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diff --git a/13907-0.txt b/13907-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7fc3506 --- /dev/null +++ b/13907-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2911 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13907 *** + +{pg 193} +The American Missionary + + * * * * * + +July, 1888. + +Volume XLII. No. 7. + + * * * * * + +CONTENTS + + EDITORIAL. +President of the Association.--Paragraphs +Indian Problem.--an Outrage +Wade Hampton +Mr. Cable's Pamphlet +Mrs. Ware +Three Commencements + + THE SOUTH. +Notes in the Saddle, By District Secretary Ryder +Gregory Institute, Wilmington, D.C. +A Day at Tougaloo +Which will be the Under Dog in the Fight +Valued Appreciation + + THE CHINESE. +School Life In China + + BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. +Woman's Temperance Work in the South + + OUR YOUNG FOLKS. +Children's Day at Talladega + + RECEIPTS. + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, + +Rooms, 56 Reade Street. + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. + +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + * * * * * + +{pg 194} +The American Missionary + +American Missionary Association + + * * * * * + +President, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y. + +Vice-Presidents. + +Rev. A.J.F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y. +Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass. +Rev. F.A. Noble, D.D., Ill. +Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass. +Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo. + + +Corresponding Secretaries. + +Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. +Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. + +Treasurer. + +H.W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. + +Auditors. + +Peter McCartee. +Chas. P. Peirce. + + +Executive Committee. + +John H. Washburn, Chairman. +Addison P. Foster, Secretary. + +For Three Years. + +Lyman Abbott, +Charles A. Hull, +J.R. Danforth, +Clinton B. Fisk, +Addison P. Foster, + +For Two Years. + +S.B. Halliday, +Samuel Holmes, +Samuel S. Marples, +Charles L. Mead, +Elbert B. Monroe, + +For One Year. + +J.E. Rankin, +Wm. H. Ward, +J.W. Cooper, +John H. Washburn, +Edmund L. Champlin. + + +District Secretaries. + +Rev. C.J. Ryder, 21 Cong'l House, Boston. +Rev. J.E. Roy, D.D., 151 Washington Street, Chicago. + +Financial Secretary for Indian Missions. + +Rev. Chas. W. Shelton. + +Secretary of Woman's Bureau. + +Miss D.E. Emerson, 56 Reade St., N.Y. + + * * * * * + + COMMUNICATIONS + +Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the +Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to +the Editor, at the New York Office. + + DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS + +In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be +sent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when +more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational +House, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A +payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. + + FORM OF A BEQUEST. + +"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in +trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person +who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American +Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the +direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its +charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by three +witnesses. + + * * * * * + +{pg 195} +The American Missionary. + +VOL. XLII. JULY 1888. No. 7. + +American Missionary Association + + * * * * * + +It gives us great pleasure to announce that, at a recent meeting of +our Executive Committee, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., Pastor of the +Broadway Tabernacle, New York, was elected President of the American +Missionary Association. + +The death of our late honored President, ex-Governor Washburn, +occurred so short a time before our last Annual Meeting, that no +attempt was there made to elect his successor, but the matter was +referred according to the Constitution, to the Executive Committee. +After mature deliberation and with great unanimity, Dr. Taylor was +elected. A brief extract from his letter accepting the position will +indicate his sympathy with our work, and his heartiness in +co-operating with us in this new relation. + +"Your Association, alike by its history in the past and its work in +the present, has a strong hold on my heart. It is doing a work much +needed; one, too, which is intimately connected with the welfare of +the nation, as well as with the future of the races among whom it +specially labors. It has always been a joy to me to plead for it with +my people from my pulpit, and I regard your selection of me as your +President, as one of the highest honors of my life." + + * * * * * + +We are glad to be able to mention, also, the election of Mr. Charles +A. Hull as a member of our Executive Committee, in place of the +honored and respected A.S. Barnes, deceased. Mr. Hull was formerly a +member of the committee, but was compelled to retire on account of +pressure of business. He now returns to his place cheerfully and to +our great satisfaction. + + * * * * * + +_Who reads Missionary Magazines?_--We are glad to know that THE +AMERICAN MISSIONARY has appreciative readers with quick eyes. From the +last numbers we have noticed extracts and quotations in the _New York +Observer_, the _Religious Herald_, the _Advance_, the _New York +Tribune_, and the _New York Times_. We are more than willing. + +{pg 196} + * * * * * + +THE INDIAN PROBLEM. + +A good deal of ingenious ciphering has been done in endeavoring to +solve this problem, and, withal, there has been a good deal of honest +and efficient work. The Government has largely increased its +appropriations from year to year, the Dawes Bill and other valuable +legislation have been secured, so that steps looking towards the +citizenship of the Indian have been attained. Appropriations have been +granted to aid him in farming and other industrial pursuits, and it is +not unlikely that in a short time provision will be made for the +education in the common English branches of every Indian child. + +But all this is not sufficient. The Indian may have lands and +citizenship and an English education, and yet, if he has no strong +impulse towards civilization, no motive in his heart impelling him to +be an industrious, self-supporting citizen--in short, if he has not a +new heart looking to a new life as a citizen and a man, he will become +a vagabond on the land granted him, and a skeptic in the school in +which he is taught. The next few years will constitute a crisis in the +rapidly changing condition of the Indian, and it is precisely at this +point where the vital element of the Christian life must be infused +into his character. To the Christian public, all other questions +subordinate themselves to this, and this needs, not speculation, but +hard work; legislation cannot do it, the church must; time will not do +it, Christian teaching and example alone can. The vernacular question, +so much agitated recently, is important only as it may hinder this +practical work. + +The Indian problem is not perpetual. The Indian must soon be merged +into the American, and whether this shall be for good or for ill, the +church must decide, and decide speedily. We trust, therefore, that our +constituents will aid us to extend, as rapidly as possible, that part +of the work entrusted to us. We do not ask for expensive buildings or +costly plant. We ask for the means to push forward with the teacher +and the preacher among these uncivilized people till, when they come +forth from their present anomalous condition, they shall come forth +practical Christians, as well as intelligent and industrious citizens. + + * * * * * + +AN OUTRAGE. + +Prof. G.W. Lawrence, teacher of our school at Jellico, Tenn., a +gentleman of quiet and unobtrusive manners, was brutally assaulted by +a man of that place, and was shot in three places; one ball entered +the wrist and followed up the arm, coming out near the shoulder, a +second went into the back of the shoulder, and a third is probably +lodged in the lungs. The assault occurred May 18th, in the church in +which Mr. Lawrence was holding the school, in the presence of his wife +and scholars. The only provocation {pg 197} alleged, was that he had +gone the night before to ask for the tuition of one of his scholars. +He was met in an angry way by the woman, and the next day the husband, +who does not live with his wife, came to the school and fired the +shots. Prof. Lawrence is the brother-in-law of our highly esteemed and +active Christian worker, Rev. A.A. Myers, who has not only done so +much in promoting school and church work in Kentucky and Tennessee, +but who has also been so zealous in promoting the cause of temperance. +Prof. Lawrence sympathized and co-operated with Mr. Myers in this good +work, and it is believed that liquor and liquor influence had much to +do in inspiring the deed. As all the parties in this transaction were +white, it is not at all probable that the color-line question had +anything to do with it. + +The community was moved with intense indignation, and the assassin was +speedily taken to the county jail to escape a lynching. A large +meeting was subsequently held in the Baptist Church, and a committee +was appointed to prosecute the perpetrator. Mr. Lawrence at this +writing is in a very critical condition, but hopes are entertained of +his ultimate recovery. + + * * * * * + +WADE HAMPTON. + +We opened the June number of the _Forum_ with the confident +expectation that the article on "_What Negro Supremacy Means_," by +Senator Wade Hampton, would furnish some well-considered and +statesmanlike views on that important topic. We expected to find a +fair, if not an encouraging, statement of the changes that twenty +years have wrought in the educational and property qualifications of +the Negro. But we confess our utter disappointment, in finding that +Senator Wade devotes his entire article to details of the Acts of the +South Carolina Legislature, from 1868 to 1876, in other words, to the +reconstruction or carpet-bag period. He adds, it is true, a quotation +from an address of Abraham Lincoln, but that dates back into the still +remoter past, 1859. Mr. Lincoln learned something better before he +died. + +We make no defence of that carpet-bag Legislature, but does not +Senator Wade recognize the change that has taken place in the +condition of the Negro--a change that is going on at an increased +ratio? Would an article be worth much on "What _Anglo-Saxon_ Supremacy +Means," based on extracts from Roman histories in regard to the +ancient Germans? True, the comparison is an extreme one, but it must +be remembered that more progress is now made in human civilization +in one year, than in a century then. But let us confine ourselves +to the facts as they now stand. The present generation of Negroes +in the South has had the aid of the public schools, limited and +inadequate as they are, and it has had the still more valuable aid +of schools sustained by Northern benevolence, supplemented in some +cases {pg 198} by aid from the Southern States, that have furnished +instruction of the best quality in all ranges of study, from primary +to college and professional. From Hampton, Va., to Austin, Texas, +these schools, supported by various religious denominations, with +carefully selected and thoroughly competent teachers from the North, +have been sending forth their graduates as teachers, preachers, +professional and business men. These schools of all grades number more +than two hundred, and a large per cent. of their graduates become +teachers who are giving a mighty uplift to their people. A colored +editor could say truthfully two years ago, "We have preachers learned +and eloquent; we have professors in colleges by hundreds, and +school-masters by thousands; successful farmers, merchants, ministers, +lawyers, editors, educators and physicians." To all this it may be +added that careful estimates place the amount of property on which the +Negroes in the Southern States pay taxes, at one hundred millions of +dollars. Surely this race could now furnish legislators more +intelligent and more interested in the assessment of taxes than in +1868, and the number and quality will be rapidly increased every year. +Senator Hampton might have looked around and ahead, and not backward +only! His article, as it stands, stamps him as a veritable Bourbon; +"he has forgotten nothing and he has learned nothing." + + * * * * * + +MR. CABLE'S PAMPHLET. + +A COLORED MAN'S VIEW OF IT. + + Mr. Cable's Pamphlet, "The Negro Question," was sent to an + educated Christian colored man in the South. We make some + brief extracts from his letter acknowledging the receipt of + the pamphlet. He says: + +I have read "_The Negro Question_," by Geo. W. Cable, and appreciate +it highly. It is the ablest treatment of the subject intellectually, +morally and judicially that I ever saw. Mr. Cable has dealt with that +_great question_ with the insight of a statesman and a thinker, and +the candor of a true Christian. Oh, how I am vexed and do smart when I +think of the wicked treatment I and my people are subjected to on +account of the God-given color, and by a people claiming and +professing to be Christians! I can hardly believe that any other +people ever bore the names freemen and citizens, and at the same time +were shut out from so many of their rights and liberties as we are. +Our manhood is outraged, our civil and political rights are abused, +our women are robbed of their womanhood and their chastity is +insulted, our aspirations are banded and proscription is held up to +our eyes wherever we go, and enforced against us with Egyptian +exactness and Spartan severity, and the most vexatious and grievous +fact of all is, that the strong arm of the law of the land loses its +power when it comes our turn to receive justice. The law either plays +truant, or openly acknowledges that it has no power to defend us. But +the God of law and {pg 199} justice, who broke down one form of +slavery, will break down this, too. Still, there is a part for us to +do. On this line, as on others, the man who needs help must help +himself while he asks for help. + + * * * * * + +MRS. WARE. + + We honor the memory of the early and self-denying workers + among the Freedmen. They were ostracised at the South, and + were scarcely appreciated at the North. Many of them have laid + down their lives in the service, others were compelled to + return home on account of ill-health, but others still are + toiling on, seeing the fruits of their labors in the new + impulse given to the Negro in his great race struggle. Among + the earliest and most efficient of these workers was President + Ware, of Atlanta, now gone to his reward. Mrs. Ware is still + at the post of duty, and, though in feeble health, clings with + undiminished interest to her chosen life-work. + + At the recent anniversary of the Atlanta University, the + meeting of the Alumni, (May 28th), was made pleasant and + memorable by the presentation to Mrs. Ware of a large portrait + of herself. It was wholly unexpected to her, and her impromptu + acknowledgment of the gift was made in the vein of her + characteristic vivacity and kindness. Among the addresses made + at the presentation, was one by Mrs. Chase, herself one of our + earliest and most honored laborers. From this address we are + permitted to make a few extracts. + +It is very significant that at any time during these twenty years of +your life here, it would have been just as delightful to meet and say +the pleasant words that leap to our lips, as it is to say them to-day. +You, whom we delight to honor this afternoon, have held the same post +of honor all these years, but many of us do not know how delightfully +you hold that place, so I, who have known you so long, am asked to +explain, and if this hasty sketch seems too flattering to be given in +your presence, I fear you alone are responsible. If you had put less +into your life for us to admire, we could put less into our expression +of admiration. + +We know how you lost early a good mother, and that your father was +taken when you were only eighteen; but the missionary spirit of that +father was repeated in the daughter. We know of your being discouraged +by a missionary Board because applying so young, but of your being +finally accepted, and going to Hampton, reaching that now famous +school even before the veteran--General Armstrong. + +Then came the year of teaching at Charleston, a year so full of +privations in those pioneer days, that though repeated calls came to +you from Florida and Georgia, as well as the old fields, you shrank +from farther hardships and decided to remain at home, till one Sunday +morning in Connecticut, twenty years ago, these words were unfolded in +a sermon, "Simon, Son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Yea, Lord, thou +knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my Lambs." How easy +it is for us now to see the beautiful Providence of those wonderful +words finding a swift response in your heart and bringing you at once +to Atlanta. There are those before me now that greeted you then in +Storrs School. How {pg 200} much we might say of that eventful year +when you worked beyond your strength to fit the "A" class for Atlanta +University. We can hardly see how it could have been otherwise than +that the next year you should come to us, the bride of our beloved +President. But position brought no exemption from hard work to either +of you royal workers. + +We shall never forget what hosts of friends have been won for the +school by your ready pen and stirring words. And during those sixteen +memorable foundation years of our school, which are so rapidly passing +into history, who can ever know how much of their grand success was +due to you for your devotion to him who created Atlanta University, +and made it what it is? We may know in that "day when He makes up his +jewels." + + * * * * * + +THREE COMMENCEMENTS. + +BY A VISITOR. + +It has been my privilege to attend in succession the anniversary +exercises at Hampton, Va., Atlanta, Ga., and Howard University, +Washington, D.C. Hampton, as usual, welcomed a crowd of visitors, and +among these a number of distinguished men--Governor Lee of Virginia, +and Senator Dawes, being those most widely known. The visitor sees +here the magical touch of genius in these large and commodious +buildings, the schools, the shops, the houses, the cottages, and, +crowning all, the stately chapel. The plat of the village in which +these are congregated realizes the words, + + "A mighty maze and not without a plan." + +The effect of the whole, threaded by winding roads, shaded by trees, +and interspersed with gardens and shrubs, is picturesque and +practically convenient. The main value of Hampton, however, is found +in what is done _within_ these buildings--the teaching, the +industries, the making of character. + +The graduating exercises were the great attraction. The addresses and +papers of the pupils did not, perhaps, as a whole, quite come up to +what we have heard in other years, but all were good and some of them +of great excellence. One is always impressed at Hampton with the tone +and local coloring of the addresses. They are tinged and touched by +the work done here, and the races for and by whom it is done. The +titles of some of the pieces show this: "What is expected of a Hampton +Graduate." "Hampton Girls." "Mission Work in Tennessee." "Way down in +Georgia." "Progress of the Oneidas." Of the same sort was the closing +tableau, "The Great Father and his Children," a representation by +Indian students, with the implements or products of the industries +they have learned, applying to the Great Father for admission to his +country. The exercises were closed by eloquent addresses, given by +Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, of New York, one of the Trustees, Governor Lee, of +Virginia, and Senator Dawes. + +{pg 201} +Atlanta University now welcomes its visitors to its +beautiful green lawns and fields, which were once red clay washed into +deep gullies. The buildings are convenient and well-kept. The +Baccalaureate sermon, delivered by Professor Francis, was very +appropriate and touching. The commencement exercises were held on +Monday, May 28th, and were attended by a vast concourse of people, +many going away because the building, though large, could not give +them room. The aisles were crowded through all the services. The +audiences were, as usual, made up mostly of colored people. +Heretofore, at times, the dignitaries of the State and city have +graced the platform, but Governor Gordon was out of town, and, +perhaps, if he had been at home, he would not have attended. The +recent excitement about the Glenn Bill, and the withdrawal of the +$8,000, the annual grant of the State, have left the relations +somewhat strained. There is, however, no excitement on that subject. +The State authorities have not yet decided what to do with the fund, +and in the meantime, the University goes quietly forward with its +work. Prof. Bumstead has just succeeded in raising the $16,000 +necessary to meet the current expenses of the year. + +At the anniversary exercises there were no graduates from the college +department this year. Thirteen pupils, all girls, from the normal +department, read their essays and received their certificates of +graduation. The number of the class is supposed to be unfortunate, +but there was nothing amiss in the quality of the essays they read. +They were all good, but the absence of any male voice left the class +somewhat in the condition of a choir without a baas. There was a +noticeable difference in one respect between the essays on this +occasion and those at Hampton. Here there was no local or race +tone. If I had closed my eyes, I might have thought myself at the +anniversary of a Ladies' Seminary at the North. Scarcely a word or +allusion indicated that these girls belonged to the colored race, and +for that matter their faces scarcely showed it, for the white blood +largely preponderated in most of them. I can well understand why these +pupils should prefer to stand forth not as a distinct race, but as +American and Christian girls. Perhaps that is the higher wisdom, but +it makes the anniversary less distinctive, and inspires less sympathy +and enthusiasm. These girls were plainly dressed, and in that respect +would differ greatly from the graduating class in a Northern Female +Seminary, but they would have no occasion to shrink from a comparison +with their Northern sisters, if propriety of deportment, and +excellence and force of writing were considered. + +At the Howard University, we had the opportunity of attending only the +exercises of the graduating class in college. This institution has a +good claim to its title as a University, for it has collegiate, +medical, theological, law and normal departments. The anniversaries of +the theological and medical departments had been held a few days +previously in {pg 202} churches down in the city, and were attended, +as we understand, by large audiences. The college anniversary, on the +other hand, was held in the college chapel, which, while it was well +filled, contained a relatively small audience, and this was made up +mostly of colored people. We hardly appreciate this discrimination as +to the places of holding these anniversaries, for the orations in the +chapel were of a high order, and might well have attracted the +attention of members of Congress and of the numerous visitors in the +crowded city. The graduating class consisted of six persons, one being +a lady and she the only one of the class without apparent admixture of +white blood. The addresses were all orations, and resembled somewhat +the essays in the Atlanta school in presenting almost no touch or +tone of race or local surroundings, the lady's being almost the +only exception. I could not avoid the conviction, that if these +well-trained minds had thrown themselves into topics more nearly +related to their own life and race struggle, there would have been +more fervor in the oratory. But some of these graduates will yet be +heard from as useful laborers in some fields of active Christian work. + + * * * * * + +THE SOUTH. + +NOTES IN THE SADDLE. + +BY REV. C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY. + +I promised, in my February "Notes in the Saddle," to give a brief +account of the mountain campaign which had then just closed. It was +full of most interesting experiences. We began the series of meetings +in the Congregational Church, Jellico, Tenn. The Association was +represented by one of its Corresponding Secretaries, a District +Secretary, and the writer. Beside these brethren from abroad, the +local force of A.M.A. workers was large, and several neighboring +churches of our Congregational faith sent their pastors. + +At Jellico, the A.M.A. has planted both a church and a school, and +built a meeting house. The interesting series of meetings, which began +at Jellico, was for the purpose of dedicating the neat Congregational +churches recently built by the Association along this line of +railroad. Preaching services were held every afternoon and evening, +the company of ministers taking turns, as they pushed on from one +church to another. These churches are at Jellico, Pleasant View, +South Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Woodbine, Rockhold and Corbin. +Congregationalism, through the A.M.A., has taken possession of this +whole region in the name of Christ. We can easily hold it in the +interests of broad and evangelical Christianity, if our older +Congregational churches in the East and North arouse themselves to +meet the pressing exigencies, and realize the splendid {pg 203} +possibilities that lie before them in this field _to-day_, but which +will be denied them in the near future. + +One very interesting feature of these meetings was the dedication of +a chapel which has been recently added to the Williamsburg church, +and which is used for the infant class of the Sunday-school. This +class had outgrown all the accommodations of the church, in connection +with the other departments of the Sunday-school. It had become a +Sunday-school of itself. This chapel was, therefore, built and +publicly set aside for the service of these