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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13584 ***</div>
+
+ <a name="page295" id="page295"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 295]</span>
+ <h1>The American Missionary</h1>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <center>
+ November 1888
+ </center>
+ <center>
+ Volume XLII. No. 11.
+ </center>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+ <p class="TOC"><b>EDITORIAL</b><br />
+ <a href="#page297">NOT QUITE FREE&mdash;ENCOURAGING RESPONSES TO OUR
+ APPEAL</a><br />
+ <a href="#page299">THE MOHONK CONFERENCE</a><br />
+ <a href="#page300">ORDINATION&mdash;THE YELLOW FEVER</a><br />
+ <a href="#page301">THE SAMARITAN WOMAN</a><br />
+ <b>GENERAL SURVEY</b><br />
+ <a href="#page303">OUR SCHOOLS&mdash;CHURCH WORK&mdash;MOUNTAIN WORK&mdash;THE
+ INDIANS&mdash;THE CHINESE&mdash;WOMAN'S BUREAU&mdash;FINANCES</a><br />
+ <b>STUDENT'S LETTER</b><br />
+ <a href="#page315">STRUGGLES IN THE "LONE STAR STATE"</a><br />
+ <b>THE CHINESE</b><br />
+ <a href="#page317">REVIEW OF THE YEAR</a><br />
+ <b>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK</b><br />
+ <a href="#page318">WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS</a><br />
+ <a href="#page319">RECEIPTS</a></p>
+ <hr />
+ <center>
+ NEW YORK:
+ </center>
+ <center>
+ PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,
+ </center>
+ <center>
+ Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+ </center>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <center>
+ Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.
+ </center>
+ <center>
+ Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second class matter.
+ </center>
+ <hr class="full" />
+ <a name="page296" id="page296"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 296]</span>
+ <center>
+ <b>American Missionary Association.</b>
+ </center>
+ <hr />
+ <p class="sc">President, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.</p>
+ <p><i>Vice-Presidents.</i></p>
+ <p class="sc">Rev. A.J.F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y.<br />
+ Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass.<br />
+ Rev. F.A. Noble, D.D., Ill.<br />
+ Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass.<br />
+ Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.</p>
+ <p><i>Corresponding Secretaries.</i></p>
+ <p class="sc">Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., 56 <i>Reade Street, N.Y.</i><br />
+ Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., 56 <i>Reade Street, N.Y.</i></p>
+ <p><i>Treasurer.</i></p>
+ <p class="sc">H.W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 <i>Reade Street, N.Y.</i></p>
+ <p><i>Auditors.</i></p>
+ <p class="sc">Peter McCartee.<br />
+ Chas. P. Peirce.</p>
+ <p><i>Executive Committee.</i></p>
+ <p class="sc">John H. Washburn, Chairman.<br />
+ Addison P. Foster, Secretary.</p>
+ <p class="sc"><i>For Three Years.</i><br />
+ Lyman Abbott,<br />
+ Charles A. Hull,<br />
+ J.R. Danforth,<br />
+ Clinton B. Fisk,<br />
+ Addison P. Foster,</p>
+ <p class="sc"><i>For Two Years.</i><br />
+ S.B. Halliday,<br />
+ Samuel Holmes,<br />
+ Samuel S. Marples,<br />
+ Charles L. Mead,<br />
+ Elbert B. Monroe,</p>
+ <p class="sc"><i>For One Year.</i><br />
+ J.E. Rankin,<br />
+ Wm. H. Ward,<br />
+ J.W. Cooper,<br />
+ John H. Washburn,<br />
+ Edmund L. Champlin.</p>
+ <p><i>District Secretaries.</i></p>
+ <p class="sc">Rev. C.J. Ryder, 21 <i>Cong'l House, Boston.</i><br />
+ Rev. J.E. Roy, D.D., 151 <i>Washington Street, Chicago.</i></p>
+ <p><i>Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.</i></p>
+ <p class="sc">Rev. Chas. W. Shelton.</p>
+ <p><i>Secretary of Woman's Bureau.</i></p>
+ <p class="sc">Miss D.E. Emerson, 56 <i>Reade St., N.Y.</i></p>
+ <hr />
+ <center>
+ <b>COMMUNICATIONS</b>
+ </center>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ <center>
+ <b>DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</b>
+ </center>
+ <p>In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H.W.
+ Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of
+ the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street,
+ Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.</p>
+ <center>
+ <b>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</b>
+ </center>
+ <p>"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of &mdash;&mdash; dollars, in
+ trust, to pay the same in &mdash;&mdash; days after my decease to the person who,
+ when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American Missionary
+ Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive
+ Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes." The Will should
+ be attested by three witnesses.</p>
+ <hr class="full" />
+ <a name="page297" id="page297"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 297]</span>
+ <h1 style="font-variant: small-caps;">The American Missionary.</h1>
+ <center>
+ VOL. XLII.<br />
+ November, 1888.<br />
+ No. 11.
+ </center>
+ <h2 style="font-variant: small-caps;">American Missionary Association</h2>
+ <hr />
+ <h3>NOT QUITE FREE.</h3>
+ <p>In the November MISSIONARY of last year, the financial statement bore the simple
+ and joyous heading "FREE." This year we are compelled to prefix two qualifying words.
+ Our books closed September 30, with a balance of $5,641.21 on the wrong side. While
+ we regret that there should be any debt, we rejoice that it is no larger.</p>
+ <p>The receipts applicable to current expenses fell off somewhat during the year,
+ while the expenditures, owing to general growth and some special demands were greater
+ than last year. The first of September, therefore, found us confronting an impending
+ debt. The appeal which we felt constrained to make for September, and which was made
+ under some special disadvantages as compared with last year, was met with so hearty a
+ response in gifts and in expressions of interest in our work, as to move us to
+ gratitude to God and thankfulness to our friends. A few of the donors gave $1,000
+ each, but the larger share of the responses contained remittances of less than $100.
+ Many of the sums were quite small, and some of them indicated great self-sacrifice on
+ the part of the donors. A few brief extracts, all that our limited space will allow,
+ from a small portion of the letters received, will be found below.</p>
+ <p>We thank God and take courage. We believe that our friends who remembered us in
+ the past will not forget us in the future, and that our wants in October, and in all
+ the following months, will not be forgotten because they were so well remembered in
+ September. One thousand dollars a day represents our needs for carrying on the work
+ in its present development.</p>
+ <h4><i>Encouraging Responses to our Appeal.</i></h4>
+ <p>"I would like to send you more, but I send you the last dollar I have ($71.00,)
+ and must trust the Lord for means to support us until my next <a name="page298"
+ id="page298"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 298]</span> month's payment, and for means
+ to go to the meeting of the A.B.C.F.M., in case I attend."</p>
+ <p>"Twenty-five cents of this money was from a woman 82 years old. She is almost
+ helpless. The family in which she lives is very poor. She has not a penny that she
+ calls her own. She said to me, 'Here is the widow's mite. I prayed that the Lord
+ would send me something to give away. You please take it and send it where it will do
+ the most good.' I send it to you trusting that with her prayers of faith, it may be
+ useful."</p>
+ <p>The writer of a letter enclosing a donation of $10 adds in a postscript in regard
+ to the donor: "Mrs. A&mdash;&mdash; was born May 5th, 1787, and is an <i>old
+ contributor</i>."</p>
+ <p>"I have expended all my appropriation for charitable purposes this present year,
+ yet I can, perhaps, curtail in some directions and so remit to you $20 as a small
+ tributary to swell the stream for meeting indebtedness. I hope your appeal will
+ accomplish the results desired.</p>
+ <p>"Through abounding grace, my wife and I are once more permitted the joyful
+ privilege of sending for the general work of the American Missionary Association,
+ $100 enclosed herewith in draft to your order. (Their third contribution this year.
+ Ed.) Say to the dear brethren in the work of the Master: 'Be of good courage, fear
+ not, for I am with you'; <i>His</i> own words enduring forever."</p>
+ <p>"Enclosed, please find check for $100. I am always glad to be remembered on
+ special appeals when they are necessary, even if I cannot help. I do not know that I
+ enjoy anything more than what I am able to give to the A.M.A. I trust your appeal
+ will find many generous responses."</p>
+ <p>"Your kind and thoughtful letter of the 13th, received. It affords me real
+ pleasure to respond to your call for our Association. The good Lord has more or less
+ blessed me with opportunity and ability to acquire money, and may He forbid that I
+ should turn his blessings into curses by hoarding the gifts of his providence, when
+ the cry of the poor and down-trodden is heard. I enclose my check for $100 for the
+ cause."</p>
+ <p>"It is a small contribution, but it comes from a small church. Certainly it
+ represents a genuine interest in the work of your society and is accompanied with
+ prayers for its success."</p>
+ <p>An executor, in remitting a legacy of $500 says: "It is not due according to the
+ terms of the will till next spring, but you may find it useful at this time to help
+ out the year."</p>
+ <p>We have received from Oaks, North Carolina, towards the extinguishment of our
+ debt, a contribution from forty-nine different persons, amounting to $5.66. This
+ represents a degree of sacrifice, not surpassed, perhaps, by<a name="page299"
+ id="page299"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 299]</span> any who have contributed.
+ Seventy cents of it were in cash; sixty-six cents were value in fodder; one dollar
+ and thirty-four cents in potatoes and corn; one dollar and one cent in work.</p>
+ <p>The missionary who is ministering to these very poor people says: "If all who love
+ the A.M.A. would do as well, according to their ability, your treasury would be
+ filled."</p>
+ <hr />
+ <h3>THE MOHONK CONFERENCE.</h3>
+ <p>This Conference is unique in its character, and in the place where it is held.
+ Lake Mohonk was born in a great earthquake that sunk it in its solid rocky bed, and
+ piled up around it wonderful ranges of hills and vast splintered rocks. The splendid
+ summer resort built on the margin of the Lake is the work of Mr. A.K. Smiley, a man
+ of creative genius, and of kind manners and a warm heart. The house, or rather the
+ range of houses, is picturesque, and the walks among the hills and down the rocky
+ gorges, and the forty miles of excellent roads, give the widest scope for walking and
+ driving.</p>
+ <p>The Conference is the invention of Mr. Smiley. To it, he invites annually a
+ hundred or more guests, giving them the freedom of the house; and three days are
+ spent in the discussion of Indian affairs, interspersed with afternoon drives amid
+ the striking scenery. The invitation is extended to those who are supposed to be
+ intelligently interested in the Indians; but within that limit there is the freest
+ range&mdash;men and women of all political parties and of all religious denominations
+ being included. The acts of the Conference, like the utterances of a Congregational
+ Council, have only the authority of the reason that is in them; yet it is wonderful
+ what an influence this peculiar body has had on public sentiment. Its utterances have
+ been discussed and have had their weight in the pulpit, the press, in Congress and in
+ the White House. The Indian and the Nation owe much to the Mohonk Conference.</p>
+ <p>The Sixth Annual Conference, which closed September 28th, sustained the interest
+ of past years in the importance of the topics discussed, in the divergency of opinion
+ at first, and in the complete harmony at the end. The points agreed upon in the
+ platform were arranged under five heads. The first relates to the establishment of
+ Courts of Justice in the Reservations and accessible to the Indians; the second to
+ the important need of education, demanding that the Government shall undertake at
+ once the entire task of providing primary and secular education for all Indian
+ children; the third urges that this education shall be compulsory, under proper
+ limitations; the fourth emphasizes the duty of the churches to furnish religious
+ instruction to the Indians, and the immunity of their work from all governmental
+ interference where sustained wholly by missionary funds; the fifth approves of the
+ co-operation of the Government with the missionary<a name="page300"
+ id="page300"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 300]</span> societies in contract schools
+ during the present transitional condition of the Indians. We append the last two
+ items of the report.</p>
+ <blockquote><p>4. In view of the great work which the Christian Churches have done
+ in the past in inaugurating and maintaining schools among the Indians, and of the
+ essential importance of religious as distinguished from secular education, for their
+ civil, political and moral well-being, an element of education which, in the nature
+ of the case, the National Government cannot afford, the churches should be allowed the
+ largest liberty, not, indeed, to take away the responsibility from the Government in
+ its legitimate sphere of educational work, but to supplement it to the fullest extent
+ in their power, by such schools, whether primary, normal or theological, as are at
+ the sole cost of the benevolent or missionary societies. And it is the deliberate
+ judgment of this Conference that in the crisis of the Indian transitional movement
+ the churches should arouse themselves to the magnitude and emergency of the duty thus
+ laid upon them in the providence of God.</p>
+ <p>5. Nothing should be done to impair or weaken the agencies at present engaged in
+ the work of Indian education. Every such agency should be encouraged and promoted,
+ except as other and better agencies are provided for the work. In particular, owing
+ to the anomalous condition of the Indians and the fact that the Government is
+ administering trust funds that belong to them, what is known as the "contract
+ system"&mdash;by which the nation aids by appropriations private and missionary
+ societies in the work of Indian education&mdash;ought to be maintained by a
+ continuance of such aid, until the Government is prepared, with adequate buildings
+ and competent teachers, to assume the entire work of secular education. In no case
+ should the Government establish schools to compete with private or church schools
+ which are already doing a good work, so long as there are thousands of Indian
+ children for whose education no provision is made.</p></blockquote>
+ <hr />
+ <h3>ORDINATION AT NEW ORLEANS.</h3>
+ <p>A council of Congregational Churches was held in New Orleans, Sept. 16th, for the
+ purpose of ordaining Prof. Geo. W. Henderson, A.M., B.D., to the Christian ministry.
