Year book of the session of the East Maine Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Volume 55-61

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. 1902 Excerpt: ...life and of our free institutions. Whatever is dear or valuable to us in our liberties and our possessions civil, political, and religious, makes appeal to us for fidelity in this cause. This work is as yet only in its initial stage, yet so far as it has proceeded its accomplishment is of incalculable value and of bright and hopeful augury. With such schools, collegiate and academic, as Gammon, Walden, Claflin, Clark, Wiley, New Orleans, Rust, Morgan, Cookman, Alexandria, Haven, Grant, Fort Worth, Kingsley, Mallalieu, and others too numerous even for mention here; with such teachers and leaders as Adkinson, Kumler, I-'union. Knight, Dozan, Foster, Lovinggood, and their colleagues; and with the multitude looking with eager eyes to these institutions and teachers, and the multitudes within their gates, we feel we have occasion for hope and courage and an enlarged benevolence. The work of our church tuid of this society will not be fully accomplished till Ignorance, the foe of free institutions is banished; till the negro and the white man in the south have ceased to confound license with liberty; till excess and violence in the criminal assaults upon human life and the virtue of womanhood shall be no more; till black and white can read and writo their ballots, casting them as Freedmen should, and not be as as "dumb driven cattle" in the political shambles; till thny shall be no more debauched and distressed by strong drink and by penury; until they are in the true sense redeemed from bondage, in that liberty wherewith Christ makes us free, and exalted to that noble civilization which has the stamp and brand of the Eternal God upon it. Our Educational and Evangelical work is approved and endorsed by some of the best and wisest men in the South. Bisho...