The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-17
C0L0RED CHARACTERIZATION.
WORK OF SOUTHERN PRESBY-
TERIANS ON THIS LINE.

Over 1000 Negro Children Now Be
ing Taught by White Teachers in
Sunday-schOOIs in Southern States.
The StilIman Institute to Be Es-
tablished for Training Negro Min
listers and Tenchcrs-It VIII BE on
Is to BE In Harmony With South
ern Views of Negro Education.
Jackson, Miss, May 1o.-The report
of the Committee on Colored Evange-
lization was presented to the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States at its morning
session. The report showed an encour-
aging development on every branch of
the committees work.
During the year five churches have
been organized and eight houses of
worship erected and purchased. The
report showed that more than 1000 ne
gro children are being regularly taught
by white teachers in Sunday
throughout the Southern states. The
Executive Committee supplies eighty
four churches with preaching and has
paid promptly and fully all the min
listers under its direction.
At the Stillman Institute, which is a
school for training negro ministers, the
students are to be put upon their own
resources upon the following general
plan:
The committee will provide the land,
the buildings, the necessary imple-
ments, stock and all necessary teachers
will no pXnaatad n
furnish the labor, fertilizers, seed, etc.
and to have the proceeds from their
farming.
The committee announced it's purpose
to make of this institute a training
school for ministers and teachers, it's
work to be done in harmony with the
views of the Southern people respect
| ing negro education.
DR.. Russell g. Reid of Richmond.
| Va, presided. A telegram of greeting
| and congratulation from the general
| conference of Methodists at Dallas,
Tex, was read.
The Fredericksburg school.
DIR. II. II. Halves of West Virginia,
financial agent of the home and school
at Fredericksburg, Va, made a report
showing work done by this young in
stitution. This school is for the edu-
cation and maintenance of the chill
dren of the deceased ministers and
missionaries. The receipts for the year
were 81, 092, and April 1 they had ST.
229 on hand Not dollar of debt has
been incurred in five years, and the
debt on the college has been reduced
to $4,000. The institution is supported
by gifts.
A message of sympathy was sent
DR.. Palmer at New Orleans expressing
earnest hope and prayer for his recov-
cry.
DR.. Matthews. general secretary of
the Presbyterian Alliance, London.
England. told the assembly of the
work of his department in South At
RIGA. The clerk announced receipt OF
papers in the appeal of Rev. z. B.
Graves from the Louisiana synod and
of E. c. Hogue of the synod of Vir-
ginia. These, with several overtures,
were referred to committees and will
come up for discussion at a later day.
The moderator announced his 25 COM
mittees.
At the afternoon session DR.. Morris
of Atlanta presented the report of the
ad interim committee, which has
charge of the work of home missions.
The report recommended that 20 per
cent. of all collections shall be trans
mitted to the General Assembly and
be distributed according to the needs
of the churches.
Twentieth Century Fund showed that
the various synods have raised S423,-
000
GaveI From African King.
A gavel made from the ivory of an
elephants tusk, a gift of Ndomfe, King
of Baschilange, Central Africa, was
presented to the assembly by DIR. Sam
uel Phillips Werner of Tuscaloosa, Ala.
A gavel made of cedar from olive from
Bethlehem, balsam from Jordan. almond
from Mount Olivet, with handle of He
bron oak, was also used. A telegram
of greeting was sent to the general
Presbyterian assembly in session at
New York, requesting that the fourth,
fifth and sixth verses of the fourth
chapter of Ephesians be read before
the assembly.
A special committee, with Judge
Beckner of Kentucky as chairman,
was appointed to consider matters re-
lating to church government.
A statement by the treasurer show
ed favorable condition in regard to
finances.