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diff --git a/15362.txt b/15362.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0652268 --- /dev/null +++ b/15362.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3789 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary - Vol. 44, No. 3, +March, 1890, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The American Missionary - Vol. 44, No. 3, March, 1890 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 14, 2005 [EBook #15362] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY - *** + + + + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Josephine Paolucci and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + + + + + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY + +MARCH, 1890. +VOL. XLIV. No. 3. + + +CONTENTS + +EDITORIAL. +REMOVAL +"KEEP PEGGING AWAY" +$500,000--CALLS FOR ENLARGEMENT + +NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND + +THE SOUTH. +REVIVALS--A WATCH NIGHT MEETING +A DIFFERENT WATCH NIGHT MEETING + +THE INDIANS. +THE RAMONA SCHOOL + +THE CHINESE. +THE UNBELIEVING WIFE SANCTIFIED IN THE BROTHER + +ADDRESS. +THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO IN OUR COUNTRY, BY C.H. RICHARDS, D.D. + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. +PARAGRAPHS--CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE IN HUMBLE LIFE +WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS + +RECEIPTS. + + * * * * * + +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 Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + + + +American Missionary Association. + + * * * * * + +PRESIDENT, Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D. LL.D., N.Y. + + +_Vice-Presidents._ + +Rev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y. +Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass. +Rev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. +Rev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass. +Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo. + + +_Corresponding Secretaries._ + +Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._ +Rev. A.F. BEARD, 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, +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. MARCH, 1890. No. 3. + + * * * * * + +American Missionary Association. + + * * * * * + +REMOVAL. + + +The Rooms of the American Missionary Association are now in the Bible +House, New York City. Correspondents will please address us +accordingly. + +Visitors will find our Rooms on the sixth floor of the Bible House, +corner Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue; entrance by elevator on Ninth +Street. + + * * * * * + +The Association opened its office first in humble quarters in Spruce +street, and since then it has occupied rooms in Beekman, John and Reade +streets. These down-town locations have served some valuable purposes. +They were accessible to the teachers and workers in passing to and from +the South, and in the shipment of goods to the South and to Africa--once +a large item in our business. In the change now made, we shall gain the +advantage of more convenient rooms, of association with our brethren of +the other missionary societies and more frequent opportunities of +fraternal greetings with pastors and friends coming to the city. + + * * * * * + +"KEEP PEGGING AWAY." + + +Abraham Lincoln packed into these homely words the expression of his +heroic faith and indomitable perseverance. When victory forsook our +armies, when elections at the North pronounced against the +administration, and when timid and disloyal people were clamoring for +"peace at any price," this great man, discerning clearly that only by +arms could the rebellion be crushed, acted upon this motto. He did not +mean by this that a mere idle pretense of doing something should be +kept up; he meant a steady pressure growing constantly more intense and +effective; when volunteering flagged, he offered bounties; when bounties +failed, he resorted to drafting. The army _must be_ kept up and it must +be fully equipped, and never did a more splendid army tread the earth, +and never was money poured out with so lavish a hand. The end came, and +it was worth all it cost. + +The war settled two things--the unity of the nation and the freedom of +the slave. One thing it did not settle--the future of the Negro. That +question must be settled by his Christian education. This is just as +plain to thoughtful men as it was to Lincoln that military force only +could save the nation. But now as then, there are men who are +discouraged and who say that this process of education will take a long +time, and so, once more, the air is full of impracticable remedies--to +take the ballot from the Negro--to transport him to Africa, to the West, +to the North! The cry is, "the white man's supremacy" at any price. Now, +again, is the time for Lincoln's motto, "keep pegging away," and that +not merely in a perfunctory way, but by pushing more and more +vigorously. In this moral warfare, volunteers must be encouraged. There +is no need of special bounties, nor of drafting; only furnish the means +to meet the meagre salaries, and the recruits will crowd to the field in +abundance, but their numbers _must be_ greatly enlarged. Hence the great +need, as in the dark days of the war, of multiplying the means of +equipment. The money should be poured out with a lavish hand to sustain +a vastly enlarged working force. Money can never be spent at a better +time, nor for a better purpose. + + * * * * * + +$500,000. + + +This is the sum recommended for the use of this Association by the +National Council, and by our own Annual Meeting. These figures have not +only these indorsements, but also the far greater one of the needs of +the field. Some of our schools are packed to overflowing and scholars +are turned away because there is no room, places are opening for +enlarged church work which we ought to have the means of entering, and +industrial facilities should be increased. The need for such enlargement +is illustrated in part by the items which follow. + + * * * * * + +CALLS FOR ENLARGEMENT. + + +Our schools, with scarcely an exception, are asking for more teachers +for their over-crowded rooms, and two or three pulpits stand vacant +because we have not suitable pastors for them. We are able to report +great enthusiasm along every line of our work and a spirit of uncommon +consecration among all our teachers this year. We are having a noble +year of thorough work. + +From Greenwood, S.C., comes this word: "For the last month we have had +over two hundred and thirty students, and have refused between +seventy-five and one hundred applications for admission because there +was not one inch of room for them." + +Our school at Meridian has outgrown the building erected for it, and has +overflowed into the church. It is another illustration of the fact that +the children of the emancipated freedmen are as earnest for education as +were their fathers and mothers when they swarmed into the temporary +schools provided for them. + +A letter from Wilmington, N.C., says: "Without another teacher, I do not +know what to do, unless it be to send away about twenty-five pupils. +This I would be very sorry to do, as I would hardly know which ones to +send and there would be no school for them to re-enter, as the public +schools are full to overflowing; besides, many would consider it a +calamity to be thus dropped out." + +We have just opened anew the Storrs school, which was not re-opened in +October with the other schools. The Principal writes us: "The joy of the +people at witnessing the preparations is extravagant. One old man said +to-night, 'There will be seven hundred scholars there when you open.' +These are not 'the words of soberness,' probably, but the enthusiasm +with respect to the re-opening of school is beyond all expectation." +Five teachers have been sent and more are called for. + +Our teachers in Troy, N.C., write us: "Can you not send us a pastor? +There is such an earnest need of one. We really do not think the work +here can prosper unless we have a pastor. We do the best we can. The +prayer meetings are all well attended, but it makes one's heart fail, to +think of these 'sheep without a shepherd.' The work is very absorbing. +Is there no one you could send here, if only for a time?" + +Through certain interferences with one of our schools at the South, on +the part of some ambitious people there, it seemed at one time that we +should feel it a necessity to reduce the grades and place two or three +teachers in some other schools which are calling on us for help. We +telegraphed them to remain, however, and the result is thus given: "Your +telegram came this afternoon and the children were half wild when they +got out of the school-house, running up and down the streets to tell the +good news. A company of them met the chairman of the local school board, +whom they did not regard as altogether friendly, and they shouted to +him, 'We have got our teachers! We have got our teachers! The man says +they can stay.' One old auntie came this afternoon to say, 'I'se heerd +how they is trying to get the teachers away and I prayed and prayed to +the good Lord to keep 'em.' Some of the boys are waist-deep in the water +after clams to get their fifty cents for their week's tuition. It has +been a great joy to me to see the character of the people when the +unfriendly ones tried to break us up. They have shown much thought and +ability, and they win our hearts by their faith in God." + + * * * * * + +NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND. + +BY REV. C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY. + + +An exceedingly good plan for increasing the collections for benevolent +objects has been hit upon by some members of a Boston church. They have +what they call an "Extra Cent-a-Day Band." Each member pledges himself +to lay aside one cent each day for some benevolent object. They elect a +treasurer and put into his hands this "Cent-a-Day" fund, as they please, +some paying frequently, others waiting until considerable has +accumulated. At a given time each month they divide the accumulated +contributions among the different societies as they may elect. The +American Missionary Association has occasion to be grateful for this +"Extra Cent-a-Day" plan in the pledge of about thirty dollars to its +treasury. I pass it along in these "Notes," as these friends hold no +patent right upon the method, and would gladly see it adopted in many +churches. + + * * * * * + +There seems to be a great localization of patriotic Christian thought in +New England upon the Southern problem now, as there has not been since +the war closed. I bought recently one of the leading magazines on the +train, and the leading article in it was on the Southern problem. I +picked up the _Forum_, and the leading article was on the Southern +problem. Mr. Grady comes from the South to address the business men of +Boston, and turns aside from questions which would naturally be +discussed to speak of the Southern problem. At a recent meeting of the +Old Colony Congregational Club at Brockton, Massachusetts, they invited +two Secretaries to speak upon this Southern problem, and listened with +patience to two long addresses. The discussion which followed indicated +that the churches represented in that large and intelligent club were +most earnestly pondering this Southern problem. In its importance, it +overtops every other consideration before the citizens and churches of +America to-day! Thoughtful people are coming more than ever to realize +this. The processes of thought through which they have passed already, +and the facts they have settled in their own minds, indicate a very +hopeful condition of things. In the first place, they are sure that this +is not a local or sectional question. It is a National question, and +will involve the whole country in anarchy and misrule, unless the +anarchy and misrule of the Southern whites are stopped. New England's +voice will be heard in solemn and earnest protest, unless there is a +radical change in the conduct of the dominant race of the South very +soon. Such outrages as those at Barnwell, S.C., and Jackson, Miss., +which are only types of many such, must be stopped. + +Another fact that has been settled in the minds of the people here, is +that the education and moral elevation of the Negroes is a matter of +painful exigency; that the forces employed by the American Missionary +Association in that field must be largely multiplied. The President of +the Old Colony Club summed up the discussion of the evening by saying +most earnestly that all this meant that the contributions to the +American Missionary Association must be largely increased among the +churches represented in that Club, if we would solve this terrible +Southern problem, and save our country from this threatened danger. + + * * * * * + +In this connection I was interested the other day in making an +investigation as to the per cent. of church membership in the South and +North. I discovered the following rather surprising comparison. The per +cent. of church membership in some of the New England States as compared +with that in the Southern States is as follows, not including the Roman +Catholics: Massachusetts, 13 per cent.; Connecticut, 20 per cent.; New +Hampshire, 19 per cent.; South Carolina, 32 per cent.; Georgia, 28 per +cent.; Florida, 25 per cent. + +It is evident from the comparisons that a larger percentage of the +population in these Southern States are members of Protestant churches +than in the Northern States. Notwithstanding this, this horrible system +of persecution goes on. There are noble and true men who protest against +it, but if the churches united in condemning it, we all know it would be +stopped. What they need is not more churches, but better churches, those +who emphasize the brotherhood of man as well as the fatherhood of God in +this Southern portion of the land. + + * * * * * + +The stereopticon lectures which are being delivered by Rev. S.E. +Lathrop, are attracting much attention and receiving general +commendation. Last Sunday, at Peabody, the people were so enthusiastic +that they took a special collection of nearly one hundred dollars. Many +churches in New England have enjoyed this treat, and receive the +inspiration which the facts of the American Missionary Association must +always