The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-08-13
MISSION SCHOOL REPORT
FOR 1886 is GIVEN OUT
INSTRUMENTATION School Has
Interesting Session at Park
nv Alice Parker Hall

mer School of Missions, held from
July 10 to July II inclusive, for there
were those present who could relate
from personal experience and observa-
ton how He had reached and redeemed
those who lived in the very midst of
pagan tribes in Africa when they were
brought in contact with the Christian
religion and it's teachings.
AS the foreign mission study in all
missionary societies is to be based
upon Africa, and the home study has
to do with the Negro in the United
States, the school was fortunate in
having among it's speakers and in
structors Bishop and Mrs. John NJ.
Springer, who have spent thirty-five
years as missionaries in South Africa,
and Richard Caulker, a young native
of Sierra Leone, Africa, to present its
needs, the advances being made in
extending the gospel to it's people, and
the outlook for the future. Mr.. Caulk-
er, who has been attending college in
this country for the past four years
with a view to becoming a teacher
in his native village, is a wonderful
example of what any life may become
when touched by the power of Christ.
Rev. Emory Ross, of New York,
who has also spent much time in At
RIGA, told in a most fascinating and
fluent manner of the many contribu-
tions made by that vast area to help
promote enterprises of various kinds
throughout the world, proving con-
clusively that this great continent is
by no means entirely on the receiving
end of the line, nor that it is the clark
continent" that it is so often called.
The home field was well covered by
Miss Emily Olmstead, dean of women
of Morris Harvey College, Barbours-
vile, w. Va, in her presentation of
the text book, "a Preface to Racial
UNDERSTANDING" to the adult class,
and "The Story of the American Ne
gro" to the young people, and DR..
John A. Cotton, United Presbyterian
minister of Henderson, N. c., who
made strong and earnest plea for a
better understanding of his people, and
won many friends for himself and his
race. AS a further aid toward bring
ing about better racial understanding
two young women, Frances Curtiss
and Marion Whitlock, of Washington,
D. c., were selected as representatives
of their people to attend the school.
A course for leaders of Junior work
was most attractively presented by
Mrs. Mabel Fenner, specialist in this
field in the United Lutheran Church
in America, and many helpful and
practical methods for adult, young
peoples and children's missionary So
cieties were given by her. Methods
were also presented by Miss Janet Gil
bert, general secretary of the Otter
bein Guild of the United Brethren
church. Many posters, maps and other
methods of visualizing and presenting
the work were presented by both of
these leaders.
Mrs. Margaret Russell of the Presby-
terrain Training School, Richmond,
Va, gave a most illuminating course
in Bible, and was eagerly heard each
morning by the members of the adult
school and Camp Clean. During this
period Mrs. Fenner gave series Of
Bible lessons and stories to the men,
bers of the boys camp, which were
especially adapted to their particular
group.
The Department of Temperance and
Missions, of which Mrs. Nina NJ. Har-
dy, of Morgantown, w. Va, is director,
was ably presented by Mrs. F. L. Mil
Ter, vice president of the West Vir-
ginia Women's Christian Temperance
Union, of Parkersburg, W. Va. With
the use of charts and an alcohol ex-
hibit she gave very instructive and
convincing lecture on: "Alcohol-What
It Is and What 1t Does," and showed
how it would eventually kill everything
alive and preserve everything that
was dead.
Mrs. Howard Wayne Smith, of Ard
more. Pa, who was the speaker on
Saturday evening, gave vivid and
stirring description of a recent tour
of mission fields in foreign lands
where she went in the interest of the
Baptist Foreign Missions, which she
represents.
The services on Sunday were in
charge of the school, with Bishop
Springer bringing the message of the
morning hour, and DR.. Cotton as the
speaker of the evening. The vesper SER
vice held at 400 o'clock in the after
noon was most impressive. The devo-
tional period was led by Miss jose
phine Kriz, counselor at Camp Clean,
and the communion service was con-
Quoted by Bishop Springer, assisted
by several local and visiting minis
tiers.
The beautifully illustrated lecture
given on Monday evening by Mr.. Jos.
E. Harmed, of Oakland, author of Wild
Flowers of the Alleghanies, on the
subject "God In Nature" proved de-
lightful treat for the large audience
present. Mr.. Harmed has a very init
mate knowledge of the lovely wood
land flowers which he presents in
their natural colors and haunts, and
describes in such pleasing manner.
The meeting on Tuesday evening
took the form of an inspiring campfire
program conducted in the grove un-
der the auspices of Camp Clean, with
the camp leader, Miss Anna Shaw,
bringing the principal message of the
evening. These campfire services, held
each year, always offer ringing chal-
lenge to all who attend, whether old
or young, to renew their allegiance
to their Lord and King and take up His
cross and follow Him more closely
than they have ever done before.
On the last night of the school
deeply spiritual messages were brought
by Miss Gilbert and Mrs. Fenner,
with ronorfc frnnn tho pamDS given