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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 6,
+June, 1890, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+
+Title: American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 6, June, 1890
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: June 11, 2005 [EBook #16036]
+
+Language: English
+
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Erika
+Q. Stokes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
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+
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+
+
+The American Missionary
+
+June, 1890.
+VOL. XLIV. NO. 6.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+EDITORIAL.
+
+  Removal
+
+  Dr. Storrs on the Negro Problem
+
+  Missionaries to Alaska
+
+  In a Nutshell
+
+  Higher Education of the Colored People
+
+  Spring Conferences
+
+  Mississippi Immigrants
+
+  Notes from New England
+
+  Music's Mission
+
+  Items
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+  Our School Work
+
+  Our Church Work
+
+  Revival at Wilmington, N.C.
+
+  Ballard School, Macon, Ga.
+
+  Dreary Picture of Place and People
+
+  Report from Mountain Schools
+
+  The King's Daughters Society
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+  Our S'kokomish Mission
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+  Jottings
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+  Paragraphs--State Missionary Unions
+
+
+OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
+
+  Letter from a Teacher
+
+  Woman's State Organizations
+
+
+RECEIPTS.
+
+
+
+
+NEW YORK:
+
+Published By The American Missionary Association
+
+Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.
+
+
+Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.
+
+Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.
+
+
+
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+President, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.
+
+_Vice-Presidents._
+  Rev. A.J.F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y.
+  Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass.
+  Rev. F.A. Noble, D.D., Ill.
+  Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass.
+  Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.
+
+_Corresponding Secretaries._
+  Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._
+  Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._
+  Rev. F.P. Woodbury, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._
+
+_Recording Secretary._
+  Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._
+
+_Treasurer._
+  H.W. Hubbard, Esq., _Bible House, N.Y._
+
+_Auditors._
+  Peter McCartee.
+  Chas. P. Peirce.
+
+_Executive Committee._
+  John H. Washburn, Chairman.
+  Addison P. Foster, Secretary.
+
+  _For Three Years._
+    S.B. Halliday,
+    Samuel Holmes,
+    Samuel S. Marples,
+    Charles L. Mead,
+    Elbert B. Monroe.
+
+  _For Two Years._
+    J.E. Rankin,
+    Wm. H. Ward,
+    J.W. Cooper,
+    John H. Washburn,
+    Edmund L. Champlin.
+
+  _For One Year._
+    Lyman Abbott,
+    Chas. A. Hull,
+    Clinton B. Fisk,
+    Addison P. Foster,
+    Albert J. Lyman.
+
+_District Secretaries._
+  Rev. C.J. Ryder, _21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._
+  Rev. J.E. Roy, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill._
+  Rev. C.W. Hiatt, _64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio._
+
+_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._
+  Rev. Chas. W. Shelton.
+
+_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._
+  Miss D.E. Emerson, _Bible House, N.Y._
+
+
+COMMUNICATIONS
+
+Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the
+Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the
+Treasurer.
+
+
+DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
+
+In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent
+to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York, or, when more
+convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House,
+Boston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., or 64 Euclid Ave.,
+Cleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.
+
+
+NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the "address label," indicates the
+time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on
+label to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made
+afterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send
+early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address
+and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers
+may be correctly mailed.
+
+
+FORM OF A BEQUEST.
+
+"I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person who,
+when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American
+Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the
+direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its
+charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by three
+witnesses.
+
+
+
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+  Vol. XLIV.
+  June, 1890.
+  No. 6.
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REMOVAL.
+
+
+The Rooms of the American Missionary Association are now in the Bible
+House, New York City. Correspondents will please address us accordingly.
+
+Visitors will find our Rooms on the sixth floor of the Bible House,
+corner Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue; entrance by elevator on Ninth
+Street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DR. STORRS, ON THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
+
+
+Not long since Rev. R.S. Storrs, D.D., preached a sermon in his own
+pulpit, presenting the claims of the American Missionary Association for
+the annual collection in its behalf from the Church of the Pilgrims,
+Brooklyn, N.Y. This sermon appeared in print in one of the daily papers,
+and attracted the attention of a benevolent gentleman deeply interested in
+the Christian education of the colored people, who was so impressed with
+the great value of the address, that he has furnished the Association with
+the means to print a large edition for general circulation. This we have
+done, and we presume that already, many of our readers have had the
+opportunity of reading this eminently wise and timely utterance on one of
+America's greatest problems. Should any one desire an extra copy, we will
+gladly furnish it on application.
+
+Although the discourse has had large circulation, we cannot resist the
+temptation to extract a few of its forcible utterances on some very
+important points.
+
+     Permanent popular liberties have their only sure foundation in
+     sound moral conditions practically universal. We must secure
+     these among those to whom we have given the ballot, and who are
+     to be henceforth citizens with ourselves. Otherwise, we are
+     building our splendid political house on the edges of the
+     pestilential swamp from which fatal miasmatic odors are rising
+     all the time. Yes, we are building our house on piles driven into
+     the thick ooze and mud of the pestilential swamp itself. We are
+     building our cities, which we think are so splendid, and which
+     are so in fact, as men built Herculaneum and Pompeii, on a shore
+     which ever and anon trembled with earthquake, over which was hung
+     the black flag of Vesuvius, and down upon which rolled, in time,
+     the lava floods that burned and buried them.
+
+     We have got to meet this immense problem, which is not far off,
+     but right at hand; which is not a problem of theory, or of
+     distant history, but of practice and fact; and which concerns
+     not the well-being alone, but the very life of the nation. Noble
+     men and women at the South are engaged in it already, with all
+     their hearts; and we must help, mightily! It would be the
+     craziest folly of the age for us to be indifferent to it.
+
+     Some men may say, perhaps, "But this is a work that cannot be
+     done. It is too radical and vast to be hopefully attempted."
+     Nonsense! There is no work for the kingdom of God and the glory
+     of His name, which cannot be done! With the Gospel in our hand,
+     we can do everything.
+
+     There has been a good beginning made already. This Society, to
+     which we are to contribute to-day, the American Missionary
+     Association, has four established colleges, three of which are
+     entirely supported by itself, have been founded by it and are
+     carried on by it; and the fourth very largely so. It has
+     multitudes of high schools, normal schools and primary schools.
+
+     First of all, we want men trained, and women too, in the
+     knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ, and then to have them
+     teaching others. And that is precisely the line along which the
+     Society to which we are to contribute to-day, as we have done
+     gladly and largely heretofore, is carrying its incessant
+     operation.
+
+     Now I affirm absolutely that if ever there was a work of God on
+     earth, this is his work! If there was ever anything to which the
+     American Christian people are called, they are called to this. If
+     there was ever a great opportunity before the Christian church,
+     here it is.
+
+     Ah, my friends, don't say "It is too great a work." It is going
+     to be done! You and I may do or may not do our part in it. It is
+     going to be done!
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISSIONARIES TO ALASKA.
+
+
+As announced in the last number of the MISSIONARY, we have appointed
+two men as missionary teachers for the new station to be opened at
+Point Prince of Wales, Alaska. The names of these brethren are H.R.
+Thornton, of Hampden Sydney, Virginia, and W.T. Lopp, of Valley City,
+Indiana. The credentials furnished by these young men are very
+satisfactory, and they enter upon the field with the full realization
+of its difficulties and even dangers, and yet, cheerfully trusting
+themselves to the hand of God, are ready to go forward with undaunted
+faith. We bespeak for them the prayers of God's people. It is expected
+that they will leave home about the middle of May and sail from San
+Francisco June 1st. Dr. Sheldon Jackson and Dr. Pond will aid them in
+providing materials for the building and the necessary outfit. They
+will, therefore, be well provided for, though long months must elapse
+before they can again have communication with the civilized world.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+IN A NUTSHELL.
+
+_WHICH IS THE WISER WAY?_
+
+
+There are some people who seem to see only the ignorance and vice of
+the Negro, and the inveterate race-prejudice against him; or at least
+they appear to be so occupied in dilating upon these hindrances that
+they have no time to devote to their removal, and, so far as their
+influence goes, they discourage others from doing anything.
+
+On the other hand there are those who, while they see all these
+difficulties, only find in them the strongest incentives to the most
+earnest efforts to relieve the Negro from them. Which of these two
+classes is the wiser?
+
+Some persons propose as the solution of the race problem,
+disfranchisement; and they point to the bad legislation of the blacks
+in South Carolina and Louisiana a quarter of a century ago, when
+scarcely any of them could read, and almost none owned property. On the
+other hand, there are those that are industriously trying to educate
+the blacks and inspiring them to the acquisition of property, and not
+in vain. More than two millions of the blacks can now read, and more
+than two hundred million dollars' worth of property is now owned by
+them. They are thus being prepared to vote wisely.
+
+Which of these two classes of persons is solving this problem to the
+best purpose?
+
+There are other persons, in Congress and out, urging the deportation of
+the blacks to Africa, a thing impossible to be done, and, if possible,
+it would be harmful to those that were sent, as well as useless to
+benighted Africa. On the other hand, there are those who are training
+the colored people of this country in education, industrial habits and
+stable Christian character, thus preparing them as missionaries to
+Africa.
+
+Which of these two classes has the wiser theory?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HIGHER EDUCATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE.
+
+
+The eagerness of our colored population for education is strikingly
+shown in the reports given on another page from our institutions in the
+South--reports of over-crowded rooms, and students dismissed by scores,
+and even hundreds, for want of accommodations.
+
+We call special attention to the report from Fisk University, in
+reference to the higher grades of education. It will be seen that, even
+in that place, a relatively small number are in the higher classes, and
+yet there is a sufficient number of these to indicate that some of the
+pupils are seeking what is absolutely essential to the race, to wit,
+that some should have the best education attainable.
+
+While it is true of this race as of all others, that the masses can
+receive only primary training in letters and in industry, there must be
+some of their number who can be leaders in thought and influence. No
+race can make progress without such leaders, who can command the line
+of march. There must be the inspiration that comes from the success of
+the leaders. Hooker's men did not ascend Lookout Mountain in a steady
+line. There were some far ahead of others, cheering and encouraging
+those following at greater or less distances, till at length the whole
+array stood on the brow, and thus won their position.
+
+The warfare is different, but human nature is the same. The Negroes are
+no more of equal capacity than white men, and there is just the same
+call for differences in their attainments in scholarship and in general
+influence. And if those advanced in scholarship shall have Christian
+character as well as education, it will render their leadership all the
+more safe for their people and the nation.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SPRING CONFERENCES AND CHURCH WORK.
+
+
+Five of our Conferences in the South have held their spring meetings.
+The reports we have had from them indicate that they were of unusual
+interest. Almost without exception they are pronounced to have been
+the best ever held. The high character of the sermons, addresses and
+discussions shows that these ministers are fit leaders of the people.
+Their reports of the progress of the work among the churches is
+encouraging. On another page of the MISSIONARY will be found some brief
+sketches of revival scenes and of individual experience and effort.
+This branch of the work of the Association deserves and will receive
+increased attention and assistance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISSISSIPPI IMMIGRANTS.
+
+
+We alluded in a recent number of the MISSIONARY to the attractive
+advertisements of railroad and immigrant companies in the South, and we
+expressed the fear that many colored people might find the change to be
+disappointing. But the process goes on, and the rich bottom-lands in
+the State of Mississippi are attracting many hundreds and thousands of
+new settlers. Perhaps there is no better place to which they can go,
+for there are no better lands in the South. The great point is whether
+these people shall be herded together in rude homes, tilling the soil
+without skill, and rearing their children in ignorance and vice. It is
+the part of Christian wisdom and the duty of the Christian churches of
+this land to see that the people in this densely-packed and fertile
+region shall be promptly met with the means of Christian education. Our
+school at Tougaloo should be enabled to meet in some degree the
+opportunity it has to prepare and furnish preachers and teachers for
+this growing population; and schools and churches should be multiplied
+to meet the emergency.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.
+
+BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.
+
+
+Nothing stimulates to good deeds more effectively than good deeds
+themselves. I copy the following notice, which was circulated on a
+neatly printed sheet among the members of a certain church in Boston:
+
+     The "Felice" circle of "King's Daughters" will hold a sale for
+     the benefit of the Williamsburg Academy, established for the
+     education of the "Mountain Whites" in Kentucky, on Friday,
+     March 21, from 8 to 10 P.M., and on Saturday, March 22, from 3
+     to 10 P.M., at Miss Maxwell's, 37 Allen Street, Boston.
+     Admission 10 cents.
+
+The enthusiastic leader of this circle of "King's Daughters" thought
+that possibly she might raise $30 and so constitute one of their number
+a Life Member of the American Missionary Association. Imagine our
+surprise and delight when, as the result of this effort, $125 were
+brought in, as their splendid offering to this work!
+
+Take another fact of unusual interest in the religious life in New
+England. Five leading pastors here in Boston chose a particular
+Sabbath, upon which they would each preach upon the Negro Problem.
+Several sermons were reported at length in our daily journals, and
+aroused much interest and comment. One found its way down into the
+South, and was commented upon by a Southern editor in true Southern
+style. Hard words were used with the recklessness that characterizes
+Southern editors, and often Northern as well. The funny thing about it
+was, that two gentlemen of the same name, who are both ministers and
+reside in Boston, were confused in this comment. The one, who had
+recently been South, but who did not preach the sermon, was read a
+severe lecture, because after partaking of the hospitality of the
+Southern people, he had spoken in so severe terms of them. It was an
+amusing blunder, but illustrates the fact that more and more even the
+Southern editor is coming to feel the importance of Northern criticism.
+It is a very hopeful sign. It is sometimes said that time will settle
+these monstrous inequalities that prevail in the South, but time never
+settles anything. Mischievous forces only increase in power, the longer
+they are permitted to operate. There must be set in operation
+beneficent forces, in order to make the element of time useful.
+Agitation is needed, patriotic, prayerful agitation, and such united
+effort as was made in these Boston pulpits, helps in this agitation.
+
+The new book which comes from the pen of G.W. Cable, under the title
+of "The Negro Question," puts old truth in a new dress, and renders it
+more attractive and presentable. If any man has the right to write
+upon this "Negro Question," it is Mr. Cable. If I had to prepare a
+liturgy for the Congregational churches, I would put in it the
+following petition: "From the superficial views and misleading
+statements of tourists through the South, or those who reside in a
+single locality, good Lord, deliver us!" Mr. Cable is not of either of
+these classes. He speaks from an intimate acquaintance with, and a
+long residence in, the South; better than this, he is familiar with
+the whole territory, and not with a single locality simply. This
+little book ought to be in the hands of every conscientious student of
+this Southern problem. Take a single quotation:
+
+"To be governed merely by instincts is pure savagery. All civilization
+is the result of subordinating instinct to reason, and to the
+necessities of peace, amity and righteousness. To surrender to
+instinct, would destroy all civilization in three days. If, then, the
+color-line is the result of natural instincts, the commonest daily
+needs of the merest civilization require that we should ask ourselves,
+is it better or worse to repress or cherish this instinct, and this
+color-line?" There are forces at work, regenerative and ennobling, that
+will lead the Southern white people to be ashamed of their attitude
+toward the Negroes, and not the least of these are the life and works
+of Mr. Cable.
+
+A letter came into my hand, when I was in the South, which is not only
+a commentary, but also throws a ray of sunlight where there is much
+darkness. It was a letter from an old mistress to her former slave. He
+is now a successful business man in Chattanooga. This earnest,
+Christian woman, rising above her prejudices, wrote her former slave a
+cordial invitation to visit her in her home. Her husband, his old
+master, had died in the Confederate service. She had seen her servants
+taken away from her through the success of the Union armies. Her
+property had been depleted, and her fertile plantation overrun by the
+loyal troops. It must have been with great sadness and a bitter heart,
+that she looked out upon this ruin, wrought as she believed, throughout
+the invading of the sacred soil of Virginia. But in these years that
+have passed, this bitterness has largely gone, and this sweet,
+Christian letter comes to her former slave. The ex-slave told me with
+tears in his eyes that he paid her this visit, and that she welcomed
+him, not to the Negro quarters, nor to the kitchen-chamber, but to her
+best guest-chamber, and said: "I want you to feel that you are welcome
+to the best hospitality of my home." "And she treated me almost as
+tenderly as she would one of her own sons," said the colored man. And
+so light is coming, little by little.
+
+Dr. Haygood expresses a regret that the white women of the South are so
+slow to appreciate the importance of the moral elevation of the
+Negroes, and so slow to join hands with their Northern sisters in his
+education. But such facts as this kind, Christian letter furnishes,
+lead us to hope and to believe that better times are coming, and that
+the Southern Christians, interested as they are in the Negro in Africa,
+will, little by little, appreciate and minister more and more to the
+terrible need of the Negro in South Carolina and Alabama.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MUSIC'S MISSION.
+
+BY REV. E.N. ANDREWS, HARTFORD, WIS.
