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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Vol. XLII., June,
+1888., No. 6, by Various
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+Title: American Missionary, Vol. XLII., June, 1888., No. 6
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: April 24, 2004 [EBook #12134]
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+                         The American Missionary
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+Vol. XLII. June, 1888. No. 6.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+   EDITORIAL
+        FINANCIAL
+        A NOBLE WORD FROM THE OHIO CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION
+        FACTS AND FIGURES
+        THE COLOR-LINE QUESTION: WHAT IS IT?
+        PARAGRAPHS
+        FROM ADDRESS OF REV. E.T. FLEMING OF GEORGIA
+        A STRIKING STATEMENT
+        MISAPPLIED BENEFACTIONS
+        IN MEMORIAM
+        THE RADICAL FORCES OF CHRISTIANITY, AS EXHIBITED IN THE WORK
+          OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. By Rev. J.W. Cooper,
+          D.D.
+   THE SOUTH.
+        NOTES IN THE SADDLE
+        THE ALABAMA ASSOCIATION
+        TEMPERANCE WORK IN OUR SCHOOLS
+   THE INDIANS.
+        LETTER FROM AN INDIAN CHIEF IN DAKOTA
+   THE CHINESE.
+        EVANGELISTIC WORK
+        CHINESE GRATITUDE
+   BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+        WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA
+        LESSON LEAVES
+        WOMAN'S WORK IN THE SOUTH
+   RECEIPTS
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+New York.
+Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. Published by the American
+Missionary Association.
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+{146}
+
+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. 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,[1]
+
+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.J. RYDER, _21 Cong'l House, Boston._
+
+Rev. J.E. ROY, D.D., 151 _Washington Street, Chicago_.
+
+_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._
+
+Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON,
+
+_Secretary of Woman's Work._
+
+Miss D.E. EMERSON, 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  COMMUNICATIONS
+
+Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding 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.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+{147}
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+                     Vol. XLII. May, 1888. No. 5.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+ AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+This Number of the Missionary will reach our friends, the pastors and
+the churches, about the first of June, one month before the usual
+vacation time sends many of the pastors to their much-needed summer
+rest, and when the churches enter upon the months of small
+congregations. We wish to remind our friends that the expenditures of
+a missionary society have no vacation, and to ask them that in this
+remaining month, special efforts be made to prepare us for the months
+when there is the usual outflow with only a small stream coming in.
+
+The showing of our receipts is favorable. For the seven months to
+April 30th, they aggregate $158,921.20, an increase of $5,082.75 over
+last year. The increase in collections and donations is $9,241.84, but
+there is a decrease in legacies of $4,159.09, leaving the net increase
+as above stated. On the other hand, however, the expenditure that has
+been absolutely demanded by our growing work has been $23,778.24 over
+the receipts. Our committee has denied many appeals pressed upon it,
+from the workers in the field, for needed growth and strengthening;
+but some calls have come with such urgency to save the work already in
+hand, that it felt constrained to grant the additional appropriations,
+and we are very confident that if our constituents had been present,
+they, too, would have concurred heartily and unanimously in the votes.
+
+We might reasonably hope that this debtor balance would be wiped out
+during the five months of our fiscal year yet before us, but there is
+a special reason for anxiety that it should soon be materially
+reduced. It is at this time that we are compelled to plan the work,
+and make estimates, for the next fiscal year, beginning October 1st.
+We are now endeavoring to cut down these estimates to the lowest
+possible point, but if, before the close of June, there shall be no
+marked reduction of this balance, we shall be obliged to cut still
+further, even to the arresting or crippling of work already begun. We
+ask our friends to rally to the rescue.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+{148}
+
+  A NOBLE WORD FROM THE OHIO CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
+
+ REPORT ON THE A.M.A. BY REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D.
+
+The work of the American Missionary Association appeals to the
+churches of Ohio with cumulative urgency. "A.M.A.," as our stalwart
+brother Pike used to say, are letters that stand for the darkened
+races of this continent--the American, the Mongolian and the African.
+To the Christian people of America, these tribes are entrusted; for
+their enlightenment and Christianization, we are responsible. The
+Government at Washington can do something toward protecting these
+people in their political rights; but there is very little, after all,
+that can be done for any people which does not know how to assert and
+maintain its own rights. Liberty can never be a gratuity, it must
+always be an achievement. Peoples, as well as individuals, must work
+out their own salvation. The Negro at the South is cheated out of his
+political rights, simply because he does not know how to claim them;
+the Indian on the plains is defrauded of his property, because he does
+not know how to protect himself. No matter how favorable the laws may
+be to these hapless people, they will be oppressed and impoverished
+and kept in a condition of semi-slavery, unless they know how to use
+the laws in their own advantage. Education, therefore, is the only
+effectual remedy for their wrongs. To awaken their minds, to arouse
+the energies of hope, to show them that they are made in God's image
+and that they have a right to all the liberties of the laws of God, is
+the only way to complete and secure their emancipation from bondage
+and from barbarism.
+
+This is the work to which the American Missionary Association calls us
+all. It is our just pride as Congregationalists that through this
+Association more has been done for the true enfranchisement of the
+freedmen than through any other agency, and it is our duty to see that
+this great work, in which we have borne so large and honorable a part,
+halt not nor slacken in its energy because of our failure to keep its
+treasury replenished and its faithful laborers re-enforced and
+supported by our gifts and our prayers.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  FACTS AND FIGURES.
+
+The sum total of all the contributions of all the benevolent agencies
+for the evangelization and education of the Negro in the South, is
+seventeen cents per year for each person.
+
+This seventeen cents includes whatever is done in missionary colleges
+and in all educational missions, as well as in the direct church work.
+
+In twenty-one years from 1841 to 1861 there were twenty-one crops of
+cotton raised by slave labor, which aggregated 58,441,906 bales.
+{149}
+
+In the twenty-one years from 1865 to 1885 there were twenty-one crops
+of cotton which aggregated 93,389,031 bales.
+
+That is, by free labor there was an excess over the productions of
+slave labor of 34,947,125 bales, or nearly 35,000,000 bales. The value
+of 35,000,000 bales of cotton produced by free labor in excess of the
+product of slave labor cannot have been less than $2,000,000,000, or
+about the full valuation of all the slaves who were made free by the
+war, had they been sold at the ruling prices. The gain is due not only
+to the emancipation of the blacks, but to the emancipation of the
+whites from enforced idleness.
+
+The cotton factories of the world annually require about 12,000,000
+bales of cotton, American weight. Good land in Texas produces one bale
+to the acre. The world's supply of cotton could be grown on less than
+19,000 square miles, or upon an area equal to only seven per cent. of
+the area of Texas.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  THE COLOR-LINE QUESTION: WHAT IS IT?
+
+1. It is not the question of _social_ equality. No one doubts the
+right of individuals, or the family, or the social circle, to draw
+their lines of association and fellowship at their own pleasure,
+whether at wealth, rank, fashion, talent, or anything else. To
+confound this with the real question, is not candid.
+
+2. Still less is it the question of the inter-marriage of the races.
+Here, individual preference is undeniable. To claim that this is the
+question, and to ask tauntingly: "Do you want your daughter to marry a
+_nigger_?" is ungentlemanly and unworthy of an answer.
+
+3. The question is: Shall a line be drawn between the white and black
+races, giving rights and privileges in Church and State to the one
+race, which are denied to the other, solely because of race or color?
+In other words: Shall a line be drawn which shall separate the
+Negroes, and assign them as a race to the position of inferiors
+irrespective of merit or character, and merely on the ground of race
+or color?
+
+To narrow the discussion, we leave out of view the civil or political
+aspect of the question and confine ourselves to the religious, and we
+propose to give a few illustrations. A Negro in every way qualified,
+in character, piety, and intelligence, applies for membership in a
+white church. Shall the color-line be drawn and he be refused
+admission for no other reason than that he is a Negro? This does not
+imply that the whites and blacks should be urged or persuaded to unite
+in all churches or in any church. It may be conceded that the blacks
+generally do not desire to unite with white churches, and that, in
+their present state of culture, it may not always be for their
+edification to do so. But where an individual Negro _does_ believe
+that it would be for his edification and growth in grace to belong to
+a white church, shall the color that God stamped on him, or the race
+in which God gave him his birth, be a sufficient reason {150} for
+refusing him? The question and the principle apply equally if the
+Negro should be given to understand that while he would not actually
+be refused admission, yet the preference of the church would be that
+he should not apply; nay, we do not see why the principle is not the
+same if the well-known attitude of the church on the race question
+should be such that the Christian self-respect of the Negro would not
+allow him to make the application.
+
+Again, shall colored churches, conferences or presbyteries be formed
+on the same territory _in order that_ the colored members may not
+unite with the white churches, conferences or presbyteries? Shall a
+line be run between the races on the simple ground of race or color,
+and irrespective of character, convenience or choice, so that the
+Negro as a church member shall not be allowed to choose the church he
+shall join, or as a minister the option as to his conference or
+presbytery? For one race to demand such a line of separation, is to
+consign the other race to a position of inferiority as humiliating as
+it is discouraging. Such is the demand of race prejudice, and such the
+position of inferiority in which it insists on placing the Negro.
+Slavery held the Negro there, and since emancipation, this
+race-separation is intended to accomplish the same purpose. The
+Southern white man makes no objection to the race or color of the
+Negro, but only to his position as an equal. He was not merely
+tolerated, he was more than tolerated, as a slave, and he is now as a
+servant.
+
+The present controversy in regard to the color-line is calling forth
+some frank admissions from intelligent white men at the South. Thus
+the Rev. Wm. H. Campbell, an Episcopal clergyman of South Carolina,
+vindicates his refusal to sit in Convention with the Negroes by the
+inferiority which the Almighty has stamped upon them. Mr. Campbell
+says:
+
+  "The Bishop does not understand or appreciate the reasons why some
+  of us cannot, under any circumstances, sit in Convention with
+  Negroes. The objections commonly made need not here be referred to.
+  The difficulty with some of us is not 'on account of color,' as it
+  is usually, but not with strict accuracy, put; for some Negroes are
+  as white as some white men, but because they are of an inferior
+  race, so made by the Almighty and never intended by him to be put
+  on an equality with the white race, in either Church or State."
+
+The question at issue is not one of expediency, but of principle; and,
+among Christians, whether in the individual church or the
+ecclesiastical body, it is a question of Christian duty to be settled
+by the Divine authority of the Master himself. We propose no argument
+on the subject, but content ourselves by quoting a few well-known
+passages of Scripture, which, though familiar, have lost neither their
+significancy nor their authority. In the end, the voice of God must be
+decisive.
+
+  "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all
+  the face of the earth."
+
+  "God hath showed me that I should call no man common or unclean."
+
+{151}
+
+  "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in
+  every nation, he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness is
+  accepted with Him."
+
+  "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
+  there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ."
+
+  "Inasmuch as ye have not done it unto one of the least of these, my
+  brethren, ye have not done it unto me."
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+Secretary Roy, in the _Advance_, controverts the statement of the
+_Herald and Presbyter_, that the Congregationalists have come to
+consent to separate ecclesiastical bodies on the ground of color. Dr.
+Roy supposes that this conclusion may have been jumped at because of
+the formation of a new Congregational Association in Georgia, which is
+an outcome from the Congregational Methodist churches there. The
+_Interior_, evidently with gladness, makes the same assertion. The
+_Christian Union_ replies to this, saying, "We do not think this is
+true; _but, if it is, so much the worse for the Congregationalists!_"
+We may say with Dr. Roy, that nothing is more certain than that in the
+New Empire that is growing before our eyes, the Congregational
+churches of this century will not turn towards the dark ages, and will
+not put themselves to shame by refusing to fellowship with the
+disciples of Christ on the ground of caste. Such a proposition would
+have the scorn of our National Council.
+
+The Christianity of our churches will not fall behind the humanity of
+Victor Hugo, who said, "I have had in my hand the gloved and white
+palm of the upper class and the heavy black hand of the lower class,
+and have recognized that both are the hands of man."
+
+The Congregational churches may not be quoted as countenancing this
+great wickedness against God and man.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  FROM ADDRESS OF REV. E.T. FLEMING OF GEORGIA, IN THE BROADWAY TABERNACLE
+  OF NEW YORK.
