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diff --git a/old/14102.txt b/old/14102.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a22d2c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/14102.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3667 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, August, 1888, (Vol. +XLII, No. 8), by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: American Missionary, August, 1888, (Vol. XLII, No. 8) + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 20, 2004 [EBook #14102] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + + + + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Donald Perry, John Hagerson, and the +PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This book was produced from +scans generously provided by Cornell University. + + + + + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY + + + +August, 1888. + +Vol. XLII. No. 8. + + + +CONTENTS + +EDITORIAL + FINANCIAL.--A CONVERSATION + THE VERNACULAR--THE LAST GOVERNMENT ORDER + ENDORSEMENT OF SOLICITORS--PROF. LAWRENCE + LONDON MISSIONARY CONFERENCE--GETTYSBURG + BOOM IN PRICE OF A SLAVE--EXTRACTS FROM EXAMINATION PAPERS + ON DR. JAMES POWELL'S PORTRAIT--PARAGRAPH + +THE SOUTH. + NOTES IN THE SADDLE. By District Secretary Ryder. + ATLANTA UNIVERSITY + COMMENCEMENT AT FISK UNIVERSITY + AN HOUR AT STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY + CLOSING EXERCISES AT TILLOTSON + +THE INDIANS. + PARAGRAPH FROM OAHE + SEWING WOMEN AT FORT BERTHOLD + AN INDIAN CHURCH SOCIABLE + +THE CHINESE. + ITEMS + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + PARAGRAPHS + NOTES FROM MISS COLLINS + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + THE TRUE BLUE CARD + +RECEIPTS + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, + +Rooms, 56 Reade Street. + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. + +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second class matter. + + + +American Missionary Association. + + * * * * * + +PRESIDENT, 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 Reads 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. + + * * * * * + +=THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.= + + +VOL. XLII. AUGUST, 1888. No. 8. + + +=American Missionary Association.= + + * * * * * + +*FINANCIAL.* + +Our receipts for the nine months ending June 30 are $214,434.40, an +increase of $10,913.66, as compared with the corresponding months of +last year. The increase of receipts from legacies is only $184.81, +showing that almost the entire increase is from collections, and this +we regard as the genuine test of the confidence of our patrons in the +work of the Association. On the other hand, a large part of this +increase is for special objects, and does not aid us in meeting +regular appropriations. We must add, also, that our expenditures +during the last nine months have been $21,828.95 greater than for the +same months last year. These facts point inevitably to the +trilemma--debt, curtailment or increased receipts. + +It is easy to say "retrench," and if it is the unmistakable call of +the churches, we must do it. But we wish to present another aspect of +the subject. In a case where enlargement in the way of new or +improved buildings is imperatively demanded to ensure the usefulness +of the school, and where there comes to us Providentially, and +without solicitation on our part, the proffer of the money to make +those enlargements, is it our duty to refuse that money? If our +constituents have the facts before them, we, as their agents, will +cheerfully abide their decision. To this end will be found below the +sketch of a conversation, not imaginary, but which actually occurred, +and which will present some of these facts. We ask our patrons to +read it and then to decide whether our action in these cases was +right, and, if so, whether it should be a guide for the future. + + * * * * * + +*A CONVERSATION--ITS RESULTS, ITS LESSONS.* + +About two years ago a gentleman came to this office, and said to one +of the Secretaries: + +"If a person has eight or ten thousand dollars which he would like to +devote to some good object, where would you advise him to give it?" + +To this the Secretary promptly replied: "To the American Missionary +Association, of course." + +"All right," said the gentleman, "but to what special purpose would +you advise it to be applied?" + +"Our great need," said the Secretary, "is to meet current expenses, +and I would advise that it be devoted to that." + +A little further conversation revealed the pleasant fact that the +gentleman had that sum of money at his disposal, but that he had a +very decided wish that it should be used for the erection of +permanent buildings. The Secretary suggested the obvious fact that +added plant meant increased expense, and that we hardly dared to +promise to meet that. + +"But," said the gentleman, "are there not places in your work where +new buildings are greatly needed?" + +"Most assuredly," the Secretary replied, "there are many places where +such buildings are needed." + +He was asked to give details, which he did. + +Among the schools mentioned by him was one in which the scholars were +inadequately provided with dormitory and recitation room facilities, +and where the industries were crowded into old cabins and attic +rooms. + +After hearing these details, our visitor, who is a judicious and +prosperous business man as well as a benevolent Christian, said, +"These new buildings are needed. I offer you the money for the two +buildings at the place you have last named. I know it will increase +somewhat your current expenses, but _can't you trust the churches to +come to your help?_" + +The results of that and subsequent interviews are two fine buildings, +one giving adequate school accommodations, and the other giving a +large and commodious shop, facilitating both instruction and +production. + +Subsequently, the same large-hearted and liberal gentleman repeated +his benefaction where equally needed enlargement will soon be +furnished. + +Once more. In a Southern city our school building is too small, the +lot does not permit industrial work, and changes in the population +have surrounded the locality with saloons and houses of ill-fame. A +change must be made or we must abandon the place. A lady who knows +these facts offers to give us $2,000 with which to purchase four +acres of land most eligibly situated for our work, and to give us +the money to build a school-house with eight large school-rooms with +commodious fixtures and appliances. All this, of course, implies more +teachers and additional running expense. Shall we accept the gift and +trust the churches to furnish the money? Or, to state the matter in +general terms: When the need for enlargement is very great, and God +sends to us benevolent donors, who are willing to furnish the means +for the enlargement, are we wrong in trusting the churches for their +part of the needed help? We believe we are not. We think the +churches would regard us as recreant to our trust if we refused to +take the funds thus providentially proffered to us. + +But our story is not all told. Other donors in the last few years +have done likewise, and there still are cases where the pressure for +enlargement is as great as in any of the instances given. We must +mention one. In a large Southern city our school building is so +inadequate that the Principal writes: "We have an extremely large +school, and yet nearly three hundred pupils were turned off for lack +of seating capacity." In addition to this, the Teachers' Home +adjoining the school building, which was once a Southern home, is +unhealthy from inadequate under-drainage. We have repeatedly +attempted to remedy this difficulty and at considerable cost. We are +satisfied that to spend more money for such a purpose is a waste. +The only true remedy is to remove the present home, connecting it +with the school-building for additional school-rooms, and then, on +the vacant site, to erect a new home with proper foundations. If any +benevolent person should offer us the means for making these +changes, we fear we have not the self-denial to refuse, unless the +churches or benevolent individuals for whom we act shall command us +to do so. We await the response they will give. + + * * * * * + +*THE VERNACULAR. THE LAST GOVERNMENT ORDER.* + +THE ORDER. + +We give below a copy of the last order received from the Interior +Department in relation to the vernacular. + + "1st. In Government schools no text-books and no oral + instruction in the vernacular will be allowed, but all text-books + and instruction must be in the English language. No departure + from this rule will be allowed, except when absolutely necessary + to rudimentary instruction in English. But it is permitted to + read from the Bible in the vernacular at the daily opening of + school, when English is not understood by the pupils. + + "2d. In schools where Indian children are placed under contract, + or to which the Government contributes in any manner, the same + rule shall be observed in all secular instruction. Religious + instruction in the vernacular may be allowed in such schools, + both by the text-book and orally, provided not more than + one-fourth of the time is devoted to such instruction. + + "3d. In purely mission schools--that is, in schools toward whose + support the Government contributes nothing--religious and other + instruction may be conducted in the manner approved by those who + maintain the schools, provided that one-half of the school hours + shall be employed in instruction in English. + + "4th. Only native Indian teachers will be permitted to teach + otherwise in any Indian vernacular, and these native teachers + will only be allowed so to teach in schools not supported in + whole or in part by the Government, and where there are no + Government or contract schools where English is taught. These + native teachers are allowed to teach in the vernacular only with + a view of reaching those Indians who cannot have the advantage of + instruction in English. + + "5th. A theological class of Indian young men, supported wholly + by mission funds, may be trained in the vernacular at any + missionary school supported in whole or in part by missionary + societies, the object being to prepare them for the ministry, + whose subsequent work shall be confined to preaching, unless they + are employed as teachers in remote settlements where English + schools are inaccessible. + + "6th. These rules are not intended to prevent the possession or + use by any Indian of the Bible published in the vernacular; but + such possession or use shall not interfere with the teaching of + the English language to the extent and in the manner hereinbefore + directed." + +COMMENT. + +This order presents a great and gratifying modification of those +extreme rulings of the Department which occasioned so much +dissatisfaction among the churches. While we rejoice in these +modifications, we must not conceal from ourselves or our readers +the fact, that the main point against which objection has been so +strenuously urged--the right of the churches to be guided by their +own wisdom and experience in expending their own funds--is not +granted by this order, as will be seen in Article 3. "In purely +mission schools," "toward whose support the Government contributes +nothing," it dictates that "one-half of the school-hours shall be +employed in instruction in English." So far as the principle is +concerned, nothing is yielded. The Government still assumes to +control these schools, and to tell the missionaries how much of the +vernacular they may use, and how they must divide the hours between +the two languages. + +The regulation, moreover, fixes upon "one-half of the school hours" +without any obvious reason for taking that number rather than +one-fourth or three-fourths, for it does not take into account the +different conditions of the pupils as to their knowledge of the +English language. It requires a double set of text-books if the +vernacular be taught at all. Whether the churches will acquiesce in +this regulation, will depend, we think, upon how rigidly it is +enforced. We regret that the Government, while attempting to meet +the wishes of the churches, could not have done it in a more broad +and generous method, by conceding their right to manage their own +missionary affairs without interference or dictation. + + * * * * * + +The numerous solicitors from the South for the benefactions of our +friends at the North impel us to increased caution in regard to our +endorsements. We are anxious that our friends should give, but we are +equally anxious that they should not be imposed upon. Hereafter, we +shall give a letter of commendation to any of our workers who may be +authorized by us to come North for help, signed by one of the +Secretaries or one of the District Secretaries, and these will be +good for one year from the date, and any pastors or friends of the +Association can feel at liberty to ask for the letter. If persons +assuming to solicit funds for any part of the A.M.A's work cannot +produce such letters, the failure may be taken as a reason for +withholding confidence. We think this is due to our friends at the +North and to our faithful and honored workers at the South. + + * * * * * + +Professor Lawrence, of Jellico, Tenn., who was so seriously injured +by an unprovoked and cowardly attack, is, we are happy to learn, +slowly improving. Suffering, both from excruciating pain and from +great nervous prostration, all that a human being can endure and +live, yet he has borne it uncomplainingly. Large expenses have been +necessarily incurred for surgeon's, doctor's and nurse's bills, and +Mr. Lawrence is a poor man, working on a missionary salary, when he +might have received more elsewhere. As Professor Lawrence received +his injuries in the simple discharge of his duties as a teacher in +an A.M.A. school, our Committee will feel it their duty to render +him some pecuniary aid, and if any of our friends are disposed to +assist us in rendering such help, we shall be glad to receive their +donations for that purpose. + + * * * * * + +*THE LONDON MISSIONARY CONFERENCE.