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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/14631-0.txt b/14631-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e9f389 --- /dev/null +++ b/14631-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2547 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14631 *** + +The American Missionary +======================= + + +October, 1890. + +Vol. XLIV. + +No. 10. + +New York: + +Published By The American Missionary Association, + +Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York. + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance. + +Entered at the Poet Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + + + + +Contents +======== + + +Contents +Editorial + ANNUAL MEETING. + The Federal Election Bill And The Mississippi Convention. + Notes From The West. +The South + Out To Rockhold, Ky. + Church Work. + Straight University. + Better Class Of Students. + Temperance In Tennessee. + Items. +The Indians. + Mr. Shelton At Northfield Again. + The Widow's Mite. +The Chinese + The Pictures + Lights And Shadows +Bureau Of Woman'S Work. + Christian Endeavor For The Boys And Girls Of The Southern Mountains + Woman's Work In North Carolina + Woman's State Organizations. +Receipts For August, 1890. +Notes + + + + + +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. F. A. Noble, D.D., Ill. + +Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo. + +Rev. Alex. Mckenzie, D.D., Mass. + +Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass. + + + + +Corresponding Secretaries. +-------------------------- + + +Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._ + +Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._ + +Rev. F.P. Woodbury, D.D., _Bible House. N.Y._ + + + + +Recording Secretary. +-------------------- + + +Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._ + + + + +Treasurer. +---------- + + +H.W. Hubbard, Esq., _Bible House, N.Y._ + + + + +Auditors. +--------- + + +Peter Mccartee. + +Chas. P. Peirce. + + + + +Executive Committee, +-------------------- + + +John H. Washburn, Chairman. + +Addison P. Foster, Secretary. + +_For Three Years._ + +S.B. Halliday, + +Samuel Holmes, + +Samuel S. Marples, + +Charles L. Mead, + +Elbert B. Monroe, + +_For Two Years._ + +J.E. Rankin, + +Wm. H. Ward, + +J.W. Cooper, + +John H. Washburn, + +Edmund L. Champlin, + +_For One Year._ + +Lyman Abbott, + +Chas. A. Hull, + +Clinton B, Fisk,(1) + +Addison P. Foster, + +Albert J. Lyman. + + + + +District Secretaries. +--------------------- + + +Rev, C. J. Ryder, 21 _Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._ + +Rev. J. E. Roy, D.D., 151 _Washington Street, Chicago, Ill._ + +Rev. C. W. Hiatt, 64 _Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio._ + + + + +Financial Secretary for Indian Missions. +---------------------------------------- + + +Rev. Chas. W. Shelton. + + + + +Secretary of Woman's Bureau, +---------------------------- + + +Miss D.E. Emerson, _Bible House, 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; letters relating to the finances, to the +Treasurer. + + + + + +Donations And Subscriptions +=========================== + + +In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent +to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York, or, when more +convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, +Boston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., or 64 Euclid Ave., +Cleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a +Life Member. + +NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the "address label," indicates the +time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label +to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made afterward, +the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send early +notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address and the +new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be +correctly mailed. + + + + + +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. XLIV. + +October, 1890. + +No. 10. + +American Missionary Association. + + + + + +Editorial +========= + + + + +ANNUAL MEETING. +--------------- + + +The next annual meeting of the American Missionary Association will be +held in Northampton, Mass., in the Edwards Church, commencing at three +o'clock Tuesday afternoon, October 21st. Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, D.D., of +Chicago, Ill., will preach the sermon. On the last page of the cover will +be found directions as to membership and other items of interest. Fuller +details regarding the reception of delegates and their entertainment, +together with rates at hotels and railroad reductions, will be given in +the religious press. A meeting of unusual interest is expected, and we +hope our friends will be present in full attendance. + +For notice of Woman's Meeting, see page 318. + + * * * * * + +The holding of our Annual Meeting in Northampton will call up some very +remarkable associations. Northampton was the home of Jonathan Edwards, +who was not only the eloquent preacher and profound theologian, but the +missionary to the neighboring Stockbridge Indians. It was also the home +of his son-in-law, David Brainerd, who was the typical self-denying +martyr-missionary to the Indians in New Jersey. It was the home of the +Tappan family, two of whose sons, Arthur and Lewis, were among the early +founders and most valued friends of this Association. In June, 1848, the +Tappan family held a joyous family reunion in Northampton, continuing +for a week. + + * * * * * + +Frederick Douglass is hopeful. In a recent address he says: "A great +change has taken place among the colored race--vast and wonderful has it +been. It seems as if we had realized the vision of St. John when he saw a +new heaven and a new earth. But the change has come at last. The time has +come when we can look our fellow-citizens in the face and share in the +glory of the country." + +No man has a better right to say this than he, for his life has touched +the degraded condition of the slave and the exalted position of an +Embassador of this great Republic. He adds: "Some talk of exterminating +our race, and others say we will soon die out, but I tell you both are +impossible. If slavery could not kill us, liberty won't." Liberty ought +to do more than save them alive. It ought to educate, elevate and +Christianize them. + + * * * * * + +The _Independent_ quotes from Dr. Mayo's address before the American +Social Science Association on "The Third Estate," in which the Doctor, +refers to the strange population of the great Southern mountain +world--nearly two millions at present--as a body of people that sends +forth a louder cry for the missionary of modern civilization than any +other portion of the Republic, and adds: + + + + "What is also said by the Unitarian, Dr. Mayo, of the need of + missionary work for this class of the Southern whites, calls + for an emphasis even stronger than we could put on any + political conclusion. We pass this patriotic appeal along to + those who have the wealth that is seeking a worthy object on + which to expend itself. There are missionary societies whose + business it is to do this. For the Congregationalista, the + American Missionary Association will for a very moderate + amount establish a church and an academy in any one of a + hundred counties inhabited by these people, and what a man + with a million dollars to expend could do we hardly dare to + say. For the Presbyterians, the Board of Home Missions will do + the same; for the Methodists, their Missionary Society; for + the Episcopalians, their board of Domestic Missions; for the + Baptists, their Home Mission Society; and so on for all the + religious bodies. But will not a goodly company of wealthy men + supplement what the churches are doing in their collections, + by large gifts for this special, most needy, most fruitful, + and we declare most neglected mission work of the nation?" + + + + * * * * * + +Agitations on the surface are significant mainly as they are connected +with the larger movements of the deeper waters beneath. The re-election of +Speaker Reed to Congress, and the contest for the re-election of Mr. +Breckinridge in Arkansas; the Federal Election Bill, which proposes to +secure a free ballot for all men irrespective of color, and the Convention +in Mississippi, which aimed avowedly to curtail the voting of the colored +people--all these derive their importance from their relation to the +gravest problem of American statesmanship. That problem will not be +settled by the results of either of these current questions. For at the +bottom the real question is: Shall knowledge and character and property +become the possession of the colored race, and they thus be prepared for +their place in American politics, industry and prosperity, or will they be +allowed for the lack of these things to be crushed back into a condition +of semi-slavery or be goaded to resistance or discouraged in poverty, +pauperism and degradation? That is a fundamental question. For that, men +should read, think, pray and work. + + + + +The Federal Election Bill And The Mississippi Convention. +--------------------------------------------------------- + + +The ultimate aim of the Federal Election Bill in Congress, and of the +Constitutional Convention in Mississippi, point in diametrically opposite +directions. They cannot be harmonized, and there is no middle way between +them. The Election Bill contemplates a "free ballot and fair count" for +every voter, including the Negro. The Mississippi Convention aims to +restrict Negro suffrage. In an address delivered by the President of the +Convention, September 11th, he is reported to have said that: "He did not +propose to mince matters and hide behind a subterfuge, but if asked by +anybody if it was the purpose of the Convention to restrict Negro +suffrage, he would frankly say, 'Yes; that is what we are here for.'" This +Convention proposes to secure its object not by the force and fraud of +earlier days, but by constitutional and legal methods--or at least by what +has constitutional and legal _forms_. All this, however, is another +attempt to achieve the impracticable. As the Negro grows in intelligence +and numbers, he will claim his right to vote. + +On the other hand, the Congressional Election Bill or any other +legislation intended to secure the privilege of voting to the Negro, if +made practical, means a good deal. If it is intended only to pass laws +that shall be merely "glittering generalities" to vindicate the historic +record of the Republican party, or to sanction its Platform and the +Inaugural of the President--that is easily done and will, of course, +amount to nothing--except as a political manoeuvre. But if the movement +"means business," and is to be pushed to its legitimate result, then two +things must be done: the Negro must be qualified to vote and to be voted +for; to elect officers and to hold office. If the mass of illiterate and +impoverished Negroes are to be represented in State Legislatures and in +Congress by persons as ignorant and poor as they are themselves, these +representatives will, of course, if in the majority, be liable to rule and +ruin; if in a large minority, they will hold a balance of power that may +easily be controlled by demagogues. To educate this mass up to the point +of intelligence and the acquisition of property is America's great duty +and the guaranty of her safety. + +There is one thing more about it. We have said that if the Negro is to +have the free exercise of the ballot, he will insist on being voted for as +well as voting. If the Negroes have power to elect, they will wish to +elect some of their own number. They will not, and certainly they ought +not to vote for a man simply because he is black. They should vote for the +best qualified man whether he is black or white. If they have the power +they will certainly elect some of their own number. But this means, if it +means anything good, that there shall be those of their own number who are +qualified to hold office and to hold it honorably to themselves and +usefully to their constituents and the country. But this implies higher +education to a good many colored people. It will not do for them to have a +few men educated as professional politicians. May Heaven save them from +the day when they will encourage the growth of such a class of men. They +will need to have a large number of educated men in the various walks of +life, from whom suitable candidates may be selected, just as white men +have. But if they are to have such a class of men, adequate measures must +be taken for their higher education, and those friends of the Negro who +desire and help to educate him only in primary studies, while they are +doing a great and essential work, are not doing all that is needed. It may +be all well enough to say to the Negro, "Work hard and keep out of +politics." But if he is allowed to enter into politics freely, he will do +it just as other men do. There is enough human nature in him to secure +that. And any view of this matter that accepts the theory of a free ballot +to the Negro, will be short-sighted, if it does not aim at the education +of the mass of the Negroes as the mass of the white people are educated, +and at the higher education of a proportionally large number of the +Negroes. If Congress and Mississippi Conventions should turn their +attention in this direction, their work would be more significant than the +efforts they are now making. + + + + +Notes From The West. +-------------------- + + + By District-Secretary C.W. Hiatt. + + +Sylvan, terraced, lacustrine; cottages by the score, gay in color, unique +of design; people everywhere, chatty, erudite, artistic, processional; +"round tables," "leagues," "societies" and "circles;" lectures, sermons, +concerts and conferences--a school, a church, a university--all this, and +throughout it all a steady pulse of religious heart and heartiness--such +is the Chautauquan Assembly of Bay View, Michigan. One of the important +features of this assembly is its annual missionary conference. All +denominations participate and the field of the world is brought vividly +before the mind by the laborers from here and there. + +An interesting testimony by a missionary from Singapore was to the effect +that many of the most cultured and generous people he had ever met were +Chinese. By the aid of influential Mongolians--though they were +heathen--he was once enabled to start a school which grew rapidly till +hundreds were enrolled and a permanent religious center of great +importance was established. The whole account was thrilling. + +Specially kind was the hearing given the representative of the American +Missionary Association work, and the eager quest for literature which +followed showed that all words had not been lost. Denominational lines +were not conspicuous. The black cat of statistics scampered across the +rostrum only once or twice. A fitting rebuke to this audacious creature +was couched in the story told by a missionary of a visit he had received +from another worker on the field, and their mutually forgetting to inquire +into each other's church connections, so great was their interest in the +tasks in hand. Afterwards, the Methodist brother learned that he had +entertained a Baptist unawares--Selah. + +An interesting disclosure was recently made, when the organ of Vine St. +Congregational Church in Cincinnati was removed from the rear to the front +of the auditorium. Midway between ceiling and floor, on either side of the +recess, were two doors in the wall. These could only be reached by +ladders. What were they for? Ah, they have a history. They open into rooms +which, in ante-bellum days, were used as stations of the "underground +railway." Here fugitives from across the Ohio were secreted until they +could be spirited on, by night, towards the waters of Erie. These doors on +the wall speak volumes for the history of the church. I wonder not that +even now, though in the very commercial center of the city, far from the +residence portion, this church is in full career of evangelistic life. +Churches with such doors as those in their walls need not be expected to +vegetate, nor to die. + +I like to visit the smaller churches as opportunity is given. Their zeal +for the causes of humanity is often very intense and intelligent. +Sometimes, too, their contributions are a surprise. I know a little +country church in Ohio that one day raised forty-six dollars when only +forty-five persons were present. It was ten miles by stage from the +railroad. Now another gratifying surprise: out of that little flock +several people are planning to go to the Northampton meeting. + +I also know a church of foreigners, ninety-seven in membership, that +raised forty-seven dollars and fifty cents for our work in an evening +collection, or about fifty cents _per capita_. Awhile ago these foreigners +were a part of our _City_ problem. By the grace of God, they are now out +of the equation, and themselves, in turn, become helpers in solving that +other more extensive problem, of the races in the South. Such things as +these encourage us. + + * * * * * + +The Chicago Theological Seminary is desirous of completing its files of +the AMERICAN MISSIONARY for binding. The numbers missing are: February, +1887, October and November, 1871, January, 1862, November, 1861, the first +six months of 1858, and all the numbers for 1857. If any one has any of +these magazines that he would like to give to the Seminary, he will confer +a favor by sending them direct to L.A. Allesbrooke, 45 Warren Ave., +Chicago, Ill. + + + + + +The South +========= + + + + +Out To Rockhold, Ky. +-------------------- + + + Prof. R.C. Hitchcock + + +I wanted to see the people and especially the church and Sunday-school at +this outpost. Now one can go out there by rail, but that is prosaic. It is +not apostolic; those apostles tied on their sandals, girt up their +garments and walked. But I found I couldn't do that way, for there was the +big Cumberland to cross and several creeks, not to speak of "runs," +"branches" and mud-holes. The circuit riders? Yes, they went on horseback; +that must be my way, so I consulted Brother Tupper and he borrowed Mr. +Perkins's horse, noted as being an easy-going roadster. Easy? Well, I do +suppose the horse was all right, but I must indulge in one groan. It was a +long time since I had been on horseback. I wanted to go to the stable to +get on, but the young man insisted on bringing the steed down to the hotel +as soon as he had his feed, and in due time he came, a tall fellow, and I +doubted my ability to get my foot up to that stirrup, and somewhat whether +I could boost myself over into the saddle if I did; so I quietly and +gently coaxed him up to the piazza and actually succeeded the first time +trying. How many of the gentlemen, sitting in their Sunday best on the +piazza, smiled, I do not know--I didn't dare to look. I know I sat up ever +so stiff and tried to look just as if I had been a circuit rider for forty +years or so. + +I must cross the river to begin with. Now they hadn't given me any whip +and I didn't dare ask the owner of the horse--"Colt, gone four"--he said, +for a whip or even a switch, but I wondered what I would do if the animal +should take it into his head to turn around or do something awkward right +in the middle of the river. I didn't want to get off, for I must get on +again. As good luck would have it there was a kind-eyed man sitting on a +stone by the riverside, and I asked him to get me a stick. He gave me one +he had in his hand and I felt better. + +"Does the ford go right straight across?" I asked. "No, you must make a +curve up towards the dam or you will get into deep water, and there are +boulders too, you must avoid, or your horse may fall down." + +A curve! Now a straight line, two points being given, can be defined. And +if I could steer for some given point on the opposite bank, I could hit it +if the current did not take me down stream; but a curve is awfully +uncertain, and my mind was in a state of perturbation. However, I got +across with nothing worse than a good spattering. + +I wish I could paint the pictures constantly opening on the view as I rode +along. Forest clad mountains rose on every side with huge cliffs peering +grimly out. Sometimes these cliffs overhung the road and occasionally a +great slab of slate projected sufficiently to furnish shelter for a +family. In one place a farmer had taken advantage of this and made his +stable under a rock. A great slab of shaly slate projected so that he had +a roof some fifty feet long and ten or fifteen wide. My mind went back +eighteen hundred years and more to another stable in a rock and the +wonderful scene enacted there. It was not easy to believe that the little +cabins, looking like miniature houses which might be built by boys for +play, were actually homes, occupied by families, father, mother and eight +or ten children; but such is the case. + +Seven miles of constantly changing pictures, but all beautiful, brought me +to Rockhold, a name I had supposed derived from its physical +characteristics, but which I was informed was given in respect to a family +formerly the most important in the vicinity but now quite gone. I made my +way to the little church. In front was a huge wagon and in a little grove +at the back several horses tied. I had been informed that I might safely +address any man I found prominent, as "Elliott," and as I entered I so +accosted an elderly man whom I found in charge of a large class of young +men. About fifty were present, Mr. Elliott being the only male teacher, +three young ladies, two of whom I learned had been educated at Berea, +having charge of classes. After the lesson I addressed the people. The +characteristic that impresses me more than any other is their solemn +seriousness. They listen intently and with great eagerness. They are +hungry for preaching and feel it a great hardship that they can only have +it occasionally. Their faces were a study. There was hardly a weak one +among them and many bore the impress of great strength. But I would as +soon have told a story or joked at a funeral as under their serious eyes. + +The meeting over, several invited me to "go by" and take dinner, and I +accepted the first offer, which was made by a nice looking young lady in +mourning, who urged her claim by saying: "All the preachers go to our +house and father will be so disappointed if he don't see you; he couldn't +come to-day." + +This country has not yet got to the point of thinking bridges necessary +and roads are not for those who sit on springs and cushions. I never +wished so much for a "Kodak" that I might carry away a picture which I +shall always have in memory. To the long wagon, which had a high rack all +around it, were yoked a pair of milk-white oxen, round and handsome. In +front was seated Mrs. Elliott, holding her youngest child. At her side a +boy, perhaps twelve, who guided the team by a line attached to a horn. +Seated on chairs were nine young ladies and girls, nearly all in pretty +white dresses. + +Two miles of beautiful scenery and we reach the farm house, a commodious +and substantial rural home, of John Elliott, who gave me a cordial welcome +and soon the long table in the kitchen was spread with such a meal as I +had not enjoyed in many a day. The menu did not record many French dishes, +but everything was good, abundant and wholesome. + +After dinner, Mr. Elliott told me a story worth recording. It was that of +the heroic Mr. Richardson, who before the war was a teacher in that +district--a Northern man--and, in the excited state of feeling in the +South, was suspected of being an abolitionist. He and his wife were driven +from their home and work, but protected from personal violence by the +prompt and energetic efforts of the Elliotts. But as both Dr. Roy and Mr. +Ryder have given the details to the public, I will not repeat them here. I +will only add that of the fifty persons who had signed the paper pledging +themselves to "_remove_" Richardson, it would be difficult to find one now +in Whittley County. They are scattered or dead. But in the little church +at Rockhold, the name of Richardson is a sacred one, and the stranger +always hears the story. + +I took leave of this interesting family with great regret. As I sat in the +little grove in front of the house, with its carpet of myrtle, and looked +off over the peaceful valley, I wished I might remain there and rest. + +That horse had it pretty much his own way on the return seven miles, and +when I thought nobody was looking I must confess to finding it a very +pleasant thing to get both legs on the same side of the saddle. But I am +glad I went to Rockhold. I would not lose the pictures I got there for a +small sum and I hope and pray that the time may soon come when in some way +a regular preacher may be provided for the people. + + + + +Church Work. +------------ + + + +Dedication Of A Church At Byron, Ga. +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + +Words fail to express the pleasant time we had at Byron, in dedicating our +new house of worship to the service of God. We had a very large attendance +of people from Bibb, Houston, Taylor and Sumter counties. Nearly two +hundred people came from Andersonville, a large number came from Macon and +quite a company from Rutland. One brother was present from the Savannah +church. Altogether there were five of our Congregational churches +represented by their members and several others were heard from. I should +think that there were nearly, if not quite, four hundred people on the +grounds. Of course the building could not hold them all. Rev. J.R. McLean +preached the sermon, which was pronounced by a leading white man present, +to be the best he ever heard. Altogether the occasion was an inspiring +one. The hundreds of black faces so attentively listening to the words of +truth, so orderly and quietly, could not fail to impress us deeply. The +occasion was one that brought four of our churches into a very close +relationship, closer than they have ever been before; I mean, so many from +each church meeting face to face and forming each other's acquaintance. + +It is our wish and prayer to do well the work that is committed to our +hands. We are not afraid of hard work, we want time and means to do all +that we see is needed, and there is so much to be done. I feel like going, +going all the time with the message of God's love to dying men. The +opportunities are constantly increasing for usefulness. + + + +Promising Opening In Georgia. +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + +I came to the place where the people wanted a Sunday-school. They were +ready for it, with a rude building erected by the people themselves, and +waiting for me to begin work, and I have promised to organize a +Sunday-school on the second Sunday of next month. A young married woman, +the wife of a well-to-do farmer, and a former student in the Ballard +School, has promised to superintend it. She expects at least fifty +scholars, many of them her day pupils. I have given her singing books +and shall send to Boston for Sunday-school supplies. There is reason to +believe that we can some day organize a church in that place. I preached +in the new building last night and at the close of the service nearly +twenty-five bowed for prayers and asked for mercy. It was really +affecting and I only regretted that I could not remain and continue the +work which begins in so promising a manner. I have not the time to +describe in detail the work done on this trip. All along the road for +nearly forty miles people stopped me and I them to talk about the love +of God for man and the gift of his dear son as their Saviour and +Redeemer. My heart burns with a desire to do them good and I am so happy +in helping them see the truth as it is revealed in the Bible. There are +hundreds of colored people in that county who have no proper religious +instruction. They come from far and near whenever I go into that region, +and seem to be blessed in listening to the word of God. I am constantly, +from a half-dozen different counties, hearing the Macedonian cry: "Come +over and help us." I wish you could go with me and see these golden +opportunities. If our churches saw the needs and the openings for doing +good, they would increase many fold their offerings to this work. + + + +Encouraging Indications. +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + +I can see a manifestation of real earnestness on the part of a larger +proportion of the members of our church than at any time before since I +have been here. While none of our meetings are attended so well as they +should be, at the same time they are spiritual. And now, as we are getting +our minds and hearts ready for some extra meetings, our prayer meetings +are full of tenderness and sweetness. Last Thursday night, though it was +raining at the meeting hour, a goodly number came out and the blessed Lord +was with us. Our subject was "The Christian dignity of labor." It seemed +to be a new truth when they could see from his own word that Jesus was +interested in our daily work, John 21: 3-6. One faithful sister who is +trying to educate and provide for six children was very much helped by the +fact that Jesus would guide her if she was only willing to follow his +direction. The prayer meeting is the life of the church. + +I spent two days with Brother S---- at B---- last month, in some extra +meetings. The meetings were quite well attended; a goodly number of white +people were with us at almost every meeting. The Methodist minister of the +town was present and offered prayer. He expressed himself as highly +pleased with the sermon and hoped that we might do much good in the name +of the Lord. I find the very best of feeling towards our church there on +the part of the white people. I hope the church will do well and grow in +numbers and influence. + +JACKSON ST. CHURCH, NASHVILLE, TENN.--Yesterday was a red-letter day for +Jackson Street Church. It was communion day. Two were baptized and +admitted to the church. Our congregation numbered more than one hundred, +the largest audience we have yet had. It was also the day for special +collection. We collected thirteen dollars. This was done by means of the +envelope system without any blast of bugle. There were eleven conversions +in the Sunday-school recently. + +HOWARD CHAPEL, NASHVILLE, TENN.--Our attendance this month has never +fallen below forty-five. One of the established churches of the city with +a membership five times as large as ours has an average of ten to its +prayer meetings. We have fifteen or twenty. We have also organized a +Y.P.S.C.E. and a Bible class. It is the purpose of this class to study +Biblical biographies. We have studied so far the lives of Joseph, Moses, +Daniel, Esther, Ruth and David. It would do your heart good to see with +what enthusiasm the young people have entered upon this study and how they +master even the minutest details. I have every hope in the world for +Howard Chapel. + +SAVANNAH, GA.--Some years ago our flock was the smallest, now we have the +largest Sunday-school and congregation. The history of this church is +wonderful. God has been merciful towards it. Some who were our strongest +enemies years ago are now our best workers. I have a plan for next winter, +to open a night school and draw the young people from sin and Satan to our +blessed Lord. July the 18th, Brother L. and myself went to Porter's and +made a start on our meeting house. The man who gave the land cut down +trees, Brother L. dug holes and we planted the posts. Brother L. went back +and bought five hundred feet of lumber, and with God's help we intend to +take the train some day and finish our humble place of worship. + +NORTH ATHENS, TENN.--The church members gather with the children every +Friday afternoon to teach both boys and girls various kinds of work. +Capitalists and speculators are searching among the mountains for coal, +iron and timber. Why should not the Christian church search out the poor +mountaineers and bring them to Christ. Most of them were loyal to the +country. Slavery has for several generations denied them the advantages of +education. God has opened the door and bids us go in with the Bible and +the spelling-book to give to two millions of these people in our own +country a better culture, a purer Gospel. There are vast stores of wealth +in these mountains, but nothing of such value as the souls of this people. + + + + +Straight University. +-------------------- + + + + We are glad to copy from the Burlington (Vt.) _Daily Free + Press_ the following commendation of two of the appointees of + this Association, both graduates of the University of Vermont. + Mr. Atwood enters our service for the first time; Mr. + Henderson has already shown his efficiency in our work as a + preacher, and will enter upon his duties as a Professor under + favorable auspices. + + + +An eminently satisfactory and well-merited appointment is that of Mr. +Oscar Atwood of Jeffersonville, to be President of Straight University in +New Orleans. We can heartily congratulate the institution that it can +avail itself of the sound scholarship, the long experience, and the tried +executive ability of its president-elect. And no less do we congratulate +Mr. Atwood on his election to a post which will afford ample scope and +stimulus for the best that is in him. Straight University was founded +twenty-one years ago, and was designed especially for the education of the +colored youth. It is under the patronage of the American Missionary +Association, and has several departments in full operation. Mr. Atwood +took his A.B. degree at the University of Vermont in 1864; taught for a +time in various schools, including the academy at Essex, this State; for +two years was principal of the school at Underhill; then for seven years, +1871-78, was master of the High School at Plattsburgh, from which place he +was called to a similar position at Rutland. After nine years successful +labor there, he was forced to resign three years since on account of +continued trouble with his eyes. He has an excellent record both as +instructor and organizer and manager of school work. No better evidence of +his efficiency could be desired than the large number of young men who +have been stimulated by him to obtain a liberal education. + +We learn also that the Rev. George W. Henderson, of the class of 1887, +U.V., who for the last two years has been preaching in New Orleans, has +been appointed to a professorship in the same institution. Mr. Henderson +was originally a slave, as some of our readers know. He was prepared for +college by Mr. Atwood, took high rank at the University and at Yale +Theological Seminary, where he was graduated in 1883. He studied for a +time in Germany, and for a few years was principal of an academy in this +State. His work, we understand, is to be in the theological department, a +position for which he is well equipped. + + + + +Better Class Of Students. +------------------------- + + + By Prof. R.C. Hitchcock. + + +Last year was a "golden year" at Straight University in New Orleans. In +the first place, it is seldom the good fortune of any school to get a +corps of teachers so uniformly capable, and of such earnest Christian +spirit, willing to spend and be spent in the Master's service. + +Then every year brings a better class of students; not more sincere, +perhaps, but year by year they learn what "getting an education" means. +A few years ago it was quite impossible to make them realize that +steady, uninterrupted attendance was absolutely necessary to good work, +but as they have opportunity to compare the positions taken and the work +done by those who were regular and who remained at school long enough to +be really fit for good service, with those who thought they could come +in January and leave in April, getting an imperfect knowledge of things, +to their credit be it told, they _learn_--some _cannot_ learn life's +lessons--and there has been lately a gratifying eagerness to be present +at every recitation during the whole year. I do not think one has left +this year who could possibly remain. When the floods came and many of +them learned that their homes were under water, in some cases the +savings of many years in buildings and stock washed away, they came to +us saying they must go as they could no longer pay, but we told them to +wait. White-winged missives flew over Uncle Sam's postal way, and back +from many a church and Sunday-school came the needed aid, and--save in +the case of some young men who had to care for helpless ones at +home--none left. From these last came many an interesting story of the +heroic efforts to save life and property. The skill to wield tools, +acquired in our shop, helped many a one to build a "flat" in which +family, stock and furniture could be floated to dry land. Many had to +work night and day up to the waist, sometimes to the neck, in water to +save what might be. It will be a hard year, the coming one, for many in +the parishes of this State, though no doubt work will be plenty as soon +as the water is down. + + + + +Temperance In Tennessee. +------------------------ + + +This is certainly a very interesting field, not going backward but +forward. The temperance reform has made a clean sweep of the whole +village, and in union with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at the +station is fast pushing the saloons to the wall. The most striking feature +of the case is that they have learned how to work in the absence of their +leader. Two weeks ago last Sabbath night they held their own meeting--a +Bible reading institution among themselves, by the way, at which many were +present--and the old revival spirit broke out afresh to such a degree that +the last of their friends, to the number of eighteen, who still clung to +their cups, made haste to sign the pledge of total abstinence. + + + + +Items. +------ + + + Letter From A Graduate Of Straight University. + + +There was an examination held in this city recently for clerkships at +Washington. The announcement of it in the newspapers and the certainty of +the successful applicants receiving appointments drew a large number of +young men to the examination, among whom were Tulane University graduates +and several principals of high schools. I had the honor of sustaining the +reputation of "Old Straight," by leading the list. The affair created much +local excitement and the name of Straight University is commanding much +respect. I am pleased at the prospect of the increased opportunities a +residence at Washington will afford me for the prosecution of my medical +studies. + + * * * * * + +Fisk University is well represented in the journalistic world, says the +_Tennessee Star_. The following graduates are pushing the quill: S.A. +McElwee and W.A. Crosthwait, editors of the _Nashville Tribune_; H.C. Gray, +editor of the _Galveston Test_; R.S. Holloway, associate editor of the +_Dallas Tribune_, and Geo. T. Robinson, editor of the _Star_. + + * * * * * + + + + We print this letter from a boy who wants to go to school. We + give it just as he wrote it, and hope to have the privilege of + printing a letter from him five years hence with a view to the + contrast. + + + + Augst 25th. + +Mr. Proseser D.: + +Der ser i hav bin in form of the ---- coldge and is it quite a distant and +i thout i would rite you afew lines i want you to write to me how i can +get Bord and what it will cost me a week or a munth and what is tuisson I +want to noe before i come and i want to start in a short time rite to me +all about it i will ickspeck anser soon, and Adress me. + +When I start in I want to goe 2 sesson's before I stop i think can conplet +most of inlesh studys in that time. + + + +Does The Lord Understand His Business? +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + + Rev. J.H.H. Sengstacke. + + +THEN. + +All through the early spring I heard complaints as follows: "The season is +against us and we shall not make anything." "Unless a change we must +starve." The season paid no attention to complaints but kept right on. + +Now. + +To-day God has blessed all with a good crop; plenty to eat and plenty to +sell. What next? The grumbling still continues. "There is so much that we +cannot get a high price for our produce." + + * * * * * + +If "resemble" means like, as one of the girls found when consulting the +dictionary, why is it not proper to say as she did, "I 'resemble' very +much to be at home?" + + * * * * * + + + +Letters From Very Little Pupils. +................................ + + +_My dear teacher_:--I would like to have grace and truth before God, and I +hope I am now his little girl.--LUCY. + +_Dear teacher_:--I want religion.--ARTELIA. + +_My dear teacher_:--If I had my choice of anything I wanted, I would +choose a Christian life, so when I came to die I would die in Jesus, like +Daisy Holt died.--ROXY. + + + + * * * * * + + + +Pictures In The Pines. +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + + Prof. Amos W. Farnham. + + +In the Sunny South, in the Land of Pines, +Is a whitewashed cottage, old and grand; +Its ample grounds of jessamine vines, +Are bright with crystals of sparkling sand. +Broad stairways lead to its airy hall +And cool piazzas, where the sun +His shining arrows ne'er lets fall +Till his daily race is almost run. + +Within are walls of panels high, +And great fire-places that laugh at night, +When the blazing splinters of lightwood fry +And wrap the rooms in a flood of light. +'Tis then the cabins in the rear, +Low and little and plain and old, +Are vocal with the Negro'a cheer, +For his heart is light when the day is told. + +But there's one who sits from the rest apart, +With folded hands and turbaned head, +With a nameless burden upon her heart, +And the light of youth forever fled. +And she sits a swaying to and fro, +Like the billowy pine with plume and cone, +While a minor strain subdued and slow, +She sings in a plaintive monotone: + +("I'm mos' don' a trablin' an' I boun' +To carry my sould to Jesus +I'm mos' don' a trablin' an' I boun' +To carry my sould to de Lord.") + +Then 'neath the whitewashed cottage vines, +From its window that looks on the dying day, +I gaze at the pictures in the pines, +Made by their plumes and cones of gray. +'Mong the leafy pictures is a crown, +Bedecked with a brightly shining star, +By angel hands held out and down +From the western gate that stands ajar. + +My crown is bright when the year is new, +Nor changes, when its frosts appear: +For the star still shines in its ground of blue, +And the pine tree lives when the rest are sere. +From the pine my thoughts ascend above +To the Tree of LIfe that Heaven adorns; +From the star to the Star of my Saviour's Love, +That grandly shone in a crown of thorns. + +Oh, Star of Love, thy beams shall guide +Me through the shadows of earth and sin, +Till Heaven's gate shall open wide +To let thy weary follower in. +I note the onward march of time +By the Negro's songs and the lightwood's glare, +And know I'm nearing the happy clime +And the starry crown that I shall wear. + + + + + +The Indians. +============ + + + + +Mr. Shelton At Northfield Again. +-------------------------------- + + + + Mr Moody is nothing if not practical, and when he undertakes a + thing he is apt to push it through. We give below another + pleasant illustration of this. Our readers will remember that + Rev. C.W. Shelton two years ago made an address at the great + Missionary Meeting at Northfield, Mass., which touched the + sympathies of the audience and moved Mr. Moody at once to "do + something about it." Under his inspiration three thousand five + hundred dollars were raised to establish several new Indian + mission stations in Dakota. + + At Mr. Moody's solicitation, Mr. Shelton attended the + Northfield Missionary Meeting this year, making report of what + had been done with the money given before. The enthusiasm of + the audience was again kindled, with a result which we give + below, condensing the sketch of the meeting as given in the + _Springfield Union_. + + + +The meeting opened with prayer by Major D.W. Whittle, and then Rev C.W. +Shelton of New York City, who is connected with the American Missionary +Association, spoke about the work among the Indians. He said that two +years ago the people of Northfield gave money enough to establish five +mission stations; and he would first report on the work in those missions. +The first one had been established one hundred and fifty miles northwest +of Bismarck, and was called the Moody station. Having found two classes of +people thirty miles apart, both of whom seemed to be equally in need, we +had been in doubt as to where to plant the station; but finally a man was +found whose parentage included both nations, and who was willing and able +to preach to both in their own language. We had, therefore, started two +stations, calling them both by the same name, and with this man managing +them. People had told him that he couldn't do anything in the interior of +the country occupied by the Indians, but he described his meeting with the +Indians at that remote place, and their willingness to receive the gospel, +one of the chiefs finally saying to him: "When you go back I want you to +take that man by the hand that sent that school and thank him, and tell +him that we will try to live like the white man." The speaker accordingly +took Mr. Moody's hand and thanked him in those words, raising a perfect +storm of applause by so doing. + +The next mission was called the Frederick Darling Memorial mission, and +was established sixty miles below Bismarck. There was good work going on +there. Sixty miles farther down still there was located the Robert +Remington Memorial mission, and the reservation had since then been opened +up for settlement, as they had prophesied, and, as the Indians came up the +valley, driven out from their homes, there stood a man at the door of the +mission, who invited them in, and so to-day there were gathering round +that mission hundreds of Indians, forsaking their tepees, building their +houses and taking the first steps toward civilization. + +On Cherry Creek, the Sankey mission was located, and, although it was not +two years since that work was begun, they had a church of about forty +members. + +The funds for the Northfield mission were given by quite a number of +people here and the Indians who could be reached by it from the opening of +the reservation during the last few months had nearly doubled. They had +organized one church only a few weeks ago some distance off, and expected +to organize another there within a few months. + +"What do you want now?" said Mr. Moody at this point. Mr. Shelton replied: +"We haven't a dollar for carrying on a single one of these missions after +the first of September. It costs from $300 to $350 to carry each of them +on. But I believe that God has started this work and will carry it on. Let +me add a word with regard to the whole Indian problem. It is not the +problem I presented to you two years ago; it has changed in the two years, +and, thank God, it will change in two years more, if we do the work we +ought to. Do we realize that our Indians are getting beyond the wild life? +Forty thousand Indian people have come out of the tepee life into little +homes that these Indian men have built for themselves, taking their people +forward toward Christ. We talk of the Indian in his paint and blanket, +forgetting that he is coming forth into life. His game is gone, his wild +roving life is gone, his reservation is going. They understand their +position; the old life is back of them forever. What is before them? Old +Gall showed a scar reaching from his shoulder to his hip, and said: 'A +white man gave me that; shall I trust him, dare I trust him, can I trust +him?' The Indian takes a step ahead, and stops and trembles, doesn't know +if he dare take another. + +"Do you want to know the solution of the Indian problem to-day? In +Christ's love take the Indians by the hand and lead them out into the same +light, the same love, and to the same Christ that you have. You can talk +about the government and land in severalty. Grand and good as these are, +the first and all-important thing in that problem is the gospel of Christ. +It must do it, it can do it, it is doing it, it will do it. The Women's +Missionary Societies of fifteen Indian churches gave $200 more for home +missionary work outside themselves than the Women's Missionary Societies +in one hundred and forty churches of white people in the same time. They +have Christian Endeavor societies there, and all kinds of Christian work. +I saw one morning delegates from the Christian Endeavor Society going out +to teach a white Sunday-school nine miles off in one direction, and +another similar school four and one-half miles off in another. + +"It is said that the young people will go back to the blanket. In ten +years we have had only one case of that in our Santee school, and that was +the case of a young girl who had only been in the school six months; 95 +per cent. of all that come to the schools go back consecrated young men +and women. + +"When you think that your five stations have gathered in two or three +hundred scholars and of the possibility for each, can you tell what will +be the result of this work? There are thirty thousand poor Indians in +Dakota alone, lifting up their cry to the Christian church for light and +hope." He added: "I have turned my back to many storms on the Dakota +prairies, but God grant you may never turn your back on a soul praying for +light. I sometimes dread the day of judgment, because there is to stand +the Indian. I would rather stand there in his place than to hear him say: +'I was hungry and ye gave me no food.' How shall we meet it, how shall we +answer it? for to meet it and answer it we must before the throne." + +Here Mr Shelton finished and sat down. "Now let's pay our debts," said Mr. +Moody. "How many people will give $100 toward that $1,800 for sustaining +those missions?" It didn't seem as though there were many responses at +first, but in a few minutes eighteen names were handed to H.M. Moore of +Boston, who was keeping account, and then Mr. Moody asked if there wasn't +anything else he wanted--a new mission anywhere? Mr. Shelton of course +said there was, and spoke of a place on the Rosebud Agency where $500 was +needed to build a school, and $300 to take care of it for a year. Here was +Mr. Moody's chance again, and he asked if some one wouldn't give $100 for +that. One or two contributions of $100 were forthcoming, and any number of +fifties came in, so that it was only a few minutes when Mr. Moore +announced that they had $875 for that. Then Mr. Moody said he wanted to +have the people start one more new mission and proposed that unfailing +American resource, a collection. The hats were soon busy in all parts of +the house, and at the end of the meeting it was found that $640 had been +collected for another mission, making a grand total of $3,315.04, to be +exact, raised within twenty minutes, for the work among the Dakota +Indians. Mr. Moody looked more bright and cheerful than he has during the +conference, as he kept calling for more contributions, and his method of +applying for one seldom failed. "Col. Esty, of Brattleboro, isn't here, +but he's all right, so we'll put him down for $100," he remarked, as the +interest flagged for a moment, and that was the signal for a laugh and +another name was sent up. Altogether it was the most enthusiastic and +thoroughly roused audience of the session. + + + + +The Widow's Mite. +----------------- + + + + We gladly subjoin the following brief note from Mrs. Mary E. + Fairbanks, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., addressed to Rev. Mr. + Shelton. We appreciate, as she does, the gift of the widow. + + + +"Please find enclosed (stamps) .50 for the Indian work. A few days after +you were with us, a poor widow, aged and feeble, brought some sewing which +she had done for me, and for which I paid her $2.50. She handed back fifty +cents, asking me if I could in any way send it to Mr. Shelton for the work +among the Indians. 'A widow's mite,' she said. I told her I would be very +glad to do it. I think the Lord must have looked with favor on her gift. I +have often sent to her missionary papers, magazines, etc., and know she +had greatly enjoyed the reading. You certainly touched her heart, as you +did many others. I hope the Lord is fulfilling your desires." + + + + + +The Chinese +=========== + + + + +The Pictures +------------ + + +Dr. Pond has sent us two pictures which we are glad to insert in this +number. Of one of them he says: "It is a photograph of our Oroville +Mission House, pupils, teachers, etc. The taller of the two white men in +light clothing is the young pastor of our church at Oroville, who is a +real _helper_; the other is myself. The two white ladies are Miss Deuel, +former teacher, on the right, and Miss Keifer, the present teacher, +sitting next to me. The little American boy is her nephew, greatly +interested in the school. The little Chinese boy is a child whom the +brethren have partially and after a sort adopted, and who is very bright +and promising and means to be a Christian. Our helper, Chung Moi, stands +directly behind me; but the picture does him injustice. He has a very +prepossessing face. The one who stands on the left of Miss Deuel (i.e. at +_her_ right hand) is Gee Jet, the deacon of our little church and the +stand-by of the mission. The trees in the rear grow at the water's edge of +Feather River. The building, as you observe, is of brick, topped out with +a shake roof put on by our brethren after the last (of two or three I +believe) sweeping fires to which the little structure refused to succumb. +It belongs to ex-Governor Perkins of this State--once a merchant in +Oroville--and has been used by us for ten years or more, ever since our +mission was established, free of rent." + +The other cut is also a picture of the teachers and pupils at Oroville. + + + + +Lights And Shadows +------------------ + + + Rev. W.C. Pond, D.D. + + +LIGHTS.