The Washington bee., 1908-11-21
DURHAM MAY
LAND SCHOOL

4i6 -'A"oS 10 DING II 1lSiC.
DR.. SHEPHERDS PLAN.
Colored School for CoIored Minis
sters and Teachers.
IT WILL COST ABOUT $I5o,ooo
Dr.. James E. Shepard Is The Moving
S6irit-He Has Made Consider
able Progress Thus Far and
Is Encouraged.
From the Durham, N. c. Herald.
That Durham has high exciting
prospects for a colored training school
national in its scope, and designed to
meet the needs of the colored race,
is the opinion of DR.. James E. Shep-
ard, who IS its procuring spirit and
the man who vii NOR ethan any 9TH
er, settle the location of the institu-
ton.
This favorite project of Durhams
distinguished colored citizen, is a
certainty now somewhere. It's struct-
ural size will interest all people who
direct their minds much to the ma
terial and three large buildings, cost
ing about SI5OoOo will be built in
addition to which will be an endow-
ment fund of 100000. A large
amount of that money has already
been raised, and one well known
white gentleman of the South is wait
ing to send his check for $1,000 when
the call is made. He desires to make
the first contribution.
At present, Irmo, nine miles from
Columbia, South Carolina, IS a strong
bidder for the school. There have
been offered $50. acres for it and it
is situated in an ideal spot Hills
boro was another favorite, but that
place has been made secondary TO
Durham should any one offer the site
here. DR.. Shepard is certain that if
a site of twenty or NOR eacreS can
be secured here the school will nat
urally gravitate where its motive
power is and in the fitness of things,
nothing is more appealing than that
it come to a strong colored colony
now doing so much for themselves as
these here.
The plans of the school are out
lined in a neat brochure just issued
but not yet disseminated The pri-
mary, if indeed not the paramount
object of DR.. Shepard, is the erection
and establishment of a Bible school
after the model Of Northheld and
Winona Lake with chatauqua fea-
lures and designed especially for col
ored ministers. With the Bible
course, DR.. Shepard says it is PLAN
ned to have a literary department
adapted specifically for the illiterate
minister. He holds the opinion that
the ColOred minister more than any
one class of men, is the leader of his
race and that the church has suffered
by having we'll meaning, though fee
bic ecclesiastics to lead it. A course
for Sunday School teachers and home
missionaries will be established and
as the pamphlet says, the art of
teaching and reaching men will be
given" There will be given also a
special course in languages neces-
sary for those going to the foreign
missionary field. A brief study OF
medicine and industrial work fitting
them for better service in those
fields. Special work training young
men and women giving them better
equipment for service in the chris
tan associations is yet another dream
of the promoter and the whole struc-
ture is built up on the old monkish
dogma of work is worship"
DR.. Shepard believes that the peo-
pie are ready for the institution and
has had advices that there are many
ready to enter the school when IT is
erected. He says it will be success
ful from the start and will fill niche
in his races work that will soon
make men marvel that they had not
employed such an institution before.
Chattanooga has offered site so
that competition may be seen strong
from the start. The buildings neces-
sary are an auditorium and two dor
mitories costing about $4,000 each.
His purpose is to have hotel and
100000 additional as an endowment.
And he prefers Durham as its site.
The project is as yet dream but
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