+
+
+Suggested by the following words by Rev. B.A. Imes in the May
+MISSIONARY:
+
+     "The Mozart Society at Fisk treated us to an excellent
+     rendering of Haydn's great oratorio, 'The Creation.' Many came
+     over from the city (Nashville),--whites from the "best
+     families," all crowding in, listening, wondering, enjoying!
+     How the music of those well-tuned instruments and voices
+     caught us up and carried us away! Color-line melted and faded
+     out. How we wished the politicians all might have been brought
+     under that magic spell of solos and choruses!"
+
+
+          O Music, with thy wand celestial, touch
+          The hearts of men, and by thy alchemy
+          Divine, resolve, remelt, aye, e'en recast
+          The thought and very being! Selfish man,
+          So filled with prejudice and hate hath need,
+          O heavenly messenger, of all thy aid.
+
+          And as thy votaries in anthems sing
+          With the immortal Haydn, and do praise
+          Creative Wisdom, Who, of one blood made
+          All Nations for to dwell on earth in love,
+          Then let celestial fires descend and burn
+          Complete, the offering of the lips, and purge
+          The dross of caste and hate from every soul!
+
+          This do, for Satan hath his spectrum set
+          Before the door of human hearts and cast
+          Upon the screen the separated lines
+          Of black and red and yellow--white forsooth,
+          While these should mingle in that glorious Sun
+          That shines alike on all, impartially.
+
+          Then come, O Music, re-resolve the lines,
+          These color-lines, and let the sun's pure ray
+          Beam forth in unobstructed light and love,
+          Transmuting, by his touch, these human hearts,
+          Till they shall mirror forth the Golden Rule.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ITEMS.
+
+
+Everywhere the colored contestants in Civil Service examinations
+succeed admirably in their work. In March just past, there was a
+competitive examination held in the Custom House at Newark, N.J., for
+clerkships. Out of forty-three contestants, Mr. J.N. Vandewall, a well
+known young colored man, stood No. 1, 96 per cent. There was only one
+other colored contestant, Mr. G.W. Harris. He stood fifth, with an
+average of 86 per cent.
+
+Mr. A.C. Garner, our colored representative in the Chicago Theological
+Seminary, passed an excellent examination last week, and received
+praise not only from his Professors but from his student friends as
+well. Out of a class of forty, he was one of seven chosen by the
+Professor of Elocution to represent the class in oratory at the closing
+exercises held last week.
+
+During the recent illness of one of our teachers in the South, the
+pastor of the Church called every Sunday for volunteers as watchers
+during the week. There was always a ready response from the church
+members. The teacher relates that before leaving him in the morning,
+these watchers would almost invariably kneel down by his bedside and
+offer up earnest, fervent prayers for his recovery. He was impressed
+with the simple faith and trust in God of these colored Christians,
+their belief in prayer and the contrast between them and an equal
+number of white brethren under the same circumstances.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+
+OUR SCHOOL WORK.
+
+PROGRESS--OVER-CROWDING.
+
+
+From Wilmington, N.C.--Instead of sixty pupils as a year or two ago,
+we now have over ninety, and next year the number will be fully one
+hundred or more, if we have room. The classes are very large.
+
+From Grand View, Tenn.--The classes are full and the accommodations
+inadequate. The school numbers one hundred and eleven. It is necessary
+to crowd four boys into each room of the Boys' Hall. Four boys are
+boarding themselves in a shackly log building at the foot of the hill.
+Their grit is admirable.
+
+From Tougaloo, Miss.--Both the dormitories are crowded. The Ladies'
+Hall is supposed to accommodate seventy-five girls. One hundred and six
+are crowded into it to-day. We have turned away nearly one hundred more
+because we had not room for them. Every indication is that the crowd of
+applicants will be greater next year than ever. Already applications
+are coming in. The American Missionary Association has the lead in
+Mississippi to-day.
+
+From Marion, Ala.--We need another grade established. Our primary has
+numbered nearly or quite one hundred pupils. The average attendance has
+been large and the school-room over-crowded. Three grades are now
+virtually working in the primary department. We may look for a large
+increase of attendance in all grades next year.
+
+From Florence, Ala.--We need a building if the school is to be
+continued. We are now inconveniently crowded, one hundred and sixty
+children in a 20 x 40 room, with all the teaching to be done in the same.
+To fail in giving us a building will certainly narrow our usefulness in
+this field. Our school is constantly increasing in popularity. We can
+safely count on an enrollment of over two hundred next year, with
+someplace to accommodate them.
+
+From Meridian, Miss.--The work of the school is hindered by lack of
+room. We have enrolled this year two hundred and thirty two pupils, and
+many have been turned off because we could not seat them. We opened in
+December of 1888 with twenty-eight pupils. A school for more advanced
+pupils is needed in this part of Mississippi. We have thirty young
+people in school who come from the five adjoining counties. They are
+boarding in good families and I have every reason to believe that they
+have used their time and opportunities well; most of them are this
+summer to teach.
+
+From Straight University, N.O.--It has been a golden year for Straight
+University. Financially it has been our best year. A larger proportion
+of students able to pay came to us. We want to grow, and have every
+opportunity to do so save that our quarters are too small. We have
+turned away during the year probably two hundred applicants, many of
+them for the boarding department. We have had to put cots in nearly all
+the rooms, packing them too full for comfort, as it was very hard to
+say No! to young people who came hundreds of miles and begged tearfully
+for admission. The school has grown during the last eight years from
+two hundred to six hundred, and only is not one thousand because we had
+no room for them. Our graduates are filling important positions all
+over the South. Several are Superintendents in Texas, Kansas,
+Mississippi and Louisiana. One holds an important office in Honduras;
+others are doing good work in Cuba and Mexico. Eight are filling
+important positions in this city. We have no trouble in getting
+positions for our young people. Indeed, we cannot supply as fast as
+demanded. Often as many as twenty are called for when we have none to
+send.
+
+From Fisk University, Nashville.--The evidence of progress in the
+educational department of the University is found in the very marked
+increase of numbers in the first year of our normal course and of our
+college preparatory department. Last year there were fifteen in the
+first year of the latter department; this year there are thirty-one.
+Last year there were thirteen in the first year of the normal
+department; this year there are thirty-one. Last year there were in the
+normal, college, preparatory and college departments, one hundred and
+forty-five students; this year there are one hundred and seventy-six.
+At the coming Commencement, we expect to graduate twelve young men, and
+from the normal ten young women and one young man; making a total of
+twenty-three. This is a little more than one-sixth of the entire number
+of present graduates from these departments.
+
+From a Teacher in the Tennessee Mountains:--Let me tell you of the
+general interest manifest in several of the counties west and north of
+us in attending this school. One of our students visited many cabins
+over the mountains during his vacation, and found that school
+advantages were very scarce and poor. He found poverty and ignorance of
+the world and of books. Some of the people are still using the old-time
+method of kindling their fires by flint and steel instead of matches.
+He met many young people who were thirsting for books and schools, also
+numbers who had struggled up through the darkness to become teachers in
+the neighborhoods. These almost invariably wish to come to our school,
+and say they shall be here as soon as their schools close. Many are too
+poor to come. This is true of a large number of young girls, who would
+come if they could work for their board or in any possible way pay for
+it. Whoever will provide funds to meet the expenses of these neglected
+girls, and place them at our school, and prepare them for the future
+duties of life, will be doing an angelic work, and in the end will do
+the greatest good that can be done to this people. Very much of the
+money spent for this mountain people will be the same as thrown away,
+if this effort is not made to educate the girls.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OUR CHURCH WORK.
+
+
+A letter from Rev. F.R. Sims of the Medway Congregational Church,
+McIntosh, Ga., reports that seventy persons have been added to that
+church on confession of faith, within the last four months.
+
+From Knoxville, Tenn.:--Our attendance at preaching services has been
+large and attentive. On the second Sabbath of March the members and
+friends made special efforts for collection and raised $30. There has
+been a happy increase in the Sunday-school and the prayer meetings.
+
+From Dudley, North Carolina;--It gives me much pleasure to write you
+that the Lord has abundantly blessed us in our work at this point.
+
+For three weeks a revival, with much success, has been going on in my
+church, the Lord has been with us disturbing the slumber of the
+sleeping Christians and bringing sinners unto repentance. We have ten
+converts and ten more seeking the Lord. We are all very much encouraged
+and are now looking forward for a brighter and more encouraging future.
+
+From Macon, Ga.--At our last communion we baptized and received four
+into our fellowship on confession of faith. They were all young people
+who are in school and full of promise. Others are expected to unite
+with us next month. There have been seventeen additions to the church
+in the last eleven months. There has been some real progress made by
+the church in all directions. I find in our church meetings a much more
+gentle spirit between the members than when I first came here, and I
+feel that this outward improvement is due to inward spiritual growth. I
+can see this growth in the prayers and testimonies of the weekly prayer
+meetings.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REVIVAL AT WILMINGTON, N.C.
+
+PROFESSOR GEORGE A. WOODARD.
+
+
+The revival which took place in this church the latter part of the
+winter was, in some respects, a model one.
+
+At the close of one of the Wednesday evening prayer meetings, our
+pastor spoke to us with the view of ascertaining if the church were
+ready for special work; then he appointed another prayer meeting for
+Friday night. With faith, and resting upon the promises of God, the
+work was begun the next week. At first the attendance was small; but,
+as the meetings continued, the interest increased, and it became
+necessary to move into the large hall of the school.
+
+It was evident throughout that God was in the work and that the Holy
+Spirit was striving mightily with sinners. A deep, quiet emotion
+pervaded the meetings, in strong contrast with the revivals held in
+many of the colored churches of the city, where the excitement becomes
+intense, and the confusion great. Their meetings are often continued
+until long after midnight, in a crowded, unventilated room, whereas
+ours never closed later than ten o'clock.
+
+As a result of our revival, although other revivals were going on
+amongst the colored people at the same time, upwards of forty were born
+into the Kingdom, for some of whom, many, many prayers had been offered
+up; and all was done in answer to prayer. Among these were several
+cases of interest, two of which I will mention. One is that of an
+intelligent young man employed by the leading dentist of the city, for
+whom he does the mechanical work, which previously had to be sent
+North. Although of excellent character, he was a skeptic, reading the
+writings of Ingersoll, Paine, and others. For years, our teachers had
+taken a special interest in him laboring with him and praying for him,
+that he might come into the light He was induced to attend these
+meetings, and was finally led to believe that these things are so and
+to accept of the Saviour. He has gone earnestly to work to bring in
+other young men, teaches in the Sunday-school and is ready for any
+Christian work.
+
+The other is that of a brawny brick mason, a great sinner, who, while
+earning excellent wages, often failed to bring home sufficient to feed
+and clothe his children; and when remonstrated with by his wife, would
+answer; "They are your children, you take care of them." All is changed
+now. He gets up early Sunday mornings, assists in getting the children
+ready for church, where the family, all neatly dressed, can be seen
+regularly every Sunday; and in the prayer meeting his voice is usually
+heard.
+
+As a further result of this revival, the church has been greatly
+quickened, the members have been brought closer together in brotherly
+love, and God has given a fresh outpouring of his spirit.
+
+On Easter morning, when a special communion service was held,
+twenty-nine of the new converts were received into our church, amidst
+the most touching and impressive services. But the revival has not
+stopped with the special meetings. After every Sunday evening service,
+an after-meeting has been held, in which several have been led to give
+their hearts to God. All of these meetings have been marked by the
+earnestness with which the church has labored for the salvation of
+those who were yet without, and more fervent prayers never ascended to
+the throne of grace.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FACTS ABOUT BALLARD SCHOOL, MACON, GA.
+
+
+The opening of the New Year saw manifestations of the Holy Spirit in
+our midst, and during the week of prayer there appeared to be a deep
+interest among the pupils. Our prayers seemed to take a new meaning,
+and we felt that they were about to be answered.
+
+Nothing but God's Spirit could have laid the burden of souls upon so
+many hearts at once, or have bidden us speak to different ones, while
+our movements were almost unknown to one another.
+
+In the meetings that were held in the different rooms, and those
+conducted in the High School, which were attended by some of the pupils
+from other grades, a large number expressed a desire to become
+Christians; and there were about sixty who gave their hearts to Christ.
+We rejoice greatly over the work of the Spirit, and have the assurance
+that "there is joy in the presence of the angels of God."
+
+The study of the Bible is an important feature in the school work. One
+hour each week is set apart for it. A visitor, passing from the lower
+grades up, on Friday afternoon, would find Bible work going on in every
+room. The work of the little ones is largely memorizing. The older ones
+have a systematic course. The outlines of Bible history are first
+carefully studied, then the more important events and characters in
+detail. Work in map-drawing is done in connection with all the lessons.
+
+A short time ago, a middle-aged woman applied for admission to our
+school. She had been teaching for several years, but wanted to prepare
+herself for the teachers' examination by taking a short course of
+study. She was permitted to try the sixth grade examination and failed;
+then the fifth with like results; finally she was placed in the fourth
+grade, where it was discovered that she did not know the multiplication
+tables, and evidently had never heard of division. Her knowledge of
+spelling would not exceed that of an average third grade pupil, and she
+is called one of the best colored teachers in the county from which she
+came.
+
+In the Industrial Department nearly two hundred and fifty girls sew
+from a half hour to an hour every day. Excellent work is being done and
+they are very much interested, some of them begging for the privilege
+of sewing at other times than those designated for that purpose. The
+industrial teacher finds difficulty in keeping the supply of work equal
+to the demand.
+
+Friends have kindly sent us donations of work, and much more will be
+acceptable. Sheets, pillow cases, underclothing or patchwork, basted
+ready for sewing, will be very thankfully received. The work in the
+sewing classes includes patchwork, the making of dresses, all kinds of
+other garments, and quilting.--_From the Ballard Record._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A DREARY PICTURE OF PLACE AND PEOPLE.
+
+BY AN A.M.A. WORKER.
+
+
+The country is low and flat, with here and there a small elevation on
+which is a house or log cabin. For miles and miles the country is
+dreary and monotonous. The swamps have a funereal aspect as one looks
+upon the live-oak and cypress, hung with long Spanish moss swaying to
+and fro in the gentle breeze.
+
+Back in these pine woods are hundreds who have never seen the railroad,
+a boat, carriage, or even a mail-bag. Sometimes a few will go to the
+little obscure station on Saturdays and stand gazing at the train as it
+goes thundering by, and many comical remarks are made, as: "Dat am de
+train 'pon which no darkies nor crackers kin ride; dat am all de heben
+dat dem buckra want and am gwine ter git."
+
+Most of the people own their homes, which are poorly constructed of
+pine poles with clapboards to cover the cracks, through which the
+dampness and cold winds make it uncomfortable for the occupants, who
+are seated before a clay chimney and a great lightwood fire. Very few
+of the houses have any windows. A lightwood torch furnishes the light
+by day and by night. Some of them are improving each year, but the most
+of them are satisfied with a roof, and a few acres under cultivation.
+
+The country people seem to be naturally religious, as they are all
+church members, are so from childhood, and are great believers in the
+"sperit," which must be the evil one. They are not denominational in
+the sense in which enlightened people are. The church which allows the
+greatest number of privileges, and the minister who will just be
+preacher and make the most noise and have the greatest number of "big
+meetings," are the most popular. They have a burial service, and
+several months or a year after, they have a funeral service, which is
+always a big time.
+
+Cæsar is considered the best preacher that has ever been in ----. He
+comes once a month, and cannot read a chapter; "nor need you expect me
+to get the one-thousandth part of the ingrejience out of this text," is
+his introduction to every sermon, but he can get up steam enough to be
+heard half a mile. One of the preachers wanting to be known as a
+licentiate, said in meeting: "I want you to know that I am a licentious
+preacher,"--which is the truth.
+
+Our work has done an amount of good, even among those outside, and our
+schools and the two churches have done more good in the country than
+all other work combined. The recent fanaticism in the county did not
+get one believer from our church.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REPORT FROM MOUNTAIN SCHOOLS.
+
+
+Our year's work is rapidly drawing to an end. The older scholars are
+doing well and are remaining with us through the year. They certainly
+are gaining in this direction. They become very restless as soon as it
+is "put in crap time." They sigh for the fields and "shovel plow," and
+often look from the school-room windows with a longing for the log
+cabin and the ground surrounding it. In many cases we have to be
+_very_ persuasive to have them remain, yet they seem thankful for
+the advice and remain. The older scholars seem to manifest an earnest
+ambition to obtain situations through the summer, so that they may
+procure clothing and help pay their tuition. We try as far as possible
+to obtain situations for our girls. The better class of the people will
+come to us for help, feeling that our girls have been educated in the
+home and kitchen.
