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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Vol. 44, No. 4,
+April, 1890, by Various
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+Title: The American Missionary -- Vol. 44, No. 4, April, 1890
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+Author: Various
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+AMERICAN MISSIONARY
+
+APRIL, 1890. VOL. XLIV. NO. 4.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+EDITORIAL
+
+REMOVAL--REV. FRANK P. WOODBURY, D.D.
+
+INDIAN CIVILIZATION--EMIGRATION OF COLORED PEOPLE
+
+A COMPARISON
+
+THE STEREOPTICON IN NEW ENGLAND
+
+MRS. JANE TWICHELL WARE--PARAGRAPHS
+
+AN ENTERPRISING WOMAN
+
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+DEDICATION OF CHANDLER NORMAL INSTITUTE
+
+CONGREGATIONALISM AROUND PARIS, TEXAS
+
+MISSION CHURCH--PROSPEROUS CHURCH
+
+THE WHITE CROSS LEAGUE
+
+BEREA AND TEMPERANCE--"BECCA MUST GO"
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+STREAKS OF LIGHT--ELIZABETH WINYAN
+
+AN EXEMPLARY MOTHER
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+TWO CHINESE ANNIVERSARIES
+
+
+ADDRESS.
+
+A COLORED MAN SPEAKS FOR HIS RACE
+
+REV. GEO. M. MCCLELLAN
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+PARAGRAPHS
+
+NOVEL DISH--MANY-SIDED WORK
+
+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.V.
+
+
+_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._ Rev. F.P. WOODBURY, D.D., _Bible House. N.Y._
+
+
+_Recording Secretary._
+
+Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._
+
+
+_Treasurer._
+
+H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _Bible House, N.Y._
+
+
+_Auditors._
+
+PETER McCARTEE. CHAS. P. PEIRCE.
+
+
+_Executive Committee._
+
+JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman. ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.
+
+
+_For Three Years._
+
+S.B. HALLIDAY, SAMUEL HOLMES, SAMUEL S. MARPLES, CHARLES L. MEAD, ELBERT
+B. MONROE.
+
+
+_For Two Years._
+
+J.E. RANKIN, WM. H. WARD, J.W. COOPER, JOHN H. WASHBURN, EDMUND L.
+CHAMPLIN.
+
+
+_For One Year._
+
+LYMAN ABBOTT, CHAS. A. HULL, CLINTON B. FISK, 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. APRIL, 1890. No. 4.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+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.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REV. FRANK P. WOODBURY, D.D.
+
+
+It gives us great pleasure to announce the acceptance by Rev. Frank P.
+Woodbury, D.D., of the position of Corresponding Secretary of this
+Association. Since the death of our dear Brother Powell, with the large
+increase of special resources and the general expansion of our work, an
+addition to our administrative force has become an absolute necessity.
+Dr. Woodbury brings to his new position special qualifications. His
+eighteen years of successful work in his pastorate at Rockford, Ill.,
+and his very effective two years' service in Minneapolis, have made him
+acquainted with the work of a pastor and the needs of the churches. In
+these pastorates, and in other services for the general interests of the
+church, he has shown exceptional administrative gifts. These will find
+ample range for activity in the Secretaryship. His public address at
+several of our own Annual Meetings and on many other similar occasions,
+attest his power as a platform speaker. He will meet with a warm welcome
+to the duties of this office, and we are confident that he will receive
+an equally cordial greeting in the churches, Conferences and
+Associations.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+INDIAN CIVILIZATION--NOW FOR A PUSH FORWARD.
+
+
+The time has come for new vigor in the Indian service. Gen. Morgan has
+been confirmed as Indian Commissioner, and his broad and well-matured
+plans are ready to be put into operation. We hope that Congress will
+make the necessary appropriations, and that nothing will hinder the
+multiplication of Indian schools and the ingathering of pupils. With the
+Sioux Indians, a great crisis has come. Their reservation is severed,
+and a broad belt is opened in it for the incoming of the white man.
+There will, of course, be the rush and confusion of new settlers, with
+the almost inevitable demoralization of the Indians. But a still more
+serious and protracted evil will grow out of the conflict of the two
+races and the temptations to the Indians. If ever the friends of the
+Sioux Indians needed to bestir themselves, it is just now. The helping
+hand, the open school and the sanctifying Gospel, must forestall all bad
+influences. So far as the work of the American Missionary Association is
+concerned, the opening of this reservation to white settlement will
+necessitate the removal of five or six of its out-stations, occasioning
+spiritual loss and additional money appropriations.
+
+While we hail with satisfaction the inauguration of Gen. Morgan's broad
+plans, we feel that there should not be the least relaxation on the part
+of the churches, in the "contract schools" and in the preaching of the
+gospel. From John Eliot down, the gospel has been the great civilizing
+power among the Indians, and it will be a fatal mistake to withhold it.
+If the new Government policy is successful, the gospel is its essential
+adjunct, and if there should be hindrances in carrying out that policy,
+the steady stream of gospel influences will be all the more necessary.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EMIGRATION OF COLORED PEOPLE.
+
+
+We have seen a large map of a Southern railroad, on one side of which
+were some highly-colored pictures. The first showed the tumble-down
+cabin of a colored man, himself, wife and boy carrying from it their few
+belongings to the favored land of promise. The next picture shows him
+and his family in the woods in his new location, getting ready to build
+his house. The third picture represents a fine log house, with green
+fields well fenced, a mule and pigs and chickens in the yard; and the
+last picture presents a large frame house with a veranda, in which the
+colored man is seated in a large arm-chair, reading a magazine, and his
+wife sitting by his side in a rocking chair, while near at hand is the
+capacious barn, with mules grazing in the adjacent lot.
+
+By the side of each picture is a running comment, supposed to be made by
+the colored man himself, describing his hard lot 'where he first lived,
+then telling of his purchase in the new land of promise, stating the
+price and the terms of purchase; then follows his happy rejoicing over
+his new location, and finally his triumphant joy in his wealth and fine
+mansion.
+
+It is by such representations, we are told, that the colored people in
+various parts of the South are tempted to leave their homes for new
+locations. The experience of those of their number who have made such
+migrations has not usually been encouraging, and we fear that thousands
+more will acquire a good deal of bitter knowledge learned in that same
+expensive school.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A COMPARISON.
+
+_The French and the Negro._
+
+
+A writer in the March number of The Forum has drawn a vivid picture of
+France in its poverty, misery and tyranny in 1789, and contrasted with
+this the thrift, the improved land culture, and the better clothing,
+food, home and intelligence of the French peasantry of 1889. The
+Revolution of 1789 broke the tyranny of the old crushing regime and
+opened the way for the new world that brightens and gladdens the France
+of to-day. But the Revolution did not itself make the great change; it
+simply made it possible.
+
+Two factors developed in French character were the practical forces in
+the new prosperity--economy and the desire for ownership of lands and
+homes. That economy was pushed, in many cases, almost to the extreme of
+miserly hoarding. We give below a few brief extracts illustrating the
+point in question:
+
+    "The life led by a comfortable English or American farmer would
+    represent wicked waste and shameful indulgence to a much richer
+    French peasant. I, myself, know a laborer on wages of less than
+    twenty shillings a week, who by thrift has bought ten acres of the
+    magnificent garden land between Fontainebleau and the Seine, worth
+    many thousand pounds, on which grow all kinds of fruits and
+    vegetables, and the famous dessert grapes; yet who, with all his
+    wealth and abundance, denies himself and his two children meat on
+    Sundays, and even a drink of the wine which he grows and makes for
+    the market."
+
+    "The French peasant has great virtues, but he has the defects of
+    his virtues, and his home life is far from idyllic. He is
+    laborious, shrewd, enduring, frugal, self-reliant, sober, honest
+    and capable of intense self-control for a distant reward; but that
+    reward is property in land, in pursuit of which he may become as
+    pitiless as a bloodhound."
+
+    "Take him for all in all, he is a strong and noteworthy force in
+    modern civilization. Though his country has not the vast mineral
+    wealth of England, nor her gigantic development in manufactures
+    and in commerce, he has made France one of the richest, most
+    solid, most progressive countries on earth. He is quite as frugal
+    and patient as the German, and is far more ingenious and skillful.
+    He has not the energy of the Englishman, or the elastic spring of
+    the American, but he is far more saving and much more provident.
+    He 'wastes nothing, and spends little,' and thus, since his
+    country comes next to England and America in natural resources and
+    national energy, he has built up one of the strongest, most
+    self-contained and most durable of modern peoples."
+
+A very significant parallel is presented in these two pictures to one
+that may be drawn between the Negro of 1861 and the Negro of 1961. The
+Civil War corresponded to the Revolution in France. It broke the fetters
+of the slave, and made his future a possibility. If, now, the Negro will
+fill out the beautiful picture in imitation of the French peasant, he
+must imitate him in rigid economy and in the ambition to own his own
+land and his own home. We do not of course advise the penuriousness of
+the miser, but the Negro is in little danger on that score. The grandest
+impulse, even in economy and in obtaining property, is found in a
+genuine Christian character. This is the work that our ministers and
+teachers are endeavoring to accomplish, but we are sure It will aid them
+to urge this practical saving of money, curtailing of needless expense,
+and the making of most determined efforts to become owners of their own
+homes.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE STEREOPTICON IN NEW ENGLAND.
+
+REV. STANLEY E. LATHROP, SHERWOOD, TENN.
+
+
+Secretary Roy of Chicago started an excellent thing when he arranged the
+Stereopticon pictures to illustrate the great work of our Association.
+After two months spent in traveling with these pictures and giving
+explanatory lectures concerning them, the writer desires to testify to
+their usefulness, and to express his thanks to the good people of New
+England for the interest they have shown, and the cordial reception they
+have given him in his travels. Evidently the work of the Association is
+"on a boom" in New England. Everywhere a great many questions were
+asked, and great many expressions of hearty interest manifested. During
+eight weeks, the audiences averaged over four hundred in number, in
+spite of "la grippe" and the rainy, sloppy weather that prevailed. In
+this time we traveled over five thousand miles, giving the Stereopticon
+lecture in forty-three different places, and making twenty-three other
+addresses upon the work, to audiences numbering in several cases nearly
+a thousand, and a total aggregate of over twenty-five thousand people.
+The descendants of the Pilgrims are thoroughly interested in our
+missionary work. The pictures of the people, buildings, etc., among the
+ten millions of people among whom our work is going on, in the West and
+South, were greatly enjoyed, with an evident increase of interest and of
+contribution. In view of all my past experiences, of four years of
+military service in the South, and my twelve years of missionary work in
+that region, this two months of travel and intercourse with so many
+intelligent friends and helpers of our Association has been a privilege
+and an enjoyment. God bless the good people of New England, and the
+grand work of our American Missionary Association!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MRS. JANE TWICHELL WARE.
+
+
+The early and honored workers under the American Missionary Association
+in the South are passing away. But the sharp sorrow of parting from them
+is relieved by the memory of their self-denying and useful work, and
+especially where these dear friends threw over those dark days and
+trying experiences the halo of personal excellence, sweetness of
+disposition and a manner full of cheerful vivacity.
+
+Such an one was Mrs. Ware. She entered the service among the Freedmen in
+the autumn of 1865, and in Norfolk, Virginia; Charleston, South
+Carolina; and Atlanta, Georgia, cast the radiance of her bright
+countenance and cheerful spirits over her serious and most successful
+work. She was a joy in the circle of her associates and an inspiration
+to her pupils.
+
+In 1869, the year in which the Atlanta University was founded, she was
+united in marriage to Rev. E.A. Ware, its President, and they with
+others gave the moulding touch to the University, and won for it the
+confidence of the friends at the North, and an annual appropriation from
+the State of Georgia. In her own pleasant home and in various services
+to the institution, she made herself useful. In 1885 her husband died
+suddenly from heart failure, and from that time onward she was left to
+face alone the serious pulmonary trouble which two years before had
+fastened itself upon her. Bravely and in hope did she battle with the
+adversary, until at length in the home of her brother, Rev. Jos. H.
+Twichell, of Hartford, she passed away February 17, 1890, in the
+forty-sixth year of her age, and her remains were laid to rest among her
+kindred in the village burying ground at Plantsville, Connecticut. A
+bright light has faded out from earth, a brighter one has dawned in
+Heaven.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PARAGRAPHS.
+
+
+The mention of the fact, in the last number of the MISSIONARY, that Dr.
