Educational Adaptations: Report of Ten Years' Work of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1910-1920 - Couverture souple
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Caroline Phelps Stokes was born in New York, December 4, 1854, at Clifton Cottage on the East River near 30th Street. During her youth the nation was rapidly undergoing changes, and the city in which she was born was fast becoming the metropolis of the country. Slavery was soon after abolished, and the freedmen required instruction and help in becoming citizens. The poor of New York were in sore need of better housing conditions. Miss Stokes ancestors were English and Puritan; among them were men eminent for ability and Christian character. Her grandfather, Thomas Stokes, was born in London, December 13, 1765. In his diary he writes: United with the Countess of Huntingdon Chapel in the Mulberry Garden, near Ratcliffe Highway, about 1784. Soon after felt very anxious that the gospel might be sent to the heathen and commenced a correspondence with several on the subject. The object was presented to the view of churches in England, Scotland, Wales, through the medium of the Evangelical Magazine, a periodical got up for that express purpose. Profits to the widows of deceased ministers. This effort resulted in the formation of the London Missionary Society in September, 1795, at the Castle Falcon, A ldersgate St., London. Met with .. .R evs. Thomas Haweis, Matthew Wilkes, Rowland Hill, and many others, ministers and laymen, to consider propriety of forming missionary society for sending the gospel to the heathen. .. .R ecorded my name .. .among the first members of this new society, and gave a donation of two guineas. .. .S hip Duff was purchased, twenty-seven missionaries and mechanics were set apart. .. .S pent part of the day with them on board. .. .R esolved to endeavor to obey His commands who said, Go into (all) the world and preach the gospel, to every creature. In 1786, united in forming a society to give gratuitous instruction to poor children belonging
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