+ Rev. R.C. Hitchcock, President of Straight University, was chosen Moderator. Mr.
+ Henderson sustained an excellent examination, and was installed Pastor of the Central
+ Congregational Church. The entire service was impressive, and Rev. Mr. Henderson
+ enters upon a very responsible charge of a large church with many encouragements and
+ hopes of great success.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <h3>OUR SCHOOLS AND THE YELLOW FEVER.</h3>
+ <p>We have been extremely gratified with the manifestations of faith and courage on
+ the part of our lady teachers in the South during the time of fear and panic because
+ of the yellow fever. Some were already at their stations and in their schools, and
+ some were on the way, subject to the trials of quarantine. Not one hesitated in the
+ path of duty. Many teachers from the different parts of the North were ready to go
+ when the reports of the pestilence were most alarming, but not one of the teachers
+ who had previously been in <a name="page301" id="page301"></a><span
+ class="newpage">[pg 301]</span> the work, failed to await instructions to go forward
+ whenever we should speak the word. We have been grateful to God during all these days
+ of the autumn for the splendid qualities of consecration and courage which have come
+ out of our correspondence with our honored teachers. Never did their fathers or
+ brothers, years ago, when deadly war called them to face the perils of battle, show
+ higher courage or a larger sense of duty. Almost all of our Southern schools are now
+ in session, and begin with increased attendance.</p>
+ <p>SCHOOL ECHO.&mdash;A teacher writes: "One of my pupils who had been teaching
+ during the summer came to me in despair over a sum, saying: "I can't understand
+ <i>sympathizing fractions</i>."</p>
+ <p>(When we went to school years and years ago, "sympathizing fractions," meant
+ broken candy. We understood, but the teacher didn't. Times change, and we change with
+ them.)</p>
+ <hr />
+ <h3>THE SAMARITAN WOMAN.</h3>
+ <center>
+ BY REV. C.J. RYDER, BOSTON.
+ </center>
+ <blockquote>
+ "And they marveled that he talked with the woman."
+ </blockquote>
+ <p>Why? She was a sinful woman. But these disciples must even thus early in Christ's
+ ministry have learned that he had come to call sinners, not the righteous, to
+ repentance. She was a Samaritan! That was a larger reason for their marvel. They
+ could rise above their hatred for sin more easily than their race prejudice; so can
+ we. The Samaritans were an inferior people. Degraded they were. They had been
+ degraded for centuries. The Jews shunned them. Socially our Lord was making a great
+ blunder, perhaps a fatal blunder, in talking to this Samaritan woman. His cause was
+ in its infancy. The hand of social prejudice would surely throttle it. Why antagonize
+ the existing order of society? How much better to utilize it for the establishment
+ and enlargement of the great and glorious kingdom of our Lord! This cause needed the
+ influence of Jewish leaders. Why risk this potent influence for the sake of one
+ miserable Samaritan woman, or, for that matter, for a whole race of Samaritans? It
+ seemed very poor management of a cause, new in that country. "Far be such unwisdom
+ from thee, Lord," we can hear the impassioned and worldly-wise Peter exclaim. But our
+ Lord chose to sacrifice the temporary success of his kingdom that he might be true to
+ the eternal principles of that kingdom; and so he talked with this sinful woman of
+ this despised race just as considerately as with Nicodemus. He invited her to his
+ discipleship just as cordially, and to the same discipleship. There is not a hint
+ that the Good Shepherd built another fold for the Samaritan sheep, lest some of the
+ Jewish flock should jump over the fence, if they were put into the same fold.</p>
+ <p><a name="page302" id="page302"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 302]</span> These
+ Samaritans were not only degraded and despised socially, but they were also
+ superstitious in their religious beliefs, and semi-heathen in their forms of worship.
+ It would take generations to bring them up to a level with the Jewish Christians.
+ They could not comprehend much of the intelligent preaching that Christ addressed to
+ the Jews. Why not appoint a special missionary for them, and then quietly exclude
+ them from the ordinary gatherings? This course would avoid criticism; it would not
+ violate the established ideas of social and religious propriety. Nothing need be said
+ about it. It would not be best to put it on parchment; just let it be quietly
+ whispered about that the disciples thought it was better for the Samaritan Christians
+ not to meet with the others. The disciples were surrounded by prejudiced people, to
+ be sure, but these prejudices were very old; time would correct all these social and
+ race inequalities. The disciples thought it better to ignore them, and just organize
+ and carry on their work with no reference to these degraded and superstitious
+ Samaritans. Such seems to have been somewhat the reasoning of these timid disciples.
+ It was not our Lord's reasoning; the doors of his blessed kingdom opened to all. It
+ required no magic sesame of race respectability to throw back these gates of pardon
+ and hope. Sin must be left outside, but the sinner of every race and tribe was
+ welcomed to all the privileges of this kingdom. We now see the wisdom and the
+ divinity of our Lord's course.</p>
+ <p>Had these marveling disciples had their way, the sect of the Christians would have
+ been added to the sects of the Herodians and the Sadducees, and been buried in the
+ same grave centuries ago. The voice that talked with this Samaritan woman is heard
+ round the globe now, and every century only adds greater authority to its divine
+ utterance; and it is heard because it spoke with this despised Samaritan woman. Our
+ Lord did not ignore this race prejudice; he rebuked it. And so these timid disciples,
+ realizing only the temporary danger that threatened, marveled that he talked with
+ this woman. God pity them! But how human they were. So to-day, in India, the
+ missionaries of the cross, true to their Lord's great example, talk with pariah and
+ Brahmin, and welcome them both to equal privileges in the kingdom of his
+ grace&mdash;and men marvel. And so in Alabama and South Carolina, the missionaries of
+ the cross, true to the same divine example, talk with black and with white, and
+ welcome them both to the same privileges in this kingdom&mdash;and even some timid
+ disciples marvel. But the principles of this divine kingdom do not change; the Lord
+ of that kingdom, who talked with the sinful, weary, despised Samaritan woman, would,
+ if here in bodily presence now, talk with the sinful, weary, despised black woman, no
+ matter how much his worldly-wise disciples might marvel. His kingdom is built upon
+ this eternal truth of human brotherhood, and it will endure because it is. Nothing
+ short of this is of his kingdom, but will crumble to dust.</p>
+ <p><i>The Congregationalist</i></p>
+ <hr />
+ <a name="page303" id="page303"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 303]</span>
+ <h2 style="font-variant: small-caps;">Forty-Second Annual Report Of The Executive
+ Committee,</h2>
+ <center>
+ FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1888.
+ </center>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <h3 style="font-variant: small-caps;">General Survey.</h3>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <p>The field of missions is the world which lieth in darkness. We have to do with
+ that part of it for which we are doubly responsible. It is in darkness and it is our
+ own.</p>
+ <p>We look upon our own land, with its States equal in extent and capacity to foreign
+ kingdoms. When we know that they hold the certainty of a future influence of which
+ their past power has been but a prophecy, our fears press hard upon our hopes.</p>
+ <p>Nor are our work and our fears an intrusion. When the pestilence which walks in
+ darkness brings the destruction which wastes at noonday, it is our call to feel
+ deeply the distresses of those who are stricken. But plagues consuming human lives
+ are less grevious than those which abide, and which, walking in the intellectual and
+ moral darkness of a people, waste the lives of men and the hopes of souls. This is
+ our call.</p>
+ <p>Remember that it is our own country where, in twelve great States, like empires,
+ forty per cent. of the population cannot read, where, to-day, three-fourths of the
+ illiteracy of the whole nation exists; where the darkness is increasing more rapidly
+ than it is being lighted up; where much which passes for religion even among those
+ who preach it, is a travesty upon Christianity, openly divorced from relationship
+ with truth, purity, integrity and intelligence.</p>
+ <p>Our survey takes in questions that are painful; disturbing questions that are not
+ in the North, nor in the West. They are difficult to meet. They are near, and the
+ troubles which the questions hold are near. They come close to the heart of
+ Christianity. They are close to the life of the churches. They are close to the first
+ principles of human rights. They are questions that can have only one final solution,
+ which may be so remote that fearful dangers will culminate in terrible disasters
+ before the only remedy can do its work. There are now nearly eight millions of a
+ Negro population, from four millions twenty years ago. There are more than two
+ millions of mountain people in the South, one-half of whom cannot read. These
+ benighted people live where there has never been a public-school system even for the
+ more highly favored race, and where this more highly favored race deliberately
+ assigns those who are not of its color to a permanent inferiority. The laws of caste
+ are to be inflexibly enforced against all people of color who<a name="page304"
+ id="page304"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 304]</span> would rise from their low-down
+ conditions. This is our Southern mission field, which God has committed to us,
+ according to our faith and opportunity.</p>
+ <p>Those of our own race in the South could not do this work, which is upon our
+ consciences and hearts, if they would. They do not see what we see. They would not if
+ they could. They do not feel what we feel.</p>
+ <p>We are sent, not as philanthropists who hear the cry of the poor and needy, nor as
+ patriots who realize the perils that overhang the State, but as missionaries of Jesus
+ Christ who believe that salvation takes in the whole man, including philanthropy and
+ statesmanship, and whatever builds up man for time and for eternity.</p>
+ <p>We have, however, no other charter for our work than that of missions. We have no
+ other errand than that of the messengers of Christ. Only as we go in his name and
+ with his spirit do we ask the churches to listen and hear with us, and with us to
+ look and see.</p>
+ <h4>OUR SCHOOLS.</h4>
+ <p>Our missionary work has been largely in schools. It was God's providence. But
+ these were always missionary centres.</p>
+ <p>Their number at the present time is ninety-three; seventeen of these in the
+ Southern States are Normal Schools from which a large proportion of the pupils go
+ forth as teachers. It is computed that of the 15,000 Negro teachers in the South
+ instructing 800,000 pupils, 13,500 became teachers from missionary schools, and that
+ a great army of more than 7,000 of these teachers received their education in the
+ institutions of the American Missionary Association. Thus the faith of the churches
+ multiplies and accelerates itself.</p>
+ <p>These Normal Schools are located in WILMINGTON, N.C., CHARLESTON and GREENWOOD,
+ S.C., ATLANTA, MACON, SAVANNAH, THOMASVILLE and MCINTOSH, GA., MOBILE, ATHENS and
+ MARION, ALA., MEMPHIS, JONESBORO, GRAND VIEW and PLEASANT HILL, TENN., LEXINGTON and
+ WILLIAMSBURG, KY., to which must be added the large Normal and Industrial School at
+ Santee Agency, Nebraska, the Oahe Industrial School and the Fort Berthold Industrial
+ School, both in Dakota, and all three for the Indians, making altogether 20. The
+ Association provides also the entire teaching force at the Ramona Indian School at
+ Santa F&eacute;, New Mexico. To these Normal Schools, we may add the six normal
+ departments in our colleges with their superior normal instruction. From nearly all
+ of these, strong appeals for enlargement have come to meet the demands of a healthy
+ growth. We have cut, trimmed and denied, with a resolution that has been painful both
+ in the office and in the field, and yet the growth is upon us. Without pushing our
+ work, it is pushing us.</p>
+ <p>While ignorant millions need the truth and knowledge which we have, and there are
+ resources in the hands of the disciples of Christ enough for <a name="page305"
+ id="page305"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 305]</span> this vast and increasingly
+ urgent work, the necessity of denying the provisions for the development of success
+ becomes well-nigh oppressive.</p>
+ <p>AT PLEASANT HILL, TENN., an important centre in our Mountain work, we have now, in
+ addition to the new church, a school building unequalled in that region. A second
+ building for a dormitory and boarding hall is nearly completed.</p>
+ <p>THE GRAND VIEW ACADEMY in the Mountain region, has also increased its school
+ accommodations, and the look forward is to a large institution with far-reaching
+ influence in the valley of the Cumberland and on the plateau. If we are to hold this
+ region, we must take possession now.</p>
+ <p>We have also reassumed charge of a school at Beaufort, N.C. The people are already
+ appealing to us in the accents of their own sacrifices for its immediate
+ enlargement.</p>
+ <p>Providentially, and without our solicitation, a generous giver, of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
+ who had already added to many large benevolences in the South, the fine building
+ known as Ballard Hall and the excellent shops for industrial training at Tougaloo,
+ made a proffer of $11,500 to erect at Macon, Ga., a school building of brick, capable
+ of accommodating six hundred pupils. This successful school had grown until it had
+ taken possession of the church building for school purposes. This noble gift,
+ bestowed after a personal inspection on the part of Mr. Ballard, and upon personal
+ conviction of its immediate necessity, could not be refused, and the substantial and
+ spacious building, with its furnishings, is now nearly ready for occupancy. It will
+ call for increased contributions from the churches.</p>
+ <p>DORCHESTER ACADEMY, at McIntosh, Ga., is in a rice region remote from civilization
+ and educational privileges, among thousands of Negro people very ignorant and poor.
