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George A. Irwin
No full textGeorge A. Irwin, superintendent of the Southern Region at the time was a member of the three-man committee team that purchased land for the Huntsville school. He became the President of the General Conference in 1897-1901.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/birth-of-oakwood-1896-gallery/1002/thumbnail.jp
James Edson White
No full textJames Edson White was the eldest son of James and Ellen White. Edson White began an educational program for Negro children and their elders, using only the meager resources he and his friends had at their command. Their Morning Star mission, however, laid the groundwork for most of the educational. medical, evangelistic, and publishing work throughout the South.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/morning-star-oakwood-industrial-school-gallery/1007/thumbnail.jp
Edson and Ellen White
No full textEdson White, the son of Mrs. Ellen White was the captain and owner of the missionary ship the Morning Star. Ellen G. White, a messager of the Lord, and one of the main founders who was instrumental in the development of Oakwood Industrial School laid a strong foundation for God\u27s work to be accomplished.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/birth-of-oakwood-1896-gallery/1003/thumbnail.jp
The Morning Star Chapel
No full textInside the Morning Star Boat on the main cabin adjoined to the main sitting room and the library was the chapel. The chapel was used for religious services, services when the missionaries were doing pioneer work, religious services away from their permanent chapels and school rooms. By using folding chairs this chapel had a seating capacity of seventy-five.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/morning-star-oakwood-industrial-school-gallery/1003/thumbnail.jp
Morning Star Bell
No full textEdson bought three 300-pound bells for $20.00 and placed one bell on the Morning Star Steamboat, one bell in the Morning Star SDA Church which he built, and the other bell he placed in the Yazoo SDA Church (Lintonia Chapel).
The bell served as a general invitation to all within hearing distance to come to the boat and be taught how to read and write and to learn of Jesus\u27 love to them. Because of the bell\u27s cordial tones, the bell stirred up curiosity and it made one feel that he or she was welcomed on the boat. The bell gave direction to the listener as to where the event was taking place.
Years later Mrs. Clara Peterson-Rock acquired the bell through the efforts of Elder C. E. Dudley, and Mr. Adell Warren, and the bell was housed in the Oakwood University (College) Museum in the late 1970s. Elder C. E. Dudley discovered the bell under the steps to the basement of the Second Morning Star SDA Church.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/morning-star-oakwood-industrial-school-gallery/1008/thumbnail.jp
The Morning Star Steamer
No full textOn January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln, which supposedly ended 244 years of African slavery in the United States. At that time, there were 4,500,000 colored people in the United States. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was issued the ugly shadows and reminders of slavery continue to remain over the entire nation, especially in the South.
The Seventh-day Adventists Church Organization had established its General Conference headquarters in 1863 in Battle Creek, Michigan. Ellen G. White, one of the Church’s founders and leaders urged the leaders within the church to do something for the Blacks in the South. Unfortunately, from 1863 to 1895 the General Conference delayed their plan of action.
In the Adventists efforts to educate the Blacks in the South there was one man by the name of James Edson White, the son of Ellen G. White who took it upon himself to answer the call. In 1895, after having built a 72\u27 ship in Michigan, he and W. O. Palmer, his associate shipbuilder, traveled down the Mississippi River and docked at Vicksburg, Mississippi. It was there in Vicksburg, Mississippi where the ship was named Morning Star , which became the first Seventh-day Adventist mission in the South. The ship was termed as The Floating School\u27.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/morning-star-oakwood-industrial-school-gallery/1009/thumbnail.jp
The Morning Star and its Correlation to Oakwood Industrial School
No full textEllen White\u27s Appeal to religious leaders.https://ouscholars.oakwood.edu/morning-star-oakwood-industrial-school-gallery/1006/thumbnail.jp