The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-06-07
HOLLY SPRINGS tMIss.) NOTES.

Holly Springs, May S1.-The educa-
tional mass meeting Of the two Mis-
sissippi Conferences fof the COlored
Methodist Episcopal Church was held
here this week in connection with the
second annual commencement OF the
Mississippi Theological and Industrial
College, and more than three thousand
dollars were raised to further the work
of the institution. The erection of
this institution furnishes the most
complete and gratifying record OF self
help yet exhibited by the race, and the
particular striking fact is that Bishop |
Elias Cottrell, the presiding Bishop
over the diocese Of Mississippi, was
able to marshal the Negroes in the G.
M. Il. Church into sufficient force to
bring about such results.
The force Of this statement can be
we'll understood when it Is known that
of the $4,000 placed into this mag
nificent plant, less than $4,000 came
from white people, and, only 500 from
outside the state Of Mississippi
There has been erected a magnifi-
cent girls dormitory and administra-
ton building on the grounds at a cost
of $4,000 and the boys dormitory, to
cost $12,500, is now in course of erec-
ton. The fact that every cent of mon
ey for the land and building was paid
cash and there is now no indebtedness
against the institution is beyond the
ordinary.
At the mass meeting here strong ad
I dresses upon various phases of the
race question were discussed by prom
inent men in the church, among then
Rev. T. ]. Moppins, HoplIinsville, KY.
! Rev. N. G. Cleaves, Columbia, S. c..
7 Rev. L. M. Bell, Little Rock, Ark.
! Rev. H. E. Jones, Rayne, La; A. R
; Calhoun, Little Rock, Ark; G. c
7 Rawlston, West Texas Conference; r
J A. Carter, D. D., Augusta, Ca; A. L
! Jennings, Mississippi Conference; N
! f. Jamison, East Texas Conference
J G. F. WEIGH, North Alabama Confel
I ence; l. S. Person, D. D., West Tel
] nessee Conference; l.. H. Brown, d. d
; Kentucky Conferences; G. w. Mill
7 Alabama Conferences; j.. G. Stauntol
! North Carolina Conference; ]. A. Wi
: ters, Southeast Missouri and Illino
I Conference; John w. Gilbert, A. N
! Commissioner of Education; BishC
Z r. S. Williams; and Bishop Charles
] Galloway, DR.. J. H. Laprade and d
]. d. Hammond, Secretary Of Educ
I ton Of the Methodist Episcop
! Church, South
! The commencement sermon W
preached by the Rev. ]. William Luc
! EFT, d. D., Nashville; Tenn, and t
J sermon to the Theological DEPARTING
by Rev. |. S. Person, D. D., of Me
phis. Undergraduate exercises we
J held at the institution Tuesday mig
a prfze contest betrfg held among t
7 students In the Preparatory Depa
! ment. The joint program of the lit
: airy societies was held in the cole
7 auditorium Wednesday night and
! graduating exercises Thursday mig
I May 3Oth. The annual address
delivered by President Simon
Broome, Texas College, Tyler, Tex
The graduates from the PreparatC
Department being D. Moses Mo
gomery, Lexington, Miss, John
Ship, Banner, Miss, and Miss
berta D. Payne, Millers, Miss.
The feature of the whole weeks
] ercises was the vocal and instrumen
music, more especially the rendition
7 plantation melodies, led by Miss An
May Hodges, Lexington. The mt
department is under the direction
! Mrs. G. ellis, while DR.. Frank
Rodgers, one Of the best known e
I Gators In the South, is President
the institution,
7 In an address Of some length, B
op Cottrell, who has been the leader
! the forces making the erection of
: institution possible, recounted the
rif1ces and struggles undergone in
work, and made a strong plea for
y I constant application of the doctrine
self-help in racial uplift. with
: respect and gratitude to those pei
] of the North and South who b
helped to elevate our people" said
I that help which will do us more G
and stay with us longer is that We
for ourselves" "Self Help" also
! the subject of an intensely pract
and instructive address from the
I T. J. Moppins.