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diff --git a/15909.txt b/15909.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4484470 --- /dev/null +++ b/15909.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3267 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 1, +January, 1890, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 1, January, 1890 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: May 26, 2005 [EBook #15909] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + + + + +Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Ralph +Janke and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +The American Missionary + +JANUARY, 1890. + +VOL. XLIV. NO. 1. + + * * * * * + +CONTENTS + + +EDITORIAL. + + NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS + + "NOW, CONCERNING THE COLLECTION"--THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH + + AFRICA--ITS SHADOW AND SUNSHINE + + CONVENTIONS OF COLORED PEOPLE--SCHOOL ECHOES + + ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT EATON + +THE SOUTH. + + FIELD NOTES, BY REV. F.E. JENKINS + + REVIVAL AT WASHINGTON, D.C. + + A GLAD THANKSGIVING + + STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS + + TILLOTSON INSTITUTE + + +THE INDIANS. + + MISSIONARY LIFE AMONG THE DAKOTA INDIANS + + NEW CHURCH AT FORT YATES, DAKOTA + + +THE CHINESE. + + CHINA FOR CHRIST + + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + + MASS MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNIONS + + WORDS FROM OUR ANNUAL MEETING + + WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS + + +RECEIPTS + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +Rooms, 56 Reade Street. + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. + +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + +American Missionary Association. + + * * * * * + +PRESIDENT, Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., LL.D., N.Y. + + +_Vice-Presidents._ + + Rev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y. + Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass. + Rev. F.A. NOLLE, D.D., Ill. + Rev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass. + Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo. + + +_Corresponding Secretaries._ + + Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + + +_Recording Secretary._ + + Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + + +_Treasurer._ + + H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + + +_Auditors._ + + PETER McCARTEE. + CHAS. P. PEIRCE. + + +_Executive Committee._ + + JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman. + ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary. + + _For Three Years._ + + 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._ + Rev. J.E. ROY, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago._ + Rev. C.W. HIATT, _64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio._ + + +_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions. Field Superintendent._ + + Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON. + Rev. FRANK E. JENKINS. + + +_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._ + + Miss D.E. EMERSON, _56 Reade St., N.Y._ + + +COMMUNICATIONS + +Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the +Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the +Editor, at the New York Office; 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, 56 Reade Street, 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 in 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. JANUARY, 1890. NO. 1. + +AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + + * * * * * + +NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS. + +The New Year opens upon this Association auspiciously. The setting sun +of our old year went down in a bright sky. Revivals of religion and an +increased membership was the joyful record of our churches; by the +generous aid of the Daniel Hand Fund, our schools showed a greatly +enlarged attendance, and the faithful work of the teachers brought forth +most satisfactory results; the threatened debt that darkened several +months of the year was happily averted by good showing on the right side +of the ledger. + +It is from this bright setting sun of the last year that we turn with +faith and hope to the opening of the new year. We believe, the work is +the Lord's and that he will provide. But our faith alone will not save +us. It is our duty to inform and arouse our constituents as to the needs +and urgency of our work. We will specify in a few particulars: + +1. As to funds. Our last year's favorable showing was due in large part +to legacies. These are variable, and we must rely on the gifts of +_living donors_. Unless, therefore, the churches and individuals make +larger contributions than last year, we have no assurance of an escape +from debt, even if the work be maintained merely as at present. We wish +most earnestly to press this fact upon the friends of the Association. + +2. But this is not all. Growth is imperative. The people at the North +are alarmed by the disturbed condition of the South, and are awakening +afresh, as they were at the close of the war, to a sense of +responsibility to the colored people. The aroused feeling at that time +took a practical turn, and money, men and women were sent without stint +to enlighten and elevate. Shall it be so now, or will mere sympathy or +useless regret suffice? No! Something, the _right thing_, can be done. +Fair-minded men, both North and South, realize that all schemes +involving fraud, violence, disfranchisement or deportation, are +impracticable, but all are agreed as to the value of Christian +enlightenment, enabling the Negro to earn property and to become an +intelligent and virtuous citizen. This is the line on which the +Association has perseveringly toiled since it opened its first school at +Fortress Monroe in 1861, and it is not too much to say that nothing more +effective has been done in all these years. Can anything of a better +sort be done in the future? Amid all the jarring discords at the South, +the people there, both white and black, welcome the efforts of the +Association. They feel that we are not disturbers, that we have a single +honest aim, and are working at the only true solution of the great +problem. We ask the people of the North, therefore, to come to the +rescue once more by practical, self-denying liberality. + +3. But this is not all. A work so vital to the interests of the nation +and of the cause of Christ needs to be uplifted by the prayers of God's +people. Deliverance cannot come from political parties, governmental +authority or theories of industrial reform. The power of God must be in +it. We therefore respectfully but earnestly ask our brethren in the +ministry to remember this work in their prayers in the great +congregation, and we ask our fellow Christians to remember it in the +prayer-meeting, at the family altar and in the closet. + + * * * * * + +"Now, concerning the collection." These are not the words of a begging +agent, but of Paul the Apostle, and they come from his pen just after he +had closed that wonderful fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians on the +glorious resurrection and the victory over death and the grave. These +words are fit, therefore, in any assembly and at the close of any +discourse however exalted. Brethren remember the "collection." + + * * * * * + +The Corinthian church seems, like some churches in recent times, to have +been remiss in sending on the "collections," and hence we find Paul, a +year later, to be "After Money Again." He writes so nobly, so kindly, +that we are tempted to quote a few sentences: + +"For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich, +yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be +rich. And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you who +have begun before not only to do but also to be forward a year ago. Now +therefore perform the doing of it. As it is written, He that had +gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no +lack." + + * * * * * + +The National Council has appointed Committees to take into consideration +the consolidation of the missionary magazines and the re-adjustment of +the work of the several Congregational missionary societies. We are +happy to furnish these committees with all the facts in our possession +on these subjects, and this Association will, in accordance with its +fundamental theory, cheerfully acquiesce in what shall be found to be +the deliberate and ultimate decision of the churches. In the meantime, +it may not be out of place for us to say that missionary periodicals and +missionary societies are growths and not manufactured articles, and that +plans for modification should be very carefully considered. We venture, +therefore, to suggest that counsel be taken of the Town Clerk of +Ephesus, "to do nothing rashly." + + * * * * * + +AFRICA.--ITS SHADOW AND SUNSHINE. + +The shadow is still broad and dense, well nigh covering the continent. +The heroic Stanley has found that shadow as dark as when he first +traveled beneath it. The malarial climate and the bitter hostility of +the natives are there yet. The accursed slave trade is as extensive as +ever, embittering the lives of its victims, instigating wars among the +tribes and obstructing agriculture, commerce and civilization. The +failures to suppress it are discouraging. Sir Samuel Baker's +well-equipped military force, Col. Gordon's intrepid courage, and Emin +Pacha's brave endurance have all succumbed before it. Its flow, pushed +back for a time, now returns with its old-time flood. Then, too, the +Mahdi uprising, seemingly suppressed, still lives and is likely to hold +the Soudan if not to harass Egypt. When Emin Pacha, under the protection +of the heroic Stanley, abandoned his little sovereignty, it was a +farewell, humanly speaking, to a speedy establishment of missions in +that territory. + +But there is a bright lining around all this darkness. For one thing the +eyes of the civilized world are turned toward Africa with increasing +intensity. The rainbow fringe of missions around the coasts is still +sustained by the gifts and prayers of Christians, and by the blessing of +God. The multiplied efforts of the European States to colonize the dark +continent are facts full of encouragement. The motive may be selfish; +the method sometimes unwise and cruel, and the conflict of contending +interests may be hindrances, but the results will be good. All these +movements aim at commerce, and commerce can only flourish on the ruins +of the slave-trade, and among peaceful tribes with growing industries, +intelligence and civilization. The Congo Free State, with its railroad +in construction, its steamboats on the rivers and its civilized +settlements, is a bright omen of the future. + +Surely God's people should pray for Africa, moved by pity and by hope. +Christians in America can do more than pray--they can help to answer +their own prayers. They can raise up the sons and daughters of Africa, +trained in our schools, to go forth as missionaries and colonists to the +land of their fathers. The experiment has been tried with success. +Missionaries of African descent can endure the climate better, and can +more readily reach the people than those of the white race. There is a +call in these facts for the means to give special instruction in +Biblical truth to those who can thus be prepared for this great mission +work. + + * * * * * + +CONVENTIONS OF COLORED PEOPLE. + +The proposed National Conventions of colored people to be held in +Chicago and Washington are significant facts. They indicate that the +colored people are suffering wrongs, and that they feel a call to seek +redress. Their right to hold such conventions is unquestioned; the +wisdom of holding them will be vindicated, we hope, by their just and +reasonable utterances and plans. Intemperate language and rash and +impracticable measures will not help, and we have so much confidence in +the discretion of our colored friends that we believe none such will be +said or proposed. + +Our colored brethren must not forget that much is being done for them +and that they are doing much for themselves. It would be unwise to +overlook this in any attempt to reach something less tangible. + +Their appeal to the justice of the Nation, to the Constitution and the +laws can be made invincible, but it will be well to keep in touch with +the sympathy of the North and with the conscience of the South, for in +spite of all the wrongs inflicted on the colored people in the South, we +believe there is a large and growing number of Southern people who look +upon this whole question