+
+In our temperance meeting last Friday, I asked the question, "What
+would you do if you were forced to take whiskey?" A little girl rose
+and said, "My father asked me to take some and said 'you must.' I said,
+'I can't. God would not be pleased.' He said, 'Well, I 'lows how you're
+'bout right." What a happy girl she was. She knows if she will keep on
+refusing, he will give up strong drink. Our greatest hope is in the
+children.
+
+A poor woman had some articles of clothing to take home with her. I
+offered to wrap her parcel in newspaper. She said, "If you don't care,
+I would like to have that ar paper." She never has a piece except what
+is given her by some kind person. She utterly refused to have the
+parcel wrapped. The people use the papers to keep the cold out. I have
+seen pieces of paper four inches square and parts of letters pasted on
+the boards. We save all the papers we receive, and have assisted in
+making many poor homes comfortable.
+
+There is a good Sunday-school in a neighboring town. The people listen
+very attentively, and seem to be thankful for the Sunday-school and
+church services. The average attendance for the last five Sundays has
+been forty-two. The thought of leaving this school during the summer is
+a _cross_. There are fathers and mothers who are present every
+Sabbath. The children show the need of a good school.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FROM MISS M.A. BYE.
+
+
+Our Christian Endeavor Society interests me very much, as I have given
+more time and thought to that than to anything else outside of school
+work. It has increased in numbers, and the members have for the most
+part gained a great deal in interest and courage, and this term quite
+a number of associate members have become Christians. We are working
+now to send a delegate to the St. Louis Convention, and I anticipate
+great pleasure in watching the effect upon our delegate of the
+enthusiasm of the Convention and the sight of the city, and think it
+will be worth the year's work to be with him, for we hope to send one
+of the boarding boys.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE KING'S DAUGHTERS SOCIETY.
+
+
+About a year ago, ten or fifteen girls might have been seen sitting in
+their teacher's room, at Tougaloo University, while she spoke to them
+of forming a society. The members of this society, she said, were to do
+all the good they could in every way they could.
+
+Now, of course, we want a name for our society. If we are going to do
+all the good we can, we are worthy to be called followers of Christ,
+and as he is a King, we call ourselves "King's Daughters." When our
+society began, we had but eight or ten members, but at almost every
+meeting there was some one who wanted to join. The meetings were
+carried on every Sunday evening, and some one of the members was
+appointed to lead the next meeting. During the week we try in every way
+to do something definite to please our King; to go to no place in which
+we would be ashamed to have our King see us, and to keep no company
+with which we would be ashamed to have him see us. Our society
+continued to grow and prosper, and finally the young men concluded to
+organize a King's Sons Society. During the summer the two societies
+held joint meetings. New members were continually joining. As the
+meetings were new to us when we first began, they were not as
+interesting as they grew to be at a later date; but generally the time
+was all occupied. Some one would read a portion of Scripture and offer
+prayer, after which a story would be read or told by one of the
+members, who had prepared it during the week. Then we would tell how we
+had kept our pledge, or in what way we had been helped by being King's
+Daughters. Sometimes, when we had broken our pledge, we would leave off
+our badge for a week.
+
+The first Sunday in every month we have what we call our consecration
+meeting. The President calls the roll and each one answers by giving a
+verse of Scripture, or her experience as a King's Daughter. The third
+Sunday in every month we elect the officers who are to serve during the
+next month. These consist of President, Vice-President, Secretary, a
+sick committee, whose business it is to visit and help any who are
+sick, and a committee on invitation, whose business it is to find out
+who would like to join our society. They report the names at the next
+meeting. Sometimes we have a question-box into which we put questions
+regarding the society. These are written on small slips of paper and
+read by one of the members. If they are directed to a particular one,
+that person answers them; but if not, any one in the Society answers
+them.
+
+During the school year of 1888, we made a box of clothing to send to
+the Indian mission school in Dakota. We would meet every Saturday
+evening and sew until we had made enough to fill our box. Whenever one
+of us finished a piece we would write our name and pin it on. One of
+our girls wanted to sew a little on every article, so as to have her
+name on all of them. Well, when we had finished our box of presents, we
+each wrote a letter and put into it. We intended to make this a
+Christmas present, but severe snow-storms prevented it from reaching
+its destination in time. They received it about a month after
+Christmas, and the things were divided among the Indian girls. Some of
+them wrote to us, thanking us for the presents which they had received.
+After our society grew to about twenty or thirty, we were divided into
+tens. Each ten had a name given it, such as the Truthful Ten, the Judge
+Not Ten, the Do Without Ten and the Polite Ten. Most of us find it
+hardest to be Judge Not Tens and Truthful Tens.--_From the Tougaloo
+Quarterly._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE INDIANS
+
+
+OUR S'KOKOMISH MISSION.
+
+BY DISTRICT SECRETARY J.E. ROY.
+
+
+The S'kokomish Reservation is at the extreme southwestern corner of the
+Puget Sound, where the S'kokomish River empties in, and is three miles
+square, with five thousand acres, embracing rich bottom land and
+mountain timber land, the river and the sound furnishing the best means
+of transportation to the market. On the place I measured the stumps of
+red cedar that were eight, ten and twelve feet in diameter. The waters
+at hand are of the best for fishing. As we--Mrs. Roy was with me--were
+going up from the river where we had been set across after a ten-mile
+mountain drive from Shelton, we saw a Mr. Lo lugging a three-foot
+salmon into the missionary home; and at Olympia, the capital, and
+another point on the sound, the fishmonger told us they did not sell
+such fish by the pound, but by the piece, twenty-five cents each. When,
+in 1855, this reservation was set apart by the treaty, it was for the
+three bands of this tribe and for the Clallams up at the entrance of
+the Sound, who, because of variance with one of the other bands, never
+left their ancestral habitation to go to the selected spot. The people
+belonging to the Reservation now number about six hundred and twenty.
+
+The handling of the Indians here was one of the first fruits of
+President Grant's Peace Policy, by which the agencies were assigned to
+the several missionary societies, which were to nominate their
+respective agents. This was one of those which were assigned to the
+American Missionary Association. In 1871 the Association nominated to
+this Agency Edwin Eells, Esq., the eldest son of Rev. Gushing Eells,
+D.D., who was one of the mission band that crossed the Rocky Mountains
+in 1838, under commission of the American Board, to be associated with
+Dr. Marcus Whitman's series of Indian Missions. Here is an illustration
+of the wisdom of that policy, which has secured a highly successful
+management in all the secular, educational and religious affairs of the
+Agency, and one that has been continued on through the changes of
+governmental administration, and also one that has resulted in repeated
+promotions, until now Agent Eells has charge of five of the seven
+distinct Reservations in the State of Washington. His present
+headquarters are at the Puyallup Agency, near Tacoma, where he has just
+completed an eight thousand dollar building to displace an old one, for
+the Government Boarding School. In all these five reservations, lands
+have been secured in severalty to the Indians, and largely through his
+persistent devotion to their welfare. For two or three years his father
+had care of the S'kokomish Mission under the American Missionary
+Association, and in 1874, his brother, Rev. Myron Eells, was appointed
+to the same work, in which he still abides. Besides the preaching, the
+care of the Sunday-school and the prayer meetings and the pastoral
+work, in which he gets around among his people as often as once in a
+month, he has also the charge of the Indian Church among the Clallams,
+near New Dunginess, the brethren of that station, in the pastor's
+absence, maintaining stated worship. The people at S'kokomish have
+gotten beyond Government payments; they live on their own allotted
+lands, in cabins or frame houses, wearing citizens' dress, and doing
+business as white men do it. One of Pastor Eells's first Sundays at the
+mission was noted for the celebration of Christian marriage on the part
+of seven or eight couples who had been living together under their
+heathen way of taking up. So they have been shuffling off their
+polygamy. While we were there, a man of middle life came to the
+pastor's house with his first wife, to be married to her after the
+Christian form, having made a satisfactory pecuniary arrangement with
+the second, who was a sister of the first. In this case there were no
+children to complicate settlement. After I had addressed the church
+upon their duty of doing more for the support of their pastor, even as
+I had betimes had to do before in white home missionary churches, the
+several responses were as decorous and assuring as could be desired.
+
+As another advantage of this Grant plan, the Government School and the
+Mission are found to be in entire harmony, the principal, Mr. Foster,
+and his assistants and the industrial teacher all being Christians and
+caring for the moral advancement of their pupils. Nor does the
+missionary administration come in any way to overlie the governmental.
+From the herd of cows kept for the service of the boarding school,
+neither is one set aside for the pastor's family, nor is he allowed to
+buy their milk. He gets his supply from outside. Nor does the preacher
+use from Uncle Sam's wood pile. He buys from the Indians.
+
+Some may wonder how a man in such a field can keep from drying up. Come
+with me into this missionary study. The first thing that strikes you is
+a growth of English ivy, from its root in the earth outside creeping
+through a crack in the siding and climbing up one corner and then
+around the upper corners of the four sides of the room. That evergreen
+wreath is a symbol of the fresh intellectual life in that study, which
+has all the air and fix of a workshop. On the shelves, besides the
+ordinary outfit, there is an extensive geological collection, which
+in its classification and nomenclature shows scientific investigation.
+Then there is a fine cabinet of Indian relics and curios, appropriate
+to the calling of the incumbent: and there is a supply of Indian
+literature, historic and scientific, out of which this student is
+transmuting the essential elements of the Indian problem of the Pacific
+Northwest. And so it is a small library of his own that has thus been
+elaborated. The first is a "History of Indian Missions on the Pacific
+Coast," published by the American Sunday-school Union; and the second
+is "Ten Years at S'kokomish,"--1874-1884--published by our own
+Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society. These books would
+make an enrichment of any Sunday-school library, giving the very
+essence of romance and of heroism along with Christian instruction. The
+others are monographs, among them the following:
+
+"Marcus Whitman, M.D.: Proofs of his Work in Saving Oregon to the
+United States, and in promoting the immigration of 1843;" "Justice to
+the Indian;" "Indian Traditions as to Religion;" "Hand of God in the
+History of the Pacific Coast;" "Papers on the Anthropology of the
+Indians of Washington," as published in the Smithsonian Report of
+1886-7. Another such monograph he now has ready for the press--"God's
+Hand in the Missions to the Indians beyond the Rocky Mountains," a
+paper read at the recent fiftieth anniversary of the organizing of Dr.
+Whitman's church. And beyond all this literary work is the occasional
+supply of destitute white congregations round about, and service as a
+Trustee of the Pacific University in Oregon, and of the Whitman
+College, at Walla Walla, Washington. Surely in literary work, to the
+names of Jonathan Edwards among his Stockbridge Indians, and John Eliot
+among his Naticks, and S.R. Riggs among the Dakotas, and not a few
+others, maybe added this of Myron Eells among the S'kokomish.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+
+JOTTINGS.
+
+BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.
+
+
+If I were to attempt to place before the readers of the MISSIONARY, in
+such setting as would be needed for a comprehension of them, all the
+interesting minor facts and scenes that pass under my observation in
+our work, there would be no room on its pages for anything else. Let me
+give a few examples of these.
+
+A young Chinaman is being examined with reference to baptism, and is
+asked why he decided to turn from the worship of idols. "God is
+_true_" is the reply, a very simple reason,--a trite one possibly;
+but there was something in the tone and emphasis of it which thrilled
+me. I saw the emptyness of heathen worship at a point from which I had
+never looked at it before. A God that is _true_, that can be
+absolutely trusted! Where will you find one in any heathen Pantheon?
+Conceive now a thoughtful, honest man passing from the timorous worship
+of such gods to the rest and comfort and courage which come from
+knowing and trusting Him who is true, and you will begin to realize
+what that simple answer meant.
+
+"What are your people making such a noise for?" was asked of a Chinese
+brother at Ventura, during the Chinese New Year's Festival. "To scare
+away the evil spirits," was the reply. "And why don't _you_ scare
+them away?" was the next question, for all was quiet at our little
+mission house, "Evil spirits stay away when Holy Spirit comes," was the
+reply. I am not confident that I recall the exact words, but I have
+certainly given the idea, and it meant emancipation for the man that
+uttered it, an entrance into the liberty wherewith Christ makes us
+free.
+
+"When I get discouraged, as I often do," writes a teacher, "I think of
+the five who are studying the Testament, and of a remark one of them
+made to me, 'I love Jesus more all the time when I read about him.'"
+This brother took his religion with him to China, and brought it back
+unharmed.
+
+One of the brethren worked in a hotel where to specially toilsome
+service was added a treatment far from kind. He said to his teacher
+that he remembered how much Jesus had to bear and so he "had patient."
+The wages received he spoke of as the "hardest money" he had earned
+since coming to California, and _so_ he took part of it to buy a
+nice Bible. An American said scoffingly to him: "Are you one of the
+Christian Chinamen?" "Yes," he replied. "I love Jesus; I am not ashamed
+that I love Jesus."
+
+One of our Santa Barbara brethren rents quite a tract of land, much of
+which he devotes to the culture of small fruits. On a visit to his
+place a year or two ago, friends saw strawberry plants heavily laden
+with luscious looking fruit so arranged in front of our brother's door
+as to spell out this sentence, "God loves the earth."
+
+"It seems," said Jee Gam once, "as though I could recall his very
+words, and hear the tones of his voice as he prayed for the conversion
+of his countrymen." It was the closing prayer of a gospel service among
+the Chinese in Oakland. The brother who offered it was a Chinese
+merchant of that city. Two days afterwards he was shot in his own store
+by a Chinaman because he refused to submit to blackmail. A policeman
+hastened to the spot and saw him die, and testified in court that his
+last words were those of prayer to our true God; this testimony, though
+given probably by an ungodly man, being such as to draw tears from many
+who listened. Yet some say there are no real Christian Chinamen; that
+you can't convert a Chinaman; that they are throughout a race of
+hypocrites.
+
+It may not be safe to say _every_ month without exception, though
+that is the impression made upon me, but it is certainly safe to say
+_almost_ every month brings some report to me of pupils beginning
+to believe in Jesus and professing their faith in him. This extract
+from a letter will serve as an example: "I have some very good news for
+you concerning my scholars. Two of them have promised to join the
+Association [i.e. of Christian Chinese] next week. One of them I have
+been praying for especially, for nearly a year.... There are three
+more who, I trust, are born of God, but are not yet brave enough to
+take a stand for him. One says his brother will kill him if he joins in
+Christ's name." And here is a word from another teacher: "Five of the
+brethren unite with the church at the coming communion. I do not feel
+that this is through my effort, as I have not known how to work
+individually. It is the Lord that 'giveth the increase.' Two of them
+have been ready to come into the church for a long time. The others
+show their conversion by face and manner as well as by testimony and
+prayer."
+
+I fear that I have exhausted my space, though I am far from the end of
+possible "jottings." I will close with a few sentences from a letter
+received from a Chinese Christian living at a roadside tavern beyond
+Oroville. "Since I am determined to be a Christian, has very much
+surprised my elder brother. When he heard about I join the Association
+he make a great deal of trouble to me. Then I ask our brothers to pray
+for that matter, till one day I go and entreat him; also, tell him all
+about the gospel of Christ how good for us and redeem us from our sins.
+Then he said, 'Do not talk such things to me; we are Chinese; must keep
+our customs.' I say, 'I cannot keep anything wrong; idol worship is
+against God. Four thousand years ago our Chinese population have no
+idol to worship. Don't you search a thing before you keep it?' Then he
+answer: 'If good then you keep it,' and then I received baptism; then
+do no more persecution to me afterwards." This extract merely hints at
+facts which, if related, would show that for our Chinese Christians at
+least, the days that _try_ men's souls are not yet past.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
+
+
+The thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of
+Alabama met with the Congregational Church in Marion, March 31. This
+Union has contributed during the year to the A.M.A. for Indian work, to
+the A.H.M.S. for Bohemian work, besides aiding a missionary in China,
+and one in South Africa. All the auxiliaries have also done good work
+in aiding the churches and the poor in their respective localities. The
+meeting was pleasant and profitable, and the Union starts upon another
+year with the prospect of adding greatly to its strength and
+efficiency.
+
+The first Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Missionary Union, held at New
+Orleans, April 3, was also full of encouragement. The new interest
+awakened, simply by the gathering together to report the progress of
+the year, indicates how much can be accomplished. Not only will the
+missionary cause receive direct benefit, but there will be a reflex,
+healthful influence upon the churches thus represented.
+
+The first Annual Meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Central
+South Association, held in Nashville, Tennessee, April 5, was in all
+respects encouraging. One of the peculiar features of these Southern
+Unions is that the State Association is always likely to meet at a
+school centre, as in this case at Nashville, Tennessee, and the older
+students thus are enthused and stimulated to missionary purpose and
+activity, whether in the ordinary experiences of church life at home,
+or as special missionaries.
