Treatise on Domestic Education

by Daniel Payne

WITHOUT apology I send forth my thoughts on the great, absorbing question of Christian Education in its domestic form, and this I do with no desire to appear as a literary man, panting for literary fame; but because it is a duty laid upon my heart and inspiring all my thoughts from early manhood to old age. My book is not designed for instruction in the common-school, nor the high-school, nor the college; but for the home; not for the recitation room, but for the nursery and the fireside. The duty which impels my hand to write this book, and the love which inspires its sentiments, is a duty and a love resulting from actual labors in the school-house, and intensified by close and extensive observations in the families among whom it has been my high privilege to sojourn, both in my native hind and in foreign countries. As for the thoughts, the sentiments, and the principles embodied in it, they have been formulating themselves for about fifty-five years.

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First published August 20, 2015

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Daniel Alexander Payne (February 24, 1811 – November 2, 1893) was an American bishop, educator, college administrator and author. A major shaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.), Payne stressed education and preparation of ministers and introduced more order in the church, becoming its sixth bishop and serving for more than four decades (1852–1893) as well as becoming one of the founders of Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1856. In 1863 the AME Church bought the college and chose Payne to lead it; he became the first African-American president of a college in the United States and served in that position until 1877.

By quickly organizing AME missionary support of freedmen in the South after the Civil War, Payne gained 250,000 new members for the AME Church during the Reconstruction era. Based first in Charleston, he and his missionaries founded AME congregations in the South down the East Coast to Florida and west to Texas. In 1891 Payne wrote the first history of the AME Church, a few years after publishing his memoir.