The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
The bill seems to be aimed at the Atlanta University, where
there are a few white children—mostly those of the teachers—who
have gone there as missionaries to the colored people. A
similar state of things exists in the colored schools of this
State, and particularly in this city. No harm has ever come of
this practice. No white person has ever married a Negro, and
there is not the remotest probability that such a thing will
ever occur. We think it is far better in the South at least
that the two races should be educated in separate schools,
and that they should worship in separate churches. But when
it comes to making it a crime for missionaries to teach
their own children in the schools which they are sustaining
with a self-denial that is really sublime, we enter a most
emphatic protest in the name of the Christian religion which
those people are seeking to propagate among the ignorant and
degraded blacks of the South. The author of this bill in the
Georgia Legislature attempts to justify it on the ground of
his interest in the colored people. He also says that he fears
amalgamation. When assured that no such a result is at all
probable he explains that he fears intellectual amalgamation
even more than physical. This is not even respectable nonsense.
If the contact of an inferior with a superior mind produces an
intellectual hybrid, then we are all in danger. In denouncing
this Georgia bill we do not advocate the co-education of the
two races, nor do we believe there is any sensible man in this
part of the world who does. If the Georgia legislator’s view
is to become the law of the land, then let the Church of God
recall its missionaries from heathen lands and acknowledge
Christianity a failure. The men and women, all over this land,
who have gone among the poor, unfortunate Negroes and taught
them knowledge and the way of salvation deserve special honor
and thanks at our hands. Every consideration of religion and
patriotism ought to make the friends of the Glenn Bill in the
Georgia Legislature ashamed of themselves. There is no nobler
work in this world than helping the lowly. There is no danger
that anybody will be hurt by trying to redeem the negro from
ignorance and sin.
* * * * *
GEORGIA’S NEED OF TEACHERS.
B. M. ZETTLER, Supt. of Public Schools, Macon, Ga., expresses
himself in favor of the Blair Bill, in the following, which we take
from the _Atlanta Constitution_. It should be remembered that the
colored teachers to whom Mr. Zettler refers come largely from the
A. M. A. schools, and especially from the Atlanta University:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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