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The Work in the South

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 7, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 36.

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The Work in the South

By J. S. WASHBURN.

THE donations received for the work in the South are not large as yet. The fund is only fairly started. All will remember that it was several months before many and large donations were received on the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund, but we are glad to see the Southern fund started, and trust it will go on to an overflow as in the case of the Memorial Church Fund and the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund.
It is certainly of first importance that the work should be well established in Nashville. This is a city of one hundred and twenty-five thousand people, and is one of the most important educational centers of the South. The Vanderbilt University, founded here by the first Cornelius Vanderbilt, has about one hundred instructors. It is a school of science, art, medicine, law, divinity, etc.
The Fisk University, located here, also is one of the most important schools for the colored people in the world. There are generally five hundred or more colored students every year, taught by white teachers. One of the college buildings, which is one of the finest structures in the city, was built by the earnings of the famous Fisk jubilee singers, who have sung before the royal families of Europe, and, in fact, over all the world.
The great University of Nashville now embraces several colleges. Among these is the Peabody college for teachers, founded by the famous millionaire philanthropist, George Peabody. The attendance of those actually preparing to teach exceeds six hundred or usually about eight hundred students.
In this great Southern educational center it is certainly the will of the Lord that the greatest educational work in the world, that of the third angel's message, should be established in a way that will appeal to men and women of intelligence and education. Only a beginning has been made. Our evangelical and medical work must be given the means to reach the people of this great center for the South. Who will continue to help?
J. S. WASHBURN.