Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-25
LAST DAY OF A. M. A.
LRSI UNI Ut n. wi. n.
Delegates Hear Reports and Reading
of Topical Papers. IA
REVIEW OF THE ANNUAL REPORT
DR.. Barrows Discusses Missionary
Work in the Orient.
9TH Err PA p f RS r E AID
9TH E PA P E RS r E AID

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, October 25.-The
morning session of the last day of the
American Missionary Association conven-
ton opened with a devotional meeting fol-
lowed by the business meeting, at which
the proposed amendments to the constitu-
ton were presented. These. according to
the bylaws, will lie over until next year
for action :. IS 4. , So
The financial report and address were pre-
scented by A. Lyman Williston of North
ampton. General 7. ]. Morgan OF New
York, secretary of the American Baptist
Home Missionary Society, spoke on Our
Common Work" as did also Rev. DR.. NJ. c.
B. Mason, secretary Of the Free, n AID
Society. Prof Dutton of Columbia Uni
versity. New York, presented a review of
the annual report. g. 49, - -
Review of Annual Report. s.,
A review of the annual report of the
executive committee of the association was
presented by Samuel T. Dutton, professor
in the Teachers College of Columbia Uni
versity, Ney York, as follows:
THE full educational significance of
these southern schools is not expressed by
the 1900 and more in attendance. Stu
dents are constantly going forth carrying
with them the good habits, the manly and
WOmaHly bearing anu tHe puiPooSS
with which they have been impressed.
This association, both in theory and
practice. recognizes the saving power OF
Christian education while not discountlng
in any way the value of churches and
preaching In this field of educational eff
fort there is clear recognition OF the
social and economic needs OF the SOUTH
and young women are being cultivated IN
everything that pertains to home keeping
and to wholesome living, while young men
are being taught elements OF industry as
we'll as specific trades which will prepare
them to pass directly from school to lives
of productive labor Already there have
come up from the south. largely through
the channels of natural ability and I'D
eral culture, men who can take their place
among the colored people as honored
leaders.
The Need of Education.
eff we desire to make the condition OF
the colored people more tolerable than that
of slavery we must grant to every member
of the race freedom in thought and action,
a freedom guided by an educational inteli-
gence and a confidence which comes from
the ability to pursue the path in lie Tor
which one is best fitted.
while we are thankful to, the forces of
philanthropy and religion in the north,
which have been able to do SO much in
planting schools and churches and lifting
the colored race up to a level of Seif-re-
spect, the south has not failed in doing its
part. Considering their means, they have
taxed themselves heavily for the support
of schools and have afforded nearly, II not
quite equal advantages to the children of
former slaves as to their own. The public
school system through the energy of wise
leaders, men of the higher education and
skill, is gradually becoming perfected and
is destined to become in the south, as it is
in the north, the most potent of all factors
for the uplifting. the saving and the Gull
ture of the young people of our time.
THE southern problem calls for the
heartiest and most complete federation of
all the interests involved. There should be
no waste through rivalry, mistrust. no
prejudice. no denominauonal conceit or
commercial interest of any sort
The meeting this afternoon had the fol-
lowing program:
Greetings from W. P. NJ. A. of Massachu-
sets and Rhode Island.
Annual report of woman's work, Miss D.
E. Emerson, secretary, New York.
Our Plea for Indian Women" Mrs w.
NJ. Wellman, Oklahoma.
Our Mission to the Highlanders, Mrs.
H. L. HOyt. Tennessee.
Student Life and Afterward'' Miss Net
tie Crump. Alabama.
Progress of Colored Women" Mrs. NJ j.
Terrell District of Columbia.
DIR. Barrows' Address.
The missionary appeal of the twentieth
century of America was the theme con-
sidered by President DR.. John Henry Bar
rows of Oberlin College. He SAID:
Our national self-respect can be upheld
only by respecting the right of all men un-
der the flag and under all flags to Christian
education. to a chance for the better things
of the Gospel In the coming century we
are to make more and more of the redeem
ing forces of the Bible and the cross. We
not TO despair in the presence of the
race problems of our country. Why should
Christian education work wonders for the
Pariahs of south India and the esavages of
Fiji, and its power to regenerate the At
rican in Georgia be distrusted? If it be
true that Christian love may make moral
environments which counterfeit and over
come heredity, then the church has plainly
marked out her celestial mission. The su-
preme need of all races, inferior and supe-
ror, is the upward look and the grasp by
faith of Gods great hand Of redeeming love.
THE American church does not intend to
let the soldier who is fighting for peace
the administrator who works for justice,
the trader who works for civilization, the
school teacher who works for mental en-
lightenment and the liquor dealer who
our new island possessions. They can be-
come the gems and glories of the orient
only through that light which has pierced
the darkness and barbarsm of so MANY
other Pacific archipelasoes. There is moral
energy enough In Christendom now latent
to evangelize our country and the whole
globe in the coming century or to begin
that evangeliZation in every village and
city of the world. :.
Il believe that those American mission
aries who have recently ,givsn up their
lives in the far east will loom up in the
history of Asia and be covered with moral
splendor like that in which this land be-
longs to the men and women of the May
flower"