Education Through the Agency of Religious Organizations

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J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1904 - 50 páginas
 

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Página 35 - The Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society of the Methodist Episcopal church...
Página 15 - And as a third general design, the education of the common people, with the higher classes, in such a manner as suits the nature of republican institutions.
Página 9 - References to the need for schools and teachers are often found in its American correspondence. It established a school in Charleston in 1711, and sent out missionaries, " not only to preach, but to encourage the setting up of schools for children.
Página 9 - An intimation of a design entertained by the colonial government in 170310 provide a site for a college in the city of New York is given in the records of Trinity church. The scheme was favored by Bishop Berkeley. A charter was obtained for King's college in 1754. The college was organized in 1755, when Trinity church conveyed to the governors the site on which the first building stood, upon the sole condition that the president of the college should be a member of the Church of England, and that...
Página 10 - THE FOUNDERS. The germ of the University of the South is to be found in a plan formed by James Hervey Otey, first bishop of Tennessee, of establishing in his missionary field, which practically covered the present Southwestern States, "a large institution," under the control of the Episcopal Church, " in which religion should go hand in hand with every lesson of a secular character, and young men be prepared for the ministry.
Página 8 - Divinity, philosophy, languages, and other good arts and sciences — to the end that the church of Virginia may be furnished with a seminary of ministers of the gospel, and that the youth may be piously educated in good letters and manners, and that the Christian faith may be propagated among the Western Indians, to the glory of Almighty God.
Página 2 - ... [The following shall be trustees of the said college, viz. : the bishop of the diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church within whose territorial limits the said college may be located ; the superintendent and the treasurer of the Society for Promoting Religion and Learning in the State of New York; the rector of Trinity Church in the City of New York ; the president of the said college ; and three trustees, who shall be alumni of the said college and shall be elected, from time to time, by...
Página 44 - Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Presbyterian Church in the United States (South...
Página 9 - The preamble of the latter, after setting forth 'the necessity that a free school be erected for the instruction of youth in grammar and other arts and sciences, and also in the principles of the christian religion ; and that several well disposed christians by their last will had given several sums of money for the founding of a free school...
Página 48 - Methodist Episcopal Church Methodist Episcopal Church, South African Methodist Episcopal Church African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Methodist...

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