Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . d black, every Sun-day, to be instructed in religious things by herself, and such white people as shecould get to help her. Sometimes the sainted Isabella Graham would inviteKaty and her scholars to her house, and there hear them recite the catechism,and give them instruction. Finally, Dr. Mason heard of her school, and visitedit one Sunday morning. What are you about here, Katy ? he asked. Keep-ing school on the Sabbath! Katy was troubled, for she
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . d black, every Sun-day, to be instructed in religious things by herself, and such white people as shecould get to help her. Sometimes the sainted Isabella Graham would inviteKaty and her scholars to her house, and there hear them recite the catechism,and give them instruction. Finally, Dr. Mason heard of her school, and visitedit one Sunday morning. What are you about here, Katy ? he asked. Keep-ing school on the Sabbath! Katy was troubled, for she thought his question arebuke. This must not be, Katy; you must not be allowed to do all thiswork alone, he continued; and then he invited her to transfer her school tothe basement of his new church in Murray Street, where he procured assistantsfor her. Such was the origin of the Murray Street Sabbath-school; and it is 1. This was the son and pulpit successor of Dr. Mason,.the elder, under whom Katy became excellent pastor died soon after the interview named in the text, at the age of fifty-seven years. CATHERINE FERGUSON. 405. believed that Katy Fergusons was the first school of the kind established in thecity of New York. Katys benevolent labors did not end with her Sunday-school duties. EveryFriday evening and Sunday afternoon she gathered the poor and outcast of herneighborhood, children and adults, white and black, into her little dwelling, andalways secured some good man to conduct the services of a prayer-meeting was her habit for forty years, wherever in the great city she dwelt. Hergood influence was always palpable; and tract distributors uniformly testifiedthat wherever Katy resided, the neighborhood improved. Nor was this laboring for daily bread at small remuneration, she cheerfully dividedher pittance with unsparing generosity. She always found some more needythan herself; and during her life, she took forty-eight children (twe
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