+
+"I suppose it will be necessary to tell you that I am a Negro, that I
+was born a slave. We are struggling against difficulties. We meet with
+a great deal of opposition. A case comes to mind which shows something
+of this opposition. I went out into what we call the Bottom District.
+The church there was dirty. I went to work and got a sufficient amount
+of money to buy a barrel of lime. It took me a week to get enough
+money to buy a barrel of lime. Another brother and myself got the
+barrel of lime there on a wheel-barrow. We whitewashed the church
+inside and out, and finished the job about half-past eleven o'clock.
+It was too late to return to the city, and we agreed to sleep in the
+church. The next morning, I was surprised to hear a great noise on the
+outside, and opening the door, looked out and saw a lean, lank, white
+woman. She was calling to her daughter, "Louisa, Louisa, come here."
+Her daughter {152} came to her mother and said, "My ---- ----, they
+have painted the nigger church white. We must put a stop to that."
+They said we would have to move the church, on the ground that they
+were not going to stand anything of that kind. These are the things
+that meet us in opposition there. I was myself refused admittance to a
+Gospel Tent where a distinguished evangelist from the North was
+preaching."
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  A STRIKING STATEMENT.
+
+In one of the hotels in Columbia, South Carolina, among the
+collections of an excellent library, is a book which bears the seal of
+the State of South Carolina, giving much statistical information as to
+the geological character of the State, its agricultural resources, its
+mineral products and the peculiarities of its population. From its
+pages, the following extract is taken, which is reproduced here for
+its suggestiveness. It seems incredible, and yet the authority is
+wholly Southern and has the imprint of the State. It is as follows:
+
+  "No effort adequate to even an approximate determination
+  statistically of the intermixture of the White and Negro races has
+  as yet been undertaken. Mr. Patterson, quoted in an authoritative
+  work upon '_The Resources and Population of South Carolina_,' and
+  published by the _State Board of Agriculture_ in 1883, as one who
+  has given much attention to the subject, says, even now there are
+  no longer Negroes. One-third has a large infusion of white blood,
+  another third has less, but still some, and of the other third it
+  would be difficult to find an assured specimen of pure African
+  blood. This, continues the report, is a startling statement; but in
+  the absence of statistics, whoever puts it to the test among his
+  Negro acquaintance will be surprised at the degree in which it
+  conforms to the facts. If the lineage of those Negroes whose color
+  and features seem most unmistakably to mark them as of purely
+  African descent, be traced, indubitable evidence may often be
+  obtained of white parentage more or less remote."
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  MISAPPLIED BENEFACTIONS.
+
+The judicious placing of benefaction is a large part of the good of
+it. Is it wisely located? Will it be permanent? Will it be
+reproductive? Will it be in the hands of persons suitably responsible
+for the administration of it? Will it be under a fitting supervision?
+The cause appeals to sympathy; does it also carry the mark of good
+judgment? For lack of this double endorsement, not a little of
+generous giving is thrown away. It is a fine piece of romance; does it
+proffer a sufficient security upon the proffered investment of the
+Lord's money?
+
+A worthy Christian woman brings the scheme. It is laid upon the
+mountains of East Tennessee, thrust up into notoriety by the writing
+of Charles Egbert Craddock. A lady of faith and hope and energy, {153}
+proposes to build up an industrial farm-school of high quality for the
+neglected girls of that mountain district. She has already been
+teaching a common-school among them. She comes up to a city of New
+England. She lays her plan before some of the noble women there. They
+take it up without further inquiry as to the feasibility of the
+undertaking. With their first contributions an old worn-out farm is
+bought in the lady's name, and in the cheap farm-house a small school
+is opened. The location is in an out-of-the-way neighborhood, three or
+four miles from the little, old, tumble-down county seat. Now a fine
+building is to be secured. The lady patrons raise their offerings up
+to six thousand dollars. Fine architectural plans are devised at the
+North. Meantime, speculators on the ground, who for a few cents an
+acre have bought up a great quantity of land adjoining and would be
+glad to sell it at a dollar an acre, have donated a hundred acres,
+more or less, to the school. On this tract the building is located and
+goes forward. The frame is put up and pretty much enclosed. For want
+of money the enterprise comes to a stand, and now for these four years
+the stranded structure has been taking damage from the storms.
+
+The place has been visited repeatedly by the superintendents of the
+A.M.A., to find the state of the case and to see if anything could be
+done to utilize the partial plant. The pastor of the lady donors
+became interested to save the investment through the A.M.A., or to
+stop the pouring of more funds into the venture, but after all his
+correspondence and personal conference, he found that, if the whole
+property were to be offered to the Association, it could not afford to
+accept it and undertake to carry forward the school. It already has a
+prosperous academy in that county and another in an adjoining county,
+and these, wisely located in congenial communities, are all that is
+needed for those and for contiguous counties. There is no way to
+utilize it, Alas, "Wherefore this waste?"
+
+An Orphanage for colored children is a tempting charity. The A.M.A
+early undertook such work. At Wilmington, N.C., and at Atlanta, Ga.,
+it bought lands and erected ample buildings, but the experiment
+satisfied the authorities that the Association was not called to that
+department of work. The children's god-fathers and god-mothers, in
+devotion to their covenant, or grand-parents from personal interest,
+would soon be taking them out, and others having care of them would
+call them out as soon as, by some growth and training, the scholars
+were made profitable for work, and so those properties were sold and
+the avails put into the ordinary educational process. Then the
+conclusion was reached that this was the obligation of the local
+communities, and _not of foreign charity_. According to this idea, an
+Orphanage in a Southern city, undertaken not by the patronage or
+approval of the A.M.A., though made to appear so because the
+originator had been under its commission there as a missionary, has
+been transferred to a local board and to the support of the city {154}
+and county. That is as it should be. Those local authorities ought to
+take care of their own orphans, and not appeal to the charity of the
+North to relieve them of their proper burdens of humanity.
+
+Another so-called Orphanage at still another Southern city, started as
+an individual venture. It was allowed for a short time to have a
+conditional endorsement from the A.M.A., which was soon withdrawn and
+the enterprise disowned. This has swallowed up thousands of dollars of
+the money of benevolence, and yet it has all the time been a sham and
+a falsehood. There was nothing of it. When a lady newspaper
+correspondent called to visit the institution, ten or a dozen children
+from a neighboring private school were borrowed and paraded as
+orphans, when at the time there were only two little children in the
+concern, and they had grandparents living near and abundantly able to
+take care of them. "Wherefore this waste?"
+
+In yet another Southern city, a couple of young ladies start a school.
+Having once been under commission of the A.M.A., in connection with
+its institutions, they appear to many to have its endorsement and they
+make appeal to its constituents. Money comes along for a work
+irresponsibly begun and without supervision. Only a year goes by
+before they appeal by their leaflet-paper for several thousand dollars
+to buy land and build a home and school property. Who but they shall
+hold and own the property? Whose shall it be when they marry or grow
+weary of the work and leave? What protection is there for such
+misplaced benefaction?
+
+By no means would the Association seek to interfere with donations to
+individuals where the donors investigate for themselves and assume the
+responsibility, but it is not fair that we should be held as
+apparently responsible for movements that we disown, and it is not
+fair to our constituents that we should allow them to remain under the
+impression that in giving to irresponsible projects, they are favoring
+such as are endorsed by us.
+
+Thirty-five years ago the Congregational Union was initiated in the
+Albany Convention on purpose to protect Eastern friends from the
+miscellaneous and irresponsible and persistent solicitation for
+individual church enterprise. It is the business of that Society to
+receive, inspect and decide upon all such applications. Take it away
+and the flood gates would be lifted again. No less in the cause of
+missionary education is such discretionary service needed.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  THE NEGRO QUESTION.
+
+This is the title of a recent brochure by George W. Cable, published
+by the American Missionary Association. With the most vigorous and
+courageous devotion to the question that "is the gravest in American
+affairs," Mr. Cable addresses himself to the problem and to the answer
+that should be made to it. His apprehension of injustice is so keen
+and true, {155} and his seriousness, in view of the weariness and
+offence that the whole subject gives to a great majority of the
+people, is so urgent, that the paper has been criticized as
+pessimistic, and as an impatient cry against evils that are speedily
+being rectified. We may say that the optimistic view of evils never
+did much to correct them, and that those who are patient with wrongs
+will never create a sentiment against them. To us, this seems the
+voice of a prophet pleading for righteousness to man and righteousness
+in the land.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
+
+Among the recent issues of the press, none has been more effective and
+deservedly popular than the pamphlet entitled, "OUR COUNTRY," written
+by our esteemed friend, Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D. It has aroused public
+attention in a remarkable degree, and has opened the way for a career
+of most promising usefulness to the author.
+
+Our only regret in reading these stirring pages, has arisen from the
+fact, that in its survey it leaves almost entirely out of account
+nearly one third part of our country, namely, the South, a part, too,
+that contains as many elements of future trouble to the nation, and
+elements, too, that if properly dealt with, can minister as largely to
+the nation's future prosperity, as any other portion. Our object in
+penning this item is to suggest that some man of equal diligence in
+collecting facts, and of equal skill in handling them, shall write a
+book entitled, "Our _Whole_ Country," that shall omit no part of it.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  A SAMPLE OF SOUTHERN CHURCH WORK.
+
+The Rev. G.W. McClellan, a graduate of Fisk University and recently a
+student at Hartford Theological Seminary, has formed a "_Boys'
+Christian Association_" in connection with his church work in
+Louisville. The boys meet on Friday evenings for literary exercises,
+and the following are some of the questions debated this winter.
+
+1. _Resolved_, That Washington was a greater general than Grant.
+
+2. _Resolved_, That capital punishment ought to be abolished.
+
+3. _Resolved_, That strikes are right and necessary.
+
+4. _Resolved_, That boys, as a rule, after graduation from the High
+School, should go to College.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  EXTRACTS FROM EXAMINATION PAPERS.
+
+Question. _What was the Dred Scott decision?_
+
+Answer. "The Dred Scott decision declared that slave owners could
+carry their slaves into any territory except their own."
+{156}
+
+Another Answer. "Dred Scott decision was, that protected tariff should
+be kept out of the territories."
+
+Question. _What are ocean currents?_
+
+Answer. "The Ocean currant is a celebrated meal-storm on the coast of
+Norway."
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  A STRAW.
+
+A few days since, there was an examination of candidates for positions
+as teachers in the New Orleans public schools. Four of our Straight
+University girls presented themselves, three graduates and one an
+undergraduate, and all passed the examination, receiving respectively
+94, 93, 92 and 87 per cent., and three were at once given good
+positions.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  IN MEMORIAM.
+
+Another good man has gone to his reward. Rev. Geo. J. Tillotson, who
+has perpetuated his name in the Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas,
+died March 29th, at his home in Wethersfield, Conn. His useful life
+was spent in that State. He was born in Farmington, Feb. 5, 1805, was
+graduated at Yale in 1825, studied theology in the Yale Seminary one
+year and at Andover for two years, completing his theological studies
+in 1830. He had several long pastorates, which he filled with great
+fidelity and success. From 1876 he was not employed as a pastor, but
+devoted himself with great assiduity to various modes of promoting the
+Redeemer's kingdom. He had practised economy and had the means to
+give, and this he did with a discriminating, and yet a liberal, hand.
+To the founding of the Tillotson Institute, he gave not only from his
+own resources, but devoted his time and energies to collecting funds
+from his friends. But his benefactions were not confined to one
+object; he had a broad sympathy for every good cause. He was a man of
+genial temperament, and closed his useful career after a short illness
+in the 84th year of his age.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  THE RADICAL FORCES OF CHRISTIANITY, AS EXHIBITED IN THE WORK OF THE
+  AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+BY REV. J.W. COOPER, D.D.
+
+The work of Christ is the work of Christianity. By the "radical forces
+of Christianity," we mean the simple spirit of the Master, in its
+original and energetic operation. We are dealing with no abstractions,
+neither are we considering the operation of human agencies. What
+Christ was in his earthly ministry, that Christianity is, because of
+His living presence {157} in the church to-day. Wherever we discover
+the working of those principles which were exemplified in his life,
+there He is present in living power, the inspirer of the endeavor, and
+the strength of it. The claim that the work of the American Missionary
+Association makes upon our attention, may be presented in a variety of
+forms. Its work is commended to us, for example, because it is
+patriotic, that is, it makes its appeal to our self-interest. The
+instinct of self-preservation demands that we sustain it. Four and a
+half millions of Negroes in our Southern States are utterly
+illiterate. Half that number of Southern whites are in the same
+deplorable condition. These men are citizens. They hold the ballot.
