Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ortunity for indus-trial training. Every student is requiredto do manual work four hours a day,which is an excellent piece of routine.Probably the results would be more bene-ficial to the students if two hours a daywere spent in shop-work, but the schoolhas no equipment for this. At the time of my visit, Cuttingtonhad ninety-eight boarding pupils andtwelve transients; of the boarders, sixty-five were native African boys and thirty-three were Americo-Liberians. Most of lege fashion. I was impressed with thefact that both were native Greboes. The present occupation of the twenty-!four boys who have left the institutionduring the last two years is given byPrincipal Dunbar as follows: Five areopening farms on the Cavalla Hiver;four are apprentices (carpentry 2, tailor-ing 1, printing 1); two are small mer-chants ; two are clerks; five are attendingother schools; one is at sea, and five havebeen lost sight of. So far as observation goes, the facultyis quite efficient, though it is possible
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THE GRAVES OF AMERICAN MISSIONARIES WHO DIED AT MONROVIA the natives are from the Grebo tribe, inwhose, district the school is located.Strictly speaking, there was only onepupil in the divinity department. The physical, moral and religiousstanding of the Cuttington boys is verygratifying. On the occasion of mysecond visit to the institution, I wit-nessed the confirmation of twenty-sixboys and learned that the total numberof communicants in the school is noweighty-one. At this time also, certificatesof proficiency were given to two youngmen who had reached the end of a nine-year course. They were manly boys anddelivered their orations in the usual col- that the introduction of one or twoAmericans might improve things. Thereare three Americo-Liberians, three na-tives, and one South American negro inthe faculty. The Principal, the Rev. J. P.Dunbar, is one of the most capable andmost energetic men in Liberia. He hasthe American temperament and the rateof progress is not rapid enough to su

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