+
+There was a good representation of auxiliaries, and encouraging word of
+new ones soon to be received. The interest in the meeting was intense,
+and the reports from the different societies showed a deep and
+heartfelt sympathy with the cause of missions. It was very interesting
+to note how anxiously some of those who represent a people burdened
+with poverty, planned for the work of the coming year, taking for their
+field--the world. Considering that this Union is only a year old, its
+growth seems remarkable.
+
+The question is sometimes asked, whether the Mountain girls appreciate
+the opportunity of education that is now afforded them. We reply by
+giving extracts from the letter of a pupil obliged to leave school. The
+letter was written to a school-mate, and is but one of many instances
+of the kind.
+
+"MY DEAREST FRIEND:--I would have written sooner, but I thought I might
+get a chance to go to school, and that is why I have delayed so long.
+It is impossible for me to go now, the boys are preparing 'for to make
+a crap,' and I can see how much they are needed at home. We have but
+one horse, and I cannot go alone. Oh! how glad I would be to see my
+teacher. I know I shall never be able to reward her for her kindness to
+me, but the Lord will reward her. I never have met the people who were
+so kind to me as those people. I still have a desire to get an
+education; sometimes I think I will not get to go to school any more,
+but where there is a will, there is a way, and I know I have a good
+will. My sisters all married before they were twenty. I am twenty-two
+now. I want an education more than I want to marry. My folks tell me I
+have enough education, but I think I know better than they. To be sure,
+I can read and write a little, but that don't satisfy me, I have a hope
+yet that I may still get higher, that is if the Lord is willing. We
+cannot do anything unless the Lord is willing and will help us. Give my
+love to all the girls. Please write and tell me about the school.
+Remember me in your prayers.
+
+Your true friend, ---- ----."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
+
+
+_Dear Children_:--The first morning I entered my school-room
+South, such a mass of little dark faces as greeted me! At first it
+seemed so strange to me, they all looked alike, but in a short time I
+was able to pick out Simon, and Tommy, and Mollie, and Janie. Most of
+them want to learn, and are quite tidy in their appearance. One of the
+exercises they enjoy most is the singing. It would be hard to find a
+colored boy or girl who does not sing, and many of them have very sweet
+voices. They are able to sing the alto with very little practice. It
+often surprises me to find how well they keep their parts. One day we
+had a very severe shower, and it was so dark we could not see the
+black-boards or see to work, so I let them sing for nearly an hour. All
+over the building, if you could have visited the different rooms, you
+would have enjoyed listening to them. One of their own pieces which
+they like to sing, is "Roll, Jordan, roll." They pronounce it "Jurdon."
+
+Many of the parents are working very hard to give their children an
+education, and I am glad to say that the children themselves are glad
+to learn. One little girl said, "I've got on a _terrible_ bad
+looking shoe, and the big girls out doors were laughing at me
+yesterday, but I thought I'd rather come to school with the bad shoe,
+than stay away a day and not come at all. I pray every day that God
+will help me to do right and be a good girl in school. Last night papa
+was out of a job, and I prayed that he might get another one, and now
+he's got another one." Then looking at her shoes, she said: "I'd rather
+wear these ragged shoes than not to pay for my schooling at all."
+
+And now, children, will you come with me for a little drive? We are
+going in a phaeton with our good horse, Maud. We drive about a mile out
+of the city, cross a little bridge, and finally drive through a
+gateway. The ground is sandy, in some places so white that it almost
+reminds one of snow. The trees are still green. Our attention is
+attracted by a procession moving slowly forward. There is one carriage
+and the friends, men and women, are walking. The words they are
+chanting show it to be a funeral procession. Every one wears a green
+badge, for most all the colored people belong to some order. Finally
+they come to a stop and gather about the grave. The mourners break out
+into a wail, and they begin to chant the words: "And must my trembling
+spirit glide into a world unknown?" The chant I can never describe, for
+there is no music in it, and we cannot distinguish any tune. Then the
+minister preaches, and they begin another chant. Let us look around a
+little. I am sure you are already interested and surprised at what you
+see. Here is a group of three little graves; on one, we find three
+dolls' heads, a quantity of shells, marbles, dishes and other toys with
+which the children used to play. On another, is a tin kitchen, a bell,
+a doll in a chair, a marble under a sugar-bowl cover, and part of a
+tea-set. On another, that of a grown person, is a long pipe with a
+paper of tobacco, medicine boxes with powders. A little further away we
+find one on which is a tooth-brush, ten medicine bottles, two lamps, a
+basket filled with sand, vases, tumblers, a toy boat made out of bark,
+and pieces of glassware. Among other decorations we find a ball and
+bat, pitchers, bits of colored glass, pill boxes, teapots, etc. But it
+is already growing dark, and Maud is anxious to start; I think you have
+seen enough to make you wonder at the curious customs, and I am sure
+that you want to help them to know a better way.
+
+One day a little girl said to her teacher: "I got religion last night."
+Shall I tell you just here, something of what they mean by "getting
+religion?" It means bad air, late hours, shouting, screaming, and
+general excitement. Sometimes they sit for hours, and go night after
+night saying over and over the same words. When they finally do "get
+religion," they jump up and shout, and run about the church, falling
+into the arms of those standing nearest. I think the children are
+looking for some strange experience. They expect, from what they are
+taught, to see some vision, or hear some voice. I try to show them the
+simple way of salvation by just taking Jesus at his word.
+
+And now let us turn to a brighter scene. One Sunday about a month ago,
+our pastor preached a sermon, which led us to feel that the Lord was
+especially near us, and that we had only to do our part to receive an
+outpouring of God's Spirit. Some of us agreed to pray for this. Then we
+began to pray for our scholars, and to invite them to our meetings. At
+first only a few came, but more kept coming every night, and we kept
+bringing in seats, until the mission room was so full we had to change
+to the large hall up stairs. Every night some would rise for prayers,
+and we would stay and talk with them quietly, and try to show them the
+way to Jesus. I think there are about forty now, who have expressed a
+desire to live a Christian life. Many of them are children and young
+people. Four are boys in my Sabbath-school class. We have held prayer
+meetings for this after school, and many are glad to come. About twenty
+joined our Christian Endeavor Society as active members, at our last
+consecration meeting.
+
+And now, dear children, do you know that this is all given us in answer
+to prayer? We have simply asked and received. I knew that the home
+friends were praying for us. Their prayers are a constant help. Will
+you not pray this month that these little ones may be kept from
+falling, and that they may grow to be bright and shining lights in the
+world, to lead their own people out of the darkness of sin and
+ignorance?
+
+Sincerely your friend,
+
+MINNIE T. STROUT.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.
+
+CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+
+MAINE.
+
+WOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A.
+
+  Chairman of Committee--Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.
+
+
+VERMONT.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A.B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington.
+  Secretary--Mrs. E.C. Osgood, 14 First Ave., Montpelier.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.
+
+
+[A]MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND.
+
+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 Ave., Hartford.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.
+
+
+NEW YORK.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., Brooklyn.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, Syracuse.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New York City.
+
+
+OHIO.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Box 932, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
+
+
+INDIANA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. C.B. Safford, Elkhart.
+  Secretary--Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C. Evans, Indianapolis.
+
+
+ILLINOIS.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., Chicago.
+  Secretary--Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign.
+
+
+IOWA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  Presidents--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 Gertude A. Keith, 1350 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield.
+
+
+NORTH DAKOTA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
+
+  President--Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.
+
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle.
+  Secretary--Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron.
+  Treasurer--Miss A.A. Noble, Lake Preston.
+
+
+NEBRASKA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln
+  Secretary--Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St., Fremont.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete.
+
+
+MISSOURI.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A.W. Benedict, 3841 Delmar Ave., St. Louis.
+  Secretary--Mrs. E.H. Bradbury, 3865 Washington Ave., St Louis.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. Louis.
+
+
+KANSAS.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
+
+  President--Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka.
+  Secretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa.
+
+
+COLORADO AND WYOMING.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado.
+  Secretary--Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., Colorado Springs,
+       Colorado.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
+
+
+WASHINGTON.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+  President--Mrs. W.E. Dawson, Seattle.
+  Secretary--Mrs. N.F. Cobleigh, Walla Walla.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. W.R. Abrams, Ellensburg.
+
+
+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, 13239 Harrison St., Oakland.
+
+
+LOUISIANA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. R.C. Hitchcock, New Orleans.
+  Secretary--Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond.
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A.F. 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, 2519 Third Ave., Birmingham.
+  Treasurer--Miss M.K. Lunt, Selma.
+
+
+FLORIDA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood.
+
+
+TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION.
+
+  President--Mrs. E.M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.
+  Secretary--Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn.
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill.
+  Secretary--Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh.
+  Treasurer--Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh.
+
+
+TEXAS.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. S.C. Acheson, 149 W. Woodard St., Denison.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Mary A. McCoy, 122 No. Harwood St., Dallas.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C.I. Scofield, Dallas.
+
+[Footnote A: 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 use 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 APRIL, 1890.
+
+
+THE DANIEL HAND FUND,
+
+_For the Education of Colored People._
+
+FROM
+
+Mr. Daniel Hand, Guilford, Conn.
+
+
+Income for April, 1890                                       $960.00
+Income previously acknowledged                              7,489.85
+                                                           ---------
+Total                                                      $8,449.85
+                                                           =========
+
+
+CURRENT RECEIPTS
+
+
+MAINE, $175.41.
+
+Bangor. Central Ch., 10; Hammond St. Ch., 3.25,
+  for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.                                     13.25
+
+Belfast. First Cong. Ch.                                       23.54
+
+Brewer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               22.40
+
+Castine. Y.P.S.C.E., 3.73, and Garments; Helen J.
+  Webster, 2; "Rainbow Band," 1.25, and Sewing Bags,
+  _for Student Aid, Chandler Normal Sch._                       6.98
+
+Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch., _for freight to N.C._               2.00
+
+Gorham. Childrens Miss'y Soc. in Cong. Ch., _for
+  Sherwood, Tenn._                                             12.25
+
+Hiram. "Friends," by Mrs. J.P. Hubbard, 10; Mrs J.P.
+  Hubbard, 5, _for Williamsburg, Ky._                          15.00
+
+South Berwick. Two Sab. Sch. Classes, by   Mrs. K.B.
+Lewis, _for Indian M._                                          2.34
+
+Wells. "A Friend."                                              1.00
+
+Woman's Aid to A.M.A., by Mrs. C.A. Woodbury,
+  _for Woman's Work_: Alfred. Cong. Ch.,
+  to const. Mrs. Laura A. Littlefield L.M.          30.00
+
+  Portland. Ladies' Circle of Second Parish
+  Ch., _for Acres Memorial Room, Selma,
+  Ala._                                             46.65
+
+                                                    -----      76.65
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $657.68.
+
+Amherst Cong. Ch.                                              17.30
+
+Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc., bal. to const Ambrose
+  D. Aldrich L.M.                                              22.47
+
+Canaan. Miss Mary A. George                                     5.00
+
+Durham. Cong. Ch., in part                                      7.00
+
+Epping. Cong. Ch., 30.42; Mrs. G.N. Shepard's S.S.
+  Class, 3.25.                                                 33.67
+
+Epping. Pansy Circle, Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid,
+  Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                                   15.00
+
+Exeter. Second Cong. Ch.                                      234.00
+
+Gorham. Cong. Ch.                                               5.00
+
+Hopkinton. Mrs. M.G. Barnard to const. Mary E.
+  Barnard L.M.                                                 30.00
+
+Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                     11.00
+
+Keene. Dea. Metcalf's Sab. Sch. Class, First Cong. Ch.          5.00
+
+Keene. Mrs. K.C. Thayer, _for Pleasant Hill. Tenn._            15.00
+
+Laconia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    50.27
+
+Littleton. Cong. Ch., 8.34; John Farr, 5                       13.34
+
+Meriden. Cong. Ch.                                             14.00
+
+Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch.                                        15.00
+
+Nashua. First Cong. Ch.                                        25.40
+
+Pembroke. First Cong. Soc.                                     20.75
+
+Penacook. Jeremiah C. Martin.                                   5.00
+
+Tilton. Cong. Ch.                                              25.00
+
+West Concord. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. C.F. Roper L.M.        34.00
+
+West Concord. Y.L.M. Soc., by Mrs. Bertha R. Roper,
+  _for Storrs Sch._ and to const. Miss Hattie
+  B. Holmes L.M.                                               30.00
+
+West Lebanon. Cong. Ch.                                        24.48
+
+
+VERMONT, $197.26.
+
+Bethel First Cong. Ch., 3.37; Y.P.S.C.E., by Lucy M.
+  Graham, Treas., 1.75                                          5.12
+
+Brandon. Cong. Ch.                                             10.00
+
+Brattleboro. Central Cong. Ch.                                112.61
+
+Brattleboro. Mrs. F.C. Rice, _for Student Aid,
+  Talladega C._                                                10.00
+
+Cornwall. _For freight to McIntosh, Ga._                        1.50
+
+Derby Center. Mrs. R.C. Drisko, Bbl. of C., Freight, 2.,
+  _for McIntosh Ga._                                            2.00
+
+Dorset. Cong. Ch.                                              16.00
+
+Essex Junction. Cong. Ch., _for Freight to
+  McIntosh, Ga._                                                1.80
+
+East Dummerston. Mrs. A.A. Dutton, Box of C. _for
+  Mclntosh Ga._
+
+Johnson. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 25 Hymn Books _for
+  Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Montpelier. "F.E.B."                                            1.00
+
+Newport. First Cong. Ch.                                       15.08
+
+Putney. Ladies' Aid Soc., Bbl of C., _for McIntosh Ga._
+
+Saint Johnsbury. Sab. Sch. Class, North Cong. Ch., _for
+  Indian Sch'p_                                                 5.00
+
+Swanton. C.C. Long                                             10.00
+
+West Westminster. Mrs. H.A. Goodhue, _for Freight to
+  McIntosh, Ga._                                                1.15
+
+Williamstown. "A Friend."                                       6.00
+
+Worcester. James F. Smith, Box of S.S. Papers, _for
+  McIntosh, Ga._
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $7,310.40.
+
+Amherst. Ladies, by Mrs. H.L. Hubbell, _for Student Aid,
+  Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                                   20.00
+
+Amherst. First Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_                   9.00
+
+Amherst. Mrs. J.C. Bryant, _for Atlanta U._                     5.00
+
+Andover. Phillips Academy, _for Pleasant Hill. Tenn._          25.00
+
+Arlington. Ortho. Cong. Ch.                                    46.19
+
+Bedford. H.B. Doland, _for Home, Wilmington N.C._              14.00
+
+Berlin. Cong. Ch., 8.50; Y.P.S.C.E., 7.50; Sab. Sch., 4.,
+  _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                              20.00
+
+Boston. Central Cong. Ch.                                     948.20
+  Old South Cong. Ch., in Part                 310.59
+
+  "Felice Circle of King's Daughters" Mount
+    Vernon Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy,
+    Ky._ and to const. Miss Alma Holmes,
+    Miss Anna Norris, Miss Lucy Brown and
+    Miss L.H. Maxwell L.M.'s                   125.00
+
+  Chas. H. Rutan, _for Student Aid,
+    Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._               67.50
+
+  W.H.M.S., Park St. Ch. _for Student
+    Aid Straight U._                            54.00
+
+  Mrs. Susan C. Warren, _for Jewett
+    Memorial Hall, Grand View, Tenn._           25.00
+
+  C.A. Hopkins, _for Pleasant Hill,
+    Tenn._                                      36.75
+
+  Mrs. Woodbridge Odlin, _for Freight to
+    Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                        5.10
+
+  Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch.                 122.92
+
+  Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. F. Ch.              24.68
+
+  Miss Almira C. Wilkins, 5; Mrs. M.
+    Houston, 3, _for Girl's Hall,
+    Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                        8.00
+
+  Jamaica Plain. "A Friend," _for Indian
+    M., Grand River, S.D._                       4.50
+
+  Roxbury. Immanuel Ch., 22; Walnut Av.
+    Cong. Ch., 13.50; _for Stoves,
+    Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._          35.50
+
+  Highland. Cong. Ch., _for
+      Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                15.30
+
+  West Roxbury. Sab. Sch. of South Evan.
+    Ch. _for Tougaloo U._ and to
+    const. Abner J. Nutter L.M.                 30.00
+
+  South Evan. Ch. and Soc.                      17.94
+
+                                                -----       1,830.98
+
+Brookfield. Cong. Ch.                                          12.49
+
+Brookline. Howard Cong. Ch.                                   104.34
+
+Brockton. Porter Cong. Ch.                                     15.00
+
+Brockton. Joseph Hewitt                                         5.00
+
+Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                               87.79
+
+Cambridgeport. "Scatter Good Circle," of Pilgrim Ch.