+ It cannot receive the pupils who beg for admission. Children are punctual at school
+ from a distance of eight miles, lest they shall lose their privileges by tardiness or
+ absence. Africa itself could scarcely send out a cry of greater need. We had decided
+ to increase the capacity of this school, but are compelled to wait.</p>
+ <p>AT GREENWOOD, S.C., the interests are so great and the appeals were so reasonable,
+ that it was voted to enlarge the facilities for the growing institution; but at the
+ last we could not do this, and the laborers there continue their prayers and their
+ hopes.</p>
+ <p>THE LINCOLN NORMAL INSTITUTE at Marion, Ala., was established in the year 1868, by
+ the A.M.A. In the year 1874, the State of Alabama asked to assume the school, which
+ had won a good name, and to increase its facilities for the education of the Negro.
+ This was done. Last year, the work was deserted by the State and came anew into our
+ hands. This, also, is an enlargement upon our schedule of work.</p>
+ <p>At LEXINGTON, KY., our Normal School has grown to such a degree that even the
+ vestibules and halls of our insufficient building were crowded with eager pupils.
+ Teachers were teaching, and pupils were studying, in conditions <a name="page306"
+ id="page306"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 306]</span> that none but missionary
+ teachers would accept. For lack of room, industrial training has been impossible. The
+ locality, meanwhile, has been surrounded by saloons, and houses that are worse. A
+ benevolent lady who became acquainted with these facts offered $2,000 to purchase
+ four acres of land for school and industrial purposes, and to give money sufficient
+ for a new brick edifice with eight large school-rooms and all needful appointments
+ and furnishings; the gift amounting to $15,000.</p>
+ <p>We believe that we were not wrong in accepting this trust in your behalf, even
+ though it means more teachers and increased expenditures. We are confident that your
+ Christian faith would not decline this Christian benevolence. Hence the plans for
+ Chandler School are in the hands of the builders. Could some like-minded wealthy
+ steward of the grace of God visit Williamsburg, Ky., in our Mountain White work, we
+ might be compelled to face another such dilemma.</p>
+ <p>AT MERIDIAN, MISS., where Christian parents have besought us for years, past to
+ open a missionary school, through which their children might be saved to morality and
+ integrity of character during the formative periods of their lives, we have at last
+ seen our way to answer their pathetic appeal in part. A day school with an industrial
+ department is ready for the opening, the building having been constructed during the
+ months of summer. For valuable aid in sympathy, counsel and influence in Meridian, we
+ and the people to whom we are sent are greatly indebted to Rev. Wm. Hayne Leavell, of
+ Meridian.</p>
+ <p>WHITNEY HALL, for the Indian boys at Santee Agency, is another noble gift of large
+ Christian faith for our Normal School in Nebraska. We summoned our courage to take
+ this, also, with what the enlargement includes.</p>
+ <p>These are the chief additions to our system of schools, though there have been
+ less marked enlargements in other places. They are simply the growths of strong faith
+ and strong life. They are the free and special gifts which came to us through the
+ convictions of others who had realized the need.</p>
+ <p>The common schools, 35 in number, in eight different Southern States, are in the
+ hands of faithful teachers.</p>
+ <p>There are six Chartered Institutions, behind which we have stood the year
+ past.</p>
+ <p>TALLADEGA COLLEGE in Talladega, Ala., has had a year of exceptional interest. The
+ college work is developing and the theological school was never better. The
+ industrial departments in agriculture and the mechanic arts offer fine advantages.
+ The institution increases in popular favor and is full of students.</p>
+ <p>ATLANTA UNIVERSITY in Georgia, under the temporary presidency of Prof. Francis,
+ who was also college preacher and pastor, has moved on in its usual course. Through
+ the successful solicitation of Prof. Bumstead, with our cordial and constant
+ endorsement, sufficient Christian money came into <a name="page307"
+ id="page307"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 307]</span> the treasury to meet the
+ deficiency caused by the withdrawal of $8,000 from the State of Georgia. The
+ Association was able in its grants to share in this satisfactory result. At the last
+ meeting of the Trustees, Prof. Bumstead was elected President for the ensuing year,
+ and Prof. Chase, in view of a removal to New Mexico, resigned the professorship which
+ he had ably held many years.</p>
+ <p>STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY at New Orleans, located in the most influential city of the
+ Southwest, draws its students from refined Creole homes and from the rude cabins of
+ the remote plantations. An interesting report gathered from twenty-two of its
+ students who taught school during the summer vacation, tells us that they instructed
+ 1,398 pupils in day schools and organized thirteen Sunday-schools, in which were
+ taught 1,574 children, most of whom were absolutely unreached before. This summer
+ record of Straight University students is a partial illustration of what is going
+ forth from it year by year; and not from Straight only, but from all of our higher
+ schools. The theological work in Straight is of incalculable importance.</p>
+ <p>TILLOTSON INSTITUTE, at Austin, Texas, has invigorated its normal course and has
+ inaugurated a hopeful college preparatory department. The recipient of a special
+ gift, it was enabled to complete a new industrial building, in which has begun a
+ course of industrial training. It greatly needs a second dormitory hall for young
+ women, and were not the institution so remote, some prophetic giver would see the
+ urgency and the strategy of such a gift, and would make it. If, without the sight,
+ some one shall be led to do this for Tillotson, he will reap the blessing of those
+ who do not see and yet believe.</p>
+ <p>TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, near Jackson, Miss., is an institution of exceeding interest.
+ It has a department of Biblical instruction added to its course of study, in which
+ students are prepared to preach the gospel. Its industrial facilities are excellent,
+ both for agricultural and mechanical training. The students can take the timber from
+ the tree, and the iron in the rough, and make wagons and carriages sufficiently good
+ to compete with the best makers in the State. The school in all of its parts is
+ controlled by the missionary spirit. Rev. F.G. Woodworth, of Connecticut, last year
+ assumed the Presidency.</p>
+ <p>FISK UNIVERSITY, at Nashville, Tenn., is one of the oldest and most complete of
+ all our Southern colleges, and has no superior among all the institutions in the
+ country devoted to the education of the Negro. Giving relatively less attention to
+ the industries, it models itself after our Northern colleges, and emulates them in
+ the rigor of its intellectual studies and in the thoroughness with which it seeks to
+ make good teachers and preachers; educators in the larger way for the race. It also
+ has a department of theology. It has made its place, which it holds with enthusiasm
+ and fidelity. If some one would give us, or leave us, money to endow this
+ institution, he could scarcely send his influence further down the centuries than in
+ this way. It would tell upon the race and upon the Nation.</p><p><a name="page308"
+ id="page308"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 308]</span> In this glance at our schools,
+ we see Christian schools. But they are more, they are missionary schools. We are
+ bearing the torch of Christ into places of darkness. We teach the industries to them
+ because they can be made tributary to the salvation of the people. They are the
+ leaves of the tree of life, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the
+ people.</p>
+ <p>We may not close this review of our school system without remembering those
+ institutions now standing alone; great Hampton, in whose rich gifts we rejoice, and
+ Berea, another child of the A.M.A., now grown to strength.</p>
+ <p>TO HOWARD UNIVERSITY, at Washington, also, we extend the sympathy of a common
+ purpose, together with such financial aid as we may for the support of its
+ theological course.</p>
+ <p>We point to these great institutions which have been planted and fostered by the
+ A.M.A., together with those which are still upheld by us, with a feeling akin to that
+ of the renowned Cornelia when she said, "Behold my jewels."</p>
+ <table width="100%" summary="Schools">
+ <tr>
+ <th>Total Number of our Schools</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">58</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">18</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">76</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Total Number of our Instructors</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">266</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">50</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">316</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Total Number of our Pupils</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">9,896</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">580</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">10,476</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Theological Students</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">87</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">87</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Law Students</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">73</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">73</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>College Students</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">68</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">68</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Preparatory College Students</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">105</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">105</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Normal Students</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">836</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">10</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">846</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Grammar Grade Students</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">1,996</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">43</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">2,039</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Intermediate Grade Students</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">2,998</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">108</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">3,106</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Primary Pupils</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">3,831</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">419</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">4,250</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>We have, in addition, 17 Chinese Schools on the Pacific Coast, with 39
+ teachers.</p>
+ <h4>CHURCH WORK.</h4>
+ <p>We turn now to our Church Work.</p>
+ <p>In every school we have an incipient church; in many of these are organized
+ churches. From all of them there is a continual going forth of a predisposition
+ towards Congregational Churches, which will make for churches in the future.</p>
+ <p>The statistics are as follows:</p>
+ <table width="100%" summary="Churches">
+ <tr>
+ <th>Number of Churches</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">131</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">5</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">136</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Number of Missionaries</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">102</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">13</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">115</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Number of Church members</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">8,065</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">397</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">8,452</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Added during the year</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">937</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">35</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">972</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Added by profession of faith</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">721</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">30</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">750</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Scholars in Sunday-schools</th>
+ <td>South</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">16,023</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">Indian</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">1,091</td>
+ <td align="right" valign="bottom">17,114</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>Four new Churches have been organized during the year. These are at Decatur, Ala.,
+ Crossville, Deer Lodge and Pine Mountain, Tenn. A fine church edifice has also been
+ erected in Ironaton, Ala., which is soon to be dedicated. The members have sacrificed
+ nobly to secure it. The <a name="page309" id="page309"></a><span class="newpage">[pg
+ 309]</span> church at Meridian has united with the Association in the erection of a
+ beautiful house of worship which, with the new school and the teachers' home, will be
+ ready in a few weeks for occupancy. The church at Knoxville has been enlarged and is
+ practically new. It will soon be re-dedicated. The church at Pine Mountain is a year
+ old; is already the center of four Sunday-schools, with an attendance of 415
+ children, only 10 of whom had ever been in a Sunday-school before.</p>
+ <p>Revivals of religious interest have been reported from our churches in Washington,
+ Wilmington, Charleston, Talladega, Mobile, Athens, Marion, Selma, Birmingham and New
+ Orleans. Those of the churches which are side by side with our educational
+ institutions are most hopeful; but wherever we have planted churches, they stand
+ forth to represent the ethics of Christianity, the purity and truth of character
+ which must be contained in a worthy discipleship. A large proportion of our pastors
+ are children of the A.M.A. Parsonages have been built for our churches in Mobile,
+ Ala., and in Dallas, Texas.</p>
+ <h4>MOUNTAIN WORK.</h4>
+ <p>This year has laid great emphasis on the fact that we have entered, in the
+ Southern mountains, a missionary field of vast importance, pressing needs and
+ unbounded hopefulness. We have in this region, where a few years ago there was
+ nothing, two normal schools, two academies, five common schools, and twenty
+ churches.</p>
+ <p>In a territory five hundred miles long, and more than two hundred miles
+ broad&mdash;twice the size of all New England&mdash;are at least between three and
+ four hundred counties with a population greater than that of Maine, New Hampshire,
+ Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut combined, without schools worthy of the name,
+ without Sunday-schools, without prayer meetings, without an educated, spiritual, or
+ even moral ministry, without a weekly Sabbath religious service of any kind, or any
+ of the institutions of the gospel which really elevate them. They have a religion
+ which is not a pure Christianity and which does not even involve morality.</p>
+ <p>The Christian work, lately introduced and already done among them, demonstrates
+ that they are capable of a rapid and radical change, when once the vivifying touch of
+ the gospel has reached their hearts.</p>
+ <p>Instead of twenty Congregational churches among them, there is room for a
+ thousand, and instead of nine Christian schools, if there were twenty-five normal
+ schools, it would be only one to each hundred thousand people; and if there were a
+ hundred common schools, there would be one to each three or four counties for models.
+ There should be one good college. If there were Congregational churches in this
+ region in the same proportion as in New England there would be a full thousand. If
+ they were in the same proportion as Connecticut, there would be twelve hundred
+ churches; as New Hampshire, thirteen hundred; as Vermont, sixteen hundred.</p>
+ <a name="page310" id="page310"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 310]</span>
+ <p>Congregationalism goes to these people as the representative of pure, intelligent
+ and progressive Christianity. We can gather them into schools, Sunday-schools and
+ churches, anywhere where we can put a Christian worker. Our only limit is consecrated
+ workers and the support for them. The field is as ripe this very day for a thousand
+ as for a score. But the school and the church must go together.</p>
+ <p>This is one of the richest of the mineral regions of the world. Great forests of
+ black walnut, poplar, and other valuable timber, are awaiting the woodman's ax and
+ the lumberman's mill. Railroads are either built, building or planned for every part
+ to carry away its wonderful natural resources. The people are poor, but the land is
+ rich, and a few years hence will see wealth in the place of poverty, in the hands of
+ either the natives, or those who will have displaced them. All the motives which urge
+ the establishment of the church and the school for the incoming population of the
+ West, press us to build them in this great empire of the South; and they become
+ doubly imperative when we take into account the fact that a population of between two
+ and three millions is already in the land and needs to be saved now. The motives for
+ home and foreign missions are thus combined, and impelling us for Christ's sake, for
+ humanity's sake, and for our country's sake, to give the gospel to this people.</p>
+ <p>We are not building pauper institutions in this mountain country to be forever a
+ dead weight for the Northern churches to carry, but institutions which will very
+ speedily take care of themselves, and give to others as they have received.</p>
+ <p>This is a portion of the South where slavery scarcely existed. When war came, it
+ was loyal to the Union almost to a man. This fact shows that they have a natural
+ affiliation with "Northern ideas." The caste spirit is among them&mdash;as it is
+ indeed in the North to some extent&mdash;but it much more readily yields to reason
+ and loving teaching than in other portions of the South. Vigorous and extensive
+ missionary work can and will mould the ideas and sentiments of this whole region, and
+ thus establish no-caste churches and schools, where they would demonstrate to the
+ South that they do not carry with them social disorder and every baleful
+ influence.</p>
+ <p>Amid the success, joy and hopefulness of the year's work, came the affliction of
+ the shooting of Prof. George Lawrence, while about his duties in our school in
+ Jellico, Tenn. It was the work of a miserable creature whose brain was fired with
+ whiskey, and who was urged on by the saloon element as a retaliation for earnest
+ temperance work. After long and anxious weeks of intense suffering, a brave fight
+ against death proved successful, and we now hope that our missionary's life is spared
+ for many years of usefulness. Nearly a hundred men have been shot already in this one
+ place, and the place itself is not more than six years old. Is it strange that these
+ mountain people who have a glimpse of better things, are appealing to us every week
+ of the year to plant institutions among them? <a name="page311"
+ id="page311"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 311]</span> Is it not the voice of Christ
+ clearly commanding us to possess and subdue this land, and to transform it into a
+ part of his peaceful and beneficent Kingdom, which shall join hands with us to pass
+ on the torch of Christ to others yet in darkness?</p>
+ <h4>THE INDIANS.</h4>
+ <p>The people of America are determined to press the Indian problem to a speedy
+ solution. Provision has been made for giving lands in severalty, and the next great
+ movement should be to induce the Government to provide secular education, and the
+ churches to furnish religious instruction to all the Indians. The American Missionary
+ Association, during the year, has responded to this new impulse by enlarging its
+ work&mdash;in the opening of new stations, in the erection of new buildings, and in
+ the appointment of more missionaries and teachers.</p>
+ <p>At the Santee Agency, Nebraska, our oldest mission station and school has had
+ marked prosperity in its normal, theological and industrial departments, and, better
+ than all, in a deep and wide-spread religious interest that has pervaded the school
+ and the church. The new building, named Whitney Hall&mdash;from its giver&mdash;has
+ been erected, affording accommodations for twenty-two of the larger and more advanced
+ pupils, and furnishing rooms for the treasurer's family. A liberal gift from Mrs.