* + +This large and important gathering of the friends of Christian +missions throughout the world, held its session in Exeter Hall, +London, June 9-19. + +This is the fourth great Missionary Conference. The first was in +Liverpool in 1860, the last was in London, held ten years ago. This +Conference far surpassed its predecessors in the numbers present, in +the completeness of the previous arrangements, and in the range and +importance of the topics discussed. The members numbered over 1,200, +gathered from all parts of the world. Nearly forty American Societies +were represented, six Canadian, fifteen Continental, and +fifty-four English, Scotch and Irish Societies. + +One topic that received deserved attention was the curse of deluging +Africa with liquor by Christian nations, and the continued curse of +the opium traffic which England inflicts upon China. + +From the brief reports which have reached us, we judge this +Conference to have been a very able and enthusiastic one, and that +it will probably give a new impulse to Christian missions throughout +the world. + + * * * * * + +Secretary Beard represented the American Missionary Association in +the London Missionary Conference, agreeably to appointment by the +American Committee of the Conference. His paper was entitled, +"Christian Missions among the North American Indians." He also read +a paper which Secretary Strieby had prepared, by appointment of the +American Committee, on "The Freedmen of America as Factors in +African Evangelization." Dr. Beard attended the Conference on his +way to Europe to bring his family home. He is expected to return +about the first of September. + + * * * * * + +*GETTYSBURG, FRATERNITY, FREE BALLOT.* + +The meeting of the Blue and the Gray on the field of Gettysburg at +the late anniversary celebration marks an era in national fraternity. +The orator of the day, George William Curtis, did a noble, perhaps we +might say courageous, deed in lifting the enthusiasm of the glad hour +above the remembrance of past heroism and present harmony to the +great duty of the nation--a free and fair ballot. A few lines culled +from the oration will give the thought. + + "The suffrage is the mainspring, the heart of our common life. + If ignorance and semi-barbarous dominance be fatal to civilized + communities, no less so is constant and deliberate defiance of + law." + + "No honest man can delude himself with the theory that this is a + local question. If there be a national question, which vitally + interests every American citizen from the Penobscot to the Rio + Grande, it is the question of a free legal ballot." + + "Can we wrest from the angel of this hour any blessing so + priceless as the common resolution that we shall not have come to + this consecrated spot only to declare our joy and gratitude, nor + only to cherish proud and tender memories, but also to pledge + ourselves to union in its sublimest significance?" + +To this we add: The brave deeds of the soldier at Gettysburg, and the +wise counsels of the orator, should be followed by the patient toil +of the teacher and the preacher. It is hard to choose between the +ballot withheld and the ballot cast by ignorance and vice. Blood and +treasure flowed like water in the war. Shall treasure and toil be +wanting for the work of peace--preparing the ignorant voter to cast +the free ballot intelligently and honestly? + + * * * * * + +*A BOOM IN THE PRICE OF A SLAVE.* + + One of our best educated and most efficient colored ministers in + the South furnishes us the following sketch of his experience on + the auction block. He not only was sold "early and often," but + always at advancing prices. We do not wonder at this, for he has + shown himself to be so valuable as a _man_, that we are sure the + boy must have promised to be worth a great deal as a slave. + +I was sold in 1862 at the age of ten years, for $400, by the widow B. +of Virginia. As a rule, after the first sale, I was upon the auction +block every day for three months. How often I was sold during those +three months I cannot tell, but on Davis' auction block in his +sale-room I was sold five times in one day. The last sale at the end +of the three months was made in Tennessee, to the Rev. H.F.S., a +Baptist minister, who paid $3,500 for his property. The Rev. Mr. S. +was a "Yankee" from Philadelphia, Pa., and came South at the +breaking out of the war. + + * * * * * + +*EXTRACTS FROM EXAMINATION PAPERS.* + +Ques. Give a rule for the use of the period? + +Ans. Every period must begin with a capital. + +Ans. A period is a dot written to the end of a sentence and is used +to low the voice. + +Ans. A period is used for the topage of a sentence and to make our +reading sound better than if we had no period. + +Ques. What is the chief occupation in the South Atlantic States? + +Ans. The ocoopations cold in the north part, but in the lower part +rain seldom fails. + + +FROM A SUNDAY-SCHOOL. + +The lesson was on The Ten Virgins, and the next Sunday the review +question was asked, "What was the lesson about last Sunday?" and a +bright boy gave the prompt answer, "About ten gals that went to a +weddin." + + +COMPOSITION LETTERS FROM YOUNG PUPILS. + +My dear teacher, God be with you witch I know he will, as the Song +says God can see me every day when I work and when I play. again God +is always near me when I pray. I shall nor for get Miss H. her name +shall never die out Christ have mercy upon her If God calls her I +will spect to meet her in heven at the last trumpet shall sound. I +will be thair. Yours truly, + +Robert ---- + +Dear teacher, I wish I could write good. I have not done my duty. I +will try the next time and do better. I am very sorry. I will try and +do better. May God help me to obey my teacher. Miss F. is sick. I +hope she will get better. I will try to be like Jesus. I have sign +the pledge and have kept it. Now I will close my bad lines. I hope +you will come back next year. Good by. + +Your aff Scholar, + +James ---- + + + * * * * * + +*ON JAMES POWELL'S PORTRAIT.* + +BY J.E. RANKIN, D.D. + + O face, all radiant with the light of love, + O eyes, so laughing in their tenderness, + So quick to read the language of distress; + O lips, so touched with flame as from above, + O man, with godhead stamped upon thy brow, + And manhood beating in thy pulses strong, + To stir thee up to stamp thy heel on wrong, + That earth should have no more thy pattern now! + No more should see thee on the wings of mercy sent! + Thou hads't thy mortal years so wisely spent, + That Heaven seemed too soon to crown thy brow; + The veil of flesh was prematurely rent, + And earthly glory with celestial blent. + + * * * * * + +A college commencement is a marked event to all parties concerned, +and a good sketch of such an occasion furnishes interesting reading +to a very wide circle. We call the attention of our patrons to the +reports we make of the anniversaries in our Southern institutions. +Some of these reports appeared in the last MISSIONARY, some will be +found in this number, and others will be given in the next. + + * * * * * + +=THE SOUTH.= + + +*NOTES IN THE SADDLE.* + + +BY REV. C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY. + +Orthodoxy and orthography are by no means inseparable, as the +following letter proves. Correct views of Divine Sovereignty and very +indifferent spelling may go together in the same epistle. + +"Dear Miss ---- + +"Dear Teacher, I am so much Thank you for your kindness of the +medicine which you have sent to me yesterday, until I cannot express +my gladness and feeling unto you in this world, but I hope God will +take good care off you even on death if I never have the plegure of +seeing your good and happy looking face any more. + +"Your medicine has help me demegiately as I have took it. I hope God +will ever to be with in your Jerney throught life in well doing." + +This letter came from a young lad in one of the lower grades of +school work. He had been seriously sick for weeks, and the teacher +to whom he wrote sat with him and ministered to his comfort after +the weary hours of her school work were over. This lad appreciated +her self-forgetful kindness; his heart was touched, and as she left +the malarial atmosphere of this Southern country for brief rest in +her Northern home, this boy sent her this letter. His letter is +"phonetic" and of the individual type, but I venture that the +tearful prayer going up to God from his grateful, loving, simple +heart may reach the Father's ear, and bring down a blessing upon his +loving friend as "demegiately" as the rounded periods of learned +lips. He evidently is no dusky Claudius whose confession must be: + + "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; + Words without thoughts never to Heaven go." + +"What a privilege it is to be prayed for by such confiding souls," +said the teacher as she handed me this letter. + + * * * * * + +Speaking of prayer among the colored people, calls to mind a petition +offered for myself, when Field Superintendent, soon after my +appointment. An old black woman in New Orleans was called upon to +pray, after I had spoken to the people. She chanted her words in +soft, melodious tones, keeping time with her body swaying back and +forth, as she prayed. She prayed for the former superintendent, Dr. +Roy. She thanked God for his patient, loving care of the people. She +told the Lord how he went as a prophet of Israel, back and forth +among them, bringing the bread of Heaven to their hungry souls. She +sought Divine blessing, rich, full, free, upon him and all his loved +ones. Then she chanted in the liquid accent of the Creole, "And now, +O Father, bless our young brother the new superintender. Let him down +deep into the treasury of thy word and hide him 'hind de cross of +Jesus." And the heart of the "New Superintender" said "Amen and +Amen." That experience was what he needed. + +How close to the great throbbing heart of God these simple children +of cotton-field and cabin come! In gaining intimate acquaintance with +them one is reminded of Heinrich Heine's confession in his notes on +Uncle Tom's Cabin: + +"Astonishing! That after I have whirled about all my life over all +the dance floors of philosophy, and yielded myself to all the orgies +of the intellect * * * without satisfaction, like Massolina after a +licentious night, I now find myself on the same standpoint where poor +Uncle Tom stands--on that Bible. I kneel down by my black brother in +the same prayer! What humiliation! * * * Tom, perhaps, understands +these spiritual things better than I. * * * But a poor negro slave +reads with his back and understands better than we do. But I, who +used to make citations from Homer, now begin to quote the Bible as +Uncle Tom does. Poor Tom, indeed, seems to have seen deeper things +in the Holy Book than I." + + * * * * * + +The letter quoted at the opening of these "Notes" hints another +thing. The A.M.A. teacher must frequently be a doctor, too. One lady +teacher in Alabama opened her chest of medicine and showed me a small +drug store curtained off from the sitting-room of her home. She had +made _materia medica_, a special study, and was a competent physician +in common diseases. Her house was a public dispensary, visited +frequently by her afflicted colored neighbors. What cannot these +teachers accomplish going out into these dark, diseased and +sin-smitten places of our own land, if only they go out in "His Name" +as they so often do! + + * * * * * + +How all loyal hearts will rejoice in the good news that comes from +brave Lawrence's sick room! He is slowly improving, and there is +strong hope of his recovery. Thank God!! + +A large public meeting has been held in Jellico, Tenn., in which the +"law-abiding citizens," expressed their intense condemnation of this +"brutal, but cowardly act of shooting Prof. Lawrence." This body of +citizens voted to prosecute the scoundrel Chandler, who did the +shooting, and raised the money _at once_ to carry forward that +prosecution! Good for Jellico, say we all!! Will Iowa permit +Tennessee to surpass her in the execution of whiskey murderers? + + * * * * * + +"The Pansy Society," consisting of a company of seven girls and boys, +sent to the New England office of the A.M.A. $13 which _they had +themselves earned!