AFRICA
METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSIONS
Our Monrovia Academy in Liberia -- The following
passages are taken from the report made to us by the Rev. J.W.
Home, Principal of the Academy, of the semi-annual examination
of the primary class, and refer only to the examination of the
higher classes. Mr. Home says, under date of July 4:
Wednesday, 10th, had been appointed for the examination
of the scholars of the higher department. A goodly number of
ladies and gentlemen favored us with their presence, among whom
were the president and ex-president, Hons. F. Payne, D. B. Warner,
and J. H. Chavers; Revs. J. S. Payne, S. H. Marshins, John Roberts,
A. Herring, and E. F. Williams; Her Majesty’s Consul, of
Cambridge, England; and others.
The subject matter of the examination was, in Latin, the
Reader, Caesar, and two Books of Virgil. In Greek, the Reader
and Greek Testament. In Geometry, solid and spherical, 7lh to 10th
book inclusive. In Algebra, to 9th section, Loomis. Natural
Philosophy, Physiology, Govermental Instructor, Rhetoric, General
History, Scripture Evidences, etc. In all these matters of study, the
pupils were not only closely questioned, but, whenever it was
admissible, as in the Algebra and Mathematics, problems and
examples were given, at the will of the teacher, and were solved
and demonstrated almost without a failure.
The late examination was, perhaps, the most pleasing and
promising we have held. With a single exception, all the scholars
did passably , many of them creditably, and a fewer number
admirably. I have now no fear but that we shall be able to send
forth from the school a number of well-instructed young persons;
and I pray God they may have that sobriety and earnestness of
character which will further fit them to turn to good account the
mental furnishing and ability they may have acquired. The number
in attendance, on this department, during the half year, has been
twenty seven. — Foreign Missions.
Rev. J. W. Home writes, under date of August 14th:
The hard times we have experienced and do experience,
have been regarded by some of us as intimations of the Divine