--One teacher writes: "Mr. B. [a distinguished lecturer from Ohio] +visited our school. He said that he had never seen before such bright, +happy faces among the Chinese. I told him the reason; they have been +brought out from heathenism. I love to notice the change it makes in +them." + +Chin Toy writes from Riverside: "Five boys converted and joined in +Association since I came. Four boys are going to join Rev. Mr. Hunt's +church, (Congregational), and be baptized at the first Sunday of July. +This Association of Christian Chinese has ten members now. I like these +boys and like these teachers too; they are so helpful to the Lord's work." + +[Illustraton: Mission House At Oroville.] + +[Illustration: Teachers And Pupils At Oroville.] + +Hong Sing writes from Petaluma: "Now I am going to ask you especially to +pray for two scholars here who I hope for to gain him to Christ before I +leave. I am glad that one accepted my advice and promised yesterday to +join our Association, but sorry the other one excuse. I pray to God for +the Holy Spirit to open his eyes to see his guilt and danger, and how much +he needs a Saviour." + +From a pupil in Santa Barbara, addressed to our missionary helper, Loo +Quong: "It is now fifth month since I left you at Los Angeles. The time +seems very long indeed. We hope dear God give you a great power to cast +out the devil; and sowing the seed it bring forth fruit hundred fold into +the only God. At beginning we came to the United States [i.e. I first came +to the United States] about May, 1881. We did not know of Jesus Christ, +because born in the heathen country and work here in the Chinese store. +Then we hear the Chinese mission--talk with Jesus Christ, do nothing to +our idols and very different from us, for we were with evil companions and +do many things in gambling, lottery tickets, opium. Dr. Pond open +Congregational mission school about 1887 in Los Angeles, very near our +house. Then we was been to school about every evening. Mrs. Sheldon and +you teach very kind to us, and you explain the gospel of Jesus. So we know +the only true God, leave evil companions, join our Association and sixth +month join Dr. Hutchins' church. 'And when they had brought their ships to +land, they forsook all and followed him.'--Luke 5:11." + +From Fresno; from Loo Quong: "Now I have some good news for you. There +were three more of our pupils joined the Association, making nine in all. +God will care for this little flock of his, and may they multiply a +hundred fold! One of them was in school at Hong Kong many years ago before +he touched the American soil. He also was in our Central School at San +Francisco three years ago. Two months ago I was surprised to see him here. +At once he attended our school and began to ask me about Christ's +teaching. He would have no other lesson but in the Bible." (Miss Worley +writes of this pupil that he wishes now to become a missionary). Of +another of these three, Loo Quong writes: "He is one of the best young men +I ever knew, * * so kind, so quiet, so modest, so full of love. I think he +looks like our Lord when on earth. He is always on hand at school. When I +asked him to join the Association, he said that he fully believed Jesus +that he is the Saviour of his soul, 'but how can I be his disciple while I +am in the gambling business?' We explained to him how God would take care +of those who gave up all for him, and the next night he told me he was +ready to give it up and walk with Christians." Of the third, also, a good +account is given, but I must not use more space on the Lights, but turn to +the + +SHADOWS--One example must suffice. I must not mention either place or +person, lest harm come of it. A teacher writes: "I feel sure that two +little boys whom you sent to assist in our anniversary will grow to +Christian manhood, fed as they are on the Word. With sorrow I compared +with their surroundings those of our little ---- ----, and I write to +know if something cannot be done. Two years ago he entered the school, +having come directly from China. He has always been studious and +well-behaved, loving his Bible and the gospel songs. The mission boys +tell me that those with whom he lives are not his parents, but that this +man bought him in China. The child remembers his mother and brothers. He +also remembers a man offering him something if he would go with him. He +did so and was carried off in a boat and sold. His owner is very fond of +him, but is away from home. The wife does not care much for him. +Sometimes there are black and blue marks on his hands where he says she +strikes him. Once there was a small burned place on both his lips. I +asked him about it, and he said "Mamma." One of the boys told me that he +talked too much and she put the hot poker on his lips. I have heard that +this man intends taking the boy back to China in a year or two, fearing +that in this county he will lose him. They are bad people, keeping an +opium den." + +The shadow deepens when the question rises, "What can be done for this +boy?" He is in the grip of an "_Imperium in imperio_," to which some years +ago I had occasion to refer in these columns. Even Americans who know the +facts and are eager to help him, feel as though it would be scarcely safe +for them to rescue him. Our wisest Chinese helpers say: "Wait, watch over +him, but don't disturb existing relations. It would break up our mission +in that place. Chinese would not dare to be identified with it. The boy +will soon come to understand his rights and will assert them for himself, +and then you can help him." But it almost makes one's blood boil to think +that on American soil such counsel can be given and perhaps ought to be +observed. + + + + + +Bureau Of Woman'S Work. +======================= + + + Miss D.E. Emerson, Secretary. + + + + + All ladies interested in missions are earnestly invited to be + present at the gathering of Women's Home Missionary + Organizations to be held in Northampton, Mass., Tuesday, Oct + 21st. This meeting will be in the First Church. Interesting + speakers have been secured to represent the work of our six + National Societies. The day promises to be one full of + interest, and we hope there will be a large delegation of + ladies present from all over our land, and that they will pray + earnestly for the spirit of the Master to be present in this + gathering. + + NATHALIE LORD, COMMITTEE. + + + + +The Woman's Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held on +Thursday afternoon, October 23d, in the Edwards Church at Northampton, +Mass. All are cordially invited to attend. + +We call especial attention of ladies to the Woman's Meetings at +Northampton, Mass., Oct. 21st and 23d. The first, on Tuesday, of which +notice is given above, is the meeting of the Women's Organizations of the +several States as represented on page 321. They extend from Maine to +California, and we would that there might be present delegates from every +State. + +The second meeting, on Thursday afternoon, October 23d, is the Annual +Meeting of the Bureau of Woman's Work of the American Missionary +Association, at which missionaries from different departments of our work +will come face to face with the friends who have cheered and supported +them, and will tell somewhat of the every day life on the field. An +unusually interesting programme is promised. + +We take this opportunity and method of thanking those officers of the +State Organizations who have been recently sent us a revised list of their +auxiliaries to date, that the missionary letters from the field may be +mailed directly to each church society thus represented. Every state that +has pledged itself to aid the work of the American Missionary Association +is entitled to these field reports, which are sent out from the New York +office through the Bureau of Woman's Work, and we shall be glad to +receive the correct address for each auxiliary society. + + + + +Christian Endeavor For The Boys And Girls Of The Southern Mountains +------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + A New Need. + + +A large number of the mountain people are so poor that they cannot pay +even the bare cost of living for their girls and boys in order that they +may have the privilege of attending school. Rarely can a family send more +than one child to school, and in every case where one can go a boy is +selected. The brothers must wait until perhaps too late, and the sisters +must remain at home in ignorance. Thus it is found that the advantages of +Christian schools, brought so near to the mountain boys and girls by the +American Missionary Association, are not yet sufficiently within their +reach, and this gives rise to a new need in connection with our work in +the South. It is a need of young people and we turn to young people to +meet it, believing that our Christian Endeavor Societies and other Young +People's Societies will not lose this special opportunity for missionary +work. + +A Student's Fund of $3,000 is to be raised in $50 shares, upon which we +will draw to bring the young people of the mountains into these schools, +and to help them over hard places according to their need. Pupils will be +encouraged to help themselves all they can, and no pledges will be made to +any until they have reached the limit of their own resources, and no +specified amount will be assigned to any one pupil. Each will be helped +according to his condition. A boy may be able to reach the school and work +part of his board and need only a small sum to cover the expense of the +full year. A girl may need to have her traveling expenses paid and only +this; another, giving promise of usefulness, may have her full way paid +during the year. Some will be kept through the entire school year, who +otherwise could study but a few months. + +The training the young people receive in these schools brings a sure +reward. We quote from a letter just received from one of our missionaries: + +"I am very hopeful for the Christian work among the students this year. +The Christian Endeavor Society is in much better condition than last year. +The members understand better the meaning of 'Christian Endeavor,' and +that being a Christian means a daily application of Christian principles +to every day life." + +Now why cannot our Christian Endeavor and Young People's Societies take +this work to their hearts, and thus be the means of preparing others for +Christian work? Why not do for these poor, but bright and interesting +American boys and girls there, what will bring more of them into the +fraternity of Christian Endeavor? + +We will send at once to any who desire it, full information of our +mountain work, and all who contribute to this fund may have their offering +assigned to aid pupils in one of our schools, from which letters will be +written by a missionary during the year, giving information directly from +the field. + +Here is an urgent need outside our usual lines of expense, for which we +seek new and additional help--not the diversion of regular annual +contributions. We break the fund into shares of $50 that many may have +part in it. Early response either in cash, or pledges to be cashed by +July, 1891, will result in giving many of these young people the +advantages of Christian education during the present school year. + + + + +Woman's Work In North Carolina +------------------------------ + + +We have a Woman's Missionary Meeting once a month; it began last November, +with six members; there are now eleven. We have, too, a Mission Band, +which many of the older scholars have joined as associate members. It is +held fortnightly, after the Sunday school, and generally the whole +congregation stay to hear what is going on. + +Last Sunday morning we went to Pekin, starting at 8 A.M. It is a drive of +fifteen miles through turpentine forests, and the roads are very rough; we +go up hill and down all the way, three creeks to cross and one river. +Across this there is a bridge, rather originally constructed. We go down a +steep and sharp curve, on the edge of high banks, and then through a +covered bridge across the rushing stream, which is seen between the foot +planks, and we are thankful to get across without any backing on our +horse's part. The woods are very lovely just now, very few wild flowers, +but such a variety of foliage, and we notice a beautiful flowering shrub, +called "ivory "; it is a mass of delicate pink or white blossoms. These +turpentine forests are by no means all pines, there are many varieties of +oak. + +The Sunday-school at Greenlake church, Pekin, is held at 9 A. M. Our +object this morning is to meet the children and teachers, before they +disperse, and organize a Mission Band. The little church, or rather +schoolhouse, is situated on a hill, and there is a fine view of the +rolling country; only this morning one longs for a little shade. One of +our former scholars (now working in the turpentine) comes out and takes +our horse. + +The school is just over, and we hear there is to be preaching at 11; it is +now 10:15, so we ask the pupils to stay. We sing and then Miss Bechan +explains about foreign missions and mission bands. They give in their +names and appoint officers, agreeing to meet twice a month. They have also +a Woman's Missionary Auxiliary, which has been meeting once a month since +last December. + +There is a recess of ten minutes, then the preaching begins. The preacher +is a young man, who would gain much (as would his hearers) by attending +school a few years. This is one of the heart-sores in the work here--the +great ignorance of many of the preachers. Some of them will tell you, they +have had "no education," and, indeed, it is all too plain, from their +curious expressions and mis-applied long words; but worst of all is their +ignorance of the Bible. But how can they do better till they have been +taught? There is a crying need of educated pastors in these country +places. The young men tell us, they "do not find religion interesting;" +one said, that, after "having tried it two or three times." It is hardly to +be wondered at, that they are not interested, when the thunder is all that +is shown them. They are told they ought "to quake and tremble," and if +they do not, they "show by their actions that they mean to go to hell." + + + + +Woman's State Organizations. +---------------------------- + + + Co-operating With The American Missionary Association. + + +MAINE. + +WOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A. + +Chairman of Committee--Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me. + +NEW HAMPSHIRE. + +FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION AND HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Joseph B. Walker, Concord. Secretary--Mrs. John T. Perry, +Exeter. Treasurer--Mlas Annie A. McFarland, Concord. + +VERMONT. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. A. B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington. Secretary--Mrs. M. +K. Paine, Windsor. Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury. + +MASS. AND R.I. + +(2)WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +President--Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, Mass. + +Secretary--Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational House, Boston. + + +Treasurer--Miss Sarah K. Burgess, 32 Congregational House, Boston. + +CONNECTICUT. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Jacob A. Biddle,35 West Street, South Norwalk. + +Secretary--Miss Ellen R. Camp, New Britain. + +Treasurer--Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford. + +NEW YORK. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., Brooklyn. + +Secretary--Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, Syracuse. + +Treasurer--Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New York City. + +PENNSYLVANIA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. W.H. Osterhaut, Ridgway. + +Secretary--Mrs. C.F. Yennee, Ridgway. + +Treasurer--Mrs. T.W. Jones, 218 So. 37th St., Philadelphia. + +OHIO. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland. + +Secretary--Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin. + +Treasurer--Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Box 932, Mt Vernon, Ohio. + +INDIANA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. W.A. Bell, Indianapolis. + +Secretary--Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne. + +Treasurer--Mrs. D.T. Brown, Michigan City. + +ILLINOIS. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., Chicago. + +Secretary--Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago. + +Treasurer--Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign. + +IOWA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. T.O. Douglass, Grinnell. + +Secretary--Miss Ella E. Marsh, Box 232, Grinnell. + +Treasurer--Mrs. M.J. Nichoson, 1513 Main St., Dubuque. + +MICHIGAN. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. George M. Lane, 47 Miami Ave., Detroit. + +Secretary--Mrs. Leroy Warren, Lansing. + +Treasurer--Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Greenville. + +WISCONSIN. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. H.A. Miner, Madison. + +Secretary--Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead. + +Treasurer--Mrs. C.M. Blackman, Whitewater. + +MINNESOTA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +President--Mrs. E.S. Williams, Box 464, Minneapolis. + +Secretary--Miss Gertude A. Keith, 1350, Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis. + +Treasurer--Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield. + +NORTH DAKOTA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +President--Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight. + +Secretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood. + +Treasurer--Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo. + +SOUTH DAKOTA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle. + +Secretary--Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron. + +Treasurer--Miss A.A. Noble, Lake Preston. + +NEBRASKA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln. + +Secretary--Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St., Fremont. + +Treasurer--Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete. + +MONTANA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. F.D. Kelsey, Helena. + +Secretary--Mrs. W.S. Bell, Helena. + +Treasurer--Mrs. S.A. Wallace, Billings. + +MISSOURI. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. A.W. Benedict, 3841 Delmar Ave., St Louis. + +Secretary--Mrs. E.H. Bradbury, 3855 Washington Ave., St Louis. + +Treasurer--Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. Louis. + +KANSAS. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +President--Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka. + +Secretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka. + +Treasurer--Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa. + +WASHINGTON. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +President--Mrs. W.E. Dawson, Seattle. + +Secretary--Mrs. N.F. Cobleigh, Walla Walla, + +Treasurer--Mrs. W.R. Abrams, Ellensburg. + +CALIFORNIA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +President--Mrs. H.L. Merritt, 686 34th St, Oakland. + +Secretary--Miss Grace E. Barnard, 677 21st St., Oakland. + +Treasurer--Mrs. J.M. Havens, 1329 Harrison St., Oakland. + +SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Emma Cash, 1710 Temple St., Los Angeles. + +Secretary--Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Pasadena. + +Treasurer--Mrs. H.W. Mills, 327 So. Olive St., Los Angeles. + +COLORADO AND WYOMING. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado. + +Secretary--Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., Colorado Springs, +Colorado. + +Treasurer--Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado. + +Treasurer--Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, Wyoming. + +LOUISIANA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. R.C. Hitchcock, New Orleans. + +Secretary--Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans. + +Treasurer--Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond. + +MISSISSIPPI. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Miss Sarah Dickey, Clinton. + +Secretary--Miss Alice Flagg, Tougaloo. + +Treasurer--Miss Mary Gibson, Tougaloo. + +ALABAMA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega. + +Secretary--Miss S.S. Evans, 2519 Third Ave., Birmingham. + +Treasurer--Miss M.K. Lunt, Selma. + +FLORIDA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville. + +Secretary--Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park. + +Treasurer--Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood. + +TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION. + +President--Mrs. E.M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn. + +Secretary--Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn. + +Treasurer--Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn. + +NORTH CAROLINA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill. + +Secretary--Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh. + +Treasurer--Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh. + +TEXAS. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. S.C. Acheson, 149 W. Woodard St., Denison. + +Secretary, Mrs. Mary A. McCoy, 132 No. Harwood St., Dallas. + +Treasurer--Mrs. C.I. Scofield, Dallas. + + + + + +Receipts For August, 1890. +========================== + + + + +The Daniel Hand Fund, +--------------------- + + + For the Education of Colored People. + + +from + +Mr. Daniel Hand, Guilford, Conn. + +Income for August, 1890 $4,197.35 +Income previously acknowledged 9,559.61 +Total $13,756.96 + + + + + +Current Receipts. +----------------- + + +MAINE, $431.17. +Brewer. First Cong. Ch. 20.50 +Castine. By Rev. A.E. Ives 3.00 +Freedom Village. Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Hampdon. Cong. Ch. 7.50 +Limerick. Miss E.P. Hayes, for 50.00 +Land, Raleigh, N.C. +Limerick, Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 +Newcastle. Second Cong. Ch. to 60.00 +const. MISS ANGIE HEATH and MRS. +LOUISE M. CHASE L.M.'s +Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and 196.50 +Soc., 150; "John Elliott, +Collector," 41.50; Hannah Watts, 5 +Searsport. First Cong. Ch. 17.45 +Waterford. First Cong. Ch. 2.72 +Wells. Second Cong. Ch. 11.50 +Yarmouth. First Parish Ch. 50.00 +------. "Friend," for Williamsburg. 2.00 +Ky. + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $230.90. +Bath. Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Colebrook. "E. and C., by favor of 5.00 +Dr. E." +Goffstown. Cong. Ch. 38.73 +Hanover. Mrs. Susn A. Brown, for 70.00 +Indian Schp. +Keene. First Cong. Ch. 9.69 +Manchester. Franklin St. Cong. Ch., +Box of Hymn Books, for Mountain +Work. +Milford. First Cong. Ch. 40.00 +Nashua. Y.P.S.C.E., Pilgrim Cong. 35.00 +Ch., for Indian Schp. +New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.88 +Newmarket. Mrs. Hannah M. Moses 5.00 +North Hampton. J.L. Philbrook 5.00 +Temple. Mrs. L.W.C. Keyes 1.00 +------------ 20.60 + + +VERMONT, $358.34. +Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. 24.00 +Chelsea, Member Cong. Ch. 25.00 +East Hardwick, "A Friend." 15.00 +Northfield. "A Friend," to const. 30.00 +NATHANAEL KING L. M. +Saint Johnsbury. Franklin 125.00 +Fairbanks. 100; Mrs. Franklin +Fairbanks, 25, for Indian M. +Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch., 15.00 +for McIntosh, Ga. +Saint Johnsbury. Mrs. Albert L. 5.00 +Farwell's SS Class, North Cong Ch., +for Indian Schp. +Vergennee. Cong. Ch. 15.00 +Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.00 +Woman's Home Missionary Union of +Vermont, by Mrs. William P. +Fairbanks, Treas., for Woman's +Work; +-- Lyndonville. Ladies' Soc., for 5.00 +McIntosh, Ga. +-- Saint Johnsbury. Ladies of So. 25.00 +Ch., for Mountain Work. +-- Stowe. Whatsoever Miss'y Circle, 4.34 +for Mcintosh, Ga. +-- West Glover. L. H. M. S., for 5.00 +McIntosh, Ga. +-- West Randolph. Miss L. T. Clark, 25.00 +for Mountain Work. + ----- + 64.34 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $2,328.29. +Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 +Boston.--Roxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. 330.56 +Ch. +Roxbury. Immanuel Ch., Bbl. of C., +for Williamsburg, Ky + ----- + 330.56 +Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.23 +Braintree. First Cong. Ch. 5.25 +Brimfield. P. C. Browning, 10; Mrs. 12.00 +J. S. Webber, 2 +Cambridge. Mrs. C. A. Phelps, for 12.00 +Pleasant Hill, Tenn. +Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. 15.00 +Chelsea. C. H. Keelar's S. S. 6.92 +Class, Central Cong. Ch., for ed. +of a girl, Oahe, Indian Sch., Dak. +Dalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for 17.50 +Schp., Santes Indian Sch. +Foxbury. R. R. Holmes. .50 +Franklin. Y.P.S.C.E., by B. M. 25.00 +Rockwood, for Jewett Memorial Hall, +Grand View, Tenn. +Gardner. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 17.50 +First Cong. Ch., for Indian Schp. +Georgetown. Mission Circle of First 10.00 +Cong. Ch. +Holbrook. Winthrop Cong. Ch. 20.00 +Holliston. "Bible Christians." 100.00 +Holyoke. Mrs. A. H. Child 5.00 +Huntington. First Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. 47.50 +Leominster. Y.P.S.C.E., Orthodox 50.00 +Cong. Ch., for Indian M., Santee +Home +Leominster. Mrs. W. M. Howland, for 15.00 +Indian M. +Longmeadow. Mrs. Julia H. 5.00 +Goldthwait, for Straight U. +Lynn. North Cong. Ch. 50.00 +Marlboro. Mrs. Agnes H. Mooney, for 1.00 +Indian M. +Medway. Village Cong. Ch., in part 50.00 +Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.75 +Milton. First Cong. Ch. 32.52 +Natick. First Cong. Ch. 100.00 +Northfield. E. J. Humphrey, for new 5.00 +Indian Station, Dak. +Orange. Central Evan Cong. Ch. 19.23 + +Paxton. Cong. Ch. 10.76 +Peabody. South Cong. Ch. 77.00 +Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner 20.00 +Springfield. "Friend." 5.00 +Stoneham. Miss P. Stevens 2.00 +Templeton. Trinitarian Soc. 22.84 +Wakefield. Cong. Ch. 62.00 +Wellesley. "Collected by Dominick," 25.00 +for Land, Raleigh, N.C. +West Newton. Sab. Sch. of Second 25.00 +Cong. Ch. +Worcester. Central Ch. S.S. and "a 33.00 +few Friends," 23; "A Friend," 10, +for Land, Raleigh, N.C. +-----. "Donation." 100.00 +-----. One Share East Tennessee +Land Co. (face value. $50)... +Hampden Benevolent Association, by +Charles Marsh, Treas: +-- Chicopee. Third 3.35 +-- Holyoke. Second 57.37 +-- Huntington. Second 17.13 +-- Monson 25.33 + ----- + 103.18 +Woman's Home Missionary 277.80 +Association, by Miss Sarah K. +Burgess, Treas., for Woman's Work; +-----. For Salary of Teachers (of +which 45.25 for traveling expenses +of a Teacher) +-- Newton. Mr. Cobb's S. S. Class, 6.25 +Eliot Ch. for Indian Schp. + ----- + 284.05 + ----- + $1,828.29 + + +ESTATES. +Worcester. Estate of Miss H. F. 500.00 +Carpenter, by P.M. Carpenter, Ex. + ----- + $2,328.29 + + +RHODE ISLAND, $1,016.50 + +East Providence. Ladies of Newman 10.00 +Cong. Ch., for Cumberland, Tenn. +Providence. Y.P.S.C.E of North 4.50 +Cong. Ch., for Grand View, Tenn. +Providence. Fanny C. Thompson, for 2.00 +Church, Cumberland Gap, Tenn. + ----- + $16.50 + + +ESTATE. +Providence. Estate of Isaac Hale, 1,000.00 +by Miss Ednah B. Hale + ----- + $1,016.50 + + +CONNECTICUT, $1,205.12 + +Burnside. "Friend," for Indian 70.00 +Schp. +Central Village. "Loyal Temperance 2.00 +Legion," for Indian M. +Danbury. Miss A. Fanton, for 2.50 +Williamsburg, Ky. +East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 17.00 +Gilead. "Friends." 7.00 +Gilead. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch., for 8.52 +Conn. Ind. Sch. Ga. +Guilford. Mrs. Sarah Todd 5.00 +Hartford. "A Friend." for Mountain 50.00 +Work +Harwinton. Cong. Ch. 6.27 +Lisbon. Cong. Ch. 24.00 +Manchester. Second Cong. Ch. 71.29 +Mansfield. Chas. H. Learned 20.00 +New Haven. Humphrey St. Cong. Ch. 102.19 +New Haven. Sab. Sch. of Davenport 50.00 +Cong. Ch. for Indian M. +New London. Mrs. Lora E. Learned 17.50 +and Daughters, for Indian Schp. +New Milford. Sab. Sch. of First 70.00 +Cong. Ch., for Schp., Hampton N. +and A. Inst. +North Branford. Cong. Ch. 12.14 +North Haven. Elihu Dickerman 2.00 +Portland. By H. M. Bowden, for 2.35 +Freight, on Box to Thomasville, Ga. +Prospect. Cong. Ch. 13.00 +Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. 14.43 +Redding. Cong. Ch. 28.94 +Ridgefield. First Cong. Ch. 20.78 +Rockville. J. N. Stickney, for 10.00 +Indian M +Salem. Cong. Ch. 9.00 +Sharon. Mrs. C. S. Sedgwick. 5; 10.00 +Mrs. H. S. Roberts, 5, for Indian M +Southport. Cong. Ch,. 126.09 +South Windsor. First Cong. Ch 13.83 +Torrington. Third Cong. Ch. and 42.25 +Soc., 40.50; Ladies' Aid Soc. of +Third Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C. and 1.75 +for Freight +Wauregan. Cong. Ch. and Soc 21.00 +West Hartford. Mrs. E. W. Morris 15.00 +Westford. Cong. Ch. 7.00 +Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc 21.54 +----. "A Friend in Conn." 100.00 +Woman's Home Missionary Union of 12.50 +Conn., by Mrs. Ellen R. Camp. Sec., +for Woman's Work Suffield Y. L. M. +Circle, for Washburn Sem., +Beaufort, N. C. + ---- + $1,005.12 + + +ESTATE +Meriden. Estate of Miss Lucy 200.00 +Foster. by Ezra Pratt, Ex + ---- + $1,205.12 + + +NEW YORK, $518.54 +Bergen. First Cong. Ch. 9.93 +Berkshire. First Cong. Ch. and Soc 45.00 +Brooklyn. Mrs. J. M. Hyde 200 +Brooklyn. Miss M. A. Packard, for 1.50 +Williamsburg Ky +Cambridge. Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Camden. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. 22.05 +Ch. +Chenango Forks. Cong. Ch. 9.00 +Chili Station. E. B. Johnston 1.00 +Clifton Springs. Mrs. W. W. Warner. 10.00 +Dansville. Miss F. M. Emmons 1.00 +Eaton. Cong. Ch. 7.25 +Massena. Mrs. W. H Cubleg 5.00 +New Lebanon. "Mother's Gift on 84th 4.00 +Birthday," +New York "Cash." 100: Rev. Stephen 131.50 +Angell. 30, to const. CAROLINE L. +ANGELL L. M.: By A. W. Wagnalls, +Treas. E. T. Land Co., 1.50 +New York. Cummins Miss'y Soc., 40.00 +First Reformed Epis. Ch. for Indian M +North Walton. Sab. Sch by A. L. 10.00 +White, Supt. +Oswego. Cong. Ch. 128.31 +Perry Center. Cong. Ch. 21.00 +Syracuse-Plymouth Ch. 15.00 +Warwick. Mrs. Sarah Welling, for 50.00 +Northfield Indian Station + + +NEW JERSEY, $65.00 +Bernardsville. Mrs. M. L. Roberts 40.00 +Orange Valley. Bleeker Van Wagenen 25.00 +for Land, Raleigh N. C. + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $15.97 +Ebensburg. First Cong. Ch. 6.61 +Germantown. First Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Neath. Cong. Ch., 390 and Sab. 6.36 +Sch., 2.46 + + +OHIO, $1,425.46 + +Adams Mills. M A. Smith 10.00 +Brownhelm. Cong. Ch. 15.00 +Cleveland. Mrs. H. B. Spelman, for 30.00 +Student Aid. Atlanta U +Cleveland. King's Sons, for 1.00 +Williamsburg, Ky +Dover. Cong. Ch 40.31 +East Liverpool. Mrs. Harriet T. 1000.00 +Kitchel, by Rev. H. D. Kitchel. D.D. +New Milford. Mrs. E. G. Prindle 3.00 +North Amherst. Cong. Ch. 20.00 +Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson. 2.00 +Strongsville. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 +Tallmadge. Daniel Hine, in trust 50.00 +for the late Sarah T. Hine. to +const. MISS NANCY JEANETTE LIMBERT L. M +Tallmadge Cong. Ch 68.17 +Windham Cong. Ch. 19.11 +Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, +by Mrs. F. L. Fairchild. Treas., +for Woman's Work: +-- Alexis. "Willing Workers." 3.00 +-- Bellvue L M. S. 5.70 +-- Medina. W. M. S, 10.00 +-- Painesville. W. M. S 25.00 + ----43.70 + ---- + $1,312.29 + + +ESTATES. +Jersey. Estate of Lucinda Sinnet by 63.17 +John B Metcalf, Ex +Oberlin. Estate of Sarah Ann Upson, 50.00 +by Rev. Heman B. Hall. Ex + ----- + $1,425.46 + + +ILLINOIS, $404.55 +Alton. Ch. of the Redeemer, to 32.40 +const. THOMAS M. GUY L. M. +Bunker Hill. Cong. Ch. (10 of which 40.45 +for Jewett Memorial Hall) +Byron. Cong. Ch. 11.07 +Chesterfield. Cong. Ch 9.47 +Chicago. "Cash," 50; Lincoln Park 56.54 +Ch, 6.54. +Granville. Mrs. J. W. Hopkins 25.00 +Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch. 41.50 +Lyndon. John M. Hamilton 3.00 +Mendon. Cong. Ch. 41.75 +Morrison, William Wallace and 50.00 +Robert Wallace to const. REV. J. W. +SKINNER L. M. +Normal. Cong. Ch. 2.80 +Ontario. Cong. Ch. 10.00 +Peoria. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 26.00 +Port Byron. Cong. Ch. 12.07 +Princeton Mrs. S. C. Clapp 25.00 +Ridge Prairie. Evan. St. John Ch., 10.00 +by Rev. A. Kerr +Sparta. Bryce Crawford. 2; D. A. 6.00 +Foster, 1; James Hood, 1.; James +Alexander, 1.; P. B. Gault, 1 +Waverly. Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch 1.50 + + +MICHIGAN, $22.08 +Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch. 11.73 +North Adams. First Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Red Jacket. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch. 5.00 +for Talladega C +Woman's Home Missionary Union of 2.35 +Michigan, by Mrs. E. F. Grabill, +Treas. for Woman's Work: Saint +Ignace. Ladies Cong. Union + + +WISCONSIN, $1.255.91 + +Beloit. First Cong. Ch. 155.58 +Beloit Mrs. C. M. Nelson. Package +C., for Sherwood, Tenn +Eau Claire "Cheerful Givers" 10.00 +Mission Band of First Cong. Ch. +Lake Geneva. Mrs. Mary J. Barnard 1000.00 +"in memory of her husband, Milo +Barnard." +Menasha. E. D. Smith, for Sherwood, 25.00 +Tenn. +Milwaukee. Grand Av, Ch., to const. 45.40 +D. McK. SINCLAIR L. M +Sheboygan Daniel Brown 4.00 +Wisconsin's Woman's Home Missionary +Union for Woman's Work +Madison 5.43 +Madison 10.00 +Platteville. W. H. M. T 50 +---- 15.93 + + +IOWA, $207.05. +Anamosa. Cong. Ch., 6.42 and Sab. 10.54 +Sch. 4.12 +Cedar Falls. Cong. Ch. 30.00 +Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 7.36 +Decorah. Boys' Mission Circle, +Three large handsome Pictures, also +several packages of Papers; Girls' +Mission Circle, Box Sewing +Material, for Lexington, Ky. +Dunlap. Mrs. W.F. Preston, for 5.00 +Land, Raleigh, N.C. +Edgewood. N.G. Platt 10.00 +Farragut. Cong. Ch. 27.88 +Fort Dodge. Sab. Sch. Pres. Ch., +Box of New S.S. Papers, for +Lexington, Ky. +Gempoint. Cong. Soc. 2.00 +Iowa City. Cong. Ch. 10.00 +Osage. Cong. Ch. to const. MISS 46.00 +BLANCHE IRENE BRONSON L.M. +Preston. Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Storm Lage. Cong. Ch. 15.29 +Toledo. Cong. Ch. 9.92 +Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, +for Woman's Work: +-- Bellevue. W.H.M.U. 3.00 +-- Bellevue. Y.P.S.C.E. 2.00 +-- Cedar Falls. L.A.S. 2.72 +-- Clay. L.M.S. 3.00 +-- Grinnell. W.H.M.U. 7.18 +-- Le Mars. L.M.S. 3.47 +-- McGregor. L.M.S. 7.69 +-- McGregor. "Thank Offering" 1.00 + ------ + 30.06 + + +MINNESOTA, $87.22 +Detroit City. Cong. Ch. 13.00 +Detroit City. Lake View Cong. Ch. 2.00 +Lake City. Mrs. H.N. Bye, for 2.50 +Williamsburg, Ky. +Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 55.12 +Minneapolis. "Life Member," 4, for 8.00 +Tougaloo U., "Life Member," 4, for +Woman's Work. +Saint Cloud. Cong. Ch. 4.10 +Saint Paul. S.S. Class for 2.50 +Talladega C. + + +MISSOURI, $29.00 +Kansas City. "A Friend." 20.00 +Kidder. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + + +KANSAS, $15.87 +Cora. Cong. Ch. 7.00 +Smith Center. First Cong. Ch. 1.62 +Wakarusa. Valley Ch. 1.25 +White City. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + + +NEBRASKA, $14.39 +Campbell. Cong. Ch. 1.07 +Chadron. Mrs. C.P. Lyon. for 10.00 +Williamsburg, K. +Springfield. Cong. Ch. 3.32 + + +SOUTH DAKOTA, $2.20 +Springfield. Cong. Ch. 2.20 + + +COLORADO, $32.97 +Trinidad. Cong. Ch., for Talladega C. 4.56 +Pueblo. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 5.45 +West Denver. Cong. Ch., 7.96 and 17.96 +Sab. Sch. 10. +West Denver. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. 5.00 +Ch. + + +MONTANA, $35.00 +Helena. First Cong. Ch. to const. 35.00 +REV. F.D. KELSEY L.M. + + +CALIFORNIA, $41.00 +East Los Angeles. J.E. Cushman. 25.00 +Pasadena. "R.P.A. and wife." 10.00 +Pomona. Mrs. C.A. Lorbeer. 1.00 +San Diago. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. 5.00 +Ch. + + +OREGON, $50.00 +Portland. First Cong. Ch. to const. 50.00 +MRS. GEORGE A. STEEL L.M. + + +WASHINGTON, $17.00 +Union City. Cong. Ch., 15; "Little 17.00 +Workers," 2. + + +TENNESSEE, $24.00 +Deer Lodge. Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Jonesboro. Cong. Ch., 6.74 and Sab. 9.00 +Sch., 2.26. +Grand View. Mrs. Sarah K. Yeatman, 10.00 +for Grand View, Tenn. + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $229.23 +Pekin. Cong. Ch. 0.50 +Raleigh. Cong. Ch., for Land, 162.00 +Raleigh, N.C. +Wilmington, Cong. Ch. 66.73 + + +GEORGIA, $1.50 +Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., 1.10; 1.50 +"J.H.H.S." 25c; Mrs. S., 15c. + + +FLORIDA, $1.00 +Mannville. Mrs. Francis Haskins. 1.00 + + +TEXAS, $3.50 +Dallas. Cong. Ch. 3.50 + + +CANADA, $4.50 +Sweetsburg. H.W. Spaulting. 4.50 + + +ENGLAND, $10.00 +Chigwell. Miss S.L. Ropes. 10.00 + + +Donations. $8,270.09 +Estates. 1,813.17 + --------- + $10,083.26 + + +TUITION $899.09 +Williamsburg, Ky., Tuition. 138.50 +Jonesboro, Tenn., County Fund. 30.00 +Jonesboro, Tenn., Tuition. 1.00 +Talladega, Ala., Tuition. 718.89 +Austin, Texas. Tuition. 10.70 + ------ + 899.09 +Total for August. $10,982.35 + + + +SUMMARY. +Donations. 168,736.34 + +Estates. 123,464.93 + + -------- + $292,201.27 + +Income. 8,507.21 +Tuition. 38,903.43 +United States Government for the 19,073.29 +Education of Indians. + --------- + +Total from Oct. 1, to July 31. $358,685.20 + + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. +Subscriptions for August. 12.75 +Previously acknowledged. 685.20 + -------- +Total. $697.95 + + + + + + * * * * * + + +H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer, + +Bible House. N.Y. + + + + + +Notes +===== + + + + + 1. Deceased. + + 2. For the purpose of exact information, we note that while the + W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a State body for Mass, and R.I., it + has certain auxiliaries elsewhere. + + 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. 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Wm.M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D, N.Y.</p> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Vice-Presidents.</h3> + +<p>Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y.</p> +<p>Rev. F. A. Noble, D.D., Ill.</p> +<p>Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.</p> +<p>Rev. Alex. Mckenzie, D.D., Mass.</p> +<p>Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Corresponding Secretaries.</h3> + +<p>Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., <em>Bible House, N.Y.</em></p> +<p>Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., <em>Bible House, N.Y.</em></p> +<p>Rev. F.P. Woodbury, D.D., <em>Bible House. N.Y.</em></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Recording Secretary.</h3> + +<p>Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., <em>Bible House, N.Y.</em></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Treasurer.</h3> + +<p>H.W. Hubbard, Esq., <em>Bible House, N.Y.</em></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Auditors.</h3> + +<p>Peter Mccartee.</p> +<p>Chas. P. Peirce.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Executive Committee,</h3> + +<p>John H. Washburn, Chairman.</p> + +<p>Addison P. Foster, Secretary.</p> + +<p><em>For Three Years.</em></p> + +<p>S.B. Halliday,</p> +<p>Samuel Holmes,</p> +<p>Samuel S. Marples,</p> +<p>Charles L. Mead,</p> +<p>Elbert B. Monroe,</p> + +<p><em>For Two Years.</em></p> + +<p>J.E. Rankin,</p> +<p>Wm.H. Ward, </p> +<p>J.W. Cooper,</p> +<p>John H. Washburn,</p> +<p>Edmund L. Champlin,</p> + +<p><em>For One Year.</em></p> + +<p>Lyman Abbott,</p> +<p>Chas. A. Hull,</p> +<p>Clinton B, Fisk,<a href="#note_1"><span class="footnoteref">1</span></a></p> +<p>Addison P. Foster,</p> +<p>Albert J. Lyman.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>District Secretaries.</h3> + +<p>Rev, C. J. Ryder, 21 <em>Cong'l House, Boston, Mass.</em></p> +<p>Rev. J. E. Roy, D.D., 151 <em>Washington Street, Chicago, Ill.</em></p> +<p>Rev. C. W. Hiatt, 64 <em>Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.</em></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.</h3> + +<p>Rev. Chas. W. Shelton.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Secretary of Woman's Bureau,</h3> + +<p>Miss D.E. Emerson, <em>Bible House, N.Y.</em></p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h2>Communications</h2> + +<p>Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; +letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, at the New York Office; letters +relating to the finances, to the Treasurer.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h2>Donations And Subscriptions</h2> + +<p>In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H.W. Hubbard, +Treasurer, Bible House, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch +Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., +or 64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a +Life Member.</p> + +<p>NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—The date on the "address label," indicates the time to +which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label to the 10th of each +month. If payment of subscription be made afterward, the change on the label will appear +a month later. Please send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the +former address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers +may be correctly mailed.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> + +<h2>Form Of A Bequest.</h2> + +<p>"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in trust, to pay +the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, +shall act as Treasurer of the 'American Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be +applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable +uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by three witnesses.</p> +</div> + + + +<hr class="page"> + +<div class="div"> +<h2>The American Missionary.</h2> + +<p>Vol. XLIV.</p> +<p>October, 1890.</p> +<p>No. 10.</p> + +<p><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">American Missionary Association.</span></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> + +<a name="toc_2"></a> +<h2>Editorial</h2> +<p></p> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_3"></a> + +<h3>ANNUAL MEETING.</h3> + +<p>The next annual meeting of the American Missionary Association +will be held in Northampton, Mass., in the Edwards Church, commencing +at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon, October 21st. Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, +D.D., of Chicago, Ill., will preach the sermon. On the last page of +the cover will be found directions as to membership and other items of +interest. Fuller details regarding the reception of delegates and their entertainment, +together with rates at hotels and railroad reductions, will be +given in the religious press. A meeting of unusual interest is expected, and +we hope our friends will be present in full attendance.</p> + +<p>For notice of Woman's Meeting, see page 318.</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>The holding of our Annual Meeting in Northampton will call up some +very remarkable associations. Northampton was the home of Jonathan +Edwards, who was not only the eloquent preacher and profound theologian, +but the missionary to the neighboring Stockbridge Indians. It was also the +home of his son-in-law, David Brainerd, who was the typical self-denying +martyr-missionary to the Indians in New Jersey. It was the home of the +Tappan family, two of whose sons, Arthur and Lewis, were among the early +founders and most valued friends of this Association. In June, 1848, the +Tappan family held a joyous family reunion in Northampton, continuing +for a week.</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>Frederick Douglass is hopeful. In a recent address he says: "A +great change has taken place among the colored race—vast and wonderful +has it been. It seems as if we had realized the vision of St. John when he + +saw a new heaven and a new earth. But the change has come at last. +The time has come when we can look our fellow-citizens in the face and +share in the glory of the country."</p> + +<p>No man has a better right to say this than he, for his life has touched +the degraded condition of the slave and the exalted position of an Embassador +of this great Republic. He adds: "Some talk of exterminating our +race, and others say we will soon die out, but I tell you both are impossible. +If slavery could not kill us, liberty won't." Liberty ought to do more +than save them alive. It ought to educate, elevate and Christianize them.</p> + + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>The <em>Independent</em> quotes from Dr. Mayo's address before the American +Social Science Association on "The Third Estate," in which the Doctor, +refers to the strange population of the great Southern mountain world—nearly +two millions at present—as a body of people that sends forth a louder +cry for the missionary of modern civilization than any other portion of +the Republic, and adds:</p> + +<div class="display"> +<p>"What is also said by the Unitarian, Dr. Mayo, of the need of missionary work for +this class of the Southern whites, calls for an emphasis even stronger than we could put +on any political conclusion. We pass this patriotic appeal along to those who have the +wealth that is seeking a worthy object on which to expend itself. There are missionary +societies whose business it is to do this. For the Congregationalista, the American Missionary +Association will for a very moderate amount establish a church and an academy +in any one of a hundred counties inhabited by these people, and what a man with a +million dollars to expend could do we hardly dare to say. For the Presbyterians, the +Board of Home Missions will do the same; for the Methodists, their Missionary Society; +for the Episcopalians, their board of Domestic Missions; for the Baptists, their Home +Mission Society; and so on for all the religious bodies. But will not a goodly company +of wealthy men supplement what the churches are doing in their collections, by large +gifts for this special, most needy, most fruitful, and we declare most neglected mission +work of the nation?"</p> +</div> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>Agitations on the surface are significant mainly as they are connected +with the larger movements of the deeper waters beneath. The re-election +of Speaker Reed to Congress, and the contest for the re-election of Mr. +Breckinridge in Arkansas; the Federal Election Bill, which proposes to +secure a free ballot for all men irrespective of color, and the Convention in +Mississippi, which aimed avowedly to curtail the voting of the colored people—all +these derive their importance from their relation to the gravest +problem of American statesmanship. That problem will not be settled by +the results of either of these current questions. For at the bottom the real +question is: Shall knowledge and character and property become the possession +of the colored race, and they thus be prepared for their place in +American politics, industry and prosperity, or will they be allowed for the +lack of these things to be crushed back into a condition of semi-slavery or + +be goaded to resistance or discouraged in poverty, pauperism and degradation? +That is a fundamental question. For that, men should read, think, +pray and work.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_4"></a> +<h3>The Federal Election Bill And The Mississippi +Convention.</h3> + +<p>The ultimate aim of the Federal Election Bill in Congress, and of the +Constitutional Convention in Mississippi, point in diametrically opposite +directions. They cannot be harmonized, and there is no middle way between +them. The Election Bill contemplates a "free ballot and fair +count" for every voter, including the Negro. The Mississippi Convention +aims to restrict Negro suffrage. In an address delivered by the President +of the Convention, September 11th, he is reported to have said that: "He +did not propose to mince matters and hide behind a subterfuge, but if asked +by anybody if it was the purpose of the Convention to restrict Negro suffrage, +he would frankly say, 'Yes; that is what we are here for.'" This +Convention proposes to secure its object not by the force and fraud of +earlier days, but by constitutional and legal methods—or at least by what +has constitutional and legal <em>forms</em>. All this, however, is another attempt to +achieve the impracticable. As the Negro grows in intelligence and numbers, +he will claim his right to vote.</p> + +<p>On the other hand, the Congressional Election Bill or any other legislation +intended to secure the privilege of voting to the Negro, if made +practical, means a good deal. If it is intended only to pass laws that +shall be merely "glittering generalities" to vindicate the historic record +of the Republican party, or to sanction its Platform and the Inaugural of +the President—that is easily done and will, of course, amount to nothing—except +as a political manoeuvre. But if the movement "means business," +and is to be pushed to its legitimate result, then two things must be done: +the Negro must be qualified to vote and to be voted for; to elect officers +and to hold office. If the mass of illiterate and impoverished Negroes are +to be represented in State Legislatures and in Congress by persons as +ignorant and poor as they are themselves, these representatives will, of +course, if in the majority, be liable to rule and ruin; if in a large minority, +they will hold a balance of power that may easily be controlled by demagogues. +To educate this mass up to the point of intelligence and the acquisition +of property is America's great duty and the guaranty of her +safety.</p> + +<p>There is one thing more about it. We have said that if the Negro is to +have the free exercise of the ballot, he will insist on being voted for as well +as voting. If the Negroes have power to elect, they will wish to elect some +of their own number. They will not, and certainly they ought not to vote +for a man simply because he is black. They should vote for the best + +qualified man whether he is black or white. If they have the power they +will certainly elect some of their own number. But this means, if it means +anything good, that there shall be those of their own number who are +qualified to hold office and to hold it honorably to themselves and usefully +to their constituents and the country. But this implies higher education +to a good many colored people. It will not do for them to have a few men +educated as professional politicians. May Heaven save them from the day +when they will encourage the growth of such a class of men. They will +need to have a large number of educated men in the various walks of life, from +whom suitable candidates may be selected, just as white men have. But if +they are to have such a class of men, adequate measures must be taken for +their higher education, and those friends of the Negro who desire and help +to educate him only in primary studies, while they are doing a great and +essential work, are not doing all that is needed. It may be all well enough +to say to the Negro, "Work hard and keep out of politics." But if he is +allowed to enter into politics freely, he will do it just as other men do. +There is enough human nature in him to secure that. And any view of +this matter that accepts the theory of a free ballot to the Negro, will be +short-sighted, if it does not aim at the education of the mass of the Negroes +as the mass of the white people are educated, and at the higher education +of a proportionally large number of the Negroes. If Congress and Mississippi +Conventions should turn their attention in this direction, their work +would be more significant than the efforts they are now making.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_5"></a> +<h3>Notes From The West.</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">By District-Secretary C.W. Hiatt.</h3> + +<p>Sylvan, terraced, lacustrine; cottages by the score, gay in color, unique +of design; people everywhere, chatty, erudite, artistic, processional; +"round tables," "leagues," "societies" and "circles;" lectures, sermons, +concerts and conferences—a school, a church, a university—all this, and +throughout it all a steady pulse of religious heart and heartiness—such is +the Chautauquan Assembly of Bay View, Michigan. One of the important +features of this assembly is its annual missionary conference. All +denominations participate and the field of the world is brought vividly +before the mind by the laborers from here and there.