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diff --git a/old/11762-8.txt b/old/11762-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ecaa94f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/11762-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2906 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The American Missionary + Volume 42, No. 1, January 1888 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: April 3, 2004 [EBook #11762] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + + + + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson and PG Distributed Proofreaders + + + + +The American Missionary + + * * * * * + +JANUARY, 1888. + +VOL. XLII. + +NO. 1. + + * * * * * + +CONTENTS + +EDITORIAL. + NEW YEAR'S GREETING--FINANCIAL + PARAGRAPHS + PROHIBITION ITEMS + PARAGRAPHS + +THE SOUTH. + NOTES IN THE SADDLE + RELIGIOUS INTEREST IN LINCOLN CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D.C. + +THE INDIANS. + THE FOURTH BROTHER. By Mr. Frank Wood + +THE CHINESE. + DOES RESTRICTION RESTRICT? + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + FOUNDATION LAYING AND HOME BUILDING IN THE SOUTH. By Miss Josephine +Kellogg + THE SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL AND INDIAN MISSIONS. By Mrs. Chas. +W. Shelton + THE DAKOTA MISSIONARY SOCIETY + +RECEIPTS + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +Rooms, 56 Reade Street. + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. + +Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + * * * * * + +American Missionary Association + + * * * * * + +PRESIDENT, ---- ---- + +_Vice-Presidents._ + +Rev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y. +Rev. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass. +Rev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. +Rev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass. +Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo. + +_Corresponding Secretaries._ + +Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. +Rev. JAMES POWELL, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. +Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. + +_Treasurer._ + +H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. + +_Auditors._ + +PETER MCCARTEE. +CHAS. P. PEIRCE. + +_Executive Committee._ + +JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman. +ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary. + +_For Three Years._ + +LYMAN ABBOTT, +A.S. BARNES, +J.R. DANFORTH, +CLINTON B. FISK, +ADDISON P. FOSTER, + +_For Two Years._ + +S.B. HALLIDAY, +SAMUEL HOLMES, +SAMUEL S. MARPLES, +CHARLES L. MEAD, +ELBERT B. MONROE, + +_For One Year._ + +J.E. RANKIN, +WM. H. WARD, +J.W. COOPER, +JOHN H. WASHBURN, +EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN. + +_District Secretaries._ + +Rev. C.L. WOODWORTH, D.D., 21 _Cong'l House, Boston_. +Rev. J.E. ROY, D.D., 151 _Washington Street, Chicago_. + +_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._ +Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON, + +_Field Superintendent._ +Rev. C.J. RYDER. + +_Bureau of Woman's Work._ + +_Secretary_, Miss D E. EMERSON, 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._ + + * * * * * + +COMMUNICATIONS + +Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the +Corresponding Secretaries; those relating to the collecting fields, +to Rev. James Powell, D.D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for +"THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, at the New York Office. + +DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS + +In drafts, checks, registered letters or post-office orders, may be sent +to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more +convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, +Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty +dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. + +FORM OF A BEQUEST. + +"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in +trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person who, +when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American +Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the +direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its +charitable uses and purposes," The Will should be attested by three +witnesses. + + * * * * * + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + + * * * * * + +Vol. XLII. +JANUARY, 1888. +No. 1 + + * * * * * + +American Missionary Association. + + +A HAPPY NEW YEAR! + + +A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It is an inspiring delight to +hear and speak the greeting. It is a phrase that comes down to us from +the ages. All the more gladly do we repeat it on that account. There are +some things, thank God, even in this world, that never grow old. The +greetings of Christmas and New Year are among them. This is because they +are connected with Christ and his kingdom. True happiness for mankind +first came into this world when Christ was born. In proportion as he is +received into human life, happiness is experienced. Therefore, in +wishing for our readers a happy New Year, we are wishing for them more +of Christ in their thought and life. + +But Christ never comes into a life to be held there in confinement. He +seeks our life that it may become a channel through which he may flow to +bless and make happy other lives. He is not only our peace--he is our +righteousness as well. How miserable we would be in our sins and +shortcomings were this not so! But all the more on that account will we +desire to _do_ what we can to make up for our deficiencies. Loving him, +we shall want to do his will. He wills that all shall hear of the +salvation his gospel brings. We can proclaim the message. He wills that +all shall see the power of his gospel in the benevolent fruits of his +followers' lives. We can exhibit that power. Where we cannot go to tell +the story and exhibit the power in person, we can send. Therefore, in +wishing for our readers a happy New Year, we are wishing for them a +righteousness that will manifest Christ actually saving the world in +what they say and do. Happiness through service and sacrifice--this is +the happiness THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY wishes for all its readers, +because it is the only happiness worth having. + + * * * * * + +While January is the first month of the calendar year, it happens to be +the fourth month of the A.M.A.'s fiscal year. It is a good time for our +friends to make new resolutions in reference to what they will do in +support of our work the coming year. We closed last year out of debt. It +was a cause for joy and thanksgiving. The Portland meeting felt and +expressed it. Letters of congratulation came to us from all parts of the +country. But there is something about prosperity that almost inevitably +fosters decline. A woe seems to be attached to institutions as well as +individuals of which all men speak well. We need $25,000 a month to pay +necessary bills. We ought to have $30,000 a month to properly prosecute +the work at this moment on hand. Our total receipts at the end of the +first two months of the new fiscal year were $33,336. The lowest figure, +in order to enable us to meet our bills for the two months, is $50,000. +The result is, we are again obliged to report payments in excess of +receipts. We do it unwillingly. We want very much to be delivered from +the necessity of making special appeals along toward the end of the +year. This necessity can be avoided only through our friends' securing +increased receipts to our treasury the early part of the year. Now is +the time to resolve that it shall be done. Let every church vote to give +us a contribution. Let every individual friend resolve that he will, if +possible, increase his contribution over that of last year, and that in +any event he will by personal effort enlarge the circle of our +supporters by inducing some friend or friends to take an interest in our +work. + + * * * * * + +Memorial services in honor of our late President, Hon. Wm. B. Washburn, +were held at Greenfield, Mass., Gov. Washburn's home, November 29th, +under the auspices of the Connecticut Valley Congregational Club. +Addresses were made by U.S. Senator Hoar, Rev. Dr. Buckingham, and +President Seelye. + + * * * * * + +Thirty dollars constitute a Life Membership. Some of our friends utilize +their contributions in this way. One of these writes us: "This is my +thirty-first Life Member which it is my good fortune to make to your +society." A good example to follow. + + * * * * * + +Lord Shaftsbury once said: "I think it would be of the greatest value if +the reports of the various Religious and Charitable Societies were at +once, by Act of Parliament, elevated into the dignity of Blue Books. If +every Member of Parliament, under the most severe penalty--and more +particularly the ministers of the day--were compelled to study them +accurately, and then undergo a competitive examination, I am satisfied +that great good would accrue to themselves and benefit to their country; +their enlarged notions, and probably improved hearts, would be felt in +the legislation of the country." + +A pertinent illustration of the force of this statement is the speech of +Senator Frye, made at the Portland meeting. The Senator confessed that +he had not been familiar with the history of the American Missionary +Association, that he had been reading its Annual Reports, and making +himself acquainted with its work. Thereupon, out of what he had learned, +he constructed a speech that was, in every way, worthy of the Statesman +that he is. We shall be much mistaken if Senator Frye does not find +occasion to use the knowledge obtained in the study of our Association's +history in some of his speeches or debates in the U.S. Senate. + + * * * * * + +The citizens of Macon, Ga., gave Jefferson Davis a rousing reception on +the occasion of his recent visit to that city. As a souvenir of his +welcome, they presented him with 126 bottles of wine, thirty-three +bottles of whiskey, fourteen bottles of brandy, and eleven boxes of +cigars. If these gifts suggest anything in regard to the habits of +Jefferson Davis, we can readily see that he was not a fit candidate for +having the ladies put upon his lapel a blue ribbon. No wonder he rushed +into print to assure the public that he was not in favor of total +abstinence. A campaign in behalf of prohibition would have a hard time +in the region of Macon. + + * * * * * + +Evan P. Howell and Henry W. Grady are among the owners of the _Atlanta +Constitution_. During the recent campaign on the liquor question in +Atlanta these gentlemen were on opposite sides, so that the papers +reported that while Mr. Grady was making a speech in behalf of +prohibition in one part of the town, Capt. Howell was making a speech +against it in another place. Two of Mr. Grady's speeches have been +published in pamphlet form, and they are worthy of that gentleman's +reputation as an orator. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY is glad to find Mr. +Grady on the right side of this question, and regrets that prohibition +failed to carry the day in the election. + +The colored people held the balance of power. We praised them last year +when, using that balance, they carried the city for temperance. We +regret that this year they have used it against temperance. There is no +use of concealing the fact. Ignorant people cannot be depended upon to +take the right side of any question. It will be a mere happening if they +do. The election in Atlanta gives additional emphasis to the necessity +of our work in the South. + + * * * * * + +White ladies so far overcame their caste prejudices as to join their +colored sisters in the campaign for prohibition. Together they prayed +and worked. Many of the white people were disgusted at this exhibition +of social equality. These white ladies have taken a step in the right +direction, and, when all their white sisters join them, reform will be +well advanced. May the day be hastened! + + * * * * * + +The rum advocates resorted to all manner of devices to influence the +colored people. They had a circular printed with a portrait of Abraham +Lincoln. The picture represented him standing, with a slave in chains +kneeling before him. Under the picture, in quotation marks, were the +words, as if spoken by Mr. Lincoln: "Prohibition is slavery; I will cut +the manacles from your hands." This was a mean trick. To put such lying +words into the mouth of a man whose name the colored people revere nest +to that of the Saviour, is a piece of wickedness that only rum-sellers +could be guilty of. It accomplished their vile purpose, however, in +leading a great many colored people to vote against prohibition. + + * * * * * + +A colored preacher who made anti-prohibition speeches, referring to a +statement that their meetings were not opened with prayer, said that he +would make as good a prayer as anybody. Thereupon he slowly prayed: "Oh! +Lord, I pray thee to help Atlanta in her extremity. Oh, do lift her up +and restore her to the proud place she once occupied before these +prohibition fanatics got her by the throat. Oh, Lord Jesus, do thou make +these deluded preachers see the error of their ways. Do help the sweet +inhabitants of this city. [Cries of 'Amen!'] Do restore to them pure +liquor, and not compel them to drink the vile stuff sold as 'nerve +tonic,' 'rice beer' and 'bitters.' [Applause and laughter.] Give us +power to win the fight. [Cries of 'Amen.'] Put to rout the miserable +hypocrites who parade as thy servants under the guise of +Prohibitionists. Oh, do save us and let us win this fight, for Jesus' +sake, amen. [Cheers, and cries of 'Amen.']" What can be expected of a +church with such a man for its pastor, and what can be expected of a +people if left to such leadership? + + * * * * * + +Rev. Geo. C. Rowe, of Charleston, S.C., in company with brethren +Snelson, Maxwell, Jordan and Herron, going to attend the Association at +Macon, Ga., by reason of a delayed train were in danger of missing +connection at Jessup, a junction. The authorities telegraphed for the +train to wait. When the little party reached Jessup, they found the +train in waiting, and boarding it entered a first-class coach. We let +Mr. Bowe tell the rest of the story: + + "A burly white train-hand came in, and said, in a threatening way: + 'The forward car is your car.' We gave him no answer, but kept our + seats. The conductor came through and looked at us, but said + nothing. At the door he asked, roughly, of a colored train hand, + 'Why did you let those men go into that car?' They hardly knew how + to act, as we were the only passengers who came on the S.F. & W. + train, and they had been ordered to wait for passengers on that + train; so, doubtless considering discretion the better part of + valor, they left us severely alone, and we rode from Savannah to + Macon, an eight-hour journey in _Georgia_, first class, without + molestation. Of course, the white people who entered at various + stations stared at us, but we were good at that and returned the + compliment. First class, indeed! Men with turpentine clothes, or + rags, on; women chewing snuff, etc., etc. If I looked, acted and + talked like some of the people that I saw on that train, I should + certainly feel myself an appropriate subject for an ox-cart in the + backwoods, rather than for a first class coach on a railroad; yet + these are the people who object to respectable, well-dressed, + intelligent and Christian men and women riding in a decent coach, + on account of their color." + + * * * * * + +THE SOUTH. + +NOTES IN THE SADDLE + +BY FIELD-SUPERINTENDENT C.J. RYDER. + + +Pleasant Hill, Tenn., has now a school building worthy the growing +importance of that interesting field on the Cumberland plateau. The +teaching force has been enlarged and the influence of the school is +constantly widening. Another building to be used for boarding pupils is +in process of erection, and is greatly needed. Maine has joined hands +with Tennessee in this most important work, several of the churches +having given to this field. + +A new church has just been organized at Crossville, Tenn. Many northern +families have come into this region within the past few months, and they +will greatly assist us in gathering the native mountain people. + + * * * * * + +Grand View Academy, occupying a most commanding site on the top of a +mountain overlooking the magnificent valley of the Cumberland River, has +also increased its school accommodations. There will be here, in the not +very distant future, a large college, reaching in its influence the +mountain people back on the plateau and in the coves, and those who are +rapidly filling the fertile valley along the foot of Cumberland Mountain +and Walden's Ridge. If we, as Congregational Churches, hold this grand +work, we must generously support it _now_. + + * * * * * + +A specimen, a hybrid of civilization and paganism, I saw on the streets +of Fort Smith, Arkansas. He seemed to illustrate the result of our +governmental efforts to citizenize the Indian without Christianizing +him. A tall Indian, of fine, commanding figure, walked down the street +dressed in the following fashion: His feet were cased in moccasins, his +legs in buckskin breeches. Both of these garments were highly ornamented +with quills and beads. He was purely Indian so far. His tall lithe body +was closely buttoned in a faded black Prince Albert coat. On his head he +wore a Derby hat. So much for civilization. The hat had a hole in the +crown, and in this hole the Brave had stuck a large tuft of eagle +feathers that stood several inches above his head and nodded and danced +above him as he walked with the royal dignity of a Mogg Megone. Here was +civilization and savagery in dress at least. This is about what our +Government is doing for this people; urging them to put on the faded +coat of imperfect citizenship, and at the same time forbidding that they +be instructed in the truths of religion in their own language. We can +never civilize the body while we leave the heart savage. A visit to Fort +Smith would convince anyone of the absolute failure of this method. In +the miserable prison pen, one hundred and forty-four were crowded like +cattle. Among this multitude of criminals were young boys, just entering +upon a life of crime, imprisoned for some paltry offence, and herded +with them were grey-headed murderers. All these prisoners were from the +Indian Territory, or the "Nation" as they call it. One man had just been +convicted of murder. Two beautiful daughters of an Indian mother stood +weeping beside him. A gallows stands constantly on the edge of the +"Nation," and is used with appalling frequency. A lawyer who courteously +introduced me into the esoteric mysteries of the law as executed in this +United States Court, pointed out the peculiar construction of the +gallows which increased its capacity. "Eight men can stand on that plank +and the drop will swing them all off at once," he said with evident +pride, then added apologetically, "I never saw but six hung at one time, +but they do hang eight." + +"Hanging day," I was informed, was one of the great festival occasions. +Thousands of Indians, of more or less purity of blood, gathered from the +"Nation" to enjoy this treat. There is an excuse for a fence around this +perpetual gallows, but there are wide openings in it and the awful scene +enacted within its enclosure can be witnessed from surrounding +elevations. + +No doubt an attempt at justice is made in the United States Court. I +attended the trial of a case and it seemed to me the accused had a fair +hearing, but what a comment on our Christian civilization: A court +overrun with cases; a prison pen with young boys and grey-headed +criminals herded together in it; a gallows standing ready the year +round; saloons and brothels permitted at every turn; bad men and worse +women appealing to the lowest passions of ignorant and degraded men--all +these the legalized representatives of a Christian civilization. Is it +strange that these Indians do not accept more readily our Christian +theories, when they come into constant contact with our most unchristian +practice? The Indian language is used in saloons and gambling hells and +brothels to lead these poor, heathen people to physical and moral +perdition, but is forbidden by Government to be used in mission schools +to lead them to the Lord Jesus Christ! We ought to plant a mission for +the Indians and the colored people at Fort Smith this year. The work is +painfully urgent. + + * * * * * + +RELIGIOUS INTEREST AT LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D.C. + + +Rev. James Wharton, the English Evangelist, recently spent a little more +than two weeks with the Lincoln Memorial Church, Washington. The people +were deeply stirred, and the church was greatly quickened. About forty +persons professed conversion, and a large number are still inquiring the +way. + +The conversions were mostly among the young people. There were eight or +ten adults who decided to live Christian lives, two of them being aged +men, one 61 years and the other 75 years of age. They are both very +happy in their new-found hope in Christ. + +Many of the young people would gladly unite with us, but their parents +will not consent for them to do so, as they will not be convinced that +the children can be Christians unless they can give a _remarkable +experience_, and some will not be satisfied of their conversion unless +the child has seen a vision or heard a voice. + +I called to-day to see the mother of a little girl who confessed Christ +as her Saviour in our meetings. She said that her little girls, one +eight years and the other twelve years of age, say that they are +Christians. When the mother told Josie, the youngest child, that she did +not have "_religion_," the little girl replied: "I love the Saviour, and +Jesus loves me. He died for my sins, and I have accepted him as my +Saviour and am happy in His love. Mamma, Mr. Moore says that that is +religion. If that ain't religion, then, mamma, what is religion? I want +to be an earnest Christian; will you show me how?" The mother says that +Josie sticks to it that she is a Christian, and that she does not know +what to do about it. + +The most of these young people, some of whom are twelve and fourteen +years of age, will not be allowed to join any church, but will be +laughed at and persecuted and led to expect some remarkable experience +like "Saul of Tarsus," or to see a vision and hear a voice. We shall do +what we can to encourage them to cling to Christ. + +We have succeeded in closing two saloons near our church, and are +hopeful of closing another notorious den about a square away. + +There is no place where earnest Christian work is more needed than here +at the nation's Capital, where we have a colored population of nearly +80,000, the majority of whom are out of Christ, and thousands are still +shrouded in the darkness of ignorance and superstition. + +GEO. W. MOORE. + + * * * * * + +THE INDIANS. + + +THE FOURTH BROTHER. + +BY FRANK WOOD, ESQ. + +I believe that if the Master were visibly present with us to-day, and we +should ask, "Where shall we go first with the Gospel?" he would say, "Go +to that fourth brother, the North American Indian;" and for the +strongest reasons. + +First, because he is in the greatest need. There are no people in want +whose cry does not at once reach the heart of the American people. When +Chicago was burned, when there was an earthquake in Charleston, when +there was a famine in Ireland, public sympathy was immediately awakened, +and all that was needed was sent. The only people who seem to be in need +and do not receive help are the aborigines of our soil--the people whom +we have dispossessed; whom we have crowded from their homes; whom we +have shut into reservations until they are nothing but prisoners of war; +whom we have placed under the control of a despot called an Indian +agent, who is not controlled by law, who on that agency governs by his +own will, with no courts to protect those who are wronged. These Indians +are shut in on these reservations, kept from all civilizing and +Christianizing influences, kept from trade and commerce. A trader is +appointed over them, from whom they must buy everything they need, +paying whatever he may ask, to whom they must sell everything that they +would sell, taking what he may choose to give. + +We have, it is true, a cumbrous system of machinery which is supposed to +educate and civilize the Indian, called the Indian Bureau. Some men have +studied it for years, and they fail yet to comprehend it. I believe it +is incomprehensible. I believe it was never intended to be understood. +Some men ask what it does. It does little, and largely shows how _not_ +to do; and any effort to Christianize and elevate the Indians, so long +as the present system remains, will be a failure. Now, when our +philanthropists are endeavoring to lift them up, when our legislators +are taking favorable action, this Indian Bureau, through its Assistant +Commissioner, issues an order which says that the English language must +be the only language taught or _spoken_ in the mission-schools. The only +language the Indian knows is forbidden. Suppose we were to try to learn +a foreign language in that way? Suppose a Frenchman should come to teach +us French, and neither of us spoke a word of English--how rapid would +our progress be? + +Thirty barrels of whiskey and one thousand scalping knives were issued +not many years ago as civilizing agencies by this department. An +instance given us last night by our friend from across the water, shows +that the English circumlocution office is a greyhound compared with our +Indian office. I remember a similar story that Bright Eyes told in +Boston some years ago. + +She was then a teacher in an Indian school. She had little children in +her school that came some seven, eight, or ten miles barefooted, and +winter was coming on, and her heart sympathized with these poor children +who came so far to be taught. They happened to have a good agent, and he +said, "Send an order for shoes for these children;" and she sent an +order, with a request that they send the shoes, as they were really +needed, on account of the frost and snow. The order went to Washington, +went through the regular routine, and the next spring, after winter had +passed, a case of shoes came for these little Indian children. When it +was opened, she found it full of brogans, that had been made for the +Southern negro in the rice-fields; and every shoe in that case was so +large that there was not an adult Indian on the reservation that could +wear it. That is how the Indian Bureau provides for the little Indian +children when there is a case of special necessity. (Laughter.) + +I could mention numerous illustrations showing that it is impossible to +do any work that is required immediately, through this Indian Bureau. If +people are starving, you cannot get food for them until they die. + +Now, what is the remedy? I believe that Christianity is the only +remedy--the only solution of the Indian question. Where they have had +good Christian agents--and they have had some--where they have +missionaries, the Indian has made wonderful progress. I think we can +point to a few civilized and Christianized communities among the Indians +that can find no parallel among the whites of the country. There is less +crime, less immorality, more faithfulness to the requirements of the +Christian religion and better observance of the Sabbath, more sincerity +and earnestness in the performance of every Christian duty, than we can +find in the same number of whites anywhere. At Metlakatla, as told by +Mr. Duncan, the Indians now form a community of twelve hundred people, +who have their churches, their stores, their town-halls. They live in +houses, like other people; they appear like civilized people; they carry +on all the vocations of civilized life; and all this has been done by +the work of one man. There is no liquor-drinking or liquor-selling +there. A majority of this twelve hundred people are earnest, faithful, +consistent Christians. They get no help from the Government. They have +built up and support their churches. Where can you see anything among +the whites that equals it? + +Then there is another reason why we should go to them with the gospel of +Christ. It is a good thing to engage in works of charity and +benevolence, but before we do this we should pay our debts. We owe so +much to the Indians of this country, that I think before we go anywhere +else we should do something to atone for the years of wrong, for the +centuries of injury, that they have suffered at our hands. We have taken +their homes from them. We have driven them from reservation to +reservation. We have taken their crops when almost ready to reap. We +have removed them into climates where they have died by hundreds. We +have not listened to their cries. We have on various trumped-up charges +frequently slaughtered these people, and treated them in the most cruel +manner. There is no question that I know of that so holds a man, once +interested, and so grows upon him, as this Indian question. + +I was first interested in this subject about ten years ago in the city +of Boston, where Bright Eyes, Mr. Tibbles, and old Standing Bear came to +tell of the wrongs of the Poncas. They were to hold a public meeting. +Wendell Phillips was to speak. I went to that meeting more with a desire +to hear Phillips than from any interest in the Indian. At that time all +I knew about him was what I had learned from the current literature and +romance, and my idea was very far from correct. At that meeting a state +of affairs was shown to exist that seemed astounding and impossible. A +committee was appointed to investigate these statements. They found that +the half had not been told. That committee started measures that +rectified these wrongs done to the Poncas. It commenced suit under the +Fourteenth Amendment to see whether the Indians were citizens. The +Judges of the Supreme Court decided that the Indian was not a person +under the law. Then it tried other channels; to get legislation that +would help the Indian. Senator Dawes soon became interested in this +question, and from that time to the present he has been interested; and +how much the Indian owes to the legislation which has been started and +carried forward by Senator Dawes, but very few people know; but it must +be followed by other legislation before the Indian is safe. + +In Boston, Mrs. H.H. Jackson listened to the statement of Bright Eyes +in regard to the wrongs suffered by her people. She came to her and +said, "It is not possible that these things can be true." Bright Eyes +showed her the official documents; she convinced her that it was true. +From that hour that woman's whole soul was in the work. She afterwards +wrote "A Century of Dishonor," and "Ramona," which has preached for the +Indians, and will continue to do so. She gave her life finally for the +Indians, the sickness that caused her death being brought on while +engaged in work for them. This work gets hold of a man, if he has any +blood in his veins and sympathy in his heart, and makes him feel, if he +would stand without condemnation before God in the last day, that he +must do something to redeem his country from dishonor, and deliver this +people from worse than slavery. + +Suppose we do not do it. Suppose we allow the Government to care for +them. The Dawes Bill gives them citizenship, but what does the Indian +get? One hundred and sixty acres of land--and he as naked as a babe on +that land. He has had no training in education and systematic work of +any kind; he has no tools--and if he had he would not know how to use +them. He is in the midst of white enemies, who want his land. He has +turned his back upon all the traditions of his ancestors. He has turned +his face toward the whites, and his friends of the past are now his +enemies. He is in the midst of his reservation. His homestead is his +own, yet no American citizen has a right there. If you and I go to teach +him, we can be ordered off by the agent; and if we do not go he can put +us in prison. + +If we do not give protection and Christianity to them, there is no hope +for these Indians. Their fate will be the same as Indians on the +reservation in the State of New York, who have been for one hundred +years in the midst of our best civilization, but are still lazy and +shiftless, their reservation being permeated through and through with +unmentionable vices. They have no interest in the civilization of the +present. They are living in the past, dreaming over the glory of their +ancestors. They cannot be reached through civilization without religion. +To an Indian there is nothing secular. Everything pertains to his +religion. When he goes on a hunt, if he has no success, it is because +the gods are opposed to him; and if he is successful, the gods were in +it. When we go to an Indian and seek to change him, we must first change +his gods. We must Christianize him if we would civilize him. There is +where many of our experiments have been wrong. + +Is it not laid upon us, who know something of this work, to do this? I +believe if we will not do it, that in the last great day, as we stand +with the Indian before the judgment bar of God, our position will be +worse than that of the Indian. It seems to me that I can hear what the +Judge would say to him at that time. The Indian comes before God, a +pagan from a Christian land; he comes having improved none of the powers +that God gave him. The Lord might say to him: "Did I not give you as +good opportunities and as good capacities as the white man in whose +midst you were? This Christian nation is the foremost for missions. It +has sent to all the lands of the earth, and yet here you come a pagan, +not knowing God, uncivilized, a barbarian." Might not this Indian say: +"I was in prison. I was surrounded by a reservation around whose outside +lines were the soldiers of the United States, and I would be shot if I +went off this reservation. I had no business with which to support +myself; I had no chance for trade or commerce; I had to buy of and sell +to one man. What opportunity had I? When an occasional missionary came +to me with the gospel of Christ, I looked upon this man as one of my +enemies--a man from the nation that had robbed me of my opportunities; +and, my Father, why should I listen to him, especially when he spoke in +a strange language? Am I to blame that I come here empty? Am I to blame +that I must go away?" I believe the Lord would turn to us and say, +"Inasmuch as ye have not done it to one of the least of these my +brethren, ye have not done it unto Me." And, speaking for myself alone, +I would rather at that last day be in the place of that darkened +Indian---savage, barbarian, pagan, as he is--than in the place of the +Christian that knew of his need and would not help him. + + * * * * * + +THE CHINESE. + +DOES RESTRICTION RESTRICT? + +As a son of Maine, I am one of those who believe that prohibition _can_ +prohibit, and will do so effectively, if you will give it a fair chance, +but I doubt whether restriction restricts, and have expressed that doubt +in these columns more than once already. But we have been favored with +fresh lessons on this subject, in its application to Chinese +immigration. Chinese women are held in our San Francisco market, at +prices ranging from nothing up to about $2,000. The soul, being that of +a woman, has no value at any time, but the body, till worn out, is held +at a fair percentage of its weight in gold. + +Such being the demand, a supply became assured. No artificial barriers +could exclude them. There would soon come to be some "Open Sesame" which +no bolts could resist. As a matter of fact these women have been landed +in numbers so great, and with an effrontery so flagrant, that even the +Chinese Consulate now takes the matter up and puts to shame the +appointed executors of American law. As to persons of the male sex, they +come by various routes: some with certificates sent out to Hong Kong by +our own officials to be sold there and viseéd by themselves on this side +the sea; some come with strange stories of previous residence--stories +confirmed by their vivid recollection of deep _snow_ on Clay Street, and +of _Chinese_ conductors on our street-cars: some come smuggled from +British Columbia, across Puget Sound, and others cross the invisible +line between Canadian soil and that of our own _free_ land with none to +say them nay. Meanwhile some of our recent officials who have grown rich +with strange rapidity, or have spent money with lavish generosity, are +under arrest, and sensational developments are the daily promise of +"live newspapers" in San Francisco. + +What shall be done? Some of these papers (however incredulous they may +be about prohibition prohibiting) are disposed to try it upon Chinese +immigration. Nothing else, they tell us, can deliver us from a perpetual +invasion by these Asiatic hordes. But, so far as I have seen, no ringing +or enthusiastic response has greeted this suggestion. So long as it +lives only in newspaper paragraphs, and no serious danger appears of its +being put into effect, few men will have courage, or zeal and +forwardness enough to contend with it, but let it be taken up in +earnest, and pressed to actual enactment, and it would soon go the fit +and ignoble way that the _boycott_ has travelled. There are multitudes +who do not object to cursing the Chinaman, but who don't mean to lose +the double eagles which Chinese labor, and that alone, enables them to +put to credit on their bank account. + +It seems to me, however, well worth questioning whether a law that after +six years of trial has been found to be fruitful in little except +perjuries and briberies,--a law which cannot be shown to have benefited +a single American laborer, but has had some effect to compel +house-holders to pay larger wages to Chinese domestics, and to enable +Chinese fruit-pickers to make better terms with our fruit-growers:--it +seems to me a question whether a statute of that sort might not be +suffered to expire through its own limitations, without any damage to +the Commonwealth. + +Whatever the fate of this law may be, it is sufficiently evident that +our gospel work need not be stayed for lack of souls to work upon, till +China herself and all her broad domain, becomes the Lord's. + + * * * * * + +YONG JIN AT SACRAMENTO. + +I reserve a little space in order to give our readers a little sample of +this gospel work as it appears in a letter from our helper, Yong Jin. He +has recently returned from China where he did good service under Rev. +Mr. Hazen, and he has resumed service with us. "I will tell you what I +had to do with the brethren. Monday night after the school is out [i.e. +9:30] we have the Bible lesson of Chinese, and Tuesday night too. +Wednesday night we have a prayer-meeting after school is out. Thursday +night we have ten or fifteen minutes to speak the gospel before the +school is out. Friday night we have a Bible lesson in Chinese too. +Saturday night we have a prayer meeting again. Sunday night all the +same. But last Sunday noon I preach on the street where the Chinese +live. Perhaps I will preach in the street nest Sunday. By and by, if I +do not preach on the street, I shall preach in the mission-house on +Sunday noon. I shall do as best I can, and I hope God will help us to +do." + +I will add that we are hoping to commence special evangelistic work +early in December. Loo Quong will go to our missions in Southern +California, and Chin Toy to those north of us, beginning in Stockton, +where the door seems to be opening wide, and an earnest spirit among the +brethren gives promise of good results. I wish these brethren might be +remembered by our Eastern brethren with special prayer. + +WM. C. POND + + * * * * * + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + +MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY. + +WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS. + +CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +ME.---Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, +Woodfords, Me. + +VT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, +St. Johnsbury, Vt. + +CONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 +Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn. + +MICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, +Lansing, Mich. + +WIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, +Wis. + +MINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H.L. Chase, 2,760 +Second Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn. + +N.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.C. Creegan, +Syracuse, N.Y. + +OHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, +Oberlin, Ohio. + +ILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 +Washington St., Chicago, Ill. + +IOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella B. Marsa, +Grinnell, Iowa. + +KANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison Blanchard, +Topeka, Kan. + +SOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. W.E. Thrall, +Amour, Dak. + + * * * * * + +FOUNDATION LAYING AND HOME BUILDING IN THE SOUTH. + +BY MISS JOSEPHINE KELLOGG. + +The estimation in which "woman's work for woman" is held by our more +thoughtful colored students, will be shown by some extracts from an +address by a graduate of Tougaloo University in Mississippi. + +The effect of very unhappy experiences in early youth upon an +exceedingly sensitive temperament, was to make this son of a white +father and black mother cherish a feeling of intense hatred toward all +white people as he was growing up; but being led, in the good providence +of God, to a Christian training-school where he heard of One who +suffered every indignity, and when dying in torture and ignominy prayed, +"Father forgive them, for they know not what they do," new thoughts and +feelings came to him. + +He thought there might be cruel men in the world now who know not what +they do. He was led to bow in penitence and submission at the feet of +Jesus. It is now his chief joy that since he entered upon the path of +learning, he has, as a teacher, given several thousand children a start +in the same path. + +The little old chapel at Tougaloo having burned down in January, 1882, +he graduated in the spring of that year, from our elementary normal +course, in the new barn, Ayrshire Hall. He has since passed through our +higher normal and college preparatory course, and is pursuing further +studies in another institution, in the intervals teaching, and going +from place to place with the great desire in his heart of bringing about +a better condition of feeling and living, among the people of the State. + +I quote from his printed speech: "We read of a time when 'a nation shall +be born in a day.' We have seen it come to pass, and this people is a +babe yet. 'Is not the babe a blessing in the house? Its very +helplessness is a blessing, in that it educates the finest sensibilities +of humanity.' The problem to be solved now is how to nurse this babe +aright. The thoughtful observer will be easily convinced that the +careful and proper education of girls is the first step in the solution +of this problem. + +"The education of girls is of the most vital importance for the +uplifting of the colored people of the South. Yes, I venture to say that +_the whole South_ will depend upon their condition for its prosperity. +True progress depends upon the sacredness and sanctity of the home. That +a people or a nation may be happy or prosperous it must have enlightened +and intelligent homes, and for this purpose the girls must be educated +in virtue, industry and self-reliance. + +"The colored woman in all conditions and under almost all circumstances +is abused by all races and classes. There are individuals who love and +respect her, but no one fears to _insult_ her as they fear to insult +other women. Let her turn wheresoever she may, she is met by all sorts +of evil influences of a character too indecorous to think about, and I +fear that I should never be forgiven if I should name them, yet we are +compelled to look upon them everywhere we go. Now a reform must begin in +the treatment of women, and it must be commenced by paying more +attention to the education of girls. Only wise mothers can train +champions for great causes like this. Therefore let our voices and our +influence be given to the work of elevating the women who have the care +of making and preserving society." + +Thus it has come about that a larger and larger proportion of girls come +to our schools, and it has seemed much better that they should be +educated _with_ their brothers than _apart_ from them, for a great and +grievous lack among the colored people, is a pure, safe and wholesome +social life for the young people, and with all the other labors laid +upon these "universe--ities" is that of fostering such a social life +and, as far as may be, setting forth the pattern for it. Permit me to +introduce you to one of these schools which is in many of its features +doubtless like all the rest. + +Tougaloo University is one of the six chartered institutions maintained +by the American Missionary Association with some aid from the State in +which it is located. It is but a few miles from the capital of the great +but undeveloped agricultural State of Mississippi, a State in which the +largest town had, at the last census, less than twelve thousand +inhabitants. This is very far south, in "the great black belt," where +the plantations are large, and upon the country roads you will +constantly see ten or more colored faces to one white one. It contained +at the last census, above two hundred thousand more colored people than +at Emancipation, and above one hundred and seventy thousand more colored +than white. Do you not see how rapidly Christian education and training +must go forward to keep pace with such facts as these? + +Stepping off the afternoon train down the Chicago and New Orleans +railway at the little station of Tougaloo, we look up through a pleasant +vista about three-quarters of a mile and see the Mansion, Ballard Hall, +Ladies' Hall, and Strieby Hall, the latter a brick house three stories +high above the basement, dedicated Thanksgiving Day of 1881 in the +presence of the venerable secretary for whom it was named. The work on +this building was done by colored mechanics, students of the school +making the brick and the stone, a sort of concrete for the trimmings. + +Strieby Hall has accommodations for nearly a hundred young men, besides +a teacher's family or two. It is kept in scrupulous neatness by the +young men under their matron's eye. She teaches them to nurse one +another in sickness; she also instructs them in the care of their +clothing and requires them to mend when the weekly wash comes in. One +young man became so proud of his skill in this line that he wanted to +put his darned old socks--old darned socks would sound better, +perhaps--into our industrial exhibit for the New Orleans Exposition, +among the chains and wheels from the blacksmith and wagon shops, the +brackets, step-ladders, etc., from the carpenter shop, the cups and +coffee-pots from the tinshop, and the girls' plain sewing and +fancy-work. + +There are regular apprentices to all the trades named, and all the boys +of certain grades have lessons, one hour daily, in the several shops, to +get the use of tools and simple work; there is also a course of +industrial drawing running through the school grades for boys and girls +alike. + +The school is upon a plantation of five hundred acres, worked by the +young men under the direction of the farm superintendent, a graduate of +the Massachusetts Agricultural College, who gives them "talks," as he +terms his lectures, upon practical themes pertaining to general farming, +fruit-growing, and the care of stock. + +As we walk up from the station through, first a wood of water-oak, +sweet-gum and hickory, then an open glade with scattering persimmon +trees upon it, and lastly, a fine park of postoaks draped with Spanish +moss, we approach the old southern "Mansion," which was the only +building of any account upon the ground when the Association purchased +it in 1869, and which is still the handsomest one. It has a little +romance of its own, having been made spacious and beautiful for a bride +who never came into it; but, notwithstanding this disappointment of its +builder, it has in God's providence been greatly connected with +home-building. + +Here live the President's family and some of the other teachers. Here +are business offices, a pleasant reading-room with an open fire upon its +hearth, and a small library adjoining. In this house is a guest-chamber +where all friends of the school are made welcome, and here are the +music-rooms, one containing a piano and one a cabinet organ. + +More and more highly is the department of musical training esteemed by +those who understand the work. All receive training in vocal music as a +part of their daily school work, and would there were more with means to +take instrumental lessons! + +The best of music is taught, from the primary grades upward; and it is +an inspiring thing to hear almost everybody who is at work or play, not +at books, singing and chanting the most beautiful compositions; the +girls from attic chamber to basement laundry, may be chanting, +"Thou who leddest Joseph like a flock," while the carpenter's +apprentices--perchance upon a barn-roof--may be rolling forth the +temperance Marseillaise, and our ears may distinguish from the +neighboring "quarters" the little children of the day and Sabbath-school +singing cheerily, + + "Angry words, O let them never + From the tongue unbridled slip; + May the heart's best impulse ever + Check them ere they pass the lip." + +Nothing, perhaps, more commends the school to the notice of our white +neighbors than its music, and greater numbers of them will come to a +concert than to any other exercise. + +In the Mansion are our rooms for the Normal Department, a study room and +a laboratory. The primary, intermediate and grammar grades are taught in +the new school-house, between the Mansion and Strieby Hall, the upper +part of which is a neat and commodious chapel. The primary school is +free of tuition as a practice-school for the Normal students, and brings +in many little ones from the region round about. + +We send forth many teachers for the public schools, and despite the +shortness of the terms and the want of appliances, we see encouraging +evidences of better work done there from year to year. Besides test-book +teaching, these young home-missionaries labor in many lines for the +moral, social and material improvement of their people, and deserve much +help and cheer. + +A Biblical department is preparing young men to preach the gospel, and +as they have the industrial training too, they will be fitted for a very +practical sort of evangelism. + +A night-school supplies instruction for farm-laborers, laundry girls, +etc. + +All school-room work, except that of the Biblical class and a part of +the Normal work, is women's work. + +Let us step into the Ladies' Hall on the other side of the Mansion from +Ballard Hall. This is a very hive of female industry. Here is the girls' +dormitory, with a capacity of about seventy-five, and the boarding +department. All the work of the household, with trifling exceptions, is +done by the young women and girls of the school. Each one does an hour's +work a day, having it changed every month, and many do more to help +themselves along. The girls have the care of their rooms and generally +take great pride in having perfect "reports" for tidiness. Everything is +simple and cheap and common, but that does not prevent its being +homelike. + +Personal cleanliness is required of course. Some few have been +accustomed to it at home. One large girl said, when told that she must +bathe, that she had not washed all over since she could remember, and +she still refrained until put "under discipline." Finally she yielded, +but in the evening was heard crying aloud from a seat on the top stair. +The matron asked, "What _is_ the matter?" and she replied, "Oh! oh! I've +wet my skin and it's made me sick." This is a very extreme case of +attachment to dirt, but it is interesting and marvellous to witness the +changes in appearance, expression and manners, during a prolonged stay +in school. + +Besides general housework, the girls are given special instruction in +cooking, nursing and care of health, under their experienced matron. +They sew for an hour a day in classes, under the supervision of another +lady who also instructs a class in cutting by model and dress-making, +and sees that all the girls attend properly to their mending. + +A Girls' Industrial Cottage has been started on a small scale, in which +the girls will have the entire charge of household expenses and +management. The little girls from round about are formed into +sewing-bands and make commendable progress. Their mothers meet with one +of the teachers on Saturday afternoons. + +Underneath all these departments of training, it is sought to lay the +great foundation principles of character. The Bible is a constantly used +text-book in literally _every_ department. We seek to give a "Thus saith +the Lord," for everything that we inculcate, from order, punctuality and +cleanliness, up to honesty, personal and social virtue, temperance, +industry and benevolence. + +There was a time when some distrust was manifest among the colored +people for what they called "book religion." They wished to hold fast to +"ole time 'ligion," and that sentiment is not entirely gone. We had a +very zealous little neighbor, more aged than she looked, so bright and +spry was she, whose husband was said to be over a hundred. She was a +seer of visions and dreamer of dreams. What we thought a bad feature of +her trances was, that she would sometimes speak in meeting of having +seen Tougaloo University marching in a procession down to torment with +our devoted matron and president at the head, their open Bibles in their +hands. That was years ago. Now, when she sees our matron in her visions, +it is up among the angels; and I believe the conviction is spreading +that book religion, taken into the head, sinking down into the heart, +and working out through the hands in deeds of active piety, is an +excellent thing. + +Besides our regular religious services, including our large and +delightful Sabbath-school, we have various reformative and benevolent +societies. Our temperance society carries the triple pledge at the front +and saves many from the debasement of profanity, tobacco and ardent +spirits in all their forms. + +Our societies for social purity are designed to help in the cure of a +terrible and terribly prevalent vice. The young men are taught, that +while it would often be simply throwing life, with all its +opportunities, away, for them to interpose by word or weapon in defense +of weak and tempted womanhood, after all, man best defends woman by +himself wearing the "White Cross" of manly virtue. + +The girls are taught that woman's best defense is the "White Shield" of +her own determined virtue and genuine modesty. The Y.M.C.A. and the +Y.W.C.A. have interesting meetings conducted by themselves, with many +committees for Christian work. A committee of girls goes out on Saturday +to visit sick and aged ones, both giving and receiving good. Another +looks after new scholars who are often confused by their strange +surroundings, and homesick for a time. + +Our Missionary Society studies both home and foreign fields, and gives +freely of its little fund. Recently a flame of missionary zeal was +kindled by letters from missionaries in Africa with whom a number of our +students were personally somewhat acquainted, and a large portion of our +Sunday-school collections was voted directly to them. + +All our students sympathize with the Indians, and there are two +societies of the younger scholars who help them. The outside +sewing-bands too, devoted their very first quilt to the Rosebud Indian +Mission. "The field is the world" and "the work is one, _one_!" + +Now, I ask you, friends, should not such work as this be amply +sustained? So much more could be accomplished if the funds and sympathy +were not so stinted! "The destruction of the poor is their poverty." We +do not believe in giving money outright to pauperize these young people, +but the money _must be there_ or they can not be taken into the +household, and trained and fitted to do valiant service for Christ, and +the nation and the world. There are manifold ways of helping, but I +shall not mention one, for if any are moved to help--as many are and +have been--it will be so easy to find out a way. + +Mrs. Dinah Mulock Craik was prompted to write her last book--in behalf +of North of Ireland sufferers--by hearing a rough carter in a London +street, who had got down from his cart to help a timid child over a +crowded crossing, and had been rallied upon his soft-heartedness, say, +"O, aye! but a 'andful o' 'elp is wuth a cartload o' pity." + +As I have visited institutions rich in buildings, books, scholarships, +professorships and every appliance, I have been very far from wishing +their abundance less, but I have said in my heart, ought not this and +similar missionary schools to be endowed also for their work of broad +beneficence, reaching not only the far South of our own land, but to the +heart of the great dark continent with its two hundred millions of +perishing souls? + + * * * * * + +THE SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL AND INDIAN MISSIONS. + +BY MRS. CHAS. W. SHELTON. + + +Running Antelope, an Indian chief, describing the condition of the +Indians, said: "There was once a beautiful, clear lake of water, full of +fish. The fish were happy and content, had plenty to eat, and nothing to +trouble them. One day a man came and threw in a lump of mud, which +frightened the fishes much and disturbed the water. Another day a man +came again, and threw in some more mud, and even again and again, until +{20} the water became so thick that the fish could not see at all; they +were so blinded and so frightened that they ran against one another, and +they ran their noses out of the water into the mud, where many of them +died. In fact, they are in a bad condition, indeed. Now, the pond is the +Indian country, the fishes are the Indians, the false treaties and +promises of the white men are the lumps of mud," and, turning to the +missionaries, he said: "I hope you have come to clear up the water." A +glance at the work of the A.M.A. among the Indians will show that the +missionaries are clearing up the water. + +We all have heard of the Santee Normal Training School for Indians, in +Nebraska. There is much in the name itself, and yet it is impossible to +have a clear idea of the work done there unless one has seen for +himself. + +The Santee School is the largest of all the Indian mission schools under +the A.M.A., and faithfully has she performed the part of a leader. The +number of Indians gathered and instructed each year is in the +neighborhood of 175. Many tribes are represented, and the students come +from all directions. They are thoroughly trained from the very +foundation, not only in the ordinary branches of school work, but also +in housekeeping--sewing, cooking, washing, etc.,--on the part of the +girls (in which, too, the boys join largely), and in farming, carpentry, +blacksmithing and shoemaking, on the part of the boys. + +Not only is this solid practical knowledge given them, but care and time +is devoted toward grace and politeness, and all the foundation rules of +etiquette. And this is not a thankless work. Anyone forming an idea of +Indians from those at Santee would tell you they are naturally a most +polite people--a people upon whom grace sits easily. There is many a +little story of Santee I would like to tell, that would show the spirit +which pervades the school. Something you may have read of their +impromptu prayer-meetings, and the desire of many to work and study, not +merely for themselves, but for their people. + +But great as is the credit due the Indians for their advancement here, +little could be seen of gain were it not that the corps of teachers sent +out by the A.M.A. have been chosen, not from the lame, the halt and the +blind of this country, not from those who for support must resort to +something, but from those young women who are willing to leave homes of +comfort and refinement, in order that their lives may be worth something +in the world--young women who are consecrated beyond what we can even +imagine until we have seen the difficulties and annoyances which form so +large a part of their lives. Not for _support_ would these women have +gone into A.M.A. work, but cheerfully and gladly do they live on the +very smallest possible salaries, that more may be done for the Indian. + +In describing Santee I have described all the schools, for the same plan +is carried out everywhere--the plan of Christianization; for that must +needs come before civilization can be hoped for. + +The Indian is not civilized who, forsaking his heathen gods, has learned +the ways of the white man without knowing his God; for invariably he +learns the vices and the crimes; and is in reality more of a heathen +than before. + +Many are the villages of Indians in which the white man's _dance_ has +been introduced and is enjoyed much more than the native dance; it is +working much evil which is hard to uproot, for they say, "Is it not the +white man's way?--it must needs be all right." + +The work among the older people is of course more limited than that done +in the schools. The age of study is with them past. The most +intellectual work of which they are capable is learning to read the +Bible; even this they cannot do in any other than the Dakota language. +It is impossible to teach an old man English that will ever mean much to +him. Our word "holy" could never mean what his own word "wakan" means; +our word "God" could never take the place of his "Wakantanka." His brain +would be so disturbed in his effort to learn and to comprehend our +difficult language, that when he had mastered the words, were it +possible, the sweet truth and the comfort would be all gone from him. +Any but a scholar must read the _Bible_ in his own language. + +Thousands of Indians are learning Bible truths and are getting a little +light in the few years left them. They are learning a little of the way +of life, and receive the message with gladness. Spotted Bear, a +Christian Indian, said at the recent convention at Santee: "All we know +we have learned out of the Dakota Bible. Teach our children English, but +don't take from them and us the means of reading our own Bible." + +James Garvey, another Indian, said: "Many can soon learn to read the +Dakota Bible; then they have a standard of morals and of interpretation; +for to get the real meaning of the English Bible, we go to the Dakota. +To make the best citizens you must Christianize the people, and to make +them Christians you must give them the Bible in their own tongue. All of +us have become white people through the gospel." + +The little native churches of Dakota are most interesting illustrations +of the work going on among the Indians. It would be impossible to find +more attentive audiences. There is always an air of devotion, or of +serious attention to all that pertains to the service, which we are not +apt to find in our own churches. Men, women and children go; even the +babies are always taken. There is a quiet freedom there which allows the +Indian mothers to take the babies out and in again at any time, and the +preacher is never disturbed. They sing as if they enjoyed singing--men +and women together; and in fact the services are usually such as to give +one a new zeal in holy things, even though we can understand few words. + +Each Indian church has its missionary society, and its woman's society, +which is also missionary. These have been working and giving for mission +work further out among the Indians, and this year have pledged +themselves to give to foreign missions. During the last year they have +raised $1,084, of which the women raised $500. The prayer-meeting is as +much an institution with them as with us--in fact, they live as we live +and work as we work. + +Ehnamani, pastor of the Santee church--a fine old man, whose history in +connection with the Minnesota massacre of '62, and whose conversion and +present work are well known--was once asked, "Do you ever have the least +regret that the old life is gone--do you ever have any longing for the +war and for the dance?" His face grew stern and hard as he answered, +"Regret it! No, indeed! I cannot think of one good thing that I ever did +in that life, and I cannot bear to remember it." Few are there yet like +Ehnamani, though many are fast overtaking him, and a grand number of +Christian workers would you see could they be gathered before you! + +Many are the Indian hearts given back to God their Creator. Many are the +Indian homes consecrated to the Wakantanka. Many are the Indian lives +devoted to His service. And yet there are facts--there are overwhelming +facts, sad enough to break the great, throbbing Christian heart of this +country--facts that should make us cover our heads with shame. + +Out of 40,000 Sioux Indians, there are 35,000 still in heathenism. There +are sixty-six tribes on the Western prairies for whom nothing is yet +done. There are 40,000 Indians of school age; but when every school is +packed to its utmost only 12,000 can be accommodated. This includes +Government schools, Roman Catholic schools, and all; so that those under +mission teachers would be far less a number than 12,000. + +And this is where the Indian work stands to-day. How can the A.M.A. do +its share in this great work, or how can the work already begun be +carried on, unless money is turned liberally into its treasury? + +Shall the cry for help, coming 1,500 miles across the country, strike +against a hard wall of indifference and be thrown back to mock the red +man and to bid him wait yet longer? + + * * * * * + +THE DAKOTA MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +Its annual meeting was held in connection with the Dakota Conference, at +the Santee Agency and in the dining-room of the Normal and Training +School. There were two hundred Indian sisters present, besides the white +lady teachers. They represented six mission stations and twice as many +churches, each church having a wide awake woman's missionary society. +After a hymn, the President, Mrs. Tasinasawin, led in prayer and read +the first three verses of the 21st chapter of Luke, following it with a +few words about that widow's mite, saying that it was not the amount +given, but the _spirit_ in which it was given. That was the important +thing. The Indian women are able to give but little, but if they give +willingly, as to the Lord, He will bless it. The minutes were then read, +and a new president and secretary elected. Two candidates were put in +nomination for each office. As the roll was called each woman arose and +voted _viva voce_. Mrs. Brascaw was elected president, and Miss Mary C. +Collins, secretary. I was delighted to see the cheery way in which these +sisters-in-red did their voting. There were several sallies of laughter. + +Then the delegates made each a report of the work done in their +societies and how much money had been raised. One woman from the Brown +Earth Colony said: "We are poor, but we are interested in the work and +have done what we could. Mr. Williamson taught me to read, and when I +was young he taught many others to read. Now I am nearly blind but still +I have done what I could." + +Another said: When the pastor's wife was well she had helped them very +much and had taught them many things, but now she was sick and could not +attend many of their meetings, but they worked on and did the best they +could. + +Another said: "The gospel was sent to us when we were in darkness, and +now though we are few and scattered far apart, yet we are anxious to +send the same gospel to those who have not yet heard of it, and to help +those around us to love our Saviour and to love each other, and we give +gladly of the little that we have. It is not in our own strength that we +do this, but it is in God who helps us." + +It was found that the women had raised this year over five hundred +dollars. This goes into the treasury of the Dakota Society to help to +sustain four native preachers, who are also teachers, out among the wild +Indians. One of the services of the Sabbath, the great day of the feast, +was to hear from those their own missionaries to the heathen. At that +meeting I counted five hundred and thirty Christian Indians, who also +partook of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. To help their treasury +the women had a Fair for the sale of articles of handiwork. The most +noted one was a _quilt_ which had been made and sent in by Caroline +To-tee-doo-ta-win (Scarlet House), of Brown Earth, now in her 97th year. +She was one of the first three converts who were organized into a church +in 1834, at Lac-qui-parle, Minn. Her husband had two wives, and she was +the second. Finding upon conversion that polygamy was contrary to the +ordinance of God she at once proposed to be put away. She had been a +member of the Order of the Sacred Dance, but this she renounced, +throwing away her "medicine sack," which by the medicine men was +regarded as a high crime. This subjected her to divers persecutions, +which she bore patiently. There were times when all were forbidden to +attend worship at the mission. Then she took joyfully to the spoiling of +her goods, the cutting up of her blanket, she received the Sabbath as +God's day, and more than once remained behind her company when they +travelled on that day, making it up on Monday. She learned from +missionaries to spin and knit, and weave garments for herself and +husband. At forty-five years of age she learned to read her Dakota +Bible, and of her children she sent one to Ohio to learn the ways of +Christian white people. She has adhered to the faith for these +fifty-four years. With her quilt she sent the message that it was the +last one she could make. It was bought by Miss N. Hunter, a teacher at +the Yankton Agency, for four dollars, to be presented to Rev. Dr. Arthur +Mitchell of the Presbyterian Board. It was this Miss Hunter who +interpreted for me the addresses of the woman's meeting. Surely the +Apostle Paul would say of these, "Help those women who labored with me +in the Gospel." He who was so fond of naming the Christians who were +"the first fruits of Achaia," would be very loving to this aged +disciple, the first fruits of Dakota. + +JOSEPH E. ROY. + + * * * * * + +A missionary from the South writes: "In speaking on prohibition I call +attention to the fact that wherever there is a missionary school a +majority of the colored people are Prohibitionists, and in alluding to +places where local option has failed to banish the saloons because, as +is alleged, 'the negroes voted the wet ticket,' I add, 'To the white +citizens who make this complaint I would say, Oh, that ye had been wise! +Oh, that during all the years that have elapsed since the war, instead +of _keeping out_ you had _provided_ Christian teachers for these armed +but untrained citizens, these dwellers within the gates, with whose fate +your own is bound! Now would you have had able allies in this conflict +with the powers of darkness, this struggle between the home and the +saloon.'" + + * * * * * + +RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1887. + +MAINE, $302.27. + +Augusta. "Friends," by Miss B.D. +Robertson ...$6.59 + +Bethel. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...23.18 + +Biddleford. J.R. LIBBY (30 of which to + const. himself L.M.) ...100.00 + +Brewer. Sab Sch. of First Cong. Soc. ...15.00 + +Foxcroft. Mrs. D. Blanchard ...2.00 + +Harrison. Cong. Ch., _for Mobile, Ala._ ...9.00 + +New Castle, Rev. and Mrs. C.D. Crane, +_for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._ ...25.00 + +North Auson. "A Friend." ...10.00 + +Portland. First Parish Ch., 30; St. Lawrence +St. Ch., 13.50 ...43.50 + +Portland. "Thank offering," _for Tillotson +C. & N. Inst._ ...2.00 + +Saco. "A few Friends" in First Parish +Ch. and Soc., to const. Rev. E.C. Ingalls +L.M. ...30.00 + +South Paris. Cong. Ch. ...5.00 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...$11.00 + +Winthrop. Woman's State Aid, _for Woman's +Work_ ...20.00 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $209.04. + +Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...4.17 + +Berry. Sab. Sch. of First. Cong. Ch. ...16.72 + +Goffstown. Mrs. M.A. Stinson, _for Student +Aid, Dudley, N.C._ ...2.00 + +Great Falls. Mr. Bartlett, 5; Mr. Freeman, +1 ...6.00 + +Jaffrey. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...11.00 + +Keene. "Friends," by Miss B.D. Robertson ...1.90 + +Milford. First Cong Ch., to cont. ELMER +E. ARMSTRONG and MARTIN H. BROWN +L.M.'s ...75.00 + +Nashua. Miss Sarah Kendall, _For Brewer +Sch., S.C._ ...10.00 + +Nashua. Mrs. A.F. Stevens ...5.00 +{25} +Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...$1.75 + +Pembroke. Mrs. Mary Thompson, 10; + Sab. Sch. Of Cong. Ch.,2, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...12.00 + +Rindge. Geo. G. Williams ...5.00 + +Rochester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Marie Adlof Sch'p Fund_ ...32.00 + +West Concord. "Granite Mission Band," + _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...10.00 + +West Lebanon. Cong. Ch. ...16.00 + +Winchester. Mrs. S.S. Saben, by Rev. E. Harmon ...0.50 + + +VERMONT, $767.08. + +Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...15.30 + +Brattleboro. Center Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...51.49 + +Brattleboro. Sab. Sch. of Center Cong. + Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...15.00 + +Burlington. Third Cong. Ch., 37.50; First + Cong. Ch., 35, _for Indian M._ ...72.50 + +Cambridge. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...12.00 + +Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...27.58 + +Holland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...5.00 + +Manchester. "A Friend." ...5.00 + +McIndoes Falls. Wm. R. Monteith ...5.00 + +Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...11.00 + +Orwell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...28.87 + +Putney. Cong. Ch. ...11.00 + +Saint Albans. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Student + Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00 + +Sharon. "Eight Ladies," _for McIntosh, Ga._ ...6.00 + +Springfield. Cong. Ch. (10 of which _for + Avery Inst. and 6 for Indian M._) ...423.00 + +Westminster. Mission Band, _for McIntosh, + Ga._, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild ...5.00 + +Westminster West. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to + const. Rev. H.A. GOODHUE L.M. ...18.34 + +West Townshend. N.W. Goddard ...5.00 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $9,522.25. + +Abington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...15.00 + +Allston. Cong. Ch. to const. REV. ALONZO + H. QUINT, D.D., L.M. ...30.00 + +Boston. Park St. Ch. and Soc., + Ad'l ...124.00 + + " "A Friend." ...95.00 + + " Sab. Sch. of Old South + Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ ...20.00 + + " Mrs. J.B. Potter, _for Wilmington, + N.C._ ...8.00 + + " Mrs. E.P. Eayres ...5.00 + + " Miss Tuttle ...2.50 + + " Dea. Merrill of Union Ch., + _for Tougaloo U._ ...2.00 + + " Mrs. N.J. Ingraham ...1.00 + +Dorchester. S.S. Class, by Thos. + Knapp, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...8.00 + +Jamaica Plain. Sab. Sch. of + Central Cong. Ch., _for Student + Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00 + +Jamaica Plain. "Jamaica Plain." ...1.00 + +Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. ...50.00 + +West Roxbury. Emily J. Hazelton ...5.00 + +-------- 371.50 + +Baldwinsvilie. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Rosebud Indian M._ ...6.90 + +Barre. Cong. Sab. Sch. ...8.94 + +Bernardston. Miss M.L. Newcomb ...50.00 + +Bernardston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...4.17 + +Brockton. Miss John W. Hunt ...5.00 + +Cambridgeport. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim Ch., + _for Marie Adlof Sch'p Fund_ ...4.20 + +Clinton. Miss G. Allen ...0.50 + +Danvers. Maple St. Ch. ...163.19 + +Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...160.58 + +Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...9.06 + +Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...55.42 + +Easthampton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. + Ch., 38.25; Home Mission Band, 10.00; + L.E. Parsons, 40c.; W.R. Hamlin, 25c., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...48.90 + +East Marshfield. Cong. Ch. ...$5.72 + +Enfield. Daniel H. Abbe, _for Sherwood, + Tenn._ ...5.00 + +Fitchburg. Cal. Cong. Ch. ...78.91 + +Fitchburg. Box of Tools and Box of + Books, _for Talladega C._ + +Framingham. Schneider Band, Plym. + Ch., _for Indian M._ ...21.00 + +Globe Village. Evan. Free Ch. ...22.25 + +Groton. "A Friend," (10 of which _for + Chinese M._ and 10 _for Mountain White + Work_), to const. MRS. HELEN CRITTENDEN + L.M. ...30.00 + +Groton. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Cong. + for Freight ...2.00 + +Groveland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...22.00 + +Hardwick. Cal. Ch. ...4.50 + +Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...50.50 + +Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols, _for Fisk + University_ ...33.35 + +Holliston. Miss Mary P. Lord, Box of + Books and Roll of Carpeting, _for Talladega C._ + +Holyoke. Seymour Cutlery Co., 4 pairs + Shears, _for Macon, Ga._ + +Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...17.18 + +Leicester. Miss H.E. Henshaw ...3.00 + +Leominster. Young Ladies of Cong. Ch., + _for Santee Indian M._ ...20.00 + +Leominstcr. Orth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (4 + of which _for Indian M._) ...42.45 + +Leominster. F.A. Whitney, _for Boys' + new Hall, Santee Indian M._ ...2,500.00 + +Ludlow. Soc. of "Precious Pearls," by + Miss M.E. Jones, _for Mountain White + Work_ ...5.00 + +Ludlow Center. First Cong. Ch., _for + Tougaloo U._ ...10.00 + +Medway. Ladies. _for Freight_ ...1.25 + +Melrose. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...114.27 + +Methuen. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...24.84 + +Nahant. Mrs. Walter Johnson ...1.00 + +Nalick. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for + Student Aid, Atlanta U._ ...50.00 + +Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., + 35; Whitefield Cong. Ch. and Soc., 13.92 ...51.92 + +North Amherst. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...13.00 + +Northampton. Edwards Ch. Benev. Soc. ...83.86 + +North Brookfield. Miss Abby W. Johnson ...5.00 + +North Cambridge. Young Ladies' M.C. of + No. Av. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Indian M._ ...25.00 + +North Weymonth. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim + Ch., _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._ ...8.00 + +Norton. Trinitarian Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...18.49 + +Otis. Cong. Ch. ...5.20 + +Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., + _for Freight_ ...2.00 + +Palmer. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian + M._ ...50.00 + +Palmer. "Friend," _for Indian M._ ...1.00 + +Pepperell. "Friends," _for Student Aid, + Dudley, N.C._ ...11.00 + +Royalston. "Friends," _for Student Aid, + Dudley, N.C._ ...15.00 + +Salem. Crombie St. Ch. and Soc. ...58.00 + +Scotland. Mrs. Leonard, Box of C., _for + Chattanooga, Tenn._ + +Somerville. Y.L. Mission Circle of Day + St. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.,_ and to + const. MRS. 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Stone, Ex. ...2,000.00 + +Westhampton. Estate of Aaron Fisher, +by Jairus J. Fisher ...85.00 + +--------- +$9,522.25 + + +CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE + +Limington, Me. Ladles of Cong. Ch., 1 +Bbl., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Portland, Me. By Mrs. Chas. Frost, 1 +Bbl., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Concord, N.H. Ladies of North Cong. +Ch., 1 Bbl. + +Hollis, N.H. Ladies' Charitable Soc., 2 +Bbls., _for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._ + +Ashfield, Mass. Ladies of Cong, Ch., 1 +Bbl., val. 39.75. + +Groton, Mass. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of +Cong. Ch., Bbl., _for Wilmington. N.C._ + +Ipswich, Mass. First Ch., by Miss Lucy +R. Farley, 2 Bbls., val. 25 ea. + +Medway, Mass. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., +1 Bbl., val. 31.50, _for Wilmington, N.C._ + +Millbury, Mass. Mrs. Emily S. Ewell, 1 +Box, _for Atlanta U._ + +Phillipston, Mass. Ladles of Cong. Ch., +1 Box. + +Somerville, Mass. Young Ladles' Miss'y +Circle of Day St. Ch., Bbl. and Case, _for +Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Spencer, Mass. By Mrs. J.W. Temple, 1 +Bbl., _for Atlanta U._ + +Westboro. Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, 1 +Bbl., val. 47.68, _for Atlanta U._ + +----. 1 Bbl., _for Atlanta U._ + + +RHODE ISLAND, $238.08. + +Barrington. Cong. Ch., 59.65, and Sab. +Sch. 40.35, to const. EDWARD T. FLEMMING +L.M. ...100.00 + +Kingston. Cong. Ch. ...20.60 +Peace Dale. Cong. Ch. ...12.48 + +Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., 75; +MRS. B.B. KNIGHT, 30 to const, herself L.M. ...105.00 + + +CONNECTICUT, $1,418.85. + +Black Rock. Cong. Ch. ...28.00 +Bozrah. Cong. Ch., Communion Set + +Bridgeport. Second Cong, Ch., 18.50; +Park St. Cong. Ch., 3.26, _for student +Aid, Fisk U._ + +Bridgeport. Soc. of "Four O'Clocks" ...10.00 + +Bristol. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud +Indian M._ ...32.00 + +Derby. Sarah A. Hotchkiss ...5.00 +East Berlin. Titus Penfield ...5.00 + +East Haadam. By Mrs. E.T. Reed, _for +Freight_ ...2.00 + +East Hampton. "Friends," _for Theo. +Dept., Talladega C._ ...20.70 + +East Hampton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., +_for Indian M._ ...6.00 + +Franklin. Miss A.L. Hart, _for Student +Aid, Talladega C._ ...1.00 + +Glastonbury. Geo. G. Williams, 100; J.B. +Williams, 50, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...150.00 + +Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. ...6.20 + +Griswoldville. True Blue Card, by Miss +Bertha Griswold ...$2.00 + +Guilford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong Ch., _for +Sch'p Santee Indian M._ ...40.00 + +Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. +ANNIE L. MOODY L.M. ...30.00 + +Hadlyme. Cong. Ch., 7; Mrs. Nancy Hungerford, 3; +R.E. Hungerford, 5; Jos. W. Hungerford, 5 ...20.00 + +Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. ...79.52 + +Hartford. Mrs. M.I. Allen, 6 doz. Thimbles, +_for Macon, Ga._ + +Harwinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for +Rosebud Indian M._ ...10.35 + +Meriden. Center Ch. ...15.00 + +Middlefield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for +Rosbud Indian M._ ...20.02 + +Milton. Cong. Ch. ...5.30 + +New Britain. Sab. Soh, of South Ch., _for +Indian Work, Hampton Inst._ ...37.73 + +Norfolk. "Friends," _for Rosebud Indian +M._ ...8.00 + +Old Lyme. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. +Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...20.00 + +Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch. ...16.15 + +Rockville. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., +_for Rosebud Indian M._ ...42.00 + +Somers. Miss Battle R. Pease. 5; Halsey +Huff, 2; Amos Pease, 2; Elijah Cutter, +1; C.P. Langdon. 1; E.P. Russell, 1; +Henry Brewster, 1: L.W. Russell, 50c., +_for Lewis High Sch., Macon, Ga._ ...13.50 + +Somers. "Ladies of Seiners," 32 yards +Matting and one large Rug, _for Macon, +Ga._ + +Somersville. Noah E. Pease, 30, to const. +MRS. NOAH E. PEASE L.M.; Mrs. Orpha +P. Smith, 5, _for Lewis High Sch., Macon, +Ga._ ...35.00 + +South Britain. Sab. Sch., by Miss Laura +F. Keeler, _for Mobile, Ala._ ...6.37 + +South Canaan. Sab. Scii. of Cong. Ch., _for +Rosebud Indian M._ ...7.10 + +Southport. Sah. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for +Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...34.40 + +Southport. "Cash" ...25.00 + +Stamford. Mrs. A.M. Hurlbutt's S.S. +Class, _for Student Aid, Indian M._ ...70.00 + +Thomaston. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _for +Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...30.00 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. ...19.25 + +Thompson. Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l +Sch., Ga._ ...30.00 + +Thompson. Cong. Ch. ...19.85 +Washington. Frederick A. Frisbie ...1.00 + +Watertown. S.S. Class, by Mrs. Scott, _for +For Berthold Indian M._ ...10.00 + +Westford. Cong. Ch. ...3.53 +Westminster. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...4.00 +Westville. M.P. Dickerman ...2.00 + +Wethersfield. Thanksgiving offering, by +Geo. W. Harris, for Indian M. (2 of +which from C. Karl Harris and Geo. M. +Harris), _for Rosebud M._ ...10.00 + +Winchester. Cong. Ch. ...12.55 +Windsor. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 + +Woodbury. "Coral Workers," Bbl. Of +Bedding, etc., _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +----. "Friends in Connecticut," _for +Chapel, Cheyenne Agency_ ...300.00 + +----. "A Friend," _for Theo. Dept. +Talladega C._ ...25.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of +Conn., by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, +Sec: + +Ellington. Ladies' Soc. ...20.00 +Pomfret. Ladies' Soc. ...4.00 +--------- +$1,368.85 + + +LEGACY. + +Millelbury. Estate of Charles Boughton, +by Geo. A. Boughton, Ex. ...50.00 +--------- +$1,418.85 + + +{27} +NEW YORK $924.05. + +Bangor. " Friends," by Rev. G.A. Jameson, + _for Talladega C._ ...$26.62 + +Brooklyn. Tompkins Av. Cong. Ch. ...408.00 + +Brooklyn, Stephen Ballard, _for Tougaloo U._ ...112.00 + +Buffalo. Wm. W. Hammond, _for Indian M._ ...10.00 + +Churchville. Sab. Soft. Miss'y Soc. of + Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...35.00 + +Churchville. "Mission Band," Cong. Ch., + 2 Quilts, _for Macon Ga._ + +Columbus. Cong. Ch. ...3.00 + +Cortland. Cong. Ch. ...5.00 + +Derby "Children" by Miss E.L. Camp. + _for Marie Adlof Fund_ ...0.50 + +Elbridge. Cong. Ch. ...12.00 + +Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 34.26, and + Sab. Sch., 8.27 ...42.53 + +Ithaca. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ ...25.00 + +New York. Mrs. Dodge, _for Talladega C._ ...100.00 + +New York. Geo. E. Hamlin ...25.00 + +New York. Bethany Sewing Sch., 6; Infant + Class, Sab. Sch. Broadway Tabernacle, + 5, _for Fort Berthold Indian M._ ...11.00 + +New York. Proceeds sale of Gift ...1.25 + +Norwich. "G.," 20; "Lady in Cong. + Ch.," 1 ...21.00 + +Rochester. Plymouth Ch. ...19.37 + +Sag Harbor. Chas. N. Brown, to const. + REV. CHAS H. WILSON L.M. ...30.00 + +Syracuse. Chas. A. Hamlin ...21.78 + +Walton. Ladies' Miss. Soc., 2 Bbls. Goods, + _for Santee Indian M._ + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of + N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Warsaw. Ladies' Soc. ...5.00 + + West Groton. Young People's Soc. ...10.00 + +----- 15.00 + + +NEW JERSEY, $115.90. + +Arlington, Sab. Sch. Miss'y Soc. of Presb. + Ch. _for Beach Inst._ ...5.00 + +East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch. ...44.68 + +Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch. ...36.22 + +Bound Brook. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for + Indian M._ ...30.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $316.25. + +Canton. H. Sheldon ...10.00 + +Mercer. Proceeds sale of late Free Presb. + Ch., _for benefit of Freedmen_, by G.K. + Smith for the trustees ...300.00 + +Orwell. Rev. M.R. Kerr ...0.25 + +Shenandoah. Ladies Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of + C., Freight 1., _for Savannah, Ga._ ...1.00 + +West Alexander. Mrs. Ruth Sunderland ...5.00 + + +OHIO, $105.77. + +Atwater. For Freight ...1.25 + +Claridon First Cong. Ch. ...54.00 + +Conneant H.E. Pond and "Friends," _for + Straight U._ ...8.60 + +Mantua. Cong. Ch. ...4.33 + +Oberlin. Mrs. D.H. Patchlin ...1.00 + +Ruggles. Cong. Ch. ...15.50 + +Ohio Woman's Home Miss'y Union, by + Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., _for + Woman's Work_: + + Burton. Mrs. L.R. Boughton ...5.00 + + Burton. Mrs. A.S. Hotchkiss ...3.00 + + Cleveland, Y.P.S.C.E., First + Cong. Ch. ...1.09 + + Lindenville. Miss Ellen + Jones ...5.00 + + Marysville. Ladies Miss'y + Aux. ...4.00 + + Medina. Boys' Mission + Band ...3.00 + +----- 21.09 + + +INDIANA, $20.00. + +Bloomington. Mrs. A.B. Woodford, _for + Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...$20.00 + + +ILLINOIS, $344.69. + +Amboy. Ladies, by S. Bell, 1 Pkg. Patchwork + and 5 Bibles + +Avon. Cong. Ch. ...12.24 + +Chicago. Warren Av. Cong. Ch., 13.62; + Soc. of Inquiry, Theo. Sem. 10 ...23.62 + +Chicago. W.H.M.U. of South Cong. Ch., + _for Woman's Work_ ...5.00 + +Englewood. Cong. Ch. ...48.70 + +Forrest. Cong. Ch. ...7.00 + +Kewanee. Cong. Ch. ...72.13 + +Lawn Ridge. Cong. Ch. ...18.38 + +Port Byron. Cong. Ch. ...3.20 + +Rochelle. Mrs. A.C. Francis ...1.00 + +Seward. Cong. Ch., 38.15, to const. REV. + W.F. COOLEY L.M., Ladies Soc. of Cong. Ch., 13 ...51.15 + +Stillman Valley. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...6.92 + +Waverly. Cong, Ch., 34.42; Sab. Sch. Of + Cong. Ch., 12.43, to const. REV. W.A. + HOBBS L.M. ...46.85 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Ill., + by Mrs. B.T. Leavitt, Treas., _for Woman's + Work_: + + Canton. Ladies Miss'y Soc., + First Ch. ...10.00 + + La Harpe. H.M. Union ...5.00 + + Oak Park. Ladies' Benev. + Circle ...1.00 + + Rockford H.M.U. of First + Ch. ...20.65 + + Rockford. W.H.M.U. of + Second Ch. ...2.60 + + Thawville. Miss'y Soc. ...1.25 + + Thawville. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. ...3.00 + + Wyoming. Woman's Miss'y + Soc. ...10.00 + +----- 53.50 + + +MICHIGAN, $222.48. + +Alpena. "A Member of my Ch," by Rev. + H.H. Van Auken ...25.00 + +Columbus. Cong. Ch. ...15.60 + +Galesburg. Cong. Ch., 20.15, and Sab. + Sch., 11.85, to const. DEA N.T. RANDALL + L.M. ...32.00 + +Grand Blanc. Woman's Miss'y Soc., by + Mrs. G.R. Parker, _for Woman's Work_ ...4.00 + +Greenville. Cong Ch. ...50.00 + +Hancock. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Litchfield. Cong. Ch. ...10.88 + +Marshall. Mr. E.A. Crocker ...2.00 + +Port Huron. First Cong. Ch. ...73.00 + + +WISCONSIN, $68.30. + +Clinton. Cong. Ch. ...17.95 + +Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch. ...10.15 + +Johnston. Cong. Ch. ...2.20 + +Milwaukee. George J. Rogers ...20.00 + +Ripon. Cong. Ch. (9 of which _for Indian + M._) ...18.00 + + +IOWA, $92.80. + +Chester. Cong. Ch. ...7.64 + +Clear Lake. Christian End. Soc., Bbl. of + C., Freight 1, _Savannah, Ga. ...1.00 + +Danville. Cong. Ch. ...12.50 + +Genoa Bluffs. Cong. Ch. ...7.00 + +Oakland. Mrs. M.M. Bush ...10.00 + +Stacyville. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Taber. Mission Band, _for Talladega C._ ...9.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, + _for Woman's Work_: + + Grinnell. W.H.M.U. of Cong. Ch. ...11.28 + + Marion. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...10.20 +{28} + + Magnolia. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...$1.65 + + Osage. L.M.S. of Cong Ch. ...1.20 + + Osage. "Prairie Chickens," of Cong. Ch. ...0.40 + + Polk City. L.M.S. of Cong Ch. ...1.00 + + Prairie Hill. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...0.50 + + Rockford. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...1.01 + + Sheldon. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...1.72 + + Webster City. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...4.00 + +Norwich, Vt. Mrs. H.M. Stuart ...2.00 + +------ + +35.66 + + +MINNESOTA, $130.55 + +Duluth. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. ...45.00 + +Excelsior. "J.C.H." ...3.00 + +Lake City. Cong. Ch. ...7.00 + +Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. ...19.00 + +Northfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...51.53 + +Northfield. Robert Watson ...5.00 + + +MISSOURI, $204.25. + +Kansas City. First Cong. Ch. ...158.00 + +Kansas City. Cong. Ch. ...46.25 + + +DAKOTA, $13.00. + +De Smet. Mrs. Phebe M. Weeks ...13.00 + + +NEBRASKA, $56.82. + +Omaha. H.M. James, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00 + +Waverly. Cong. Ch. ...6.82 + + +ARKANSAS, $5.00. + +Little Rock. Ladies' Soc. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...5.00 + + +COLORADO, $41.35. + +Denver. First Cong. Ch. ...36.35 + +Rosita. Miss Jospehine Kellogg, _for Tougaloo U._ ...5.00 + + +CALIFORNIA, $10.35. + +Etna Mills. Cong. Ch. ...10.35 + + +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $61.00. + +Washington. Mt. Pleasant Cong. Ch., 51; Lincoln Mem. Ch., 10 ...61.00 + + +MARYLAND, $5.00. + +Federalsburg. Miss Sarah A. Beals ...5.00 + + +KENTUCKY, $270.35 + +Lexington. Tuition, $368.35; "Friend," 2 ...370.35 + + +TENNESSEE, $1,027.59. + +Grand View. Tuition ...15.00 + +Jellico. Tuition ...13.50 + +Jonesboro. Tuition, 6; County Funds, 17.28; Rent, 2.50 ...25.78 + +Memphis. Tuition ...403.75 + +Nashville. Tuition, 554.81; Rent, 6.50 ...561.31 + +Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch. ...2.00 + +Robbins. Cong. Ch. ...6.25 + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $205.75. + +Troy. Cong. Ch. ...0.50 + +Wilmington. Tuition ...195.50 + +Wilmington. By Miss H.L. Fetts, 6.75; By Miss H.D. Hyde, 3 ...9.75 + + +SOUTH CAROLINA, $216.25. + +Charleston. Tuition ...216.25 + + +GEORGIA, $789.90. + +Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition ...341.80 + +Macon. Tuition ...153.55 + +Macon. Miss E.B. Scoble, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...5.00 + +Marietta. Cong. Ch., 3, and Sab. Sch., 1 ...4.00 + +Savannah. Tuition ...210.50 + +Thomasville. Tuition ...74.95 + + +ALABAMA, $410.66. + +Mobile. Tuition ...243.45 + +Montgomery. Cong. Ch. ...19.00 + +Talladega. Tuition ...138.21 + +Talladega. Sab. Sch., Talladega C., _for Mobile, Ala._ ...10.00 + + +LOUISIANA, $261.50. + +New Orleans. Tuition ...261.50 + + +MISSISSIPPI, $202.25. + +New Ruhamah. Cong. Ch. ...0.75 + +Tougaloo. Tuition, 199.50; Rent, 2 ...201.50 + + +TEXAS, $110.15. + +Austin. Tuition ...109.15 + +Dodd City. Cong. Ch. ...1.00 + + +INCOMES, 1982.00. + +Avery fund, _for Mendi M._ ...112.50 + +C.B. Rice Memorial Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...9.45 + +Endowment Fund, _for President's Chair, Talladega C._ ...500.00 + +General Endowment Fund ...31.50 + +Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._ ...125.00 + +Hastings Sch'p Fund, _for Atlanta U._ ...12.50 + +Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ ...600.00 + +H.W. Lincoln Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...31.50 + +Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._ ...200.00 + +Luke Mem. Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...10.00 + +Rev. J. and Lydia Hawes Wood Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...25.00 + +Mrs. Nancy N. and Miss Abbie Stone Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...25.00 + +Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._ ...72.50 + +Theo. Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...22.05 + +Tuthill King Fund, 125 _for Atlanta U._; 75 _for Berea C._ ...200.00 + +Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...5.00 + + +EUROPE, $1.50. + +Blugaria. Samokov. Miss E.T. Maltbie ...1.50 + +======== + + +Donations ...$12,127.39 + +Legacies ...3,129.47 + +Incomes ...1,982.00 + +Tuition ...3,523.15 + +Rents ...11.00 + +---------- + +Total for November ...$20,773.01 + +Total from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 ...33,336,23 + +========== + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +Subscriptions for November ...$46.33 + +Previously acknowledged ...37.17 + +------- + +$83.50 + +======= + +H.W. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The American Missionary + Volume 42, No. 1, January 1888 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: April 3, 2004 [EBook #11762] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + + + + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson and PG Distributed Proofreaders + + + + + +</pre> + + <span class="pagenum"><a name="pageI" id="pageI"></a>{I}</span> + <h1>The American Missionary</h1> + <hr class="full" /> + <table width="100%" summary="Title"> + <tr> + <td align="left" width="25%"><b>Vol. XLII.</b></td> + <td align="center" width="50%"><b>January, 1888.</b></td> + <td align="right" width="25%"><b>No. 1.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + <h2>CONTENTS</h2> + <ul> + <li> + EDITORIAL. + <ul> + <li><a href="#editorial1">NEW YEAR'S GREETING—FINANCIAL</a></li> + <li><a href="#editorial2">PARAGRAPHS</a></li> + <li><a href="#editorial3">PROHIBITION ITEMS</a></li> + <li><a href="#editorial4">PARAGRAPHS</a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li> + THE SOUTH. + <ul> + <li><a href="#south1">NOTES IN THE SADDLE</a></li> + <li><a href="#south2">RELIGIOUS INTEREST IN LINCOLN CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D. + C.</a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li> + THE INDIANS. + <ul> + <li><a href="#indians">THE FOURTH BROTHER. By Mr. Frank Wood</a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li> + THE CHINESE. + <ul> + <li><a href="#chinese">DOES RESTRICTION RESTRICT?</a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li> + BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + <ul> + <li><a href="#bureau1">FOUNDATION LAYING AND HOME BUILDING IN THE SOUTH. By + Miss Josephine Kellogg</a></li> + <li><a href="#bureau2">THE SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL AND INDIAN MISSIONS. + By Mrs. Chas. W. Shelton</a></li> + <li><a href="#bureau3">THE DAKOTA MISSIONARY SOCIETY</a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><a href="#receipts">RECEIPTS</a></li> + </ul> + <hr class="full" /> + <table width="100%" summary="Publisher"> + <tr> + <td align="left" width="25%"><b>New York.</b><br /> + Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.</td> + <td align="center" width="50%"><b>Published by the American Missionary + Association.</b><br /> + Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.</td> + <td align="right" width="25%"><b>Rooms, 56 Reade Street.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="pageII" id="pageII"></a>{II}</span> + <h2>American Missionary Association</h2> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <div class="association"> + <p class="title">PRESIDENT,</p> + <p>——— ———</p> + <p class="title"><i>Vice-Presidents.</i></p> + <p>Rev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y.</p> + <p>Rev. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass.</p> + <p>Rev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.</p> + <p>Rev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass.</p> + <p>Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.</p> + <p class="title"><i>Corresponding Secretaries.</i></p> + <p>Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.</p> + <p>Rev. JAMES POWELL, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.</p> + <p>Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.</p> + <p class="title"><i>Treasurer.</i></p> + <p>H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.</p> + <p class="title"><i>Auditors.</i></p> + <p>PETER MCCARTEE. CHAS. P. PEIRCE.</p> + <p class="title"><i>Executive Committee.</i></p> + <p>JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.</p> + <p>ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.</p> + <p class="title"><i>For Three Years.</i></p> + <p>LYMAN ABBOTT,</p> + <p>A.S. BARNES,</p> + <p>J.R. DANFORTH,</p> + <p>CLINTON B. FISK,</p> + <p>ADDISON P. FOSTER,</p> + <p class="title"><i>For Two Years.</i></p> + <p>S.B. HALLIDAY,</p> + <p>SAMUEL HOLMES,</p> + <p>SAMUEL S. MARPLES,</p> + <p>CHARLES L. MEAD,</p> + <p>ELBERT B. MONROE,</p> + <p class="title"><i>For One Year.</i></p> + <p>J.E. RANKIN,</p> + <p>WM. H. WARD,</p> + <p>J.W. COOPER,</p> + <p>JOHN H. WASHBURN,</p> + <p>EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.</p> + <p class="title"><i>District Secretaries.</i></p> + <p>Rev. C.L. WOODWORTH, D.D., 21 <i>Cong'l House, Boston</i>.</p> + <p>Rev. J.E. ROY, D.D., 151 <i>Washington Street, Chicago</i>.</p> + <p class="title"><i>Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.</i></p> + <p>Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON,</p> + <p class="title"><i>Field Superintendent.</i></p> + <p>Rev. C.J. RYDER.</p> + <p class="title"><i>Bureau of Woman's Work.</i></p> + <p><i>Secretary</i>, Miss D E. EMERSON, 56 <i>Reade Street, N.Y.</i></p> + </div> + <hr class="full" /> + <h3>COMMUNICATIONS</h3> + <p>Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding + Secretaries; those relating to the collecting fields, to Rev. James Powell, D.D., or + to the District Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, at + the New York Office.</p> + <h3>DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</h3> + <p>In drafts, checks, registered letters or post-office orders, may be sent to H.W. + Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of + the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, + Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.</p> + <h3>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h3> + <p>"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in + trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, + when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American Missionary + Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive + Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes," The Will should + be attested by three witnesses.</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page1" id="page1"></a>{1}</span> + <hr class="full" /> + <a name="editorial1" id="editorial1"></a> + <h2>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h2> + <hr /> + <table width="50%" summary="Title" align="center"> + <tr> + <td align="left" width="25%"><b>Vol. XLII.</b></td> + <td align="center" width="50%"><b>January, 1888.</b></td> + <td align="right" width="25%"><b>No. 1.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr /> + <p style="text-align: center;"><b>American Missionary Association.</b></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h3>A HAPPY NEW YEAR!</h3> + <p>A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It is an inspiring delight to hear and + speak the greeting. It is a phrase that comes down to us from the ages. All the more + gladly do we repeat it on that account. There are some things, thank God, even in + this world, that never grow old. The greetings of Christmas and New Year are among + them. This is because they are connected with Christ and his kingdom. True happiness + for mankind first came into this world when Christ was born. In proportion as he is + received into human life, happiness is experienced. Therefore, in wishing for our + readers a happy New Year, we are wishing for them more of Christ in their thought and + life.</p> + <p>But Christ never comes into a life to be held there in confinement. He seeks our + life that it may become a channel through which he may flow to bless and make happy + other lives. He is not only our peace—he is our righteousness as well. How + miserable we would be in our sins and shortcomings were this not so! But all the more + on that account will we desire to <i>do</i> what we can to make up for our + deficiencies. Loving him, we shall want to do his will. He wills that all shall hear + of the salvation his gospel brings. We can proclaim the message. He wills that all + shall see the power of his gospel in the benevolent fruits of his followers' lives. + We can exhibit that power. Where we cannot go to tell the story and exhibit the power + in person, we can send. Therefore, in wishing for our readers a happy New Year, we + are wishing for them a righteousness that will manifest Christ actually saving the + world in what they say and do. Happiness through service and sacrifice—this is + the happiness THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY wishes for all its readers, because it is the + only happiness worth having.</p> + <hr /> + <p>While January is the first month of the calendar year, it happens to be the fourth + month of the A.M.A.'s fiscal year. It is a good time for our friends to make new + resolutions in reference to what they will do in <span class="pagenum"><a + name="page2" id="page2"></a>{2}</span> support of our work the coming year. We closed + last year out of debt. It was a cause for joy and thanksgiving. The Portland meeting + felt and expressed it. Letters of congratulation came to us from all parts of the + country. But there is something about prosperity that almost inevitably fosters + decline. A woe seems to be attached to institutions as well as individuals of which + all men speak well. We need $25,000 a month to pay necessary bills. We ought to have + $30,000 a month to properly prosecute the work at this moment on hand. Our total + receipts at the end of the first two months of the new fiscal year were $33,336. The + lowest figure, in order to enable us to meet our bills for the two months, is + $50,000. The result is, we are again obliged to report payments in excess of + receipts. We do it unwillingly. We want very much to be delivered from the necessity + of making special appeals along toward the end of the year. This necessity can be + avoided only through our friends' securing increased receipts to our treasury the + early part of the year. Now is the time to resolve that it shall be done. Let every + church vote to give us a contribution. Let every individual friend resolve that he + will, if possible, increase his contribution over that of last year, and that in any + event he will by personal effort enlarge the circle of our supporters by inducing + some friend or friends to take an interest in our work.</p> + <hr /> + <p>Memorial services in honor of our late President, Hon. Wm. B. Washburn, were held + at Greenfield, Mass., Gov. Washburn's home, November 29th, under the auspices of the + Connecticut Valley Congregational Club. Addresses were made by U.S. Senator Hoar, + Rev. Dr. Buckingham, and President Seelye.</p> + <hr /> + <p>Thirty dollars constitute a Life Membership. Some of our friends utilize their + contributions in this way. One of these writes us: "This is my thirty-first Life + Member which it is my good fortune to make to your society." A good example to + follow.</p> + <hr /> + <p>Lord Shaftsbury once said: "I think it would be of the greatest value if the + reports of the various Religious and Charitable Societies were at once, by Act of + Parliament, elevated into the dignity of Blue Books. If every Member of Parliament, + under the most severe penalty—and more particularly the ministers of the + day—were compelled to study them accurately, and then undergo a competitive + examination, I am satisfied that great good would accrue to themselves and benefit to + their country; their enlarged notions, and probably improved hearts, would be felt in + the legislation of the country."</p> + <a name="editorial2" id="editorial2"></a> + <p>A pertinent illustration of the force of this statement is the speech of <span + class="pagenum"><a name="page3" id="page3"></a>{3}</span> Senator Frye, made at the + Portland meeting. The Senator confessed that he had not been familiar with the + history of the American Missionary Association, that he had been reading its Annual + Reports, and making himself acquainted with its work. Thereupon, out of what he had + learned, he constructed a speech that was, in every way, worthy of the Statesman that + he is. We shall be much mistaken if Senator Frye does not find occasion to use the + knowledge obtained in the study of our Association's history in some of his speeches + or debates in the U.S. Senate.</p> + <hr /> + <p>The citizens of Macon, Ga., gave Jefferson Davis a rousing reception on the + occasion of his recent visit to that city. As a souvenir of his welcome, they + presented him with 126 bottles of wine, thirty-three bottles of whiskey, fourteen + bottles of brandy, and eleven boxes of cigars. If these gifts suggest anything in + regard to the habits of Jefferson Davis, we can readily see that he was not a fit + candidate for having the ladies put upon his lapel a blue ribbon. No wonder he rushed + into print to assure the public that he was not in favor of total abstinence. A + campaign in behalf of prohibition would have a hard time in the region of Macon.</p> + <hr /> + <p>Evan P. Howell and Henry W. Grady are among the owners of the <i>Atlanta + Constitution</i>. During the recent campaign on the liquor question in Atlanta these + gentlemen were on opposite sides, so that the papers reported that while Mr. Grady + was making a speech in behalf of prohibition in one part of the town, Capt. Howell + was making a speech against it in another place. Two of Mr. Grady's speeches have + been published in pamphlet form, and they are worthy of that gentleman's reputation + as an orator. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY is glad to find Mr. Grady on the right side of + this question, and regrets that prohibition failed to carry the day in the + election.</p> + <a name="editorial3" id="editorial3"></a> + <p>The colored people held the balance of power. We praised them last year when, + using that balance, they carried the city for temperance. We regret that this year + they have used it against temperance. There is no use of concealing the fact. + Ignorant people cannot be depended upon to take the right side of any question. It + will be a mere happening if they do. The election in Atlanta gives additional + emphasis to the necessity of our work in the South.</p> + <hr /> + <p>White ladies so far overcame their caste prejudices as to join their colored + sisters in the campaign for prohibition. Together they prayed and worked. Many of the + white people were disgusted at this exhibition of social equality. These white ladies + have taken a step in the right direction, and, when all their white sisters join + them, reform will be well advanced. May the day be hastened!</p> + <hr /> + <a name="editorial4" id="editorial4"></a> <span class="pagenum"><a name="page4" + id="page4"></a>{4}</span> + <p>The rum advocates resorted to all manner of devices to influence the colored + people. They had a circular printed with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The picture + represented him standing, with a slave in chains kneeling before him. Under the + picture, in quotation marks, were the words, as if spoken by Mr. Lincoln: + "Prohibition is slavery; I will cut the manacles from your hands." This was a mean + trick. To put such lying words into the mouth of a man whose name the colored people + revere next to that of the Saviour, is a piece of wickedness that only rum-sellers + could be guilty of. It accomplished their vile purpose, however, in leading a great + many colored people to vote against prohibition.</p> + <hr /> + <p>A colored preacher who made anti-prohibition speeches, referring to a statement + that their meetings were not opened with prayer, said that he would make as good a + prayer as anybody. Thereupon he slowly prayed: "Oh! Lord, I pray thee to help Atlanta + in her extremity. Oh, do lift her up and restore her to the proud place she once + occupied before these prohibition fanatics got her by the throat. Oh, Lord Jesus, do + thou make these deluded preachers see the error of their ways. Do help the sweet + inhabitants of this city. [Cries of 'Amen!'] Do restore to them pure liquor, and not + compel them to drink the vile stuff sold as 'nerve tonic,' 'rice beer' and 'bitters.' + [Applause and laughter.] Give us power to win the fight. [Cries of 'Amen.'] Put to + rout the miserable hypocrites who parade as thy servants under the guise of + Prohibitionists. Oh, do save us and let us win this fight, for Jesus' sake, amen. + [Cheers, and cries of 'Amen.']" What can be expected of a church with such a man for + its pastor, and what can be expected of a people if left to such leadership?</p> + <hr /> + <p>Rev. Geo. C. Rowe, of Charleston, S.C., in company with brethren Snelson, Maxwell, + Jordan and Herron, going to attend the Association at Macon, Ga., by reason of a + delayed train were in danger of missing connection at Jessup, a junction. The + authorities telegraphed for the train to wait. When the little party reached Jessup, + they found the train in waiting, and boarding it entered a first-class coach. We let + Mr. Bowe tell the rest of the story:</p> + <blockquote> + <p>"A burly white train-hand came in, and said, in a threatening way: 'The forward + car is your car.' We gave him no answer, but kept our seats. The conductor came + through and looked at us, but said nothing. At the door he asked, roughly, of a + colored train hand, 'Why did you let those men go into that car?' They hardly knew + how to act, as we were the only passengers who came on the S.F. & W. train, + and they had been ordered to wait for passengers on that train; so, doubtless + considering <span class="pagenum"><a name="page5" id="page5"></a>{5}</span> + discretion the better part of valor, they left us severely alone, and we rode from + Savannah to Macon, an eight-hour journey in <i>Georgia</i>, first class, without + molestation. Of course, the white people who entered at various stations stared at + us, but we were good at that and returned the compliment. First class, indeed! Men + with turpentine clothes, or rags, on; women chewing snuff, etc., etc. If I looked, + acted and talked like some of the people that I saw on that train, I should + certainly feel myself an appropriate subject for an ox-cart in the backwoods, + rather than for a first class coach on a railroad; yet these are the people who + object to respectable, well-dressed, intelligent and Christian men and women riding + in a decent coach, on account of their color."</p> + </blockquote> + <hr class="full" /> + <a name="south1" id="south1"></a> + <h3>THE SOUTH.</h3> + <h4>NOTES IN THE SADDLE</h4> + <p class="author">BY FIELD-SUPERINTENDENT C.J. RYDER.</p> + <p>Pleasant Hill, Tenn., has now a school building worthy the growing importance of + that interesting field on the Cumberland plateau. The teaching force has been + enlarged and the influence of the school is constantly widening. Another building to + be used for boarding pupils is in process of erection, and is greatly needed. Maine + has joined hands with Tennessee in this most important work, several of the churches + having given to this field.</p> + <p>A new church has just been organized at Crossville, Tenn. Many northern families + have come into this region within the past few months, and they will greatly assist + us in gathering the native mountain people.</p> + <hr /> + <p>Grand View Academy, occupying a most commanding site on the top of a mountain + overlooking the magnificent valley of the Cumberland River, has also increased its + school accommodations. There will be here, in the not very distant future, a large + college, reaching in its influence the mountain people back on the plateau and in the + coves, and those who are rapidly filling the fertile valley along the foot of + Cumberland Mountain and Walden's Ridge. If we, as Congregational Churches, hold this + grand work, we must generously support it <i>now</i>.