conscientiously, and although perplexed desire +that the right shall be done. + +For the colored people themselves, while conventions are good, yet the +accumulation of property, growth in intelligence, and character are +better. + + * * * * * + +SCHOOL ECHOES. + +A boy in one of the arithmetic classes was given an example which began +with the statement, that a man deposited a certain sum of money in a +bank. He was asked if he knew what a bank was. He replied; "Yes, it is a +place where you dig coal." + +"What is the shape of the earth?" + +"The earth is square. Pap says so, and he says the Book says so too. He +says if there warn't four corners, how could the four angels stand on +'em." + +"I hear you'uns have taken your children out of school. What did you do +that for?" + +"I'll tell ye. I yaint goin' to send my child to any such fool-teacher +as that ar. Why, he tole 'em that the world was roun', an' any fool +knows better." + +A Methodist minister in North Carolina, preaching from the passage about +standing at the corners of the streets to pray, told his people that if +they wanted to see a "first class hypocrite," see anybody who would +stand up to pray. The _standing up_ was what he thought Jesus reproved. + +A man in the South writes to us as follows, making an unusual inquiry: + +"I write you this to ask you do you take married ladies in your school, +and if so I want to send my wife at once. Please send me the terms of +the school and what she will need. My wife wants an education and my +desire is to give it to her. You will greatly oblige me to answer this +on return mail." + + * * * * * + +ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT EATON, + +AT THE ANNUAL MEETING IN CHICAGO. + + +God, who writes his thoughts in the development of a nation, not less +than in the grouping of constellations or in the drama of the physical +world, has spoken in the birth and history of our land with startling +distinctness. In every people we may see an ideal of God embodied, +however imperfectly realized by human achievement. Happy is that people +who can see God's ideal for them, and those statesmen who have it in +their hearts to lead the people along the line of God's thought. To get +at something of God's thought for us, we must go back even into those +dark Teutonic forests into which the Roman world peered with so much +fear and awe, and out of which came those freemen who knew how to leap +upon that Roman world in its pride and its weakness and re-assert human +liberty. + +Those old ancestors of ours knew what freedom was; but as they came +against that Roman world, they themselves were in part conquered by it, +and they lost something of that freedom. But God set apart one corner of +the European world for them, and called over the English Channel in the +fifth century those forefathers of ours, there to watch for a century +and a half that tremendous conflict in which the very plow-share of the +Teutons went through the roots of the Roman life in Britain and left +nothing but Teutonic fields remaining. And then God brought into this +Britain, thus set apart, the gospel of Christ, and our forefathers +became Christians--not Christians such as there were in other parts of +Europe, but having that free and independent Christian life that shone +forth in men like Wyckliffe, denying the power of the keys to Rome +except where Rome spoke with Christ's voice, and in men like Latimer, +before whom the proud Henry trembled. + +All over England were sown these seeds of a free Christian faith; so +that when Luther came, it was in England as in our country when the +forest fires have ceased, and suddenly there spring up from the sod a +new forest because the seeds lie in the prairie from age to age. So in +our English soil there were those seeds of Christian freedom that sprung +forth and gave us a free and Protestant England. And then, in the +reaction, when Mary was on the throne, and the fire at Smithfield was +kindled, the Christian men of England went to Geneva and there met John +Calvin, whose system of Christian thought set the soul of man forth, in +his awful agony of sin, and in God's redemption for him--set him forth +independent of kings and rulers, and in whose sight a king was but God's +vassal. When Englishmen had to come in contact with John Calvin, the +iron of his free spirit became steel, and then Puritanism was born, and +at that time God raised the curtain that hung over a whole hemisphere, +and gave that hemisphere to these free Teutonic English people. We know +how they conquered the country for this free spirit, and how the +Revolutionary War came on, and Samuel Adams, awakening to the sound of +those cannon at Concord on that spring morning, said, in spite of all +the forebodings of a long and deadly struggle, "How glorious is this +morning," because he foresaw what God could work here in a free +Christian land. And so on that following Fourth of July those men +assembled in Philadelphia and put forth the Declaration of Independence. +There is no better commentary on it than Lincoln's words when he said, +in those dark days just before the war: "In their enlightened view +nothing stamped with the divine image and likeness was sent into the +world to be trodden on or degraded or imbruted by its fellows." + +They set up a beacon for their children and their children's children. +Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to +breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, +that when at some remote time some man, or faction, or interest should +arise, and say that none but rich men, or none but white men, or none +but Anglo-Saxon white men were entitled to life, liberty, and the +pursuit of happiness, their children's children should look back to the +Declaration of Independence, and should take heart to begin again the +battles their forefathers fought, that thus truth and liberty and +righteousness and justice and all the Christian virtues might not be +lost in the land; and none might dare limit and circumscribe the +principles on which the temple of liberty was being built. Thus, by +these centuries of growth and life God said to our people, "I have given +you this key to your history, the union of liberty and an enlightened +faith--faith and freedom. Be true to these. This do and thou shalt +live." It seems plain enough. And yet, in this garden of liberty there +were sown tares. In the bosom of this free land the deadly foe of +freedom, slavery, was here. In slavery was the evident and necessary foe +of all that God had foreplanned for our Nation, because slavery denies +the rights of men. Men tried to deal with this problem; they tried to +circumscribe it; they said it was a local question, and Webster stood in +the Senate and boasted that he had never spoken of slavery on that +floor. How the way of liberty was choked, how the tree of liberty +withered! And then God spoke in the earthquake, and the fire, the war +came on, and the slave was set free; and it seemed as if again we had +come into sight of God's plan for the race, that liberty and Christian +faith should be the watchword of our national life. + +Now again, at last, it seems as if that which we are accomplishing and +that which God has spoken in all these ages is again jeopardized, and as +if this human right shall be denied in the South. Men doubt whether +there is in the Negro more than the capacity of a subordinate race, and +say that to educate him is to lift him out of his sphere. Brethren and +friends, there is manhood in the Negro race. There was humanity in those +slaves who toiled their way over mountains and through swamps before the +war, with their eyes focussed upon the North star of freedom. And there +was humanity in those mothers who clasped their babes to their breast +and fled before the bloodhounds that they might escape the enslavers of +men. There was manhood in those one hundred and seventy-eight thousand +Negro soldiers who seized their muskets and went to the front and fought +for us, and with us, in those dark days of 1864, when the draft was +failing and when volunteering had failed, that there might be soldiers +to stand in the front and to dig in the trenches, and of whom eighty +thousand gave their lives for us. There was manhood in those cabins in +which all over the South, our fleeing soldiers, escaping from prison, +never failed to find support, help, and guidance. Oh! how disastrous a +business it is that that manhood, which all those years of slavery could +not extinguish, should now be extinguished by the priests of a proud, +arrogant, and selfish aristocracy. + +But, my friends, as we felt in those days, and feel to-night, there is +still no help for us but in the Christian solution of this problem and +in the Christian destiny God has given to us. Liberty and faith, the two +elements, must be conjoined. For us to deny the rights of the Negro now +is to say that God did not make man in his image. It is to say that +liberty is not a sacred right, but a selfish acquisition; that +government does not exist to establish rights, but to protect +privileges, and that mankind are not brothers, but foes. It is to turn +the shadow upon the dial of human progress backward toward the ages of +oppression and chaos. + +And just there is the problem that confronts us, South and North +together. What shall be done in this dire extremity? I remember years +ago hearing of a fire in Charleston in which that beautiful spire of St. +Michael's took fire and some one had to be found to go up beyond the +reach of the hose to put out the flame kindling and flickering there. No +one was found until a Negro stepped forth and climbed that tower, taking +his life in his hands, and put out that flame. And when he came down +again, one man said, "Name your reward," and he replied, "Let me but be +counted a man." And that we have got to do, or God will shake down our +civilization and our Nation as he shook down that spire of St. Michael's +in the earthquake three years ago. It is certain to come unless we +follow the line of God's appointing that this must be a free Nation, +absolutely free, free everywhere. As yet, emancipation is but an outward +and formal thing. What we wait for now, is the emancipation of a true +and an elevated will in the South, and Christian citizenship. Into that, +this Association pours its strength, its money, and its life. It took +half a million lives to emancipate the slaves outwardly, and it may yet +take hundreds and thousands of lives--our lives--our children's +lives--poured in upon this problem, that so we may lift the Negro to +that point where he feels himself, and where we feel him to be, a +man--taught to labor, protected in the enjoyment of the fruits of his +labor, without which the strongest arm grows palsied, trained in a +strong, self-reliant Christian manhood, holding the reins firmly on the +neck of all passion--a man. And that we will do; and the very greatness +of the problem, I believe, is our redemption. It was the greatness of +the crisis that thrilled the Nation's heart when the war burst upon us. +It is the very greatness of our present problem that calls in trumpet +tones to men and women and children all over the land; "Come and help +solve this problem for Christ." + +A few weeks ago, in one of the beautiful towns of Northern Illinois, a +young man, the only son of his father and mother, hearing at Sabbath +evening the alarm of fire, sprung forth and took his place upon the +burning building and there did the work of a fireman. In the attempt to +put out the fire he was hurled headlong and in one moment his life had +gone hence. A few weeks afterward, as a friend was talking with his +mother about it, she said, "Our son was always so swift to heed any call +of need or duty, it seems to me as if he heard suddenly some call from +God from some farther clime and sprung forth and was gone from our +sight." Blessed, heroic faith! But, brethren and friends, fathers and +mothers, we need that same faith for our living sons and living +daughters, to send them forth into this work of God. When the Christ +child was on the back of the giant Christophorus crossing the stream, +how heavy he grew as the giant plunged his way through the waters. God +weighs heavily upon this Nation this greatest of all national problems, +what to do with these despised ones. But bear the burden we must, and +bear it through we must to the farther shore of a Christian solution, or +we and it will go down the flood together. There is no help for us +except in this solution which makes brothers of these men. + +I see a possible issue in this large Christian faith of our land; and I +see the time coming when the black and the