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 fjf HIS INSTITUTION, founded and maintained by the Pres- 
 
 ^mf byterian Church for the education of colored youth, is loca- 
 ted in the hill country of Upper South Carolina, in the midst of 
 a dense colored population. 
 
 It is in the midst of a large group of colored churches, is 
 very central in Fairfield Presbytery, and is the only institution for 
 the Higher Education of these people within the bounds of the 
 Presbytery and along the hundred miles of Railway from Biddle 
 University to the Baptist and Methodist Institutions of Columbia. 
 
 The Primary Department is in the old buildings, erected 
 soon after the war, not far from the centre of the town, but the 
 Higher and Normal Departments, Young Ladies Ham., 
 Residence oe Teachers, and the New Building, now in process 
 of erection, are on a beautifully sloping eminence overlooking the 
 town, less than a third of a mile eastward from the Depots, and in 
 conspicuous view from the Railroads. 
 
 The grounds of the Institute are not only ample and beau- 
 tiful, but exceptionally favorable for healthful ness ; the drainage 
 is excellent, each group of buildings being on a separate gentle 
 elevation, the "Old Mansion" on the exact watershed between the 
 Broad and Catawba Rivers ; the situation is thus most favorable 
 for the collection of large numbers of youth without danger from 
 endemic diseases. 
 
A building is now in process of erection for the 
 use of the Brainerd Institute and the enlarge- 
 ment of its sphere of usefulness. I most cheerfully 
 commend the enterprise to all who can aid in its 
 erection. The Principal, Rev. Samuel Loomis, 
 has had his residence in the town of Chester, S. 
 C, and has been engaged in teaching the colored 
 people for nearly twenty years. He has been quiet 
 but energetic and persevering in his vocation, and 
 successful in organizing and supplying churches, 
 and in building up a school inferior to none in 
 the country in capacity and earnestness of his 
 corps of teachers, and in the number, good order, 
 and mental and moral training of pupils. He is a 
 most excellent citizen withal. He deserves the 
 gratitude of the colored people, and has earned 
 and possesses the esteem of all good people, white 
 or colored, that know him. 
 
 GILES J. PATTERSON, 
 State Senator from Chester County! 
 
 We heartily concur in the above : 
 
 James Hemphill, 
 
 /President of Board of Trustees of 
 \ Gen'] Assembly you. Pres. Ch'rh. 
 
 J. J. McLure, 
 
 President of Nat. Bank of Chester. 
 
 J. L. Harris, 
 
 Cashier Nat. Bank of Chester. 
 
 S. E. Babcock, M. D. 
 
 H. F. Chreitzberg, 
 
 f Pastor Methodist K. Church, South, 
 [ and Secretary So. Ca. Conference. 
 
 R. W. Sanders, 
 
 Pastor Baptist Church. 
 
 Jas. S. Moffatt, 
 
 Pastor A. R. P. Church. 
 
 George Summev, 
 
 Pastor Presbyterian Church, 
 and Managing Pvditor So." Pres. Quarterly 
 
 Cheder, S. C, March 5, 1888. 
 
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TO THE PRESENT AND FORMER STUDENTS 
 AND ALL FRIENDS OF 
 
 BRAINERD INSTITUTE, 
 
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 RRANGEMENTS have been made to eonimence a new- 
 school building to be called 
 
 - CENTENNIAL HALL.=^- 
 
 It is to be one hundred and twenty-five feet in length and 
 two and a half stories high, providing School -Rooms, Chapel, 
 Library and Reading-Room, Science-Room, and Dormitories 
 for young men. 
 
 The "Old Mansion" on the hill will then be given up wholly 
 for the Boarding Department and 
 
 ^THE YOUNG LADIES HALL,^ 
 
 Accommodations will in this way be provided for the young 
 men away from the valley across the railroad, convenient to the 
 work, more favorable to health, in more wholesome surroundings, 
 and under more immediate supervision and care. 
 
 The work of the new building is to be done mainly by Stu- 
 dent Labor. 
 
 Enough means have been obtained to warrant the commence- 
 ment of the building, but for its completion we shall need the help 
 of all who have been interested in this work in the past, and who 
 are anxious for \U prosperity in the future. 
 
 When completed, nearly one hundred and fifty young men 
 and women can find pleasant rooms and boarding accommodations 
 in the Institute buildings. 
 
 We are now opening books for contributions, and shall be 
 glad to receive subscriptions from twenty-five cents upwards. 
 
 All subscriptions will be carefully recorded in a volume and 
 preserved for future reference, and all moneys received will be de- 
 posited in the National Bank of Chester. 
 
 In making contributions, you may meet with friends who will 
 be ready to join you, and willingly add their help that Brainerd 
 Institute may become, in largely increased measure, through 
 coming years a fountain of educational, moral, and religious 
 influence. 
 
 S. LOOMIS, Principal. 
 Chester, S. C, Feb. 14, 1888. 
 
The taste and skill of the Teachers and .students of the Indus- 
 trial Department, in Landscape Gardening, find abundant scope in 
 ornamenting and beautifying the grounds, with vegetable garden, 
 vineyard, orchard, and lawn, and about a fourth of a mile of car- 
 riage ways and walks, which are being lined with shrubbery, roses, 
 chrysanthemums, and other floral decorations. 
 
 The Institute has a corps of eight teachers well fitted and 
 qualified for their several spheres of labor. 
 
 The educational work the Institittk aims to accomplish is 
 
 INDUSTRIAL, 
 
 through the workshop, on the grounds, and in the domestic work 
 of the Boarding and Young Ladies Department : 
 
 NORMAL, 
 
 preparing teachers for the Public Schools of the country ; 
 
 SCIENTIFIC, 
 
 with extended courses in the natural sciences, illustrated with mi- 
 croscope and teleseope, and from extensive lithological, geologic- 
 al, mineralogieal and botanical collections, much attention being 
 also given to hygienic study and training; 
 
 BIBLICAL, 
 
 with daily studies for the moulding of character, and special train- 
 ing for Christian service ; 
 
 PRACTICAL, 
 
 bv preparing for the actual duties of the actual spheres of life and 
 effort. 
 
 A new building, one hundred and twenty-five feet in length, 
 and two and a half stories high, with School Rooms, Chapel 
 Library, Reading-Room, Science-Room, and Dormitories for 
 young men, is being erected mainly by student labor. 
 
 The last year lias been one of marked prosperity, the entire 
 enrollment being somewhat above three hundred, over eighty in 
 
attendance from abroad, and about sixty boarding in the build- 
 ings ; the health of the scholars in the main is excellent ; there 
 has been much devotion to study and all matters of improve- 
 ment ; gracious reviving? followed the "Day of Prayer" and num- 
 bers were gathered into the fold of Christ. 
 
 Chester is easily accessible by railroad from every direction. 
 
 That the future of Bkainehd Institute may have through 
 many generations a career marked distinguishingly and preemi- 
 nently by Biblical and Spiritual training, by an unceasing suc- 
 cession of the reviving showers of Heavenly grace — the mantle of 
 David Bkainerd resting on the laborers, and the Master's spirit 
 animating inspiring and guiding all the work — is the hope and 
 prayer of those who have been permitted to labor in its early his- 
 tory, but are now drawing near the close of their lengthy, toilsome, 
 sometimes discouraging hut often joyous service. 
 
 5. LOOMIS, Principal. 
 Mai:ch 10, 1888.