The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

wholly the hulk of that church's mem
bership in the south. The eheren SD
tistics give a total valuation OF Sl'4oz'
SOS on this school property with ann u''i
cumming expenses of about S5fO,Oo1,
Nearly 5000 students are enrolled each
YEAR and more than 500 teachers are
employed. This list of schools includes
such famous ones as Walden university
with the Meharry Medical. Dental and
Pharmaceutical colleges; Clark unlNer-
sity and Cannon Theological seminary
in Atlanta. and Central Alabama col
lege in Birmin CHAM
Work Of Other Schools
The board of missions for freedmen
of the Presbyterian church operates Il
schools In the south for negroes. These
schools have property to the value OF
$3.50, 900, the annual running expenses
of which are $14o.fs6. OF these schools
Blddle university. Charlotte. N. c.,
stands at the head. In Alabama. Bar
Der Memorial seminary for girls at An
niston is one of the largest boarding
schools in the state. Nearly 5000 stu
dents are enrolled annually in these
schools.
The United Presbyterian church
maintains II institutions for negroes,
chief of which is Knoxville college.
These schools train on an average of
1000 students each year and have prop
erty valued at $350,00O. The annual
expenses are $7o,7s5.
Other organizations at work among
70 obi
cation and providing schools for them
are the Southern Presbyterian church.
which maintains Stillman institute at
Tuscaloosa for its principal school, the
Presbytery of Louisville, which main
tains a number of missions for negroes;
| the board of missions of the Protestant
Episcopal church, doing religious and
| educational work for negroes in 2S d1o-
ceses and missions, one school of
which is the ST. Marks industrial
school in Birmingham; the general
conference of Free Baptists, the So
| ciety of Friends, the Christian Wom-
| ans board of missions. the Reformed
Church of America and the Methodist
| Episcopal church south.
| Perhaps with more significance than
any does the board of education OF the
Methodist Episcopal church. south, Ia
| Dor in its work among the negroes.
| With the exception, of Paine college,
which this church maintains entirely.
the southern Methodists confne their
work for education of negroes to the
! institutions of the Colored Methodist
Episcopal church. The last general
| conference authorized an expenditure of
| $4,000 a year for the education of col
| ored people through these schools, and
about 20 per cent of this amount is
raised each year. Four schools of the
Colored Methodist church are benefi-
\ ciaries of this fund, among them Miles
Memorial college, Birmingham, Lane
college, jackson, Tenn. Phillips uni
versity, Tyler, Texas. and the Missis-
sippi Industrial college. Holly Springs
Miss. Considerably more than the $2O.-
600 are given by the Southern Metho-
| dists, however, for nearly every annual
conference in the church is visited by
some bishop of the colored church OF
the president or other agent of one OF
the schools. with view of securing aid
and the contributions have always been
liberal
Church and School Union
1t is difficult to separate the church
| from the school in the matter of negro
! progress. White and black alike recog
nize that the people most apt to be in
terested in negro progress are those in
terested in the churches. The progress
/ of the negro in education is but the re-
Election of his growing grace. of his
| learning the essential art of making
| his religion practical 1t is 10 uncom-
mon thing to see ministers in annual
conferences give their last cent in the
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