+Our free institutions are not safe in such hands as these. Education
+is an absolute necessity. This wide-spreading and dense ignorance,
+among masses of free American people, must be speedily overcome. We do
+not wonder, therefore, that Andrew D. White in his scholarly address,
+"The Message of the 19th Century to the 20th," puts the education of
+the South first among the many great and pressing problems that claim
+the attention of statesmen. It is a matter of self-interest and
+self-preservation.
+
+This work commends itself, also, because of its justice. It appeals as
+a duty, to every enlightened conscience. The ignorance of the Negro,
+and the degradation of the Indian, are more our fault than theirs. We
+owe it to them, as a matter of simple justice, that we now make
+reparation, as best we can, for the wrong done to them in the past. If
+we, as a nation, have helped push them down, we ought to help lift
+them up. It is a burden which stern justice lays upon us.
+
+But I turn from all such impressive arguments as these, to find
+another and altogether different motive to this work, one which the
+statesman may consider of little worth, the appeal of which mere
+conscience may not feel, but, which to the Christian heart must ever
+be more powerful and persuasive than all other motives that can be
+named. This work commends itself to us, because it is a Christly work.
+The spirit of the Master is in it. The radical forces of Christianity
+are exemplified by it. This Society may stand forth before the world
+to-day, and without any sacrifice of humility or reverence, opening
+the book and finding the place where it is written, it may say, in
+concert with the Master himself, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon
+me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he
+hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim deliverance to
+the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to
+proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord that He might be glorified."
+And here is its strongest claim upon our sympathy and support.
+
+That this representation is not an exaggerated one, and that the claim
+is in no way over-stated, we shall see more clearly as the comparison
+is followed out in detail. The work which this Association has in hand
+will {158} bear the test of analysis. It is not only a Christian work,
+it is a work which, from the beginning, has called into exercise the
+fundamental principles of Christianity. It exemplifies Christianity in
+its most original and essential features.
+
+ I.--A RADICAL FAITH.
+
+As I look into this work, the first thing that impresses me is the
+faith that inspired it. It was a most sublime undertaking. It began,
+so far as relates to its present fields of labor, with the millions of
+freedmen just emancipated from two and a half centuries of bondage.
+What this bondage signified, this present generation will find it
+difficult to realize. For years it had been a crime to teach them the
+alphabet. They had been bought and sold like cattle. Their lives were
+a daily school in sensual immorality, deceit and dishonesty. Every
+manly aspiration, and womanly feeling, was smothered at its birth.
+They had come from savagery to slavery, and in a day, without training
+or preparation, they were set free. It is no wonder that they were
+ignorant, indolent, degraded and despised. As one of their own number
+says, "We came into bondage naked and destitute of worldly goods, we
+went out of it penniless, homeless and almost characterless." Now it
+was this mass of degraded humanity that this Association set itself to
+elevate and Christianize, and it did it with a calm assurance and
+serene hope which no obstacle has as yet been able to disturb. The
+road has been a long and hard one, but it did not anticipate an easy
+time or miraculous success. It has met with new and perhaps unexpected
+difficulties. It may be that all the workers would say what the
+President of Talladega writes in a recent letter, "The magnitude of
+the obstacles are more and more real to me as I live and work." But
+they still live and they still work, never doubting the final result.
+If you want to find men who have undying faith in the future of the
+black race, go to those who, in the spirit of their Master, are
+toiling night and day, under the commission of this Society, for its
+elevation.
+
+In the same spirit, also, this Association has welcomed new labors and
+entered into new fields. When Chinamen were to be Christianized,
+immediately it had great faith for the Chinese. When the Indian
+missions were laid upon it, then it saw wonderful possibilities in the
+red man. And now, last of all, when some million or two of
+long-forgotten and neglected "Mountain Whites" are brought to its
+attention, it sees in these abjectly poor, dispirited and
+superstitious people, only another opportunity for elevating humanity,
+and proving the power of Christianity to restore the lost manhood of
+every race.
+
+These servants of God are not engaged in a forlorn hope. They have
+faith. Wherever they work there they expect results, not only in the
+saving of individual souls, but in regenerating whole races of men. A
+Christian woman, missionary to the poor whites among the mountains of
+East {159} Tennessee, under the inspiration of her great faith, writes
+home to her friends, "We can almost hear the bells ring in unreared
+steeples, and hear the songs from choirs that are as yet totally
+oblivious to the spirit of melody, and enter into the heart-worship of
+the prayer meetings that are to be when shall have been fulfilled the
+prophecy, that 'to the people which sat in darkness and the shadow of
+death, light is sprung up'." Such buoyant, hopeful faith as this, so
+clear and beautiful in its confidence in the promises of God, is one
+of the "radical forces" which command, while they inspire, this holy
+work.
+
+ II.--A RADICAL LOVE.
+
+But what may be called the special characteristic of this Society
+among missionary organizations doing work in our own land, that which
+establishes its special claim upon hearts of Christian people, is the
+radical spirit of love there is in it. It exemplifies in a most
+practical way, the brotherhood of man. It repudiates caste. It is
+absolutely color-blind. It works for the despised. It helps those who
+are themselves the most helpless. This is no newly-discovered fact. I
+remember the first sermon I ever heard in behalf of this work, more
+than twenty years ago; it was drawn from the Parable of the Good
+Samaritan. The text was, "Who is my neighbor?" The address of the
+honored late President of this Association at the close of the last
+Annual Meeting which he attended, was in the trend of this very same
+Scripture. "This organization," he said, "is the Good Samaritan,
+loving to bestow its aid upon the poorest and most despised, the most
+severely wounded races of our country." The sermon, a score of years
+ago, told us that our neighbor was the Negro, just then made free. So
+said President Washburn, "If you can point out to this organization
+any race that needs its assistance, whether colored or white, there is
+the legitimate field of this Association."
+
+It would seem that a law so emphatically taught by Jesus Christ as the
+common brotherhood of man, and so familiar to the world, would long
+ago have been accepted and adopted in the practice of Christian
+nations, especially by a Christian Republic within its own borders.
+But, instead of that, it is the hardest of all laws for us to learn
+and the most difficult of all to put in operation. Our policy toward
+the general colored races in this land has been one of cold-hearted
+and cruel selfishness. As ex-Senator Brace has said, speaking in
+behalf of his own people, "From the red race was taken their lands,
+from the yellow their labor, from the black their persons. The red
+race was gradually driven toward a setting sun; the yellow race, the
+rabble demanded to be driven from the country; the black man was a
+slave in chains, with no rights which the Constitution recognized."
+
+These unjust prejudices are by no means altogether a thing of the
+past. They are not as violent as they once were, thanks to the
+influence {160} of this Association, but they still exist. "Niggers,"
+are still ordered out of Southern churches. Many a professed Christian
+still wants his Indian "dead." This work has all along been compelled
+to fight its way against suspicion, bigotry and hatred; it must do so
+still, because it recognizes man as man, whether his skin be white or
+black, red or yellow; and, in taking this radical ground, it is
+interpreting to the world the benevolent spirit of the Saviour, and is
+preparing the way for that universal reign of love on earth which He
+came to establish. Such a work as this is the salvation of our
+Christianity. Without it, one of the chief evidences for Christianity
+would be taken away, and the spirit of it would die. Standing before a
+congregation of white men, Negroes and Indians, with a Chinamen or two
+to make the tale complete, President Mark Hopkins last May dedicated
+the new chapel at Hampton to the worship of Almighty God. He voiced
+the sentiment of this whole Association when he said, "Here will be
+taught and promoted a Christianity as narrow in its creed as revealed
+truth, and as broad in its love as humanity!" "A creed as narrow as
+revealed truth." Yes! we want no inspirations from outside the sacred
+book. "A love as broad as humanity." By all means, yes! for no smaller
+measure will satisfy the demands of that book or fulfil the will of
+the Master.
+
+ III.--A RADICAL CONSECRATION.
+
+Another principle required in this work and exemplified by it, is a
+thorough-going consecration. The men and women who have taken up this
+work, have followed Christ in his self-abnegation. There is no worldly
+honor in it. It is not an easy life. You know well enough how these
+devoted missionaries have braved social ostracism, and shut themselves
+in to their lowly ministry. With the Christly "sympathy of
+identification," they have made themselves one with their despised
+brethren, bearing their burdens, sharing their privations, stooping to
+meet their needs. What almost infinite patience it has sometimes
+required, what forbearance and charity, we cannot know, but they have
+served willingly and cheerfully, and found the sacrifice to be a joy.
+And there are many of them, in school and church and home, in our
+Southern land and in the Western wilds, who are serving there in a
+spirit of self-abnegation and patient sacrifice, and whom God will
+honor. These faithful workers are not martyrs; but there is something
+heroic in their lives. It is the heroism of those who lay upon
+themselves the lowliest duties, and perform them in the spirit of the
+loftiest devotion. The work that calls forth such consecration as
+this, so disinterested and sincere, bears its own letter of
+commendation. The spirit of Him, who "came to minister, and to give
+his life a ransom for many," is exemplified by it.
+
+ IV.--A RADICAL METHOD.
+
+There is one thing more that I would mention. It is the radical {161}
+method which this Association has adopted in doing its work. It has
+never been satisfied with surface culture. It strikes down to the
+roots of character. Not "quantity," but "quality," is manifestly its
+motto. As an illustration of intelligent thoroughness in Christian
+service, therefore, this Association commends itself to our regard.
+
+A decided advance was marked in missionary work when the church came
+to see that not only the conversion of the heathen, but their
+establishment in Christian character, was a legitimate object of
+missionary endeavor. Francis Xavier in ten years visited fifty
+kingdoms and baptized a million converts, but the ten years' labor of
+some of our modern missionaries, spent in laying solid foundations and
+thoroughly training a few chosen men, may, after all, come to more in
+its permanent results upon the world, than all that was done by Rome's
+great apostle. Jesus gave the best part of his three years of public
+ministry to the training of twelve men. He might have baptised a
+million. He preferred to do thorough work with a few. This Association
+has acted upon this principle. It has sought to develop manhood and
+womanhood after the pattern and by the power that is in Jesus Christ.
+It calls to its aid every possible force. It educates the mind, the
+heart, the conscience, the hand. It uses the church, the school, the
+workshop and the Christian home. Character-building is its vocation,
+the foundation Jesus Christ, the superstructure such as should stand
+the test of fire. These oppressed races need above all things else
+leaders from among themselves. It has been the endeavor of this
+Society to furnish them--men and women of such moral and mental
+quality as shall be fitted for the responsible position. They have
+been taught to think, to work and to live. Because labor is a moral
+force in establishing character, industrial education is introduced.
+Nothing is too great to be attempted, nothing too trivial to be
+omitted, the object always being the substantial development of moral
+and Christian character.
+
+Such is this mission. It has gone forth in the spirit of Christ, with
+faith and love and consecration, seeking to do an honest work with
+thoroughness. God's blessing has been upon it. It has results to show
+in the renovated and ennobled lives of thousands who have been the
+subjects of its ministry; and its broader influence in the elevation
+of the oppressed and despised races, begins even now to be clearly
+apparent. It has been a faithful monitor to the churches which have
+sustained it, an inspirer of their benevolence, an almoner of their
+gifts, and an honor to their name. And beyond all this, standing for
+those principles which are most essential and fundamental in
+Christianity, it has glorified God by exhibiting to the world the
+power of Christian faith and sacrifice. Those who have been bound of
+Satan, lo, these many years, are loosed from their bonds and made free
+in Christ. War has struck off the chains of human bondage. Love shall
+now complete the emancipation.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+{162}
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  "NOTES IN THE SADDLE."
+
+BY REV. C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY.
+
+The following, which was taken from the public records of a _white_
+school in Tennessee, illustrates the intellectual condition of a
+portion of the white citizens of that and the other Southern States.
+It also shows what kind of men have charge of public instruction in
+some districts throughout the South.
+
+  "TENN July --, 188-.
