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medical colleges have made many visits and have performed all
surgical operations. (It is difficult to persuade any ignorant
colored person to have an operation, no matter what the nature
of the disease, or how dangerous the condition. Again and
again we have seen people die simply because they refused
absolutely to accept the relief offered. Their dread of the
hospital is most pathetic.)
The theological students were only temporary resident. in
the city, and it was their original intention to continue thi
Sunday-school until theirschool term closed. The Sunday-school
was in a prosperous condition and it seemed unwise to abandon it.
Women as Teachers mark a New Epoch
One of these students secured work in a white mission, for
which he received a salary of twenty dollars a month, and continued
to superintend the colored Sunday-school without any
remuneration. He visited ome of the white churches and persuaded
half a dozen members, representing several denominations,
to assist during the summer months. Among these were
THE NUCLEUS OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL
Founded in April, 1899, from which the Hancock Street Chapel, with 450 pupils, developed.
several women, and their advent marked a new epoch in the
history of the mission, and in after years enabled us to organize
various forms of industrial work, which would have been
impossible without their ympathy, advice, and help.
Students were again Sent Out
When the students returned the next session, the local teachers
were persuaded to continue their classes, and these students were
THE HANCOCK STREET CHAPEL BUILDING
Purchased in 1902. Well lighted and well ventilated. Four hundred and fifty pupils
from fifty different streets are in regular attendance.
sent out to gather new recruits. Two smaller rooms adjoining
the building were rented and used by the additional classes, one
as a primary room. Efforts to ecure new pupils have ceased
because every available space is filled with chairs, and frequently
the teachers have to stand because there are no vacant eats.
"I will Get You a Crowd of Boys "
A colored boy about fourteen year old began to attend our
night services and asked why we did not come out to " Smoke
Town," a mile south of our mi sion, and. tart a Sunday-school.
He said, "I will get you a crowd of boys." Not once, but
week after week. he came. At first we refu cd. saying that with
our tudies in the eminary we did not have time to carryon
another mi sian, and, be ides, we did not have the money
to rent another building. Hi reque t , however. were so
urgent and 0 persistent that finally a commiLLee was
appointed to visit" Smoke Town." a district then unknown
to u ,to ee whether there wrre many Negroes living in this
new found di trict, and if a suitable building could be secured for
a Sunday-school.
The committee reported that a mall room about a mile distant
from the other mission could be secured for $4.50 a month,
that the room was furnished with twenty-four chairs, and wa in
the mid t of a Negro community. The Negroes in thi section
of the city, however, were of a much beLLer cia -industrious,
law-abiding, and of superior intelligence. Some owned their
homes, and most of them dwelt in mall cottages.
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