give when really known and understood. Brother Lathrop is on his +way into New Hampshire and Maine, where arrangements have been made in +many churches. + + * * * * * + +Some benevolent New England friends who have been in Florida, and have +seen the destitution of the colored people there, have put into our +hands five thousand dollars for the establishment of anew school in one +of the destitute regions of that State. The good friends who are +interested so largely in this move desired that the Secretary should go +from New England with Secretary Beard, to determine just where this +school should be located. + + * * * * * + +THE SOUTH + + * * * * * + +REVIVALS. + + +A gracious revival in Straight University, New Orleans, brings us glad +tidings of the hopeful conversion of about fifty students. + +Interesting reports from Talladega College give us information of a +revival of religious interest in the school and church there. The +college is looking forward to an enlargement of its theological study +and Faculty. + +Rev. Sterling N. Brown writes from Washington, D.C.: "We are in the +midst of a most precious awakening. Forty-six souls have accepted the +Saviour. Our meetings have been quiet, orderly and heart-searching. The +Master is leading us." + +Professor Payson E. Little, of McIntosh, Ga., reports an interesting +work of grace in connection with the church and school at McIntosh. This +is the place where the pretended Christ last summer appealed to the +superstitions of the Negroes advanced in age and ignorant. It is +pleasant to know that nearly all of those who were brought under the +influence of this crazy fanatic, have now returned to their churches +thoroughly ashamed of their experience. + + * * * * * + +A WATCH-NIGHT MEETING. + + +The very interesting sketch given below shows that the "old-time +religion" in the South has not passed away, for this scene took place in +one of the large cities and where schools have been sustained for years. +The picture of the honored and worthy old preacher stands out +conspicuously in the midst of this confused worship. + + +After the New Year's entertainment in our own church, we thought it +would be interesting to some of the new teachers on our force to attend +a watch-meeting at one of the churches near, so we started for a large +barn-like structure bearing the imposing name of ----. We found the +building filled to its utmost, and instead of slipping into some seats +in the rear unnoticed, as we had hoped, we found ourselves forced to the +front bench where the stewards held posts of honor, which were +immediately vacated for the "teachers." Many of these men then went +behind the railing and stood in solemn state around the pastor as he +exhorted the people in most earnest words to get their records clean +before the opening of the new year. + +I wish I could picture him to you as he stood before us that night, his +hair just turning gray, indicating in one of this race extreme old age; +a real "Uncle Tom" in appearance, and in character, I think; his history +taking in much of slavery and of life as Presiding Elder. Many times has +he stood on guard between Northern teachers and Ku Klux Klans. He told +us that night that the grace of God in a man's heart would make him +shine all over; he had seen it make a man who had not combed his hair +for a year, grease his boots and his hair too, and then what a shining! +And so on through his talk were the most earnest exhortations with his +striking illustrations. + +One of the members there once in praising a sister to me spoke of her +having the ability to "groan so beautifully," and that night it seemed a +special gift bestowed upon all. All through the pastor's exhortation the +audience were keeping up a sort of rhythmic accompaniment with both body +and intonations. Their responses during the prayers certainly have the +virtue of fervency, if not of intelligence. At some times so great was +the noise it was almost impossible to distinguish any leader whatever. +One old "Father in Israel" seemed to be specially delegated to encourage +the praying ones by calling out above all the din, "Come on, son, come +on," right in the midst of the prayer. One woman near us "got the power" +and went off into spasms. Then the pastor gave the invitation for all +"mourning ones" to come to the altar, and about sixty answered the call. +Then the groans and ejaculations became more intense, until at least +three whom we could see were in religious spasms or frenzies. I know not +how many others had the "power," that is, were able to scream above all +the groaning at certain intervals. + +At midnight a hush fell upon all, and the pastor's prayer told us a new +year had begun. Then all started up an old-time plantation song, the +only words being "A Happy New Year" in all its changes, and we found we +were expected to shake hands with everyone, and not any ordinary shaking +hands was it, but the tighter our hands were clasped, the better did it +show the individual's religious zeal. Before this, it had seemed as +though some of our teachers would get struck by the mourning ones as +they threw their arms around in their frenzy, but when the hand-shaking +began and each one danced up to us, keeping time with the music and +shook our hands in time, until the measure changed and they passed on to +the next, we realized that we had, indeed, been taken right in. Thus the +meeting closed, and many left--two, rigid in their spasms, lying on the +benches. + +But we found that the more devoted ones were to stay longer still, and +as one of the sisters came up and asked me to stay and see them get real +happy shouting, we did so. And now commenced a religious dance, +perfectly indescribable, and as long as I have been in the South it was +perfectly new to me. The leader started down one of the aisles chanting +a weird plantation song, and every joint in his body moving in time with +the measure; the sisters took it up and followed two by two until there +was a complete circle all around the church, all dancing in time with +the music. We were told that they would keep that up until morning. + +It is rarely that we attend anything of this kind, but I think we had +enough of the old-time religion to last us through 1890 at least. We +have a number of scholars from this church, and it makes my heart sad +when I think how hard it will be for them to put what they are taught in +school with the example of their parents in this church. We have had +many inquiring ones in school lately, and it is difficult for them to +see how simple is the entrance to the narrow way contrasted with all the +excitement in their church religion. + + * * * * * + +A DIFFERENT "WATCH NIGHT" MEETING. + +Since the foregoing article was in type, we have received the following +sketch of a "Watch Night" meeting in one of the churches of our +Association. + + +It is quite a custom among the colored people to hold "Watch Night" +meetings. These meetings are largely attended and are full of fervor and +interest. Our "Watch-Night" was a very precious one--it was held from 10 +to 12 o'clock: it was divided into four half-hour services, viz: +1--Prayer and praise; 2--Bible reading; 3--Address by pastor, and 4--A +testimony meeting. The last five minutes was spent in silent prayer, and +at 12 o'clock, when the New Year was announced by booming of cannon and +the ringing of bells throughout the city, we united in singing our song +of New Year greeting, "What a Happy New Year," while extending to one +another the right hand of fellowship. At the close of the service all +present pledged themselves, by standing, to abstain from the use of +intoxicating liquors as a beverage during 1890. + + * * * * * + +THE INDIANS. + + * * * * * + +THE RAMONA SCHOOL. + +BY DIST. SEC. J.E. ROY. + + +I had the pleasure, in Santa Fe, January 13th, of attending an +entertainment given by the Ramona pupils in honor of Miss Platt, one of +their teachers. Gov. Prince and his wife, and several of the citizens, +were present as invited guests. After the singing of several songs, and +a statement made by Prof. Elmore Chase, the Principal, fourteen of the +scholars rendered, in the action of nature and the speaking of English, +Mrs. Bentley's dialogue, "The Old Year's Vision and the New Year's +Message," as found in the January number of _The Youth's Temperance +Banner_. One of the large boys first came in as an old man, clad in a +mantle and trembling on a staff, to repeat the "Old Year's Vision." Then +came in, one after another, a dozen boys and girls, to recite the +greeting of the several months. It was a temperance exhibit, and so each +one had a testimony for that cause. January, bearing a New Year's card +in hand, declared: "I've promised that not a drop of wine shall touch +these temperance lips of mine." February bore a fancy valentine, with an +appropriate motto. March lifted aloft a new kite, with "Kites may sail +far up in the sky, but on strong drink I'll never get high." July, +bearing a flag and a bunch of fire-crackers, declares: + +"I tell you I mean to celebrate, with something that won't intoxicate:" +while December resolves: "No brandy fumes in my Christmas pie; no +wine-sauce in my pudding, say I." + +Then comes in a beautiful maiden, clad in white and crowned with +flowers, to be greeted by a chorus of voices: "The king is dead; long +live the queen!" and then to recite the "Message of the New Year." + +Then comes another song in English, and then the second unloading of the +Christmas tree, which has kept its place in the chapel since its proper +day of Christmas cheer. Then the whole occasion is honored by an address +from the Governor, in simple words, with smiling face and transparent +good feeling. It is not every children's holiday that has a Governor at +hand to grace the occasion. As the President of the Board of Trustees +which, under the A.M.A. fosters the Ramona, and as Governor of a +territory which has nineteen Pueblo villages and the reservations of the +Navajoes and the Mescalero and Jicarilla Apaches, he is a faithful +friend of the Indians. This is apparent from his first report just made +to the Secretary of the Interior. The 21,000 of the Navajoes he reports +as possessing 250,000 horses, 500 mules, 1,000 burros, 5,000 cattle, +700,000 sheep and 200,000 goats. Their wool-clip the last year reached +2,100,000 pounds. Here is a grand field for a mission. + + * * * * * + +THE CHINESE. + + * * * * * + +"THE UNBELIEVING WIFE SANCTIFIED IN THE BROTHER." + +I Cor. vii: 14. (Revision.) + + +Our Chinese brethren have their full share in the family feeling which +for ages has been nurtured in their race. This feeling is even +intensified by their new life in Christ. They long for what they hope to +make a Christian home, and greatly desire to perpetuate themselves in +children who may follow them in following Christ. But what are they to +do for wives? Many live in a virtual celibacy that is hopeless, because +enforced by the betrothals made for them in China by their parents or +elder brothers. These are accounted sacred, and are honored by our +brethren with an oblivion of their own fancies or affinities that will +be adjudged to be either stolid or heroic, according as the person +judging is disposed to think kindly or unkindly of this people. Many +have returned to China for the express purpose of consummating this +betrothal in marriage. They remain a few months with their wives, and +then return to California to find work and provide for them. Such +persons are obliged by their principles to live in virtual celibacy. + +Some greatly desire to send for their wives, but not only does the +Restriction Law bar the entrance, but the father in China will probably +raise effectual objection. A son is as much the property of his father +at sixty as at six, and all he has, not only in property, but in wife +and children as well, is under the father's control. The +daughter-in-law, if strong and willing, is a very serviceable person +about the old homestead in China, and the appeals of the son for the +enjoyment of his wife's society in California are answered with the +advice to get him another wife here. One in China and one in America +seems to them a very safe arrangement. Eight thousand miles of ocean +intervene and assure against domestic broils. + +Some, however, of our brethren have in one way or another been set free +from these early betrothals, and are at liberty to seek wives for +themselves. Such are very glad if among the inmates of the mission-homes +for Chinese women they can find a Christian for a help-meet. But this is +often impossible. There are not enough Chinese Christian women to meet +the demand. And therefore it has seemed to me not to be my duty +strenuously to insist on the restriction placed on union with +unbelievers, but rather when such a union has been arranged for, and is +to be consummated, to hold out a hope that the unbelieving wife may be, +not only in form and in her relation to the church--which seems to be +the sense of the text cited--but in truth and fact sanctified in the +brother. + +This hope was fulfilled some years ago in the home of our oldest +missionary helper, Jee Gam. His father having at last yielded to the +son's entreaties and sent his wife to him, the narrow quarters in our +Central Mission House to which the bride was brought became at once a +sanctuary, and the Family Altar was established and the Family Saviour +recognized and worshiped. When a son was born to them, he was brought in +due time to our Bethany to be baptized, the heathen mother consenting +and attending. It was not long after that the mother herself stood with +us to enter into covenant and be baptized, and since then,--though +preferring to live in her home in a seclusion which American ladies +would regard as imprisonment and torture,--she has sought there to do +service to her Master in bringing up her children in the nurture of the +Lord. In her husband's absence from home she takes his place at the +family altar, and many an American mother might well pattern after her +fidelity in teaching her children the good and right way. + +Several years ago, one of our steadfast Chinese brethren in Sacramento +requested me to come and conduct his marriage service. He had procured +the bride in Marysville, purchasing her (I suppose) of her parents after +the Chinese custom. I obeyed the summons; obtained for him the necessary +license, and then at the Mission House awaited the coming of the bride. +That which at length arrived resembled more a moving package of rich +and brilliant dry-goods of Chinese manufacture than a bright and +blushing bride. Something could be seen of the shoes she wore, and when +at length, in the course of the service, I somewhat firmly insisted on a +joining of hands a hand was made to appear, but there was no bridal +kiss, nor any sight or semblance of a face beneath the quadrupled or +quintupled veils. However, the marriage was effected in a Christian way, +and the next morning there came to me an invitation to call upon the +bride. I found her to be the most beautiful Chinese girl I had ever +seen, with manners all the more pleasing because so very shy. Her +husband had prepared quarters for her which, as compared with the +average Chinese home, were almost palatial, and everything seemed to +promise a future peaceful and joyous. + +After a few months the mother-in-law made her daughter a visit as she +passed through Sacramento on her way back to her native land. What +passed between mother and daughter we do not know, but a few days after +her departure, Fong Bow returning to his home was shocked to find his +little wife suspended by the neck in an attempt at suicide. He rescued +her, and when she was restored asked for the reason. She acknowledged +that she had a good home and a kind and generous husband, but there was +no shrine in the house, no ancestral tablet, no Joss, and she was +convinced that some great evil must be impending from spirits thus +neglected and provoked. She preferred to sacrifice her present comfort +rather than incur the woes approaching,--all the more dreadful in her +apprehension because utterly unknown. Whereupon Fong Bow told her that +while he himself could not worship such things, and knew that an idol +was "nothing in the world," he did not and would not forbid her to do +what she thought right, and thus she provided herself with a shrine and +gods and was comforted. + +Meanwhile, the husband lived a Christian life before her, and she +herself was willing to receive instruction from Mrs. Carrington and +others. It is not improbable that she saw the difference between a home +even half Christian, like her own, and those where heathen customs made +of a husband less a protector than a lord. Doubtless she thought much in +silence before coming to the decision which changed the current of her +life. It is singular that the crisis came in consequence of her +observing at a marriage of Chinese persons making no profession of +Christian faith, the absence of the rites which had been, in her view, +the only safeguards against evil. This brought her to decision. With her +own hands she removed the shrine she had erected, and then declared her +purpose to worship her husband's God. Those who know her--both Chinese +and Americans--see in her the tokens of a real and radical change; and +it was with great joy that I heard, some weeks ago, that she had been +baptized and welcomed to the Congregational Church in Sacramento, to +which her husband has belonged these many years. + +WM. C. POND. + + * * * * * + +THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO IN OUR COUNTRY. + +_Address at the Annual Meeting in Chicago_, + +BY THE REV. C.H. RICHARDS, D.D. + + +Deeper than the question, what shall we do with the Negro, lies the more +fundamental question: What does God mean to do with the Negro in our +country? Many a so-called solution of the "race problem" has been a +foredoomed failure, because it ran counter to the Providential plan. +Some have hoped that time would settle the burning question; if people +would only stop talking about it, especially meddlesome people far away +from the real pinch of the trouble, they fancy that somehow the mere +flight of years would adjust differences and secure to all their rights. +Others think the short way to peace is by force, keeping the Negro down +with a strong hand, and keeping the Anglo Saxon on top by any vigorous +means that may be needed. Others, again, think there never can be any +solution of the problem so long as the two races occupy the same +territory, and they propose some mammoth scheme of colonization to take +the blacks away to some quarter of the world where they can be by +themselves. But these and other remedies are utterly futile, because +they are in collision with God's plan, as indicated by certain manifest +facts. Meantime, while men are so busy trying to get around the +difficulty instead of solving it in a straightforward way, the problem +gets a little bigger every year. The caste question agitates our great +religious assemblies. The spoliation of the civil rights of the Negro is +one of the most menacing features in our politics. Bitter race +prejudices keep Southern cities in a ferment, and even break out in +dreadful massacres. This race problem will continue to be one of the +most momentous and disturbing questions in American public life, until +somehow we learn how to get into line with Providence, and find some +solution that harmonizes with the great movements that have the hand of +God in them. + +It is time to ask then, with searching inquiry, What is the divine plan +with regard to the Negro here, or, in other words, What is to be the +future of the Negro in America? In certain significant facts and +tendencies of his past and present, we may see the finger of Providence +pointing on to that future. Let us look at some of these facts and their +bearings. + +First of all, the Negro is here, and that not of his own consent. He has +not forced himself upon the country; he has been forced to make this his +home against his will. We of the white race are responsible for his +presence. We invited him here in the most pressing manner, and would not +take "no" for an answer. + +And he is here to stay. All the ingenious schemes for settling this +troublesome question by taking up the black race bodily and dropping it +in some roomy region far away from all possible contact with white +people, are utterly delusive. The Negro does not want to go elsewhere. +Having been compelled to make his home here for two centuries, he is +domesticated here, and has as good a right to remain as the white man. +Moreover, he can see as well as any one that this is the best country in +the world to live in--the land offering greatest opportunity for +advancement, the poor man's Paradise. Brought by force, he will not +relinquish his rightful hold here except by force. And we may be sure +that our National Government will never undertake the chimerical +experiment of deporting him to some other land, and pay the enormous +expense of it out of the National Treasury. Having been brought by the +providence of God to expiate its former wrongs to the black man at such +immense cost of treasure and blood, the Nation will be slow to tax +itself enormously to do him another wrong. + +Moreover, it is not necessary that the races should be separated in +order to settle the difficulty that now disturbs us. All the Negro asks +is to be treated with justice and equity, and to be given a fair chance +in life. We have simply to apply the elementary principles of our common +Christianity to the problem and deal with the Negro in the spirit of the +Golden Rule and the whole difficulty vanishes. It looks as though God +had made this a polychromatic country--red, black, white and yellow--on +purpose that we might give a gospel illustration of the essential unity +of all races, and show how these rainbow tints are to be blended in the +white light of Christian brotherhood. + +Nor is it desirable that the black man should leave us, even if he +wanted to. It would impoverish us in no small degree and cripple us in +our advancement. He is the natural laborer of the South, and has added, +as we shall see, immensely to its prosperity since the war, and he is to +be one of the chief factors in securing the future wealth of the +country. These reasons combine with overwhelming force to show that an +exodus is undesirable and impossible, and that the Negro is here to +stay. + +And he is to be here in greatly increased numbers. The fecundity of the +race is remarkable. The 4,000,000 blacks that were freed by the +emancipation proclamation are 8,000,000 now. They multiply by births +alone 7 per cent. faster than the whites by births and immigration +combined. It is estimated that they are increasing at the rate of 500 a +day and that their numbers are now doubling every twenty years. This may +be a little exaggerated, but it is not far out of the way. If they are +increasing and continue to increase at this rate, in twenty years they +will be 16,000,000 strong, or nearly as many as the entire population of +the whole country in 1840; by 1930, they will number 32,000,000, or more +than we had of all races here at the outbreak of our Civil War; by the +middle of the next century they will number 64,000,000, or more than our +present population within the borders of the Republic. Discount this +estimate as much as you please, the increase in the colored race is sure +to be tremendous, and it is plain that the race problem will increase in +difficulty and in momentous consequences to the Nation until it is +settled on Christian principles. And the work of settling it admits of +no delay. + +The Negro is to be a very important factor in promoting the future +prosperity of the country. Already it is manifest that his value to the +South as a freed man is far greater than the price formerly set upon him +as a chattel. The unrequited toil of the slave is seen in the light of +history to be the dearest kind of labor. It was frequently said after +the war that the emancipated Negro would be worthless as a laborer; that +he was naturally lazy, shiftless, and a shirk, and that he would relapse +into a vagabond. But, as a matter of fact, far more good work has been +done in the South since the war than before, and for the most part the +Negro has done it. Great crops of cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, corn, +and other staples have been raised and marketed; mines have been +developed, railroads built, manufactories established, and hundreds of +other industries opened and pushed in the new era of prosperity which +has dawned in the South; and while the capital and brains for this have +been furnished by the whites, and largely from the North, the manual +labor has been done mainly by the blacks. They have made the New South +possible. Take the single item of the cotton they have raised: The +twenty-one cotton crops from 1841 to 1861, raised by slave labor, +amounted to 58,500,000 bales; the twenty-one cotton crops from 1865 to +1885, raised by free labor, amounted to 93,500,000 bales. There was a +gain, with free labor, of nearly 35,000,000 bales, worth $2,000,000,000, +or about the full estimated value of all the slaves set free by the war. +These facts show the value of the Negro to the South simply as a common +laborer. + +But his importance as a factor in securing a National prosperity is much +enhanced when we note his remarkable capacity for improvement. Grant +that the great bulk of these eight millions are still in a pitiable +condition, poor, ignorant, sometimes vicious, the victims often of +barbaric superstitions, living often in hovels rather than houses, +without thrift or cleanliness, in crying need of kindly hands to help +uplift them to a better life. Yet, granting all this physical and moral +destitution among them, it must be said that history gives no record of +a race, stripped and stranded so completely as these freedmen were in +1865, that has shown such marvelous progress in a quarter of a century. +They have responded wonderfully to every effort made to elevate them, +and have shown in themselves such versatility and vigor of intellect as +give high promise for their future. + +Their own advancement in material prosperity is an indication of this. +Never was there a people left in worse plight than they were at the +close of the war. In a country ravaged and denuded by a long and +destructive conflict, themselves penniless, with none of the knowledge +and training that would fit them for competition with shrewder and abler +classes, there seemed small hope of their getting more than a bare +livelihood. But ambition, mother wit, and a rare aptitude for learning +have helped them on till the gains they have made for themselves are +quite astonishing. Not long ago the New York _Independent_ made +extensive inquiries through the Southern States with regard to this +matter, and the replies showed that the disposition to accumulate +property was very strong among the colored people, and that industry and +economy and forecast for this purpose were virtues rapidly developing +among them. A large proportion of them are owners of their own homes, +the proportions differing widely in different localities, ranging from +10 per cent. in North Carolina, to 20 per cent. in Virginia, 50 and 60 +per cent. in some parts of Georgia, and 75 per cent. in some parts of +Florida. A writer from Montgomery, Ala., even claimed 90 per cent. of +home-owners among his acquaintances. + +Many, also, are coming into the ownership of land. Mr. Morris stated +four years ago that colored people owned 680,000 acres of land in +Georgia, and 5,000,000 acres in the whole South. Dr. Haygood estimates +that they own about $10,000,000 worth of taxable property in Georgia, +and it is stated that "within twenty-five years the colored people of +sixteen Southern States have accumulated real and personal property +estimated at more than $200,000,000." This, certainly, is a most +remarkable showing for a people of whom it was freely prophesied that +they would never be more than an indolent race of beggars. It shows that +if they can only be given "a white man's chance" they will be as thrifty +and prosperous as their Caucasian brothers, and that the wealth which +this rapidly increasing race will produce in the next half century will +much of it be their own property. Poverty is no more an essential +characteristic of the African than of the white American, and it looks +as though the Negro was likely to win his fair share of our prosperity +in the years to come. + +The capacity for improvement is also indicated by the large variety of +occupations which the Negro is successfully pursuing. It has been +imagined by some that the work