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Title: Missionary Visitor, The (1905)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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or courage can venture. Gocarry aid to the poverty-stricken all overthe land. I would rather have the wid- ows and orphans of my dead country-men whom I had clothed and fed towhom I had broken the Bread of Life,weep over my grave when I am gonethan to have the booming of cannonsor the waving of banners. Press on, betrue to yourself. Be true to yourchurch. Be true to your God. A Visit to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute,Tuskegee, Alabama. By H. C. Early. Number One. It was my good fortune to make arecent visit to the Tuskegee Normal andIndustrial Institute, the Booker T.Washington school as you know it, tostudy its work for suggestions thatmight be helpful to the General Mission-ary and Tract Committee in inaugurat- ing work of the same kind among thenegroes of the South, and I wish toshare my observations with the readersof the Visitor. And doubly so, sinceour people, after a careful study of thenegro problem, are anxious to see mis-sion work, based on the educational and
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Panoramic View of the Institute Grounds and Buildings. 392 THE MISSIONARY VISITOR (July, 1905 industrial plan, commenced among thecolored people. Location.—Tuskegee, a small town ofabout 2,500 people, the county seat ofMacon county, forty miles east of Mont-gomery, and one hundred and thirty-sixmiles west of Atlanta, Ga., is one of themost beautiful towns of Alabama. TheInstitute is about a mile from the town.Its site overlooks the surrounding coun-try for some distance, which makes itbeautiful for location. For the sake ofconvenience to the Institute the railroadhas been extended from the town to itsgrounds. When Established.—The Institute wasestablished under the name of the Tus-kegee Normal School by an act of theAlabama legislature, session of 1880, ap-propriating two thousand dollars for thepurposes of the institution. In 1883 theappropriation was increased to threethousand dollars, which has been madeyear after year since, and in 1893 it wasincorporated under the name of the

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