Our accounts of churches, clergy and schools are defective, but
show the following significant facts:
The clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Liberia are nearly
all Liberian citizens, serving as missionaries of the Methodist
Missionary Society in the United States. The last Report of that
Society gives the names of fifteen missionaries, having in charge
nine circuits, in which are 882 members in full communion, and 235
probationers; total, 1,117. They have 20 Sabbath Schools, with 114
officers and teachers, 810 scholars, and 507 volumes in their
libraries. They have a Manual Labor School and Female Academy. The
number of Day Schools is not reported; but seven of the
missionaries are reported as superintendents of schools, and the
same number have under their charge several "native towns," in some
of which there are schools. The late superintendent of the missions
writes:--
"It appears plain to my mind, that nothing can now retard the
progress of our missions in this land, unless it be the want of a
good high school, in which to rear up an abundant supply of well
qualified teachers, to supply, as they shall rapidly increase in
number, all your schools.
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