+Patton was one of the members of the Convention in Albany that formed
+the American Missionary Association, suggests the inquiry as to how many
+of those then present are now alive? If those who know the facts, either
+by their personal presence on that occasion or otherwise, will send to
+us the names of such survivors, we will be greatly obliged.
+
+An envelope containing a gift of five dollars was dropped into the
+contribution bag recently among others, after an address concerning our
+work. It was from a faithful colored woman who had spent her life in
+domestic service, and represented as true and earnest self-denial as
+money could. Not all the heroism and self-sacrifice are in the field
+work, among the missionaries of our great Association, as true and
+earnest as they are. There is the same spirit of devotion to the Master
+in the collecting field. We thank God for it, and take courage to go
+forward in this work of saving these destitute millions in our land.
+
+"I enclose a draft for fifty dollars to be used by the American
+Missionary Association in such way as they think wilt do the most good.
+I am in my ninety-first year but when I read of the doings of the
+Association in Chicago, it made me feel almost young. My prayer to God
+is that he will continue his blessing on the Association."
+
+In the February number of the MISSIONARY, mention is made of a beautiful
+box, the workmanship of a friend of the Association, _fourscore_ and two
+years old. It was the wish of this venerable brother that the box should
+be sold and the proceeds devoted to our work. A gentleman in Boston
+offered twelve dollars for the box. We have since received an offer of
+twenty dollars from a friend, with permission, however, to hold the
+matter open a little longer for a still higher bid. Who speaks next?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"You will be interested to learn that E.A. Johnson, of Raleigh, N.C.,
+has just been admitted to the bar here. He passed a very good
+examination, the only colored man among twenty-four whites. It made some
+of them quite vexed to have him promptly answer questions on which they
+failed, but when he received his license, the Judge commended him, and
+the young men all congratulated him."
+
+It is said that the colored pupils fail when they reach mathematics. A
+scholar in one of our Southern institutions made an original
+demonstration of an intricate problem in geometry, in a method different
+from any known previously by his teacher, an accomplished scholar, and
+it was correct.
+
+From Le Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tennessee: Not a week passes that we
+do not have to turn away earnest applicants from the school for want of
+room. Fully two hundred such applicants have gone sadly away from our
+door during the past months.
+
+A colored minister in the South applying for a position as a preacher,
+says, "I feel to say woe be under me if I preach not."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Rev. A.W. Curtis writes from Raleigh, N.C.: "It is estimated that thirty
+thousand Negroes have gone South and West from North Carolina since the
+exodus from this State began. Most of them are crowded out because of
+repeated crop failures in the eastern counties. Many of them have joined
+in the movement, with the hope of doing better, who were doing passably
+well at home. Many have been discouraged by the attitude of the State
+toward the colored people."
+
+Rev. J.W. Freeman, of Dudley, N.C., writes: "The emigration casts a
+great depression on all our spiritual work among the colored people now
+In this locality."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+AN ENTERPRISING WOMAN.
+
+
+A letter from Louisiana says, "I visited a Negro family the other day in
+a settlement where there is no school, and found the following condition
+of things: A white lady was boarding with them and giving instruction
+for her board. She is teaching them how to live. Eight months ago no one
+in this family could read. The father only could speak English. Now all
+speak some English. All except the youngest can read a little in the
+Bible. They sang a gospel hymn for me and repeated quite a number of
+Bible verses and the Lord's prayer. The colored mother I believe to be
+one of the smartest women in America. With the help of her children--the
+father spends all he gets for whiskey--she has built her house, supports
+her family, makes her own furniture, spins and weaves cloth from cotton
+she has raised, and has engaged this white lady to educate her and her
+children, she herself leading the class. The children are all very quick
+to learn. The home was tidy and well-kept. The children were clean and
+neat. I shall look to see something grand come from that family."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LETTER FROM A SCHOOL GIRL TO HER PASTOR IN ONE OF OUR INSTITUTIONS.
+
+
+"I am a Christian and I think I enjoy it better than being a sinner, and
+always doing something on earth to please myself and not trying to
+please my Saviour who died for me, that through him I might be saved. I
+am enjoying this week of prayer, and it seems to me we would have better
+Christians if we had more prayer. I feel as if I need your prayers both
+night and morning. It does seem so hard for me to overcome my trials and
+temptations which come to me so very often. I hope you will join in
+earnest prayers to help me overcome my temptations."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Negro, having all this promise and potency in him, is to be our
+neighbor in these coming years. Whether we like it or not, he is to be
+our fellow citizen, sharing with us the responsibilities and the
+blessings of the republic. Before he was ripe for it he had the power of
+a sovereign thrust upon him, and no man but by crime can take from him
+the right and duty of joint rulership with us. It must be admitted that,
+in the present condition of the average Southern Negro, he is not a
+satisfactory neighbor nor a safe ruler. But that is not his fault; it is
+his misfortune. His illiteracy is a National peril; his moral weakness
+is a danger to himself and to the society in which he lives. But these
+are the results of the cruel and corrupting system in which we held him
+fast; the disabilities we have imposed upon him. And they suggest to us
+certain helpful duties we owe to him; certain helpful ministries we are
+under obligation to render him in order to enable him to attain that
+large and splendid future toward which Providence seems to be pointing.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DEDICATION OF CHANDLER NORMAL INSTITUTE.
+
+BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.W. HIATT.
+
+
+The tenth of February was a great day in Lexington, Kentucky. It marked
+two special events, the dedication of Chandler Normal Institute, and the
+opening of a great "Hoss sale." Anybody who knows the "Blue-grass
+region" will understand what the latter means. The world flocks to
+Lexington on such occasions in quest of thoroughbreds, and the country
+rids itself in consequence, at fabulous prices, of droves of genuine
+Kentucky plugs. Buyers go home wiser, sellers richer. But not everybody
+on this day was discussing "Abdallah" and "Hambletonian." Long before
+the appointed hour, a stream of people began moving to a part of the
+city where two pikes intersect, the point of attraction being a fine
+three-story red brick structure known as the "Chandler Normal
+Institute." This building occupies a commanding position on a hill which
+overlooks the city. It was erected and furnished by the liberality of
+one esteemed lady, Mrs. Phoebe Chandler, of Andover, Massachusetts, at
+an outlay of some fifteen thousand dollars, and is given to the cause of
+Christian education under the care of the American Missionary
+Association. On this particular day, the building was formally
+consecrated to its work with appropriate and impressive services. At two
+o'clock in the afternoon the spacious chapel was filled to its utmost by
+crowds of colored people, some of whom had come for miles in carriages,
+to witness the event. The presence also of numerous whites, representing
+the foremost professional and social circles of Lexington, was a
+significant fact. These friends, by their close attention and frequent
+signs of approval, as well as by their own eloquent contributions to the
+programme, gave unmistakable evidence of earnest sympathy with the good
+cause.
+
+The exercises were opened with prayer and Scriptural reading, after
+which the Principal, Mr. Frederick W. Foster, made an address of
+welcome, marked for its practical force and fine discretion. The
+visiting Secretary then, in an address of half an hour, gave his
+understanding of the importance of Christian education as the solution
+of National problems, both North and South, closing with a formal
+God-speed to this institution as it started forth on its noble career.
+To this address, Rev. Mr. Tate, of the African Methodist Episcopal
+Church, made a scholarly, eloquent and touching response. He reviewed
+the work of the Association for his people, eulogized the friend who had
+made this special benefaction, and urged upon his hearers to make the
+most, under God, of the high privileges thus brought to them from afar.
+
+Informal addresses from both white and colored visitors followed. The
+eloquent periods of Dr. L.P. Todd, dwelling fully upon the brotherhood
+of man, the witty and practical remarks of Prof. John Schackleford, of
+Kentucky State College, and the wise and cogent exhortations of Rev. W.
+S. Fulton, D.D., cannot be reported; suffice it to say, that they gave a
+spiritual uplift and fine dignity to the occasion. These noble men are
+staunch supporters of our work, and freely give to our corps of teachers
+the benefits of fatherly and fraternal fellowship.
+
+A resolution expressing the gratitude of the colored people for this
+generous gift was adopted with enthusiasm, and the inspiring exercises
+came to a close with the praises of God in the well-known words of
+Bishop Ken: "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow."
+
+The event marks the beginning of an epoch in our work in this place. One
+dark brother said: "It is the greatest day for the colored people of
+Lexington since the emancipation."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CONGREGATIONALISM AROUND PARIS, TEXAS.
+
+BY REV. J.D. PETTIGREW.
+
+
+It gives me much pleasure to tell you what we are doing for the Master
+and for Congregationalism in this part of the great field. I came to
+Paris nearly eleven months ago and assumed the pastorate of the First
+Congregational Church. I had been here but a short time when I found
+that there were three other Congregational Churches out in the country
+near Paris, and that there had once been a Quarterly Conference made up
+of these four churches; but this Conference had died out ere I came. I
+thought that such an organization, if revived, would be a great stimulus
+to the churches, and especially to those out in the country, two of
+which were, at that time, without pastors. So I sent out cards notifying
+the brethren that the Conference would convene at a specified day, and
+urging them to come in full representation.
+
+A few, very few, responded. We organized. After transacting a little
+business the Conference adjourned to meet at our next regularly
+appointed time. Before the time for our next meeting we were all made to
+rejoice by the coming of Rev. M.R. Carlisle, a graduate of both the
+collegiate and theological courses of Talladega College, from Alabama,
+to assume the pastoral charge of two of these churches--Dodd City and
+Bois D'Arc.
+
+He and I drew up a plan to re-organize the old Conference into a more
+excellent and practical one. We offered our plan at the next meeting of
+the Conference, and it was cheerfully received. The effect of this plan
+was to change the name from Conference to Association, and to divide the
+Association into three distinct departments, each with its own set of
+officers, as follows: a Sunday-school Department, composed of the
+different Sunday-schools of the churches; a Missionary Department,
+composed of the different church missionary societies; and a Church
+Department, composed of the different churches.
+
+Each department had its own distinct programme and business; but the
+combined programmes of all made up the "general programme" of the
+Association. This plan works excellently, and serves as a wonderful
+stimulus to each of these departments of church work. We have, in our
+next meeting, to add the department of Christian Endeavor.
+
+Our last session, held with our church in Paris on the 28th of December,
+1889, was indeed a grand success. Previous to its meeting, I heard of
+four other Congregational Churches in the Indian Territory, under the
+auspices of the American Home Missionary Society. I sent them an
+invitation to join the Association. These churches promptly sent
+delegates who connected their churches with the Association.
+
+One brother from the Territory heard of the Association, but was not
+able to pay his way on the train to Paris. So, as he said to me, "I left
+my wife and children in the care of God, and I put myself into his hands
+and came; and I walked every step of the way." This brother walked forty
+miles to meet the Association, and his fidelity had a great effect upon
+the whole meeting. We tried to make it pleasant for him, and took up a
+special collection to send him back home on the train.
+
+Space will not allow me to speak touching the spiritual strength and
+interest of the meeting. We had many valuable papers read and discussed,
+and closed our session on the Sabbath with the following programme:
+"Sabbath morning from 9-11 o'clock, Sabbath-school; 11-12:30, Sermon,
+'Congregationalism in the South,' Rev. J.D. Pettigrew; at 3 o'clock P.M.
+Sermon, by Rev. A. Gross, from the Indian Territory; 7:30 o'clock P.M.,
+Quarterly Sermon, by Rev. M.R. Carlisle, followed by the administration
+of the Lord's Supper." The brethren left for their fields of labor
+filled with encouragement and enthusiasm.' Those from the Indian
+Territory seemed to be especially strengthened.
+
+Our next meeting is to be with the Bois D'Arc church. We have now eight
+churches and mission stations represented, and it is only a question of
+time before our Association will be a power for God and
+Congregationalism in this part of the State. I think we have a bright
+future before us here.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A MISSION CHURCH.
+
+REV. GEO. C. HOWE, CHARLESTON, S.C.
+
+
+The work at Tradd Street Mission in our city is carried on now in just
+the same way as since its organization. After Sunday-school is over at
+Plymouth Church, about 11 o'clock, a number of our young people,
+including the Pastor, Superintendent Herron and Miss Deas, who acts as
+organist, go immediately to the mission about a mile away, and conduct
+the Sunday-school there. We have eight classes, with an average
+attendance of eleven to a class. One class is composed of adults. We
+finish work there at one o'clock. On Thursday night, I go down and
+preach, and in case I am unable to go, Deacon Hollens takes the service
+for me.