+  _for Freight to Beaufort, N.C._                               2.00
+
+Chelsea. First Cong. Ch.                                       20.00
+
+Clinton. Cong. Ch. _for Academy, Williamsburg, Ky._            80.85
+
+Colerain. Mrs. P.B. Smith.                                      5.00
+
+Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch.                                       26.47
+
+Cotuit. Union Ch.                                              10.00
+
+Danvers. Webster F. Putnam.                                    68.54
+
+Dedham. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid,
+  Straight U._                                                 25.00
+
+Dighton. Miss M.F. Aiken, _for Girl's Hall, Pleasant
+  Hill, Tenn._                                                  5.00
+
+East Dennis. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+  Fisk U._                                                      5.00
+
+East Somerville. First Orthdox Cong. Ch.                       82.93
+
+East Weymouth. Ladies, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._              25.00
+
+Fall River. Central Cong. Ch., 33; Third Cong. Ch., 16.65.     49.65
+
+Fall River. Y.W.C.T.U., Package Papers, _for
+  Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Florence. Florence Cong. Ch.                                   22.38
+
+Framingham. George Nourse.                                     10.00
+
+Georgetown. "S," _for Sherwood, Tenn._                         10.00
+
+Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch., "A Friend," by Rev. R.P.
+  Hibbard                                                      25.00
+
+Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              53.68
+
+Granby. Cong. Ch.                                              10.00
+
+Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                                   37.58
+
+Greenwich Village. Mrs. M.A. Sibley                             1.00
+
+Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                      7.99
+
+Holliston. "Bible Christians."                                100.00
+
+Holliston. Mrs. S.E. Walker, _for Student Aid,
+  Fisk U._                                                      2.00
+
+Hopkinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill,
+  Tenn._                                                       34.50
+
+Hopkinton. Mrs. J.P. Crooks. B. of C. _for Williamsburg,
+  Ky._
+
+Indian Orchard. Willing Helpers, _for
+  Williamsburg, Ky._                                           12.00
+
+Ipswich. First Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_                  23.32
+
+Lawrence. Mrs. A.J. Doland, Table Spread, Val. 3, _for
+  Home, Wilmington, N.C._
+
+Leicester. First Cong. Ch.                                     17.70
+
+Leominster. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Ortho. Cong.
+ Ch., 25; F.J. Lathrop, 5, _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._     30.00
+
+Lowell. Sab. Sch. High St. Ch., _for Mountain Work,
+  support of a boy and girl_, and to const. Mrs. Frank
+  N. Chase and Mrs. Ephraim Brown. L.M.'s.                     60.00
+
+Lowell. Eliot Ch. to const. Miss Helen A. Ward L.M.            44.19
+
+Lynn. Central Ch., 31; Miss A.E. Knowles, 15c.                 31.15
+
+Milford. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._             4.00
+
+Millbury. First Cong. Ch.                                      45.12
+
+Monterey. Cong. Ch.                                            24.00
+
+Natick. Primary Dep't, Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., 10;
+  Cong. Ch., 8.05                                              18.05
+
+Newton. Eliot Ch., 150. First Cong. Ch., 83.30; Miss Mary
+  Calkins' S.S. Class, North Village Ch., 5.                  238.30
+
+Newton. J.W. Davis, _for Stereopticon Slides_                   5.00
+
+Norfolk. Union Cong. Ch.                                        3.00
+
+Norton. Mrs. E.B. Wheaton, to const. Arthur M. Round and
+  William E. Robbins, L.M.'s.                                  60.00
+
+Northamptom. A.L. Williston, 300; First Cong. Ch., 226.92     526.92
+
+North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     77.28
+
+North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch., 7; Y.P.S.C.E., 5,
+  _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                              12.00
+
+Northfield. Miss'y Soc. of Northfield Sem., _for
+  Indian M._                                                   25.00
+
+Peabody. "Friends." 3 Boxes Books, _for Lathrop Library,
+  Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Peru. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                                    9.50
+
+Pittsfield. South Ch. and Soc.                                 49.20
+
+Pittsfield. Ladies, _for Girl's Hall, Pleasant
+  Hill, Tenn._                                                 10.00
+
+Pittsfield. "A Member of South Ch."                             5.00
+
+Pittsfield. M.A. Bissell, 2; S.S. Bissell, 2; _for
+  Mountain Work_                                                4.00
+
+Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc.                                217.01
+
+Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            14.25
+
+Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch.                                 26.57
+
+Somerville. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of Franklin St.
+  Ch., _for Indian M., Santee Agency, Neb._                    20.00
+
+Southampton. Mrs. Edwards, deceased, by her son,
+  Rev. H.L. Edwards.                                            5.00
+
+South Easton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                           16.80
+
+South Easton. Cong. Ch., 38.68; Young Men's Class, 30,
+  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   68.68
+
+South Framingham. Grace Cong. Ch., (50 of which _for
+  Williamsburg Academy, Ky._)                                 217.50
+
+South Framingham. Fred. Folger, 5; Ethel Cutler, Albert J.
+  Dutton, Jr., Mabel Sykes, 5; on "True Blue" card             10.00
+
+South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch.                               25.50
+
+Springfield. South Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg
+  Academy, Ky._                                                20.00
+
+Taunton. Union Cong. Ch.                                        8.48
+
+Upton. Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._
+
+Waltham. Trinity Cong. Ch.                                     10.17
+
+Ware. "Little Sunbeams," _for Indian M. Birds Nest,
+  Santee Agency, Neb._                                         25.00
+
+Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. Edward C.
+  Porter and Alfred E. Turner L.M.'s.                         107.08
+
+West Boxford. Cong. Ch.                                         6.85
+
+Westford. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             19.50
+
+West Medford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant
+  Hill, Tenn._                                                 30.00
+
+West Medway. Second Cong. Ch., 9.25, and Sab. Sch., 7.70
+  (2 of which _for Student Aid, Fisk U._)                      16.95
+
+West Medway. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Fisk U._              8.00
+
+West Newton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student
+  Aid, Fisk U._                                                10.00
+
+Westport. Cong. Ch.                                            20.00
+
+Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                          17.17
+
+Winchendon. George L. Beals and Nancy Norcross Beals,
+  deceased, by C.L. Beals and C.L.B. Whitney, _for
+  the establishment of Beals Library, Williamsburg,
+  Academy, Ky._                                               500.00
+
+Winchester. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                   51.00
+
+Worcester. Central Cong. Ch., 136; Old South Ch., Dea.
+  Alfred Holden, 5.                                           141.00
+
+Worcester. G. Henry Whitcomb. _for Tougaloo U._                35.00
+
+Worcester. Ladies of Union Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_       13.00
+
+Worcester. Benev. Soc. Plymouth Ch., Box of C.; Sab. Sch.
+  Piedmont Ch., Books, Canned fruit, etc., _for
+  Jellico, Tenn._
+
+Worcester. Rev. T.W. Thompson, Box of Books, _for
+  Lathrop Library, Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Yarmouth. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 22.67; Rev. J.W. Dodge
+  and Wife, 12.33; Sewing Circle, 20; _for Pleasant
+  Hill, Tenn._                                                 55.00
+
+----. "A Friend"                                               25.00
+
+Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh,
+  Treasurer:
+    South Hadley Falls                          11.46
+    Springfield. South                          60.31
+    West Springfield. First, to
+      const. B.W. Colton L.M.                   40.00
+
+                                                -----         111.77
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Association, by Miss Ella A.
+  Leland, Treasurer, _for Woman's Work_:
+    _For Salary of Teachers_ (10 of
+        which bal. to const. Mrs.
+        Elizabeth K. Chapman L.M.)             440.00
+    Boston. Union Ch. Aux., _for
+      Sch'p, Tougaloo U._                      100.00
+    Newton. Mr. Cobb's S.S.
+      Class Eliot Ch.                            6.25
+
+                                                -----         546.25
+                                                           ---------
+
+                                                           $6,711.55
+
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Weymouth. Estate of Dea. Jacob Loud, by John J. Loud, Ex.     598.85
+                                                           ---------
+
+                                                           $7,310.40
+
+
+CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT THE BOSTON OFFICE.
+
+Cambridgeport, Mass. "Scatter Good Circle," Pilgrim Ch.,
+  2 Boxes, _for Beaufort, N.C._
+
+Dorchester, Mass. Mrs. G.H. Guetin, 2 Boxes
+
+Newton, Mass. Eliot Ch., Mrs. M.T. Vincent, 2 Boxes;
+  Goodell Young Ladies Ass'n, 1 Bbl; Freedmen's Aid
+  Sewing Circle, Case and Package; _for Sherwood,
+  Tenn._ J.W. Davis, Books and Papers, _for Jellico,
+  Tenn._
+
+Wilmington, Mass. "Snow Birds," 1 Bbl., _for Gregory
+  Inst., Wilmington, N.C._
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $108.30.
+
+Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                       50.80
+
+Providence. W.H.M.A. of North Ch., _for Indian M.
+  Santee Agency, Neb._                                         50.00
+
+Providence. Y.P.S.C.E. of North Cong. Ch., _for
+  Grand View, Tenn._                                            7.50
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $3,349.23.
+
+Bantam. Miss Cornelia Bradley, _for Mountain Work_             10.00
+
+Black Rock. Young Ladies' Guild, Box of C., _for
+  Thomasville, Ga._
+
+Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., 25;
+  Y.P.S.C.E. of Park St Ch., 8.02.                             33.02
+
+Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., _for Indian
+  Sch'p_                                                       17.50
+
+Bridgeport. Ladies of South Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.
+  Val., 55.41, _for Santee Agency, Neb._
+
+Bridgewater. Cong. Ch.                                         13.40
+
+Bristol. Cong. Ch.                                             25.00
+
+Canaan. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                      21.22
+
+Chester. Cong. Ch.                                             16.65
+
+Collinsville. Mrs. M.A. Warren, _for
+  Charleston, S.C._                                             2.00
+
+Columbia. "Friends," _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+Danielsonville. Thomas Backus (5 of which _for
+  Indian M._)                                                  10.00
+
+Darien. Cong. Ch.                                              32.00
+
+Durham. Cong. Ch.                                              10.85
+
+East Hartford. First Ch.                                       20.00
+
+East Haven. Cong. Ch.                                          12.00
+
+Hartford. "Friends" In Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., _for
+  Indian M._                                                    5.00
+
+Harwington. Cong. Ch.                                          23.80
+
+Huntington. Ladies' Soc., by Miss Eleanor L. Wooster,
+  _for Conn. Ind'l. Sch. Ga._                                   7.50
+
+Mansfield Center. Elliot H. Marsh, M.D.                        10.00
+
+Middletown. Y.P.S.C.E. of Bethany Chapel, by
+  Edward P. Wilcox, Sec.                                        1.25
+
+Naugatuck. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+  Fisk U._                                                     25.00
+
+Naugatuck. Miss Maggie Platt, _for Tougaloo U._                 5.00
+
+New Haven. Ch. of the Redeemer, 178.35; Rev. S.W.
+  Barnum, 5 Copies "Romanism As It Is"; Sab. Sch. Ch.
+  of the Redeemer, _for Indian Sch'p_, 20.                    198.35
+
+New Haven. Prof. E.E. Salisbury                                50.00
+
+New Haven. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of United Ch.,
+  _for Sch'p, Indian Sch., Santee Agency, Neb._                50.00
+
+New London. First Cong. Ch.                                    55.86
+
+New Preston. Cong. Ch.                                         42.50
+
+North Woodstock. Ladies and Sab. Sch., _for Conn.
+  Ind'l Sch., Ga._                                             17.50
+
+Norwich. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.                         21.72
+
+Plainville. Cong. Ch., to const. Miss Emily Dresser, Miss
+  Hattie Hough and Miss Daisy Crissey L.M.'s.                  95.00
+
+Plantsville. Cong. Ch.                                         79.41
+
+Poquonock. Cong. Ch.                                           35.21
+
+Putnam. Sab. Sen. of Second Cong. Ch., _for Student
+  Aid, Fisk U._                                                25.00
+
+Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.                                       11.38
+
+Somerville. Cong. Ch.                                          22.00
+
+South Coventry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       38.94
+
+Southington. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._              50.00
+
+Southport. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M., Cape Prince of
+  Wales, Alaska_                                             2010.00
+
+Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   19.18
+
+Terryville. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_            17.50
+
+Tolland. Lucy L. Clough.                                       10.00
+
+Wapping. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._               10.69
+
+Washington. Cong. Ch. _for Mountain Work_                      18.00
+
+Wethersfield. Mrs. M.S. Tillotson, Bbl. of Books, _for
+  Tillotson C. & N. Inst._
+
+Whitneyvllle. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. C.A.
+  Dinsmore L.M.                                                45.52
+
+Willington. Cong. Ch.                                           2.00
+
+Windsor. First Cong. Ch.                                       25.00
+
+Woodstock. Miss F. Butler, Pkg. of C., _for
+  Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Woman's Home Mission'y Union of Conn.,
+  by Mrs. D. Wilder Smith, Sec.,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+    Chaplin. Ladies' Soc.                       15.00
+    Columbia. Mission Circle
+      _for Conn. Ind'l. Sch., Ga._             10.00
+    Griswold. Aux.                              10.00
+    Higganum. By Mrs. J.G.
+      Hubbard, _for Conn. Ind'l.
+      Sch., Ga._                                10.00
+    Kensington. Eunonean Soc.                    2.50
+    Suffield. Young Ladies M.C.                 12.50
+                                                -----          60.00
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Darien. Correction.--Estate of Rev. Ezra D. Kinney, 100;
+ack. in May number, should read "for the benefit of those
+who were lately slaves."
+
+
+NEW YORK. $2,913.16.
+
+Amsterdam. D. Cady                                             10.00
+
+Aquebogue. Box of C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Brasher Falls. Mrs. Eliza A. Bell, in memory of her
+  father, Elijah Wood, deceased                               243.53
+
+Brooklyn. The Church of the Pilgrims (of which W.F.
+  Merrill, 50; S.B. Chiltenden, 30; J.S. Stanton, 30.
+  to const. themselves L.M.'s., and Charles A. Hull,
+  30. to const. Miss Amelia H. Benjamin L.M.)                 780.51
+
+Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch., 63.97; Atlantic Av. Sab. Sch.
+  Miss'y. Ass'n. by A.C. Pohl, Treas., 25; Miss H.M.
+  Wiggins, 50 cents                                            89.47
+
+Brooklyn. Miss M.A. Hall's Bible Class, 10; Lee Av.
+  Cong. Sab. Sch., 7, and Infant Class, 10; Park Av. M.E.
+  Ch., 9; Miss Morrison, 4; Wm. Graham, 1; John
+  Writenoner, 1, _for Williamsburg, Ky._                       42.00
+
+Brooklyn. "A Friend," _for Industrial work,
+  Lexington, Ky._                                               5.00
+
+Buffalo. "R.W.B.," _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._               50.00
+
+Chittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown                               7.00
+
+East Rockaway. Bethany Cong. Ch.                               12.00
+
+Fillmore. L.L. Nourse                                           9.00
+
+Flushing. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for the Freedmen_           40.00
+
+Fredonia. "Friend," _for Williamsburg, Ky._                     5.00
+
+Fredonia. Presb. Ch.                                            4.30
+
+Jefferson. Mrs. S. Ruliffson                                    3.50
+
+Lawrenceville. Lucius Hulburd                                   5.00
+
+Lowville. Mrs. L.C. Hough, to const. Mrs. Salmon
+  Crandall L.M.                                                30.00
+
+Maine. First Cong. Ch.                                         13.71
+
+Marcellus. Mrs. L. Hemenway, to const. Josephine
+  Hemenway L.M.                                                31.00
+
+Marion. Cong. Ch.                                               5.00
+
+Newark Valley. Y.L. Miss'y. Soc., Box C., _for
+  Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+New York. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 115.18; Mrs. Susie Dez
+  Arnauld, 30; Broadway Tabernacle, F.K. Trowbridge, 25;
+  Madison Sq. Presb. Ch. Mrs. Caroline L. Smith, 10; George
+  S. Hickok, 10                                               190.18
+
+New York. Mrs. H.B. Spelman, _for Student Aid,
+  Atlanta U._                                                  25.00
+
+New York. Sab. Sch. Class Broadway Tabernacle, by Miss
+  E. Agnew, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg Academy, Ky._        9.14
+
+New York. Joseph Wild, Books, _for Thomasville, Ga._
+
+Oswego Falls. "Willing Workers" Cong. Ch., _for Gregory
+  Inst., Wilmington, N.C._                                      3.50
+
+Pekin. Abigail Peck                                            15.00
+
+Sherburne. First Cong. Ch., to const Mrs. Frances A.
+  Morgan and Mrs. Maggie Buchanan L.M.'s                       60.00
+
+Suspension Bridge. First Cong. Ch.                             17.90
+
+Syracuse. Plym. Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, 8.        23.00
+
+Verona. E. Day                                                 10.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H.
+  Cobb, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+
+  Albany. Ladies' Aux. Clinton Av.