+ Henry Perkins, of Hartford, Conn., provides, for the present at least, for the
+ running expenses of the Boys' Hall, and, in appreciation of the gift, and of the
+ interest in the school which the gift implies, the building will hereafter be called
+ Perkins Hall.</p>
+ <p>At Oahe, Dakota, on the beautiful Peoria Bottom, both the school and church have
+ prospered. The school is crowded to its utmost capacity and a greater number of
+ pupils has been granted in the contract with the Government. A new building is
+ urgently called for. The closing exercises of the school were attended by a
+ picturesque group of three or four hundred Indians, who were encamped around the
+ station. Some of these came a hundred and twenty-five miles to attend the
+ exercises.</p>
+ <p>One marked feature in the enlargement of the work has been the opening of two more
+ Central Stations: one at Rosebud Agency, the other located at Fort Yates, near the
+ junction of the Grand River with the Missouri. The new mission house has been built,
+ and by the aid of special gifts from benevolent friends at the East, a commodious
+ building has been erected for a hospital.</p>
+ <p>A peculiar and very interesting feature of our Indian work is the out-stations,
+ located remote from the Central Stations. These stations, numbering twenty-one, have
+ been hindered and also enlarged during the past year. The hindrance came from the
+ interference of the Government. In its well-intended zeal for the introduction of the
+ English language, it surpassed the limits which experience had fixed, by requiring
+ that the vernacular should <a name="page312" id="page312"></a><span
+ class="newpage">[pg 312]</span> not be taught, nor even spoken, in any Indian schools
+ on the Reservation including these mission stations, which were wholly sustained by
+ benevolent funds. Under this ruling, thirteen stations were closed from September to
+ January. But the remonstrances coming from almost every denomination of Christians in
+ the land induced the Government to modify its orders, and the schools have all been
+ re-opened.</p>
+ <p>Some new buildings have been erected on this part of the field&mdash;a new house
+ for dwelling and school on the Grand River, and a cheap structure at the Cheyenne
+ River Agency, in which religious services are held at the times for the disbursement
+ of the rations, when large numbers of the Indians assemble and remain for many days.
+ A new impulse has been given to this out-station work by contributions received at
+ one of the missionary meetings in Northfield, Mass. Four new stations were provided
+ for at that time by the contribution of $400 for a building at each station, and $300
+ for the support of the teacher. One was the gift of Mr. Moody, another of Mr. Sankey,
+ whose names these two stations will bear.</p>
+ <p>Fort Berthold, in the northern part of Dakota, has authorization from the
+ Government for a larger number of pupils under contract than last year. But our
+ exigencies require for this only a few and inexpensive repairs and additions to be
+ made on the buildings.</p>
+ <p>The Skokomish mission continues its stable progress. The missionary, Rev. Myron
+ Eells, has been tempted during the past year by several calls to enter more lucrative
+ fields of service, but his attachment to the work, begun by his most honored father,
+ and continued by himself, is so great that he prefers to remain with his people, and
+ to aid them in their progress in civil and Christian life.</p>
+ <p>The Indian school at Santa F&eacute;, New Mexico, has had some changes, but the
+ arrangement between the Association and the trustees is continued, and the school,
+ under the charge of Prof. Elmore Chase, maintains its useful service in the training
+ of the children of the Apaches, one of the most hopeful and promising tribes of
+ Indians on the continent.</p>
+ <h4>THE CHINESE.</h4>
+ <p>The special interest of the year centres in the evangelistic work that was
+ commenced early in the winter. Of our 39 workers reported, fourteen are Chinamen, who
+ have been converted in our schools. Two of these brethren were set apart last
+ December as special evangelists, one going to our missions in Southern California,
+ and the other to our more Northern missions. Subsequently another one entered the
+ field. The intention was to give one month of service at each mission, and the
+ gratifying experience has been that at no point has this one month been deemed
+ sufficient. At the end of five months the harvest reported was forty souls brought to
+ repentance.</p>
+ <p>Three new missions are upon our list this year; those at Los Angeles, San
+ Buenaventura, and Tucson. At Los Angeles no less than 75 pupils <a name="page313"
+ id="page313"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 313]</span> were enrolled the first month,
+ and at all these places Christian Associations have been formed.</p>
+ <p>A minister on the Pacific Coast not in connection with our schools, after giving a
+ sketch of work accomplished which could not be tabulated, says: "Socially,
+ intellectually, spiritually, the Chinese mission school does its beneficent work. But
+ everything is made but the means to the spiritual end. The whole drift of the
+ teaching, the songs, the pictures, the Scripture text, is to make known Christ. Every
+ evening's lesson ends with worship. In no year, may I add, have there been so many
+ conversions among the Chinese on this coast as in the one just passed."</p>
+ <h4>WOMAN'S BUREAU.</h4>
+ <p>There are thirteen Woman's State Organizations which co-operate with us in our
+ missionary work. These are in Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Alabama, Ohio,
+ Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and South Dakota. Other
+ States, also, not yet organized, are assisting in definite lines, as Massachusetts
+ and New Hampshire. Our Bureau of Woman's Work has for many years proved its wisdom.
+ The state of black womanhood and girlhood taken together is pitiful. The permanent
+ and uplifting Christianization and civilization to be engrafted on the Negro race in
+ this land, can come only as the womanhood of that people is imbued with right
+ principles and led to right practices. Unless the life of the woman is reached and
+ saved, there can be no true religion, family life, or social status. Hence our
+ industrial and boarding schools for the training of girls in domestic work, in the
+ trades of dressmaking and such like, in the art of cooking, the cultivation of small
+ fruits and flowers, so that the sacred influences of Christianity shall circle around
+ the thousand firesides where now everything is coarse, and ignorant, and senseless.
+ With our large corps of lady teachers, the Woman's Bureau, as an intermediary between
+ the Woman's State Association and their sisters who are teaching in the field, and
+ the women and girls to whom they are sent, has proved during the year its increasing
+ efficiency.</p>
+ <h4>FINANCES</h4>
+ <p>The receipts have been, $320,953.42, which with the balance on hand, September
+ 30th, 1887, of $2,193.80, makes a total of $323,147.22. We have received in addition
+ to this $1,000 for an Endowment Fund. The total disbursements for the year have been
+ $328,788.43. The churches through the National Council have asked us to keep abreast
+ with the providence of God. "It is our duty," said the Ohio State Association, "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."</p>
+ <a name="page314" id="page314"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 314]</span>
+ <p>Said our good friend, the <i>Congregationalist</i>, in an editorial after our
+ inspiring meeting at Portland in October last: "Never did the magnitude of the field,
+ and the complex character of its labors, appear in such startling lines. Either of
+ the four departments of labor demands the money and the force which is distributed
+ among all. But, in the providence of God, this society is called upon to prosecute
+ this fourfold work. It cannot abandon a single field and must not be asked to. It can
+ do in the next five years a work for Christianity and for Congregationalism in the
+ South and West which will tell on the coming century. As Christians, and as
+ Congregational Christians, we must see to it that it be not obliged to pinch its
+ workers and to turn away from promising openings in order to keep free from debt the
+ coming year."</p>
+ <p>Thus charged, we have yet gone within our instructions. We have made every dollar
+ do more than its work. We have gathered up the fragments that nothing be lost; and
+ yet to-day our payments anticipate our receipts by the sum of $5,641.21. We do not
+ regret the anxiety and pain which it has cost us to effect what we have. The generous
+ words of sympathy and confidence that have come to us of late, with noble gifts,
+ large and small, repay the solicitude and incessant care. We thank God and his
+ people, and hold firmly our faith in Him who said, "Knock, and it shall be opened
+ unto you." He opened the door. Our faith is in Him who also said, "Ask, and ye shall
+ receive."</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <p>The year opened with the Association bereft of its honored President. We come to
+ this new year happy in our choice of the Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., of New York, to
+ fill this most important position. In his acceptance we congratulate the
+ Association.</p>
+ <p>Since the year began, the churches have missed the stirring appeals of our beloved
+ Secretary Powell, who had the especial oversight and burden of the collecting fields.
+ Such a life as that of James Powell is not common. It was a grand sacrifice of
+ undeviating love for those whose poverty made him a debtor to them. His consecration
+ will not be forgotten.</p>
+ <p>His sudden departure&mdash;our great bereavement&mdash;made necessary the transfer
+ of the Rev. C.J. Ryder from the field to the District Secretaryship of the Eastern
+ District in New England, who has brought with his energy and zeal such an experience,
+ and personal knowledge of the entire field, as to insure him the most hearty welcome
+ and co-operation on the part of our pastors and churches.</p>
+ <p>The Rev. F.E. Jenkins, a graduate of Williams College and of Hartford Theological
+ Seminary, for some time earnestly engaged in our Southern work, has been appointed a
+ field superintendent for personal examination and supervision of our churches and
+ schools, and has already entered upon his duties.</p>
+ <p>The Association, with its Superintendents continually in the field, who <a
+ name="page315" id="page315"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 315]</span> report every
+ fact to the Secretaries at the office, who in turn submit the entire work to the
+ churches, is thus continually made better prepared to direct the sacrifices of the
+ benevolent in ways that shall not be irresponsible or unwise, than those which are
+ subject to no such scrutiny or supervision, and are held to no responsibility. Much
+ less money would be diverted from this authorized and recognized servant of the
+ Congregational Churches, and far greater efficiency would be secured, if our friends
+ would remember that their own ordained agency can open as many missions as they will
+ make possible, which shall have, at least, one advantage over independent and
+ unsupervised work, in that, through us, they shall be under your own constant
+ Christian watch and care.</p>
+ <p>We may not close this review of our year's work and attendant suggestions without
+ remembrance of our indebtedness to the American Bible Society, for its grant of
+ Bibles; to the Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society for the help given
+ to our struggling churches and Sunday-schools in its grant of books and lesson helps.
+ We rejoice in the unity of our societies, which make all one in the blending of the
+ parts for the great common purpose of redeeming the lost and gathering them into the
+ family of Christ.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <h2 style="font-variant: small-caps;">Student's Letter.</h2>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <h3 style="font-variant: small-caps;">Struggles In The "Lone Star State."</h3>
+ <center>
+ BY A.C. GARROTT.
+ </center>
+ <p>My home, Marion, Ala., was also the location of the Lincoln Normal Institute, and
+ fortunately I had attended that school for several years. Being next to the oldest of
+ eight children, my parents decided to take me from school in '83, that I might earn
+ something. I had often heard of Talladega College, and wanted very much to enter
+ there, but my father being only a poor carpenter, it was impossible for me to get the
+ means to accomplish my desires.</p>
+ <p>However, by the aid of Northern friends I entered the above named school, October
+ 2d, 1883. Evenings and Saturdays I worked by the hour to help defray my expenses.