little folks. + +During these meetings, our honored Corresponding Secretary and +District Secretary pushed through the storms and forded mountain +streams together with the other brethren, that they might keep the +appointments which had been made for them. Dr. Roy's stereopticon +views, which have interested and instructed so many audiences in the +North, he used with great profit during this mountain campaign. + + * * * * * + +Two men called upon Brother Myers, our general missionary in this +mountain region, and requested that he and the writer visit the field, +some fourteen miles away, from which they had come that morning. They +told a thrillingly interesting story of how God's Spirit had entered +their hearts, and stirred them up to desire better things for their +children and their community than they had enjoyed. One of them was a +son of a French Catholic mother, and had early adopted her faith. His +life had been wild and reckless, until he found the Saviour in a +meeting led by an A.M.A. missionary. He was an intelligent man of some +education. He found others ready to join him in a movement for the +elevation of the people. They established a church and organized a +Sunday-school. We pushed over the mountain on horseback, after the +other visiting brethren had left the mountain region, to inspect +personally this field. We found it even as the men had represented it +to be. A little church had been organized and Sunday-school gathered. +I could learn of no other Sunday-school in that region. I heard +afterwards, that one of the old-time preachers warned the people +against the Sunday-school, saying, "It war a heap worse than a dancing +place." This same preacher had a vision, and gave an account of it to +his people. "Two devils," he said, "had been in that country getting +up some sort of an institution that they called a church." He warned +his people against them. + +The two men who visited us at Jellico, together with others who had +joined with them in this effort to Christianize and educate this +community, we found busy on a hillside, laying the foundations of the +new "church house." They were enthusiastic in this new movement, which +promised so much to their community. They had drawn up a confession of +faith and covenant, which were evangelical and Congregational. They +reported {pg 204} three thousand people living in the coves and +valleys radiating from the point upon which they had planted their +"church house," absolutely without intelligent Christian instruction +of any kind. There were hundreds of square miles without a church +building of any denomination. This little company had been stirred up +by God's Spirit, and were almost starving for spiritual food. There +was a pathos even in their peculiar mountain vernacular, as one of +them said to me, "I don't understand scarcely a word you uns say. I'm +too old to larn now. I'se done left. But I does want my chilluns to +know somethin'. I tell you, I'd sell my old farm down in the cove so's +to help my chilluns to know somethin'." What a tremendous appeal this +is from the very heart of our country! All they asked was one hundred +dollars, to help them build this Congregational "church house" by the +side of Hickory Creek. + + * * * * * + +While writing these "Notes," there comes flashing over the wires, +the news of this horrible crime committed upon the person of Prof. +G.W. Lawrence, at Jellico. I remember a conversation I had with Mr. +Lawrence during this campaign of which I have been writing. He had +just been offered an important and lucrative position as teacher in +the North. He was a young man of only limited means, and felt almost +that he _must_ go. I told him we could not offer him _financial_ +inducements to remain, but it seemed to me that the Lord had called +him to that work, and I did not know where we could find a man to fill +his place. "Very well," he replied, "I will remain." The Christian +hero that he was, he went patiently forward in this self-sacrificing +labor. Now, he has fallen by the hand of a brutal assassin! This awful +crime emphasizes the importance of this work, and calls aloud to us to +send _more_ Christian missionaries into this field, until Christian +light shall displace the darkness of semi-barbarism. + + * * * * * + +Turning a moment from the field in which our missions are planted, +to that from which they are supported, I give three interesting +incidents. In a New England church two young girls came forward after +hearing the story of the A.M.A. work in the dark places of our +country, and pledged fourteen dollars, which they had themselves +gathered by the sale of articles which they had made. A good example. + +Another little girl, not ten years old, had one dollar which she had +been saving for sometime. It was her total bank credit. When she heard +of our pressing needs, she slipped her dollar into my hand, asking +that it be spent for the poor children in our field. + +A woman, for years an A.M.A. teacher, but now a bed-ridden invalid, +pledges $100 to the work of the Association. What can we not do when +there is so much of Christian self-sacrifice in both departments of +our field? + +{pg 205} + * * * * * + +ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES AT GREGORY INSTITUTE. + +WILMINGTON, N.C. + +Our anniversary really began May 18, for on the evening of that date +were held the public exercises of the "Gregory Band of Hope." There +are at least 160 members of this Band and they hold fortnightly +meetings. + +One of the principal lessons which has to be impressed upon these +children, is the sacredness of the pledge. We feel sure that much has +been gained in this direction the past year. There were those who +would come forward and manfully confess when they had violated any +condition of the pledge. But the good done to the children is not the +only benefit. Through these children, the parents become interested in +temperance. One little boy said, "Since I joined the Band of Hope I +got my papa and mamma to join the pledge too." Many families were +represented by either father or mother, and in many cases by both. +This topic is destined very soon to be of paramount importance in the +training of the colored people. + +The week beginning May 21 was given up to examinations. The pupils +have in the main done well. Many of them in advancement and aptness +will compare well with white children. By reason of a re-arrangement +in the course of study, there was no graduating class this year. +However, on the evening of May 25, we had an exhibition given by the +scholars. The stage at the back was prettily draped with the national +colors, and flowers were scattered in profusion everywhere. At the +appointed hour the room was filled with the parents of the pupils and +other friends of the schools. The programme was a miscellaneous one, +made up of tableaux, songs, dialogues and recitations. Some of these +reflected great credit upon the pupils and their teachers. I say +_some_ of them, because some parts were rendered so excellently as to +astonish one who did not expect anything _very_ good from negro +scholars. One beautiful scene was, "Winding the May Pole," by twelve +little girls dressed in white. Another striking piece was, "What +Alcohol has done for the Nations." Different persons in appropriate +costume represented the various nations of Europe and one represented +Africa, each in a short speech stating what havoc alcohol had made. +One young lad caused a good deal of merriment in declaiming "Theology +at the Quarters," in which he drew a picture of the candidate for +heaven being subjected to a close examination before he could be +admitted through the "_Alaplaster_ gate." "The questions," said the +declaimer, "you must answer mighty straight. And de _watermillion_ +question gwine to cause a heap o' trouble." When one of these colored +people declaims in the Negro dialect, it is a treat. There is nothing +artificial about it. + +The year has been a prosperous one. The school-rooms have been crowded +to their utmost capacity. 312 different pupils have attended during +some part of the year, and average daily attendance has been 230. +{pg 206} Excellent progress has been made. Another teacher is needed. +More and more are the colored people awakening to their real +need--deliverance from the bonds of ignorance. You older people in the +North gave your sons to free the slave from human task-masters. We who +have arisen since the war look upon that as the noblest sacrifice +which the history of our country presents. But there still remains the +great problem of freeing the black man from the slavery of ignorance, +superstition and sin. The work increases upon our hands. The South is +struggling to rise. It has this problem of illiteracy to settle. We +who have grown since the war could not carry a musket in '62, but we +are willing to carry the Speller and the Bible now, and we do not +consider this work one whit less honorable or necessary than the art +of war. Do you? + +Wilmington is a city with a population of 25,000. It is estimated that +14,000 of this is colored. Business is increasing fast and population +is gaining proportionately. How what is the import of all this? Large +numbers of colored people will be attracted here. It will be an +objective point for educational work among them. If we already have +300 pupils, the opportunity will then be enlarged many fold. But even +now we need more help. Cannot the friends at home enter upon a course +of self-denial to extend us a little aid? + +G.S.R. + + * * * * * + +A DAY AT TOUGALOO. + +_Special Correspondence of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat._ + +Jackson, Miss., May 26.--While the white Mississippians were laying +the corner stone of a Confederate monument at Jackson, the black +Mississippians were holding the closing exercises of their university +at Tougaloo, only seven miles away. + +TOUGALOO TO-DAY. + +For a wonder the war spared Tougaloo. Less pretentious houses within +sight of it were fired and destroyed by roving squads. But the +mansion, in the midst of a grand grove of oaks, stood intact. When the +war was over, the American Missionary Association acquired 500 acres +of the estate, including the mansion. + +At the beginning the building afforded accommodations for both +teachers and students. But at present the mansion is used for the +offices of the institution and for class rooms. Tougaloo has developed +into one of the largest institutions for colored youth in the South. +The mansion, which was the nucleus, is now only one of half a dozen +large structures. To the north of it is Strieby Hall, a long +three-story brick structure. The clay was dug, the brick made, and the +walls laid, chiefly by student labor. To the south is another +three-story dormitory. Another notable {pg 207} structure in the +group is the Ballard School Building, every nail in which was driven +by the students. About these larger buildings are grouped the Ballard +Industrial shops and cottages. + +Three hundred and twenty-six students were enrolled at Tougaloo the +past year. The steady growth in the attendance more than keeps pace +with the increase in accommodations. They come from all parts of +Mississippi, Yazoo County of terrible memories furnishing a +representation notable for its numbers. Arkansas, Louisiana and +Tennessee are represented. + +A MISSISSIPPI MYSTERY. + +Nowhere in the South is the negro so totally a nonentity in politics +as in Mississippi, and yet nowhere in the South is there a colored +institution so heartily commended as is Tougaloo University by the +white Mississippians. This seems odd, hardly credible. Tougaloo is not +a State institution. Mississippi has a system of instruction including +a normal school and other departments for colored youth. And yet every +Legislature makes an appropriation for Tougaloo. The institution's +management reports the use made of the money, and the Governor +appoints a Board of Visitors. This is the extent of State supervision, +and still Mississippi continues to make biennially an appropriation +for the university. The last Legislature cut down the amount somewhat, +but it cut some of the white institutions worse than it did Tougaloo. + +Perhaps a stronger evidence of the esteem in which this university is +held by white Mississippi is the social consideration bestowed upon +those connected with the institution. The prejudice which ostracises +"a nigger teacher" and which is so pronounced in most communities +where there is a colored institution, is rarely observable here. On +the Board of Visitors are men of the highest standing, like Col. J.L. +Power, for almost a lifetime the head of the _Clarion_; Oliver +Clifton, the Clerk of the Supreme Court, and F.A. Wolfe, the former +Superintendent of Education. Mr. W.S. Lemly, one of the leading +business men of Jackson, is a member of the Board of Trustees. To +visit Tougaloo is not to lose caste in Jackson society, but is +altogether a proper thing to do. + +Of course there is an explanation for this. White Mississippians are +much like white Georgians or white Carolinians in their views on the +race problem and on negro education. Tougaloo's peculiar relation to +the white people must be accounted for by the features in which