MONROVIA
Letter from Rev. John Day.
The following refers to the High School recently opened in
Monrovia. The books referred to have been sent. We sincerely
hope that the endeavors of our brother may result in the large
benefits contemplated by him. We have confidence in the
enterprise.
It is of very great importance to the future success of our
efforts to evangelize Western Africa that we shall educate such of
the youths of Liberia as can be brought under our influence, both
natives and colonists. And we are not without hope that a strong
and affective influence will be exerted through this school in the
Yoruban Mission. Indeed, all our missions in Africa must react
beneficially upon each other.
You are aware that our school is in operation, although
under many inconveniences. First, want of books: Second, the
want of kitchen, place for mission stores, room for the girls’
school, and a dining room: Third, no appropriation for board this
year: Fourth, no instruction with regard to the number or class of
students who are to be boarded: And Fifth, I have written for too
small an appropriation to answer the noble purposes for which this
institution is designed. I should have had more confidence in the
liberality of the South Baptists, and not have stifled this child, our
only hope, in its birth.
I have had this quarter Mr. Burk, J. Stansbury, T. J. Day, a
native youth, (baptist,) a young man, the son of an enthusiastic
Baptist man, who started to Jerusalem by land, and went about a
thousand miles interior, and died, leaving his son, whom the
English Governor at Cape Coast, sent to Liberia, whose name is
William Mathews; and a young Congo preacher, whom I board.
The Commission
February 1857
p. 247