_ What society of young people will be "next"? Here +is a work, especially a children's and young people's work, for +establishing schools, planting Sabbath schools, sending missionaries +into homes to teach the Ninety thousand mothers in a single Southern +State who cannot read! In a company of fifty children, the A.M.A. +teacher asked: "How many of you ever knelt at your mother's knee, or +at all in your home, and prayed?" _Not a single hand went up in all +that company!_ "Children's work for children;" "Mother's work for +mothers," are watchwords of the A.M.A., that should awaken +enthusiastic response and greatly increase the benefactions of all +toward this effort to Christianize the homes of our land! + + * * * * * + +*ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.* + +BY MISS E.B. EMERY. + +This is a marvelous institution. It is a reproduction of New England, +and that the finest; therein lies its supremacy and its _offense_. +The Glenn Bill, designed to ruin the institution, has had the usual +effect of such devices; it has improved decidedly the fortunes of the +school. Nothing advances a cause like persecution; the peculiar +advantage and irresistible power of the University are more manifest +than ever, and in the space of a few months it has gained a +reputation over the country, and won a place in the hearts of all +good people, which twenty years of ordinary work could hardly have +done; still, we must not be blind to the fact that this is _really_ +due to the twenty years of hard work, prayer and self-sacrifice. + +When the books of Heaven are opened, it will then be seen how much +of silent self-sacrifice, how much of grand living and grand doing, +is set down to these Southern missionaries. Much called inglorious +now, will be glorious then, and "the last shall be first." + +The anniversary exercises of the University commenced on May 24, by +oral examinations, which continued two days. They were in all +departments, classical, normal, preparatory and industrial. The +classical department, though small, as in all these institutions, has +always been very high in Atlanta; the chief advance, however, the +past few years, has been in the normal and industrial divisions, and +this appeared in the fact that all the graduates this year, numbering +thirteen girls, were in the normal department. The work is done by +teachers from the North, experienced in the best normal methods, +and nothing on the Southern field can be more vital and important. +Three-quarters of the students going out from these higher +institutions devote themselves to teaching, and when the North has +some realization of the dense ignorance of the Southern black +population, the need of this will readily appear. In the State of +Alabama are 80,000 colored voters who cannot read, and though the +children of a small proportion of these voters do learn to read, the +greater number do not, and cannot till the Northern churches open +their eyes to facts, and do more to remedy this monster evil. And +this ignorance of the blacks means not only ignorance, but grossest +immorality. Alabama in this respect is an average State; Georgia is +a little better, others much worse. + +The industrial work of Atlanta consists, first, in farm-work. The +farm of sixty acres, which is the most beautiful spot in the State of +Georgia, and under the superintendence of a Massachusetts farmer, +speaks for itself. The young men learn, also, wood-work, draughting +and forging; they exhibit some exquisite specimens of lathe and +chisel-work, and the young carpenters readily find employment in the +city at the highest wages. The girls not only do much of the work of +the boarding-houses, but have special and daily lessons in cooking +and sewing; and I can testify to their practical skill. + +The baccalaureate sermon was preached on Sunday, May 27, by Rev. +C.W. Francis, the pastor of the University church, and, the past +year, Acting President, also. It was a notable occasion. The +commodious chapel of Stone Hall was packed, the many students of +course filling a large space, while their friends and former students +filled in the background. Colored people are by nature ardent and +magnetic, and when education and religion have developed their +characters and toned down their absurdities, they are a very +interesting and attractive people. + +Forward on the platform and side seats were Dr. Strieby and Dr. +Beard, of New York, the honored Secretaries of the American +Missionary Association, Dr. Woodworth, of Massachusetts, Dr. +Pentecost, of Brooklyn, N.Y., with Mr. Stebbins, his sweet singer, +now holding revival meetings in Atlanta, and the faculty and workers +generally of the University. + +The sermon was preached without notes, as is usual with Prof. +Francis, and with his usual quiet earnestness. The discourse was as +tender as it was able and wise, and ever to be remembered by the +thirteen girls sitting just before him. + +Of the singing on such an occasion, no Northern audience can have any +conception. The closing hymn was that grand one, "Guide me, O thou +Great Jehovah!" It is almost an anthem, and when it is known that the +voice of the colored man or woman is three-fold more powerful, richer +and sweeter than that of the white, one may try to imagine the effect +of nearly a thousand voices. + +Commencement was held May 28, in the Friendship Baptist church. The +house was filled, many standing for the nearly three hours. The +singing was by a large chorus of students, trained most faithfully +and successfully by the music teacher of the University, Miss Rebecca +Massey. One Jubilee Song was given, "March On"; other selections were +classical; the chorus from Mendelssohn's Elijah, "Thanks be to God," +being especially fine. The exercises were closed by a spirited +rendering of the Anvil Chorus. + +Miss Massey is a native of Ohio, and a graduate of Oberlin Musical +Conservatory, and is one of the most thoroughly educated musicians in +the South. Recently she bought a reserved seat to Gilmore's concert +in Atlanta, and in the Imperial City of the Empire State of the South, +in the noble city of the reconstructed Henry W. Grady, she was marched +out of the hall by a policeman, simply and solely because her blood is +one-quarter colored! + +The commencement essays of the thirteen young ladies would have done +credit to any Northern institution; they were in good taste, +thoughtful and high-toned, indicative of culture and a missionary +spirit. These girls may never be famous, but they will be useful and +successful, which is infinitely better. + + * * * * * + +*COMMENCEMENT AT FISK UNIVERSITY.* + +PRES. E.H. CRAVATH, D.D. + + +Fisk University held, on the 13th of June, its twenty-third +anniversary, reckoning from the founding of the Fisk School. The +weather was perfect, and all the exercises of the day were highly +satisfactory. Five were graduated from College. One member of the +class had been called away during the year by the death of his +father. The commencement address was delivered by Rev. C.H. Richards, +D.D., of Madison, Wis. Subject, "Making Life Beautiful." The address +was admirable in thought, style and delivery, and greatly delighted +the vast audience of citizens and students. Dr. Richards paid a high +compliment to the graduates, and those who had furnished the music +for the occasion. The commencement dinner called forth very pleasant +reminiscences of the early days, and many confident predictions +concerning; the growth of the University in the future. + +One noticeable and hopeful feature of this anniversary was the large +increase in the attendance of alumni. Heretofore, anniversary week +has come before the close of the schools in which the larger part of +our alumni are employed. This year it came three weeks later than +formerly. This change was made to better accommodate the little army +of student-teachers, which is sent out annually to the country public +schools. It was found that by far the larger number of these schools +do not begin until the first of July. + +Fisk is fortunate in having alumni who are everywhere noted for their +love and loyalty, and the University points to them and their work +with great pride and rejoicing. The anniversary exercises of the +Alumni Association this year were excellent. Mr. Crosthwait spoke of +"Nehemiah's Plan," and most beautifully and forcibly applied it to +the work to be done by the colored people to build up the walls of +their city. Prof. L.C. Anderson, Principal of Prairie View Normal +School of Texas, spoke of our "Public School System," in a very +instructive way. Mr. Anderson is doing a noble work at Prairie View, +and has made the school the pride of the State which supports it. +Nearly $300 was contributed toward the alumni endowment fund, as the +result of the movement to persuade each graduate to contribute +annually one per cent. of his earnings to help his _alma mater_. + +The number of students in the past year has been the largest in the +history of the University. The catalogue shows an enrollment of 475. +There has been marked growth in the numbers in the Department of +Music. Students begin to seek the University for instruction in this +department alone. During the year the Mozart Society rendered the +oratorio of "Elijah," both in the city and at the University, with +marked success. + +The address at the graduating exercises of the Normal Department was +delivered by Rev. C.S. Smith of Nashville, Secretary of the +Sunday-school Union of the A.M.E. Church. It was an earnest and +forcible appeal to the colored people of the South to respond to the +efforts made in their behalf by Northern friends, by doing the utmost +possible for themselves. Many readers of the MISSIONARY will remember +Mr. Smith as the delegate of the A.M.E. Church to the Triennial +Council in Chicago. The Sunday-school Union has just purchased a +handsome building on the public square in Nashville as a publishing +house, and under Mr. Smith's management has been eminently +successful. + +The missionary sermon on Sunday morning, June 10th, was preached by +Dr. Warren A. Candler, who has just been honored by being elected +President of Emory College, Oxford, Ga. All will remember that this +place was vacated some two or three years ago by Dr. Atticus G. +Haygood, that he might devote himself entirely to the work connected +with the administration of the John F. Slater Fund. Dr. Candler is a +strong, liberal and earnest man, who will wield a great power +wherever he labors. + +The President of the University preached the baccalaureate sermon +from the words, "My kingdom is not of this world." The anniversary of +the Literary Societies was held Friday night, June 8th, and the +Senior Preparatory class had its exhibition on Thursday night, the +7th, at which time eleven were admitted to College, having passed +satisfactory examinations. Necessarily the growth of numbers in the +higher departments of education must be slow in the case of +institutions founded for a race so recently emancipated and laboring +under great poverty and unusual disadvantages. This, however, should +serve to strengthen purpose and intensify effort, for it shows the +vital necessity of well-trained leaders from among the people +themselves. Professional training without previous course of liberal +education cannot provide the men that are required for this day and +generation among the colored people of the United States or for +missionaries on the Dark Continent. + + * * * * * + +*AN HOUR AT STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.