The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-12

| THEOLOGICAL SEMfNARY--THE WORK AMONG
| THE CoLoRED PEOPLE y INTERESTING DIS
CUSTOM; THE SUBJECT IEFERRED TO
SPECIAL COMMITTEE-sUNDAr.s SCHOOL LIT.
URGY-nYMNAI- AND sERvICE-B0oK-REso
LUTI0Ns ADoPTED-DELEGATEs TO THE GEN.
ERAL BODIES NORTH.
Yesterday morning the fourth business
session OF the General Lutheran SYNOD
South was called TO order in the First Eng.
lish Lutheran church at 81 O'Clock.
Among recent arrivals, Rev j. G.. Butler.
ID. d., Memorial church, Washington, ID.
c.. and Rev. w. f. Parson, Church OF the
Reformation, OF the same city, were recoV.
nized as present at the mornings session.
Ii may be interesting to pote that Rev. Par
son was formerly connected, for period OF
some six years, with the Imperial Univer.
sity OF Yedo, Japan.
The report OF the Board OF Directors and
report OF the retiring President was read
and approved. In connection with the re-
port OF the Committee on Theological Sem
inary, which was read and approved, plan
for the payment OF second professors salary
was adopted, in substance as follows:
| The President OF the General Synod Is
charged with the supervision OF The matter.
assigning TO the Virginia Synod the pay
ment OF its quota during the first quarter
OF the year, said year beginning July 1st :;
TO the Southwestern Virginia Synod the
second quarter; TO the Georgia Synod the
third quarter; and the Mississippi Synod
the fourth quarter.
The report OF the Committee on the In
terests OF the Colored People was read and
considered by items. The work in behalf
OF the colored people within the bounds Of
the General Synod has interested the Church
for several years past, and ii is hoped that
great good may be accomplished in this d.
rection under the auspcious movement OF
the Lutheran Church.
A substitute for the report If the commit
| tee, offered by Professor II. &. Holland, OF
| Roanoke College, was adopted, after con-
siderable discussion Of the matter in hand.
The substitute met with the hearty endorse
ment Of the whole Synod. and reads as fol-
lows:
ReSolued, That the matter OF cur duty
toward the coIored population within the
territory OF the General Synod be pus in
the charge Of committee Of this BODY, and
that said committee is hereby entrusted
with full power Of devising and executing
such measures as shall best carry out the
will of This SYNOD as the same has been here
|
! that the committee shall proceed without
delay to faithful performance OF the du-
ties hereby imposed.
| The original specific report contemplated
the establishment of an orphan or educa-
tional institution for the benefit Of young
colored boys. TIE views OF individual
members OF the Synod may be gathered
from the following general discussion OF
the subject:
Rev. DR.. Strobel. of Rhinebeck, y. Y
was the first to speak upon the original
question. He said that he had never belonged
TO what was known as the Abolition party,
but from a deep and decided affection for
| the cOlOred people he endorsed the present
movement Of The General Synod South.
Or. StrobcI referred to an effort which he
had made for the furtherance Of this same
| end within the State Of Maryland some
wears since. He never desired to undertake
any work for the mere sake OF promoting
denominatiOnal pride. Other churches in
the South-MetbOdists, Baptsts, and Epis-
copalans-had taken the lead OF the Lu-
! theran Church in the regular missionary
work among the negroes, and it seemed left
| TO the Church OF the Reformation that she
assert herself in another department OF Ia
bor for the less favored negro population
within her bounds. a farm school for the
proper education OF negro boys who might
eventually, many OF them, be led into the
work of the Gospel ministry, this was the
very idea for the Lutheran Church South.
DR.. Strobel said that such wealthy men as
Alex. Gebhard, Dayton, Ohio; &. W. Hum
rickhouse, WilliamspOrt, Md; II. II. Muh-
lenbcrger, Reading. Pa: ana Peter Mol
Ter. Of New York, would give literally to
-. II. Coz - .
with an assurance OF success.
Rev. DR.. Conrad, OF Philadelphia, said
| that since this question has been practically
before the Church he had been troubled to
know exactly how to advocate the measure
through the columns OF his paper (the In
| therdn ObSerUer(, and wished to get at some
OF the particular facts in the case. what
plan is feasible? What is the true condition
| Of the territory where this enterprise Is to
| be established?
Rev. T.. T. Horne, OF Charleston, ;. G.,
in reply to the question OF Dr. Conrad
whether there was material 10 work upon,
said that religion, as a rule, among the ne
groes South in his city was nothing short OF
a mere matter OF feeling-a divorcement be-
tween morality and pure religious life. The
negro must be trained up from early life,
ments must be drilled into them. Mr..
| Horne thought that this whole subject
should be referred 10 a committee, who
might correspond with leading men in the
Church North and West and South, and
thus devise some practical and firm basis OF
operation. In regard to one feature OF the
report relative to The education OF colored
preachers, he said that we must begin with
the children, and train them up into a
church that would be prepared for and re-
ouire the services of negro ministry. They
must be taught practical agriculture and
mechanics. The thousands OF homeless
cololed bows should be taught the true
meaning OF life, and how TO use it.
In answer TO an objection, Rev. Mr..
Beard, OF Virginia, claimed that the lnstl'
tuition con empIated would be in great
measure self-sustainiDg. and not " bur-
den heavier than we could bear"
Rev. Mr.. Miller, OF Salem, Va, said that
his idea was to establish something after
the order Of an orphan Institution. and, in
reply TO remark made by DR.. Strobe,
claimed that the field Of the Lutheran
Church was the world. a vast deal OF the
work going on in the South within the
Methodist and Baptist c0lored churches,
so called, was only sowing OF all kinds OF
error into a hot.Ded OF corrurtion. The
colored people, as a race, have yet very
meagre notions OF "pure religion and un-
defiled." They need to be taught the pure
doctrines of the Word OF God. drilled into
that truth which .sancttes the heart aud
life. lie further claimed that the mediate
position OF the Synod South, in IFS relation
TO the two divergent northern bodies, gave
us a most happy entrance into the sympa-
tbles of the two distinct Syn0ds North;
they wound no doubt unite i'm this matter