+    Cong. Ch.                                    5.00
+
+  Brooklyn. Ladies' Willing Aid Soc.           100.00
+
+  Buffalo. First Cong. Ch.                      25.00
+
+  Brooklyn. Class 35, Sab. Sch. of
+    Puritan Ch.                                 12.00
+
+  Brooklyn. Boys' and Girls' Mission Band
+    Central Ch.                                 10.00
+
+  Clifton Springs. Mrs. W.W. Warner              1.00
+
+  Homer. Mrs. C. Hitchcock, 5;
+    Mrs. B.W. Payne, 5                          10.00
+
+  Honeoye. Ladies' Aux.                         20.00
+
+  Ithaca. Ladies' Aux. and Ch. Coll.            94.00
+
+  Jamestown. Woman's H.M. Aux, _for
+    Student Aid, Tillotson Inst_, and
+    bal. to const. Mrs. A.M. Towle L.M.         15.00
+
+  Newark Valley. Ladies' Aux.                   20.00
+
+  Oswego. Ladies' Aux.                          20.00
+
+  Poughkeepsie. Ladies' Aux.                    20.00
+
+  Syracuse. Woman's Christian Assn.,
+    Plym. Ch., to const. Mrs. M.E. Kendall
+    L.M.                                        50.00
+
+  Syracuse. Primary Dept. Plym. Ch.
+    Sab. Sch.                                   20.00
+
+  West Groton. Y.P. Mission Circle. _for
+    Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                   20.00
+
+  Westmoreland. Ladies' Aux 14.53;
+    Y.P.S.C.E., 6                               20.53
+
+  Woman's Home Missionary Union                122.29
+                                               ------         584.82
+                                                           ---------
+                                                           $2,323.56
+
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Waverly. Estate of Phebe Hepburne                             589.60
+                                                           ---------
+                                                           $2,913.16
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $163.90.
+
+Bound Brook. "Pilgrim workers," _for Indian M. Santee
+  Agency, Neb._                                                20.00
+
+Lyons Parms. Fred W.C. Crane. bal. to const. himself L.M.      10.00
+
+Newark. Loyal Circle of King's Daughters, by Kate L.
+  Hamilton,_for Williamsburg, Ky._                              3.00
+
+Orange Valley. Cong. Ch.                                       80.90
+
+Roselle. "A Friend."                                           50.00
+
+Westfield. Young People's Union, Box of Books
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $505.00.
+
+Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., to const. Amos J.
+  Boyden, J. Rockhill Claire, Mrs. Ellen E. Dexter,
+  Gilbert Elliott, Miss Lizzie Gorton, Miss Marian B.
+  Heritage, Miss Della C. Keyes, Mrs. Hannah E. McKnight,
+  Miss Mary F. Maxfield, George M. Randle, Paul S.
+  Richards, Mrs. E.B. Ripley, and Miss Annie B.
+  Stephens L.M.'s.                                            400.00
+
+Philadelphia. M.H. Harrington                                 100.00
+
+Ridgway. Bible Class, by Minnie J. Kline, _for
+  Oaks, N.C._                                                   5.00
+
+
+OHIO. $675.13.
+
+Akron. West Hill Cong. Ch.                                     37.75
+
+Brecksville. First Cong. Ch.                                    2.40
+
+Byrn. S.E. Blakeslee                                            5.50
+
+East Cleveland. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._
+
+Kelloggsville. Mrs. P.F. Kellogg, 5; Eliza S. Comings, 1;
+  "Little Frankie Kellogg," 50 cts., _for
+  Indian M., Grand River, S.D._                                 6.50
+
+Kent. First Cong. Ch.                                           7.15
+
+Mount Vernon. First Cong. Ch.                                  93.16
+
+North Benton. Simeon Hartzell                                   5.00
+
+North Ridgeville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 6; "Friends,"
+  Shoemaking Tools, Ladies Benev. Soc,. Bbl. of fruit, etc;
+  Miss Maria Lickorish, 4.25, _for Williamsburg, Ky._          10.25
+
+Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., (6.25 of which _for Jewett
+  Memorial Hall_)                                              45.42
+
+Oberlin. Mrs. M.A. Spear, Box and Bbl. of C., 3 _for
+  freight, for New Orleans, La._                                3.00
+
+Saybrook. Franklin K .Hilbert                                   5.00
+
+Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. F.I.
+  Fairchild, Treasurer, _for Womans Work_:
+
+    Columbus. High St. Ch. Y.P.M.S.             10.00
+
+    Cuyahoga Falls. L.M.S.                       7.00
+
+    Fredericksburg. H.M.S.                       5.00
+
+    Harmar. Oak Grove Mission Band               4.00
+
+    Hudson. L.H.M.S.                             5.00
+
+    Lindenville. W.H.M.S.                        5.00
+
+    Lock. Y.L.M.U.                               2.00
+
+    Madison. Central Cong. Ch.                   8.00
+
+    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. Aid Soc.           75.00
+
+    Williamsfield. H.M.S.                        3.00
+
+    Wellington. Benev. and H.M.S.               15.00
+
+    York. Cong. Ch. L.M.S.                      15.00
+
+                                                -----         154.00
+
+
+ESTATE. $375.13
+
+Jersey. Estate of Lucinda Sinnett, by J.B.
+  Metcalf, Executor                                           300.00
+                                                             -------
+
+                                                             $675.13
+
+
+INDIANA, $1.00.
+
+Liber. Thomas Towle                                             1.00
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $355.45.
+
+Altona. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                                    14.56
+
+Aurora. Mrs. N. Lanes    5.00
+
+Avon. Cong. Ch.                                                 5.00
+
+Chicago. South Cong. Ch., 45.45; Leavitt St.
+  Cong. Ch., 71 cts                                            46.16
+
+Earlville. "J.A.D."                                            25.00
+
+Evanston. First Cong. Ch., to const. George T. Stone,
+  W.J. Young, Joseph Hubbart and Lorado Taft L.M.'s           139.27
+
+Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                          49.30
+
+Lawn Ridgs. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                            10.00
+
+Lowell. "V.G."                                                  2.00
+
+Naperville. Cong. Ch.                                          20.00
+
+Oak Park. "Friends," _for Freight to Sherwood, Tenn._           5.00
+
+Odell. Mrs. H.E. Dana.                                         10.00
+
+Providence. Cong. Ch.                                          13.16
+
+Seward. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Lizzie Short, _for
+  Woman's Work_                                                 7.00
+
+Thomasboro. H.M. Seymour                                        3.00
+
+Tolona. Mrs. L. Haskell                                        10.00
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $150.94.
+
+Armada. Cong. Ch., 10.55. and Sab. Sch, 3.20                   13.75
+
+Canandaigua. Cong. Ch.                                          4.00
+
+Grand Rapids. E.M. Ball                                        30.00
+
+Irving. Cong. Ch.                                               1.84
+
+Morenei. Cong. Ch.                                              6.00
+
+South Haven. Clark Pierce                                      10.00
+
+Three Oaks. Mrs. H.E. Crosby, deceased, to const.
+  Josiah Birney Crosby and John Abbott
+  Crosby, M.D., L.M.'s                                         60.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of Mich., by Mrs. E.F.
+  Grabill, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Cadillac. W.H.M.S.                           2.00
+
+    Chelsea. W.H.M.S.                            2.35
+
+    Detroit. W.H.M.S., Trumbull Av.
+      Cong. Ch.                                  5.00
+
+    Detroit. Ladies' Union First Cong. Ch.       3.00
+
+    Eaton Rapids. Y.P.S.C.E.                     5.00
+
+    Tipton. W.M.S.                               3.00
+
+                                                 ----          25.35
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $187.67.
+
+Beloit. "Whatsoever Ten," of King's Daughters, _for
+  Sherwood, Tenn._                                             20.00
+
+Berlin. "Young Conquerors" Mission Band, _for
+  Librarian of Fisk U._                                         2.46
+
+Bristol and Paris. Woman's Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C.,
+  etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Footville. Cong. Ch.                                            7.18
+
+Genesee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                     5.00
+
+Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                        6.96
+
+Madison. Mrs. A.E.H. Deyon, Bbl. and Box of C., _for
+  Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Milwaukee. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                   52.29
+
+Rosendale. Daniel Clark                                         5.00
+
+Whitewater. Cong. Ch.                                          22.50
+
+Wisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for
+  Woman's Work_:
+
+    Arena. W.H.M.S.                              1.69
+
+    Brodhead. Mrs. C. Matter                     5.00
+
+    Eau Claire. W.H.M.S.                         3.50
+
+    Milwaukee. W.H.M.S. Grand Av.               25.00
+
+    Milwaukee. W.H.M.S. Grand Av.                6.00
+
+    Plattsville. W.H.M.S.                         .75
+
+    Waukesha.    " " " "                         1.50
+
+    Whitewater.  " " " "                        12.75
+
+    Whitewater. S.S.                             9.69
+                                                -----          65.28
+
+
+IOWA, $84.97.
+
+Cresco. Cong. Ch.                                              13.25
+
+Des Moines. Sab. Sch. Class, by Mrs. A.Y. Rawson,
+  _for Sch'p, Indian Sch., Santee Agency, Neb._                25.00
+
+Des Moines, Y.P.S.C.E. of North Park Cong. Ch.                  3.13
+
+Dubuque. Sab. Sch. of German Cong. Ch.                         10.00
+
+Muscatine. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+  Talladega C._                                                15.00
+
+Muscatine. German Cong. Ch.                                     4.00
+
+Round Grove. Z. Banks                                           5.00
+
+Waverly. Cong. Ch.                                              9.59
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $59.01.
+
+Fairmont. "Whatsoever Band" Cong. Ch.; B. of C., _for
+  Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Freeborn. Cong. Ch.                                             3.20
+
+Mankato. Cong. Ch.                                              6.05
+
+Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                                43.62
+
+Rochester. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Crockery, _for
+  Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Saint Paul. Y.P.S.C.E. St. Anthony Park Cong.
+  Ch., 2.75, and Bbl. of C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._             2.75
+
+Sleepy Eye. Union Cong. Ch.                                     3.39
+
+
+MISSOURI, $24.00.
+
+Garden City. W.B. Wills, 10; P.J. Wills, 1; F.P.
+  Morelan, 1; A.C. Wills, 1                                    13.00
+
+Ironton. Mrs. C.E. Markham                                      1.00
+
+Kansas City. M. Marty                                          10.00
+
+
+KANSAS, $99.55.
+
+Atchison. Cong. Ch.                                             8.12
+
+Highland. Miss Annie Kloss, _for Student
+  Aid, Fisk U._                                                 8.00
+
+Topeka. First Cong. Ch.                                        76.42
+
+Wabaunsee. First Church of Christ                               7.00
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $48.15.
+
+Blyville. Cong. Ch.                                             2.90
+
+Clarks. John Parker                                             4.00
+
+Greenwood. Mrs. C.A. Mathis, 10; Cong. Ch., 2.90               12.90
+
+Hastings. Cong. Ch.                                            14.00
+
+Sutton. First Cong. Ch.                                        14.35
+
+
+NORTH DAKOTA, $25.00.
+
+Fort Abercrombie. "Thank Offering"                             25.00
+
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA, $36.13.
+
+Faulkton. Rev. Pliny B. Fisk and Wife                           3.00
+
+Huron. First Cong. Ch.                                         25.87
+
+Lake Preston. Cong. Ch.                                         7.26
+
+
+WASHINGTON, $10.00.
+
+Walla Walla. Pres. A.J. Anderson                               10.00
+
+
+OREGON, $3.50.
+
+Myrtle Point. C.C. Stoddard                                     2.50
+
+Salem. Joseph Fry                                               1.00
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, $100.00.
+
+----. "A Friend in California," to const. Charles H.
+  Abernethy and Miss Helen Abernathy L.M.'s                   100.00
+
+Saratoga. Women's Missy Soc. First Cong. Ch., Pkg.
+  Patchwork, _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+
+DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $288.28
+
+Washington. First Cong. Ch.                                   188.28
+
+Washington. "A friend," _for Theo. Dept. Howard U._           100.00
+
+
+KENTUCKY, $12.00.
+
+Lexington. Prof. Fred W. Foster, 5; "A Friend", 5;
+  Miss Lena V. Lowell, 2                                       12.00
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $95.09.
+
+Harriman. "Friends," by Rev. G.S. Pope                         24.48
+
+Nashville. Manager Jubilee Singers, _for Fisk U._              32.00
+
+Pleasant Hill. "Two Friends," by Rev. B. Dodge, _for
+  Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                           33.00
+
+Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.                                        5.61
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $86.11.
+
+High Point Cong. Ch.                                            1.00
+
+Nalls. Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                1.38
+
+Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                          68.73
+
+Wilmington. Miss M. Lewis, _for Home, Wilmington, N.C._        15.00
+
+
+GEORGIA, $19.84.
+
+Thomasville. Sab. Sch. of Normal and Industrial Sch.,
+  _for Indian M., Fort Berthold, N.D._                         18.50
+
+Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., 64c.; Mrs. Sengstacke's
+  Miss's Band, 70 cents                                         1.24
+
+
+ALABAMA, $12.46.
+
+Talladega. Cong. Ch.                                           12.46
+
+
+FLORIDA, $2.00.
+
+Georgiana. Mr. & Mrs. F.W. Munson                               2.00
+
+
+LOUISIANA, $21.85.
+
+New Orleans. Straight University Ch., 11.85;
+  Watson Jones, 4                                              15.85
+
+Woman's Missionary Union of La., by Mrs. C.S.
+  Shattuck, Treasurer, _for Women's Work_:
+
+    New Iberia. Belle Place Aux.                 1.00
+
+    New Orleans. University Ch. Aux.             5.00
+                                                 ----           6.00
+
+
+TEXAS, $2.50.
+
+Dallas. Cong. Ch.                                               2.50
+
+
+HOLLAND, $10.00.
+
+Rotterdam. G.P. Ittman, Jr., _for Gymnasium, Fisk U._          10.00
+
+
+EAST AFRICA, $4.00.
+
+Kamdini. Miss Nancy Jones, _for Fisk U._                        4.00
+                                                          ----------
+
+Donations                                                 $16,305.52
+
+Estates                                                     1,488.45
+                                                          ----------
+                                                          $17,794.97
+
+
+TUITION, $4,740.42.
+
+Lexington, Ky. Tuition                         228.75
+
+Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition                      223.45
+
+Athens, Tenn. Tuition                            3.50
+
+Crossville, Tenn. Tuition                       42.50
+
+Deer Lodge, Tenn. Tuition                       23.72
+
+Jellico, Tenn. Tuition                          39.90
+
+Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition                        11.82
+
+Memphis, Tenn. Tuition                         513.75
+
+Nashville, Tenn. Tuition                       647.08
+
+Pine Mountain, Tenn. Tuition                    61.65
+
+Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition                    33.15
+
+Chapel Hill, N.C. Tuition                        5.50
+
+Troy, N.C. Tuition                              18.00
+
+Wilmington, N.C. Tuition                       159.50
+
+Charleston, S.C. Tuition                       262.00
+
+Greenwood, S.C. Tuition                         96.30
+
+Atlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch., Tuition              153.75
+
+Macon, Ga. Tuition                             412.35
+
+McIntosh, Ga. Tuition                           46.66
+
+Savannah, Ga. Tuition                          166.00
+
+Thomasville, Ga. Tuition                        68.45
+
+Anniston, Ala. Tuition                          60.00
+
+Athens, Ala. Tuition                            75.10
+
+Mobile, Ala. Tuition                           220.92
+
+Selma, Ala. Tuition                             82.85
+
+Talladega, Ala. Tuition                        170.70
+
+Meridian, Ala. Tuition                          90.50
+
+Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition                        146.50
+
+New Orleans, La. Tuition                       489.50
+
+Austin, Tx. Tuition                            186.57
+
+                                              -------       4,740.42
+
+
+United States Government for the Education of Indians       4,275.38
+
+Total for April                                           $26,810.77
+                                                          ==========
+
+
+SUMMARY
+
+Donations                                                 117,815.96
+
+Estates                                                   102,668.08
+                                                         -----------
+
+                                                         $220,484.04
+
+Income                                                      4,262.91
+
+Tuition                                                    27,469.74
+
+United States Government for the Education of Indians      13,221.45
+                                                         -----------
+
+Total from Oct. 1 to April 30                            $265,438.14
+                                                         ===========
+
+
+FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+Subscriptions for April                                       $45.34
+
+Previously acknowledged                                       537.38
+                                                             -------
+
+Total                                                        $582.72
+                                                             =======
+
+
+H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
+Bible House, N.Y.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+    <a name="page_i" id="page_i"></a><span class="newpage">[pg
+
+i]</span>
+    <h1>The American Missionary</h1>
+    <hr class="short" />
+    <center>
+      June, 1890.
+    </center>
+    <center>
+      VOL. XLIV. NO. 6
+    </center>
+
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+<h3>CONTENTS</h3>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>EDITORIAL.
