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OI^GhA-N OF THE _A.F!R.IO.A.N METHODIST’ EPISOOPAIj ZION CHURCH IN AMERICA. VOLUME XXI. CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDAY, JUNE 34,1897. NUMBER 25 .. ..-■ " —■ ' .. .. " ..-r"~ -■ ' '■ ~ - *• . 4* & DAY - NUMBER. ZION’S CHILDREN'S DAT. Birds—Flowers—.Hu s i c—S ermons Ckildreu To The "rent. SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1897. UNION AND ENTHUSIASM NEEDED. This coming Sunday, by a united ef fort and proper enthusiasm, we ought to easily raise $4,000 Children’s Day collection.—Editor John C. Dancy, Salisbury, N. C. —o— PAY FOR HONEST WORK. But ‘.he Children’s Day is ap proaching, and all the members of the Church and the good friends of education will have an opportunity to contribute much needed money for the support of our schools. It is very necessary that a large sum be collected on that day. Those who labor in the Church schools have expenses— have families—have good reason to demand pay for honest work. Much money raised on Children’s Day will aid them very much.—Prof. W. M. Proviuder, Salisbury, N. C. 4. —o— A POWERFUL OBJECT LESSON. What more powerful object-lesson, setting forth the love of Christ and of Christ’s Cnureh to the young, than the services of Children’s Day? What clearer demonstration of the identity of church and Sabbath-school could be given ? I venture to say that the children and youth of the Church have never doubted, s'nce the estab lishment of Children’s Day, the Church’s supreme interest in and love for them; and they have recipro cated this interest and love with all the enthusiasm of their youthful spirits.—Dr. J. A. Worden. —o— Children’s Day is but one of the many great projects our General Conference has ordered in the wake of the great “Ship of State” to meet some of the measures inaugurated for the education of our race. Out of due deference to the uniqueness of the project let every Zion college presi lent give $25, every bishop $10, every presiding elder $5, every pas tor $2 50, every deacon $1.25, every local preacher and superintendent $1, every officiary 50 cents, every mem ber and Sunday-school teacher 25 cents, and every scholar 5 and 10 cents.—Prof. R. Jf Crockett, Lancas ter, S. C. —o— THE DAY IS FOR THE CHILDREN. It is just what it professes to be: it is Children’s Day. The children for the time being are in the foreground by direct appointment. Their bright face.s, their songs, their recitations, have the right of way. They recog nize the fact and act accordingly. For the time being they are the lead ers in the house of the Lord. They are just as essential to the day as birds to the music of the woods or flowers to the beauty of the lawn. The influence upon them of thus making them central in the service of worship and work must be helpful to them. They have many things to draw them from the church; among other things to hold them to it they have this day, which is all their own. *—The Standard. —o— IT IS A WISE PROVISION. No one can question the wisdom of cultivating and training the religious instincts of children, and to this end, of not only teaching them in the home, the Sunday-school and the Church the holy truths of the Chris tian religion, but of associating with such teaching that which is gladsome and winning. Children crave atten tion, like to have much made of them, and are pleased with our kind attentions and efforts to please them, do them good and make them happy. They enter into religious things with zest when religious things are made attracti ve to them as they should be. The adornment of our homes and churches with flowers is a delightful feature that emphasizes Children’s Day, and that should, when practic able, character every Lord’s day — Intelligencer. REV, WM. R. GOLER, A. M., D. D. 'I TI :e observance of children’s day. The enactments ot the General Con fe -ence of 1896 were wise and expe dient, especially as they relate to our educational work and the disburse mintoftke Children’s Day money anoDg our several institutions of leirning. As the law now stands Children's Day means as much to A abama, Kentucky, South Carolina at d Tennessee, as to grand old North Ci rolina. Zion is too great and glorious just to possess one college; so she has m ide her educational code sufficiently el istic and practical to aid six schools. Sl .e is greater by having six than one; at d the present financial plan prop erly observed will give immediate relief to our distressed institutions. Nalaw can be properly enforced un less backed by public sentiment L it us make Children’s Day, Zion’s Fourth of July, and by prayer and sang, sermon and money, speech and patriotism, create a sentiment in ev ery Section of the Connection tor ed ucation, morality and church pride. E very bishop in annual conference has Urged the observance of this day ai .d now the great Star beams out in biilliant light, blazing the pathway of success. Zion must not move bsckward—upward and onward let tie old ship glide. Not a school must be closed for lack of money. Janes University with anxious eyes IodIss to