it +differs from other colored institutions maintained by Northern +societies. + +THE SECRET OF IT. + +The Rev. Frank G. Woodworth, President of the university, was asked +how he accounted for the exceptional esteem in which Tougaloo is held. +His reply was: "I think the attention which we give to industrial +education has a great deal to do with it. That, and the preparation of +teachers, {pg 208} are two things which we make most prominent in our +work. The white people can see the good effects of the training we +give so plainly that they feel the work we are doing is good." + +This view of President Woodworth was abundantly confirmed by +subsequent inquiries among white Mississippians. It is the industrial +education the negroes are receiving there which so thoroughly commends +the university to the dominant race. The shops are considered fully +as important as the class rooms at Tougaloo. Carpentry, painting, +tinning, blacksmithing and wagon-making are taught, not only the +rudiments, but to the extent of turning out finished workmen. The +shops were built by the students and are admirably equipped with +tools. Wagons from the Tougaloo apprentices sell for $60 in Jackson, +and are preferred to the product of first-class wagon-makers. + +The desk at which I sit, and which will compare with skilled work +anywhere, was made by one of our students. In the blacksmithing and +wagon-making they learn to take iron and wood in the rough and turn +out a good, substantial wagon. The value to the colored youth of such +training can hardly be over-estimated. They are trained to do skilled +work, to be self-reliant and self-supporting. + +THE FARM SCHOOL. + +But teaching the trades is but part of the system of industrial +education at Tougaloo. Each boy is required to work at least one hour +a day on the university farm. For all work over that hour the student +receives pay, the highest allowance being 7c. an hour. The farm is not +run to make money, but to educate. The idea is to make the operation +of the farm an object lesson to the students in the better methods of +agriculture and stock raising. Several students, enough to take care +of the steady and continuous farm work, are employed all day on the +farm and attend the night school, but the bulk of the farm labor comes +from the students, who give from one to several hours to it outside of +school. Last year the farm was run with but one man outside of the +student help. The boys, while getting their book learning, tilled +eighty-five acres of corn, fifteen acres of oats, with a second crop +of peas, seventeen acres of cotton, eight acres of peas, three acres +of sorghum, two acres of garden and five acres of berries and orchard. +The stock cared for included 100 head of blooded cattle, forty sheep +and forty swine. The farm furnished the boarding department 14,000 +pounds of beef and pork, 84,476 pounds of milk, and other products in +proportion. The university farm stock has a reputation State-wide, and +the exhibits are features of the annual fairs held at Jackson. While +every boy in the institution has to do some daily work on the farm, +there is set apart for the ninth grade a special course of a year in +agricultural instruction designed to make good, practical farmers of +those who take it. So much for the boys. + +{pg 209} +The girls get their full share of industrial training at Tougaloo. +They have daily instruction in some branch of household duty, ranging +from dish-washing to canning and preserving. Sewing is taught from the +plain darning and mending to fitting and dressmaking according to the +latest fashion plates. It has come to be well understood that the +Mississippi lady of a house who gets one of the trained students from +Tougaloo has "a perfect treasure." + +THE STUDY OF HOUSEKEEPING. + +One of the latest additions to the system of industrial training +for girls at the university is a novelty. A cottage has been set +apart--four girls are assigned to it for a month at a time. There they +"keep house" in all details. They not only sweep and clean and cook, +but they buy their supplies, keep account of all household expenses, +and manage as they will have to do when they get homes of their own. +A matron looks closely after the cottage feature, which is intended +to teach neatness and economy and to develop executive ability. + +With Tougaloo doing such a work as this, how could the white +Mississippians feel otherwise than kindly toward her. The cry has been +that "education ruins the nigger." It has been asserted over and +over--so many times that most Southerners believe it as true as +gospel--that higher education makes a negro too proud to work. But +here is an education the very central idea of which is work--work with +the hands and the eyes. Here is a university which gives to the State +skilled mechanics vastly superior to those who "pick up" their trades; +farmers who can make two bolls of cotton grow where one grew before; +stockraisers who know all the fine points of the various breeds. +Governor Lowry could well say in his last message to the Mississippi +Legislature: + +"This university, by its successful management, commends itself to +your favorable consideration." + +At the closing exercises of the year yesterday, Tougaloo took another +step forward. Instead of turning out a class of graduates, the +management increased the course and raised the standard. An +institution which does that is certainly progressive. + +Two of the notable things on the programme were an essay by Lucy +Jenkins, on "What Tougaloo Does for the Girls," and an oration by +James Miller on "Industrial Education." Both of them were well +considered, well written and well delivered. The essayist and the +orator were black, not yellow. Their efforts would have done credit +to Anglo-Saxons of corresponding age, North or South. As for the +musical part of the programme--ah, there was melody indeed. + +A negro boy named Scott, with all the features of the African strongly +marked, executed a difficult solo with an artistic appreciation which +would have brought enthusiastic plaudits from an audience of critics. + +{pg 210} +A TRUE FRIEND OF THE RACE. + +And then the Rev. Dr. William Hayne Leavell, of Meridian, arose to +deliver the annual address. What a contrast! Dr. Leavell is a South +Carolinian by birth and a relative of the great Nullifier Hayne. He +comes of one of the proud old Southern families and has the highest +social connections. He stands six feet high, a magnificent specimen of +physical manhood, and as chock full of moral courage as he is of blue +blood. This man left his home, declined an invitation to participate +in the Confederate corner-stone ceremonies, and devoted his birthday +anniversary to Tougaloo. Dr. Leavell is a son-in-law of United States +Senator George, of Mississippi. He is the man who delivered an address +before the Mississippi Legislature last winter, and denounced as +cowards, men who go about with pistols in their hip pockets. And when +the blank looks of amazement went round he rubbed his sentiments in on +the Mississippians and their folly, of making themselves walking +shooting galleries. Coming before the students of Tougaloo yesterday, +Dr. Leavell said: + +"My interest in you, in this whole work, grows out of a memory. Your +fathers were the servants of my fathers. I remember that in 1861, when +I was a very small boy, the sound of war went through this land. My +father, kinsmen and friends went forth to battle to keep your fathers +in servitude. I remember that not a few of your fathers knew what that +war meant--that if my fathers succeeded, your fathers would be kept in +servitude forever and my fathers would remain the master class. All +the men that could protect the women and children were away. The +fathers and brothers and friends were away fighting. We were in the +power of your fathers and of some of you gray-headed people that I +see. I remember that when they returned from that war your fathers +gave back to mine the women and children without a hair of their heads +having been harmed. I have remembered this with deep gratitude; and +ever since that time I have felt a deep interest in you. It is +therefore, that I have come in response to the call to be here +to-day." + +THE ONLY LOGICAL RESULT. + +He proceeded at considerable length with such earnest advice as he +might have given to the assembled students of a white university on +commencement day. After a time he touched upon the special condition +which his audience presented. + +"I know," said he, "of no people who have ever lived with a more +difficult problem before them. You have before you the duty of saving +yourselves. Mark what I tell you, no man of another race ever saved a +people. Some man of you, or of your race, has got to go with the +pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day, and, like Moses, lead +you. + +"God knows many a man of my race has given his life and service for +{pg 211} yours. And not only these men who fought at the end of a gun +to make you free have given their lives for you, but some of us from +the South, who stood with breasts bared to the bayonets of those who +were marching forward to the support of a great principle. We are +anxious now to do all we can for your advancement. But we of the white +race may do our best. After all we have done for you, it is as when +a man goes with a friend to the brink of the grave; he can go no +further. There is a limit beyond which we cannot go for you, no matter +how great our interest in you. Some man with a skin darker than mine +must take up the work and carry it on." + +He said not a word about politics, but later in the day the question +was put to him privately: + +"Doctor, suppose these negroes to whom you talked awhile ago become +what you urged them to be--useful, reliant, well-to-do citizens--what +will be their status politically? Will the white people, with all this +progress of the negro in education, in industry, in independence and +in the acquisition of property, acknowledge his political rights?" + +"They'll have to, sir," was the prompt and emphatic reply. "This +present condition of affairs can't go on. We know that. As the negro +becomes qualified we've got to admit him to full citizenship." + +W.B.S. + + * * * * * + +WHICH WILL BE THE UNDER DOG IN THE FIGHT? + +As a member of a Boston Raymond Excursion in January last, I spent +three or four days in New Orleans. The President and a Trustee of +Straight University visited our _side-tracked train_, and invited us +to call at the University. Quite a number accepted the invitation, and +in addition to being shown through the buildings, we were entertained +by the students, under the supervision of the President and +Professors, with hymns, songs and plantation music, with explanation +by the President of the course of studies and progress of the +students. At the close of the reception, it fell to my lot to +acknowledge the civility shown us, which I did in the following words: + +In behalf of visitors from the Raymond Excursion, it gives me great +pleasure to express to the officers and students of Straight +University our thanks for the interesting reception we have received +at their hands. We have come from a long way off, for sight-seeing, +and the study of the country, but here we find something more than the +wild mountains, and desolate plains, and border towns, that are to +make up so much of the interest of our journey. Through institutions +like this, a problem suggested to me in one of your streets will find +solution. I visited the Republican State Convention in session, to +see ex-Governor Kellogg, whom I had known in his boyhood among the +Green Mountains, and who was one of {pg 212} the officers of the +convention. While there I listened to several speeches from colored +men, which, for clearness of thought and pathos of oratory, would have +done credit to any public speaker in the country. I have since +learned, with great pleasure, that several of these gentlemen were +graduates of this University. On leaving the convention, when scarcely +a block away, I met a well-dressed gentleman, and naturally fell into +conversation about the convention. The gentleman claimed to have +inherited the blood of Boston, but had lived twenty years in New +Orleans. With respect to the convention, he said: "I tell you, sir, +the white people here will never consent to be governed by a lot of +ignorant Negroes, like those in that convention!" I have thought on +this statement, and coming here, I find its solution. Knowledge is +power, whether its possessor be white or black, and unless the white +people of the South make the education of their children more of a +paramount interest than heretofore, they will find the learning and +muscle, the precedents of wealth, combined in the colored race. The +rural population will find that they need for themselves and their +children a better knowledge than can be acquired from the court-house, +saloon, or the village tavern. + +It is an interesting thought, that these students will go from this +institution back to their low-down homes on the borders of rice fields +and cotton plantations, where their fathers and mothers have toiled in +slavery, and by an inspiration that is divine, will