+  <ul>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#removal">Removal</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#drstorrs">Dr. Storrs on the Negro Problem</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#missionaries">Missionaries to Alaska</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#nutshell">In a Nutshell</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#higher">Higher Education of the Colored People</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#spring">Spring Conferences</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#mississippi">Mississippi Immigrants</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#notes">Notes from New England</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#music">Music's Mission</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#items">Items</a></div></li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>THE SOUTH.
+  <ul>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#school">Our School Work</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#church">Our Church Work</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#revival">Revival at Wilmington, N.C.</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#ballard">Ballard School, Macon, Ga.</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#dreary">Dreary Picture of Place and People</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#report">Report from Mountain Schools</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#kings">The King's Daughters Society</a></div></li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>THE INDIANS.
+  <ul>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#skokomish">Our S'kokomish Mission</a></div></li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>THE CHINESE.
+  <ul>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#jottings">Jottings</a></div></li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+  <ul>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#paragraphs">Paragraphs&mdash;State Missionary Unions</a></div></li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
+  <ul>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#letter">Letter from a Teacher</a></div></li>
+    <li><div class="smcap"><a href="#womans">Woman's State Organizations</a></div></li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li><a href="#receipts">RECEIPTS.</a>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+
+<hr class="short" />
+<h4>NEW YORK:<br />
+Published By The American Missionary Association<br />
+Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.</h4>
+
+<div class="center">Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.<br />
+Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.<br /><br /></div>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+<a name="page_ii" id="page_ii"></a><span class="newpage">[pg ii]</span>
+<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2>
+
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">President, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.</span></div>
+
+<div class="center"><br /><i>Vice-Presidents.</i><br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> A.J.F. Behrends</span>, D.D., N.Y.<br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> Alex. McKenzie</span>, D.D., Mass.<br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> F.A. Noble</span>, D.D., Ill.<br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> D.O. Mears</span>, D.D., Mass.<br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> Henry Hopkins</span>, D.D., Mo.<br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center"><br /><i>Corresponding Secretaries.</i><br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> M.E. Strieby</span>, D.D., <i>Bible House, N.Y.</i><br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> A.F. Beard</span>, D.D., <i>Bible House, N.Y.</i><br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> F.P. Woodbury</span>, D.D., <i>Bible House, N.Y.</i><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center"><br /><i>Recording Secretary.</i><br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> M.E. Strieby</span>, D.D., <i>Bible House, N.Y.</i><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center"><br /><i>Treasurer.</i><br />
+<span class="smcap">H.W. Hubbard</span>, Esq., <i>Bible House, N.Y.</i><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center"><br /><i>Auditors.</i><br />
+<span class="smcap">Peter McCartee.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Chas. P. Peirce.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center"><br /><i>Executive Committee.</i><br />
+<span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>, Chairman.<br />
+<span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>, Secretary.<br /><br />
+
+<i>For Three Years.</i><br />
+<span class="smcap">S.B. Halliday,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Samuel S. Marples,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Charles L. Mead,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Elbert B. Monroe.</span><br /><br />
+
+<i>For Two Years.</i><br />
+<span class="smcap">J.E. Rankin,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Wm. H. Ward,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">J.W. Cooper,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">John H. Washburn,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Edmund L. Champlin.</span><br /><br />
+
+<i>For One Year.</i><br />
+<span class="smcap">Lyman Abbott,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Chas. A. Hull,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Albert J. Lyman.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center"><br /><i>District Secretaries.</i><br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> C.J. Ryder</span>, <i>21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass.</i><br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> J.E. Roy</span>, D.D., <i>151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill.</i><br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> C.W. Hiatt</span>, <i>64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.</i><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center"><br /><i>Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.</i><br />
+Rev.<span class="smcap"> Chas. W. Shelton.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center"><br /><i>Secretary of Woman's Bureau.</i><br />
+Miss <span class="smcap">D.E. Emerson</span>, <i>Bible House, N.Y.</i><br />
+</div>
+
+<h4>COMMUNICATIONS</h4>
+
+<p>Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the
+Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the
+Treasurer.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</h4>
+
+<p>In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent
+to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York, or, when more
+convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House,
+Boston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., or 64 Euclid Ave.,
+Cleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.</p>
+
+
+<p><b><span class="smcap">Notice to Subscribers.</span></b>&mdash;The date on the "address label," indicates the
+time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on
+label to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made
+afterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send
+early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address
+and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers
+may be correctly mailed.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h4>
+
+<p>"I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of &mdash;&mdash; dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in &mdash;&mdash; days after my decease to the person who,
+when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American
+Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the
+direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its
+charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by three
+witnesses.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+<a name="page171" id="page171"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 171]</span>
+<h2><span class="smcap">the American Missionary</span>.</h2>
+<table width="50%" summary="Title" align="center">
+  <tr>
+    <td align="left" width="25%"><b>Vol. XLIV.</b></td>
+    <td align="center" width="50%"><b>June, 1890.</b></td>
+     <td align="right" width="25%"><b>No. 6.</b></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="mid" />
+<h3>American Missionary Association.</h3>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3><a name="removal" id="removal"></a>REMOVAL.</h3>
+
+
+<p><b>The Rooms of the American Missionary Association are now in the Bible
+House, New York City. Correspondents will please address us accordingly.</b></p>
+
+<p><b>Visitors will find our Rooms on the sixth floor of the Bible House,
+corner Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue; entrance by elevator on Ninth
+Street.</b></p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="drstorrs" id="drstorrs"></a>DR. STORRS, ON THE NEGRO PROBLEM.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Not long since Rev. R.S. Storrs, D.D., preached a sermon in his own
+pulpit, presenting the claims of the American Missionary Association for
+the annual collection in its behalf from the Church of the Pilgrims,
+Brooklyn, N.Y. This sermon appeared in print in one of the daily papers,
+and attracted the attention of a benevolent gentleman deeply interested in
+the Christian education of the colored people, who was so impressed with
+the great value of the address, that he has furnished the Association with
+the means to print a large edition for general circulation. This we have
+done, and we presume that already, many of our readers have had the
+opportunity of reading this eminently wise and timely utterance on one of
+America's greatest problems. Should any one desire an extra copy, we will
+gladly furnish it on application.</p>
+
+<p>Although the discourse has had large circulation, we cannot resist the
+temptation to extract a few of its forcible utterances on some very
+important points.</p>
+
+<blockquote><p>Permanent popular liberties have their only sure foundation in
+sound moral conditions practically universal. We must secure
+these among those to whom we have given the ballot, and who are
+to be henceforth citizens with ourselves. Otherwise, we are
+<a name="page172" id="page172"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 172]</span>building our splendid political house on the edges of the
+pestilential swamp from which fatal miasmatic odors are rising
+all the time. Yes, we are building our house on piles driven into
+the thick ooze and mud of the pestilential swamp itself. We are
+building our cities, which we think are so splendid, and which
+are so in fact, as men built Herculaneum and Pompeii, on a shore
+which ever and anon trembled with earthquake, over which was hung
+the black flag of Vesuvius, and down upon which rolled, in time,
+the lava floods that burned and buried them.</p>
+
+<p>We have got to meet this immense problem, which is not far off,
+but right at hand; which is not a problem of theory, or of
+distant history, but of practice and fact; and which concerns
+not the well-being alone, but the very life of the nation. Noble
+men and women at the South are engaged in it already, with all
+their hearts; and we must help, mightily! It would be the
+craziest folly of the age for us to be indifferent to it.</p>
+
+<p>Some men may say, perhaps, "But this is a work that cannot be
+done. It is too radical and vast to be hopefully attempted."
+Nonsense! There is no work for the kingdom of God and the glory
+of His name, which cannot be done! With the Gospel in our hand,
+we can do everything.</p>
+
+<p>There has been a good beginning made already. This Society, to
+which we are to contribute to-day, the American Missionary
+Association, has four established colleges, three of which are
+entirely supported by itself, have been founded by it and are
+carried on by it; and the fourth very largely so. It has
+multitudes of high schools, normal schools and primary schools.</p>
+
+<p>First of all, we want men trained, and women too, in the
+knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ, and then to have them
+teaching others. And that is precisely the line along which the
+Society to which we are to contribute to-day, as we have done
+gladly and largely heretofore, is carrying its incessant
+operation.</p>
+
+<p>Now I affirm absolutely that if ever there was a work of God on
+earth, this is his work! If there was ever anything to which the
+American Christian people are called, they are called to this. If
+there was ever a great opportunity before the Christian church,
+here it is.</p>
+
+<p>Ah, my friends, don't say "It is too great a work." It is going
+to be done! You and I may do or may not do our part in it. It is
+going to be done!</p></blockquote>
+
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="missionaries" id="missionaries"></a>MISSIONARIES TO ALASKA.</h3>
+
+
+<p>As announced in the last number of the MISSIONARY, we have appointed
+two men as missionary teachers for the new station to be opened at
+Point Prince of Wales, Alaska. The names of these brethren are H.R.
+Thornton, of Hampden Sydney, Virginia, and W.T. Lopp, of Valley City,
+Indiana. The credentials furnished by these young men are very
+satisfactory, and they enter upon the field with the full realization
+of its difficulties and even dangers, and yet, cheerfully trusting
+themselves to the hand of God, are ready to go forward with undaunted
+faith. We bespeak for them the prayers of God's people. It is expected
+that they will leave home about the middle of May and sail from San
+Francisco June 1st. Dr. Sheldon Jackson and Dr. Pond will aid them in
+providing materials for the building and the necessary outfit. They
+will, therefore, be well provided for, though long months must elapse
+before they can again have communication with the civilized world.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+<a name="page173" id="page173"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 173]</span>
+<h3><a name="nutshell" id="nutshell"></a>IN A NUTSHELL.</h3>
+
+<h4><i>WHICH IS THE WISER WAY?</i></h4>
+
+
+<p>There are some people who seem to see only the ignorance and vice of
+the Negro, and the inveterate race-prejudice against him; or at least
+they appear to be so occupied in dilating upon these hindrances that
+they have no time to devote to their removal, and, so far as their
+influence goes, they discourage others from doing anything.</p>
+
+<p>On the other hand there are those who, while they see all these
+difficulties, only find in them the strongest incentives to the most
+earnest efforts to relieve the Negro from them. Which of these two
+classes is the wiser?</p>
+
+<p>Some persons propose as the solution of the race problem,
+disfranchisement; and they point to the bad legislation of the blacks
+in South Carolina and Louisiana a quarter of a century ago, when
+scarcely any of them could read, and almost none owned property. On the
+other hand, there are those that are industriously trying to educate
+the blacks and inspiring them to the acquisition of property, and not
+in vain. More than two millions of the blacks can now read, and more
+than two hundred million dollars' worth of property is now owned by
+them. They are thus being prepared to vote wisely.</p>
+
+<p>Which of these two classes of persons is solving this problem to the
+best purpose?</p>
+
+<p>There are other persons, in Congress and out, urging the deportation of
+the blacks to Africa, a thing impossible to be done, and, if possible,
+it would be harmful to those that were sent, as well as useless to
+benighted Africa. On the other hand, there are those who are training
+the colored people of this country in education, industrial habits and
+stable Christian character, thus preparing them as missionaries to
+Africa.</p>
+
+<p>Which of these two classes has the wiser theory?</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="higher" id="higher"></a>HIGHER EDUCATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE.</h3>
+
+
+<p>The eagerness of our colored population for education is strikingly
+shown in the reports given on another page from our institutions in the
+South&mdash;reports of over-crowded rooms, and students dismissed by scores,
+and even hundreds, for want of accommodations.</p>
+
+<p>We call special attention to the report from Fisk University, in
+reference to the higher grades of education. It will be seen that, even
+in that place, a relatively small number are in the higher classes, and
+yet there is a sufficient number of these to indicate that some of the
+pupils are seeking what is absolutely essential to the race, to wit,
+that some should have the best education attainable.</p>
+
+<p>While it is true of this race as of all others, that the masses can
+receive only primary training in letters and in industry, there must be
+some <a name="page174" id="page174"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 174]</span>of their number who can be leaders in thought and influence. No
+race can make progress without such leaders, who can command the line
+of march. There must be the inspiration that comes from the success of
+the leaders. Hooker's men did not ascend Lookout Mountain in a steady
+line. There were some far ahead of others, cheering and encouraging
+those following at greater or less distances, till at length the whole
+array stood on the brow, and thus won their position.</p>
+
+<p>The warfare is different, but human nature is the same. The Negroes are
+no more of equal capacity than white men, and there is just the same
+call for differences in their attainments in scholarship and in general
+influence. And if those advanced in scholarship shall have Christian
+character as well as education, it will render their leadership all the
+more safe for their people and the nation.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="spring" id="spring"></a>SPRING CONFERENCES AND CHURCH WORK.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Five of our Conferences in the South have held their spring meetings.
+The reports we have had from them indicate that they were of unusual
+interest. Almost without exception they are pronounced to have been
+the best ever held. The high character of the sermons, addresses and
+discussions shows that these ministers are fit leaders of the people.
+Their reports of the progress of the work among the churches is
+encouraging. On another page of the MISSIONARY will be found some brief
+sketches of revival scenes and of individual experience and effort.
+This branch of the work of the Association deserves and will receive
+increased attention and assistance.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="mississippi" id="mississippi"></a>MISSISSIPPI IMMIGRANTS.</h3>
+
+
+<p>We alluded in a recent number of the MISSIONARY to the attractive
+advertisements of railroad and immigrant companies in the South, and we
+expressed the fear that many colored people might find the change to be
+disappointing. But the process goes on, and the rich bottom-lands in
+the State of Mississippi are attracting many hundreds and thousands of
+new settlers. Perhaps there is no better place to which they can go,
+for there are no better lands in the South. The great point is whether
+these people shall be herded together in rude homes, tilling the soil
+without skill, and rearing their children in ignorance and vice. It is
+the part of Christian wisdom and the duty of the Christian churches of
+this land to see that the people in this densely-packed and fertile
+region shall be promptly met with the means of Christian education. Our
+school at Tougaloo should be enabled to meet in some degree the
+opportunity it has to prepare and furnish preachers and teachers for
+this growing population; and schools and churches should be multiplied
+to meet the emergency.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+<a name="page175" id="page175"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 175]</span>
+<h3><a name="notes" id="notes"></a>NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.</h3>
+
+<h5>BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.</h5>
+
+
+<p>Nothing stimulates to good deeds more effectively than good deeds
+themselves. I copy the following notice, which was circulated on a
+neatly printed sheet among the members of a certain church in Boston:</p>
+
+<blockquote>The "Felice" circle of "King's Daughters" will hold a sale for
+the benefit of the Williamsburg Academy, established for the
+education of the "Mountain Whites" in Kentucky, on Friday,
+March 21, from 8 to 10 P.M., and on Saturday, March 22, from 3
+to 10 P.M., at Miss Maxwell's, 37 Allen Street, Boston.
+Admission 10 cents.</blockquote>
+
+<p>The enthusiastic leader of this circle of "King's Daughters" thought
+that possibly she might raise $30 and so constitute one of their number
+a Life Member of the American Missionary Association. Imagine our
+surprise and delight when, as the result of this effort, $125 were
+brought in, as their splendid offering to this work!</p>
+
+<p>Take another fact of unusual interest in the religious life in New
+England. Five leading pastors here in Boston chose a particular
+Sabbath, upon which they would each preach upon the Negro Problem.
+Several sermons were reported at length in our daily journals, and
+aroused much interest and comment. One found its way down into the
+South, and was commented upon by a Southern editor in true Southern
+style. Hard words were used with the recklessness that characterizes
+Southern editors, and often Northern as well. The funny thing about it
+was, that two gentlemen of the same name, who are both ministers and
+reside in Boston, were confused in this comment. The one, who had
+recently been South, but who did not preach the sermon, was read a
+severe lecture, because after partaking of the hospitality of the
+Southern people, he had spoken in so severe terms of them. It was an
+amusing blunder, but illustrates the fact that more and more even the
+Southern editor is coming to feel the importance of Northern criticism.
+It is a very hopeful sign. It is sometimes said that time will settle
+these monstrous inequalities that prevail in the South, but time never
+settles anything. Mischievous forces only increase in power, the longer
+they are permitted to operate. There must be set in operation
+beneficent forces, in order to make the element of time useful.
