W TALLADEGA COLLEGE TALLADEGA COLLEGE HERE is Talladega College? It is midway between Maryland and Texas, a little north of the center of the state of Alabama, a strategic position. It has an elevation of 700 feet above the sea, is healthful and picturesque, nestling as it does in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is near the center of the Negro population of the United States and easily accessible from all directions. Why is Talladega College? Because of the guiding Providence of God. In November 1865, fifty-six Freedmen met in Mobile to consider the obligation growing out of their emancipation. The two of this number from Talladega were greatly impressed with their duties toward "education and religion." Returning to their homes they encouraged the erection of a school house and the employment of a teacher. At this time the American Missionary Association has had its attention turned to this movement and to an abandoned but desirable school property then offered for sale. It came to pass that within two years after the Mobile convention was held, "the little school in the valley" was superseded by one of one hundred and forty pupils, assembled in the newly purchased and reconstructed building which his been known ever since as "Swayne Hall." For more than fifty years the guiding spirit of God has been manifest in the enlargement and growing influence of this school engaged in the christian education of the Negro. Since Freedom the Negro has increased in population from four millions to twelve millions. He has shown his What is Talladega College? An institution of christian learning which seeks to prepare its pupils for the for the "life that now is" as well as for the "life which is to come.'' It seeks to do this through the following departments--Theological, Collegiate, beginning with the Preparatory, Grades. Its curriculum includes Music, Agriculture, Wood and Iron working, Nurse Training, Domestic Science, Business Administration and Journalism. The college has property and endowment aggregating $600,000. which includes twenty-two buildings and 700 acres of land. More than six F hundred pupils are enrolled annually under the care of forth teachers and officers. With a Negro population in Alabama alone of about a million, Talladega College is the only institution in the entire state where colored youth may receive full college training. Nearly two hundred and fifty persons have been trained here for the Christian Ministry. Three hundred have been given Normal diplomas. Over one hundred have graduated from the College Department. Sixty of our students have entered universities for added instruction and for professional training. Surely Talladega College, in furnishing leadership for the uplift of the race, is vindicating its right to be. In colleges and academies, in pulpits near and far our graduates as doctors, lawyers and experts in various lines are making large contributions toward the permanent solving of the race problem. The influence of Talladega College upon both races in the interests of peace and good will in these times of racial unrest was never more in evidence than at the present time. We bespeak the continued sympathy and material encouragement of those who are able to take part in this compelling service. TILLOTSON COLLEGE, AUSTIN, TEXAS been largely felt. The OR nearly thirty years Tillot- of the colored race. Its influence has son College has sent forth a clear and steady light. Its enrollment has never been large, not often going beyond two hundred students, but it has stood resolutely for the best in education and culture, and labored for those qualities that make a strong Christian manhood and womanhood. Through appropriations of the Association by which it was founded and under which its work is carried forward, the generosity of friends and the moderate payments of students for expenses, it has furnished a working equipment, added some buildings and striven to maintain a high position in the education Today Tillotson College stands for the same sterling qualities that have given it character from the first; but, as conditions change, so new conditions must be met by corresponding change. In close accord with leading theories in education, Industrial Training is more and more demanded; while, on the other hand, the Negro has gone forward from a period of educational childhood to one of maturer capability and development, and is prepared, in larger measure, COOPER HALL to take up higher studies. To both of these conditions Tillotson responds. In all its general courses below the collegiate grade, Industrial Training figures largely. Among the rooms of greatest interest is one in the boys' industrial building, where class by class gathers about the benches, and the careful hand, with wood and tool, follows the model that the mind has wrought; or those in Allen Hall, where busy girls, with close precision, fit the neat garments and ply the dainty needle, or, working problems of economy and health, measure the foods and cook delicious dishes. The student is taught well the useful art, but trained no less in thought and moral habit. Tillotson College offers a full collegiate education. Although the common branches, the normal and preparatory courses and its strong music and industrial departments claim IN much the greater part of its instruetion, it