</p> + <hr /> + <p>A specimen, a hybrid of civilization and paganism, I saw on the streets of Fort + Smith, Arkansas. He seemed to illustrate the result of our governmental efforts to + citizenize the Indian without Christianizing him. A tall Indian, of fine, commanding + figure, walked down the street dressed in the following fashion: His feet were cased + in moccasins, his legs in buckskin <span class="pagenum"><a name="page6" + id="page6"></a>{6}</span> breeches. Both of these garments were highly ornamented + with quills and beads. He was purely Indian so far. His tall lithe body was closely + buttoned in a faded black Prince Albert coat. On his head he wore a Derby hat. So + much for civilization. The hat had a hole in the crown, and in this hole the Brave + had stuck a large tuft of eagle feathers that stood several inches above his head and + nodded and danced above him as he walked with the royal dignity of a Mogg Megone. + Here was civilization and savagery in dress at least. This is about what our + Government is doing for this people; urging them to put on the faded coat of + imperfect citizenship, and at the same time forbidding that they be instructed in the + truths of religion in their own language. We can never civilize the body while we + leave the heart savage. A visit to Fort Smith would convince anyone of the absolute + failure of this method. In the miserable prison pen, one hundred and forty-four were + crowded like cattle. Among this multitude of criminals were young boys, just entering + upon a life of crime, imprisoned for some paltry offence, and herded with them were + grey-headed murderers. All these prisoners were from the Indian Territory, or the + "Nation" as they call it. One man had just been convicted of murder. Two beautiful + daughters of an Indian mother stood weeping beside him. A gallows stands constantly + on the edge of the "Nation," and is used with appalling frequency. A lawyer who + courteously introduced me into the esoteric mysteries of the law as executed in this + United States Court, pointed out the peculiar construction of the gallows which + increased its capacity. "Eight men can stand on that plank and the drop will swing + them all off at once," he said with evident pride, then added apologetically, "I + never saw but six hung at one time, but they do hang eight."</p> + <p>"Hanging day," I was informed, was one of the great festival occasions. Thousands + of Indians, of more or less purity of blood, gathered from the "Nation" to enjoy this + treat. There is an excuse for a fence around this perpetual gallows, but there are + wide openings in it and the awful scene enacted within its enclosure can be witnessed + from surrounding elevations.</p> + <p>No doubt an attempt at justice is made in the United States Court. I attended the + trial of a case and it seemed to me the accused had a fair hearing, but what a + comment on our Christian civilization: A court overrun with cases; a prison pen with + young boys and grey-headed criminals herded together in it; a gallows standing ready + the year round; saloons and brothels permitted at every turn; bad men and worse women + appealing to the lowest passions of ignorant and degraded men—all these the + legalized representatives of a Christian civilization. Is it strange that these + Indians do not accept more readily our Christian theories, when they come into + constant contact with our most unchristian practice? The Indian language is used in + saloons and gambling hells and brothels to lead these poor, heathen people to + physical and moral perdition, but is forbidden by Government to be used in mission + schools to lead them to the Lord Jesus <span class="pagenum"><a name="page7" + id="page7"></a>{7}</span> Christ! We ought to plant a mission for the Indians and the + colored people at Fort Smith this year. The work is painfully urgent.</p> + <hr /> + <a name="south2" id="south2"></a> + <h4>RELIGIOUS INTEREST AT LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D.C.</h4> + <p>Rev. James Wharton, the English Evangelist, recently spent a little more than two + weeks with the Lincoln Memorial Church, Washington. The people were deeply stirred, + and the church was greatly quickened. About forty persons professed conversion, and a + large number are still inquiring the way.</p> + <p>The conversions were mostly among the young people. There were eight or ten adults + who decided to live Christian lives, two of them being aged men, one 61 years and the + other 75 years of age. They are both very happy in their new-found hope in + Christ.</p> + <p>Many of the young people would gladly unite with us, but their parents will not + consent for them to do so, as they will not be convinced that the children can be + Christians unless they can give a <i>remarkable experience</i>, and some will not be + satisfied of their conversion unless the child has seen a vision or heard a + voice.</p> + <p>I called to-day to see the mother of a little girl who confessed Christ as her + Saviour in our meetings. She said that her little girls, one eight years and the + other twelve years of age, say that they are Christians. When the mother told Josie, + the youngest child, that she did not have "<i>religion</i>," the little girl replied: + "I love the Saviour, and Jesus loves me. He died for my sins, and I have accepted him + as my Saviour and am happy in His love. Mamma, Mr. Moore says that that is religion. + If that ain't religion, then, mamma, what is religion? I want to be an earnest + Christian; will you show me how?" The mother says that Josie sticks to it that she is + a Christian, and that she does not know what to do about it.</p> + <p>The most of these young people, some of whom are twelve and fourteen years of age, + will not be allowed to join any church, but will be laughed at and persecuted and led + to expect some remarkable experience like "Saul of Tarsus," or to see a vision and + hear a voice. We shall do what we can to encourage them to cling to Christ.</p> + <p>We have succeeded in closing two saloons near our church, and are hopeful of + closing another notorious den about a square away.</p> + <p>There is no place where earnest Christian work is more needed than here at the + nation's Capital, where we have a colored population of nearly 80,000, the majority + of whom are out of Christ, and thousands are still shrouded in the darkness of + ignorance and superstition.</p> + <p class="author">GEO. W. MOORE.</p> + <hr class="full" /> + <a name="indians" id="indians"></a> <span class="pagenum"><a name="page8" + id="page8"></a>{8}</span> + <h3>THE INDIANS.</h3> + <h4>THE FOURTH BROTHER.</h4> + <p class="author">BY FRANK WOOD, ESQ.</p> + <p>I believe that if the Master were visibly present with us to-day, and we should + ask, "Where shall we go first with the Gospel?" he would say, "Go to that fourth + brother, the North American Indian;" and for the strongest reasons.</p> + <p>First, because he is in the greatest need. There are no people in want whose cry + does not at once reach the heart of the American people. When Chicago was burned, + when there was an earthquake in Charleston, when there was a famine in Ireland, + public sympathy was immediately awakened, and all that was needed was sent. The only + people who seem to be in need and do not receive help are the aborigines of our + soil—the people whom we have dispossessed; whom we have crowded from their + homes; whom we have shut into reservations until they are nothing but prisoners of + war; whom we have placed under the control of a despot called an Indian agent, who is + not controlled by law, who on that agency governs by his own will, with no courts to + protect those who are wronged. These Indians are shut in on these reservations, kept + from all civilizing and Christianizing influences, kept from trade and commerce. A + trader is appointed over them, from whom they must buy everything they need, paying + whatever he may ask, to whom they must sell everything that they would sell, taking + what he may choose to give.</p> + <p>We have, it is true, a cumbrous system of machinery which is supposed to educate + and civilize the Indian, called the Indian Bureau. Some men have studied it for + years, and they fail yet to comprehend it. I believe it is incomprehensible. I + believe it was never intended to be understood. Some men ask what it does. It does + little, and largely shows how <i>not</i> to do; and any effort to Christianize and + elevate the Indians, so long as the present system remains, will be a failure. Now, + when our philanthropists are endeavoring to lift them up, when our legislators are + taking favorable action, this Indian Bureau, through its Assistant Commissioner, + issues an order which says that the English language must be the only language taught + or <i>spoken</i> in the mission-schools. The only language the Indian knows is + forbidden. Suppose we were to try to learn a foreign language in that way? Suppose a + Frenchman should come to teach us French, and neither of us spoke a word of + English—how rapid would our progress be?</p> + <p>Thirty barrels of whiskey and one thousand scalping knives were issued not many + years ago as civilizing agencies by this department. An instance given us last night + by our friend from across the water, shows that the English circumlocution office is + a greyhound compared with our Indian office. I remember a similar story that Bright + Eyes told in Boston some years ago.</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page9" id="page9"></a>{9}</span> + <p>She was then a teacher in an Indian school. She had little children in her school + that came some seven, eight, or ten miles barefooted, and winter was coming on, and + her heart sympathized with these poor children who came so far to be taught. They + happened to have a good agent, and he said, "Send an order for shoes for these + children;" and she sent an order, with a request that they send the shoes, as they + were really needed, on account of the frost and snow. The order went to Washington, + went through the regular routine, and the next spring, after winter had passed, a + case of shoes came for these little Indian children. When it was opened, she found it + full of brogans, that had been made for the Southern negro in the rice-fields; and + every shoe in that case was so large that there was not an adult Indian on the + reservation that could wear it. That is how the Indian Bureau provides for the little + Indian children when there is a case of special necessity. (Laughter.)</p> + <p>I could mention numerous illustrations showing that it is impossible to do any + work that is required immediately, through this Indian Bureau. If people are + starving, you cannot get food for them until they die.</p> + <p>Now, what is the remedy? I believe that Christianity is the only remedy—the + only solution of the Indian question. Where they have had good Christian + agents—and they have had some—where they have missionaries, the Indian + has made wonderful progress. I think we can point to a few civilized and + Christianized communities among the Indians that can find no parallel among the + whites of the country. There is less crime, less immorality, more faithfulness to the + requirements of the Christian religion and better observance of the Sabbath, more + sincerity and earnestness in the performance of every Christian duty, than we can + find in the same number of whites anywhere. At Metlakatla, as told by Mr. Duncan, the + Indians now form a community of twelve hundred people, who have their churches, their + stores, their town-halls. They live in houses, like other people; they appear like + civilized people; they carry on all the vocations of civilized life; and all this has + been done by the work of one man. There is no liquor-drinking or liquor-selling + there. A majority of this twelve hundred people are earnest, faithful, consistent + Christians. They get no help from the Government. They have built up and support + their churches. Where can you see anything among the whites that equals it?</p> + <p>Then there is another reason why we should go to them with the gospel of Christ. + It is a good thing to engage in works of charity and benevolence, but before we do + this we should pay our debts. We owe so much to the Indians of this country, that I + think before we go anywhere else we should do something to atone for the years of + wrong, for the centuries of injury, that they have suffered at our hands. We have + taken their homes from them. We have driven them from reservation to reservation. We + have taken their crops when almost ready to reap. We have removed them into climates + where they have died by hundreds. We <span class="pagenum"><a name="page10" + id="page10"></a>{10}</span> have not listened to their cries. We have on various + trumped-up charges frequently slaughtered these people, and treated them in the most + cruel manner. There is no question that I know of that so holds a man, once + interested, and so grows upon him, as this Indian question.</p> + <p>I was first interested in this subject about ten years ago in the city of Boston, + where Bright Eyes, Mr. Tibbles, and old Standing Bear came to tell of the wrongs of + the Poncas. They were to hold a public meeting. Wendell Phillips was to speak. I went + to that meeting more with a desire to hear Phillips than from any interest in the + Indian. At that time all I knew about him was what I had learned from the current + literature and romance, and my idea was very far from correct. At that meeting a + state of affairs was shown to exist that seemed astounding and impossible. A + committee was appointed to investigate these statements. They found that the half had + not been told. That committee started measures that rectified these wrongs done to + the Poncas. It commenced suit under the Fourteenth Amendment to see whether the + Indians were citizens. The Judges of the Supreme Court decided that the Indian was + not a person under the law. Then it tried other channels; to get legislation that + would help the Indian. Senator Dawes soon became interested in this question, and + from that time to the present he has been interested; and how much the Indian owes to + the legislation which has been started and carried forward by Senator Dawes, but very + few people know; but it must be followed by other legislation before the Indian is + safe.</p> + <p>In Boston, Mrs. H.H. Jackson listened to the statement of Bright Eyes in regard + to the wrongs suffered by her people. She came to her and said, "It is not possible + that these things can be true." Bright Eyes showed her the official documents; she + convinced her that it was true. From that hour that woman's whole soul was in the + work. She afterwards wrote "A Century of Dishonor," and "Ramona," which has preached + for the Indians, and will continue to do so. She gave her life finally for the + Indians, the sickness that caused her death being brought on while engaged in work + for them. This work gets hold of a man, if he has any blood in his veins and sympathy + in his heart, and makes him feel, if he would stand without condemnation before God + in the last day, that he must do something to redeem his country from dishonor, and + deliver this people from worse than slavery.</p> + <p>Suppose we do not do it. Suppose we allow the Government to care for them. The + Dawes Bill gives them citizenship, but what does the Indian get? One hundred and + sixty acres of land—and he as naked as a babe on that land. He has had no + training in education and systematic work of any kind; he has no tools—and if + he had he would not know how to use them. He is in the midst of white enemies, who + want his land. He has turned his back upon all the traditions of his ancestors. He + has turned his face toward the whites, and his friends of the past are now his + enemies. <span class="pagenum"><a name="page11" id="page11"></a>{11}</span> He is in + the midst of his reservation. His homestead is his own, yet no American citizen has a + right there. If you and I go to teach him, we can be ordered off by the agent; and if + we do not go he can put us in prison.</p> + <p>If we do not give protection and Christianity to them, there is no hope for these + Indians. Their fate will be the same as Indians on the reservation in the State of + New York, who have been for one hundred years in the midst of our best civilization, + but are still lazy and shiftless, their reservation being permeated through and + through with unmentionable vices. They have no interest in the civilization of the + present. They are living in the past, dreaming over the glory of their ancestors. + They cannot be reached through civilization without religion. To an Indian there is + nothing secular. Everything pertains to his religion. When he goes on a hunt, if he + has no success, it is because the gods are opposed to him; and if he is successful, + the gods were in it. When we go to an Indian and seek to change him, we must first + change his gods. We must Christianize him if we would civilize him. There is where + many of our experiments have been wrong.</p> + <p>Is it not laid upon us, who know something of this work, to do this? I believe if + we will not do it, that in the last great day, as we stand with the Indian before the + judgment bar of God, our position will be worse than that of the Indian. It seems to + me that I can hear what the Judge would say to him at that time. The Indian comes + before God, a pagan from a Christian land; he comes having improved none of the + powers that God gave him. The Lord might say to him: "Did I not give you as good + opportunities and as good capacities as the white man in whose midst you were? This + Christian nation is the foremost for missions. It has sent to all the lands of the + earth, and yet here you come a pagan, not knowing God, uncivilized, a barbarian." + Might not this Indian say: "I was in prison. I was surrounded by a reservation around + whose outside lines were the soldiers of the United States, and I would be shot if I + went off this reservation. I had no business with which to support myself; I had no + chance for trade or commerce; I had to buy of and sell to one man. What opportunity + had I? When an occasional missionary came to me with the gospel of Christ, I looked + upon this man as one of my enemies—a man from the nation that had robbed me of + my opportunities; and, my Father, why should I listen to him, especially when he + spoke in a strange language? Am I to blame that I come here empty? Am I to blame that + I must go away?" I believe the Lord would turn to us and say, "Inasmuch as ye have + not done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have not done it unto Me." + And, speaking for myself alone, I would rather at that last day be in the place of + that darkened Indian—-savage, barbarian, pagan, as he is—than in the + place of the Christian that knew of his need and would not help him.</p> + <hr class="full" /> + <a name="chinese" id="chinese"></a> <span class="pagenum"><a name="page12" + id="page12"></a>{12}</span> + <h3>THE CHINESE.</h3> + <h4>DOES RESTRICTION RESTRICT?</h4> + <p>As a son of Maine, I am one of those who believe that prohibition <i>can</i> + prohibit, and will do so effectively, if you will give it a fair chance, but I doubt + whether restriction restricts, and have expressed that doubt in these columns more + than once already. But we have been favored with fresh lessons on this subject, in + its application to Chinese immigration. Chinese women are held in our San Francisco + market, at prices ranging from nothing up to about $2,000. The soul, being that of a + woman, has no value at any time, but the body, till worn out, is held at a fair + percentage of its weight in gold.</p> + <p>Such being the demand, a supply became assured. No artificial barriers could + exclude them. There would soon come to be some "Open Sesame" which no bolts could + resist. As a matter of fact these women have been landed in numbers so great, and + with an effrontery so flagrant, that even the Chinese Consulate now takes the matter + up and puts to shame the appointed executors of American law. As to persons of the + male sex, they come by various routes: some with certificates sent out to Hong Kong + by our own officials to be sold there and viseéd by themselves on this side + the sea; some come with strange stories of previous residence—stories confirmed + by their vivid recollection of deep <i>snow</i> on Clay Street, and of <i>Chinese</i> + conductors on our street-cars: some come smuggled from British Columbia, across Puget + Sound, and others cross the invisible line between Canadian soil and that of our own + <i>free</i> land with none to say them nay. Meanwhile some of our recent officials + who have grown rich with strange rapidity, or have spent money with lavish + generosity, are under arrest, and sensational developments are the daily promise of + "live newspapers" in San Francisco.</p> + <p>What shall be done? Some of these papers (however incredulous they may be about + prohibition prohibiting) are disposed to try it upon Chinese immigration. Nothing + else, they tell us, can deliver us from a perpetual invasion by these Asiatic hordes. + But, so far as I have seen, no ringing or enthusiastic response has greeted this + suggestion. So long as it lives only in newspaper paragraphs, and no serious danger + appears of its being put into effect, few men will have courage, or zeal and + forwardness enough to contend with it, but let it be taken up in earnest, and pressed + to actual enactment, and it would soon go the fit and ignoble way that the + <i>boycott</i> has travelled. There are multitudes who do not object to cursing the + Chinaman, but who don't mean to lose the double eagles which Chinese labor, and that + alone, enables them to put to credit on their bank account.</p> + <p>It seems to me, however, well worth questioning whether a law that after six years + of trial has been found to be fruitful in little except perjuries <span + class="pagenum"><a name="page13" id="page13"></a>{13}</span> and briberies,—a + law which cannot be shown to have benefited a single American laborer, but has had + some effect to compel house-holders to pay larger wages to Chinese domestics, and to + enable Chinese fruit-pickers to make better terms with our fruit-growers:—it + seems to me a question whether a statute of that sort might not be suffered to expire + through its own limitations, without any damage to the Commonwealth.</p> + <p>Whatever the fate of this law may be, it is sufficiently evident that our gospel + work need not be stayed for lack of souls to work upon, till China herself and all + her broad domain, becomes the Lord's.</p> + <h5>YONG JIN AT SACRAMENTO.</h5> + <p>I reserve a little space in order to give our readers a little sample of this + gospel work as it appears in a letter from our helper, Yong Jin. He has recently + returned from China where he did good service under Rev. Mr. Hazen, and he has + resumed service with us. "I will tell you what I had to do with the brethren. Monday + night after the school is out [i.e. 9:30] we have the Bible lesson of Chinese, and + Tuesday night too. Wednesday night we have a prayer-meeting after school is out. + Thursday night we have ten or fifteen minutes to speak the gospel before the school + is out. Friday night we have a Bible lesson in Chinese too. Saturday night we have a + prayer meeting again. Sunday night all the same. But last Sunday noon I preach on the + street where the Chinese live. Perhaps I will preach in the street nest Sunday. By + and by, if I do not preach on the street, I shall preach in the mission-house on + Sunday noon. I shall do as best I can, and I hope God will help us to do."</p> + <p>I will add that we are hoping to commence special evangelistic work early in + December. Loo Quong will go to our missions in Southern California, and Chin Toy to + those north of us, beginning in Stockton, where the door seems to be opening wide, + and an earnest spirit among the brethren gives promise of good results. I wish these + brethren might be remembered by our Eastern brethren with special prayer.</p> + <p class="author">WM. C. POND</p> + <hr class="full" /> + <a name="bureau1" id="bureau1"></a> + <h3>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</h3> + <p class="author">MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.</p> + <h4>WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.</h4> + <h5>CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h5> + <p>ME.—-Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, + Woodfords, Me.</p> + <p>VT.—Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, St. + Johnsbury, Vt.</p> + <p>CONN.—Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol + Ave., Hartford, Conn.</p> + <p>MICH.—Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, + Mich.</p> + <p>WIS.—Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis.</p> + <p>MINN.—Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H.L. Chase, 2,760 Second + Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page14" id="page14"></a>{14}</span> + <p>N.Y.—Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.C. Creegan, Syracuse, N. + Y.</p> + <p>OHIO.—Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, + Ohio.</p> + <p>ILL.—Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington + St., Chicago, Ill.</p> + <p>IOWA.—Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella B. Marsa, Grinnell, + Iowa.</p> + <p>KANSAS.—Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison Blanchard, + Topeka, Kan.</p> + <p>SOUTH DAKOTA.—Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. W.E. Thrall, Amour, + Dak.</p> + <hr /> + <h4>FOUNDATION LAYING AND HOME BUILDING IN THE SOUTH.</h4> + <p class="author">BY MISS JOSEPHINE KELLOGG.</p> + <p>The estimation in which "woman's work for woman" is held by our more thoughtful + colored students, will be shown by some extracts from an address by a graduate of + Tougaloo University in Mississippi.</p> + <p>The effect of very unhappy experiences in early youth upon an exceedingly + sensitive temperament, was to make this son of a white father and black mother + cherish a feeling of intense hatred toward all white people as he was growing up; but + being led, in the good providence of God, to a Christian training-school where he + heard of One who suffered every indignity, and when dying in torture and ignominy + prayed, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do," new thoughts and + feelings came to him.</p> + <p>He thought there might be cruel men in the world now who know not what they do. He + was led to bow in penitence and submission at the feet of Jesus. It is now his chief + joy that since he entered upon the path of learning, he has, as a teacher, given + several thousand children a start in the same path.</p> + <p>The little old chapel at Tougaloo having burned down in January, 1882, he + graduated in the spring of that year, from our elementary normal course, in the new + barn, Ayrshire Hall. He has since passed through our higher normal and college + preparatory course, and is pursuing further studies in another institution, in the + intervals teaching, and going from place to place with the great desire in his heart + of bringing about a better condition of feeling and living, among the people of the + State.</p> + <p>I quote from his printed speech: "We read of a time when 'a nation shall be born + in a day.' We have seen it come to pass, and this people is a babe yet. 'Is not the + babe a blessing in the house? Its very helplessness is a blessing, in that it + educates the finest sensibilities of humanity.' The problem to be solved now is how + to nurse this babe aright. The thoughtful observer will be easily convinced that the + careful and proper education of girls is the first step in the solution of this + problem.</p> + <p>"The education of girls is of the most vital importance for the uplifting of the + colored people of the South. Yes, I venture to say that <i>the whole South</i> will + depend upon their condition for its prosperity. True progress depends upon the + sacredness and sanctity of the home. That a people or a nation may be happy or + prosperous it must have enlightened <span class="pagenum"><a name="page15" + id="page15"></a>{15}</span> and intelligent homes, and for this purpose the girls + must be educated in virtue, industry and self-reliance.</p> + <p>"The colored woman in all conditions and under almost all circumstances is abused + by all races and classes. There are individuals who love and respect her, but no one + fears to <i>insult</i> her as they fear to insult other women. Let her turn + wheresoever she may, she is met by all sorts of evil influences of a character too + indecorous to think about, and I fear that I should never be forgiven if I should + name them, yet we are compelled to look upon them everywhere we go. Now a reform must + begin in the treatment of women, and it must be commenced by paying more attention to + the education of girls. Only wise mothers can train champions for great causes like + this. Therefore let our voices and our influence be given to the work of elevating + the women who have the care of making and preserving society."</p> + <p>Thus it has come about that a larger and larger proportion of girls come to our + schools, and it has seemed much better that they should be educated <i>with</i> their + brothers than <i>apart</i> from them, for a great and grievous lack among the colored + people, is a pure, safe and wholesome social life for the young people, and with all + the other labors laid upon these "universe—ities" is that of fostering such a + social life and, as far as may be, setting forth the pattern for it. Permit me to + introduce you to one of these schools which is in many of its features doubtless like + all the rest.</p> + <p>Tougaloo University is one of the six chartered institutions maintained by the + American Missionary Association with some aid from the State in which it is located. + It is but a few miles from the capital of the great but undeveloped agricultural + State of Mississippi, a State in which the largest town had, at the last census, less + than twelve thousand inhabitants. This is very far south, in "the great black belt," + where the plantations are large, and upon the country roads you will constantly see + ten or more colored faces to one white one. It contained at the last census, above + two hundred thousand more colored people than at Emancipation, and above one hundred + and seventy thousand more colored than white. Do you not see how rapidly Christian + education and training must go forward to keep pace with such facts as these?</p> + <p>Stepping off the afternoon train down the Chicago and New Orleans railway at the + little station of Tougaloo, we look up through a pleasant vista about three-quarters + of a mile and see the Mansion, Ballard Hall, Ladies' Hall, and Strieby Hall, the + latter a brick house three stories high above the basement, dedicated Thanksgiving + Day of 1881 in the presence of the venerable secretary for whom it was named. The + work on this building was done by colored mechanics, students of the school making + the brick and the stone, a sort of concrete for the trimmings.</p> + <p>Strieby Hall has accommodations for nearly a hundred young men, besides a + teacher's family or two. It is kept in scrupulous neatness by the <span + class="pagenum"><a name="page16" id="page16"></a>{16}</span> young men under their + matron's eye. She teaches them to nurse one another in sickness; she also instructs + them in the care of their clothing and requires them to mend when the weekly wash + comes in. One young man became so proud of his skill in this line that he wanted to + put his darned old socks—old darned socks would sound better, + perhaps—into our industrial exhibit for the New Orleans Exposition, among the + chains and wheels from the blacksmith and wagon shops, the brackets, step-ladders, + etc., from the carpenter shop, the cups and coffee-pots from the tinshop, and the + girls' plain sewing and fancy-work.</p> + <p>There are regular apprentices to all the trades named, and all the boys of certain + grades have lessons, one hour daily, in the several shops, to get the use of tools + and simple work; there is also a course of industrial drawing running through the + school grades for boys and girls alike.</p> + <p>The school is upon a plantation of five hundred acres, worked by the young men + under the direction of the farm superintendent, a graduate of the Massachusetts + Agricultural College, who gives them "talks," as he terms his lectures, upon + practical themes pertaining to general farming, fruit-growing, and the care of + stock.</p> + <p>As we walk up from the station through, first a wood of water-oak, sweet-gum and + hickory, then an open glade with scattering persimmon trees upon it, and lastly, a + fine park of postoaks draped with Spanish moss, we approach the old southern + "Mansion," which was the only building of any account upon the ground when the + Association purchased it in 1869, and which is still the handsomest one. It has a + little romance of its own, having been made spacious and beautiful for a bride who + never came into it; but, notwithstanding this disappointment of its builder, it has + in God's providence been greatly connected with home-building.</p> + <p>Here live the President's family and some of the other teachers. Here are business + offices, a pleasant reading-room with an open fire upon its hearth, and a small + library adjoining. In this house is a guest-chamber where all friends of the school + are made welcome, and here are the music-rooms, one containing a piano and one a + cabinet organ.</p> + <p>More and more highly is the department of musical training esteemed by those who + understand the work. All receive training in vocal music as a part of their daily + school work, and would there were more with means to take instrumental lessons!</p> + <p>The best of music is taught, from the primary grades upward; and it is an + inspiring thing to hear almost everybody who is at work or play, not at books, + singing and chanting the most beautiful compositions; the girls from attic chamber to + basement laundry, may be chanting, "Thou who leddest Joseph like a flock," while the + carpenter's apprentices—perchance upon a barn-roof—may be rolling forth + the temperance Marseillaise, and our ears may distinguish from the neighboring + "quarters" the little children of the day and Sabbath-school singing cheerily,</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page17" id="page17"></a>{17}</span> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>"Angry words, O let them never</p> + <p class="i2">From the tongue unbridled slip;</p> + <p>May the heart's best impulse ever</p> + <p class="i2">Check them ere they pass the lip."</p> + </div> + </div> + <p>Nothing, perhaps, more commends the school to the notice of our white neighbors + than its music, and greater numbers of them will come to a concert than to any other + exercise.</p> + <p>In the Mansion are our rooms for the Normal Department, a study room and a + laboratory. The primary, intermediate and grammar grades are taught in the new + school-house, between the Mansion and Strieby Hall, the upper part of which is a neat + and commodious chapel. The primary school is free of tuition as a practice-school for + the Normal students, and brings in many little ones from the region round about.</p> + <p>We send forth many teachers for the public schools, and despite the shortness of + the terms and the want of appliances, we see encouraging evidences of better work + done there from year to year. Besides test-book teaching, these young + home-missionaries labor in many lines for the moral, social and material improvement + of their people, and deserve much help and cheer.</p> + <p>A Biblical department is preparing young men to preach the gospel, and as they + have the industrial training too, they will be fitted for a very practical sort of + evangelism.</p> + <p>A night-school supplies instruction for farm-laborers, laundry girls, etc.</p> + <p>All school-room work, except that of the Biblical class and a part of the Normal + work, is women's work.</p> + <p>Let us step into the Ladies' Hall on the other side of the Mansion from Ballard + Hall. This is a very hive of female industry. Here is the girls' dormitory, with a + capacity of about seventy-five, and the boarding department. All the work of the + household, with trifling exceptions, is done by the young women and girls of the + school. Each one does an hour's work a day, having it changed every month, and many + do more to help themselves along. The girls have the care of their rooms and + generally take great pride in having perfect "reports" for tidiness. Everything is + simple and cheap and common, but that does not prevent its being homelike.</p> + <p>Personal cleanliness is required of course. Some few have been accustomed to it at + home. One large girl said, when told that she must bathe, that she had not washed all + over since she could remember, and she still refrained until put "under discipline." + Finally she yielded, but in the evening was heard crying aloud from a seat on the top + stair. The matron asked, "What <i>is</i> the matter?" and she replied, "Oh! oh! I've + wet my skin and it's made me sick." This is a very extreme case of attachment to + dirt, but it is interesting and marvellous to witness the changes in appearance, + expression and manners, during a prolonged stay in school.</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page18" id="page18"></a>{18}</span> + <p>Besides general housework, the girls are given special instruction in cooking, + nursing and care of health, under their experienced matron. They sew for an hour a + day in classes, under the supervision of another lady who also instructs a class in + cutting by model and dress-making, and sees that all the girls attend properly to + their mending.</p> + <p>A Girls' Industrial Cottage has been started on a small scale, in which the girls + will have the entire charge of household expenses and management. The little girls + from round about are formed into sewing-bands and make commendable progress. Their + mothers meet with one of the teachers on Saturday afternoons.</p> + <p>Underneath all these departments of training, it is sought to lay the great + foundation principles of character. The Bible is a constantly used text-book in + literally <i>every</i> department. We seek to give a "Thus saith the Lord," for + everything that we inculcate, from order, punctuality and cleanliness, up to honesty, + personal and social virtue, temperance, industry and benevolence.