The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-21
Take Up the Time Of the Pres
terian General Assembly,
THE EMIGRANT QUESTION
Comes In for Some Share of Consider
atiop-The Church Advised to
Turn its Attention Towards
EyangelizIng tho Germans,

negotiations were going on for a confer
, ence between the committee and
committee oithe Congregationalists, ant
moved that the Committee on Christian
Unity be continued. Carried.
DR., ], F, McGlll, chairman Of thl
Standing Committee on the Board o
Missions for Freedmen, made his report
He said there were 277 missionaries
working under the Board, Of whom 20!
were Colored, and 102 OF the 1l6 or
dained ministers were colored also
The contributions'to the work last veal
amounted to $l34,45O, an increase o.
$2, ,797 on the previous year. The freed
men themselves gave S3l ,002 for various
parts OF the work. DR.. McGill said that
although there was diversity OF opin.
ion among Presbyterians In regard ID
matters OF administration In missions
for freedmen, they were all agreed that
the work must be pushed. He suggest.
cd that In future contributions be paid
directly 10 the Board, and moved that
the four members Of the committee
whose term OF Office expired be re.
elected, They were Rev. W. @. Burch-
ard, Rev. George 7, Puryes, Mr.. Il. O,
Totten and AIr, s. P. HARRISON,
PRRRpMRN's MISSION.
Rev. Dr.. Allen, Secretary Of the Fund
for Missions Among the Freedmen,
spoke on the necessity for evangelical
work among the colored race. "In the
South" lie said, "therC are 1910, $50
colored children Of school age, and Of
this number only S02, ,5S5 attend school.
IlliteraCy Is on the increase. It can be
eeep in the rapidly growing number oil
illiteFate voters Of whom unscrupulous
politicians take undue advantage. It Ia
the duty OF Americans 10 care for the
negro. have heard It suggested that
they should be shipped TO Africa, but as
there are 5000, 900 of them In the United
States, and as they are born at the rate
Of 600 day, 1t would be impossible to
build ships enough for that purpose.
Tho pegro has come TO stay with us, and
We must give him an education that will
ct him for his duty to God and man.
His past has been . dark one, i he
looks back % years he secs no happy,
Christian home-he hears only TIA
clank Of the slave chain. II he looks
back 90 years or 104 years II Is the same.
In his race there Is not even a family
name. The holiness OF the bond Of
marriage was unknown among the col.
oEea people for 20 years."
WE'RE stAyE 9gSERs.
Much interest was added 10 Rev. Mr.,
Aliens address when 1t was known that
his grandfather, his father and himself
were slave owners. The speaker then
asked for "Uncle Joe" Williams, an OK.
slave, 81 Fearr GID, who addressed the
Assembly twenty years pg9 in Albany.
He walked up to the platform and 70.
ceiyed an ovation. He made short ad-
dress on tie education ot The negroes,
be Presbyterians they must be educated
in the doctrine OF PreSbyteriSnism,n
His experiences during the slave days,
told In the Georgia negro dialect, won
the entire attention OF the large audi
ence. "Uncle Joe" said that Presby.
terianism was the best religion under
heaven, and he could not be anything
else than Presbyterian II he tried.
fRHpEqT's rATHER.lN.1Aw,
Rev. Dr. John W. Scott, President
Harrison's father.in.law, here entered
the church and took front seat and was
effusiyely welcomed by pr. Crosby. Mr.,
R. J. Saunders, another eolored man, and
editor OF the Afrtoo.AmeriCGp PreSbpte'
ridn, also spoke. He said he act The
type and edited his paper himself, and
worked to make bis race all good Pres.
byterians.
A resolution recommending the adop.
tion OF the report and recommendations
Of the Standing Committee Of the Board
OF Missions for freedmen was carried.
The consideration Of the clause in the
report Of the special committee on the
same subject, which proposed 10 give 70
that committee full administrative pow
ers, but which was objected 10 by Rev
DR., HSmlin, Of Washington, was left oyer
TIL tomorrow,
WORK AMONG ENIdRAITS,
DR.. W. o. Ruston, OF Dubuque, Iowa
presented the report Of the committee
appointed 10 inquire into evangelical!
work among emigrants, particularly
Germans and scandinavians. The re
port started off BY saying that durinl
the last four years the number Of emf
grants that came 10 this country aS Z
number Of Goths and VandalS who
swept over Southern Europe. The emf
grant question, the report went on L
say, had now got into politics, and thu
racial Bympathjes and prejudiGeB tha
. existed were likely TO breed trophle
II would be much better not 10 recognize
emigrants as class but let then
merge In the general population
and imbibe the American spirit,
TuE COMMITTEES RECOMMENDATIONS.
. The committee recommended that
third secretary bo appointed in th,
Board Of Foreign Missions who woult
devote hlS time 10 The omigrapt poppla
Aon. DR.. A. @. Smith, Of Freeport, III,
spoke on the report. He said The IriBl
l emiRrantB did not come under the Hcop
|. OF the COMMITTEES, BECAUSE they were 10
, man Catholics. Their energies must b
devoted principally toward eyangeiiSinj
the Germans, because they would leay
4 q deeper impress on tho future Amer
q can race than any other nationality,
they refused 10 preach 10 Germans Il
the German tongue they would lose th
opportunity Of preaching either 10 thet
. OF 10 their children. The Germans wet
thrifty and intelligent and influence
i American political, social and religion
= life, and the Presbyterian Church Coul
L not afford 10 ignore them,
y The conference then took q recess
y and the further consideration Of the II
a nott on emlgrant eYangeliGallon vi
y postponed I'LL tomorrow,
!. uAihOlIC Council al Cincinnati.
Q otSciSNATl, o, May 2O.-The ait
Q provincial council Of tho Cincinnati \,
q q man Catholics, which includes The STAT,
u Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana q
Michigan, has begun itg session while
will continue perhaps for q. week, II
called 10 consider moral aud education
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