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“ETHIOPIA SHALL SOON STRETCH OUT HER HAL'DS UNTO GOD.” VOL. IX. RALEIGH, N. C., OCTOBER, 1886. NO. 4. TERMS: Fifty Cents a Year, in Advance. ®° Those who have not subscribed and receive the African Expositor, owe us only good will. 1111?“All communications should be address ed to P. O. Drawer 8. ^^Letters relating to subscriptions, the for warding of money, and any failure to receive papers, should be directed to Rev. H. M. Tupper. J^^Send money at our risk by Postoffice Order, or Registered Letter. g@TSpecimen copies forwarded upon appli cation. make the effort to prepare themselves to become safe and successful practi tioners. Our counsel to medical stu dents is to take plenty of time and make such sacrifices and effort as will insure success and eminence in the profession. Colored students have proven themselves equal to the. most rigid requirements. So can you, who are already in a course of study or are planning to enter a medical school. an organization existed in any school for young women, but I thought if such Associations were good for the ability to read. I depend largely upon m y girls for teachers. The classes are GOD REIGNS. BY MRS. E. B. BROWNING. God reigns above, He reigns alone ; Systems burn out and leave His throne, And still His years roll on, Mists of creation melt and fall Around Him changeless amid all, Whose ages still roll on. By anguish which made pale the sun, I hear Him charge His saints that none While still Time’s years roll on, Among His creatures anywhere, Blaspheme against Him in despair, Though darkly days go on. For us whatever’s undertone. Thou knowest, wiliest what is done Perha Though our dar the cup was bi: re thee, ’oil’ e my days go on, my days goon; day-spring cometh on. jW dearth, through fire and frost, - ailc1t G'easures lost, '.fit OSD are,going on. a INTERY5T IN MEDICAU&DUCATION. it s W‘ —— Z Among> lie colored •people there is evidence oj increased i. mrest in med ical education. Twice a,s many stu dents as ever before are seeking infor mation in reference to pursuing a medical course of study. To the young medical student there are some dimcult Questions for him to settle. If he inteC^s to practice in North Carolina or Virginia he will be compelled to prepare himselfthor- oughiv. The examy-^ions before . li ^State medical Be jn ^ R^both of tfiV- 5 ' States a^Wr . . ' FA V^e M^W^ a** PL^ a; Yd -f/^stMT ^Everywhe ' T J T j^Ton'easWeka '■plied. hlaLin*' 8 ®^ ! iib’DfA ”■“.' theysuy to ‘ly y L^ivme P Godthero States y-rate t?^’Wl .luform-d, bate We ^nure pinion that within less fivtyyUlrs the white, physicians Sot ther^State will see to it U^t the colored medical student will 'not be alio Aid to crex.0 into the pyrofes- .Ton or to practice until hePas Passed nDn._,i'anjination before a btate Medical vb'll 1 . M^ if It BIBLE TRAINING AND MORAL CULTURE OF GIRLS. The following paper was read by Miss Belle L. Pettigrew, of Shaw Uni versity, Raleigh, at the annual meet ing of the Women’s Baptist Home Mission Society, held at Asbury Park. When I first entered Shaw Univer- young men, they must be good for the girls also; so we organized. Our meetings have continued weeklv, until the present time with unfailing interest. Fifty-five of the 87 girl- / Estey are voluntary members, : taught from the primary temperance catechism, in which many have pas sed examination and taken a higher book. By the help of charts, black board lessons, short talks from pastors land others, and the blessing of God, am’1. feel perfectly confident that many willingly give an hour of time from . >; these poor children will be saved their recreation. irom the curse of tobacco and rum. At this meeting the Sunday school teachers report from their classes in the three Baptist churches, in one of which one of our girls is superinten dent. Then we hear from the four mission schools, composed of children gathered in from the streets, and taught by our students. Nearly one hundred children are reached in this sity as a missionary teacher, the con-/ ditions were favorable for carrying’ church out the wishes of the Society in. re- „gard to the Bible and moral culture of the girls. I was placed in charge of the building occupied solely by the girls, and assumed at once the respon sibility of training them in the way they should go. Every year I hare a crude mass of new material,Liid must patiently begin at the bottom’ again, and step by step develop the meaning of a Christian life. Yhere way, who, from the poverty and in difference of the parents, do not go to or to Sunday school, and would otherwise be wholly without i n struct! on. After these reports, the visiting committee, numbering twenty-five, give an account of their visits to the aged, the sick, and to others who wish is much truth in the remark 1/have to hear the Bible read. They often find a family without food or fuel, one woman depending on us almost wholly for food. Such are always re lieved from our treasury, our mem- Our girls can see daily the cruel ef fects of alcohol, in the case of little Willie, only five years old, a child driven from home by a brutal and drunken father and n indifferent step-mother. He came to us for pro tection three months ago, and has re ceived the best of care since then, the girls making, washing, and mending his clothes, and caring for him in a way he has never known before. He takes his place in the dining hall with the students at »peal time, but is be ing taught t "’I in the “Home School.” I a ’ -e all of the Baby Band who are , ’ mough will be in terested in r ' an d be glad to know that the .. Wme School is caring for many little neglected souls who are not much better off than he. While our girlwre learning to care for toe souls and bodies of their fel- , bers g f ivin^ systematically five Cents Estey We i a-month. If at an/nirne i often h^a. tLct the religion a.