</p> + +<p>An interesting testimony by a missionary from Singapore was to the effect +that many of the most cultured and generous people he had ever met were +Chinese. By the aid of influential Mongolians—though they were heathen—he +was once enabled to start a school which grew rapidly till hundreds +were enrolled and a permanent religious center of great importance was established. +The whole account was thrilling.</p> + +<p>Specially kind was the hearing given the representative of the American +Missionary Association work, and the eager quest for literature which followed + +showed that all words had not been lost. Denominational lines were +not conspicuous. The black cat of statistics scampered across the rostrum +only once or twice. A fitting rebuke to this audacious creature was +couched in the story told by a missionary of a visit he had received from +another worker on the field, and their mutually forgetting to inquire into +each other's church connections, so great was their interest in the tasks in +hand. Afterwards, the Methodist brother learned that he had entertained +a Baptist unawares—Selah.</p> + +<br> + +<p>An interesting disclosure was recently made, when the organ of Vine St. +Congregational Church in Cincinnati was removed from the rear to the +front of the auditorium. Midway between ceiling and floor, on either side +of the recess, were two doors in the wall. These could only be reached by +ladders. What were they for? Ah, they have a history. They open into +rooms which, in ante-bellum days, were used as stations of the "underground +railway." Here fugitives from across the Ohio were secreted until +they could be spirited on, by night, towards the waters of Erie. These +doors on the wall speak volumes for the history of the church. I wonder +not that even now, though in the very commercial center of the city, far +from the residence portion, this church is in full career of evangelistic life. +Churches with such doors as those in their walls need not be expected to +vegetate, nor to die.</p> + +<br> + +<p>I like to visit the smaller churches as opportunity is given. Their zeal +for the causes of humanity is often very intense and intelligent. Sometimes, +too, their contributions are a surprise. I know a little country +church in Ohio that one day raised forty-six dollars when only forty-five +persons were present. It was ten miles by stage from the railroad. Now +another gratifying surprise: out of that little flock several people are planning +to go to the Northampton meeting.</p> + +<p>I also know a church of foreigners, ninety-seven in membership, that +raised forty-seven dollars and fifty cents for our work in an evening collection, +or about fifty cents <em>per capita</em>. Awhile ago these foreigners were a +part of our <em>City</em> problem. By the grace of God, they are now out of the +equation, and themselves, in turn, become helpers in solving that other +more extensive problem, of the races in the South. Such things as these +encourage us.</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>The Chicago Theological Seminary is desirous of completing its files +of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY for binding. The numbers missing are: +February, 1887, October and November, 1871, January, 1862, November, +1861, the first six months of 1858, and all the numbers for 1857. If any +one has any of these magazines that he would like to give to the Seminary, +he will confer a favor by sending them direct to L.A. Allesbrooke, +45 Warren Ave., Chicago, Ill.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr class="page"> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_6"></a> +<h2>The South</h2> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_7"></a> +<h3>Out To Rockhold, Ky.</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">Prof. R.C. Hitchcock</h3> + +<p>I wanted to see the people and especially the church and Sunday-school +at this outpost. Now one can go out there by rail, but that is prosaic. +It is not apostolic; those apostles tied on their sandals, girt up their garments +and walked. But I found I couldn't do that way, for there was the +big Cumberland to cross and several creeks, not to speak of "runs," +"branches" and mud-holes. The circuit riders? Yes, they went on horseback; +that must be my way, so I consulted Brother Tupper and he borrowed +Mr. Perkins's horse, noted as being an easy-going roadster. Easy? +Well, I do suppose the horse was all right, but I must indulge in one groan. +It was a long time since I had been on horseback. I wanted to go to the +stable to get on, but the young man insisted on bringing the steed down to +the hotel as soon as he had his feed, and in due time he came, a tall fellow, +and I doubted my ability to get my foot up to that stirrup, and somewhat +whether I could boost myself over into the saddle if I did; so I quietly +and gently coaxed him up to the piazza and actually succeeded the first +time trying. How many of the gentlemen, sitting in their Sunday best on +the piazza, smiled, I do not know—I didn't dare to look. I know I sat up +ever so stiff and tried to look just as if I had been a circuit rider for forty +years or so.</p> + +<p>I must cross the river to begin with. Now they hadn't given me any +whip and I didn't dare ask the owner of the horse—"Colt, gone four"—he +said, for a whip or even a switch, but I wondered what I would do if the +animal should take it into his head to turn around or do something awkward +right in the middle of the river. I didn't want to get off, for I must +get on again. As good luck would have it there was a kind-eyed man sitting +on a stone by the riverside, and I asked him to get me a stick. He +gave me one he had in his hand and I felt better.</p> + +<p>"Does the ford go right straight across?" I asked. "No, you must make +a curve up towards the dam or you will get into deep water, and there are +boulders too, you must avoid, or your horse may fall down."</p> + +<p>A curve! Now a straight line, two points being given, can be defined. +And if I could steer for some given point on the opposite bank, I could hit +it if the current did not take me down stream; but a curve is awfully uncertain, +and my mind was in a state of perturbation. However, I got across +with nothing worse than a good spattering.</p> + +<p>I wish I could paint the pictures constantly opening on the view as I +rode along. Forest clad mountains rose on every side with huge cliffs + +peering grimly out. Sometimes these cliffs overhung the road and occasionally +a great slab of slate projected sufficiently to furnish shelter for a +family. In one place a farmer had taken advantage of this and made his +stable under a rock. A great slab of shaly slate projected so that he had a +roof some fifty feet long and ten or fifteen wide. My mind went back +eighteen hundred years and more to another stable in a rock and the +wonderful scene enacted there. It was not easy to believe that the little +cabins, looking like miniature houses which might be built by boys for +play, were actually homes, occupied by families, father, mother and eight +or ten children; but such is the case.</p> + +<p>Seven miles of constantly changing pictures, but all beautiful, brought +me to Rockhold, a name I had supposed derived from its physical characteristics, +but which I was informed was given in respect to a family formerly +the most important in the vicinity but now quite gone. I made my +way to the little church. In front was a huge wagon and in a little grove +at the back several horses tied. I had been informed that I might safely +address any man I found prominent, as "Elliott," and as I entered I so accosted +an elderly man whom I found in charge of a large class of young +men. About fifty were present, Mr. Elliott being the only male teacher, +three young ladies, two of whom I learned had been educated at Berea, having +charge of classes. After the lesson I addressed the people. The characteristic +that impresses me more than any other is their solemn seriousness. +They listen intently and with great eagerness. They are hungry for preaching +and feel it a great hardship that they can only have it occasionally. +Their faces were a study. There was hardly a weak one among them and +many bore the impress of great strength. But I would as soon have told a +story or joked at a funeral as under their serious eyes.</p> + +<p>The meeting over, several invited me to "go by" and take dinner, and +I accepted the first offer, which was made by a nice looking young lady in +mourning, who urged her claim by saying: "All the preachers go to our +house and father will be so disappointed if he don't see you; he couldn't +come to-day."</p> + +<p>This country has not yet got to the point of thinking bridges necessary +and roads are not for those who sit on springs and cushions. I never +wished so much for a "Kodak" that I might carry away a picture which I +shall always have in memory. To the long wagon, which had a high rack +all around it, were yoked a pair of milk-white oxen, round and handsome. +In front was seated Mrs. Elliott, holding her youngest child. At her side a +boy, perhaps twelve, who guided the team by a line attached to a horn. +Seated on chairs were nine young ladies and girls, nearly all in pretty white +dresses.</p> + +<p>Two miles of beautiful scenery and we reach the farm house, a commodious +and substantial rural home, of John Elliott, who gave me a cordial +welcome and soon the long table in the kitchen was spread with such a meal +as I had not enjoyed in many a day. The menu did not record many +French dishes, but everything was good, abundant and wholesome.</p> + +<p>After dinner, Mr. Elliott told me a story worth recording. It was that +of the heroic Mr. Richardson, who before the war was a teacher in that district—a +Northern man—and, in the excited state of feeling in the South, +was suspected of being an abolitionist. He and his wife were driven from +their home and work, but protected from personal violence by the prompt +and energetic efforts of the Elliotts. But as both Dr. Roy and Mr. Ryder +have given the details to the public, I will not repeat them here. I will +only add that of the fifty persons who had signed the paper pledging themselves +to "<em>remove</em>" Richardson, it would be difficult to find one now in +Whittley County. They are scattered or dead. But in the little church at +Rockhold, the name of Richardson is a sacred one, and the stranger always +hears the story.</p> + +<p>I took leave of this interesting family with great regret. As I sat in the +little grove in front of the house, with its carpet of myrtle, and looked off +over the peaceful valley, I wished I might remain there and rest.</p> + +<p>That horse had it pretty much his own way on the return seven miles, +and when I thought nobody was looking I must confess to finding it a very +pleasant thing to get both legs on the same side of the saddle. But I am +glad I went to Rockhold. I would not lose the pictures I got there for a +small sum and I hope and pray that the time may soon come when in some +way a regular preacher may be provided for the people.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_8"></a> +<h3>Church Work.</h3> + +<div class="div"> +<h4>Dedication Of A Church At Byron, Ga.</h4> + + +<p>Words fail to express the pleasant time we had at Byron, in dedicating +our new house of worship to the service of God. We had a very large attendance +of people from Bibb, Houston, Taylor and Sumter counties. +Nearly two hundred people came from Andersonville, a large number came +from Macon and quite a company from Rutland. One brother was present +from the Savannah church. Altogether there were five of our Congregational +churches represented by their members and several others were heard +from. I should think that there were nearly, if not quite, four hundred +people on the grounds. Of course the building could not hold them all. +Rev. J.R. McLean preached the sermon, which was pronounced by a leading +white man present, to be the best he ever heard. Altogether the occasion +was an inspiring one. The hundreds of black faces so attentively listening +to the words of truth, so orderly and quietly, could not fail to impress +us deeply. The occasion was one that brought four of our churches +into a very close relationship, closer than they have ever been before; I + +mean, so many from each church meeting face to face and forming each +other's acquaintance.</p> + +<p>It is our wish and prayer to do well the work that is committed to our +hands. We are not afraid of hard work, we want time and means to do all +that we see is needed, and there is so much to be done. I feel like going, +going all the time with the message of God's love to dying men. The opportunities +are constantly increasing for usefulness.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h4>Promising Opening In Georgia.</h4> + +<p>I came to the place where the people wanted a Sunday-school. They +were ready for it, with a rude building erected by the people themselves, +and waiting for me to begin work, and I have promised to organize a Sunday-school +on the second Sunday of next month. A young married +woman, the wife of a well-to-do farmer, and a former student in the Ballard +School, has promised to superintend it. She expects at least fifty +scholars, many of them her day pupils. I have given her singing books and +shall send to Boston for Sunday-school supplies. There is reason to believe +that we can some day organize a church in that place. I preached +in the new building last night and at the close of the service nearly twenty-five +bowed for prayers and asked for mercy. It was really affecting and I +only regretted that I could not remain and continue the work which begins +in so promising a manner. I have not the time to describe in detail the +work done on this trip. All along the road for nearly forty miles people +stopped me and I them to talk about the love of God for man and the gift +of his dear son as their Saviour and Redeemer. My heart burns with a desire +to do them good and I am so happy in helping them see the truth as +it is revealed in the Bible. There are hundreds of colored people in that +county who have no proper religious instruction. They come from far and +near whenever I go into that region, and seem to be blessed in listening to +the word of God. I am constantly, from a half-dozen different counties, +hearing the Macedonian cry: "Come over and help us." I wish you could +go with me and see these golden opportunities. If our churches saw the +needs and the openings for doing good, they would increase many fold their +offerings to this work.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h4>Encouraging Indications.</h4> + +<p>I can see a manifestation of real earnestness on the part of a larger proportion +of the members of our church than at any time before since I +have been here. While none of our meetings are attended so well as they +should be, at the same time they are spiritual. And now, as we are getting +our minds and hearts ready for some extra meetings, our prayer meetings +are full of tenderness and sweetness. Last Thursday night, though it was +raining at the meeting hour, a goodly number came out and the blessed + +Lord was with us. Our subject was "The Christian dignity of labor." It +seemed to be a new truth when they could see from his own word that +Jesus was interested in our daily work, John 21: 3-6. One faithful sister +who is trying to educate and provide for six children was very much helped +by the fact that Jesus would guide her if she was only willing to follow +his direction. The prayer meeting is the life of the church.</p> + +<p>I spent two days with Brother S—— at B—— last month, in some extra +meetings. The meetings were quite well attended; a goodly number of +white people were with us at almost every meeting. The Methodist minister +of the town was present and offered prayer. He expressed himself +as highly pleased with the sermon and hoped that we might do much good +in the name of the Lord. I find the very best of feeling towards our +church there on the part of the white people. I hope the church will do +well and grow in numbers and influence.</p> + +<br> + +<p>JACKSON ST. CHURCH, NASHVILLE, TENN.—Yesterday was a red-letter +day for Jackson Street Church. It was communion day. Two were baptized +and admitted to the church. Our congregation numbered more than +one hundred, the largest audience we have yet had. It was also the day +for special collection. We collected thirteen dollars. This was done by +means of the envelope system without any blast of bugle. There were +eleven conversions in the Sunday-school recently.</p> + +<br> + +<p>HOWARD CHAPEL, NASHVILLE, TENN.—Our attendance this month has +never fallen below forty-five. One of the established churches of the city +with a membership five times as large as ours has an average of ten to its +prayer meetings. We have fifteen or twenty. We have also organized a +Y.P.S.C.E. and a Bible class. It is the purpose of this class to study +Biblical biographies. We have studied so far the lives of Joseph, Moses, +Daniel, Esther, Ruth and David. It would do your heart good to see with +what enthusiasm the young people have entered upon this study and how +they master even the minutest details. I have every hope in the world for +Howard Chapel.</p> + +<br> + +<p>SAVANNAH, GA.—Some years ago our flock was the smallest, now we +have the largest Sunday-school and congregation. The history of this +church is wonderful. God has been merciful towards it. Some who were +our strongest enemies years ago are now our best workers. I have a plan +for next winter, to open a night school and draw the young people from +sin and Satan to our blessed Lord. July the 18th, Brother L. and myself +went to Porter's and made a start on our meeting house. The man who +gave the land cut down trees, Brother L. dug holes and we planted the +posts. Brother L. went back and bought five hundred feet of lumber, and +with God's help we intend to take the train some day and finish our humble +place of worship.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>NORTH ATHENS, TENN.—The church members gather with the children +every Friday afternoon to teach both boys and girls various kinds of work. +Capitalists and speculators are searching among the mountains for coal, iron +and timber. Why should not the Christian church search out the poor +mountaineers and bring them to Christ. Most of them were loyal to the +country. Slavery has for several generations denied them the advantages +of education. God has opened the door and bids us go in with the Bible +and the spelling-book to give to two millions of these people in our own country +a better culture, a purer Gospel. There are vast stores of wealth in these +mountains, but nothing of such value as the souls of this people.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_9"></a> +<h3>Straight University.</h3> + + +<div class="display"> +<p>We are glad to copy from the Burlington (Vt.) <em>Daily Free Press</em> the following +commendation of two of the appointees of this Association, both graduates of the University +of Vermont. Mr. Atwood enters our service for the first time; Mr. Henderson +has already shown his efficiency in our work as a preacher, and will enter upon his +duties as a Professor under favorable auspices.</p> + +</div> + +<p>An eminently satisfactory and well-merited appointment is that of Mr. +Oscar Atwood of Jeffersonville, to be President of Straight University in +New Orleans. We can heartily congratulate the institution that it can +avail itself of the sound scholarship, the long experience, and the tried executive +ability of its president-elect. And no less do we congratulate Mr. +Atwood on his election to a post which will afford ample scope and stimulus +for the best that is in him. Straight University was founded twenty-one +years ago, and was designed especially for the education of the colored +youth. It is under the patronage of the American Missionary Association, +and has several departments in full operation. Mr. Atwood took his A.B. +degree at the University of Vermont in 1864; taught for a time in various +schools, including the academy at Essex, this State; for two years was +principal of the school at Underhill; then for seven years, 1871-78, was +master of the High School at Plattsburgh, from which place he was called +to a similar position at Rutland. After nine years successful labor there, he +was forced to resign three years since on account of continued trouble with +his eyes. He has an excellent record both as instructor and organizer and +manager of school work. No better evidence of his efficiency could be +desired than the large number of young men who have been stimulated by +him to obtain a liberal education.</p> + +<p>We learn also that the Rev. George W. Henderson, of the class of 1887, +U.V., who for the last two years has been preaching in New Orleans, +has been appointed to a professorship in the same institution. Mr. Henderson +was originally a slave, as some of our readers know. He was prepared +for college by Mr. Atwood, took high rank at the University and at + +Yale Theological Seminary, where he was graduated in 1883. He studied +for a time in Germany, and for a few years was principal of an academy in +this State. His work, we understand, is to be in the theological department, +a position for which he is well equipped.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_10"></a> +<h3>Better Class Of Students.</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">By Prof. R.C. Hitchcock.</h3> + +<p>Last year was a "golden year" at Straight University in New Orleans. +In the first place, it is seldom the good fortune of any school to get a corps +of teachers so uniformly capable, and of such earnest Christian spirit, willing +to spend and be spent in the Master's service.</p> + +<p>Then every year brings a better class of students; not more sincere, +perhaps, but year by year they learn what "getting an education" means. +A few years ago it was quite impossible to make them realize that steady, +uninterrupted attendance was absolutely necessary to good work, but as +they have opportunity to compare the positions taken and the work done +by those who were regular and who remained at school long enough to be +really fit for good service, with those who thought they could come in January +and leave in April, getting an imperfect knowledge of things, to their +credit be it told, they <em>learn</em>—some <em>cannot</em> learn life's lessons—and there +has been lately a gratifying eagerness to be present at every recitation during +the whole year. I do not think one has left this year who could possibly +remain. When the floods came and many of them learned that their +homes were under water, in some cases the savings of many years in +buildings and stock washed away, they came to us saying they must go +as they could no longer pay, but we told them to wait. White-winged +missives flew over Uncle Sam's postal way, and back from many a church +and Sunday-school came the needed aid, and—save in the case of +some young men who had to care for helpless ones at home—none +left. From these last came many an interesting story of the heroic efforts +to save life and property. The skill to wield tools, acquired in our +shop, helped many a one to build a "flat" in which family, stock and furniture +could be floated to dry land. Many had to work night and day up +to the waist, sometimes to the neck, in water to save what might be. It +will be a hard year, the coming one, for many in the parishes of this State, +though no doubt work will be plenty as soon as the water is down.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_11"></a> +<h3>Temperance In Tennessee.</h3> + +<p>This is certainly a very interesting field, not going backward but forward. +The temperance reform has made a clean sweep of the whole +village, and in union with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at +the station is fast pushing the saloons to the wall. The most striking + +feature of the case is that they have learned how to work in the absence of +their leader. Two weeks ago last Sabbath night they held their own meeting—a +Bible reading institution among themselves, by the way, at which +many were present—and the old revival spirit broke out afresh to such a +degree that the last of their friends, to the number of eighteen, who still +clung to their cups, made haste to sign the pledge of total abstinence.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_12"></a> +<h3>Items.</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">Letter From A Graduate Of Straight University.</h3> + +<p>There was an examination held in this city recently for clerkships at +Washington. The announcement of it in the newspapers and the certainty +of the successful applicants receiving appointments drew a large number +of young men to the examination, among whom were Tulane University +graduates and several principals of high schools. I had the honor of sustaining +the reputation of "Old Straight," by leading the list. The affair +created much local excitement and the name of Straight University is commanding +much respect. I am pleased at the prospect of the increased opportunities +a residence at Washington will afford me for the prosecution +of my medical studies.</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>Fisk University is well represented in the journalistic world, says the +<em>Tennessee Star</em>. The following graduates are pushing the quill: S.A. McElwee +and W.A. Crosthwait, editors of the <em>Nashville Tribune</em>; H.C +Gray, editor of the <em>Galveston Test</em>; R.S. Holloway, associate editor of the + +<em>Dallas Tribune</em>, and Geo. T. Robinson, editor of the <em>Star</em>.</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<div class="display"> +<p>We print this letter from a boy who wants to go to school. We give it just as he +wrote it, and hope to have the privilege of printing a letter from him five years hence +with a view to the contrast.</p> +</div> + +<p style="text-align: right">Augst 25th.</p> + +<p>Mr. Proseser D.:</p> + +<p>Der ser i hav bin in form of the —— coldge and is it quite a distant +and i thout i would rite you afew lines i want you to write to me how i +can get Bord and what it will cost me a week or a munth and what is +tuisson I want to noe before i come and i want to start in a short time +rite to me all about it i will ickspeck anser soon, and Adress me.</p> + +<p>When I start in I want to goe 2 sesson's before I stop i think can conplet +most of inlesh studys in that time.</p> + + + +<div class="div"> + +<h4>Does The Lord Understand His Business?</h4> + +<h4 class="sub">Rev. J.H.H. Sengstacke.</h4> + + +<p><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">THEN.</span></p> + +<p>All through the early spring I heard complaints as follows: "The season +is against us and we shall not make anything." "Unless a change we +must starve." The season paid no attention to complaints but kept right +on.</p> + + +<p><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">Now.</span></p> + +<p>To-day God has blessed all with a good crop; plenty to eat and plenty +to sell. What next? The grumbling still continues. "There is so much +that we cannot get a high price for our produce."</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>If "resemble" means like, as one of the girls found when consulting +the dictionary, why is it not proper to say as she did, "I 'resemble' very +much to be at home?"</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<div class="div"> +<h5>Letters From Very Little Pupils.</h5> + +<p><em>My dear teacher</em>:—I would like to have grace and truth before God, and +I hope I am now his little girl.—LUCY.</p> + +<p><em>Dear teacher</em>:—I want religion.—ARTELIA.</p> + +<p><em>My dear teacher</em>:—If I had my choice of anything I wanted, I would +choose a Christian life, so when I came to die I would die in Jesus, like +Daisy Holt died.—ROXY.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<div class="div"> +<h4>Pictures In The Pines.</h4> + +<h4 class="sub">Prof. Amos W. Farnham.</h4> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">In the Sunny South, in the Land of Pines,</p> +<p class="l">Is a whitewashed cottage, old and grand;</p> + +<p class="l">Its ample grounds of jessamine vines,</p> +<p class="l">Are bright with crystals of sparkling sand.</p> +<p class="l">Broad stairways lead to its airy hall</p> +<p class="l">And cool piazzas, where the sun </p> +<p class="l">His shining arrows ne'er lets fall </p> +<p class="l">Till his daily race is almost run.</p> +</div> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">Within are walls of panels high,</p> + +<p class="l"> And great fire-places that laugh at night, </p> +<p class="l">When the blazing splinters of lightwood fry</p> +<p class="l">And wrap the rooms in a flood of light. </p> +<p class="l">'Tis then the cabins in the rear, </p> +<p class="l">Low and little and plain and old, </p> +<p class="l">Are vocal with the Negro'a cheer, </p> +<p class="l">For his heart is light when the day is told.</p> +</div> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">But there's one who sits from the rest apart,</p> +<p class="l">With folded hands and turbaned head,</p> +<p class="l">With a nameless burden upon her heart,</p> +<p class="l">And the light of youth forever fled. </p> +<p class="l">And she sits a swaying to and fro, </p> +<p class="l">Like the billowy pine with plume and cone,</p> +<p class="l">While a minor strain subdued and slow, </p> + +<p class="l">She sings in a plaintive monotone: </p> +</div> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">("I'm mos' don' a trablin' an' I boun'</p> +<p class="l">To carry my sould to Jesus</p> + +<p class="l"> I'm mos' don' a trablin' an' I boun'</p> +<p class="l">To carry my sould to de Lord.")</p> +</div> + +<div class="lg"> + +<p class="l">Then 'neath the whitewashed cottage vines,</p> +<p class="l">From its window that looks on the dying day,</p> +<p class="l">I gaze at the pictures in the pines,</p> +<p class="l">Made by their plumes and cones of gray.</p> +<p class="l">'Mong the leafy pictures is a crown,</p> +<p class="l">Bedecked with a brightly shining star,</p> +<p class="l">By angel hands held out and down</p> +<p class="l">From the western gate that stands ajar.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">My crown is bright when the year is new,</p> +<p class="l">Nor changes, when its frosts appear:</p> +<p class="l">For the star still shines in its ground of blue,</p> +<p class="l">And the pine tree lives when the rest are sere.</p> +<p class="l">From the pine my thoughts ascend above</p> +<p class="l">To the Tree of LIfe that Heaven adorns;</p> +<p class="l">From the star to the Star of my Saviour's Love,</p> + +<p class="l">That grandly shone in a crown of thorns.</p> +</div> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">Oh, Star of Love, thy beams shall guide</p> +<p class="l">Me through the shadows of earth and sin,</p> +<p class="l">Till Heaven's gate shall open wide</p> +<p class="l">To let thy weary follower in.</p> +<p class="l">I note the onward march of time</p> +<p class="l">By the Negro's songs and the lightwood's glare,</p> + +<p class="l">And know I'm nearing the happy clime</p> +<p class="l">And the starry crown that I shall wear.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + + + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_13"></a> +<h2>The Indians.</h2> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_14"></a> +<h3>Mr. Shelton At Northfield Again.</h3> + +<div class="display"> +<p>Mr Moody is nothing if not practical, and when he undertakes a thing he is apt +to push it through. We give below another pleasant illustration of this. Our readers +will remember that Rev. C.W. Shelton two years ago made an address at the great +Missionary Meeting at Northfield, Mass., which touched the sympathies of the audience +and moved Mr. Moody at once to "do something about it." Under his inspiration +three thousand five hundred dollars were raised to establish several new Indian +mission stations in Dakota.</p> + +<p>At Mr. Moody's solicitation, Mr. Shelton attended the Northfield Missionary Meeting +this year, making report of what had been done with the money given before. +The enthusiasm of the audience was again kindled, with a result which we give below, +condensing the sketch of the meeting as given in the <em>Springfield Union</em>.</p> +</div> + +<p>The meeting opened with prayer by Major D.W. Whittle, and then Rev +C.W. Shelton of New York City, who is connected with the American Missionary +Association, spoke about the work among the Indians. He said +that two years ago the people of Northfield gave money enough to establish +five mission stations; and he would first report on the work in those +missions. The first one had been established one hundred and fifty miles +northwest of Bismarck, and was called the Moody station. Having found +two classes of people thirty miles apart, both of whom seemed to be equally +in need, we had been in doubt as to where to plant the station; but finally +a man was found whose parentage included both nations, and who was +willing and able to preach to both in their own language. We had, therefore, +started two stations, calling them both by the same name, and with this +man managing them. People had told him that he couldn't do anything +in the interior of the country occupied by the Indians, but he described +his meeting with the Indians at that remote place, and their willingness to +receive the gospel, one of the chiefs finally saying to him: "When you go +back I want you to take that man by the hand that sent that school and +thank him, and tell him that we will try to live like the white man." The +speaker accordingly took Mr. Moody's hand and thanked him in those +words, raising a perfect storm of applause by so doing.</p> + +<p>The next mission was called the Frederick Darling Memorial mission, +and was established sixty miles below Bismarck. There was good work going +on there. Sixty miles farther down still there was located the Robert +Remington Memorial mission, and the reservation had since then been +opened up for settlement, as they had prophesied, and, as the Indians came +up the valley, driven out from their homes, there stood a man at the door +of the mission, who invited them in, and so to-day there were gathering +round that mission hundreds of Indians, forsaking their tepees, building +their houses and taking the first steps toward civilization.</p> + + + +<p>On Cherry Creek, the Sankey mission was located, and, although it was +not two years since that work was begun, they had a church of about forty +members.</p> + +<p>The funds for the Northfield mission were given by quite a number of +people here and the Indians who could be reached by it from the opening +of the reservation during the last few months had nearly doubled. +They had organized one church only a few weeks ago some distance off, +and expected to organize another there within a few months.</p> + +<p>"What do you want now?" said Mr. Moody at this point. Mr. +Shelton replied: "We haven't a dollar for carrying on a single one of +these missions after the first of September. It costs from $300 to $350 to +carry each of them on. But I believe that God has started this work and will +carry it on. Let me add a word with regard to the whole Indian problem. It is +not the problem I presented to you two years ago; it has changed in the two +years, and, thank God, it will change in two years more, if we do the work +we ought to. Do we realize that our Indians are getting beyond the wild +life? Forty thousand Indian people have come out of the tepee life into +little homes that these Indian men have built for themselves, taking their +people forward toward Christ. We talk of the Indian in his paint and +blanket, forgetting that he is coming forth into life. His game is gone, his +wild roving life is gone, his reservation is going. They understand their +position; the old life is back of them forever. What is before them? +Old Gall showed a scar reaching from his shoulder to his hip, and said: +'A white man gave me that; shall I trust him, dare I trust him, can I +trust him?' The Indian takes a step ahead, and stops and trembles, +doesn't know if he dare take another.</p> + +<p>"Do you want to know the solution of the Indian problem to-day? In +Christ's love take the Indians by the hand and lead them out into the same +light, the same love, and to the same Christ that you have. You can talk +about the government and land in severalty. Grand and good as these are, +the first and all-important thing in that problem is the gospel of Christ. It +must do it, it can do it, it is doing it, it will do it. The Women's Missionary +Societies of fifteen Indian churches gave $200 more for home missionary +work outside themselves than the Women's Missionary Societies in +one hundred and forty churches of white people in the same time. They +have Christian Endeavor societies there, and all kinds of Christian work. +I saw one morning delegates from the Christian Endeavor Society going +out to teach a white Sunday-school nine miles off in one direction, and +another similar school four and one-half miles off in another.</p> + +<p>"It is said that the young people will go back to the blanket. In ten +years we have had only one case of that in our Santee school, and that was +the case of a young girl who had only been in the school six months; 95 +per cent. of all that come to the schools go back consecrated young men +and women.</p> + + + +<p>"When you think that your five stations have gathered in two or three +hundred scholars and of the possibility for each, can you tell what will be +the result of this work? There are thirty thousand poor Indians in Dakota +alone, lifting up their cry to the Christian church for light and hope." +He added: "I have turned my back to many storms on the Dakota prairies, +but God grant you may never turn your back on a soul praying for +light. I sometimes dread the day of judgment, because there is to stand +the Indian. I would rather stand there in his place than to hear him say: +'I was hungry and ye gave me no food.' How shall we meet it, how shall +we answer it? for to meet it and answer it we must before the throne."</p> + +<p>Here Mr Shelton finished and sat down. "Now let's pay our debts," +said Mr. Moody. "How many people will give $100 toward that $1,800 for +sustaining those missions?" It didn't seem as though there were many +responses at first, but in a few minutes eighteen names were handed to H.M. +Moore of Boston, who was keeping account, and then Mr. Moody asked +if there wasn't anything else he wanted—a new mission anywhere? Mr. +Shelton of course said there was, and spoke of a place on the Rosebud +Agency where $500 was needed to build a school, and $300 to take care of +it for a year. Here was Mr. Moody's chance again, and he asked if some +one wouldn't give $100 for that. One or two contributions of $100 were +forthcoming, and any number of fifties came in, so that it was only a few +minutes when Mr. Moore announced that they had $875 for that. Then +Mr. Moody said he wanted to have the people start one more new mission +and proposed that unfailing American resource, a collection. The +hats were soon busy in all parts of the house, and at the end of the meeting +it was found that $640 had been collected for another mission, making +a grand total of $3,315.04, to be exact, raised within twenty minutes, for the +work among the Dakota Indians. Mr. Moody looked more bright and +cheerful than he has during the conference, as he kept calling for more +contributions, and his method of applying for one seldom failed. "Col. +Esty, of Brattleboro, isn't here, but he's all right, so we'll put him down +for $100," he remarked, as the interest flagged for a moment, and that was +the signal for a laugh and another name was sent up. Altogether it was the +most enthusiastic and thoroughly roused audience of the session.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_15"></a> +<h3>The Widow's Mite.</h3> + +<div class="display"> +<p>We gladly subjoin the following brief note from Mrs. Mary E. Fairbanks, of St. +Johnsbury, Vt., addressed to Rev. Mr. Shelton. We appreciate, as she does, the gift +of the widow.</p> +</div> + +<p>"Please find enclosed (stamps) .50 for the Indian work. A few days +after you were with us, a poor widow, aged and feeble, brought some sewing +which she had done for me, and for which I paid her $2.50. She +handed back fifty cents, asking me if I could in any way send it to Mr. + +Shelton for the work among the Indians. 'A widow's mite,' she said. I +told her I would be very glad to do it. I think the Lord must have looked +with favor on her gift. I have often sent to her missionary papers, magazines, +etc., and know she had greatly enjoyed the reading. You certainly +touched her heart, as you did many others. I hope the Lord is fulfilling +your desires."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_16"></a> + +<h2>The Chinese</h2> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_17"></a> +<h3>The Pictures</h3> + +<p>Dr. Pond has sent us two pictures which we are glad to insert in this +number. Of one of them he says: "It is a photograph of our Oroville +Mission House, pupils, teachers, etc. The taller of the two white men in +light clothing is the young pastor of our church at Oroville, who is a real +<em>helper</em>; the other is myself. The two white ladies are Miss Deuel, former +teacher, on the right, and Miss Keifer, the present teacher, sitting next to +me. The little American boy is her nephew, greatly interested in the +school. The little Chinese boy is a child whom the brethren have partially +and after a sort adopted, and who is very bright and promising and means +to be a Christian. Our helper, Chung Moi, stands directly behind me; but +the picture does him injustice. He has a very prepossessing face. The +one who stands on the left of Miss Deuel (i.e. at <em>her</em> right hand) is Gee +Jet, the deacon of our little church and the stand-by of the mission. The +trees in the rear grow at the water's edge of Feather River. The building, +as you observe, is of brick, topped out with a shake roof put on by our +brethren after the last (of two or three I believe) sweeping fires to which +the little structure refused to succumb. It belongs to ex-Governor Perkins +of this State—once a merchant in Oroville—and has been used by us for +ten years or more, ever since our mission was established, free of rent."</p> + +<p>The other cut is also a picture of the teachers and pupils at Oroville.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_18"></a> +<h3>Lights And Shadows</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">Rev. W.C. Pond, D.D.</h3> + +<p>LIGHTS.—One teacher writes: "Mr. B. [a distinguished lecturer from +Ohio] visited our school. He said that he had never seen before such +bright, happy faces among the Chinese. I told him the reason; they have +been brought out from heathenism. I love to notice the change it makes +in them."</p> + +<p>Chin Toy writes from Riverside: "Five boys converted and joined in +Association since I came. Four boys are going to join Rev. Mr. Hunt's +church, (Congregational), and be baptized at the first Sunday of July. +This Association of Christian Chinese has ten members now. I like these +boys and like these teachers too; they are so helpful to the Lord's work."</p> + + + +<p style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image1.png" alt="Mission House At Oroville."></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Mission House At Oroville.</p> + + + +<p style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image2.png" alt="Teachers And Pupils At Oroville."></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Teachers And Pupils At Oroville.</p> + + +<p>Hong Sing writes from Petaluma: "Now I am going to ask you +especially to pray for two scholars here who I hope for to gain him to +Christ before I leave. I am glad that one accepted my advice and promised +yesterday to join our Association, but sorry the other one excuse. I +pray to God for the Holy Spirit to open his eyes to see his guilt and danger, +and how much he needs a Saviour."</p> + +<p>From a pupil in Santa Barbara, addressed to our missionary helper, +Loo Quong: "It is now fifth month since I left you at Los Angeles. The +time seems very long indeed. We hope dear God give you a great power +to cast out the devil; and sowing the seed it bring forth fruit hundred fold +into the only God. At beginning we came to the United States [i.e. I +first came to the United States] about May, 1881. We did not know of +Jesus Christ, because born in the heathen country and work here in the +Chinese store. Then we hear the Chinese mission—talk with Jesus Christ, +do nothing to our idols and very different from us, for we were with evil +companions and do many things in gambling, lottery tickets, opium. Dr. +Pond open Congregational mission school about 1887 in Los Angeles, very +near our house. Then we was been to school about every evening. Mrs. +Sheldon and you teach very kind to us, and you explain the gospel of +Jesus. So we know the only true God, leave evil companions, join our Association +and sixth month join Dr. Hutchins' church. 'And when they had +brought their ships to land, they forsook all and followed him.'—Luke 5:11."</p> + +<p>From Fresno; from Loo Quong: "Now I have some good news for +you. There were three more of our pupils joined the Association, making +nine in all. God will care for this little flock of his, and may they multiply +a hundred fold! One of them was in school at Hong Kong many +years ago before he touched the American soil. He also was in our Central +School at San Francisco three years ago. Two months ago I was surprised +to see him here. At once he attended our school and began to ask +me about Christ's teaching. He would have no other lesson but in the +Bible." (Miss Worley writes of this pupil that he wishes now to become a +missionary). Of another of these three, Loo Quong writes: "He is one +of the best young men I ever knew, * * so kind, so quiet, so modest, +so full of love. I think he looks like our Lord when on earth. He is +always on hand at school. When I asked him to join the Association, he +said that he fully believed Jesus that he is the Saviour of his soul, 'but how +can I be his disciple while I am in the gambling business?' We explained +to him how God would take care of those who gave up all for him, and the +next night he told me he was ready to give it up and walk with Christians." +Of the third, also, a good account is given, but I must not use more space +on the Lights, but turn to the</p> + +<p>SHADOWS—One example must suffice. I must not mention either place +or person, lest harm come of it. A teacher writes: "I feel sure that two little +boys whom you sent to assist in our anniversary will grow to Christian manhood, + +fed as they are on the Word. With sorrow I compared with their +surroundings those of our little —— ——, and I write to know if something +cannot be done. Two years ago he entered the school, having come +directly from China. He has always been studious and well-behaved, loving +his Bible and the gospel songs. The mission boys tell me that those +with whom he lives are not his parents, but that this man bought him in +China. The child remembers his mother and brothers. He also remembers +a man offering him something if he would go with him. He did so +and was carried off in a boat and sold. His owner is very fond of him, +but is away from home. The wife does not care much for him. Sometimes +there are black and blue marks on his hands where he says she +strikes him. Once there was a small burned place on both his lips. I +asked him about it, and he said "Mamma." One of the boys told me that +he talked too much and she put the hot poker on his lips. I have heard +that this man intends taking the boy back to China in a year or two, fearing +that in this county he will lose him. They are bad people, keeping +an opium den."</p> + +<p>The shadow deepens when the question rises, "What can be done for +this boy?" He is in the grip of an "<em>Imperium in imperio</em>," to which some +years ago I had occasion to refer in these columns. Even Americans who +know the facts and are eager to help him, feel as though it would be +scarcely safe for them to rescue him. Our wisest Chinese helpers say: +"Wait, watch over him, but don't disturb existing relations. It would +break up our mission in that place. Chinese would not dare to be identified +with it. The boy will soon come to understand his rights and will assert +them for himself, and then you can help him." But it almost makes +one's blood boil to think that on American soil such counsel can be given +and perhaps ought to be observed.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_19"></a> + +<h2>Bureau Of Woman'S Work.</h2> + +<h2 class="sub">Miss D.E. Emerson, Secretary.</h2> + +<div class="display"> +<p>All ladies interested in missions are earnestly invited to be present at +the gathering of Women's Home Missionary Organizations to be held in +Northampton, Mass., Tuesday, Oct 21st. This meeting will be in the +First Church. Interesting speakers have been secured to represent the +work of our six National Societies. The day promises to be one full of +interest, and we hope there will be a large delegation of ladies present from +all over our land, and that they will pray earnestly for the spirit of the +Master to be present in this gathering.</p> + +<p style="text-align: right">NATHALIE LORD, COMMITTEE.</p> + +</div> + +<p>The Woman's Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be +held on Thursday afternoon, October 23d, in the Edwards Church at +Northampton, Mass. All are cordially invited to attend.</p> + + + +<p>We call especial attention of ladies to the Woman's Meetings at Northampton, +Mass., Oct. 21st and 23d. The first, on Tuesday, of which notice +is given above, is the meeting of the Women's Organizations of the several +States as represented on page 321. They extend from Maine to California, +and we would that there might be present delegates from every State.</p> + +<p>The second meeting, on Thursday afternoon, October 23d, is the Annual +Meeting of the Bureau of Woman's Work of the American Missionary +Association, at which missionaries from different departments of our work +will come face to face with the friends who have cheered and supported +them, and will tell somewhat of the every day life on the field. An unusually +interesting programme is promised.</p> + +<br> + +<p>We take this opportunity and method of thanking those officers of the +State Organizations who have been recently sent us a revised list of their auxiliaries +to date, that the missionary letters from the field may be mailed +directly to each church society thus represented. Every state that has +pledged itself to aid the work of the American Missionary Association is +entitled to these field reports, which are sent out from the New York office +through the Bureau of Woman's Work, and we shall be glad to receive the +correct address for each auxiliary society.</p> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_20"></a> +<h3>Christian Endeavor For The Boys And Girls Of The +Southern Mountains</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">A New Need.</h3> + + +<p>A large number of the mountain people are so poor that they cannot +pay even the bare cost of living for their girls and boys in order that they +may have the privilege of attending school. Rarely can a family send +more than one child to school, and in every case where one can go a boy +is selected. The brothers must wait until perhaps too late, and the sisters +must remain at home in ignorance. Thus it is found that the advantages +of Christian schools, brought so near to the mountain boys and girls by the +American Missionary Association, are not yet sufficiently within their reach, +and this gives rise to a new need in connection with our work in the South. +It is a need of young people and we turn to young people to meet it, believing +that our Christian Endeavor Societies and other Young People's +Societies will not lose this special opportunity for missionary work.</p> + +<p>A Student's Fund of $3,000 is to be raised in $50 shares, upon which +we will draw to bring the young people of the mountains into these +schools, and to help them over hard places according to their need. Pupils +will be encouraged to help themselves all they can, and no pledges will be +made to any until they have reached the limit of their own resources, and +no specified amount will be assigned to any one pupil. Each will be +helped according to his condition. A boy may be able to reach the school + +and work part of his board and need only a small sum to cover the expense +of the full year. A girl may need to have her traveling expenses paid and +only this; another, giving promise of usefulness, may have her full way +paid during the year. Some will be kept through the entire school year, +who otherwise could study but a few months.