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The ChriStian Education of the Negro
By the General Conference of Free Baptists
Headquarters: Hillsdale, Plich.
HENRY M. FORD, D.O.• Corresponding Secretary
THE Free Baptist denomination was intensely anti-slavery
and for abolition even before John Brown's raid at
Harper's Ferry. At the close of the war, through the
help of Blaine, Fessenden, James A. Garfield, and O. O. Howard,
it secured the gift of all the government lands and buildings
at Harper's Ferry, valued at $60,000, where in 1867 was planted
Storer College. The denomination has added to this gift
thousands of dollars. The school at Harper's Ferry has graduated
over 600 teachers and 400 ministers.
In 1865 home mission work was begun up and down the
~ .Mississippi, with headquarters at Cairo. A school building was
erected, which was burned a few years after by an incendiary.
It was rebuilt, but the school after a time failed. However, one
hundred and seventy churches were organized, as many ministers
ordained, and these churches have generally prospered.
Manning Bible School.. Cairo.. III.
T. w. Lott, President
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MANNING BffiLE SCHOOL, CAIRO, ILL.
FOUNDED IN 1900
Storer College, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
Henry T. McDonald, President
T. W. LOTT
A FREE BAPTIST institution
for training you n g
colored men for the ministry
and for training missionaries,
Sunday-school workers,
teachers, and public
school instructors. amed
for Rev. J. S. Manning,
who, in 1865, began mission
work in Cairo, "the very
·gateway of the South, at a
point dipping almost as deep
in the Southland as the
southern boundaries of Virginia
and Kentucky." Two
teachers, 6 students in 1908.
Annual expenses, $1,000.
Supported by Free Baptist
General Conference Board.
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STORER COLLEGE was founded in 1867 by the Home
Mission Society of the Free Baptist Church, and named in
honor of the late Mr. John Storer, of Sanford, Me. There
were 15 teachers and 234 student in 1908.
The annual expen es of $12,000 are secured from the church,
from benevolent friends, and by a grant of $2,500 a year from
the state. The Freedmen's Bureau contributed $6,000 to the
college. Congress gave valuable buildings and grounds at
Harper's Ferry in 1868.
Storer College is one of the oldest in titutions of learning for
the colored p~ople in the United States. It is a Christian school
and has always exemplified in it faculty and in truction a high
type of religious life. It is ~nsectarian, but insi ts that the education
of most value is that which has permeated the teaching of
Jesus.
Harper's Ferry i at the junction of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, hence the college is easily reached from many directions.
It is in the midst of a prosperous farming community,
and the large markets reduce the co t of food to a minimum.