white shall dwell together in +a mutual helpfulness, with a more complete national feeling, a deeper +dependence upon him from whom alone comes strength, less display of +material resources, but more faith in God. That time must come. And then +I see the army enlisting for the conquest of that dark continent of +Africa, shrouded in gloom, so long robbed of her children, but now at +last finding that, like Joseph, they were taken from her that they might +come back to save life. So our Nation shall be not a mirage awakening +the hopes and aspirations of mankind but to mock them, and leaving the +sands of human experience still more arid and barren; but it shall be a +mountain of God, its base resting on the eternal foundations of law and +liberty; its summit drawing down from the willing heavens the streams of +prosperity which shall enrich all the lands of the earth. + + * * * * * + +THE SOUTH + +FIELD NOTES. + +BY REV. FRANK E. JENKINS. + + +I reached Little Rock, Arkansas, late one Saturday night and on Sunday +morning found my way to our church service. Arriving a few minutes late, +I found the service already begun. It was a fine looking audience and as +quiet and orderly as any New England congregation. The service was well +arranged and conducted in a very happy manner. The sermon was +thoughtful, earnest and inspiring. The pastor, Rev. Yancy B. Sims, is a +graduate of Talladega College and an honor to his Alma Mater. On Monday +I visited, with the pastor, several of the homes of the people. What a +contrast between these refined homes and the hut of the slave quarters +of twenty-five years ago! The ladies of this church had just finished a +silk block for a quilt which a home mission church in Washington +Territory is making from blocks made in each State in the Union, with +the hope of selling it to increase its fund for building a house of +worship. It was a beautiful block of rich material and the most delicate +workmanship. The faces of these ladies showed great delight in the +thought that they were helping others who needed help. + +"Do the colored people vote here without opposition?" I asked of an +intelligent colored man. "Oh, yes!" he replied. "And are the votes +always counted?" "Yes, _except in a pinch!_" was the answer. This is +much better than in most places which I am called upon to visit. + +From Little Rock I went to Paris, Texas. This growing city has a +population of about twelve thousand, five thousand of whom are colored. +Our pastor here is a graduate of Fisk University, as also is his wife. +The need of our church work in this city and in the State is two-fold, +direct and indirect. Our Congregational churches are quite as useful for +toning up other churches and their ministry as in the direct work done +by them. + +Dodds, Roxton and Dallas in Northern Texas were next visited, and in +each a small church is established and doing a good work. + +At Austin, I found our Tillotson Institute rapidly filling with +students--bright and earnest. A girls' hall is greatly needed here at +once. This institution with its unlimited opportunities in the great +State of Texas ought not to be cramped in any way, but to be given +every facility. Who will give it at once what it so urgently needs? I +found several intelligent people here greatly desiring a Congregational +church in the city--the school-church being too far away to reach the +mass of the people. Said an educated colored man to me: "Our most +intelligent people cannot endure the ignorant worship of these old +churches much longer. We want Congregationalism, but if we can't have +that, we must look elsewhere. We must have something to hold our +educated young people from falling into infidelity." And so they must, +for that is a coming danger. + +At Helena, I found a most interesting state of things. Our church is in +a country place called "The Colony." The church and the colony began +their existence together, and a more prosperous community of colored +people it would be hard to find. They own several thousand acres of +land, and are in every way ahead of their white neighbors. The school +house of the latter was a poor tumble-down affair and the children were +untidy, while the school house of the former was a neat, painted and +well-kept building, crowded in school hours with bright, enthusiastic +children--clean and polite. The teacher was from Talladega College and +has taught here for five years. His school is pronounced the best in the +region for white or colored. The pastor of this church has charge also +of the Congregational Church at Goliad. + +Corpus Christi is a curious town on the Gulf of Mexico. It has about +6,000 people--Americans, Mexicans, Negroes, Italians, Greeks and +Chinese. The Negroes here hold an unusual position, being regarded as in +every way superior to the Mexicans and Italians. Our pastor here is +popular with all classes and has been chosen an alderman of the city, +and is treated with as much consideration as any other of the City +Council. + +Our church is one of the oldest Congregational churches in the South, +and has had a very interesting history. With the exception of the Roman +Catholic church it has the best house of worship in the city. On Sunday +afternoon, Rev. Mr. Strong, the Congregational pastor, and myself +attended service at the Roman Catholic church. We went into the body of +the church and took a first class seat, and the fact that one was +colored did not even draw attention to us. It was taken as a matter of +course. The colored people of Texas are taxed for $20,000,000 of +property. In the cities they make up about one-third of the population. +An enlargement of our church work in this State is greatly needed. + +Straight University in New Orleans, La., is an inspiring place. I found +the buildings packed full--seats full, chairs in the aisles, in the +corners and on the teachers' platforms--all full. About one hundred and +fifty applicants had already been sent away for want of room, and they +were still coming, as many as ten often being refused in a single day. +They were here not only from the States, but also from Mexico, the West +Indies and Central America. I saw here some remarkable work in moulding +done by a student in the fifth grade, who had never been trained, but +who seems to be impelled by real genius. Straight University has a +unique position and opportunity. Its influence is now great; it is +destined to be boundless. + +From the Chicago meeting I made this trip. The meeting was inspiring, +but what I saw in the field, of character-building and the uplifting and +refining of a race, was more than inspiring--it was thrilling. + +At Dodds and Roxton a few hymn books are needed. A dozen or two Gospel +Hymns or other singing books for each church would do great good. Papers +for the children are also needed. They should be sent to Rev. Mark +Carlisle, Dodds, Texas. + +Papers for the children could be well used at Paris, Texas, Rev. J.D. +Pettigrew; Dallas, Texas, Rev. Mr. Holloway; Helena and Goliad, Texas, +Rev. M. Thompson; Corpus Christi, Texas, Rev. J.W. Strong. + + * * * * * + +REVIVAL AT WASHINGTON, D.C. + +BY REV. GEO. W. MOORE. + + +There have been over forty conversions reported and thirty have been +added to our church on profession of faith. There is a revival now in +progress at the Freedmen's Hospital as a direct outgrowth of our +meetings. Several of the young people of our church, including some of +the converts, were instrumental in leading a number to the Saviour. I am +planning to assist them in dealing with inquirers there, to-night. There +have been revival services in three other churches. The meetings held in +our place were indeed a season of refreshing from the presence of the +Lord. + +Our chapel was crowded on Thanksgiving morning; the sermon was preached +by Rev. Dr. Grimke, pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, +followed by an address by myself. The pastors of the Berean Baptist +Church, Methodist Church and the Lutheran Mission were on the platform, +the Plymouth Church holding a service of their own. In the evening we +held a Thanksgiving praise service, in which about one hundred persons, +including thirty-five of the converts, gave short thanksgiving +testimonies. + +Last Sabbath I baptized fourteen by immersion and received twenty-seven +into the church on profession of faith, and three since, making a total +of thirty. Rev. Eugene May of Osage, Iowa, one of the delegates I met at +the World's Sunday-school Convention this summer in London, gave us a +powerful sermon on the characters of "Dives and Lazarus Contrasted." In +the evening I preached a sermon to the church on "The Christian Armor" +and we had the Lord's Supper. Last night, after addressing the young +Christians on "The Way to God," as illustrated by the worthies of +Hebrews eleventh, we had them testify on how they came to Christ, the +one thing they did and what they got. The answers were all intelligent +and to the point. _Decision_ was what they did, and _Christ_ was what +they got, were the answers put in various forms. At the close of the +meeting I asked a gentleman, a member of another church, the Berean +Baptist, who always attends our special services, to say a few words. He +testified to the help and inspiration he had received from the meetings; +that he had never listened to clearer testimonies of conversion than +those given by the converts, and that they were doubly blessed in having +"_our pastor_," "yes," he said, "I will say our pastor, for he is pastor +to this whole community and city, lead you to Christ, and train you for +service." His remarks were warm and sympathetic, but too personal for me +to report more than the above, which is but the key-note of the kindly +feeling that many of the best Christian people of other churches have +toward us, as they have seen our little church come up from almost +nothing to its present position of service in this community. It has +been the Lord's doings and it is wondrous in our eyes. We have already +begun the work of training these young disciples for service, while we +have our nets still spread to catch sinners for Christ. Our motto for +the year is: To win souls for Christ and to train them for His service. + + * * * * * + +A GLAD THANKSGIVING. + +BY MISS MARY A. BYE, WILLIAMSBURG, KY. + + +If any one had been the least bit homesick or unhappy from any cause on +Thanksgiving day, it would have done him good to spend the day at +Williamsburg Academy. Our boys and girls were so happy all the day that +no one could feel tired or sad. After breakfast the boys thought it +hardly fair for them to have all the holiday while the girls had to +work, so they borrowed aprons and helped the girls. Dishwashing, +sweeping and all the various branches of housework were done in a very +short time, and everybody was as merry as could be. The boys declared +that they were glad to have learned something which they did not know +before, about the work the girls had to do. Our very tallest boy, over +six feet in height, was instructed in the mysteries of scouring knives. +He said he had no idea how knives were cleaned, and thought his +Thanksgiving lesson worth learning. + +After the housework was done the boys gathered a great quantity of +holly, and our pretty new dining-room was profusely decorated. All the +family then attended the Thanksgiving services in the Christian Church; +that is all except the "Mother," who must needs watch the dinner in +process of preparation. We had a real Thanksgiving feast, in all except +that our turkey was fried chicken. + +Mr. Tupper contributed oranges, which were quite a treat. One of the +girls came to mother very much excited, eyes wide open and hands up, +exclaiming "O, Mrs. Bye, what are them big yeller things in the dining +room?" When told that they were oranges, she said, "Law! I never seed +none before." There were others who had never tasted them, and they +watched closely to see how the teachers managed them, before they +ventured to eat theirs. Two of the teachers had written Thanksgiving +verses on cards tied with ribbon, and placed at each plate. After dinner +we moved our chairs back and read our verses, after which we sang +"Praise God from whom all blessings flow," and I think it is rarely sung +more heartily. Then again the boys donned the aprons and cleared the +tables and washed the dishes, while the teachers watched the fun and +laughed until we were tired. While the molasses was boiling, the +scholars played games in the sitting-rooms. Then came the "candy-pull," +and very _sweetly_ closed the day's festivities. + +I am sure we went to prayer meeting in the evening with very thankful +hearts. Some of the