</p> + +<p>The training the young people receive in these schools brings a sure +reward. We quote from a letter just received from one of our missionaries: +"I am very hopeful for the Christian work among the students this +year. The Christian Endeavor Society is in much better condition than +last year. The members understand better the meaning of 'Christian Endeavor,' +and that being a Christian means a daily application of Christian +principles to every day life."</p> + +<p>Now why cannot our Christian Endeavor and Young People's Societies +take this work to their hearts, and thus be the means of preparing others for +Christian work? Why not do for these poor, but bright and interesting +American boys and girls there, what will bring more of them into the fraternity +of Christian Endeavor?</p> + +<p>We will send at once to any who desire it, full information of our +mountain work, and all who contribute to this fund may have their offering +assigned to aid pupils in one of our schools, from which letters will be +written by a missionary during the year, giving information directly from +the field.</p> + +<p>Here is an urgent need outside our usual lines of expense, for which +we seek new and additional help—not the diversion of regular annual contributions. +We break the fund into shares of $50 that many may have +part in it. Early response either in cash, or pledges to be cashed by July, +1891, will result in giving many of these young people the advantages of +Christian education during the present school year.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_21"></a> +<h3>Woman's Work In North Carolina</h3> + +<p>We have a Woman's Missionary Meeting once a month; it began last +November, with six members; there are now eleven. We have, too, a Mission +Band, which many of the older scholars have joined as associate members. +It is held fortnightly, after the Sunday school, and generally the +whole congregation stay to hear what is going on.</p> + +<p>Last Sunday morning we went to Pekin, starting at 8 A.M. It is a +drive of fifteen miles through turpentine forests, and the roads are very +rough; we go up hill and down all the way, three creeks to cross and one +river. Across this there is a bridge, rather originally constructed. We go +down a steep and sharp curve, on the edge of high banks, and then through +a covered bridge across the rushing stream, which is seen between the foot +planks, and we are thankful to get across without any backing on our + +horse's part. The woods are very lovely just now, very few wild flowers, +but such a variety of foliage, and we notice a beautiful flowering shrub, +called "ivory "; it is a mass of delicate pink or white blossoms. These turpentine +forests are by no means all pines, there are many varieties of oak.</p> + +<p>The Sunday-school at Greenlake church, Pekin, is held at 9 A. M. Our +object this morning is to meet the children and teachers, before they disperse, +and organize a Mission Band. The little church, or rather schoolhouse, +is situated on a hill, and there is a fine view of the rolling country; +only this morning one longs for a little shade. One of our former scholars +(now working in the turpentine) comes out and takes our horse.</p> + +<p>The school is just over, and we hear there is to be preaching at 11; it +is now 10:15, so we ask the pupils to stay. We sing and then Miss Bechan explains +about foreign missions and mission bands. They give in their names +and appoint officers, agreeing to meet twice a month. They have also a +Woman's Missionary Auxiliary, which has been meeting once a month since +last December.</p> + +<p>There is a recess of ten minutes, then the preaching begins. The +preacher is a young man, who would gain much (as would his hearers) by +attending school a few years. This is one of the heart-sores in the +work here—the great ignorance of many of the preachers. Some of them +will tell you, they have had "no education," and, indeed, it is all too plain, +from their curious expressions and mis-applied long words; but worst of +all is their ignorance of the Bible. But how can they do better till they +have been taught? There is a crying need of educated pastors in these +country places. The young men tell us, they "do not find religion interesting;" +one said,that, after "having tried it two or three times." It is +hardly to be wondered at, that they are not interested, when the thunder is +all that is shown them. They are told they ought "to quake and tremble," +and if they do not, they "show by their actions that they mean to go to +hell."</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_22"></a> +<h3>Woman's State Organizations.</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">Co-operating With The American Missionary Association.</h3> + +<p>MAINE.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A.</p> + +<p>Chairman of Committee—Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, +Woodfords, Me.</p> + +<br> + +<p>NEW HAMPSHIRE.</p> + +<p>FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION AND HOME MISSIONARY +UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. Joseph B. Walker, Concord. +Secretary—Mrs. John T. Perry, Exeter. +Treasurer—Mlas Annie A. McFarland, Concord.</p> + +<br> + +<p>VERMONT.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. A. B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington. +Secretary—Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor. +Treasurer—Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.</p> + +<br> + +<p>MASS. AND R.I.</p> + +<p><a href="#note_2"><span class="footnoteref">2</span></a>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, +Mass.</p> + + + +<p>Secretary—Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational +House, Boston.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Miss Sarah K. Burgess, 32 Congregational +House, Boston.</p> + +<br> + +<p>CONNECTICUT.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. Jacob A. Biddle,35 West Street, +South Norwalk.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Ellen R. Camp, New Britain.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., +Hartford.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>NEW YORK.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., +Brooklyn.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, +Syracuse.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New +York City.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>PENNSYLVANIA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. W.H. Osterhaut, Ridgway.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. C.F. Yennee, Ridgway.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. T.W. Jones, 218 So. 37th St., +Philadelphia.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>OHIO.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., +Cleveland.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Box 932, Mt +Vernon, Ohio.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>INDIANA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. W.A. Bell, Indianapolis.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. D.T. Brown, Michigan City.</p> + +<br> + +<p>ILLINOIS.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., +Chicago.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington +St., Chicago.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>IOWA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. T.O. Douglass, Grinnell.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Ella E. Marsh, Box 232, Grinnell.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. M.J. Nichoson, 1513 Main St., +Dubuque.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>MICHIGAN.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. George M. Lane, 47 Miami Ave., +Detroit.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. Leroy Warren, Lansing.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Greenville.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>WISCONSIN.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. H.A. Miner, Madison.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. C.M. Blackman, Whitewater.</p> + +<br> + +<p>MINNESOTA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. E.S. Williams, Box 464, Minneapolis.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Gertude A. Keith, 1350, Nicollet +Ave., Minneapolis.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>NORTH DAKOTA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>SOUTH DAKOTA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Miss A.A. Noble, Lake Preston.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>NEBRASKA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St., +Fremont.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete.</p> + +<br> + +<p>MONTANA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. F.D. Kelsey, Helena.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. W.S. Bell, Helena.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. S.A. Wallace, Billings.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>MISSOURI.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. A.W. Benedict, 3841 Delmar +Ave., St Louis.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. E.H. Bradbury, 3855 Washington +Ave., St Louis.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. +Louis.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>KANSAS.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>WASHINGTON.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. W.E. Dawson, Seattle.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. N.F. Cobleigh, Walla Walla,</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. W.R. Abrams, Ellensburg.</p> + +<br> + +<p>CALIFORNIA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. H.L. Merritt, 686 34th St, Oakland.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Grace E. Barnard, 677 21st St., +Oakland.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. J.M. Havens, 1329 Harrison St., +Oakland.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. Emma Cash, 1710 Temple St., Los +Angeles.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Pasadena.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. H.W. Mills, 327 So. Olive St., +Los Angeles.</p> + +<br> + + + +<p>COLORADO AND WYOMING.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, +Colorado.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., +Colorado Springs, Colorado.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, +Wyoming.</p> + +<br> + +<p>LOUISIANA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. R.C. Hitchcock, New Orleans.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New +Orleans.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>MISSISSIPPI.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Miss Sarah Dickey, Clinton.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Alice Flagg, Tougaloo.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Miss Mary Gibson, Tougaloo. </p> + + +<br> + +<p>ALABAMA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss S.S. Evans, 2519 Third Ave., Birmingham.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Miss M.K. Lunt, Selma.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>FLORIDA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE CENTRAL +SOUTH ASSOCIATION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. E.M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>NORTH CAROLINA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh.</p> + +<br> + +<p>TEXAS.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. S.C. Acheson, 149 W. Woodard +St., Denison.</p> + +<p>Secretary, Mrs. Mary A. McCoy, 132 No. Harwood +St., Dallas.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. C.I. Scofield, Dallas.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page"> + +<div class="div"> + +<a name="toc_23"></a> +<h2>Receipts For August, 1890.</h2> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>The Daniel Hand Fund,</h3> +<h3 class="sub">For the Education of Colored People.</h3> + +<p>from</p> + +<p>Mr. Daniel Hand, Guilford, Conn.</p> + +<p></p><table width="75%"><tbody> + +<tr> +<td>Income for August, 1890</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$4,197.35</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Income previously acknowledged</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9,559.61</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Total</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$13,756.96</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Current Receipts.</h3> + +<p> +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MAINE</span>, $431.17.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Brewer. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Castine. By Rev. A.E. Ives</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Freedom Village. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Hampdon. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Limerick. Miss E.P. Hayes, <em>for Land, +Raleigh, N.C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Limerick, Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Newcastle. Second Cong. Ch. to const. + MISS ANGIE HEATH and MRS. LOUISE M. + CHASE L.M.'s</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">60.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., + 150; "John Elliott, Collector," 41.50; + Hannah Watts, 5</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">196.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Searsport. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.45</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Waterford. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.72</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wells. Second Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Yarmouth. First Parish Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>------. "Friend," <em>for Williamsburg. Ky.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">NEW HAMPSHIRE</span>, $230.90.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bath. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Colebrook. "E. and C., by favor of Dr. +E."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Goffstown. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">38.73</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Hanover. Mrs. Susn A. Brown, <em>for Indian +Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">70.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Keene. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.69</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Manchester. Franklin St. Cong. Ch., Box +of Hymn Books, <em>for Mountain Work</em>.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Milford. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Nashua. Y.P.S.C.E., Pilgrim Cong. +Ch., <em>for Indian Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.88</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Newmarket. Mrs. Hannah M. Moses</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>North Hampton. J.L. Philbrook</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Temple. Mrs. L.W.C. Keyes </td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>------------</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.60</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table><p> + + + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">VERMONT</span>, $358.34.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bennington. Second Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">24.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chelsea, Member Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>East Hardwick, "A Friend."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Northfield. "A Friend," to const. NATHANAEL + KING L. M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Saint Johnsbury. Franklin Fairbanks. + 100; Mrs. Franklin Fairbanks, 25, <em>for + Indian M</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">125.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch., <em>for + McIntosh, Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Saint Johnsbury. Mrs. Albert L. Farwell's + SS Class, North Cong Ch., <em>for + Indian Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Vergennee. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont, + by Mrs. William P. Fairbanks, + Treas., <em>for Woman's Work</em>;</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Lyndonville. Ladies' Soc., + <em>for McIntosh, Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Saint Johnsbury. Ladies of + So. Ch., <em>for Mountain Work</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Stowe. Whatsoever Miss'y + Circle, <em>for Mcintosh, Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.34</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  West Glover. L. H. M. S., + <em>for McIntosh, Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  West Randolph. Miss L. T. + Clark, <em>for Mountain + Work</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> 25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----64.34</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MASSACHUSETTS</span>, $2,328.29.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Boston.--Roxbury. Walnut Av. + Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">330.56</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td> Roxbury. Immanuel Ch., Bbl. + of C., <em>for Williamsburg, + Ky</em></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----330.56</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> 40.23</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Braintree. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.25</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Brimfield. P. C. Browning, 10; Mrs. J. + S. Webber, 2</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Cambridge. Mrs. C. A. Phelps, <em>for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chelsea. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chelsea. C. H. Keelar's S. S. Class, Central + Cong. Ch., <em>for ed. of a girl, Oahe, Indian + Sch., Dak</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.92</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Dalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <em>for Schp., + Santes Indian Sch</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Foxbury. R. R. Holmes.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> .50</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Franklin. Y.P.S.C.E., by B. M. Rockwood, + <em>for Jewett Memorial Hall, Grand + View, Tenn</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Gardner. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., First + Cong. Ch., <em>for Indian Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Georgetown. Mission Circle of First + Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Holbrook. Winthrop Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Holliston. "Bible Christians."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Holyoke. Mrs. A. H. Child</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Huntington. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">47.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Leominster. Y.P.S.C.E., Orthodox + Cong. Ch., <em>for Indian M., Santee Home</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Leominster. Mrs. W. M. Howland, <em>for + Indian M</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Longmeadow. Mrs. Julia H. Goldthwait, + <em>for Straight U</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Lynn. North Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Marlboro. Mrs. Agnes H. Mooney, <em>for + Indian M</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Medway. Village Cong. Ch., in part</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">48.75</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Milton. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">32.52</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Natick. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Northfield. E. J. Humphrey, <em>for new Indian + Station, Dak</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Orange. Central Evan Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.23</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Paxton. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.76</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Peabody. South Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">77.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Springfield. "Friend."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Stoneham. Miss P. Stevens</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Templeton. Trinitarian Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> 22.84</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wakefield. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">62.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wellesley. "Collected by Dominick," <em>for + Land, Raleigh, N.C</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>West Newton. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. + Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Worcester. Central Ch. S.S. and "a few + Friends," 23; "A Friend," 10, <em>for Land, + Raleigh, N.C</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">33.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>-----. "Donation."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>-----. One Share East Tennessee Land + Co. (face value. $50)...</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Hampden Benevolent Association, by + Charles Marsh, Treas:</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Chicopee. Third</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.35</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Holyoke. Second</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">57.37</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Huntington. Second</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.13</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Monson</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.33</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----103.18</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Woman's Home Missionary Association, + by Miss Sarah K. Burgess, Treas., <em>for + Woman's Work;</em> + + -----. For Salary of + Teachers (of which 45.25 + for traveling expenses of + a Teacher)</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">277.80</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>   Newton. Mr. Cobb's S. S. + Class, Eliot Ch. <em>for Indian + Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.25</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----284.05</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,828.29</td> + +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ESTATES.</span></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Worcester. Estate of Miss H. F. Carpenter, + by P.M. Carpenter, Ex.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$2,328.29</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">RHODE ISLAND</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,016.50.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>East Providence. Ladies of Newman + Cong. Ch., <em>for Cumberland, + Tenn</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Providence. Y.P.S.C.E of North Cong. + Ch., <em>for Grand View, Tenn</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.50</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Providence. Fanny C. Thompson, <em>for + Church, Cumberland Gap, Tenn</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$16.50</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ESTATE.</span></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Providence. Estate of Isaac Hale, by + Miss Ednah B. Hale </td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1,000.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,016.50</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> + +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">CONNECTICUT</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,205.12.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Burnside. "Friend," <em>for Indian Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">70.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Central Village. "Loyal Temperance + Legion," <em>for Indian M</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Danbury. Miss A. Fanton, <em>for Williamsburg, + Ky</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>East Woodstock. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Gilead. "Friends."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Gilead. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch., <em>for Conn. + Ind. Sch. Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.52</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Guilford. Mrs. Sarah Todd</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Hartford. "A Friend." <em>for Mountain Work</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Harwinton. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.27</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Lisbon. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">24.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Manchester. Second Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">71.29</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Mansfield. Chas. H. Learned</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New Haven. Humphrey St. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">102.19</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>New Haven. Sab. Sch. of Davenport + Cong. Ch. <em>for Indian M</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New London. Mrs. Lora E. Learned and + Daughters, <em>for Indian Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New Milford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. + Ch., <em>for Schp., Hampton N. and A. Inst</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">70.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>North Branford. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.14</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>North Haven. Elihu Dickerman</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Portland. By H. M. Bowden, <em>for Freight, + on Box to Thomasville, Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.35</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Prospect. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">14.43</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Redding. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">28.94</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ridgefield. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.78</td> +</tr> + + + +<tr> +<td>Rockville. J. N. Stickney, <em>for Indian M</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Salem. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Sharon. Mrs. C. S. Sedgwick. 5; Mrs. H. S. Roberts, 5, <em>for Indian M</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Southport. Cong. Ch,.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">126.09</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>South Windsor. First Cong. Ch</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.83</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Torrington. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., 40.50; Ladies' Aid Soc. of Third Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C. and 1.75 <em>for Freight</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">42.25</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wauregan. Cong. Ch. and Soc</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>West Hartford. Mrs. E. W. Morris</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Westford. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.54</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>----. "A Friend in Conn."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Conn., by Mrs. Ellen R. Camp. Sec., <em>for Woman's Work</em> Suffield Y. L. M. Circle, <em>for Washburn Sem., Beaufort, N. C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">----$1,005.12</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ESTATE</span></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Meriden. Estate of Miss Lucy Foster. by Ezra Pratt, Ex</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">200.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">----</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,205.12</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> + +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">NEW YORK</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$518.54.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bergen. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.93</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Berkshire. First Cong. Ch. and Soc</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">45.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Brooklyn. Mrs. J. M. Hyde 200</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Brooklyn. Miss M. A. Packard, <em>for Williamsburg Ky</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Cambridge. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Camden. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.05</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chenango Forks. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chili Station. E. B. Johnston</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Clifton Springs. Mrs. W. W. Warner.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Dansville. Miss F. M. Emmons</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Eaton. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.25</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Massena. Mrs. W. H Cubleg</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New Lebanon. "Mother's Gift on 84th Birthday,"</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New York "Cash." 100: Rev. Stephen Angell. 30, to const. CAROLINE L. ANGELL L. M.: By A. W. Wagnalls, Treas. E. T. Land Co., 1.50</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">131.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>New York. Cummins Miss'y Soc., First Reformed Epis. Ch. <em>for Indian M</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>North Walton. Sab. Sch by A. L. White, Supt.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Oswego. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">128.31</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Perry Center. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Syracuse- Plymouth Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Warwick. Mrs. Sarah Welling, <em>for Northfield Indian Station</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">NEW JERSEY</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$65.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bernardsville. Mrs. M. L. Roberts</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Orange Valley. Bleeker Van Wagenen <em>for Land, Raleigh N. C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">PENNSYLVANIA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$15.97.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ebensburg. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.61</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Germantown. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Neath. Cong. Ch., 390 and Sab. Sch., 2.46</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.36</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">OHIO</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,425.46.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Adams Mills. M A. Smith</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Brownhelm. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Cleveland. Mrs. H. B. Spelman, <em>for Student Aid. Atlanta U</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Cleveland. King's Sons, <em>for Williamsburg, Ky</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Dover. Cong. Ch</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.31</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>East Liverpool. Mrs. Harriet T. Kitchel, by Rev. H. D. Kitchel. D. D.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1000.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New Milford. Mrs. E. G. Prindle</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>North Amherst. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Strongsville. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Tallmadge. Daniel Hine, in trust for the late Sarah T. Hine. to const. MISS NANCY JEANETTE LIMBERT L. M</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Tallmadge Cong. Ch</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">68.17</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Windham Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.11</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. F. L. Fairchild. Treas., <em>for Woman's Work:</em></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>   Alexis. "Willing Workers."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>   Bellvue L M. S.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.70</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>   Medina. W. M. S,</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>   Painesville. W. M. S</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">----43.70</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">----$1,312.29</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ESTATES.</span></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Jersey. Estate of Lucinda Sinnet by John B Metcalf, Ex</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">63.17</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Oberlin. Estate of Sarah Ann Upson, by Rev. Heman B. Hall. Ex</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----$1,425.46</td> + +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ILLINOIS</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$404.55.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Alton. Ch. of the Redeemer, to const. THOMAS M. GUY L. M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">32.40</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bunker Hill. Cong. Ch. (10 of which <em>for Jewett Memorial Hall</em>)</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.45</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Byron. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.07</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chesterfield. Cong. Ch</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.47</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chicago. "Cash," 50; Lincoln Park Ch, 6.54.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">56.54</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Granville. Mrs. J. W. Hopkins</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Lyndon. John M. Hamilton</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Mendon. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.75</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Morrison, William Wallace and Robert Wallace to const. REV. J. W. SKINNER L. M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Normal. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.80</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ontario. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Peoria. Plymouth Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">26.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Port Byron. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.07</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Princeton Mrs. S. C. Clapp</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ridge Prairie. Evan. St. John Ch., by Rev. A. Kerr</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Sparta. Bryce Crawford. 2; D. A. Foster, 1; James Hood, 1.; James Alexander, 1.; P. B. Gault, 1</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Waverly. Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MICHIGAN</span>,</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$22.08.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.73</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>North Adams. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Red Jacket. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch. <em>for Talladega C</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Michigan, by Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Treas. <em>for Woman's Work:</em> Saint Ignace. Ladies Cong. Union</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.35</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">WISCONSIN</span>,</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1.255.91.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Beloit. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">155.58</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Beloit Mrs. C. M. Nelson. Package C., <em>for Sherwood, Tenn</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Eau Claire "Cheerful Givers" Mission Band of First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Lake Geneva. Mrs. Mary J. Barnard "in memory of her husband, Milo Barnard."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1000.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Menasha. E. D. Smith, <em>for Sherwood, Tenn. </em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Milwaukee. Grand Av, Ch., to const. D. McK. SINCLAIR L. M</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">45.40</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Sheboygan Daniel Brown</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wisconsin's Woman's Home Missionary Union <em>for Woman's Work</em></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Madison</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.43</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Madison</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Platteville. W. H. M. T</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>----</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.93</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">IOWA</span>, $207.05.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Anamosa. Cong. Ch., 6.42 and Sab. Sch. + 4.12</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.54</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Cedar Falls. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chester Center. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.36</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Decorah. Boys' Mission Circle, Three + large handsome Pictures, also several + packages of Papers; Girls' Mission Circle, + Box Sewing Material, <em>for Lexington, + Ky.</em></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Dunlap. Mrs. W.F. Preston, <em>for Land, + Raleigh, N.C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Edgewood. N.G. Platt</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Farragut. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">27.88</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Fort Dodge. Sab. Sch. Pres. Ch., Box of + New S.S. Papers, <em>for Lexington, Ky.</em></td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Gempoint. Cong. Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Iowa City. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Osage. Cong. Ch. to const. MISS BLANCHE + IRENE BRONSON L.M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">46.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Preston. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Storm Lage. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.29</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Toledo. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.92</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, + <em>for Woman's Work:</em></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Bellevue. W.H.M.U.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Bellevue. Y.P.S.C.E.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Cedar Falls. L.A.S.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.72</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Clay. L.M.S.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Grinnell. W.H.M.U.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.18</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Le Mars. L.M.S.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.47</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  McGregor. L.M.S.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.69</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  McGregor. "Thank Offering"</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">------30.06</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MINNESOTA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$87.22.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Detroit City. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Detroit City. Lake View Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Lake City. Mrs. H.N. Bye, <em>for Williamsburg, + Ky.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">55.12</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Minneapolis. "Life Member," 4, <em>for Tougaloo + U.</em>, "Life Member," 4, <em>for Woman's + Work.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Saint Cloud. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.10</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Saint Paul. S.S. Class <em>for Talladega C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.50</td> + +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MISSOURI</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$29.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Kansas City. "A Friend."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Kidder. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">KANSAS</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$15.87.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Cora. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Smith Center. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.62</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wakarusa. Valley Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.25</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>White City. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">NEBRASKA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$14.39.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Campbell. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.07</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chadron. Mrs. C.P. Lyon. <em>for Williamsburg, + K.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Springfield. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.32</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">SOUTH DAKOTA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$2.20.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Springfield. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.20</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">COLORADO</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$32.97.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Trinidad. Cong. Ch., <em>for Talladega C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.56</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Pueblo. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.45</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>West Denver. Cong. Ch., 7.96 and Sab. + Sch. 10.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.96</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>West Denver. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MONTANA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$35.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Helena. First Cong. Ch. to const. REV. + F.D. KELSEY L.M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">CALIFORNIA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$41.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>East Los Angeles. J.E. Cushman.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Pasadena. "R.P.A. and wife."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Pomona. Mrs. C.A. Lorbeer.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>San Diago. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">OREGON</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$50.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Portland. First Cong. Ch. to const. MRS. + GEORGE A. STEEL L.M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">WASHINGTON</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$17.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Union City. Cong. Ch., 15; "Little + Workers," 2.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">TENNESSEE</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$24.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Deer Lodge. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Jonesboro. Cong. Ch., 6.74 and Sab. Sch., + 2.26.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Grand View. Mrs. Sarah K. Yeatman, + <em>for Grand View, Tenn.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">NORTH CAROLINA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$229.23.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Pekin. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">0.50</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Raleigh. Cong. Ch., <em>for Land, Raleigh, + N.C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">162.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wilmington, Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">66.73</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">GEORGIA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1.50.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., 1.10; "J.H.H.S." + 25c; Mrs. S., 15c.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">FLORIDA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Mannville. Mrs. Francis Haskins.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> + +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">TEXAS</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$3.50.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Dallas. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.50</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> + +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">CANADA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$4.50.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Sweetsburg. H.W. Spaulting.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.50</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ENGLAND</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$10.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chigwell. Miss S.L. Ropes.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td>Donations.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$8,270.09</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Estates.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1,813.17</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> ---------</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$10,083.26</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">TUITION</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$899.09.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Williamsburg, Ky., Tuition.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">138.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Jonesboro, Tenn., County Fund.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Jonesboro, Tenn., Tuition.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Talladega, Ala., Tuition.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">718.89</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Austin, Texas. Tuition.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.70</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> ------ 899.09</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Total for August.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$10,982.35</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">SUMMARY.</span></td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Donations.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">168,736.34</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Estates.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">123,464.93</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> --------</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> $292,201.27</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Income.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">8,507.21</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Tuition.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">38,903.43</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>United States Government for the Education + of Indians.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">19,073.29</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> ----------</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Total from Oct. 1, to July 31.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$358,685.20</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</span></td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Subscriptions for August.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.75</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Previously acknowledged.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">685.20</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> --------</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Total.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$697.95</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table><p> +</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<p>H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,</p> +<p>Bible House. N.Y.</p> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + <hr class="doublepage"> + +<div class="back"> + <div class="div" id="footnotes"><a name="toc_24"></a><h2>Notes</h2><dl class="footnote"> +<dt><a name="note_1">1.</a></dt><dd><p>Deceased.</p></dd><dt><a name="note_2">2.</a></dt><dd><p>For the purpose of exact information, we note that while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as +a State body for Mass, and R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.</p> + +<p>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 <em>undesignated funds will not reach us</em>.</p></dd></dl></div> + </div> +</div> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14631 ***</div> +</body> +</html> + + + diff --git a/14631-h/images/image1.png b/14631-h/images/image1.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e981cba --- /dev/null +++ b/14631-h/images/image1.png diff --git a/14631-h/images/image2.png b/14631-h/images/image2.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..aba48d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/14631-h/images/image2.png diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6312041 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be +in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. + +Procedures for determining public domain status are described in +the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. + +No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in +jurisdictions other than the United States. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The American Missionary, October, 1890, Vol. XLIV., No. 10 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: January 7, 2005 [EBook #14631] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, *** + + + + +Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson and the PG Online +Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="text"> + +<div class="front"> + +<div class="div"> +<h2>The American Missionary</h2> +<p>October, 1890.</p> +<p>Vol. XLIV.</p> +<p>No. 10.</p> + +<br> + +<p>New York:</p> + +<p>Published By The American Missionary Association,</p> + +<p>Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.</p> + +<p>Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.</p> + +<p>Entered at the Poet Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.</p> + +</div> + + <hr class="doublepage"> + +<div class="div" id="toc"><a name="toc_1"></a><h2>Contents</h2><ul class="toc"> +<li style="margin: 0em 0em;"><a href="#toc_1">Contents</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 0em;"><a href="#toc_2">Editorial</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_3">ANNUAL MEETING.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_4">The Federal Election Bill And The Mississippi +Convention.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_5">Notes From The West.</a></li> + +<li style="margin: 0em 0em;"><a href="#toc_6">The South</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_7">Out To Rockhold, Ky.