The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-20
BEREA COLLEGE.
The Only School That Mixes the Races
in the State of Kentucky.
:. History of the Great College on the Ozark
and Bloody Ground'-Its..Early Strug-
giles and Later TriumPhs-Rev.
G.. Fee It's Founder.

Berea College was projected in pur-
pose and plan in the year 1854. The de-
sign was to meet want, the education
of the youths of the land. to correct
principles in religion and civil govern
ment. In religion to the fundamental
principle of love, love to God and love
to man, in government to the principle
ofiustica, justice to all men. ESss4:
ssss Whilstthe design wassto teach what il
popularity termed science, it was also de-
signed that this science should be guided
by correct moral principles. Our first
effort was to plant our purposed institu-
ton in county adjoining Madison,
where Berea College now stands. Hos
tile demonstrations on the part of the
slave power deferred friends of liberty
and justice IN that county. We fell back
to Berea il Madison County, drafted a
constitution and bylaws and secured
beard of trustees.
In one of the bylaws we declared this
institution shall be under an influence
strictly christian. AS such shall be OPP
posed to slave holding, caste, sectarian.
ism and every other known. wrong in
stitution or practice. u
The trustees realized then as now, that
institutions of learning, having the cor
porate force of men of intelligence and
piety are a power in society for the
formation of public sentiment, and that
this public sentiment ought to be against
vice III all it's forms; for vice is disinteg-
rating and will sooner or later destroy
society. They saw clearly that slave
holding was subversive of evt ny element
Of justice, that caste was barbarous in
nature, and whitening in it's effects upon
the aspirations of those who were the
victims of it's barbarous spirit. That
secterianism was contrary to the spirit
of the gospel, and the enemy Of all true
reformers. The design therefore was
that the teaching influence insti-
tuition should be positive in its influence
against these great vices Of society and
hinderances to righteousness.
With our constitution thus drafted We
purchased tract of land as site for
our future college building and in the
latter part of the year 1869, I went east
ward to solicit funds with VI ich to pay
for our lands. During this absence the
John Brown Raid came off and promin-
ent friends of the church and school a.
Berea were driven out by mob violence
The war of the Rebellion came, and our
college plans were suspended until that
war was over. Speedily after the war
our school was resumed and Colored
pupils, by design, introduced. OPPOSE
ton was again manifested, we held
steady to our purpose and plan, and the
years 1867 catalogued 1877 pupils male
and fema-e, 81 white, 96 Colored. From
that to the present the numbers has
ranged from two to four hundred and
most Of the time Colored and white
have been nearly equal in number, the
Colored in the ascending, but the white
now increasing in numbers. The aver
age age of pupils seventeen.
1t is probably true that during these
twenty years no institution of learning
has been conducted with more harmony
and good order then Berea College.
Those who come, come knowing that
the institution is conducted, not for
popular favor, but from convictions of
right and duty. The youny men and
women who come, come respecting
these convictions. and generally have
left all antagonism behind or surrend-
cred Them soon after coming.
We can now say Berea College is not
a mere experiment, but demonstra-
ton, a demonstration of the possibility
and practicabllity of co-education of
youths, male and female, Colored and
white.
Our location is healthful, we are on the
the line of the Kentucky Central R.
100 miles south of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Our grounds are ample and beautiful.
Our buildings are good as will be seen
from attendant cuts. We have large
teaching force and good library. TUT
ton one dollar per month and table
board, in the boarding hall, one dollar
and sixty cents per week. ~
The design is to put the facilities Of a
thorough education on right principles,
.-ithin the reach of all, even those of
small means.
We believe that this institution, plant.
ed as 1t is in the South, upon principles
at once patriotic, philanthrapic and
christians ought to have the sympathy
and help of every patriot, philanthropy
list and christian, that the institution
ought to have that vigorous support
which its Importance demands. Let the
practice maintained so successfully at
Berea for almost quarter of a cuntury.
be maintained in the other states South
and the Southern Problem" will soon
be solved. Young men who recite to-
gether, play together and pray together,
will not fight, the war of races will not
come to this notion.
We want to enlarge our Biblical, Nor
NAL, Commercial and Industrial depart
ments. Will good men and women sus-
tain where God has led and where God
has protected?
On the eve of great battle Nelson
said England expects every man to do
his duty" we say God wants every man
to do his duty-help.
Let the reader extend his onnool n