cherishes a larger vision, and is pushing vigorously the collegiate ideal. Thus through the years this college, founded in faith and hope and love, has taught the poor and lowly and shed afar its gentle light of consecrated knowledge, a living lesson of what a Christian school should be. No one can gather up and measure the beauty of its service, the largeness of its blessing. Yet something has been lacking. With all its vantage ground, with many cherished gifts from generous hearts, with the devo FROM THE RYDER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, N this winter season while perhaps the snow is falling and the cold wind blowing in the North, let us take a peep into one of our little home mission fields in Porto Rico. How different we will find everything there no snow, no cold weather, all warmth and sunshine and clear, blue skies. Even the cool nights would give you no idea that it is winter. In fact, there is nothing anywhere to remind us of our homes except in the homes of a comparatively few Americans and in the schools and in the churches. The Porto Ricans, and in fact all Spanish speaking people, celebrate the sixth day of January which they call Three Kings Day. It is the day when the three wise men carried their gifts to the Child Jesus. They do not have any Chritsmas tree, but they celebrate the event in other ways. The children expect to find their gifts under their beds, and all, young and old, must have a new dress for this holiday. But now let us look into the hospital at Humacao which is supported by the American Missionary Association. You know its name so well-The Ryder Memorial. Do you see that hammock which a dozen men have just brought? They walked fifteen miles over the hills carrying a very sick, aged lady, the mother of one of them. Certainly, we cannot send them back without help ing her. We find that this dear old soul, bare footed and poorly clothed, has been suffering a long time, not able to send for a doctor. She has grown worse and worse until it seemed as though she could not live, but the medical missionary finds that it is a case of hook worm disease, so common in Porto Rico, and knows that if she will take the medicine as directed after six or eight weekly visits she should be a well woman again. The men are greatly encouraged, and go away smiling. Among the crowd gathered on the clinic porch, we see a little boy whose face is fearfully swollen. We find that he lives away out in the country, and could not come alone, and his father had to work every day. Today they have come to have his bad teeth extracted which have ached so hard and kept him awake nights for a week or more. Here again is a blind woman who has learned at the hospital that she can have two cataracts removed and go back able to see. She has come with what little money she can get together, and wishes to be operated upon tomorrow, so after her son sees her comfortably fixed in a clean, white bed such as she has never laid on before, he takes her little horse back to his home. He will come in a few days to see how she is getting on, and take her to her home in ten days or two weeks. In the wards, we will find little gir's in with the women and boys in the men's wards, but we are glad to learn that those in charge are expecting soon to have a children's ward, as some of the good women of Ohio have pledged the money to build it. How happy the little sick ones will be 10 have a nice, sunny room by themselves apart from the suffering men and women, with new white cribs, small chairs, and a chance to play when they are convalescing. With all best wishes for a happy New Year. R OUR CALIFORNIA ORIENTAL MISSION FRUITAGE EV. M. Furuya was converted in our Los Angeles Japanese Mission many years ago. He returned last year to Japan, as so many other Japanese educated and trained in this country have done. He has just been sent out as a representative of the Congregational churches of Japan to the Marshall Islands which have been taken over from Germany by Japan. The missionary work in these islands was formerly under the American Board. When Germany seized control of the islands, the German missionaries took charge. Now the islands captured by Japan, the Japanese government asked the Japanese Congregational churches to continue the former missionary work of the American Board, and this energetic and efficient Christian Japanese product of the Oriental mission work of the A. M. A. in California is now in charge of the Congregational mission work in these remote Marshall Islands. THE A. M. A. TREASURY IRVING C. GAYLORD, Treasurer We give below a comparative statement of the receipts for November and for the two months of the fiscal year to November 30th. RECEIPTS TWO MONTHS TO NOVEMBER 30 Available for Regular Appropriations: Designated by Contributors for Special Objects Outside of Regular Appropriations: FORM OF A BEQUEST The "I give and bequeath the sum of. .dollars to "The American Missionary Association, incorporated by act of the Legislature of the State of New York." will should be attested by three witnesses. CONDITIONAL GIFTS Anticipated bequests are received on the Conditional Gift plan; the Association agreeing to pay an annual sum in semi-annual payments during the life of the donor or other designated person. For information, write The American Missionary Associa tion. |