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_8">Church Work.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_9">Straight University.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_10">Better Class Of Students.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_11">Temperance In Tennessee.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_12">Items.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 0em;"><a href="#toc_13">The Indians.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_14">Mr. Shelton At Northfield Again.</a></li> + +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_15">The Widow's Mite.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 0em;"><a href="#toc_16">The Chinese</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_17">The Pictures</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_18">Lights And Shadows</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 0em;"><a href="#toc_19">Bureau Of Woman'S Work.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_20">Christian Endeavor For The Boys And Girls Of The +Southern Mountains</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_21">Woman's Work In North Carolina</a></li> + +<li style="margin: 0em 2em;"><a href="#toc_22">Woman's State Organizations.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 0em;"><a href="#toc_23">Receipts For August, 1890.</a></li> +<li style="margin: 0em 0em;"><a href="#toc_24">Notes</a></li> +</ul></div> + +</div> + +<div class="body"> + + +<div class="div"> +<h2>American Missionary Association</h2> + +<p>President, Rev. Wm.M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D, N.Y.</p> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Vice-Presidents.</h3> + +<p>Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y.</p> +<p>Rev. F. A. Noble, D.D., Ill.</p> +<p>Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.</p> +<p>Rev. Alex. Mckenzie, D.D., Mass.</p> +<p>Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Corresponding Secretaries.</h3> + +<p>Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., <em>Bible House, N.Y.</em></p> +<p>Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., <em>Bible House, N.Y.</em></p> +<p>Rev. F.P. Woodbury, D.D., <em>Bible House. N.Y.</em></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Recording Secretary.</h3> + +<p>Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., <em>Bible House, N.Y.</em></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Treasurer.</h3> + +<p>H.W. Hubbard, Esq., <em>Bible House, N.Y.</em></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Auditors.</h3> + +<p>Peter Mccartee.</p> +<p>Chas. P. Peirce.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Executive Committee,</h3> + +<p>John H. Washburn, Chairman.</p> + +<p>Addison P. Foster, Secretary.</p> + +<p><em>For Three Years.</em></p> + +<p>S.B. Halliday,</p> +<p>Samuel Holmes,</p> +<p>Samuel S. Marples,</p> +<p>Charles L. Mead,</p> +<p>Elbert B. Monroe,</p> + +<p><em>For Two Years.</em></p> + +<p>J.E. Rankin,</p> +<p>Wm.H. Ward, </p> +<p>J.W. Cooper,</p> +<p>John H. Washburn,</p> +<p>Edmund L. Champlin,</p> + +<p><em>For One Year.</em></p> + +<p>Lyman Abbott,</p> +<p>Chas. A. Hull,</p> +<p>Clinton B, Fisk,<a href="#note_1"><span class="footnoteref">1</span></a></p> +<p>Addison P. Foster,</p> +<p>Albert J. Lyman.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>District Secretaries.</h3> + +<p>Rev, C. J. Ryder, 21 <em>Cong'l House, Boston, Mass.</em></p> +<p>Rev. J. E. Roy, D.D., 151 <em>Washington Street, Chicago, Ill.</em></p> +<p>Rev. C. W. Hiatt, 64 <em>Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.</em></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.</h3> + +<p>Rev. Chas. W. Shelton.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Secretary of Woman's Bureau,</h3> + +<p>Miss D.E. Emerson, <em>Bible House, N.Y.</em></p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h2>Communications</h2> + +<p>Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; +letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, at the New York Office; letters +relating to the finances, to the Treasurer.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h2>Donations And Subscriptions</h2> + +<p>In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H.W. Hubbard, +Treasurer, Bible House, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch +Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., +or 64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a +Life Member.</p> + +<p>NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—The date on the "address label," indicates the time to +which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label to the 10th of each +month. If payment of subscription be made afterward, the change on the label will appear +a month later. Please send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the +former address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers +may be correctly mailed.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> + +<h2>Form Of A Bequest.</h2> + +<p>"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in trust, to pay +the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, +shall act as Treasurer of the 'American Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be +applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable +uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by three witnesses.</p> +</div> + + + +<hr class="page"> + +<div class="div"> +<h2>The American Missionary.</h2> + +<p>Vol. XLIV.</p> +<p>October, 1890.</p> +<p>No. 10.</p> + +<p><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">American Missionary Association.</span></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> + +<a name="toc_2"></a> +<h2>Editorial</h2> +<p></p> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_3"></a> + +<h3>ANNUAL MEETING.</h3> + +<p>The next annual meeting of the American Missionary Association +will be held in Northampton, Mass., in the Edwards Church, commencing +at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon, October 21st. Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, +D.D., of Chicago, Ill., will preach the sermon. On the last page of +the cover will be found directions as to membership and other items of +interest. Fuller details regarding the reception of delegates and their entertainment, +together with rates at hotels and railroad reductions, will be +given in the religious press. A meeting of unusual interest is expected, and +we hope our friends will be present in full attendance.</p> + +<p>For notice of Woman's Meeting, see page 318.</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>The holding of our Annual Meeting in Northampton will call up some +very remarkable associations. Northampton was the home of Jonathan +Edwards, who was not only the eloquent preacher and profound theologian, +but the missionary to the neighboring Stockbridge Indians. It was also the +home of his son-in-law, David Brainerd, who was the typical self-denying +martyr-missionary to the Indians in New Jersey. It was the home of the +Tappan family, two of whose sons, Arthur and Lewis, were among the early +founders and most valued friends of this Association. In June, 1848, the +Tappan family held a joyous family reunion in Northampton, continuing +for a week.</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>Frederick Douglass is hopeful. In a recent address he says: "A +great change has taken place among the colored race—vast and wonderful +has it been. It seems as if we had realized the vision of St. John when he + +saw a new heaven and a new earth. But the change has come at last. +The time has come when we can look our fellow-citizens in the face and +share in the glory of the country."</p> + +<p>No man has a better right to say this than he, for his life has touched +the degraded condition of the slave and the exalted position of an Embassador +of this great Republic. He adds: "Some talk of exterminating our +race, and others say we will soon die out, but I tell you both are impossible. +If slavery could not kill us, liberty won't." Liberty ought to do more +than save them alive. It ought to educate, elevate and Christianize them.</p> + + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>The <em>Independent</em> quotes from Dr. Mayo's address before the American +Social Science Association on "The Third Estate," in which the Doctor, +refers to the strange population of the great Southern mountain world—nearly +two millions at present—as a body of people that sends forth a louder +cry for the missionary of modern civilization than any other portion of +the Republic, and adds:</p> + +<div class="display"> +<p>"What is also said by the Unitarian, Dr. Mayo, of the need of missionary work for +this class of the Southern whites, calls for an emphasis even stronger than we could put +on any political conclusion. We pass this patriotic appeal along to those who have the +wealth that is seeking a worthy object on which to expend itself. There are missionary +societies whose business it is to do this. For the Congregationalista, the American Missionary +Association will for a very moderate amount establish a church and an academy +in any one of a hundred counties inhabited by these people, and what a man with a +million dollars to expend could do we hardly dare to say. For the Presbyterians, the +Board of Home Missions will do the same; for the Methodists, their Missionary Society; +for the Episcopalians, their board of Domestic Missions; for the Baptists, their Home +Mission Society; and so on for all the religious bodies. But will not a goodly company +of wealthy men supplement what the churches are doing in their collections, by large +gifts for this special, most needy, most fruitful, and we declare most neglected mission +work of the nation?"</p> +</div> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>Agitations on the surface are significant mainly as they are connected +with the larger movements of the deeper waters beneath. The re-election +of Speaker Reed to Congress, and the contest for the re-election of Mr. +Breckinridge in Arkansas; the Federal Election Bill, which proposes to +secure a free ballot for all men irrespective of color, and the Convention in +Mississippi, which aimed avowedly to curtail the voting of the colored people—all +these derive their importance from their relation to the gravest +problem of American statesmanship. That problem will not be settled by +the results of either of these current questions. For at the bottom the real +question is: Shall knowledge and character and property become the possession +of the colored race, and they thus be prepared for their place in +American politics, industry and prosperity, or will they be allowed for the +lack of these things to be crushed back into a condition of semi-slavery or + +be goaded to resistance or discouraged in poverty, pauperism and degradation? +That is a fundamental question. For that, men should read, think, +pray and work.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_4"></a> +<h3>The Federal Election Bill And The Mississippi +Convention.</h3> + +<p>The ultimate aim of the Federal Election Bill in Congress, and of the +Constitutional Convention in Mississippi, point in diametrically opposite +directions. They cannot be harmonized, and there is no middle way between +them. The Election Bill contemplates a "free ballot and fair +count" for every voter, including the Negro. The Mississippi Convention +aims to restrict Negro suffrage. In an address delivered by the President +of the Convention, September 11th, he is reported to have said that: "He +did not propose to mince matters and hide behind a subterfuge, but if asked +by anybody if it was the purpose of the Convention to restrict Negro suffrage, +he would frankly say, 'Yes; that is what we are here for.'" This +Convention proposes to secure its object not by the force and fraud of +earlier days, but by constitutional and legal methods—or at least by what +has constitutional and legal <em>forms</em>. All this, however, is another attempt to +achieve the impracticable. As the Negro grows in intelligence and numbers, +he will claim his right to vote.</p> + +<p>On the other hand, the Congressional Election Bill or any other legislation +intended to secure the privilege of voting to the Negro, if made +practical, means a good deal. If it is intended only to pass laws that +shall be merely "glittering generalities" to vindicate the historic record +of the Republican party, or to sanction its Platform and the Inaugural of +the President—that is easily done and will, of course, amount to nothing—except +as a political manoeuvre. But if the movement "means business," +and is to be pushed to its legitimate result, then two things must be done: +the Negro must be qualified to vote and to be voted for; to elect officers +and to hold office. If the mass of illiterate and impoverished Negroes are +to be represented in State Legislatures and in Congress by persons as +ignorant and poor as they are themselves, these representatives will, of +course, if in the majority, be liable to rule and ruin; if in a large minority, +they will hold a balance of power that may easily be controlled by demagogues. +To educate this mass up to the point of intelligence and the acquisition +of property is America's great duty and the guaranty of her +safety.</p> + +<p>There is one thing more about it. We have said that if the Negro is to +have the free exercise of the ballot, he will insist on being voted for as well +as voting. If the Negroes have power to elect, they will wish to elect some +of their own number. They will not, and certainly they ought not to vote +for a man simply because he is black. They should vote for the best + +qualified man whether he is black or white. If they have the power they +will certainly elect some of their own number. But this means, if it means +anything good, that there shall be those of their own number who are +qualified to hold office and to hold it honorably to themselves and usefully +to their constituents and the country. But this implies higher education +to a good many colored people. It will not do for them to have a few men +educated as professional politicians. May Heaven save them from the day +when they will encourage the growth of such a class of men. They will +need to have a large number of educated men in the various walks of life, from +whom suitable candidates may be selected, just as white men have. But if +they are to have such a class of men, adequate measures must be taken for +their higher education, and those friends of the Negro who desire and help +to educate him only in primary studies, while they are doing a great and +essential work, are not doing all that is needed. It may be all well enough +to say to the Negro, "Work hard and keep out of politics." But if he is +allowed to enter into politics freely, he will do it just as other men do. +There is enough human nature in him to secure that. And any view of +this matter that accepts the theory of a free ballot to the Negro, will be +short-sighted, if it does not aim at the education of the mass of the Negroes +as the mass of the white people are educated, and at the higher education +of a proportionally large number of the Negroes. If Congress and Mississippi +Conventions should turn their attention in this direction, their work +would be more significant than the efforts they are now making.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_5"></a> +<h3>Notes From The West.</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">By District-Secretary C.W. Hiatt.</h3> + +<p>Sylvan, terraced, lacustrine; cottages by the score, gay in color, unique +of design; people everywhere, chatty, erudite, artistic, processional; +"round tables," "leagues," "societies" and "circles;" lectures, sermons, +concerts and conferences—a school, a church, a university—all this, and +throughout it all a steady pulse of religious heart and heartiness—such is +the Chautauquan Assembly of Bay View, Michigan. One of the important +features of this assembly is its annual missionary conference. All +denominations participate and the field of the world is brought vividly +before the mind by the laborers from here and there.</p> + +<p>An interesting testimony by a missionary from Singapore was to the effect +that many of the most cultured and generous people he had ever met were +Chinese. By the aid of influential Mongolians—though they were heathen—he +was once enabled to start a school which grew rapidly till hundreds +were enrolled and a permanent religious center of great importance was established. +The whole account was thrilling.</p> + +<p>Specially kind was the hearing given the representative of the American +Missionary Association work, and the eager quest for literature which followed + +showed that all words had not been lost. Denominational lines were +not conspicuous. The black cat of statistics scampered across the rostrum +only once or twice. A fitting rebuke to this audacious creature was +couched in the story told by a missionary of a visit he had received from +another worker on the field, and their mutually forgetting to inquire into +each other's church connections, so great was their interest in the tasks in +hand. Afterwards, the Methodist brother learned that he had entertained +a Baptist unawares—Selah.</p> + +<br> + +<p>An interesting disclosure was recently made, when the organ of Vine St. +Congregational Church in Cincinnati was removed from the rear to the +front of the auditorium. Midway between ceiling and floor, on either side +of the recess, were two doors in the wall. These could only be reached by +ladders. What were they for? Ah, they have a history. They open into +rooms which, in ante-bellum days, were used as stations of the "underground +railway." Here fugitives from across the Ohio were secreted until +they could be spirited on, by night, towards the waters of Erie. These +doors on the wall speak volumes for the history of the church. I wonder +not that even now, though in the very commercial center of the city, far +from the residence portion, this church is in full career of evangelistic life. +Churches with such doors as those in their walls need not be expected to +vegetate, nor to die.</p> + +<br> + +<p>I like to visit the smaller churches as opportunity is given. Their zeal +for the causes of humanity is often very intense and intelligent. Sometimes, +too, their contributions are a surprise. I know a little country +church in Ohio that one day raised forty-six dollars when only forty-five +persons were present. It was ten miles by stage from the railroad. Now +another gratifying surprise: out of that little flock several people are planning +to go to the Northampton meeting.</p> + +<p>I also know a church of foreigners, ninety-seven in membership, that +raised forty-seven dollars and fifty cents for our work in an evening collection, +or about fifty cents <em>per capita</em>. Awhile ago these foreigners were a +part of our <em>City</em> problem. By the grace of God, they are now out of the +equation, and themselves, in turn, become helpers in solving that other +more extensive problem, of the races in the South. Such things as these +encourage us.</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>The Chicago Theological Seminary is desirous of completing its files +of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY for binding. The numbers missing are: +February, 1887, October and November, 1871, January, 1862, November, +1861, the first six months of 1858, and all the numbers for 1857. If any +one has any of these magazines that he would like to give to the Seminary, +he will confer a favor by sending them direct to L.A. Allesbrooke, +45 Warren Ave., Chicago, Ill.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr class="page"> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_6"></a> +<h2>The South</h2> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_7"></a> +<h3>Out To Rockhold, Ky.</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">Prof. R.C. Hitchcock</h3> + +<p>I wanted to see the people and especially the church and Sunday-school +at this outpost. Now one can go out there by rail, but that is prosaic. +It is not apostolic; those apostles tied on their sandals, girt up their garments +and walked. But I found I couldn't do that way, for there was the +big Cumberland to cross and several creeks, not to speak of "runs," +"branches" and mud-holes. The circuit riders? Yes, they went on horseback; +that must be my way, so I consulted Brother Tupper and he borrowed +Mr. Perkins's horse, noted as being an easy-going roadster. Easy? +Well, I do suppose the horse was all right, but I must indulge in one groan. +It was a long time since I had been on horseback. I wanted to go to the +stable to get on, but the young man insisted on bringing the steed down to +the hotel as soon as he had his feed, and in due time he came, a tall fellow, +and I doubted my ability to get my foot up to that stirrup, and somewhat +whether I could boost myself over into the saddle if I did; so I quietly +and gently coaxed him up to the piazza and actually succeeded the first +time trying. How many of the gentlemen, sitting in their Sunday best on +the piazza, smiled, I do not know—I didn't dare to look. I know I sat up +ever so stiff and tried to look just as if I had been a circuit rider for forty +years or so.</p> + +<p>I must cross the river to begin with. Now they hadn't given me any +whip and I didn't dare ask the owner of the horse—"Colt, gone four"—he +said, for a whip or even a switch, but I wondered what I would do if the +animal should take it into his head to turn around or do something awkward +right in the middle of the river. I didn't want to get off, for I must +get on again. As good luck would have it there was a kind-eyed man sitting +on a stone by the riverside, and I asked him to get me a stick. He +gave me one he had in his hand and I felt better.</p> + +<p>"Does the ford go right straight across?" I asked. "No, you must make +a curve up towards the dam or you will get into deep water, and there are +boulders too, you must avoid, or your horse may fall down."</p> + +<p>A curve! Now a straight line, two points being given, can be defined. +And if I could steer for some given point on the opposite bank, I could hit +it if the current did not take me down stream; but a curve is awfully uncertain, +and my mind was in a state of perturbation. However, I got across +with nothing worse than a good spattering.</p> + +<p>I wish I could paint the pictures constantly opening on the view as I +rode along. Forest clad mountains rose on every side with huge cliffs + +peering grimly out. Sometimes these cliffs overhung the road and occasionally +a great slab of slate projected sufficiently to furnish shelter for a +family. In one place a farmer had taken advantage of this and made his +stable under a rock. A great slab of shaly slate projected so that he had a +roof some fifty feet long and ten or fifteen wide. My mind went back +eighteen hundred years and more to another stable in a rock and the +wonderful scene enacted there. It was not easy to believe that the little +cabins, looking like miniature houses which might be built by boys for +play, were actually homes, occupied by families, father, mother and eight +or ten children; but such is the case.</p> + +<p>Seven miles of constantly changing pictures, but all beautiful, brought +me to Rockhold, a name I had supposed derived from its physical characteristics, +but which I was informed was given in respect to a family formerly +the most important in the vicinity but now quite gone. I made my +way to the little church. In front was a huge wagon and in a little grove +at the back several horses tied. I had been informed that I might safely +address any man I found prominent, as "Elliott," and as I entered I so accosted +an elderly man whom I found in charge of a large class of young +men. About fifty were present, Mr. Elliott being the only male teacher, +three young ladies, two of whom I learned had been educated at Berea, having +charge of classes. After the lesson I addressed the people. The characteristic +that impresses me more than any other is their solemn seriousness. +They listen intently and with great eagerness. They are hungry for preaching +and feel it a great hardship that they can only have it occasionally. +Their faces were a study. There was hardly a weak one among them and +many bore the impress of great strength. But I would as soon have told a +story or joked at a funeral as under their serious eyes.</p> + +<p>The meeting over, several invited me to "go by" and take dinner, and +I accepted the first offer, which was made by a nice looking young lady in +mourning, who urged her claim by saying: "All the preachers go to our +house and father will be so disappointed if he don't see you; he couldn't +come to-day."</p> + +<p>This country has not yet got to the point of thinking bridges necessary +and roads are not for those who sit on springs and cushions. I never +wished so much for a "Kodak" that I might carry away a picture which I +shall always have in memory. To the long wagon, which had a high rack +all around it, were yoked a pair of milk-white oxen, round and handsome. +In front was seated Mrs. Elliott, holding her youngest child. At her side a +boy, perhaps twelve, who guided the team by a line attached to a horn. +Seated on chairs were nine young ladies and girls, nearly all in pretty white +dresses.</p> + +<p>Two miles of beautiful scenery and we reach the farm house, a commodious +and substantial rural home, of John Elliott, who gave me a cordial +welcome and soon the long table in the kitchen was spread with such a meal +as I had not enjoyed in many a day. The menu did not record many +French dishes, but everything was good, abundant and wholesome.</p> + +<p>After dinner, Mr. Elliott told me a story worth recording. It was that +of the heroic Mr. Richardson, who before the war was a teacher in that district—a +Northern man—and, in the excited state of feeling in the South, +was suspected of being an abolitionist. He and his wife were driven from +their home and work, but protected from personal violence by the prompt +and energetic efforts of the Elliotts. But as both Dr. Roy and Mr. Ryder +have given the details to the public, I will not repeat them here. I will +only add that of the fifty persons who had signed the paper pledging themselves +to "<em>remove</em>" Richardson, it would be difficult to find one now in +Whittley County. They are scattered or dead. But in the little church at +Rockhold, the name of Richardson is a sacred one, and the stranger always +hears the story.</p> + +<p>I took leave of this interesting family with great regret. As I sat in the +little grove in front of the house, with its carpet of myrtle, and looked off +over the peaceful valley, I wished I might remain there and rest.</p> + +<p>That horse had it pretty much his own way on the return seven miles, +and when I thought nobody was looking I must confess to finding it a very +pleasant thing to get both legs on the same side of the saddle. But I am +glad I went to Rockhold. I would not lose the pictures I got there for a +small sum and I hope and pray that the time may soon come when in some +way a regular preacher may be provided for the people.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_8"></a> +<h3>Church Work.</h3> + +<div class="div"> +<h4>Dedication Of A Church At Byron, Ga.</h4> + + +<p>Words fail to express the pleasant time we had at Byron, in dedicating +our new house of worship to the service of God. We had a very large attendance +of people from Bibb, Houston, Taylor and Sumter counties. +Nearly two hundred people came from Andersonville, a large number came +from Macon and quite a company from Rutland. One brother was present +from the Savannah church. Altogether there were five of our Congregational +churches represented by their members and several others were heard +from. I should think that there were nearly, if not quite, four hundred +people on the grounds. Of course the building could not hold them all. +Rev. J.R. McLean preached the sermon, which was pronounced by a leading +white man present, to be the best he ever heard. Altogether the occasion +was an inspiring one. The hundreds of black faces so attentively listening +to the words of truth, so orderly and quietly, could not fail to impress +us deeply. The occasion was one that brought four of our churches +into a very close relationship, closer than they have ever been before; I + +mean, so many from each church meeting face to face and forming each +other's acquaintance.</p> + +<p>It is our wish and prayer to do well the work that is committed to our +hands. We are not afraid of hard work, we want time and means to do all +that we see is needed, and there is so much to be done. I feel like going, +going all the time with the message of God's love to dying men. The opportunities +are constantly increasing for usefulness.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h4>Promising Opening In Georgia.</h4> + +<p>I came to the place where the people wanted a Sunday-school. They +were ready for it, with a rude building erected by the people themselves, +and waiting for me to begin work, and I have promised to organize a Sunday-school +on the second Sunday of next month. A young married +woman, the wife of a well-to-do farmer, and a former student in the Ballard +School, has promised to superintend it. She expects at least fifty +scholars, many of them her day pupils. I have given her singing books and +shall send to Boston for Sunday-school supplies. There is reason to believe +that we can some day organize a church in that place. I preached +in the new building last night and at the close of the service nearly twenty-five +bowed for prayers and asked for mercy. It was really affecting and I +only regretted that I could not remain and continue the work which begins +in so promising a manner. I have not the time to describe in detail the +work done on this trip. All along the road for nearly forty miles people +stopped me and I them to talk about the love of God for man and the gift +of his dear son as their Saviour and Redeemer. My heart burns with a desire +to do them good and I am so happy in helping them see the truth as +it is revealed in the Bible. There are hundreds of colored people in that +county who have no proper religious instruction. They come from far and +near whenever I go into that region, and seem to be blessed in listening to +the word of God. I am constantly, from a half-dozen different counties, +hearing the Macedonian cry: "Come over and help us." I wish you could +go with me and see these golden opportunities. If our churches saw the +needs and the openings for doing good, they would increase many fold their +offerings to this work.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h4>Encouraging Indications.</h4> + +<p>I can see a manifestation of real earnestness on the part of a larger proportion +of the members of our church than at any time before since I +have been here. While none of our meetings are attended so well as they +should be, at the same time they are spiritual. And now, as we are getting +our minds and hearts ready for some extra meetings, our prayer meetings +are full of tenderness and sweetness. Last Thursday night, though it was +raining at the meeting hour, a goodly number came out and the blessed + +Lord was with us. Our subject was "The Christian dignity of labor." It +seemed to be a new truth when they could see from his own word that +Jesus was interested in our daily work, John 21: 3-6. One faithful sister +who is trying to educate and provide for six children was very much helped +by the fact that Jesus would guide her if she was only willing to follow +his direction. The prayer meeting is the life of the church.</p> + +<p>I spent two days with Brother S—— at B—— last month, in some extra +meetings. The meetings were quite well attended; a goodly number of +white people were with us at almost every meeting. The Methodist minister +of the town was present and offered prayer. He expressed himself +as highly pleased with the sermon and hoped that we might do much good +in the name of the Lord. I find the very best of feeling towards our +church there on the part of the white people. I hope the church will do +well and grow in numbers and influence.</p> + +<br> + +<p>JACKSON ST. CHURCH, NASHVILLE, TENN.—Yesterday was a red-letter +day for Jackson Street Church. It was communion day. Two were baptized +and admitted to the church. Our congregation numbered more than +one hundred, the largest audience we have yet had. It was also the day +for special collection. We collected thirteen dollars. This was done by +means of the envelope system without any blast of bugle. There were +eleven conversions in the Sunday-school recently.</p> + +<br> + +<p>HOWARD CHAPEL, NASHVILLE, TENN.—Our attendance this month has +never fallen below forty-five. One of the established churches of the city +with a membership five times as large as ours has an average of ten to its +prayer meetings. We have fifteen or twenty. We have also organized a +Y.P.S.C.E. and a Bible class. It is the purpose of this class to study +Biblical biographies. We have studied so far the lives of Joseph, Moses, +Daniel, Esther, Ruth and David. It would do your heart good to see with +what enthusiasm the young people have entered upon this study and how +they master even the minutest details. I have every hope in the world for +Howard Chapel.</p> + +<br> + +<p>SAVANNAH, GA.—Some years ago our flock was the smallest, now we +have the largest Sunday-school and congregation. The history of this +church is wonderful. God has been merciful towards it. Some who were +our strongest enemies years ago are now our best workers. I have a plan +for next winter, to open a night school and draw the young people from +sin and Satan to our blessed Lord. July the 18th, Brother L. and myself +went to Porter's and made a start on our meeting house. The man who +gave the land cut down trees, Brother L. dug holes and we planted the +posts. Brother L. went back and bought five hundred feet of lumber, and +with God's help we intend to take the train some day and finish our humble +place of worship.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>NORTH ATHENS, TENN.—The church members gather with the children +every Friday afternoon to teach both boys and girls various kinds of work. +Capitalists and speculators are searching among the mountains for coal, iron +and timber. Why should not the Christian church search out the poor +mountaineers and bring them to Christ. Most of them were loyal to the +country. Slavery has for several generations denied them the advantages +of education. God has opened the door and bids us go in with the Bible +and the spelling-book to give to two millions of these people in our own country +a better culture, a purer Gospel. There are vast stores of wealth in these +mountains, but nothing of such value as the souls of this people.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_9"></a> +<h3>Straight University.</h3> + + +<div class="display"> +<p>We are glad to copy from the Burlington (Vt.) <em>Daily Free Press</em> the following +commendation of two of the appointees of this Association, both graduates of the University +of Vermont. Mr. Atwood enters our service for the first time; Mr. Henderson +has already shown his efficiency in our work as a preacher, and will enter upon his +duties as a Professor under favorable auspices.</p> + +</div> + +<p>An eminently satisfactory and well-merited appointment is that of Mr. +Oscar Atwood of Jeffersonville, to be President of Straight University in +New Orleans. We can heartily congratulate the institution that it can +avail itself of the sound scholarship, the long experience, and the tried executive +ability of its president-elect. And no less do we congratulate Mr. +Atwood on his election to a post which will afford ample scope and stimulus +for the best that is in him. Straight University was founded twenty-one +years ago, and was designed especially for the education of the colored +youth. It is under the patronage of the American Missionary Association, +and has several departments in full operation. Mr. Atwood took his A.B. +degree at the University of Vermont in 1864; taught for a time in various +schools, including the academy at Essex, this State; for two years was +principal of the school at Underhill; then for seven years, 1871-78, was +master of the High School at Plattsburgh, from which place he was called +to a similar position at Rutland. After nine years successful labor there, he +was forced to resign three years since on account of continued trouble with +his eyes. He has an excellent record both as instructor and organizer and +manager of school work. No better evidence of his efficiency could be +desired than the large number of young men who have been stimulated by +him to obtain a liberal education.</p> + +<p>We learn also that the Rev. George W. Henderson, of the class of 1887, +U.V., who for the last two years has been preaching in New Orleans, +has been appointed to a professorship in the same institution. Mr. Henderson +was originally a slave, as some of our readers know. He was prepared +for college by Mr. Atwood, took high rank at the University and at + +Yale Theological Seminary, where he was graduated in 1883. He studied +for a time in Germany, and for a few years was principal of an academy in +this State. His work, we understand, is to be in the theological department, +a position for which he is well equipped.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_10"></a> +<h3>Better Class Of Students.</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">By Prof. R.C. Hitchcock.</h3> + +<p>Last year was a "golden year" at Straight University in New Orleans. +In the first place, it is seldom the good fortune of any school to get a corps +of teachers so uniformly capable, and of such earnest Christian spirit, willing +to spend and be spent in the Master's service.</p> + +<p>Then every year brings a better class of students; not more sincere, +perhaps, but year by year they learn what "getting an education" means. +A few years ago it was quite impossible to make them realize that steady, +uninterrupted attendance was absolutely necessary to good work, but as +they have opportunity to compare the positions taken and the work done +by those who were regular and who remained at school long enough to be +really fit for good service, with those who thought they could come in January +and leave in April, getting an imperfect knowledge of things, to their +credit be it told, they <em>learn</em>—some <em>cannot</em> learn life's lessons—and there +has been lately a gratifying eagerness to be present at every recitation during +the whole year. I do not think one has left this year who could possibly +remain. When the floods came and many of them learned that their +homes were under water, in some cases the savings of many years in +buildings and stock washed away, they came to us saying they must go +as they could no longer pay, but we told them to wait. White-winged +missives flew over Uncle Sam's postal way, and back from many a church +and Sunday-school came the needed aid, and—save in the case of +some young men who had to care for helpless ones at home—none +left. From these last came many an interesting story of the heroic efforts +to save life and property. The skill to wield tools, acquired in our +shop, helped many a one to build a "flat" in which family, stock and furniture +could be floated to dry land. Many had to work night and day up +to the waist, sometimes to the neck, in water to save what might be. It +will be a hard year, the coming one, for many in the parishes of this State, +though no doubt work will be plenty as soon as the water is down.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_11"></a> +<h3>Temperance In Tennessee.</h3> + +<p>This is certainly a very interesting field, not going backward but forward. +The temperance reform has made a clean sweep of the whole +village, and in union with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at +the station is fast pushing the saloons to the wall. The most striking + +feature of the case is that they have learned how to work in the absence of +their leader. Two weeks ago last Sabbath night they held their own meeting—a +Bible reading institution among themselves, by the way, at which +many were present—and the old revival spirit broke out afresh to such a +degree that the last of their friends, to the number of eighteen, who still +clung to their cups, made haste to sign the pledge of total abstinence.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_12"></a> +<h3>Items.</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">Letter From A Graduate Of Straight University.</h3> + +<p>There was an examination held in this city recently for clerkships at +Washington. The announcement of it in the newspapers and the certainty +of the successful applicants receiving appointments drew a large number +of young men to the examination, among whom were Tulane University +graduates and several principals of high schools. I had the honor of sustaining +the reputation of "Old Straight," by leading the list. The affair +created much local excitement and the name of Straight University is commanding +much respect. I am pleased at the prospect of the increased opportunities +a residence at Washington will afford me for the prosecution +of my medical studies.</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>Fisk University is well represented in the journalistic world, says the +<em>Tennessee Star</em>. The following graduates are pushing the quill: S.A. McElwee +and W.A. Crosthwait, editors of the <em>Nashville Tribune</em>; H.C +Gray, editor of the <em>Galveston Test</em>; R.S. Holloway, associate editor of the + +<em>Dallas Tribune</em>, and Geo. T. Robinson, editor of the <em>Star</em>.</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<div class="display"> +<p>We print this letter from a boy who wants to go to school. We give it just as he +wrote it, and hope to have the privilege of printing a letter from him five years hence +with a view to the contrast.</p> +</div> + +<p style="text-align: right">Augst 25th.</p> + +<p>Mr. Proseser D.:</p> + +<p>Der ser i hav bin in form of the —— coldge and is it quite a distant +and i thout i would rite you afew lines i want you to write to me how i +can get Bord and what it will cost me a week or a munth and what is +tuisson I want to noe before i come and i want to start in a short time +rite to me all about it i will ickspeck anser soon, and Adress me.</p> + +<p>When I start in I want to goe 2 sesson's before I stop i think can conplet +most of inlesh studys in that time.</p> + + + +<div class="div"> + +<h4>Does The Lord Understand His Business?</h4> + +<h4 class="sub">Rev. J.H.H. Sengstacke.</h4> + + +<p><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">THEN.</span></p> + +<p>All through the early spring I heard complaints as follows: "The season +is against us and we shall not make anything." "Unless a change we +must starve." The season paid no attention to complaints but kept right +on.</p> + + +<p><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">Now.</span></p> + +<p>To-day God has blessed all with a good crop; plenty to eat and plenty +to sell. What next? The grumbling still continues. "There is so much +that we cannot get a high price for our produce."</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<p>If "resemble" means like, as one of the girls found when consulting +the dictionary, why is it not proper to say as she did, "I 'resemble' very +much to be at home?"</p> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<div class="div"> +<h5>Letters From Very Little Pupils.</h5> + +<p><em>My dear teacher</em>:—I would like to have grace and truth before God, and +I hope I am now his little girl.—LUCY.</p> + +<p><em>Dear teacher</em>:—I want religion.—ARTELIA.</p> + +<p><em>My dear teacher</em>:—If I had my choice of anything I wanted, I would +choose a Christian life, so when I came to die I would die in Jesus, like +Daisy Holt died.—ROXY.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<p style="text-align: center">-*-</p> + +<div class="div"> +<h4>Pictures In The Pines.</h4> + +<h4 class="sub">Prof. Amos W. Farnham.</h4> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">In the Sunny South, in the Land of Pines,</p> +<p class="l">Is a whitewashed cottage, old and grand;</p> + +<p class="l">Its ample grounds of jessamine vines,</p> +<p class="l">Are bright with crystals of sparkling sand.</p> +<p class="l">Broad stairways lead to its airy hall</p> +<p class="l">And cool piazzas, where the sun </p> +<p class="l">His shining arrows ne'er lets fall </p> +<p class="l">Till his daily race is almost run.</p> +</div> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">Within are walls of panels high,</p> + +<p class="l"> And great fire-places that laugh at night, </p> +<p class="l">When the blazing splinters of lightwood fry</p> +<p class="l">And wrap the rooms in a flood of light. </p> +<p class="l">'Tis then the cabins in the rear, </p> +<p class="l">Low and little and plain and old, </p> +<p class="l">Are vocal with the Negro'a cheer, </p> +<p class="l">For his heart is light when the day is told.</p> +</div> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">But there's one who sits from the rest apart,</p> +<p class="l">With folded hands and turbaned head,</p> +<p class="l">With a nameless burden upon her heart,</p> +<p class="l">And the light of youth forever fled. </p> +<p class="l">And she sits a swaying to and fro, </p> +<p class="l">Like the billowy pine with plume and cone,</p> +<p class="l">While a minor strain subdued and slow, </p> + +<p class="l">She sings in a plaintive monotone: </p> +</div> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">("I'm mos' don' a trablin' an' I boun'</p> +<p class="l">To carry my sould to Jesus</p> + +<p class="l"> I'm mos' don' a trablin' an' I boun'</p> +<p class="l">To carry my sould to de Lord.")</p> +</div> + +<div class="lg"> + +<p class="l">Then 'neath the whitewashed cottage vines,</p> +<p class="l">From its window that looks on the dying day,</p> +<p class="l">I gaze at the pictures in the pines,</p> +<p class="l">Made by their plumes and cones of gray.</p> +<p class="l">'Mong the leafy pictures is a crown,</p> +<p class="l">Bedecked with a brightly shining star,</p> +<p class="l">By angel hands held out and down</p> +<p class="l">From the western gate that stands ajar.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">My crown is bright when the year is new,</p> +<p class="l">Nor changes, when its frosts appear:</p> +<p class="l">For the star still shines in its ground of blue,</p> +<p class="l">And the pine tree lives when the rest are sere.</p> +<p class="l">From the pine my thoughts ascend above</p> +<p class="l">To the Tree of LIfe that Heaven adorns;</p> +<p class="l">From the star to the Star of my Saviour's Love,</p> + +<p class="l">That grandly shone in a crown of thorns.</p> +</div> + +<div class="lg"> +<p class="l">Oh, Star of Love, thy beams shall guide</p> +<p class="l">Me through the shadows of earth and sin,</p> +<p class="l">Till Heaven's gate shall open wide</p> +<p class="l">To let thy weary follower in.</p> +<p class="l">I note the onward march of time</p> +<p class="l">By the Negro's songs and the lightwood's glare,</p> + +<p class="l">And know I'm nearing the happy clime</p> +<p class="l">And the starry crown that I shall wear.</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + + + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_13"></a> +<h2>The Indians.</h2> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_14"></a> +<h3>Mr. Shelton At Northfield Again.</h3> + +<div class="display"> +<p>Mr Moody is nothing if not practical, and when he undertakes a thing he is apt +to push it through. We give below another pleasant illustration of this. Our readers +will remember that Rev. C.W. Shelton two years ago made an address at the great +Missionary Meeting at Northfield, Mass., which touched the sympathies of the audience +and moved Mr. Moody at once to "do something about it." Under his inspiration +three thousand five hundred dollars were raised to establish several new Indian +mission stations in Dakota.</p> + +<p>At Mr. Moody's solicitation, Mr. Shelton attended the Northfield Missionary Meeting +this year, making report of what had been done with the money given before. +The enthusiasm of the audience was again kindled, with a result which we give below, +condensing the sketch of the meeting as given in the <em>Springfield Union</em>.</p> +</div> + +<p>The meeting opened with prayer by Major D.W. Whittle, and then Rev +C.W. Shelton of New York City, who is connected with the American Missionary +Association, spoke about the work among the Indians. He said +that two years ago the people of Northfield gave money enough to establish +five mission stations; and he would first report on the work in those +missions. The first one had been established one hundred and fifty miles +northwest of Bismarck, and was called the Moody station. Having found +two classes of people thirty miles apart, both of whom seemed to be equally +in need, we had been in doubt as to where to plant the station; but finally +a man was found whose parentage included both nations, and who was +willing and able to preach to both in their own language. We had, therefore, +started two stations, calling them both by the same name, and with this +man managing them. People had told him that he couldn't do anything +in the interior of the country occupied by the Indians, but he described +his meeting with the Indians at that remote place, and their willingness to +receive the gospel, one of the chiefs finally saying to him: "When you go +back I want you to take that man by the hand that sent that school and +thank him, and tell him that we will try to live like the white man." The +speaker accordingly took Mr. Moody's hand and thanked him in those +words, raising a perfect storm of applause by so doing.</p> + +<p>The next mission was called the Frederick Darling Memorial mission, +and was established sixty miles below Bismarck. There was good work going +on there. Sixty miles farther down still there was located the Robert +Remington Memorial mission, and the reservation had since then been +opened up for settlement, as they had prophesied, and, as the Indians came +up the valley, driven out from their homes, there stood a man at the door +of the mission, who invited them in, and so to-day there were gathering +round that mission hundreds of Indians, forsaking their tepees, building +their houses and taking the first steps toward civilization.</p> + + + +<p>On Cherry Creek, the Sankey mission was located, and, although it was +not two years since that work was begun, they had a church of about forty +members.</p> + +<p>The funds for the Northfield mission were given by quite a number of +people here and the Indians who could be reached by it from the opening +of the reservation during the last few months had nearly doubled. +They had organized one church only a few weeks ago some distance off, +and expected to organize another there within a few months.</p> + +<p>"What do you want now?" said Mr. Moody at this point. Mr. +Shelton replied: "We haven't a dollar for carrying on a single one of +these missions after the first of September. It costs from $300 to $350 to +carry each of them on. But I believe that God has started this work and will +carry it on. Let me add a word with regard to the whole Indian problem. It is +not the problem I presented to you two years ago; it has changed in the two +years, and, thank God, it will change in two years more, if we do the work +we ought to. Do we realize that our Indians are getting beyond the wild +life? Forty thousand Indian people have come out of the tepee life into +little homes that these Indian men have built for themselves, taking their +people forward toward Christ. We talk of the Indian in his paint and +blanket, forgetting that he is coming forth into life. His game is gone, his +wild roving life is gone, his reservation is going. They understand their +position; the old life is back of them forever. What is before them? +Old Gall showed a scar reaching from his shoulder to his hip, and said: +'A white man gave me that; shall I trust him, dare I trust him, can I +trust him?' The Indian takes a step ahead, and stops and trembles, +doesn't know if he dare take another.</p> + +<p>"Do you want to know the solution of the Indian problem to-day? In +Christ's love take the Indians by the hand and lead them out into the same +light, the same love, and to the same Christ that you have. You can talk +about the government and land in severalty. Grand and good as these are, +the first and all-important thing in that problem is the gospel of Christ. It +must do it, it can do it, it is doing it, it will do it. The Women's Missionary +Societies of fifteen Indian churches gave $200 more for home missionary +work outside themselves than the Women's Missionary Societies in +one hundred and forty churches of white people in the same time. They +have Christian Endeavor societies there, and all kinds of Christian work. +I saw one morning delegates from the Christian Endeavor Society going +out to teach a white Sunday-school nine miles off in one direction, and +another similar school four and one-half miles off in another.