+
+  "Rulus for scoul No 4.
+
+  Teacher will not low the scoulars to scouful or clime or swhisparn
+  in time of Books; the Teacher can ad eney rulus to this he thinks
+  needud and eney Larg secular can not comer ounder rulus will have
+  to quit the scoul."
+
+These "rulus," as the word is spelled, were signed by two members of
+the School Board by whom they were written. How strange, that in
+localities in which there is such frightful illiteracy the school
+authorities should fail to welcome, with large-hearted cordiality,
+teachers who come among them. The white people, as well as the
+colored, need missionary schools, as the illiteracy among them is
+appalling.
+
+Think of it! Seven-tenths of one per cent. of the native white
+population of Massachusetts are illiterate, while twenty-three per
+cent. of the native white population of Georgia, and thirty-one per
+cent. of the same population of North Carolina are illiterate!! Why
+should not Georgia be proud of her educated (?) citizens, and do all
+she dare to drive some of the best teachers there are in the State
+outside her borders?
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+Right in this connection it would be interesting to read the following
+letter. A brief word of history, however, is necessary that it may be
+understood. In 1878, a young man, a graduate of one of the leading New
+England colleges, enlisted in the great army of A.M.A. teachers. He
+was a quiet, unassuming, Christian student. The amazing ignorance of
+the Southern people, both white and black, awoke his pity; and his
+love, for his Saviour, and for his country, led him to give himself to
+this most needy field. He was embarrassed and badgered by those who
+ought to have welcomed him, and helped him in his work. This mean and
+unworthy opposition with which our A.M.A. teachers are so familiar,
+culminated in his case, in a series of letters in which his _life_ was
+threatened. It was just before the election of President Cleveland.
+There was evidently, a well-matured plan to drive him out of the
+community, and to intimidate the Negroes so that they would not dare
+to vote. The following was one of these letters:
+{163}
+
+  "Mr ---- deer Sir It is for your own good That I write This letter
+  to you you are an advocate for Social Equality with the white and
+  the Black race and the People are not going to Put up with any Such
+  doings and I write you this letter to warn you of The danger and
+  the great danger That you are in You must leve The country right
+  away for The People have Pledged Them Seves to get you out of the
+  contry or Kill you and That in a mity Short time Now as a frend I
+  do beg you to give this matter your emmediate attention I am very
+  truly your well wisher meaning Exactly wat I Say"
+
+I saw all these letters, and received this one from the hand of this
+Christian hero. He said to me:--"I went to bed a good many nights
+thinking that quite possibly I should be dragged out of my bed, and
+beaten or hanged before morning." Notwithstanding this, he wrote on
+the outside of the envelope the following words, and passed them
+around among those whom he knew to be conspirators against him:
+
+  "In answer to the enclosed, I will say to my 'Democratic and
+  inquiring friends,' that I expect to leave on or before Jan. 1st,
+  1940, and that though I hoped to vote for 'St. John and
+  Prohibition,' I have now decided to vote for 'Blaine and the
+  Protection of all citizens in their political and civil rights.'"
+
+When he gave me this letter, he took a promise that it should not be
+published until after his death. He passed away in the triumph of his
+sweet, but heroic faith a few months ago. He died where he had
+suffered and dared for Christ's sake, in the midst of this ignorance
+and sin.
+
+Such stories as his ought to be told. It is cowardly timidity for
+those of us who know them, to keep them from the Christian public.
+Heroes and heroines answer to the roll-call of A.M.A. workers. I have
+met them and mingled with them, the past three years, and I know the
+sinew and fibre of their courageous faith. You, who send them out, and
+who support them in the field, ought to know what they endure, and
+hear, now and then, an incident of their heroism.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+Two cases of heroic self-denial have come under my notice recently. In
+Macon there lives a colored woman whose husband is in an Insane
+Asylum. Their home was recently burned to the ground. She has four
+{164} small children with her, the eldest of whom is eleven years old,
+who are dependent upon her for support. She earns just eight dollars
+per month, and yet she sends one girl, aged fifteen, to Atlanta
+University!
+
+A young man, whose father was a white man and who is himself a blonde,
+has been urgently invited by his white grandmother to come to her home
+and take the position of her son's child. She is a wealthy woman,
+owning a large plantation. The young man's father, her son, is dead.
+The boy would have all the privileges of a wealthy young white man and
+inherit the property on his grandmother's death. The sole condition
+which the grandmother makes is that he shall give up all association
+with his octoroon mother and refuse to recognize her in any way. Thank
+God, the boy is too true to his gentle and loving mother to enter into
+any such arrangement, even though the bribe offered is thousands of
+dollars and a social position of great attractiveness. There is a
+great deal of this quiet but heroic self-sacrifice among the colored
+people in the South, that never finds its way into print.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  THE ALABAMA ASSOCIATION.
+
+PRESIDENT H.S. DEFOREST.
+
+The thirteenth annual meeting of the Alabama Association was held at
+Salma, March 30th to April 3d, when the floods were at their highest,
+yet fourteen of our seventeen churches were represented. The
+Sunday-school Association convened a day earlier, and one afternoon
+the Woman's Missionary Association had a session by itself.
+
+The opening sermon by Professor Andrews, was a powerful exposition of
+Christian love, from the 13th of 1st Corinthians. One evening was
+given to the higher, Christian education; one to three papers on "How
+to Secure Homes," "The Home Indoors," and "Home Piety;" and the last
+to three phases of the temperance question. Pastor C.B. Curtis, whose
+church most generously entertained the Association, read a very
+suggestive paper on "Self Support of the Churches," a pressing and
+difficult question. Almost of necessity, when there is so much to be
+done, and the resources are so small compared with the magnitude of
+the undertakings, practical rather than theoretical questions come to
+the front and engage earnest attention.
+
+After a most satisfactory examination, six young men from the
+Theological Department of Talladega College were licensed to preach,
+and it is noteworthy, that, besides this latest gift of Talladega to
+the ministry, eleven of the fourteen churches represented at this
+meeting of the Association are ministered to by Talladega College or
+its graduates. It is a wonder that some man wishing to put a
+comparatively small sum of money where it would increase with a
+compound interest of blessedness till the latter-day glories have
+fully come, does not endow the chair of Theology at Talladega, and his
+brothers take up the same line of usefulness till both {165} College
+and Seminary are presided for. Some who were taking the rudiments of
+learning here but a few years ago, and who have continued their
+training at very email expense, are now acceptably filling difficult
+and responsible positions in school, in business and in church. There
+is more of this work to be done, and to be allowed to help seems a
+privilege precious enough to make life vastly desirable.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  TEMPERANCE WORK IN OUR SCHOOLS.
+
+  Our esteemed neighbor at 58 Reade Street, Mr. J.N. Stearns,
+  Publishing Agent of the National Temperance Society, recently made
+  a visit to Florida. On his return trip, he visited several of the
+  A.M.A. schools in the South, and his practiced eye of course
+  detected the facts in regard to temperance instruction and
+  influence. We quote the following items:
+
+At Beach Institute, Savannah, under care of the American Missionary
+Association, Miss A.A. Holmes principal, I found 230 pupils and a
+strong temperance sentiment. The entire school receives sound
+temperance instruction. Stirring temperance songs ring through the
+halls. A Band of Hope holds regular meetings. "Mother Goose and Her
+Temperance Family," was performed with great satisfaction by the
+pupils, and a photograph group of the actors taken and preserved as a
+memento of the occasion. "Alcohol and Hygiene" and the "Catechism on
+Alcohol" are among the studies.
+
+At Charleston I found Avery Institute slowly recovering from the
+effects of the earthquake which effectually scattered its students.
+Over 200, however, were now in attendance, under the auspices of the
+American Missionary Association, with Professor M.A. Holmes principal.
+Temperance is a cardinal virtue here, but they greatly need a
+temperance library and other literature. All these schools have a
+severe struggle to sustain their ordinary work, and must depend
+largely upon outside help for temperance literature. They can use to
+great advantage and carefully distribute, without expense, to the
+community round about if only the material is furnished.
+
+At Wilmington, N.C., a great work has been accomplished. It has 20,000
+inhabitants, 12,000 of which are colored. In 1881, when the vote on
+prohibition was taken in the State, it was all against the
+proposition. A wonderful change for the better has taken place. I had
+a most pleasant visit to Gregory Institute of 250 pupils, Mr. George
+A. Woodard principal. This is also under the American Missionary
+Association. "Alcohol and Hygiene" is taught in the higher branches
+and temperance pervades every department. An open temperance society,
+with Rev. George S. Rollins president, holds regular evening meetings,
+with temperance songs, recitations, dialogues, essays and speeches,
+for entertainment and instruction. The regular meeting occurred the
+evening I was in town, and I greatly enjoyed the exercises. Carolina
+Mills was proposed for {166} membership, and a committee of three
+appointed to "investigate and report." The report was "favorable," and
+read in regular order and adopted. The candidate came forward to take
+the pledge, and proved to be a young man of genuine African descent.
+The entire programme was rendered with great credit to all concerned.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+  LETTER FROM AN INDIAN CHIEF IN DAKOTA.
+
+  My Dear Sir:----Will you Please I have got your letter and I was
+  vey glad--and vey Good letter--and I tell My Indian friends all
+  good men and We are vey glad to see your good paper. And, Now, We
+  Mandans Indian We are maken houses this River south sides and We
+  are farmes And we have Great fields--and We like Vey much the White
+  man Ways--and We are White mans--and We are a Friends to the White,
+  and We hear much talk of you and we are good Indians Mandans. We do
+  not do foolish to the Whites, and We are a good Friends to the
+  Whites----And now I wants to know the Great Fathers Wishes to us.
+  Please good tell me the Great fathers what he say to us--When you
+  get this letter Please Write to me Yery soon. Good buy--
+
+  I am Very your truly friends,
+
+  MR. WOLFE, Chief.
+
+  Fort Berthold West, 30 miles from here I live and have 16 acres and
+  I am glad. I have a cow, 6 horses, a wagon, a plow. I have three
+  houses and a store. I live south side this River. Yours,
+
+  MR. WOLFE, Chief.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+  EVANGELISTIC WORK.
+
+It is now nearly five months since our evangelists went forth, and the
+record of their work, if I had both grace and space to give it in
+graphic detail, could not but interest the readers of the MISSIONARY.
+Chin Toy was to labor in our more northern missions, viz., Stockton,
+Sacramento, Marysville and Oroville, and Loo Quong was to go south to
+Santa Barbara and San Diego and certain other cities where Chinese had
+congregated, but in which there appeared to be none to care for their
+souls. Subsequently another brother entered the field, Yong Jin,
+laboring first at Santa Cruz, and now at Tucson, Arizona.
+
+The intention was to give one month of service at each mission, and
+one gratifying feature of our experience has been that at no point has
+this {167} one month been deemed sufficient. In every case an urgent
+plea has come for a longer visit and a larger work. In some cases, as
+with Chin Toy in Sacramento, and Loo Quong at San Diego, it has been
+necessary to yield to these appeals. The work needed could not be
+fulfilled in the month assigned. But in general we have adhered to the
+original plan, so as to cover the whole field.
+
+The results have justified the undertaking. The work of these brethren
+has been greatly blessed, first of all, to those who were already
+believers in Jesus. They have been taught the truth more perfectly.
+They have had their conceptions of a Christian's duty and a
+Christian's privileges raised. They have been brought into closer
+harmony with each other. It is too much to expect, perhaps, in view of
+facts as they transpire in churches of American Christians--Christians
+"to the manner born"--that our little groups of Chinese believers born
+as "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the
+covenants of promise," should be free from all envies and jealousies,
+walking always in brotherly love. We wish it were so, but our wish is,
+as yet, but partially fulfilled. Our evangelists have so presented
+Christ, and so magnified the duty and the blessing of brotherly love,
+and so exercised, also, their gifts of Christian diplomacy, as to
+become peace-makers, and to restore a truly spiritual order at points
+where chaos seemed impending.