+
+Last Thursday night, an Irishman about thirty-five years old came in
+while we were singing, and when I began to speak on the temptations of
+Christ, he sat and listened in open-mouthed wonder. Before I finished he
+arose and came forward, his eyes glistening with tears, and gave me his
+hand, saying: "I belong to the Catholic Church, but they never told me
+that truth from the Word, never explained it that way. That _is the
+truth_, I know it. I was just going after a drink, but I shall not do it
+now. I thank you, and hope I have not intruded by coming in." It was
+quite an incident to see a strong man of an opposite race and creed, in
+a place where the "Jews desire to have no dealing with the Samaritans,"
+coming up and acknowledging with tears that he had never heard the truth
+of God's word before.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A PROSPEROUS CHURCH.
+
+REV. STERLING N. BROWN.
+
+
+We know you will rejoice with us in the good work at Plymouth Church,
+Washington, D.C. In January we began a special series of meetings. I
+preached short sermons nearly every night, save Saturdays, for more than
+three weeks. About fifty have been hopefully brought to a saving
+knowledge of Christ. The church was never, perhaps, more deeply stirred
+than at this time. There seems to be a thirsting for a deeper work of
+grace among Christians, a thorough coming out from the world. It was a
+beautiful sight yesterday, when before the altar twenty-nine "new
+recruits" took upon themselves the covenant of the church.. The most of
+the remaining converts will unite with us at our next communion. A few
+of them will join elsewhere. Our church is getting well organized for
+work along all lines of Christian activity. The Endeavor Society among
+our young people, now the largest in number in the district, is a real
+power for good. The Sunday-school is taking on new life. There is before
+us in this city "an exceeding good land," but before full possession,
+many battles must be fought, spiritual and financial. But we have great
+reason to be thankful.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE WHITE CROSS LEAGUE.
+
+PROF. H.H. WRIGHT, FISK UNIVERSITY.
+
+
+I want to lay before you a short account of the work of the White Cross
+League, of this University, as reported by the members at a meeting held
+at my house last Sunday night. You may not be aware that late last
+school year I called together a dozen or two of our best young men and
+induced them to take the White Cross pledge--to treat all women with
+respect, to refrain from indecent jests and coarse language, to maintain
+that the law of personal purity is as binding on men as upon women, etc.
+At the meeting last Sunday night one after another gave his experience
+touching the White Cross movement. One young man reported that through
+his persuasion, public and private, especially the latter, three or four
+couples who had been living together unlawfully went before the proper
+authorities and were married. Another testified that he had personally
+felt the restraining influence of his pledge, while he acted as waiter
+at a summer hotel. The pledge had a great restraining influence upon him
+and was a safeguard. Another found it necessary to organize a Wednesday
+night Bible meeting of his own, for the regular meetings of the churches
+did not give him the opportunity he desired.
+
+All the young men testified to the good influence of the pledge upon
+their own lives, but one young man's report of his work was of especial
+interest. He is head waiter at the hotel at Lake ----, where about 250
+servants, men and women, are employed. He took a squad of seventy-eight
+colored men from the South to the Lake at the opening of the season,
+engaging them on condition that there was to be no gambling among them.
+Immediately on arriving he organized a Y.M.C.A. among them, and held
+meetings Sunday afternoons and two evenings during the week through the
+summer, all well attended. At some of these meetings he spoke of the
+White Cross movement, and was successful in gaining the approbation of
+most of the members of the Association. The nature of the pledge and of
+the talks got out among the women servants, and ere long at their
+invitation he assembled from seventy-five to one hundred of them and
+gave them a very earnest talk on the value and duty of virtuous lives.
+Many were affected to tears, and all were seriously impressed. After
+that they seemed to look to him as their protector, and often said they
+were so glad they had a head man who would endeavor to shield them from
+temptation and wrong. And the remarkable thing about it is, that these
+women servants are white!
+
+The proprietor of the hotel, on closing the season, told our student
+that if he had been told that such a work as he had accomplished among
+his help could be done he would have declared it impossible. What is to
+be the outcome of this little movement so auspiciously begun? It seems
+to me that if wisely carried on the possibilities for good are very
+great.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BEREA AND TEMPERANCE.
+
+
+For nearly twelve years there has been a temperance organization
+centering at Berea. By personal canvass it has secured signers to the
+total abstinence pledge, until the aggregate number is between two
+thousand and three thousand.
+
+The length of the district from north to south is not less than ten
+miles, and the greatest breadth seven or eight miles. The number of
+votes polled at a general election is about six hundred. For nearly ten
+years the sale of intoxicating liquors within the district has been
+illegal, it having been voted out by the people by a large majority soon
+after the great Murphy movement. Just on the border of the district were
+two or three men, distillers in a small way and venders of the fiery
+liquid, who thought the enthusiasm of the Murphy movement was past, and
+took the necessary steps to have a poll opened on the liquor question,
+at the August election of 1888. But they had underrated the effect of
+these years of temperance education. Nearly all our students become
+signers of the pledge and workers in whatever field they may visit; and
+the people of the country immediately around us have been profiting by
+the teachings of these meetings. When the question was clearly
+presented, "Shall we again have the legalized liquor traffic among us?"
+the activity of the friends of sobriety and order was as great as that
+of the selfish advocates of license. Meetings were held in every
+neighborhood. On election day, seventy-five ladies, of the noblest in
+the district, were at the voting place. Refreshments were furnished in
+abundance and free of charge. Doubtful voters were met with argument and
+persuasion. All was as orderly as if it were a religious meeting. The
+result showed 435 for temperance to 131 for liquor--more than three to
+one. The victory was complete, and the district stands as the banner
+temperance district of the State.
+
+BEREA COLLEGE REPORTER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"BECCA MUST GO!"
+
+
+  Say "Becca must go," Yes, "Becca must go,"
+  I don't hardly see why it needs to be so,
+  She's nice--very quiet. She's no trouble at all,
+  She couldn't hurt any one, Becca's so small.
+
+  She don't understand it--the poor little child--
+  When I seat her alone she looks strange and wild,
+  And when I dismiss her she never looks 'round,
+  But she goes off alone looking down to the ground.
+
+  Her mother's afflicted, her home life is bad,
+  When I see little Becca I always feel sad.
+  She learns very quickly, she sings like a lark,
+  But Becca must go, for her skin is so dark.
+
+  I am asked to "dismiss her," and "send her away,"
+  She must not study here and with others play,
+  I don't like to do it, but then, don't you know,
+  There are some who won't like it, so "Becca must go."
+
+  Not many stand up for poor Becca down here,
+  They talk very strangely, and act very queer,
+  Her skin's not much darker than mine, but, you know,
+  Her hair curls a little, so "Becca must go."
+
+  Now Preacher and Teacher from East and from West,
+  If you would succeed you must do like the rest;
+  Be partial to white folk or take the disgrace,
+  Of showing regard for a down-trodden race.
+
+  E.N. RUDDOCK.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+STREAKS OF LIGHT.
+
+REV. C.L. HALL, FORT BERTHOLD, NORTH DAKOTA.
+
+
+A girl about seventeen years of age writes the following to her teacher
+while she is away from school for a short vacation among her people:
+
+"DEAR FRIEND:--I will now try to write a few lines to-night to tell you
+all about what we are doing now; first I tell you when first we came
+home we told the girls to come to our house that we would have prayer
+meeting the first thing; I tell you they are real good girls, L----,
+M----, A---- and M----; we did not expect them to come; it is far away
+and they were so tired yet they did not mind, they come right away
+before we saw them. We went upon the hills, Mary and I, we prayed, and
+when we came back we was surprise to see the girls coming. So we had
+prayer meeting; that was the first time that L---- ever prayed; we
+thought we would have prayer meeting to-day, but we are sorry the girls
+did not come, they did not know; we expect to go to Minot Monday if
+nothing should happen."
+
+Another says:--"I don't want to see the Indian dance. I like to stay in
+the house and I like to read the Bible every morning, and in the
+afternoon I ask God to bless the boys and girls and keep you always, and
+I know he will help all if we ask him."
+
+N---- and G----, two little sisters away on a vacation where no Sabbath
+is observed, go away on the prairie alone and have prayers together.
+After evening service those who wished to follow Christ were asked to
+remain to an inquiry meeting, and eight remained, and in their own
+language some expressed very clearly a desire to follow Christ and a
+consciousness of their own sin and weakness.
+
+Mrs. B----'s husband died very earnestly endeavoring to teach her the
+faith he had come to have, and asking her again and again to have no
+idols, but to worship and believe in God alone. She is now an earnest
+seeker after light, is visited on Sunday by a leading man who lives near
+her, and who is asked to tell them on the Sabbath of the religion and
+the God of whom her husband had told her.
+
+A father, a hearer, but yet a heathen, says: "I want to put the boy in a
+school where he will learn God's ways. I do not want him in a school
+where religion is not taught."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ELIZABETH WINYAN.
+
+
+Many of our readers will remember being interested at our meeting in
+Chicago by the appearance and speech of an Indian woman from our Oahe
+Station, Elizabeth Winyan. We have now to communicate the sad tidings of
+her death, after a brief, but severe illness. Her life was an eventful
+and a useful one. Elizabeth was the name given her by the missionaries.
+Winyan was her Indian name. She was born near Mankato, Minnesota, in
+1831. At the age of twenty-five she became one of the early converts
+under Drs. Williamson and Riggs. She came to live at the mission, and
+learned to sew and do all household work. Dr. Williamson set her to
+teaching some women, and so began her missionary labor. She was a woman
+of great physical strength. When she was living at the Sisseton Agency,
+she cut with her own hands and hauled to the Agency, driving the ox-team
+herself, wood enough to pay for putting her little house in good repair
+and to buy some farming implements. She was a faithful friend. This
+fidelity she proved during the Indian uprising in 1862. When the mission
+families were fleeing from their burning houses at midnight, they forgot
+to take any food along. While they were hiding on an island in the
+Minnesota River, she, _at the risk of her own life_, carried to them
+bread and meat. In 1875, she and Miss Collins went to assist Rev. T.L.
+Riggs in starting the Oahe Mission, near Fort Sully, on the Missouri. At
+the time of her death she was in charge of an out-station on the
+Cheyenne River, forty miles from the central mission. Her duties were to
+hold meetings on the Sabbath, one general prayer meeting on Thursday
+night, and a women's meeting on Friday night, to teach every day, visit
+the sick, attend funerals, and teach the women to sew, cook, wash and
+iron.
+
+Miss Collins says of her: "There is no one to fill her place. She was
+one of the grandest women I ever knew. May God help our poor bereaved
+Dakotas."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+AN EXEMPLARY MOTHER.
+
+
+The recent death of Elizabeth Winyan calls to mind a little story
+connected with the training of her son, which may not be without point
+even now.
+
+Elizabeth Winyan taught Edwin, her son, to believe in God and in prayer.
+She tells a story of how Edwin, as a child, wanted to wear "civilized
+clothes." She made him a shirt and trousers, and then he needed a hat
+and shoes. She said, "I told him to pray for them; in the meantime I
+worked as well as prayed, and on Saturday, when my work was done, the
+missionary's wife gave me a hat and a pair of shoes for Edwin. He was
+delighted and so was I. Since that time he has never doubted that God
+would answer prayer." She said: "I taught Edwin to give to the Lord from
+a baby. When he was not old enough to know his duty, I put the penny in
+his hand and held his hand over the basket, and dropped in the penny.
+Sometimes I would only be able to get one penny, and that I would give
+to Edwin to put in the collection, for I wanted him to form a habit of
+giving; I knew I ought to give, and God knows I would when I had a
+penny, but my son must be taught." This son has grown up a good
+Christian, speaks English, is a teacher, and is now a missionary at
+Standing Rock. He owes much to his faithful Christian mother.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TWO CHINESE ANNIVERSARIES.
+
+BY DISTRICT SECRETARY J.E. ROY, D.D.
+
+
+One was that of the New Year, which is the first of February. It was at
+Los Angeles. The celebration lasts three or four days. The Christian
+Chinese observe the festival with Christian ceremonies. In the forenoon,
+I was with the Congregational brethren at their rooms in Chinatown.
