The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 11, November, 1883 — John Shaqi
The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 11, November, 1883Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 11, November, 1883
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
The most of the teachers who have returned report nothing
remarkable, no doubt the best kind of a report to have to make.
Honest, legitimate labor has never much to say for itself. Among
the things mentioned in addition to the paid labor of the work are
these: securing libraries, papers, Testaments for Sunday-school,
teaching infant class, teaching Bible class, leading singing,
superintending; and one did all this, organizing his entire school
into one class. He also rented an organ which he played. One or
more held prayer meetings. All had religious exercises in school.
A few gave temperance lectures. One had a temperance glee club.
Several gave musical entertainments, especially at close of school,
white and colored in attendance. One county in this State is
almost exclusively occupied by students from Fisk. They organized
themselves into an institute, meeting once a month for the
discussion of methods and the interests of education in general.
By invitation Prof. Bennett attended the last meeting, delivering
addresses and preaching on the following Sunday. He found the
colored people gathered _en masse_ and the interest up to fever
heat.
About the usual number of misfortunes has befallen our students
this year. One is shortsighted and wears spectacles; he is also
quite light colored. Both these damaged him. He was taken for a
Jew trying to pass himself off as a colored man. White and colored
alike looked upon him with suspicion. He succeeded in persuading
the colored people that he was one of them, but the whites had no
use for the “white nigger in spectacles.” By continued insult and
threats his nervous system was so worn upon that he fell sick and
left after teaching a month. Two young men teaching in a river
county in Mississippi had, briefly told, the following experience:
The boat could not land at the place sought, but they were put
ashore at midnight, three miles away. There were two houses at the
landing, one being unoccupied. In this they got permission to spend
the night. They lay on bags of cotton-seed. There being no means of
fastening doors, one of them put his money, two dollars and fifty
cents, in his shoe, under his foot, for safe-keeping. The next day
they walked through mud and rain to the town, and from there set
out in search of schools.
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