+
+They have been "in labors abundant." The following from Yong Jin, at
+Santa Cruz, puts in fewest words their ordinary work: "This school has
+nineteen or twenty scholars. About sixteen come to take the lesson
+every evening. Mrs. Willett teach and I teach. [_i.e._ during the
+usual school session from 7 till 9 p.m.] After the school is out, I
+teach them the Bible lesson about half so long. [_i.e._ from 9.15 till
+10.15 p.m.] Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings gave them the Bible
+lesson of Chinese. Wednesday and Friday evenings, the Bible lesson of
+English. Saturday evenings we have meeting. Sunday noon, I did preach
+in the street--three times since I came here." With this is associated
+constant visiting of such Chinese as either cannot or will not attend
+the school, seeking to sow beside all waters. Also study; in some
+cases aided through the kindness of some resident pastor, for these
+brethren have entered upon this work untrained except in the work
+itself, and one point of greatest moment in their present service is
+to learn how to render better service in the years to come. Street
+preaching is undertaken wherever possible. What a hearing can be
+secured if only some American Christians will cooperate, was well
+illustrated in the experience of Loo Quong at San Diego. I cite the
+following sentences: "This afternoon we have a grand time in preaching
+the good news of Jesus to the Chinese. There were more than _ten_ good
+people who had gathered there to help me in the singing. After half an
+hour of hard talk, [_i.e._, earnest laborious speaking,] then Mr.
+Kirby, an old gentleman, next is Rev. Dr. Harwood, then a stranger.
+{168}
+
+All these speakings I have put in Chinese and they were listened to by
+at least a thousand Chinese and whites. Among the helpers were Mrs.
+Noble and Mrs. McKensie and the whole family of Rev. Dr. Harwood.
+Besides these were many other good Christian ladies who stood around
+me and were given willing lips to join the singing. I cannot tell you
+all about our street preaching here. I will leave it for you to think
+about and enjoy. Amen."
+
+God has used this preaching of the Word, not only to edify the
+brethren, but to bring men to repentance. The numbers may seem small
+when compared with those reported by our American evangelists laboring
+among the tens of thousands in our great cities, but, under the
+circumstances, they are very cheering. At Stockton, 1; Sacramento, 1;
+San Buenaventura, 3; San Diego, 3; Oakland, 4; San Francisco, 5;
+Tucson, 5; Santa Barbara, 7; Santa Cruz, 11. Total 40. This is the
+harvest of the past five months. If the work of the whole year should
+yield corresponding returns, it will be the most fruitful of our whole
+history. Much remains unsaid, for which I may find space hereafter.
+
+WM. C. POND.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+The Chinese have been considered by many impervious to Christian
+influence, but the following paragraph shows that by "deeds, not
+words," the Oriental, sometimes, expresses his gratitude. Sometime ago
+a Chinaman in a Sunday-school was taken ill, and, through the
+influence of its superintendent, admission to a hospital was secured,
+until he was able to return to his native land. But no word of thanks
+was given for the faithful care and unwearied attentions he had
+received, and only the assurance of the Master's approbation cheered
+the hearts of those who had sowed the gospel truth in his name. The
+weeks went by, when from over the sea came a living testimony of the
+gratitude of this Chinamen in the form of his young son, whom he had
+sent to America with the injunction to find the unforgotten
+superintendent, and go to her Sunday-school. For five months now he
+has been under her care, and at the recent reception given by the
+Chinese scholars to their teachers, on their New Year, he wrote in a
+clear, well-defined hand, every word correctly spelled, this letter to
+his teacher, who had sent him her regrets that she could not be
+present.
+
+  My Dear Teacher:
+
+  I thank you for your letter. I am sorry you could not come to the
+  supper last Monday night. I am glad you can teach me every Sunday.
+  I like to go to Sunday-school. Please write to me again.
+
+  Yours truly----
+
+Five months ago this boy was unable to speak or understand a word of
+English; now he can read, write, and repeat the Lord's Prayer from
+memory, a task he studied long and patiently to accomplish.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+{169}
+
+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. Woodbary,
+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.
+
+N.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.C. Creegan,
+Syracuse, N.Y.
+
+ALA.--Woman's Missionary Association, Secretary, Mrs. G.W. Andrews,
+Talladega, Ala.
+
+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.
+
+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, 2,750
+Second Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.
+
+IOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh,
+Grinnell, Iowa.
+
+KANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison
+Blanchard, Topeka, Kan.
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.E. Young,
+Sioux Falls, Dak.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+The Woman's Missionary Association of Alabama held its annual meeting
+in connection with the State Association, April 2d, at Selma. The
+meeting was well attended, and encouraging reports were had from many
+of the auxiliaries. The advantage of the local missionary societies to
+the church and Sunday-school work was emphasized, and a desire for
+more thorough local work was very apparent in the meeting. Many
+subjects of interest were discussed. Among them the following:
+Industrial Training in our Schools; Industrial Training in our Homes;
+Should there be a Woman's Missionary Society in every church? If so,
+the reason why every sister in the church should be a member; What
+shall we do to make our Local Societies more active?
+
+Greetings of the Second Woman's Temperance Union of Alabama, were
+presented at this meeting. This Union is composed of colored women of
+various views, together with Northern missionaries and teachers. There
+is no doubt that their work for purity and sobriety is most efficient,
+yet this Union can have no dealings with the other Union, though color
+hinders neither of the vices which the Unions oppose.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+The Woman's Home Missionary Union of Michigan leads with "Lesson
+Leaves" for its auxiliaries on the work of the different National
+Societies. We give the programme for the A.M.A. for the benefit of any
+who may wish to follow this example.
+
+_Hymn._--"Work, for the night is coming."
+
+_Bible Reading._--I Chronicles 29: 1-18.
+{170}
+
+_Special Subject for Prayer_.--That obstacles in the way of the speedy
+coming of Christ be removed.
+
+_First Topic_.--When, Where and How did this Society originate? (See
+"History of American Missionary Association," also "A Catechism.")
+
+_Second Topic_.--What are some of the results and a general summary of
+the work done in forty-six years? (See same papers, and also "Pamphlet
+No. 10--Forty Years of Missionary Work, Past and Present.")
+
+_Third Topic_.--What are the four grand divisions of its work, and
+where are its various fields of operations? (See same papers.)
+
+_Fourth Topic_.--When was the Bureau of Woman's Work organized, and
+what is its special department? (See "Forty Years of Missionary
+Labor," page 17; also, Leaflet "Bureau of Woman's Work," "Freed Women
+of the South," and "Sewing Needed.")
+
+For pamphlets and leaflets mentioned above, apply to Miss D.E.
+Emerson, 56 Reade St., New York.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+The ladies in the North who are engaged in every good work for the
+Lord will be glad to find that there are those in the South who share
+their burdens, and their faith, also. The letter below was written by
+one of our most intelligent and earnest Christian workers--a colored
+lady educated in one of our schools.
+
+"Our usual lines of work have gone on with about the same results,
+except among the women. Our Woman's Prayer Meeting shows unusual
+fervor, and we are expecting to make this meeting _felt_ in the
+community and church. Satan seems on the war-path, and we women feel
+that we must be wide-awake and closer to the Lord, if the power of
+evil is to be checked. In our last meeting the one feeling each
+expressed was: 'What can _I_ do? I feel that I am called to work for
+the Master, but _what_ can I do for Christ?' In the struggle for
+bread, the time of many of the women is used all the day; then the
+house must be cared for, and when this is done, strength fails. I
+tried to impress the thought that much is gained when a soul is
+anxious to work for the Lord, and that such a soul will not be left
+unguided, which seemed to comfort many a tired mother.
+
+"_My_ difficulty is different. I am perplexed to know which of the
+many phases of Christian work to adopt for these women, and how to
+keep up interest and attendance without multiplying meetings. I am
+confident that our regular four weekly meetings and the regular
+monthly meetings are all they can attend, yet they _need_ others. I am
+often reminded of my dear mother's prayer which she used to cry out
+when greatly tried in the days of slavery: 'Oh! for Job's patience and
+Joshua's resolution, that we might all pull together like Pharaoh's
+horses.' And I would add: 'Oh! for Solomon's wisdom and Samson's
+strength, that we might understand and do the Lord's work.'"
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+{171}
+
+RECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1888.
+
+   MAINE, $224.38.
+
+Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.00
+Camden. Elm St. Cong. Ch. 22.70
+Castine. Class 9, Trinitarian Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo
+U._ 1.26
+Center Lebanon. "A Friend" 5.00
+Bingham. Cong. Ch. 3.15
+Blue Hill. "Pansy Band," _for Woman's Work_ 2.00
+Brewer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.50
+Gorham. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Selma, Ala._ 10.00
+Greenville. Cong. Ch. 23.00
+Kennebunk. Rev. G.A. Lockwood, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00
+Lincoln. Cong. Ch. 2.00
+Phillips. By Miss C.T. Crosby, _for Freight_ 0.68
+Portland. Y.P.S.C.E. of Williston Ch., _for Wilmington, N.C._ 8.00
+Portland. Ladies of Maine State Reform Sch., _for Woman's Work_ 6.00
+Portland. Miss Marie Holt's S.S. Class, Box of Basted Work, etc., _for
+Selma, Ala._
+Portland. Mrs. Mary C. Ingalls 2.00
+Scarboro. Rev. A. Smith 5.00
+Searsport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 6.09
+Sidney. Mrs. A. Sawtelle, _for Woman's Work_ 1.00
+Woodfords. By Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._
+--------
+124.38
+
+     LEGACY.
+
+Bethel. Estate of Sarah J. Chapman, by A.W. Valentine, Ex.  100.00
+                                                            ------
+                                                           $224.38
+
+   NEW HAMPSHIRE, $189.75.
+
+Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc., bal. to const. DANIEL W. REYNOLDS, L.M.
+10.50
+Berlin Falls. Parish Ch. of Christ                                     5.00
+Concord. "A Friend"                                                    5.00
+East Jaffrey. "Friends," Bbl. of C., _for Greenwood, S.C._
+Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                                    9.75
+Kingston. "A Friend"                                                   5.00
+Littleton. Mr. and Mrs. D.C. Remick, 10; Benj. W. Kilburn, 5, _for
+Atlanta U._ ..15.00
+Littleton. Mrs. B.W. Kilburn                                           5.00
+Nashua. First Ch.                                                     30.00
+North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                     17.00
+West Lebanon. Cong. Ch.                                               37.00
+Penacook. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                                   5.00
+South Newmarket. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    5.00
+Stratham. Cong. Ch.                                                   24.50
+Sunapee. Sab. Sch., _for Lexington, Ky._                               7.00
+Winchester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                                     4.00
+
+   VERMONT. $385.88.
+
+Berlin. First Cong. Ch. 16.00
+Brookline. Mrs. S.G. Hastings 5.00
+Burlington. Y.P.S.C.E., First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 20.00
+Burlington. Y.P. Soc. of C.E., Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+Charlotte. "Ladies," by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 15.00
+Clarendon. Mrs. N.J. Smith 5.00
+Dorset. Cong, Ch. (10 of which from Col. L.N. Sykes) 26.23
+East Poultney. Cong. Ch. 3.50
+Fayetteville. Cong. Ch. (1.75 of which _for McIntosh, Ga._) 6.52
+Holland. Y.P. Soc., 2 Bdls. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+Ludlow. Cong. Ch. 10.38
+Lyndon Center. Alice L. Ray 5.00
+Morgan. Lucy Little 0.50
+Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 55.25
+Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $10.00
+Peacham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 46.74; Young People's Miss'y Soc., 3.26;
+Rev. H.M. Andrews, in memory of Mrs. R.C. Andrews, 5; Bessie Varnum, 2
+57.00
+Pittsford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._ 25.00
+Rupert. Class in Sab. Sch., M.E. Ch., Large Pkg. Cards; Class in Sab.
+Sch., 5, _for Saint Augustine, Fla._ 5.00
+Rutland. Y.L.M. League, _for Indian Sch'p_ 70.00
+Tyson. Cong. Ch. 0.50
+---- "A Friend," _for Indian M._ 50.00
+
+   MASSACHUSETTS, $6,576.89.