+ Unable to obtain a school, I could be found at the college, during the summers of '84
+ and '85, working about the buildings or on the farm. The money earned there was used
+ for schooling. During my last year in school I had job work&mdash;sweeping and caring
+ for lamps. This work was done early in order that I might have time for study. And
+ each morning, before day, my broom could be heard moving through the corridors. At
+ the close of school, I had paid by work, and a prize gained in speaking the year
+ before, about $52.75. It was agreed that the balance should be paid after leaving
+ school. In a class of ten I received a diploma from the <a name="page316"
+ id="page316"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 316]</span> normal department, June 17,
+ 1886. My time during the summer was occupied in working with my father at the
+ carpenter's trade.</p>
+ <p>Texas was said to have good public-schools, and it was my plan to try the "Lone
+ Star State." I was working to secure means to pay the fare, but father failed in
+ being paid promptly, and this forced me to borrow money for the purpose. Many tried
+ to discourage me in my plan as it was what is sometimes termed as a "wild goose
+ chase." I remarked, though, that if no schools could be found, there were other
+ things to be done&mdash;cotton to be picked; wagons to be driven; and ditches to be
+ dug. So the work-clothes were not forgotten when my trunk was packed.</p>
+ <p>On September 30, 1886, I arrived in Henderson, a stranger to all save one, and
+ with a very small purse. Then commenced my trials. I was in my twenty-first year, but
+ had a young appearance, and the trustees of most schools objected to me for that
+ reason. I walked many miles in search of work, and it was not till the middle of
+ November that my first school opened.</p>
+ <p>Owing money for schooling, for fare to this State, and for board after coming
+ here, caused me to start far below the surface in pecuniary matters. As I had made
+ large plans, that was quite discouraging.</p>
+ <p>The school proceeded nicely and a Sabbath-school was organized in connection. The
+ latter was quite small, though there was a large attendance in the day school. At the
+ close of school, March 23, 1887, all expressed a willingness for me to teach the next
+ session, but there was a trouble ahead which changed their views. The question of
+ prohibition was to be decided by the people in August. I am sorry to say the majority
+ of our people were on the wrong side. But most of the teachers and preachers fought
+ with an untiring energy against the saloons. For this act of ours, many refused to
+ give us work. Some even sneered at the "prohib. teachers," as we walked along the
+ streets. Those were days of discouragement as our labor seemed to be in vain.</p>
+ <p>My summer's work lasted only a month, and being an independent school the returns
+ were quite small, $6.00 only. Having to aid my parents, and a two months' sickness,
+ caused me to be below the surface again at the opening of my school, November 14.
+ This work continued for six months. A Sabbath-school was organized; and, unlike the
+ previous year, outnumbered the daily attendance.</p>
+ <p>It has been said that it is better to turn up something than to wait for something
+ to turn up. So I bought a small outfit for making photographs. It is incomplete, but
+ enough to get an idea of the art. After looking at some of my work, our county Judge
+ was heard to say. "That's a good picture for that nigger." My summer school was nine
+ miles away, and I came here every Friday evening, that I might practice at my new
+ trade. To save the hire and feed of a horse, I always walked here and back. The way
+ at times seems dark, but I take courage from the fact that roads to success must lead
+ through hardships.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <a name="page317" id="page317"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 317]</span>
+ <h2 style="font-variant: small-caps;">The Chinese.</h2>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <h3 style="font-variant: small-caps;">Review Of The Year.</h3>
+ <center>
+ BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.
+ </center>
+ <p>The fiscal year of our missions closed Aug. 31. I desire to set before the readers
+ of the MISSIONARY a statement of the year's work, made as complete as the space at my
+ command allows:</p>
+ <p>1. <i>Seventeen</i> missions have been sustained during a part or the whole of the
+ year. Ten of these have had no intermission whatever, except for a day or two at the
+ holidays, and in one instance a fortnight's vacation. Of the remaining seven, three
+ are new missions, viz: Los Angeles, San Buenaventura and Tucson. The work at these
+ points is full of interest and hope, and has indeed already begun to yield what seem
+ to us saving results.</p>
+ <p>2. <i>Thirty-nine</i> workers have been engaged. Of these, fourteen are Chinese
+ brethren, converted in connection with our missions, and trained to the work in the
+ work itself. The aggregate number of months of service is 295.</p>
+ <p>3. In comparison with the record of the previous year, but little change can be
+ noted. The total number enrolled is 1,131, being larger by 87, but on the whole one
+ record is about the equivalent of the other. Indeed, it seems to me that in both
+ years we reached very near to the <i>outmost limit</i> of what is possible with the
+ means at our command. The special interest of this year's history centers in the
+ attempt to do, and to learn better <i>how</i> to do, evangelistic work. Three of our
+ brethren have been set apart to this, and have been followed from place to place by
+ the prayers of many. They had much to learn when they started forth and have much yet
+ to learn. It is by no means clear to me that we have hit upon the wisest methods, and
+ I know that we have not yet entered into the fullness of power, either with God or
+ man. Yet I can see that these brethren are stronger and braver and more eager in this
+ work than they were a year ago. And the blessing of God on their labors has been such
+ as enables us to believe that full sixty of their countrymen have been led to Christ.
+ This carries the whole number concerning whom this hope has been cherished, since the
+ beginning of our work, above 700.</p>
+ <p>4. THE FINANCES. Our expenditures have been: For salaries of workers, $6,403.00;
+ for rents of mission houses, $2,066.00; for incidental expenses, $1,150.15; total,
+ $9,619.75. Our resources have been: From the parent society, $6,100; balance from
+ previous year, $45.50; offerings made through the treasury of this auxiliary,
+ $2,590.80; total, $8,736.30. This leaves a deficit of $882.85, a part of which can be
+ met from our Permanent Property Account, but fully $500.00 needs yet to be secured if
+ we are to <a name="page318" id="page318"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 318]</span>
+ provide things honest in the sight of all men. Thus far in the history of our
+ mission, the account of no year has closed with the blot of a deficit upon it. The
+ account of the year just ended is held open for awhile in the hope that the good
+ precedent of the past may be still maintained. And, oh, if we might be a little less
+ hampered by poverty;&mdash;if we might be set free to enter opened doors, and to make
+ the most possible of our opportunities, how great would be the privilege and joy of
+ showing in blessed experiment that the truest economy is a wise and careful
+ generosity.</p>
+ <hr />
+ <h2 style="font-variant: small-caps;">Bureau Of Woman's Work.</h2>
+ <center>
+ MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
+ </center>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <h3 style="font-variant: small-caps;">Woman's State Organizations.</h3>
+ <center>
+ CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+ </center>
+ <p>ME.&mdash;Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury,
+ Woodfords, Me.</p>
+ <p>VT.&mdash;Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, St.
+ Johnsbury, Vt.</p>
+ <p>VT.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Montpelier,
+ Vt.</p>
+ <p>CONN.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol
+ Ave., Hartford, Conn.</p>
+ <p>N.Y.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. William Spaldlng, Salmon
+ Block, Syracuse, N.Y.</p>
+ <p>ALA.&mdash;Woman's Missionary Association, Secretary, Mrs. G.W. Andrews,
+ Talladega, Ala.</p>
+ <p>OHIO.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin,
+ Ohio.</p>
+ <p>IND.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Rogers, Michigan City,
+ Ind.</p>
+ <p>ILL.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington
+ St., Chicago, Ill.</p>
+ <p>MICH.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing,
+ Mich.</p>
+ <p>WIS.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis.</p>
+ <p>MINN.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H.L. Chase, 2750 Second
+ Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.</p>
+ <p>IOWA.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh, Grinnell,
+ Iowa.</p>
+ <p>KANSAS.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs, G.L. Epps, Topeka,
+ Kan.</p>
+ <p>NEB.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, President, Mrs. F.H. Leavitt, 1216 H St.,
+ Lincoln, Neb.</p>
+ <p>SOUTH DAKOTA,&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.E. Young, Sioux
+ Falls, Dak.</p>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <p>Special fields have been assigned to Ladies' Societies contributing to the work,
+ and missionary letters will be sent to all who desire such reports. If any fail to
+ receive the letters, they can get them by notifying Miss Emerson, at the New York
+ office. The ladles will be interested in the following list:</p>
+ <p>Maine Missionaries&mdash;Miss Lunt, of Selma, Ala., Miss Farrington, N.C. Mrs.
+ Hubbard, Williamsburg, Ky., Mrs. Hall, Fort Berthold, Dak.</p>
+ <p>Vermont sustains the McIntosh School, Miss Plimpton continues in charge, assisted
+ by Misses Ayer, Kuhl, and Head.</p>
+ <p>Massachusetts ladies are contributing to the Girl's Department of the boarding
+ school at Tougaloo, Miss. Letters are written by the teachers in turn, thus reporting
+ the different phases of work.</p>
+ <a name="page319" id="page319"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 319]</span>
+ <p>The industrial School, at Thomasville, Ga. appeals especially to ladies of
+ Connecticut. Mrs. Gordon and Miss Knapp will continue their monthly letters, with
+ occasional communications from other teachers.</p>
+ <p>The auxiliaries of the New York Union are entitled to letters from Miss Edith
+ Leonard, (in place of Miss Haynes,) for the Indians, Mrs. Myers for the Mountain
+ Whites, and Miss Evans for the Negroes.</p>
+ <p>The Ohio Ladies provide for Miss Collins of Dakota, and also for Miss Stevenson of
+ Atlanta, Ga.</p>
+ <p>The Illinois missionaries are Miss Kinney of Austin, Texas, and Miss Pingree of
+ Mobile.</p>
+ <p>The Michigan ladies find large opportunity to work for the blacks, through the
+ Trinity School, at Athens, Ala. So, also, the Minnesota ladies, whose chosen field is
+ the school at Jonesboro, Tenn.</p>
+ <p>Many others are working in definite lines and becoming better acquainted with the
+ needs and how to meet them.</p>
+ <hr class="full" />
+ <h2>RECEIPTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1888.</h2>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>MAINE,</b> $551.62.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75; First Cong. Ch., 30; Sab.
+ Sch, First Parish Ch., 14; W.P. Hubbard, 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">129.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Bath. Winter St. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Belfast. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Bethel. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">14.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Buxton Centre. Mrs. M.G. Hill, <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brownville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.30</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Camden. &mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cherryfield. John W. Coffin</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cumberland Center. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">32.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Eastport. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Fryeburg. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30.92; Mrs. Hunt, 5; Mrs. H.
+ Leavitt, 5; Rev. and Mrs. G.W. Reynolds, 5; Mrs. T. Robie, 2; Mrs. Crane, 2; Miss
+ C. Frost, 2.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">51.92</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Kennebunkport. Mrs. E.M. Noyes, 10; Mrs. J.T. Agard, 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Machias. Centre St. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.15</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Anson. "A Friend,"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Parish</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Presque Isle. C.F.A. Johnson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rockland. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Scarboro. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Weld. Mrs. Dorcas Russell, 1; "Three Friends," 1</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Gorham. Mrs. Mary P. Files</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">0.75</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>NEW HAMPSHIRE,</b> $3,263.02.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Amherst. "L.F.B."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">150.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Alstead Centre. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.51</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Auburn, Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brentwood. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.35</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Center Harbor. S.F. Emery and Sab. Sch. Class</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Colebrook. "E. &amp; C."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Conway. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Durham. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Alstead. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.49</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Andover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Derry. First Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">33.91</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Jaffrey. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">13.98</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Gilmanton Iron Works. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">57.63</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hampstead. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hanover. Cong. Ch. Dartmouth College, 32.40; "Friends,"
+ Dartmought College Ch., 22</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">54.40</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hanover. Dartmouth Sab. Sch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">18.17</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hopkinton. By Rev. M.W. Adams, Bbl. of C., etc., and 3 <i>for
+ Freight</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Jaffrey. Wm. W. Livingston</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Jefferson. Mrs. S.A. Bradbury</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lisbon. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.39</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Manchester. Franklin St. Ch., 133.69; J.W. Johnston, 25; C.B.
+ Southworth, 25</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">183.69</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Milford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Milton. South Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">24.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Monroe. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Nashua. E. Spalding, M.D.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Boston. "A Friend."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Market. Cong. Church</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">14.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Hampton. Cong. Ch., 15; "Mrs. A.P.G.," 10.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Orford. John Pratt</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Pembroke. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Peterboro. Union Evan. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">38.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rochester. Mrs. Mary E. Hidden</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Tamworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Walpole. "Three Friends."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Winchester. A.S. Jewell</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Rindge. Geo. G. Williams</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">9.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&mdash;&mdash;, for Moody Mission, <i>Indian M</i>.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">600.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,713.02</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <a name="page320" id="page320"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 320]</span>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>ESTATES</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Amherst. Estate of Miss Lucy W. Blunt, by E.O. Blunt, Ex.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,000.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Amherst. Estate of Elizabeth G. Lawrence, by A.A. Rotch, Ex.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Bennington. Estate of Rev. James Holmes, by James M.
+ Burns, Ex.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3,263.02</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>VERMONT,</b> $1,577.71.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ascutneyville. Newton Gage</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Barton Landen. Children's Missionary Soc., by Kate B. Joslyn,
+ Treas. <i>for Share</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">13.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Bridport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Burlington. First Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">165.78</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cambridge. First Cong. Ch. 29; Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
+ 3.65</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">32.65</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Castleton. Rev. S.A. Barrett</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chelsea. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">29.58</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chester. J.L. Fisher</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Colchester. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Coventry. Cong Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Berkshire. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Brookfield. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.60</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Hubbardton. Mrs. James Flagg, 5; D.J. Flagg, 2.50</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Peacham, "A Friend."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Poultney. Cong. Ch., 5; Miss Jane P. Harris, 1</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Enosburg. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Essex Junction. Ladies, <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i>, by Mrs. Ellen D.