* + +BY MRS. A.B. SHATTUCK. + + +Two Congregational pilgrims found themselves on the first day of +March in New Orleans, prepared to do all the sight-seeing which the +daylight of forty-eight consecutive hours permitted. + +On our way in the horse-cars to one of the beautiful cemeteries, we +approached a group of large buildings on the left, and some one said, +"That is the university of the colored people," and then we saw +"Straight University" in bold letters upon the front of the central +building. Now "Straight" was down upon our list of "points," but we +had not looked up its location and supposed it farther from the +center, so we were glad to stop on our return and save an extra trip. +Three plain substantial structures occupy a handsome corner lot, +leaving space for the additions already so much needed. The location +is very fine, so near the heart of the city, upon that broad, +beautiful avenue, whose name is suggestive of anything but breadth +and beauty to New York or Chicago people--Canal street. Windows and +doors were open, and, seeking entrance at the nearest, we found +ourselves in the dining-hall, and were ushered across the yard to the +central building and up a flight of stairs, at the head of which, in +a small, crowded office, was President Hitchcock. + +The sight of a tourist at that season, when the city is overrun with +them, could hardly have been more welcome than a book agent to that +busy man, but there was not a trace of annoyance in his greeting. He +sent away his companions and devoted himself to the duties of a +cicerone as cheerfully as though that were the chief end of the +president of a university. We went the rounds of class-rooms, halls +and dormitories, our interest and our leader's enthusiasm continually +increasing. + +The primaries are in two long, narrow rooms, lighted only on one side +and not nearly large enough. But how the little throats did roll out +the music and what time they kept, when called upon for a song! +Another treat was a song from a young lady who was practicing in the +music room. The modest grace with which she complied when asked to +sing for us, is almost as pleasant a memory as her beautiful voice. + +Up close to the roof, in a low attic, we found the industrial +departments, a printing press and a cabinet shop. Creditable work of +both kinds was shown. A paper is edited and printed by the students, +and the housekeeper of the party shut her eyes and said the tenth +commandment over a certain little table in one corner. Industrial +training is not a specialty at Straight. What is done in that line is +more a recreation than a branch of study. We were told, with evident +pride in the fact, that all the outfit we saw was purchased by the +students themselves. Not a dollar of the funds of the Association had +gone toward it. Every class-room seemed crowded. The statement that +applicants had to be turned away every week needed no confirmation. + +Coming so recently from Tougaloo it was interesting to note the +difference between the two institutions. A comparison cannot be +invidious, because they belong to different states in every sense of +the word. Since the aim of the American Missionary Association is the +elevation of the colored people, there is room for a diversity of +institutions and methods. Tougaloo is admirably situated for +industrial departments. Straight has neither room nor time for them, +but meets the demand for a higher grade of scholarship, and draws its +students from a wider range and from a class who have more home +training, more money, and, therefore, more leisure for a full course +of study. They come from the whole circumference of the Gulf, from +Cuba and from Central America. Many more could be drawn from abroad +if there were room to receive them. The most inveterate hatred of +puns can hardly keep one from spelling Straight without the gh. Many +of the students are largely of Creole blood and have the traits of +Gallic ancestry well defined. + +"In two respects," said our host, "I have been greatly disappointed. +I was told before I came here that I would have trouble in teaching +the pupils habits of neatness, and that they were naturally lazy. I +find them just the opposite. They are exceptionally neat and tidy +about their persons and their rooms. As for being lazy, we could not +ask for more diligent students as a rule, and they are up in the +morning earlier than we want them to be." + +No notes were taken of the many interesting statements made, for +there was no thought of this article then. But the recollection of +the talk as we passed through rooms and halls toward our exit, always +brings regret that the audience had not been two thousand +Congregationalists instead of the two who went their way with a firm +conviction that Straight University is a place where the investment +of a few thousand dollars of the Lord's money would bring speedy and +large returns. It is fortunate that in this case, as in the famous +one of the deacon's wife, all have not the same taste and judgment. +The advocates of industrial training need not hoard their money +because Straight has so little manual labor. Tougaloo will gladly and +wisely use all they have to give. And those who hold that the moral +and intellectual training of teachers and pastors is the only proper +work of such schools, need not look askant at the workshops of +Tougaloo, lest some of their benefactions should be spent for saws or +anvils or solder, while Straight is crying out for room to hold those +who want exactly that kind of training. + + * * * * * + +*CLOSING EXERCISES AT TILLOTSON.* + + +Of the six chartered institutions of the A.M.A., Fisk, Atlanta, +Talladega, Tougaloo, Straight and Tillotson, the last is the +youngest, the most remote and the most deprived of Northern aid and +sympathy. In plan and aim its work is identical with theirs; in +quantity its work is less, because, in part, it has less resources, +but in quality we believe our closing exercises would show our work +at least not inferior to some of the others. + +Our examinations occupied the whole of Friday and extended through +Monday and Tuesday forenoons. The questionings through which the +students passed were not only creditable to them and their +instructors, but satisfactory to visiting teachers and others invited +to join in testing their knowledge of the studies pursued. The +exhibition of the sewing and the practice of the calisthenic class +attracted special attention. + +On Saturday, May 26, came Tillotson Day, designed, like Alumni +Associations, to foster in the minds of present and past students, +not only a love of the institution, but of the great work of +educating and uplifting the colored people. Last year the day was +inaugurated with a programme a little more extended than that of this +year. Among other speakers then Miss M.J. Adams, our first matron and +now our special missionary, gave reminiscences and a gracefully +written narrative of the opening of the school in January, 1881. Mrs. +Judge Garland read a valuable paper on the work done by Tillotson in +connection with her own school in another part of the city. In '81 +she sent her older classes up to the Institute. The next year her +large school outside was considered a part of us and so counted in +the catalogue. In '83 she joined our teaching force, naturally +attracting many of her old pupils within our walls. In '84 and '85 +she took other work, but neither herself nor Judge Garland has lost +interest in the welfare of the Institute. + +This year the Rev. Dr. Wright, our only trustee in Austin, gave us +an excellent address, concluding with extracts from Mr. Tillotson's +letters and a very interesting account of the procuring of the site +on which our building now stands, generally thought to be the finest +and most conspicuous in the city. After this came a few words from +one of the Faculty, and four short speeches from as many +representatives of the students, after which came refreshments and a +social time on the grounds. + +On Sunday morning the president preached before the students the +closing sermon of the year. On Tuesday evening the annual concert +and exhibition was given to a full house and an enthusiastic +audience. The commencement exercises of Wednesday, consisting of +essays, original orations and musical pieces, not only brought out +the ability and attainments of the students, but seemed to impress +patrons, friends and visitors present, with the quality of the work +done and the standard maintained at Tillotson. + +In spite of some disappointment caused by the great severity of last +year's drought, our numbers have somewhat increased and the year has +been a good one. + +Never has the work of _Christian_ education, in which the A.M.A. is +engaged, seemed so absolutely necessary as at this hour in uplifting +the people and purifying the churches. + +H.L.H. + + * * * * * + +THE INDIANS. + + +We are in the midst of the closing exercises of school for the year +past. Some three or four hundred Indians, chiefly relatives of +pupils, are now encamped about us. These have come some as far as +ninety miles, and some few a hundred and twenty-five miles, to attend +the exercises and take their children home. + +T.L. RIGGS, OAHE, DAK. + + * * * * * + +SEWING WOMEN AT FORT BERTHOLD. + +To one coming in sight of the Berthold Mission, curiosity would be +aroused by the sight of blanketed forms, two or three together, not +walking side by side, but gliding along, one after another, with +rapid steps toward the mission-house. + +It is the afternoon of the Women's Sewing Meeting, and, although it +does not begin until two o'clock, by one the room is generally +full--yes, crowded, so that, in passing around among them, one has +to stumble quite often over feet which have no place of retreat. We +do not pretend to offer chairs to all. The floor holds as many +without chairs as with, even tables and wood-box do not remain empty, +but perched on each are the blanketed forms, from many of which the +blankets have not fallen, at least not more than to show the face +or head. Here the women sit patiently. + +After sewing about two hours, the thimbles and needles are gathered +up, the names taken, or something to designate each one, and each +one's desires discovered: tea, sugar, or coffee, for this is a strong +point where these women show their heathenism. + +Some portion of God's truth and some help to a better life is then +given to them in Gros Ventres and Ree; prayer offered, and they +receive their little bag or package of tea, coffee or sugar. It has +been a busy afternoon, and we are all tired, but it pays, O, how it +pays, a thousand times over! + + +AN INDIAN CHURCH SOCIABLE. + +Do Indians have sociables? Indians like to visit, and they do enjoy a +good supper. With these two qualifications, what else is necessary +for a sociable? Some women to do the work. The women of the Women's +Native Missionary Society, of Yankton Agency, are not lazy, nor are +they slow in devising ways and means of making money; therefore, on +the evening of Feb. 22, they had a sociable and charged 25 cents for +supper. The cooking was done at the homes of Mrs. Brazeau, Mrs. +Aungie, and Mrs. Williamson. The provisions were donated by the +members of the society. A number of the women gave chickens, others +flour, coffee, ham, potatoes, canned fruit, sugar, and some gave +money with which to buy whatever was needed. Each one that gave +something had her supper free. The moving of the printing office +furniture to Santee left a large empty room; and as this room joins +the school-room, it was a very convenient place in which to have the +supper. A barrel of water was hauled; a woman hired to scrub the +floor, and table and table-cloths were borrowed. The trader very +obligingly lent dishes out of his store. Janet, Gertie and Esther +were busy all the afternoon setting tables, and getting ready for the +evening's reception. Towards evening the provisions came. Each woman +was then to take her place--one to cut meat, one to cut pie and cake, +another to wash dishes, and others to wait on the tables. Angie +Cordier and Janet Strieker, who have been away to school, were quite +expert in waiting on tables, and some of the young gentlemen who have +been away were quite expert in calling for this and that. But none +could equal the old man who had never spent a day of his life in +school. This old man had borrowed 50 cents to take himself and friend +to supper. He ate all that was given him, then called for potatoes. +His plate was filled again and again with potatoes--and still he +called for potatoes. + +During the afternoon two young braves are riding around on their +ponies. They halt before the windows. At last they gather up enough +courage to ask if they can have supper and pay for it in the future. +They have no money now, but are going to work and get some money, +then they will pay. "No. We do not sell on credit." Soon after dark, +the school-room began to fill up with women and their babies. A man +comes with his little girl and mother-in-law, and borrows 50 cents +to pay for the supper. He would also have brought his wife, but she +could not leave home. Some eat their supper and leave. Others are +sitting in the school-room looking at pictures and talking a very +little, but it is rather stiff. The door opens and in walk the Doctor +and Agency Clerk. No more stiffness after this. Those would be hard +hearts indeed that would not thaw in the presence of these genial +countenances. Other white people come. The Captain with his family +take supper. He also brings in some of the outsiders who are looking +in at the windows, and pays for their suppers. The Issue Clerk is +quick to see the day-school children, who are peeping in at the +window, and calls them in to give them their suppers. The ladies from +the Government Boarding School come, bringing some of the larger +children with them. These boys and girls, however, have earned money +and pay for their own supper. + +A lady from the store building passes around some tiny round blocks. +"What is it, candy?" "No. Put it in your mouth," "Gum! Do you chew +gum?" "No, but a gentleman who was visiting us a short time since +left us a supply as his parting gift." + +When the fire is stirred with a long stick, one gentleman remarks +that he admires that poker very much. A few days afterwards a +handsome new iron poker comes to the school-room. The whole school +give a vote of thanks to the donor of the poker. + +During the evening there is music and reading of selections. Talking +can be taken part in by all, and laughing is done in a common +language. Whether the name of it is English or Vernacular, we do not +know. The evening passes all too quickly, and one by one they depart +to their homes. The money is counted, $21.50 cleared. The women feel +that their supper has been a success. The last one but the +school-teacher has left. There is something sublimely grand in being +alone at midnight in a house that was only a short time before full +of life and mirth. One has a desire to sit and look on the moonlight +and dream. But it is more practical to straighten up the school-room +and go home. + +FROM THE WORD CARRIER. + + * * * * * + +THE CHINESE. + +*ITEMS.