+Their schoolroom was decorated with all the colors and characters of the
+native land. A table was spread with fruits and nuts and candies and
+cakes and flowers. The Chinese lily was the appropriate New Year's
+adornment. The services were prayer, much singing of Moody and Sankey
+songs, recitations of Scripture and addresses by their own men and by
+visitors. The room was filled with sympathetic touring friends. After
+the public service, the goodies of the table were passed around. In the
+afternoon, I went to the Presbyterian, and my wife to the United
+Presbyterian, service, which was much after the same sort. In the
+former, the Rev. Mr. Condit and his wife, who had long ago returned from
+China to engage in this work, were the leaders. After the Superintendent
+of the Methodist Chinese Sunday-school had spoken, a brother in the
+mission, following, called him a good Presbyterian. Although these
+foreigners fall into the church order of the people who have led them
+into the Jesus way, they recognize these divisions as simply so many
+families akin, and so there is a constant visiting and affiliation among
+them as Christians. The whole occasion was one to inspire faith in the
+Gospel as suited to the needs of our common humanity, and faith in the
+beneficent results upon those who have not known of the true God and
+Saviour. On the afternoon of the following Sunday, in Dr. Hutchins'
+church, I visited the Congregational Chinese Sunday-school,
+superintended by a lawyer and taught by members of that parish. Mr.
+Dorland, the Superintendent, is giving himself to this work with great
+enthusiasm, and his associates share in the same. The thing which
+delighted me in Dr. Hutchins' church, and in all this round of our
+Chinese Missions, was the fact that the local church is taking these
+Chinese of the A.M.A. schools into their fellowship, not only that of
+the Sunday-school but of church membership. Whatever views may be held
+as to the political economy of exclusion, these Christians seem to
+realize that God has brought these pagans to their doors to be cared for
+in Christ's name. Mrs. Sheldon and her daughter, the missionaries of the
+American Missionary Association, teaching the night-school, serving in
+the Sunday-school, and by every feasible ministry, are confirming the
+judgment of one of our pastors that these lady missionaries are their
+"Evidences of Christianity."
+
+The other anniversary was that of our mission at San Diego--Miss M.M.
+Elliot, the missionary teacher, and Chin Toy, the helper. Rev. W. C.
+Pond, D.D., of San Francisco, the Superintendent of our Chinese work,
+which he takes in addition to the pastoral care of the Bethany Church,
+had come down for his annual visitation of the missions in Southern
+California. In the Mission Chapel, at the time of the night-school, Dr.
+Pond conducts the rehearsal and, on Sunday night, in the Tabernacle of
+the First Congregational Church, presides at the public service. The
+great assembly room is packed with interested listeners who soon become
+delighted. After opening devotions, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Mr.
+Voorhees, and his choir, the young brethren proceed with a prayer in the
+Chinese, then with the Lord's Prayer in concert, both in English and in
+Chinese. Then come songs in solo and in concert, from the Moody and
+Sankey book, and recitations of Scripture passages. "Dare to be a
+Daniel," was rendered in solo with fine effect as to the music, and
+especially as to the idea of daring to become Christians in the face of
+the derision of their pagan friends. The Ten Commandments, as recited by
+one, and each responded to in music by the school in the words of the
+prayer-book, were deeply impressive. And so was the "Missionary
+Exercise," with nine questions by Quon Newy, answered by as many men one
+after another, Quon Tape, Sam Tai, Quon Dick, Korn Ock, Korn Chow, Korn
+Zee, Chong Chung, Lee Wing, and Linn Yee.
+
+The characteristic feature of the evening was the address, in good
+English, of Chin Toy. Dr. Pond introduced him as having been a shoemaker
+at San Francisco, who, upon conversion, about to be baptized in his
+church, was locked into his apartment of the shoeshop by some of his
+pagan friends, who thought that after the passing of the baptismal
+occasion of Sunday morning he would get over his desire to be a Jesus
+man. So, Sunday afternoon, he was released. But at night he appeared at
+the Bethany and was baptized into Christ. He is now with Loo Quong, an
+A.M.A. evangelist, and at present is serving as "helper" at the San
+Diego mission. His address was a logical and eloquent setting forth of
+the difficulties in the way of the Chinese becoming Christians; and, at
+the end, it was an appeal to American Christians to improve their
+opportunity to become missionaries to the heathen whom God had brought
+to their door.
+
+Short addresses were then made by Rev. F.B. Perkins, of the Second
+Church, and by District Secretary Roy--the former declaring that that
+meeting alone was enough to repay all effort in that line; enough to
+remove all prejudice. Indeed, only this week, a former pastor of that
+church, Rev. J.B. Silcox, now of the East Oakland Church, told me that a
+similar anniversary held in that same Tabernacle a year ago, had melted
+down all prejudice. Indeed, it is now, as in the days of the primitive
+Christians: wheresoever it is seen that people of the despised classes
+have received the Holy Ghost, that is the end of caste distinction.
+"Forasmuch, then, as God gave them the like gift as He did unto us who
+had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, what was I that I should
+withstand God?"
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A COLORED MAN SPEAKS FOR HIS RACE.
+
+Address at the Annual Meeting in Chicago,
+
+BY THE REV. GEO. M. MCCLELLAN.
+
+
+About eleven years ago, out in the country, near Louisville, there was
+born a little colored girl. She was her father's first child, and he was
+justly proud of her, and calculated that there must be some fitting name
+for her somewhere, and that he must get it out of a book. He could not
+read, but he could spell a little, and therefore he got him a copy of
+Webster's blue-backed speller, and spelled the book half way through
+until he found the word "heterogeneous;" therefore that little girl was
+christened "Heterogeneous." This morning this programme was handed to
+me, and I saw on it "Chinese, Indian, Negro, White;" and I couldn't help
+thinking of Heterogeneous. As I looked over the subjects, and thought
+that I would have to speak about something, I thought that "Chinese,
+Indian, White man and Negro," was quite a subject for a speech. But I
+was inclined to be fair, like a certain minister, who was always
+preaching on infant baptism. He preached on infant baptism, no matter
+what the text was. The deacons and the people of the church got tired of
+it, and they concluded to give him some text that would relate to facts,
+before there were any infants. So they turned to the Book of Genesis,
+and found the text "Adam, where art thou?" And when the minister came to
+the pulpit Sunday morning, the deacons gave this text to him and told
+him, "Here is a text we want you to preach upon." He demurred a little
+and wondered why they had not given him more time, but finally concluded
+to preach on this text. He got up and said: "There are three points in
+this text: First, that men are always somewhere; second, that they are
+very often where they ought not to be; third, the text is dead set
+against infant baptism; and as the time is short, I will speak on point
+third." Now, I said to myself that either of these themes was a worthy
+one; but as Chinese comes first, Indian second, and Negro third, and, as
+the time is brief, I will speak on point third.
+
+Not long ago I saw in an illustrated paper President Harrison with his
+Cabinet, represented as all lolling over asleep; and in the group there
+stood a Negro, his mouth open, his collar open, his teeth showing, and
+with a large scroll in his hand. Beneath this picture was this remark:
+"Wake up to the question of the day," and on that scroll which the Negro
+had in his hand were the words: "What are you gwine to do with the black
+man?"
+
+Now, that question has been asked here indirectly to-day: and, my
+friends, do you know that sometimes, as we have heard this question
+discussed, we wonder just exactly how people do consider us in this
+country. There have been some who have advocated colonization. Some have
+said that we would have to be sent back to Africa or out West, or to
+South America. One man thinks that extermination will be the final
+thing to be resorted to. It may be a fault in my education, it may be
+that this American Missionary Association has not educated me all
+right--for I am a product of the Association,--but I have been taught to
+suppose that we Negroes were free, independent, American citizens, at
+liberty to choose where we will stay and how long we will stay. It seems
+that very eminent men are discussing the feasibility of sending us to
+Africa, and whether it is wise to go to the expense if it is thought
+best to send us there. Now, my friends, it does not seem to me that
+there is any question about it so far as we are concerned. The whites
+may go if they want to, but we are not going to budge! So long as this
+is a free country we are going to stay here; it satisfies us. It seems
+to me God has so settled it.
+
+The question is not, what are you going to do with the colored man, but
+what are you going to do for him? A great deal has been done, and it has
+been said that more has been done for the Negroes than for any other
+people. That is true: and the Negro has done more in these last
+twenty-five years than any other people on whom money and time and labor
+has been expended. The American Missionary Association found out long
+ago what the Negro problem was. They established schools and sent
+teachers among us, and when they came to us, they came at once,
+assuming--not as Senator Eustis has done, that the Negroes have an
+inherent sense of inferiority, and that they should take an assigned
+place; not as Governor Lee has insisted, that the all-important thing
+for the white man to do is to keep the Negro down; and not as Senator
+Gibbs of Georgia, who a few weeks ago insisted that the white people are
+in imminent peril, and even went so far as to bring a bill before the
+Legislature as to whether the Negroes should be driven out of that
+State. That is not the way these teachers have come down to us. They
+have assumed that we are as capable as other people, that we have the
+same needs; and because they have come to us with this assumption to
+begin with, because they have received us in this way, we have made the
+progress that we have.
+
+Now, of all things that are most needed to be done for us, we need a
+good theological seminary in the South, where the ministry can be
+educated among us. It is only an elevated Christian citizenship that
+will save us, and make us what other people are; and we must have a
+theological seminary to aid us toward that end. You have given us
+colleges, normal schools, industrial training schools, and schools of
+common branches, and we have now young men and young women filling all
+the schools through the South. We can get good teachers for our schools
+in the remotest places, in Arkansas, Texas and Mississippi, or anywhere
+else. So it is not a question as to what kind of teachers we will have.
+But the churches have not in their pulpits ministers well prepared to
+preach the gospel of Christ. They have not kept up with the young people
+in the work done by the schools. In the North, one of the pleasant
+things we find wherever we go, is that in all your churches there is
+something for the young people to do. You have Christian Endeavor
+Societies, and various organizations by which the young people may be
+reached. Therefore, you gather them in from the beginning and have them
+trained so that they can take your places as soon as you are ready to
+step out of the work. It is not so with our churches. Our ministers have
+not advanced to that degree where they can take up such work. In these
+little Congregational churches that have been planted, we have educated
+ministers, who are able thus to work, especially among young people. We
+do not have people at our hand as other churches have, but we are trying
+to get hold of them. In Fisk University there were last year, I believe,
+510 students, of whom, perhaps, there were 100 Congregationalists. So,
+after all, it is Methodists and Baptists that you are educating there.
+This is all right, because the great masses of the people are found in
+those churches. If we had a Congregational Theological School we could
+reach these people just as well through the pulpit as we reach them in
+the schools.
+
+I was asked to give a little of my personal experience. I dislike to do
+this: but if narrating any of my personal experience will give an
+insight into the work that the American Missionary Association is doing,
+I will gladly consent. My story is the story of hundreds of young men in
+the South. Only in the larger cities can we get a good English
+education, except we go to schools established for us by this
+Association. I went eight years to Fisk University. I have a brother
+there now in the senior college class. This is his tenth year, and I
+have a sister who is also in her tenth year there. It takes a long while
+to get through. My father had no money to send me to school. In his
+slavery days he had stolen a little bit of learning, and had learned how
+to write and read and a little arithmetic. I was about four years old
+when the stroke for freedom was made. My father began to teach me
+arithmetic, and many a day in his shoemaker's shop, as I sat and kept
+the fire going, he would teach me and carry me as far as he could; and
+he put into me the idea of getting an education. At fifteen he told me I
+might have my own time. At that age I had advanced far enough to pass
+the examination of the district school, and, having passed, I made my
+way to Fisk University. I had not known that there was such an
+institution in the land, or such a thing as the Missionary Association;
+but going once into an adjoining county, I happened to fall in with some
+Christian young men from Fisk, and they told me about that school. I had
+always had a great desire to be educated, and so I went down there. When
+I arrived there, I thought it was a strange place. I was familiar with
+white people, but I think I had never up to that time had one of them
+shake hands with me. When I found what they were doing there, and that
+it was an earnest Christian school, my whole soul was uplifted, and I
+determined to seek for better things. I thought I was pretty well
+educated, but when I found myself down stairs among those learning
+grammar and arithmetic, and that there were nine years before me, I
+concluded that after all I was not very well educated, but I set out to
+go through that long course of study.
+
+During all those years of study I taught school every summer. For nine
+years I was not out of the school room a month in the year. I was either
+a pupil or a teacher. Wherever I was teaching, I would try to set up a
+little Fisk University of my own. You know that the school teacher who
+goes out into these country places is everybody and everything. He is
+law and gospel, and he must know everything--at least, he must not let
+people know that he does not know everything. So I was not only school
+teacher, but I organized a Sunday-school, and preached, also. Especially
+in Mississippi I did that kind of work, where there was much need of it.
