The American Missionary Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ... Howard. Encouraging Testimony. We present below, three letters, giving the-views of the writers respecting the work of this Association among the Freedmen. We invite special attention to the decided testimony they bear to the happy effects of mingling religions with intellectual instruction. The first letter is written by an intelligent minister in the service of the Pres. (N. S.) Home Mission Committee-, the second by an honored New England pastor, and the third by a Christian layman. Education In The Sotjtn. Knoxville, East Tennessee, April 22, 18G8. Messrs. Editors: --Having visited the most important cities along the coast in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, I feel myself measurably qualified to speak on the subject of schools and educational interests among the Freedmen. I am all the more inclined and constrained to do so, inasmuch as this-work is now being entered upon by our denomination as a new agency, and as an auxiliary in establishing churches among this most interesting people. It has been my privilege to visit extensively the schools and families under the care of the American Missionary Association, where I have been welcomed and entertained. I have made my home with them by special invitation, secured to me through a very kind letter of introduction from Rev. E. P. Smith, the General Field Agent of that Society. From Beaufort, S. C, to St. Augustine, Florida, I made it a duty and a uniform practice to visit all missionary schools without regard to their organizations or Societies that sustained them. I found the American Freedmen's Commission and the American Missionary Association operating the most extensively, and to say nothing of others, these two representative Societies are doing a very different kind of work on a diffe...