St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-08
THE BISHOPS Finish WORK
EERY LARGE AMOUNT or ASSISTANCE
GRANTED.
A DRIVE ABOUT THE CITY.

Bishop Merrill Thinks the Society
Erred in Adding Whites to
the Freedmen's Aid Work
Fowler Defends the Action
Resolutions of Thanks
The general conference committee of
the Freedmen's Aid and Education So
ciety of the NJ. E. Church met yesterday
morning and resumed consideration of
business at the point where it has left
off the previous night. After the usual
preliminaries had been disposed of. Rev.
DIR. Bently, of Cameron, Mo-, offered a
resolution that the Wesleyan institute of
his town be put on the society's record
as one of its schools, to the end that it
might aid in securing loan of 5000 to
run five years. He further stated that
the school had been advanced to col
legiate organization, and that in COLI
sequence thereof its expenses had for
some time past exceeded its income.
For this reason the moral support and
recognition of the society would be of
material aid to the school until it could
regain sound financial condition.
Bishop Fowler. from the chair said,
that the South was different people
from those of the North, that he had
made some inquiry into the condition of
the people in that part of the state, and
that he had great reason to believe that
these people would eventually improve
and at no distant date.
Bishop Merrill fought the proposition
vigorously. He claimed the society had
done already as much for the whites of
the South as. and perhaps more, than, it
should have done. He thought the So
ciety had made a mistake when it
entered upon that branch of the work
and he thought SO still. The committee
might look upon this as heresy, but he
was willing, in this particular matter,
to be looked upon as a hereto. Had
the society worked only in the interest
of the colOred people, it would have had
more money and done better work. He
spoke of several institutions of like
kind in the North and West that had
managed to hold their own, and
finally achieve passing success. 1t is
true they had hard roads to travel, but
had finally pulled through without hay
ing to ask aid of the society. What had
been done in the North could be done
in the South, and he expressed regret
that this matter should ever have come
before the conference in its present
form.
Bishop Fowler again took hand in
the discussion i'll favor of the PROPOSE
ton, and chided the previous speaker
as being famous hereto on educational
questions, and as having poor opinion,
generally, of the poor people of the
South.
DIR. Hight. at this point, moved that
the mater be referred to local board,
but the discussion still continued. DR..
Hartsell was glad the discussion had
taken so wide range. 1t had been the
crucial work of this society to stand in
the breach of the question between the
races of the South. He went on in this
strain for some time. and said finally
that the society had made a mistake in
ever having anything to do with the
whites. The discussion still continued
between Bishops Andrews, Hind, Horst
and others. a motion was made to refer
the whole matter to the local board.
This motion was amended SO as to read
referred ITO the careful consideration"
of the committee, and i'll this shape the
matter goes TO the local committee.
The conference resumed its work o.
apportioning the donations for the cur
rent year to the missions III the United
States and conferences in foreign lands,
as will be seen by the following table:
In the United States