he could do is exceedingly limited in its +range, and that he must needs be a barber, a waiter, or a small farmer. +But at the New Orleans Exposition not long ago, an entire gallery across +one end of the building was assigned to the colored people, and they +more than filled it with an astonishing array of their products in all +sorts of work. There were exhibits of mechanical, agricultural and +artistic skill; specimens of millinery, tailoring, painting, +photography, sculpture; many useful inventions; models of engines, +steamboats, rail-cars; specimens of all kinds of tools, pianos, organs, +pottery, tinware, and so on. It was made manifest that the Negro can +succeed in any trade or occupation that the white man follows. They are +diversifying their labor more and more. They are physicians, lawyers, +master-mechanics, bridge-builders. They edit, own and manage a hundred +newspapers. + +The avidity with which they receive education, and profit by it, is +another indication of their capacity for advancement. True, there is +still an appalling illiteracy among them, some 70 per cent. of them in +the South being unable to write. But we must remember that hardly a +quarter of a century ago it was a crime to teach one of them to read; +they were sedulously kept in compulsory ignorance, and since the ban was +removed, poverty, lack of schools and teachers, and other causes have +prevented their advancement as rapidly as we may expect in future. But +much has been done for them in this particular. Dr. Haygood estimates +that about $50,000,000 has been spent for the education of the Negro +since the war, nearly half of which has come from the benevolence of the +North. Through the American Missionary Association alone some +$10,000,000 has gone into the school and church work for the Negro, both +alike educational. There are some 200 schools carried on in the South by +different benevolent organizations, having over 28,000 colored youth in +them. Of these, ninety are colleges or high schools, and furnish +teachers and educated leaders for this race. Three-quarters of a million +dollars a year flows southward from Northern generosity to this work. +And besides this, is the work being done by the South itself for the +colored youth in its public schools. A million Negroes are in the 15,000 +colored schools of the South to-day, being taught by 15,000 teachers of +their own color, the best of whom have been educated in these schools +nurtured by Northern benevolence. And what is the result? The illiteracy +in this race diminished 10 per cent. between 1870 and 1880, showing the +eagerness of the people for improvement. It is estimated that two +millions of the blacks can now read the Bible for themselves. And the +universities for higher education find the Negro as susceptible to the +best culture, as capable of receiving thorough discipline and of being +highly educated as the white boys and girls in our Northern colleges. +The time is not far distant when colored college graduates, instead of +being reckoned by hundreds as now, will be numbered by thousands, and +when we shall see some Mark Hopkins in ebony. + +The time has gone by when intelligent men can talk about the inferiority +of this race. When representative Southern men declare that they were +mistaken in their former view, when such men as ex-Governor Brown, of +Georgia, convinced by the examinations of our Atlanta University, +publicly declares, "I was wrong; I am converted," that ought to be +enough. But if not, the men of recognized ability and success among the +blacks refute the old misrepresentation, now being revived in some +quarters. When our Government sends its ministers abroad, Frederick +Douglass and John M. Langston; when Senator Bruce and Representative +Lynch are regarded as peers of their white brethren in the political +arena; when college chairs are ably filled by such men as Professor +Gregory, of Howard University; when colored delegates captivate a +National council by their eloquence and ability; when Harvard University +and Cornell University, by the choice of the students themselves, elect +colored men to be their representative orators, surely it is much too +late in the day to talk of the inferiority of the colored race. They are +as well endowed by the Creator as any people in the world, and with +training, culture, and a fair chance they will play their part in the +world as well as any. It is such a people that we may predict will have +a large share in adding to our National prosperity in the future. + +Our first duty is to aid the Negro to attain more of moral power. +Whatever he wins in the future he must secure because he deserves to. It +will not come to him by favoritism nor by chance, but because he +conquers the situation, and by his own ability and resolute endeavor +fairly captures the prize of success. This the weak, degraded, +untutored, semi-barbarous Negro can never do. He must develop a strong, +clean manhood, equipped with the virtues to which success is +fore-ordained, if he would be master of the future in a large way. +Providence is helping him by the discipline of present exigences, +making even the wrongs and hardships he is suffering a gymnastic to +eliminate weakness and develop moral power. His ambition is chastened, +his indolence is rebuked, his patience, courage, and persistence are +being trained. But Providence waits for us to give him more direct +assistance in this matter. We can re-enforce him in certain directions +where he is now in great need of help. There are certain vices against +which he needs to be armed and aided. In answer to the inquiry, What is +the greatest hindrance to the advancement of the colored race? the +answer comes promptly from several sources, "Drink." This is one of the +new perils of his freedom, for in the old days of bondage it was a penal +offense to sell liquor to a slave; but since the war, drunkenness has +been a widespread curse among them, and to-day hangs like a mill-stone +to the neck of many a Negro to prevent his rising. The sin of +licentiousness prevails also to an alarming degree in many quarters. And +wherever intemperance and social immorality abound, you find also the +kindred vices of dishonesty, lying and laziness. No people can possibly +have a great future in whose life these iniquities burn like a consuming +fire. The manhood will be utterly burnt out of them before it can bear +fruit in a large success. We need to send apostles of reform among them +to turn them from their vices. We need to erect barriers of defense to +protect them from temptation. Above all, we need to teach them a +religion indissolubly joined with morality, a religion that means +character and virtue, whose daily experience will mean the constant +increase of moral power. The Negroes, like the Athenians of Paul's day, +are very religious. They revel in camp meetings and fairly wallow in +revivals. But too often their piety is the mere gush of emotion, and in +hideous conjunction with gross evils. They need an intelligent piety and +an educated ministry. As Dr. Powell said, they ought to have 7,000 +educated ministers, when now in our sense of the word educated, they +have hardly 500. The church work of this Association is a powerful aid +to their moral upliftment. + +Our next duty is to furnish the Negro plentifully with opportunities for +education. An ignorant race can have no future, save one of degradation +for themselves, and of increasing danger for the nation of which it is a +part. The ignorant Negro must be abolished by the school-house. Training +for the mind, training for the hand, the development and drill of all +the powers of life are necessary to make the Negro no more a peril, but +a factor of immense value in securing the future prosperity of this +country. We must do far more in this direction than has ever yet been +done. The South is still poor and cannot furnish adequately the means +for doing this work as it should be done. The benevolence of the North +must furnish still larger sums for education, that the colored race may +be made safe for us and for themselves. + +And, last but not least, we must secure to the Negro the full enjoyment +of all his rights and privileges in church and State. He cannot attain +the measure of success and usefulness toward which Providence points, if +he is to be kept in a state of peonage. A black man is no better for +being black, but he is none the less a man on that account. The simple +thing to be insisted on is that he shall be treated as a man, entitled +to the same rights as other men, and protected in his enjoyment of them. +This is no time to relax our emphasis on this point, when the bitterness +of the caste spirit is venting itself in violence, and in assertion that +white supremacy must be maintained by illegal means if it cannot be by +legal. We maintain that the only safety for the South, and the only way +to its large prosperity, is by securing fair play to every man within +its borders. There must not be one law for the white man and another for +the black. There must not be one standard of legal protection in the +North and another in the South. Anarchy in Chicago is not a whit worse +nor more dangerous than anarchy in the South, that defies law and rules +by the mob in order to gratify race prejudice. Conspiracy to murder in +Chicago is not more outrageous and perilous than the conspiracy of men +of one color in the South to get rid of obnoxious men of another color +by the shot-gun. Injustice and wrong will always bring forth a harvest +of disaster in any part of the country. Fair play for every man must be +our motto. We must have no color-line in politics, no color-line in the +church; but equal rights for all before the law, and in the church equal +privileges of Christian brotherhood. + +It is for us to clear the way thus for Providence to carry out its wise +designs for this race. And if we fulfill our part of the work +faithfully, what may not this people, educated and regenerated, add of +blessing and benefit to our common country. If out of a race of slaves +God in the old time could raise up a Moses, if out of a rude race of sea +pirates and robber chiefs, who drank their mead from the skulls of their +enemies, He could raise up a Shakespeare, what may He not develop out of +this long despised and defrauded people? Let us furnish freely the +channels through which God may work, that in His providence "the weak +things of the world may become mighty" for good to our land. + + * * * * * + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + + +MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY. + + +The Iowa Woman's Union is working nobly toward the support of our school +at Savannah, Ga., and the sympathetic bond between helpers North and +helpers South shows that the money contributions open the way to warmer +missionary impulse and more efficient service--the influence acting and +re-acting, adding blessings both to him that gives and him that takes. +One of their teachers writes: + +"Never have we had a more prosperous year, if we are to take numbers +into account. Every seat in school is taken, and we are obliged to +dispose of about sixty more the best way we can. But these added numbers +bring to us heavier cares and responsibilities, and as never before do +we turn to you this year for the help of your praying and trustful +workers. So many have come in who are professing Christians, and still +it seems as though we had before us to teach them the rudiments of +Christian living; and there are so many older ones with no knowledge of +the _Way_, that the heart almost grows faint at the outlook. The work is +before us, but we are longing for the baptism of _fire_. Will you not +cheer us with some assurance that _you_ with us are uniting in this +petition?" + + * * * * * + +CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE IN HUMBLE LIFE. + +The reports from our field work are not all made up of statistics. They +sometimes touch the essence of genuine Christian experience and tell us +how life is lived and death is met among the lowly. The little sketches +given below are of this sort. + + +"We are grateful for the memories of some who were with us last year, +thirsting for knowledge, whom we are permitted to think of now as before +the throne of God, drinking from the 'living fountains of water.' One +was Oliver, a man in the middle age of life, a bricklayer by trade, and +a lay-preacher in the Baptist church. A part of two years he had been in +school. His progress was slow, and he could read but indifferently in +the Third Reader. His parting words to us at the close of last year +were, 'I shall be at the starting of the school next year, and I will +stay till I go through the course.' His death, after an illness of two +days, was the first item of news carried to us from here after we had +reached our Northern homes. We shall not soon forget how in the warm +summer days, at the noon recess, he was wont to sit in the shade of the +house with his open Bible in his hand. Often we would overhear him, with +painstaking repetition, studying a psalm of David, or some passage from +the 'Sermon on the Mount.' I heard him in the pulpit once when he +preached a warning discourse, his theme that of John the Baptist, +'Repent, and be baptized!' He was not a 'shouter' or a 'ranter,' but +spoke and acted in a quiet, manly way. His sincerity was such that he +thoroughly won our respect, and we revere his memory. + +"The next to go hence was little Isaiah, or Iser, as the children called +him. He began school last year, and was so quick and bright that he was +always first in his class. He never forgot anything that he was once +told. Bible stories were his especial delight. Often he would beg to be +allowed to have a Bible in his hands that he might read it for himself. +He often asked to be permitted to read the last chapter of Revelation. +One of the pictures on an old chart represented a lamb with feet bound +lying on the ground, beside the altar of the temple, Jesus standing near +with upraised hand, talking to the people. How radiant was little Iser's +black face as he would tell the story in his own words, ending thus: 'He +told them they need not kill the lambs any more, for He was come to die +for the sins of the people.' + +"His grandmother sits alone in her lowly cabin. She had hoped for a prop +and stay in her advancing years. The little boy was always active, kind +and helpful. Her tears fall as she speaks of her loss, yet with an +upward glance she says: 'He's gone to a better worl'. There's nary +night, nor sin, nor sickness. Pie use to read to me all about it, an' +I'se gwine to see him fo' long, an' my three children thet's thar! Bress +the Lawd!'" + + * * * * * + +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. + + +VERMONT. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. +President--Mrs. A.B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington. +Secretary--Mrs. E.C. Osgood, 14 First Ave., Montpelier. +Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury. + + +MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND. + +[1]WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. +President--Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, Mass. +Secretary--Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational House, Boston. +Treasurer--Miss Ella A. Leland, 32 Congregational House, Boston. + +[Footnote 1: 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.] + + +CONNECTICUT. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. +President--Mrs. Francis B. Cooley, Hartford. +Secretary--Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford. +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. + + +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. C.B. Safford, Elkhart. +Secretary--Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne. +Treasurer--Mrs. C. Evans, Indianapolis. + + +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.C. Keller, Beloit. + + +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--Mrs. S.E. Fifield, 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. + + +MISSOURI. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. +President--Mrs. C.L. Goodell, 3006 Pine St., St. Louis. +Secretary--Mrs. E.P. Bronson, 3100 Chestnut St., 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. + + +COLORADO AND WYOMING. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. +President--Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado. +Secretary--Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Aye., Colorado + Springs, Colorado. +Treasurer--Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado. +Treasurer--Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, Wyoming. + + +SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. +President--Mrs. Elijah Cash, 927 Temple St., Los Angeles. +Secretary--Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Box 426, Pasadena. +Treasurer--Mrs. H.W. Mills, So. Olive St., Los Angeles. + + +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. + + +LOUISIANA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. +President--Mrs. R.D. Hitchcock, New Orleans. +Secretary--Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans. +Treasurer--Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond. + + +MISSISSIPPI. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. +President--Mrs. A.F. Whiting, Tougaloo. +Secretary--Miss Sarah J. Humphrey, Tougaloo. +Treasurer--Miss S.L. Emerson, Tougaloo. + + +ALABAMA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. +President--Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega. +Secretary--Miss S.S. Evans, 2612 Fifth Ave., Birmingham. +Treasurer--Mrs. E.J. Penney, 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--Miss M.F. Wells, Athens, Ala. +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. + + +We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State +Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association be +sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however, should be +taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary Association, +since _undesignated funds will not reach us_. + + * * * * * + +RECEIPTS FOR JANUARY, 1890. + + +THE DANIEL HAND FUND, _For the Education of Colored People._ + +FROM + +Mr. DANIEL HAND, GUILFORD, CONN. + +Income for January, 1890 ...$832.50 + +Income previously acknowledged ...960.00 + +-------- + +Total ...$1,793.50 + +======== + + * * * * * + +CURRENT RECEIPTS. + + +MAINE, $1,173.21. + +Andover. 2 Bbls. _for Raleigh, N.C._; 3.60, _for Freight_ ...3.60 + +Bangor. Central Cong. Ch., 50.; Hammond St. Ch. and Soc., 6 ...56.00 + +Bangor. Central Cong. Ch., 50; Dea. Wm. S. Dennett, 10; Rev. G.W. Field, +2; _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...62.00 + +Bangor. Hammond St. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._ ...2.50 + +Bangor. Mrs. Coe, 7; Central Ch., 5, _for Oahe Indian M._ ...12.00 + +Bangor. Dr. Hanson, _for Tougaloo U._ ...5.00 + +Bangor. "Friends," Pkg. of C., _for Macon, Ga._ + +Bingham. Cong. Ch. ...1.25 + +Brunswick. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Calais. Bbl., 1.36, _for Freight, for Raleigh, N.C._ ...1.36 + +Castine. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 5; Rev. Alfred E. Ives, 2 ...7.00 + +Dennysville. Cong. Ch. ...10.36 + +East Sumner. Bbl., by Mrs. Hubbard; 2 _for Freight, for Raleigh, +N.C._ ...2.00 + +Farmington. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Fryeburg. Mrs. J.E. Dinsmore, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...4.00 + +Hallowell. Miss Annie F. Page ...30.00 + +Lewiston. High St. Cong. Ch. (100 _of which for Freedmen_, 85 _for +Indian M._, _and_ 15 _for Chinese M._) ...301.90 + +Lewiston. Mrs. E.S. Davis ...1.00 + +Montville. Miss A.L. McDowell, _for Selma, Ala._ ...1.00 + +North Bridgton. Children's Mite Box, Sab. Sch. of First Cong. +Ch. ...6.00 + +New Gloucester. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ 2.80 _for Freight_ ...2.80 + +Orland. H.T. and S.E. Buck, 20; A Friend, 1 ...21.00 + +Orrington. Bbl.; 2. _for Freight, for Raleigh, N.C._ ...2.00 + +Portland. State St. Cong. Ch., 200; Williston Ch., 177.65; High St. Ch., +110.74; Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 79.81 ...568.29 + +Portland. Mrs. L.R. Farrington's Class, Seamen's Bethel S.S., _for +Indian M._ ...10.00 + +Portland. Williston Ch., Y.P.S.C.E., Bbl., 1.24 _for Freight, for +Raleigh, N.C._ ...1.24 + +Portland. 2 Bbls. and Package, 1. _for Freight, for Raleigh, +N.C._ ...1.00 + +Portland. Payson Memorial Ch., Box Bedding, _for Selma, Ala._ + +Portland. "Alpha Ten," Half-Bbl., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Pownal. Perez Chapin ...10.00 + +Saccarappa. Westbrook Cong. Ch. ...25.50 + +Sidney. Miss A. Sawtelle ...4.50 + +Skowhegan. 3 Bbls. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Union. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Wells. B. Maxwell ...20.00 + +West Falmouth. Mrs. M.E. Hall, Pkg. Basted Work and Thread, _for Selma, +Ala._ + +Woodfords. Mission Band, Box of C., _for Lexington, Ky._ + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $703.57. + +Amherst. First Cong. Ch. ...3.00 + +Bedford. Cong. Ch. ...5.37 + +Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...10.00 + +Concord. The Light Bearers, by Mrs. C.P. Bancroft, _for Student Aid, +Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...21.00 + +Concord. Dea. F. Coffin's S.S. Class, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...10.00 + +Concord. "Light Bearers" of South Ch., _for Santee Indian M._ ...5.00 + +Dublin. Mrs. R. Eaton ...15.00 + +Epping. Ladies of Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._ + +Farmington. Cong. Ch. ...9.14 + +Franklin. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Great Falls. First Cong. Ch. ...20.00 + +Great Falls. Mrs. A.P. Dixon, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, +Tenn._ ...10.00 + +Great Falls. Home M. Soc., Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._ + +Hampstead. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., to const. REV. ALBERT WATSON +L.M. ...32.50 + +Hancock. Cong. Ch. ...25.00 + +Harrisville. Mrs. L.B. Richardson ...10.00 + +Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...50.00 + +Lempster. Helen Bingham & Marianna Smith ...3.00 + +Londonderry. Chas. S. Pillsbury ...1.00 + +Keene. Miss M.A. Wheeler and Mrs. K.L. Wright's S.S. Classes, Second +Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...35.00 + +Keene. Second Cong. Ch. ...28.16 + +Manchester. Franklin St. Cong. Ch. ..188.60 + +Manchester. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fort Berthold Indian +Sch., North Dak._ ...70.00 + +Nashua. First Cong. Ch. ...22.14 + +Nashua. Y.P.S.C.E. of Plym. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...35.00 + +Nashua. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Charleston, S.C._ ...11.25 + +Nashua. "Friends," Bbl. of C., 1. _for Freight, for Greenwood, +S.C._ ...1.00 + +New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. ...1.50 + +Northumberland (N.H.) & Guildhall (Vt.), Box of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +Orford. John Pratt ...15.00 + +Pembroke. Cong. Ch., 13.66; Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, 5 ...18.66 + +Pembroke. Rev. A. Ward, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...10.00 + +Penacook. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Penacook. Bbl. of C., etc, _for Macon, Ga._ + +Pittsfield. "Friends," by Miss Sue G. French, 2 Bbls. of C., etc., _for +Marion, Ala._ + +Rindge. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 1.60 _for Freight, for Atlanta, +Ga._ ...1.60 + +South Newmarket. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...10.63 + +South Newmarket. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for Wilmington, +N.C._ + +Temple. R.R. Goodyear ...1.00 + +Tilden. Seminary and Mission Band of Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._ + +Troy. Trin. Cong. Ch. ...4.02 + +West Concord. Young Ladies' Soc, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._ + + +VERMONT, $531.45. + +Barton. W.H.M. Soc. and Girls' C.H. Soc., B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. ...39.76 + +Bethel. Y.P.S.C.E., Bbl. of C., 2. _for Freight, for McIntosh, +Ga._ ...2.00 + +Brownington. B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +Brownington. _For McIntosh, Ga._ ...5.00 + +Calais. A.H. Howard, Papers and Cards, _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +Castleton. Cong. Ch., 25. _for Santee Indian Sch._; 20.95 _for Indian +M._; 20.95 _for Freedmen_ ...66.90 + +Derby. Industrial Circle, Box of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +East Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. ...43.00 + +Georgia. Cong. Ch. ...11.15 + +Manchester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +Milton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...6.95 + +Milton. L.M. Dougherty, Pkg. Christmas Cards, _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +Montgomery. Dea. Heman Hopkins ...3.00 + +Newport. Ladies' Social Union, Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +North Thetford. Cong. Soc. ...5.71 + +Pittsford. Cong. Ch., 42.64; Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey, 10 ...52.64 + +Rutland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Scholarship, Fisk U._ ...50.00 + +Rutland. "The Fortnightly," _for McIntosh, Ga._ ...10.00 + +Saint Albans. Mrs. F.S. Stranahan, Box Christmas Gifts, _for McIntosh, +Ga._ + +Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. ...127.50 + +Sharon. "Three Friends" ...3.00 + +South Newbury. Mrs. M. Brush, Material, _for Sew. Sch., Meridian, Miss._ + +Stowe. "Whatsoever Mission Circle," Pkg. Needle Books, _for McIntosh, +Ga._ + +Vergennes. B. of C., 2. _for Freight, for McIntosh, Ga._ ...2.00 + +Waitsfield. Opportunity Club and Home Circle, Bbl. of C., 2. _for +Freight, for McIntosh, Ga._ ...2.00 + +West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. ...45.40 + +Woodstock. ---- ...17.41 + +----. "A Friend" ...4.00 + + +MASSACHUSETTS. $11,013.98. + +Amherst. First Cong. Ch., 30; Wm. M. Graves 20; "A Friend," 15; South +Cong. Ch., 8 ...73.00 + +Amherst. Mrs. Henry L Hubbell, 2 B. of C.; A.B.H. Davis, Christmas +Cards, _for Austin, Texas._ + +Andover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, _for Chandler Normal Sch. Building, +Lexington, Ky._ ...346.91 + +Andover. South Cong. Ch., 62; West Cong. Ch., 50; Sab. Sch. of West +Cong. Ch, 39.41; "In Memoriam," 1.50; Miss S.E. Jackson, 1 ...153.91 + +Ashby. Cong. Ch. ...12.61 + +Ashburnham. Hosea Greene ...5.00 + +Ashfield. Mrs. Daniel Williams, _for Freight to McLeansville, +S.C._ ...1.16 + +Attleboro. Second Cong. Ch., 16.50; Primary Dept. Second Cong. Sab. +Sch., 13.38, _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...29.88 + +Attleboro. First Cong. Ch. ...7.62 + +Auburndale. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...46.49 + +Auburndale. "Thank Offering," _for Indian M._ ...10.00 + +Auburndale. "Friend," _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...3.00 + +Beverly, Washington St. Ch. ...65.81 + +Beverly. Dane St. Cong. Ch., _for Grand View, Tenn._ ...50.00 + +Boxford. "The Gleaners," Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Bridgewater. Mrs. M.S. Dunham ...1.00 + +Brockton. "O.C. Club" ...1.50 + +Brookfield. Cong. Ch. ...68.69 + +Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. ...298.38 + +Brookline. Harvard Ch., _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill Academy, +Tenn._ ...36.75 + +Buckland. ---- _for Sherwood, Tenn._ ...10.00 + +Boston. Mrs. Susan Warren, 300.; Miss Cornelia Warren, 200., _for Girls' +Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...500.00 + +Mrs. Susan Warren and daughter, _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill Academy, +Tenn._ ...75.00 + +Union Cong. Ch. ...304.65 + +Union Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...60.71 + +"Union Workers" of Union Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...10.00 + +"A Friend" ...150.00 + +Park St. Y.P.S.C.E., _for two Indian Sch'ps_ ...100.00 + +"Partial payment of the debt due from the North to the Colored race of +the South" ...50.00 + +Mrs. Susan Hardy, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...50.00 + +"A Friend," _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...27.00 + +----, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ... 25.00 + +Eliot Ch. Y.P.S.C.E, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...15.00 + +"M.L.E." ...10.00 + +"R.M." ...10.00 + +Marion Lawrence and Constance Somers. _for Birds' Nest, Santee Agency, +Neb._ ...3.50 + +Harvard Cong. Ch., Everett Sharpe, _for Pleasant Hill Academy, +Tenn._ ...3.00 + +"A Friend" ...2.00 + +Homeland Circle of Park St. Ch., _for Freight to Straight U._ ...2.00 + +Mt. Vernon Ch., ad'l ...1.00 + +"Lend a hand Club," Box of Christmas goods, _for Wilmington, N.C._ + +Y.W.C.A. Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._ + +Cong. Pub. Soc., "Youths' Library," _for Raleigh, N.C._ + +Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. ...92.57 + +Mrs. E.J.W. Baker, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...60.00 + +Village Ch. Sab. Sch., to const. MRS. MARY LOUISE SWAN L.M. ...54.65 + +Pilgrim Cong. Ch ...30.00 + +B. Wilkin's S.S. Class, 8; Thomas Knapp's S.S. Class, 8, _for +Wilmington, N.C._ ...16.00 + +Mrs. Mary L. Houston, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...5.00 + +Howard St. Ch., Mrs. M. Heusten, Box of C., _for Selman, Ala._ + +Harvard Cong. Ch. ...2.40 + +Miss M.E. Lapham's S.S. Class, Box Christmas gifts, 1 _for Freight for +Raleigh, N.C._ ...1.00 + +Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Girls' Dormitory, +Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...38.50 + +Benev. Soc. Immanuel Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Mrs. Mary B Hooker ...25.00 + +"A Friend" ...5.00 + +Eliot Cong. Ch. ...1.00 + +South Boston. Philips Cong. Ch., ad'l ...25.00 + +West Roxbury. South Evan. Ch. ...24.51 + +-------- 1779.49 + +Cambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 78.82; Mrs. M.L.C. Whitney, 1 ...79.82 + +Cambridgeport. "The Ten" and "A Friend," Half Bbl. of C., _for Pleasant +Hill, Tenn._ + +Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...41.75 + +Chelsea. Miss E. Davenport, _for Mountain Work_ ...5.00 + +Chelsea. C.H. Keelar's S.S. Class, _for Student Aid, Oahe Indian +Sch._ ...3.75 + +Cheshire. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._ + +Clarendon Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...3.37 + +Conway. Cong. Ch. ...8.00 + +Curtisville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Oaks, N.C._ ...28.53 + +Curtisville. George B. Dresser ...5.00 + +Dalton. Zenas Crane, 100; Mrs. J.B. Crane, 100 ...200.00 + +Dedham. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Straight +U._ ...25.00 + +East Douglas. Cong. Ch. ...42.04 + +East Longmeadow. "A Friend" ...1.00 + +East Weymouth. Cong. Ch. ...40.00 + +East Weymouth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Pleasant Hill, +Tenn._ + +Enfield. Cong. Ch. ...48.49 + +Enfield. Woman's Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. J.E. Woods, 15 _for Indian and_ 15 +_for Chinese M._ ...30.00 + +Fall River. First Cong. Ch. (20 of which _for Indian M._) ...72.95 + +Fall River. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...17.50 + +Fitchburg. C.C. Ch., Mrs. E.M. Dickinson ...8.00 + +Framingham. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...22.50 + +Framingham. Mrs. S.N. Brewer ...6.00 + +Franklin. Missionary Soc., _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...6.00 + +Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. ...61.70 + +Georgetown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 10 _for Atlanta U._, 15 _for +Mountain Work_, 10 _for Hampton Inst._ ...35.00 + +Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 92; Mrs. Nancy E. +Brooks, 10 ...102.00 + +Goshen. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Great Barrington. "A Friend" ...5.00 + +Hadley. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. ...12.17 + +Hanover. Second Cong. Ch., on True Blue Card ...5.00 + +Harvard. "A Friend" ...25.00 + +Harwich. Cong. Ch. ...5.51 + +Haverhill. Center Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...130.00 + +Haverhill. Sab. Sch. of West Cong. Ch., Class No. 1, 10; Class No. 2, +10.62; Proceeds Harvest Festival, 41; West Cong. Ch., 4 ...65.62 + +Holden. Cong. Ch. ...10.50 + +Holliston. "Bible Christians" ...100.00 + +Holyoke. F.B. Towne, Case Blank Books; Parsons Paper Co., Case Paper, +_for Macon, Ga._ + +Ipswich. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Ramona Sch., +New Mexico_ ...75.00 + +Ipswich. South Cong. Ch., (5 of which _for Ramona Sch., New +Mexico_) ...55.00 + +Lawrence. Lawrence St. Church ...34.29 + +Lawrence. Mrs. T.C. Wittemore, _for Indian M._ ...11.50 + +Leicester. First Cong. Ch. ...38.14 + +Leominster. Orthodox. Cong. Ch. ...39.45 + +Leverett. Cong. Ch. ...15.60 + +Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...17.29 + +Lowell. Kirk St. Ch., 142.64; Mrs. Mary Stetson, 5.45 ...148.09 + +Ludlow. "Precious Pearls," _for Student Aid, Sherwood, Tenn._ ...5.00 + +Ludlow. Mission Circle, Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._ + +Marlboro. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00 + +Marlboro. Union Cong. Ch., ad'l, _for Indian M._ ...10.00 + +Marshfield. Rev. E. Alden, _for Freight to Williamsburg. Ky._ ...1.68 + +Medway. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...8.70 + +Merrimac. Cong. Ch. ...70.00 + +Methuen. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...5.62 + +Middleboro. Miss Carrie Bryant, _for Atlanta U._ ...10.00 + +Milford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ ...10.00 + +Millbury. C.E. Hunt ...20.00 + +Mittineague. Southworth & Co., Case Paper, _for Atlanta Ga._ + +Monson. Sarah E. Bradford, 4.50; An aged Lady, 1 ...5.50 + +Monson. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_, 5; "Spare Minutes" +Soc., Box of C., _for Jellico, Tenn._ ...5.00 + +Monson. Cong. Ch., 2 B. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._ + +Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch., 321.51; First Cong. Ch., 102.78 ...424.29 + +Newton. "The Mutual Bible Class," by Moses R. Emerson, Proceeds of Sale +of Onyx Pendant, _for Troy, N.C._ ...30.00 + +Newton Center. Mrs. Banesfield's S.S. Class, Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for +Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Nobscot. "A Friend," _for Mountain Work_ ...1.00 + +Norfolk. Union Ch. ...2.50 + +Northampton. "Mission Band," Smith College, _for Williamsburg, +Ky._ ...18.00 + +Northampton. Postal Note ...0.50 + +Northboro. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...8.65 + +North Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...15.00 + +Northfield. Trin. Cong. Ch. ...7.00 + +North Weymouth. Cong. Ch., 21.14; Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 21 ...42.14 + +Norwood. First Cong. Ch. ...192.16 + +Pepperell. Cong. Ch. ...18.94 + +Pittsfield. James H. Dunham ...100.00 + +Pittsfield. Mrs. H.M. Hurd, 2 Bbls. of C., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Quincy. Cong. Ch. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...10.00 + +Randolph. "Sunshine," _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...5.00 + +Randolph. Y.L.M. Soc., Half Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Reading. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...50.00 + +Reading. "A Friend," "In Memoriam" ...5.00 + +Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. ...14.30 + +Rockland. Cong. Ch., to const. MISS AUGUSTA SMITH and MISS HELEN FICKEL, +L.M.'s ...60.00 + +Rockland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00 + +Royalston. Charles F. Chase, _for Student Aid, Brewer Normal +Sch._ ...10.00 + +Salem. South Cong. Ch. ...73.75 + +Salem. Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._ ...14.00 + +Salem. Crombie St. Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._ + +Somerville. Winter Hill Cong. Ch. ...17.60 + +South Framingham. Cong. Ch., 10; "Two Children," 5, _for Pleasant Hill +Academy, Tenn._ ...15.00 + +South Hadley. Mrs. Maria B. Gridley ...5.00 + +South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._ + +South Weymouth. ----, _for Student Aid, Ballard Normal Sch., Macon, +Ga._ ...20.00 + +Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...318.42 + +Spencer. "Nickel Band," through W.H.M.A., _for Oahe Indian M._ ...10.00 + +Springfield. R.H. Clizbe ...18.00 + +Springfield. Olivet Ch., Y.P.S.C.E., _for Darling Mem. Chapel, Fort +Yates, Dak._ ...18.00 + +Springfield. "Wide Awake" Soc., South Ch., _for Student Aid, +Fisk U._ ...5.00 + +Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, _for Indian M._ ...30.00 + +Taunton. Union Ch. ...44.73 + +Tewksbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...5.35 + +Townsend. "Mrs. L.H.S." ...10.00 + +Wakefield. Cong. Ch. ...66.74 + +Wakefield. Mon. Con. Cong. Ch., 17.50; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 19.83, +and Primary Dept., 10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...47.33 + +Wakefield. Mission Workers of Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...23.00 + +Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...50.28 + +Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. ...14.10 + +Ware. East Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Santee Home_ ...25.00 + +Ware. Miss L.A. Tucker's Class, East Cong. S.S., _for Rosebud Indian +M._ ...12.00 + +Warren. "Friends," by W.R. Robbins, _for Straight U._ ...64.00 + +Warren. Cong. Ch., add'l ...4.00 + +Webster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., (2 of which _for Mountain +Work_) ...75.00 + +Wellesley. Cong. Ch. ...178.43 + +Wellesley Hills. Cong. Ch. ...63.00 + +Wentworth. Minnie H. Bridgeman, _for Sab. Sch., Meridian, Miss._ ...2.00 + +West Attleboro. Home M. Circle, B. of C., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Westboro. Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, _for Woman's Work_, 20. and Bbl. of +C. _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._; 20. _for Freedmen_ ...40.00 + +West Brookfield. Cong. Ch., 38.60; Class of Girls in Cong. Sab. +Sch., 6 ...44.60 + +Westfield. Mrs. C.W. Fowler, _for Sewing Sch., Sherwood, Tenn._ ...3.75 + +Westminster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...16.15 + +West Newbury. Second Cong. Ch., 18.88; J.C. Carr, 4 ...22.88 + +West Newton. Ladies' H.M. Soc., Bbl. _for Savannah, Ga._ + +West Newton. Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._ + +West Somerville. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +West Springfield. Ladies' Mission circle of Park St. Ch. _for Pleasant +Hill, Tenn._ ...50.00 + +West Springfield. Mrs. L.M. Bagg, Pkg. Patchwork, _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Weymouth and Braintree. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10; Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for +Wilmington, N.C._ ...10.00 + +Whitinsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...30.00 + +Williamsburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...58.67 + +Williamstown. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. E.H. BOTSFORD L.M., _for +Rosebud Indian M._ ...30.00 + +Winchendon. North Cong. Ch., 10; Five Cent Investment Fund, 6.88; +Y.P.S.C.E., 9.12; _for Girls' Dormitory, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...26.00 + +Winchester. First Cong. Ch. (22.70 of which _for Indian M._) ...203.74 + +Winchester. Y.P.S.C.E. and Friends, 3 Bbls. of C. and Christmas Gifts, +_for McIntosh, Ga._ + +Woburn. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00 + +Woburn. North Cong. Ch. ...10.18 + +Worcester. Union Ch., 220.41; Piedmont Ch., 103.03; Old South Cong. Ch. +and Soc., 52; Salem St. Ch., 18.06 ...393.50 + +Worcester. P.L. Moen, _for Academy, Williamsburg, Ky._ ...200.00 + +Worcester. Union Cong. Ch., 40; First Bapt. Ch., 15; Central Cong. Ch., +12; Plymouth Ch., 8; "A Friend," 1, _for Pleasant Hill Academy, +Tenn._ ...76.00 + +Worcester. Old South Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...38.14 + +Worcester. Miss S. Wheeler, _for Girls' Dormitory, Pleasant Hill, +Tenn._ ...20.00 + +Worcester. Central Ch., _for Jellico, Tenn._ ...25.61 + +Worcester. Union Ch. Benev. Soc., Box of C., _for Mobile, Ala._ + +Worcester. ---- Books, Papers, Christmas Toys, etc., _for Sherwood, +Tenn._ + +----. "A Massachusetts Friend," _for Native Missionary, Indian +M._ ...50.00 + +Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh, Treasurer: + +Chicopee. Second, _for Tougaloo U._ ...5.00 + +East Longmeadow ...23.00 + +Holyoke. Second ...41.87 + +Huntington. Second ...7.99 + +Palmer. Second ...75.00 + +Springfield. South ...93.86 + +---- First ...64.94 + +---- Hope ...56.86 + +---- Memorial ...37.02 + +"Friend" ...5.00 + +-------- 410.04 + +Woman's Home Missionary Association Miss E.A. Leland, Treas., _for +Woman's Work_: + +_For Salary of Teachers_ ...440.00 + +Lowell. Aux. of Kirk St. Ch. ...100.00 + +Mattapoiset. Aux. ...10.00 + +Newton. Sab. Sch. of Eliot Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...6.25 + +-------- 556.25 + +-------- + +$9,513.98 + +ESTATE. + +Weymouth. Estate of Dea. Jacob Loud, by John J. Loud, Ex. ...1,500.00 + +-------- + +$11,013.98 + + +CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE. + +South Berwick, Me. Ladies' Cong. Soc., Bbl., _for Raleigh, N.C._ + +Mason, N.H. Daniel Goodwin, Bbl., _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +Hollis, N.H. Rev. S.L. Gerould, Bbl., _for Birmingham, Ala._ + +Cambridgeport, Mass. Miss L. Palmer, 2 Boxes Patchwork, _for Pleasant +Hill, Tenn. and Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Newbury. First Parish, Bbl., _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Newton. Eliot Ch., Case Peloubet's Notes, _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Salem. Pkg. Books., _for Birmingham, Ala._ + +"Friends In Mass." Box of C., etc., _for Jellico, Tenn._ + + +RHODE ISLAND, $249.55. + +Bristol. First Cong. Ch. ...35.59 + +Newport. Mrs. E.D.W. Thayer, 10; United Cong. Ch., ad'l, 19.41 ...29.41 + +Pawtucket. Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...17.30 + +Providence. Sab. Sch. of Union Cong. Ch. (25 of which _for Williamsburg +Academy, Ky._) ...75.00 + +Providence. Plymouth Cong. Ch, _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...37.25 + +Providence. James Coats, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, +Tenn._ ...50.00 + +Providence. Central Ch., _for Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._ ...5.00 + + +CONNECTICUT, $2,846.26. + +Berlin. A.E. Hall's S.S. Class, 12.42; Miss Smith's S.S. Class, 2.80; +Miss Rogers' S.S. Class, 1.33; _for Tougaloo U._ ...16.55 + +Birmingham. ---- _for Indian M._ ...20.00 + +Branford. Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...25.00 + +Bridgeport. Infant Class, First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian +M._ ...15.00 + +Bridgeport. South Ch., Box of Books, _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Bristol. Cong. Ch., 34.01; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 20 ...54.01 + +Bristol. Mrs. Peck's Class, Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...14.00 + +Bozrah. First Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Canaan. "For Woman's Work" ...2.00 + +Canton Center. Ladies' Soc., Box of C., _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +Chaplin. Cong. Ch. ...20.00 + +Chester. Cong. Ch. ...30.00 + +Chester. C.N. Smith, _for Mountain Work_ ...5.00 + +Columbia. Mrs. W.B. Little, 6; Miss Eliza Hutchings, 1; _for McIntosh, +Ga._ ...7.00 + +Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Christmas Box, _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +Cromwell. Cong. Ch. ...124.76 + +East Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, +Fisk U._ ...10.00 + +East Haddam. "A Friend" ...5.00 + +East Hartford. First Ch. ...128.91 + +East Hartford. Miss'y Ten of King's Daughters, Box of Christmas Gifts, +_for Thomasville, Ga._ + +East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. ...17.00 + +Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch. ...52.99 + +Farmington. First Cong. Ch. ...108.65 + +Guilford. Miss Hattie Seward and Friends, Bbl. of C., etc., _for +Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Hadlyme. Richard E. Hungerford, 100; Cong. Ch., 2.85 ...102.85 + +Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch. ...309.50 + +Jewett City. Second Cong. Ch. ...12.12 + +Kensington. Miss F.A. Robbins, _for Tougaloo U._ ...5.00 + +Kensington. Mrs. Edward Cowles ...2.00 + +Lakeville. Mrs. S.S. Robbins ...5.00 + +Ledyard. Cong. Ch. ...22.43 + +Lyme. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Meriden. E.K. Breckenridge ...5.00 + +Middletown. South Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian M._ ...25.00 + +Middletown. 2 Bbls. of C., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Milford. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M., Santee Agency, Neb._ ...38.76 + +Millington. Cong. Ch. ...1.50 + +Milton. Cong. Ch., Mrs. Ella Grannis ...5.00 + +Morris. Cong. Ch. ...14.25 + +Montville. First Cong. Ch. ...9.15 + +Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. ...16.57 + +Mystic Bridge. Cong. Ch. ...16.00 + +Naugatuck. Children's Band, Cong. Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...12.00 + +New Britain. First Ch. of Christ, 113.23; South Cong. +Ch., 15.16 ...128.39 + +New Canaan. Sab. Sch. of Cong, Ch., _for Indian M._ ...50.00 + +New Canaan. Woman's H.M. Soc. of Cong. Ch, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch, +Ga._ ...26.00 + +New Haven. Miss Caroline Ives, of Center Ch., 30, to const. MRS. +ELIZABETH TREAT KILDUFF L.M.; Mrs. M.H. Townsend. 25 ...55.00 + +New London. First Ch. of Christ ...57.54 + +New London. Friends in First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...21.00 + +New Preston. Circle of Girls, Box of Christmas Gifts, _for Thomasville, +Ga._ + +Newtown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...15.00 + +Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...204.24 + +Norfolk. Miss Isabella Eldridge, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, +Tenn._ ...10.00 + +Norwich. Second Cong. Ch. ...145.82 + +Norwich. First Cong. Ch., _for Jewett Memorial Hall_ ...15.00 + +Norwich. James Dana Colt, _for Indian M._ ...1.00 + +Norwichtown. "First Cong. Ch." ...25.00 + +Old Lyme. "A Friend" ...5.00 + +Orange. Cong. Ch. ...18.00 + +Plantsville. Ladies' Industrial Soc., _for Conn Ind'l Sch., +Ga._ ...35.00 + +Plainfield. Y.L. Mission Band, Box of C., _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +Plymouth. George Langdon ...50.00 + +Pomfret. First Cong. Ch. ...29.40 + +Pomfret. Sab. Sch. Papers, _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +Pequonock. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Jewett Memorial Hall_ ...17.00 + +Putnam. "A Friend" ...17.50 + +Roxbury. Cong. Ch, 11.70; Sab. Sch., 10 ...21.70 + +Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch. ...7.24 + +Rockville. Union Cong. Ch. ...57.00 + +Salisbury. Mrs. Clark's S.S. Class, Cong. Ch., _for Conn Ind'l Sch., +Ga._ ...8.30 + +Salisbury. Cong. Ch. ...7.00 + +Salisbury. Mrs. Burralls' S.S. Class, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., +Ga._ ...5.00 + +Salisbury. Mrs. Sarah J. Roraback's S.S. Class, _for Woman's +Work_ ...2.00 + +Scitico. Mrs. Charles E. Stowe, _for Indian M._ ...1.00 + +South Britain. Cong. Ch. ...12.40 + +South Norwalk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...75.00 + +Southington. Cong. Ch. ...26.84 + +South Winston. First Cong. Ch. ...11.83 + +Suffield. Inasmuch Circle of King's Daughters, _for Student Aid, Conn. +Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...10.00 + +Terryville. Cong. Ch. ...51.04 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. ...11.85 + +Torrington. First Cong. Ch. ...5.00 + +Unionville. First Ch. of Christ ...40.00 + +Wallingford. First Cong. Ch. ...53.36 + +Wapping. Cong. Ch. ...20.52 + +Waterbury. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...25.00 + +Waterbury. Sew. Soc., First Ch., Pkg. of C., _for Tougaloo U._ + +Watertown. Mrs. Fred. Scott's Class, _for Student Aid, Fort Berthold +Indian School, North Dak._ ...9.00 + +Westchester. Cong. Ch. ...17.49 + +Wethersfield. Cong. Ch., 15 _for Tougaloo U._, 8.75 _for Conn. Ind'l +Sch., Ga._ ...23.75 + +West Hartford. Anson Chappell ...10.00 + +Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Ch. ...11.49 + +West Stafford. Cong. Ch. ...3.50 + +West Torrington. Ladies' Aux. of First Cong. Ch., 10. _for Mountain +Work_; 10 _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...20.00 + +Windham. Bbl., 3 for Freight, _for Raleigh, N.C._ ...3.00 + +Windsor. Cong. Ch. ...2.06 + +Windsor Locks. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ ...25.00 + +----. ----, for Hope Station ...75.00 + + +NEW YORK, $2,320.80. + +Albany. Chas. A. Beach, 50; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 10 ...60.00 + +Angola. Ladles, Bbl. of C., _for Pine Mountain, Tenn._ + +Baldwinsville. Howard Carter ...50.00 + +Binghamton. "A Friend" ...10.00 + +Binghamton. Cong. Bible Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00 + +Blodget Mills. Two Bbls. Papers, etc., 1 for Freight, by Miss E. Nason, +_for Atlanta, Ga._ ...1.00 + +Brooklyn. Clinton Av. Cong. Ch. ...1,137.38 + +Brooklyn. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Lewis Av. Cong. Ch. ...14.25 + +Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill Academy, +Tenn._ ...100.00 + +Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...40.00 + +Brooklyn. Miss Ada F. Hendrickson, _for Woman's Work_ ...2.00 + +Buffalo. Sab. Sch. of First Cong, Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...53.00 + +Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch. ...16.96 + +Churchville. Mission Band, Cong. Ch., _for Macon, Ga._ ...2.25 + +Cortland. Cong. Ch., H.M. Soc., Box of C., _for Mobile, Ala._ + +Deansville. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Charleston, S.C._ ...10.00 + +East Bloomfield. Mrs. Eliza S. Goodwin ...4.50 + +Ellington. Cong. Ch., 1035; Christian Endeavor Soc., 4.25, _for Student +Aid, Fisk U._ ...14.50 + +Fredonia. Presb. Sab. Sch., (30 of which to const. WILLIAM McKINSTRY +L.M.) _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00 + +Gloversville. Cong. Ch., (100 of which from Mrs. U.M. Place) ...208.00 + +Goshen. "A Friend," _for Atlanta U._ ...1.00 + +Greigsville. Mrs. F.A. Gray ...1.00 + +Marathon. "King's Daughters," Bbl. Books, etc., _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Maysville. Mrs. Kilburn, 2 doz. Needle Books, _for Athens, Ala._ + +Middletown. First Cong. Ch. ...13.86 + +New York. Broadway Tabernacle Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fort Berthold +Indian Sch., North Dak._ ...50.00 + +New York. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...33.52 + +New York. Mrs. L.H. Spelman, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ ...20.00 + +New York. "M.C.H." ...3.00 + +New York. Mr. and Mrs. B. Van Wagenen, Fancy Boxes and Candy, _for +Christmas, Marion, Ala._ + +North Walton. Union Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch. ...23.65 + +Norwich. "A Friend" ...20.00 + +Orient. Cong. Ch. ...10.48 + +Patchogue. First Cong. Ch. ...13.51 + +Perry Center. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Riverhead. Cong. Ch. ...20.00 + +Rome. Welsh Cong. Ch., 9; "An old Friend," 5 ...14.00 + +Rome. Mrs. Jervise, _for Tougaloo U._ ...10.00 + +Sag Harbor. Geo. B. Brown ...1.00 + +Troy. Mrs. E.C. Stewart ...0.50 + +Vernon Center. Rev. G.C. Judson ...1.00 + +Walton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...50.90 + +Walton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...17.54 + +Westmoreland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. ...2.00 + +Whitesboro. Mrs. L. Halsey ...10.00 + +Woodville. W.H.M. Soc., Box of C., _for Jellico, Tenn._ + +----. "A Friend" ...100.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., _for +Woman's Work_: + +Albany. Ladies' Aux. ...20.00 + +Churchville. Aux., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00 + +Homer. Ladies' Aux. ...10.00 + +Smyrna. Young Peoples' Miss'y Soc. ...25.00 + +-------- 105.00 + + +NEW JERSEY, $102.90. + +Bound Brook. Miss Roundy, _for Oahe Indian M._ ...3.15 + +Jersey City. Waverly Cong. Ch. ...11.25 + +Lakewood. Geo. Langdon ...5.00 + +Montclair. Ladies' Aid Soc. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._ + +Newark. Loyal Circle of King's Daughters, _for Woman's Work_ ...2.00 + +Phillipsburg. Mrs. A.E. Reiley, _for Straight U._ ...1.00 + +Roselle. "A Friend" ...50.00 + +Trenton. Miss S.T. Sherman, _for Woman's Work_ ...30.00 + +Vineland. Wm. McGeorge ...0.50 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $34.00. + +Lawrenceville. Presb. Sab. Sch., B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +Philadelphia. W.C. Stroud, _for Straight U._ ...25.00 + +Richford. Cong. Ch. ...4.00 + +Ridgway. Y.P.B. Class, by Minnie Kline, _for Oaks, N.C._ ...5.00 + +Wattsburg. K.D. Soc., Box of Christmas Gifts, _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + + +OHIO, $513.24. + +Andover. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of C., _for Jellico, Tenn._ + +Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thomson ...2.28 + +Berea. James S. Smedley ...5.00 + +Canfield. Cong. Ch. ...6.66 + +Cincinnati. Mrs. Betsey E. Aydelott ...5.00 + +Cleveland. Madison Av. Cong. Ch. ...5.26 + +Columbus. E.C. Dunham, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...5.00 + +Cyclone. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. ...17.00 + +Delaware. William Bevan ...5.00 + +Donnellsville. Miss Ella M. Pursell, 5; Ella Pursell and Friends, Box of +C. etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ ...5.00 + +Geneva. "H" ...1.00 + +Harmar. Mrs. Putnam, Patchwork, _for Athens, Ala._ + +Hudson. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Lenox. W.M.S. of Cong. Ch. ...12.42 + +Lorain. Y.P.S.C.E. and Friends, Box of Christmas Gifts, _for Tougaloo, +Miss._ + +Lyme. Cong. Ch. ...19.97 + +Madison. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch. ...20.00 + +Mallet Creek. Mrs. M.W. Bingham ...5.00 + +Medina. "Friends," _for Freight to Macon, Ga._ ...1.05 + +Norwalk. Mrs. Calista Lawrence ...0.50 + +Oberlin. First Ch., 69; Mrs. Maria Goodell Frost, 5; Harris Lewis, 5; +Lyndon Freeman, 1.50 ...80.50 + +Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., (6.25 of which _for Jewett Memorial +Hall_) ...36.43 + +Oberlin. Rev. C.V. Spear, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, +Tenn._ ...50.00 + +Painesville. First Cong. Ch., 72.84, to const. JOHN L. SHEPARD and Z.F. +CASTERLINE L.M's; A Friend, 2; W.H. Stocking, 1 ...75.84 + +Ridgeville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ ...12.00 + +Saybrook. Cong. Ch. ...9.39 + +Tallmadge. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...16.88 + +Toledo. Central Cong. Ch. ...5.00 + +Unionville. Cong. Ch. ...8.00 + +Wellington. First Cong. Ch. ...25.00 + +Unionville. Rev. J.C. Burnell ...5.00 + +Youngstown. "A Friend" ...2.00 + +Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. L.E. Fairchild, Treas., _for +Woman's Work_: + +Alexis. L.S. ...3.85 + +Alexis. S.S. ...1.32 + +Bellevue. L.M.S. ...5.00 + +Columbus. Eastwood Ch., W.M.S., _for Miss Collins, Indian M._ ...10.00 + +Garrettsville. W.M.S., bal. to const. MRS. HENRY MERWIN L.M. ...5.00 + +Garrettsville. W.M.S. ...6.00 + +Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., W.M.S. ...10.00 + +Toledo. Central Cong. Ch., W.M.U. ...15.00 + +Williamsfield. L.M.S., _for Miss Collins_ ...5.00 + +-------- 61.17 + + +INDIANA, $3.00. + +Fort Wayne. Plymouth Cong. Ch. ...3.00 + +Indianapolis. Girls' Soc., Plymouth Ch., Box Dolls, _for Christmas, +Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Kingston. Box of Books, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + + +ILLINOIS, $1,203.64. + +Batavia. Wm. G. Coffin ...5.00 + +Camp Point. Mrs. S.B. McKluney ...12.00 + +Canton. First Cong. Ch. ...54.40 + +Chicago. Ezra A. Cook, _for Oahe Indian Industrial Sch._ ...100.00 + +Chicago. Millard Av. Cong. Ch., 25.19; Rev. G.S.F. Savage, 20; Sardis +Cong. Ch., 10; Sab. Sch. of New England Cong. Ch., 45; Leavitt St. Cong. +Ch., 3.82; Mrs. Hiram Hulburd, 1.50 ...105.51 + +Chicago. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., by Mrs. E.P. Goodwin, _for Indian +M._ ...50.00 + +Chicago. Mrs. Lyman Baird, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...20.00 + +Chicago. David C. Cook, Papers, _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +Chicago. Mrs. Skeels, Bbl. C., _for Macon, Ga._ + +Concord. Ladies of Cong. Ch, Pkg. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._ + +Galesburg. First Cong. Ch. ...100.00 + +Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. ...50.00 + +Hyde Park. Arthur Cole ...5.00 + +Kewanee. Mrs. H.E. Kellogg ...5.00 + +Knoxville. H. Rowles ...5.00 + +Moline. First Cong. Ch. ...150.97 + +Oak Park. Bible Class of Cong. Ch., Mason & Hamlin Organ, _for Primary +Dept. Normal Sch., Marion, Ala._ + +Oak Park. Ladies' Benev. Soc., First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and Bbl. of +Books, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Odell. Ladies of Cong. Ch. ...6.50 + +Payson. Miss F.A. Spencer, Pkg. of Articles, _for Mobile, Ala._ + +Rockford. First Cong. Ch., _for Sch'p Endowment Fund, Fisk U._ ..10.00 + +Rockford. Miss M. Lena Todd, Box of Patchwork, _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Roscoe. Cong. Ch. ...4.43 + +Seward. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...5.13 + +Shabbona. Cong. Ch. ...28.36 + +Toulon. Ladles' Circle, First Cong. Ch., 2 Boxes of C., etc., _for +Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Turner. Mrs. R. Currier ...5.00 + +Wyanet. Miss Brainard's S.S. Class, Pkg. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._ + +Western Springs. Cong. Ch. ...5.35 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Illinois, by Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Treas., +_for Woman's Work_: + +Buda. ----, _for Indian M._ ...3.00 + +Buda ...2.00 + +Chicago. New England Ch. ...47.50 + +Chicago. Lincoln Park Ch. ...8.00 + +Elgin. First Ch. ...5.00 + +Milburn ...5.50 + +Oak Park ...29.75 + +Payson ...6.00 + +Rantoul ...5.00 + +Rockford. Second Ch., Y.M.H.M.U., _for Indian M._ ...11.00 + +Rockford. Second Ch. ...7.00 + +Wheaton. Wheaton College S.S. ...1.74 + +Winnebago. ----, _for Mountain Work_ ...10.00 + +-------- 141.49 + +-------- + +$869.14 + +ESTATE. + +Avon. Estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Churchill, by Rev. James D. Wyckoff and +Dr. S.S. Clayberg, Executors ...334.50 + +-------- + +$1,203.64 + + +MICHIGAN, $435.58. + +Adrian. B.S. Allen ...3.50 + +Benzonia. Cong Ch. ...14.48 + +Calumet. Robert Dobbie ...30.00 + +Comstock. "A Friend" ...245.79 + +Detroit. Trumbull Av. Cong. Ch., 10; Miss Frances C. Hudson, 5; H.S. +Pingree, 5 ...20.00 + +Detroit. Christmas Box, _for Athens, Ala._ + +Greenville. Cong. Ch. ...5.00 + +Jackson. Mrs. L.C. Nash and Daughter, 5; Mrs. R.M. Bennett, 2.50 ...7.50 + +Romeo. "Contributor" ...50.00 + +Three Oaks. Cong. Ch. ...36.00 + +Three Oaks. Mrs. William Chamberlain, Bbl. of C., _for Pleasant Hill, +Tenn._ + +White Lake. Robert Garner ...10.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Mich., by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas., +_for Woman's Work_: + +Three Oaks. W.H.M.S. ...13.06 + +Three Oaks. Infant Class ...0.25 + +-------- 13.31 + + +WISCONSIN, $250.50. + +Appleton. First Cong. Ch. ...22.00 + +Beloit. First Cong. Ch. ...11.00 + +Beloit. Children's Mission Band, First Cong. Ch, Box Christmas Gifts, +_for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Brodhead. "Willing Workers" Miss'y Soc., Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for +Austin, Texas._ + +Clinton. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. W.J. CLARK and MRS. D.M. OLDS +L.M'S ...65.05 + +Columbus. Busy Workers, Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for Austin, Texas_ + +Green Bay. Y.L. Miss'y Soc., Christmas Box, _for Austin, Texas_ + +Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C., _for Troy, N.C._ + +Janesville. Friends in First Cong. Ch., 3 Boxes of C., etc., _for +Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Lake Geneva. First Cong. Ch. ...10.92 + +Madison. First Cong. Ch. ...17.91 + +Milwaukee. ----, Patchwork, _for Athens, Ala._ + +Platteville. "Pearl Gatherers," Christmas Box, _for Austin, Texas_ + +Racine. Mrs. D.D. Nichols ...0.50 + +Ripon. First Cong. Ch. ...17.79 + +Sheboygan Falls. Sheboygan News Co., 2 Boxes Books, etc., _for Sherwood, +Tenn._ + +Watertown. Cong. Ch. ...8.20 + +Sturgeon Bay. Hope Cong. Ch. ...1.50 + +West Salem. Mrs. Hayes, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...2.25 + +Whitewater. Cong. Ch. ...48.09 + +Windsor. Cong. Ch. ...13.78 + +Wisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for Woman's Work_: + +Arena. L.M.S. ...1.26 + +Elkhorn. W.H.M.S., Thank Offering ...25.00 + +Platteville. W.H.M.S. ...1.75 + +Sun Prairie. W.H.M.S. ...3.50 + +-------- 31.51 + + +IOWA, $353.20. + +Almoral. Cong. Ch. ...8.00 + +Belle Plaine. Juv. Soc. and Sab. Sch. ...3.08 + +Burlington. Cong. Ch., 11.76; Y.P.S.C.E., 1.35 ...13.11 + +Cedar Rapids. Birthday Offerings, S.S. of Cong. Ch., 2.54; Birthday +Offerings, S.S. of Cong. Chapel, 73c. ...3.27 + +Des Moines. Mrs. D. Paterson ...1.00 + +Earlville. Cong. Ch. ...14.80 + +Eldora. Birthday Gifts of Mrs. Hardin's Class, Cong. Sab. Sch. ...0.74 + +Emmettsburg. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. ...3.74 + +Genoa Bluffs. Cong. Ch. ...1.90 + +Grinnell. Mrs. J.B. Grinnell, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...10.00 + +Lake City. E.P. Longhead ...0.50 + +Maquoketa. Y.P.S.C.E., Box of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Nashua. Y.P.S.C.E., Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +New Hampton. First Cong. Ch. ...13.29 + +Newton. Wittemberg Cong. Sab. Sch. ...20.27 + +Otho. Cong. Ch. ...5.00 + +Reinbeck. Cong. Ch. ...14.00 + +Rockford. Y.P.S.C.E., Cong. Ch., 1.75; L.M. Soc. and Y.P.S.C.E., Box and +Bbl. of C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ ...1.75 + +Stacyville. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Tabor. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 10; Cong. Ch., 8.53 ...18.53 + +Wayne. Ladies' M. Soc., Bbl., _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for Woman's Work_: + +Almoral. L.M.S. ...2.00 + +Bradford. Y.P.S.C.E. ...4.99 + +Cedar Falls. W.M.S. ...0.52 + +Cedar Rapids. W.M.S. ...3.53 + +Chester Center. W.H.M.U. ...1.00 + +Clinton ...2.50 + +Davenport. Y.L.S. ...21.75 + +Decorah. W.W.S. ...25.00 + +Dubuque. Y.P.S.C.E. ...15.20 + +Dubuque. S.S. ...5.47 + +Des Moines. W.M.S. ...9.19 + +Farragut. W.H.M.S. ...10.00 + +LeMars ...3.77 + +Marion. W.M.S. ...22.63 + +Marion. "Busy Gleaners," _for Santee Indian Sch._ ...20.00 + +Marion. Y.L.S. ...25.00 + +Magnolia. W.H.M.U. ...1.25 + +McGregor. W.M.S. ...21.00 + +Ottumwa. First Ch., W.M.U. ...3.44 + +Osage. W.M.S. ...1.80 + +Rockford. L.M.S. ...1.68 + +Stuart. Sab. Sch. ...2.11 + +Sheldon. "Thank Offering" ...2.95 + +Sioux City. L.M.S. ...2.70 + +Toledo. Y.P.S.C.E. ...0.64 + +-------- 210.12 + + +MINNESOTA, $293.09. + +Austin. Cong. Union Ch., to const. H.A. AVERY and G.C. +ADAMS L.M'S ...63.12 + +Cannon Falls. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Dodge Center. Cong. Ch. ...2.40 + +Excelsior. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 2-1/2 doz. Thimbles, _for Jonesboro, +Tenn._ + +Faribault. Cong. Ch. ...10.96 + +Glenwood. Cong. Ch. ...2.22 + +Lake City. First Cong. Sab. Sch., (19.08 of which _for Williamsburg, +Ky._) ...38.16 + +Mazeppa. Cong. Ch. ...1.45 + +Medford. Cong. Ch. ...10.00 + +Minneapolis. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 17.80; Mrs. A.D. Appleby, 2; +Silver Lake Cong. Ch., bal., 1.04; Mrs. R. Laughlin, 1.50 ...22.34 + +Minneapolis. "Cheerful Workers," Pkg., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Minneapolis. Box of Notions, _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Morris. Cong. Ch. ...9.61 + +New Richland. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Pkg. Table Linen, etc., _for +Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Owatonna. Cong. Ch. ...8.64 + +Rochester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for Jonesboro, +Tenn._ + +Saint Paul. Mrs. M.D. Clapp ...4.50 + +Wabasha. First Cong. Ch. ...11.82 + +Waseca. Cong. Ch. ...3.00 + +Winona. First Cong. Ch. ...94.87 + + +MISSOURI, $133.50. + +Bevier. Miss Luella J. Hudelson ...3.00 + +Saint Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. ...130.50 + + +KANSAS, $6.95. + +Pleona. Cong. Ch. ...6.95 + + +NORTH DAKOTA, $5.00. + +Buxton. "Pearl Gatherers," by Mrs. Mary M. Fisher, _for Williamsburg, +Ky._ ...5.00 + + +SOUTH DAKOTA, $49.84. + +Chamberlain. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...2.84 + +Huron. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Indian M._ ...40.00 + +Oahe. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Indian M._ ...2.00 + +Templeton. Cong. Ch. ...2.00 + +South Dakota. Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. S.E. Fifield, +Treas.: + +Deadwood. W.M.S. ...3.00 + + +NEBRASKA, $28.33. + +Clark's. John Parker ...2.00 + +Crete. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...21.60 + +Red Cloud. First Cong. Ch. ...2.00 + +Trenton. Ch. of the Redeemer ...2.72 + + +CALIFORNIA, $556.00. + +Pomona. J.D. Dewey ...5.00 + +San Francisco. Receipts of the California Chinese Mission (see Items +below) ...551.00 + + +OREGON, $4.73. + +East Portland. First Cong. Ch. ...3.73 + +----. "Friend," _for Raleigh, N.C._ ...1.00 + + +WASHINGTON, $30.00. + +Resario. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...4.85 + +Anacortes. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.15 + + +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. + +Washington. Cong. Ch., Box of Notions, _for Tougaloo U._ + + +KENTUCKY, $4.84. + +Berea. "Church at Berea" ...4.84 + + +MARYLAND, $5.00. + +Federalsburg. Sarah A. Beals ...5.00 + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $69.31. + +Hillsboro. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...0.35 + +Salem. Cong. Ch. ...2.00 + +Wilmington. Cong. Ch. ...66.96 + + +GEORGIA, $12.30. + +Macon. Miss E.B. Scobie, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...5.00 + +McIntosh. Midway Cong. Ch. ...1.30 + +Thomasville. Conn. Industrial Sab. Sch., _for Fort Berthold Indian M., +Dak._ ...6.00 + + +FLORIDA, $6.00. + +Altoona. Mrs. J.S. Blackman ...4.50 + +Tangerine. Wm. E. Cathcart ...1.50 + + +ALABAMA, $93.73. + +Athena. New Year's Offering, Ladies' Miss'y Soc. Trin. Cong. Ch., _for +Indian M._ ...6.00 + +Jenifer. Cong. Ch. 1.50; Sab. Sch. 1.50; Woman's Miss'y Union, 2 ...5.00 + +Talladega. Miss S.J. ELDER, 30., to const. herself L.M.; Cong. +Ch., 9.23 ...39.23 + +Talladega. Rev. H.S. DeForest, _for repairs, Talladega C._ ...23.50 + +Talladega. Woman's Miss'y Union, 12.50; Mission Band, 5; Little Helpers, +2.50; _for Indian M._ ...20.00 + + +TENNESSEE, $58.78. + +Athens. Cong. Ch. ...1.31 + +Chattanooga. Mr. Loomis, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, +Tenn._ ...50.00 + +Nashville. Christian Endeavor Soc., Fisk U., _for Mountain Work_ ...2.00 + +Pleasant Hill. "Friend," _for Pleasant Hill_ ...1.00 + +Sherwood. Birthday Box, Cong. Sab. Sch. ...4.47 + + +TEXAS, $3.00. + +Austin. Allen Bradley, 1 Shoat; Barnes & Scott, 25 lbs. Nuts; Nelson +Davis & Co., 25 lbs. Candy; _for Austin, Texas._ + +Dallas. Cong. Ch. ...3.00 + +----, $9.32. + +---- ---- _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ ...4.32 + +---- "Unknown Friend," _for Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._ ...5.00 + + +CANADA, $10.00. + +Montreal. Charles Alexander ...5.00 + +Sherbrooke. Mrs. H.J. Morey ...5.00 + + +EAST AFRICA, $48.20. + +Kambina, Inhambane. Rev. B.F. Ousley, _for Student Aid, +Fisk U._ ...48.20 + +======== + +Donations ...$21,328.29 + +Estates ...1,834.50 + +-------- + +$23,162.79 + + +INCOME, $282.16. + +Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ ...28.00 + +Graves Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._ ...125.00 + +Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ ...125.00 + +Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._ ...4.16 + +-------- 282.16 + + +TUITION, $4,028.33. + +Lexington, Ky. Tuition ...124.65 + +Rockhold, Ky. Tuition ...33.40 + +Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition ...56.75 + +Chapel Hill, N.C. Tuition ...7.50 + +Troy, N.C. Tuition ...12.00 + +Charleston, S.C. Tuition ...249.88 + +Greenwood, S.C. Tuition ...69.90 + +Wilmington, N.C. Tuition ...215.35 + +Crossville, Tenn. Tuition ...12.50 + +Jellico, Tenn. Tuition ...48.75 + +Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition ...6.00 + +Memphis, Tenn. Tuition ...525.02 + +Nashville, Tenn. Tuition ...641.96 + +Pine Mountain, Tenn. Tuition ...17.10 + +Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition ...21.00 + +Sherwood, Tenn. Tuition ...40.00 + +Macon, Ga. Tuition ...332.35 + +McIntosh, Ga. Tuition ...68.08 + +Savannah, Ga. Tuition ...223.00 + +Thomasville, Ga. Tuition ...72.95 + +Athens, Ala. Tuition ...71.85 + +Marion, Ala. Tuition ...82.60 + +Mobile, Ala. Tuition ...213.65 + +Selma, Ala. Tuition ...78.65 + +Meridian, Miss. Tuition ...92.40 + +Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition ...137.00 + +New Orleans, La. Tuition ...411.50 + +Austin, Texas. Tuition ...162.54 + +-------- 4,028.33 + +United States Government Appropriation for the Education of +Indians ...615.29 + +-------- + +Total for January ...$28,088.57 + +======== + + +SUMMARY. + +Donations ...74,480.26 + +Estates ...31,254.77 + +-------- + +$105,735.03 + +Income ...3,658.31 + +Tuition ...12,812.17 + +United States Government for the Education of Indians ...5,684.47 + +-------- + +Total from Oct. 1 to Jan. 31 ...$127,889.98 + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +Subscriptions for January ...$166.04 + +Previously acknowledged ...206.85 + +-------- + +Total ...$372.89 + +======== + + +RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, E. Palache, Treasurer, from +September 1, 1889, to January 18, 1890. + +FROM LOCAL MISSIONS.--Los Angeles, Chinese Mon. Off's, 15.90; Loo Quong, +2--Marysville, Chinese Mon. Off's, 23.05; Annual Member, 8.--Oakland, +Chinese Monthlies, 50.--Oroville, Chinese Monthlies, 12.05--Petaluma, +Chinese Monthlies, 14.15.--Riverside, Chinese Monthlies, 9.80; Annual +Members, 2--San Diego, Weekly Offerings, 25.20.--Sacramento, Chinese +Monthlies, 18; Annual Members, 8.--Santa Barbara, Chinese Monthlies, +11.45; "A Friend," 5.--Santa Cruz, Chinese Monthlies, 30.25; "A Friend," +1.--Stockton, Chinese Monthlies, 13.35; Mrs. Whitman, 1.--Ventura, +Chinese Monthlies, 13.95 ...$264.65 + +FROM CHURCHES--Ferndale, Cong. Ch., 5.--Los Angeles, Woman's Home Miss'y +Soc. of First Cong. Ch., 66.80--Ontario, Cong. Ch., 1.--San Francisco, +Green St. Ch., Col. at Annual Meeting of the Mission, 22.65; Annual +Membership, 2.--San Francisco, Bethany Ch., from Americans: Mrs. H.U. +Lamont, 4; Mrs. Kennedy, 3; from Chinese: Cong. Ass'n of Christian +Chinese, Bethany Branch, 21.60.--Central Mission, Monthly Offerings, +16.05.--Barnes Mission, Monthly Offerings, 6.75.--West Mission, Monthly +Offerings, 10.50;--Saticoy Cong. Ch., 2 ...161.35 + +FROM INDIVIDUAL GIVERS.--Hon. Stephen Williamson, M.P., 100; Rev. W.N. +Meserve, 5 ...105.00 + +FROM EASTERN FRIENDS.--Boston, Mass., J.W. Davis, 5.--Cincinnati, Ohio, +Rev. A.B. Brown, 15 ...20.00 + +-------- + +Total ...$551.00 + +======== + +H.W. 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