Letter from N.P. Barlow to Committee on Ministerial Education

Abstract

Nathan Pratt Barlow reports to the Committee on Ministerial Education of the Michigan Baptist State Convention on his financial situation after his first term at the College. The Convention has not sent him any money, but he earned twenty-eight dollars on his own.

Nathan Pratt Barlow reports to the Committee on Ministerial Education of the Michigan Baptist State Convention on his financial situation after his second term at the College. He has continued working, and the Convention has still not sent him any money.

Nathan Pratt Barlow reports to the Committee on Ministerial Education of the Michigan Baptist State Convention on his financial situation after his third term at the College. He has still not received any money from the Convention. However, he has been donated $25 worth of “clothing and provision” from a church in Jackson, MI, and almost half of the money he earned during the term was also donated from Jackson.

Nathan Pratt Barlow reports to the Committee on Ministerial Education of the Michigan Baptist State Convention on his financial situation after his fourth term at the College. The Convention has finally sent him money, and he has made more than usual from working. However, the absence of aid from the Convention during the previous three terms put him in debt, which he has been only now been able to pay off with Convention aid. He may have studied longer than the quarter ending June 13th, since he cannot have been in school for ten weeks from early April to early June.

Nathan Pratt Barlow reports to the Committee on Ministerial Education of the Michigan Baptist State Convention on his financial situation at the end of his fifth term at the College. The amount of money he received from “labor” dwarfs the amount sent to him by the Convention, but Barlow explains that most of that money was in fact “long due,” and he has had to “incur liabilities” in the meantime, breaking even as an end result.