+This is the way that hundreds of young men have gone through Fisk
+University and other institutions. We get our education sometimes at
+great cost, and at great hardships. Sometimes we break down under this
+constant strain of teaching. Many a time in Mississippi swamps I have
+waded up to my knees in water going to school, and many a time have I
+taught lying sick on my back; but the money had to be made. This is the
+way we get through, and not only the young men but the girls. There are
+two things which it teaches us: It teaches us how to be men, and it
+teaches us how to work. We are forced to do it for the money's sake, and
+it is not only for the money's sake, because we are sure that these
+young men and young ladies go out with a Christian desire to do good,
+and a young man, whether he is a Christian or not, feels that he must do
+Christian work when he is teaching in the summer. He is hardly
+respectable if he does not do that sort of thing during his service as a
+teacher. In that way the great masses of the people are being reached by
+Christian students going out among them.
+
+So it seems to me as though the problem were being slowly yet truly
+solved, and by and by the Negroes will be lifted up on the same footing
+with other people. That is the only thing we want. We are not fighting
+for social equality, or this or that thing. No intelligent Negro has any
+desire to put the South into the hands of the Negroes for rule. No man
+who is intelligent could wish the government of the South to come into
+the hands of any ignorant and inexperienced people, whether white or
+black, and that is what we are as a mass. But we do want recognition, so
+far as we have those qualities that would cause the same thing to be
+granted to us if we were not Negroes. This is the only thing that we ask
+for, and this is what is withheld from us. There are those even in the
+South who are willing to give us this recognition, and little by little
+they are getting over some of their prejudice and are inclined to
+recognize us so far as we have a right to their respect. Of course there
+are those who are determined to keep the Negro down; but these are
+coming over slowly but surely, and by and by there will be in this land
+no Negro problem.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
+
+
+In our February number, in mentioning the special work of some of the
+Woman's Organizations, we referred to the four teachers of the Woman's
+Home Missionary Association. These have been assigned them from the
+ranks of the American Missionary Association additional to their former
+work in the Southern field. They having transferred to the American
+Missionary Association their former work, have now eleven missionaries
+under our auspices.
+
+We also failed to mention in our February number the Woman's Union of
+Iowa, which is rendering us so substantial aid in the support of our
+Beach Institute at Savannah, Georgia.
+
+And here comes yet another pledge--the Union of Kansas starting in with
+three hundred dollars toward the support of a missionary. Nebraska has
+also come forward with a pledge of a definite amount.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The State Unions organized in the South have begun their growth in the
+right direction. The Union of Louisiana shows its right to live by the
+following words from its Treasurer: "I have just had the privilege of
+sending off three postal orders, $8.00 to the A.M.A., $7.00 to the
+A.H.M.S., and $3.00 to the W.B.M.I., which at least is a beginning. We
+hope the little acorn planted last April may yet be a grand live oak."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following from one of the auxiliaries of the Union of Tennessee and
+Kentucky is also cheering. "The inclosed $6.00 is an offering of our
+Ladies' Missionary Society of Trinity Congregational Church to the
+American Missionary Association, the first fruits, financially, of the
+little organization. Be assured the small gift is accompanied with
+large-hearted gratitude for the work of the Association in elevating the
+colored people, and earnest prayers for the continued success of the
+Association in its beneficent work in every field."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MICHIGAN,--"We have we think, a model Missionary Society in our church.
+We take up the study of our six great Societies and give two months to
+each, just preceding our church collection for the same cause. We study
+them as thoroughly as possible and our collections for the two months go
+to the object of our study. November and December are A.M.A. months with
+us. At our meeting this week we had reports from the Chicago meeting. We
+always aim to have at least one leaflet to put into each family once a
+month--on the study we are on--hoping in this way to gain the attention
+of those not interested."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A NOVEL DISH.
+
+
+A barrel of clothing recently sent from Putney and Dummerston, Vermont,
+received its first installment of gifts from a Christmas plum pudding,
+which formed a part of the Christmas exercises. A wash-tub was covered
+with brown paper to represent a pudding. At the proper time a young man
+dressed to represent a cook, with white cap and apron, and wand of
+office, entered the room followed by two boys, also in white caps and
+aprons, and carrying a pudding dish. Placing this in the center of the
+platform, the chief cook advanced to the front, and after appropriate
+words of greeting and of explanation, the assistants passed down the
+aisles and gathered the various ingredients, or "plums" which the
+audience had brought. When ready it was started on its way to the South.
+We venture to say it will last longer and do more good than any plum
+pudding that ever was served.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OUR MANY-SIDED MISSIONARY WORK.
+
+
+One of our efficient ladies, Principal of a large school embracing the
+grades from primary to the high school and normal department, and in
+which the scholastic standard is creditably maintained, writes as
+follows:
+
+"Our school is on the whole in good condition. The teachers are earnest,
+efficient and united. The students are of a better average than ever
+before. There has been a healthful religious interest all the year.
+During the past two weeks there have been several conversions in every
+room, (unless, perhaps, in the primary). Every room has had some
+religious services conducted by the teachers. A few union services were
+held, attended by those interested. These were mostly conducted by Miss
+B. In Miss S.'s room the conversions are very hopeful young men and
+women.
+
+"The industrial classes of boys and girls were never so large before,
+and among the girls the spirit of real work and helpfulness through work
+seems to be developing true womanly character. In the tool-room there
+are five classes of from eight to fourteen boys every day. A little
+printing-press is set up, and one boy has begun to set type. The shop is
+a busy place when fourteen boys are in it shoving their saws and planes,
+running the lathes, carving or hammering, and they usually seem very
+happy. We are looking with anxious longing for that new teacher
+promised. The number of country students this year makes it imperative
+if we reach these surrounding counties, as we want to do, but the new
+teacher must come soon, or we must send away thirty-five or forty
+scholars, nearly all from the country. This is written that you 'also
+might know our affairs and how we do.'"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+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. Kealer, 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. Fisner, Fargo.
+
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+President--Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdie.
+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.
+Presidents--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 Ave., 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, 1389 Harrison St., Oakland.
+
+
+LOUISIANA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+President--Mrs. R.C. Hitchcock, New Orleans.
+Secretary--Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans.
+Treasurer--Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond.
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+President--Mrs. A.F. Waiting, 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 FEBRUARY, 1890.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE DANIEL HAND FUND,
+
+_For the Education of Colored People._
+
+FROM Mr. DANIEL HAND, GUILFORD, CONN.
+
+Income for February, 1890 ...$4,197 35
+
+Income previously acknowledged ...1,792 50
+
+-------
+
+Total ...$5,989 85
+
+========
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CURRENT RECEIPTS.
+
+
+MAINE. $241.98.
+
+Augusta. Joel Spalding, to const. MRS. PHEBE MARTIN L.M. ...30.00
+
+Augusta South Parish Ch. ...22.00
+
+Bath. Central Ch. and Soc ...10.00
+
+Belfast. Y.P.S.C.E., Bbl. and Box, 1.51, _for Freight, for Raleigh,
+N.C._ ...1.51
+
+Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. ...13.00
+
+Bluehill. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch., 5; Cong. Ch., 2 ...7.00
+
+Brownville. Sab. Sch. of Gong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...20.00
+
+Castine. Misses Mary and Margaret J. Cushman ...2.50
+
+Castine. Y.P.S.C.E., Bbl., 1.80, _for Freight, for Raleigh,
+N.C._ ...1.80
+
+Cumberland Center. Bbl. of C., 2, _for Freight, for Selma. Ala._ ...2.00
+
+Edgecomb. Cong. Ch. ...6.84
+
+Freeport. Daniel Lane ...3.00
+
+Limerick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...8.00
+
+Limington. Cong. Ch. ...11.00
+
+Monson. R.W. Emerson ...10.00
+
+North Yarmouth. Y.P.S.C.E., by E.M. McIntire, Sec. ...3.00
+
+Orland. "A Friend" ...3.00
+
+Otisfield. Cong. Ch., Mrs. Susan Lovel, 5; Rev J. Loring, 3; Mrs. M.
+Knight, 2; Mrs. Mary Jennings, 1; Mrs. Sarah P. Morton, 1 ...12.00
+
+Portland. State St. Ch., "A Friend" ...50.00
+
+Portland. Y.P.S.C.E., Williston Ch., _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...8.00
+
+South Berwick. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Raleigh, N.C._
+
+Waterford. First Cong. Ch. ...3.13
+
+West Woolwich. Mrs. J.P. Trott ...2.50
+
+Woodfords. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Freight to Raleigh, N.C._ ...1.70
+
+Yarmouth. Cong. Ch., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ ...10.00
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $469.77.
+
+Amherst. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...20.00
+
+Exeter. "A Friend," _for the Freedman_ ...30.00
+
+Candia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...21.00
+
+Conway. Second Cong. Ch. ...10.00
+
+Dover. Dr. L.G. Hill, _for Library, Sherwood, Tenn._ ...15.00
+
+Gilsum. Cong. Soc. ...8.75
+
+Greenland. Cong. Ch. ...20.00
+
+Greenville. Cong. Ch. ...13.00
+
+Hollis. Rev. S.L. Gerould, _for Freight to Birmingham, Ala._ ...1.45
+
+Jaffrey. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...18.41
+
+Keene. Second Cong. Ch. ....15.65
+
+Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. H.B. SAWYER
+L.M. ...58.58
+
+Manchester. Sab. Sch. of First Ch., _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...30.00
+
+Milford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...5.00
+
+Nashua. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Miss Collins, _for Student Aid, Avery
+Inst._ ...11.25
+
+Nashua. Miss H.M. Swallow ...10.00
+
+Nashua. Y.P.S.C.E. First Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for Charleston, S.C._
+
+Newport. Cong. Ch. ...43.38
+
+North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...13.00
+
+Northumberland. _For Freight_ to McIntosh, Ga. ...2.00
+
+Rochester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...25.00
+
+Rindge. Cong. Soc. ...10.80
+
+South Newmarket Miss H.L. Fitts, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...20.00
+
+Stratham. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. GEORGE A. FOSS L.M. ...30.00
+
+Swanzey. Cong. Soc. ...7.50
+
+Tanmouth. Mrs. Amanda M. Dane, to const. HORACE A. PAGE L.M. ...30.00
+
+
+VERMONT, $661.17.
+
+Barnet. Cong. Ch., 49.99; Cong. Sab. Sch., 13.61; Alexander
+Holmes, 20 ...83.60
+
+Cambridge. Mrs. S.W. Safford, B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._; 2 _for
+Freight_ ...2.00
+
+Coventry. "Friends," B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._; 2 _for
+Freight_ ...2.00
+
+East Corinth. Cong. Ch. ...8.47
+
+Essex Junction. Cong. Ch. ...4.00
+
+Franklin. Cong. Aid Soc., Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+Hartford. J.G. Stimson, for Cong. Ch. ...100.00
+
+Manchester. W.H.M. Soc., _Freight to McIntosh, Ga._ ...1.62
+
+Manchester. "A Friend" ...9.50
+
+Montpelier. "Friends," 68.90 and B. of Goods, _for Meridian,
+Miss._ ...68.90
+
+North Craftsbury. _For Freight_ to McIntosh, Ga. ...3.00
+
+Norwich. Mrs. B.B. Newton ...5.00
+
+Saint Albans. Christian Endeavor Soc., _for Student Aid,
+Fisk U._ ...50.00
+
+Saint Johnsbury. Box of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._; 2 _for Freight_ ...2.00
+
+Springfield. A. Woolson ...200.00
+
+West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+Westminster. Y.P.S.C.E., by Carrie S. Watkins, _for Indian M._ ...2.55
+
+Williston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...7.00
+
+Woodford. "Soc. of Christian Endeavor" ...1.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vt., by Mrs. William P. Fairbanks,
+Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+
+Jamaica. Sab. Sch. ...4.53
+
+Pittsford. Sab. Sch. ...20.00
+
+Saint Johnsbury. W.H.M.S. of North Ch. ...60.00
+
+Saxton's River. W.H.M.S. ...5.00
+
+-------- 89.53
+
+--------
+
+$640.17
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Jericho. Estate of Hosea Spaulding, by C.M. Spaulding, 10; A.C.
+Spaulding, 5; Helen M. Percival, 3; Ernest J. Spaulding, 3 ...21.00
+
+--------
+
+$661.17
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $37,154.78.
