New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-26
RELIGIOUS WORh IMONG THE NEGROE>
ADDRESSES BEFORE THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
ASSOCIATION

| ADDRESSES BEFORE THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
AssOCIATIoN
Lowell Mass. oct. 21.--At the morning session Of
the American Missionary Association the financial
report presented by Franklin Fairbanks OF Yer
mont The Rev. Or. u. W. Clark. OF Salem. Mass.
then spoke upon the necessity OF keeping up the
missionary work. The next speaker was Governor
Greenhage He compllmented the association on
the work IT doing for the uplifting Of the negro
race and the good citizenship that must result from
such efforts. He followed by the Rev &. VI.
Lanson. OF Connecticut. who reported Southern
church work and addresses were made by the Rev
T. W. Rel and ]. a. Herod. colored mssOna rlcs
J from the South. and the Rev. w. @. Oliver mis-
sionary from Tennessee
The opening address at the closing service this
evening made by the Rev II. A Stimson the
| successor Of the Rev. Dr. william NJ. Taylor in The
| pastorate Of the Broadway Tabernacle. Ncw-York
He is prominently Identified with all the Congrega
tona home and foreign missionary societies and
occupies OF the historic pu.plts OF the land He
said.
This society was organized some nifty Years ago
The slave Who living in A C5riIf,an land were
shut out from It's blessings. with the abolition Of
freedman offered a larger field and presented even
more piuful needs than the slave. In the years
that have followed the war tnis society has found
with the negroes and Indians and the oppressed
Cinnamon In own land. the field In which 1t
conception Of the mission OF Christ It's ministries
b,
II has sent the choicest OF young Christians from
our Northern homes into the h0Vei OF the freedman
and the tepec Of the Indian That It's mission has
not been I'm vain superficial is proved not only by
the statistics that have been spread before this
assembly OF the schools and colleges ana churches
th- centres OF light In large ot laai- but
also by the great number Of those who through the
passing years catching the spirit Of their teachers
and fled with the love- have become
gers Of Christ to their companOnf ana friends. The
tale OF such instances has been the most thrilling
part OF the testimony that has come to in the
course OF this great meeting.
II. therefore. feel the power OF such testi-
mony to the appeal OF the society
should be in constant and large contributions to It's
resources ana devoted loyalty TO It's support.
Frederick Douglass delivered address. In the
course of which he discussed the so-cailed negro
problem. and denounced this term as a crafty and
misleading msnomer. calculated 10 excite prejudice
and repel fair consideration. Those who invented
this formula knew what they doing They
well understood the effect OF giving anything "A bad
The speaker denied that the South was per-
picked with a negro problem. He averred that the
existing trouble at the South had It's origin. not I'm
the backs. but in the whites and was caused by the
latter refusing do justice and cndea VOring to de-
feat the natural and proper effect OF emancipa lion
The problem WAS. therefore, white mans problem
and OF the white mans originating. He Insisted thai
II a National problem, and one which the Ma
ton would have to solve