Alabama, Florida and Louis iaaa for the legal observance of Ckil di en’s Day. The school house is the backbone of the church; for the most powerful cl urch organizations are those that REV. R. A. MORRISSEY, A.'TO. fester the greatest number of schools. Presiding elders wield a powerful ii fluence in Zion and I am told by seme that they will do their best to h ive preachers and people do their whole duty on this God-sent occasion. Tbe position that the Star has taken ii keeping the matter before the peo ple is practical and far-reaching in e rery respect. Zion has entered the sitcond century of her existence and among the first chapters of this cen t iry’s progress to be chronicled bj t le future Hood, let the great success of Children’s Day appear as the s edge-hammer that breaks the back V one of ignorance everywhere.—Prof I (avid W. Parker. children’s day. Children’s Day ii ag.tii. at hand. The important and momentous cause which it represents should call foitn the greatest amount of en thusiasm and determined ef forts on the part of every minister and lay member and friend to education throughout the entire Con nection. No day set apart by the General Conference to be observed for special pur pose means more to the Church than Children’s Day. Its very name is an emphatic and pronounced expression of the active part which our Church is taking towards the education of the colored youth through her many schools now established and fostered in different parts of the country. Six of our foremost schools will be very seriously pnibarrassfid should Children’s Day again be a failure as it has been during the last two years, J MY LIVINGSTONE. BY PBOF. W. F. FOSVIEELE Oh, Livingstore, my lavingstone! Thy dear ole name we sing, While mcm’rie; i cluster thick and fast, And closer to ua cling. Beneath thy maples qpd thy oaks The zephyred breeaes blow, Just as they will in years to come, No matter where we go. Oh, Livingstone, my Livingstone! When thou art old with age, perhaps, thou too, shall hold a place That’s bright on mem’ry’s page. And in thy sky, no cloua shall be— Instead, thy sun shall gleam; Prosperity shall live always Amid it’s golden beam. Oh, Livingstone, my Livingstone ! Thy students come and go, The moments ly; the years go by With all their weal and woo. Along with fleet and nimble feet Oh, hasten on thy way, And fling the ight of wisdom out Across the vrand’rer’s way. Oh, Livingstone, my Livingstone! Upon thy campus wide, In numbers many students roam— — Some from the other side: And still the}- love; we can but hope That they may e’er be true Both to thy name and colors too, The modest black and blue. J ,G> ' r -i* m PROF. D. W. rARKER, A. It. and our bishops, general officers and ministers who have the interests of the Church at heart will be unani mous in fixing the responsibility ® where it belongs. It cannot be too frequently emphasized that whether this day be made a financial success will depend mainly upon the amount | ‘ of enthusiasm and efforts that the pastors in charge throw into it. Some pastors in charge of small churches, or weak congregations, complain that . heretofore they raised more Chil- 11 dren’s Day money than some brethren c in charge of big churches. A refer- c ence to Children’s Day report of last a year and the year before make the c endictment true. Of course, all can f see that such a course of procedure will not only defeat the very end for which Children’s Day was established, but will eventually set up a'precedent which will extend its ruinous effects to all the departments of the Church. c But this year, from present indica tions, pastors in charge and members ( everywhere, have caught new inspi- | ration, and the results of Children’s ( Day will be far more gratifying than ^ ever before. It will require $7,000 j to relieve our institutions that receive ^ Children’s Day money from their ( present financial embarrassed condi tion. Now, can we raise this amount next Sunday? I, for one, will an swer, yes. Ten of our big churches can rais? $100 each. Fifteen of our next largest congregations can raise $75 each, and twenty-five of our next important churches are able to raise $50 each with the proper effort. Here we have fifty churches that may [continued on foubth page.] CHILDREN'S DAY APPEAL. To the Pastors and Superintend Qts of the iA. M. E. Zion Church, resting : Dear Brethren : We again appeal > you in behalf of our chief Connec onal institution, Livingstone Col !ge, Salisbury, IT. C., and five other onnectional Schools. Sunday, .Tune 27th, being the >urth Sundajy in this month, accord ig to the la1)? of our Church, will be elebrated ai Children’s Day. The illectwns during the entire day re to be: devoted to edu ation; and presiding elders, bishops, astors and clfficiary are not to inter-; jre in any way with the collections n that day unless to aid in the eicr ises, or lend any other assistance bought necessary to make the day a uccess for tie cause. The division f the Children’s Day money greatly mbarrassed Livingstone College last eat and the result has been that the Connection is falling behind with hat institution. With one strong, ipecial effort on Children’s Day and he full performance of duty this j ear n raising the general fund, there will )e no falling behind with the College >r any other Connectional cause! All moneys as usual are to be sent ,o the treasurers of the respective educational districts. The brethren will please r ote well that in report ing their Children's Day money to 3tate from vhat conference the mon ey comes. It is also to be hopeH that all as nearly as possible will have and hold their exercises so s full re port can be published in thd Sta^b bj the middle, of August. The delay* PROF. R. J.