* + +1. The item of greatest importance to us is the establishment of a +mission at Los Angeles. The A.M.A. was first on this field, having +had a prosperous and useful mission school there, more than fourteen +years ago. But early in 1876 Rev. Ira M. Condit, a missionary +returned from China, well versed in the Chinese language, went with +his family to that city to open a mission under the Presbyterian +Board. In the belief that, with such advantages, better work could be +done by them than by us, we transferred our mission to them, pupils, +teacher and all. I have seen much reason since to doubt the wisdom of +this step, and to feel that I should never repeat it. But the open +doors have been too numerous, and the pressure from points where +there seemed to be none to care for these souls, has been too great, +for me to think of using any of our limited resources for the +purpose of crowding in where brethren of another name were working. +And it is only because the city has now become so large, and the +Chinese population in it covers so great an area, and the number of +our own brethren there is so considerable, and their appeal for a +mission so urgent, and their assurance so full that it could not now +be a rival to other missions, but rather a welcome co-worker with +them, that I consented to resume. The result is gratifying indeed. No +less than seventy-five were enrolled as pupils the first month. An +Association of Christian Chinese has been formed, having already a +large membership, and the purpose and promise of vigorous Christian +work. The teacher in charge of the mission is Mrs. C.A. Sheldon, long +connected with our work in San Francisco, and than whom no teacher +ever employed by us endeared herself more to her pupils or wrought +more successfully on their behalf. We have reason to believe that +from the start the evangelistic spirit will be strong in this +mission, and I look to see many turning from darkness to light, and +from the power of Satan unto God. + +2. The next item of greatest interest relates to our new mission at +Tucson, Arizona. It closed its operations for this fiscal year with +the month of May, not because of any decrease of interest, but for +the reason that the extreme heat of the summer months at that place +forbids exertion, and compels alike in things religious and things +secular, a long vacation. Here, too, an "Association" has been formed +of eleven members, who in joining it, forsake idolatry and profess +themselves followers of Christ. The work has been greatly furthered +through the deep interest taken in it by the pastor, Rev. H.H. Cole, +and many members of his church. Yong Jin, one of our evangelists, has +spent nearly two months with this mission, and I give in his own +language an account of the closing exercises: "Last evening we had a +pleasant time, and invited all of the Sunday-school teachers and some +other friends to come to the school-room with us. It has over forty +Americans and over twenty Chinese, make the room full of people. Our +brethren or scholars recite some Scriptures, and I read a report on +what I think." Then follows his report, from which I quote a few +sentences: "This school was founded on the 24th of January, 1888, and +now has twenty-three scholars, but only fourteen or fifteen usual +attend. Several of these scholars have improved greatly. I think that +Mr. J. Kavanagh is a very good teacher, and hope God will give him +good health when he goes to Hot Springs. And also, they had very good +and kind Sunday-school teachers, who taught them how to read and +sing. They sing on Wednesday evening, too. You help our Chinese very +much, for which we thank you, and we never will forget you or your +kindness. I think Mr. Cole is a kind and faithful pastor. He called +our Chinese to come to church to hear him pray and preach, and +sometimes he came to the school-room, and talked to them and taught +them the words of the Lord Jesus." The programme for the evening had +no less than twenty-six different exercises, each one, of course, +brief, but there was much prayer, much singing both in English and +Chinese, one or two brief addresses, much reciting of Scripture and +to close with, refreshments abundant and toothsome, provided by the +pupils for their guests. The work will be resumed when the heats of +summer are past, and I believe that the next year's work will be even +more fruitful than this. + +3. My items become chapters in spite of me. I must content myself +with one more, a brief extract from a letter from Mrs. Carrington, +our devoted and successful teacher at Sacramento. "I asked you a few +months ago to pray for Fong Bing. Through the blessing of God, he has +come into the light, and is one of the earnest ones. Now I wish you +to especially remember Lee Young, who wishes to be a Christian, but +thinks he must wait till he returns from China. I hope he will not +wait, but will soon be one with us in Christ." Will our readers join +us in this prayer? + +WM. C. POND + + * * * * * + + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + +MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY. + + +WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS. + +CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +ME.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. +Woodbury, Woodfords, Me. + +VT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry +Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury. Vt. + +VT.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood, +Montpelier, 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. William Spalding, +Salmon Block, 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. + +IND.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Rogers, Michigan +City, Ind. + +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. + +NEB.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, President, Mrs. F.H. Leavitt, 1216 H +St., Lincoln, Neb. + +SOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss, Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.E. Young, +Sioux Falls, Dak. + + * * * * * + +We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of +State Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary +Association be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, +however, should be taken to designate the money as for the American +Missionary Association, since _undesignated funds will not reach us_. + + * * * * * + +We are glad to note that the ladies of Vermont in organizing a State +Missionary Union, have been careful of the interests of the American +Missionary Association in the support of the McIntosh school, the +following resolutions having been passed by a rising vote. + + "RESOLVED, That the ladies of the Congregational churches of + Vermont desire to express their appreciation of the service + rendered by the committee appointed five years ago to have in + charge funds for the McIntosh school, under the care of the + American Missionary Association. The members of that committee + have done their work faithfully and effectively, and we feel that + we cannot honor them more than by asking them to continue in the + work, and thus assist officers of the newly-formed Union, + pledging ourselves anew to help them bear the burden and to + respond heartily to their calls." + + * * * * * + +*NOTES FROM MISS COLLINS.* + + +Elias, our native helper, preached a good sermon this morning. +Usually on each Saturday night he comes here to ask questions in +regard to the meaning of the parables or stories of the Bible. +To-day, however, he quite outdid himself. The lesson was from the +story of the Wise Men and the Star. He read the story and explained +it. Then he said, "Christ is not on earth now in bodily form. There +is no bright star placed in the heavens to guide us to him, or to +show us the way to him, but, (holding up the Bible) here is our +guiding star. This is the only light that can enlighten our dark +minds. This will show us where to find Christ. We may try to civilize +men with law, but it can only be done with the Gospel. You do not +care to be told that you are sinners, but you rejoice to hear that +you may be saved." His exhortation was really fine, and yet he seems +ordinarily a very common-place man. His little girl has been near the +gates of death, but has been miraculously spared, and it has been a +means of grace to the parents. The little baby, Mary Clementine, +(my only namesake), is not yet very strong; a relapse may take her +off at any time. If it is God's will I hope she may be spared. This +afternoon Elias went up to hold services at the Upper Station and I +took charge of the meeting here. I told them something of the mission +work in Africa. All seemed greatly interested. + +A son-in-law of Sitting-Bull and wife came here to-day with their +sick baby. They drove twenty miles to see me. The poor baby is very +sick and suffered very much. I can hear its moans and cries now. I +did all I could for it, but it is a forty-mile ride to visit it and I +had to give medicine for a week. They will bring it again in a week. +O, how I pity these poor helpless people! This man, One-Bull, has +been baptized by the Catholics. He is the Chief of Police. His wife +is Sitting-Bull's daughter or niece. Sitting-Bull is called the +greatest medicine-man they have, and now in their helplessness they +come here to me. Surely God is opening these homes and hearts very +wide. + + * * * * * + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + + +THE TRUE BLUE CARD. + +BY SARAH MAY. + +"Why are you laughing so here all alone, Auntie?" said Ralph Hill, as +he came into a room where Inez Hill sat reading a letter and laughing +till the tears ran down her cheeks. "Do tell me, please. It must be +so funny--and what are all these blue cards?" + +"One thing at a time, Ralph," said Aunt Inez. "I'll read you the +letter I was laughing at and then tell you about the blue cards, for +they go together. The letter is from a dear friend who is teaching +the colored children in the South. It tells of her first attempts +with them. I'll not read it all. Listen:" + +_My Dear Old Friend:_ I must tell you to-day about my promising +pupil, Nan. _I_ am learning patience whether she learns anything or +not. One day I overheard Nan and Lila (the pretty mulatto girl I told +you about) talking together about like this: + +"Nan," said Lila, "do you want to learn to read like white folks?" + +"Course I do," laughed Nan. "Hi yi, ho yo, but how's I ever goin' +to?" + +"Miss Kitty learn us," said Lila. "Heard her tell Miss Lizzy so. Me +and you are going to her room after sun-down, and she'll learn us a +lesson. I've learned right smart now. Know the a b c, and can spell a +heap. It's 'mazin' good." + +Nan opened her big eyes as Lila went one, than gave a quick toss of +her head and said: "Feels mighty peart and proud like, Lile, over +your larnin'. Reckon some other folks can learn too, if they wants +to." + +Nan is not a very quiet pupil. She has queer remarks to make about +each letter as I point it out. I told her the first letter was A. She +made a funny courtesy, and said: + +"Mighty glad to make your 'quaintance, Massa A. Been wantin' to know +you long time ago." + +"That is B, Nan," I continued. + +"B," she screamed, "Oh! I feared of him. Will he sting? Done got my +eyes all stunged up with them bees once. Couldn't see nothin' for a +week. Fac--Miss." + +"I don't like X," she burst forth, "he's like Miss Lizzy when I's +done broke sumthin', so cross." + + * * * * * + +In spite of her chattering and her capers, Nan learned all her +letters that night. Teacher and scholar were astonished and +delighted at her success. The next evening, however, showed that Nan +could forget as quickly as she learned. + +"Nan! What is that letter?" I asked, pointing to A. + +"Dunno, Miss." + +"What is that round letter?" + +"Done forgot, Miss Kitty." + +"Well, what is that letter that looks like Miss Lizzy when she's +cross?" + +"I disremember." + +And thus it was all through the alphabet. Nan had forgotten the +whole. She could not be persuaded to try again. + +"Laws, Miss Kitty," she cried. "I'se done learnt 'em onct. Does +white peoples learn 'em twicet?" + +"Yes, Nan," said I. "If they forget the first time." + +"Sho," said she with a queer twist of her black face. "I'd be 'shamed +to learn it twict. Ef 'twont stay in dis head first time, 'tan't no +good." + +So I concluded to let the alphabet go for awhile and try spelling. + +Nan learned this also quickly at first. After she had learned to +spell cat and many other words, I