+
+Acton. Evan. Cong. Ch. ...7.50
+
+Andover. Miss Lucia Merrill, _for Mobile, Ala._ ...8.00
+
+Arlington. Mrs. M.J. Wiggin, Bbl. _for Tougaloo U._
+
+Attleboro. Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...5.00
+
+Belchertown. Mrs. D.B. Bruce ...15.00
+
+Billerica. Mrs. H.B. Stanton ...2.00
+
+Boston. Jacob P. Bates, _for Student Aid, Girls' School, Pleasant Hill,
+Tenn._ ...67.00
+
+Mrs. Woodbridge Oldin, _for Miss Collins' Indian Work, Grand River,
+Dak._ ...10.00
+
+S.W. Merrill ...1.00
+
+Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. Sew. Soc, _for Tougaloo U._ ...1.00
+
+Mrs. E.H. Flint, _Christmas Gifts for Tougaloo U._
+
+Winthrop Ch. Sew. Circle, Bbl., _for Tougaloo U._
+
+Dorchester. Y.P.S.C.E. of Pilgrim Ch ...2.33
+
+East Somerville. Y.L. Mission Circle of First Cong. Ch., _for
+Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...20.00
+
+Franklin St. Ch. ...4.38
+
+Neponset. Y.L. Aid Soc., Box of Basted work, _for Sew. Dept., Talladega
+C._
+
+-------- 105.71
+
+Brimfield. First Cong. Ch. ...6.25
+
+Brockton. Mrs. B. Sanford, _for Freight to Tougaloo, Miss._ ...2.00
+
+Buckland. Cong. Ch. ...14.41
+
+Cambridge. Y.L.M. Soc. North Ave. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...17.50
+
+Cambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch., 210.11; Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 30, to
+const. MRS. CHARLES OLMSTEAD L.M. ...240.11
+
+Campello. Cong. Ch., to const HORACE BAKER L.M., ad'l ...50.00
+
+Chatham. Cong. Ch. ...6.12
+
+Chester. W.S. Gamwell, _for Student Aid, Lexington, Ky._ ...1.00
+
+Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...12.25
+
+Dalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Sch'p, Santee Indian Sch._ ...17.50
+
+Dunstable. Cong. Ch. ...32.00
+
+Douglass. Rev. James Wells, 5; Miss Wells' S.S. Class, 5; Pkg.
+Patchwork, _for Tougaloo U._ ...10.00
+
+Georgetown. Y.P.S.C.E. of Memorial Ch., 10; First Ch., 30c ...10.30
+
+Grafton. Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...4.00
+
+Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...33.75
+
+Greenwich. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...24.10
+
+Holbrook. Winthrop Cong. Ch. ...38.49
+
+Holbrook. Sab. Sch. of Winthrop Ch., ad'l, _for Student Aid,
+Fisk U._ ...38.00
+
+Holliston. "Bible Christians" ...100.00
+
+Holyoke. Woman's H.M. Soc. of First Ch., Box of C.; 5 for Freight, _for
+Grand View, Tenn._ ...5.00
+
+Hopedale. A.A. Westcott, _for Student Aid, Sherwood, Tenn._ ...5.00
+
+Hopkinton. Mrs. Wing's S.S. Class, _for Mobile, Ala._ ...12.00
+
+Hubbardston. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Work for Sew. Dept.,
+_Talladega C._
+
+Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. ...20.00
+
+Lakeville. Woman's Home Miss'y Soc., _for Indian M._ ...25.50
+
+Lancaster. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Ch. ...11.00
+
+Lawrence. Trinity Sab. Sch., 10; Y.P.S.C.E. of South Cong.
+Ch., 4 ...14.00
+
+Lawrence. Ladles of Lawrence St. Ch., Bbl, Val. 107.30, by Mrs. S.J.
+Quimby, Sec., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Leicester. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ ...1.50
+
+Leominster. Mrs. Wm. Howland, 25; Cong. Ch., 5, _for Williamsburg
+Academy, Ky._ ...30.00
+
+Manchester. Cong. Ch. ...30.00
+
+Maplewood. Ladies' Social Union, Bbl., _for Raleigh, N.C._
+
+Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...20.00
+
+Medford. McCollom Mission Circle of Mystic Ch. ...25.00
+
+Middleboro. "A Friend," _for Indians, Chinese and Freedmen_ ...3.00
+
+Millis. Cong. Ch. ...15.00
+
+Newtonville. Central Cong. Ch. ...106.13
+
+Northampton. "C" ...100.00
+
+North Brookfield. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch. ...5.25
+
+North Woburn. "A Friend" ...5.00
+
+Oxford. Sab. Sch of Cong. Ch. ...14.67
+
+Phillipston. Mrs. Mary P. Estey ...5.00
+
+Plymouth. Church of the Pilgrimage ...88.60
+
+Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. ...120.00
+
+Randolph. Collected by Mrs. J.C. Labaree, _for Woman's Work_ ...30.00
+
+Randolph. Y.L.M. Soc., _Freight to Tougaloo, Miss._ ...3.40
+
+Reading. Cong. Ch,. (2 of which special) ...20.00
+
+Rockland. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Fisk U._
+
+Royalston. Ladies' Soc, Bbl. of Bedding, _for Girls' Hall, Greenwood,
+N.C._
+
+Salem. Benev. Soc. Crombie St. Cong. Ch., _for Wilmington,
+N.C._ ...20.35
+
+Sheffield. Y.P.S.C.E., Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ ...10.00
+
+South Amherst. Cong. Ch. ...4.50
+
+South Easton. Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U._, (30 of which from Young Men's
+Class, _for Student Aid_) ...68.68
+
+South Sudbury. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and Bedding, _for New
+Orleans, La._
+
+Spencer. Cong. Ch. ...22.38
+
+Spencer. Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...5.00
+
+Spencer. "Nickel Band," _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...10.00
+
+Springfield. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., Class No. 16, Bbl., _for
+Tougaloo U._
+
+Springfield. G. & C. Merriam, one copy Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,
+_for Grand View, Tenn._
+
+Springfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. of C., _for Charleston, S.C._
+
+Spring Hill. Y.P.S.C.E., by C.E. Hoxie ...6.00
+
+Sunderland. Mrs. F.G. Abby, _Freight to Tougaloo, Miss._ ...2.00
+
+Taunton. Young People's Union, Broadway Ch., _for Indian M._ ...25.00
+
+Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...30.00
+
+Upton. First Cong. Ch. ...14.47
+
+Walpole. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Mountain Work_ ...6.26
+
+Waltham. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., (10 of which from Miss Childs' and Miss
+Kidder's classes on True Blue Cards.) ...15.76
+
+Webster. First Cong. Ch., Miss K. Goddard's S.S. Class, 10.25; Mrs.
+Goddard, 2.40, _for Mountain Work_ ...12.65
+
+Wellesley. Miss M.A. Stevens, 10; Cong. Ch., adl., 10 ...20.00
+
+Wellesley. Wellesley College, Box of C., _for Savannah, Ga._
+
+Westboro. Young Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Woman's Work_ ...20.00
+
+West Brookfield. Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._ ...15.15
+
+West Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Santee Agency,
+Neb._ ...7.34
+
+Westfield. First Cong. Ch., Box C. and Box Books, _for Grand View,
+Tenn._
+
+West Hawley. Y.P.S.C.E. by Carrie Atkins, Treas. ...1.76
+
+West Medway. Second Cong. Ch. ...2.32
+
+West Newton. "Pax," _for Atlanta U._ ...2.00
+
+Woburn. Mrs. Susan T. Greenough ...5.00
+
+Worcester. Union Ch., Albert Curtis, 100; Plymouth Ch., 56; Union Ch.,
+23; Pilgrim Ch., 27.10; "Two Friends," 2, _for Williamsburg Academy,
+Ky._ ...208.10
+
+Worcester. Summer St. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...2.25
+
+Worcester. Rev. T.W. Thompson, _for Freight to Sherwood, Tenn._ ...2.00
+
+Worcester. Plymouth Ch., _Freight to Tougaloo, Miss._ ...1.60
+
+Worcester. Primary Dept. Sab. Sch. of Central Ch., Box of Effects, _for
+Marion, Ala._
+
+Worcester. "A Friend" ...25.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Association, by Ella A. Leland, Treas., _for
+Woman's Work_:
+
+_For Salary of Teachers_ ...440.00
+
+_For a Teacher_, 100; _For Pleasant Hill, Tenn._, 51 ...151.00
+
+Cambridge. Aux. of First Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...10.00
+
+Newton. Mr. Cobb's Class, Eliot Ch., _for Sch'p, Santee Agency Indian
+Sch., Neb._ ...6.25
+
+-------- 607.25
+
+Hampden County Benevolent Society, by Charles Marsh, Treas.:
+
+Monson. ...29.56
+
+South Hadley Falls. ...12.25
+
+South Hadley Falls. _For Gregory Inst., Wilmington, N.C._ ...5.13
+
+Springfield. North ...33.00
+
+Springfield. Indian Orchard ...14.74
+
+West Springfield. Park ...15.00
+
+West Springfield. Mittineague ...14.63
+
+-------- 124.31
+
+--------
+
+$2,813.17
+
+
+ESTATES.
+
+Framingham. Estate of Mrs. Mary F. Cutler, by George E. Cutler and Chas.
+F. Cutler, Executors ...841.61
+
+Greenfield. Estate of Ex-Gov. William B. Washburn, by W.N. Washburn and
+F.G. Fessenden, Ex's ...30,000.00
+
+Medfield. Estate of Mrs. Abigail Cummings, by E.A. Hildreth and S.B.
+Hildreth, Executors, _for the education, instruction and improvement of
+the Colored population of the South_ ...1,500.00
+
+Woburn. Estate of Daniel Richardson, by William Beggs, Ex. ...2,000.00
+
+--------
+
+$37,154.78
+
+
+CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE
+
+Alfred, Me. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl., _for Selma, Ala._
+
+North Bridgton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl., _for Tougaloo, Miss._
+
+Exeter, N.H. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls., Val. 195, _for
+Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
+
+Brockton, Mass. Mrs. B. Sanford, Bbl., _for Tougaloo, Miss._
+
+Cambridgeport, Mass. Mrs. R.T. Howes, Broadcloth Suit, _for Minister,
+Birmingham, Ala._
+
+Newton, Mass. Eliot Ch., Mrs. M.T. Vincent, Box, _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+West Newton, Mass. Miss Alice Williston, Box, _for McLeansville, N.C._
+
+Yarmouthport, Mass. Ladies' Sewing Circle, Box, _for Raleigh, N.C._
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $1,089.97.
+
+Central Falls. "Mission Workers." Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...20.00
+
+Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. ...12.00
+
+Providence. Union Cong. Ch., (of which 57.20 _for Indian
+Work_) ...817.11
+
+Providence. James Coats ...100.00
+
+Providence. Central Ch., 35; Union Ch., 25; Miss Emily Howard, 25;
+Blackstone Chapel, 17; Plymouth Ch., 11.75; Riverside Ch., 7.11;
+Beneficent Ch., Mr. Troup, 5; Phoenix Bap't Ch., 5, _for Williamsburg
+Academy, Ky._ ...130.86
+
+Providence. Y.P.S.C.E. of North Cong. Ch., _for Grand View,
+Tenn._ ...10.00
+
+Providence. W.H. Waite, Bbl. of Papers
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $13,301.19.
+
+Ansonia. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch., _for Girls' Hall, Santee Agency,
+Neb._ ...20.00
+
+Bethel. Cong. Ch., 64.82; "Thanksgiving Offering," 5 ...69.82
+
+Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch. ...146.31
+
+Bridgeport Y.P.S.C.E., Park St. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...12.27
+
+Bristol. Miss Nettleton's Class, Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian
+Sch'p_ ...14.00
+
+Centerbrook and Ivoryton. Cong. Ch., ad'l, to const. MISS ISABEL
+NORTHROP and N.D. MILLER L.M's ...49.27
+
+Centerbrook and Ivoryton. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...18.00
+
+Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch.,
+Ga._ ...14.75
+
+Columbia. "Friends," B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+East Hampton. Dea. S. Skinner, _for Talladega C._ ...10.00
+
+East Hartford. "A Friend," to const. MISS HARRIET M. OLMSTED and MISS M.
+ELLA PORTER L.M's ...60.00
+
+Essex. First Cong. Ch. ...25.33
+
+Farmington. Miss M.G. Jones, 2 Packages C., _for Tougaloo U._
+
+Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. ELI T. DUDLEY L.M. ...30.00
+
+Guilford. Wigwam Club, by Mary F. Munson, Bbl., Val., 39.84, _for Ramona
+Sch., Santa Fe_
+
+Hadlyme. J.W. Hungerford ...100.00
+
+Hampton. "A Friend" ...5.00
+
+Hartford. Mrs. Henry A. Perkins, for Perkin's Hall, _Santee Agency,
+Neb., Indian M._ ...1,000.00
+
+Hartford. Sab. Sch. of Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., _for Indian M. Santee
+Agency, Neb._ ...100.00
+
+Hartford. Windsor Av. Cong. Ch., 10.60; Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., Rev. Wm.