</p> + +<p>"It is said that the young people will go back to the blanket. In ten +years we have had only one case of that in our Santee school, and that was +the case of a young girl who had only been in the school six months; 95 +per cent. of all that come to the schools go back consecrated young men +and women.</p> + + + +<p>"When you think that your five stations have gathered in two or three +hundred scholars and of the possibility for each, can you tell what will be +the result of this work? There are thirty thousand poor Indians in Dakota +alone, lifting up their cry to the Christian church for light and hope." +He added: "I have turned my back to many storms on the Dakota prairies, +but God grant you may never turn your back on a soul praying for +light. I sometimes dread the day of judgment, because there is to stand +the Indian. I would rather stand there in his place than to hear him say: +'I was hungry and ye gave me no food.' How shall we meet it, how shall +we answer it? for to meet it and answer it we must before the throne."</p> + +<p>Here Mr Shelton finished and sat down. "Now let's pay our debts," +said Mr. Moody. "How many people will give $100 toward that $1,800 for +sustaining those missions?" It didn't seem as though there were many +responses at first, but in a few minutes eighteen names were handed to H.M. +Moore of Boston, who was keeping account, and then Mr. Moody asked +if there wasn't anything else he wanted—a new mission anywhere? Mr. +Shelton of course said there was, and spoke of a place on the Rosebud +Agency where $500 was needed to build a school, and $300 to take care of +it for a year. Here was Mr. Moody's chance again, and he asked if some +one wouldn't give $100 for that. One or two contributions of $100 were +forthcoming, and any number of fifties came in, so that it was only a few +minutes when Mr. Moore announced that they had $875 for that. Then +Mr. Moody said he wanted to have the people start one more new mission +and proposed that unfailing American resource, a collection. The +hats were soon busy in all parts of the house, and at the end of the meeting +it was found that $640 had been collected for another mission, making +a grand total of $3,315.04, to be exact, raised within twenty minutes, for the +work among the Dakota Indians. Mr. Moody looked more bright and +cheerful than he has during the conference, as he kept calling for more +contributions, and his method of applying for one seldom failed. "Col. +Esty, of Brattleboro, isn't here, but he's all right, so we'll put him down +for $100," he remarked, as the interest flagged for a moment, and that was +the signal for a laugh and another name was sent up. Altogether it was the +most enthusiastic and thoroughly roused audience of the session.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_15"></a> +<h3>The Widow's Mite.</h3> + +<div class="display"> +<p>We gladly subjoin the following brief note from Mrs. Mary E. Fairbanks, of St. +Johnsbury, Vt., addressed to Rev. Mr. Shelton. We appreciate, as she does, the gift +of the widow.</p> +</div> + +<p>"Please find enclosed (stamps) .50 for the Indian work. A few days +after you were with us, a poor widow, aged and feeble, brought some sewing +which she had done for me, and for which I paid her $2.50. She +handed back fifty cents, asking me if I could in any way send it to Mr. + +Shelton for the work among the Indians. 'A widow's mite,' she said. I +told her I would be very glad to do it. I think the Lord must have looked +with favor on her gift. I have often sent to her missionary papers, magazines, +etc., and know she had greatly enjoyed the reading. You certainly +touched her heart, as you did many others. I hope the Lord is fulfilling +your desires."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_16"></a> + +<h2>The Chinese</h2> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_17"></a> +<h3>The Pictures</h3> + +<p>Dr. Pond has sent us two pictures which we are glad to insert in this +number. Of one of them he says: "It is a photograph of our Oroville +Mission House, pupils, teachers, etc. The taller of the two white men in +light clothing is the young pastor of our church at Oroville, who is a real +<em>helper</em>; the other is myself. The two white ladies are Miss Deuel, former +teacher, on the right, and Miss Keifer, the present teacher, sitting next to +me. The little American boy is her nephew, greatly interested in the +school. The little Chinese boy is a child whom the brethren have partially +and after a sort adopted, and who is very bright and promising and means +to be a Christian. Our helper, Chung Moi, stands directly behind me; but +the picture does him injustice. He has a very prepossessing face. The +one who stands on the left of Miss Deuel (i.e. at <em>her</em> right hand) is Gee +Jet, the deacon of our little church and the stand-by of the mission. The +trees in the rear grow at the water's edge of Feather River. The building, +as you observe, is of brick, topped out with a shake roof put on by our +brethren after the last (of two or three I believe) sweeping fires to which +the little structure refused to succumb. It belongs to ex-Governor Perkins +of this State—once a merchant in Oroville—and has been used by us for +ten years or more, ever since our mission was established, free of rent."</p> + +<p>The other cut is also a picture of the teachers and pupils at Oroville.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_18"></a> +<h3>Lights And Shadows</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">Rev. W.C. Pond, D.D.</h3> + +<p>LIGHTS.—One teacher writes: "Mr. B. [a distinguished lecturer from +Ohio] visited our school. He said that he had never seen before such +bright, happy faces among the Chinese. I told him the reason; they have +been brought out from heathenism. I love to notice the change it makes +in them."</p> + +<p>Chin Toy writes from Riverside: "Five boys converted and joined in +Association since I came. Four boys are going to join Rev. Mr. Hunt's +church, (Congregational), and be baptized at the first Sunday of July. +This Association of Christian Chinese has ten members now. I like these +boys and like these teachers too; they are so helpful to the Lord's work."</p> + + + +<p style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image1.png" alt="Mission House At Oroville."></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Mission House At Oroville.</p> + + + +<p style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image2.png" alt="Teachers And Pupils At Oroville."></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Teachers And Pupils At Oroville.</p> + + +<p>Hong Sing writes from Petaluma: "Now I am going to ask you +especially to pray for two scholars here who I hope for to gain him to +Christ before I leave. I am glad that one accepted my advice and promised +yesterday to join our Association, but sorry the other one excuse. I +pray to God for the Holy Spirit to open his eyes to see his guilt and danger, +and how much he needs a Saviour."</p> + +<p>From a pupil in Santa Barbara, addressed to our missionary helper, +Loo Quong: "It is now fifth month since I left you at Los Angeles. The +time seems very long indeed. We hope dear God give you a great power +to cast out the devil; and sowing the seed it bring forth fruit hundred fold +into the only God. At beginning we came to the United States [i.e. I +first came to the United States] about May, 1881. We did not know of +Jesus Christ, because born in the heathen country and work here in the +Chinese store. Then we hear the Chinese mission—talk with Jesus Christ, +do nothing to our idols and very different from us, for we were with evil +companions and do many things in gambling, lottery tickets, opium. Dr. +Pond open Congregational mission school about 1887 in Los Angeles, very +near our house. Then we was been to school about every evening. Mrs. +Sheldon and you teach very kind to us, and you explain the gospel of +Jesus. So we know the only true God, leave evil companions, join our Association +and sixth month join Dr. Hutchins' church. 'And when they had +brought their ships to land, they forsook all and followed him.'—Luke 5:11."</p> + +<p>From Fresno; from Loo Quong: "Now I have some good news for +you. There were three more of our pupils joined the Association, making +nine in all. God will care for this little flock of his, and may they multiply +a hundred fold! One of them was in school at Hong Kong many +years ago before he touched the American soil. He also was in our Central +School at San Francisco three years ago. Two months ago I was surprised +to see him here. At once he attended our school and began to ask +me about Christ's teaching. He would have no other lesson but in the +Bible." (Miss Worley writes of this pupil that he wishes now to become a +missionary). Of another of these three, Loo Quong writes: "He is one +of the best young men I ever knew, * * so kind, so quiet, so modest, +so full of love. I think he looks like our Lord when on earth. He is +always on hand at school. When I asked him to join the Association, he +said that he fully believed Jesus that he is the Saviour of his soul, 'but how +can I be his disciple while I am in the gambling business?' We explained +to him how God would take care of those who gave up all for him, and the +next night he told me he was ready to give it up and walk with Christians." +Of the third, also, a good account is given, but I must not use more space +on the Lights, but turn to the</p> + +<p>SHADOWS—One example must suffice. I must not mention either place +or person, lest harm come of it. A teacher writes: "I feel sure that two little +boys whom you sent to assist in our anniversary will grow to Christian manhood, + +fed as they are on the Word. With sorrow I compared with their +surroundings those of our little —— ——, and I write to know if something +cannot be done. Two years ago he entered the school, having come +directly from China. He has always been studious and well-behaved, loving +his Bible and the gospel songs. The mission boys tell me that those +with whom he lives are not his parents, but that this man bought him in +China. The child remembers his mother and brothers. He also remembers +a man offering him something if he would go with him. He did so +and was carried off in a boat and sold. His owner is very fond of him, +but is away from home. The wife does not care much for him. Sometimes +there are black and blue marks on his hands where he says she +strikes him. Once there was a small burned place on both his lips. I +asked him about it, and he said "Mamma." One of the boys told me that +he talked too much and she put the hot poker on his lips. I have heard +that this man intends taking the boy back to China in a year or two, fearing +that in this county he will lose him. They are bad people, keeping +an opium den."</p> + +<p>The shadow deepens when the question rises, "What can be done for +this boy?" He is in the grip of an "<em>Imperium in imperio</em>," to which some +years ago I had occasion to refer in these columns. Even Americans who +know the facts and are eager to help him, feel as though it would be +scarcely safe for them to rescue him. Our wisest Chinese helpers say: +"Wait, watch over him, but don't disturb existing relations. It would +break up our mission in that place. Chinese would not dare to be identified +with it. The boy will soon come to understand his rights and will assert +them for himself, and then you can help him." But it almost makes +one's blood boil to think that on American soil such counsel can be given +and perhaps ought to be observed.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_19"></a> + +<h2>Bureau Of Woman'S Work.</h2> + +<h2 class="sub">Miss D.E. Emerson, Secretary.</h2> + +<div class="display"> +<p>All ladies interested in missions are earnestly invited to be present at +the gathering of Women's Home Missionary Organizations to be held in +Northampton, Mass., Tuesday, Oct 21st. This meeting will be in the +First Church. Interesting speakers have been secured to represent the +work of our six National Societies. The day promises to be one full of +interest, and we hope there will be a large delegation of ladies present from +all over our land, and that they will pray earnestly for the spirit of the +Master to be present in this gathering.</p> + +<p style="text-align: right">NATHALIE LORD, COMMITTEE.</p> + +</div> + +<p>The Woman's Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be +held on Thursday afternoon, October 23d, in the Edwards Church at +Northampton, Mass. All are cordially invited to attend.</p> + + + +<p>We call especial attention of ladies to the Woman's Meetings at Northampton, +Mass., Oct. 21st and 23d. The first, on Tuesday, of which notice +is given above, is the meeting of the Women's Organizations of the several +States as represented on page 321. They extend from Maine to California, +and we would that there might be present delegates from every State.</p> + +<p>The second meeting, on Thursday afternoon, October 23d, is the Annual +Meeting of the Bureau of Woman's Work of the American Missionary +Association, at which missionaries from different departments of our work +will come face to face with the friends who have cheered and supported +them, and will tell somewhat of the every day life on the field. An unusually +interesting programme is promised.</p> + +<br> + +<p>We take this opportunity and method of thanking those officers of the +State Organizations who have been recently sent us a revised list of their auxiliaries +to date, that the missionary letters from the field may be mailed +directly to each church society thus represented. Every state that has +pledged itself to aid the work of the American Missionary Association is +entitled to these field reports, which are sent out from the New York office +through the Bureau of Woman's Work, and we shall be glad to receive the +correct address for each auxiliary society.</p> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_20"></a> +<h3>Christian Endeavor For The Boys And Girls Of The +Southern Mountains</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">A New Need.</h3> + + +<p>A large number of the mountain people are so poor that they cannot +pay even the bare cost of living for their girls and boys in order that they +may have the privilege of attending school. Rarely can a family send +more than one child to school, and in every case where one can go a boy +is selected. The brothers must wait until perhaps too late, and the sisters +must remain at home in ignorance. Thus it is found that the advantages +of Christian schools, brought so near to the mountain boys and girls by the +American Missionary Association, are not yet sufficiently within their reach, +and this gives rise to a new need in connection with our work in the South. +It is a need of young people and we turn to young people to meet it, believing +that our Christian Endeavor Societies and other Young People's +Societies will not lose this special opportunity for missionary work.</p> + +<p>A Student's Fund of $3,000 is to be raised in $50 shares, upon which +we will draw to bring the young people of the mountains into these +schools, and to help them over hard places according to their need. Pupils +will be encouraged to help themselves all they can, and no pledges will be +made to any until they have reached the limit of their own resources, and +no specified amount will be assigned to any one pupil. Each will be +helped according to his condition. A boy may be able to reach the school + +and work part of his board and need only a small sum to cover the expense +of the full year. A girl may need to have her traveling expenses paid and +only this; another, giving promise of usefulness, may have her full way +paid during the year. Some will be kept through the entire school year, +who otherwise could study but a few months.</p> + +<p>The training the young people receive in these schools brings a sure +reward. We quote from a letter just received from one of our missionaries: +"I am very hopeful for the Christian work among the students this +year. The Christian Endeavor Society is in much better condition than +last year. The members understand better the meaning of 'Christian Endeavor,' +and that being a Christian means a daily application of Christian +principles to every day life."</p> + +<p>Now why cannot our Christian Endeavor and Young People's Societies +take this work to their hearts, and thus be the means of preparing others for +Christian work? Why not do for these poor, but bright and interesting +American boys and girls there, what will bring more of them into the fraternity +of Christian Endeavor?</p> + +<p>We will send at once to any who desire it, full information of our +mountain work, and all who contribute to this fund may have their offering +assigned to aid pupils in one of our schools, from which letters will be +written by a missionary during the year, giving information directly from +the field.</p> + +<p>Here is an urgent need outside our usual lines of expense, for which +we seek new and additional help—not the diversion of regular annual contributions. +We break the fund into shares of $50 that many may have +part in it. Early response either in cash, or pledges to be cashed by July, +1891, will result in giving many of these young people the advantages of +Christian education during the present school year.</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_21"></a> +<h3>Woman's Work In North Carolina</h3> + +<p>We have a Woman's Missionary Meeting once a month; it began last +November, with six members; there are now eleven. We have, too, a Mission +Band, which many of the older scholars have joined as associate members. +It is held fortnightly, after the Sunday school, and generally the +whole congregation stay to hear what is going on.</p> + +<p>Last Sunday morning we went to Pekin, starting at 8 A.M. It is a +drive of fifteen miles through turpentine forests, and the roads are very +rough; we go up hill and down all the way, three creeks to cross and one +river. Across this there is a bridge, rather originally constructed. We go +down a steep and sharp curve, on the edge of high banks, and then through +a covered bridge across the rushing stream, which is seen between the foot +planks, and we are thankful to get across without any backing on our + +horse's part. The woods are very lovely just now, very few wild flowers, +but such a variety of foliage, and we notice a beautiful flowering shrub, +called "ivory "; it is a mass of delicate pink or white blossoms. These turpentine +forests are by no means all pines, there are many varieties of oak.</p> + +<p>The Sunday-school at Greenlake church, Pekin, is held at 9 A. M. Our +object this morning is to meet the children and teachers, before they disperse, +and organize a Mission Band. The little church, or rather schoolhouse, +is situated on a hill, and there is a fine view of the rolling country; +only this morning one longs for a little shade. One of our former scholars +(now working in the turpentine) comes out and takes our horse.</p> + +<p>The school is just over, and we hear there is to be preaching at 11; it +is now 10:15, so we ask the pupils to stay. We sing and then Miss Bechan explains +about foreign missions and mission bands. They give in their names +and appoint officers, agreeing to meet twice a month. They have also a +Woman's Missionary Auxiliary, which has been meeting once a month since +last December.</p> + +<p>There is a recess of ten minutes, then the preaching begins. The +preacher is a young man, who would gain much (as would his hearers) by +attending school a few years. This is one of the heart-sores in the +work here—the great ignorance of many of the preachers. Some of them +will tell you, they have had "no education," and, indeed, it is all too plain, +from their curious expressions and mis-applied long words; but worst of +all is their ignorance of the Bible. But how can they do better till they +have been taught? There is a crying need of educated pastors in these +country places. The young men tell us, they "do not find religion interesting;" +one said,that, after "having tried it two or three times." It is +hardly to be wondered at, that they are not interested, when the thunder is +all that is shown them. They are told they ought "to quake and tremble," +and if they do not, they "show by their actions that they mean to go to +hell."</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<a name="toc_22"></a> +<h3>Woman's State Organizations.</h3> + +<h3 class="sub">Co-operating With The American Missionary Association.</h3> + +<p>MAINE.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A.</p> + +<p>Chairman of Committee—Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, +Woodfords, Me.</p> + +<br> + +<p>NEW HAMPSHIRE.</p> + +<p>FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION AND HOME MISSIONARY +UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. Joseph B. Walker, Concord. +Secretary—Mrs. John T. Perry, Exeter. +Treasurer—Mlas Annie A. McFarland, Concord.</p> + +<br> + +<p>VERMONT.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. A. B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington. +Secretary—Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor. +Treasurer—Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.</p> + +<br> + +<p>MASS. AND R.I.</p> + +<p><a href="#note_2"><span class="footnoteref">2</span></a>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, +Mass.</p> + + + +<p>Secretary—Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational +House, Boston.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Miss Sarah K. Burgess, 32 Congregational +House, Boston.</p> + +<br> + +<p>CONNECTICUT.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. Jacob A. Biddle,35 West Street, +South Norwalk.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Ellen R. Camp, New Britain.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., +Hartford.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>NEW YORK.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., +Brooklyn.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, +Syracuse.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New +York City.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>PENNSYLVANIA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. W.H. Osterhaut, Ridgway.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. C.F. Yennee, Ridgway.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. T.W. Jones, 218 So. 37th St., +Philadelphia.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>OHIO.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., +Cleveland.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Box 932, Mt +Vernon, Ohio.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>INDIANA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. W.A. Bell, Indianapolis.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. D.T. Brown, Michigan City.</p> + +<br> + +<p>ILLINOIS.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., +Chicago.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington +St., Chicago.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>IOWA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. T.O. Douglass, Grinnell.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Ella E. Marsh, Box 232, Grinnell.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. M.J. Nichoson, 1513 Main St., +Dubuque.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>MICHIGAN.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. George M. Lane, 47 Miami Ave., +Detroit.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. Leroy Warren, Lansing.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Greenville.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>WISCONSIN.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. H.A. Miner, Madison.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. C.M. Blackman, Whitewater.</p> + +<br> + +<p>MINNESOTA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. E.S. Williams, Box 464, Minneapolis.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Gertude A. Keith, 1350, Nicollet +Ave., Minneapolis.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>NORTH DAKOTA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>SOUTH DAKOTA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Miss A.A. Noble, Lake Preston.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>NEBRASKA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St., +Fremont.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete.</p> + +<br> + +<p>MONTANA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. F.D. Kelsey, Helena.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. W.S. Bell, Helena.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. S.A. Wallace, Billings.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>MISSOURI.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. A.W. Benedict, 3841 Delmar +Ave., St Louis.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. E.H. Bradbury, 3855 Washington +Ave., St Louis.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. +Louis.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>KANSAS.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>WASHINGTON.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. W.E. Dawson, Seattle.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. N.F. Cobleigh, Walla Walla,</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. W.R. Abrams, Ellensburg.</p> + +<br> + +<p>CALIFORNIA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. H.L. Merritt, 686 34th St, Oakland.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Grace E. Barnard, 677 21st St., +Oakland.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. J.M. Havens, 1329 Harrison St., +Oakland.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. Emma Cash, 1710 Temple St., Los +Angeles.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Pasadena.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. H.W. Mills, 327 So. Olive St., +Los Angeles.</p> + +<br> + + + +<p>COLORADO AND WYOMING.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, +Colorado.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., +Colorado Springs, Colorado.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, +Wyoming.</p> + +<br> + +<p>LOUISIANA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. R.C. Hitchcock, New Orleans.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New +Orleans.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond.</p> + + +<br> + +<p>MISSISSIPPI.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Miss Sarah Dickey, Clinton.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss Alice Flagg, Tougaloo.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Miss Mary Gibson, Tougaloo. </p> + + +<br> + +<p>ALABAMA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss S.S. Evans, 2519 Third Ave., Birmingham.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Miss M.K. Lunt, Selma.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>FLORIDA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE CENTRAL +SOUTH ASSOCIATION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. E.M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn.</p> + +<br> + + +<p>NORTH CAROLINA.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill.</p> + +<p>Secretary—Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh.</p> + +<br> + +<p>TEXAS.</p> + +<p>WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</p> + +<p>President—Mrs. S.C. Acheson, 149 W. Woodard +St., Denison.</p> + +<p>Secretary, Mrs. Mary A. McCoy, 132 No. Harwood +St., Dallas.</p> + +<p>Treasurer—Mrs. C.I. Scofield, Dallas.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page"> + +<div class="div"> + +<a name="toc_23"></a> +<h2>Receipts For August, 1890.</h2> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>The Daniel Hand Fund,</h3> +<h3 class="sub">For the Education of Colored People.</h3> + +<p>from</p> + +<p>Mr. Daniel Hand, Guilford, Conn.</p> + +<p></p><table width="75%"><tbody> + +<tr> +<td>Income for August, 1890</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$4,197.35</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Income previously acknowledged</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9,559.61</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Total</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$13,756.96</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p></p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<h3>Current Receipts.</h3> + +<p> +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MAINE</span>, $431.17.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Brewer. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Castine. By Rev. A.E. Ives</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Freedom Village. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Hampdon. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Limerick. Miss E.P. Hayes, <em>for Land, +Raleigh, N.C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Limerick, Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Newcastle. Second Cong. Ch. to const. + MISS ANGIE HEATH and MRS. LOUISE M. + CHASE L.M.'s</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">60.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., + 150; "John Elliott, Collector," 41.50; + Hannah Watts, 5</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">196.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Searsport. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.45</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Waterford. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.72</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wells. Second Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Yarmouth. First Parish Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>------. "Friend," <em>for Williamsburg. Ky.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">NEW HAMPSHIRE</span>, $230.90.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bath. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Colebrook. "E. and C., by favor of Dr. +E."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Goffstown. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">38.73</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Hanover. Mrs. Susn A. Brown, <em>for Indian +Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">70.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Keene. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.69</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Manchester. Franklin St. Cong. Ch., Box +of Hymn Books, <em>for Mountain Work</em>.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Milford. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Nashua. Y.P.S.C.E., Pilgrim Cong. +Ch., <em>for Indian Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.88</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Newmarket. Mrs. Hannah M. Moses</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>North Hampton. J.L. Philbrook</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Temple. Mrs. L.W.C. Keyes </td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>------------</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.60</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table><p> + + + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">VERMONT</span>, $358.34.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bennington. Second Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">24.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chelsea, Member Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>East Hardwick, "A Friend."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Northfield. "A Friend," to const. NATHANAEL + KING L. M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Saint Johnsbury. Franklin Fairbanks. + 100; Mrs. Franklin Fairbanks, 25, <em>for + Indian M</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">125.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch., <em>for + McIntosh, Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Saint Johnsbury. Mrs. Albert L. Farwell's + SS Class, North Cong Ch., <em>for + Indian Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Vergennee. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont, + by Mrs. William P. Fairbanks, + Treas., <em>for Woman's Work</em>;</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Lyndonville. Ladies' Soc., + <em>for McIntosh, Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Saint Johnsbury. Ladies of + So. Ch., <em>for Mountain Work</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Stowe. Whatsoever Miss'y + Circle, <em>for Mcintosh, Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.34</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  West Glover. L. H. M. S., + <em>for McIntosh, Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  West Randolph. Miss L. T. + Clark, <em>for Mountain + Work</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> 25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----64.34</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MASSACHUSETTS</span>, $2,328.29.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Boston.--Roxbury. Walnut Av. + Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">330.56</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td> Roxbury. Immanuel Ch., Bbl. + of C., <em>for Williamsburg, + Ky</em></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----330.56</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> 40.23</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Braintree. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.25</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Brimfield. P. C. Browning, 10; Mrs. J. + S. Webber, 2</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Cambridge. Mrs. C. A. Phelps, <em>for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chelsea. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chelsea. C. H. Keelar's S. S. Class, Central + Cong. Ch., <em>for ed. of a girl, Oahe, Indian + Sch., Dak</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.92</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Dalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <em>for Schp., + Santes Indian Sch</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Foxbury. R. R. Holmes.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> .50</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Franklin. Y.P.S.C.E., by B. M. Rockwood, + <em>for Jewett Memorial Hall, Grand + View, Tenn</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Gardner. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., First + Cong. Ch., <em>for Indian Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Georgetown. Mission Circle of First + Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Holbrook. Winthrop Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Holliston. "Bible Christians."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Holyoke. Mrs. A. H. Child</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Huntington. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">47.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Leominster. Y.P.S.C.E., Orthodox + Cong. Ch., <em>for Indian M., Santee Home</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Leominster. Mrs. W. M. Howland, <em>for + Indian M</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Longmeadow. Mrs. Julia H. Goldthwait, + <em>for Straight U</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Lynn. North Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Marlboro. Mrs. Agnes H. Mooney, <em>for + Indian M</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Medway. Village Cong. Ch., in part</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">48.75</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Milton. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">32.52</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Natick. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Northfield. E. J. Humphrey, <em>for new Indian + Station, Dak</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Orange. Central Evan Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.23</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Paxton. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.76</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Peabody. South Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">77.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Springfield. "Friend."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Stoneham. Miss P. Stevens</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Templeton. Trinitarian Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> 22.84</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wakefield. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">62.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wellesley. "Collected by Dominick," <em>for + Land, Raleigh, N.C</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>West Newton. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. + Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Worcester. Central Ch. S.S. and "a few + Friends," 23; "A Friend," 10, <em>for Land, + Raleigh, N.C</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">33.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>-----. "Donation."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>-----. One Share East Tennessee Land + Co. (face value. $50)...</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Hampden Benevolent Association, by + Charles Marsh, Treas:</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Chicopee. Third</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.35</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Holyoke. Second</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">57.37</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Huntington. Second</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.13</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Monson</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.33</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----103.18</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Woman's Home Missionary Association, + by Miss Sarah K. Burgess, Treas., <em>for + Woman's Work;</em> + + -----. For Salary of + Teachers (of which 45.25 + for traveling expenses of + a Teacher)</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">277.80</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>   Newton. Mr. Cobb's S. S. + Class, Eliot Ch. <em>for Indian + Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.25</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----284.05</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,828.29</td> + +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ESTATES.</span></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Worcester. Estate of Miss H. F. Carpenter, + by P.M. Carpenter, Ex.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$2,328.29</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">RHODE ISLAND</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,016.50.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>East Providence. Ladies of Newman + Cong. Ch., <em>for Cumberland, + Tenn</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Providence. Y.P.S.C.E of North Cong. + Ch., <em>for Grand View, Tenn</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.50</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Providence. Fanny C. Thompson, <em>for + Church, Cumberland Gap, Tenn</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$16.50</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ESTATE.</span></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Providence. Estate of Isaac Hale, by + Miss Ednah B. Hale </td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1,000.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,016.50</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> + +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">CONNECTICUT</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,205.12.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Burnside. "Friend," <em>for Indian Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">70.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Central Village. "Loyal Temperance + Legion," <em>for Indian M</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Danbury. Miss A. Fanton, <em>for Williamsburg, + Ky</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>East Woodstock. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Gilead. "Friends."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Gilead. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch., <em>for Conn. + Ind. Sch. Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.52</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Guilford. Mrs. Sarah Todd</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Hartford. "A Friend." <em>for Mountain Work</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Harwinton. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.27</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Lisbon. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">24.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Manchester. Second Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">71.29</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Mansfield. Chas. H. Learned</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New Haven. Humphrey St. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">102.19</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>New Haven. Sab. Sch. of Davenport + Cong. Ch. <em>for Indian M</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New London. Mrs. Lora E. Learned and + Daughters, <em>for Indian Schp</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New Milford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. + Ch., <em>for Schp., Hampton N. and A. Inst</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">70.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>North Branford. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.14</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>North Haven. Elihu Dickerman</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Portland. By H. M. Bowden, <em>for Freight, + on Box to Thomasville, Ga</em>.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.35</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Prospect. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">14.43</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Redding. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">28.94</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ridgefield. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.78</td> +</tr> + + + +<tr> +<td>Rockville. J. N. Stickney, <em>for Indian M</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Salem. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Sharon. Mrs. C. S. Sedgwick. 5; Mrs. H. S. Roberts, 5, <em>for Indian M</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Southport. Cong. Ch,.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">126.09</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>South Windsor. First Cong. Ch</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.83</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Torrington. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., 40.50; Ladies' Aid Soc. of Third Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C. and 1.75 <em>for Freight</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">42.25</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wauregan. Cong. Ch. and Soc</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>West Hartford. Mrs. E. W. Morris</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Westford. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.54</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>----. "A Friend in Conn."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Conn., by Mrs. Ellen R. Camp. Sec., <em>for Woman's Work</em> Suffield Y. L. M. Circle, <em>for Washburn Sem., Beaufort, N. C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">----$1,005.12</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ESTATE</span></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Meriden. Estate of Miss Lucy Foster. by Ezra Pratt, Ex</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">200.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">----</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,205.12</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> + +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">NEW YORK</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$518.54.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bergen. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.93</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Berkshire. First Cong. Ch. and Soc</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">45.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Brooklyn. Mrs. J. M. Hyde 200</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Brooklyn. Miss M. A. Packard, <em>for Williamsburg Ky</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Cambridge. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Camden. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.05</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chenango Forks. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chili Station. E. B. Johnston</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Clifton Springs. Mrs. W. W. Warner.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Dansville. Miss F. M. Emmons</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Eaton. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.25</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Massena. Mrs. W. H Cubleg</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New Lebanon. "Mother's Gift on 84th Birthday,"</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New York "Cash." 100: Rev. Stephen Angell. 30, to const. CAROLINE L. ANGELL L. M.: By A. W. Wagnalls, Treas. E. T. Land Co., 1.50</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">131.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>New York. Cummins Miss'y Soc., First Reformed Epis. Ch. <em>for Indian M</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>North Walton. Sab. Sch by A. L. White, Supt.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Oswego. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">128.31</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Perry Center. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Syracuse- Plymouth Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Warwick. Mrs. Sarah Welling, <em>for Northfield Indian Station</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">NEW JERSEY</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$65.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bernardsville. Mrs. M. L. Roberts</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Orange Valley. Bleeker Van Wagenen <em>for Land, Raleigh N. C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">PENNSYLVANIA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$15.97.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ebensburg. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.61</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Germantown. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Neath. Cong. Ch., 390 and Sab. Sch., 2.46</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.36</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">OHIO</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,425.46.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Adams Mills. M A. Smith</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Brownhelm. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Cleveland. Mrs. H. B. Spelman, <em>for Student Aid. Atlanta U</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Cleveland. King's Sons, <em>for Williamsburg, Ky</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Dover. Cong. Ch</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.31</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>East Liverpool. Mrs. Harriet T. Kitchel, by Rev. H. D. Kitchel. D. D.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1000.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>New Milford. Mrs. E. G. Prindle</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>North Amherst. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Strongsville. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Tallmadge. Daniel Hine, in trust for the late Sarah T. Hine. to const. MISS NANCY JEANETTE LIMBERT L. M</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Tallmadge Cong. Ch</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">68.17</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Windham Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.11</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. F. L. Fairchild. Treas., <em>for Woman's Work:</em></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>   Alexis. "Willing Workers."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>   Bellvue L M. S.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.70</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>   Medina. W. M. S,</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>   Painesville. W. M. S</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">----43.70</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">----$1,312.29</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ESTATES.</span></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Jersey. Estate of Lucinda Sinnet by John B Metcalf, Ex</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">63.17</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Oberlin. Estate of Sarah Ann Upson, by Rev. Heman B. Hall. Ex</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">-----$1,425.46</td> + +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ILLINOIS</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$404.55.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Alton. Ch. of the Redeemer, to const. THOMAS M. GUY L. M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">32.40</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Bunker Hill. Cong. Ch. (10 of which <em>for Jewett Memorial Hall</em>)</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.45</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Byron. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.07</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chesterfield. Cong. Ch</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.47</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chicago. "Cash," 50; Lincoln Park Ch, 6.54.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">56.54</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Granville. Mrs. J. W. Hopkins</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Lyndon. John M. Hamilton</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Mendon. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.75</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Morrison, William Wallace and Robert Wallace to const. REV. J. W. SKINNER L. M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Normal. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.80</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ontario. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Peoria. Plymouth Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">26.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Port Byron. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.07</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Princeton Mrs. S. C. Clapp</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Ridge Prairie. Evan. St. John Ch., by Rev. A. Kerr</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Sparta. Bryce Crawford. 2; D. A. Foster, 1; James Hood, 1.; James Alexander, 1.; P. B. Gault, 1</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Waverly. Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MICHIGAN</span>,</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$22.08.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.73</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>North Adams. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Red Jacket. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch. <em>for Talladega C</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Michigan, by Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Treas. <em>for Woman's Work:</em> Saint Ignace. Ladies Cong. Union</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.35</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">WISCONSIN</span>,</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1.255.91.