+ Wild</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.90</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Essex Junction. Rev. O.H. White, D.D.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">13.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Fairlee. "A Brother," for <i>Atlanta U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Guildhall. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hardwick. Cal. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hartford. E. Morris.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">McIndoes Falls. Cong. S.S. 11.39, and Bbl. of C., <i>for
+ McIntosh, Ga.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.39</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Middlebury. Mrs, Emma B. Stewart, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta,
+ U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Montgomery. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">9.62</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Newbury. "A Friend." to const. MISS ELIZABETH L. DAME L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Haven. &mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lowell. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Pawlet. "A Friend," <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Roxbury. Rev. H.C. Howard</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rutland. Cong. Ch., to const. CHAS. P. HARRIS and JOHN W. TITCOMB
+ L.M's</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rupert. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">379.80</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Saxton's River. Rev. G.F. Chapin</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sharon. "Six Friends in Cong. Ch."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">13.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sheldon. Dea. S.M. Hulbert, 5; Miss Emma Maynard, 1; Members Cong.
+ Ch., 4; Miss Maynard, 1</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Springfield. Cong. Ch. (12 of which for <i>Avery Inst.</i>)</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">386.68</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Springfield. F.V.A. Townsend, to const. AMASA W. TOWNSEND
+ L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Waterville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.11</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.95</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Charleston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Westminster. Ladies, <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i>, by Mrs. Ellen D.
+ Wild</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Windham. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.05</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Vermont Women's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks,
+ Treas., <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i>:</td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Castleton, Ladies</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 4.85&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">
+ </td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.85</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <a name="page321" id="page321"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 321]</span>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>MASSACHUSETTS,</b> $10,350.70.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Alford. Rev. J. Jay Dana, 30, to const. PROF. JAMES D. CRAWFORD
+ L.M.; Cong Ch., 5.34</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.34</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Amesbury. Union Evan. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.70</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Amherst. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 62.85, to const. MRS. LIDA J.
+ HASKINS and MISS BERTHA L. JOHNSON L.M's; Children North Cong. Sab. Sch., "True
+ Blue Cards," 32.15, to const. MISS ELLA W. DICKINSON L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">95.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Amherst. North Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Amherst. Rev. Julius H. Seelye, D D., 25; Mrs. Wm. A. Stearns, 10,
+ <i>for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Amherst. Miss A. Dutton, <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Andover. South Cong. Ch., 75; West Cong. Ch, and Soc., 27; Mrs.
+ John Smith, 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">112.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ashby. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.43</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Auburn. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">37.75</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Beechwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Belchertown. Cong Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">33.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Billerica. Cong Ch., 15, and Sab. Sch., 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Boston. Union Cong. Ch., Chas. P. Adams, to const. MISS HELEN F.
+ BRIGHAM, MISS MARY M. BRIGHAM, MISS HELEN M. HALL, MISS FANNIE W. MERRILL, MRS.
+ ELIZA S. MORSE, OLIVER COBB, JOHN S. WINN, JOTHAM TWITCHELL and REV. WILLIAM
+ CORNELL, D.D., L.M's</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 1,000.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Shawmut Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 500.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">J.W. Field</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 100.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">J.T. Bailey</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 100.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">"Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 50.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">T.D. Quincy</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 30.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">"R.," <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 25.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Mrs. S.E. Cooley, <i>for Indian
+ M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 25.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Olivet Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 10.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Rev. R.B. Howard</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Mt. Vernon Ch., add'l</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Charleston. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 81.14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Sab. Sch., First Parish, <i>for
+ Gregory Inst.,Wilmington, N.C.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. (30 of which from Mrs. Walter
+ Baker),</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 151.31&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Mrs. Sarah A. Carruth</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 50.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Mrs. Eleanor J. Baker, <i>for Schp.
+ fund, Tillotson C. and N. Inst.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 30.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Mrs. Eliza Bicknell</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Miss Mary A. Tuttle, <i>for Marie
+ Adlof Schp. Fund</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 2.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Jamaica Plain. R.W. Wood</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 100.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Friends in Central Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 25.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Central Cong. Ch., "A Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 20.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Roxbury. Eliot Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 71.94&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Mrs. Woodbridge Odlin, to const. MRS.
+ ALMA O. ROBBINS L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 30.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Sab. Sch. of Immanuel Cong. Ch.
+ <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 25.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">"Our Country A'ssn," <i>for Normal
+ Inst., Grandview, Tenn.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 22.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Roxbury. So. Evan. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 24.14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Sab. Sch. of So. Evan. Cong. Ch, add'l,
+ <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2,502.53</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Braintree. South Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brimfield. First Cong. Ch., 8.25, and Sab. Sch., 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">18.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brockton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">28.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brookfield. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cambridge. Member of North Av. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">155.93</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Carlisle. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Centreville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chatham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.75</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chelsea. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chicopee. "Earnest Workers," Third Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid,
+ Fisk U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Conway. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">9.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Dalton. Mrs. Louisa F. Crane, 50, and Miss Clara L. Crane, 50,
+ <i>for Mountain White Work</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Danvers. First Cong. Ch. and Soc, to Const. HARRIET E. PRESTON,
+ ISABEL B. TAPLEY and EDWARD A. GROVER, L.M'S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">97.08</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Douglas. Individuals in Cong Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Enfield. C.D. Haskell</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Fall River. "Friends in Central Ch." <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Falmouth. First Cong. Ch., 3.94; Susie E. Herendeen, 1</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.94</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Fitchburg. Rollstone Cong. Ch., 75; D.B. Whittier, 10; "A
+ Friend," 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">95.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Florence. Y.L. Mission Circle, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Foxboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 41.49; "Two Friends," 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">51.49</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Framingham. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch. <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Gloucester. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Cong. Ch., 53.05; "Knight," 50;
+ Mrs. Nancy E. Brooks, 5</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">108.05</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Goshen. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">22.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Greenfield. Miss Jeanette Thompson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hadley. First Cong. Soc., 25; Miss Augusta A. Porter, 2</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">27.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hampden. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hanson. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">14.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">200.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk
+ U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">28.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Holbrook. Geo. N. Spear, 20; Dea. Edward White, 10, <i>for
+ Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Holland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Holliston. Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Holyoke. Mrs. A.M. Childs</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Housatonic. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">62.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hyde Park. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Pleasant Hill,
+ Tenn.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">38.59</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ipswich. South Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Kingston. Mayflower Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lancaster. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">38.65</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lanesville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">13.87</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lakeville. Mrs. Caroline L. Ward</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lee. First Cong. Ch., 120, and Sab. Sch. 100</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">220.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Leverett. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lincoln. "Two Friends."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Linden. Union Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lowell. Mary E. Fletcher 2; John A. Hodge, Bdl. of C., etc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Malden. First Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">42.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Marlboro. Union Cong. Ch., to const. GEORGE F. NELSON, EMERSON G.
+ GIBSON and WILLIAM F. BARNARD L.M's</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">93.47</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Medway. E.F. Richardson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Melrose Highlands. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Merrimac. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">150.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">28.76</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Millbury. First Cong. Ch., 50.70; Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
+ 38.29; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 25; Rev. Geo. A. Putnam, 3; Miss Louisa
+ Spaulding, 2</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">118.99</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Milton. Arthur H. Tucker</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">150.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Needham. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Bedford. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.47</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Newburyport. Prospect St Ch., 25; Ann P. Bassett, 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Newton. Eliot Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">237.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Newton Center. Cong. Ch., 30; Miss H.S. Cousens, 3</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">33.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Newtonville. Central Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Northampton. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">246.34</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Andover. Cong. Ch., to const. CHARLES P. MORRILL, FRANK W.
+ FRISBEE and ANNIE L. SARGENT L.M's</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., 150, to const. ADA C. CLAPP,
+ MARY M. BEMIS, HENRY A. COOKE, and LOYAL E. TARBELL L.M's; Union Cong. Ch.,
+ 100</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">250.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Carver. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.75</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Chelmsford. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">71.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Norfolk. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.52</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Northfield. Miss Mary C. Collins, 50; "Friends," 23; "Friend," 1,
+ <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">74.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Talledega
+ C.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Oxford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Paxton. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">17.36</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Peabody. South Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Peabody. J.K. Cole, <i>for G.W. Lawrence</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Peru. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.81</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Pittsfield. Rev. Edward Strong, D.D., 10; MRS. REV. EDWARD
+ STRONG, 50, to const. herself L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">60.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Princeton. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. 15; Washington St. Cong. Ch. 5</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Randolph. Evan. Cong. Ch., <i>for Tillotson C. &amp; N.
+ Inst.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">139.70</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Randolph. &mdash;&mdash;, to const. ANNIE T. BELCHER L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Raynham. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.78</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Reading. Cong. Ch., 18; Cong. Ch., "Friend," 5, "Friend,"
+ 2</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rochester. Mrs. Jane N. Leonard</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rockland. Elijah Shaw</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rockport First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.93</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Salem. Jos. H. Towne</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sandersonville. Cong. Ch., <i>for Tillotson C. &amp; N.
+ Inst.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 29; and Sab. Sch. 10, to const.
+ LORING M. MONK, L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">39.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Shelburne Falls. L.M. Packard</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sherborn. Pilgrim Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Southboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">South Framingham. South Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">South Hadley Falls. "A Friend."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">27.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">South Weymouth. Primary Dept., Sab. Sch. of Second Cong.
+ Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Storrs Sch. Atlanta, Ga.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">18.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Springfield. Sab. Sch. of North Cong. Ch., <i>for
+ Straight U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">16.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sterling. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">39.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Stockbridge. Cong. Ch., 86.12; "Lady Member, Cong. Ch." 5</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">91.12</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.53</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Swampscott. Miss L.A. Hopkins</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sutton. E.L. Snow</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Taunton. Winslow Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">51.74</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Townsend. Cong. Ch., "A Friend."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Uxbridge. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
+ REV. FRANK L. BRISTOL L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Wareham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. DEA.
+ HIRAM WEBSTER BARROWS L.M. 52.54, J.I.W. BURGESS, 30, to
+ const himself L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">82.54</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Warren. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Watertown. Phillips Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">181.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Barnstable. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Westboro. "A Friend."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Boylston. Chas. T. White</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Westfield. Charlotte W. Fowler, 3; H. Holland, 3</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Medford. Mrs. M.A. Fletcher</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Medway. "A Friend."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Newton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 182.85,
+ Sab. Sch. of Second Cong., Ch. 25, S.E. Howard, 5</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">212.85</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Springfield. Mrs. Lucy M. Bagg</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">200.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Stockbridge Center. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Whately. Rev. Wm. C. Curtis</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Whitman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">85.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Whitinsville. Mrs. Mary A. Batchelor</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Whitinsville. Mrs. Chas. P. Whittin, 40.,
+ Wm. H. Whitin, 35., Edward Whitin, 35, <i>for Sch'p Fund,
+ Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">110.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Wilmington. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.,
+ <i>for Student Aid, Straight U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Woods Holl. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.37</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Worcester. Union Cong. Ch., 223.67;
+ Sam'l R. Heywood, 100; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 100; Piedmont Ch., 65;
+ Samuel A. Pratt, 50; "A Friend," 20; Salem St., Ch., 17.50</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">576.17</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Worcester. "A.N.X." <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Worcester. Geo. L. Newton, <i>for Tillotson C. &amp; N.
+ Inst.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Worcester. Easter Concert, Old South Ch.,
+ <i>for Hampton N. &amp; A. Inst.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.62</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Worthington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.82</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&mdash;&mdash;. Mrs. H.C. Parish
+ <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh,
+ Treas.</td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Chicopee. Third,
+ (2.44 of which for Indian M.)</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 11.96&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Monson. E.F. Morris,</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 50.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Monson. E.A. Ward,</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 1.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Westfield. Second.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 20.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">83.46</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">9,800.70</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <a name="page322" id="page322"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 322]</span>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>ESTATES</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Haldey. Estate of Eleazar Porter, by J.E. Porter</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hatfield. Estate of J.B. Woods by R.M. Woods,
+ Trustee</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10,350.70</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC.
+ RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Baldwinsville, Mass. Hospital Cottages for Children,
+ 2 Bbls.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Cambridge, Mass. Miss Mary F. Aiken, Case of Chairs
+ <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Foxboro. Rev. A.E. Tracy, 2 Boxes; Mr. Barron, 1 bundle.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Newton Highlands, Mass. Mrs. E.C. Wheeler, 1 Case.</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>RHODE ISLAND,</b> $1,289.76.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Arnolds Mills. Alice Walcott</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Central Falls. "A Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Newport. United Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">48.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Pawtucket. Cong. Ch., 104.76; Park Place Cong. Ch., 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">114.76</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Tiverton. Ann E. Brown</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Providence. Mrs. Geo. H. Corliss, Miss M.L. Corliss and Mr. G.F.
+ Corliss <i>in memorian Geo. H. Corliss</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,000.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Providence. John McAuslan</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Providence. "A Friend," <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>CONNECTICUT,</b> $6,413.18.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Berlin. A few Ladies, by Mrs. W.W. Woodworth, <i>for Conn. Indl.
+ Sch., Ga.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Birmingham. Wm. E. Downes, <i>for Schp, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">70.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Birmingham. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">27.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brooklyn. Mrs. Wm. Woodbridge, 20; M.E. Ensworth, 10; First Trin.