</p> + <p>There was a time when some distrust was manifest among the colored people for what + they called "book religion." They wished to hold fast to "ole time 'ligion," and that + sentiment is not entirely gone. We had a very zealous little neighbor, more aged than + she looked, so bright and spry was she, whose husband was said to be over a hundred. + She was a seer of visions and dreamer of dreams. What we thought a bad feature of her + trances was, that she would sometimes speak in meeting of having seen Tougaloo + University marching in a procession down to torment with our devoted matron and + president at the head, their open Bibles in their hands. That was years ago. Now, + when she sees our matron in her visions, it is up among the angels; and I believe the + conviction is spreading that book religion, taken into the head, sinking down into + the heart, and working out through the hands in deeds of active piety, is an + excellent thing.</p> + <p>Besides our regular religious services, including our large and delightful + Sabbath-school, we have various reformative and benevolent societies. Our temperance + society carries the triple pledge at the front and saves many from the debasement of + profanity, tobacco and ardent spirits in all their forms.</p> + <p>Our societies for social purity are designed to help in the cure of a terrible and + terribly prevalent vice. The young men are taught, that while it would often be + simply throwing life, with all its opportunities, away, for them to interpose by word + or weapon in defense of weak and tempted womanhood, after all, man best defends woman + by himself wearing the "White Cross" of manly virtue.</p> + <p>The girls are taught that woman's best defense is the "White Shield" of her own + determined virtue and genuine modesty. The Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. have interesting + meetings conducted by themselves, with many committees for Christian work. A + committee of girls goes out on <span class="pagenum"><a name="page19" + id="page19"></a>{19}</span> Saturday to visit sick and aged ones, both giving and + receiving good. Another looks after new scholars who are often confused by their + strange surroundings, and homesick for a time.</p> + <p>Our Missionary Society studies both home and foreign fields, and gives freely of + its little fund. Recently a flame of missionary zeal was kindled by letters from + missionaries in Africa with whom a number of our students were personally somewhat + acquainted, and a large portion of our Sunday-school collections was voted directly + to them.</p> + <p>All our students sympathize with the Indians, and there are two societies of the + younger scholars who help them. The outside sewing-bands too, devoted their very + first quilt to the Rosebud Indian Mission. "The field is the world" and "the work is + one, <i>one</i>!"</p> + <p>Now, I ask you, friends, should not such work as this be amply sustained? So much + more could be accomplished if the funds and sympathy were not so stinted! "The + destruction of the poor is their poverty." We do not believe in giving money outright + to pauperize these young people, but the money <i>must be there</i> or they can not + be taken into the household, and trained and fitted to do valiant service for Christ, + and the nation and the world. There are manifold ways of helping, but I shall not + mention one, for if any are moved to help—as many are and have been—it + will be so easy to find out a way.</p> + <p>Mrs. Dinah Mulock Craik was prompted to write her last book—in behalf of + North of Ireland sufferers—by hearing a rough carter in a London street, who + had got down from his cart to help a timid child over a crowded crossing, and had + been rallied upon his soft-heartedness, say, "O, aye! but a 'andful o' 'elp is wuth a + cartload o' pity."</p> + <p>As I have visited institutions rich in buildings, books, scholarships, + professorships and every appliance, I have been very far from wishing their abundance + less, but I have said in my heart, ought not this and similar missionary schools to + be endowed also for their work of broad beneficence, reaching not only the far South + of our own land, but to the heart of the great dark continent with its two hundred + millions of perishing souls?</p> + <hr /> + <a name="bureau2" id="bureau2"></a> + <h4>THE SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL AND INDIAN MISSIONS.</h4> + <p class="author">BY MRS. CHAS. W. SHELTON.</p> + <p>Running Antelope, an Indian chief, describing the condition of the Indians, said: + "There was once a beautiful, clear lake of water, full of fish. The fish were happy + and content, had plenty to eat, and nothing to trouble them. One day a man came and + threw in a lump of mud, which frightened the fishes much and disturbed the water. + Another day a man came again, and threw in some more mud, and even again and again, + until <span class="pagenum"><a name="page20" id="page20"></a>{20}</span> the water + became so thick that the fish could not see at all; they were so blinded and so + frightened that they ran against one another, and they ran their noses out of the + water into the mud, where many of them died. In fact, they are in a bad condition, + indeed. Now, the pond is the Indian country, the fishes are the Indians, the false + treaties and promises of the white men are the lumps of mud," and, turning to the + missionaries, he said: "I hope you have come to clear up the water." A glance at the + work of the A.M.A. among the Indians will show that the missionaries are clearing up + the water.</p> + <p>We all have heard of the Santee Normal Training School for Indians, in Nebraska. + There is much in the name itself, and yet it is impossible to have a clear idea of + the work done there unless one has seen for himself.</p> + <p>The Santee School is the largest of all the Indian mission schools under the + A.M.A., and faithfully has she performed the part of a leader. The number of Indians + gathered and instructed each year is in the neighborhood of 175. Many tribes are + represented, and the students come from all directions. They are thoroughly trained + from the very foundation, not only in the ordinary branches of school work, but also + in housekeeping—sewing, cooking, washing, etc.,—on the part of the girls + (in which, too, the boys join largely), and in farming, carpentry, blacksmithing and + shoemaking, on the part of the boys.</p> + <p>Not only is this solid practical knowledge given them, but care and time is + devoted toward grace and politeness, and all the foundation rules of etiquette. And + this is not a thankless work. Anyone forming an idea of Indians from those at Santee + would tell you they are naturally a most polite people—a people upon whom grace + sits easily. There is many a little story of Santee I would like to tell, that would + show the spirit which pervades the school. Something you may have read of their + impromptu prayer-meetings, and the desire of many to work and study, not merely for + themselves, but for their people.</p> + <p>But great as is the credit due the Indians for their advancement here, little + could be seen of gain were it not that the corps of teachers sent out by the A.M.A. + have been chosen, not from the lame, the halt and the blind of this country, not from + those who for support must resort to something, but from those young women who are + willing to leave homes of comfort and refinement, in order that their lives may be + worth something in the world—young women who are consecrated beyond what we can + even imagine until we have seen the difficulties and annoyances which form so large a + part of their lives. Not for <i>support</i> would these women have gone into A.M.A. + work, but cheerfully and gladly do they live on the very smallest possible salaries, + that more may be done for the Indian.</p> + <p>In describing Santee I have described all the schools, for the same <span + class="pagenum"><a name="page21" id="page21"></a>{21}</span> plan is carried out + everywhere—the plan of Christianization; for that must needs come before + civilization can be hoped for.</p> + <p>The Indian is not civilized who, forsaking his heathen gods, has learned the ways + of the white man without knowing his God; for invariably he learns the vices and the + crimes; and is in reality more of a heathen than before.</p> + <p>Many are the villages of Indians in which the white man's <i>dance</i> has been + introduced and is enjoyed much more than the native dance; it is working much evil + which is hard to uproot, for they say, "Is it not the white man's way?—it must + needs be all right."</p> + <p>The work among the older people is of course more limited than that done in the + schools. The age of study is with them past. The most intellectual work of which they + are capable is learning to read the Bible; even this they cannot do in any other than + the Dakota language. It is impossible to teach an old man English that will ever mean + much to him. Our word "holy" could never mean what his own word "wakan" means; our + word "God" could never take the place of his "Wakantanka." His brain would be so + disturbed in his effort to learn and to comprehend our difficult language, that when + he had mastered the words, were it possible, the sweet truth and the comfort would be + all gone from him. Any but a scholar must read the <i>Bible</i> in his own + language.</p> + <p>Thousands of Indians are learning Bible truths and are getting a little light in + the few years left them. They are learning a little of the way of life, and receive + the message with gladness. Spotted Bear, a Christian Indian, said at the recent + convention at Santee: "All we know we have learned out of the Dakota Bible. Teach our + children English, but don't take from them and us the means of reading our own + Bible."</p> + <p>James Garvey, another Indian, said: "Many can soon learn to read the Dakota Bible; + then they have a standard of morals and of interpretation; for to get the real + meaning of the English Bible, we go to the Dakota. To make the best citizens you must + Christianize the people, and to make them Christians you must give them the Bible in + their own tongue. All of us have become white people through the gospel."</p> + <p>The little native churches of Dakota are most interesting illustrations of the + work going on among the Indians. It would be impossible to find more attentive + audiences. There is always an air of devotion, or of serious attention to all that + pertains to the service, which we are not apt to find in our own churches. Men, women + and children go; even the babies are always taken. There is a quiet freedom there + which allows the Indian mothers to take the babies out and in again at any time, and + the preacher is never disturbed. They sing as if they enjoyed singing—men and + women together; and in fact the services are usually such as to give one a new zeal + in holy things, even though we can understand few words.</p> + <p>Each Indian church has its missionary society, and its woman's society, <span + class="pagenum"><a name="page22" id="page22"></a>{22}</span> which is also + missionary. These have been working and giving for mission work further out among the + Indians, and this year have pledged themselves to give to foreign missions. During + the last year they have raised $1,084, of which the women raised $500. The + prayer-meeting is as much an institution with them as with us—in fact, they + live as we live and work as we work.</p> + <p>Ehnamani, pastor of the Santee church—a fine old man, whose history in + connection with the Minnesota massacre of '62, and whose conversion and present work + are well known—was once asked, "Do you ever have the least regret that the old + life is gone—do you ever have any longing for the war and for the dance?" His + face grew stern and hard as he answered, "Regret it! No, indeed! I cannot think of + one good thing that I ever did in that life, and I cannot bear to remember it." Few + are there yet like Ehnamani, though many are fast overtaking him, and a grand number + of Christian workers would you see could they be gathered before you!</p> + <p>Many are the Indian hearts given back to God their Creator. Many are the Indian + homes consecrated to the Wakantanka. Many are the Indian lives devoted to His + service. And yet there are facts—there are overwhelming facts, sad enough to + break the great, throbbing Christian heart of this country—facts that should + make us cover our heads with shame.</p> + <p>Out of 40,000 Sioux Indians, there are 35,000 still in heathenism. There are + sixty-six tribes on the Western prairies for whom nothing is yet done. There are + 40,000 Indians of school age; but when every school is packed to its utmost only + 12,000 can be accommodated. This includes Government schools, Roman Catholic schools, + and all; so that those under mission teachers would be far less a number than + 12,000.</p> + <p>And this is where the Indian work stands to-day. How can the A.M.A. do its share + in this great work, or how can the work already begun be carried on, unless money is + turned liberally into its treasury?</p> + <p>Shall the cry for help, coming 1,500 miles across the country, strike against a + hard wall of indifference and be thrown back to mock the red man and to bid him wait + yet longer?</p> + <hr /> + <a name="bureau3" id="bureau3"></a> + <h4>THE DAKOTA MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</h4> + <p>Its annual meeting was held in connection with the Dakota Conference, at the + Santee Agency and in the dining-room of the Normal and Training School. There were + two hundred Indian sisters present, besides the white lady teachers. They represented + six mission stations and twice as many churches, each church having a wide awake + woman's missionary society. After a hymn, the President, Mrs. Tasinasawin, led in + prayer and read the first three verses of the 21st chapter of Luke, following it with + a <span class="pagenum"><a name="page23" id="page23"></a>{23}</span> few words about + that widow's mite, saying that it was not the amount given, but the <i>spirit</i> in + which it was given. That was the important thing. The Indian women are able to give + but little, but if they give willingly, as to the Lord, He will bless it. The minutes + were then read, and a new president and secretary elected. Two candidates were put in + nomination for each office. As the roll was called each woman arose and voted <i>viva + voce</i>. Mrs. Brascaw was elected president, and Miss Mary C. Collins, secretary. I + was delighted to see the cheery way in which these sisters-in-red did their voting. + There were several sallies of laughter.</p> + <p>Then the delegates made each a report of the work done in their societies and how + much money had been raised. One woman from the Brown Earth Colony said: "We are poor, + but we are interested in the work and have done what we could. Mr. Williamson taught + me to read, and when I was young he taught many others to read. Now I am nearly blind + but still I have done what I could."</p> + <p>Another said: When the pastor's wife was well she had helped them very much and + had taught them many things, but now she was sick and could not attend many of their + meetings, but they worked on and did the best they could.</p> + <p>Another said: "The gospel was sent to us when we were in darkness, and now though + we are few and scattered far apart, yet we are anxious to send the same gospel to + those who have not yet heard of it, and to help those around us to love our Saviour + and to love each other, and we give gladly of the little that we have. It is not in + our own strength that we do this, but it is in God who helps us."</p> + <p>It was found that the women had raised this year over five hundred dollars. This + goes into the treasury of the Dakota Society to help to sustain four native + preachers, who are also teachers, out among the wild Indians. One of the services of + the Sabbath, the great day of the feast, was to hear from those their own + missionaries to the heathen. At that meeting I counted five hundred and thirty + Christian Indians, who also partook of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. To help + their treasury the women had a Fair for the sale of articles of handiwork. The most + noted one was a <i>quilt</i> which had been made and sent in by Caroline + To-tee-doo-ta-win (Scarlet House), of Brown Earth, now in her 97th year. She was one + of the first three converts who were organized into a church in 1834, at + Lac-qui-parle, Minn. Her husband had two wives, and she was the second. Finding upon + conversion that polygamy was contrary to the ordinance of God she at once proposed to + be put away. She had been a member of the Order of the Sacred Dance, but this she + renounced, throwing away her "medicine sack," which by the medicine men was regarded + as a high crime. This subjected her to divers persecutions, which she bore patiently. + There were times when all were forbidden to attend worship at the mission. Then she + took joyfully to the spoiling of her goods, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page24" + id="page24"></a>{24}</span> the cutting up of her blanket, she received the Sabbath + as God's day, and more than once remained behind her company when they travelled on + that day, making it up on Monday. She learned from missionaries to spin and knit, and + weave garments for herself and husband. At forty-five years of age she learned to + read her Dakota Bible, and of her children she sent one to Ohio to learn the ways of + Christian white people. She has adhered to the faith for these fifty-four years. With + her quilt she sent the message that it was the last one she could make. It was bought + by Miss N. Hunter, a teacher at the Yankton Agency, for four dollars, to be presented + to Rev. Dr. Arthur Mitchell of the Presbyterian Board. It was this Miss Hunter who + interpreted for me the addresses of the woman's meeting. Surely the Apostle Paul + would say of these, "Help those women who labored with me in the Gospel." He who was + so fond of naming the Christians who were "the first fruits of Achaia," would be very + loving to this aged disciple, the first fruits of Dakota.</p> + <p class="author">JOSEPH E. ROY.</p> + <hr /> + <p>A missionary from the South writes: "In speaking on prohibition I call attention + to the fact that wherever there is a missionary school a majority of the colored + people are Prohibitionists, and in alluding to places where local option has failed + to banish the saloons because, as is alleged, 'the negroes voted the wet ticket,' I + add, 'To the white citizens who make this complaint I would say, Oh, that ye had been + wise! Oh, that during all the years that have elapsed since the war, instead of + <i>keeping out</i> you had <i>provided</i> Christian teachers for these armed but + untrained citizens, these dwellers within the gates, with whose fate your own is + bound! Now would you have had able allies in this conflict with the powers of + darkness, this struggle between the home and the saloon.'"</p> + <hr class="receipts_hr" /> + <a name="receipts" id="receipts"></a> + <h3>RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1887.</h3> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <div class="receipts"> + <h5>MAINE, $302.27.</h5> + <p>Augusta. "Friends," by Miss B.D. Robertson <span + class="rightmargin">6.59</span></p> + <p>Bethel. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">23.18</span></p> + <p>Biddleford. J.R. LIBBY (30 of which to const. himself L.M.) <span + class="rightmargin">100.00</span></p> + <p>Brewer. Sab Sch. of First Cong. Soc. <span class="rightmargin">15.00</span></p> + <p>Foxcroft. Mrs. D. Blanchard <span class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>Harrison. Cong. Ch., <i>for Mobile, Ala.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">9.00</span></p> + <p>New Castle, Rev. and Mrs. C.D. Crane, <i>for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch.</i> + <span class="rightmargin">25.00</span></p> + <p>North Auson. "A Friend." <span class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Portland. First Parish Ch., 30; St. Lawrence St. Ch., 13.50 <span + class="rightmargin">43.50</span></p> + <p>Portland. "Thank offering," <i>for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>Saco. "A few Friends" in First Parish Ch. and Soc., to const. Rev. E.C. Ingalls + L.M. <span class="rightmargin">30.00</span></p> + <p>South Paris. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">11.00</span></p> + <p>Winthrop. Woman's State Aid, <i>for Woman's Work</i> <span + class="rightmargin">20.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>NEW HAMPSHIRE, $209.04.</h5> + <p>Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">4.17</span></p> + <p>Berry. Sab. Sch. of First. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">16.72</span></p> + <p>Goffstown. Mrs. M.A. Stinson, <i>for Student Aid, Dudley, N.C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>Great Falls. Mr. Bartlett, 5; Mr. Freeman, 1 <span + class="rightmargin">6.00</span></p> + <p>Jaffrey. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">11.00</span></p> + <p>Keene. "Friends," by Miss B.D. Robertson <span + class="rightmargin">1.90</span></p> + <p>Milford. First Cong Ch., to cont. ELMER E. ARMSTRONG and MARTIN H. BROWN L.M.'s + <span class="rightmargin">75.00</span></p> + <p>Nashua. Miss Sarah Kendall, <i>For Brewer Sch., S.C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Nashua. Mrs. A.F. Stevens <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page25" id="page25"></a>{25}</span> + <p>Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">1.75</span></p> + <p>Pembroke. Mrs. Mary Thompson, 10; Sab. Sch. Of Cong. Ch.,2, <i>for Wilmington, + N.C.</i> <span class="rightmargin">12.00</span></p> + <p>Rindge. Geo. G. Williams <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Rochester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Marie Adlof Sch'p Fund</i> <span + class="rightmargin">32.00</span></p> + <p>West Concord. "Granite Mission Band," <i>for Wilmington, N.C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>West Lebanon. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">16.00</span></p> + <p>Winchester. Mrs. S.S. Saben, by Rev. E. Harmon <span + class="rightmargin">0.50</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>VERMONT, $767.08.</h5> + <p>Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">15.30</span></p> + <p>Brattleboro. Center Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span + class="rightmargin">51.49</span></p> + <p>Brattleboro. Sab. Sch. of Center Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i> + <span class="rightmargin">15.00</span></p> + <p>Burlington. Third Cong. Ch., 37.50; First Cong. Ch., 35, <i>for Indian M.</i> + <span class="rightmargin">72.50</span></p> + <p>Cambridge. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">12.00</span></p> + <p>Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">27.58</span></p> + <p>Holland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Manchester. "A Friend." <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>McIndoes Falls. Wm. R. Monteith <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">11.00</span></p> + <p>Orwell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">28.87</span></p> + <p>Putney. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">11.00</span></p> + <p>Saint Albans. Y.P.S.C.E., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">50.00</span></p> + <p>Sharon. "Eight Ladies," <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">6.00</span></p> + <p>Springfield. Cong. Ch. (10 of which <i>for Avery Inst. and 6 for Indian M.</i>) + <span class="rightmargin">423.00</span></p> + <p>Westminster. Mission Band, <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i>, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild <span + class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Westminster West. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. Rev. H.A. GOODHUE L.M. <span + class="rightmargin">18.34</span></p> + <p>West Townshend. N.W. Goddard <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>MASSACHUSETTS, $9,522.25.</h5> + <p>Abington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">15.00</span></p> + <p>Allston. Cong. Ch. to const. REV. ALONZO H. QUINT, D.D., L.M. <span + class="rightmargin">30.00</span></p> + <p>Boston. Park St. Ch. and Soc., Ad'l <span class="rightmargin">124.00</span></p> + <div style="margin-left: 5%;"> + <p>" "A Friend." <span class="rightmargin">95.00</span></p> + <p>" Sab. Sch. of Old South Ch., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">20.00</span></p> + <p>" Mrs. J.B. Potter, <i>for Wilmington, N.C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">8.00</span></p> + <p>" Mrs. E.P. Eayres <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>" Miss Tuttle <span class="rightmargin">2.50</span></p> + <p>" Dea. Merrill of Union Ch., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>" Mrs. N.J. Ingraham <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + </div> + <p>Dorchester. S.S. Class, by Thos. Knapp, <i>for Wilmington, N.C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">8.00</span></p> + <p>Jamaica Plain. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i> + <span class="rightmargin">50.00</span></p> + <p>Jamaica Plain. "Jamaica Plain." <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. <span class="rightmargin">50.00</span></p> + <p>West Roxbury. Emily J. Hazelton <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>———— <span class="rightmargin">371.50</span></p> + <p>Baldwinsvilie. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">6.90</span></p> + <p>Barre. Cong. Sab. Sch. <span class="rightmargin">8.94</span></p> + <p>Bernardston. Miss M.L. Newcomb <span class="rightmargin">50.00</span></p> + <p>Bernardston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">4.17</span></p> + <p>Brockton. Miss John W. Hunt <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Cambridgeport. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim Ch., <i>for Marie Adlof Sch'p Fund</i> <span + class="rightmargin">4.20</span></p> + <p>Clinton. Miss G. Allen <span class="rightmargin">0.50</span></p> + <p>Danvers. Maple St. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">163.19</span></p> + <p>Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">160.58</span></p> + <p>Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">9.06</span></p> + <p>Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">55.42</span></p> + <p>Easthampton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 38.25; Home Mission Band, 10.00; L.E. + Parsons, 40c.; W.R. Hamlin, 25c., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">48.90</span></p> + <p>East Marshfield. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">5.72</span></p> + <p>Enfield. Daniel H. Abbe, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Fitchburg. Cal. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">78.91</span></p> + <p>Fitchburg. Box of Tools and Box of Books, <i>for Talladega C.</i></p> + <p>Framingham. Schneider Band, Plym. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">21.00</span></p> + <p>Globe Village. Evan. Free Ch. <span class="rightmargin">22.25</span></p> + <p>Groton. "A Friend," (10 of which <i>for Chinese M.</i> and 10 <i>for Mountain + White Work</i>), to const. MRS. HELEN CRITTENDEN L.M. <span + class="rightmargin">30.00</span></p> + <p>Groton. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Cong. for Freight <span + class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>Groveland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">22.00</span></p> + <p>Hardwick. Cal. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">4.50</span></p> + <p>Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">50.50</span></p> + <p>Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols, <i>for Fisk University</i> <span + class="rightmargin">33.35</span></p> + <p>Holliston. Miss Mary P. Lord, Box of Books and Roll of Carpeting, <i>for + Talladega C.</i></p> + <p>Holyoke. Seymour Cutlery Co., 4 pairs Shears, <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></p> + <p>Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">17.18</span></p> + <p>Leicester. Miss H.E. Henshaw <span class="rightmargin">3.00</span></p> + <p>Leominster. Young Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Santee Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">20.00</span></p> + <p>Leominstcr. Orth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (4 of which <i>for Indian M.</i>) <span + class="rightmargin">42.45</span></p> + <p>Leominster. F.A. Whitney, <i>for Boys' new Hall, Santee Indian M.</i> + ...2,500.00</p> + <p>Ludlow. Soc. of "Precious Pearls," by Miss M.E. Jones, <i>for Mountain White + Work</i> <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Ludlow Center. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Medway. Ladies. <i>for Freight</i> <span class="rightmargin">1.25</span></p> + <p>Melrose. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">114.27</span></p> + <p>Methuen. Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">24.84</span></p> + <p>Nahant. Mrs. Walter Johnson <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>Nalick. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">50.00</span></p> + <p>Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 35; Whitefield Cong. Ch. and Soc., 13.92 + <span class="rightmargin">51.92</span></p> + <p>North Amherst. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">13.00</span></p> + <p>Northampton. Edwards Ch. Benev. Soc. <span class="rightmargin">83.86</span></p> + <p>North Brookfield. Miss Abby W. Johnson <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>North Cambridge. Young Ladies' M.C. of No. Av. Cong. Ch., <i>for Oahe Indian + M.</i> <span class="rightmargin">25.00</span></p> + <p>North Weymonth. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Wilmington, + N.C.</i> <span class="rightmargin">8.00</span></p> + <p>Norton. Trinitarian Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span + class="rightmargin">18.49</span></p> + <p>Otis. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">5.20</span></p> + <p>Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Freight</i> <span + class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>Palmer. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">50.00</span></p> + <p>Palmer. "Friend," <i>for Indian M.</i> <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>Pepperell. "Friends," <i>for Student Aid, Dudley, N.C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">11.00</span></p> + <p>Royalston. "Friends," <i>for Student Aid, Dudley, N.C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">15.00</span></p> + <p>Salem. Crombie St. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">58.00</span></p> + <p>Scotland. Mrs. Leonard, Box of C., <i>for Chattanooga, Tenn.</i></p> + <p>Somerville. Y.L. Mission Circle of Day St. Ch., <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.,</i> + and to const. MRS. HENRY BEVANS L.M. <span class="rightmargin">30.00</span></p> + <p>South Amherst. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">5.32</span></p> + <p>Southbridge. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">25.00</span></p> + <p>South Framingham. Sab. Sch. of So. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i> + <span class="rightmargin">23.20</span></p> + <p>Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">18.23</span></p> + <p>Warren. "Friends" in Cong. Ch., <i>for Straight U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">56.66</span></p> + <p>Warren. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">50.00</span></p> + <p>West Newbury. First Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Westboro. Ladies of F.M. Ass'n, 30 <i>for Woman's Work</i>, 10 <i>for Mountain + Work</i> <span class="rightmargin">40.00</span></p> + <p>Westboro. H.L. Bullard <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span> <span + class="pagenum"><a name="page26" id="page26"></a>{26}</span></p> + <p>Whitinsville. Cong Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">949.49</span></p> + <p>Whitinsville. "Friends," <i>for Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">600.00</span></p> + <p>Wilmington. Rev. Elijah Harmon <span class="rightmargin">0.50</span></p> + <p>Winchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. <span class="rightmargin">51.38</span></p> + <p>Worcester. Central Ch., 131.51; Plymouth Ch. 79.63 <span + class="rightmargin">211.20</span></p> + <p>———— <span class="rightmargin">6,442.78</span></p> + <h6>LEGACIES.</h6> + <p>Groton. Estate of George Farnsworth, by Ezra Farnsworth, Ex. <span + class="rightmargin">994 47</span></p> + <p>Westboro. Estate of Mrs. Mary M. Morse, by Jonas A. Stone, Ex. <span + class="rightmargin">2,000.00</span></p> + <p>Westhampton. Estate of Aaron Fisher, by Jairus J. Fisher <span + class="rightmargin">85.00</span></p> + <p>———— <span class="rightmargin">9,522.25</span></p> + <h6>CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE</h6> + <p>Limington, Me. Ladles of Cong. Ch., 1 Bbl., <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></p> + <p>Portland, Me. By Mrs. Chas. Frost, 1 Bbl., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></p> + <p>Concord, N.H. Ladies of North Cong. Ch., 1 Bbl.</p> + <p>Hollis, N.H. Ladies' Charitable Soc., 2 Bbls., <i>for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, + Ga.</i></p> + <p>Ashfield, Mass. Ladies of Cong, Ch., 1 Bbl., val. 39.75.</p> + <p>Groton, Mass. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl., <i>for Wilmington. + N.C.</i></p> + <p>Ipswich, Mass. First Ch., by Miss Lucy R. Farley, 2 Bbls., val. 25 ea.</p> + <p>Medway, Mass. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., 1 Bbl., val. 31.50, <i>for Wilmington, + N.C.</i></p> + <p>Millbury, Mass. Mrs. Emily S. Ewell, 1 Box, <i>for Atlanta U.</i></p> + <p>Phillipston, Mass. Ladles of Cong. Ch., 1 Box.</p> + <p>Somerville, Mass. Young Ladles' Miss'y Circle of Day St. Ch., Bbl. and Case, + <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></p> + <p>Spencer, Mass. By Mrs. J.W. Temple, 1 Bbl., <i>for Atlanta U.</i></p> + <p>Westboro. Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, 1 Bbl., val. 47.68, <i>for Atlanta + U.</i></p> + <p>——. 1 Bbl., <i>for Atlanta U.</i></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>RHODE ISLAND, $238.08.</h5> + <p>Barrington. Cong. Ch., 59.65, and Sab. Sch. 40.35, to const. EDWARD T. FLEMMING + L.M. <span class="rightmargin">100.00</span></p> + <p>Kingston. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">20.60</span></p> + <p>Peace Dale. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">12.48</span></p> + <p>Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., 75; MRS. B.B. KNIGHT, 30 to const, herself + L.M. <span class="rightmargin">105.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>CONNECTICUT, $1,418.85.</h5> + <p>Black Rock. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">28.00</span> Bozrah. Cong. Ch., + Communion Set</p> + <p>Bridgeport. Second Cong, Ch., 18.50; Park St. Cong. Ch., 3.26, <i>for student + Aid, Fisk U.</i></p> + <p>Bridgeport. Soc. of "Four O'Clocks" <span class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Bristol. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">32.00</span></p> + <p>Derby. Sarah A. Hotchkiss <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span> East Berlin. + Titus Penfield <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>East Haadam. By Mrs. E.T. Reed, <i>for Freight</i> <span + class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>East Hampton. "Friends," <i>for Theo. Dept., Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">20.70</span></p> + <p>East Hampton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">6.00</span></p> + <p>Franklin. Miss A.L. Hart, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>Glastonbury. Geo. G. Williams, 100; J.B. Williams, 50, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk + U.</i> <span class="rightmargin">150.00</span></p> + <p>Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">6.20</span></p> + <p>Griswoldville. True Blue Card, by Miss Bertha Griswold <span + class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>Guilford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong Ch., <i>for Sch'p Santee Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">40.00</span></p> + <p>Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. ANNIE L. MOODY L.M. <span + class="rightmargin">30.00</span></p> + <p>Hadlyme. Cong. Ch., 7; Mrs. Nancy Hungerford, 3; R.E. Hungerford, 5; Jos. W. + Hungerford, 5 <span class="rightmargin">20.00</span></p> + <p>Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">79.52</span></p> + <p>Hartford. Mrs. M.I. Allen, 6 doz. Thimbles, <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></p> + <p>Harwinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">10.35</span></p> + <p>Meriden. Center Ch. <span class="rightmargin">15.00</span></p> + <p>Middlefield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosbud Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">20.02</span></p> + <p>Milton. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">5.30</span></p> + <p>New Britain. Sab. Soh, of South Ch., <i>for Indian Work, Hampton Inst.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">37.73</span></p> + <p>Norfolk. "Friends," <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">8.00</span></p> + <p>Old Lyme. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">20.00</span></p> + <p>Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">16.15</span></p> + <p>Rockville. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">42.00</span></p> + <p>Somers. Miss Battle R. Pease. 5; Halsey Huff, 2; Amos Pease, 2; Elijah Cutter, + 1; C.P. Langdon. 1; E.P. Russell, 1; Henry Brewster, 1: L.W. Russell, 50c., <i>for + Lewis High Sch., Macon, Ga.</i> <span class="rightmargin">13.50</span></p> + <p>Somers. "Ladies of Seiners," 32 yards Matting and one large Rug, <i>for Macon, + Ga.</i></p> + <p>Somersville. Noah E. Pease, 30, to const. MRS. NOAH E. PEASE L.M.; Mrs. Orpha P. + Smith, 5, <i>for Lewis High Sch., Macon, Ga.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">35.00</span></p> + <p>South Britain. Sab. Sch., by Miss Laura F. Keeler, <i>for Mobile, Ala.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">6.37</span></p> + <p>South Canaan. Sab. Scii. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">7.10</span></p> + <p>Southport. Sah. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">34.40</span></p> + <p>Southport. "Cash" <span class="rightmargin">25.00</span></p> + <p>Stamford. Mrs. A.M. Hurlbutt's S.S. Class, <i>for Student Aid, Indian M.