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Beloit. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">155.58</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Beloit Mrs. C. M. Nelson. Package C., <em>for Sherwood, Tenn</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Eau Claire "Cheerful Givers" Mission Band of First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Lake Geneva. Mrs. Mary J. Barnard "in memory of her husband, Milo Barnard."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1000.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Menasha. E. D. Smith, <em>for Sherwood, Tenn. </em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Milwaukee. Grand Av, Ch., to const. D. McK. SINCLAIR L. M</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">45.40</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Sheboygan Daniel Brown</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wisconsin's Woman's Home Missionary Union <em>for Woman's Work</em></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Madison</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.43</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Madison</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Platteville. W. H. M. T</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>----</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.93</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">IOWA</span>, $207.05.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Anamosa. Cong. Ch., 6.42 and Sab. Sch. + 4.12</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.54</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Cedar Falls. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chester Center. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.36</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Decorah. Boys' Mission Circle, Three + large handsome Pictures, also several + packages of Papers; Girls' Mission Circle, + Box Sewing Material, <em>for Lexington, + Ky.</em></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Dunlap. Mrs. W.F. Preston, <em>for Land, + Raleigh, N.C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Edgewood. N.G. Platt</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Farragut. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">27.88</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Fort Dodge. Sab. Sch. Pres. Ch., Box of + New S.S. Papers, <em>for Lexington, Ky.</em></td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Gempoint. Cong. Soc.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Iowa City. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Osage. Cong. Ch. to const. MISS BLANCHE + IRENE BRONSON L.M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">46.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Preston. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Storm Lage. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.29</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Toledo. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.92</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, + <em>for Woman's Work:</em></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Bellevue. W.H.M.U.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Bellevue. Y.P.S.C.E.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Cedar Falls. L.A.S.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.72</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Clay. L.M.S.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Grinnell. W.H.M.U.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.18</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  Le Mars. L.M.S.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.47</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  McGregor. L.M.S.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.69</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>  McGregor. "Thank Offering"</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">------30.06</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MINNESOTA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$87.22.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Detroit City. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Detroit City. Lake View Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Lake City. Mrs. H.N. Bye, <em>for Williamsburg, + Ky.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">55.12</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Minneapolis. "Life Member," 4, <em>for Tougaloo + U.</em>, "Life Member," 4, <em>for Woman's + Work.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Saint Cloud. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.10</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Saint Paul. S.S. Class <em>for Talladega C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.50</td> + +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MISSOURI</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$29.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Kansas City. "A Friend."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Kidder. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">KANSAS</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$15.87.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Cora. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Smith Center. First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.62</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wakarusa. Valley Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.25</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>White City. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">NEBRASKA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$14.39.</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Campbell. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.07</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chadron. Mrs. C.P. Lyon. <em>for Williamsburg, + K.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Springfield. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.32</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">SOUTH DAKOTA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$2.20.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Springfield. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.20</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">COLORADO</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$32.97.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Trinidad. Cong. Ch., <em>for Talladega C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.56</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Pueblo. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.45</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>West Denver. Cong. Ch., 7.96 and Sab. + Sch. 10.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.96</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>West Denver. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">MONTANA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$35.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Helena. First Cong. Ch. to const. REV. + F.D. KELSEY L.M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">CALIFORNIA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$41.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>East Los Angeles. J.E. Cushman.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Pasadena. "R.P.A. and wife."</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Pomona. Mrs. C.A. Lorbeer.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>San Diago. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">OREGON</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$50.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Portland. First Cong. Ch. to const. MRS. + GEORGE A. STEEL L.M.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">WASHINGTON</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$17.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Union City. Cong. Ch., 15; "Little + Workers," 2.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">TENNESSEE</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$24.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td>Deer Lodge. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Jonesboro. Cong. Ch., 6.74 and Sab. Sch., + 2.26.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Grand View. Mrs. Sarah K. Yeatman, + <em>for Grand View, Tenn.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">NORTH CAROLINA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$229.23.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Pekin. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">0.50</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Raleigh. Cong. Ch., <em>for Land, Raleigh, + N.C.</em></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">162.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Wilmington, Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">66.73</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">GEORGIA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1.50.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., 1.10; "J.H.H.S." + 25c; Mrs. S., 15c.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">FLORIDA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Mannville. Mrs. Francis Haskins.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> + +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">TEXAS</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$3.50.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Dallas. Cong. Ch.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.50</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> + +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">CANADA</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$4.50.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Sweetsburg. H.W. Spaulting.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.50</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">ENGLAND</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$10.00.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Chigwell. Miss S.L. Ropes.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td>Donations.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$8,270.09</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Estates.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1,813.17</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> ---------</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$10,083.26</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">TUITION</span></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$899.09.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Williamsburg, Ky., Tuition.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">138.50</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Jonesboro, Tenn., County Fund.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Jonesboro, Tenn., Tuition.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Talladega, Ala., Tuition.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">718.89</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Austin, Texas. Tuition.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.70</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> ------ 899.09</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Total for August.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$10,982.35</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">SUMMARY.</span></td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Donations.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">168,736.34</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Estates.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">123,464.93</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> --------</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> $292,201.27</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Income.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">8,507.21</td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Tuition.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">38,903.43</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>United States Government for the Education + of Indians.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">19,073.29</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> ----------</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Total from Oct. 1, to July 31.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$358,685.20</td> +</tr> +</tbody></table><p> + +</p><table width="75%"><tbody> +<tr> +<td><span class="hi" style="font-weight: bold;">FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</span></td> + +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Subscriptions for August.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.75</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Previously acknowledged.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">685.20</td> +</tr> + +<tr> + +<td></td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom"> --------</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Total.</td> +<td align="right" valign="bottom">$697.95</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table><p> +</p> +</div> + +<div class="div"> +<p>H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,</p> +<p>Bible House. N.Y.</p> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + <hr class="doublepage"> + +<div class="back"> + <div class="div" id="footnotes"><a name="toc_24"></a><h2>Notes</h2><dl class="footnote"> +<dt><a name="note_1">1.</a></dt><dd><p>Deceased.</p></dd><dt><a name="note_2">2.</a></dt><dd><p>For the purpose of exact information, we note that while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as +a State body for Mass, and R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.</p> + +<p>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 <em>undesignated funds will not reach us</em>.</p></dd></dl></div> + </div> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary, October, +1890, Vol. XLIV., No. 10, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, *** + +***** This file should be named 14631-h.htm or 14631-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/6/3/14631/ + +Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson and the PG Online +Distributed Proofreading Team + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The American Missionary, October, 1890, Vol. XLIV., No. 10 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: January 7, 2005 [EBook #14631] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, *** + + + + +Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson and the PG Online +Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + + +The American Missionary +======================= + + +October, 1890. + +Vol. XLIV. + +No. 10. + +New York: + +Published By The American Missionary Association, + +Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York. + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance. + +Entered at the Poet Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + + + + +Contents +======== + + +Contents +Editorial + ANNUAL MEETING. + The Federal Election Bill And The Mississippi Convention. + Notes From The West. +The South + Out To Rockhold, Ky. + Church Work. + Straight University. + Better Class Of Students. + Temperance In Tennessee. + Items. +The Indians. + Mr. Shelton At Northfield Again. + The Widow's Mite. +The Chinese + The Pictures + Lights And Shadows +Bureau Of Woman'S Work. + Christian Endeavor For The Boys And Girls Of The Southern Mountains + Woman's Work In North Carolina + Woman's State Organizations. +Receipts For August, 1890. +Notes + + + + + +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. F. A. Noble, D.D., Ill. + +Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo. + +Rev. Alex. Mckenzie, D.D., Mass. + +Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass. + + + + +Corresponding Secretaries. +-------------------------- + + +Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._ + +Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._ + +Rev. F.P. Woodbury, D.D., _Bible House. N.Y._ + + + + +Recording Secretary. +-------------------- + + +Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._ + + + + +Treasurer. +---------- + + +H.W. Hubbard, Esq., _Bible House, N.Y._ + + + + +Auditors. +--------- + + +Peter Mccartee. + +Chas. P. Peirce. + + + + +Executive Committee, +-------------------- + + +John H. Washburn, Chairman. + +Addison P. Foster, Secretary. + +_For Three Years._ + +S.B. Halliday, + +Samuel Holmes, + +Samuel S. Marples, + +Charles L. Mead, + +Elbert B. Monroe, + +_For Two Years._ + +J.E. Rankin, + +Wm. H. Ward, + +J.W. Cooper, + +John H. Washburn, + +Edmund L. Champlin, + +_For One Year._ + +Lyman Abbott, + +Chas. A. Hull, + +Clinton B, Fisk,(1) + +Addison P. Foster, + +Albert J. Lyman. + + + + +District Secretaries. +--------------------- + + +Rev, C. J. Ryder, 21 _Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._ + +Rev. J. E. Roy, D.D., 151 _Washington Street, Chicago, Ill._ + +Rev. C. W. Hiatt, 64 _Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio._ + + + + +Financial Secretary for Indian Missions. +---------------------------------------- + + +Rev. Chas. W. Shelton. + + + + +Secretary of Woman's Bureau, +---------------------------- + + +Miss D.E. Emerson, _Bible House, 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; letters relating to the finances, to the +Treasurer. + + + + + +Donations And Subscriptions +=========================== + + +In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent +to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York, or, when more +convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, +Boston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., or 64 Euclid Ave., +Cleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a +Life Member. + +NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the "address label," indicates the +time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label +to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made afterward, +the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send early +notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address and the +new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be +correctly mailed. + + + + + +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. XLIV. + +October, 1890. + +No. 10. + +American Missionary Association. + + + + + +Editorial +========= + + + + +ANNUAL MEETING. +--------------- + + +The next annual meeting of the American Missionary Association will be +held in Northampton, Mass., in the Edwards Church, commencing at three +o'clock Tuesday afternoon, October 21st. Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, D.D., of +Chicago, Ill., will preach the sermon. On the last page of the cover will +be found directions as to membership and other items of interest. Fuller +details regarding the reception of delegates and their entertainment, +together with rates at hotels and railroad reductions, will be given in +the religious press. A meeting of unusual interest is expected, and we +hope our friends will be present in full attendance. + +For notice of Woman's Meeting, see page 318. + + * * * * * + +The holding of our Annual Meeting in Northampton will call up some very +remarkable associations. Northampton was the home of Jonathan Edwards, +who was not only the eloquent preacher and profound theologian, but the +missionary to the neighboring Stockbridge Indians. It was also the home +of his son-in-law, David Brainerd, who was the typical self-denying +martyr-missionary to the Indians in New Jersey. It was the home of the +Tappan family, two of whose sons, Arthur and Lewis, were among the early +founders and most valued friends of this Association. In June, 1848, the +Tappan family held a joyous family reunion in Northampton, continuing +for a week. + + * * * * * + +Frederick Douglass is hopeful. In a recent address he says: "A great +change has taken place among the colored race--vast and wonderful has it +been. It seems as if we had realized the vision of St. John when he saw a +new heaven and a new earth. But the change has come at last. The time has +come when we can look our fellow-citizens in the face and share in the +glory of the country." + +No man has a better right to say this than he, for his life has touched +the degraded condition of the slave and the exalted position of an +Embassador of this great Republic. He adds: "Some talk of exterminating +our race, and others say we will soon die out, but I tell you both are +impossible. If slavery could not kill us, liberty won't." Liberty ought +to do more than save them alive. It ought to educate, elevate and +Christianize them. + + * * * * * + +The _Independent_ quotes from Dr. Mayo's address before the American +Social Science Association on "The Third Estate," in which the Doctor, +refers to the strange population of the great Southern mountain +world--nearly two millions at present--as a body of people that sends +forth a louder cry for the missionary of modern civilization than any +other portion of the Republic, and adds: + + + + "What is also said by the Unitarian, Dr. Mayo, of the need of + missionary work for this class of the Southern whites, calls + for an emphasis even stronger than we could put on any + political conclusion. We pass this patriotic appeal along to + those who have the wealth that is seeking a worthy object on + which to expend itself. There are missionary societies whose + business it is to do this. For the Congregationalista, the + American Missionary Association will for a very moderate + amount establish a church and an academy in any one of a + hundred counties inhabited by these people, and what a man + with a million dollars to expend could do we hardly dare to + say. For the Presbyterians, the Board of Home Missions will do + the same; for the Methodists, their Missionary Society; for + the Episcopalians, their board of Domestic Missions; for the + Baptists, their Home Mission Society; and so on for all the + religious bodies. But will not a goodly company of wealthy men + supplement what the churches are doing in their collections, + by large gifts for this special, most needy, most fruitful, + and we declare most neglected mission work of the nation?" + + + + * * * * * + +Agitations on the surface are significant mainly as they are connected +with the larger movements of the deeper waters beneath. The re-election of +Speaker Reed to Congress, and the contest for the re-election of Mr. +Breckinridge in Arkansas; the Federal Election Bill, which proposes to +secure a free ballot for all men irrespective of color, and the Convention +in Mississippi, which aimed avowedly to curtail the voting of the colored +people--all these derive their importance from their relation to the +gravest problem of American statesmanship. That problem will not be +settled by the results of either of these current questions. For at the +bottom the real question is: Shall knowledge and character and property +become the possession of the colored race, and they thus be prepared for +their place in American politics, industry and prosperity, or will they be +allowed for the lack of these things to be crushed back into a condition +of semi-slavery or be goaded to resistance or discouraged in poverty, +pauperism and degradation? That is a fundamental question. For that, men +should read, think, pray and work. + + + + +The Federal Election Bill And The Mississippi Convention. +--------------------------------------------------------- + + +The ultimate aim of the Federal Election Bill in Congress, and of the +Constitutional Convention in Mississippi, point in diametrically opposite +directions. They cannot be harmonized, and there is no middle way between +them. The Election Bill contemplates a "free ballot and fair count" for +every voter, including the Negro. The Mississippi Convention aims to +restrict Negro suffrage. In an address delivered by the President of the +Convention, September 11th, he is reported to have said that: "He did not +propose to mince matters and hide behind a subterfuge, but if asked by +anybody if it was the purpose of the Convention to restrict Negro +suffrage, he would frankly say, 'Yes; that is what we are here for.'" This +Convention proposes to secure its object not by the force and fraud of +earlier days, but by constitutional and legal methods--or at least by what +has constitutional and legal _forms_. All this, however, is another +attempt to achieve the impracticable. As the Negro grows in intelligence +and numbers, he will claim his right to vote. + +On the other hand, the Congressional Election Bill or any other +legislation intended to secure the privilege of voting to the Negro, if +made practical, means a good deal. If it is intended only to pass laws +that shall be merely "glittering generalities" to vindicate the historic +record of the Republican party, or to sanction its Platform and the +Inaugural of the President--that is easily done and will, of course, +amount to nothing--except as a political manoeuvre. But if the movement +"means business," and is to be pushed to its legitimate result, then two +things must be done: the Negro must be qualified to vote and to be voted +for; to elect officers and to hold office. If the mass of illiterate and +impoverished Negroes are to be represented in State Legislatures and in +Congress by persons as ignorant and poor as they are themselves, these +representatives will, of course, if in the majority, be liable to rule and +ruin; if in a large minority, they will hold a balance of power that may +easily be controlled by demagogues. To educate this mass up to the point +of intelligence and the acquisition of property is America's great duty +and the guaranty of her safety. + +There is one thing more about it. We have said that if the Negro is to +have the free exercise of the ballot, he will insist on being voted for as +well as voting. If the Negroes have power to elect, they will wish to +elect some of their own number. They will not, and certainly they ought +not to vote for a man simply because he is black. They should vote for the +best qualified man whether he is black or white. If they have the power +they will certainly elect some of their own number. But this means, if it +means anything good, that there shall be those of their own number who are +qualified to hold office and to hold it honorably to themselves and +usefully to their constituents and the country. But this implies higher +education to a good many colored people. It will not do for them to have a +few men educated as professional politicians. May Heaven save them from +the day when they will encourage the growth of such a class of men. They +will need to have a large number of educated men in the various walks of +life, from whom suitable candidates may be selected, just as white men +have. But if they are to have such a class of men, adequate measures must +be taken for their higher education, and those friends of the Negro who +desire and help to educate him only in primary studies, while they are +doing a great and essential work, are not doing all that is needed. It may +be all well enough to say to the Negro, "Work hard and keep out of +politics." But if he is allowed to enter into politics freely, he will do +it just as other men do. There is enough human nature in him to secure +that. And any view of this matter that accepts the theory of a free ballot +to the Negro, will be short-sighted, if it does not aim at the education +of the mass of the Negroes as the mass of the white people are educated, +and at the higher education of a proportionally large number of the +Negroes. If Congress and Mississippi Conventions should turn their +attention in this direction, their work would be more significant than the +efforts they are now making. + + + + +Notes From The West. +-------------------- + + + By District-Secretary C.W. Hiatt. + + +Sylvan, terraced, lacustrine; cottages by the score, gay in color, unique +of design; people everywhere, chatty, erudite, artistic, processional; +"round tables," "leagues," "societies" and "circles;" lectures, sermons, +concerts and conferences--a school, a church, a university--all this, and +throughout it all a steady pulse of religious heart and heartiness--such +is the Chautauquan Assembly of Bay View, Michigan. One of the important +features of this assembly is its annual missionary conference. All +denominations participate and the field of the world is brought vividly +before the mind by the laborers from here and there. + +An interesting testimony by a missionary from Singapore was to the effect +that many of the most cultured and generous people he had ever met were +Chinese. By the aid of influential Mongolians--though they were +heathen--he was once enabled to start a school which grew rapidly till +hundreds were enrolled and a permanent religious center of great +importance was established. The whole account was thrilling. + +Specially kind was the hearing given the representative of the American +Missionary Association work, and the eager quest for literature which +followed showed that all words had not been lost. Denominational lines +were not conspicuous. The black cat of statistics scampered across the +rostrum only once or twice. A fitting rebuke to this audacious creature +was couched in the story told by a missionary of a visit he had received +from another worker on the field, and their mutually forgetting to inquire +into each other's church connections, so great was their interest in the +tasks in hand. Afterwards, the Methodist brother learned that he had +entertained a Baptist unawares--Selah. + +An interesting disclosure was recently made, when the organ of Vine St. +Congregational Church in Cincinnati was removed from the rear to the front +of the auditorium. Midway between ceiling and floor, on either side of the +recess, were two doors in the wall. These could only be reached by +ladders. What were they for? Ah, they have a history. They open into rooms +which, in ante-bellum days, were used as stations of the "underground +railway." Here fugitives from across the Ohio were secreted until they +could be spirited on, by night, towards the waters of Erie. These doors on +the wall speak volumes for the history of the church. I wonder not that +even now, though in the very commercial center of the city, far from the +residence portion, this church is in full career of evangelistic life. +Churches with such doors as those in their walls need not be expected to +vegetate, nor to die. + +I like to visit the smaller churches as opportunity is given. Their zeal +for the causes of humanity is often very intense and intelligent. +Sometimes, too, their contributions are a surprise. I know a little +country church in Ohio that one day raised forty-six dollars when only +forty-five persons were present. It was ten miles by stage from the +railroad. Now another gratifying surprise: out of that little flock +several people are planning to go to the Northampton meeting. + +I also know a church of foreigners, ninety-seven in membership, that +raised forty-seven dollars and fifty cents for our work in an evening +collection, or about fifty cents _per capita_. Awhile ago these foreigners +were a part of our _City_ problem. By the grace of God, they are now out +of the equation, and themselves, in turn, become helpers in solving that +other more extensive problem, of the races in the South. Such things as +these encourage us. + + * * * * * + +The Chicago Theological Seminary is desirous of completing its files of +the AMERICAN MISSIONARY for binding. The numbers missing are: February, +1887, October and November, 1871, January, 1862, November, 1861, the first +six months of 1858, and all the numbers for 1857. If any one has any of +these magazines that he would like to give to the Seminary, he will confer +a favor by sending them direct to L.A. Allesbrooke, 45 Warren Ave., +Chicago, Ill. + + + + + +The South +========= + + + + +Out To Rockhold, Ky. +-------------------- + + + Prof. R.C. Hitchcock + + +I wanted to see the people and especially the church and Sunday-school at +this outpost. Now one can go out there by rail, but that is prosaic. It is +not apostolic; those apostles tied on their sandals, girt up their +garments and walked. But I found I couldn't do that way, for there was the +big Cumberland to cross and several creeks, not to speak of "runs," +"branches" and mud-holes. The circuit riders? Yes, they went on horseback; +that must be my way, so I consulted Brother Tupper and he borrowed Mr. +Perkins's horse, noted as being an easy-going roadster. Easy? Well, I do +suppose the horse was all right, but I must indulge in one groan. It was a +long time since I had been on horseback. I wanted to go to the stable to +get on, but the young man insisted on bringing the steed down to the hotel +as soon as he had his feed, and in due time he came, a tall fellow, and I +doubted my ability to get my foot up to that stirrup, and somewhat whether +I could boost myself over into the saddle if I did; so I quietly and +gently coaxed him up to the piazza and actually succeeded the first time +trying. How many of the gentlemen, sitting in their Sunday best on the +piazza, smiled, I do not know--I didn't dare to look. I know I sat up ever +so stiff and tried to look just as if I had been a circuit rider for forty +years or so. + +I must cross the river to begin with. Now they hadn't given me any whip +and I didn't dare ask the owner of the horse--"Colt, gone four"--he said, +for a whip or even a switch, but I wondered what I would do if the animal +should take it into his head to turn around or do something awkward right +in the middle of the river. I didn't want to get off, for I must get on +again. As good luck would have it there was a kind-eyed man sitting on a +stone by the riverside, and I asked him to get me a stick. He gave me one +he had in his hand and I felt better. + +"Does the ford go right straight across?" I asked. "No, you must make a +curve up towards the dam or you will get into deep water, and there are +boulders too, you must avoid, or your horse may fall down." + +A curve! Now a straight line, two points being given, can be defined. And +if I could steer for some given point on the opposite bank, I could hit it +if the current did not take me down stream; but a curve is awfully +uncertain, and my mind was in a state of perturbation. However, I got +across with nothing worse than a good spattering. + +I wish I could paint the pictures constantly opening on the view as I rode +along. Forest clad mountains rose on every side with huge cliffs peering +grimly out. Sometimes these cliffs overhung the road and occasionally a +great slab of slate projected sufficiently to furnish shelter for a +family. In one place a farmer had taken advantage of this and made his +stable under a rock. A great slab of shaly slate projected so that he had +a roof some fifty feet long and ten or fifteen wide. My mind went back +eighteen hundred years and more to another stable in a rock and the +wonderful scene enacted there. It was not easy to believe that the little +cabins, looking like miniature houses which might be built by boys for +play, were actually homes, occupied by families, father, mother and eight +or ten children; but such is the case. + +Seven miles of constantly changing pictures, but all beautiful, brought me +to Rockhold, a name I had supposed derived from its physical +characteristics, but which I was informed was given in respect to a family +formerly the most important in the vicinity but now quite gone. I made my +way to the little church. In front was a huge wagon and in a little grove +at the back several horses tied. I had been informed that I might safely +address any man I found prominent, as "Elliott," and as I entered I so +accosted an elderly man whom I found in charge of a large class of young +men. About fifty were present, Mr. Elliott being the only male teacher, +three young ladies, two of whom I learned had been educated at Berea, +having charge of classes. After the lesson I addressed the people. The +characteristic that impresses me more than any other is their solemn +seriousness. They listen intently and with great eagerness. They are +hungry for preaching and feel it a great hardship that they can only have +it occasionally. Their faces were a study. There was hardly a weak one +among them and many bore the impress of great strength. But I would as +soon have told a story or joked at a funeral as under their serious eyes. + +The meeting over, several invited me to "go by" and take dinner, and I +accepted the first offer, which was made by a nice looking young lady in +mourning, who urged her claim by saying: "All the preachers go to our +house and father will be so disappointed if he don't see you; he couldn't +come to-day." + +This country has not yet got to the point of thinking bridges necessary +and roads are not for those who sit on springs and cushions. I never +wished so much for a "Kodak" that I might carry away a picture which I +shall always have in memory. To the long wagon, which had a high rack all +around it, were yoked a pair of milk-white oxen, round and handsome. In +front was seated Mrs. Elliott, holding her youngest child. At her side a +boy, perhaps twelve, who guided the team by a line attached to a horn. +Seated on chairs were nine young ladies and girls, nearly all in pretty +white dresses. + +Two miles of beautiful scenery and we reach the farm house, a commodious +and substantial rural home, of John Elliott, who gave me a cordial welcome +and soon the long table in the kitchen was spread with such a meal as I +had not enjoyed in many a day. The menu did not record many French dishes, +but everything was good, abundant and wholesome. + +After dinner, Mr. Elliott told me a story worth recording. It was that of +the heroic Mr. Richardson, who before the war was a teacher in that +district--a Northern man--and, in the excited state of feeling in the +South, was suspected of being an abolitionist. He and his wife were driven +from their home and work, but protected from personal violence by the +prompt and energetic efforts of the Elliotts. But as both Dr. Roy and Mr. +Ryder have given the details to the public, I will not repeat them here. I +will only add that of the fifty persons who had signed the paper pledging +themselves to "_remove_" Richardson, it would be difficult to find one now +in Whittley County. They are scattered or dead. But in the little church +at Rockhold, the name of Richardson is a sacred one, and the stranger +always hears the story. + +I took leave of this interesting family with great regret. As I sat in the +little grove in front of the house, with its carpet of myrtle, and looked +off over the peaceful valley, I wished I might remain there and rest. + +That horse had it pretty much his own way on the return seven miles, and +when I thought nobody was looking I must confess to finding it a very +pleasant thing to get both legs on the same side of the saddle. But I am +glad I went to Rockhold. I would not lose the pictures I got there for a +small sum and I hope and pray that the time may soon come when in some way +a regular preacher may be provided for the people. + + + + +Church Work. +------------ + + + +Dedication Of A Church At Byron, Ga. +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + +Words fail to express the pleasant time we had at Byron, in dedicating our +new house of worship to the service of God. We had a very large attendance +of people from Bibb, Houston, Taylor and Sumter counties. Nearly two +hundred people came from Andersonville, a large number came from Macon and +quite a company from Rutland. One brother was present from the Savannah +church. Altogether there were five of our Congregational churches +represented by their members and several others were heard from. I should +think that there were nearly, if not quite, four hundred people on the +grounds. Of course the building could not hold them all. Rev. J.R. McLean +preached the sermon, which was pronounced by a leading white man present, +to be the best he ever heard. Altogether the occasion was an inspiring +one. The hundreds of black faces so attentively listening to the words of +truth, so orderly and quietly, could not fail to impress us deeply. The +occasion was one that brought four of our churches into a very close +relationship, closer than they have ever been before; I mean, so many from +each church meeting face to face and forming each other's acquaintance. + +It is our wish and prayer to do well the work that is committed to our +hands. We are not afraid of hard work, we want time and means to do all +that we see is needed, and there is so much to be done. I feel like going, +going all the time with the message of God's love to dying men. The +opportunities are constantly increasing for usefulness. + + + +Promising Opening In Georgia. +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + +I came to the place where the people wanted a Sunday-school. They were +ready for it, with a rude building erected by the people themselves, and +waiting for me to begin work, and I have promised to organize a +Sunday-school on the second Sunday of next month. A young married woman, +the wife of a well-to-do farmer, and a former student in the Ballard +School, has promised to superintend it. She expects at least fifty +scholars, many of them her day pupils. I have given her singing books +and shall send to Boston for Sunday-school supplies. There is reason to +believe that we can some day organize a church in that place. I preached +in the new building last night and at the close of the service nearly +twenty-five bowed for prayers and asked for mercy. It was really +affecting and I only regretted that I could not remain and continue the +work which begins in so promising a manner. I have not the time to +describe in detail the work done on this trip. All along the road for +nearly forty miles people stopped me and I them to talk about the love +of God for man and the gift of his dear son as their Saviour and +Redeemer. My heart burns with a desire to do them good and I am so happy +in helping them see the truth as it is revealed in the Bible. There are +hundreds of colored people in that county who have no proper religious +instruction. They come from far and near whenever I go into that region, +and seem to be blessed in listening to the word of God. I am constantly, +from a half-dozen different counties, hearing the Macedonian cry: "Come +over and help us." I wish you could go with me and see these golden +opportunities. If our churches saw the needs and the openings for doing +good, they would increase many fold their offerings to this work. + + + +Encouraging Indications. +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + +I can see a manifestation of real earnestness on the part of a larger +proportion of the members of our church than at any time before since I +have been here. While none of our meetings are attended so well as they +should be, at the same time they are spiritual. And now, as we are getting +our minds and hearts ready for some extra meetings, our prayer meetings +are full of tenderness and sweetness. Last Thursday night, though it was +raining at the meeting hour, a goodly number came out and the blessed Lord +was with us. Our subject was "The Christian dignity of labor." It seemed +to be a new truth when they could see from his own word that Jesus was +interested in our daily work, John 21: 3-6. One faithful sister who is +trying to educate and provide for six children was very much helped by the +fact that Jesus would guide her if she was only willing to follow his +direction. The prayer meeting is the life of the church. + +I spent two days with Brother S---- at B---- last month, in some extra +meetings. The meetings were quite well attended; a goodly number of white +people were with us at almost every meeting. The Methodist minister of the +town was present and offered prayer. He expressed himself as highly +pleased with the sermon and hoped that we might do much good in the name +of the Lord. I find the very best of feeling towards our church there on +the part of the white people. I hope the church will do well and grow in +numbers and influence. + +JACKSON ST. CHURCH, NASHVILLE, TENN.--Yesterday was a red-letter day for +Jackson Street Church. It was communion day. Two were baptized and +admitted to the church. Our congregation numbered more than one hundred, +the largest audience we have yet had. It was also the day for special +collection. We collected thirteen dollars. This was done by means of the +envelope system without any blast of bugle. There were eleven conversions +in the Sunday-school recently. + +HOWARD CHAPEL, NASHVILLE, TENN.--Our attendance this month has never +fallen below forty-five. One of the established churches of the city with +a membership five times as large as ours has an average of ten to its +prayer meetings. We have fifteen or twenty. We have also organized a +Y.P.S.C.E. and a Bible class. It is the purpose of this class to study +Biblical biographies. We have studied so far the lives of Joseph, Moses, +Daniel, Esther, Ruth and David. It would do your heart good to see with +what enthusiasm the young people have entered upon this study and how they +master even the minutest details. I have every hope in the world for +Howard Chapel. + +SAVANNAH, GA.--Some years ago our flock was the smallest, now we have the +largest Sunday-school and congregation. The history of this church is +wonderful. God has been merciful towards it. Some who were our strongest +enemies years ago are now our best workers. I have a plan for next winter, +to open a night school and draw the young people from sin and Satan to our +blessed Lord. July the 18th, Brother L. and myself went to Porter's and +made a start on our meeting house. The man who gave the land cut down +trees, Brother L. dug holes and we planted the posts. Brother L. went back +and bought five hundred feet of lumber, and with God's help we intend to +take the train some day and finish our humble place of worship. + +NORTH ATHENS, TENN.--The church members gather with the children every +Friday afternoon to teach both boys and girls various kinds of work. +Capitalists and speculators are searching among the mountains for coal, +iron and timber. Why should not the Christian church search out the poor +mountaineers and bring them to Christ. Most of them were loyal to the +country. Slavery has for several generations denied them the advantages of +education. God has opened the door and bids us go in with the Bible and +the spelling-book to give to two millions of these people in our own +country a better culture, a purer Gospel. There are vast stores of wealth +in these mountains, but nothing of such value as the souls of this people. + + + + +Straight University. +-------------------- + + + + We are glad to copy from the Burlington (Vt.) _Daily Free + Press_ the following commendation of two of the appointees of + this Association, both graduates of the University of Vermont. + Mr. Atwood enters our service for the first time; Mr. + Henderson has already shown his efficiency in our work as a + preacher, and will enter upon his duties as a Professor under + favorable auspices. + + + +An eminently satisfactory and well-merited appointment is that of Mr. +Oscar Atwood of Jeffersonville, to be President of Straight University in +New Orleans. We can heartily congratulate the institution that it can +avail itself of the sound scholarship, the long experience, and the tried +executive ability of its president-elect. And no less do we congratulate +Mr. Atwood on his election to a post which will afford ample scope and +stimulus for the best that is in him. Straight University was founded +twenty-one years ago, and was designed especially for the education of the +colored youth. It is under the patronage of the American Missionary +Association, and has several departments in full operation. Mr. Atwood +took his A.B. degree at the University of Vermont in 1864; taught for a +time in various schools, including the academy at Essex, this State; for +two years was principal of the school at Underhill; then for seven years, +1871-78, was master of the High School at Plattsburgh, from which place he +was called to a similar position at Rutland. After nine years successful +labor there, he was forced to resign three years since on account of +continued trouble with his eyes. He has an excellent record both as +instructor and organizer and manager of school work. No better evidence of +his efficiency could be desired than the large number of young men who +have been stimulated by him to obtain a liberal education. + +We learn also that the Rev. George W. Henderson, of the class of 1887, +U.V., who for the last two years has been preaching in New Orleans, has +been appointed to a professorship in the same institution. Mr. Henderson +was originally a slave, as some of our readers know. He was prepared for +college by Mr. Atwood, took high rank at the University and at Yale +Theological Seminary, where he was graduated in 1883. He studied for a +time in Germany, and for a few years was principal of an academy in this +State. His work, we understand, is to be in the theological department, a +position for which he is well equipped. + + + + +Better Class Of Students. +------------------------- + + + By Prof. R.C. Hitchcock. + + +Last year was a "golden year" at Straight University in New Orleans. In +the first place, it is seldom the good fortune of any school to get a +corps of teachers so uniformly capable, and of such earnest Christian +spirit, willing to spend and be spent in the Master's service. + +Then every year brings a better class of students; not more sincere, +perhaps, but year by year they learn what "getting an education" means. +A few years ago it was quite impossible to make them realize that +steady, uninterrupted attendance was absolutely necessary to good work, +but as they have opportunity to compare the positions taken and the work +done by those who were regular and who remained at school long enough to +be really fit for good service, with those who thought they could come +in January and leave in April, getting an imperfect knowledge of things, +to their credit be it told, they _learn_--some _cannot_ learn life's +lessons--and there has been lately a gratifying eagerness to be present +at every recitation during the whole year. I do not think one has left +this year who could possibly remain. When the floods came and many of +them learned that their homes were under water, in some cases the +savings of many years in buildings and stock washed away, they came to +us saying they must go as they could no longer pay, but we told them to +wait. White-winged missives flew over Uncle Sam's postal way, and back +from many a church and Sunday-school came the needed aid, and--save in +the case of some young men who had to care for helpless ones at +home--none left. From these last came many an interesting story of the +heroic efforts to save life and property. The skill to wield tools, +acquired in our shop, helped many a one to build a "flat" in which +family, stock and furniture could be floated to dry land. Many had to +work night and day up to the waist, sometimes to the neck, in water to +save what might be. It will be a hard year, the coming one, for many in +the parishes of this State, though no doubt work will be plenty as soon +as the water is down. + + + + +Temperance In Tennessee. +------------------------ + + +This is certainly a very interesting field, not going backward but +forward. The temperance reform has made a clean sweep of the whole +village, and in union with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at the +station is fast pushing the saloons to the wall. The most striking feature +of the case is that they have learned how to work in the absence of their +leader. Two weeks ago last Sabbath night they held their own meeting--a +Bible reading institution among themselves, by the way, at which many were +present--and the old revival spirit broke out afresh to such a degree that +the last of their friends, to the number of eighteen, who still clung to +their cups, made haste to sign the pledge of total abstinence. + + + + +Items. +------ + + + Letter From A Graduate Of Straight University. + + +There was an examination held in this city recently for clerkships at +Washington. The announcement of it in the newspapers and the certainty of +the successful applicants receiving appointments drew a large number of +young men to the examination, among whom were Tulane University graduates +and several principals of high schools. I had the honor of sustaining the +reputation of "Old Straight," by leading the list. The affair created much +local excitement and the name of Straight University is commanding much +respect. I am pleased at the prospect of the increased opportunities a +residence at Washington will afford me for the prosecution of my medical +studies. + + * * * * * + +Fisk University is well represented in the journalistic world, says the +_Tennessee Star_. The following graduates are pushing the quill: S.A. +McElwee and W.A. Crosthwait, editors of the _Nashville Tribune_; H.C. Gray, +editor of the _Galveston Test_; R.S. Holloway, associate editor of the +_Dallas Tribune_, and Geo. T. Robinson, editor of the _Star_. + + * * * * * + + + + We print this letter from a boy who wants to go to school. We + give it just as he wrote it, and hope to have the privilege of + printing a letter from him five years hence with a view to the + contrast. + + + + Augst 25th. + +Mr. Proseser D.: + +Der ser i hav bin in form of the ---- coldge and is it quite a distant and +i thout i would rite you afew lines i want you to write to me how i can +get Bord and what it will cost me a week or a munth and what is tuisson I +want to noe before i come and i want to start in a short time rite to me +all about it i will ickspeck anser soon, and Adress me. + +When I start in I want to goe 2 sesson's before I stop i think can conplet +most of inlesh studys in that time. + + + +Does The Lord Understand His Business? +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + + Rev. J.H.H. Sengstacke. + + +THEN. + +All through the early spring I heard complaints as follows: "The season is +against us and we shall not make anything." "Unless a change we must +starve." The season paid no attention to complaints but kept right on. + +Now. + +To-day God has blessed all with a good crop; plenty to eat and plenty to +sell. What next? The grumbling still continues. "There is so much that we +cannot get a high price for our produce." + + * * * * * + +If "resemble" means like, as one of the girls found when consulting the +dictionary, why is it not proper to say as she did, "I 'resemble' very +much to be at home?" + + * * * * * + + + +Letters From Very Little Pupils. +................................ + + +_My dear teacher_:--I would like to have grace and truth before God, and I +hope I am now his little girl.--LUCY. + +_Dear teacher_:--I want religion.--ARTELIA. + +_My dear teacher_:--If I had my choice of anything I wanted, I would +choose a Christian life, so when I came to die I would die in Jesus, like +Daisy Holt died.--ROXY. + + + + * * * * * + + + +Pictures In The Pines. +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + + Prof. Amos W. Farnham. + + +In the Sunny South, in the Land of Pines, +Is a whitewashed cottage, old and grand; +Its ample grounds of jessamine vines, +Are bright with crystals of sparkling sand. +Broad stairways lead to its airy hall +And cool piazzas, where the sun +His shining arrows ne'er lets fall +Till his daily race is almost run. + +Within are walls of panels high, +And great fire-places that laugh at night, +When the blazing splinters of lightwood fry +And wrap the rooms in a flood of light. +'Tis then the cabins in the rear, +Low and little and plain and old, +Are vocal with the Negro'a cheer, +For his heart is light when the day is told. + +But there's one who sits from the rest apart, +With folded hands and turbaned head, +With a nameless burden upon her heart, +And the light of youth forever fled. +And she sits a swaying to and fro, +Like the billowy pine with plume and cone, +While a minor strain subdued and slow, +She sings in a plaintive monotone: + +("I'm mos' don' a trablin' an' I boun' +To carry my sould to Jesus +I'm mos' don' a trablin' an' I boun' +To carry my sould to de Lord.") + +Then 'neath the whitewashed cottage vines, +From its window that looks on the dying day, +I gaze at the pictures in the pines, +Made by their plumes and cones of gray. +'Mong the leafy pictures is a crown, +Bedecked with a brightly shining star, +By angel hands held out and down +From the western gate that stands ajar. + +My crown is bright when the year is new, +Nor changes, when its frosts appear: +For the star still shines in its ground of blue, +And the pine tree lives when the rest are sere. +From the pine my thoughts ascend above +To the Tree of LIfe that Heaven adorns; +From the star to the Star of my Saviour's Love, +That grandly shone in a crown of thorns. + +Oh, Star of Love, thy beams shall guide +Me through the shadows of earth and sin, +Till Heaven's gate shall open wide +To let thy weary follower in. +I note the onward march of time +By the Negro's songs and the lightwood's glare, +And know I'm nearing the happy clime +And the starry crown that I shall wear. + + + + + +The Indians. +============ + + + + +Mr. Shelton At Northfield Again. +-------------------------------- + + + + Mr Moody is nothing if not practical, and when he undertakes a + thing he is apt to push it through. We give below another + pleasant illustration of this. Our readers will remember that + Rev. C.W. Shelton two years ago made an address at the great + Missionary Meeting at Northfield, Mass., which touched the + sympathies of the audience and moved Mr. Moody at once to "do + something about it." Under his inspiration three thousand five + hundred dollars were raised to establish several new Indian + mission stations in Dakota. + + At Mr. Moody's solicitation, Mr. Shelton attended the + Northfield Missionary Meeting this year, making report of what + had been done with the money given before. The enthusiasm of + the audience was again kindled, with a result which we give + below, condensing the sketch of the meeting as given in the + _Springfield Union_. + + + +The meeting opened with prayer by Major D.W. Whittle, and then Rev C.W. +Shelton of New York City, who is connected with the American Missionary +Association, spoke about the work among the Indians. He said that two +years ago the people of Northfield gave money enough to establish five +mission stations; and he would first report on the work in those missions. +The first one had been established one hundred and fifty miles northwest +of Bismarck, and was called the Moody station. Having found two classes of +people thirty miles apart, both of whom seemed to be equally in need, we +had been in doubt as to where to plant the station; but finally a man was +found whose parentage included both nations, and who was willing and able +to preach to both in their own language. We had, therefore, started two +stations, calling them both by the same name, and with this man managing +them. People had told him that he couldn't do anything in the interior of +the country occupied by the Indians, but he described his meeting with the +Indians at that remote place, and their willingness to receive the gospel, +one of the chiefs finally saying to him: "When you go back I want you to +take that man by the hand that sent that school and thank him, and tell +him that we will try to live like the white man." The speaker accordingly +took Mr. Moody's hand and thanked him in those words, raising a perfect +storm of applause by so doing. + +The next mission was called the Frederick Darling Memorial mission, and +was established sixty miles below Bismarck. There was good work going on +there. Sixty miles farther down still there was located the Robert +Remington Memorial mission, and the reservation had since then been opened +up for settlement, as they had prophesied, and, as the Indians came up the +valley, driven out from their homes, there stood a man at the door of the +mission, who invited them in, and so to-day there were gathering round +that mission hundreds of Indians, forsaking their tepees, building their +houses and taking the first steps toward civilization. + +On Cherry Creek, the Sankey mission was located, and, although it was not +two years since that work was begun, they had a church of about forty +members. + +The funds for the Northfield mission were given by quite a number of +people here and the Indians who could be reached by it from the opening of +the reservation during the last few months had nearly doubled. They had +organized one church only a few weeks ago some distance off, and expected +to organize another there within a few months. + +"What do you want now?" said Mr. Moody at this point. Mr. Shelton replied: +"We haven't a dollar for carrying on a single one of these missions after +the first of September. It costs from $300 to $350 to carry each of them +on. But I believe that God has started this work and will carry it on. Let +me add a word with regard to the whole Indian problem. It is not the +problem I presented to you two years ago; it has changed in the two years, +and, thank God, it will change in two years more, if we do the work we +ought to. Do we realize that our Indians are getting beyond the wild life? +Forty thousand Indian people have come out of the tepee life into little +homes that these Indian men have built for themselves, taking their people +forward toward Christ. We talk of the Indian in his paint and blanket, +forgetting that he is coming forth into life. His game is gone, his wild +roving life is gone, his reservation is going. They understand their +position; the old life is back of them forever. What is before them? Old +Gall showed a scar reaching from his shoulder to his hip, and said: 'A +white man gave me that; shall I trust him, dare I trust him, can I trust +him?' The Indian takes a step ahead, and stops and trembles, doesn't know +if he dare take another. + +"Do you want to know the solution of the Indian problem to-day? In +Christ's love take the Indians by the hand and lead them out into the same +light, the same love, and to the same Christ that you have. You can talk +about the government and land in severalty. Grand and good as these are, +the first and all-important thing in that problem is the gospel of Christ. +It must do it, it can do it, it is doing it, it will do it. The Women's +Missionary Societies of fifteen Indian churches gave $200 more for home +missionary work outside themselves than the Women's Missionary Societies +in one hundred and forty churches of white people in the same time. They +have Christian Endeavor societies there, and all kinds of Christian work. +I saw one morning delegates from the Christian Endeavor Society going out +to teach a white Sunday-school nine miles off in one direction, and +another similar school four and one-half miles off in another. + +"It is said that the young people will go back to the blanket. In ten +years we have had only one case of that in our Santee school, and that was +the case of a young girl who had only been in the school six months; 95 +per cent. of all that come to the schools go back consecrated young men +and women. + +"When you think that your five stations have gathered in two or three +hundred scholars and of the possibility for each, can you tell what will +be the result of this work? There are thirty thousand poor Indians in +Dakota alone, lifting up their cry to the Christian church for light and +hope." He added: "I have turned my back to many storms on the Dakota +prairies, but God grant you may never turn your back on a soul praying for +light. I sometimes dread the day of judgment, because there is to stand +the Indian. I would rather stand there in his place than to hear him say: +'I was hungry and ye gave me no food.' How shall we meet it, how shall we +answer it? for to meet it and answer it we must before the throne." + +Here Mr Shelton finished and sat down. "Now let's pay our debts," said Mr. +Moody. "How many people will give $100 toward that $1,800 for sustaining +those missions?" It didn't seem as though there were many responses at +first, but in a few minutes eighteen names were handed to H.M. Moore of +Boston, who was keeping account, and then Mr. Moody asked if there wasn't +anything else he wanted--a new mission anywhere? Mr. Shelton of course +said there was, and spoke of a place on the Rosebud Agency where $500 was +needed to build a school, and $300 to take care of it for a year. Here was +Mr. Moody's chance again, and he asked if some one wouldn't give $100 for +that. One or two contributions of $100 were forthcoming, and any number of +fifties came in, so that it was only a few minutes when Mr. Moore +announced that they had $875 for that. Then Mr. Moody said he wanted to +have the people start one more new mission and proposed that unfailing +American resource, a collection. The hats were soon busy in all parts of +the house, and at the end of the meeting it was found that $640 had been +collected for another mission, making a grand total of $3,315.04, to be +exact, raised within twenty minutes, for the work among the Dakota +Indians. Mr. Moody looked more bright and cheerful than he has during the +conference, as he kept calling for more contributions, and his method of +applying for one seldom failed. "Col. Esty, of Brattleboro, isn't here, +but he's all right, so we'll put him down for $100," he remarked, as the +interest flagged for a moment, and that was the signal for a laugh and +another name was sent up. Altogether it was the most enthusiastic and +thoroughly roused audience of the session. + + + + +The Widow's Mite. +----------------- + + + + We gladly subjoin the following brief note from Mrs. Mary E. + Fairbanks, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., addressed to Rev. Mr. + Shelton. We appreciate, as she does, the gift of the widow. + + + +"Please find enclosed (stamps) .50 for the Indian work. A few days after +you were with us, a poor widow, aged and feeble, brought some sewing which +she had done for me, and for which I paid her $2.50. She handed back fifty +cents, asking me if I could in any way send it to Mr. Shelton for the work +among the Indians. 'A widow's mite,' she said. I told her I would be very +glad to do it. I think the Lord must have looked with favor on her gift. I +have often sent to her missionary papers, magazines, etc., and know she +had greatly enjoyed the reading. You certainly touched her heart, as you +did many others. I hope the Lord is fulfilling your desires." + + + + + +The Chinese +=========== + + + + +The Pictures +------------ + + +Dr. Pond has sent us two pictures which we are glad to insert in this +number. Of one of them he says: "It is a photograph of our Oroville +Mission House, pupils, teachers, etc. The taller of the two white men in +light clothing is the young pastor of our church at Oroville, who is a +real _helper_; the other is myself. The two white ladies are Miss Deuel, +former teacher, on the right, and Miss Keifer, the present teacher, +sitting next to me. The little American boy is her nephew, greatly +interested in the school. The little Chinese boy is a child whom the +brethren have partially and after a sort adopted, and who is very bright +and promising and means to be a Christian. Our helper, Chung Moi, stands +directly behind me; but the picture does him injustice. He has a very +prepossessing face. The one who stands on the left of Miss Deuel (i.e. at +_her_ right hand) is Gee Jet, the deacon of our little church and the +stand-by of the mission. The trees in the rear grow at the water's edge of +Feather River. The building, as you observe, is of brick, topped out with +a shake roof put on by our brethren after the last (of two or three I +believe) sweeping fires to which the little structure refused to succumb. +It belongs to ex-Governor Perkins of this State--once a merchant in +Oroville--and has been used by us for ten years or more, ever since our +mission was established, free of rent." + +The other cut is also a picture of the teachers and pupils at Oroville. + + + + +Lights And Shadows +------------------ + + + Rev. W.C. Pond, D.D. + + +LIGHTS.--One teacher writes: "Mr. B. [a distinguished lecturer from Ohio] +visited our school. He said that he had never seen before such bright, +happy faces among the Chinese. I told him the reason; they have been +brought out from heathenism. I love to notice the change it makes in +them." + +Chin Toy writes from Riverside: "Five boys converted and joined in +Association since I came. Four boys are going to join Rev. Mr. Hunt's +church, (Congregational), and be baptized at the first Sunday of July. +This Association of Christian Chinese has ten members now. I like these +boys and like these teachers too; they are so helpful to the Lord's work." + +[Illustraton: Mission House At Oroville.] + +[Illustration: Teachers And Pupils At Oroville.] + +Hong Sing writes from Petaluma: "Now I am going to ask you especially to +pray for two scholars here who I hope for to gain him to Christ before I +leave. I am glad that one accepted my advice and promised yesterday to +join our Association, but sorry the other one excuse. I pray to God for +the Holy Spirit to open his eyes to see his guilt and danger, and how much +he needs a Saviour." + +From a pupil in Santa Barbara, addressed to our missionary helper, Loo +Quong: "It is now fifth month since I left you at Los Angeles. The time +seems very long indeed. We hope dear God give you a great power to cast +out the devil; and sowing the seed it bring forth fruit hundred fold into +the only God. At beginning we came to the United States [i.e. I first came +to the United States] about May, 1881. We did not know of Jesus Christ, +because born in the heathen country and work here in the Chinese store. +Then we hear the Chinese mission--talk with Jesus Christ, do nothing to +our idols and very different from us, for we were with evil companions and +do many things in gambling, lottery tickets, opium. Dr. Pond open +Congregational mission school about 1887 in Los Angeles, very near our +house. Then we was been to school about every evening. Mrs. Sheldon and +you teach very kind to us, and you explain the gospel of Jesus. So we know +the only true God, leave evil companions, join our Association and sixth +month join Dr. Hutchins' church. 'And when they had brought their ships to +land, they forsook all and followed him.'--Luke 5:11." + +From Fresno; from Loo Quong: "Now I have some good news for you. There +were three more of our pupils joined the Association, making nine in all. +God will care for this little flock of his, and may they multiply a +hundred fold! One of them was in school at Hong Kong many years ago before +he touched the American soil. He also was in our Central School at San +Francisco three years ago. Two months ago I was surprised to see him here. +At once he attended our school and began to ask me about Christ's +teaching. He would have no other lesson but in the Bible." (Miss Worley +writes of this pupil that he wishes now to become a missionary). Of +another of these three, Loo Quong writes: "He is one of the best young men +I ever knew, * * so kind, so quiet, so modest, so full of love. I think he +looks like our Lord when on earth. He is always on hand at school. When I +asked him to join the Association, he said that he fully believed Jesus +that he is the Saviour of his soul, 'but how can I be his disciple while I +am in the gambling business?' We explained to him how God would take care +of those who gave up all for him, and the next night he told me he was +ready to give it up and walk with Christians." Of the third, also, a good +account is given, but I must not use more space on the Lights, but turn to +the + +SHADOWS--One example must suffice. I must not mention either place or +person, lest harm come of it. A teacher writes: "I feel sure that two +little boys whom you sent to assist in our anniversary will grow to +Christian manhood, fed as they are on the Word. With sorrow I compared +with their surroundings those of our little ---- ----, and I write to +know if something cannot be done. Two years ago he entered the school, +having come directly from China. He has always been studious and +well-behaved, loving his Bible and the gospel songs. The mission boys +tell me that those with whom he lives are not his parents, but that this +man bought him in China. The child remembers his mother and brothers. He +also remembers a man offering him something if he would go with him. He +did so and was carried off in a boat and sold. His owner is very fond of +him, but is away from home. The wife does not care much for him. +Sometimes there are black and blue marks on his hands where he says she +strikes him. Once there was a small burned place on both his lips. I +asked him about it, and he said "Mamma." One of the boys told me that he +talked too much and she put the hot poker on his lips. I have heard that +this man intends taking the boy back to China in a year or two, fearing +that in this county he will lose him. They are bad people, keeping an +opium den." + +The shadow deepens when the question rises, "What can be done for this +boy?" He is in the grip of an "_Imperium in imperio_," to which some years +ago I had occasion to refer in these columns. Even Americans who know the +facts and are eager to help him, feel as though it would be scarcely safe +for them to rescue him. Our wisest Chinese helpers say: "Wait, watch over +him, but don't disturb existing relations. It would break up our mission +in that place. Chinese would not dare to be identified with it. The boy +will soon come to understand his rights and will assert them for himself, +and then you can help him." But it almost makes one's blood boil to think +that on American soil such counsel can be given and perhaps ought to be +observed. + + + + + +Bureau Of Woman'S Work. +======================= + + + Miss D.E. Emerson, Secretary. + + + + + All ladies interested in missions are earnestly invited to be + present at the gathering of Women's Home Missionary + Organizations to be held in Northampton, Mass., Tuesday, Oct + 21st. This meeting will be in the First Church. Interesting + speakers have been secured to represent the work of our six + National Societies. The day promises to be one full of + interest, and we hope there will be a large delegation of + ladies present from all over our land, and that they will pray + earnestly for the spirit of the Master to be present in this + gathering. + + NATHALIE LORD, COMMITTEE. + + + + +The Woman's Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held on +Thursday afternoon, October 23d, in the Edwards Church at Northampton, +Mass. All are cordially invited to attend. + +We call especial attention of ladies to the Woman's Meetings at +Northampton, Mass., Oct. 21st and 23d. The first, on Tuesday, of which +notice is given above, is the meeting of the Women's Organizations of the +several States as represented on page 321. They extend from Maine to +California, and we would that there might be present delegates from every +State. + +The second meeting, on Thursday afternoon, October 23d, is the Annual +Meeting of the Bureau of Woman's Work of the American Missionary +Association, at which missionaries from different departments of our work +will come face to face with the friends who have cheered and supported +them, and will tell somewhat of the every day life on the field. An +unusually interesting programme is promised. + +We take this opportunity and method of thanking those officers of the +State Organizations who have been recently sent us a revised list of their +auxiliaries to date, that the missionary letters from the field may be +mailed directly to each church society thus represented. Every state that +has pledged itself to aid the work of the American Missionary Association +is entitled to these field reports, which are sent out from the New York +office through the Bureau of Woman's Work, and we shall be glad to +receive the correct address for each auxiliary society. + + + + +Christian Endeavor For The Boys And Girls Of The Southern Mountains +------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + A New Need. + + +A large number of the mountain people are so poor that they cannot pay +even the bare cost of living for their girls and boys in order that they +may have the privilege of attending school. Rarely can a family send more +than one child to school, and in every case where one can go a boy is +selected. The brothers must wait until perhaps too late, and the sisters +must remain at home in ignorance. Thus it is found that the advantages of +Christian schools, brought so near to the mountain boys and girls by the +American Missionary Association, are not yet sufficiently within their +reach, and this gives rise to a new need in connection with our work in +the South. It is a need of young people and we turn to young people to +meet it, believing that our Christian Endeavor Societies and other Young +People's Societies will not lose this special opportunity for missionary +work. + +A Student's Fund of $3,000 is to be raised in $50 shares, upon which we +will draw to bring the young people of the mountains into these schools, +and to help them over hard places according to their need. Pupils will be +encouraged to help themselves all they can, and no pledges will be made to +any until they have reached the limit of their own resources, and no +specified amount will be assigned to any one pupil. Each will be helped +according to his condition. A boy may be able to reach the school and work +part of his board and need only a small sum to cover the expense of the +full year. A girl may need to have her traveling expenses paid and only +this; another, giving promise of usefulness, may have her full way paid +during the year. Some will be kept through the entire school year, who +otherwise could study but a few months. + +The training the young people receive in these schools brings a sure +reward. We quote from a letter just received from one of our missionaries: + +"I am very hopeful for the Christian work among the students this year. +The Christian Endeavor Society is in much better condition than last year. +The members understand better the meaning of 'Christian Endeavor,' and +that being a Christian means a daily application of Christian principles +to every day life." + +Now why cannot our Christian Endeavor and Young People's Societies take +this work to their hearts, and thus be the means of preparing others for +Christian work? Why not do for these poor, but bright and interesting +American boys and girls there, what will bring more of them into the +fraternity of Christian Endeavor? + +We will send at once to any who desire it, full information of our +mountain work, and all who contribute to this fund may have their offering +assigned to aid pupils in one of our schools, from which letters will be +written by a missionary during the year, giving information directly from +the field. + +Here is an urgent need outside our usual lines of expense, for which we +seek new and additional help--not the diversion of regular annual +contributions. We break the fund into shares of $50 that many may have +part in it. Early response either in cash, or pledges to be cashed by +July, 1891, will result in giving many of these young people the +advantages of Christian education during the present school year. + + + + +Woman's Work In North Carolina +------------------------------ + + +We have a Woman's Missionary Meeting once a month; it began last November, +with six members; there are now eleven. We have, too, a Mission Band, +which many of the older scholars have joined as associate members. It is +held fortnightly, after the Sunday school, and generally the whole +congregation stay to hear what is going on. + +Last Sunday morning we went to Pekin, starting at 8 A.M. It is a drive of +fifteen miles through turpentine forests, and the roads are very rough; we +go up hill and down all the way, three creeks to cross and one river. +Across this there is a bridge, rather originally constructed. We go down a +steep and sharp curve, on the edge of high banks, and then through a +covered bridge across the rushing stream, which is seen between the foot +planks, and we are thankful to get across without any backing on our +horse's part. The woods are very lovely just now, very few wild flowers, +but such a variety of foliage, and we notice a beautiful flowering shrub, +called "ivory "; it is a mass of delicate pink or white blossoms. These +turpentine forests are by no means all pines, there are many varieties of +oak. + +The Sunday-school at Greenlake church, Pekin, is held at 9 A. M. Our +object this morning is to meet the children and teachers, before they +disperse, and organize a Mission Band. The little church, or rather +schoolhouse, is situated on a hill, and there is a fine view of the +rolling country; only this morning one longs for a little shade. One of +our former scholars (now working in the turpentine) comes out and takes +our horse. + +The school is just over, and we hear there is to be preaching at 11; it is +now 10:15, so we ask the pupils to stay. We sing and then Miss Bechan +explains about foreign missions and mission bands. They give in their +names and appoint officers, agreeing to meet twice a month. They have also +a Woman's Missionary Auxiliary, which has been meeting once a month since +last December. + +There is a recess of ten minutes, then the preaching begins. The preacher +is a young man, who would gain much (as would his hearers) by attending +school a few years. This is one of the heart-sores in the work here--the +great ignorance of many of the preachers. Some of them will tell you, they +have had "no education," and, indeed, it is all too plain, from their +curious expressions and mis-applied long words; but worst of all is their +ignorance of the Bible. But how can they do better till they have been +taught? There is a crying need of educated pastors in these country +places. The young men tell us, they "do not find religion interesting;" +one said, that, after "having tried it two or three times." It is hardly to +be wondered at, that they are not interested, when the thunder is all that +is shown them. They are told they ought "to quake and tremble," and if +they do not, they "show by their actions that they mean to go to hell." + + + + +Woman's State Organizations. +---------------------------- + + + Co-operating With The American Missionary Association. + + +MAINE. + +WOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A. + +Chairman of Committee--Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me. + +NEW HAMPSHIRE. + +FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION AND HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Joseph B. Walker, Concord. Secretary--Mrs. John T. Perry, +Exeter. Treasurer--Mlas Annie A. McFarland, Concord. + +VERMONT. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. A. B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington. Secretary--Mrs. M. +K. Paine, Windsor. Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury. + +MASS. AND R.I. + +(2)WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +President--Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, Mass. + +Secretary--Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational House, Boston. + + +Treasurer--Miss Sarah K. Burgess, 32 Congregational House, Boston. + +CONNECTICUT. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Jacob A. Biddle,35 West Street, South Norwalk. + +Secretary--Miss Ellen R. Camp, New Britain. + +Treasurer--Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford. + +NEW YORK. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., Brooklyn. + +Secretary--Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, Syracuse. + +Treasurer--Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New York City. + +PENNSYLVANIA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. W.H. Osterhaut, Ridgway. + +Secretary--Mrs. C.F. Yennee, Ridgway. + +Treasurer--Mrs. T.W. Jones, 218 So. 37th St., Philadelphia. + +OHIO. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland. + +Secretary--Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin. + +Treasurer--Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Box 932, Mt Vernon, Ohio. + +INDIANA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. W.A. Bell, Indianapolis. + +Secretary--Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne. + +Treasurer--Mrs. D.T. Brown, Michigan City. + +ILLINOIS. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., Chicago. + +Secretary--Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago. + +Treasurer--Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign. + +IOWA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. T.O. Douglass, Grinnell. + +Secretary--Miss Ella E. Marsh, Box 232, Grinnell. + +Treasurer--Mrs. M.J. Nichoson, 1513 Main St., Dubuque. + +MICHIGAN. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. George M. Lane, 47 Miami Ave., Detroit. + +Secretary--Mrs. Leroy Warren, Lansing. + +Treasurer--Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Greenville. + +WISCONSIN. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. H.A. Miner, Madison. + +Secretary--Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead. + +Treasurer--Mrs. C.M. Blackman, Whitewater. + +MINNESOTA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +President--Mrs. E.S. Williams, Box 464, Minneapolis. + +Secretary--Miss Gertude A. Keith, 1350, Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis. + +Treasurer--Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield. + +NORTH DAKOTA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +President--Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight. + +Secretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood. + +Treasurer--Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo. + +SOUTH DAKOTA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle. + +Secretary--Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron. + +Treasurer--Miss A.A. Noble, Lake Preston. + +NEBRASKA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln. + +Secretary--Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St., Fremont. + +Treasurer--Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete. + +MONTANA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. F.D. Kelsey, Helena. + +Secretary--Mrs. W.S. Bell, Helena. + +Treasurer--Mrs. S.A. Wallace, Billings. + +MISSOURI. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. A.W. Benedict, 3841 Delmar Ave., St Louis. + +Secretary--Mrs. E.H. Bradbury, 3855 Washington Ave., St Louis. + +Treasurer--Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. Louis. + +KANSAS. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +President--Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka. + +Secretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka. + +Treasurer--Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa. + +WASHINGTON. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +President--Mrs. W.E. Dawson, Seattle. + +Secretary--Mrs. N.F. Cobleigh, Walla Walla, + +Treasurer--Mrs. W.R. Abrams, Ellensburg. + +CALIFORNIA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +President--Mrs. H.L. Merritt, 686 34th St, Oakland. + +Secretary--Miss Grace E. Barnard, 677 21st St., Oakland. + +Treasurer--Mrs. J.M. Havens, 1329 Harrison St., Oakland. + +SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Emma Cash, 1710 Temple St., Los Angeles. + +Secretary--Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Pasadena. + +Treasurer--Mrs. H.W. Mills, 327 So. Olive St., Los Angeles. + +COLORADO AND WYOMING. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado. + +Secretary--Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., Colorado Springs, +Colorado. + +Treasurer--Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado. + +Treasurer--Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, Wyoming. + +LOUISIANA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. R.C. Hitchcock, New Orleans. + +Secretary--Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans. + +Treasurer--Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond. + +MISSISSIPPI. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Miss Sarah Dickey, Clinton. + +Secretary--Miss Alice Flagg, Tougaloo. + +Treasurer--Miss Mary Gibson, Tougaloo. + +ALABAMA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega. + +Secretary--Miss S.S. Evans, 2519 Third Ave., Birmingham. + +Treasurer--Miss M.K. Lunt, Selma. + +FLORIDA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville. + +Secretary--Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park. + +Treasurer--Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood. + +TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION. + +President--Mrs. E.M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn. + +Secretary--Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn. + +Treasurer--Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn. + +NORTH CAROLINA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill. + +Secretary--Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh. + +Treasurer--Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh. + +TEXAS. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. S.C. Acheson, 149 W. Woodard St., Denison. + +Secretary, Mrs. Mary A. McCoy, 132 No. Harwood St., Dallas. + +Treasurer--Mrs. C.I. Scofield, Dallas. + + + + + +Receipts For August, 1890. +========================== + + + + +The Daniel Hand Fund, +--------------------- + + + For the Education of Colored People. + + +from + +Mr. Daniel Hand, Guilford, Conn. + +Income for August, 1890 $4,197.35 +Income previously acknowledged 9,559.61 +Total $13,756.96 + + + + + +Current Receipts. +----------------- + + +MAINE, $431.17. +Brewer. First Cong. Ch. 20.50 +Castine. By Rev. A.E. Ives 3.00 +Freedom Village. Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Hampdon. Cong. Ch. 7.50 +Limerick. Miss E.P. Hayes, for 50.00 +Land, Raleigh, N.C. +Limerick, Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 +Newcastle. Second Cong. Ch. to 60.00 +const. MISS ANGIE HEATH and MRS. +LOUISE M. CHASE L.M.'s +Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and 196.50 +Soc., 150; "John Elliott, +Collector," 41.50; Hannah Watts, 5 +Searsport. First Cong. Ch. 17.45 +Waterford. First Cong. Ch. 2.72 +Wells. Second Cong. Ch. 11.50 +Yarmouth. First Parish Ch. 50.00 +------. "Friend," for Williamsburg. 2.00 +Ky. + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $230.90. +Bath. Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Colebrook. "E. and C., by favor of 5.00 +Dr. E." +Goffstown. Cong. Ch. 38.73 +Hanover. Mrs. Susn A. Brown, for 70.00 +Indian Schp. +Keene. First Cong. Ch. 9.69 +Manchester. Franklin St. Cong. Ch., +Box of Hymn Books, for Mountain +Work. +Milford. First Cong. Ch. 40.00 +Nashua. Y.P.S.C.E., Pilgrim Cong. 35.00 +Ch., for Indian Schp. +New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.88 +Newmarket. Mrs. Hannah M. Moses 5.00 +North Hampton. J.L. Philbrook 5.00 +Temple. Mrs. L.W.C. Keyes 1.00 +------------ 20.60 + + +VERMONT, $358.34. +Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. 24.00 +Chelsea, Member Cong. Ch. 25.00 +East Hardwick, "A Friend." 15.00 +Northfield. "A Friend," to const. 30.00 +NATHANAEL KING L. M. +Saint Johnsbury. Franklin 125.00 +Fairbanks. 100; Mrs. Franklin +Fairbanks, 25, for Indian M. +Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch., 15.00 +for McIntosh, Ga. +Saint Johnsbury. Mrs. Albert L. 5.00 +Farwell's SS Class, North Cong Ch., +for Indian Schp. +Vergennee. Cong. Ch. 15.00 +Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.00 +Woman's Home Missionary Union of +Vermont, by Mrs. William P. +Fairbanks, Treas., for Woman's +Work; +-- Lyndonville. Ladies' Soc., for 5.00 +McIntosh, Ga. +-- Saint Johnsbury. Ladies of So. 25.00 +Ch., for Mountain Work. +-- Stowe. Whatsoever Miss'y Circle, 4.34 +for Mcintosh, Ga. +-- West Glover. L. H. M. S., for 5.00 +McIntosh, Ga. +-- West Randolph. Miss L. T. Clark, 25.00 +for Mountain Work. + ----- + 64.34 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $2,328.29. +Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 +Boston.--Roxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. 330.56 +Ch. +Roxbury. Immanuel Ch., Bbl. of C., +for Williamsburg, Ky + ----- + 330.56 +Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.23 +Braintree. First Cong. Ch. 5.25 +Brimfield. P. C. Browning, 10; Mrs. 12.00 +J. S. Webber, 2 +Cambridge. Mrs. C. A. Phelps, for 12.00 +Pleasant Hill, Tenn. +Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. 15.00 +Chelsea. C. H. Keelar's S. S. 6.92 +Class, Central Cong. Ch., for ed. +of a girl, Oahe, Indian Sch., Dak. +Dalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for 17.50 +Schp., Santes Indian Sch. +Foxbury. R. R. Holmes. .50 +Franklin. Y.P.S.C.E., by B. M. 25.00 +Rockwood, for Jewett Memorial Hall, +Grand View, Tenn. +Gardner. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 17.50 +First Cong. Ch., for Indian Schp. +Georgetown. Mission Circle of First 10.00 +Cong. Ch. +Holbrook. Winthrop Cong. Ch. 20.00 +Holliston. "Bible Christians." 100.00 +Holyoke. Mrs. A. H. Child 5.00 +Huntington. First Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. 47.50 +Leominster. Y.P.S.C.E., Orthodox 50.00 +Cong. Ch., for Indian M., Santee +Home +Leominster. Mrs. W. M. Howland, for 15.00 +Indian M. +Longmeadow. Mrs. Julia H. 5.00 +Goldthwait, for Straight U. +Lynn. North Cong. Ch. 50.00 +Marlboro. Mrs. Agnes H. Mooney, for 1.00 +Indian M. +Medway. Village Cong. Ch., in part 50.00 +Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.75 +Milton. First Cong. Ch. 32.52 +Natick. First Cong. Ch. 100.00 +Northfield. E. J. Humphrey, for new 5.00 +Indian Station, Dak. +Orange. Central Evan Cong. Ch. 19.23 + +Paxton. Cong. Ch. 10.76 +Peabody. South Cong. Ch. 77.00 +Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner 20.00 +Springfield. "Friend." 5.00 +Stoneham. Miss P. Stevens 2.00 +Templeton. Trinitarian Soc. 22.84 +Wakefield. Cong. Ch. 62.00 +Wellesley. "Collected by Dominick," 25.00 +for Land, Raleigh, N.C. +West Newton. Sab. Sch. of Second 25.00 +Cong. Ch. +Worcester. Central Ch. S.S. and "a 33.00 +few Friends," 23; "A Friend," 10, +for Land, Raleigh, N.C. +-----. "Donation." 100.00 +-----. One Share East Tennessee +Land Co. (face value. $50)... +Hampden Benevolent Association, by +Charles Marsh, Treas: +-- Chicopee. Third 3.35 +-- Holyoke. Second 57.37 +-- Huntington. Second 17.13 +-- Monson 25.33 + ----- + 103.18 +Woman's Home Missionary 277.80 +Association, by Miss Sarah K. +Burgess, Treas., for Woman's Work; +-----. For Salary of Teachers (of +which 45.25 for traveling expenses +of a Teacher) +-- Newton. Mr. Cobb's S. S. Class, 6.25 +Eliot Ch. for Indian Schp. + ----- + 284.05 + ----- + $1,828.29 + + +ESTATES. +Worcester. Estate of Miss H. F. 500.00 +Carpenter, by P.M. Carpenter, Ex. + ----- + $2,328.29 + + +RHODE ISLAND, $1,016.50 + +East Providence. Ladies of Newman 10.00 +Cong. Ch., for Cumberland, Tenn. +Providence. Y.P.S.C.E of North 4.50 +Cong. Ch., for Grand View, Tenn. +Providence. Fanny C. Thompson, for 2.00 +Church, Cumberland Gap, Tenn. + ----- + $16.50 + + +ESTATE. +Providence. Estate of Isaac Hale, 1,000.00 +by Miss Ednah B. Hale + ----- + $1,016.50 + + +CONNECTICUT, $1,205.12 + +Burnside. "Friend," for Indian 70.00 +Schp. +Central Village. "Loyal Temperance 2.00 +Legion," for Indian M. +Danbury. Miss A. Fanton, for 2.50 +Williamsburg, Ky. +East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 17.00 +Gilead. "Friends." 7.00 +Gilead. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch., for 8.52 +Conn. Ind. Sch. Ga. +Guilford. Mrs. Sarah Todd 5.00 +Hartford. "A Friend." for Mountain 50.00 +Work +Harwinton. Cong. Ch. 6.27 +Lisbon. Cong. Ch. 24.00 +Manchester. Second Cong. Ch. 71.29 +Mansfield. Chas. H. Learned 20.00 +New Haven. Humphrey St. Cong. Ch. 102.19 +New Haven. Sab. Sch. of Davenport 50.00 +Cong. Ch. for Indian M. +New London. Mrs. Lora E. Learned 17.50 +and Daughters, for Indian Schp. +New Milford. Sab. Sch. of First 70.00 +Cong. Ch., for Schp., Hampton N. +and A. Inst. +North Branford. Cong. Ch. 12.14 +North Haven. Elihu Dickerman 2.00 +Portland. By H. M. Bowden, for 2.35 +Freight, on Box to Thomasville, Ga. +Prospect. Cong. Ch. 13.00 +Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. 14.43 +Redding. Cong. Ch. 28.94 +Ridgefield. First Cong. Ch. 20.78 +Rockville. J. N. Stickney, for 10.00 +Indian M +Salem. Cong. Ch. 9.00 +Sharon. Mrs. C. S. Sedgwick. 5; 10.00 +Mrs. H. S. Roberts, 5, for Indian M +Southport. Cong. Ch,. 126.09 +South Windsor. First Cong. Ch 13.83 +Torrington. Third Cong. Ch. and 42.25 +Soc., 40.50; Ladies' Aid Soc. of +Third Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C. and 1.75 +for Freight +Wauregan. Cong. Ch. and Soc 21.00 +West Hartford. Mrs. E. W. Morris 15.00 +Westford. Cong. Ch. 7.00 +Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc 21.54 +----. "A Friend in Conn." 100.00 +Woman's Home Missionary Union of 12.50 +Conn., by Mrs. Ellen R. Camp. Sec., +for Woman's Work Suffield Y. L. M. +Circle, for Washburn Sem., +Beaufort, N. C. + ---- + $1,005.12 + + +ESTATE +Meriden. Estate of Miss Lucy 200.00 +Foster. by Ezra Pratt, Ex + ---- + $1,205.12 + + +NEW YORK, $518.54 +Bergen. First Cong. Ch. 9.93 +Berkshire. First Cong. Ch. and Soc 45.00 +Brooklyn. Mrs. J. M. Hyde 200 +Brooklyn. Miss M. A. Packard, for 1.50 +Williamsburg Ky +Cambridge. Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Camden. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. 22.05 +Ch. +Chenango Forks. Cong. Ch. 9.00 +Chili Station. E. B. Johnston 1.00 +Clifton Springs. Mrs. W. W. Warner. 10.00 +Dansville. Miss F. M. Emmons 1.00 +Eaton. Cong. Ch. 7.25 +Massena. Mrs. W. H Cubleg 5.00 +New Lebanon. "Mother's Gift on 84th 4.00 +Birthday," +New York "Cash." 100: Rev. Stephen 131.50 +Angell. 30, to const. CAROLINE L. +ANGELL L. M.: By A. W. Wagnalls, +Treas. E. T. Land Co., 1.50 +New York. Cummins Miss'y Soc., 40.00 +First Reformed Epis. Ch. for Indian M +North Walton. Sab. Sch by A. L. 10.00 +White, Supt. +Oswego. Cong. Ch. 128.31 +Perry Center. Cong. Ch. 21.00 +Syracuse-Plymouth Ch. 15.00 +Warwick. Mrs. Sarah Welling, for 50.00 +Northfield Indian Station + + +NEW JERSEY, $65.00 +Bernardsville. Mrs. M. L. Roberts 40.00 +Orange Valley. Bleeker Van Wagenen 25.00 +for Land, Raleigh N. C. + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $15.97 +Ebensburg. First Cong. Ch. 6.61 +Germantown. First Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Neath. Cong. Ch., 390 and Sab. 6.36 +Sch., 2.46 + + +OHIO, $1,425.46 + +Adams Mills. M A. Smith 10.00 +Brownhelm. Cong. Ch. 15.00 +Cleveland. Mrs. H. B. Spelman, for 30.00 +Student Aid. Atlanta U +Cleveland. King's Sons, for 1.00 +Williamsburg, Ky +Dover. Cong. Ch 40.31 +East Liverpool. Mrs. Harriet T. 1000.00 +Kitchel, by Rev. H. D. Kitchel. D.D. +New Milford. Mrs. E. G. Prindle 3.00 +North Amherst. Cong. Ch. 20.00 +Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson. 2.00 +Strongsville. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 +Tallmadge. Daniel Hine, in trust 50.00 +for the late Sarah T. Hine. to +const. MISS NANCY JEANETTE LIMBERT L. M +Tallmadge Cong. Ch 68.17 +Windham Cong. Ch. 19.11 +Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, +by Mrs. F. L. Fairchild. Treas., +for Woman's Work: +-- Alexis. "Willing Workers." 3.00 +-- Bellvue L M. S. 5.70 +-- Medina. W. M. S, 10.00 +-- Painesville. W. M. S 25.00 + ----43.70 + ---- + $1,312.29 + + +ESTATES. +Jersey. Estate of Lucinda Sinnet by 63.17 +John B Metcalf, Ex +Oberlin. Estate of Sarah Ann Upson, 50.00 +by Rev. Heman B. Hall. Ex + ----- + $1,425.46 + + +ILLINOIS, $404.55 +Alton. Ch. of the Redeemer, to 32.40 +const. THOMAS M. GUY L. M. +Bunker Hill. Cong. Ch. (10 of which 40.45 +for Jewett Memorial Hall) +Byron. Cong. Ch. 11.07 +Chesterfield. Cong. Ch 9.47 +Chicago. "Cash," 50; Lincoln Park 56.54 +Ch, 6.54. +Granville. Mrs. J. W. Hopkins 25.00 +Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch. 41.50 +Lyndon. John M. Hamilton 3.00 +Mendon. Cong. Ch. 41.75 +Morrison, William Wallace and 50.00 +Robert Wallace to const. REV. J. W. +SKINNER L. M. +Normal. Cong. Ch. 2.80 +Ontario. Cong. Ch. 10.00 +Peoria. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 26.00 +Port Byron. Cong. Ch. 12.07 +Princeton Mrs. S. C. Clapp 25.00 +Ridge Prairie. Evan. St. John Ch., 10.00 +by Rev. A. Kerr +Sparta. Bryce Crawford. 2; D. A. 6.00 +Foster, 1; James Hood, 1.; James +Alexander, 1.; P. B. Gault, 1 +Waverly. Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch 1.50 + + +MICHIGAN, $22.08 +Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch. 11.73 +North Adams. First Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Red Jacket. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch. 5.00 +for Talladega C +Woman's Home Missionary Union of 2.35 +Michigan, by Mrs. E. F. Grabill, +Treas. for Woman's Work: Saint +Ignace. Ladies Cong. Union + + +WISCONSIN, $1.255.91 + +Beloit. First Cong. Ch. 155.58 +Beloit Mrs. C. M. Nelson. Package +C., for Sherwood, Tenn +Eau Claire "Cheerful Givers" 10.00 +Mission Band of First Cong. Ch. +Lake Geneva. Mrs. Mary J. Barnard 1000.00 +"in memory of her husband, Milo +Barnard." +Menasha. E. D. Smith, for Sherwood, 25.00 +Tenn. +Milwaukee. Grand Av, Ch., to const. 45.40 +D. McK. SINCLAIR L. M +Sheboygan Daniel Brown 4.00 +Wisconsin's Woman's Home Missionary +Union for Woman's Work +Madison 5.43 +Madison 10.00 +Platteville. W. H. M. T 50 +---- 15.93 + + +IOWA, $207.05. +Anamosa. Cong. Ch., 6.42 and Sab. 10.54 +Sch. 4.12 +Cedar Falls. Cong. Ch. 30.00 +Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 7.36 +Decorah. Boys' Mission Circle, +Three large handsome Pictures, also +several packages of Papers; Girls' +Mission Circle, Box Sewing +Material, for Lexington, Ky. +Dunlap. Mrs. W.F. Preston, for 5.00 +Land, Raleigh, N.C. +Edgewood. N.G. Platt 10.00 +Farragut. Cong. Ch. 27.88 +Fort Dodge. Sab. Sch. Pres. Ch., +Box of New S.S. Papers, for +Lexington, Ky. +Gempoint. Cong. Soc. 2.00 +Iowa City. Cong. Ch. 10.00 +Osage. Cong. Ch. to const. MISS 46.00 +BLANCHE IRENE BRONSON L.M. +Preston. Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Storm Lage. Cong. Ch. 15.29 +Toledo. Cong. Ch. 9.92 +Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, +for Woman's Work: +-- Bellevue. W.H.M.U. 3.00 +-- Bellevue. Y.P.S.C.E. 2.00 +-- Cedar Falls. L.A.S. 2.72 +-- Clay. L.M.S. 3.00 +-- Grinnell. W.H.M.U. 7.18 +-- Le Mars. L.M.S. 3.47 +-- McGregor. L.M.S. 7.69 +-- McGregor. "Thank Offering" 1.00 + ------ + 30.06 + + +MINNESOTA, $87.22 +Detroit City. Cong. Ch. 13.00 +Detroit City. Lake View Cong. Ch. 2.00 +Lake City. Mrs. H.N. Bye, for 2.50 +Williamsburg, Ky. +Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 55.12 +Minneapolis. "Life Member," 4, for 8.00 +Tougaloo U., "Life Member," 4, for +Woman's Work. +Saint Cloud. Cong. Ch. 4.10 +Saint Paul. S.S. Class for 2.50 +Talladega C. + + +MISSOURI, $29.00 +Kansas City. "A Friend." 20.00 +Kidder. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + + +KANSAS, $15.87 +Cora. Cong. Ch. 7.00 +Smith Center. First Cong. Ch. 1.62 +Wakarusa. Valley Ch. 1.25 +White City. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + + +NEBRASKA, $14.39 +Campbell. Cong. Ch. 1.07 +Chadron. Mrs. C.P. Lyon. for 10.00 +Williamsburg, K. +Springfield. Cong. Ch. 3.32 + + +SOUTH DAKOTA, $2.20 +Springfield. Cong. Ch. 2.20 + + +COLORADO, $32.97 +Trinidad. Cong. Ch., for Talladega C. 4.56 +Pueblo. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 5.45 +West Denver. Cong. Ch., 7.96 and 17.96 +Sab. Sch. 10. +West Denver. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. 5.00 +Ch. + + +MONTANA, $35.00 +Helena. First Cong. Ch. to const. 35.00 +REV. F.D. KELSEY L.M. + + +CALIFORNIA, $41.00 +East Los Angeles. J.E. Cushman. 25.00 +Pasadena. "R.P.A. and wife." 10.00 +Pomona. Mrs. C.A. Lorbeer. 1.00 +San Diago. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. 5.00 +Ch. + + +OREGON, $50.00 +Portland. First Cong. Ch. to const. 50.00 +MRS. GEORGE A. STEEL L.M. + + +WASHINGTON, $17.00 +Union City. Cong. Ch., 15; "Little 17.00 +Workers," 2. + + +TENNESSEE, $24.00 +Deer Lodge. Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Jonesboro. Cong. Ch., 6.74 and Sab. 9.00 +Sch., 2.26. +Grand View. Mrs. Sarah K. Yeatman, 10.00 +for Grand View, Tenn. + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $229.23 +Pekin. Cong. Ch. 0.50 +Raleigh. Cong. Ch., for Land, 162.00 +Raleigh, N.C. +Wilmington, Cong. Ch. 66.73 + + +GEORGIA, $1.50 +Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., 1.10; 1.50 +"J.H.H.S." 25c; Mrs. S., 15c. + + +FLORIDA, $1.00 +Mannville. Mrs. Francis Haskins. 1.00 + + +TEXAS, $3.50 +Dallas. Cong. Ch. 3.50 + + +CANADA, $4.50 +Sweetsburg. H.W. Spaulting. 4.50 + + +ENGLAND, $10.00 +Chigwell. Miss S.L. Ropes. 10.00 + + +Donations. $8,270.09 +Estates. 1,813.17 + --------- + $10,083.26 + + +TUITION $899.09 +Williamsburg, Ky., Tuition. 138.50 +Jonesboro, Tenn., County Fund. 30.00 +Jonesboro, Tenn., Tuition. 1.00 +Talladega, Ala., Tuition. 718.89 +Austin, Texas. Tuition. 10.70 + ------ + 899.09 +Total for August. $10,982.35 + + + +SUMMARY. +Donations. 168,736.34 + +Estates. 123,464.93 + + -------- + $292,201.27 + +Income. 8,507.21 +Tuition. 38,903.43 +United States Government for the 19,073.29 +Education of Indians. + --------- + +Total from Oct. 1, to July 31. $358,685.20 + + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. +Subscriptions for August. 12.75 +Previously acknowledged. 685.20 + -------- +Total. $697.95 + + + + + + * * * * * + + +H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer, + +Bible House. N.Y. + + + + + +Notes +===== + + + + + 1. Deceased. + + 2. For the purpose of exact information, we note that while the + W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a State body for Mass, and R.I., it + has certain auxiliaries elsewhere. + + 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. 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