+ Ch., 21</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">51.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Bristol. Mrs. J.T. Peck</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Buckingham. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Buckingham. Ladies of Buckingham S.S. <i>for Conn. Indl. Sch.,
+ Ga.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cheshire. "A Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Clinton. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta
+ U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.78</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Danielsonville. Thomas Backus</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Derby. Miss Sarah A. Hotchkiss</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Eastford. "The Gleaners," by Alice J. Carpenter, Sec., <i>for
+ Conn. Indl. Sch., Ga.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Hampton. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">32.64</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Hartford. &mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Hartford. "A Friend," to const. ROBERT E. OLMSTED L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Hartford. First Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Easton. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. Second Cong. Ch., <i>for Oahe Indian
+ Sch.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Farmington. Cong. Ch., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Franklin. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Glastonbury. J.B. and W.S. Williams, 200; Mrs. N.W. Goodrich,
+ 150; Geo. G. Williams, 100</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">450.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Glastonbury. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk
+ U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Glastonbury. Bernard T. Williams, <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Goshen. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">23.22</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Green's Farms. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">22.08</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch., 62.16; David Banks, 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">72.16</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Griswold. Cong. Ch., to const. JOSEPH TYLER GEER L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Guilford. First Cong. Ch, to const. MISS MINNIE M. GRISWOLD,
+ L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hadlyme. R.E. Hungerford, 30.75; Cong. Ch., 5.25</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">36.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hampton. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hartford. Mrs. S.E. Perkins, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">200.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hartford. Newton Case, 100; Mrs. H.A. Perkins. 100; Asylum Hill
+ Cong. Ch., L.T. Frisbie, 25</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">225.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ivoryton. "Friends," <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">70.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ivoryton. Frank M. Rose and wife</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ivoryton. Miss Isabel Northrop and her S.S. Class, <i>for Indian
+ M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Jersey City. Mrs. Julia D. Talcott, <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ledyard. "A Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Long Ridge. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Middlefleld. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. DEA. SETH E. MILLER
+ and HENRY J. CAMP L.M.'s</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">70.12</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Middletown. Edward Payne, 10; Chas. Boardman, 10; Geo. T. Meech,
+ 5; W.H. Burrows, 5; Seth H. Butler, 5; Geo. A. Cole, 5; J.H. Bunce, 10, <i>for
+ Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Meriden. First Cong. Ch. (50 of which <i>for Indian M.</i>), to
+ const. MISS LYDIA E. GLADWIN, A.C. BUMPIS, GEO. S. HEMINGWAY, MISS ELLIE M.
+ LINES, MISS MARY A.N. GILL and FRANK L. LAWTON L.M's, 300; Sab. Sch. of First
+ Cong. Ch., 50</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">350.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Meriden, Center Ch., 50; "N.T.," 3</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">53.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Milford. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Moodus. Miss Mary E. Dyer</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Mount Carmel. W.W. Woodruff, 25; Mrs. J.M. Swift, 10;
+ bal. to const. ELLA L. DUNBAR L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Naugatuck. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk
+ U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Britain. First Ch. of Christ</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">200.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Haven. W.E. Downes, 100; Prof. E.E. Salisbury, 50; College
+ St. Cong. Ch., 39.05; "A Friend," 15; Alfred Walker, 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">214.05</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Milford. "A Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Newington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">67.24</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Newington. Mr. and Mrs. J. Deming, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New London. "Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Preston. Mrs. Betsy Averill</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Preston. Mrs. Betsy Averill, <i>for Mountain White
+ Work</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Norfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian
+ M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Norfolk. Mrs. Mary A. Curtiss, <i>for Schp, Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Guilford. Cong Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">17.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Norwich. "A Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,000.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Norwich. First Cong. Ch., 75; Miss Sarah M. Lee, 25</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Norwich. Rev. W.S. Palmer, D.D., <i>for Tillotson C &amp; N.
+ Inst.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">33.88</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Plainfield. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">26.41</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Plainfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian
+ M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.22</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Poquonock. Thomas Duncan</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Preston City. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Putnam. Second Cong. Ch., 19.46; Mrs. Mary A. Keith, 2</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">21.46</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rockville. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. JOHN G. BAIRD, MISS SARAH K.
+ GELBERT, MRS. GUY P. COLLINS and GEORGE W. VINAL L.M.'S</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">140.11</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rockville. Dea. Geo. Maxwell, 100; J.N. Stickney, 5 <i>for
+ Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">105.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Salisbury. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">17.23</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Seymour. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.06</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">South Coventry. Mrs. Mary J. Bennett, <i>for Williamsburg,
+ Ky.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Stafford. Mrs. T.H. Thresher</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Stanwich. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Southport. Cong. Ch., 134, to const. SIMON C. SHERWOOD, HENRY C.
+ BARNUM, WILLIAM MONTALON and SYLVESTER STRONG BLISS L.M's; "A Friend," 70</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">204.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Stonington. Rev. Chas J. Hill</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Terryville. O.D. Hunter, 50; N.T. Baldwin, 50, <i>for Talledaga
+ C.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Terryville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian
+ M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">27.54</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Terryville. A.S. Gaylord</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Thomaston. Dr. W. Woodruff, 10; E.C. Root, 5; Mrs. Geo.
+ Pierpont, 5; Mrs. Wm. Gilbert, 5; Mabel Freeman, 2; H.H. Hotchkiss, 50c, <i>for
+ Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">27.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.95</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Torrington. L. Wetmore, 150: Third Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.,
+ 51.59</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">201.59</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Torrington. "Valley Gleaners," <i>for Fort Berthold Indian
+ M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Unionville. First Ch. of Christ</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">14.30</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Voluntown and Sterling. Cong. Ch. to const. MISS MELINDA GALLUP
+ L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">17.38</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Wallingford. "A Friend." <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Watertown. "Friends," <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Watertown. Mrs. Fred Scott's Class, <i>for Fort Berthold Indian
+ M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Webster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Westbrook. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">44.53</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Westford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 54.98, Ladies' Mon. Miss'y Prayer
+ Meeting, by Mrs. Emeline Smith, 15; Mrs. Emeline Smith, 5; Mrs. E.C. Kimball,
+ 2</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">76.98</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Torrington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch.,
+ Ga.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Willimantic. Mrs. E.G. Learned</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Windsor. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Wolcott. "A Friend," <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;"A Connecticut Friend,"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;"A Friend in Conn.,"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5,913.18</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <a name="page323" id="page323"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 323]</span>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>ESTATES</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hartford. Estate of Mrs. Nancy H. Hills, by J.C. Hills,
+ Executor</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6,413.18</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>NEW YORK,</b> $8,942.27.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, <i>for Ballard Sch. Building, Macon,
+ Ga.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2,500.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brooklyn. E.C. Seecomb, 50; Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 20</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">70.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.,</i>
+ 37.50; CLARENCE F. BIRDSEYE, <i>for Indian M.,</i> and balance to const. himself
+ L.M., 17.50</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">55.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brooklyn. Lewis Av. Cong. Ch., Box of C., 1.30 <i>for Freight,
+ for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.30</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brooklyn. Mrs. Sarah A.M. Kent, Pkg. of C.</td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brooklyn, E.D. New Eng. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cambridge. "Friends," <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">19.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Canandaigua. C.W. Dixon, 5; "N.M.C," 5</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Copenhagen. Rev. W.J. Cuthbertson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Fairport. J.E. Howard</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Jamestown. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">13.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Kelloggsville. Miss Carrie Taylor</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, 5; Ladies' Home Miss'y Soc., 5; Mrs.
+ S.G. Childs, 3; Alfred Seymour, 1.25; J.A. Head, 1; Mrs. M. Day, 1; J.H. Wagoner,
+ 1; John Fisk, 1; C.P. Day, 1; G.G. Grosvenor, 50c.; Mrs. I. Lyon, 25c.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lockport. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Malone. Mrs. H.R. Wilson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Middletown. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New York. Z. Stiles Ely, 100; "A Friend," 100; "H.W.H.," 100 to
+ const. JOSEPH ANDREWS POWELL, JAMES THOMAS POWELL and GRACE KNOWLES POWELL L.M's;
+ Wm. Ives Washburn, 25; Homer N. Lockwood, 25; Individuals, Tabernacle Ch., 21;
+ Rev. Stephen Angell, 10: B.B. Adams, Jr., 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">391.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New York. Bethany Sew. Sch., <i>for Fort Berthold Indian
+ M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">43.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Pitcher. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">0.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Walton. Cong'l Ch. and Cong., <i>for Mt. White
+ Work</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.20</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Perkin. Miss A. Peck</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Perry Center. William Butler, 10; Mrs. Sarah Lillibridge, 5; Miss
+ Rachel Booth, 5; Miss Clara S. Cooper, 2</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">22.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Plattsburg. G.W. Dodds</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rochester. Geo. Thayer</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Silver Creek. W. Chapin</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Syracuse. Mrs. E.G. Washburn</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Union Valley. Wm. C. Angell</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Utica. Plymouth Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Utica. Mrs. Sarah H. Mudge, <i>for Woman's Work</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Verona. E. Day</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Walton. Cong'l Ch. and Cong., <i>for Mt. White Work</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">72.45</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;"Life Member."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas.,
+ <i>for Womans' Work.</i></td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Arcade. Y.L. Mission Circle</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 15.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Churchville. Ladies' Aux.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 50.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Copenhagen. Ladies' Aux., to const.
+ HARRY MUNGER L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 50.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Homer. "Band of Hope."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Riverhead. Ladies' Aux.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 15.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">
+ </td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">
+ </td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">135.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3,684.45</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>ESTATES</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brooklyn. Estate of Alfred S. Barnes by Alfred C. Barnes,
+ Ex.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4,856.67</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Franklin. Estate of Mrs. Mary Parsons Foote, by David Foote,
+ Ex.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">451.15</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8,942.27</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>NEW JERSEY,</b> $1,242.46.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Arlington. Mrs. G. Overacre, <i>for Mt. White Work</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Bernardsville. Mrs. M.L. Roberts</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Montclair. J. Van Vleck, 100. Y.L.M. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., by
+ Effie A. Brown, Treas. 10.60</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">110.60</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Brunswick. J.P. Langdon</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Park ridge. Sab. Sch., of Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.86</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Paterson. P. Van Houten</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Plainfield. C.L. Goodrich</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Salem. W. Graham Tyler</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Trenton. Miss S.T. Sherman, 40, Mrs. E.B. Fuller, 5</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">45.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">242.46</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>ESTATES</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Montclair. Estate of Winslow Ames, by W.W. Ames, Ex.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,000.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,242.46</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <a name="page324" id="page324"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 324]</span>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>PENNSYLVANIA,</b> $242.50.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cambridgeboro. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Canton. H. Sheldon</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Philadelphia. Chas. Burnham</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Pittston. Jas. Challenger</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ridgway. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Alexander. Mrs. Jane C. Davidson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>OHIO,</b> $1,557.10.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ashtabula. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">13.80</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ashtabula. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk
+ U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Berea. James S. Smedley, to const. F.S. SMEDLEY L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brownhelm. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Bryan. S.E. Blakeslee</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Burton. Rev. S.W. Pierson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cedarville. Mrs. M.E. Edwards</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">200.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chagrin Falls. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">21.63</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cleveland. First Cong. Ch. 74.01; Mrs. F.W. Low, 20</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">94.01</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cleveland. H.H. Brown, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cleveland. Mrs. H.B. Spelman, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta,
+ Ga.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Columbus. Eastwood Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">21.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Dover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">17.60</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Harbor. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Kingsville. Myron Whiting</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lafayette. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lorain. Mrs. A.D. Barber, (deceased,) 50; Rev. A.D. Barber and
+ Daughter, 21; Mrs. Susan Beers, 5; Others in Cong. Ch., 27.85</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">103.85</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Madison. Central Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">29.47</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Medina. Cong. Ch., to const. DEA. C.E. CLARK, E.R. ROOT, and MISS
+ CLARA STEEB L.M's</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">98.06</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch., 68.63, Ladies' Miss'y Soc. 19; Chas.
+ Cooper, 15</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">102.63</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Newark. Plym. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Benton. Simon Hartzell</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">North Bloomfield. E.A. Brown, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., 48.69; Dr. and Mrs. Homer Johnson,
+ 8</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">56.69</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Painesville. E.E. Johnson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rootstown. Cong. Ch., 19.56; W.J. Dickinson, 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">29.56</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Steubenville. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.60</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Toledo. Washington St. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Wellington. "A Friend," 20; Cong. Sab. Sch., 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Windham. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">13.46</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">York. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">32.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts,
+ Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Chester. St. Paul's Mission Band</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 6.82&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Claridon. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 10.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Cleveland. First Cong. Ch.,
+ H.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 25.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Cleveland. First Cong. Ch.,
+ Y.P.S.C.E.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 2.59&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Columbus. E.T.B.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 2.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Columbus. Eastwood Ch., Mrs. P.L.
+ Alcott</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 10.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Columbus. Eastwood Ch., "F.M.B."</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 7.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Coolville. L.H.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 17.81&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Kent. Ladies' Aux.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 11.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Lindenville. Miss Ellen Jones</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Madison. Cong. Ch. W.H.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 1.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Madison. Cong. Ch. W.H.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 0.52&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Marysville. Aux.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 12.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Medina. L.B.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 25.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Mount Vernon. W.H.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. L.A.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 75.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Painesville. L.H.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 25.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">South Kirtland. Cong. Ch.,
+ L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 3.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">244.24</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>INDIANA,</b> $205.00.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Versailles. Mrs. J.D. Nichols, (2.50 of which <i>for Indian
+ M.</i>)</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>ESTATES</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Auburn. Estate of James Adams by D.Y. Husselman</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">200.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">205.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>ILLINOIS</b>, $1,302.34.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Aurora. N.L. Janes</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Belvidere. Mrs. M.C. Foote, 10, <i>for Mobile, Ala.</i> and 3
+ <i>for Woman's Work</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">13.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Buda. J.B. Stewart, 100; Cong. Ch. 25.52</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">125.52</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 120.25; New England Ch. "A Friend,"
+ 100; D.H. Roe, 100; Rev. J.M. Williams, 50; Rev. Jos. E. Roy, D.D. 30. to const.