+H. Moore, 10; Mrs. L.M. Hotchkiss, 4 ...24.60
+
+Hartford. "Friends" in Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...3.00
+
+Hebron. "A Friend" ...3.00
+
+Ivoryton. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...17.50
+
+Ivoryton. Miss Isabel Northrop and Sab. Sch. Class, _for Indian
+M._ ...12.50
+
+Kensington. Cong. Ch., 34.53, to const MRS. CORNELIUS W. DUNHAM L.M.;
+William Upson, 10 ...44.53
+
+Lebanon. Goshen Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ ...15.00
+
+Ledyard. "A Friend" ...2.00
+
+Lyme. First Cong. Ch. ...29.74
+
+Mansfield. Geo. F. King ...1.00
+
+Melrose. Mrs. Wm. H. Thompson ...10.00
+
+Meriden. Mrs. G.W. Carter, Pkg. Patchwork, _for Tougaloo U._
+
+Milford. Plymouth Ch. ...50.00
+
+Middletown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...35.00
+
+New Haven. United Ch., 374.83; J.L. Ensign, 10 ...384.83
+
+New Haven. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ ...17.50
+
+New London. Second Cong. Ch. ...324.60
+
+New London. Mrs. J.N. Harris, _for Indian M._ ...20.00
+
+North Guilford. Cong. Ch. ...20 00
+
+North Haven. Y.P.S.C.E., by Miss E.G. Marihugh, Treas. ...15.00
+
+Plainfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 25.70; Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong.
+Ch., 9.69 ...35.39
+
+Plainville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...10.00
+
+Pomfret. Rev. C.P. Grosvenor, 2 Boxes of Books, _for Talladega C._
+
+Putnam. Sab. Sch. or Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+U._ ...25.00
+
+Ridgefield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...10.00
+
+Sound Beach. A.P. Cobb ...4.50
+
+South Norwalk. Mrs. E.S. Hall, _for Tougaloo U._ ...1.80
+
+Stratford. "A.S.C." ...3.00
+
+Thomaston. Cong. Ch., 10.57; Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch., 11.65 ...22.22
+
+Trumbull. Cong. Ch. ...7.30
+
+Washington. "N." ...10.00
+
+Waterbury. First Cong. Ch. ...150.00
+
+Wauregan. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...8.00
+
+West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...47.38
+
+Westminster. Mrs. A.C. Greene's Sab. Sch. Class ...10.00
+
+Wilton. Cong. Ch. ...60.00
+
+Winchester. Cong. Ch. ...2.55
+
+Windsor. Mrs. E.N. Loomis ...10.00
+
+Windsor. Mrs. M.E. Pierson, _for Student Aid, Sherwood, Tenn._ ...10.00
+
+Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch., _for Jewett Memorial Hall_ ...25.00
+
+Winthrop. Mrs. Clarissa Rice, 2; Mrs. M.A. Jones, 1.50 ...3.50
+
+Woodbury. Ladies' M. Soc., First Cong. Ch., (18 of which _for Student
+Aid), for Williamsburg, Ky._ ...25.00
+
+Woodstock. First Cong. Ch., ad'l, to const. MISS DAISY AMSDEN, MRS.
+CAROLINE BOYDEN and ADELBERT LYON L.M's ...16.00
+
+----. "Friends in Connecticut" _for Native Indian Missionary_ ...100.00
+
+--------
+
+$3,301.19
+
+
+ESTATE.
+
+New Britain. Estate of C.B. Erwin, by Henry E. Russell, Jr.,
+Executor ...10,000.00
+
+--------
+
+$13,301.19
+
+
+NEW YORK, $740.50.
+
+Amsterdam. N.R. and S.L. Bell ...5.00
+
+Brooklyn. Mrs. J.H. Adams, 50; The Misses Thurston, 50, _for Indian
+M._ ...100.00
+
+Brooklyn. Pilgrim Chapel, _for Indian Hospital_ ...25.88
+
+Brooklyn. Park Cong. Ch. ...6.50
+
+Brooklyn. "Lilly Circle," Park Ch., Christmas Package, by Miss Edith
+Leonard, _for Santee Indian Sch._
+
+Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch. ...43.50
+
+Eldred. Cong. Ch. ...4.00
+
+Ellington. Mrs. H.B. Rice ...5.00
+
+Flushing. First Cong. Ch. ...51.42
+
+Hamilton. Cong. Ch. ...10.00
+
+Holly. "Life Member" ...10.00
+
+Jamestown. First Cong. Ch. ...10.00
+
+LeRoy. Mrs. L.A. Parsons ...5.00
+
+Millers's Place. Mrs. S.B. Jones ...1.00
+
+Mount Sinai. Cong. Ch. ...8.00
+
+New York. S.T. Gordon ...100.00
+
+New York. B. VanWagenen, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...25.00
+
+New York. Mrs. Armour, Box Toys and Clothing, _for Troy, N.C._
+
+Ovid. D.W. Kinne ...5.00
+
+Paris. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...13.75
+
+Perry Centre. L.M. Soc., _Freight to Tougaloo, Miss._ ...1.25
+
+Phoenix. Kings' Daughters and Primary S.S. Class, Bbl. C. etc., _for
+Talladega C._
+
+Portland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...5.50
+
+Sherburne. Miss E.A. Rexford, _for Mountain Work_ ...5.00
+
+Smyrna. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., to const. DWIGHT L. SWEET L.M. ...50.00
+
+Syracuse. Plymouth Ch. ...20.12
+
+Walton. First Cong. Ch. ...101.58
+
+Waterville. Mrs. John Haven, 20; Miss M.E. Barnes, 5 ...25.00
+
+West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. ...36.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., _for
+Woman's Work_:
+
+Homer. Band of Hope ...5.00
+
+Lockport. Ladies' Aux., _for Sch'p, Talladega C._ ...30.00
+
+Paris. Judd Mission Band ...6.00
+
+Saratoga. Ladies' Soc., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...20.00
+
+Geddes. Cong. Ch. ...6.00
+
+-------- 67.00
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $23.88.
+
+Montclair. L.H.M. Soc., Cong. Ch., Pkg. Bedding, _for Tougaloo U._
+
+Newark. Christian Endeavor Soc. of Belleville Av. Cong. Ch. ...8.15
+
+Upper Montclair. Sab. Sch. of Christian Union Ch. ...15.73
+
+Vineland. Geo. W. Lewis. Bbl. of Papers
+
+
+OHIO, $5,299.17.
+
+Austinburg. W.M.S. and S.S. Classes, Cong. Ch., 10; Kings' Daughters, 2,
+_for Student Aid, Marion, Ala._ ...12.00
+
+Austinburg. Ladies' Aid Soc., Box of C., etc., _for Marion, Ala._
+
+Chatham Center. Mrs. M.S. Clapp ...1.00
+
+Cincinnati. "Friends," B. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+Cincinnati. Ladies of Central Ch., Box of C., _for Fisk U_
+
+Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch., 83.30; Jennings Av. Cong. Ch., 25;
+"Pulpit Supply," 15; Rev. I.W. Metcalf, 10; Rev. W.F. McMillen, 10; Mrs.
+Caroline A. Garlick, 2; Society of Christian Endeavor, by Jennie
+Macdougall, Sec., 6.56 ...151.86
+
+Columbus. C.E. Dunham, _for Wilmington, N.C._ ...3.00
+
+Columbus. Mrs. P.A. Crafts, Box of Books, _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+Columbus. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Fisk U._
+
+Hartford. Cong. Ch. ...15.65
+
+Fremont. C.T. Rogers ...5.00
+
+Jersey. Mrs. C.F. Slough ...4.50
+
+Norfolk. "A Friend," _for Indian M._ ...5.00
+
+Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. ...25.17
+
+Pittsfield. Union Sab. Sch., _for Mountain Work_ ...3.25
+
+Simons. Miss Lizzie Clark, _for Mobile, Ala._ ...2.00
+
+Springfield. Cong. Ch. ...9.00
+
+Youngstown. J.D. Whitney ...1.00
+
+Wakeman. Ladies of Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for Fisk U._
+
+Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Treasurer,
+_for Woman's Work_:
+
+Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., W.H.M.S. ...10.00
+
+Cleveland. Y.P.S.C.E., First Ch. ...0.75
+
+Columbus. Eastwood Ch, Mrs. P.A. Crafts, 30; E.T. Bronson, 5; P.L.
+Alcott, 5, _for Miss Collins' Indian Work_ ...30.00
+
+Edinburg. Branch of O.W.H.M.U., _for Mist Collins' Indian Work_ ...5.00
+
+Harmar. Oak Grove Mission Band ...3.00
+
+Hudson. L.H.M.S. ...7.50
+
+Johnsonville. Home Land Circle ...2.24
+
+Litchfield. L.M.S. ...5.00
+
+North Bloomfield. Kings' Daughters ...10.00
+
+Oberlin. Second Ch., Ladies' Soc. ...60.00
+
+Oberlin. First Ch., Aid Soc., _for Miss Collins' Indian Work_ ...5.00
+
+Salem. Mrs. D.A. Allen ...5.00
+
+-------- 143.49
+
+--------
+
+$381.92
+
+
+ESTATES.
+
+Austinburg. Estate of Miss Elizabeth G. Austin, by Henry Fassett,
+Adm'r. ...1,223.50
+
+Mechanicstown. Estate of Mrs. Susan Manifold, by William Boyd,
+Executor ...3,393.75
+
+--------
+
+$5,299.17
+
+
+INDIANA, $2.00.
+
+Sparta. John Hawkswell ...2.00
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $930.94.
+
+Alton. Chas. Phinney ...25.00
+
+Aurora. First Cong. Ch. ...18.04
+
+Batavia. Cong. Ch. ...30.40
+
+Bartlett. Cong. Ch. ...7.00
+
+Belvidere. Mrs. M.C. Foote, 5, _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._; 3 _for
+Woman's Bureau_ ...8.00
+
+Champaign. Cong. Ch. ...9.84
+
+Chicago. New England Cong. Ch., 106.79; "Hapland," 100; "Friend," 51.30;
+W.H.M.U. of South Cong. Ch., 30 ...287.99
+
+Chicago. First Cong. Ch., _for Fort Berthold, Indian M._ ...30.00
+
+Chicago. Mrs. E.C. Hancock, Pkg. Christmas Gifts, _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Chicago. Wm. Babbitt, Chest of Carpenters Tools, _for Austin, Texas_
+
+Earlville. "J.A.D." ...25.00
+
+Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean ...2.50
+
+Geneseo. Cong. Ch. ...107.96
+
+Hampton. Henry Clark ...5.00
+
+Hyde Park. S.S. Class, Presb. Ch., by Miss Elsie Cole, _for Student Aid,
+Marion, Ala._ ...1.50
+
+Kewanee. Cong. Ch. ...32.44
+
+Mendon. Mrs. J. Fowler ...40.00
+
+Morrison. Robert Wallace, to const. MRS. SUSAN P. ROGERS and MRS.