dissipate the dark +memories of the past, and will show, by precept and example, that +sanctification of spirit and purity of life will shape the destiny of +their race for coming time. Again we thank you for this interview. + +JOHN M. STEARNS + + * * * * * + +VALUED APPRECIATION. + + B.M. Zettler, Esq., who for many years has been in charge of + the public schools of Macon, Ga., and who has, therefore, + eminent qualifications for pronouncing judgment in regard to + schools and school work, has written the following in + reference to the Lewis Normal Institute of Macon. We are + always glad to welcome the inspection of our schools by our + Southern friends, and are specially gratified with their + approval of our work. + +Having had this year for the first time since Lewis School was placed +under your charge, an opportunity to see the institution "from the +inside," I desire to place in your hands a brief statement of my +impressions concerning the school and its work. And while I do this +(without solicitation) for the encouragement of yourself and +associates, I have no objection to the use of the statement in any way +that you may see fit. I confess I was not prepared to see so many +practical, common-sense features in the school. I refer especially to +the well conducted industrial departments, and the prominence given to +moral training. + +{pg 213} +The teachers impressed me as being not only qualified, zealous and +skillful, but as possessing a genuine interest in their work that is +as inspiring as it is beautiful and becoming. The results of their +labors as I witnessed them in the closing exercises were such as +always follow where skill, good judgment and zeal are brought to bear. + +I am satisfied that you, and the noble ladies associated with you, are +doing a good work among our colored people, and that, too, in a way +that leaves no room with fair-minded men for adverse criticism in any +direction. In leaving our city for the summer vacation, you take with +you my earnest wish that you may have a season of genuine rest and +recuperation and that a kind Providence may return you to us in the +fall, to continue your "labor of love" in Macon. + + * * * * * + +THE CHINESE. + + Our missions in San Francisco observed their thirteenth + (public) anniversary on Sunday evening, May 30th, at Bethany + Church. The audience--partly American, partly Chinese--crowded + not the pews only, but most of the aisles. The service was + impressive and deeply interesting. Lack of space forbids my + attempting to describe it in detail, but I forward for the + readers of the MISSIONARY the following address, delivered by + Fung Jung, who has recently entered upon work as a missionary + helper. + + WM. C. POND. + +SCHOOL LIFE IN CHINA. + +I suppose you would like to hear about the school life of the children +in China. The girls are never sent to school, as the Chinese do not +think it is necessary for girls to be educated. Nearly every boy is +sent to school at about the same age as your American boys, six or +seven. From this time the boy's playing days are over. If the teacher +sees or hears that any one has been playing after the school hour, he +would be severely punished. What would your American boys think of +such treatment? + +School begins at the first dawning of light, and closes when we can +see to read no more. No intermission is allowed, excepting for the +pupils to go home to get their meals. The first thing in the morning +we begin to study the book of Confucius, all the pupils studying +aloud. We shall have to recite to the teacher very soon. When we go up +to recite, we must hand the book to the teacher and turn our faces +from him. This gives no chance to see which word comes next. This is +called backing the book. The consequences will be very sad should we +fail in reciting our lessons. A new lesson is then assigned if we +recite well. School dismisses for the pupils to go home for breakfast +at 9 o'clock. The writing lesson begins as soon as we come back. We +study again, and write again, {pg 214} and our copy books are +examined by the teacher. The nest time we recite, the teacher picks +out ten of the hardest characters from our lesson to see if we +recognize them. We shall have much trouble this time if we miss. The +teacher will inflict some curious punishment upon us and will say, +"You know this very well, I suppose, but the trouble is, you are too +old to study your lesson, and I am afraid you cannot see; I will give +you a pair of spectacles for a present. Perhaps that may help you to +see." Then he takes some red ink and draws a large circle around both +eyes, and then we may go home for lunch. No one is allowed to clean it +till coming back to school. Hardly any one with such marks wishes to +go home for lunch; every one who saw you would know you had been in +disgrace. + +We come back for our afternoon's work. The first part we spend in +writing, and the remainder of the day preparing our lesson for the +next morning. For the slightest offense the children are whipped +severely. The teachers are so strict, that it is no wonder the +children run away from school; some go fishing, or else to the woods +hunting birds' nests. If the boys see anybody not belonging to their +company they will climb up a tree as high as the branch can hide them +from view. All you boys will know the reason we are afraid any one +should see us. I remember running away from school once, but +unfortunately my father sent my sister to the school for me to go home +on business. As she could not find me, my father knew I had not been +to school that day. I went home for lunch about the time school +dismissed. When I got home, the first question my father asked was, +"School dismissed?" I answered, "Yes sir." He then said, "How did you +get along with your lesson?" I answered, "First class." "And who was +the first one in the class to-day?" I answered, "I am, sir." Then I +noticed his voice seemed to have an angry tone, and he said, "Are you +sure you have been to school?" I answered, "Of course I did, do you +think I am a liar?" I got terribly whipped this time, and when I went +to school in the afternoon, I also got a whipping from the teacher. I +did not have any more chance for running away from school this year, +for I was too closely watched. The children of China, you see, have no +pleasant time as you American boys and girls. + +The high schools are quite different from the primary. The students +have to lodge and board in the school-house. We get up in the morning +before daybreak to study; the teacher and all the students go to the +explanation hall for our lesson. The teacher explains the meaning of +the lesson, and in the afternoon we are expected to recite and give +the explanation as given by the teacher. This is the hardest work of +the whole day. Our evening lesson is studying essays and poems by +Chinese Princes. About eleven o'clock school closes, and in a very few +minutes I am sure you will find no one awake. In winter time we manage +to get about six hours for sleep, but in summer only about four. We +generally {pg 215} sleep a little while at the noon recess. It would +not be surprising if when the teacher could not see us, we try to take +a little nap in our seat. Each boy has a table to himself. None of the +scholars sit erect as your American custom. Every boy leans his head +upon his hands, so that he can manage to take a little sleep when the +teacher is not looking. + +We are allowed two meals a day only, and students cannot tell the cook +to prepare any private lunch. We can have as much tea as we wish. The +only way we can get anything extra is to try and get the cook to buy +it secretly, then it is very hard to get a chance to eat it without +the teacher seeing. I remember once my teacher made a visit to his +friends; usually he came back in about half an hour. When he was gone, +I thought I could make a little lunch, and eat it before he came back. +He came sooner than I expected. When I saw him coming back, I ran to +my seat as fast as I could and left the lunch in the kitchen. When the +teacher found out he told the cook to dish it up and he ate it. When +he finished, he came to us with a smile on his face and said, "Whose +cooking is this? If he tell me I will give him back the money." When I +heard that, I thought it was true, and I never thought the teacher of +the high school would tell stories and deceive me. So I said, "It is +mine." After I said that, he walked slowly back to his seat. I thought +he was going to give me back the money. I did wonder he did not ask me +how much it cost. So I watched him and saw him take up the bundle of +rattans. I guessed what was coming, and I guess I need not tell you +the result. The children of Christian lands have much to be thankful +for. I earnestly hope that soon the children of China will enjoy _all_ +the privileges which the Gospel brings. + + * * * * * + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + +MISS D.K. EMERSON, SECRETARY. + +WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS. +CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +ME.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, +Woodfords, Me. + +VT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry +Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt. + +CONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 +Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn. + +N.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.C. Creegan, +Syracuse, N.Y. + +ALA.--Woman's Missionary Association, Secretary, Mrs. G.W. Andrews, +Talladega, Ala. + +OHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, +Oberlin, Ohio. + +ILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 +Washington St., Chicago, Ill. + +MICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, +Lansing, Mich. + +WIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, +Wis. + +MINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H.L. Chase, 2,750 +Second Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn. + +IOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh, +Grinnell, Iowa. + +KANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison +Blanchard, Topeka, Kan. + +SOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.E. Young, +Sioux Falls, Dak. + +{pg 216} + * * * * * + +WOMAN'S TEMPERANCE WORK IN THE SOUTH. + +We regret that the color-line is rigidly drawn in some parts of the +South, at least, in the woman's work for temperance. Too much praise +cannot be given to the white women in the South for their zeal in this +good cause. The day will probably come when they will extend the hand +of fellowship to their equally earnest sisters of the less favored +race, but at present they do not recognize them as fellow-workers in +the same societies. Some of the extracts given below tell this +unpleasant story. All of them, however, show that the colored women, +undeterred by this ostracism, are throwing themselves with zeal and +success into this good work. + +STORRS SCHOOL, ATLANTA, GA. + +We have a W.C.T.U., also a Band of Hope. Our Union has increased very +much in interest, as well as in numbers, during the year. The Band of +Hope meets every Wednesday. It has a membership of _one hundred and +twenty-five_, and an average attendance of seventy-five or eighty. +Occasionally one or two ladies from the white W.C.T.U. will visit +ours, but our Union is not recognized by the State Union. At one time +a lady, acting then as President of our Union, went to the white +Union, but she was so light that no one could know to what race she +belonged, unless they knew her personally. There were no questions +asked, and I don't suppose any one thought of her being _colored_. +Our colored members would _not_ be admitted. Our teachers _would_ +be, _going by themselves_. + +TALLADEGA, ALA. + +We have a W.C.T.U., also a Loyal Temperance Legion. Our Union is +auxiliary to the Second W.C.T.U. of the State, and we are not +recognized by the First, or distinctively white organization. Colored +members would not be admitted. Indeed I understand that the First +Union has withdrawn from the National, because colored delegates were +received on the same basis as white. + +LOUISVILLE, KY. + +I endeavored when I first came to L----, to arouse an interest in +temperance work among the people. I visited members of the white +W.C.T.U. They assured me of their interest, and a Y.W.C.T.U. No. 2 +was organized among the colored women. They were not anxious to be +associated with the whites, but when the whites insisted that the name +given them should be changed to _Colored_ Y.W.C.T.U., the colored +women refused, and the Union disbanded, since which time it has been +impossible to arouse among them an interest in organized temperance +work, much as it is needed. Colored women would not be admitted as +members of a white Union. + +{pg 217} +WILMINGTON, N.C. + +We have a Temperance Society of about eighty members, and a Band of +Hope of one hundred and sixty members, no W.C.T.U., and if there were, +it could not have any co-operation with the white societies. Colored +members would not be admitted to white societies. + +LETTER FROM A TEACHER IN ATLANTA. + +When, last November, Atlanta voted to bring the deadly saloon back