The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 5, May, 1881Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 5, May, 1881
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
The house was entirely filled, and among the audience were forty or
fifty of the best white citizens of the city, all of whom showed
interest and some of whom expressed warm sympathy.
Thus ended a scene in which Christian feeling and fellowship seemed
to have conquered prejudices and differences on all sides, and
the workers from the North and from the South clasped hands in
fraternal regard, and pledged each other hearty good will.
As growing out of this, and, perhaps, a happy finale, it may be
of interest to say that Dr. Taylor very cordially invited Mr.
Woodworth to preach in his pulpit the next Sabbath morning. The
offer was accepted, and the occasion proved one of great pleasure
to the speaker, and, if judged by the greetings at the close, not
less so to the large audience which listened.
At the proper time we shall take occasion to state the further
good which Mr. Gregory intends for the “Christ Church Mission” at
Wilmington.
* * * * *
On the 27th ult., Secretary Strieby presented the cause of this
Association in Dr. R. S. Storrs’ church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and
after a full and earnest endorsement by the pastor, a collection
was taken, amounting to $3,200, one gentleman giving $2,500 of the
amount. On the same Sabbath, Dr. Wm. M. Taylor, of the Broadway
Tabernacle, New York, presented our cause with his usual marked
ability, and his appeal was followed by a contribution of $1,500,
an increase of about fifty per cent, over last year’s donations
to the same object. In connection with the many good words that
have been recently uttered in behalf of Christian education at
the South, it is exceedingly cheering to record such reports of
increased interest and liberality. Shall we not have many more to
follow?
* * * * *
We have alluded repeatedly to the unanimity now prevalent as to
the remedy for the radical troubles in the South—the education of
the Freedmen. President Garfield’s message sets it forth again in
forcible terms. But ever since Gen. Grant’s military policy became
intolerable to the South and a weariness to the North, and was
abandoned by President Hayes, the conviction that moral and not
military forces are needed has deepened, and has found distinct
utterance by representative men in all sections of the country.
President Hayes, in his address to his comrades in arms at Canton,
O., and Senator Brown of Georgia, in his speech in the Senate,
may stand as the exponents of the two sections of the country and
the two political parties on that subject, while Dr. Ruffner,
Superintendent of Public Instruction of Virginia and Rev. Dr.
Haygood of the M. E. Church South, may represent two influential
States in the South, and two great religious denominations. The
popularity of Judge Tourgee’s book at the North, in which the same
thought is fully and eloquently set forth, may be taken as another
evidence of the views held here.
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