The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-05-19
Policy Outlined
BY DIR: SHEPARD. THE FOUNDER
AM PRESIDENT, WHO SAYS
HIS INSNlTUTION WILL SUR
PLY MUCH-NEEDED WORKERS.
Trained EvangeliStS
Ministers, missionaries, deacOncsSes,
settlement workers and Y. Nj. G..
a. secretaries will bc sent out
from this school.


There are many school already
established for colored people The
tendency in many Of them Is to in
struct in trades and industries Of all
sorts. Others give normal, academic
and few a college education. This
is all good, and most excellent re-
suits have been brought about.
There never had been established,
up to the time the National Religious
Training School at Durham, N. G..
was started. a special school for COL
ored religious workers. The result
has been that when a colOred relig-
ious WoGker was wanted for any
special field he was hard to find. The
great mission field Of Africa is, to a
great> extent, neglected because Of
the lack OF educated missionaries of
color who could stand the climate.
This new School proposes to cover
the field Of preparing special relig-
Gus workers.
Ministers.
First: There are thousands of
ministers called to the work who
never had the special instruction Of
a theological seminary. There are
earnest men. who desire to do good
and teach correct Bible doctrine and
who, would avail themselves Of the
opportunity to better their mental
powers If they had a chance. We
Intend Ito give them a -chance.-EAll
they IS ttF ask anytime
and we shall tell them how to go
about 1T at little expense to get such
knowledge as will make them more
powerful preachers. We shall fit
them for better positions where the
duties are more eXacting where there
are larger, more prosperous and more
intelligent audiences, who are seek
ing and really want to get better
equipped men. to fill their Dulpits.
The work we shall do is thorough
and under the best instructors we
can get.
EvangcliSts.
Second: There is want of train;
ed evangelists who will go about
from church to church to assist the
local pastors in conducting a series
Of meetings for the conversion Of
souls and adding to the church mem
bership. These men need to be we'll
booked on the New Testament and
SO instructed in persuasive powers
as to make their work really and
highly effective. This can only be
accomplished under a trained and
Skiflful faculty such as we have en-
ployod. There is a vast amount of
native talent, which when properly
taught, may be workers in this field.
The call is so great that all the work
the ones we can instruct for several
years to come will find constant de-
mand for their time. with a field of
such great usefulness there will
doubtless be many who will desire
to take this course. A call for our
course of study will explain all about
ii.
Missionaries.
Third: Wise, thoughtful Cody
men have believed and repeatedly
said that Negroes were brought to
America as a part Of a great plan
IN the wisdom and providence of
God for redeeming Of the millions
Of black people on the great contin-
ent of Africa. There are vast num-
bers Of AfrO-American citizens in
New York and elsewhere in the
United States who have no churches
and no place for religious worship.
These two fields present an immense
opportunity for work for colored
missionaries home and foreign That
the Harvest Is ready is atte3ted by
results Of labors made here and there
III desultory way. But the laborers
are few. Colored people are natur-
ally religious. They are willing to
heed the great commission Of the
Master Go into all the world and
preach the Gopel to every creature" "
Iut how can they except some man
teach them. A missionary needs to
be dcvOut earnest christian. He
needs to have good common School
education. Then we take him aud
teach him the Bible, hygiene. and
home doctoring, and dietetics, ped
agogics, how to acquire foreign
language quickly the technic of the
special duties. There is no School
like this anywhere for colored mis-
sionaries. So you see we enter a
work, covered by no other. The need
Is apparent. That several thousands
Of graduates could find Immediate