- Foreword
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- Compilation Procedural Style
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- 1—No Colonizing
- 2—The Lord Led
- 3—Let Not Means Be Diverted
- 4—Self-Supporting
- 5—Men Who Will Catch the Notes
- 6—Hanging in the Balance
- 7—My Soul Is Stirred
- 8—Rise Up
- 9—Much Improved
- 10—Make the School a Success
- 11—Bricks Cannot Be Made Without Straw
- 12—Poverty-stricken Condition
- 13—The Work Must Go Forward
- 14—In the Providence of God
- 15—Self-Denial Boxes
- 16—A Large Work Done
- 17—Must Have Help
- 18—A Special Work
- 19—Greatly in Need of Help
- 20—God Has Not Left Them
- 21—Tell About the Huntsville School
- 22—I Am Glad I Can Do This Much
- 23—Do Our Very Best
- 24—An Object Lesson
- 25—A Great Work To Be Accomplished
- 26—Do Not Lose Interest
- 27—A Very Different Showing
- 28—A Deep Interest
- 29—An Appeal
- 30—A Long Delay
- 31—Huntsville School Must Be Finished
- 32—A Much Broader Work
- 33—Redeem the Time
- 34—A Blessed Place
- 35—A Place of Special Interest
- 36—A Special and Important Work
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- 1—The Work in Graysville and Huntsville
- 2—Our Duty Toward the Huntsville School
- 3—An Opportunity to Help a Needy Cause
- 4—Will You Help?
- 5—The Work Among the Colored People
- 6—The Lord Loveth a Cheerful Giver
- 7—A Message to Teachers
- 8—Medical Missionary Work Among the Colored People of the South
- 9—Left for Years
- 10—The Huntsville School
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- 1—All It Should Be
- 2—Spared for Huntsville
- 3—Yet Be a Success
- 4—We Shall Go to Huntsville
- 5—Love and Mercy
- 6—A Man Is Needed
- 7—Change for the Better
- 8—The Advancement of the Huntsville School
- 9—Dear Friend
- 10—Blossom as a Rose
- 11—Do All I Can
- 12—Back a Year
- 13—A Precious Treasure
- 14—A Holy Influence
- 15—The Right Thing Is Being Done
- 16—Blend Together
- 17—A Deep Interest in the Huntsville School
- 18—Especial Help
- 19—The Big Fund
- 20—Pleased Indeed
- 21—Establish Their Work
- 22—You Have Done Well
- 23—We Have Just Arrived in Huntsville
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Key Places
Graysville, Tennessee: This small country town was where George A. Colcord opened a Seventh-day Adventist school in 1891. Then a boarding academy with an adjacent sanitarium, Graysville Academy would move to property east of Chattanooga and become Southern Junior College, then Southern Missionary College, and finally Southern Adventist University. This area was a crucial spot in the early days of the movement in the training of Adventist workers. It is centrally located, roughly one hundred miles from both Nashville and Huntsville.PCO iii.1
Huntsville, Alabama: The home of the Oakwood educational institution, the first Seventh-day Adventist higher education institution for African Americans. Huntsville, Alabama, is a city that has historically been noted for being progressive in its racial views and, more recently, for its technological advancement. It was/is an ideal location for the Oakwood educational enterprise. Huntsville, situated in the northern part of Alabama, is the southern part of the Nashville-Huntsville-Graysville triangle.PCO iii.2
Madison, Tennessee: Located ten miles northeast of Nashville, Madison was an important spot in early Southern Seventh-day Adventism. The Madison property (often referred to as the Madison Farm) was purchased in 1904 with the financial assistance of Nellie Druillard and the prophetic vision of Ellen White. Spearheaded by Edward A. Sutherland and Percy T. Magan, the Madison contingent would spawn a collection of schools, hospitals, industries and churches around the South.PCO iii.3
Nashville, Tennessee: The capital of Tennessee, Nashville was the hub of the burgeoning Southern work in the Seventh-day Adventist movement. Home of the first black congregation, at Edgefield Junction, Nashville would also later become home to two SDA conferences (Gulf States Conference and South Central Conference) and the first SDA hospital for blacks (Riverside Sanitarium). A major factor in the location of schools at Huntsville and Graysville was their proximity to Nashville.PCO iii.4