PAINE c-> INSTITUTE,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SODTH,
: A"ND :
THE COLORED METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
I IsT AMERICA.
REV. GEO. WMS. WALKER, A. M., President.
REV. W. C. DAVIS, Professor.
MISS SAL1.IE G. DAVIS, Professor.
The Fall Term will open first Monday in October
(Oct. 3th), 1885, and close the last of January.
The Spring Term will begin February 1st, and close
June 9th, 18S0.
-4 The Object of Paine Institute.^
" The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in
America, organized by us a decade ago, at the request
of the remnant of our Colored Membership, has
maintained its integrity and made some progress.
They are in great need offacilities for providing themselves
with suitable Pastors and Teachers of their own race.
Whatever assistance we_can.render them in this respect
especially, will be well bestowed, and we incite to this
subject your favorable consideration."—(Bishop's ad¬
dress to last General Conference of the M. E. Church,
South.)
To meet this "great need" and thus carry out the
provision introduced by the General Conference of
1882, Paine Institute was organized.
In our struggle to get under headway, we have
hitherto admitted all applicants, who were sufficiently
advanced, no matter what object they had in view,
while our one purpose is to prepare Pastors and
Teachers of their own race.
Situation. 4-
After due deliberation, Bishop Pierce, acting for
the M. E. Church South, in counsel with the Bishops
of the C. M. E. Church in America, selected the City
of Augusta, Ga., as being a central point ready of
access to large populations in Georgia, South Caro¬
lina and Alabama.
The health of the City is excellent, and the
advantages for such a school are many. We have had
to occupy rented rooms. There is very desirable
property in the suburbs that would give us just the
home and school buildings we need to carry out fully
the intention of the school. All the conveniences of
a large City are at the command of the school.
-f Board. 4-
There is no Boarding Department in the schools
owing to our lack of buildings. Board can be had in
private families in the City from six to ten dollars per
month. Provision has been made for eight or ten
boarders at seven dollars per month in a desirable
home, which will be under the general oversight of
the Faculty. Parties wishing to secure board in this
home will communicate with Bishop L. H. Holsey,
Augusta, Ga. Wherever pupils may board, their con¬
duct in the home will be taken into consideration with
the conduct in school, and disobedience to the home
authority will be dealt with, after due consideration,
as the same offence in the school.
-f Course of Study.
Owing to the peculiar disadvantages connected
with the thorough organization of our work, we have
deemed it best not to make out a full curriculum.
Suffice it to state here that we hold as a requirement
for entrance that the pupil shall have studied History
of the United States; Fourth Reader; Arithmetic
(through Fractions); English Grammar; Spelling;
Writing. Pupils are thoroughly prepared for their
work, and advantages are given them of putting into
practice the principles of teaching and conducting
schools. From three to four years, pupils, if at all
diligent, may graduate from our Normal Department.
Our Theological Department will develop as we
become better circumstanced. At present, without the
proper buildings, there is great trouble in carrying out
our full purpose.
General Remarks. 4-
Paine Institute has gone through nearly two years.
Opened in January, 1884, it has grown upon the at¬
tention and hearts of our patrons. Friends have come
to our aid. Their sympathy and money has
helped us. Our great need is money. "NVe purpose to
conduct the school under the gentlemanly principles
as heretofore, assured that the refining process of Chris¬
tian education does tell upon the the character of our
pupils, and that we are thus reaching out after the
masses who sit in the darkness of ignorance and sin in
our immediate midst. It is very gratifying to read
from a colored man's editorial in the Georgia Baptist:
" We have watched with deep interest the movement
in the M. E. Church, South, out of which has come
the Paine Institute, a school organized at Augusta,
two years ago, for the education of colored youths.
That such a religious body, composed largely of slave¬
holders in the past, should at this early day of freedom
undertake such a work, giving not only of their
means for its support, but also putting at its head
some of the best minds of their own number, is an
illustration of the power of the grace ol God in the
human heart that cannot be gainsaid, and that must
cast a beam of cheering hope on the future of our
common country. To every lover of ihe Lord Jesus
Christ, to every lover of humanity, this must be one
of the signs of promise foretelling future. good-will
and peace among all races in our Southern land."