large number of our
churches, the inability Of the stronger churches to
create an adequate suslentstion fund, and the I'm
settled, embarrassed condition OF the country, have
clearly indicated the Necessity of it's prosecution
from year to year. - r
This is an enteffp fiz5 "a winch the entire Church
and country are iutere1 ed because INDECENT min
listers, who have daughters to be educated, reside
in all these States and because, while following the
dictates of humanity and Christian benevolence,
we help these needy brethren, we bestow great
benefaction on the country by preparing teachers
of superior merit, to preside in our schools and
colleges.
A large number of l-quali6ed teachers are
needed 10 the South, and yet, chiefly for want Of
means, adequate preparations have not been made
for their instruction and training. Ii has therefore
been considered wise to connect normal instruction
with our work, and to offer its advantages to any
ladies' VINO may ueslre them Wnetner Ghey are hlu-
listers daughters or not.
1t is with much pleasure and gratitude that we
now record the fact, that quite number of ladies
who have been educated on this plan, are teaching
acceptably and usefuly, no longer dependent Oh
their parents for support Yet with invested schOl
arships to aid the poor and the worthy, and with
an endowment to aid in the support Of Professors
or teachers, we'll qualified to render efficient service
in impartiDg normal instructions the work in which
we are engaged may be enlarged and perfected
aud its expenses materially diminished. Hence the
Trustees have resolved, as soon as the pecuniary
condition of the cOu9try will justify such meas.
ure, to appoint an agent to prosecute the specific
work of raising the endowment to which we have
referred. Until this can be done provision must
be made to meet present and future engagements
With brethren VINO need, desire and expect assis-
lance.
Under these circumstances the Trustees have re
uuested the Rev. j. NJ. M. Caldwell, President Of
the College, to continue his agency, as he has
heretofore conducted it, and to aid, as he may have
opportunity, in raising the proposed endowments.
We invite attention to this cause in view OF Its
nature, its necessity and its results. La doing this,
it affords us peculiar pleasure to submit the follow
resolution adopted by the Synod Of Georgia at its
last meeting:
in reply to the communication from the Board
of Trustees Of the Rome Female College, under the
supervision. and CD kol etehe Rev. j. M. M.
Caldwell, beloved Member OF this body, the Syn.
cd desires to express It's grateful sense OF the bene
fits and blessings that the officers Of the college
nave by their aOors conferred upon so many FAINT
lies OF our beloved brethren In the ministry and
TO commend him ans his institution to the kind
consideration of all those who desire to aid him IL
his charitable plans.
1t is worthy of remark, that the new charter Of
the college provides for the proper care for endow
ments raised on this plan, and tor their transfer to
the Trustees OF the Presbyterian Church in the
United States in the event that said college should
from any cause cease to exist.
All communications addressed to the Rev. j.
NJ. M. Caldwell, Rome, Ca, in relation to this en-
terprize, will receive prompt attention. and all do
nations for it sent to him will be acknowledged by
S. G.. Hardy Treasurer of the Trustees Of the Col
lege. 3. H. AXsoN
President Board of Trustees.
j. NJ. NJ CALDWELL,
President Of College.