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- Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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- Date
- 1910
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- Creator
- ["Hartshorn, W. N. (William Newton), 1843-1920."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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Bishop College, Marshall, Tex.
GHarles H. Maxson, President
BISHOP COLLEGE, owned and conducted by the Ameri¬
can Baptist Home Mission Society, was established in
1881, and chartered in 1882. In 1880, shortly 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 when the time shall
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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,
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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 lam 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 six 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 w as $24,400. The students paid $10,019 for board and
$2,700 for tuition. The American Baptist Home Mission
Society appropriated $7,075; the Slater Fund, $1,500; and the
Woman’s Baptist Home Mission Society of Chicago, $360.
There were 334 students and 20 teachers enrolled in 1908, and
9 of the young men were in the theological department. The
college 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, in¬
dustrial, 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 :
“ Ministers mav enter this course at anv time and stay as
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long as they can. Even a few weeks thus spent will be of great
value. This is not intended to be a short course in theology,
but is rather a continuous New Era Institute, and is intended
to be helpful to those who can spend even a short time, and
desire to give chief attention to the Bible itself.”
Ability and Consecration of the Teachers
Rev. Charles L. White, D.D., former president of Colby
University, Waterville, Me., now assistant corresponding secre¬
tary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, visited, in
October, 1908, the schools aided and operated bv the Society.
On his return he said, in speaking of Bishop and similar schools :
“ No one can visit these institutions and not be impressed 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 Negroes 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 institutions are fortunate in
having as their Superintendent of Education Dr. Sale, who knows
the Negro problem as few in the nation.
“ It is significant to notice the steady 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 students are being instructed for civic leadership in the
communities in which they will find their homes.
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Bright Spots in the Negro Problem
“ These schools and the churches are the bright spots in the
Negro problem. There are, indeed, criminal blacks and criminal
whites. Dissipation in certain forms of evil have brought forth
much the same result in both races, as they will among any
people. The future of the Negro depends upon the gospel of
Christ reaching down through missionary endeavor to the
people in their homes and business, and no surer way of accom¬
plishing this end can be created than to push with renewed
vigor the work of our schools which train voung men and women
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for leadership among their own people.”
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