New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-25
THE BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY.


Tha Amor;con Raptist Home Mission Society
began its fiftcth anniversary Yesterday morning III
the First Baptist Church Inc meeTnss VIII uo
continued to-day and tomorrow nc inui" ths
woman's branch of the Society mad charge o! the
afternoon meeting, and the need OF educating tne
freedmen was the evening topic OF discussion, NaP
tain Pratt, of the Carlisle Institute. at Cariisle'
Penn. was at the meeting IN tho morning anu Ca
planned the work of the school which he repre-
sents In order to show Inc enc ye ol fne there he
had brought with him three OF the scholars. 10
said that the children mostly from The ihuian
camps dressed in their native garments, KNOWING
nothing of the civilization OF the whites anu Rotn
ing of their Language. Their ages averaged hi i
years when they reach the school, ranging rom 1I
eight to twenty-One years 1t Is pfoDaDi9 iH dac
there will be 500 pupils there next year. BeslaeS
mental instruction the scholars are taught manual
labor. The boys become apprentices, nl'sS'n az
wagons harnesses and tinwaIc, ana also WoIk Oh
the farm which adjoins the school the glIls learn
TO do homework. sewing and kniitIEl. Stahuins
Beay the Chief Of the sioux Naton' VINO naj 70
Gently from Dakota TO inspect the CarhsIe
Institute. made short address III MS own i Ia1
Guage, which was translated by white roy cs al
stephen, pupil of the Institute otephSs o,S
mother was captured by the Sioux Indians lew
weeks before his birth. and Captain Pratt sad tnac
when he came to Carlisle one could scaIcely penclc
that lie was not an Indian boy addresses "o np
also made by Anna Raven, the daughter o., on an
ArapahOe chief who was dressed IL inc lhulan
costume AMI two other students. ,, :;
The Rev. DR.. Peddc, the pastor OF the cnurch ~
Howard, of Hartford, Conn, spoke on the worh pl
the society during the last fifty years after 'i5s
report had been presented by the secretary IL. :.
Morehouse. The receipts last year M rCdG
$ll5,Gl9 10, and missionary work was caitle4
ON in fOrty-siX States ana TERRITORIES; a 9ent ol
is now in the treasury $7.512 20. There nave
been 5l3 missionaries and teachers emWoyeu
among the Americans, Germans, Scahi,iiaF;' anT,
French. MeXicans, lnlans freedmen ana CIIH'so
of this country. The Rev. Dwight spencer mas
collected money enough 10 build church at
Ogden, Utah. The total contributions TO t9e society
in half century have been S3,e9S,6s7 o.
Several addresses were made in the afternoon ny
ladies. Mrs. j. N. Grouse of Chicago PRESIDED
and made an address of welcome. Mrs. Hunt OF
Augusta. Me. spoke OF the necessity there is for
women to engage in missionary work. Mrs. =.
Swift of Chicago gave hlriseye view ., .o ono
different departments into which the society " OLE
is divided. The work OF the women OF haonG c
Island was described by Mrs. W. G.. kchirI9; OF
Providence. Mrs. Alexander. of Ioe4o InIiiO
Miss Bonney and Mrs Quuton, of Philadelphia
There are twelve schools for the education OF
preachers and teachers among me c9ioltu ySoPbe
ington. Richmond, Raleigh, \. 9" >C olHnm-
bia, 5. c., Adant44, Nasqvilfei Na aeiiea
X Si,''' MaTshai, Tex, and louisville, Ky
report upon the work among tho, freedmen
was read in Tie evening by the Rev. DR.. lie L. way
land, of Philadelphia The prinep!es Wlli.cn were
said to have been already established are to educate
the freedmen as men, as American citizeh', rs
Christians. Protestants Baptists MISSIONARIES ana
the We k among the freedmen on all Baptsta," was
the subject OF an address by the Rev. Dr. K; Y.
years of the societys work among the coz
ored people were told by. the Rev. DR.. j, :.
ored men the Rev. ". f. simmons, president of tie
kentucky Normal and Theological Institute, at
Louisville, and the Rev. Ii. Stewart. of houston,
Texas told what the race is dong To- educate
itself. and what It is unable TO do The Rev, DIR.
T. j. Morgan president of the STATE Normal school
at PotSaaln, " T.. then presented the lCeal OK the
sCcictys work showing what remains to be done