+WILLIAM H. WALLACE L.M'S ...100.00
+
+Normal. Mrs. P.E. Leach ...5.00
+
+Oak Park. Royal Legion Class, Box Literature, _for Marion, Ala._
+
+Ottawa. Cong. Ch. ...45.47
+
+Ottawa. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Mobile, Ala_. ...6.40
+
+Peoria, Miss Rutherford's S.S. Class, _for Mobile, Ala._ ...12.00
+
+Princeton, Mrs. P.B. Corss ...15.00
+
+Rio. Sab. Sch., by Mrs. John T. Avery ...7.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of Illinois, by Mrs. C.E. Maltby,
+Treasurer, _for Woman's Work_:
+
+Aurora. ----, _for Indian M._ ...15.00
+
+Millburn. ...25.50
+
+Morris. L.M. Soc. ...10.00
+
+Port Byron. ...14.40
+
+Rockford. First Ch. ...15.00
+
+Rockford. First Ch., _for Indian M._ ... 21.00
+
+South Chicago. ... 2.50
+
+Toulon. ...6.00
+
+-------- 109.40
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $268.46
+
+Agricultural College. Prof. R.C. Kedzie. ...10.00
+
+Belding. J.W. Bushnell. ...10.00
+
+Dowagiac. A. Benedict. ...10.00
+
+Grand Rapids. First Cong. Ch. ...33.60
+
+Grand Rapids. Young Ladies' Park. Miss. Soc. Cong. Ch., _for Santee
+Indian M._ 20.00
+
+Kalamazoo. T. Hudson, to const. PRES. C. A. BLANCHARD L.M., 50 _for
+Student Aid, Beach Inst., Savannah, Ga._, and 50 _for Hampton,
+Va._ ...100.00
+
+Lake Linden. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega
+C._ ...10.00
+
+Milford, Mrs. Wm. A. Arms. ...5.00
+
+Northville. D. Pomeroy. ...5.00
+
+Saint Johns. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch., by P.E. Walsworth,
+Sec. ...2.00
+
+Union City. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. etc, _for Marion, Ala._
+
+Vermontville. Cong. Ch. ...15.21
+
+Whitehall. Cong. Ch., 10; Girls' Miss'y Soc., 5. ...15.00
+
+Woman's Home Miss'y Union of Mich., _for Student Aid, Talladega
+C._ ...5.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of Michigan, by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas.,
+_for Woman's Work:_
+
+Allendale. W.H. and F.M.S. ...5.00
+
+Cadilas. W.H.M.S. ...3.00
+
+Covert. W.M.S. ...7.00
+
+Detroit. Ladies' Union, First Ch. ...10.00
+
+Detroit. Y.L.M.C., Trumbull Av. Ch. ...2.65
+
+-------- 27.65
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $155.94
+
+Berlin. Young Conquerors' Mission Band, _for Student Aid, Fisk
+U._ ...3.86
+
+Hartford. Mr. and Mrs. R. Freeman, 30. to const. ALTA E. WEEKS L.M.;
+Cong. Ch., 20.32. ...50.32
+
+LaCrosse. First Cong. Ch. ...40.00
+
+Madison. First Cong. Ch., by W.H. Chandler. ...50.00
+
+Stoughton. Miss. H. Sewell and Friends, Box Books, etc., _for Sherwood,
+Tenn._
+
+Wisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for Woman's Work:_
+
+Clinton. W.M.S. ...4.00
+
+Madison. W.M.S. First Cong. Ch. ...7.76
+
+-------- 11.76
+
+
+IOWA. $242.45
+
+Burlington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work._ ...10.00
+
+Burlington. Mercy Lewis. ...1.00
+
+DesMoines. Plymouth Cong. Ch., thro. Mrs. J.M. Otis, Clothing, _for
+Talladega, Ala._
+
+Fairfield. J.W. Burnett. ...25.00
+
+Grinnell. Cong. Ch. ...108.32
+
+Marion. Cong. Ch. ...9.50
+
+Muscatine. "Two Friends". ...5.00
+
+Fairfax. Cong. Sab. Sch. ...1.50
+
+Gilbert Station. Cong. Ch. ...3.55
+
+McGregor. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...5.00
+
+McGregor. Ladies' Miss'y Circle, _for Freight to New Orleans,
+La._ ...1.40
+
+Waucoma. Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. Sarah. W. Beggs, Treas., _for Beach Inst.,
+Savannah, Ga._ ...12.00
+
+Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for Woman's Work:_
+
+Alden. L.M.S. ...1.55
+
+Alden. Mrs. E. Rogers. ...2.00
+
+Alden. Mrs. I.H. Utley. ...0.35
+
+Big Rock. W.H.M.U. ...4.20
+
+Dubuque. Y.P.B. Soc., _for Mrs. DeForest, for Student Aid, Talladega
+C._ ...8.00
+
+Grinnell. W.H.M.U. ...9.73
+
+Grinnell. "A Friend". ...1.00
+
+McGregor. W.M.S. ...9.73
+
+Monticello. W.M.S. ...8.00
+
+Red Oak. W.M.S. ...5.00
+
+Stacyville. W.M.S. ...7.00
+
+Toledo. L.M.S. 1.62
+
+Wentworth. "A few young Ladies". ...2.00
+
+-------- 60.18
+
+
+MINNESOTA. $93.01
+
+Glyndon. "Church at Glyndon," 6.25, Sab. Sch., 59c; Mrs. Martha Millard,
+1. ...7.84
+
+Hamilton. Cong. Ch. ...5.00
+
+Hastings. D.B. Truax. ...5.00
+
+Minneapolis, Plymouth Ch., 53, Union Cong. Ch. 15.42. ...68.42
+
+Minneapolis. Sab. Sch. Pilgrim Ch. Bbl., _for Tougaloo U._
+
+Morristown. Cong. Ch. ...2.00
+
+Pelican Rapids. Miss'y Soc., Box of Work etc., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Saint Paul. Sab. Sch. Class, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...2.25
+
+
+MISSOURI. $89.81
+
+Saint Louis. First Trin. Cong. Ch., 79.56; Third Cong. Ch.,
+10.72. ...89.81
+
+
+KANSAS. $66.25
+
+Council Grove. Cong. Ch. ...10.00
+
+Kirwin. Cong. Ch. ...8.25
+
+Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch. ...5.00
+
+Sabetha. Cong. Ch. ...8.00
+
+Topeka. "Helping Hand," 25; Miss L. Storrs, 5; _for Meridian,
+Miss._ ...30.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Society of Kansas, by Mrs. F.J. Storrs,
+President, _for Woman's Work:_
+
+Topeka. Sab. Sch. of Central Ch. ...5.00
+
+
+NEBRASKA. $50.42
+
+Clarks. Y.P.S.C.E., by M.L. Thomas, Sec. _for Student Aid, Atlanta
+U._ ...3.18
+
+Crete. Mrs. F.L. Foss. ...5.00
+
+Fairfield. Cong. Ch. ...11.63
+
+Nebraska City. First Cong. Ch. ...8.61
+
+Oxford. F.A. Wood. ...10.00
+
+Rising City. E. Grubb. ...12.00
+
+
+NORTH DAKOTA. $1.36
+
+Wahpeton. Y.P. Soc. of Christian Endeavor, by R.T. Barber,
+Treas. ...1.36
+
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA. $52.97
+
+Grand Forks. Plymouth Cong. Ch. ...40.00
+
+South Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. S.E. Fifield,
+Treasurer, _for Woman's Work_:
+
+Bowdie ...1.50
+
+Henry ...2.53
+
+Yankton. Y.P.M.B. ...7.20
+
+Yankton. W.M.S. ...1.74
+
+-------- 12.97
+
+
+UTAH, $2.00.
+
+Salt Lake City. Burlington Y.P.S.C.E., by Emma M. Blodgett,
+Treas. ...2.00
+
+
+WASHINGTON, $5.00.
+
+Sumner. E.D. Swezey ...5.00
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, $75.00.
+
+Los Angeles. Rev. E.H. Hildreth, to const. EDWARD T. HILDRETH
+L.M. ...50.00
+
+Santa Barbara. Emily Beckwith, 12.; Mrs. M.B. VanWinkle, 2 ...14.00
+
+San Diego. Misses Mather ...10.00
+
+Santa Rosa. John Schatz ...1.00
+
+
+DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $55.00.
+
+District of Columbia. Soc. of C.E., Lincoln Mem. Ch. ...10.00
+
+Washington. Genl. E. Whittlesey, 25; First Cong. Ch. "Two Ladies," 5
+each, 10 ...35.00
+
+Washington. Ministering League of First Cong. Ch. _for Marie Adlof Sch'p
+Fund Tougaloo U._ ...10.00
+
+
+MARYLAND, $45.00.
+
+Agricultural College. W.H. Bishop, _for Tougaloo U._ ...45.00
+
+
+VIRGINIA, $5.00.
+
+Hampton. Miss Marsh, _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...5.00
+
+
+KENTUCKY, $11.50.
+
+Lexington. Miss Etta M. Hitchcock, _for Student Aid_, 1.50; _for Mission
+Sab. Sch._, 5; A Friend, 5; _for Student Aid, Lexington, Ky._ ...11.50
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $23.50.
+
+Jonesboro. Cong. Ch. ...10.00
+
+Cleveland. Chas. N. Cooper, M.D. ...10.00
+
+Knoxville. Ogden Brothers ... 0.50
+
+Knoxville. "The Pine Forest Union" Y.P.S.C.E., by Maggie Howell,
+Treas. ...3.00
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $8.50.
+
+Chapel Hill. Mrs. C.E. Jones ...4.00
+
+High Point. Cong. Ch. ...1.50
+
+Nalls. Cong. Ch. ... 0.50
+
+Salem. Cong. Ch. ...2.50
+
+
+GEORGIA.
+
+Atlanta. The New Home Sewing Machine Co., No. 4 New Home Sewing Machine,
+_for Conn. Industrial Sch., Thomasville, Ga._
+
+
+FLORIDA.
+
+Saint Petersburg. Geo. Johnson, Box Oranges, "Kings' Daughters" Box
+Toys, etc., _for Troy N.C._
+
+
+ALABAMA, $15.34.
+
+Athens. Y.P.S.C.E. of Trinity Sch. ...1.60
+
+Birmingham. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ ...5.00
+
+Kymulga. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...1.00
+
+Talladega. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...7.74
+
+
+LOUISIANA, $8.00.
+
+Louisiana. Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. C.S. Shattuck,
+Treasurer, _for Woman's Work_:
+
+Hammond ...1.00
+
+New Iberia. St. Paul's Ch., Aux. ...1.00
+
+New Orleans, Straight U. ...5.00
+
+New Orleans, Morris Brown Ch. ...1.00
+
+-------- 8.00
+
+
+TEXAS, $2.50
+
+Dallas. Cong. Ch. ...2.50
+
+
+CANADA, $5.00.
+
+Montreal. Chas. Alexander ...5.00
+
+
+JAPAN, $20.00.
+
+Kyoto. Branch of the Church of Christ, by Sam'l C. Bartlett,
+Treas. ...20.00
+
+--------
+
+
+Donations ...$11,937.50
+
+Estates ...49,279.86
+
+--------
+
+$61,217.36
+
+INCOME, $30.00.
+
+Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._ ...30.00
+
+
+TUITION, $4,935.20.
+
+Lexington, Ky. Tuition ...219.05
+
+Chapel Hill, N.C. Tuition ...6.10
+
+Troy, N.C. Tuition ...21.90
+
+Wilmington, N.C. Tuition ...202.00
+
+Charleston, S.C. Tuition ...275.38
+
+Greenwood, S.C. Tuition ...132.65
+
+Crossville, Tenn. Tuition ...70.00
+
+Jellico, Tenn. Tuition ...56.95
+
+Jonesboro, Tenn. County Fund ...100.00
+
+Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition ...3.00
+
+Memphis, Tenn. Tuition ...512.90
+
+Nashville, Tenn. Tuition ...628.68
+
+Oakdale, Tenn. Pub. Sch. Fund ...117.00
+
+Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition ...27.45
+
+Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Public Fund ...22.00
+
+Sherwood, Tenn. Public Fund ...25.00
+
+Sherwood, Tenn. Tuition ...17.00
+
+Macon, Ga. Tuition ...417.05
+
+McIntosh, Ga. Tuition ...74.88
+
+Savannah, Ga. Tuition ...240.00
+
+Thomasville, Ga. Tuition ...86.70
+
+Anniston, Ala. Tuition ...181.08
+
+Athens, Ala. Tuition ...87.55
+
+Marion, Ala. Tuition ...97.00
+
+Mobile, Ala. Tuition ...221.75
+
+Selma. Ala. Tuition ...102.15
+
+New Orleans, La. Tuition ...488.00
+
+Meridian, Miss. Tuition ...96.55
+
+Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition ...232.25
+
+Austin, Texas. Tuition ...178.18
+
+-------- 4,935.20
+
+United States Government for the Education of Indians ...2,365.20
+
+--------
+
+Total for February ...$68,547.76 ========
+
+
+SUMMARY.
+
+Donations ...86,417.76
+
+Estates ...80,534.63
+
+--------
+
+$166.952.39
+
+Income ...3,688.31
+
+Tuition ...17,747.37
+
+United States Government for the education of Indians ...8,049.6
+
+--------
+
+Total from Oct. 1 to Feb. 28 ...$196,437.74
+
+
+FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+Subscriptions for February ...$104.23
+
+Previously acknowledged ...372.89
+
+--------
+
+Total ...$477.12
+
+
+  H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
+  Bible House, N.Y.
+
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