This is to Certify, That has passed the usual course of study in English and other branches prescribed in the MONROVIA ACADEMY, and, on repeated examinations before the Committee, has been found competent therein! TEACHERS IN PREPARATION. The Board clearly foresaw, several years ago, that the expansion of our educational interests in Liberia, as indicated by the permanent buildings which were about to be erected, would draw after it the necessity to provide teachers. In pursuance of this, the General Missionary Committee has, for several years past, given the African Committee of the Board a credit of $1,500 a year for the education of select youth, of both sexes, for teachers. In the administration of this fund the African Committee named a committee in Liberia to select such youth there and place them in Monrovia Seminary, with the appro bation of the principal, and gave this committee the right to appropriate $750 toward the support of such selected youth. The remainder of the $1,500, namely, $750, the committee held in their hands, to educate such promising colored youth as they could select at home for this purpose. The results of this wise and beneficent policy have not been so great as could be desired, and yet may have been as great as we ought to have expected under the circumstances. Several have been so far advanced under Brother Horne's instruction as to be able to render service in our mission seminaries. The committee at home has been at the expense of educating Miss L. E. Hazard, at Wilbraham, and has sent her to Liberia, to assist Sister Kilpatrick. They have also, and have had for some time, at the charge of the Missionary Society, two young men in course of collegiate education, from whom they expect good service in our seminaries in Liberia. Thus the Church may see that the Missionary Society has endeavored to promote the great interests of religion and education on the western coast of Africa, and thus spread the light of the glory of the Gospel of God into that dark domain of barbarism. Having exhibited, at the commencement of this report, the missionary force, and indicated the educational force also, we reprint the latest reliable statistical information from the Churches themselves: usual course of study in English and other branches prescribed in the MONROVIA ACADEMY, and, on repeated examinations before the Committee, has been found competent therein! TEACHERS IN PREPARATION. The Board clearly foresaw, several years ago, that the expansion of our educational interests in Liberia, as indicated by the permanent buildings which were about to be erected, would draw after it the necessity to provide teachers. In pursuance of this, the General Missionary Committee has, for several years past, given the African Committee of the Board a credit of $1,500 a year for the education of select youth, of both sexes, for teachers. In the administration of this fund the African Committee named a committee in Liberia to select such youth there and place them in Monrovia Seminary, with the appro bation of the principal, and gave this committee the right to appropriate $750 toward the support of such selected youth. The remainder of the $1,500, namely, $750, the committee held in their hands, to educate such promising colored youth as they could select at home for this purpose. The results of this wise and beneficent policy have not been so great as could be desired, and yet may have been as great as we ought to have expected under the circumstances. Several have been so far advanced under Brother Horne's instruction as to be able to render service in our mission seminaries. The committee at home has been at the expense of educating Miss L. E. Hazard, at Wilbraham, and has sent her to Liberia, to assist Sister Kilpatrick. They have also, and have had for some time, at the charge of the Missionary Society, two young men in course of collegiate education, from whom they expect good service in our seminaries in Liberia. Thus the Church may see that the Missionary Society has endeavored to promote the great interests of religion and education on the western coast of Africa, and thus spread the light of the glory of the Gospel of God into that dark domain of barbarism. Having exhibited, at the commencement of this report, the missionary force, and indicated the educational force also, we reprint the latest reliable statistical information from the Churches themselves : |