John Mason Peck And One Hundred Years of Home Missions 1817 1917
John Mason Peck And One Hundred Years of Home Missions 1817 1917
Austen Kennedy De Blois
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Charles a year or two before and had opened an institution of somewhat higher grade than the ordinary district school. This he was willing to hand over to the company of men who should con- stitute the governing body of the new Seminary and boarding- school which it was proposed to establish. On the 8th of April Mr. Peck took up the work at his new location, while his former colleague continued the various activities which had been set in motion in St. Louis. The new school was named "St. Charl...es Academy" and was conducted jointly by Peck and Craig. The number of pupils soon increased to forty. Mr. Peck was a preacher, a traveller, a missionary, an executive; but he disliked the confinement and routine of the Page 42 classroom. In speaking of tliis period in his life, he says: "Attendance in school, domestic affairs, and cultivating a gar- den kept me busily employed, and in a state of mind that was a poor qualification for a preacher of Christ. " And again : "Teaching school is no more a Gospel service than plowing corn.
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