to +our quiet streets, she brought also startling revelations of woman's +power. We are accustomed to the refrain of "woman's sceptre," &c., +with all its dulcet variations, but the wild threats of deluded wives +if their sons or husbands voted for prohibition was a hitherto unheard +of "wail from the inferno." Many an earnest Atlanta woman dates her +re-consecration to the temperance cause from that awful Saturday night +when her frenzied sisters in the public streets joined in the +Bacchanalian revelries over the return of their cruel foe. Woman's +Christian Temperance Unions at once sprang up in various parts of the +city. So much has been done by colored women here, I feel that other +A.M.A. centres may be encouraged by an account of it. + +The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of East Atlanta, formed in +1885, is an inspiring gathering to visit, with a membership over +fifty, and the programme of weekly meetings full and interesting. +There are three female physicians in the city who cheerfully address +the Union when desired. The pastor of the First Congregational Church, +once a month, gives up the mid-week prayer meeting entirely into the +hands of this Union. Last week at the close of one of these meetings, +a young man told his sister it was the best prayer meeting he ever +attended in his life. The Temperance Catechism has been thoroughly +taught and illustrated. Committees of women are appointed to visit +homes and solicit members or attendance on the Union. At the close of +the meetings the women have access to a box of leaflets on social +purity, training of children, &c., which they read and return. + +Atlanta University has a Y.W.C.T.U., composed of over seventy girls in +the Higher Normal department. I wish our Northern friends could look +into their intelligent faces and watch their eager interest in this +work. A committee for visiting the poor reports every week; the press +superintendent reports her work, and if there is time reads what she +sent to the papers; the social purity superintendent gives a little +talk or has something read on the subject; and the most cheering thing +of all is the report from our literature superintendents, who often +report as many as thirty books or leaflets read during the week from +our little circulating library. This library cost about five dollars. + +Every officer in all these four Unions is a Negro except one. They +preside with such intelligence, grace and dignity, that our Southern +white {pg 218} ladies who sometimes visit them are enthusiastic in +their praise. The Unions plan for a mass meeting every three months in +some large church. + +Its forty departments of organized work give each a place where she +can do her best, and its opportunities for visiting the lowly are +excellent. To give our money is generous, but to give ourselves is +Christly. House-to-house visitation and personal contact of the +ignorant and unfortunate with those who are only a _little_ wiser and +better, even, is a mighty elevator. A W.C.T.U. visiting committee with +short terms of office, and so including a large number of women during +the year, can, in an _official_ capacity, call on a poor or wayward +sister without antagonizing her or wounding her self-respect. + + * * * * * + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + +CHILDREN'S DAY AT TALLADEGA. + +MRS. H.S. DEFOREST. + +A glorious sun ushered in the 29th of April, when for the first time +Children's Day was observed by the College Church. Deft fingers had +adorned the white walls, the chandeliers and the rostrum, with living +green, and from pulpit and organ glowed and burned the roses which +blossomed in rare profusion for this happy day. Early, from every +quarter, flocked the children, many with faces "black, but comely," +and all in attire neat and clean. Seats reserved for their use were +speedily filled, and as their voices rose in songs of praise, canary +and mocking bird from swinging cages swelled the glad sound. An +ascription of praise to God by the choir opened the exercises, the +pastor following with appropriate Scripture and prayer, and a word as +to the object of the decorations and special service--not for a picnic +or celebration, but that the children might ever remember this day +with solemn and peculiar interest as their very own. + +After the chanting by the choir, soft and slow, of "Suffer the little +children to come unto me," twenty children were presented by their +parents for baptism, two of the youngest belonging to officers of +the College. Parents brought two, and even three, little ones, that +the man of God might place upon their foreheads the seal of their +consecration, and in solemn and tender words they were reminded of the +meaning and obligation of the rite. + +A second exercise of unusual interest was the presentation of a Bible +to each of the baptized children of the church between the ages of +seven and twelve. To sixteen children, the day was thus made +memorable, the giving being prefaced with fitting remarks, and the +hope being expressed that during the year the new Bible might be read +entirely through. One recipient on reaching home immediately fell to +work, and on being remonstrated with for using his eyes too steadily, +said, "This is too good a {pg 219} Bible to stop reading." Doubtless +all were appreciated in like manner, and will be sacredly treasured. + +Short and pertinent addresses, suitable to childhood, were made by +chosen speakers, hymns familiar and appropriate were sung, and the +benediction, pronounced by a Baptist brother, closed a service unique +and unusual. + +A grandmother to twenty-three children, of whom three were presented +for baptism, said to the writer, "Oh! I am so happy. We never had +anything like this before, and the children and parents, too, are +_obleeged_ to remember it." + + * * * * * + +RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1888. + + + MAINE, $722.07. + +Augusta. Miss Alice Means S.S. Class, + for Student Aid, Talladega C. 3.55 + +Bangor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 + +Bangor. Miss Wyman's S.S. Class, for + Oahe Indian Sch. 5.00 + +Bangor. Mary F. Duren and others, for + Rosebud Indian M. 0.60 + +Bath. Winter St. Cong. Ch., 157.75; Central + Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30 187.75 + +Calais. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 45.00 + +Foxcroft. Mrs. D. Blanchard 1.00 + +Harpswell. Cong Ch., 18; Sab. Sch. of + Cong. Ch., for Indian M., 4 22.00 + +Portland. King's Daughters, by Miss + Moniton, Sec., Box of Basted Work and + 1 doz. thimbles, for Selma, Ala. + +South Berwick. Mrs. K.B. Lewis, 3.50; + "A Lady in Neb." by John H. Plumer, 2 5.50 + +Union. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 + +Winslow. S.S. of Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Yarmouth. A.H. Burbank, M.D. 50.00 + +York. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 + + -------- + 368.40 + +LEGACY. + +Bethel. Estate of Sarah J. Chapman, by + A.W. Valentine, Ex. 353.67 + + -------- + $722.07 + + + NEW HAMPSHIRE, $488.29. + +Amherst. Cong. Ch. 37.15 + +Claremont. Cong. Ch. 10.50 + +Concord. West Cong, Ch., 20: J.W. + Chandler, 1 21.00 + +Derry. Nutfield Mission, by Edna A. + Clarke, Treas., for Schp., Santee Indian + M. 50.00 + +Dunbarton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for + Student Aid, Wilmington. N.C. 10.00 + +East Derry. Mrs. M.G. Pigeon, to const. + MISS ABBIE M. CHOATE L.M. 31.00 + +Exeter. Second Ch., 125; "A Friend." 5 130.00 + +Exeter. "A Friend," for Talladega C. 5.00 + +Hollis. Cong. Ch. 16.25 + +Jaffrey. Children's Soc. "The Lillies," for + Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga. 9.00 + +Keene. Second Cong. Ch., 26.60; "M.E.S." 10 36.60 + +Littleton. "The Hillside Gleaners," by Mrs. + Mrs. S.E. Clay, for Oahe Indian Sch. 40.00 + +Mount Vernon. J.A. Starrett 5.00 + +Nashua. Ladles of Pilgrim Ch., Bbl. and + Box of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga. + +Northwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00 + +Rindge. Cong. Ch. 4.50 + +Wilton. Second Cong. Ch. 15.50 + +Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 52.79 + + + VERMONT, $428.80. + +Alburg Springs. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00 + +Barton Landing. Children's Miss'y Soc., + for Indian M., by Kate B. Joslyn, Treas. 12.00 + +Bellows Falls, Cong. Ch. and Soc., to + const. CHANCEY ADAMS, CHARLES SAWYER + and EDWARD G. OSGOOD L.M's 90.48 + +Bellows Falls. Mrs. J.M. Dawes, Box + BOOKS, for Lathrop Library, Sherwood, + Tenn. + +Burlington. Ladies of College St. Ch., by + Mrs. G.G. Benedict, 8.60; Y.P.S.C.E. of + First Cong. Ch., 1.84, for McIntosh, Ga. 10.44 + +Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 + +Cornwall. Cong. Ch. 56.64 + +Coventry. Ladles of Cong. Ch., for McIntosh, + Ga. 15.00 + +Fairlee. "A Friend" 5.00 + +Fairlee. Ladles, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, + for McIntosh, Ga. 5.00 + +Jericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.74 + +Northfield. Mrs. Mary D. Smith 4.50 + +Putney. "A few members Cong. Ch." by + Mrs. A.C. Shattuck, for McIntosh, Ga. 8.00 + +Saint Albans. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by + Mrs. M.A. Stranahan, for McIntosh, Ga. 20.00 + +Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. 100.00 + +Saxtons River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 + +Springfield. "Splinters of the Board" + Mission Circle, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, + for McIntosh, Ga. 5.00 + +Waitsfield. Ladies, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, + for McIntosh, Ga. 7.00 + +West Randolph. "A Friend," to const. + MRS. SIDNEY HOWARD L.M. 30.00 + +Weston. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + +Williston. Sab. Sch. Children's Fund, by + H.O. Whitney, Treas. 4.00 + +Woodstock. Ladies, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, + for McIntosh, Ga. 11.00 + + +{pg 220} + MASSACHUSETTS, $8,282.82. + +Amherst. South Cong. Ch. 6.75 + +Andover. Joseph W. Smith, 50; "A + Friend," 10 60.00 + +Andover. Free Christian Ch., (of which + 10 for Indian M. and 15 for Mountain + White Work) 155.31 + +Andover. Sab. Sch. of Free Christian Ch. + for Williamsburg, Ky. 25.00 + +Ashfield. Cong. Soc. 30.55 + +Belchertown. Mrs. R.W. Walker 2.00 + +Boston. Ezra Farnsworth, 500; Miss + Ida M. Mason, 250; Miss E.F. Mason, + 250; A Friend, 200; E.W. Harper, + 100; Jno. Ritchie, 100; "H.O.H." + 100; Boston, Nat'l. League, 100; J. + Ingersoll Bowditch, 50; Mrs. Edna D. + Cheney, 50; "A Friend," 25; "A + Friend," 25; Miss Abbey W. May, 25; + Wm. C. Richardson, 25; Louis Prang, + 5, for Atlanta U. 1,805.00 + +" Howard A. Bridgeman 7.50 + +" "A Friend" 5.00 + +" Mrs. E.P. Eayes 5.00 + +" Sab. Sch. Old So. Ch., for + Student Aid, Fisk U. 40.00 + +" A.S. Covel, for Student + Aid, Talladega C. 25.00 + +" James H. Beal, for Hospital, + Indian M. 25.00 + +Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc. 73.23 + +Dorchester. Mrs. E.T.W. Baker, for + Hospital Indian M. 75.00 + -------- 2,060.73 + +Boxford. Earnest Workers for Indian M. 20.00 + +Cambridge. First Ch. and Shepard Soc. 242.25 + +Cambridge. Young Ladies, Mission Circle of + No. Av. Cong. Ch., for Schp. Oahe Indian + M., By Rosa E. Bennett, Treas. 25.00 + +Cambridge. Prof. J. Henry Thayer, D.D. + for Atlanta U. 25.00 + +Cambridge. M.F. Aiken, for Pleasant Hill, + Tenn. 5.00 + +Canton. Hon. Elijah A. Morse, for Atlanta 25.00 + U. + +Chelsea. First Cong. Ch., for Atlanta U. 50.00 + +Chelsea. Central Ch. 17.73 + +Clinton. Cong. Ch. 55.00 + +Clinton. Mrs. M. Haskell, for Talladega C. 25.00 + +Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 169.05 + +Dedham. Allen Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + for Atlanta U. 55.64 + +East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., for + Student Aid, Talladega C. 12.50 + +East Weymouth. Mr. Totman, of Cong. Ch., + for Petty, Texas 20.00 + +Fitchburg. Miss Mattie D. Baldwin's S.S. + Class, for Atlanta U. 5.67 + +Georgetown. Memorial Ch. 44.32 + +Georgetown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + (10 of which for Atlanta U.) 35.00 + +Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.98 + +Haverhill. Dr. John Crowell's S.S. Class, + Center Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 30.00 + +Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 84.40 + +Holliston. S.S. Class of Young Ladies, + Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Talladega C. 5.00 + +Hyde Park. Cong. Ch., for Atlanta U. 50.00 + +Lawrence. Sab. Sch. of Trinity Cong. Ch., + for Mountain White Work 20.00 + +Lee. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 75.00 + +Leominster. Cong. Ch., (100 of which for + Indian M.) 123.35 + +Lowell. High St. Ch. and Soc. 159.92 + +Lunenberg. Evan Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +Melrose. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for Talladega, + Ala., Freight 1.37 + +Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. 72.93 + +Millbury. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., + for Indian M. 50.00 + +Millbury. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., + for Student Aid, Atlanta U. 25.00 + +Newburyport. Belleville Cong. Ch., 77; + North Ch., and Soc., 39 116.00 + +Newton Center. Hon. Robert R. Bishop, 25; + Arthur C. Walworth, 10; J. Caldwell, 5; + Bertie Morse, brother and sister, 19 ct., + for Atlanta U. 40.19 + +Newton Center. Maria P. Furber Miss'y Soc., + for Indian M. 20.00 + +Newton Center. Helen Pray, for Indian M. 0.10 + +North Amherst. ----. 10.00 + +Northampton. First Cong. Ch., 317.68; + Jared Clark, 20 337.68 + +Northampton. Mary A. Burnham School, + for Hospital, Indian M. 110.00 + +Northampton. A.L. Williston, for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn. 21.00 + +North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., to const. + W.H. HOLT, FRANK HARRIS and JENNIE L. + DELAND L.M's 100.00 + +Northbridge. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.56 + +North Leominster. Cong. Ch., to const. + MRS. FRANK FISKE, L.M. 35.03 + +Pepperell. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for + Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga. 15.00 + +Reading. Cong. Ch. 18.00 + +Rockland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 25.00 + +Salem. Young Ladies M.C. of Tab. Ch., for + Schp., Santee Indian Sch. 50.00 + +Shelburne Falls. "American Missionary Aids" + by Mrs. A.N. Russell 11.91 + +Shrewsbury. Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 26.17 + +South Framingham. So. Cong. Ch., (50 of + which for Atlanta. U. and 50 for Mountain + White Work, from R.L. Day) 232.63 + +Southington, Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., for + Rosebud Indian M. 6.45 + +Somerville. "Friend in Day St. Ch." 5.00 + +South Weymouth. L.M. Praying Circle of + Second Cong. Ch. 17.35 + +Spencer. Dr. E.W. Norwood, for Student aid, + Atlanta U. 10.00 + +Spencer. Class of Boys, Cong. S.S., for + Student Aid, Talladega C. 3.33 + +Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.33 + +Waltham. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for Talladega + Ala., Freight 1.48 + +Ware. "Friends," 75; Sab. Sch. East Cong. + Ch., Young Mens' Class, for Schp., 35; + Young Ladies' Class, 30, for Indian M. 140.00 + +Ware. East Cong. Ch., for Indian M. add'l. 1.00 + +West Acton. Rev. J.W. Brown 5.00 + +West Boylston. Chas. T. White 5.00 + +Westfield. Sab. Sch. of Second Ch., for + Student Aid, Fisk U. 66.72 + +Westford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00 + +West Springfield. Ladies Mission Circle of + Park St. Ch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 20.00 + +West Stockbridge. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + for Student Aid, Atlanta U. 5.00 + +Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 24.59 + +Winchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., + (146 of which for Indian M.) 165.55 + +Winchester. Mrs. B.F. Holbrook, for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn. 5.00 + +Worcester. "A Friend in Piedmont Ch." 5.00 + +Worcester. Philip L. Moen, 100; Albert + Curtis, 50; E.G. Partridge, 50; Philip W. + Moen, 50; Stephen Salisbury, 25; Geo. L. + Newton, 25; "S.E.J.," 25; Hon. P.E. + Aldrich, 10; Edw'd Hall, 5; A.G. Bullock, + 5; H.D. Foster, 2, for Atlanta U. 347.00 + +Worcester. Mrs, Abby S. Kimball and Other + Friends, 35; Mrs. Geo. M. Rice, 35; + for Sch'p's Indian M. 70.00 + +Worcester. Mrs. Abbey Coes, 50; "A Member of + Union Ch." 5; for Rosebud Indian M. 55.00 + +Worcester. Mr. Green, 2 Pkg's books, for Library, + Sherwood, Tenn. + +By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden + Benev. Ass'n: + East Granville 6.00 + Holyoke. Second 48.60 + Monson 35.56 + Springfield. First 20.00 + Springfield. Olivet 36.68 + Westfield. Second 14.46 + ----- 156.30 + --------- + $6,232.82 + + LEGACIES. + +Medfield. Estate of Mrs. Abigail Cummings, + (500 of which for Atlanta U.) by + Executors 2000.00 + +Newton Centre. Estate of Rebecca Parker Ward, + by Benj. W. Kingsbury 50.00 + --------- + $8,282.82 + +{pg 221} + CLOTHING, ETC. RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE. + +Boston, Mass. Miss H.H. Stanwood, 21 + Valuable Books, for Library, Macon, + Ga. + +Farmingham, Mass. 1 Bbl. for Kittrell, + N.C. + +Hyde Park. Mass. Woman's H.M. Union of + Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. Val. 150, for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn. + +Lanesville. W.L. Saunders, 1 Box + +Shrewsbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch., 1 + Box Books + + + RHODE ISLAND, $11.00. + +Providence. Rev. A.F. Keith 10.00 + +Providence. Ed. R. Wheeler, for Talladega C. 1.00 + + + CONNECTICUT, $4,588.53. + +Ansonia. First Cong. Ch. 36.50 + +Bethel. Young Ladies Mission Circle, for + Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 50.00 + +Bridgeport, Second Cong. Ch. 80.50 + +Bridgeport. Young People of Park St. Ch., + for Indian M. 5.00 + +Bridgeport. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Box + Bedding, etc., for Williamsburg, Ky. + +Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.91 + +Bristol. "A Friend" 75.00 + +Bristol. Ladies Soc., Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., + etc., for Thomasville, Ga. + +Canterbury. Rev. E.C. Haynes 5.00 + +Center Brook and Ivoryton. Second Cong. Ch. + of Say Brook, to const. DEA. GILBERT F. + BUCKINGHAM, L.M. 50.47 + +Colchester. W.C.T.U., Talladega, Ala., + freight 1.38 + +Darien. Ladies Soc., by Miss Ellen M. Nash, + for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 10.00 + +East Granby. "Ladies" 3; Mission Band, 2; + by Mrs. E.H. Strong, for Conn. Ind'l + Sch., Ga. 5.00 + +East Haven. Cong. Ch. 12.44 + +East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 + +Enfield. "Friends in Cong. Ch.," 56.88 + ----, for Hospital, 15, "Birthday Gifts," + 9.70, for Indian M. 81.58 + +Enfield. Albert Abbe, for Student Aid, + Straight U. 7.00 + +Essex. "Friends," by C.S. Munger, for + Oahe Indian Sch. 3.00 + +Fairfield. First Cong. Ch. 36.10 + +Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch. 42.00 + +Gilead. Cong. Ch. 40.00 + +Greenwich. "A" 20.00 + +Guilford. First Cong. Ch. to const. MISS + ETTA L. BULLARD L.M. 30.00 + +Hampton. Henry G. Taintor, 5; Mrs. Henry + G. Taintor, 5; ---- 5 15.00 + +Hartford. Mrs. Henry Perkins, for Boys' + Hall, Santee Indian M. 1000.00 + +Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., 100; "A + Friend," 100; Theodore Lyman, 50; Miss + Charlotte Jewell, 25; Atwood Collins, 25; + Rev. W.H. Moore, 20; Geo. W. Moore, 20; + Jona B. Bruce, 20; J.S. Wells, 10; Mrs. + Pliny Jewell, Sr., 10; Dea. B.E. Hooker, + 10; G.M. Welch, 10; Chas. B. Whiting, 10; + D.W.C. Pond, 5; Mrs. Chas. F. Howard, 5; + Abel S. Clark, 5; Chas. E. Thompson, 5, + for Atlanta U. 430.00 + +Hartford. Students Theo. Sem., for Indian + M. 35.00 + +Hebron. First Cong. Ch. 9.38 + +Higganum. Mrs. Susan Gladwin, for Indian M. 5.00 + +Kensington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 5, bal. + to const. MRS. IDA R. BENEDICT L.M.; Mrs. + M. Hotchkiss, 5 10.00 + +Middletown. "A.B.C." 5.00 + +Middletown. Miss Susan C. Clarke, for + Atlanta U. 30.00 + +Milton. Friends in Cong. Ch., by Mrs. G. + Page, for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 3.00 + +New Britain. Mrs. Louisa Nichols, (30 of + which to const. CHARLES JEWETT, L.M.) 50; + James W. Cooper, 10; D.N. Camp, 5; F.G. + Platt, 5; B.N. Comings, 5; Arthur Blake, 2; + John Wyard, 2; for Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand + View, Tenn. 79.00 + +New Britain. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for + Tougaloo U. 75.00 + +New Britain. L.B. Soc. of So. Cong. Ch., + Bbl. of C., Miss M. Stanley, 1.37, for + Williamsburg, Ky. 1.37 + +New Haven. United Cong. Ch., 211.11; E. + Woolsey, 5 216.11 + +New Haven. Young Ladies M. Circle of Center + Ch., 75; Mrs. Julia Dickerman; 25; Alfred + Walker, 10; for Hospital Indian M. 110.00 + +New Haven. F.H. Hart, for Student Aid, + Talladega C. 50.00 + +New Haven. S.J.M. Merwin, 20; "E.H.B." 6; + John G. North, 5; W.A. Ives, 5; T.T. + Munger, 2; R.P. Cowles, 2; D.W. Shares, 2; + "Cash", 1; Rufus S. Picket, 1, for Jewett + Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn. 44.00 + +New Haven. Dwight Place Ch. Benev. Soc. + Bbl. of C., for Macon, Ga. + +New London. Mrs. Martha S. Harris, for + Indian M. 20.00 + +New London. "Friends" Bbl. Table Linen, etc., + for Talladega C. + +New London. Henry R. Bond, 5; "Cash," 5, for + Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn. 10.00 + +New Milford. Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Turrill 10.00 + +Nepaug. Cong. Ch. 6.64 + +Newington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student + Aid, Atlanta U. 103.08 + +North Cornwall. Cong. Ch. 47.35 + +North Coventry. Cong. Ch. 35.16 + +Norfolk. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 20.00 + +Norwich. "Cash," 13; W.H. Shields, 5; J.P. + Barstow, 5; Miss E.S. Gilman, 5; N.L. + Bishop, 3; W.S. Hempstead, 2; for Jewett + Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn. 33.00 + +Norwich. "A Friend," for Atlanta U. 5.00 + +Norwich Town. Mrs. S.N. Yarrington, for + Indian M. 1.00 + +Plainville. Cong. Ch. 96.51 + +Preston. Long. Soc., for Thomasville, Ga. 5.00 + +Rockville. First Cong. Ch. 100.00 + +Roxbury. Mrs. S.J. Beardsley, Pkg. Patchwork, + for Sherwood, Tenn. + +Sharon. Birthday Box of Cong. Ch., for + Atlanta U. 12.08 + +Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 + +South Manchester. Cheney Bros., for Atlanta + U. 300.00 + +Southport. Ladies' Soc. by Miss M.G. Petry, + for Conn. Ind'l Sch. Ga. 20.00 + +Stafford Springs. Sab. Sch., of Cong. Ch., + for Student Aid, Fisk U. 25.00 + +Stonington. Mrs. Robert Eldred's S.S. + Class, 6.60; Mrs. Dr. Hyde, 2, "Cash" 1, + for Talladega C. 9.60 + +Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.73 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 12.35 + +Thompson. Cong. Ch. 25.80 + +Unionville. First Church of Christ 25.51 + +Washington. Cong. Ch. for Mountain White + Work 38.21 + +Washington Depot. "S" 10.00 + +Westville. Cong. Ch. 19.00 + +Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch. 87.77 + +----. "Poor Widow in Conn." 2.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Conn., + by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec.: + Bridgeport. L.M. Soc. of North + Ch. for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 75.00 + Fairfield. L.M. Soc. of First + Ch., for Indian M. 45.00 + Griswold. Ladies M. Soc., + for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 10.00 + Hartford. W.C.H.M.U., in memory + of Mrs. Charles Ray Palmer, 10.00 + ------ 130.00 + -------- + $3,988.53 + +{pg 222} + LEGACIES. + +New London. "Trust Estate of Henry P. + Haven" 300.00 + +Rocky Hill. Estate Of Rev. Asa B. Smith, + by Rev. Elijah Harmon, Ex. 300.00 + -------- + $4,588.53 + + + NEW YORK, $6,978.25. + +Albany. B.W. Johnson, Christmas Cards, + for Savannah, Ga. + +Brooklyn. Central Cong. Soc 1027.26 + +Brooklyn, Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., + for Indian M. 37.50 + +Brooklyn. Thomas Stone, for Talladega C. 20.00 + +Buffalo. Mrs. Sterling Ely, Box of C. +East Rockaway. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +Fairport. S.E. Dowd, Papers, etc., for + Savannah, Ga. + +Fredonia. Martha L. Stevens 5.00 + +Franklin. Cong. Ch., 25; S.G. Smith, 5 30.00 + +Havana. W.C.T.U., Box Books, etc., for + Avery Inst. + +Homer. B.W. Payne 10.00 + +Lima. Miss Clara M. Janes 1.00 + +Lisle. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 2 Pkgs + S.S. Papers, for Savannah, Ga. + +Mount Carmel. W.C.T.U., 2 Bbls. + Books etc., for Avery Inst. + +New York. S.T. Gordon 100.00 + +New York. H.C. Hulbert, 25; John Gibb, 25; + S.B. Close, 3, for Talladega C. 53.00 + +New York. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim Ch., for + Atlanta U. 10.00 + +Northville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 12.00 + +Norwich. Primary Dep't Sab. Sch. First + Ch., 2 doz. H'dkfs, for Savannah, Ga. + +Oxford. E.L. ENRIGRO, M.D., 30; to const. + himself L.M.; Cong. Ch., 15 45.00 + +Port Richmond. S. Squires 5.00 + +Rochester. Plymouth Ch. 52.63 + +Rochester. "Do What You Can" Mission Band + Central Pres. Ch. for Student Aid, + Talladega C. 5.00 + +Saratoga. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for Student + Aid, Talladega C. 10.00 + +Sherburne. Box of Library Books, by D.W. + Teller, for Talladega C. + +Sweden. Mission Band, Quilt, etc., for + Savannah, Ga. + +Syracuse. Plym. Cong. Ch. 35.17 + +Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel 10.00 + +Utica. DWIGHT E. MARVIN, to const, himself + L.M. 30.00 + +West Bloomfield. Mrs. Sherrell and Friends, + for Student Aid, Fisk U. 10.00 + +Yaphank. Mrs. Hannah M. Overton, for Oahe + Indian Sch. 5.