+
+Amherst. First Cong. Ch. 36.70
+Amherst. First Cong. Ch. 25.00
+Andover. Wm. Ashness 5.00
+Andover. Mrs. Selah Merrill, Pkg. of Papers, _for Tougaloo U._
+Andover. Ladies of Free Ch., 2 Bbls. of C. etc., _for Tougaloo U._
+Arlington. Orthodox Cong. Ch. 35.00
+Ashland. Henry Denham, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 1.00
+Bedford. Sab. Sch. Class, 2 Pkgs Scrap-Books, _for St. Augustine,
+Fla._
+Bernardston. Cong. Ch. 4.51
+Boston. Central Ch. 1,095.25
+" Rev. Wm. H. Cobb 2.00
+" Samuel D. Warren, 200; Wm. Emdicott, Jr., 200; Hon. Geo. G. Crocker,
+100; Oliver Ditson & Co., 100; Henry E. Cobb, 100; Wm. O. Grover, 100;
+"A Friend," 50; Frank J. Garrison, 25; Rev. Wm. E. Merriman, D.D., 25;
+E.C. Carrigan, 25; Geo. Atkinson, 25; Stephen G. Deblois, 25; "A
+Friend," 25; Rev. Henry W. Foote, 20; N.P. Hallowell, 10; Mrs. Sarah
+L. Daniels, 5; Ellis L. Motte, 10; Mrs. Sarah Heroeschoff, 5; Samuel
+E. Sewell, 5; Miss A.S. Woods, 1, _for Atlanta U._ 1,056.00
+" Old South Ch., (of which _for Atlanta U._, 293; _for Fisk U._, 25;
+_for Berea C._, 25) 976.06
+" Mrs. E.J.W. Baker, _for Fisk U._ 50.00
+" Union Ch. Sewing Circle, _for Tougaloo U._ 40.00
+" Union Ch. Sewing Circle, Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo U._
+" Mrs. P. Morse, Pkg. of Papers, _for Tougaloo U._
+Dorchester. Second Ch. 99.42
+" Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch. 13.61
+" Miss Jemima R. Wilder, of Second Ch. 5.00
+" Pilgrim Ch. and Soc. 35.00
+" Mrs. H. Houston, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00
+" Harvard Ch. 10 00.
+Roxbury. Highland Ch. 33.00
+" Mrs. Arthur W. Tufts, Box of Books, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+West Roxbury. South Evan. Ch. and Soc. 23.51
+------ 3,458.85
+Boxfod. First Cong. Ch. $35.00
+Boxford. "Earnest Workers," 30; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 10.15;
+_for Mountain White Work_, by Mary L. Sawyer 40.15
+Brimfield. Second Cong. Ch. 5.04
+Brockton. Joseph Hewitt 5.00
+Brookline. Mrs. E.H. Craft, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 110.00
+Brookline. Harvard Ch. 71.75
+Brookfield. Mrs. R.B. Moutegue, _for Freight_ 1.50
+Dudley Falls. Ladles of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. _for Atlanta U._ and
+1.75 _for Freight_ 1.75
+Cambridgeport. Sewing Circle Prospect St. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for
+Tougaloo U._
+Chelsea. Y.P.S. of C.E. First Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U._ 25.00
+Chicopee. "Earnest Workers," Third Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U._ 25.00
+Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. 29.16
+East Cambridge. Miss Mary P. Aikin, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00
+Enfield. Miss L.E. Fairbanks Sab. Sch. Class, _for Indian Schp_ 45.00
+Fall River. Leonard N. Slade, 50; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 5.32,
+_for Indian M._; Sab. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian Schp._, 17.50
+72.82
+Fall River. Y.P.S. of C.E., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00
+Fitchburg. Rev. J.M.R. and Mrs. H.D. Eaton 10.00
+Florence. Frank N. York's Sab. Sch. Class, 4.81: Miss Dean's Class, 3,
+_for Tougaloo U._ 7.81
+Foxboro. Mrs. A.E. Tracy, Pkg. of Papers _for Tougaloo U._
+Framingham. Ladies of Plymouth Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for Fisk U._
+Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.28
+Goshen. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ 20.00
+Hardwick. Calvinistic Ch. 6.50
+Haverhill. Dr. John Cowell's Bible Class, Centre Ch., _for Fisk U._
+30.00
+Holliston. MRS. ELIZABETH S. BURNAP, to const. herself L.M. 30.00
+Holyoke. Second Cong. Co., _for Indian Schp._ 18.00
+Hoiyoko. Missionary Soc., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 0.50
+Hyde Park. Soc. of Miss'y Workers, Pkg. of C.; Mrs. M.A. Wood, Pkg. of
+Papers, _for Tougaloo U._
+Lawrence. Trinity Cong. Ch. (11.42 _for Indian M._) 22.84
+Lawrence. Mrs. J.H. Eaton, 10; Mrs. Jenners, 2; Fred. H. Eaton, 1;
+_for Talladega C._ 13.00
+Leominster Center. Mission Band, 20; Ladies of Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. of
+C., _for Atlanta U._ 20.00
+Littleton. "Mite Box," _for Atlanta U._ 4.00
+Lowell. L. Kimball 20.00
+Mansfield. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Wilmington, N.C._ 2.00
+Maplewood. Infant Sab. Sch. Class, _for Wilmington, N.C._ 3.00
+Marblehead. Hon. J.J.H. Gregory, _for Talladega C._, 130 and _for
+Pleasant Hill, Tenn._, 25 155.00
+Medfield. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 21.10
+Melrose. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
+Mills. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.58
+Newton. Eliot Ch. 125.00
+Newton. Sab. Sch. of Eliot Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 25.00
+Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. 71.20
+Northampton. Edwards Ch. Benev. Soc. 105.04
+North Brookfield. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch. _for Pleasant Hill,
+Tenn._ 15.00
+Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00
+Oakham. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._
+5.00
+Peru. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. $12.50
+Reading. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00
+Rockland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Pkg. of Papers, _for Selma, Ala._
+Shelburne Falls. Class No. 13, Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. 2.00
+Somervilie. Franklin St. Ch. 135.35
+South Amherst. Y.P.S. of C.E. _for Fisk U._ 30.00
+Southboro. Ladies of Pilgrim Evan. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo_
+South Weymouth, Union Cong. Ch., 90.29; Second Cong. Ch., 21 111.29
+Spencer. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 50.00
+Springfield. Y.P.S.C.E. of Hope Cong. Ch. 12.50
+Taunton. Broadway Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 50.00
+Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.83
+Upton. _For Freight_ 3.00
+Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.02
+Ware. East Cong. Ch. (of which 78.36 _for Indian M._) to const. GEO.
+W. CLARK, E.L. KNOX, WM. G. HAMILTON, A.E. DAVIS, E.H. BAKER, GEO. E.
+TUCKER, GAMALIEL MARSH and NELSON DWIGHT L.M.'s 492.65
+Ware. Miss P. Fuller, _for Indian M._ 1.00
+Wellesley. Miss Harriet Hawes, _for Macon, Ga._ 5.00
+West Dudley. "A Friend" 0.50
+Westhampton. Cong. Ch. 26.50
+West Medway. Second Cong. Ch. 7.20
+West Stockbridge Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.14
+Whitman. Y.P.S. of C.E., _for Fisk U._ 50.00
+Worcester. Central Ch. 105.00
+Worcester. Rev. Daniel Merriman, D.D., 100; Central Cong. Ch., 18.15,
+_for Atlanta U._ 118.15
+Worcester. Mrs. Wm. H. Drury, in memory of Mrs. Rebecca Putnam, 25;
+Albert Curtis, 10; Geo. H. Estabrook, 5, _for Indian M._ 40.00
+Worcester. Piedmont Ch., _for Berea, Ky._ 5.20
+Worcester. Union Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._, 1, _for
+Freight_ 1.00
+Yarmouth. Sewing Circle of Cong. Ch., _for Freight_ 1.50
+---- To const. MRS. HARREIT H. SMITH L.M. 30.00
+---- "A Friend in Mass." 5.00
+--------
+$6,276.89
+
+     LEGACY.
+
+Beverly. Estate of John Pickett, by Geo. Roundy and Robert R.
+Endicott, Adm'rs 300.00
+--------
+$6,576.89
+
+     CLOTHING, ETC. RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
+
+Philipps, Me. "Glad Helpers," 1 Bbl., _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+South Berwick, Me. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 1 Bbl., _for Wilmington, N.C._
+Boston, Mass. Miss H.H. Stanwood, 2 Boxes, _for Grand View, Tenn._
+Newton, Mass. J.W. Davis, 1 Box
+Pittsfield, Mass. Free Will Soc. of First Ch., Box, _for Atlanta U._
+Watertown, Mass. Ladies of Phillips Ch., 1 Bbl., _for Pleasant Hill,
+Tenn._
+
+   RHODE ISLAND, $111.19.
+
+Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                    61.19
+Providence. North Cong. Ch., W.H.M. Soc., _for Dakota Home_ 50.00
+
+   CONNECTICUT, $5,622.71.
+
+Ansonia. Mrs. G. Cowles, _for Thomasville, Ga._ 5.00
+Bethlehem. Cong. Ch. 15.00
+Bloomfield. "Ladies," by Mrs. M.G. Bidwell, _for Thomasville, Ga._
+14.25
+Bridgeport. Olivet Cong. Ch. $9.55
+Bristol. Orrin Cook 2.00
+Buckland. J.D. Pickels, 25 lbs. Paper, _for Macon, Ga._
+Darien. Cong. Ch. 5.00
+East Haddam. "A Friend" 5.00
+East Hampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.08
+Enfield. Cong. Ch. 65.80
+Enfield. Primary Dept., First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Macon, Ga._ 15.00
+Essex. "The Whatsoevers," _for Thomasville, Ga._ 5.00
+Farmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 83.64
+Farmington. Mrs. Sarah E. Barney, _for Indian M._ 50.00
+Franklin. Cong. Ch. 5.04
+Guilford. "Wigwam Club," First Cong. Ch., for Indian Sch'p and to
+const. MISS MARY F. MUNSON. L.M. 30.00
+Granby. First Cong. Ch., 9; South Cong. Ch. 5.25 14.25
+Hartford. Warburton Chapel Sab. Sch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 23.15
+Hartford. Windsor Ave. Cong. Ch. 20.00
+Hartford. Mrs. Geo. Leon Walker, Bbl. of C., _for Talladega C._
+Hebron. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 12.00
+Manchester. Second Cong. Ch. 90.28
+Meriden. Jessie R. Bridge, _for Indian M._ 3.00
+Naugatuck. Miss Nettie Seymour's Sab. Sch. Class, _for Indian M._ 8.32
+New Britain. D.M. Rogers, _for Tougaloo U._, and to const. M. HATTIE
+ROGERS, L.M. 30.00
+New Britain. Miss Belle Whaples, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._
+3.00
+New Haven. First Ch., 158.86; Church of the Redeemer, 82.00 240.86
+New Haven. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of United Ch., _for Indian
+Sch'p, Santee Home, Neb._ 50.00
+New Haven. Sab. Sch., Ch. of the Redeemer, _for Indian M._ 20.00
+New London. First Cong. Ch. 62.78
+New London, "A Friend," _for Atlanta U._ 50.00
+New London. J.N. Harris, 10; C.D. Ross, 10; Mrs. P. Eakins, 5, _for
+Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 25.00
+New London. First Ch., _for Indian M._ 15.00
+New Preston. Cong. Ch. (5 of which from "A Friend," _for Conn. Ind'l
+Sch., Ga._) 58.50
+North Haven. Cong. Ch. (25 of which _for Atlanta U._) 80.00
+Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. 2,286.29
+Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. 200.00
+Norwich. W.A. Slater, 50; L.R. Jewett, 25; H.B. Norton, 20; Wm. P.
+Greene, 20; Park Ch., 20; "Cash," 10; E.A. Huntington, 10; L.G. Lane,
+10; Amos W. Prentice, 10; Edward H. Gibbs, 10; L.W. Carroll, 10; Mrs.