scholars said it was the happiest day they had ever +known. + +It is a constant wonder to me to see the improvement in our girls, and +their interest in their work. They are so eager to learn to do things +well that I cannot think of my work as one of sacrifice, as some work +may be, for the joy of it overcomes all such thought. + + * * * * * + +STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS. + +REV. C.H. CRAWFORD. + + +Much interest is manifest in our meetings for prayer, a number of +students having expressed a desire to become Christians. I have +organized a class for the instruction of Christian workers. It is +composed of both teachers and students, and numbers about twenty-five. + +A young man came to my study to be shown how to become a Christian. +After instructing him and showing him the promises, there still seemed +to be something in the way. Questioning him, I found that he was +expecting some wonderful experience. He had specially in mind the +remarkable conversion of a certain young man of his acquaintance. He was +hoping for the same. I said to him, "Now you want to know that you are a +Christian. Which would you rather have for evidence, an experience such +as that young man had, or God's word for it?" After waiting a moment to +take in my meaning he replied, "God's word." "Do you believe on Jesus +Christ?" "Yes." "Well, here you have God's word, John, 3:36, 'He that +believeth on the Son hath eternal life.' Will you take God's word?" +After a moment's deliberation came the answer, "Yes, I will." Then we +knelt down and prayed. This, I trust, was a soul born into the kingdom. + +One of our theological students reports the following admonition from an +ignorant preacher much older than himself: "You go to school and get +education. In five or ten years the people will not listen to such +preachers as I am." + + +TILLOTSON INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS. + +Our school is opening very auspiciously. Never before have so large a +number been here at the beginning of the term. And the requests for the +privilege of coming are numerous, so that if all come who are asking to +do so, we shall be over-full. We are greatly pleased with the spirit +with which the new year's work is taken up. There are more each year who +come prepared to enter the higher grades, which shows that the common +schools of Texas are improving. + +The Christian Endeavor Societies, of both the young men and the young +women, have elected their officers and are ready to begin work again, +and the Temperance Society will do the same, this week. + +One of the students who has been with us from the beginning of our +school, has left us this year and gone to Oberlin, where he has entered +the Sophomore class. We miss him much, but bid him "God Speed," for the +need of workers is great, and we are hoping much from him in the way of +work among his own people. + +R.M.K. + + * * * * * + +THE INDIANS. + +MISSIONARY LIFE AMONG THE DAKOTA INDIANS. + +BY MRS. J.F. CROSS. + + +It is hard to get the most interesting experiences of a missionary's +life, because they belong to the daily routine and so are often +unmentioned. But here is a description of life and travel among the +Indians, by the wife of a missionary just going to the Dakotas: + +The land of the Dakotas--what a distance! How long the miles seemed from +my home! How frightful the land seemed to me, from the tales of +blizzards and cyclones! How strange to go to live among the Sioux +Indians, known to me principally for the Minnesota, Fort Fetterman and +Custer massacres; to be a friend to Sitting Bull, Brave Bull, Gall, +Grass, Swift Bear, Red Cloud and many others with names no less +picturesque! With such impressions I left my home to accompany my +husband to his home and work at Rosebud Agency, South Dakota. + +I was soon relieved of the idea of the distance, for only a few hours +took us across Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota to the +border of Dakota. Here we left the railroad to attend the general +conference of the Dakota Mission at Flandreau. How quickly all the +impressions of years can be changed, when the impressions are wrong and +we see the true state of affairs. In this case, seeing hundreds of +bronzed faces, lighted up with joy, as they sung "I hear Thy welcome +voice" in their own tongue, there was enough to change all my former +opinions of Indians in general and of the Dakota Indians in particular. +It was like coming into a new world. That is, it was finding those whom +I thought belonged to another, lower, baser life, living the same life +with myself; rejoicing in that which is my greatest joy--childhood with +God the Father. And after meeting Ehnamani, Grey Cloud, John Wakeman, +Spotted Bear, and many others; after hearing them discuss living +topics--living topics to them because they belong to the change from +heathen to Christian life; after hearing them pray--though I could not +understand a word, yet from their earnestness I could understand the +spirit of their prayer; after all this, I could scarcely believe that +these men had ever been Indians in paint, feathers, dances and on the +war path. Thus I spent my first four days among Indians. And even if +preaching, prayers, discussions were in an unknown tongue, I perhaps, +understood as much as I would at many a Presbytery or Conference +meeting. And I got as much good from the Dakota sermon as I have from +many an English sermon. + +Not the least pleasing of my new impressions were those made by the +missionaries present. Rev. John P. Williamson, of Yankton Agency; Rev. +A.L. Riggs, D.D., of Santee Mission and Normal School; Rev. T.L. Riggs +of Oahe, or rather the apostle to the Tetons, were the life of the +meetings whether in English or Dakota. They came from and returned to +the work to which their lives are given. I did not meet these men with +the greetings of a certain minister there, who asked, "How many years +have you been in the Indian work." "About twenty," was the reply. Then +the minister said: "Well, you have been in the work so long that you +would not be much good anywhere else." My impression was that such men +would be now, as they always have been, successful in any field of +labor. But I must leave Flandreau with its citizen Indians, ready to +vote for prohibition in the Constitution of South Dakota, for this is +not our field of labor. + +The next scene is one which I shall long remember--our reception at a +mission home. Other homes may be happy and other people may welcome me +to their homes; but few--none that I have met--can welcome one so +cordially as Mrs. Riggs welcomed us to her home at Oahe. This is a +long-to-be-remembered experience. And after spending a week at Oahe, +meeting the teachers and pupils of the school, and the citizen Indians +there we started for our own home and work, Park Street Church Station. +This place has been the home of my husband for a year. + +Crossing the Missouri is one of the first of our experiences. The team +and wagon are loaded on the boat, the men row a few rods, then the boat +stops. "Bar," remarks Mr. Cross, "got to tow;" when, horrors! "Is this a +missionary I see?" Mr. Cross is in the water, sometimes to his knees, +sometimes to his waist. Thus they tow the boat a half mile. From the way +they hold their breath the water must be cold. Well, it is October 10, +in blizzard-swept Dakota. But after two hours of work we are safely +landed on the west side of the river and soon we are toiling slowly out +of the _breaks_ of the river. After a ride of a few hours we come to a +creek with no water but plenty of wood. Here dinner is announced. This +is camping in earnest. This is not play. Camping in the East is +generally within sound of the cackle of the hen and the low of the cow. +But here you must live off of the land or out of your mess-chest. We +combine the two. Many hotels and families could learn a good lesson from +an experienced traveler and camper. In less than thirty minutes from the +time we stop, horses are unharnessed, fire built, prairie chicken +dressed and cooked, coffee made, table spread, blessing asked and we +busy with the tender and juicy chicken. This is the same order at each +meal. + +At night we sleep on the earth and under the sky, with but little +between us and either sky or earth. This is a new and somewhat larger +bedroom than I have been used to. But with no house within twenty miles +we are unmolested. What a place! I listen. "All the air a solemn +stillness holds." I look. "So lonesome it is that God himself scarce +seems to be there." But the clear air and quiet night soon lull me into +unbroken slumber. Thus we travel until we reach Park St. Church Station, +where we find our comfortable log house of one room ready to receive us. +Though we reach the house at eleven o'clock at night, a full half dozen +come to greet us, saying, "Catka, winyau waste luha, lila caute ma +waste." "Left Hand, (Mr. Cross) you have a good woman, so I am happy." +Sunday comes; at eleven o'clock we go to the neat little room, chapel +and schoolroom. Here fifty men and women with children of all ages, +listen with eagerness and attention to Mr. Cross as he tells them of the +wise men who came to seek Jesus. Some of the faces are dirty, and so is +much of the clothing. But all listen as if they perhaps might see this +same Jesus. This is Dakota, our field, our people to save. + + * * * * * + +NEW CHURCH AT FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA. + +REV. T.L. RIGGS. + + +On Sunday, the 8th, we took steps here in the organization of a new +church. By invitation, two of our Oahe Church, Solomon Bear Ear and +David Lee, were present from the Cheyenne River Agency, and it was +judged wise to organize. The Apostles' Creed and a short Covenant were +offered as Articles of Faith and the pledge. The nine members of our +Oahe church whose homes are at Grand River and Fort Yates will become +members here on dismission at Oahe, and the native workers and other +missionaries will also transfer their connection, so that if all do so, +the new church will have a membership of eighteen or twenty. + +In connection with these services the new chapel was dedicated to the +Master's service by public expression; it has already been so +consecrated. I doubt not, in the heart of the giver of the funds, as +well as by the prayers of all who have been interested in it. Is is a +bright, pleasant room within, and has a snug appearance from without. I +think Mr. Reed has made a very creditable success in this his first +building. + + * * * * * + +THE CHINESE. + +CHINA FOR CHRIST. + +BY REV. WM. C. POND, D.D. + + +It is quite possible (though I do not distinctly remember about it,) +that our readers have seen this caption at the head of my articles more +than once already. Be that as it may, I am sure that such persons as +read this Magazine cannot be weary of it. It is the motto of our +corporation adopted twelve or thirteen years ago. It then looked rather +magniloquent for a work so humble as ours; but there was promise in it, +and prophecy, and nothing less would satisfy either our Chinese brethren +or myself. This promise and prophecy begin to be fulfilled. We hoped +then, and now we are gladdened by oft-recurring confirmations of our +hope, that we were laboring not only for these sojourners in our own +land, but for a mighty multitude to be reached by their testimony, and +to be leavened by the influence of their example. + +This will be illustrated for our readers by the following extract from +an address delivered by one of our brethren at the last anniversary of +our mission at Santa Cruz. His English will require a little +straightening, but for the most part, I will give it just as spoken: + +_Dear Friends_: I am glad to see you all here this evening; and that you +have an interest in the Chinese work. I will tell you a few words about +myself, what experience I had in my native land. I left California to go +to China, July 15, 1887, and after thirty-one days, reached my home. I +found a piece of red paper on the wall above my cooking place, with the +name of the stove-god written on it. We call it "Doy Shin;" "Doy" means +"Stove," "Shin" means "god." Every family worships the stove-god at the +cooking place. The first of every month they burn some punk, and twice +every month make a fresh cup of tea, which is left standing on the +stove. I found that several thousands of punk had been burned during my +absence, and the ends of the sticks were left in the bowls. I felt very +sorry for it; so I tore up the paper and break the punk-sticks in pieces +and burn them up. My wife felt very indignant, and was afraid the +stove-god might