The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-21
PRESBYTERIANS NORTH.
THE THIRD DAYS SESSION PASSED
OFF SMOOTHLY.
DR., ]. F. MoGill. of the Board OF Mis-
slons Tor Freedmen, Makos His Report,
Which is Gratifying Rockefeller's
Munifioent Gifts to the Baptists.


Of the Presbyterian Church opened this
morning at . o'clock.
Dr. Hastings, the chairman OF the com.
mttee on Christian Unity, reported that
negotiations were going on for a confer
ence between the committee and a com
mittee OF Congregationalists, and moved
that the committee on Christian Unity DO
continued. Carried.
DIR. j. +. McGill, chairman OF the
standing committee on the Board OF Mis-
sions for Freedmen, made his report. lie
said there were 277 missionaries working
under tho Board, OF whom 202 were coll
ored, and l02 Of the ll0 ordained minis
tiers were colOred also. The contributions
to the work last year amounted 10 Sl34,-
100, an increase of 81, 797 over the previous
year. The freedmen themselves gave $751;
O02 Tor various parts OF the work. Dr.
McGill said that although there was n lii
ycrslty OF opinion among Presbyterians in
regard 10 matters OF administration in mis-
sons for freedmen, they were all agreed
that the work must be pushed. He sug.
gested that in the future contributions be
paid directly to the Board and moved
that the four members Of the committee,
whose term Of Office expired, be reelected.
They were the Rev. W. @. Burchard, tho
Rev. George 7. Purvis, Mr. X. q. Totem
and Mr.. S. T.. Harrison.
Rev. DIR. Allen. Secretary OF tho fund
for missions among the freedmen, spoke
oil the necessity for evangelical work
among tho colored race. "In the South"
ho said, there are 1870 900 colored chill
dren OF school age, and OF this number
only S02, 5S5 attend school. Illiteracy is
on the increase. II can be seen in the
rapidly growing number OF illiterate voters,
OF whom INSCRIPTIONS politicians take
undue advantage. II is tho duty OF Ameri-
cans TO care for the negro. have heard
II suggested that they should be shipped
10 Africa. But as there are 5000, 900 Of
them In the United States, and as they
are born at the rate OF 600 day, IL would
DO impossible to build ships enough for
that purpose. The negro has como TO stay
with US and we must give him an ednca-
ton that will iit him 10 do his duty to
God and man. His past has been a dark
one. IL he looks back twenty live years
he sees no happy Christian homo. lie
hean only the clank OF the slave chain. II
he looks back fifty years, 100 years, IL is
the same. In his race there is not even n
family name. The holiness Of the bond
of marriage was unknown among the col
Ored people for 2G0 years. "
Much interest was added 10 the Rev.
Dr. Aliens address when IL was known
that his grandfather. his father and him
self were slave owners.
The speaker then asked for "Unclc
joe Williams, an eN.slavc elchty-iour
years old, who addressed the assembly
twenty years ago In Albany lie walked
M TO the platform and received nm Oval
ton. His experience during the slave
days, told In the Georgia negro dialect,
won the entire attention Of the large audi
cncc. Uncle Joe said that Presbyterian.
ism was the best religion under heaven.
aud he could not be anything else than a
Presbyterian II lac tried
Rev. DIR. John W. Scott, President iIar-
rison'H iather.in.law, here entered the
church, took front seat. and WIS rffnsiyc.
| " welcomed by DR.. Crosby.
Mr.. IL. j. Saunders, another colorcd
man. and editor OF tho Ifr'co iHlfricnn
IrgbW,ridi, also spoke. lie said lac set
the type and edited his paper himself, and
worked to make his race all good presby,
tcfians.
\ resolution recommending The adop.
ton ol the report aud recommendations ol
the standing committee Of tho Board of
Missions Tor Freedmen was carried.
Tho consideration Of tho clause In the
report Of the special committee on tho
same subject, which proposed TO give that
committee iull administrative powers, but
which was objected 10 10y the Rev. DR..
llamlin, Of Washington, was left over tilI
tomorrow morning.
DIR. w. q. Ruston, Of Dubuque, H., prc.
scntcd the report OF the committee an.
pointed % inquire into evangelical work
among cmigranis, particularly Germans
and scandinavian Ihercport started of
by saying that during the kst four year.
the number OF cmigranis that came 10 thi,
country WIS twice ~ large a. the number
/ Of Golhs aud Nandals who swept over
Southern Europe. Tho cmigmnt question
| the report went on 10 say, had now col
into politics aud the RACIAL sympathici
aud prcjudiccs that existed were likely 1,
breed trouble II would be much bottnl
not 10 recognize omignnts NJ a class at all
but let them merge In the general popula
| ton and imbibc the American spirit. nu
many Oi them won't do this, the rcpor
said, aud ~ the church must seek then
out aud take them within tho pale O
American Christianity. 10000 Germans IL
the City Of New York have broken ever,
church tic. lniidclity among foreigners I
ON the increase. Over iO0, 100 q
tho cmigfanis In tho last tour year
were Potcsiants aud almost 3O0Ol
wcra komanistA Tho report ihci
gayo synopsis " the work dom
by the various Protestant denomination
aud omigrant societies In oyangelizaiiol
among Foreigners Germans particular
needed looking after BY the Presbyterian
Church. The foreign tongues must b
used In cyangclizing omigranls. The com
mittCc recommended that third secrutar
h. appointed IN the board OF foreign mis-
slons, who will devote his timo 10 the omi
grant population.
Dr. A. G.. Smith, OF fr cp0r', H., spok
ON the report. lie said the Irish cmigrant
did not come under the scope Of the CON
mitleo because they were Roman Catholics
Thor ononyics must bc devoted principal
toward cyangoliaing the Germans. bccaus
they would leave a deeper impression o.
the future American mco than any othC
nationality. II they refused TO preach /
Germans In tho Hofman tongue, the
would loso the opportunity Ot prcachn
either 10 thom OF 10 their children. IA
Germans were thrifty and intelligent an
influenced American political, social an
religious lie, and the Presbyterian Chup
could not alord 10 ignore them.
The conference then took recess an
2 the further consideration IT the rcport o
. cmigrant cyangolntion was postponed d
o tomorrow.
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