Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-04
A NEW HAVEN LADY.
The Success of the Hampton Soho
 

The Success of the Hampton School Work.
 The continued success of General Arm
 strongs school at Hampton, Virginia, is
 gratifying to not few New Haven people
 who have long been specially interested in this philanthropic work. The following from a correspondent of the Springfield Re publican will be read with special interest, particularly the portion relating to the good work of highly esteemed New Haven young lady:
 The best exemplification, however, of the
 genuine and beautiful catholicity of the school is seen in the 'fpastors' class" It
 gathers now for the second year seventeen of the colored pastors of Hampton and vicinity of various denominations under the white ministers-Rev. Dr. Woodfn, Baptist, Rec tor Gravatt Rev. Messrs. Tolman and Friz- zell, Congregationalists, and Miss Alice Ba- con of New Haven, a theolog1an worthy of her honored fathers name, to study Biblical history, systema- tic theology and whatever helps to furnish more intelligent ministry for the colored people It has proved most com p1ete success not only bringing into kindly relations the white and colored ministers, some of them ex-slaves, but also kindly feel ings between the colored ministers them selves, and extending like influence among their several focks, and not least of mutual benefit, linking the whole community of col ored people more closely to the school. It was touching to see stalwart Rev Young Jackson (his slave name) stand upon the platform, one of the regular anniversary speakers, to represent the 'fpastors class" and to hear him in quaint phrase and with trace of the plantation rhetoric tell of ''the | old and the new," wildly portraying the old | time believing of the negro preacher and the 1 tempestuous revivals of forty years ago. It was coming nearer to the sound than the plantation preacher often did when, pretend | ing to line hymn with the book upside | down, he made it out:
 Could but stand where Moses stood
 And view the lambs come over.
 But little while ago young Jackson was bigoted and jealous as any hard-shell Bap- | tist, but to-day he poured out his big thank | ful heart in behalf of the 'pastors' class. 7" Concluding his story of the old-time negro | revival religion, he said exultingly: | s'We have progressed from that; we | have come out from that dark and | miserable, ignorant state. We have got ! through the starvin' and the mournin' I I don't open my mouth any mo- to have it 1 filled with wind and dirt. am getting 10 pei want my people, and l want every | body, to get it simple, good and plain" :" Turning to Gen. Armstrong: "Many hard
 things have been said about you, but you
 have done good work, and you have I right to rejoice, and not only for | what you have done for this country, but for Africa, too, and as I old Abel being dead yet speaketh, when you have been hundred years in glory, your voice will yet speak loud, and not stop speaking then" Looking across the benches l to his beloved theological professor Miss Ba- l con, the old man made his salaam to her | and gave her as fine compliment as Priscn la ever received from Apollos for expounding