+ REV. S.J. HUMPHREY, D.D., L.M; A.L. Cole, 25; Randolph St. Mission of First Cong.
+ Ch., 20</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">445.52</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chicago. Mrs. F.A. Noble, <i>for Student Aid Endowment Fund,
+ Fisk U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Collinsville. J.F. Wadsworth</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Dover. Rev. R.M. Sargent</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Galesburg. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">90.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Granville. Y.P. Miss'y Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hinsdale. J.W. Bushnell</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Joliet. Rev. S. Penfield</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lewistown. Mrs. Myron Phelps</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lisbon. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Maywood. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Morrison. William Wallace and Robert Wallace, to const. MRS.
+ AGNES RALSTON, L.M.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">60.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Park Ridge. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Plainfield. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Princeton. Mrs. S.C. Clapp, 25; Mrs. P.B. Corss, 12; Cong. Ch.,
+ 12</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">49.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Quincy. Lorenzo Bull, 50; Charles H. Bull, 50</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ravenswood. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">22.90</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rockford. Thos. D. Robertson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rockford. Miss Blanche Goodall, <i>for Oahe Indian Sch.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rockford. Mrs. E.W. Chandler, Box Papers, etc., <i>for Sherwood,
+ Tenn.</i></td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Roseville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.38</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rutland. Rev. L. Taylor</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sandwich. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.80</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sterling. Mrs. Catherine McKinney</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Toulon. Cong. Ch., 23.18; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 5</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">28.18</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Toulon. "The Lamplighters," pkg. Patchwork, <i>for Sherwood,
+ Tenn.</i></td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Wauponsee Grove. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.90</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Western Springs. Union Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid Endowment
+ Fund, Fisk U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">9.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Winnebago. N.F. Parsons</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Treas.,
+ <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Ill. Woman's H.M.U. (30 of which from
+ Ladies of Lincoln Park Cong. Ch., to const. HENRY W. HOBART L.M.)</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 45.65&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Ill. Woman's H.M.U. (30 of which to
+ const. MRS. J.E. POOLE L.M.)</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 58.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Woman's Home Missionary Union</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 6.26&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">109.91</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <a name="page325" id="page325"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 325]</span>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>MICHIGAN,</b> $758.96.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Agricultural College. Prof. R.C. Kedzie</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Almont. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch., 41; First Cong. Ch., add'l, "A
+ Friend," 15; Mrs. Maria Wood, 2</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">58.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Benton Harbor. Rev. W.H. Brewster</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chelsea. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">21.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Church's Corners. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.36</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Comstock. "A Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">138.10</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Detroit First Cong. Ch., 139.95; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
+ 24.76; Woodward Av. Cong. Sab. Sch., 20</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">184.71</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">East Gilead. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Flint. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">21.86</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Green Oak. John Thompson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Homer. Mrs. C.C. Evarts</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Ithaca. Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Norris</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Kalamazoo. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">90.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Manistee. B.M. Cutcheon</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Nashville. "A Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Northport. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Portland. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">16.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Romeo. E.B. Dickinson, 10; Watson Loud, 10</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Saginaw City. Mrs. A.M. Spencer</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Union City. "A Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Woman's Home Missionary Union, Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas.:</td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Essexville. W.H.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 3.82&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Essexville. Sab. Sch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 0.86&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.68</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>WISCONSIN,</b> $896.75.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Antigo. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.35</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Appleton. "A Life Member"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Berlin. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Beloit. Second Cong. Ch., Sab. Sch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Beloit. E.P. Wheeler, <i>for Oahe Indian Sch.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Bristol. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Burlington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Clintonville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cooksville. E. Gilley</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Franksville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Green Bay. First Presb. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">45.10</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hayward. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.10</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Kaukauna. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Kenosha. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">32.05</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Kinnic Kinnic. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.30</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">La Crosse. George H. Ray, 25; J.M. Holley, 5</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Madison. First Cong. Ch., 21.71; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
+ 20</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">41.71</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Milwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch., 139.16; Plymouth Ch., 30</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">169.16</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Necedah. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.45</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Lisbon. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Oshkosh. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">63.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">River Falls. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">41.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">River Falls. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., <i>for Fort Berthold Indian
+ M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sheboygan. Frank Stowe and Friends, Box Books, etc.; Sab. Sch.
+ First Cong. Ch., Box S.S. Papers, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Stoughton. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.28</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">West Superior. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">9.41</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Whitewater. Cong. Ch., 84.25, and Sab. Sch., 15.75</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Woman's Home Missionary Union of Wisconsin, <i>for Woman's
+ Work</i>:</td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Appleton. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 1.75&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Arena. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 4.07&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Beloit. First Ch. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 18.15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Bloomington. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Brodhead. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 2.90&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp; "A Friend"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 50.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Eau Claire. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 8.30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Janesville. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 3.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Madison. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 24.72&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Milton. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 7.40&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Milwaukee. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 3.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">New Lisbon. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 3.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Platteville. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 0.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Ripon. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 7.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Stoughton. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 1.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Wauwatosa. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 4.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Whitewater. W.H.M.U.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 6.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">150.59</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>IOWA,</b> $526.42.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Amity. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">17.30</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Charles City. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">40.07</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Cherokee. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.82</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chester Center. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">9.06</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Danville. Lee W. Mix, 3; S.H. Mix, 2</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Davenport. Julius A. Reed</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Decorah. Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Decorah. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Denmark. T.S. Taylor, 20; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 15</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Dubuque. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">42.37</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Grinnell. Mrs. Geo. Magoun, <i>for Oahe Indian Sch.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Iowa City. Rev. M.N. Miles</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Keokuk. Woman's Miss'y Soc., <i>for Woman's Work</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">14.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lawlen. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.05</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Manchester. Ladies' Miss'y Soc.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">McGregor. J.H. Ellsworth</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">McGregor. &mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">17.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Nashua. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.37</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Postville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Quasqueton. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.21</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Red Oak. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">22.83</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Tabor. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">68.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Traer. Cong. Ch., 11.06; L.M. Soc. Cong. Ch., 6</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">17.06</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Waterloo. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.12</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Winthrop. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&mdash;&mdash;.&nbsp; "Friends." <i>for Oahe Indian Sch.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.10</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Woman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, <i>for Woman's
+ Work</i>:</td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Bellevue. L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 4.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Cedar Rapids. L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 21.30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Council Bluffs. L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 10.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Le Mars. L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 4.35&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Mason City. L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 4.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Onawa. L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 6.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Rockford. L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 1.16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Stuart. L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Sheldon. L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 1.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Shenandoah. L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 9.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">66.31</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>MINNESOTA,</b> $384.63.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Aitken. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.24</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Anoka. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Little Falls.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.10</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Mankato. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Minneapolis. Plym. Ch., 11; Vine Ch., 10.75</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">21.75</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Northfield. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">88.96</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rochester. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30.61</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rose Creek. "True Blue" Card, by Mrs. Sarah Rounce</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.70</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">22.42</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Minn. Woman's Home Missionary Soc., <i>for Woman's Work</i>, by
+ Mrs. Clara N. Cross, Treas.:</td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Austin. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 15.88&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Brainerd. First Ch. S.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 9.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Cannon Falls. &mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Clear Water. Sab. Sch. and Nellie
+ Baxter, Bessie Bosworth, Sarah Whiting, on True Blue Cards, 5 each</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 15.62&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Cottage Grove. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 8.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Glyndon. S.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 1.18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Marshall. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 7.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Minneapolis. First Ch. W.H.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 49.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Minneapolis. Plymouth W.H.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 23.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Minneapolis. Second Ch. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 7.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Minneapolis. Como Av. Ch., "Seekers
+ after Knowledge,"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Owatomie. W.H.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 13.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Plainview. S.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 1.64&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Plainview. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 5.75&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Rochester. Y.L.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 21.67&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Saint Cloud. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 3.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Waseca. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 2.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">
+ &mdash;&mdash;.&nbsp;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 6.61&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">201.35</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <a name="page326" id="page326"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 326]</span>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>MISSOURI,</b> $111.20.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Lebanon. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">11.10</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Pierce City. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Saint Louis. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Sedalia. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">45.10</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>KANSAS,</b> $100.74.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Brookville. Rev. S.G. Wright</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Council Grove. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Dover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hiawatha. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.89</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Leavenworth. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">54.35</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Osawatomie. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Valley Falls. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">12.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>DAKOTA,</b> $20.91.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Fort Bethold. Mrs. H.R. Floyd, <i>for Fort B. Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Sue Fifield,
+ Treas., <i>for Woman's Work,</i></td>
+ <td>&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Huron. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 4.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Huron. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 6.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Lake Henry. W.M.S.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 4.41&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">14.91</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>NEBRASKA,</b> $53.50.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Camp Creek. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Chadron. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Dewitt. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Irvington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Omaha. Mrs. Reuben Gaylord, <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>MONTANA,</b> $2.50.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&mdash;&mdash;. "A Friend,"</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">2.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>ARKANSAS,</b> $1.05.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Fayetteville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.05</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>WASHINGTON TERR.,</b> $25.00.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Fidalgo Island. Pilgrim Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Skokomish. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>OREGON,</b> $31.12.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Portland. First Cong. Ch., 30. to const. C.F. HOLCOMB L.M.; Rev.
+ E. Rogers, 1.12</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">31.12</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>CALIFORNIA,</b> $5.00.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Arcata. &mdash;&mdash;.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,</b>
+ $18,242.14.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Washington. U.S. Government, <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">18,186.74</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Washington, Mrs. S.B.A. Robinson, of Cong. Ch., 30, to const.
+ JAMES FRANCIS ADAMS L.M.; B.N. and E.M. Seymour, 15; Lincoln Memorial Ch.,
+ 10.40</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">55.40</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>KENTUCKY,</b> $143.10.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Williamsburg. Tuition.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">143.10</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>NORTH CAROLINA,</b> $2.90.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">McLeansville. Rev. A. Connet</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">0.40</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Pekin. Cong. Ch.</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Troy. S.D. Leak</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>SOUTH CAROLINA,</b> $331.00.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Greenwood. Tuition</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">331.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>TENNESSEE,</b> 3,507.93</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Memphis. Slater Fund</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,500.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Nashville. Slater Fund</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,500.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Nashville. Tuition, 300.90; Rent, 18.35</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">319.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Nashville. Mrs. H.H. Wright, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Pleasant Hill. Tuition, 135.20; School Fund, 47.50</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">182.70</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Robbins. Tuition</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>GEORGIA,</b> $529.04.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Atlanta. Teachers and Students, Atlanta U., 20; Children's Miss'y
+ Soc., by Mrs. E. Kent, 5, <i>for Indian Sch.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Atlanta. First Cong. Ch., Six Birthday Offerings</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.04</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Macon. Slater Fund</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Marietta. Ch. and Sab. Sch, 1.50 each</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>ALABAMA,</b> $1,423.55.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Talladega. Slater Fund</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,400.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Tallagega. Tuition</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">22.55</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>MISSISSIPPI,</b> $3,000.00.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Tougaloo. State Appropriation</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Tougaloo. Slater Fund</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,500.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>LOUISIANA,</b> $1,000.00.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">New Orleans. Slater Fund</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,000.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>TEXAS,</b> $900.00.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Austin. Slater Fund</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">900.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>INCOMES</b>, $1,691.03.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Avery Fund, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,570.03</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">C.F. Dike Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">General Endowment Fund</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Hammond Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">0.77</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Howard Theo. Fund, <i>for Howard U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">7.98</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Luke Memorial Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">0.68</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Rice Memorial Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Theo. Sch'p Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">0.18</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Theo. Endowment Fund, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.18</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Yale Library Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">4.71</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>CANADA,</b> $5.00.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Montreal. Chas. Alexander</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>CHINA,</b> $5.00.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Tientsin. Rev. M.L. Stimson</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">========</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%"><b>Donations</b></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">30,846.46</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%"><b>Estates</b></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">9,107.82</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%"><b>Incomes</b></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,691.03</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%"><b>Tuitions</b></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">1,484.75</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%"><b>Rents</b></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">18.35</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%"><b>U.S. Government for Indians</b></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">18,186.74</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%"><b>Slater Fund</b></td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">8,300.00</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Total for September</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 69,635.15</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Total from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 320,952.42</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">========</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr class="short" />
+ <table summary="" class="receipts" rules="rows" frame="hsides">
+ <tr>
+ <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><b>FOR THE AMERICAN
+ MISSIONARY.</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Subscriptions for September</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">35.77</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">Previously acknowledged</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">897.61</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">Total</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">
+ 933.38</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="80%">&nbsp;</td>
+ <td align="right" width="20%" valign="bottom">========</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <hr />
+ <center>
+ H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,<br />
+ 56 Reade St., N.Y.
+ </center>
+
+ <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13584 ***</div>
+</body>
+</html>