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by + Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., for Woman's Work: + Berkshire. Daisy Band 13.67 + Owego. Ladies' Aux. 21.00 + Moira. Ladies' Aux. 5.00 + Woman's H.M.U. of N.Y. 221.02 + Lockport. W.H.M. Soc. 21.00 + Aquebogne. W.H.M. Soc. 5.00 + Canandaigua. W.H.M. Soc., + (70 of which for Schp. Hampton + Inst.) 170.00 + ------ 456.69 + --------- + $1,978.25 + + LEGACY. + +Niagara Palls. Estate of William H. + Childs, by Wm. F. Evans, Ex. 5000.00 + --------- + $6,978.25 + + + NEW JERSEY, $90.35. + +Closter. Cong. Ch. 9.35 + +Montclair. Cong. Ch., ad'l 1.00 + +Montclair. Ladies' Missionary Soc. of + First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Washington, + D.C. + +Newark. Miss Bleecher, for Student Aid, + Marion, Ala. 30.00 + +Roselle. "A Friend" for Woman's Work 50.00 + + + PENNSYLVANIA, $10.00. + +Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., ad'l 10.00 + + + OHIO, $1,362.59. + +Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc., bal. to const. + MISS FRANK BENJAMIN L.M. 24.35 + +Atwater. L.H.M.S. of Cong. Ch., for + Ponies 1.60 + +Austinburg. Ladies' Soc., by J.C. Miller, + for Ponies 2.00 + +Berea. Sab, Sch. First Cong. Ch., Box + Books, Etc., for Sherwood, Tenn. + +Claridon. Mrs. C.W. Eames, 5.50; Mrs. M.C. + Bruce, 2; Miss Olive Bruce, 2; + W.B. & A.L. Bruce, 2.50; for Student + Aid, Talladega C. 12.00 + +Claridon. Ladies' Soc., by Mrs. Mary C. + Bruce, for Ponies 1.00 + +Cincinnati. Rev. W.H. Warren 2.00 + +Cleveland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 19.30 + +Cleveland. C.A. Post, for Student Aid, + Straight U. 5.00 + +Columbus. First Cong. Ch. 246.46 + +Columbus. By Rev. Benj. Talbot, Bound Set + of "New Englander" from Yale Alumni, + for Talladega C. + +Conneaut. H.E. Pond 5.00 + +Cuyanoga Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 23.46 + +Donnelville. Ella Purssell, for Student + Aid, Fisk U. 5.00 + +Fredericksburg. First Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Greenwich. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Anna + M. Mead, Sec., for Ponies 1.00 + +Kellogsville. By Rev. S.R. Dole, for + Student Aid, Marion, Ala. 3.25 + +Madison. "From H.B.F." for Student + Aid, Talladega C. 200.00 + +Madison. W.H.M. Soc. of Central Ch., + by Mrs. L.H. Kimball, for Ponies 5.25 + +Mansfield. F.E. Tracy, for Student Aid, + Tillotson C. & N. Inst. 9.00 + +Medina. W.M.S., by Mrs. O.H. McDowell, + Treas., for Ponies 1.55 + +North Bloomfield. "Earnest Workers," for + Student Aid, Storrs Sch., Atlanta 9.00 + +New London. Mrs. C.E. Healy's S.S. Class, + for Ponies 1.00 + +Oberlin. Rev. C.N. Pond 3.00 + +Oberlin. J.L. Burrell, for Indian M. 500.00 + +Painesville. Pupils Lake Erie Sem., for + Ponies 15.00 + +Pierpont, By Rev. S.R. Dole, for Student + Aid, Marion, Ala. 4.50 + +Stuebenville. Ladies' Soc., by Mrs. J. + Campbell, for Ponies .50 + +Tallmadge. First Cong. Ch. 35.01 + +Wellington. Edward West 20.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. + Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., for Woman's Work: + Chardon. W.M.S. 6.00 + Cincinnati. W.M.S., of + Walnut Hills Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Cleveland. L.H.M.S. of First + Ch., for Ponies 10.00 + Elyria. L.H.M.S. of First Ch. 5.00 + Hudson. L.H.M.S. 3.33 + Oberlin. L.A.S. of First Cong. + Ch. 78.20 + Oberlin. L.S. of Second Cong. + Ch., for Ponies 17.30 + Rootstown. L.H.M.S., for + Ponies 5.55 + ------ 140.38 + + +{pg 223} + ILLINOIS, $1,059.28. + +Buda. J.B. Stewart 100.00 + +Chillicothe. R.W. Gilliam 10.00 + +Chicago. E.W. Blatchford, for Atlanta U. 300.00 + +Chicago. Mrs. C.E. Stanley, Pkg. Books; + A.C. McClurg & Co., Pkg. Books, for + Lathrop Library, Sherwood, Tenn. + +Earlville. Cong. Ch. 25.15 + +Evanston. J.M. Williams, for Schp. Fund, + Fisk U. 50.00 + +Griggsville. Cong. Ch. 17.96 + +La Grange. Cong. Ch. 8.30 + +Lyndon. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +McLean. Cong. Ch. 5.80 + +Peoria. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., for + Sch'p Fund, Fisk U. 25.50 + +Plymouth. Mrs. R.C. Burton 5.00 + +Rantoul. W.M.U. of Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Ridge Prairie. Rev. Andrew Kern 2.00 + +Rockford. Second Cong. Ch. 267.95 + +Shabbona. Cong. Ch. 42.96 + +Sycamore. Cong. Ch. 82.24 + +Wheaton. College Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Woman's Home Miss'y Union of Ill., by + Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, Treas., for Woman's Work: + Galva. For Student Aid, + Talladega C. 29.20 + Lombard. W.H.M.U. 5.55 + Rockford. First Ch. W.H.M.U. 11.67 + Rockford. Second Ch. W.H.M.U. 2.00 + Stark. W.H.M.U. 6.00 + Toulon. W.H.M.U. 5.00 + Mobile. W.H.M.U. 25.00 + Oak Park. L.B. Circle 12.00 + ------ 96.42 + + + MICHIGAN, $174.32. + +Kalamazoo. Ladies' M. Soc., First Cong. + Ch., 2 Boxes Bedding, etc., for Talladega C. + +Manistee. First Cong. Ch. 21.60 + +Mattawan. First Cong. Ch. 4.45 + +Saint Clair. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Vicksburg. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for + Student Aid, Athens, Ala. 7.00 + +Webster. Cong. Ch. 11.27 + +Woman's Home Miss'y Union of Mich., by + Mrs. B.F. Grabill, Treas.: + Bay City. W.H.M.S. 5.00 + Reed City. W.H.M.S. 5.00 + ----- 10.00 + + + WISCONSIN, $260.95. + +Arena. Cong. Ch. 4.21 + +Baldwin. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Beloit. Second Cong. Ch. 12.75 + +Black Earth. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Brandon. Cong. Ch. 18.21 + +Elroy. Cong. Ch. 2.50 + +Lake Geneva. Y.P.M.S. of Cong. Ch., for + Student Aid, Fisk U. 25.00 + +Madison. First Cong. Ch. 33.31 + +Raymond. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Roberts. Cong. Ch. 2.75 + +Union Grove. Cong. Ch. 17.00 + +Waukesha. First Cong. Ch. 36.00 + +Waukesha. Chas. W. Camp, for freight 2.50 + +Woman's Home Miss'y Union of Wis., for + Womans Work: + Beloit. W.M.S., bal. to const. + SARAH A. COFFIN L.M. 19.40 + Beloit. W.M.S. of Second Cong. + Ch. 7.00 + Arena. W.M.S. 1.19 + Eau Clair. W.H.M.S. 4.25 + Green Bay. W.H.M.S. 11.00 + Madison. W.H.M.S. 4.88 + Milwaukee. W.H.M.S. of + Grand Ave. Cong. Ch. 25.00 + Milwaukee. Plymouth Helping + Hands 10.00 + Whitewater. L.M.S. 5.00 + Platteville. L.H.M.S. 6.00 + ----- 93.72 + + + IOWA, $381.00. + +Afton. H.W. Perrigo 10.00 + +Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 9.61 + +Davenport. Mrs. M. Willis, Pkg. Patchwork, + for Sherwood, Tenn. + +Des Moines. Plymouth Ch., Bedding, etc., + for Talladega C. + +Farragut. Lucy S. Chapin, Work Bag and + 6 Hdkf's, for Savannah, Ga. + +Grinnell. Cong. Ch., 7.54; Sab. Sch. of + Cong. Ch., 70 77.54 + +Jefferson. Rev. D.B. Eells 5.00 + +Mason City. Cong. Ch. 3.18 + +Marshalltown. Cong. Ch., for Student + Aid, Straight U. 16.81 + +Monona. Cong. Ch. 3.04 + +Muscatine. Cong. Ch. 54.45 + +Muscatine. Dr. and Mrs. A.B. Robbins, + for Talladega C. 7.50 + +Ottumwa. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + for Sch'p Fund, Fisk U. 15.00 + +Tabor. "A Friend," for Woman's Work 5.00 + +-----. "Friends," for Oahe Indian Sch. 14.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, + for Woman's Work: + Alden 1.70 + Charles City. Y.P.S.C.E. 5.00 + Chester Center. 10.00 + Davenport. 25.00 + Dubuque. Y.P.B. Soc. 10.00 + Des Moines. W.M.S. Plym. Ch. 14.76 + Eldora. L.M.S. 12.42 + Fairfield. 2.95 + Grinnell 11.30 + Lansing Ridge. 3.00 + Le Mars. L.M.S. 3.15 + McGregor. W.M.S. 6.30 + Montour. 3.00 + Magnolia. 2.65 + Marion. W.M.S. 25.00 + Mason City. L.M.S. 3.00 + Osage. W.M.S. 2.81 + Rockford. .58 + Sheldon. 1.00 + Tabor. W.H.M.S. 15.00 + Wells. 1.25 + ------ 159.87 + + + MINNESOTA, $92.80. + +Appleton. Cong. Ch., 4.12 and Sab. + Sch., .50 4.62 + +Austin. "A Friend," for Atlanta U. 5.00 + +Freeborn. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Glyndon. Union Ch., 8.96 and Sab. Sch. 1 9.96 + +Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 29.80; Pilgrim + Cong. Ch., 15 44.80 + +Minneapolis. W.M. Bristoll, for Student + Aid, Atlanta U. 20.00 + +Spring Valley, Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 3.42 + +Waseca. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Oahe + Indian Sch. 2.00 + + + MISSOURI, $9.35. + +Saint Joseph. James A. Canfield 1.00 + +St. Louis. Plymouth Ch. 8.35 + + + KANSAS, $22.51. + +Cora. Cong. Ch. 8.50 + +Melrose. Mrs. M.E.H. Keyes 1.00 + +Meriden. J. Rutty 9.00 + +Neosha Falls. S.B. Dyckman 1.00 + +Paola. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch. 3.01 + + + DAKOTA, $136.73. + +Huron. First Cong. Ch. 53.08 + +De Smet. Phebe M. Weeks 14.70 + +Oahe. Cong. Ch., 8.20; Miss Lindeman, + 2.50, for Indian Sch. 10.70 + +Oahe. Interest on Endowment, for Indian + Sch. 20.00 + +Springfield. Cong. Ch. 1.25 + +Valley Springs. "Cheerful Workers," by + W. Howard Watson 4.00 + +Yankton. J.R. Sanborn 25.00 + +Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas., + for Woman's Work: + Esmond. 1.00 + Iroquois. 1.00 + Oahe. Shiloh Ch. 1.00 + Sioux Falls. W.M.S. 5.00 + ----- 8.00 + + +{pg 224} + NEBRASKA, $15.81. + +Aten. Cong, Ch. 1.81 + +Beatrice. Mrs. Delia B. Hotchkiss 10.00 + +Bertrand. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Lincoln. J.M. Denman 1.00 + + + COLORADO, $5.10. + +Denver. Rev. R.T. Croas, 5; Judson + Cross, 10c., for Atlanta U. 5.10 + + + UTAH, $6.00. + +Salt Lake City. Phillips Cong. Ch. 6.00 + + + ARKANSAS, $5.00. + +Little Rock. Ladies M. Soc. of First + Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Talladega C. 5.00 + + + CALIFORNIA, $10.35. + +Lugonia. Mary G. Hale 5.00 + +Riverside. C.W. Herron's Class in Sab. Sch. 5.35 + + + OREGON, $50.00. + +Portland. First Cong. Ch. 30, to const. + GEORGE H. HIMES L.M.; E. Charevoy, 5 35.00 + +Salem. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + + + DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $48.83. + +Washington. Howard U., M.C. Coll's, + 12.24; Lincoln Memorial Ch., 11.59 23.83 + +Washington. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., + for Indian M. 25.00 + + + VIRGINIA, $5.65. + +Herndon. Cong. Ch. 5.65 + + + KENTUCKY, $163.16. + +Williamsburg. Tuition 163.15 + + + NORTH CAROLINA, $189.82. + +Nalls. Rev. M.L. Baldwin .50 + +Oaks. Cong. Ch. 1.12 + +Pekin. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + +Troy. Tuition, 13.25; By S.D. Leak, 1 14.25 + +Wilmington. Tuition 157.70 + +Wilmington. Miss H.L. Fitts, 10.76; Miss + A.E. Farrington, 4.50, for Student Aid 15.25 + + + SOUTH CAROLINA, $210.50. + +Charleston. Tuition 210.50 + + + TENNESSEE, $1,307.89. + +Chattanooga. Loomis Hart & Co., for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 29.00 + +Glen Mary. "Friends," by Rev. G.S. Pope 2.60 + +Grand View. Tuition 33.70 + +Jellico. Tuition 35.00 + +Jonesboro. Tuition, 3; Rent, 1 4.00 + +Memphis. Tuition 381.00 + +Nashville. Tuition, 529.60; Rent, 6.50 536.10 + +Nashville. Cong. Ch. Fisk U, for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn. 8.64 + +Pleasant Sill. By Rev. B. Dodge. Mrs. + Rev. Houston, 10; "A Friend," 2, for + Pleasant Hill 12.00 + +Sherwood. Tuition, 239.75; "Friends," for + Student Aid, 26.10 265.85 + + + GEORGIA, $800.46. + +Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, 299.25; + Rent, 2; First Cong. Ch., 10 Birthday + Offerings, 2.71 303.96 + +Atlanta. Wm. A. Haygood, for Atlanta U. 15.00 + +Macon. Tuition 191.05 + +McIntosh. Tuition 24.70 + +Marietta. Cong. Ch. 50c. and S.S. 50c. 1.00 + +Savannah. Tuition 191.50 + +Thomasville. Tuition 73.25 + + + ALABAMA, $619.22. + +Athens. Tuition 62.50 + +Kymulga. Cong. Ch., for Talladega C. 1.25 + +Marion. Tuition 167.75 + +Marion. "Southern Friends," 7; "C.W.L.," + 1.85; for Sch. at Marion 8.85 + +Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 40.00 + +Talladega. Tuition 119.07 + + + FLORIDA, $387.13. + +Saint Augustine. Pub. Sch. Fund, 287.75; + Rent, 82; Tuition, 17.75 369.75 + +Winter Park. W.H.M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., + for Student Aid, Talladega C. 17.38 + + + LOUISIANA, $321.62. + +Hammond. Cong. Ch. 2.62 + +New Orleans. Tuition 319.00 + + + MISSISSIPPI, $178.00. + +Tougaloo. Tuition, 114; Rent, 54 168.00 + +Tougaloo. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 5, for + Chinese M. and 5 for Indian M. 10.00 + + + TEXAS, $137.75. + +Austin. Tuition, 131.25; Tillotson + Ch., 2.60 133.85 + +Dodd City. Pilgrim Ch. .90 + +Petty. Bethel Cong. Ch. 3.00 + + + INCOMES, $1,603.55. + +Avery Fund, for Mendi M. 91.35 + +DeForest Fund, for President's Chair, + Talladega C. 353.85 + +Gen'l Endowment Fund 30.00 + +Hammond Fund, for Straight U. 54.52 + +Hastings Sch'p Fund, for Atlanta U. 12.50 + +Howard Theo. Fund, for Howard U. 517.02 + +H.W. Lincoln Sch'p Fund, for Talladega C. 30.00 + +Luke Mem. Fund, for Talladega C. 10.00 + +LeMoyne Fund, for Memphis, Tenn. 171.81 + +Rice Mem. Sch'p Fund, for Talladega C. 9.00 + +Stone Fund, for Talladega C. 25.00 + +Straight U. Sch'p Fund 72.50 + +Talladega Theo. Fund 21.00 + +Tuthill King Fund, for Berea C. 75.00 + + " " " for Atlanta U. 125.00 + +Yale Library Fund, for Talladega C. 5.00 + + + CANADA, $5.00. + +Montreal. Chas. Alexander 5.00 + + + FRANCE, $10.00. + +Paris. Warren K. Southwick, for Talladega + C. 10.00 + + + AFRICA, $5.09. + +Bihe. Wm. H. Sanders 5.00 + ========== + +Donations $17,455.23 +Legacies 8,003.67 +Incomes 1,603.55 +Tuitions 3,968.12 +Rents 146.50 + ---------- + + Total for May $31,176.07 + Total from Oct. 1 to May 31 190,097.27 + ========== + + + FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY + +Subscriptions for May $ 38.02 +Previously acknowledged 713.18 + ------- + + Total $751.20 + ======= + + * * * * * + +H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer, +56 Reade St., N.Y. + + * * * * * + + +[Transcriber's Notes: + CONTENTS: Wilmington, D.C. corrected to Wilmington, N.C. + pg 219: Andover. Free Christain Ch. corrected to Christian Ch.] + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary, Volume XLII. +No. 7. 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