Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 25—According to Dr. J. W. Perry, Home Mission Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, that denomination directly and indirectly has contributed and secured for the educational program of the Colored Methodist Church nearly $700,000 in the last four years.
Among the principal items in the budget have been the erection and equipment of a building for Texas College at Tyler, at a cost of $125,000; another with its equipment costing $10,000 at Haygood College, Ark., a building worth $40,000 at Boley, Okla., and one worth $100,000 at the Industrial Institute, Holly Springs, Miss; a dormitory worth $60,000 and a $50,000 domestic science building at Paine College, Atlanta, Ga., and the projection of a $125,000 science building for Lane College, Jackson, Tenn., besides $30,000 in endowment for the same institution.
In commenting on this assistance rendered by the M.E. Church, South, which is the mother church of the C.M.E. Denomination, Dr. Perry says: “Although our help to our colored brethren in their educational program has aggregated much more than half a million dollars in the past four years, we are not expending for them anything approximating what the church expended for the missions to the slaves before the Civil War, in proportion to its strength and ability at that time. The expenditure was $160,000 annually. The meaning of all this our people should realize. We cannot minister to Africa and neglect the people of the same blood in America. The work we do for them here makes more effective our ministry in every foreign mission field.”
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1926
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