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Show EDUCATING THE NEGRO PREACHERS OF THE SOUTH NEW YORK, Dec. 15. Fifteen clergymen clergy-men and elders Interested In the work of educating . the Southern negro preacher, gave a dinner here to . the Rev. S. G. Miller, superintendent of the John Martin fund work. This fund, which approximates 42,000,000, is to be-used be-used for educating negro clergymen of all denominations. It Is the ultimate intention to bring the work to a focus In a Chautauqua for Southern negroes. The Rev. Mr. Miller has been organizing organ-izing Bible institutes for a year. He has completed the work In Arkansas and made a beginning In Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. "We have 1000 students now," he said, "and hope to have 30,000 before we are through. The clergymen are eager to learn, and they pass the knowlp edge .straight onto their congregations. The people of the South are with us; they approve of this method of uplifting uplift-ing the negro. "We have had some difficulty with interdenominational prejudice, but we are getting around that. It is the greatest work for the negro undertaken i since emancipation." |