The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-09
MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN
STARTS IN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES HERE Tc-MORROW.

CHURCHES HERE TC-MORROW Prominent Speakers Obtained-Move- ment to be Extended Over Three States-Special Interest fin Addresses
 of Rev. H. H. Proctor, of Atlanta, Ga., Former Vale Man and InfIuen-
 tial ColOred Pastor of the South.
 The American Missionary association has planned an extended campaign in Congregational churches, beginning in
 New Haven on Sunday, February 10,
 and covering the next two weeks in
 Connecticut, New York and New Jer- sey, week nights and Sundays. It will offer as speakers its chief executive of
 fcers, including Corresponding secre- taries James w. Cooper, D. D., former ly for many years pastor in New Bri- tain, Conn. and Charles J. Ryder ID. D., and Field Secretary Rev. c. A. Nor throp, of Norwich, Conn. The associa- ton has summoned several college presidents of it's own institutions in the south, including President F. G. Wood- worth, D. D., of Tougaloo university, Tougaloo, Miss. a school of compre- hensive educational privileges for ne- groes, and perhaps the best industrial school among them, and President B. M. Nyce, of Talledega college, Ala, the college in which the industrial educa- tion of negroes was initiated.
 Special interest will be taken in the addresses of the Rev. H. H. Proctor of Atlanta, Ga., one of the most success full pastors of colored church in the south. He is vice moderator of the 1la- tional Congregational council. MT. Proctor is said to have done more than any other one man in the south to quiet racial disturbances and to bring about better relationship between the whites and blacks, especially during and since the recent riots in Atlanta. He helped to defeat the Hardwick bill in the legislature of Georgia which contemplated the taking away of the franchise from the blacks in that state. He is a graduate of Fisk university, Nashville, Tenn, another institution founded and fostered by the American Missionary association. There he ex- perienced his call to the ministry. He went to the Divinity school of Yale un- iversity on the completion of his course IT Ntr1w s.z IN 1nse through Fisk. He sung it through Yale. There were four of us darker ones," he says, "who used to go out to the churches over Sunday to sing and speak. This was valuable to us in
 more ways than pecuniarily; it gave an insight into the home and church life of New England that has been in-
 valuable to me. My stay at Yale was of incalculable benefit l liked the fine democratic spirit therein; my color
 was nothing in my favor, and nothing against me. I was as any other. At 1 the opening reception the late pr. | Samuel Harris came to me, and, after I inquiring concerning myself and scan-
 ming my six feet in height, facetiously remarked: "You stand as high as any
 man in Yale" I knew his deeper
 meaning. During my three years at l Yale I met with uniform courtesy from | professors and students. My white | classmate from the south was no ex- ception to this. On graduation day I
 was surprised to find that of the eight
 representative speakers of the class I
 had been assigned by the faculty the post of honor. The subject of my ad- l dress was "A New Ethnic Contribu-
 tion to Christianity" MT. Proctor has been pastor in Atlanta for twelve l years.
 f All of these speakers will consider 1 the southern problem as centering in l the negro and the educational work in
 progress for the benefit of negroes, and the American Highlanders in the mountains of Kentucky or Tennessee
 and North Carolina under the auspices of the American Missionary associa- l tion.
 l Secretary Cooper will speak of "The l Association as a Business Proposition" :" Secretary Ryder will speak on "The l Heritage of Responsibility" showing how the great men and great genera
 tions of the past in our American his-
 tory have left us the heritage of re-
 sponsibility as well as that of opportu- l nifty.
 The college presidents who are to
 speak will inevitably emphasize the
 educational work
 The aim of the association is to raise
 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars l by October 1 from the churches and 1 from individuals, an account which l with other receipts will cancel all in
 debtedness and generate q forward 1 movement. The cause is the cause of 1 Christian patriotism.
 The following are the assignments of
 speakers in ten of the New Haven
 churches next Sunday:
 New Haven, Conn.,, United church, ] Rev. A. J. Haynes (Collection), A. NJ. 1 Secretary J. w. Cooper
 New Haven, Conn.,, Dwight Place
 church, Rev. W. w. Leete, P. M. Sec
 retary J, W. Cooper.
 New Haven, Conn.,, Humphrey street
 church. Rev. F. R. Lucky, A. M. Presi-