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The church life of New York still flowed in sluggish currents. After 190 years, from 1648, when the first appeal for a minister was sent to Amsterdam, to 1838, our enrollment consisted of two congregations, the German-English church of St. Matthew, and the English church of St. James. In the Nineteenth Century 1839-1865 Immigration began to assume large proportions.
In the enrollment of the bill making appropriations for sundry civil expenses, at the last session of Congress, that portion which provided for the continuation of the Hot Springs Commission was omitted.
No more laudable and meritorious service can be rendered the Cause of God, at the present hour, than a successful effort to enhance the diversity of the members of the American Bahá’í community by swelling the ranks of the Faith through the enrollment of the members of these races.
This took the form, for Northerners, of a guerilla scare, and an order was promptly issued for the enrollment of all the able-bodied men in the ten wards as militia, subject to service in the state, to exterminate the roving bands. Whereupon her Britannic Majesty became extremely popular, even with some who claimed for a birthplace the Emerald Isle.
At this writing, in May, 1918, we number in Greater New York 160 churches with an enrollment of sixty thousand communicant members. At the close of the nineteenth century, in 1898, we had 90 churches with 43,691 communicants. The rate of increase in twenty years was 35 per cent., not very large but sufficiently so to awaken favorable comment from Dr.
Some of the men claimed that they were entitled to their discharge in ninety days from the time of enrollment, whereas the muster-roll read ninety days from the date of muster-in. One day, Colonel Corcoran explained this matter to me. I advised him to reduce the facts to writing, and that I would submit it to the War Department for an authoritative decision.
This school has had, for the years 1904-6, only one Protestant child, in an enrollment of twenty to thirty. The other school-districts are maintained "in the old back-country way," their attendance is small and no effort is made to raise the standard of teaching. It has been accepted for generations among the authoritative leaders on Quaker Hill that "higher education was not good for the poor."
Allotments have been made and patents issued to 5,900 Indians under the present Secretary and Commissioner, and 7,600 additional allotments have been made for which patents are now in process of preparation. The school attendance of Indian children has been increased during that time over 13 per cent, the enrollment for 1892 being nearly 20,000.
I will do so, but must stipulate that I am to be free to choose the first council myself. Is that agreed?" A roar of assent answered him. "Very well, gentlemen. I shall request you to vacate the hall. In a short time the books will be open for enrollment." He turned and reentered the anteroom followed by the others. In so doing he came face to face with the intruders.
In the meantime, our enrollment was constantly increasing and new teachers and industries were being added from year to year. My campaign in the North during the summer of 1899 was made alone, just as the previous one had been. I got much needed experience during this summer.
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