</i> + <span class="rightmargin">70.00</span></p> + <p>Thomaston. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">30.00</span></p> + <p>Thomaston. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">19.25</span></p> + <p>Thompson. Cong. Ch., <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">30.00</span></p> + <p>Thompson. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">19.85</span></p> + <p>Washington. Frederick A. Frisbie <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>Watertown. S.S. Class, by Mrs. Scott, <i>for For Berthold Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Westford. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">3.53</span></p> + <p>Westminster. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">4.00</span></p> + <p>Westville. M.P. Dickerman <span class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>Wethersfield. Thanksgiving offering, by Geo. W. Harris, for Indian M. (2 of + which from C. Karl Harris and Geo. M. Harris), <i>for Rosebud M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Winchester. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">12.55</span> Windsor. First + Cong. Ch. 25.00</p> + <p>Woodbury. "Coral Workers," Bbl. Of Bedding, etc., <i>for Thomasville, + Ga.</i></p> + <div style="margin-left: 5%;"> + <p>——. "Friends in Connecticut," <i>for Chapel, Cheyenne Agency</i> + <span class="rightmargin">300.00</span></p> + <p>——. "A Friend," <i>for Theo. Dept. Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">25.00</span></p> + </div> + <p>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Conn., by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec:</p> + <p>Ellington. Ladies' Soc. <span class="rightmargin">20.00</span></p> + <p>Pomfret. Ladies' Soc. <span class="rightmargin">4.00</span></p> + <p>———— <span class="rightmargin">1,368.85</span></p> + <h6>LEGACY.</h6> + <p>Millelbury. Estate of Charles Boughton, by Geo. A. Boughton, Ex. <span + class="rightmargin">50.00</span> ————- $1,418.85</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page27" id="page27"></a>{27}</span> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>NEW YORK $924.05.</h5> + <p>Bangor. " Friends," by Rev. G.A. Jameson, <i>for Talladega C.</i> ...$26.62</p> + <p>Brooklyn. Tompkins Av. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">408.00</span></p> + <p>Brooklyn, Stephen Ballard, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">112.00</span></p> + <p>Buffalo. Wm. W. Hammond, <i>for Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Churchville. Sab. Soft. Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian Sch'p</i> <span + class="rightmargin">35.00</span></p> + <p>Churchville. "Mission Band," Cong. Ch., 2 Quilts, <i>for Macon Ga.</i></p> + <p>Columbus. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">3.00</span></p> + <p>Cortland. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Derby "Children" by Miss E.L. Camp. <i>for Marie Adlof Fund</i> <span + class="rightmargin">0.50</span></p> + <p>Elbridge. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">12.00</span></p> + <p>Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 34.26, and Sab. Sch., 8.27 <span + class="rightmargin">42.53</span></p> + <p>Ithaca. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">25.00</span></p> + <p>New York. Mrs. Dodge, <i>for Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">100.00</span></p> + <p>New York. Geo. E. Hamlin <span class="rightmargin">25.00</span></p> + <p>New York. Bethany Sewing Sch., 6; Infant Class, Sab. Sch. Broadway Tabernacle, + 5, <i>for Fort Berthold Indian M.</i> <span class="rightmargin">11.00</span></p> + <p>New York. Proceeds sale of Gift <span class="rightmargin">1.25</span></p> + <p>Norwich. "G.," 20; "Lady in Cong. Ch.," 1 <span + class="rightmargin">21.00</span></p> + <p>Rochester. Plymouth Ch. <span class="rightmargin">19.37</span></p> + <p>Sag Harbor. Chas. N. Brown, to const. REV. CHAS H. WILSON L.M. <span + class="rightmargin">30.00</span></p> + <p>Syracuse. Chas. A. Hamlin <span class="rightmargin">21.78</span></p> + <p>Walton. Ladies' Miss. Soc., 2 Bbls. Goods, <i>for Santee Indian M.</i></p> + <p>Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., <i>for Woman's + Work</i>:</p> + <div style="margin-left: 5%;"> + <p>Warsaw. Ladies' Soc. <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>West Groton. Young People's Soc. <span class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + </div> + <p>—— <span class="rightmargin">15.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>NEW JERSEY, $115.90.</h5> + <p>Arlington, Sab. Sch. Miss'y Soc. of Presb. Ch. <i>for Beach Inst.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">44.68</span></p> + <p>Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">36.22</span></p> + <p>Bound Brook. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">30.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>PENNSYLVANIA, $316.25.</h5> + <p>Canton. H. Sheldon <span class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Mercer. Proceeds sale of late Free Presb. Ch., <i>for benefit of Freedmen</i>, + by G.K. Smith for the trustees <span class="rightmargin">300.00</span></p> + <p>Orwell. Rev. M.R. Kerr <span class="rightmargin">0.25</span></p> + <p>Shenandoah. Ladies Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., Freight 1., <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i> + <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>West Alexander. Mrs. Ruth Sunderland <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>OHIO, $105.77.</h5> + <p>Atwater. For Freight <span class="rightmargin">1.25</span></p> + <p>Claridon First Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">54.00</span></p> + <p>Conneant H.E. Pond and "Friends," <i>for Straight U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">8.60</span></p> + <p>Mantua. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">4.33</span></p> + <p>Oberlin. Mrs. D.H. Patchlin <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>Ruggles. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">15.50</span></p> + <p>Ohio Woman's Home Miss'y Union, by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., <i>for Woman's + Work</i>:</p> + <div style="margin-left: 5%;"> + <p>Burton. Mrs. L.R. Boughton <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Burton. Mrs. A.S. Hotchkiss <span class="rightmargin">3.00</span></p> + <p>Cleveland, Y.P.S.C.E., First Cong. Ch. <span + class="rightmargin">1.09</span></p> + <p>Lindenville. Miss Ellen Jones <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Marysville. Ladies Miss'y Aux. <span class="rightmargin">4.00</span></p> + <p>Medina. Boys' Mission Band <span class="rightmargin">3.00</span></p> + </div> + <p>—— <span class="rightmargin">21.09</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>INDIANA, $20.00.</h5> + <p>Bloomington. Mrs. A.B. Woodford, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">20.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>ILLINOIS, $344.69.</h5> + <p>Amboy. Ladies, by S. Bell, 1 Pkg. Patchwork and 5 Bibles</p> + <p>Avon. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">12.24</span></p> + <p>Chicago. Warren Av. Cong. Ch., 13.62; Soc. of Inquiry, Theo. Sem. 10 <span + class="rightmargin">23.62</span></p> + <p>Chicago. W.H.M.U. of South Cong. Ch., <i>for Woman's Work</i> <span + class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Englewood. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">48.70</span></p> + <p>Forrest. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">7.00</span></p> + <p>Kewanee. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">72.13</span></p> + <p>Lawn Ridge. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">18.38</span></p> + <p>Port Byron. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">3.20</span></p> + <p>Rochelle. Mrs. A.C. Francis <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>Seward. Cong. Ch., 38.15, to const. REV. W.F. COOLEY L.M., Ladies Soc. of Cong. + Ch., 13 <span class="rightmargin">51.15</span></p> + <p>Stillman Valley. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">6.92</span></p> + <p>Waverly. Cong, Ch., 34.42; Sab. Sch. Of Cong. Ch., 12.43, to const. REV. W.A. + HOBBS L.M. <span class="rightmargin">46.85</span></p> + <p>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Ill., by Mrs. B.T. Leavitt, Treas., <i>for + Woman's Work</i>:</p> + <div style="margin-left: 5%;"> + <p>Canton. Ladies Miss'y Soc., First Ch. <span + class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>La Harpe. H.M. Union <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Oak Park. Ladies' Benev. Circle <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>Rockford H.M.U. of First Ch. <span class="rightmargin">20.65</span></p> + <p>Rockford. W.H.M.U. of Second Ch. <span class="rightmargin">2.60</span></p> + <p>Thawville. Miss'y Soc. <span class="rightmargin">1.25</span></p> + <p>Thawville. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. <span class="rightmargin">3.00</span></p> + <p>Wyoming. Woman's Miss'y Soc. <span class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + </div> + <p>—— <span class="rightmargin">53.50</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>MICHIGAN, $222.48.</h5> + <p>Alpena. "A Member of my Ch," by Rev. H.H. Van Auken <span + class="rightmargin">25.00</span></p> + <p>Columbus. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">15.60</span></p> + <p>Galesburg. Cong. Ch., 20.15, and Sab. Sch., 11.85, to const. DEA N.T. RANDALL + L.M. <span class="rightmargin">32.00</span></p> + <p>Grand Blanc. Woman's Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. G.R. Parker, <i>for Woman's Work</i> + <span class="rightmargin">4.00</span></p> + <p>Greenville. Cong Ch. <span class="rightmargin">50.00</span></p> + <p>Hancock. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Litchfield. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">10.88</span></p> + <p>Marshall. Mr. E.A. Crocker <span class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>Port Huron. First Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">73.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>WISCONSIN, $68.30.</h5> + <p>Clinton. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">17.95</span></p> + <p>Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">10.15</span></p> + <p>Johnston. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">2.20</span></p> + <p>Milwaukee. George J. Rogers <span class="rightmargin">20.00</span></p> + <p>Ripon. Cong. Ch. (9 of which <i>for Indian M.</i>) <span + class="rightmargin">18.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>IOWA, $92.80.</h5> + <p>Chester. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">7.64</span></p> + <p>Clear Lake. Christian End. Soc., Bbl. of C., Freight 1, <i>Savannah, Ga.</i> + <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>Danville. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">12.50</span></p> + <p>Genoa Bluffs. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">7.00</span></p> + <p>Oakland. Mrs. M.M. Bush <span class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Stacyville. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Taber. Mission Band, <i>for Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">9.00</span></p> + <p>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</p> + <div style="margin-left: 5%;"> + <p>Grinnell. W.H.M.U. of Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">11.28</span></p> + <p>Marion. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">10.20</span></p> + <span class="pagenum"><a name="page28" id="page28"></a>{28}</span> + <p>Magnolia. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">1.65</span></p> + <p>Osage. L.M.S. of Cong Ch. <span class="rightmargin">1.20</span></p> + <p>Osage. "Prairie Chickens," of Cong. Ch. <span + class="rightmargin">0.40</span></p> + <p>Polk City. L.M.S. of Cong Ch. <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <p>Prairie Hill. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">0.50</span></p> + <p>Rockford. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">1.01</span></p> + <p>Sheldon. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">1.72</span></p> + <p>Webster City. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">4.00</span></p> + <p>Norwich, Vt. Mrs. H.M. Stuart <span class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + </div> + <p>——— <span class="rightmargin">35.66</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>MINNESOTA, $130.55</h5> + <p>Duluth. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">45.00</span></p> + <p>Excelsior. "J.C.H." <span class="rightmargin">3.00</span></p> + <p>Lake City. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">7.00</span></p> + <p>Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. <span class="rightmargin">19.00</span></p> + <p>Northfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">51.53</span></p> + <p>Northfield. Robert Watson <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>MISSOURI, $204.25.</h5> + <p>Kansas City. First Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">158.00</span></p> + <p>Kansas City. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">46.25</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>DAKOTA, $13.00.</h5> + <p>De Smet. Mrs. Phebe M. Weeks <span class="rightmargin">13.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>NEBRASKA, $56.82.</h5> + <p>Omaha. H.M. James, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">50.00</span></p> + <p>Waverly. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">6.82</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>ARKANSAS, $5.00.</h5> + <p>Little Rock. Ladies' Soc. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>COLORADO, $41.35.</h5> + <p>Denver. First Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">36.35</span></p> + <p>Rosita. Miss Jospehine Kellogg, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>CALIFORNIA, $10.35.</h5> + <p>Etna Mills. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">10.35</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $61.00.</h5> + <p>Washington. Mt. Pleasant Cong. Ch., 51; Lincoln Mem. Ch., 10 <span + class="rightmargin">61.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>MARYLAND, $5.00.</h5> + <p>Federalsburg. Miss Sarah A. Beals <span class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>KENTUCKY, $270.35</h5> + <p>Lexington. Tuition, $368.35; "Friend," 2 <span + class="rightmargin">370.35</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>TENNESSEE, $1,027.59.</h5> + <p>Grand View. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">15.00</span></p> + <p>Jellico. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">13.50</span></p> + <p>Jonesboro. Tuition, 6; County Funds, 17.28; Rent, 2.50 <span + class="rightmargin">25.78</span></p> + <p>Memphis. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">403.75</span></p> + <p>Nashville. Tuition, 554.81; Rent, 6.50 <span + class="rightmargin">561.31</span></p> + <p>Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">2.00</span></p> + <p>Robbins. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">6.25</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>NORTH CAROLINA, $205.75.</h5> + <p>Troy. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">0.50</span></p> + <p>Wilmington. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">195.50</span></p> + <p>Wilmington. By Miss H.L. Fetts, 6.75; By Miss H.D. Hyde, 3 <span + class="rightmargin">9.75</span></p> + <h5>SOUTH CAROLINA, $216.25.</h5> + <p>Charleston. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">216.25</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>GEORGIA, $789.90.</h5> + <p>Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition <span class="rightmargin">341.80</span></p> + <p>Macon. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">153.55</span></p> + <p>Macon. Miss E.B. Scoble, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <p>Marietta. Cong. Ch., 3, and Sab. Sch., 1 <span + class="rightmargin">4.00</span></p> + <p>Savannah. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">210.50</span></p> + <p>Thomasville. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">74.95</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>ALABAMA, $410.66.</h5> + <p>Mobile. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">243.45</span></p> + <p>Montgomery. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">19.00</span></p> + <p>Talladega. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">138.21</span> Talladega. Sab. Sch., + Talladega C., <i>for Mobile, Ala.</i> <span class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>LOUISIANA, $261.50.</h5> + <p>New Orleans. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">261.50</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>MISSISSIPPI, $202.25.</h5> + <p>New Ruhamah. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">0.75</span></p> + <p>Tougaloo. Tuition, 199.50; Rent, 2 <span class="rightmargin">201.50</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>TEXAS, $110.15.</h5> + <p>Austin. Tuition <span class="rightmargin">109.15</span></p> + <p>Dodd City. Cong. Ch. <span class="rightmargin">1.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>INCOMES, 1982.00.</h5> + <p>Avery fund, <i>for Mendi M.</i> <span class="rightmargin">112.50</span></p> + <p>C.B. Rice Memorial Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">9.45</span></p> + <p>Endowment Fund, <i>for President's Chair, Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">500.00</span></p> + <p>General Endowment Fund <span class="rightmargin">31.50</span></p> + <p>Hammond Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i> <span class="rightmargin">125.00</span></p> + <p>Hastings Sch'p Fund, <i>for Atlanta U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">12.50</span></p> + <p>Howard Theo. Fund, <i>for Howard U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">600.00</span></p> + <p>H.W. Lincoln Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">31.50</span></p> + <p>Le Moyne Fund, <i>for Memphis, Tenn.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">200.00</span></p> + <p>Luke Mem. Sch'p Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">10.00</span></p> + <p>Rev. J. and Lydia Hawes Wood Sch'p Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">25.00</span></p> + <p>Mrs. Nancy N. and Miss Abbie Stone Sch'p Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">25.00</span></p> + <p>Scholarship Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">72.50</span></p> + <p>Theo. Sch'p Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">22.05</span></p> + <p>Tuthill King Fund, 125 <i>for Atlanta U.</i>; 75 <i>for Berea C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">200.00</span></p> + <p>Yale Library Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> <span + class="rightmargin">5.00</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>EUROPE, $1.50.</h5> + <p>Blugaria. Samokov. Miss E.T. Maltbie <span class="rightmargin">1.50</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <p>Donations <span class="rightmargin">12,127.39</span></p> + <p>Legacies <span class="rightmargin">3,129.47</span></p> + <p>Incomes <span class="rightmargin">1,982.00</span></p> + <p>Tuition <span class="rightmargin">3,523.15</span></p> + <p>Rents <span class="rightmargin">11.00</span></p> + <p>—————</p> + <p>Total for November <span class="rightmargin">20,773.01</span></p> + <p>Total from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 <span class="rightmargin">33,336,23</span></p> + <hr class="quarter" /> + <h5>FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h5> + <p>Subscriptions for November <span class="rightmargin">46.33</span></p> + <p>Previously acknowledged <span class="rightmargin">37.17</span></p> + <p>——— <span class="rightmargin">$83.50</span></p> + </div> + <hr class="full" /> + <p>H.W. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The American Missionary + Volume 42, No. 1, January 1888 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: April 3, 2004 [EBook #11762] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + + + + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson and PG Distributed Proofreaders + + + + +The American Missionary + + * * * * * + +JANUARY, 1888. + +VOL. XLII. + +NO. 1. + + * * * * * + +CONTENTS + +EDITORIAL. + NEW YEAR'S GREETING--FINANCIAL + PARAGRAPHS + PROHIBITION ITEMS + PARAGRAPHS + +THE SOUTH. + NOTES IN THE SADDLE + RELIGIOUS INTEREST IN LINCOLN CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D.C. + +THE INDIANS. + THE FOURTH BROTHER. By Mr. Frank Wood + +THE CHINESE. + DOES RESTRICTION RESTRICT? + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + FOUNDATION LAYING AND HOME BUILDING IN THE SOUTH. By Miss Josephine +Kellogg + THE SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL AND INDIAN MISSIONS. By Mrs. Chas. +W. Shelton + THE DAKOTA MISSIONARY SOCIETY + +RECEIPTS + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +Rooms, 56 Reade Street. + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. + +Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + * * * * * + +American Missionary Association + + * * * * * + +PRESIDENT, ---- ---- + +_Vice-Presidents._ + +Rev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y. +Rev. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass. +Rev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. +Rev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass. +Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo. + +_Corresponding Secretaries._ + +Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. +Rev. JAMES POWELL, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. +Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. + +_Treasurer._ + +H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. + +_Auditors._ + +PETER MCCARTEE. +CHAS. P. PEIRCE. + +_Executive Committee._ + +JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman. +ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary. + +_For Three Years._ + +LYMAN ABBOTT, +A.S. BARNES, +J.R. DANFORTH, +CLINTON B. FISK, +ADDISON P. FOSTER, + +_For Two Years._ + +S.B. HALLIDAY, +SAMUEL HOLMES, +SAMUEL S. MARPLES, +CHARLES L. MEAD, +ELBERT B. MONROE, + +_For One Year._ + +J.E. RANKIN, +WM. H. WARD, +J.W. COOPER, +JOHN H. WASHBURN, +EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN. + +_District Secretaries._ + +Rev. C.L. WOODWORTH, D.D., 21 _Cong'l House, Boston_. +Rev. J.E. ROY, D.D., 151 _Washington Street, Chicago_. + +_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._ +Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON, + +_Field Superintendent._ +Rev. C.J. RYDER. + +_Bureau of Woman's Work._ + +_Secretary_, Miss D E. EMERSON, 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._ + + * * * * * + +COMMUNICATIONS + +Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the +Corresponding Secretaries; those relating to the collecting fields, +to Rev. James Powell, D.D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for +"THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, at the New York Office. + +DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS + +In drafts, checks, registered letters or post-office orders, may be sent +to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more +convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, +Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty +dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. + +FORM OF A BEQUEST. + +"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in +trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person who, +when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American +Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the +direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its +charitable uses and purposes," The Will should be attested by three +witnesses. + + * * * * * + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + + * * * * * + +Vol. XLII. +JANUARY, 1888. +No. 1 + + * * * * * + +American Missionary Association. + + +A HAPPY NEW YEAR! + + +A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It is an inspiring delight to +hear and speak the greeting. It is a phrase that comes down to us from +the ages. All the more gladly do we repeat it on that account. There are +some things, thank God, even in this world, that never grow old. The +greetings of Christmas and New Year are among them. This is because they +are connected with Christ and his kingdom. True happiness for mankind +first came into this world when Christ was born. In proportion as he is +received into human life, happiness is experienced. Therefore, in +wishing for our readers a happy New Year, we are wishing for them more +of Christ in their thought and life. + +But Christ never comes into a life to be held there in confinement. He +seeks our life that it may become a channel through which he may flow to +bless and make happy other lives. He is not only our peace--he is our +righteousness as well. How miserable we would be in our sins and +shortcomings were this not so! But all the more on that account will we +desire to _do_ what we can to make up for our deficiencies. Loving him, +we shall want to do his will. He wills that all shall hear of the +salvation his gospel brings. We can proclaim the message. He wills that +all shall see the power of his gospel in the benevolent fruits of his +followers' lives. We can exhibit that power. Where we cannot go to tell +the story and exhibit the power in person, we can send. Therefore, in +wishing for our readers a happy New Year, we are wishing for them a +righteousness that will manifest Christ actually saving the world in +what they say and do. Happiness through service and sacrifice--this is +the happiness THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY wishes for all its readers, +because it is the only happiness worth having. + + * * * * * + +While January is the first month of the calendar year, it happens to be +the fourth month of the A.M.A.'s fiscal year. It is a good time for our +friends to make new resolutions in reference to what they will do in +support of our work the coming year. We closed last year out of debt. It +was a cause for joy and thanksgiving. The Portland meeting felt and +expressed it. Letters of congratulation came to us from all parts of the +country. But there is something about prosperity that almost inevitably +fosters decline. A woe seems to be attached to institutions as well as +individuals of which all men speak well. We need $25,000 a month to pay +necessary bills. We ought to have $30,000 a month to properly prosecute +the work at this moment on hand. Our total receipts at the end of the +first two months of the new fiscal year were $33,336. The lowest figure, +in order to enable us to meet our bills for the two months, is $50,000. +The result is, we are again obliged to report payments in excess of +receipts. We do it unwillingly. We want very much to be delivered from +the necessity of making special appeals along toward the end of the +year. This necessity can be avoided only through our friends' securing +increased receipts to our treasury the early part of the year. Now is +the time to resolve that it shall be done. Let every church vote to give +us a contribution. Let every individual friend resolve that he will, if +possible, increase his contribution over that of last year, and that in +any event he will by personal effort enlarge the circle of our +supporters by inducing some friend or friends to take an interest in our +work. + + * * * * * + +Memorial services in honor of our late President, Hon. Wm. B. Washburn, +were held at Greenfield, Mass., Gov. Washburn's home, November 29th, +under the auspices of the Connecticut Valley Congregational Club. +Addresses were made by U.S. Senator Hoar, Rev. Dr. Buckingham, and +President Seelye. + + * * * * * + +Thirty dollars constitute a Life Membership. Some of our friends utilize +their contributions in this way. One of these writes us: "This is my +thirty-first Life Member which it is my good fortune to make to your +society." A good example to follow. + + * * * * * + +Lord Shaftsbury once said: "I think it would be of the greatest value if +the reports of the various Religious and Charitable Societies were at +once, by Act of Parliament, elevated into the dignity of Blue Books. If +every Member of Parliament, under the most severe penalty--and more +particularly the ministers of the day--were compelled to study them +accurately, and then undergo a competitive examination, I am satisfied +that great good would accrue to themselves and benefit to their country; +their enlarged notions, and probably improved hearts, would be felt in +the legislation of the country." + +A pertinent illustration of the force of this statement is the speech of +Senator Frye, made at the Portland meeting. The Senator confessed that +he had not been familiar with the history of the American Missionary +Association, that he had been reading its Annual Reports, and making +himself acquainted with its work. Thereupon, out of what he had learned, +he constructed a speech that was, in every way, worthy of the Statesman +that he is. We shall be much mistaken if Senator Frye does not find +occasion to use the knowledge obtained in the study of our Association's +history in some of his speeches or debates in the U.S. Senate. + + * * * * * + +The citizens of Macon, Ga., gave Jefferson Davis a rousing reception on +the occasion of his recent visit to that city. As a souvenir of his +welcome, they presented him with 126 bottles of wine, thirty-three +bottles of whiskey, fourteen bottles of brandy, and eleven boxes of +cigars. If these gifts suggest anything in regard to the habits of +Jefferson Davis, we can readily see that he was not a fit candidate for +having the ladies put upon his lapel a blue ribbon. No wonder he rushed +into print to assure the public that he was not in favor of total +abstinence. A campaign in behalf of prohibition would have a hard time +in the region of Macon. + + * * * * * + +Evan P. Howell and Henry W. Grady are among the owners of the _Atlanta +Constitution_. During the recent campaign on the liquor question in +Atlanta these gentlemen were on opposite sides, so that the papers +reported that while Mr. Grady was making a speech in behalf of +prohibition in one part of the town, Capt. Howell was making a speech +against it in another place. Two of Mr. Grady's speeches have been +published in pamphlet form, and they are worthy of that gentleman's +reputation as an orator. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY is glad to find Mr. +Grady on the right side of this question, and regrets that prohibition +failed to carry the day in the election. + +The colored people held the balance of power. We praised them last year +when, using that balance, they carried the city for temperance. We +regret that this year they have used it against temperance. There is no +use of concealing the fact. Ignorant people cannot be depended upon to +take the right side of any question. It will be a mere happening if they +do. The election in Atlanta gives additional emphasis to the necessity +of our work in the South. + + * * * * * + +White ladies so far overcame their caste prejudices as to join their +colored sisters in the campaign for prohibition. Together they prayed +and worked. Many of the white people were disgusted at this exhibition +of social equality. These white ladies have taken a step in the right +direction, and, when all their white sisters join them, reform will be +well advanced. May the day be hastened! + + * * * * * + +The rum advocates resorted to all manner of devices to influence the +colored people. They had a circular printed with a portrait of Abraham +Lincoln. The picture represented him standing, with a slave in chains +kneeling before him. Under the picture, in quotation marks, were the +words, as if spoken by Mr. Lincoln: "Prohibition is slavery; I will cut +the manacles from your hands." This was a mean trick. To put such lying +words into the mouth of a man whose name the colored people revere nest +to that of the Saviour, is a piece of wickedness that only rum-sellers +could be guilty of. It accomplished their vile purpose, however, in +leading a great many colored people to vote against prohibition. + + * * * * * + +A colored preacher who made anti-prohibition speeches, referring to a +statement that their meetings were not opened with prayer, said that he +would make as good a prayer as anybody. Thereupon he slowly prayed: "Oh! +Lord, I pray thee to help Atlanta in her extremity. Oh, do lift her up +and restore her to the proud place she once occupied before these +prohibition fanatics got her by the throat. Oh, Lord Jesus, do thou make +these deluded preachers see the error of their ways. Do help the sweet +inhabitants of this city. [Cries of 'Amen!'] Do restore to them pure +liquor, and not compel them to drink the vile stuff sold as 'nerve +tonic,' 'rice beer' and 'bitters.' [Applause and laughter.] Give us +power to win the fight. [Cries of 'Amen.'] Put to rout the miserable +hypocrites who parade as thy servants under the guise of +Prohibitionists. Oh, do save us and let us win this fight, for Jesus' +sake, amen. [Cheers, and cries of 'Amen.']" What can be expected of a +church with such a man for its pastor, and what can be expected of a +people if left to such leadership? + + * * * * * + +Rev. Geo. C. Rowe, of Charleston, S.C., in company with brethren +Snelson, Maxwell, Jordan and Herron, going to attend the Association at +Macon, Ga., by reason of a delayed train were in danger of missing +connection at Jessup, a junction. The authorities telegraphed for the +train to wait. When the little party reached Jessup, they found the +train in waiting, and boarding it entered a first-class coach. We let +Mr. Bowe tell the rest of the story: + + "A burly white train-hand came in, and said, in a threatening way: + 'The forward car is your car.' We gave him no answer, but kept our + seats. The conductor came through and looked at us, but said + nothing. At the door he asked, roughly, of a colored train hand, + 'Why did you let those men go into that car?' They hardly knew how + to act, as we were the only passengers who came on the S.F. & W. + train, and they had been ordered to wait for passengers on that + train; so, doubtless considering discretion the better part of + valor, they left us severely alone, and we rode from Savannah to + Macon, an eight-hour journey in _Georgia_, first class, without + molestation. Of course, the white people who entered at various + stations stared at us, but we were good at that and returned the + compliment. First class, indeed! Men with turpentine clothes, or + rags, on; women chewing snuff, etc., etc. If I looked, acted and + talked like some of the people that I saw on that train, I should + certainly feel myself an appropriate subject for an ox-cart in the + backwoods, rather than for a first class coach on a railroad; yet + these are the people who object to respectable, well-dressed, + intelligent and Christian men and women riding in a decent coach, + on account of their color." + + * * * * * + +THE SOUTH. + +NOTES IN THE SADDLE + +BY FIELD-SUPERINTENDENT C.J. RYDER. + + +Pleasant Hill, Tenn., has now a school building worthy the growing +importance of that interesting field on the Cumberland plateau. The +teaching force has been enlarged and the influence of the school is +constantly widening. Another building to be used for boarding pupils is +in process of erection, and is greatly needed. Maine has joined hands +with Tennessee in this most important work, several of the churches +having given to this field. + +A new church has just been organized at Crossville, Tenn. Many northern +families have come into this region within the past few months, and they +will greatly assist us in gathering the native mountain people. + + * * * * * + +Grand View Academy, occupying a most commanding site on the top of a +mountain overlooking the magnificent valley of the Cumberland River, has +also increased its school accommodations. There will be here, in the not +very distant future, a large college, reaching in its influence the +mountain people back on the plateau and in the coves, and those who are +rapidly filling the fertile valley along the foot of Cumberland Mountain +and Walden's Ridge. If we, as Congregational Churches, hold this grand +work, we must generously support it _now_. + + * * * * * + +A specimen, a hybrid of civilization and paganism, I saw on the streets +of Fort Smith, Arkansas. He seemed to illustrate the result of our +governmental efforts to citizenize the Indian without Christianizing +him. A tall Indian, of fine, commanding figure, walked down the street +dressed in the following fashion: His feet were cased in moccasins, his +legs in buckskin breeches. Both of these garments were highly ornamented +with quills and beads. He was purely Indian so far. His tall lithe body +was closely buttoned in a faded black Prince Albert coat. On his head he +wore a Derby hat. So much for civilization. The hat had a hole in the +crown, and in this hole the Brave had stuck a large tuft of eagle +feathers that stood several inches above his head and nodded and danced +above him as he walked with the royal dignity of a Mogg Megone. Here was +civilization and savagery in dress at least. This is about what our +Government is doing for this people; urging them to put on the faded +coat of imperfect citizenship, and at the same time forbidding that they +be instructed in the truths of religion in their own language. We can +never civilize the body while we leave the heart savage. A visit to Fort +Smith would convince anyone of the absolute failure of this method. In +the miserable prison pen, one hundred and forty-four were crowded like +cattle. Among this multitude of criminals were young boys, just entering +upon a life of crime, imprisoned for some paltry offence, and herded +with them were grey-headed murderers. All these prisoners were from the +Indian Territory, or the "Nation" as they call it. One man had just been +convicted of murder. Two beautiful daughters of an Indian mother stood +weeping beside him. A gallows stands constantly on the edge of the +"Nation," and is used with appalling frequency. A lawyer who courteously +introduced me into the esoteric mysteries of the law as executed in this +United States Court, pointed out the peculiar construction of the +gallows which increased its capacity. "Eight men can