+Mary B. Coit, 10; Mrs. J.M. Huntington, 10; Mrs. O.P. Avery, 10;
+"Cash," 10; John Mitchell, 10; C.B. Baldwin, 10; T.J. Leavens, 5;
+Charlotte L. Carroll, 5; J.D.T. Blackstone, 5; Geo. D. Colt, 5, _for
+Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 275.00
+Norwich Town. "Other Girls," by F.G. Williams, _for Thomasville, Ga._
+25.00
+Plantsville. Cong. Ch. 171.35
+Poquonock. Cong. Ch. 37.93
+Poquonock. Dea. Thomas Duncan, 10,000 Library Cards; "Willing
+Workers," Cong. Ch., Box of C., _for Macon, Ga._
+Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., 25, and Mission Workers, 25, _for
+Atlanta U._ 50.00
+Salisbury, Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 12.50
+Salisbury. Sab. Sch. Class, by Mrs. Henry Hubbard 5.00
+South Coventry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.66
+South Norwalk. Cong. Ch. 68.93
+Southport. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of Bedding, _for Fisk U._
+South Windsor. First Cong. Ch. 8.38
+Stafford Springs. Cong. Ch. $12.00
+Stratford. Mrs. Mary E. Curtiss 5.00
+Waterbury. Woman's Benev. Soc. of Second Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_
+70.00
+Waterbury. John C. Burrell, _for Indian M._ 5.00
+Westford. Cong. Ch. 4.25
+West Suffield. Cong. Ch. 11.31
+West Winsted. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 12.01
+West Stafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.50
+Winchester. "Ten Times One Club," by Miss S. Jennie Marsh, _for Santee
+Indian M._ 15.00
+Windham. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Williamsbury, Ky._
+18.00
+Woodbury. Miss Emily Wheelock, _for Thomasville, Ga._ 5.00
+---- "Friends in Conn." _for Indian Sch'p_ 70.00
+---- "Friend," _for Talladega C._ 25.00
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of Conn., by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec.:
+Ellington. Ladles' Miss. Soc., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 20.00
+Hartford. Parsonage Circle First Cong. Ch., _for Austin, Tex._ 40.00
+West Winfield. Ladies' M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch.,
+Ga._ 50.00
+------ 110.00
+--------
+$4,722.71
+
+     LEGACIES.
+
+New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven, _for Jewett Mem. Hall,
+Grand View, Tenn._ 50.00
+Rocky Hill. Estate of Rev. A.B. Smith, by Rev. Elijah Harmon, Ex.
+850.00
+
+   NEW YORK, $5,469.27.
+
+Albany. "A Friend," adl. 10.00
+Amsterdam. S. Louise Bell. 5.00
+Brooklyn. Ch. of the Pilgrims (of which: Mrs. S.B. Hutchison, 75; C.L.
+and K. Smith, 25; and Mrs. Perry's Sab. Sch. Class, 6.25; _for Indian
+M._) 799.78
+Brooklyn. German Evan. Sab. Sch., Schermerhorn St., _for Indian M._
+75.00
+Brooklyn. Pilgrim Ch. Mission, _for Indian Schp_ 40.00
+Brooklyn. Oliver A. Gager, 10; William V. Tupper, 5; _for Atlanta U._
+15.00
+Brooklyn. J.E. Jewett, _for Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 25.00
+Brooklyn. ----, 10; Miss M.A. Hall's Sab. Sch. Class, _for Tuition_ 1,
+and _for Poor_, 5; Mrs. Hall, 1, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 17.00
+Brooklyn. Rev. E.P. Thwing. D.D., 1,000 Pamphlets; Mrs. S.A.M. Kent,
+Pkg Papers
+Buffalo. First Cong. Ch. 100.00
+Chittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown 7.00
+Ellington. Mrs. H.B. Rice, 6; "A Friend," 4 10.00
+Hamilton. Cong. Ch. 16.00
+Ithaca. First Cong. Ch. 56.57
+Jamestown. Rev. W.D. Henry 5.00
+Livonia. Mrs. William Calvert 10.00
+Maine Village. Cong. Ch. 12.00
+Newburg. Selah R. Van Duzen, _for Thomasville, Ga._ 10.00
+New York. Broadway Tabernacle (25 of which from Mrs. H.B. Spelman,
+_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ and 25 from Mrs. Chas. L. Mead, _for
+Mountain White Work_) 2,003.33
+New York. Cornelius N. Bliss, 500; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Villard, 200;
+_for Atlanta U._ 700.00
+New York. Bethany Sewing Sch., _for Indian Schp_ 27.00
+New York. Mrs. Melissa P. Dodge, _for Jewett Memorial Hall, Grand
+View, Tenn._ 20.00
+New York. Wm. R. Gillette and J.W. Gillette (Hudson), _for Fisk U._
+$15.00
+New York. C.L. Mead, _for Talladega C._ 10.00
+New York. Mrs. Lucy Thurber 5.00
+New York. National Temp. Soc., Box of Books; E.B. Treat, Pkg. of
+Books; _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+Norwood. Cong. Ch., Box of Books, _for Athens, Ala._
+Poughkeepsie. Sab. Son. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._
+Rutland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 15.00
+Sherburne. First Cong. Ch. 40.55
+Suspension Bridge. First Cong, Ch. 13.74
+Syracuse. Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, 7.80; Miss F. Amelia Clarke, 5 12.80
+Tarrytown. "A Friend" 80.00
+Thiells. J.H. Cassedy, 500, _for enlargement and equipment of Slater
+Shop, Talladega C._ and 25 _for Atlanta U._ 525.00
+Union Falls. Francis E. Duncan 10.00
+West Coxsackie. Mrs. E.F. Spoor, 2.50; Miss A.G. Fairchild, 2.50 5.00
+West Bloomfield. Mrs. S.B. Sherrill, Pkg. Patchwork; 1.50 _for
+Freight_, _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 1.50
+---- "A Friend in Central N.Y." _for Talladega C._ 10.00
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., _for
+Woman's Work_:
+Albany 30.00
+Brier Hill 12.00
+Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch. W.C. Ass'n 30.00
+Buffalo. Ladies' Soc. 30.00
+Churchville. Aux. 10.00
+Harford. Ladies' Aux. 10.00
+Homer. Ladies 5.00
+Jamestown. L.M.S., to const. MRS. HENRY FRANK L.M. 30.00
+Java. Ladies 5.00
+Oswego. Ladies' H.M. Soc. 15.00
+Poughkeepsie. Ladies' H.M. Soc. 25.00
+Syracuse. Primary Pept. of Plymouth Sab. Sch. 20.00
+West Groton. Y.P.M. Soc. 10.00
+------ 242.00
+--------
+$4,969.27
+
+     LEGACY.
+
+Syracuse. Estate of Mrs. Silence J. White, by W.C. Goudy, Ex. (60 of
+which to const. MRS. LOUISE M. GARDINER and MRS. LUCIA E. PHILLIPS
+L.M.'s) 500.00
+--------
+$5,469.27
+
+   NEW JERSEY, $659.98.
+
+Arlington. Bbl. of C., _for Savannah, Ga._
+Bound Brook. Cong Ch. 33.32
+Jersey City. Mrs. C. Chichester 1.00
+Montclair. First Cong. Ch., 365.66; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
+100.00 465.66
+Montclair. First Cong. Ch., Easter Coll., _for Atlanta U._ 140.00
+Montclair. Ladies Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for
+Washington, D.C._
+Plainneld. Mrs. Mary E. Whiton, _for Woman's Work_ 20.00
+
+   PENNSYLVANIA, $468.07.
+
+Center Road. J.A. Scovel                                    2.00
+Dunsfort. Mrs. Mary M. Mehaffey                             2.00
+Ebensburg. First Cong. Ch.                                  7.40
+Morris Run. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00
+Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch.                           426.67
+Philadelphia. Frederick S. Kimball, _for Talladega, Ala._  25.00
+
+   OHIO, $576.60.
+
+Cincinnati. Ladies of Central Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Fisk U._
+Cleveland. Macedonian Circle, _for Indian Sch'p_ $15.00
+Cleveland. Y.P.M. Soc. of Jennings Av. Cong. Ch., _for Mountain white
+Work_ 9.17
+Conneaut. Sab. Sen. of Cong. Ch. 10.00
+Greensburg. Mrs. H.B. Harrington 5.00
+Hudson. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
+Kent. Cong. Ch., 16.83; S.S. Class, 2.50 19.35
+Mansfield. First Cong. Ch. 192.55
+Marietta. First Cong. Ch. 67.10
+Medina. Mrs. Thompson's S.S. Class, 5; Opportunity Club, of Cong. Sab.
+Sch., by Kate J. Stow, Sec., 2.10 7.10
+North Ridgeville. S.S. Class, Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 0.88
+North Springfield. Mrs. Walker, Pkg. of C., _for Athens, Ala._
+Oberlin. First Ch. 68.93
+Oberlin. By W.E. Wheeler, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._ 2.00
+Paddy's Run. Cong. Ch. 25.50
+Ravenna. Cong. Ch. 22.00
+Strongsville. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
+Tallmadge. Young Ladies' Home M. Soc., by W. Alling, _for Woman's
+Work_ 20.00
+Toledo. Y.P.M. Soc., _for Austin, Tex._ 12.00
+Wakeman. Cong. Ch. 6.03
+West Andover. Cong. Ch. 16.72
+Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas.,
+_for Woman's Work_:
+Akron. L.M.S. 10.00
+Austinburg. Miss V.A. Haight 3.20
+Conneaut. Cong. Ch. W.H.M. 8.00
+Madison. First Cong. Ch., W.B.S. 26.07
+Medina. Cong. Ch., W.M.S. 10.00
+------ 57.27
+
+   INDIANA, $15.00.
+
+Bloomington. Mrs. A.B. Woodford, _for Fisk U._ 15.00
+
+   ILLINOIS, $660.44.
+
+Amboy. _For Mobile Ala._ 1.00
+Aurora. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U._ 25.00
+Bone Gap. Mrs. Lu Rice 10.00
+Chicago. South Cong. Ch., 25; Soc. of Inquiry, Theo. Sem., 10.40 35.40
+Crystal Lake. Cong. Ch. 7.00
+Earlville. "J.A.D." 50.00
+Farmington. Cong. Ch. ..60.75
+Galesburg. Mrs. M.A. Hitchcock, 2; Miss Colton, 1; Mrs. S.B. Holmes,
+1, _for Fisk U._ 4.00
+Galva. Sab. Sen. of First Cong. Ch., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 38.25
+Geneseo. Mrs. Nourse, 20; Mrs. Huntington, 5, _for Fisk U._ 25.00
+Hinsdale. Mrs. S.L. Kennedy, _for Fisk U._ 10.00
+Hinsdale. Mrs. J.C. Ripley, Pkg. of Papers, _for Athens, Ala._
+Lawn Ridge. Mrs. Kiterage, 1; Miss Lock, 50cts 1.50
+Lowell. "A Friend" 10.00
+Millington. Mrs. D.W. Jackson 0.50
+Morris. Cong. Ch. 15.25
+Newark. Mrs. F. Haverhill 0.50
+Oak Park. Sab. Sch. of First Ch., 28.86; Mrs. Huggins, 3, _for Fisk
+U._ 31.86
+Paxton. Cong. Ch. 40.00
+Payson. _For Mobile, Ala._ 4.00
+Peoria. First Cong. Ch. 100.00
+Peoria. Mrs. Griswold, _for Fisk U._ 25.00
+Plymouth. Miss A.A. Burton 5.00
+Poplar Grove. Cong. Ch. 4.77
+Princeton. Mrs. P.B. Corss, 10; Cong. Ch., 1.50, _for Fisk U._ 11.50
+Princeton. First Cong. Ch. $15.00
+Providence. Cong. Ch. 7.03
+Rio. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 4.20
+Rockford. Mrs. John L. Page, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00
+Rockford. Mrs. W. Talcott, 10; Mrs. J.L. Page, 3; T.L. Robertson, 10,
+_for Fisk U_ 23.00
+Seward. Woman's Miss'y Soc., by Alice Day, _for Woman's Work_ 5.00
+Shirland. Cong. Ch. 6.25
+Winnebago. Cong. Ch. 7.00
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of Ill., _for Woman's Work_:
+Englewood. L.H.M.S. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 21.68
+Englewood. King's Children, First Ch., _for Kindergarten, Tougaloo U._
+3.50
+Englewood. King's Children, Juniors, _for Tougaloo U._ 6.50
+-------- 31.68
+
+   MICHIGAN, $155.91.