^ROCKETT, A. B. in past yeara have occasioned embar rassment to tbe teachers of the Col lege and schools, expense in traveling because of visits by representatives of colleges to the conferences, and sometimes dissatisfaction by brethren who think that their names should be sent to the Star of Zion eveu if they relay reporting as late as December cr January. Now if all the brethren observe the fourth Sun day in June according to law and re port the same immediately the neces sary credit will be given through the Star columns and other troubles will be averted. Yours for the cause of education, J. W. Hjod, I. 0. Clinton, T. H. Lomax, C. C. Pettey, C. R. Harris, J. B. Smill. A.. Walters, G. W. Clinton, Jehu Holliday, CHILDREN’S DAY. Children’s Day, if properly ob served, will be altogether the best and most jojful day in the whole year. Other days may be good, but this is unquestionably the best. It is worth a great deal more to the schools than it costs ;hem. They get more than they give. They get a knowl edge of the d fferent fields and of the people, of their conditions and need, This knowledge is more precious than silver and gold. They do the Lord’s will, and they are blessed in the do ing. They have the blessedness that comes to those who give of their means to help those that are less for tunate than t lemselves. The school s that give for no other purpose thar to supply their own BEV. G. B. WALKER, D. D. needs and mi aister to their own en-, joyment, miss the meaning of life Oar Lord taught us that those who save their lives, lose them; and those that lose their lives for His sake, fiud them. The school that never thinks of any thing beyond its own local in terests, will never understand God’s great purpose in the world, and will have no fellowship with Him in the work, dr in the joy of its accomplish ment. yThe superintendent that does not ‘ Day, wrongs his sch<^ and pnf descenc the mown g* , that water Qvide. ,nge to observe Children’s mgs his own soul. He e siul of every member ol >1. He deprives the teachers la o: the blessing that would pon them like rain npon ass, and like the showers pie earth.-Christian ora CHURCH SCHOOLS. Let Nothing Prevent Us From Raisin)! E Btg Money For Them. ^ KEEP TflE LAW. t LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE. Of all the schools planted and | fostered by our beloved Zion none i“ < so dear or means so much to the Church as Livingstone College. Founded properly at Salisbury, N. r C~in 1882, it has grown with re markable rapidity. Dr. J. C. Piice, , that peerless man of so many excel- , lent parts and the idol of two conti- , nents, was Livingstone’s first Presi- ( dent. Dr. Wm. Harvey Goler, an intimate friend and worthy success >r ( of the great Price, is now at its head. ( There are sixty acres of choice land j belonging to the school and upon the ( College campns five excellent build- , ings erected, most of them brick, i There are now twelve experienced , and faithful instructors engaged in carrying on the work at this seat of . learning, and all are Negroes. Many i of the best ministers snd teachers now at work in our Church are graduates of this school. Of the $17,000 required to properly run the : school about the sum of $13,000 is given by Negroes. It only costs $05 per year for a scholsr to attend this excellent school. The value of this property at present is $125,000 and increasing every year. A good deal is due the teachers in Livingstone on salary. Our district must raise at least $2,000 this year. But if we do it, it will be because each member and friend doe3 his whole duty toward accomplishing this grand result. JONES UNIVERSITY. Jones University was founded in 1890. Bishop C. C. Pettey, A. M., D. D., was the first person to take active measures towards its establish ment. It had long been needed in this section of country where the Ne gro race is so thickly settled and where our Church is so strong. But nothing was done until 1890 when Bishop Pettey with a number of our ministers founded it. It takes its name from Bishop S. T. Jones, one,of the greatest men our Church has ever produced. Bishop Pettey became its first President and served in that capacity with great credit until 1893. jFind ing that his duties as Bishop of a large district would not allow him to give the school such care as he felt it needed, he resigned and David W. Parker, A. B., a graduate of St. Augustine College, Raleigh, N. C., became its 2nd