The principal of this school, Mr. A. J. Steele, has had charge of the work since January, 1874.
CHAPTER IV.
EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS.
While the Episcopal Church has not built up as many schools for the education of colored people in the South as many other denominations, the work it has accomplished is of the most thorough and systematic character.
REV. JAMES S. RUSSELL, ARCHDEACON OF VIRGINIA.
Mr. Russell's early training was under sober, illiterate Christian parents. In very early life he made a profession of religion, was baptized and joined a neighboring denominational church. His membership remained here until he had read the book of Common Prayer, when he at once changed his faith and offered himself as a candidate for the ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He at first felt that he would like to be a missionary to Africa, and his mind was so made up until it was changed by the earnest persuasions of his aged mother, whose only child he was. He has long since felt that rich fields, white and ready to be harvested, awaited him in his own native State, where his ministry is considered a success.
REV. JAMES S. RUSSELL.