The Portland daily press., 1888-11-26
PULPIT AND PLATFORM.
SECOND PARISH.

Ihe exercises at the Second Parish church
yesterday afternoon were very interesting,
but owing to the. storm there was not large
congregation present. The services were
conducted by Rev. MI. .Bayley of State Street
church and consisted of singing by w. H.
Daggs, w II. Scott. E. M. Meade and j. Ii.
Wainwright, a colored quartette of Hampton
Institute, speaking by number of the stu
dents of the Institute and an address by Gen.
sc. Armstrong, principal of the school. The
singing by the quartette was epecially pleas
ing and the brief remarks of the students
were fully appreciated. 1t will be of inter
est to know that the Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute stands on the shores
of Hampton creek little below the town of
Hampton, Va, two and half miles from
Fort Monroe on an estate of one hundred
and fifty acres, once known as Little Scot
land" and during the war known as Camp
Hamilton" where many thousands of sick
and wounded Union soldiers were cared for.
The twenty-frst year of the school opened
Oct. l, 1885, with an encouraging outlook.
The enrolment is 610, of whom 46S are
negroes, and 142 Indians, beside eight Indian
children under six years OF age. With the
"Whittier' (primary) department of 800 there
are 900 pupils on the school grounds. All
but twelve are boarders from abroad, repre-
senting 13 States and Territories also China,
Africa and the Hawaiian Islands and Cuba
For two-thirds of the cost of its support,
the school depends on the gifts of friends.
Sixty thousand dollars year must be raised
by contributions.
The exercises at the Second Parish yester-
day were opened with an organ voluntary,
which was followed with prayer by Rev.
Mr.. Bayley. Then there was singing by the
quartette of Hampton Students. Mr.. j. Ii.
Wainwright, q colored student, was intro
duced and said in brief: Dear friends, am
glao that | have a chance to stand before
you and to give you in few words an ac-
count of my life. | am 81 years old; my
father and nDther were slaves. There are
eleven OF us children. When was eight
years old | went to day school, but soon |
was obliged to go to work at five
cents per day to help support the
family. My father hired me to a man to
take care of horses. Soon l began to think
of going to school again. l was too old to
go to free school and too poor to go to board
ing school. l worked days, from 10 to IL
hours, and went to night school, studying
two hours per night. have learned many
things at Hampton, where l now am, aud
hope that some day | may be able to go out
into the world and tell my people what
have learned.
Snhn r. rioko>in, Sioux Indian student
of lia,aptun, told OF his visit to Washing gtOn
and Ills talk with the Indian chiefs who
were there assembled to confer with the gov
ernmtnt concerning their lands. He said
the Indians should have $1.25 per
acre, the price they asked for their
land He said that he knew
from experience that the Indians liked civil
ization, aud the way of the whites. You
have grown up among books" he said, and
are intelligent and educated, and that is why
we ask YOU to help us.
Mr.. William S. Dagg, colored graduate,
then told of the good work of Hampton, and
| of the students whe have been graduated
| there. He stated that the desire for educa-
| tion among the negroes was never so great as
| now and that all they wanted was a chance.
| Samuel Perry,a Shawnee Indian student Of
| Hampton, said: Il suppose you know that
many people say an Indian cannot be civil
| lied. am a Shawnee, md | think that the
| Indians need to be taught. Three years age
| | was in my home and when | go back to my
people | shall try to tell them what l have
| learned. | have learned many things al
| Hampton. have learned how white people
| live, and | shall tell my people out West in
| bark houses about it."
| General Armstrong upon being introduced
| spoke of the need of making all people In
| America one people, and said that the tran
| sition of some of the races in a single gen
| Grafton was marvellous. The Indians are in
| termixing and becoming part of the white
| race faster than the negro, although for years
| the negroes have had closer contact with the
| Anglo-SaX0n race. The eagerneSS and rush
| for knowledge on the part of the freed slaves
| soon after the war was spoken of. There
| are today some twenty institutions in the
| South where the colored people are trained
| to become teachers of their people. Trained
| to teach in the 1900 negro schools in the
| Southern States. You will find we'll graded
black schools alongside well graded white
schools, but the most Of the schools are di
| lapidated
For about three months in the year the
schools are in session, and the teachers are
poorly paid. The call for teachers is greater
than we can supply. Virginia, with her 2OOt
schools. hasn't got half enough
teachers. The making of citizen:
OF these people is not
| question of brains. Any race can learn
| enough for all their duties as citizens These
| people are more religious than we. They
| have clear conception of God, but they do
not know Jesus. In visiting the upper Mis-
souri, | found remarkable progress among
| the Indians, The Indian huts look very
much like the white mans huts. The Indi
ans are breaking away from their old bar
barous ideas to an extent of which many
of you have no idea. The Indians have goi
| to be civilized. Thousands of them are
waiting for u.s. they have got this impulse
and know they must take the white man:
| ways"
TIE usual Thanksgiving collection wa:
taken, and the exercises closed with the ben
ediction.