President. From that to the present he has been at the head of this school. The school has done and is still doing excellent work for our Church and people in this black belt of Alabama. Thirty teachers have gone out from this school. During the present.year 200 scholars have been enrolled. There are two excellent buildings. We must foster this school by our libei al contributions and thus increase i'8 sphere of usefulness. ATKINSON COLLEGE. The next of our schools which re ceives a part ot the proceeds from Children’s Day funds is Atkinson College, Madisonville, Ky, This school was founded in 1892, mainly through the efforts of Rev. George Bristow Walker, D. D. Dr. Walker became its first President and still holds that position. Beginning with, three teachers and twenty scholars the school has now four teachers and fifty scholars. There is one acre bsloaging to the school upon which are three buildings. These buildings and grounds have been purchased'at’a^cost of $3,000 and of this amount (1,000 have been paid; $2,000 are still due on proper ty and $600 to tsachers. It costs but $65.25 per year for a student to at tend this school, the first regular collegiate commencement of which was held yesterday, June 23d. there being five young ladies to graah^te. Bishop C. C. Pettey says 4this schW rhioh can accommodate 150 day cholars, and 80 who board in the cbool, enjoys some peculiar - ad rs.ntages. The pressing needs of his school are sufficient funds to off the main debt and pay the eachers their salaries. There are wo departments in the school, classi cal and industrial, GREENVILLE COLLEGE, Greenville College, Greenville, Fenn., had been in operation as a lormal school for some years, but vas organized as a college in 1895 vhen Rev. Richard Albertus Mor'is-. iey, A. M., a graduate of Livingstoue College, became its first President. Beginning with twojteachers and sixty icholars in ’95 it now has four teach !rs and one hundred and fifteen icholars. The school owns six aojes >1’ land and cn this land one commo tions building stands. The total cost io far is $2,000. Only $200 are now lue on property: $50 a year is all t costs to attend this school. There ire four departments in this school, College, Normal, Preparatory and industrial. This property is worth ^ 3,000. The great need of the school s more money with which (1) to pay |>300 due teachers (2) to pay remain ler on property, and to erect a new juilding to be used as chapel,- recita tion rooms and girls’ dormitory. CLINTON INSTITUTE. One of the youngest and yet one of the most promising of our schools is Clinton Institute, Rock Hill, S. C., founded in 1894. Beginning in ’94 with one teacher and 65 scholars, it has now three instructors and a ma* tron and two hundred and two scholars. There is one large building u sed for all purposes. Four and a half acres of land belong to the school, and the property is valued at $4,000 and only about $250 due on the property: $45 per year will support a scholar at this school. This school is in need of funds to develop its Musical De partment, having a most excellent instructor there now at the head of that department. The Industrial Department must also be developed. Prof. R. J. Crockett presides over it. LANCASTER ACADEMY. Lancaster Academy is located at Lancaster, South Carolina. Though it has not long been receiving help from the Connection it is one of our older schools, and some men who have done noble service in our Church were instructed at this school. Ftrr^ many years it was called the Pettey Bigh School, Bishop C. C. Pettey, A. M., D. D., having been one of the principal actors in its establishment. Prof. J. A. Cunningham is the Princi pal. STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY 0 F EDUCATION. Dear Members and Friends of our Great Church: The great cause of education which engages your thoughts and best endeavors to day was never more encouraged by our Eoard of Bishops and our Church generally than it is now. The growth of interest in the cause of education in our Church has been most remark able during the last twelve years. And as a natural result schools have sprung up with astonishing rapidity. Practically our school and college work began about twelve or fifteen years ago. So rapidly hav'e these schools sprung up that we now have eighteen schools and colleges in operation. Of these eighteen schools, six receive help from Children’s Day receipts. It is earnestly hoped that there may be such a rally to this great cause this year, that all these schools may be greatly encouraged. While only six schools^receive hlep from Children’s Day receipts, we take pride in mentioning the following Connectional Schools which are doing a great work for our Church and race: Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C.; JoDes University, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Atkinson College, Madisonville, Ky,; Greenville College, Greenville, Tenn.; Lancaster Academy, Lancaster, S. C.; Clinton Academy, Rock Hill, S. C.; [continued oh fourth fagb.J
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