+
+Allegan. First Cong. Ch., 5.16; Y.P.S. of C.E., 1; _for Fisk U._  6.16
+Calumet. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 40.00
+Canandaigua. Cong. Ch.                                            3.10
+Cold Water. "A Friend"                                            5.00
+Covert. A.S. Packard, _for Fisk U._                              25.00
+Detroit. Mrs. G.N. Fletcher, Bbl. of Goods, _for Talladega C._
+Grand Rapids. South Cong. Ch.                                     7.00
+Grass Lake. Cong. Ch.                                            10.65
+Hancock. W.M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._              25.00
+Kallamazoo. Mrs. J.A. Kent                                       10.00
+Morenei. Cong. Ch.                                                4.00
+St. Ignace. Cong. Ch.                                             5.00
+Saint Joseph. J.H. Lee, _for Fisk U._                            10.00
+---- "A Friend"                                                   5.00
+
+   WISCONSIN, $135.81.
+
+Clintonville. Cong. Ch.                                             4.75
+Durand. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                           9.22
+Eau Claire. "Cheerful Givers," by Bertha Duganne, Treas.           17.50
+Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch.                                            2.37
+Lake Geneva. Cong. Ch.                                             12.25
+Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                           66.49
+Madison. Mrs. Amelia E. Doyon, Pkg. of Books, _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+Mazomanie. Cong. Ch.                                                1.50
+Menomonee. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                             7.72
+New London. Cong. Ch.                                               4.25
+Oak Creek. Cong. Ch.                                                4.85
+Racine. Welsh Coog. Ch.                                             3.05
+Salem. Cong. Ch.                                                    1.86
+
+   IOWA, $259.84.
+
+Anamosa. Mrs. Mary G. Flake, _for student Aid, Straight U._     5.00
+Clay. Cong. Ch.                                                17.02
+Clear Lake. C.E. Soc., by M.J. Thompson, _for Beach Inst._      1.50
+Creaco. Cong. Ch.                                               6.61
+Des Moines. Miss'y Concert, _for Fisk U._                       4.64
+Durant. Mrs. T. Dutton (5 of which _for Oahe Indian M._)       15.00
+Grinnell. Sam'l P. Cooper, 100; Mrs. Magoun, 1; _for Fisk U._ 101.00
+Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                                            13.94
+Hull. Cong. Ch.                                                10.00
+Lyons. Cong. Ch.                                               12.05
+Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.                                           50.55
+Quasqueton. Cong. Ch.                                           8.53
+
+   MINNESOTA, $72.45.
+
+Minneapolis. First Cong. Ch., 25.06; Plymouth Ch., 22.10; R. Laughlin,
+1.50 48.66
+Saint Paul. Lyman D. Hodge, 10; Class of Boys, 1.50; _for Student Aid,
+Talladega C._ $11.50
+Winona. First Cong. Ch. 12.29
+Winona. Box of Material, _for Sewing Room, Marion, Ala._
+
+   MISSOURI, $33.60.
+
+Garden City. W.B. Wills, 10; Miss. A.C. Wills, 2; F.P. Morclan, 1;
+P.M. Wills, 1 14.00
+La Grange. German Cong. Ch. 1.00
+Peirce City. Cong. Ch. 18.60
+
+   KANSAS, $34.62.
+
+Larned. "Our Missionary Box," by Mrs. S.C. Boardman, 5.65; Miss F.A.
+Locke, 5 10.65
+Paola. Cong. Ch. 22.17
+Plevna. Cong. Ch. 1.80
+
+   DAKOTA, $110.00.
+
+  Gladstone. "A Friend"                                              100.00
+  Ponca Agency. Ponca Mission, _for Indian M._                         5.00
+  Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas.:
+  Sioux Falls. W.M.S.                                                  5.00
+                                                                ------ 5.00
+
+   NEBRASKA, $114.95.
+
+Ashland. Cong. Ch. 12.58
+Columbus. Cong. Ch. 4.04
+Exeter. First Cong. Ch. 8.00
+Greenwood. Cong. Ch. 4.25
+Hastings. First Cong. Ch. 7.08
+Santee Agency. Miss H.A. Brown, 30; Miss S.L. Voorhees, 25; _for
+Indian M._ 55.00
+
+   CALIFORNIA, $1,376.37.
+
+Belmont. Mrs. E.L. Reed and daughters, Miss H. Reed and Mrs. F.A.
+Blackbrun, 20; Willie Reed, 35c. 20.35
+Grass Valley. Edward Coleman, 100; Cong. Ch., 27.27 127.27
+National City. Cong. Ch. 38.50
+San Francisco. The California Chinese Mission 1192.25
+
+   WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $7.00
+
+Medical Lake. First Cong. Ch. 7.00
+
+   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $188.66.
+
+Washington. First Cong. Ch., 175; Lincoln Memorial Ch., 8.66         183.66
+Washington. Mrs. J.H. Jennings, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._
+5.00
+
+   MARYLAND, $3.00.
+
+Baltimore. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Savannah, Ga._ 3.00
+
+   KENTUCKY, $677.43.
+
+Lexington. Tuition       215.28
+Williamsburg. Tuition    459.90
+Williamsburg. "A Friend"   2.25
+
+   TENNESSEE, $1,307.72.
+
+Jellico. Tuition                                80.00
+Jonesboro. Public Sch. Fund, 21; Rent, 1.50     22.50
+Jonesboro. Tuition                              10.10
+Memphis. Tuition                               436.75
+Nashville. Tuition, 536.12; Rents, 6.50        436.75
+Nashville. Rev. H.S. Bennett, _for Fisk U._     30.20
+Pleasant Hill. "A Friend," _for Boarding Hall_  50.00
+Sherwood. "Friends," _for Student Aid_         135.55
+
+   NORTH CAROLINA, $226.98.
+
+Pekin. Cong. Ch.                                   $1.00
+Strieby. Cong. Ch., Christmas Gift                  1.00
+Troy. S.D. Leak                                     1.00
+Wilmington. Tuition                               156.50
+Wilmington, Cong. Ch., 58.48; Miss H.L. Fitts, 10  68.48
+
+   SOUTH CAROLINA, $220.00.
+
+Charleston. Tuition              214.00
+Charleston. By Rev. Geo. C. Rowe   6.00
+
+   GEORGIA, $534.85.
+
+Macon. Tuition                                              217.55
+McIntosh. Tuition                                            33.00
+Savannah. Tuition                                           205.25
+Thomasville. Tuition                                         71.55
+Thomasville. Sab. Sch. of Conn. Ind'l Sch., _for Indian M._   7.50
+
+   ALABAMA, $612.85.
+
+Athens. Tuition                                             63.45
+Marion. "C.W.L." _for Marion Ala._                          12.50
+Mobile. Tuition                                            221.15
+Selma. Miss Julia Andrews, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._   8.00
+Talladega. Tuition                                         307.75
+
+   FLORIDA, $10.00.
+
+Sanford. Mrs. Moses Lyman 10.00
+
+   LOUISIANA, $331.00.
+
+New Orleans. Tuition 331.00
+
+   MISSISSIPPI, $121.60.
+
+Tougaloo. Tuition, 117.50; Rent, 2        119.50
+Tougaloo. "Helping Hand," _for Indian M._   2.00
+
+   TEXAS, $249.40.
+
+Austin. W.A.H. Evans, 100; Miss M.J. Adams, 25; _for Austin, Texas_
+125.00
+Austin. Tuition                                                     124.40
+
+     CONG'L CHURCHES IN THE SOUTH, TOWARD EXPENSES OF REV. JAMES WHARTON,
+     EVANGELIST.
+
+Louisville, Ky.          2.60
+Nashville, Tenn.        12.00
+Birmingham, Ala.        12.00
+Jenifer, Ala.            5.60
+Marion, Ala.             7.75
+Selma, Ala.             18.00
+Talladega, Ala.         25.00
+                 ------ 82.95
+
+   MEW MEXICO, $8.00.
+
+Santa Fe. Ramona Sch., Sarah E. Moore.         8.00
+                                       ---- $75.00.
+---- _For Indian M., Hope Station_            75.00
+
+   CANADA, $5.00
+
+Montreal. Chas. Alexander 5.00
+
+   EAST AFRICA, $30.00.
+
+Inhambane. Rev. B.F. Ousley, _for Fisk U._      30.00
+                                            =========
+Donations                                  $22,313.80
+Legacies                                     1,800.00
+Tuition                                      3,821.25
+Rents                                           10.00
+                                             --------
+Total for April                            $27,945.05
+Total from Oct. 1 to April 30              158,921.20
+                                            =========
+
+   FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+Subscriptions for April    $65.90
+Previously acknowledged    647.18
+                         --------
+Total                     $713.18
+                        =========
+
+   RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION,
+
+from Oct. 1st, 1S87, to March 16th, 1838. E. Palache, Treas.:
+
+FROM LOCAL MISSIONS.--Alameda, Chinese Mon. Off's, 2; Cong. Ch., O.M.
+Goddard, 10.--Anniversary Coll., 25, to const. REV. W.W. SCUDDER, JR.,
+L.M.--Marysville, Chinese Mon. Off's, 33.05.--Oakland, Japanese Mon.
+Off's, 4.20.--Oroville, Chinese Mon. Off's, 7.15.--"Friend"
+6.--Sacramento, Chinese Mon. Off's, 31.75--San Diego, Chinese Mon.
+Off's, 6.25; Ah Quinn, 2.--Santa Barbara, Chinese Mon. Off's, 64.25;
+Chinese, _Special for books_, 11.50; Anniversary Coll., 4.50; Annual
+Memberships, American, (2 of which from Mrs. J. Bates), 10.--Santa
+Cruz, Chinese Mon. Off's. 29.40; Chinese _Special, for refitting and
+furnishing Mission house_, 60.85.--Stockton, Chinese Mon. Off's,
+27.90.--Tucson, Chinese Mon. Off's, 15.70 $354.25
+FROM CHURCHES.--Oakland, First Cong. Ch., 150.--San Francisco, Bethany
+Ch. (Americans), E.P. 2.50; From Chinese Central Mission, Monthlies,
+23.15; Barnes Mission, Monthlies, 7.95; West Mission, Monthlies,
+17.90; Ng. Hing, 4 205.50
+FROM INDIVIDUAL OFFERINGS.--Mrs. Jane Sanford, 12; Edson D. Hale, 2
+14.00
+FROM EASTERN FRIENDS.--Bucksport, Me., Miss Julia Barnard,
+5.--Marlboro, Mass., Miss H.F. Alexander, 1.--Albany, N.Y., Mission
+Sab. Sch., by J.C. Hughson, 14.--Spring Valley, N.Y., Miss M.C.
+Waterbury, 30 50.00
+ALSO RECEIVED FOR ENLARGEMENT AND FURNISHING OF MISSION HOUSE SAN
+DIEGO.--San Diego, W. Collier, 50; Mrs. L.C. Gunn, 25; Mrs. W.W.
+Steward, 25; Daniel Stone, 25; Bryant Howard, 25; O.S. Hubbell, 20;
+Mrs. Babcock, 20; San Diego Lumber Co., 15; Mrs. J.P. Noble, 15; G.W.
+Marston, 10: Mrs. J.H. Ferry, 10; Mrs. C.T. Hamilton, 5; Mrs. A.H.
+Panly, 5; Emma R. Sheldon, 5; Geo. M. Hitchcock, G; Mrs. A.A. Thomas,
+5; Mrs. A.E. Gilbert, 5; Mrs. H.L. Story, 5; M.L. Brown, 5; Mrs.
+Bennett, 5. Mrs. E.W. Morse, 5. Mrs. M.M. Kew, 5; M.T. Gilmore, 5;
+J.H. Smith, 5; Mrs. Dr. Powers, 6; Mrs. J.C. Packard, 5; Mrs. J.H.
+Harwood, 5: Friends through Mrs. M.A. McKenzie, 79; Other friends, in
+sums of 2 or less, 19.60; Anniversary Coll., 21.40 440.00
+Pittsburg, Pa., Hazelton Miss. Soc 7.00
+Detroit, Mich.," Bright Shining Stars," by Mrs. Black 5.00
+FROM CHINESE.--An Quinn, 20; Quon Seney, 17; Him Que, 5; Quon Man, 5;
+Quon Sue, 5; Jay Young, 5; Ah Soon, 5. Lee Fook, 5; Ah Sing, 5;
+Charley Min, 5; Quon Soon, B; Hom Wee, 5; Charley Sing, 2.50; Other
+offerings of 2 or less, 27 116.50
+--------
+$1,192.25
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
+
+56 Reade St., N.Y.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+
+  Footnote 1:
+
+  Deceased.
+
+
+
+
+
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