The age-herald., 1902-05-17
 fA9E HARD AT WORK
 nt.
interesting Report on Work
 Among the Negroes
O0)CHlLOREN ARE TAUGHT
Committee on Home Missions Recom- mends That 20 Per Cent of Col Iections Shall Be Used Ac-
 cording to Needs.

Jackson, Miss, May 16-The report of the committee on colored evange!ization was presented to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States at its morning session. The report showed an encouraging improvement In every branch of the committees work
 During the year five churches have been organized and eight houses of wor- ship erected and purchased. The report showed that more than 2000 colored chill dren are being regularly taught by white teachers in Sunday schools throughout the Southern states. The executive com mittee supplies eighty-four churches with preaching, and has promptly and fully aid all the ministers under its jurisdic- tion.
 At the Stillman Institute, which Is a school for training colored ministers the students are to be put upon their own re- sources on the following general plan; | The committee will provide the land, the buildings, the necessary implements and stock and all necessary teachers, and the students will be expected to furnish the labor. fertilizers, seed, etc, and to have the proceeds from their farming. A Training School. | The committee announced its purpose | f, make of this institute training School | for ministers and teachers, it's work to be done in harmony with the views of the Southern people respecting negro educa- | tion.
 x1TpC a mon the death of Hon. Thomas w. Laps ley. a member of the committee. Dr. Russell C. Reid of Richmond, Va., presided. A telegram of greeting and congratulations from the general confer ence of Methodists at Dallas, Tex, was read.
 Dr. c. W. Hawes of West Virginia, agent of the home and school at F'reder- icksburg Va, made a report showing the work done by this young institution. This school is for the education ana maintenance of the children of deceased ministers and missionaries. The receipts for the year were $11.O92 and April l they had S2229 on hand Not dollar Of debt has been incurred in five years, and the debt on the college has been reduced 10 $6000 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 of London, told the | assembly of the work of his department l in South Africa. The clerk announced the receipt of the papers in the appeal of Rev. z. B. Graves from Louisiana synod and B. c. Hogue of the synod of Virginia. These with several overtures, were re- 1 ferred to a committee, and will come up for discussion at a later day. | The moderator then announced his twenty-five committees.
 Afternoon Session. | 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 re- port recommended that twenty per cent | of the collections shall be transmitted | to the general assembly and be distrib- uted according to the needs of the | churches. The report of the committee on the twentieth century fund showed that the various synods have raised $4S2, l 000 A gavel made from the ivory of an
 elephant tusk, a gift of Ndomfe, king of | Baschilange Central Africa, was pre-
 scented to the general assembly by Dr.
 Samuel Philipps Werner of Tuscaloosa,
 Ala.
 A gavel made of cedar from Lebanon, olive from Bethlehem, ebony from Egypt,
 balsam from Jordan, almond from Mount
 Olive and hebron oak was used today.
 A telegram of greeting was sent to
 the general 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 Beck
 ner of Kentucky as chairman. was ap-
 pointed So consider matters relating to
 church government. A statement by the
 treasurer showed a favorable condition | in regard to finances.