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Bishop College. Marshall. Tex.
Charles H. Maxson. President
BISHOP COLLEGE, owned and conducted by the American
Baptist Home Mission Society, was established in o
1881, and chartered in 1882. In 1880, shortlv before •
his death, Dr. Nathan Bishop, who had been corresponding
secretary of the Society, 1874-1876, said, " I have $10,000 to put
into a school in Texas whcn the time shall come." After his
death his widow carried out his intention by a gift of $10,000, and
in the fall of 1881, the first large brick building, Marston Hall,
now a dormitory for boys, was completed, at a cost of $15,500,
and the college began its work under the presidency of Rev. S. W.
Culver, :M.A., who served for ten years, until 1891. Charles H. •
Maxson, the present incumbent, was elected president in 1907.
Dr. Bishop, who was a warm friend of the Negroes, revealed a
purpose of his life when he said to a friend: "I have been blamed
for giving so many thousands of dollars for the benefit of colored
men; but I expect to stand side by side with these men on the
Day of Judgment. Their Lord is my Lord. They and I are
brethren; and I am determined to be prepared for that meeting."
"Seven Large Brick Buildings"
Bishop College is located on a campus of twenty-three acres,
formerly parts of two estates, in one of the leading railroad towns
of northeast Texas. There are seven large brick buildings, in
addition to SLX others for the use of the school and the teachers.
The property is valued at $115,000, and the endowment fund
amounts to $12,000. In 1907, the total expenditure of all
kinds was $24,4000 The students paid $10,019 for board and
$2,700 for tuition. The American Baptist Home Mis ion
Society appropriated $7,075; the Slater Fund, $1,500; and the
Woman's Baptist Home Mission Society of Chicago, $360.
There were 3R4 tudents and 20 teachers enrolled in 1908, and
9 of the young men were in the theological department. The
<.'ollege is a co-educational institution. The number of male
students is a little larger than the number of females.
There are ten departments in the work of the college: The
regular college course, academy, normal, music, grammar, industrial,
nurse-training. sewing, dressmaking and millinery,
journalism, and theological. In connection with the theological
department there is a ministers' special course. The announce·
ment of the college says:
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" Mini tel'S may enter this cour e at any time and stay as
long as they can. Even a few weeks thus spent will be of great
value. This i not intended to be a short course in theology,
but is rather a continuous New Era In titute, and is intended
to be helpful to those who can spend even a short time, and
de ire to give chief attention to thc Bible it'ielf."
Ability and Consecration of the Teachers
Rev. Charles L. White, D.D., former president of Colby
University, '" aterville, Me., now as i tant corresponding secretary
of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, visited, in
October, 1908, the schools aided and operated by the Society.
On hi return he said, in peaking of Bishop and similar schools:
" No one can visit these institutions and not be impres ed with
the ability and consecration of the teachers, the meager salaries
which they patiently accept, and the need for pensioning those
who have remained longest in the service.
"These southern colleges for the I egroes have always enjoyed
the blessing of God, and their output has been an investment in
family, institutional, and church life, while 'they have given
hundreds of lawyers, physicians, nurses, mechanics, tradesmen,
and ministers to their race. These institution. are fortunate in
having as their Superintendent of Education Dr. Sale, who knows
the egro problem as few in the nation.
" It is significant to notice the. tead.v introduction of industrial
training along mechanical, electrical, and other lines. with plans
for still greater enlargement, the ideal being the culture of the
heart, the training of the hand, and the development of the mind,
while the tuuents are being instructed for civic leadeloship in the
communitie. in which they will find their home .
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Bright Spots in the Negro Problem
" Thc e schools and the churches are the bright spots in the
Negro problem. There are, indeed, criminal blacks and criminal
whites. Di. ipation in cCltain forms of evil have brought forth
much the same result in both race, a thev will amonO' am' • b.
people. The future of the Negro depends upon the gospel of
Christ reaching down through missionary endeavor to the
people in their homcs and business. and no surer way of aCCOlll- •
plishing this end can be created than to push with renewed
vigor thc work of our schools which train "ounO' men and women • b
for leader hip among their own people."