™ the; a .month. If at anAumea Lumber al e ^ ';■ ■ e' ^mored peopM.hJva has not the money; she acres it by ^hf° '^Gt vaer ^ca^' WAG-WaV S^tRat ft 18 nN sib. ' - alf th ^w 0 .^^^ wnen we ^o^der tj /have a niace W> this^A * lU™ ar d r school d^ 6 training ami rie al , M^r pulpit and Sundar ?m lion, of which from tl necessities of the case, they Lave be€Y deprived. So they come to us in dir- ^^y condition, of all grades 6 p ability and all shades of color. TWevh nave a great respect for the Bible, but are almost entirely ignorant A its; contents, not half of the girls ve* owning one. Io develop a knowledge of the Bible, and an interest in and love for its teachings, and foe habit opmeasuring dail^ conduce by’ its truths, is a great Aart of the wo^Y ^d^U^ 8 * 003 *^Seller. Just as muM W M^k; wor k as postil crowq^pn^ tbes^M 'el' n g wo’irmp, lim^^d o ^ NjC up many instances^ J"/'* cue Bible may have the UryA/j/ ^ >G- J R^wn to sty^ , Sphere is nomian'in the South that nhas a better' forecast of the future or DYore.fully understands tlT wants of the colored people than Dr. A..G-Hay good, df Oxford, G^ In a Decent let ter he says : “ I, have one anxiety about risking colored doctors—GW it 'will be too tsy ” a L WithouHWoubt, the danger ,is in imposing upon the colored people half-educated physicians—those who are not willing to give the time or N-v men ^ th^ neighborhood of ’> they a. ? also learning of the wants and woes of the whole ^orld. This knowledge is ^aiY N mainly ■ ; have a place hr this .Society. Many I of the members go out to teach during I the year, amLon their return report I theU^ristianqvork they have engaged in,the Sunday school temperance work, 'attention to the sic^qand aged, etc. ' The whole amount of the member- They/ship fees for the year is $21. Nine dollars has been expended on the field, and twelve dollars have been ary Society, organized- 1 c must Be bool lifbBf ■ p- th^e morniu^ourA Tike’a text for a little whem ^meet the cla^^he fourth hour In this ^way^^^era chapters have been - come rs q/ to memory during the pag^ Y 3After v th£ Averse, a few miputeajAf study mu^L be •gijy.n to ^thefeundS' I school le^/n, anj^y,J'hur.«(^ the>20 feeders ,f iqM h°. ^PltP§UJer. Patella teach the' le^^Yd A'e tegeiW iug A. P^ Videau Mve/tp’orizld to to Old Tpy^ afc’Department ‘Elected .subjects, a^ 1^, en^nX the observance of the dM. the’ put into the treasury of the Young Ladies’ Missionary Society. It is my aim to make every girl in Estey a temperance worker, and, truly, the need is grep. The habit of using to- oacco and^snuff is almost universal, and [ think this accounts largelv for ^®d^U n ^teg, especially among the women. Little boys begin to use to bacco, at five and six years of age, and| y^e gins of the same age to dip sutZ I have carefully collected facts JAL .many teachers, and find this^'”' prevails everywhere. X . . A feW weeks age/ one Z^ 8 lrls . wrote this: “All tha/, „ 'J’. T^ school dip suu/teexcaZ ,' . ^" , 1*3 children^ Craved from this degrading habif* bave ^ ! ntle hopetorTne tested race. We n$v* I not onlv 4 bj^iJ er toe physic^’l harm that it also Runts the ^hF the moral susceptibili- H' s ?^ degrades in every way. How ^ca//h ‘Ge otherwise when associated >ffom%irly childhood' with such de- sinsbif the longue, e v..^ vwA.j^uv, v L pad mufiy Chautauqua - for study quite helpful. Wb o ^^j’oung peo ple are learning JjA^^ sions from, the Word of God,Pl is f/the utmost importance Andt thewqbould enter of the theme’ t T My girls recite every week from the temperance catechism, and are becoming familiar with the effects of tobacco and alcohol upon all the organs of the body. All the young ladies except two have signed the pledge. They have practical lessons in conducting tern- years ago. The Society has never . failed to meet once a month up to the present time. Our circle is auxiliary to both the Woman’s Baptist Home 1 Mission Society and the ^MingU Baptist Foreign Missionarv^Bock'" fhe _West. Zue and We make a study of cu^nst me a t- foreign mission ^elds. ^Africa, in ings have been dey/fe specially in- which our studej^fnas time we sent forested. At Cp/he Home Society, twenty dolla^ekg later the same anc * a ^Ine Foreign Society, desig- amoum^ e Congo field. A few days uate jrsent ten dollars to our noble a^rican Baptist Home Mission So- dety, feeling that we, as a Society, in addition to what has been done by our school, would like to help in lift ing the debt. The whole amount con tributed by these two Societies of the girls, the Young Women’s Christian Association and the Missionary So ciety, for the school year^of eight months, is fifty-nine dollars. This money has all been raised by mem bership fees and contributions. It has come easily and naturally, as the out growth ofmissionary teaching. Africa is even now stretching out her hands to our girls and saving, “ Come over and help us.” A letter just received from the corresponding secretary o^ the Women’s Foreign Society of the ' West, asks if I can recommend two of our girls to go to the Congo field nex-M fall. We have no one in the school at pfesent who answers the require- * meets in regard to age and color, but; I can recommend a young lady who graduated a yea, ago, and I think the Lord has been preparing ber-for this work. upon the activitie^X a ’isefuT Chri , tian life. To facilit&e t.U Miave a temperance school in the city zedMwo years and a halt ago, a Y-ung ) numbering nearly 300 members. This Women’s Christian Association. I i school is graded and arranged in „, „ . . , did pot know at the time that such twenty-two classes,According to their |bers one hundred members, I keep erance work, as well as the theory. I did pot know As I stand before my class day after day, which, with the city pupils, num-
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