stand on that plank +and the drop will swing them all off at once," he said with evident +pride, then added apologetically, "I never saw but six hung at one time, +but they do hang eight." + +"Hanging day," I was informed, was one of the great festival occasions. +Thousands of Indians, of more or less purity of blood, gathered from the +"Nation" to enjoy this treat. There is an excuse for a fence around this +perpetual gallows, but there are wide openings in it and the awful scene +enacted within its enclosure can be witnessed from surrounding +elevations. + +No doubt an attempt at justice is made in the United States Court. I +attended the trial of a case and it seemed to me the accused had a fair +hearing, but what a comment on our Christian civilization: A court +overrun with cases; a prison pen with young boys and grey-headed +criminals herded together in it; a gallows standing ready the year +round; saloons and brothels permitted at every turn; bad men and worse +women appealing to the lowest passions of ignorant and degraded men--all +these the legalized representatives of a Christian civilization. Is it +strange that these Indians do not accept more readily our Christian +theories, when they come into constant contact with our most unchristian +practice? The Indian language is used in saloons and gambling hells and +brothels to lead these poor, heathen people to physical and moral +perdition, but is forbidden by Government to be used in mission schools +to lead them to the Lord Jesus Christ! We ought to plant a mission for +the Indians and the colored people at Fort Smith this year. The work is +painfully urgent. + + * * * * * + +RELIGIOUS INTEREST AT LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH, WASHINGTON, D.C. + + +Rev. James Wharton, the English Evangelist, recently spent a little more +than two weeks with the Lincoln Memorial Church, Washington. The people +were deeply stirred, and the church was greatly quickened. About forty +persons professed conversion, and a large number are still inquiring the +way. + +The conversions were mostly among the young people. There were eight or +ten adults who decided to live Christian lives, two of them being aged +men, one 61 years and the other 75 years of age. They are both very +happy in their new-found hope in Christ. + +Many of the young people would gladly unite with us, but their parents +will not consent for them to do so, as they will not be convinced that +the children can be Christians unless they can give a _remarkable +experience_, and some will not be satisfied of their conversion unless +the child has seen a vision or heard a voice. + +I called to-day to see the mother of a little girl who confessed Christ +as her Saviour in our meetings. She said that her little girls, one +eight years and the other twelve years of age, say that they are +Christians. When the mother told Josie, the youngest child, that she did +not have "_religion_," the little girl replied: "I love the Saviour, and +Jesus loves me. He died for my sins, and I have accepted him as my +Saviour and am happy in His love. Mamma, Mr. Moore says that that is +religion. If that ain't religion, then, mamma, what is religion? I want +to be an earnest Christian; will you show me how?" The mother says that +Josie sticks to it that she is a Christian, and that she does not know +what to do about it. + +The most of these young people, some of whom are twelve and fourteen +years of age, will not be allowed to join any church, but will be +laughed at and persecuted and led to expect some remarkable experience +like "Saul of Tarsus," or to see a vision and hear a voice. We shall do +what we can to encourage them to cling to Christ. + +We have succeeded in closing two saloons near our church, and are +hopeful of closing another notorious den about a square away. + +There is no place where earnest Christian work is more needed than here +at the nation's Capital, where we have a colored population of nearly +80,000, the majority of whom are out of Christ, and thousands are still +shrouded in the darkness of ignorance and superstition. + +GEO. W. MOORE. + + * * * * * + +THE INDIANS. + + +THE FOURTH BROTHER. + +BY FRANK WOOD, ESQ. + +I believe that if the Master were visibly present with us to-day, and we +should ask, "Where shall we go first with the Gospel?" he would say, "Go +to that fourth brother, the North American Indian;" and for the +strongest reasons. + +First, because he is in the greatest need. There are no people in want +whose cry does not at once reach the heart of the American people. When +Chicago was burned, when there was an earthquake in Charleston, when +there was a famine in Ireland, public sympathy was immediately awakened, +and all that was needed was sent. The only people who seem to be in need +and do not receive help are the aborigines of our soil--the people whom +we have dispossessed; whom we have crowded from their homes; whom we +have shut into reservations until they are nothing but prisoners of war; +whom we have placed under the control of a despot called an Indian +agent, who is not controlled by law, who on that agency governs by his +own will, with no courts to protect those who are wronged. These Indians +are shut in on these reservations, kept from all civilizing and +Christianizing influences, kept from trade and commerce. A trader is +appointed over them, from whom they must buy everything they need, +paying whatever he may ask, to whom they must sell everything that they +would sell, taking what he may choose to give. + +We have, it is true, a cumbrous system of machinery which is supposed to +educate and civilize the Indian, called the Indian Bureau. Some men have +studied it for years, and they fail yet to comprehend it. I believe it +is incomprehensible. I believe it was never intended to be understood. +Some men ask what it does. It does little, and largely shows how _not_ +to do; and any effort to Christianize and elevate the Indians, so long +as the present system remains, will be a failure. Now, when our +philanthropists are endeavoring to lift them up, when our legislators +are taking favorable action, this Indian Bureau, through its Assistant +Commissioner, issues an order which says that the English language must +be the only language taught or _spoken_ in the mission-schools. The only +language the Indian knows is forbidden. Suppose we were to try to learn +a foreign language in that way? Suppose a Frenchman should come to teach +us French, and neither of us spoke a word of English--how rapid would +our progress be? + +Thirty barrels of whiskey and one thousand scalping knives were issued +not many years ago as civilizing agencies by this department. An +instance given us last night by our friend from across the water, shows +that the English circumlocution office is a greyhound compared with our +Indian office. I remember a similar story that Bright Eyes told in +Boston some years ago. + +She was then a teacher in an Indian school. She had little children in +her school that came some seven, eight, or ten miles barefooted, and +winter was coming on, and her heart sympathized with these poor children +who came so far to be taught. They happened to have a good agent, and he +said, "Send an order for shoes for these children;" and she sent an +order, with a request that they send the shoes, as they were really +needed, on account of the frost and snow. The order went to Washington, +went through the regular routine, and the next spring, after winter had +passed, a case of shoes came for these little Indian children. When it +was opened, she found it full of brogans, that had been made for the +Southern negro in the rice-fields; and every shoe in that case was so +large that there was not an adult Indian on the reservation that could +wear it. That is how the Indian Bureau provides for the little Indian +children when there is a case of special necessity. (Laughter.) + +I could mention numerous illustrations showing that it is impossible to +do any work that is required immediately, through this Indian Bureau. If +people are starving, you cannot get food for them until they die. + +Now, what is the remedy? I believe that Christianity is the only +remedy--the only solution of the Indian question. Where they have had +good Christian agents--and they have had some--where they have +missionaries, the Indian has made wonderful progress. I think we can +point to a few civilized and Christianized communities among the Indians +that can find no parallel among the whites of the country. There is less +crime, less immorality, more faithfulness to the requirements of the +Christian religion and better observance of the Sabbath, more sincerity +and earnestness in the performance of every Christian duty, than we can +find in the same number of whites anywhere. At Metlakatla, as told by +Mr. Duncan, the Indians now form a community of twelve hundred people, +who have their churches, their stores, their town-halls. They live in +houses, like other people; they appear like civilized people; they carry +on all the vocations of civilized life; and all this has been done by +the work of one man. There is no liquor-drinking or liquor-selling +there. A majority of this twelve hundred people are earnest, faithful, +consistent Christians. They get no help from the Government. They have +built up and support their churches. Where can you see anything among +the whites that equals it? + +Then there is another reason why we should go to them with the gospel of +Christ. It is a good thing to engage in works of charity and +benevolence, but before we do this we should pay our debts. We owe so +much to the Indians of this country, that I think before we go anywhere +else we should do something to atone for the years of wrong, for the +centuries of injury, that they have suffered at our hands. We have taken +their homes from them. We have driven them from reservation to +reservation. We have taken their crops when almost ready to reap. We +have removed them into climates where they have died by hundreds. We +have not listened to their cries. We have on various trumped-up charges +frequently slaughtered these people, and treated them in the most cruel +manner. There is no question that I know of that so holds a man, once +interested, and so grows upon him, as this Indian question. + +I was first interested in this subject about ten years ago in the city +of Boston, where Bright Eyes, Mr. Tibbles, and old Standing Bear came to +tell of the wrongs of the Poncas. They were to hold a public meeting. +Wendell Phillips was to speak. I went to that meeting more with a desire +to hear Phillips than from any interest in the Indian. At that time all +I knew about him was what I had learned from the current literature and +romance, and my idea was very far from correct. At that meeting a state +of affairs was shown to exist that seemed astounding and impossible. A +committee was appointed to investigate these statements. They found that +the half had not been told. That committee started measures that +rectified these wrongs done to the Poncas. It commenced suit under the +Fourteenth Amendment to see whether the Indians were citizens. The +Judges of the Supreme Court decided that the Indian was not a person +under the law. Then it tried other channels; to get legislation that +would help the Indian. Senator Dawes soon became interested in this +question, and from that time to the present he has been interested; and +how much the Indian owes to the legislation which has been started and +carried forward by Senator Dawes, but very few people know; but it must +be followed by other legislation before the Indian is safe. + +In Boston, Mrs. H.H. Jackson listened to the statement of Bright Eyes +in regard to the wrongs suffered by her people. She came to her and +said, "It is not possible that these things can be true." Bright Eyes +showed her the official documents; she convinced her that it was true. +From that hour that woman's whole soul was in the work. She afterwards +wrote "A Century of Dishonor," and "Ramona," which has preached for the +Indians, and will continue to do so. She gave her life finally for the +Indians, the sickness that caused her death being brought on while +engaged in work for them. This work gets hold of a man, if he has any +blood in his veins and sympathy in his heart, and makes him feel, if he +would stand without condemnation before God in the last day, that he +must do something to redeem his country from dishonor, and deliver this +people from worse than slavery. + +Suppose we do not do it. Suppose we allow the Government to care for +them. The Dawes Bill gives them citizenship, but what does the Indian +get? One hundred and sixty acres of land--and he as naked as a babe on +that land. He has had no training in education and systematic work of +any kind; he has no tools--and if he had he would not know how to use +them. He is in the midst of white enemies, who want his land. He has +turned his back upon all the traditions of his ancestors. He has turned +his face toward the whites, and his friends of the past are now his +enemies. He is in the midst of his reservation. His homestead is his +own, yet no American citizen has a right there. If you and I go to teach +him, we can be ordered off by the agent; and if we do not go he can put +us in prison. + +If we do not give protection and Christianity to them, there is no hope +for these Indians. Their fate will be the same as Indians on the +reservation in the State of New York, who have been for one hundred +years in the midst of our best civilization, but are still lazy and +shiftless, their reservation being permeated through and through with +unmentionable vices. They have no interest in the civilization of the +present. They are living in the past, dreaming over the glory of their +ancestors. They cannot be reached through civilization without religion. +To an Indian there is nothing secular. Everything pertains to his +religion. When he goes on a hunt, if he has no success, it is because +the gods are opposed to him; and if he is successful, the gods were in +it. When we go to an Indian and seek to change him, we must first change +his gods. We must Christianize him if we would civilize him. There is +where many of our experiments have been wrong. + +Is it not laid upon us, who know something of this work, to do this? I +believe if we will not do it, that in the last great day, as we stand +with the Indian before the judgment bar of God, our position will be +worse than that of the Indian. It seems to me that I can hear what the +Judge would say to him at that time. The Indian comes before God, a +pagan from a Christian land; he comes having improved none of the powers +that God gave him. The Lord might say to him: "Did I not give you as +good opportunities and as good capacities as the white man in whose +midst you were? This Christian nation is the foremost for missions. It +has sent to all the lands of the earth, and yet here you come a pagan, +not knowing God, uncivilized, a barbarian." Might not this Indian say: +"I was in prison. I was surrounded by a reservation around whose outside +lines were the soldiers of the United States, and I would be shot if I +went off this reservation. I had no business with which to support +myself; I had no chance for trade or commerce; I had to buy of and sell +to one man. What opportunity had I? When an occasional missionary came +to me with the gospel of Christ, I looked upon this man as one of my +enemies--a man from the nation that had robbed me of my opportunities; +and, my Father, why should I listen to him, especially when he spoke in +a strange language? Am I to blame that I come here empty? Am I to blame +that I must go away?" I believe the Lord would turn to us and say, +"Inasmuch as ye have not done it to one of the least of these my +brethren, ye have not done it unto Me." And, speaking for myself alone, +I would rather at that last day be in the place of that darkened +Indian---savage, barbarian, pagan, as he is--than in the place of the +Christian that knew of his need and would not help him. + + * * * * * + +THE CHINESE. + +DOES RESTRICTION RESTRICT? + +As a son of Maine, I am one of those who believe that prohibition _can_ +prohibit, and will do so effectively, if you will give it a fair chance, +but I doubt whether restriction restricts, and have expressed that doubt +in these columns more than once already. But we have been favored with +fresh lessons on this subject, in its application to Chinese +immigration. Chinese women are held in our San Francisco market, at +prices ranging from nothing up to about $2,000. The soul, being that of +a woman, has no value at any time, but the body, till worn out, is held +at a fair percentage of its weight in gold. + +Such being the demand, a supply became assured. No artificial barriers +could exclude them. There would soon come to be some "Open Sesame" which +no bolts could resist. As a matter of fact these women have been landed +in numbers so great, and with an effrontery so flagrant, that even the +Chinese Consulate now takes the matter up and puts to shame the +appointed executors of American law. As to persons of the male sex, they +come by various routes: some with certificates sent out to Hong Kong by +our own officials to be sold there and viseed by themselves on this side +the sea; some come with strange stories of previous residence--stories +confirmed by their vivid recollection of deep _snow_ on Clay Street, and +of _Chinese_ conductors on our street-cars: some come smuggled from +British Columbia, across Puget Sound, and others cross the invisible +line between Canadian soil and that of our own _free_ land with none to +say them nay. Meanwhile some of our recent officials who have grown rich +with strange rapidity, or have spent money with lavish generosity, are +under arrest, and sensational developments are the daily promise of +"live newspapers" in San Francisco. + +What shall be done? Some of these papers (however incredulous they may +be about prohibition prohibiting) are disposed to try it upon Chinese +immigration. Nothing else, they tell us, can deliver us from a perpetual +invasion by these Asiatic hordes. But, so far as I have seen, no ringing +or enthusiastic response has greeted this suggestion. So long as it +lives only in newspaper paragraphs, and no serious danger appears of its +being put into effect, few men will have courage, or zeal and +forwardness enough to contend with it, but let it be taken up in +earnest, and pressed to actual enactment, and it would soon go the fit +and ignoble way that the _boycott_ has travelled. There are multitudes +who do not object to cursing the Chinaman, but who don't mean to lose +the double eagles which Chinese labor, and that alone, enables them to +put to credit on their bank account. + +It seems to me, however, well worth questioning whether a law that after +six years of trial has been found to be fruitful in little except +perjuries and briberies,--a law which cannot be shown to have benefited +a single American laborer, but has had some effect to compel +house-holders to pay larger wages to Chinese domestics, and to enable +Chinese fruit-pickers to make better terms with our fruit-growers:--it +seems to me a question whether a statute of that sort might not be +suffered to expire through its own limitations, without any damage to +the Commonwealth. + +Whatever the fate of this law may be, it is sufficiently evident that +our gospel work need not be stayed for lack of souls to work upon, till +China herself and all her broad domain, becomes the Lord's. + + * * * * * + +YONG JIN AT SACRAMENTO. + +I reserve a little space in order to give our readers a little sample of +this gospel work as it appears in a letter from our helper, Yong Jin. He +has recently returned from China where he did good service under Rev. +Mr. Hazen, and he has resumed service with us. "I will tell you what I +had to do with the brethren. Monday night after the school is out [i.e. +9:30] we have the Bible lesson of Chinese, and Tuesday night too. +Wednesday night we have a prayer-meeting after school is out. Thursday +night we have ten or fifteen minutes to speak the gospel before the +school is out. Friday night we have a Bible lesson in Chinese too. +Saturday night we have a prayer meeting again. Sunday night all the +same. But last Sunday noon I preach on the street where the Chinese +live. Perhaps I will preach in the street nest Sunday. By and by, if I +do not preach on the street, I shall preach in the mission-house on +Sunday noon. I shall do as best I can, and I hope God will help us to +do." + +I will add that we are hoping to commence special evangelistic work +early in December. Loo Quong will go to our missions in Southern +California, and Chin Toy to those north of us, beginning in Stockton, +where the door seems to be opening wide, and an earnest spirit among the +brethren gives promise of good results. I wish these brethren might be +remembered by our Eastern brethren with special prayer. + +WM. C. POND + + * * * * * + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + +MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY. + +WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS. + +CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +ME.---Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, +Woodfords, Me. + +VT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, +St. Johnsbury, Vt. + +CONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 +Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn. + +MICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, +Lansing, Mich. + +WIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, +Wis. + +MINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H.L. Chase, 2,760 +Second Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn. + +N.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.C. Creegan, +Syracuse, N.Y. + +OHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, +Oberlin, Ohio. + +ILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 +Washington St., Chicago, Ill. + +IOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella B. Marsa, +Grinnell, Iowa. + +KANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison Blanchard, +Topeka, Kan. + +SOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. W.E. Thrall, +Amour, Dak. + + * * * * * + +FOUNDATION LAYING AND HOME BUILDING IN THE SOUTH. + +BY MISS JOSEPHINE KELLOGG. + +The estimation in which "woman's work for woman" is held by our more +thoughtful colored students, will be shown by some extracts from an +address by a graduate of Tougaloo University in Mississippi. + +The effect of very unhappy experiences in early youth upon an +exceedingly sensitive temperament, was to make this son of a white +father and black mother cherish a feeling of intense hatred toward all +white people as he was growing up; but being led, in the good providence +of God, to a Christian training-school where he heard of One who +suffered every indignity, and when dying in torture and ignominy prayed, +"Father forgive them, for they know not what they do," new thoughts and +feelings came to him. + +He thought there might be cruel men in the world now who know not what +they do. He was led to bow in penitence and submission at the feet of +Jesus. It is now his chief joy that since he entered upon the path of +learning, he has, as a teacher, given several thousand children a start +in the same path. + +The little old chapel at Tougaloo having burned down in January, 1882, +he graduated in the spring of that year, from our elementary normal +course, in the new barn, Ayrshire Hall. He has since passed through our +higher normal and college preparatory course, and is pursuing further +studies in another institution, in the intervals teaching, and going +from place to place with the great desire in his heart of bringing about +a better condition of feeling and living, among the people of the State. + +I quote from his printed speech: "We read of a time when 'a nation shall +be born in a day.' We have seen it come to pass, and this people is a +babe yet. 'Is not the babe a blessing in the house? Its very +helplessness is a blessing, in that it educates the finest sensibilities +of humanity.' The problem to be solved now is how to nurse this babe +aright. The thoughtful observer will be easily convinced that the +careful and proper education of girls is the first step in the solution +of this problem. + +"The education of girls is of the most vital importance for the +uplifting of the colored people of the South. Yes, I venture to say that +_the whole South_ will depend upon their condition for its prosperity. +True progress depends upon the sacredness and sanctity of the home. That +a people or a nation may be happy or prosperous it must have enlightened +and intelligent homes, and for this purpose the girls must be educated +in virtue, industry and self-reliance. + +"The colored woman in all conditions and under almost all circumstances +is abused by all races and classes. There are individuals who love and +respect her, but no one fears to _insult_ her as they fear to insult +other women. Let her turn wheresoever she may, she is met by all sorts +of evil influences of a character too indecorous to think about, and I +fear that I should never be forgiven if I should name them, yet we are +compelled to look upon them everywhere we go. Now a reform must begin in +the treatment of women, and it must be commenced by paying more +attention to the education of girls. Only wise mothers can train +champions for great causes like this. Therefore let our voices and our +influence be given to the work of elevating the women who have the care +of making and preserving society." + +Thus it has come about that a larger and larger proportion of girls come +to our schools, and it has seemed much better that they should be +educated _with_ their brothers than _apart_ from them, for a great and +grievous lack among the colored people, is a pure, safe and wholesome +social life for the young people, and with all the other labors laid +upon these "universe--ities" is that of fostering such a social life +and, as far as may be, setting forth the pattern for it. Permit me to +introduce you to one of these schools which is in many of its features +doubtless like all the rest. + +Tougaloo University is one of the six chartered institutions maintained +by the American Missionary Association with some aid from the State in +which it is located. It is but a few miles from the capital of the great +but undeveloped agricultural State of Mississippi, a State in which the +largest town had, at the last census, less than twelve thousand +inhabitants. This is very far south, in "the great black belt," where +the plantations are large, and upon the country roads you will +constantly see ten or more colored faces to one white one. It contained +at the last census, above two hundred thousand more colored people than +at Emancipation, and above one hundred and seventy thousand more colored +than white. Do you not see how rapidly Christian education and training +must go forward to keep pace with such facts as these? + +Stepping off the afternoon train down the Chicago and New Orleans +railway at the little station of Tougaloo, we look up through a pleasant +vista about three-quarters of a mile and see the Mansion, Ballard Hall, +Ladies' Hall, and Strieby Hall, the latter a brick house three stories +high above the basement, dedicated Thanksgiving Day of 1881 in the +presence of the venerable secretary for whom it was named. The work on +this building was done by colored mechanics, students of the school +making the brick and the stone, a sort of concrete for the trimmings. + +Strieby Hall has accommodations for nearly a hundred young men, besides +a teacher's family or two. It is kept in scrupulous neatness by the +young men under their matron's eye. She teaches them to nurse one +another in sickness; she also instructs them in the care of their +clothing and requires them to mend when the weekly wash comes in. One +young man became so proud of his skill in this line that he wanted to +put his darned old socks--old darned socks would sound better, +perhaps--into our industrial exhibit for the New Orleans Exposition, +among the chains and wheels from the blacksmith and wagon shops, the +brackets, step-ladders, etc., from the carpenter shop, the cups and +coffee-pots from the tinshop, and the girls' plain sewing and +fancy-work. + +There are regular apprentices to all the trades named, and all the boys +of certain grades have lessons, one hour daily, in the several shops, to +get the use of tools and simple work; there is also a course of +industrial drawing running through the school grades for boys and girls +alike. + +The school is upon a plantation of five hundred acres, worked by the +young men under the direction of the farm superintendent, a graduate of +the Massachusetts Agricultural College, who gives them "talks," as he +terms his lectures, upon practical themes pertaining to general farming, +fruit-growing, and the care of stock. + +As we walk up from the station through, first a wood of water-oak, +sweet-gum and hickory, then an open glade with scattering persimmon +trees upon it, and lastly, a fine park of postoaks draped with Spanish +moss, we approach the old southern "Mansion," which was the only +building of any account upon the ground when the Association purchased +it in 1869, and which is still the handsomest one. It has a little +romance of its own, having been made spacious and beautiful for a bride +who never came into it; but, notwithstanding this disappointment of its +builder, it has in God's providence been greatly connected with +home-building. + +Here live the President's family and some of the other teachers. Here +are business offices, a pleasant reading-room with an open fire upon its +hearth, and a small library adjoining. In this house is a guest-chamber +where all friends of the school are made welcome, and here are the +music-rooms, one containing a piano and one a cabinet organ. + +More and more highly is the department of musical training esteemed by +those who understand the work. All receive training in vocal music as a +part of their daily school work, and would there were more with means to +take instrumental lessons! + +The best of music is taught, from the primary grades upward; and it is +an inspiring thing to hear almost everybody who is at work or play, not +at books, singing and chanting the most beautiful compositions; the +girls from attic chamber to basement laundry, may be chanting, +"Thou who leddest Joseph like a flock," while the carpenter's +apprentices--perchance upon a barn-roof--may be rolling forth the +temperance Marseillaise, and our ears may distinguish from the +neighboring "quarters" the little children of the day and Sabbath-school +singing cheerily, + + "Angry words, O let them never + From the tongue unbridled slip; + May the heart's best impulse ever + Check them ere they pass the lip." + +Nothing, perhaps, more commends the school to the notice of our white +neighbors than its music, and greater numbers of them will come to a +concert than to any other exercise. + +In the Mansion are our rooms for the Normal Department, a study room and +a laboratory. The primary, intermediate and grammar grades are taught in +the new school-house, between the Mansion and Strieby Hall, the upper +part of which is a neat and commodious chapel. The primary school is +free of tuition as a practice-school for the Normal students, and brings +in many little ones from the region round about. + +We send forth many teachers for the public schools, and despite the +shortness of the terms and the want of appliances, we see encouraging +evidences of better work done there from year to year. Besides test-book +teaching, these young home-missionaries labor in many lines for the +moral, social and material improvement of their people, and deserve much +help and cheer. + +A Biblical department is preparing young men to preach the gospel, and +as they have the industrial training too, they will be fitted for a very +practical sort of evangelism. + +A night-school supplies instruction for farm-laborers, laundry girls, +etc. + +All school-room work, except that of the Biblical class and a part of +the Normal work, is women's work. + +Let us step into the Ladies' Hall on the other side of the Mansion from +Ballard Hall. This is a very hive of female industry. Here is the girls' +dormitory, with a capacity of about seventy-five, and the boarding +department. All the work of the household, with trifling exceptions, is +done by the young women and girls of the school. Each one does an hour's +work a day, having it changed every month, and many do more to help +themselves along. The girls have the care of their rooms and generally +take great pride in having perfect "reports" for tidiness. Everything is +simple and cheap and common, but that does not prevent its being +homelike. + +Personal cleanliness is required of course. Some few have been +accustomed to it at home. One large girl said, when told that she must +bathe, that she had not washed all over since she could remember, and +she still refrained until put "under discipline." Finally she yielded, +but in the evening was heard crying aloud from a seat on the top stair. +The matron asked, "What _is_ the matter?" and she replied, "Oh! oh! I've +wet my skin and it's made me sick." This is a very extreme case of +attachment to dirt, but it is interesting and marvellous to witness the +changes in appearance, expression and manners, during a prolonged stay +in school. + +Besides general housework, the girls are given special instruction in +cooking, nursing and care of health, under their experienced matron. +They sew for an hour a day in classes, under the supervision of another +lady who also instructs a class in cutting by model and dress-making, +and sees that all the girls attend properly to their mending. + +A Girls' Industrial Cottage has been started on a small scale, in which +the girls will have the entire charge of household expenses and +management. The little girls from round about are formed into +sewing-bands and make commendable progress. Their mothers meet with one +of the teachers on Saturday afternoons. + +Underneath all these departments of training, it is sought to lay the +great foundation principles of character. The Bible is a constantly used +text-book in literally _every_ department. We seek to give a "Thus saith +the Lord," for everything that we inculcate, from order, punctuality and +cleanliness, up to honesty, personal and social virtue, temperance, +industry and benevolence. + +There was a time when some distrust was manifest among the colored +people for what they called "book religion." They wished to hold fast to +"ole time 'ligion," and that sentiment is not entirely gone. We had a +very zealous little neighbor, more aged than she looked, so bright and +spry was she, whose husband was said to be over a hundred. She was a +seer of visions and dreamer of dreams. What we thought a bad feature of +her trances was, that she would sometimes speak in meeting of having +seen Tougaloo University marching in a procession down to torment with +our devoted matron and president at the head, their open Bibles in their +hands. That was years ago. Now, when she sees our matron in her visions, +it is up among the angels; and I believe the conviction is spreading +that book religion, taken into the head, sinking down into the heart, +and working out through the hands in deeds of active piety, is an +excellent thing. + +Besides our regular religious services, including our large and +delightful Sabbath-school, we have various reformative and benevolent +societies. Our temperance society carries the triple pledge at the front +and saves many from the debasement of profanity, tobacco and ardent +spirits in all their forms. + +Our societies for social purity are designed to help in the cure of a +terrible and terribly prevalent vice. The young men are taught, that +while it would often be simply throwing life, with all its +opportunities, away, for them to interpose by word or weapon in defense +of weak and tempted womanhood, after all, man best defends woman by +himself wearing the "White Cross" of manly virtue. + +The girls are taught that woman's best defense is the "White Shield" of +her own determined virtue and genuine modesty. The Y.M.C.A. and the +Y.W.C.A. have interesting meetings conducted by themselves, with many +committees for Christian work. A committee of girls goes out on Saturday +to visit sick and aged ones, both giving and receiving good. Another +looks after new scholars who are often confused by their strange +surroundings, and homesick for a time. + +Our Missionary Society studies both home and foreign fields, and gives +freely of its little fund. Recently a flame of missionary zeal was +kindled by letters from missionaries in Africa with whom a number of our +students were personally somewhat acquainted, and a large portion of our +Sunday-school collections was voted directly to them. + +All our students sympathize with the Indians, and there are two +societies of the younger scholars who help them. The outside +sewing-bands too, devoted their very first quilt to the Rosebud Indian +Mission. "The field is the world" and "the work is one, _one_!" + +Now, I ask you, friends, should not such work as this be amply +sustained? So much more could be accomplished if the funds and sympathy +were not so stinted! "The destruction of the poor is their poverty." We +do not believe in giving money outright to pauperize these young people, +but the money _must be there_ or they can not be taken into the +household, and trained and fitted to do valiant service for Christ, and +the nation and the world. There are manifold ways of helping, but I +shall not mention one, for if any are moved to help--as many are and +have been--it will be so easy to find out a way. + +Mrs. Dinah Mulock Craik was prompted to write her last book--in behalf +of North of Ireland sufferers--by hearing a rough carter in a London +street, who had got down from his cart to help a timid child over a +crowded crossing, and had been rallied upon his soft-heartedness, say, +"O, aye! but a 'andful o' 'elp is wuth a cartload o' pity." + +As I have visited institutions rich in buildings, books, scholarships, +professorships and every appliance, I have been very far from wishing +their abundance less, but I have said in my heart, ought not this and +similar missionary schools to be endowed also for their work of broad +beneficence, reaching not only the far South of our own land, but to the +heart of the great dark continent with its two hundred millions of +perishing souls? + + * * * * * + +THE SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL AND INDIAN MISSIONS. + +BY MRS. CHAS. W. SHELTON. + + +Running Antelope, an Indian chief, describing the condition of the +Indians, said: "There was once a beautiful, clear lake of water, full of +fish. The fish were happy and content, had plenty to eat, and nothing to +trouble them. One day a man came and threw in a lump of mud, which +frightened the fishes much and disturbed the water. Another day a man +came again, and threw in some more mud, and even again and again, until +{20} the water became so thick that the fish could not see at all; they +were so blinded and so frightened that they ran against one another, and +they ran their noses out of the water into the mud, where many of them +died. In fact, they are in a bad condition, indeed. Now, the pond is the +Indian country, the fishes are the Indians, the false treaties and +promises of the white men are the lumps of mud," and, turning to the +missionaries, he said: "I hope you have come to clear up the water." A +glance at the work of the A.M.A. among the Indians will show that the +missionaries are clearing up the water. + +We all have heard of the Santee Normal Training School for Indians, in +Nebraska. There is much in the name itself, and yet it is impossible to +have a clear idea of the work done there unless one has seen for +himself. + +The Santee School is the largest of all the Indian mission schools under +the A.M.A., and faithfully has she performed the part of a leader. The +number of Indians gathered and instructed each year is in the +neighborhood of 175. Many tribes are represented, and the students come +from all directions. They are thoroughly trained from the very +foundation, not only in the ordinary branches of school work, but also +in housekeeping--sewing, cooking, washing, etc.,--on the part of the +girls (in which, too, the boys join largely), and in farming, carpentry, +blacksmithing and shoemaking, on the part of the boys. + +Not only is this solid practical knowledge given them, but care and time +is devoted toward grace and politeness, and all the foundation rules of +etiquette. And this is not a thankless work. Anyone forming an idea of +Indians from those at Santee would tell you they are naturally a most +polite people--a people upon whom grace sits easily. There is many a +little story of Santee I would like to tell, that would show the spirit +which pervades the school. Something you may have read of their +impromptu prayer-meetings, and the desire of many to work and study, not +merely for themselves, but for their people. + +But great as is the credit due the Indians for their advancement here, +little could be seen of gain were it not that the corps of teachers sent +out by the A.M.A. have been chosen, not from the lame, the halt and the +blind of this country, not from those who for support must resort to +something, but from those young women who are willing to leave homes of +comfort and refinement, in order that their lives may be worth something +in the world--young women who are consecrated beyond what we can even +imagine until we have seen the difficulties and annoyances which form so +large a part of their lives. Not for _support_ would these women have +gone into A.M.A. work, but cheerfully and gladly do they live on the +very smallest possible salaries, that more may be done for the Indian. + +In describing Santee I have described all the schools, for the same plan +is carried out everywhere--the plan of Christianization; for that must +needs come before civilization can be hoped for. + +The Indian is not civilized who, forsaking his heathen gods, has learned +the ways of the white man without knowing his God; for invariably he +learns the vices and the crimes; and is in reality more of a heathen +than before. + +Many are the villages of Indians in which the white man's _dance_ has +been introduced and is enjoyed much more than the native dance; it is +working much evil which is hard to uproot, for they say, "Is it not the +white man's way?