be angry and make me sick, and punish me. I say: +"Nothing to be afraid of. But I am only afraid that the true God in +heaven will punish me if I do not tear up the paper and burn up the +punk-sticks." I say: "I must entirely abandon this superstition and must +give this testimony for Christ. For he is the only God that can preserve +my life, and the only one that can take it away." + +In the mean time, a Chinese preacher who was supported by the Methodist +Mission was very sick. His children were very small and his wife cannot +walk. There was nobody to go after a doctor for him. So he sent for me +to call doctor and get medicine. He and myself were the only Christians +inside the walls of the city. Outside in the villages were a few +Christians, but fifteen or twenty miles away. My wife advised me not to +go to his house lest I get sick also, for my health was not very good. I +say to her, that only he and I are Christians in this place. I _have_ to +go to his house. I rather die than not go. In about twenty days he die. +We sent for the Christian friends, from different parts--some thirty to +fifty miles away--some nearer. So we bury him the Christian way. The men +carry the coffin. They charge four dollars to bury him, because he is +Christian. The others they charge only two dollars. We also hire music +for the funeral--different from the heathen funeral. Several hundred +people were standing on the way, watching us pass by. Some say: "How +funny the burying of the Yason dog,"--_i.e._, the Jesus boy. + +After the funeral I was very sick, and my whole body trembling with +cold. Many blankets put upon me, but cannot make me warm. My wife begin +to cry. My cousins and all said it was because I went to the dead man's +house and catch the sickness. Some of them said it was because I tore up +the paper and burned the punk-sticks of the stove-god. But my wife, +sitting on the bed-side crying, suggested the medicine which I brought +from California; the name--sulphate of quinine. So she ask me to take +that; but I say: I never have been this way before, and never use that +medicine for this kind of sickness. But she ask me to try; so I take a +very little with a little water. Not more than three minutes my whole +body stop shaking, and I felt a great relief. I thank God for his help, +and soon I got all well. + +Another Chinese preacher came from Canton to my district to take the +dead preacher's place; also, to live in his house. Next day, he and his +wife and boy all taken very sick. They grow worse and worse, every day +appointed to death. I felt very much dismayed because many people say, +"The Death Spirit make them very sick because they will not worship +him." But I pray to God to make him well. I say:--"Oh Lord, if you let +this family die also, all the people in this place will not like to hear +thy Gospel, and I also may be tempted by the superstition. I ask thee, +oh God, let thy mercy be upon them and not let this family going to die; +so let all this people of darkness see thy power, and thy glorious light +appear to their sight." I believe that God answered this prayer, for +they grew better and better every day, though they were so sick they +expected to die. + +I will tell you of another trial which I encountered. I live inside the +wall, and all the people inside are divided into six societies. I belong +to No. 4. Once in three years we have what we call _festival_. So a man +who had charge asked me to sign my name to give twenty-five cents to buy +some pork and other things for offerings to the idols. The temples have +some property, but they use the temple money for other expenses. I +refuse to subscribe. So he advised me and said: "While you are in the +foreign country, imitate foreign customs, but now you are in China, you +have to obey Chinese customs." They try to compel me to give. I stand up +and say: "If these six societies could not have this festival to the +idols because I refuse, do the people depend on me? If so, then all the +people are without hope, and may despair of the blessing of the idols. +Is that what you believe? Because you worship the idols you give +offerings to them, and expect blessing from them. I do not worship the +idol, and he would not give me the blessing. I do not wish for the +idol's blessing. It is not because I am stingy that I will not give to +the offering of the idol, but because it is against the true God in +heaven, whom I trust, and whose blessing I do greatly desire." So they +could not compel me to give, and they let me alone, but they felt very +much indignation and were hostile to me. A Christian in China has +sometimes a very hard time. "But what things were gain to me, those I +counted loss for Christ." Yet more and more are believing the Gospel of +Christ every year in China. + +A year has passed since, this brother returned to America; but is there +any hazard in affirming that those towns-people of his in China have +thought more or less, even to this day, of the stand he took and the God +in Christ to whom he testified? + + * * * * * + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + +MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY. + + +MASS MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNIONS. + + +The first meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Unions in connection +with the American Missionary Association was a genuine success. The +programme was put in the hands of Mrs. E.S. Williams of Minnesota by +vote of the ladies at Saratoga in June last, and the interested group +who filled the large and pleasant Sunday-school rooms of the New England +Church in Chicago, October 29th, rejoiced in their new and forward +movement for home and native land. Mrs. Lane of Michigan gave Mrs. +Williams genial help in presiding. Mrs. Palmer of Massachusetts led in +prayer. Mrs. Burke Leavitt, President of the Illinois Union, gave to the +ladies a felicitous welcome to the city and to the sympathy of the +workers of the great state of Illinois. Mrs. E.W. Blatchford greeted the +women in behalf of the New England Church and of their co-workers in the +W.B.M.I. If only all good women saw and felt, as this wise sister did, +that all Christ's work is one, and that all work for him outside of our +own home and church is mission service, their appeals to their sisters +would have more irresistible force, and the Saviour's prayer be nearer +answered, "That they all may be one." Miss Emerson, of the American +Missionary Association, spoke with her usual straightforward +effectiveness of the joy of the Association in their share of the work +of the Unions. + +These greetings were followed by the roll-call of State Unions, with +brief responses. Mrs. Williams represented Minnesota; Mrs. Palmer, +Massachusetts and Rhode Island. She also read a letter from Miss +Nathalie Lord of Boston. Mrs. Grabill responded for Michigan, Mrs. +Cowles for Ohio, Mrs. Morgan for New York, Mrs. Miner for Wisconsin, +Mrs. Bronson for Missouri, Mrs. Taintor for Illinois, Mrs. Douglass for +Iowa, Mrs. Leavitt for Nebraska, and Miss Emerson for Mississippi, +Tennessee, Arkansas and North Carolina. A telegram was received from +Mrs. Gale of the Florida Union, letters from Mrs. Swift of Vermont and +Mrs. Andrews of Alabama, and a warm message from Louisiana came just too +late for public hearing. Greetings also came from Northern and Southern +California, Oregon and Colorado. + +After prayer by Mrs. Douglass, of Iowa, Miss Hand gave a brief, but very +effective address on "What the New West needs from our Women--prayer, +consecrated effort, contributions." + +In the afternoon, Mrs. Lane gave a complete summary of "Foreign Missions +at Home. What have we done? What have we left undone? What ought we to +do now?" No brief mention can give any adequate idea of the amount of +information which was crowded into this address, or the earnestness of +its presentation. + +Mrs. Regal, of Oberlin, presented the report of the Bohemian Bible +Readers' Home, in Cleveland. + +Mrs. E.M. Williams answered effectively the question, "How can we induce +women of wealth to give to Home Missions?" She thought lack of +information was the cause of most of the indifference from which the +work suffers, and recommended individual effort as likeliest to be +successful. + +Mrs. Bailey, of Ogden, Utah, gave a stirring address on the "Need of +Pure Homes and True Churches in the West." + +Elizabeth Winyan, a Christian Indian woman of the Dakotas, next +addressed the meeting in her native language, Rev. Mr. Riggs acting as +her interpreter. Elizabeth's manner is very calm and dignified, and her +gestures are graceful and forcible. Her language is eloquent even though +trammeled by the necessity of having an interpreter. When she "shakes +hands with us in her heart," we know she means it, and when she has +"said enough," we know she is done. + +A Free Parliament for the discussion of practical questions was +conducted by Mrs. Regal, of Ohio. The subjects of Missionary Literature, +Life-Membership, Dangers threatening the Unions, Holding meetings in +connection with or separate from local and State Conferences, and +National Organization, were discussed, a large number of ladies +participating freely. + +Mrs. Goodell, of St. Louis, conducted a "Sweet Hour of Prayer," which +closed the day's sessions, and the earnest group dissolved only to swell +the throngs at the best meeting the American Missionary Association ever +held. + + * * * * * + +WORDS FROM OUR ANNUAL MEETING, + +OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO WOMEN. + + +Twenty-six Woman's State Organizations now co-operate with us in our +missionary work. Each year shows the increasing importance and +helpfulness of the Woman's Bureau. From it go counsel, help and +inspiration to the lady teachers in the field, and missionary news and +helpful suggestions to the ladies of the State Associations. Through it +pass the sympathy and the help of the earnest workers in the older +churches to the earnest workers in our mission churches and schools. The +people for whom we labor can not be saved either for this world or the +next unless the women who make the homes are lifted out of coarseness +and vice, and taught true womanhood and womanly duties and arts. The +Woman's Bureau is a most potent factor in the work of bringing the +gospel to the rescue of womanhood in our mission fields.--_Annual Report +of Executive Committee._ + + * * * * * + +Our laborers are faced by all the serious problems of the foreign +land--problems unrelieved by a single romantic charm. When we send our +missionaries to Africa they go to labor among the Africans; and when we +send them down South they go to teach "niggers." I believe that the +American Missionary Association, in its calm and unimpassioned history, +is one grand and splendid eulogy of woman. Our sisters went South while +the sky was yet heavy with the clouds of war; they went to the rude +dwellings where those people sat in stupor and in darkness after the +first thrill of the new found liberty; they went from homes of +refinement and culture and wealth and religion; they bore to this +darkness light, to this dullness life; they carried down there in their +white hands the great tree of Calvary, the cross of Christ, and planted +it in the land of the magnolia and the palm. I say that the history of +this Association is a grand and glowing eulogy of woman because these +were willing to be called "teachers of niggers" for their love of +humanity.--_Rev. C.W. Hiatt._ + + * * * * * + +It is one of the most astonishing signs of the times that really into +the feeble hand of womanhood is given the key of the situation. They +respect these educated girls, they reverence them and give them a place +of dignity in their hearts. That makes it possible for these women to do +a large and splendid work in the South. + +Once let these girls that come under the influence of our Christian +Northern women who go there as teachers, and the graduates of these +various colleges and schools that we have planted, and are about to +plant in the South; once let common womanhood in the South that has been +so much under the heel of this oppression; once let girlhood feel the +power that has come to girlhood, that to them as young women in the +cradle of these hills, under this fair sky, is given the power to turn +over in not less than thirty or forty years this whole country for God +and humanity, for enlightenment and for Christian peace; once let that +idea get into the minds of those girls, and we have not the same problem +that we have to-day.