said, "Now, Nan, I'll teach you to +spell 'Kitty.'" + +"Oh, I knows. Miss Kit," she interrupted, "Lemme spell, Ise-self. +Must be cat wid de tail cut off. C--A--Kitty." + + * * * * * + +After awhile as Lila progressed and read stories to Nan, the little +rogue "wisht" she could read too. "Couldn't see no use in dat yaller +gal gittin' so fur ahead." When she found she could only read by +learning those little things that "bobbed so spry into a body's head +and hopped out a heap quicker," then she reckoned she'd have to come +to it. She tried once more. It was a long time before she could call +the letters and spell out words, and it was many months before she +could read at all without spelling. It was hard work for Nan and +harder for her teacher. Before she had half looked at a word she +would hear a blackbird or see a hawk after a chicken, or she thought +"sure, Miss Lizzy called." I tried to have patience and in the end +I conquered. Nan was "mighty proud" when she read the last page of +her primer. + +"Don't think much of that ole book, no how," she said. "Got it all +in here now. Spect I'd better be spry an' git inter nex' book fore +I disremember this ere." + +I begin to hope that both Lila and Nan are beginning a Christian +life. But oh! it takes so long for seed to grow in soil that has been +trampled on for years. But I hear Nan now singing the chorus of an +old war song, still sung by the colored folks: + + "We're coming, Father Abraham, + Three hundred thousand more." + +And I will believe it. There are more than three hundred thousand +just such ignorant girls and boys. They "will come" if we go after +them. + +Do "pray and pay" for us. Yours, + +KITTY. + + +Ralph enjoyed the letter so much that he forgot for once to ask a +question until his aunt took up a blue card and handed it to him. + +"Oh, yes," he exclaimed. "Now tell me about the cards." + +"Read it," said his aunt. + +Ralph read as follows: "The A.M.A. True Blue Card." + +"Oh, I know," said Ralph. "A.M.A. (ama) means love those. I had it in +my Latin lesson this week." + +"Love those, is it?" questioned Miss Hill. "Pretty good meaning that +for our abbreviations. A.M.A.--the Love Them Society; it means just +that. Love your neighbors, love your brothers." + +"What brothers?" inquired Ralph. "I haven't any; wish I had." + +"Yes, you have, my boy," answered Miss Hill. "You have red, white, +black, and yellow brothers, and this 'A.M.A.' is to help them to +read, to work on the farm and in the house, to learn trades, and to +know the best things. Your black brothers are the negroes who live in +all the South, the yellow are the Chinese in California, the red are +the Indians in the Territories, in the schools of Hampton, and the +whites are in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee. All these +little books that I will show you tell about these brothers and +sisters. Now read the card. Read it all. + + +THE A.M.A. "TRUE BLUE" CARD. + +SPACED FOR COLLECTING FIVE CENTS. + +For each five cents collected, prick a hole with a pin in one of the +squares below--each space representing that sum. + +Letters from the "Children's Missionary" will be sent to each +collector upon returning the card with amount of collection--not less +than Five Dollars. + +Six of these cards will entitle the collector to a Life Membership in +_The American Missionary Association_. + +"GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS, THAT NOTHING BE LOST." + + [Following this is a large square containing one hundred small + squares, which are the ones to be pricked.] + +Ralph read the card very distinctly and carefully, and then said, + +"O Auntie, may I have one to prick." + +"Indeed you may," answered Miss Hill. "I was just wishing for a young +collector. When will you begin?" + +"Oh, right off," exclaimed Ralph, impulsively. + +Then taking the card he approached Aunt Inez with a low bow and said, +"Miss Hill, I called to see if you would not like to give me a small +sum, five or ten cents for the poor negro." + +"You'll do," said Aunt Inez, smilingly, handing Ralph the ten cents, +while he energetically pricked two very distinct holes in the blue +card. + +"There," continued Ralph, "Now see if I don't get a missionary letter +for the next Sunday-school concert. Before the year is out, I'll be a +life member of the A.M.A." + +Is there any other boy or girl who would like to be a collector? + +If so, please raise hands. + +--_The Advance_. + + * * * * * + +RECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1888 + + + + MAINE, $1021.72. + +Andover. Mrs. E.M. Bailey, Box of Minerals, + _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. + +Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. 75.00 + +Bangor. Central Cong. Ch., 20; + Sab. Sch. Hammond St. Ch., 10; + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 30.00 + +Biddeford. Primary Dep't. Sab. Sch. of + Second Cong Ch., _for Woman's Work_ 13.00 + +Brunswick. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch., _for + Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00 + +Castine. Rev. A.E. Ives 3.00 + +Center Minot. Cong. Ch., to const. ELISHA + HALL L.M. 30.00 + +Ellsworth. Mrs C.J. Perry's S.S. Class, + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 3.75 + +Fort Fairfield. Cong. Ch. 7.50 + +Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 56.18 + +Kennebunk. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.55 + +Machias. Centre St., Cong. Ch. 6.51 + +New Gloucester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00 + +Orono. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Atlanta U._ 15.00 + +Otisfield. Miss Sally Spurr 1.00 + +Portland. William W. Mitchell 25.00 + +Portland. Bethel Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud + Indian M._ 1.00 + +Waterford. First Cong. Ch. 5.36 + +Windham Hill. _For Freight_ 2.00 + +Woodfords. Cong. Ch. and Parish 85.00 + +---- "A Friend," _for Mountain Work_ 5.00 + +---- "A Friend" 0.50 + +Woman's Aid to A.M.A., by Mrs C.A. + Woodbury, Treas, _for Woman's Work._ + + Alfred. Cong. Ch. 7.50 + + Augusta. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + + Bangor. Hammond St. Ch. 15.25 + + Bangor. First Ch. 11.00 + + Bath. Winter St. Ch. 34.25 + + Belfast. 3.00 + + Benton Falls. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + + Biddeford. Second Ch. 20.25 + + Biddeford. Pavillion Ch. 17.50 + + Boothbay. 9.00 + + Brewer. First Ch. 27.00 + + Brewer Village. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + + Bristol. 3.00 + + Bucksport. Cong. Ch. 13.13 + + Cornish. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + + Falmouth. Second Ch. 10.00 + + Freedom. 5.00 + + Freedom. Mrs. Cutter 5.00 + + Gardiner. 13.00 + + Gardiner. Miss Hattie A. + Capen 1.00 + + Holden. 8.00 + + Houlton. 9.25 + + Island Falls. 2.80 + + Kenduskeag. 5.00 + + Kennebunk. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + + Limerick. 15.00 + + Limington. Willing Workers 7.00 + + Litchfield. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + + Litchfleld. Mrs. Stupirt 1.50 + + Madison. "A Friend" 1.00 + + New Castle. 15.25 + + New Vineyard. 1.35 + + North Bridgton. 7.00 + + Paris. 9.68 + + Phillips. 2.50 + + Phillips. Mrs. C.T. Crosby's + S.S. Class, "Glad Helpers," + _for Freight_ 1.32 + + Portland. Seaman's Bethel 17.25 + + Rockland. W.H.M.S. 20.00 + + Sanford. 8.75 + + Sandy Point. 1.30 + + Searsport. 15.00 + + Skowhegan. 10.00 + + South Berwick, To const. + MISS LOIS R. HAYES and + MRS. MARIA L. RICKER + L.M.'s 61.99 + + Strong. 1.65 + + Topsham. 6.00 + + Wells. First Ch. 10.00 + + Wells. Second Ch. 14.05 + + West Brooksville. 1.60 + + West Lebanon. 11.25 + + York. First Ch. 23.00 + + York. Second Ch. 3.00 + + ------- 528.37 + + + NEW HAMPSHIRE, $635.08. + +Auburn. Mrs. Sally Coult 10.00 + +Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 + +Boscawen. "Crescent City Helpers" + _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 25.00 + +Derry. First Cong. Ch. 47.47 + +Derry. Mrs. Wm. Anderson, 5; + Miss Mary Anderson, 1; + _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 6.00 + +Dover. First Ch. 92.27 + +Exeter. Mrs. John L. Lovering, + _for Freight_ 3.00 + +Fitzwilliam. Mrs. L. Hill, 10; + Mrs. Fanny Hancock, 5 15.00 + +Franklin Falls. "A Friend," + _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 47.80 + +Hancock. Anne A. Hills 0.50 + +Henniker. Cong. Ch. 31.00 + +Keene. S.S. Class, Second Cong. Ch., + by J.C. Haskell, _for Oahe Indian M._ 20.00 + +Littleton. Mrs. B.W. Kilborn, + _for Atlanta U._ 5.00 + +New Ipswich. A.N. Townsend, Box of C. + +North Hampton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Atlanta U. 20.00 + +North Hampton. "J.L.P." 5.00 + +Penacook. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Woman's Work_ 10.00 + +Plaistow and North Haverhill. + Cong. Ch., 130; + Mrs. E.W. Merrill, 50 180.00 + +Portsmouth. North Ch. and Soc. 83.04 + +Rindge. Members Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + by A.M. Hale 10.00 + +Sanbornton. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + +Webster. Mrs. Buxton 5.00 + + + VERMONT, $414.71. + +Barre. Cong. Ch. 11.65 + +Barton. Cong. Ch. 21.23 + +Brandon. Cong Ch. and Soc. 7.75 + +Bridport. Ladies, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 18.60 + +Cambridge. Madison Safford 5.00 + +Duxbury. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Enosburg. Ladies, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 7.00 + +Essex Junction. A.D. Wilcox 5.00 + +Fair Haven. Cong. Ch. (of which 26c. + _for Mountain White Work_) 14.41 + +Fairlee. Harvey S. Colton 35.00 + +Georgia. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, + by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild 18.50 + +Granby. Infant Class, by H.W. Matthews, + _for Marie Adlof Sch'p Fund 0.80 + +Greensboro. Ladies, by Mrs. Stephen + Knowlton, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 13.50 + +Johnson. Bbl. of C., and 3.50 _for Freight_, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 3.50 + +Manchester. Cong. Ch., 33.52; + Samuel G. Cone, 25 58.52 + +Montpelier. Bethany Cong. Ch. 42.54 + +Middlebury. Ladies, by Mrs. Emily C. + Starr, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 25.11 + +Middlebury. Mrs. Mary W. Mead 2.00 + +Pittsford. ---- 20.00 + +Pittsford. Mrs. E.H. Denison 5.00 + +Rochester. "A Friend," _for McIntosh, Ga._ 8.00 + +Rupert. ---- 2.00 + +Rutland. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh, 60, to const. + REV. S.A. BARRETT and REV. M.A. + WARNER L.M's 60.00 + +Weston. Mrs. S.A. Sprague, 2; + L.P. Bartlett, 2; + C.W. Sprague, 1 5.00 + + --------- + + $393.11 + + LEGACY. + +Jericho. Estate of Hosea Spaulding, + C.M. Spaulding, 10; + A.C. Spaulding, 5; + Nellie M. Percival, 3; + E.J. Spaulding, 3 21.60 + + --------- + + $414.71 + + + + MASSACHUSETTS, $6,663.58. + +Acton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Atlanta U._ 10.00 + +Amherst. Wm. M. Graves, 20; + "A Friend," 10 30.00 + +Andover. Teachers and Pupils of Abbot Academy, 115; + Chapel Ch. and Soc., 48; + West Cong. Ch., 41.68 204.68 + +Andover. Jos. W. Smith, _for Atlanta U._ 50.00 + +Ashfield. "A Friend" 1.00 + +Boston. Mrs. Isaac Sweetser, 500; + Old So. Ch., 294.50; + Fred L. Ames, 100; + Francis H. Peabody, 100; + Rev. Philips Brooks, D.D., 100; + Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw, 100; + Nathaniel Thayer, 100; + Jno. F. Andrew, 100; + Chas. Francis Adams, 100; + Mrs. C.A. Spaulding, 100; + Boston National League, add'l, 60; + Stephen W. Marston, 50; + George Higginston, 50; + Edmund Quincy,50; + Wm. S. Eaton, 50; + Arthur T. Lyman, 30: + Eugene H. Clapp, 25; + Jno. P. Almy, 25; + Chas. F. Atkinson, 25; + Frank J. Garrison, 20.32; + Jno. Haskell Butler, 20; + "A Friend," 10; + A.S. Lovett; 10; + Jno. Albree, Jr., 5; + "A Friend," 5; + Miss. Z.E. Hollis, 1; + Chas. O. Pratt, 1, + _for Atlanta U._ 2031.82 + + Miss Jennie Ford, + _for Student Aid_, + _Atlanta U._ 5.00 + + "Friends," by Miss Samson, + _for Straight U._ 7.00 + + Miss Elizabeth Davis 50.00 + + "A Friend" 7.50 + + Miss H. Carter 1.00 + +Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc. 40.19 + + " Thomas Knapp's S.S. Class, + _for Wilmington, N.C._ + 8.00 + + " Miss Mary A. Tuttle, + _sales on her reprint of + 1000 copies "Judson's + Letter on Dress," toward + $100 Fund, for Indian M._ + 4.10 + + " Miss Mary A Tuttle, + _for Marie Adlof Sch'p Fund_ + 2.06 + +Jamaica Plain. Mrs. John Simpkins, + _for Atlanta U._ 25.00 + +Roxbury. Ladies of Immanuel Ch., + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + 12.00 + +West Roxbury. Sab. Sch. of So. Evan. Ch., + _for McIntosh, Ga._ + 20.00 + + " Ladies' Soc. of Evan. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ + 15.00 + + ------- 2,228.67 + +Brockton. Miss Louenza Bowen, 10; + Miss Lavinia Bowen, 5, + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 15.00 + +Brockton. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Porter + Ch, 3 Bbls. C., 3.26 _for Freight_, + also 9 _for Tuition_, + _Sherwood Acad., Tenn._ 12.26 + +Braintree. First Ch. 18.80; + South Cong. Ch., 14 32.80 + +Campello. South Cong. Ch., to const. + MRS. GEORGE E. KEITH, MRS MYRON L. + KEITH and MRS. GRACE HOLMES L.M's 100.00 + +Canton. Rev. Henry F. Jenks, + _for Atlanta U._ 5.00 + +Clinton C.L. Swan 50.00 + +Easton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch, + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 37.12 + +East Cambridge. Miss Mary F. Aiken, + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Easthampton. Sab. Sch., of First Ch., + _for Santee Indian M._ 25.00 + +Enfield. Cong. Ch. 60.00 + +Fall River. Simeon B. Chase, + _for Atlanta U._ 25.00 + +Framingham. "Quartette,"50; + "Friends in Plymouth Ch," 23.75; + Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch., 25.65; + Y.P.S.C.E., 20.70, + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 120.10 + +Gardner. J.B. Drury 10.00 + +Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch., 70.32; + MARTHA O. FARRAND, 30, to const. + herself L.M. 100.32 + +Groton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Freight_ 2.00 + +Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.46 + +Hinsdale. Pansy Soc. of Cong. Ch. 13.00 + +Holliston. Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4. 50.00 + +Holliston. L.A. Claflin, _for Student Aid_, + _Talladega C._ 1.00 + +Housatonic. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 75.15 + +Hyannis. Cong. Ch. 2.25 + +Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 42.75; + Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 46 88.75 + +Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Lowell. Eliot Ch. (of which 26.96 + _for Indian M._) 67.89 + +Lowell. Woman's Indian As'n, + _for Indian M._ 18.63 + +Lowell. First Cong. Sab. Sch., + Miss Mary Martin's Class 10.00 + +Ludlow. Sab. Sch. of Union Ch. 5.00 + +Medford. Mystic Ch. and Soc. 101.10 + +Mill River. M.R. Wilcox 10.00 + +New Bedford. First Cong. Ch. 73.89 + +Newbury. First Ch. 14.47 + +Newton. Freedmen's Aid Sewing Circle, + _for Atlanta U._ 35.00 + +Newton Center. The Misses Loring, 50; + The Maria B. Furber Miss'y Soc., 25; + Geo. P Davis, 20; + Sam'l F. Wilkins, 10; + First Cong. Ch., 25; + Horace Cousens, 20, _for Atlanta U._ 150.00 + +Newtonville. Central Cong. Ch., + _for Atlanta U._ 25.00 + +North Amherst. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of + Cong. Ch., _for Sherwood Academy, Tenn._ 10.00 + +North Leominster. "Friend," + _for Indian M._ 1.00 + +Norton, Trin. Cong. Ch. 54.82 + +Norton. Mrs. E.B. Wheaton, + _for Atlanta U._ 50.00 + +Norwood. Ladies of Cong. Ch., + _for Woman's Work_ 20.00 + +Peabody. South Cong. Ch. 69.00 + +Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 53; + South Cong. Ch. and Soc., 17.72 70.72 + +Randolf. Miss Abby W. Turner, 50; + Miss Alice M. Turner, 50; + "Two Friends," 10; _for Atlanta U._ 110.00 + +Reading. Cong. Ch., 18; + E.P. Damon, 6 24.00 + +Reading. Mrs. Z.M. Heselton, Bbl. of C., + _for Tougaloo U._ + +Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 8.50 + +Salem. Sab. Sch. of Tabernacle Cong. Ch., 50; + Dr. J.A. Emmerton, 10; + "A Friend," 50, _for Atlanta U._ 110.00 + +Salem. Young Ladies' Soc. of So. Ch., + 20 _for Tougaloo U._, + 20 _for Santee Indian Sch._ 40.00 + +Somerville. Primary Dept. Sab. Sch. + Prospect Hill Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid + and furnishing, Straight U._ 12.00 + +South Hadley. Mt. Holyoke Sem., 25; + First Cong. Ch., 21 46.00 + +South Hadley. Ladies' Benev. Soc., + First Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ 20.00 + +South Wellfleet. Second Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Springfield. Miss Spring and Miss Merriam, + _for Indian M._ 20.00 + +Springfleld. Memorial Ch., Box of S.S. Books, + _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +Sutton. First Cong. Ch. 37.38 + +Waltham. Mrs. Luce's S.S. Class, + _for Student Aid_, _Storrs Sch._ 2.00 + +Waltham. Mrs. Luce 0.25 + +Walpole. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 52.32 + +Ware. "Little Sunbeams," + _for Birds' Nest, Indian M._ 25.00 + +Watertown. Sab. Sch. of Philips Ch., + _for Atlanta U._ 50.00 + +Watertown. Mrs. Mary Cummings 0.50 + +Wellesley. M.A. Stevens 10.00 + +West Andover. S.W. Smith, + _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 3.00 + +West Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.05 + +West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. 54.75 + +West Medford. Cong. Ch. 16.26 + +Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.00 + +West Newton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Atlanta U._ 20.00 + +West Newton. Sab. Sch. Second Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +West Springfleld. Second Cong. Ch. 25; + "Willing Workers" of Sab. Sch., 8, + _for Lexington, Ky._ 33.00 + +Westport. Pacific Union Cong. Ch. 13.00 + +West Warren. Mrs. W.D. Marsh, + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 25.00 + +Weymouth. O.W. Allen's S.S. Class, + _for Jellico, Tenn._ 4.00 + +Weymouth and Braintree. Union Cong. Ch. 100.00 + +Whitinsville. Mrs. S.G. Whitin, 100; + Edward Whitin, 100; + Wm. H. Whitin, 100, _for Atlanta U._ 300.00 + +Williamstown. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 25, + "A Friend," 5, _for Atlanta U._ 30.00 + +Wilmington. Dea. Levi Manning 2.00 + +Winchester. First Ch. and Soc., 19.40; + Miss P. Stevens, 1 20.40 + +Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. 94.52 + +Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., + _for Student Aid_, _Atlanta U._ 45.00 + +Worcester. Union Ch., 220.19; + J.M. Bassett, 100; + Salem St. Ch., qr., 19; + Geo. W. Ames, 3; + Polly W. Ames, 3 345.19 + +Worcester, E.A. Goodnow, 100; + "Unknown Child," 7 cts., _for Atlanta U._ 100.07 + +Worcester. Sab. Sch. of Piedmont Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Atlanta U._ 156.73 + +Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. 49.58 + +---- "A Friend" 5.00 + + --------- + + $6,263.58 + + + LEGACY. + +Worcester. Estate of Marshall S. Ballord, + by A.H. Ballord, Ex. 400.00 + + --------- + + $6,663.58 + + + +CLOTHING, ETC. RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE. + +Alstead, N.H. Children's Mission Circle, + One Quilt, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Exeter, N.H. Mrs. John L. Lovering, + Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo U._ + +Cambridgeport, Mass. Pilgrim Ch. Sewing + Circle, Case, _for Tougaloo U._ + +Chelsea, Mass. C.A. Richardson, Books. + +Gloucester, Mass. Mary Brooks, Bundle. + +Groton, Mass. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Case + for Louisville, Ky. + +North Brookfield, Mass. First Cong. Ch., + Bbl., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Shrewsbury, Mass. Mrs. J.S. Cleaveland, + Box, _for Dakota Indian M._ + +Waltham, Mass. By Mrs. Luce, Pkg., _for + Atlanta U._ + + + RHODE ISLAND, $1,031.55. + +Newport. Bbl., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Providence. Cong. Club, + By Rev. J.H. McIlvaine, 50; + North Cong. Ch., 29.05 79.05 + +Providence. Sab. Sch. Pilgrim Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 50.00 + + -------- + + $129.05 + + LEGACY. + +Providence. Estate of Anthony B. Arnold, + by John H. Cheever and W. Knight, Ex'rs $902.50 + + --------- + + $1,031.55 + + + CONNECTICUT, $2,488.05. + +Ashford. W.D. Carpenter 10.00 + +Bethlehem. "Willing Helpers," _for Santee + Indian Sch._, by Mrs. S.P. Hayes 1.00 + +Bristol. Cong. Ch. (50 of which + _for Tougaloo U._) 84.16 + +Bristol. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Atlanta U._ 13.00 + +Bristol. Mission Circle, _for Student Aid_, + _Talladega C._ 10.00 + +Canton Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 + +Colchester. First Ch., 33.75; + Sab. Sch. of First Ch., 12.25; + Mrs. Erastus Day, 5 51.00 + +Collinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.25 + +Danielsonville. Mrs. Sarah A. Backus 6.00 + +East Hartford. First Ch. (5 of which + _for Indian M._) 20.00 + +East Hartford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 35.00 + +Farmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Tougaloo U._ 86.41 + +Hadlyme. Cong. Ch. 10.74 + +Hanover. Hanover Cong. Ch. 4.24 + +Hanover. Hanover Sab. Sch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 2.00 + +Hartford. Roland Mather, 500; + First Ch., 421.66; + "L.C.D.", 100 1,021.66 + +Hartford. The Parsonage Circle of Dr. + Walker's Ch. Bbl. and Box Bedding, + etc., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ + +Higganum. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Huntington. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +Huntington, Sab. Sch. of Cong, Ch., + _for Atlanta U._ ..3.00 + +Litchfield. First Cong. Ch. 25.35 + +Lyme. Prof. E.E. Salisbury 50.00 + +New Britain. Ladies Benev. Soc. So. + Cong. Ch. 2 Boxes, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +New Haven. Henry C. Rowe, _for Macon, Ga._ 50.00 + +New Haven. First Cong. Ch., _for Jones + Kindergarten_, _Atlanta. Ga._ 25.00 + +New Haven. Sab Sch., College St. Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 15.00 + +New Haven. Miss Fannie Skinner, + _for Freight_ 1.00 + +New Haven. "Friend in Center Ch.," + _for Indian M._ 1.00 + +New London. Mission Circle, by Luella + Armstrong, _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +New Preston. Cong. Ch., add'l. 0.25 + +Norfolk. Mary Eldridge, 25; + Isabella Eldridge, 25; + Alice B. Eldridge, 25, _for Atlanta U._ 75.00 + +Norfolk. Robbins Battell, + _for Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Northfield. Cong. Ch., to const. + MRS. J.M. SMITH L.M. 42.16 + +North Haven. Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 25.00 + +North Haven. E. Dickerman 2.00 + +Norwich. Henry B. Norton, _for Atlanta U._ 50.00 + +Norwich. "Friends," _for Student Aid_, + _Straight U._ 12.00 + +Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00 + +Ridgefield. Cong. Ch. 13.19 + +Rockville. Second Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 18.81 + +Somers. Miss M.A. Langdon, _for Macon, Ga._ 0.25 + +Southington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 6.45, + _for Rosebud Indian M._ Incorrectly ack. + in July Number, from Mass. + +Stamford. First Cong. Ch., to const. + GEORGE W. TOMS, 3rd, L.M. 55.67 + +Stonington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 42.00 + +Square Pond. ---- 1.00 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 42.85 + +Torrington. Benev. Soc. Third Cong Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Sab. Sch., + _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 20.00 + +----. "A Friend," _for Talladega_ 25.00 + +----. "Friends," _for Indian M._ 1.06 + + --------- + + $2,113.05 + + LEGACY. + +New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven, + 150 _for Atlanta U._; + 125 _for Talladega C._; + and 100 _for Tougaloo U._ 375.00 + + --------- + + $2,488.05 + + + NEW YORK, $2,202.74. + +Alden. Mrs. C.F. Porter and "Friends," + _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ 5.00 + +Bergen. First Cong. Ch. 15.83 + +Berkshire. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 72.13 + +Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch., 50; + Puritan Ch., 49; + Hetty M. Wiggins, 50c. 99.50 + +Brooklyn. S.V. White, 100; + Mrs. E.H. Van Ingen, 50; + John W. Mason, 50; _for Atlanta U._ 200.00 + +Brooklyn. Lee Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch., + Carrie Strong, 2; + Carrie Bingham, 2, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 4.00 + +Brooklyn. Sewing Soc., Plymouth Ch., 2 + Bbls. of C., _for Talladega C._ + +Buffalo. Spencer Kellogg, _for Jewett + Memorial Fund_ 20.00 + +Cambria Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Canandaigua. "Friends," for _Indian M._ 150.00 + +Cortland. Wm. H. Clark, _for Atlanta U._ 50.00 + +Ellington. Mrs. Anson Crosby 1.00 + +Flushing. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Oaks, N.C._ 40.00 + +Lima. Chas. D. Miner, Sen., 10; + H.C. Gilbert, 5 15.00 + +Morrisville. "A Friend," _for Talladega C._ 50.00 + +Mount Vernon. B. B. Adams, Jr., Box of + Books, _for Straight U._ + +New York. "A Friend" 33.00 + +New York. H.O. Armour, 100; + Robbins Battell, 50; + Chas. L. Colby, 20, _for Atlanta U._ 170.00 + +New York. W.R Huntington, D.D., 20; + Henry G. Marquand, 10, _for Atlanta U._ 30.00 + +New York. Mrs. Julia M. de Forest, + _for Talladega C._ 50.00 + +New York. Clarence F. Birdseye, + _for Indian Sch'p_ 17.50 + +New York. C.L. Mead, 2 Pkgs Clothing; + J.H. Washburn, 2 Pkgs. Clothing + +Portland. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Coon 25.50 + +Rochester. George Thayer 25.00 + +Rodman. The Willing Workers, _for + Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ 9.00 + +Turin. Helen L. Thompson 4.00 + +Warsaw. Cong. Ch. 16.28 + +Waterford. C.N. Cobb, _for Student Aid_, + _Talladega C._ 5.00 + +Yaphank. Mrs. Hannah M. Overton 5.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. + L.H. Cobb, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + + Walton. Woman's Aux. 30.00 + ------ 30.00 + + --------- + + $1,152.74 + + LEGACIES. + +Syracuse. Estate of Ira H. Cobb, + by Nathan Cobb, Ex. 1,000.00 + +New York. Estate of W. E. Dodge, + _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ 50.00 + + --------- + + $2,202.74 + + + NEW JERSEY, $456.03. + +Bernardsville. Mrs. M.L. Roberts 40.00 + +Jersey City. First Cong. Ch. (Tabernacle) 61.08 + +Montclair. W.H.M.S. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Tougaloo U._ 75.00 + +Montclair. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ 10.00 + +Upper Montclair. Cong. Ch. 225.75 + + --------- + + $411.83 + + + LEGACY. + +Orange. Estate of John Hancock, by Rev. + A. Stewart Walsh, Ex. 44.20 + + --------- + + $456.03 + + + PENNSYLVANIA, $122.00. + +Cannonsburg. "A Friend," by Miss C. Phillips 1.00 + +Lawrenceville. Mrs. A.C. Reed, + _for Student Aid_, _Atlanta U._ 100.00 + +Mercersburg. Thomas C. Johnston 6.00 + +Scranton. Mrs. Jane L. Eynon, + _for Indian Sch'p_ 15.00 + + + + OHIO, $1,737.49. + +Akron. Cong. Ch. 96.49 + +Brooklyn Village. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + +Byran. S.E. Blakeslee 5.00 + +Canfield. Cong. Ch. 1.75 + +Chagrin Falls. Sab. Sch, of Cong. Ch., + Box S.S. Papers, 2.35 _for Freight_, + _for Tougaloo U._ 2.35 + +Charlestown. Rev. S.J. Donaldson 5.00 + +Cincinnati. Mrs. Betsey E. Aydelott 5.00 + +Claridon. First Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 16.87 + +Claridon. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Ponies_ 1.00 + +Cleveland. Jennings Av. Cong. Ch. 50.00 + +Cleveland. Mrs. H.B. Spelman, + _for Student Aid_, _Atlanta U._ 25.00 + +Cleveland. Sab. Sch., Olivet Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 4.10 + +Columbiana. Ladies' M. Soc. of Grace + Ref. Ch., _for Ponies_ 3.00 + +Elyria. First Cong. Ch. 149.13 + +Farmdale. Isaac M. Newton 25.00 + +Fort Recovery. "Mite Soc." of Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Geneva. First Cong. Ch. 24.54 + +Hudson. Cong. Ch. (of which 2.20 _for + Rosebud Indian M._) 10.00 + +Hudson. Mrs. Harvey Baldwin 5.00 + +Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., 16.86; + F.E. Tracy, 9.30, _for Student Aid_, + _Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 26.16 + +Mantua. Cong. Ch. 5.70 + +Medina. "G.D.B.," 50 cts.; + "M.E.C.," 35 cts. 0.85 + +Mesopotamia. Cong. Ch., + _for Mountain White Work_ 5.00 + +Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. 50.00 + +Oberlin. Jabez L. Burrell, _for Fisk U._ 1,000.00 + +Oberlin. Mary Brand 1.00 + +Olmsted. W.H.M.S. of Second Cong. Ch., + _for Ponies_ 2.00 + +Painesville. Mrs. A.N. Andrus 15.00 + +Ragnor. Cong. Ch. 4.87 + +Toledo. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., + Flower Sunday Offering 4.22 + +Toledo. Y.P.M.S. of First Cong. Ch., + 2 Doz. Towels, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ + +Wadsworth. M. Jennie Hard 1.00 + +Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by + Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., + _for Woman's Work:_ + + Akron. Cong. Ch., W.H.M.S. 10.00 + + Bellevue. L.M.S. 3.65 + + Cleveland. Euclid Av. Ch. + L.H.M.S. 20.40 + + Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., + Y.P.S.C.E. 3.14 + + Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., + Boys' and Girls' Mission + Band 0.63 + + Columbus. Eastwood Ch., + W.M.S. 21.00 + + Cuyahoga Falls. H.M.S. + of Cong. Ch. 7.64 + + Edinburg. Sab. Sch., + Cong. Ch. 4.00 + + Jefferson. Junior Miss. + Circle 5.00 + + Wauseon. Mite Soc., + Cong. Ch. 5.00 + + Akron. S.S. of Cong. Ch., + _for Pony Fund_ 5.00 + + Cincinnati. Central Cong. Ch., + W.H.M.S., _for Pony Fund_ 4.00 + + Elyria. "Little Helpers," + _for Pony Fund_ 5.00 + + Mansfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. + Ch., _for Pony Fund_ 10.00 + + Oberlin. S.S. of First Ch., + _for Pony Fund_ 5.00 + + Oberlin. S.S. of Second Ch., + _for Pony Fund_ 5.00 + + Salem. Mrs. D.A. Allen, + _for Pony Fund_ 1.00 + + Springfield. L.H.M.S., + Cong. Ch., _for Pony Fund_ 5.00 + + Wellington. L.M.S., + _for Pony Fund_ 5.00 + + --------- 125.46 + + --------- + + $1,687.49 + + LEGACY. + +Nelson. Estate of Mrs. Mary A. Fuller, + by C.C. Fuller 50.00 + + --------- + + $1,737.49 + + + INDIANA. $90.23. + +Bloomington. Mrs. A.B. Woodford, + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 25.00 + +Michigan City. Cong Ch. 60.00 + +Michigan City. First Cong. Ch. 5.23 + + + ILLINOIS, $883.54 + +Byron. Cong. Ch. 10.17 + +Chandlerville. Cong. Ch. 9.68 + +Chicago. Union Park Cong. Ch., 142.07; + First Cong. Ch., 115.42; + Millard Av. Cong. Ch., 15; + Miss M.A. Hand, 5 277.49 + +Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean 2.50 + +Galva. Cong. Ch. 25.78 + +Granville. DEA. STEPHEN HARRISON, to + const himself L.M. 30.00 + +Ivanhoe. Cong. Ch. 28.00 + +Lacon. Cong. Ch. 16.00 + +La Prairie Center. "A Friend" 20.00 + +Lewistown. Mrs. Myron Phelps 50.00 + +Mendon. Mrs. J. Fowler, to const. W.H. + GARRETT L.M. 40.00 + +New Windsor. Cong. Ch. 8.30 + +Oak Park. First Cong. Ch. 205.24 + +Oglesby. T.T. Bent 5.00 + +Peoria. _For Student Aid_, _Mobile, Ala._ 5.00 + +Princeton. Cong. Ch., 18; + Mrs. P.B. Corss, 10 28.00 + +Rockford. Rockford Sem. Miss'y Soc. 10.00 + +Sparta. Bryce Crawford, 5; + P.B. Gault, 1; + James Hood, 1; + D.B. Boyd, 1; + R.H. Rosboro, 1; + J. Alexander, 50c.; + W. Bartholomo, 50c. 10.00 + +Streator. Mrs. L.H. Plumb, + _for Sch'p Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Summer Hill. Cong. Ch. 4.10 + +Winnetka. Cong. Ch. 47.78 + +Waukegan. First Cong. Ch. 5.50 + + + MICHIGAN, $184.00. + +Benzonia. Chas. F. Hopkins 1.00 + +Calumet. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ 35.00 + +Detroit. Miss Martha L. Miller, + _for Woman's Work_ 30.00 + +Detroit. Mrs. M.L. Miller, _for Straight U._ 5.00 + +Kalamazoo. T. Hudson 100.00 + +Manistee. Christian Endeavor Soc. of + Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Memphis. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of First + Cong. Ch., _for Athens, Ala._ + +Nashville. Rev. F. Hurd 5.00 + +Wheatland. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + + + WISCONSIN, $129.98. + +Beloit. L. Meacham 2.50 + +Blakes Prairie. Cong. Ch. 2.25 + +Clinton. John H. Cooper 5.00 + +Genesee. Cong. Ch. 14.30 + +Grand Rapids. Cong. Ch. 12.78 + +Hammond. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Hayward. Cong. Ch. 5.15 + +Lake Mills. Cong. Ch. 2.75 + +Prairie du Chien. Cong. Ch. 2.55 + +Princeton. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch. 51.00 + +West Salem. Cong. Ch. 18.70 + + + IOWA, $380.52. + +Anamosa. "Friends," by Miss M.A. George, 3; + Mrs. E.M. Condit, 1; + _for Student Aid_, _Straight U._ 4.00 + +Cedar Rapids. Mrs. R.D. Stephens, + _for Student Aid_, _Straight U._ 100.00 + +Cedar Rapids. C.H. Morse 2.00 + +Cherokee. R.H. Scribner, to const. MRS. + CLARA MILLER L.M. 30.00 + +Durant. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Savannah Ga._ + +Eldon. "Mary and Martha" 3.00 + +Garwin. Talmon Dewey 3.20 + +Genoa Bluffs. Cong. Ch. 2.56 + +Goldfield. C. Philbrook 3.00 + +Marshalltown. Cong. Ch. 3.82 + +Mitchell. First Cong. Ch. 1.63 + +Osage. First Cong. Ch. 13.60 + +Ottumwa. First Cong. Ch. 34.03 + +Ottumwa. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., + _for Sch'p_, _Fisk U._ 15.00 + +Riceville. Z. Banks 2.00 + +Sawyer. Francis Sawyer 20.00 + +Sioux City. Pilgrim Ch. 5.37 + +Stacyville. Cong. Ch., 12; + Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 3.57 15.57 + +Waterloo. Cong. Ch. 34.04 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, + _for Woman's Work_: + + Charles City. L.M.S. 25.00 + + Charles City. Mrs. D. Burnham's + S.S. Class 10.00 + + Farragut. W.M.S. 10.00 + + Genoa Bluffs. W.H.M.U. 1.25 + + Iowa City. W.H.M.U. 23.60 + + Marion. L.M.S. 5.00 + + Mount Pleasant. 5.20 + + Nora Springs. Mrs. H.B. Smith 0.50 + + Osage. Y.P.S. of C.E. 5.15 + + Sheldon. L.M.S. 2.00 + + -------- 87.70 + + + MINNESOTA, $112.46. + +Anoka. Ladies M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., + _for Woman's Work_ 10.00 + +Excelsior. Cong. Ch. 21.10 + +Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 38.00 + +Morris. Cong. Ch. 17.76 + +Saint Paul. Mrs. M.J. Hackett, + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 21.50 + +Saint Paul. S.S. Class of Boys, + _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ 1.50 + +Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. 2.60 + + + MISSOURI, $26.50. + +Amity. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Holden. "Mrs. S.E.H.," _for Indian M._ 3.00 + +Neosho. Cong. Ch. 2.50 + +Springfield. Central Cong. Ch. 11.00 + + + KANSAS, $48.82. + +Atwood. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + +Louisville. "Cheerful Workers," + by W.B. Foster 2.40 + +Manhattan. Cong. Ch. 32.42 + +Manhattan. "Friends" 10.00 + + + DAKOTA, $10.00. + +Henry. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Vermillion. Woman's Miss'y Soc. 5.00 + + + NEBRASKA, $94.64. + +Campbell. Cong. Ch. 3.03 + +Columbus. Cong. Ch. 5.48 + +Genoa. Cong. Ch. 3.70 + +Lincoln. First Cong. Ch. 54.55 + +Linwood. Cong. Ch. 6.92 + +Long Pine. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Monroe. Cong. Ch. 0.96 + +South Bend. Rev. S.C. Dean 2.00 + +Talmage. Cong. Ch. 13.00 + + + COLORADO, $53.00. + +Colorado Springs. First Cong. Ch. 53.00 + + + ARKANSAS, $3.10. + +Little Rock. First Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ 3.10 + + + CALIFORNIA, $11.00. + +Berkeley. Mrs. L.P. Huggins 10.00 + +Sonora. Mary B. Van Winkle 1.00 + + + DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $13.41. + +Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch., 8.41; + Tabernacle Ch., 5 13.41 + + + KENTUCKY, $512.03. + +Lexington. Tuition. 492.68; Rent, 9.35 502.03 + +Louisville. Woman's M. Soc., + _for Fort Berthold Indian M._, + by Miss S.S. Evans 10.00 + + + NORTH CAROLINA, $187.05. + +Hillsboro. "Friends," by Carrie B. Jones 1.00 + +Nalls. Cong. Ch. 1.50 + +Pekin. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + +Troy. By S.D. Leak 2.55 + +Wilmington. Tuition 144.75 + +Wilmington. By Miss Fitts, 12.60; + By Miss A.E. Farrington, 3.75, + _for Student Aid_ 16.25 + +Wilmington. Cong. Ch., _for Fence_ 10.00 + +Wilmington. "A Friend," + _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ 10.00 + + + SOUTH CAROLINA, $197.30. + +Charleston. Tuition 197.30 + + + TENNESSEE, $905.42. + +Jellico. Tuition 25.00 + +Jonesboro. Pub. Sch. Fund, 50; + Tuition, 4.75; + Rent, 75 cts; + Cong. Ch., 4.27, + and Miss'y Soc., 3.16 62.92 + +Memphis. Tuition 328.50 + +Nashville. Tuition, 452; + Mrs. H.H. Wright, _for Student Aid_, 2 454.00 + +Nashville. Sab. Sch., Fisk U., + 20 _for Indian M._ + and 5 _for Chinese M._ 25.00 + +Nashville. Isaiah Smith, + _for Sch'p_, _Fisk U._ 1.00 + +Pomona. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Robbins. Tuition 3.00 + + + GEORGIA, $724.71. + +Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, 269.40; + Rent, 2 271.40 + +Macon. Tuition 175.50 + +McIntosh. Tuition 18.00 + +McIntosh. Woman's Mlss'y Soc., 13; + Young People, 1.50, + _for Fort Berthold Indian M._ 14.50 + +Marietta. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 1.00 + +Savannah. Tuition 177.25 + +Thomasville. Tuition 58.50 + +Thomasville. Sab. Sch. of Conn. Ind'l + Sch., _for Indian M._ 5.50 + +Woodville. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 3.06 + + + ALABAMA, $474.87. + +Athens. Tuition 66.25 + +Marion. Tuition 78.95 + +Mobile. Tuition 219.40 + +Talladega. Tuition 115.27 + + + FLORIDA, $41.35. + +Jacksonville. Union Cong. Ch. 12.35 + +Saint Augustine. Tuition, 24; Rent, 5 29.00 + + + LOUISIANA, $451.50. + +New Orleans. Tuition 451.50 + + + MISSISSIPPI, $8.00. + +Tougaloo. Tuition, 4; Rent, 4 8.00 + + + TEXAS, $178.70. + +Austin. Tuition 173.70 + +Austin. Sab. Sch., Tillotson, C. & N. Inst., + _for Chinese M._ 5.00 + + + INCOMES, $1,802.60. + +Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 683.75 + +De Forest Fund, _for President's Chair_, + _Talldega C._ 143.75 + +C.F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ 50.00 + +General Endowment Fund 50.00 + +Graves' Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ 125.00 + +Hammond Fund. _for Straight U._ 62.50 + +Hastings Sch'p Fund, _for Atlanta U._ 12.50 + +Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ 475.00 + +Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._ 75.00 + +Plumb Sch'p Fund _for Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Tuthill King Fund. _for Berea C_ 50.00 + +Rev. J. and L.H. Wood Fund, + _for Sch'p_, _Talladega C._ 25.00 + + + NEW MEXICO, $14.55. + +Albuquerque. Cong. Ch. 14.55 + + + JAPAN, $20.00. + +Kioto. Mission Ch., by Rev. D.W. Learned 20.00 + + ========== + +Donations $16,145.53 + +Legacies 2,843.30 + +Incomes 1,802.50 + +Tuitions 3,524.70 + +Rents 21.10 + + ---------- + +Total for June $24,337.13 + +Total from Oct. 1 to June 30 214,434.40 + + ========= + + + FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +Subscriptions for June $74.22 + +Previously acknowledged 751.20 + + ------- + +Total $826.12 + + ======= + + +H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer, + 56 Reade St., N.Y. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, August, 1888, +(Vol. XLII, No. 8), by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + +***** This file should be named 14102.txt or 14102.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/1/0/14102/ + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Donald Perry, John Hagerson, and the +PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. 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