The Lexington standard. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 1892-1912, 1911-12-16
ASSISTANCE
FOR NEGROES
Board Of Education Endorses
UNCONVENTIONAL School at
Augusta, Ga.
BISHOP E. E. HOSS TALKS
mot OPPOSING THE INTER
CHURCH COLLEGE, BUT PRE-
FER WORK WITHIN OUR
CHURCH." SAYS THE BISHOP.

Nashville, Tenn.-"No. we are not
opposing the Interchurch college, we
are simply taking the position that all
the work which is done by our church
for the colored teachers and preachers
should be done through the agencies
of the church and pot through any in
dependent or alien fundamentally"
This is the statement made by Bish-
op E. E. Hoss in answer to question
as to whether or not the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, is opposing
the American Interchurch college in
it's relation to social and religious
training among the colored people.
A called meeting of the executive
board of education of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South. of which
Bishop Hoss is a member, was held
yesterday afternoon at the office Of
DR.. Percy Maddin, also member, and
resolutions were adopted indOrsing
Paine college in Augusta, Ga, and the
administration of the present officials
was strongly commended.
A communication from the board of
missions was read in reference to the
enlargement of the facilities for train
ing colored preachers in Paine col
lege and such additional facilities are
thoroughly approved by the executive
committee.
Similar action was taken by a spe-
cial committee appointed for the pur-
pose of determining the policy of the
church in regard to the training of ne
gro teachers and preachers. This spe-
cial committee met yesterday also, the
meeting being held at the publishing
house and Paine college was Endorsed
unanimously.
This committee consisted of Bishop
]. H. Mccoy. DR.. ]. D. Hammond, Sen
ator John H. Sherard, DR.. John M.
Moore and Mrs Macdonald Sitting
with the committee by special invita-
ton yesterday were DR.. E. B. Chappell
of the Sunday school board and Mr..
Stonewall Anderson, secretary of the
board of education.
One of the most interesting features
of the meeting was an account given
by Senator Sherard of visit to Mound
Bayou, Miss, where the entire popu-
alton is colored. The visit of Sena-
tor Sherard was greatly appreciated
and a paper expressing this apprecia-
ton embodied the statement that
there was an urgent need of sermons
from the white ministers of the south
ern Methodist church.
1t was the sense of the committee
expressed in a resolution offered by
Doctor Moore, that the Methodist Epis-
opal church, South, should operate
through the Colored Methodist Episco-
pal church directly in all it's efforts
toward social and religious training
of the negro, and in all other lines of
work. but that the advantages offered
by the church should also be open to
the people of other colored churches,
and especially to the Colored Method
ist churches. This resolution was
adopted.
The committee also will recommend
that the trustees of Paine college in
Augusta, Ca, be respectfully asked to
give consideration to the advisabiity
of enlarging the department for the
training of preachers at Paine college
and of establishing a correspondence
school for colored preachers in the
church.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
In view of the need of charging
the work of Paine college In several
directions. it is recommended that we
request the board of education to con-
slider the matter of authorizing the
president of Paine college to set about
raising Immediately an endowment for
the college. Assured of raising funds
for current expenses. It was also rec
commended that the board of missions
give its hearty Endorsement and pledge
its support to such a movement
Resolved, That the secretaries of
the home department take steps look
ing to the holding of Sunday school
institutes among the colored people,
and that as means to this end, the
services of Doctor Chappell and his as
sistants be secured in the enlistment
of the general Sunday school board
and of the conference Sunday school
boards in this work"
The question of employing young
women, and others, in training Sunday
school teachers in the cities was dis
cussed, and the following resolutions
were adopted:
Resolved, That 1t is the sense of
this committee that specially equipped
and well-trained persons be employed
by the home department of the board
Of missions to teach and train groups
of colored Methodist Sunday school
teachers in our cities; and,
Resolved. That this committee call
attention to those pastors and city
mission boards that employ deacon
esses and other trained workers to the
opportunity which they have IN them
to help in the development OF the re-
ligious and moral life of the negroes,
and to arrange for such use of them
He DIDN'T MIND.