--it must needs be all right." + +The work among the older people is of course more limited than that done +in the schools. The age of study is with them past. The most +intellectual work of which they are capable is learning to read the +Bible; even this they cannot do in any other than the Dakota language. +It is impossible to teach an old man English that will ever mean much to +him. Our word "holy" could never mean what his own word "wakan" means; +our word "God" could never take the place of his "Wakantanka." His brain +would be so disturbed in his effort to learn and to comprehend our +difficult language, that when he had mastered the words, were it +possible, the sweet truth and the comfort would be all gone from him. +Any but a scholar must read the _Bible_ in his own language. + +Thousands of Indians are learning Bible truths and are getting a little +light in the few years left them. They are learning a little of the way +of life, and receive the message with gladness. Spotted Bear, a +Christian Indian, said at the recent convention at Santee: "All we know +we have learned out of the Dakota Bible. Teach our children English, but +don't take from them and us the means of reading our own Bible." + +James Garvey, another Indian, said: "Many can soon learn to read the +Dakota Bible; then they have a standard of morals and of interpretation; +for to get the real meaning of the English Bible, we go to the Dakota. +To make the best citizens you must Christianize the people, and to make +them Christians you must give them the Bible in their own tongue. All of +us have become white people through the gospel." + +The little native churches of Dakota are most interesting illustrations +of the work going on among the Indians. It would be impossible to find +more attentive audiences. There is always an air of devotion, or of +serious attention to all that pertains to the service, which we are not +apt to find in our own churches. Men, women and children go; even the +babies are always taken. There is a quiet freedom there which allows the +Indian mothers to take the babies out and in again at any time, and the +preacher is never disturbed. They sing as if they enjoyed singing--men +and women together; and in fact the services are usually such as to give +one a new zeal in holy things, even though we can understand few words. + +Each Indian church has its missionary society, and its woman's society, +which is also missionary. These have been working and giving for mission +work further out among the Indians, and this year have pledged +themselves to give to foreign missions. During the last year they have +raised $1,084, of which the women raised $500. The prayer-meeting is as +much an institution with them as with us--in fact, they live as we live +and work as we work. + +Ehnamani, pastor of the Santee church--a fine old man, whose history in +connection with the Minnesota massacre of '62, and whose conversion and +present work are well known--was once asked, "Do you ever have the least +regret that the old life is gone--do you ever have any longing for the +war and for the dance?" His face grew stern and hard as he answered, +"Regret it! No, indeed! I cannot think of one good thing that I ever did +in that life, and I cannot bear to remember it." Few are there yet like +Ehnamani, though many are fast overtaking him, and a grand number of +Christian workers would you see could they be gathered before you! + +Many are the Indian hearts given back to God their Creator. Many are the +Indian homes consecrated to the Wakantanka. Many are the Indian lives +devoted to His service. And yet there are facts--there are overwhelming +facts, sad enough to break the great, throbbing Christian heart of this +country--facts that should make us cover our heads with shame. + +Out of 40,000 Sioux Indians, there are 35,000 still in heathenism. There +are sixty-six tribes on the Western prairies for whom nothing is yet +done. There are 40,000 Indians of school age; but when every school is +packed to its utmost only 12,000 can be accommodated. This includes +Government schools, Roman Catholic schools, and all; so that those under +mission teachers would be far less a number than 12,000. + +And this is where the Indian work stands to-day. How can the A.M.A. do +its share in this great work, or how can the work already begun be +carried on, unless money is turned liberally into its treasury? + +Shall the cry for help, coming 1,500 miles across the country, strike +against a hard wall of indifference and be thrown back to mock the red +man and to bid him wait yet longer? + + * * * * * + +THE DAKOTA MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +Its annual meeting was held in connection with the Dakota Conference, at +the Santee Agency and in the dining-room of the Normal and Training +School. There were two hundred Indian sisters present, besides the white +lady teachers. They represented six mission stations and twice as many +churches, each church having a wide awake woman's missionary society. +After a hymn, the President, Mrs. Tasinasawin, led in prayer and read +the first three verses of the 21st chapter of Luke, following it with a +few words about that widow's mite, saying that it was not the amount +given, but the _spirit_ in which it was given. That was the important +thing. The Indian women are able to give but little, but if they give +willingly, as to the Lord, He will bless it. The minutes were then read, +and a new president and secretary elected. Two candidates were put in +nomination for each office. As the roll was called each woman arose and +voted _viva voce_. Mrs. Brascaw was elected president, and Miss Mary C. +Collins, secretary. I was delighted to see the cheery way in which these +sisters-in-red did their voting. There were several sallies of laughter. + +Then the delegates made each a report of the work done in their +societies and how much money had been raised. One woman from the Brown +Earth Colony said: "We are poor, but we are interested in the work and +have done what we could. Mr. Williamson taught me to read, and when I +was young he taught many others to read. Now I am nearly blind but still +I have done what I could." + +Another said: When the pastor's wife was well she had helped them very +much and had taught them many things, but now she was sick and could not +attend many of their meetings, but they worked on and did the best they +could. + +Another said: "The gospel was sent to us when we were in darkness, and +now though we are few and scattered far apart, yet we are anxious to +send the same gospel to those who have not yet heard of it, and to help +those around us to love our Saviour and to love each other, and we give +gladly of the little that we have. It is not in our own strength that we +do this, but it is in God who helps us." + +It was found that the women had raised this year over five hundred +dollars. This goes into the treasury of the Dakota Society to help to +sustain four native preachers, who are also teachers, out among the wild +Indians. One of the services of the Sabbath, the great day of the feast, +was to hear from those their own missionaries to the heathen. At that +meeting I counted five hundred and thirty Christian Indians, who also +partook of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. To help their treasury +the women had a Fair for the sale of articles of handiwork. The most +noted one was a _quilt_ which had been made and sent in by Caroline +To-tee-doo-ta-win (Scarlet House), of Brown Earth, now in her 97th year. +She was one of the first three converts who were organized into a church +in 1834, at Lac-qui-parle, Minn. Her husband had two wives, and she was +the second. Finding upon conversion that polygamy was contrary to the +ordinance of God she at once proposed to be put away. She had been a +member of the Order of the Sacred Dance, but this she renounced, +throwing away her "medicine sack," which by the medicine men was +regarded as a high crime. This subjected her to divers persecutions, +which she bore patiently. There were times when all were forbidden to +attend worship at the mission. Then she took joyfully to the spoiling of +her goods, the cutting up of her blanket, she received the Sabbath as +God's day, and more than once remained behind her company when they +travelled on that day, making it up on Monday. She learned from +missionaries to spin and knit, and weave garments for herself and +husband. At forty-five years of age she learned to read her Dakota +Bible, and of her children she sent one to Ohio to learn the ways of +Christian white people. She has adhered to the faith for these +fifty-four years. With her quilt she sent the message that it was the +last one she could make. It was bought by Miss N. Hunter, a teacher at +the Yankton Agency, for four dollars, to be presented to Rev. Dr. Arthur +Mitchell of the Presbyterian Board. It was this Miss Hunter who +interpreted for me the addresses of the woman's meeting. Surely the +Apostle Paul would say of these, "Help those women who labored with me +in the Gospel." He who was so fond of naming the Christians who were +"the first fruits of Achaia," would be very loving to this aged +disciple, the first fruits of Dakota. + +JOSEPH E. ROY. + + * * * * * + +A missionary from the South writes: "In speaking on prohibition I call +attention to the fact that wherever there is a missionary school a +majority of the colored people are Prohibitionists, and in alluding to +places where local option has failed to banish the saloons because, as +is alleged, 'the negroes voted the wet ticket,' I add, 'To the white +citizens who make this complaint I would say, Oh, that ye had been wise! +Oh, that during all the years that have elapsed since the war, instead +of _keeping out_ you had _provided_ Christian teachers for these armed +but untrained citizens, these dwellers within the gates, with whose fate +your own is bound! Now would you have had able allies in this conflict +with the powers of darkness, this struggle between the home and the +saloon.'" + + * * * * * + +RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1887. + +MAINE, $302.27. + +Augusta. "Friends," by Miss B.D. +Robertson ...$6.59 + +Bethel. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...23.18 + +Biddleford. J.R. LIBBY (30 of which to + const. himself L.M.) ...100.00 + +Brewer. Sab Sch. of First Cong. Soc. ...15.00 + +Foxcroft. Mrs. D. Blanchard ...2.00 + +Harrison. Cong. Ch., _for Mobile, Ala._ ...9.00 + +New Castle, Rev. and Mrs. C.D. Crane, +_for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._ ...25.00 + +North Auson. "A Friend." ...10.00 + +Portland. First Parish Ch., 30; St. Lawrence +St. Ch., 13.50 ...43.50 + +Portland. "Thank offering," _for Tillotson +C. & N. Inst._ ...2.00 + +Saco. "A few Friends" in First Parish +Ch. and Soc., to const. Rev. E.C. Ingalls +L.M. ...30.00 + +South Paris. Cong. Ch. ...5.00 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...$11.00 + +Winthrop. Woman's State Aid, _for Woman's +Work_ ...20.00 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $209.04. + +Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...4.17 + +Berry. Sab. Sch. of First. Cong. Ch. ...16.72 + +Goffstown. Mrs. M.A. Stinson, _for Student +Aid, Dudley, N.C._ ...2.00 + +Great Falls. Mr. Bartlett, 5; Mr. Freeman, +1 ...6.00 + +Jaffrey. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...11.00 + +Keene. "Friends," by Miss B.D. Robertson ...1.90 + +Milford. First Cong Ch., to cont. ELMER +E. ARMSTRONG and MARTIN H. BROWN +L.M.'s ...75.00 + +Nashua. Miss Sarah Kendall, _For Brewer +Sch., S.C._ ...10.00 + +Nashua. Mrs. A.F. Stevens ...5.00 +{25} +Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...$1.75 + +Pembroke. Mrs. Mary Thompson, 10; + Sab. Sch. Of Cong. Ch.,2, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...12.00 + +Rindge. Geo. G. Williams ...5.00 + +Rochester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Marie Adlof Sch'p Fund_ ...32.00 + +West Concord. "Granite Mission Band," + _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...10.00 + +West Lebanon. Cong. Ch. ...16.00 + +Winchester. Mrs. S.S. Saben, by Rev. E. Harmon ...0.50 + + +VERMONT, $767.08. + +Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...15.30 + +Brattleboro. Center Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...51.49 + +Brattleboro. Sab. Sch. of Center Cong. + Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...15.00 + +Burlington. Third Cong. Ch., 37.50; First + Cong. Ch., 35, _for Indian M._ ...72.50 + +Cambridge. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...12.00 + +Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...27.58 + +Holland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...5.00 + +Manchester. "A Friend." ...5.00 + +McIndoes Falls. Wm. R. Monteith ...5.00 + +Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...11.00 + +Orwell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...28.87 + +Putney. Cong. Ch. ...11.00 + +Saint Albans. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Student + Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00 + +Sharon. "Eight Ladies," _for McIntosh, Ga._ ...6.00 + +Springfield. Cong. Ch. (10 of which _for + Avery Inst. and 6 for Indian M._) ...423.00 + +Westminster. Mission Band, _for McIntosh, + Ga._, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild ...5.00 + +Westminster West. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to + const. Rev. H.A. GOODHUE L.M. ...18.34 + +West Townshend. N.W. Goddard ...5.00 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $9,522.25. + +Abington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...15.00 + +Allston. Cong. Ch. to const. REV. ALONZO + H. QUINT, D.D., L.M. ...30.00 + +Boston. Park St. Ch. and Soc., + Ad'l ...124.00 + + " "A Friend." ...95.00 + + " Sab. Sch. of Old South + Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ ...20.00 + + " Mrs. J.B. Potter, _for Wilmington, + N.C._ ...8.00 + + " Mrs. E.P. Eayres ...5.00 + + " Miss Tuttle ...2.50 + + " Dea. Merrill of Union Ch., + _for Tougaloo U._ ...2.00 + + " Mrs. N.J. Ingraham ...1.00 + +Dorchester. S.S. Class, by Thos. + Knapp, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...8.00 + +Jamaica Plain. Sab. Sch. of + Central Cong. Ch., _for Student + Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00 + +Jamaica Plain. "Jamaica Plain." ...1.00 + +Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. ...50.00 + +West Roxbury. Emily J. Hazelton ...5.00 + +-------- 371.50 + +Baldwinsvilie. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Rosebud Indian M._ ...6.90 + +Barre. Cong. Sab. Sch. ...8.94 + +Bernardston. Miss M.L. Newcomb ...50.00 + +Bernardston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...4.17 + +Brockton. Miss John W. Hunt ...5.00 + +Cambridgeport. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim Ch., + _for Marie Adlof Sch'p Fund_ ...4.20 + +Clinton. Miss G. Allen ...0.50 + +Danvers. Maple St. Ch. ...163.19 + +Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...160.58 + +Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...9.06 + +Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...55.42 + +Easthampton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. + Ch., 38.25; Home Mission Band, 10.00; + L.E. Parsons, 40c.; W.R. Hamlin, 25c., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...48.90 + +East Marshfield. Cong. Ch. ...$5.72 + +Enfield. Daniel H. Abbe, _for Sherwood, + Tenn._ ...5.00 + +Fitchburg. Cal. Cong. Ch. ...78.91 + +Fitchburg. Box of Tools and Box of + Books, _for Talladega C._ + +Framingham. Schneider Band, Plym. + Ch., _for Indian M._ ...21.00 + +Globe Village. Evan. Free Ch. ...22.25 + +Groton. "A Friend," (10 of which _for + Chinese M._ and 10 _for Mountain White + Work_), to const. MRS. HELEN CRITTENDEN + L.M. ...30.00 + +Groton. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Cong. + for Freight ...2.00 + +Groveland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...22.00 + +Hardwick. Cal. Ch. ...4.50 + +Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...50.50 + +Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols, _for Fisk + University_ ...33.35 + +Holliston. Miss Mary P. Lord, Box of + Books and Roll of Carpeting, _for Talladega C._ + +Holyoke. Seymour Cutlery Co., 4 pairs + Shears, _for Macon, Ga._ + +Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...17.18 + +Leicester. Miss H.E. Henshaw ...3.00 + +Leominster. Young Ladies of Cong. Ch., + _for Santee Indian M._ ...20.00 + +Leominstcr. Orth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (4 + of which _for Indian M._) ...42.45 + +Leominster. F.A. Whitney, _for Boys' + new Hall, Santee Indian M._ ...2,500.00 + +Ludlow. Soc. of "Precious Pearls," by + Miss M.E. Jones, _for Mountain White + Work_ ...5.00 + +Ludlow Center. First Cong. Ch., _for + Tougaloo U._ ...10.00 + +Medway. Ladies. _for Freight_ ...1.25 + +Melrose. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...114.27 + +Methuen. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...24.84 + +Nahant. Mrs. Walter Johnson ...1.00 + +Nalick. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for + Student Aid, Atlanta U._ ...50.00 + +Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., + 35; Whitefield Cong. Ch. and Soc., 13.92 ...51.92 + +North Amherst. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...13.00 + +Northampton. Edwards Ch. Benev. Soc. ...83.86 + +North Brookfield. Miss Abby W. Johnson ...5.00 + +North Cambridge. Young Ladies' M.C. of + No. Av. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Indian M._ ...25.00 + +North Weymonth. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim + Ch., _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._ ...8.00 + +Norton. Trinitarian Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...18.49 + +Otis. Cong. Ch. ...5.20 + +Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., + _for Freight_ ...2.00 + +Palmer. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian + M._ ...50.00 + +Palmer. "Friend," _for Indian M._ ...1.00 + +Pepperell. "Friends," _for Student Aid, + Dudley, N.C._ ...11.00 + +Royalston. "Friends," _for Student Aid, + Dudley, N.C._ ...15.00 + +Salem. Crombie St. Ch. and Soc. ...58.00 + +Scotland. Mrs. Leonard, Box of C., _for + Chattanooga, Tenn._ + +Somerville. Y.L. Mission Circle of Day + St. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.,_ and to + const. MRS. HENRY BEVANS L.M. ...30.00 + +South Amherst. Cong. Ch. ...5.32 + +Southbridge. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ ...25.00 + +South Framingham. Sab. Sch. of So. + Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ ...23.20 + +Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. ...18.23 + +Warren. "Friends" in Cong. Ch., _for + Straight U._ ...56.66 + +Warren. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian + M._ ...50.00 + +West Newbury. First Cong. Ch. ...5.00 + +Westboro. Ladies of F.M. Ass'n, 30 _for + Woman's Work_, 10 _for Mountain Work_ ...40.00 + +Westboro. H.L. Bullard ...1.00 +{26} +Whitinsville. Cong Ch. and Soc. ...$949.49 + +Whitinsville. "Friends," _for Indian M._ ...600.00 + +Wilmington. Rev. Elijah Harmon ...0.50 + +Winchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...51.38 + +Worcester. Central Ch., 131.51; Plymouth + Ch. 79.63 ...211.20 + +--------- +$6,442.78 + + +LEGACIES. + +Groton. Estate of George Farnsworth, by +Ezra Farnsworth, Ex. ...994 47 + +Westboro. Estate of Mrs. Mary M. Morse, +by Jonas A. Stone, Ex. ...2,000.00 + +Westhampton. Estate of Aaron Fisher, +by Jairus J. Fisher ...85.00 + +--------- +$9,522.25 + + +CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE + +Limington, Me. Ladles of Cong. Ch., 1 +Bbl., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Portland, Me. By Mrs. Chas. Frost, 1 +Bbl., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Concord, N.H. Ladies of North Cong. +Ch., 1 Bbl. + +Hollis, N.H. Ladies' Charitable Soc., 2 +Bbls., _for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._ + +Ashfield, Mass. Ladies of Cong, Ch., 1 +Bbl., val. 39.75. + +Groton, Mass. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of +Cong. Ch., Bbl., _for Wilmington. N.C._ + +Ipswich, Mass. First Ch., by Miss Lucy +R. Farley, 2 Bbls., val. 25 ea. + +Medway, Mass. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., +1 Bbl., val. 31.50, _for Wilmington, N.C._ + +Millbury, Mass. Mrs. Emily S. Ewell, 1 +Box, _for Atlanta U._ + +Phillipston, Mass. Ladles of Cong. Ch., +1 Box. + +Somerville, Mass. Young Ladles' Miss'y +Circle of Day St. Ch., Bbl. and Case, _for +Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Spencer, Mass. By Mrs. J.W. Temple, 1 +Bbl., _for Atlanta U._ + +Westboro. Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, 1 +Bbl., val. 47.68, _for Atlanta U._ + +----. 1 Bbl., _for Atlanta U._ + + +RHODE ISLAND, $238.08. + +Barrington. Cong. Ch., 59.65, and Sab. +Sch. 40.35, to const. EDWARD T. FLEMMING +L.M. ...100.00 + +Kingston. Cong. Ch. ...20.60 +Peace Dale. Cong. Ch. ...12.48 + +Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., 75; +MRS. B.B. KNIGHT, 30 to const, herself L.M. ...105.00 + + +CONNECTICUT, $1,418.85. + +Black Rock. Cong. Ch. ...28.00 +Bozrah. Cong. Ch., Communion Set + +Bridgeport. Second Cong, Ch., 18.50; +Park St. Cong. Ch., 3.26, _for student +Aid, Fisk U._ + +Bridgeport. Soc. of "Four O'Clocks" ...10.00 + +Bristol. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud +Indian M._ ...32.00 + +Derby. Sarah A. Hotchkiss ...5.00 +East Berlin. Titus Penfield ...5.00 + +East Haadam. By Mrs. E.T. Reed, _for +Freight_ ...2.00 + +East Hampton. "Friends," _for Theo. +Dept., Talladega C._ ...20.70 + +East Hampton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., +_for Indian M._ ...6.00 + +Franklin. Miss A.L. Hart, _for Student +Aid, Talladega C._ ...1.00 + +Glastonbury. Geo. G. Williams, 100; J.B. +Williams, 50, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...150.00 + +Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. ...6.20 + +Griswoldville. True Blue Card, by Miss +Bertha Griswold ...$2.00 + +Guilford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong Ch., _for +Sch'p Santee Indian M._ ...40.00 + +Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. +ANNIE L. MOODY L.M. ...30.00 + +Hadlyme. Cong. Ch., 7; Mrs. Nancy Hungerford, 3; +R.E. Hungerford, 5; Jos. W. Hungerford, 5 ...20.00 + +Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. ...79.52 + +Hartford. Mrs. M.I. Allen, 6 doz. Thimbles, +_for Macon, Ga._ + +Harwinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for +Rosebud Indian M._ ...10.35 + +Meriden. Center Ch. ...15.00 + +Middlefield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for +Rosbud Indian M._ ...20.02 + +Milton. Cong. Ch. ...5.30 + +New Britain. Sab. Soh, of South Ch., _for +Indian Work, Hampton Inst._ ...37.73 + +Norfolk. "Friends," _for Rosebud Indian +M._ ...8.00 + +Old Lyme. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. +Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...20.00 + +Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch. ...16.15 + +Rockville. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., +_for Rosebud Indian M._ ...42.00 + +Somers. Miss Battle R. Pease. 5; Halsey +Huff, 2; Amos Pease, 2; Elijah Cutter, +1; C.P. Langdon. 1; E.P. Russell, 1; +Henry Brewster, 1: L.W. Russell, 50c., +_for Lewis High Sch., Macon, Ga._ ...13.50 + +Somers. "Ladies of Seiners," 32 yards +Matting and one large Rug, _for Macon, +Ga._ + +Somersville. Noah E. Pease, 30, to const. +MRS. NOAH E. PEASE L.M.; Mrs. Orpha +P. Smith, 5, _for Lewis High Sch., Macon, +Ga._ ...35.00 + +South Britain. Sab. Sch., by Miss Laura +F. Keeler, _for Mobile, Ala._ ...6.37 + +South Canaan. Sab. Scii. of Cong. Ch., _for +Rosebud Indian M._ ...7.10 + +Southport. Sah. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for +Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...34.40 + +Southport. "Cash" ...25.00 + +Stamford. Mrs. A.M. Hurlbutt's S.S. +Class, _for Student Aid, Indian M._ ...70.00 + +Thomaston. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _for +Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...30.00 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. ...19.25 + +Thompson. Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l +Sch., Ga._ ...30.00 + +Thompson. Cong. Ch. ...19.85 +Washington. Frederick A. Frisbie ...1.00 + +Watertown. S.S. Class, by Mrs. Scott, _for +For Berthold Indian M._ ...10.00 + +Westford. Cong. Ch. ...3.53 +Westminster. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...4.00 +Westville. M.P. Dickerman ...2.00 + +Wethersfield. Thanksgiving offering, by +Geo. W. Harris, for Indian M. (2 of +which from C. Karl Harris and Geo. M. +Harris), _for Rosebud M._ ...10.00 + +Winchester. Cong. Ch. ...12.55 +Windsor. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 + +Woodbury. "Coral Workers," Bbl. Of +Bedding, etc., _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +----. "Friends in Connecticut," _for +Chapel, Cheyenne Agency_ ...300.00 + +----. "A Friend," _for Theo. Dept. +Talladega C._ ...25.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of +Conn., by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, +Sec: + +Ellington. Ladies' Soc. ...20.00 +Pomfret. Ladies' Soc. ...4.00 +--------- +$1,368.85 + + +LEGACY. + +Millelbury. Estate of Charles Boughton, +by Geo. A. Boughton, Ex. ...50.00 +--------- +$1,418.85 + + +{27} +NEW YORK $924.05. + +Bangor. " Friends," by Rev. G.A. Jameson, + _for Talladega C._ ...$26.62 + +Brooklyn. Tompkins Av. Cong. Ch. ...408.00 + +Brooklyn, Stephen Ballard, _for Tougaloo U._ ...112.00 + +Buffalo. Wm. W. Hammond, _for Indian M._ ...10.00 + +Churchville. Sab. Soft. Miss'y Soc. of + Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...35.00 + +Churchville. "Mission Band," Cong. Ch., + 2 Quilts, _for Macon Ga._ + +Columbus. Cong. Ch. ...3.00 + +Cortland. Cong. Ch. ...5.00 + +Derby "Children" by Miss E.L. Camp. + _for Marie Adlof Fund_ ...0.50 + +Elbridge. Cong. Ch. ...12.00 + +Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 34.26, and + Sab. Sch., 8.27 ...42.53 + +Ithaca. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ ...25.00 + +New York. Mrs. Dodge, _for Talladega C._ ...100.00 + +New York. Geo. E. Hamlin ...25.00 + +New York. Bethany Sewing Sch., 6; Infant + Class, Sab. Sch. Broadway Tabernacle, + 5, _for Fort Berthold Indian M._ ...11.00 + +New York. Proceeds sale of Gift ...1.25 + +Norwich. "G.," 20; "Lady in Cong. + Ch.," 1 ...21.00 + +Rochester. Plymouth Ch. ...19.37 + +Sag Harbor. Chas. N. Brown, to const. + REV. CHAS H. WILSON L.M. ...30.00 + +Syracuse. Chas. A. Hamlin ...21.78 + +Walton. Ladies' Miss. Soc., 2 Bbls. Goods, + _for Santee Indian M._ + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of + N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Warsaw. Ladies' Soc. ...5.00 + + West Groton. Young People's Soc. ...10.00 + +----- 15.00 + + +NEW JERSEY, $115.90. + +Arlington, Sab. Sch. Miss'y Soc. of Presb. + Ch. _for Beach Inst._ ...5.00 + +East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch. ...44.68 + +Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch. ...36.22 + +Bound Brook. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for + Indian M._ ...30.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $316.25. + +Canton. H. Sheldon ...10.00 + +Mercer. Proceeds sale of late Free Presb. + Ch., _for benefit of Freedmen_, by G.K. + Smith for the trustees ...300.00 + +Orwell. Rev. M.R. Kerr ...0.25 + +Shenandoah. Ladies Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of + C., Freight 1., _for Savannah, Ga._ ...1.00 + +West Alexander. Mrs. Ruth Sunderland ...5.00 + + +OHIO, $105.77. + +Atwater. For Freight ...1.25 + +Claridon First Cong. Ch. ...54.00 + +Conneant H.E. Pond and "Friends," _for + Straight U._ ...8.60 + +Mantua. Cong. Ch. ...4.33 + +Oberlin. Mrs. D.H. Patchlin ...1.00 + +Ruggles. Cong. Ch. ...15.50 + +Ohio Woman's Home Miss'y Union, by + Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., _for + Woman's Work_: + + Burton. Mrs. L.R. Boughton ...5.00 + + Burton. Mrs. A.S. Hotchkiss ...3.00 + + Cleveland, Y.P.S.C.E., First + Cong. Ch. ...1.09 + + Lindenville. Miss Ellen + Jones ...5.00 + + Marysville. Ladies Miss'y + Aux. ...4.00 + + Medina. Boys' Mission + Band ...3.00 + +----- 21.09 + + +INDIANA, $20.00. + +Bloomington. Mrs. A.B. Woodford, _for + Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...$20.00 + + +ILLINOIS, $344.69. + +Amboy. Ladies, by S. Bell, 1 Pkg. Patchwork + and 5 Bibles + +Avon. Cong. Ch. ...12.24 + +Chicago. Warren Av. Cong. Ch., 13.62; + Soc. of Inquiry, Theo. Sem. 10 ...23.62 + +Chicago. W.H.M.U. of South Cong. Ch., + _for Woman's Work_ ...5.00 + +Englewood. Cong. Ch. ...48.70 + +Forrest. Cong. Ch. ...7.00 + +Kewanee. Cong. Ch. ...72.13 + +Lawn Ridge. Cong. Ch. ...18.38 + +Port Byron. Cong. Ch. ...3.20 + +Rochelle. Mrs. A.C. Francis ...1.00 + +Seward. Cong. Ch., 38.15, to const. REV. + W.F. COOLEY L.M., Ladies Soc. of Cong. Ch., 13 ...51.15 + +Stillman Valley. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...6.92 + +Waverly. Cong, Ch., 34.42; Sab. Sch. Of + Cong. Ch., 12.43, to const. REV. W.A. + HOBBS L.M. ...46.85 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Ill., + by Mrs. B.T. Leavitt, Treas., _for Woman's + Work_: + + Canton. Ladies Miss'y Soc., + First Ch. ...10.00 + + La Harpe. H.M. Union ...5.00 + + Oak Park. Ladies' Benev. + Circle ...1.00 + + Rockford H.M.U. of First + Ch. ...20.65 + + Rockford. W.H.M.U. of + Second Ch. ...2.60 + + Thawville. Miss'y Soc. ...1.25 + + Thawville. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. ...3.00 + + Wyoming. Woman's Miss'y + Soc. ...10.00 + +----- 53.50 + + +MICHIGAN, $222.48. + +Alpena. "A Member of my Ch," by Rev. + H.H. Van Auken ...25.00 + +Columbus. Cong. Ch. ...15.60 + +Galesburg. Cong. Ch., 20.15, and Sab. + Sch., 11.85, to const. DEA N.T. RANDALL + L.M. ...32.00 + +Grand Blanc. Woman's Miss'y Soc., by + Mrs. G.R. Parker, _for Woman's Work_ ...4.00 + +Greenville. Cong Ch. ...50.00 + +Hancock. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Litchfield. Cong. Ch. ...10.88 + +Marshall. Mr. E.A. Crocker ...2.00 + +Port Huron. First Cong. Ch. ...73.00 + + +WISCONSIN, $68.30. + +Clinton. Cong. Ch. ...17.95 + +Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch. ...10.15 + +Johnston. Cong. Ch. ...2.20 + +Milwaukee. George J. Rogers ...20.00 + +Ripon. Cong. Ch. (9 of which _for Indian + M._) ...18.00 + + +IOWA, $92.80. + +Chester. Cong. Ch. ...7.64 + +Clear Lake. Christian End. Soc., Bbl. of + C., Freight 1, _Savannah, Ga. ...1.00 + +Danville. Cong. Ch. ...12.50 + +Genoa Bluffs. Cong. Ch. ...7.00 + +Oakland. Mrs. M.M. Bush ...10.00 + +Stacyville. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Taber. Mission Band, _for Talladega C._ ...9.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, + _for Woman's Work_: + + Grinnell. W.H.M.U. of Cong. Ch. ...11.28 + + Marion. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...10.20 +{28} + + Magnolia. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...$1.65 + + Osage. L.M.S. of Cong Ch. ...1.20 + + Osage. "Prairie Chickens," of Cong. Ch. ...0.40 + + Polk City. L.M.S. of Cong Ch. ...1.00 + + Prairie Hill. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...0.50 + + Rockford. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...1.01 + + Sheldon. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...1.72 + + Webster City. L.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...4.00 + +Norwich, Vt. Mrs. H.M. Stuart ...2.00 + +------ + +35.66 + + +MINNESOTA, $130.55 + +Duluth. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. ...45.00 + +Excelsior. "J.C.H." ...3.00 + +Lake City. Cong. Ch. ...7.00 + +Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. ...19.00 + +Northfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...51.53 + +Northfield. Robert Watson ...5.00 + + +MISSOURI, $204.25. + +Kansas City. First Cong. Ch. ...158.00 + +Kansas City. Cong. Ch. ...46.25 + + +DAKOTA, $13.00. + +De Smet. Mrs. Phebe M. Weeks ...13.00 + + +NEBRASKA, $56.82. + +Omaha. H.M. James, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00 + +Waverly. Cong. Ch. ...6.82 + + +ARKANSAS, $5.00. + +Little Rock. Ladies' Soc. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...5.00 + + +COLORADO, $41.35. + +Denver. First Cong. Ch. ...36.35 + +Rosita. Miss Jospehine Kellogg, _for Tougaloo U._ ...5.00 + + +CALIFORNIA, $10.35. + +Etna Mills. Cong. Ch. ...10.35 + + +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $61.00. + +Washington. Mt. Pleasant Cong. Ch., 51; Lincoln Mem. 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Tuition ...243.45 + +Montgomery. Cong. Ch. ...19.00 + +Talladega. Tuition ...138.21 + +Talladega. Sab. Sch., Talladega C., _for Mobile, Ala._ ...10.00 + + +LOUISIANA, $261.50. + +New Orleans. Tuition ...261.50 + + +MISSISSIPPI, $202.25. + +New Ruhamah. Cong. Ch. ...0.75 + +Tougaloo. Tuition, 199.50; Rent, 2 ...201.50 + + +TEXAS, $110.15. + +Austin. Tuition ...109.15 + +Dodd City. Cong. Ch. ...1.00 + + +INCOMES, 1982.00. + +Avery fund, _for Mendi M._ ...112.50 + +C.B. Rice Memorial Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...9.45 + +Endowment Fund, _for President's Chair, Talladega C._ ...500.00 + +General Endowment Fund ...31.50 + +Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._ ...125.00 + +Hastings Sch'p Fund, _for Atlanta U._ ...12.50 + +Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ ...600.00 + +H.W. Lincoln Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...31.50 + +Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._ ...200.00 + +Luke Mem. Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...10.00 + +Rev. J. and Lydia Hawes Wood Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...25.00 + +Mrs. Nancy N. and Miss Abbie Stone Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...25.00 + +Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._ ...72.50 + +Theo. Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...22.05 + +Tuthill King Fund, 125 _for Atlanta U._; 75 _for Berea C._ ...200.00 + +Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...5.00 + + +EUROPE, $1.50. + +Blugaria. Samokov. Miss E.T. Maltbie ...1.50 + +======== + + +Donations ...$12,127.39 + +Legacies ...3,129.47 + +Incomes ...1,982.00 + +Tuition ...3,523.15 + +Rents ...11.00 + +---------- + +Total for November ...$20,773.01 + +Total from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 ...33,336,23 + +========== + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +Subscriptions for November ...$46.33 + +Previously acknowledged ...37.17 + +------- + +$83.50 + +======= + +H.W. 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