NEWS: Texas College, Texas Christian Advocate, 1897-1900 - Smith County, TX Contributed by Vicki Betts 11 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 19, 1897, p. 3, c. 2-3 TEXAS COLLEGE. No doubt the readers of the Advocate are aware of the struggle Texas Conferences of the C. M. E. Church in Texas are now undergoing to erect an institution of learning within the reach of our membership in Texas. Paine is too far away to do us any good. It will cost the girl or boy one year's schooling to get to the school. Thus the necessity of erecting a school at home (in Texas). The membership in Texas are paying into the treasuries of other denominations from $5000 to $40,000 annually. Some of our girls and boys, too, are in the Catholic school at Houston. We must educate them somewhere. We can not exist well without a school in Texas. We have moved in that direction; secured 101˝ acres of land adjacent to the city of Tyler, Texas, valued at $8000 or $10,000, with few small buildings upon it. All the indebtedness, except $1200 yet due, payable in from one to two years and due January, 1898, and May 14, 1899. We have just closed the third term, the best in the history of the school. We can not accommodate our membership with the room we have. We desire to erect a girls' dormitory, 96x36x28 feet, with chapel 36x50; dining-hall, 22x28; two recitation rooms, 14x18, upstairs for the girls' dormitory. We need financial aid and ripe experience; therefore we have decided to have an advisory board of some of the leading members of the M. E. Church, South, to assist us both in building and planning for the permanent organization or planting Texas College at Tyler, Texas. Several of the brethren have consented to act as above outlined. Several of the District Conferences have taken up the matter, discussed and resoluted, or will memorialize the ensuing Annual Conferences upon this subject. We pray and trust God that the leaders in Texas Methodism of the M. E. Church will move in this direction. Brethren, we need your advice and financial aid. Who will take up the subject and help us carry it to victory's gate? I am yours in the cause of Christ, the race and Texas College, C. M. E. Church in America, C. F. MOORE, Sec. Educational Board, Commissioner Texas College, Texas Conferences, C. M. Church in America. -------------------------------------------------------- TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, December 23, 1897, p. 10, c. 2 (East Texas Conference) Rev. C. F. Moore, of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America, addressed the conference in the interest of Texas College, located in Tyler, Texas. The Bishop followed him in a brief exhortation, wherein he indorsed the institution and urged the brethren to assist it. Rev. D. F. C. Timmons superintended the collection which followed. We are gratified to know that our Texas people are taking a deep interest in the educational and spiritual interests of the colored people ------------------------------------------------- TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, May 5, 1898, p. 7, c. 1 Negro College—This is an enterprise started in the city of Tyler, Texas, under the auspices of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in Texas. Rev. C. F. Moore is its Commissioner and Secretary. All the late conferences of the M. E. church, south, in the State, were visited by colored representatives of this institution. Calls for money were made, eliciting noble responses. Pivoted on the success of this college depends much of the hope for ennobling the colored race in Texas. It deserves our sympathy. Its promoters ought to, and must have, the hearty co-operation of the M. E. Church, South, in Texas. --------------------------------------------------------- TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 22, 1898, p. 16, c. 1 TEXAS COLLEGE. The illness of Mrs. Moore prevented me from giving a synopsis of our Texas College project. Our building is completed and ready to be furnished. Bro. Mulkey has sent in $35.00, or so, to furnish a room. Are there not others among the readers of the Advocate who will assist me in furnishing fifteen of the rooms in Texas College? Twenty-five dollars will furnish a room. Those who furnish a room will have their names printed over the transom of the door. Will not some minister secure a sufficient amount from his congregation to furnish a room? If any one wishes to contribute to this furnishing fund, you may send it to Dr. T. R. Pierce, Dallas, Texas. We visited a few of the District Conferences of the great M. E. Church, in Texas. We met a warm reception at the Sulphur Springs District Conference. Bro. Johnson introduced us to that great and good man, Dr. Fladger, the gifted and efficient presiding elder. The brethren and sisters donated $12.30. Pittsburg was our next place. Bro. Smith and his brethren secured for us and Texas College $6.25. On to Athens we went. The venerable and fatherly Dr. John Adams, presided in this the Tyler District Conference. Drs. Greathouse, Mitchell and Bro. Adams made speeches in the interest of Texas College. Bro. Adams urged and urged again his people to take care of Texas College. Bro. Adams subscribed $5, to be paid October 1, 1898, on furnishing rooms and dining-hall. His people gave us $10.90. The Paris District gave us, through Dr. Jamison, $17. We have ordered the furniture to furnish the girls' dormitory. We will need some assistance from the readers of the Advocate. Our school will open on the 5th of October; boarding hall on the 3d. We raised this summer about $800. C. F. MOORE, Financial Agent Texas College, Texas Conference.