--_Rev. D.M. Fisk._ + + * * * * * + +There were deeds of valor by mountain heroines that shine as brightly as +those of a Molly Stark or Barbara Frietchie. Mrs. Edwards, of Campbell +County, marched 150 miles in inclement weather, over the mountains, to +carry information to Union troops. Immediately upon arriving at home, +having received some valuable information, she pushed her way through +the rain, on horseback, alone, and saved the Union General Spears from +capture. Again and again this same woman took perilous journeys to carry +information to Union officers. Nor was she the only heroine among the +mountain women. During the siege of Knoxville, General Grant desired to +send an important message to General Burnside. "So overrun was the +territory between Chattanooga and Knoxville by Confederate troops that +it could only be delivered, if at all, with great difficulty and hazard. +At length Miss Mary Love, of Kingston, Tenn., agreed to take the message +through the Confederate lines." She got as far as Louisville, Tenn., but +could get no farther. There she found but one person who was willing to +run the risk of taking the message through the lines, and he was a boy +only thirteen years of age, John T. Brown. He carried the dispatch +safely through the lines and delivered it to General Burnside. + +Let us build school-houses and churches, where their better cabins have +risen from the ashes of the past. Let us invade their coves and press up +their mountain sides with an army of Christian teachers and preachers, +until the gray old forests that echoed with the shout of these loyal +Highlanders shall again echo with the sound of church bell and school +bell, and they who took from us the larger sacrifice of war, shall find +that we are ready to share with them the blessed fruits of +peace.--_Secretary C.J. Ryder._ + + * * * * * + +There is, furthermore, a peaceful Christian invasion of this land. We +scarcely realize how much these gospel songs mean to those Southern +people, and how they listen with eagerness at once to the sweetness of +the tune and to the gospel that is within it. It is an entering wedge to +a new life there. A dear girl of my acquaintance taught from thirty to +fifty of these women; they listened eagerly, and the tears rolled down +their cheeks, and they said to her, "Oh, come and tell us more about +Jesus, for we want to be different kind of women, different kind of +mothers." + +There was one girl who came out to one of our commencements and went +back with the arrow in her heart, saying, "I would give all the world if +I had it, if I could write a piece, and git up thar and read it like +them." She went home determined she would go to college. She was a large +girl, fifteen years old, yet did not know a single letter. She walked +fifty miles nearly, and came and said to the college president, that she +wanted to work for her board, so that she could enter the school. What +could she do? He found that really she was incapacitated for doing +anything; but she said; "I can hoe corn like a nigger." Finally she was +set at some sort of work, and that girl, after three or four years, went +out as a school teacher into a district where young men dared not go, +where her eyes were blistered with the sights she saw--men shot down +before her face and eyes by the whiskey distillers--and she was asked to +organize a Sunday-school there. When any one starts a Sunday-school he +is expected to preach, and so that girl had to become a preacher, and +to-day she is preaching the gospel of God and spreading the work there. +And yet she came from one of the very humblest classes.--_Rev. D.M. +Fisk._ + + * * * * * + +There is another influence of which I would speak, the influence of the +home. Here in our happy homes we know but very little of what that means +to the Indian. An Indian has no home, in our sense of the word. There is +at Santee Agency a piece of limestone, perhaps three feet wide by five +feet long, which was the hearthstone of our Dakota mission home. It was +taken a few years ago by my brother, from Minnesota, where it had served +the purpose of a hearthstone in one of the original buildings of the +mission. He took it to Santee Agency, and every time I go to Santee, I +go out and look at that stone. There is the hole in the stone into which +we poured milk to feed the cat, and on another corner is the place where +we used to crack nuts. That stands for our boyhood home. The Indian has +nothing of the kind. The Dakota Indian lives in a region, not in a +place. The Christian home coming into the midst of a village carries +there an ideal of which the Indian knows nothing, and he is taught by +the power of example day after day. The Christian woman in that home +keeps her house clean, keeps her children clean, and stands here as a +persistent example of the power of the gospel of soap.--_Rev. T.L. +Riggs._ + + * * * * * + +Carlyle tells the story of a woman in the North of Scotland in the old +days before charity was organized, who wanted help. She was poor and +sick, and they said to her, "You may look out for yourself." Finally +she was taken sick with typhus fever, and died, and because they didn't +take very good care of her in the place where she was sick, she killed +seventeen others with her poison. Carlyle says: "You said she was not +your sister and she said, 'I am, and I will prove it;' and she did, +though it cost seventeen good lives to prove it." There will be a typhus +fever in this land infinitely worse than any pestilence that kills the +body unless this deadly germ be killed by putting education where there +is ignorance, and putting honor and truth where there is degradation +to-day. "Look out for No. 1?" Aye, it is our business to look out for +ourselves. May God Almighty help us that we fail not to attend to it. +There is just one way to save ourselves. We learned that long ago at the +feet of Him who said: "He that loseth his life shall save it." That is +the only way. It is just as true for a nation as for an +individual.--_President George A. Gates._ + + * * * * * + +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.E. 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. + + +CONNECTICUT. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Mrs. Francis B. Cooley, Hartford. + Secretary--Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Aye., 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. Phebe A. Crafts, 95 Monroe Ave., Columbus. + + +INDIANA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Mrs. C.B. Safford, Elkhart. + Secretary--Mrs. W.E. Moseman, 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. Keeler, Beloit. + + +MINNESOTA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + + President--Mrs. E.S. Williams, Box 464, Minneapolis. + Secretary--Miss Gertrude A. Keith, 1350, Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis + Treasurer--Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield. + + +NORTH DAKOTA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + + President--Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight. + Secretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood. + Treasurer--Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo. + + +SOUTH DAKOTA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle. + Secretary--Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron. + Treasurer--Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston. + + +NEBRASKA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 3316 H. St., Lincoln. + Secretary--Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St, Fremont. + Treasurer--Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete. + + +MISSOURI. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Mrs. C.L. Goodell, 3006 Pine St., St. Louis. + Secretary--Mrs. E.P. Bronson, 3100 Chestnut St., St. Louis. + Treasurer--Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. Louis. + + +KANSAS. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + + President--Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka. + Secretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka. + Treasurer--Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa. + + +COLORADO AND WYOMING. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado. + Secretary--Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., Colorado Springs, + Colorado. + Treasurer--Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado. + Treasurer--Mrs. C.T. Goodell, 24th and Eddy Sts., Cheyenne, Wyoming. + + +SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. + + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Mrs. Elijah Cash, 927 Temple St., Los Angeles. + Secretary--Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Box 426, Pasadena. + Treasurer--Mrs. H.W. Mills, So. Olive St., Los Angeles. + + +CALIFORNIA. + +WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + + President--Mrs. H.L. Merritt, 686 34th St., Oakland. + Secretary--Miss Grace E. Barnard, 677 21st. St., Oakland. + Treasurer--Mrs. J.M. Havens, 1329 Harrison St., Oakland. + + +LOUISIANA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Mrs. R.D. Hitchcock, New Orleans. + Secretary--Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans. + Treasurer--Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond. + + +MISSISSIPPI. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Mrs. A.F. Whiting, Tougaloo. + Secretary--Miss Sarah J. Humphrey, Tougaloo. + Treasurer--Miss S.L. Emerson, Tougaloo. + + +ALABAMA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega. + Secretary--Miss S.S. Evans, 2612 Fifth Ave., Birmingham. + Treasurer--Mrs. G. Baker, 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, Tenn. + Secretary--Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn. + Treasurer--Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn. + + +NORTH CAROLINA. + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + + President--Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill. + Secretary--Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh. + Treasurer--Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh. + + +[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. + +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 NOVEMBER, 1889. + + * * * * * + +THE DANIEL HAND FUND, + +_For the Education of Colored People._ + +FROM + +Mr. DANIEL HAND, GUILFORD, CONN. + + +Income for October, 1889 $960.00 + + ======= + +CURRENT RECEIPTS. + +MAINE, $235.81. + +Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 + +Bath. Sab. Sch. of Central Ch. 15.00 + + +Bluehill, Mrs. Anna D. Hinekley's S.S. + Class, on "True Blue Card." 5.00 + +Brewer. M. Hardy, ad'l to const. MRS. + MARGARET FRASER AND MRS. JENNIE + GETCHELL L.M.'s 50.00 + +Castine. Ladies of Cong. Sew. Circle, + Bbl. of C., _for Lexington, Ky._ + +Cumberland. Silas M. Rideout 10.25 + +Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. 50.00 + +Norridgewock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.00 + +Sherman Mills. Washburn Memorial Ch. 5.00 + +Topsham. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.; By Mrs. + M.E. Flye, _for Freight_, 2 50; Miss Nellie + Alexander, _for Student Aid_, 1; By Bessie + Grover, 6 cents, _for Selma, Ala._ 3.56 + +Woolwich. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $225.60. + +Concord, "A Friend," 20; Jos. T. Sleeper's + S.S. Class, So. Cong. Ch., 10, _for + Gregory Institute_, _Wilmington, N.C._ 30.00 + +Hillsboro Bridge. "King's Daughters." + Bbl. Clothing and House Supplies, _for + Macon, Ga._ + +Hindsdale. Cong. Ch. 7.75 + +Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. to + const. CHARLES JOSEPH ADAMS L.M. 59.37 + +Nashua. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim Ch., + _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +Nashua. Y.P.S.C.E, of Pilgrim Ch., + _for Indian Sch'p_ 35.00 + +Pembroke. Mrs. Mary Thompson, 10; + Mrs. S. Fellows, 10; Miss Sarah Fellows, + 10, _for Gregory Institute_, _Wilmington, N.C._ 30.00 + +Peterboro. M.A. and M.D. Whitney 5.00 + +Warner. Cong. Ch. 8.48 + + +VERMONT, $320.79. + +Brattleboro. Center Cong. Ch. 15.00 + +Fairlee. Mrs L.D. Spear 1.00 + +Montpelier. Miss L.S. Taplin, _for Charts_, + _Meridian, Miss._ 5.00 + +Saint Albans. Cong. Ch. 117.62 + +Saint Johnsbury. South Cong. Soc. 50.05 + +Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. + _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +Swanton. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + +Townshend. Miss Eliza M. Burnap, to + const. ERNEST A. PRENTISS L.M. 40.00 + +Wallingford. "A Friend," + _for Santee Indian Sch._ 1.00 + +Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of + C., _for McIntosh, Ga._ + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vt., + by Mrs. William P. Fairbanks, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Barton. Mrs. O.D. Owen. + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 5.00 + + Castleton. W.H.M.S., + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 3.03 + + Dorset. W.H.M.S., + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 5.00 + + Dorset. W.H.M.S., + _for Marshallville, Ga._ 20.00 + + Granby. L.E. and L.B. Rice, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 1.00 + + Royalton. Sarah Skinner, Mem. Soc., + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 20.00 + + ------- 54.03 + + +MASSACHUSETTS. $8,698.46. + +Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch. 13.70 + +Amherst. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Indian M._ 26.60 + +Andover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, _for + Chandler Normal Shcool Building_, + _Lexington, Ky._ 2,653.47 + +Ashburnham. First Cong. Ch. 18.63 + +Athol Center. William A. Eaton and + Emily Eaton 2.00 + +Barre. L.H.M. Soc., _Freight to Tougaloo, + Miss._ 3.00 + +Berkley. First Cong. Ch., ad'l 1.63 + +Boston. C.A. Hopkins, _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 250.00 + + Woman's Home Miss'y Soc., _for Student Aid_, + _Fisk U._ 8.00 + + Mrs. Emily P. Eayre 5.00 + + "A Friend." 4.00 + + South Boston. Phillips Cong. Ch. 39.20 + + ------- 306.20 + +Boxboro. Cong. Ch. 13.00 + +Bridgewater. Central Square Ch. and Soc. 25.00 + +Brockton. Mrs. J.R. Perkins 5.00 + +Cambridge. North Ave. Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 18.44 + +Cambridgeport. Mrs. Anna K. Douglass, + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + +Campello. South Cong. Ch., to const. + REV. N.B. THOMPSON L.M. 100.00 + +Chester. Second Cong. Ch. 4.85 + +Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. 25.00 + +Danvers. Maple St. Cong. Ch., to const. + PERCY W. DAMON, HARLAN P. BRADSTREET, + MRS. ELLEN M. EATON, MRS. + ANGELINE G. HULL AND MRS. PHEBE M. + PATCH L.M.'S 151.69 + +Dedham. First Cong. Ch. 96.28 + +Dover. Second Cong. Ch. 4.45 + +Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. 75.76 + +Fall River. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. + Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ 35.00 + +Framingham. "Friends," _for Indian M._ 100.00 + +Franklin. First Cong. Ch. 11.00 + +Gardner. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. + Helen M. Rolfe, _for Tougaloo U._ 50.00 + +Gardner. W.W. Tandy, _for Freight_, + _to Jellico, Tenn._ 1.00 + +Gilbertville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 + +Granville. Mr. and Mrs. C. Holcomb 10.00 + +Hanson. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., + _for Tougaloo U._ 9.00 + +Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.57 + +Holliston. "Bible Christians." 100.00 + +Hopkinton. "King's Daughters," _for Freight_, + _to Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 2.00 + +Ipswich. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of First Parish + (2 of which _for Freight_) 7.00 + +Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. ad'l 3.00 + +Lee. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75, to const. + MORRISON A. HOLMES and MISS HATTIE L. MARTIN L.M.'s; + Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 100 175.00 + +Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 + +Mansfield. Ortho. Cong. Ch. 6.87 + +Melrose. Orthodox Cong. Ch. 141.69 + +Merrimac. John K. Sargent 1.00 + +Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 96.01 + +Milton. "A Friend." 6.43 + +Mittineague. Southworth Co., Case of Paper, + _for Talladega C._ + +Mittineague. Southworth Co., Case of Paper, + _for Fisk U._ + +Monson. Miss Hattle R. Pease, 3 Carpets, + 4 Rugs, 4 Hassocks and Bbl. of C., + _for Beach Institute_, _Savannah, Ga._ + +Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.00 + +North Acton. "Mrs. S.D.M." 10.00 + +Northampton. A.L. Williston 300.00 + +Northampton. Miss Judith B. Kingsley + and Sister, _for Indian M._ 10.00 + +Orange. Wm. A. Bliss 30.15 + +Oxford. Primary Dept. Cong. Sab. Sch. 12.00 + +Oxford. Woman's Miss'y Soc., by Miss L.D. + Stockwell, Treas., _for Tougaloo U._ 6.00 + +Pepperell. Cong. Ch. 8.43 + +Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 14.87 + +Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc., 192.65; + Mattie Wilson, on True Blue Card, 5 197.65 + +Somerville. Sab. Sch. of Franklin St. Orthodox Ch., + _for Indian M._, _Santee Agency, Neb._ 40.00 + +Somerville. Mrs. James H. Rose 1.00 + +South Framingham. Grace Cong. Sab. Sch., + _for Student Aid_, _Atlanta U._ 17.80 + +South Framingham. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 + +Southampton. Cong. Ch., 38.57; "The Cheerful Givers," + by Miss Grace A. Sheldon, Treas., 10 48.57 + +South Weymouth. Union Cong. Sab. Sch, + _for Gregory Inst._, _Wilmington, N.C._ 75.00 + +Taunton. Trin. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. + SAMUEL V. COLE, MRS. ANNIE T. COLE, + MISS MABEL W. SMITH, MRS. MARGARET + F. NICKERSON and MISS PARTHIA H. + CROCKER L.M.'s 174.58 + +Templeton. Trin. Sab. Sch., _for Mountain Work_ 5.53 + +Wakefield. Y.P.S.C.E., ad'l, _for Mountain Work_ 0.50 + +Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. 13.09 + +Ware. Sab. Sch. East Cong. Ch., _for Home_, + _Santee Agency, Neb._ 25; H.B. Anderson's + S.S. Class, _for Indian Sch'p_, + 17.50; Miss Sprague's Class, East Cong. S.S., + _for Indian M._, 6 48.50 + +Warren. Ladies' H.M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., + _for Mountain Work_ 87.50 + +Wellesley Hills. "Q." 380.00 + +Westboro. Cong. Ch. 105.76 + +Westboro. Ladies' Freedmen Ass'n, _for Freight_, + _to Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 3.00 + +West Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.18 + +West Newton. Second Cong. Ch. 286.66 + +Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1,402.81 + +Worcester. Central Cong, Ch., 142.02; + Plymouth Ch., 53.16 195.18 + +Worcester. Central Ch. Sab. Sch., _for + Student Aid_, _Marion, Ala._ 8.00 + +----. "A Massachusetts Friend," + _for Native Indian Missionary_ 50.00 + +Hampden Benevolent Association, + by Charles Marsh, Treasurer: + + Chicopee. Second 41.40 + + Ludlow. Central 19.24 + + Monson 30.56 + + Palmer. First 17.70 + + Springfield. First 18.00 + + Springfield. Olivet S.S. 22.14 + + West Springfield. + Mittineague 5.29 + + ------ 154.33 + + --------- + + $8,223.36 + +ESTATE. + +Fitchburg. Estate of Aaron Eaton, + by E.B. Rockwood, Trustee 475.10 + + --------- + + $8,698.46 + + +CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE. + +Wells, Maine. Second Cong. Ch., Package Books, _for New Decatur, Ala._ + +Boston. Ladies of Homeland Circle, Park St. Ch., Bbl., _for Straight U._ + +Cambridgeport, Mass. King's Daughters, by Mrs. Anna E. Douglas, Bbl., + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Charlton, Mass. Ladies' Benev. Soc., of Cong. Ch., Package. + +Dorchester, Mass. Harvard Cong. Ch., Bbl., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Ipswich, Mass. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl., Val. 30 + +Westboro, Mass. Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, 2 Bbls., Val. 60, + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Westboro, Mass. Mrs. Fanny C. Hastings, Bbl. + + +RHODE ISLAND, $180.00 + +Barrington. Cong. Ch. 80.00 + +Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch. 100.00 + + +CONNECTICUT, $2,072.11. + +Bridgeport. Second Cong. Ch. 78.89 + +Bristol. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch. 3.42 + +Buckingham. Ladies' Sewing and Mission Circle, + _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 10.00 + +Collinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 45.00 + +East Canaan. Cong. Ch. 6.10 + +Farmington. Cong. Ch., 2.33 and Sab. Sch., 52.67 55.00 + +Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. 69.66 + +Glastonbury. On True Blue Card, by Miss Louise Williams, + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 5.00 + +Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. + LEVI W. THRALL L.M. 30.00 + +Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. 54.05 + +Ivoryton. "Thank Offering from A.H.S." + _for Mountain Work_ 20.00 + +Lakeville. Mrs. Burrall's S.S. Class, + _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 5.00 + +Lisbon. Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 6.00 + +Manchester Center. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., + _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 22.00 + +Meriden. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 50.00 + +New Britain. "Friend," _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 9.00 + +New Haven. Boys' Prayer Meeting, Humphrey St. Ch., + _for Indian Sch'p._ 45.00 + +Newington. Cong. Ch. 29.95 + +Newington. Jedediah Deming, + _for Tougaloo U._ 10.00 + +North Stonington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Plantsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Atlanta U._ 50.00 + +Redding. "A Friend," 5.00 + +Southport. Miss Georgie A. Bulkley, _for + Girls' Hall_, _Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 25.; Miss + Eliza A. Bulkley, _for Student Aid, _Talladega C._ + 25.; "A Friend," 20 70.00 + +Southport, "A Friend," 30., "Friend," 25 55.00 + +Stamford. First Cong. Ch., "A Friend," 1.00 + +Suffield. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 25.00 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 26.20 + +Thompson. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc., + _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 23.00 + +Thompson. Cong. Ch. 12.70 + +Vernon. Cong. Ch. 38.09 + +Wallingford. Miss M.F. Hall, _for Indian M._ 3.00 + +Washington. F.A. Frisbie 1.00 + +Waterbury. "Sunshine Circle," _for Beach + Inst._, _Savannah, Ga._ 5.00 + +Waterbury. "Friend." 5.00 + +Wast Hartford. "Friend," _for Indian Sch'p._ 70.00 + +Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Sab Sch. 6.43 + +Winsted. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.48 + +----. "Friends in Connecticut," + _for Native Indian Missionary_ 90.00 + +----. ---- for Hope Station, _Indian M._ 150.00 + +----. "A Connecticut Friend," _for Well_, + _Fort Berthold, Dak._ 50.00 + +Connecticut Woman's Home Missionary Union, + _for Woman's Work_: + + Huntington. Ladies of Home + Missionary Union, Cong. + Ch., _for Mountain Work_ 5.00 + + C.W.H.M.U., _for Conn. + Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 12.50 + + ------ 17.50 + +ESTATE. + +North Haven. Estate of Mrs. Thalia M. + Painter, by Rev. W.T. Reynolds, Executor 800.00 + + --------- + + $2,072.11 + + + +NEW YORK, $2,150.93. + +Adams Basin. Mrs. Harriet Clark 10.00 + +Adams Basin. Miss Ella H. Clark, + _for Student Aid_, _Chandler Normal Sch._ 3.00 + +Brooklyn. "A Friend," 1000; Plymouth + Ch., ad'l, 106.; "Two Friends," Lewis + Ave. Cong Ch., 15.; Woman's Miss'y + Soc., Lewis Ave. Cong. Ch., 10.; + "Friend," 4.25 1,135.25 + +Brooklyn. "King's Daughter's," by Miss + Amelia H. Benjamin, _for Mountain Work_ 500.00 + +Brooklyn, Park Ave. Ch., 9.; Miss M. Morrison, 4, + _for Student Aid_, _Williamsburg, Ky._; + "A Friend," _for Williamsburg, Ky._, 50c. 13.50 + +Big Hollow. Nelson Hitchcock 5.00 + +Buffalo. Chas. E. Potter, + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 5.00 + +Canaan Four Corners. Y.P.S.C.E., + _for Indian M._ 10.00 + +Churchville. Sab. Sch. and Mission Band + of Cong. Ch., Box C., _for Student Aid_, + _Macon, Ga._ + +Danby. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 12.87 + +Deansville. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Student Aid_, + _Avery Inst._ 10.00 + +Fredonia. Presb. Ch., 5.70; Mary F. Lord, 5 10.70 + +Fredonia. "Friends," _for Student Aid_, + _Williamsburg, Ky._ 5.00 + +Gaines. Cong. Ch., 17.41 and Sab. Sch., 5.66 23.07 + +Lewis. Home Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. + Ch., _for Chandler Normal Sch._, + _Lexington, Ky._ 5.00 + +Lima. Miss Clara M. Janes 2.00 + +Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. 11.22 + +New York. Sab. Sch. of First Reformed + Episcopal Church, _for Indian M._, 100; + Bethany Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_, _Fort + Berthold, Dak._, 40; Miss Ellen Collins, _for + Indian M._, 30 170.00 + +New York. Tremont Cong. Ch., 50.00; + Mrs. C.W. Wicker, to const. MISS ADA + B. CALLENDER L.M., 30.00; 80.00 + +Northville. S.S. Class of six boys by Miss + Nannie Benjamin, 9;--Box Clothing, + etc., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 9.00 + +Orient. "Missionary Circle," to const. + DEA. D.L. BEEBE L.M. 30.00 + +Perry Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.87 + +Poughkeepsie. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Indian Sch'p._ 20.00 + +Sing Sing. Mrs. Harriet M. Cole, to const. + REV. SPENCER SNELL L.M. 30.00 + +Spencerport. A. Webster 5.00 + +Syracuse. "King's Daughters," Carpet, + _for Room_, _Macon, Ga._ + +Windham. Mrs. G.W. Bullard 1.50 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., + by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Homer. "Band of Hope" 5.00 + + Homer. Ladies' Aux. 1.00 + + Syracuse. Ladies Soc. Geddes Cong. Ch. 5.00 + + ------- 11.00 + + +NEW JERSEY, $417.50. + +Bernardsville. Miss Marion L. Roberts, + Box of Books, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +East Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch. to const. + THOMAS S. CRANE, OGDEN H. BOWERS + and ROBERT D. WEEKS L.M.'s 117.21; + Grove St. Cong. Ch., 29.04 146.25 + +Jersey City. "Christian Endeavor Soc." + Bbl. Clothing and House Supplies, + _for Macon, Ga._ + +Montclair. Sab. Sch. Class, _for Student + Aid_, _Talladega, Ala._ 5.00 + +Morristown. Mrs. F.W. Owen, _for Native + Indian Missionary_ 150.00 + +Trenton. Mrs. E.B. Fuller 5.00 + +Westfield. Cong. Ch. 86.25 + +Westfield. Mission Band, _for Indian M._ + _Santee Agency, Neb._ 25.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $134.00. + +Guy's Mills. Ladies' H.M. Soc. of Cong. + Ch., 10; Mrs. F. Maria Guy, 2 12.00 + +Le Raysville. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Providence. Welsh Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Scranton. F.E. Nettleton 15.00 + +West Alexander. Mrs. Jane C. Davidson 100.00 + + +OHIO, $416.97. + +Chatham Center. Chatham Mission Band, 10; + Christian Endeavor Soc., 5; Mrs. W. Dyer, 1, + _for Reading Room_, _Tillotson Inst._ 16.00 + +Cleveland. Jennings Ave. Cong Ch. 25.00 + +Conneaut. Mrs. Jane Wright, + _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 5.00 + +Dover. Cong. Ch. 1.50 + +Farmdale. Isaac Newton, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 5.00 + +Hampden. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Harbor. Cong. Ch. 5.17 + +Medina. "Friends" 164.00 + +Mount Vernon. Mr. Murphy, _for Student Aid_, + _Fisk U._ 1.00 + +North Kingsville. "Friends," by Miss E.S. Cummings, + _for Student Aid_, _Emerson Inst._ 9.00 + +North Ridgeville. Cong. Ch. 8.05 + +North Ridgeville. Rev. J.P. Riedinger, + _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 3.00 + +Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., 22.50; Second + Cong. Ch. 22.50, for 100 Hymn Books, + _for Church_, _Austin, Texas_ 45.00 + +Oberlin. Mrs. Geo. Clark, 10; Mrs. L.G.B. Hills, 10 20.00 + +Olmstead. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Perrysburg. Rev. J.K. Deering 2.00 + +Ruggles. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Sheffield. M. Kinney, _for Austin, Texas_ 0.25 + +Wauseon. Ladies' H.M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., + Bbl. C. and House Supplies, _for Macon, Ga._ 25.50 + +Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Treasurer, + _for Woman's Work_: + + North Bloomfield. "Kings Daughters" of + Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_, + _Atlanta U._ 6.00 + + Washington. Womans' Miss'y Soc. of + Washington St. Ch. 8.00 + + West Williamsfield. "Willing Workers," + _for Mountain Work_ 5.00 + + W.H.M.U. of Ohio, + _for an Organ for Miss Collins_ 35.50 + + ------ 54.50 + + +ILLINOIS, $609.14. + +Danville. Mrs. Anna W. Snow 5.00 + + +Dover. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Concord. Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._ + +Chandlerville. Cong. Ch. 17.02 + +Chicago. Randolph St. Mission and "Friends," + _for Indian M._, 100; "Friends" + in First Cong. Ch. _for Indian M._, 75 175.00 + +Chicago. Leavitt St. Cong. Ch,; 33.24; + First Cong. Ch., 15.22. _for Sch'p Endowment_, + _Fisk U._ 48.46 + +Earlville. "J.A.D." 25.00 + +Elmwood. Cong. Ch. 27.00 + +Evanston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 62.23 + +Hinsdale. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Sch'p Endowment_, _Fisk U._ 25.00 + +Hyde Park. J.A. Cole's S.S. Class, 6; + Anna C. Arms' S.S. Class, 1.50, _for Student Aid_, + _Marion, Ala._ 7.50 + +Marseilles.----_for Reading Room_, + _Tillotson Inst._ 8.00 + +Peoria. Box of C., _for Mobile, Ala._ + +Princeton. Rev. F. Bascom, _for Freight to + Talladega, Ala._ 2.74 + +Princeton. Rev. F. Bascom, D.D., Bbl. of Books, + 2 _for Freight_, _for Tillotson Inst._ 2.00 + +Ridgeland. Cong Ch. 45.76 + +Sterling. First Cong. Ch. 43.00 + +Waverly. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 20.80 + +Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Treas., + _for Womans' Work_: + + Amboy 24.63 + + Elgin 10.00 + + Ill. W.H.M.U. 50.00 + + ------ 84.63 + + +MICHIGAN, $305.44. + +Armada. Cong. Ch. 31.13, and Sab. Sch, 3.06 37.19 + +Adrian. A.J. Hood, _for Tougaloo U._ 10.00 + +Bay City. Cong. Ch. 16.31 + +Benton Harbor. Cong. Ch. 8.63 + +Chelsea. Cong. Ch. 19.00 + +Galesburg. Cong. Ch. 9.06 + +Grass Lake. Cong. Ch. 13.54 + +Hudson. First Cong. Ch. 14.37 + +Kalamazoo. First Cong. Ch. 52.09 + +Milford. William A. Arms, to const. + HENRIETTA M. ARMS L.M. 30.00 + +Union City. Cong. Ch. 77.75 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Michigan, + by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Flint. Y.P.M.S. 5.00 + + Grand Blanc. W.M.S. 2.50 + + Portland. W.H.M.S. 10.00 + + ------ 17.50 + + +WISCONSIN, $331.80. + +Bristol and Paris. Y.P.S.C.E. 3.60 + +Clintonville. Cong. Soc. 6.41 + +Eau Claire. "Cheerful Givers Mission Band," + First Cong. Ch. 7.50 + +Hartland. Cong. Ch. 6.62 + +Janesville. Mrs. Little, _for Tillotson Inst._ 1.00 + +Lake Geneva. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 30.00 + +Leeds. Cong. Ch. 14.00 + +Menasha. E.D. Smith, 150; Cong. Ch., 17.84 167.84 + +Stoughton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 1.09 + +West Salem. Mrs. Sarah Hayes 2.50 + +Wisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union + _for Woman's Work_: + + Baraboo. W.H.M.S. 2.00 + + Bloomington. W.H.M.S. 2.00 + + Columbus. Cong. Ch. 18.16 + + Columbus. Sab. Sch. 5.00 + + Darlington. W.H.M.S. 1.50 + + Duluth, (Minn.) Mrs. Dewey 1.00 + + Eau Claire. Y.L.M.S. 15.00 + + Green Bay. Y.P.S.C.E. 3.50 + + Green Bay. Children's Missionary Soc. 0.46 + + Lancaster. W.H.M.S. 10.00 + + Madison. Primary Sab. Sch. 10.00 + + Milwaukee. Grand Ave., W.H.M.S. 20.00 + + Old Johnstown. S.S. 1.62 + + Potosi. Mrs. M.W. Corey 1.00 + + ------ 91.24 + + +IOWA, $186.21. + +Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 16.07 + +Charles City. Mrs. Nobles' S.S. Class, + _for Beach Inst._ 14.39 + +Clay. Cong. Ch. 6, and Sab. Sch. 2.94 8.94 + +Fairfield. William J. Seelye 25.00 + +Farragut. Cong. Ch. 20.75 + +Montour. Cong. Ch. 37.71 + +Postville. Cong. Ch. 20.86 + +Pleasant Prairie. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Washburn. Presb. Ch., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 8.00 + +Waterloo. Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work,_ 22.49; + Rev. M.K. Cross, 10 32.49 + + +MINNESOTA, $261.34. + +Alexandria. Cong. Ch. 5.81 + +Belgrade. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Duluth. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 90.50 + +Fergus Falls. Cong. Ch. 5.70 + +Litchfield. Four Ladies, _for Student Aid_, + _Meridian, Miss._ 20.50 + +Minneapolis. Park Ave. Cong. Ch., 16; + Vine Cong. Ch., 5.10 21.10 + +Minneapolis. "Cheerful Workers," + Bundle Basted Work., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Morris. Cong. Ch. 9.14 + +New Ulm. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Northfield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Talladega C._ 52.82 + +Saint Cloud. Cong. Ch. 6.45 + +Saint Paul. Mrs. C.C. Johnson's S.S. Class, + _for Student Aid_, _Talladega C._ 2.25 + +Sauk Center. Cong. Ch. 5.57 + +Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. 14.00 + +Stillwater. Grace Cong. Ch. 2.50 + +Waterville. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box Papers, + _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + + +MISSOURI, $70.00. + +Kansas City. First Cong. Ch. 70.00 + + +KANSAS, $28.80. + +Highland. Miss Annie Kloss, _for Student Aid_, _Fisk U._ 10.00 + +Kiowa. Rev. J.L. Halliday 11.00 + +Partridge. Harvest Home Festival. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.80 + +Topeka. First Cong. Ch., ad'l 1.00 + + +NORTH DAKOTA, $39.77. + +Dwight. Cong. Ch. 6.10 + +Fargo. First Cong. Ch., in part 12.92 + +Jamestown. Cong. Ch. 8.25 + +Valley City. Cong. Ch. 5.25 + +Wahpeton. Cong. Ch. 7.25 + + +SOUTH DAKOTA, $33.58. + +Rapid City. Cong. Ch., to const. + MRS. ALICE GOSSAGE L.M. 30.20 + +South Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Treas.: + + Yankton. W.M.S. 3.38 3.38 + + +NEBRASKA, $47.37. + +New Castle. Cong. Ch. 1.87 + +Nebraska Woman's Home Missionary Union + by Mrs. D.B. Ferry, Treas.: + + State Union 43.00 + + Dover 2.50 + + ------- 45.50 + + +COLORADO, $37.25. + +Colorado Springs. First Cong. Ch. 34.75 + +Denver. T.S. Spylen, _for Student Aid_, + _Tillotson Inst._ 2.50 + + +IDAHO, $3.00. + +Boise City. H.B. Ellinwood 3.00 + + +WASHINGTON, $10.00. + +Anacortes. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 10.00 + + +CALIFORNIA, $5.00. + +Murphys. Mrs. C.K. Sanger, _for Mountain Work_ 5.00 + + +MARYLAND, $15.00. + +Baltimore. Mrs. A.B. Woodford, _for Student Aid_, + _Fisk U._ 15.00 + + +KENTUCKY, $5.00. + +Lexington. "Friends," 3.50; Miss Etta Hitchcock, 75c; + Miss Mary Knox, 75c, by Prof. Foster 5.00 + + +NORTH CAROLINA. $28.44. + +Asheville. F.W. Van Wagener, _for Student Aid_, + _Talladega C._ 26.50 + +Dry Creek. Cong. Ch. 0.50 + +Pekin. Cong. Ch. 1.44 + + +GEORGIA, $1.00. + +Woodville. Rev. J.H.H. Sengetacke 1.00 + + +TEXAS, $5.00. + +Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + + +CANADA, $5.00. + +Montreal. Chas. Alexander 5.00 + + +SANDWICH ISLANDS, $5,005.00. + +"Sandwich Islands, A Friend." 5,000.00 + +Sandwich Islands, Mrs. Atherton 5.00 + + ========== + +Donations $20,600.26 + +Estates 1,275.10 + + ---------- + + $21,875.36 + + +INCOME, $3,036.15. + +Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 702.40 + +Brown Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ 21.00 + +DeForest Fund, _for President's Chair_, + _Talladega C._ 503.75 + +General Endowment Fund, _for Freedmen_ 30.00 + +Graves Library Fund, _for Atlanta U._ 150.00 + +Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._ 137.50 + +Hastings Sch'p Fund, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00 + +Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ 712.50 + +H.W. Lincoln Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ 30.00 + +Le Moyne Fund, _for Le Moyne Sch._ 257.50 + +Luke Memorial Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ 10.00 + +Rice Memorial Fund, _for Talladega C._ 11.25 + +Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._ 75.00 + +Stone Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Talladega Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Theological Fund, _for Fisk U._ 7.50 + +Tuthill King Fund, _for Berea C._ 125.00 + +Tuthill King Fund, _for Atlanta. U._ 125.00 + +Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._ 12.75 + + -------- 3036.15 + + +TUITION, $4,256.68. + +Lexington, Ky. Tuition 195.75 + +Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition 45.25 + +Chapel Hill, N.C. Tuition 4.52 + +Troy, N.C. Tuition 7.25 + +Wilmington, N.C. Tuition 239.25 + +Charleston, S.C. Tuition 238.12 + +Greenwood, S.C. Tuition 13.60 + +Jellico, Tenn. Tuition 101.50 + +Jonesboro, Tenn. County Fund 34.00 + +Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition 1.00 + +Memphis, Tenn. Tuition 540.75 + +Nashville, Tenn. Tuition 751.69 + +Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition 5.50 + +Sherwood. Tenn. Tuition 63.00 + +Savannah, Ga. Tuition 239.25 + +Macon, Ga. Tuition 375.72 + +Thomasville, Ga. Tuition 65.25 + +Athens, Ala. Tuition 89.25 + +Marion, Ala. Tuition 38.75 + +Mobile, Ala. Tuition 199.85 + +Selma, Ala. Tuition 93.90 + +Meridian, Miss, Tuition 65.00 + +Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition 304.00 + +New Orleans, La. Tuition 382.00 + +Austin, Texas. Tuition 173.53 + + -------- 4,256.68 + +United States Government for the Education of Indians 3,349.20 + + ---------- + +Total for November $32,517.39 + + ========== + + +SUMMARY. + +Donations $34,462.56 + +Estates 12,997.30 + + ---------- + + $47,459.86 + +Income 3,036.15 + +Tuition 4,722.69 + +United States Government for the Education of Indians 4,367.18 + + ---------- + +Total from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 $59,585.88 + + ========== + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +Subscriptions for November $35.90 + +Previously acknowledged 31.86 + + ------ + +Total $67.16 + + ====== + +H.W. 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