+Agitation is needed, patriotic, prayerful agitation, and such united
+effort as was made in these Boston pulpits, helps in this agitation.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<p>The new book which comes from the pen of G.W. Cable, under the title of
+"The Negro Question," puts old truth in a new dress, and renders it
+more attractive and presentable. If any man has the right to write upon
+this "Negro Question," it is Mr. Cable. If I had to prepare a liturgy
+for the Congregational churches, I would put in it the following
+petition: "From the superficial views and misleading statements of
+tourists through the South, or those who reside in a single locality,
+good Lord, deliver us!" <a name="page176" id="page176"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 176]</span>Mr. Cable is not of either of these classes. He speaks from an intimate
+acquaintance with, and a long residence in, the South; better than
+this, he is familiar with the whole territory, and not with a single
+locality simply. This little book ought to be in the hands of every
+conscientious student of this Southern problem. Take a single
+quotation:</p>
+
+<p>"To be governed merely by instincts is pure savagery. All civilization
+is the result of subordinating instinct to reason, and to the
+necessities of peace, amity and righteousness. To surrender to
+instinct, would destroy all civilization in three days. If, then, the
+color-line is the result of natural instincts, the commonest daily
+needs of the merest civilization require that we should ask ourselves,
+is it better or worse to repress or cherish this instinct, and this
+color-line?" There are forces at work, regenerative and ennobling, that
+will lead the Southern white people to be ashamed of their attitude
+toward the Negroes, and not the least of these are the life and works
+of Mr. Cable.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<p>A letter came into my hand, when I was in the South, which is not only
+a commentary, but also throws a ray of sunlight where there is much
+darkness. It was a letter from an old mistress to her former slave. He
+is now a successful business man in Chattanooga. This earnest,
+Christian woman, rising above her prejudices, wrote her former slave a
+cordial invitation to visit her in her home. Her husband, his old
+master, had died in the Confederate service. She had seen her servants
+taken away from her through the success of the Union armies. Her
+property had been depleted, and her fertile plantation overrun by the
+loyal troops. It must have been with great sadness and a bitter heart,
+that she looked out upon this ruin, wrought as she believed, throughout
+the invading of the sacred soil of Virginia. But in these years that
+have passed, this bitterness has largely gone, and this sweet,
+Christian letter comes to her former slave. The ex-slave told me with
+tears in his eyes that he paid her this visit, and that she welcomed
+him, not to the Negro quarters, nor to the kitchen-chamber, but to her
+best guest-chamber, and said: "I want you to feel that you are welcome
+to the best hospitality of my home." "And she treated me almost as
+tenderly as she would one of her own sons," said the colored man. And
+so light is coming, little by little.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Haygood expresses a regret that the white women of the South are so
+slow to appreciate the importance of the moral elevation of the
+Negroes, and so slow to join hands with their Northern sisters in his
+education. But such facts as this kind, Christian letter furnishes,
+lead us to hope and to believe that better times are coming, and that
+the Southern Christians, interested as they are in the Negro in Africa,
+will, little by little, appreciate and minister more and more to the
+terrible need of the Negro in South Carolina and Alabama.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<a name="page177" id="page177"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 177]</span>
+<h3><a name="music" id="music"></a>MUSIC'S MISSION.</h3>
+
+<h5>BY REV. E.N. ANDREWS, HARTFORD, WIS.</h5>
+
+
+<p>Suggested by the following words by Rev. B.A. Imes in the May
+<span class="smcap">Missionary</span>:</p>
+
+<blockquote>"The Mozart Society at Fisk treated us to an excellent
+rendering of Haydn's great oratorio, 'The Creation.' Many came
+over from the city (Nashville),&mdash;whites from the "best
+families," all crowding in, listening, wondering, enjoying!
+How the music of those well-tuned instruments and voices
+caught us up and carried us away! Color-line melted and faded
+out. How we wished the politicians all might have been brought
+under that magic spell of solos and choruses!"</blockquote>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i-4">O Music, with thy wand celestial, touch<br /></span>
+<span>The hearts of men, and by thy alchemy<br /></span>
+<span>Divine, resolve, remelt, aye, e'en recast<br /></span>
+<span>The thought and very being! Selfish man,<br /></span>
+<span>So filled with prejudice and hate hath need,<br /></span>
+<span>O heavenly messenger, of all thy aid.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>And as thy votaries in anthems sing<br /></span>
+<span>With the immortal Haydn, and do praise<br /></span>
+<span>Creative Wisdom, Who, of one blood made<br /></span>
+<span>All Nations for to dwell on earth in love,<br /></span>
+<span>Then let celestial fires descend and burn<br /></span>
+<span>Complete, the offering of the lips, and purge<br /></span>
+<span>The dross of caste and hate from every soul!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>This do, for Satan hath his spectrum set<br /></span>
+<span>Before the door of human hearts and cast<br /></span>
+<span>Upon the screen the separated lines<br /></span>
+<span>Of black and red and yellow&mdash;white forsooth,<br /></span>
+<span>While these should mingle in that glorious Sun<br /></span>
+<span>That shines alike on all, impartially.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>Then come, O Music, re-resolve the lines,<br /></span>
+<span>These color-lines, and let the sun's pure ray<br /></span>
+<span>Beam forth in unobstructed light and love,<br /></span>
+<span>Transmuting, by his touch, these human hearts,<br /></span>
+<span>Till they shall mirror forth the Golden Rule.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="items" id="items"></a>ITEMS.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Everywhere the colored contestants in Civil Service examinations
+succeed admirably in their work. In March just past, there was a
+competitive examination held in the Custom House at Newark, N.J., for
+clerkships. Out of forty-three contestants, Mr. J.N. Vandewall, a well
+known young colored man, <a name="page178" id="page178"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 178]</span>stood No. 1, 96 per cent. There was only one
+other colored contestant, Mr. G.W. Harris. He stood fifth, with an
+average of 86 per cent.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. A.C. Garner, our colored representative in the Chicago Theological
+Seminary, passed an excellent examination last week, and received
+praise not only from his Professors but from his student friends as
+well. Out of a class of forty, he was one of seven chosen by the
+Professor of Elocution to represent the class in oratory at the closing
+exercises held last week.</p>
+
+<p>During the recent illness of one of our teachers in the South, the
+pastor of the Church called every Sunday for volunteers as watchers
+during the week. There was always a ready response from the church
+members. The teacher relates that before leaving him in the morning,
+these watchers would almost invariably kneel down by his bedside and
+offer up earnest, fervent prayers for his recovery. He was impressed
+with the simple faith and trust in God of these colored Christians,
+their belief in prayer and the contrast between them and an equal
+number of white brethren under the same circumstances.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h2>THE SOUTH.</h2>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="school" id="school"></a>OUR SCHOOL WORK.</h3>
+
+<h4>PROGRESS&mdash;OVER-CROWDING.</h4>
+
+
+<p>From Wilmington, N.C.&mdash;Instead of sixty pupils as a year or two ago,
+we now have over ninety, and next year the number will be fully one
+hundred or more, if we have room. The classes are very large.</p>
+
+<p>From Grand View, Tenn.&mdash;The classes are full and the accommodations
+inadequate. The school numbers one hundred and eleven. It is necessary
+to crowd four boys into each room of the Boys' Hall. Four boys are
+boarding themselves in a shackly log building at the foot of the hill.
+Their grit is admirable.</p>
+
+<p>From Tougaloo, Miss.&mdash;Both the dormitories are crowded. The Ladies'
+Hall is supposed to accommodate seventy-five girls. One hundred and six
+are crowded into it to-day. We have turned away nearly one hundred more
+because we had not room for them. Every indication is that the crowd of
+applicants will be greater next year than ever. Already applications
+are coming in. The American Missionary Association has the lead in
+Mississippi to-day.</p>
+
+<p>From Marion, Ala.&mdash;We need another grade established. Our primary has
+numbered nearly or quite one hundred pupils. The average attendance <a name="page179" id="page179"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 179]</span>has
+been large and the school-room over-crowded. Three grades are now
+virtually working in the primary department. We may look for a large
+increase of attendance in all grades next year.</p>
+
+<p>From Florence, Ala.&mdash;We need a building if the school is to be
+continued. We are now inconveniently crowded, one hundred and sixty
+children in a 20 x 40 room, with all the teaching to be done in the same.
+To fail in giving us a building will certainly narrow our usefulness in
+this field. Our school is constantly increasing in popularity. We can
+safely count on an enrollment of over two hundred next year, with
+someplace to accommodate them.</p>
+
+<p>From Meridian, Miss.&mdash;The work of the school is hindered by lack of
+room. We have enrolled this year two hundred and thirty two pupils, and
+many have been turned off because we could not seat them. We opened in
+December of 1888 with twenty-eight pupils. A school for more advanced
+pupils is needed in this part of Mississippi. We have thirty young
+people in school who come from the five adjoining counties. They are
+boarding in good families and I have every reason to believe that they
+have used their time and opportunities well; most of them are this
+summer to teach.</p>
+
+<p>From Straight University, N.O.&mdash;It has been a golden year for Straight
+University. Financially it has been our best year. A larger proportion
+of students able to pay came to us. We want to grow, and have every
+opportunity to do so save that our quarters are too small. We have
+turned away during the year probably two hundred applicants, many of
+them for the boarding department. We have had to put cots in nearly all
+the rooms, packing them too full for comfort, as it was very hard to
+say No! to young people who came hundreds of miles and begged tearfully
+for admission. The school has grown during the last eight years from
+two hundred to six hundred, and only is not one thousand because we had
+no room for them. Our graduates are filling important positions all
+over the South. Several are Superintendents in Texas, Kansas,
+Mississippi and Louisiana. One holds an important office in Honduras;
+others are doing good work in Cuba and Mexico. Eight are filling
+important positions in this city. We have no trouble in getting
+positions for our young people. Indeed, we cannot supply as fast as
+demanded. Often as many as twenty are called for when we have none to
+send.</p>
+
+<p>From Fisk University, Nashville.&mdash;The evidence of progress in the
+educational department of the University is found in the very marked
+increase of numbers in the first year of our normal course and of our
+college preparatory department. Last year there were fifteen in the
+first year of the latter department; this year there are <a name="page180" id="page180"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 180]</span>thirty-one.
+Last year there were thirteen in the first year of the normal
+department; this year there are thirty-one. Last year there were in the
+normal, college, preparatory and college departments, one hundred and
+forty-five students; this year there are one hundred and seventy-six.
+At the coming Commencement, we expect to graduate twelve young men, and
+from the normal ten young women and one young man; making a total of
+twenty-three. This is a little more than one-sixth of the entire number
+of present graduates from these departments.</p>
+
+<p>From a Teacher in the Tennessee Mountains:&mdash;Let me tell you of the
+general interest manifest in several of the counties west and north of
+us in attending this school. One of our students visited many cabins
+over the mountains during his vacation, and found that school
+advantages were very scarce and poor. He found poverty and ignorance of
+the world and of books. Some of the people are still using the old-time
+method of kindling their fires by flint and steel instead of matches.
+He met many young people who were thirsting for books and schools, also
+numbers who had struggled up through the darkness to become teachers in
+the neighborhoods. These almost invariably wish to come to our school,
+and say they shall be here as soon as their schools close. Many are too
+poor to come. This is true of a large number of young girls, who would
+come if they could work for their board or in any possible way pay for
+it. Whoever will provide funds to meet the expenses of these neglected
+girls, and place them at our school, and prepare them for the future
+duties of life, will be doing an angelic work, and in the end will do
+the greatest good that can be done to this people. Very much of the
+money spent for this mountain people will be the same as thrown away,
+if this effort is not made to educate the girls.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="church" id="church"></a>OUR CHURCH WORK.</h3>
+
+
+<p>A letter from Rev. F.R. Sims of the Medway Congregational Church,
+McIntosh, Ga., reports that seventy persons have been added to that
+church on confession of faith, within the last four months.</p>
+
+<p>From Knoxville, Tenn.:&mdash;Our attendance at preaching services has been
+large and attentive. On the second Sabbath of March the members and
+friends made special efforts for collection and raised $30. There has
+been a happy increase in the Sunday-school and the prayer meetings.</p>
+
+<p>From Dudley, North Carolina;&mdash;It gives me much pleasure to write you
+that the Lord has abundantly blessed us in our work at this point.</p>
+
+<p>For three weeks a revival, with much success, has been going on in my
+church, the Lord has been with us disturbing the slumber of the
+sleeping Christians and bringing sinners unto repentance. We have ten
+converts and ten more seeking the Lord. We are all very much encouraged
+and are now looking forward for a brighter and more encouraging future.</p>
+
+<p><a name="page181" id="page181"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 181]</span>From Macon, Ga.&mdash;At our last communion we baptized and received four
+into our fellowship on confession of faith. They were all young people
+who are in school and full of promise. Others are expected to unite
+with us next month. There have been seventeen additions to the church
+in the last eleven months. There has been some real progress made by
+the church in all directions. I find in our church meetings a much more
+gentle spirit between the members than when I first came here, and I
+feel that this outward improvement is due to inward spiritual growth. I
+can see this growth in the prayers and testimonies of the weekly prayer
+meetings.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="revival" id="revival"></a>REVIVAL AT WILMINGTON, N.C.</h3>
+
+<h5>PROFESSOR GEORGE A. WOODARD.</h5>
+
+
+<p>The revival which took place in this church the latter part of the
+winter was, in some respects, a model one.</p>
+
+<p>At the close of one of the Wednesday evening prayer meetings, our
+pastor spoke to us with the view of ascertaining if the church were
+ready for special work; then he appointed another prayer meeting for
+Friday night. With faith, and resting upon the promises of God, the
+work was begun the next week. At first the attendance was small; but,
+as the meetings continued, the interest increased, and it became
+necessary to move into the large hall of the school.</p>
+
+<p>It was evident throughout that God was in the work and that the Holy
+Spirit was striving mightily with sinners. A deep, quiet emotion
+pervaded the meetings, in strong contrast with the revivals held in
+many of the colored churches of the city, where the excitement becomes
+intense, and the confusion great. Their meetings are often continued
+until long after midnight, in a crowded, unventilated room, whereas
+ours never closed later than ten o'clock.</p>
+
+<p>As a result of our revival, although other revivals were going on
+amongst the colored people at the same time, upwards of forty were born
+into the Kingdom, for some of whom, many, many prayers had been offered
+up; and all was done in answer to prayer. Among these were several
+cases of interest, two of which I will mention. One is that of an
+intelligent young man employed by the leading dentist of the city, for
+whom he does the mechanical work, which previously had to be sent
+North. Although of excellent character, he was a skeptic, reading the
+writings of Ingersoll, Paine, and others. For years, our teachers had
+taken a special interest in him laboring with him and praying for him,
+that he might come into the light He was induced to attend these
+meetings, and was finally led to believe that these things are so and
+to accept of the Saviour. He has gone earnestly to work to bring in
+other young men, teaches in the Sunday-school and is ready for any
+Christian work.</p>
+
+<p>The other is that of a brawny brick mason, a great sinner, who, while
+earning excellent wages, often failed to bring home sufficient to feed
+and clothe his <a name="page182" id="page182"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 182]</span>children; and when remonstrated with by his wife, would
+answer; "They are your children, you take care of them." All is changed
+now. He gets up early Sunday mornings, assists in getting the children
+ready for church, where the family, all neatly dressed, can be seen
+regularly every Sunday; and in the prayer meeting his voice is usually
+heard.</p>
+
+<p>As a further result of this revival, the church has been greatly
+quickened, the members have been brought closer together in brotherly
+love, and God has given a fresh outpouring of his spirit.</p>
+
+<p>On Easter morning, when a special communion service was held,
+twenty-nine of the new converts were received into our church, amidst
+the most touching and impressive services. But the revival has not
+stopped with the special meetings. After every Sunday evening service,
+an after-meeting has been held, in which several have been led to give
+their hearts to God. All of these meetings have been marked by the
+earnestness with which the church has labored for the salvation of
+those who were yet without, and more fervent prayers never ascended to
+the throne of grace.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="ballard" id="ballard"></a>FACTS ABOUT BALLARD SCHOOL, MACON, GA.</h3>
+
+
+<p>The opening of the New Year saw manifestations of the Holy Spirit in
+our midst, and during the week of prayer there appeared to be a deep
+interest among the pupils. Our prayers seemed to take a new meaning,
+and we felt that they were about to be answered.</p>
+
+<p>Nothing but God's Spirit could have laid the burden of souls upon so
+many hearts at once, or have bidden us speak to different ones, while
+our movements were almost unknown to one another.</p>
+
+<p>In the meetings that were held in the different rooms, and those
+conducted in the High School, which were attended by some of the pupils
+from other grades, a large number expressed a desire to become
+Christians; and there were about sixty who gave their hearts to Christ.
+We rejoice greatly over the work of the Spirit, and have the assurance
+that "there is joy in the presence of the angels of God."</p>
+
+<p>The study of the Bible is an important feature in the school work. One
+hour each week is set apart for it. A visitor, passing from the lower
+grades up, on Friday afternoon, would find Bible work going on in every
+room. The work of the little ones is largely memorizing. The older ones
+have a systematic course. The outlines of Bible history are first
+carefully studied, then the more important events and characters in
+detail. Work in map-drawing is done in connection with all the lessons.</p>
+
+<p>A short time ago, a middle-aged woman applied for admission to our
+school. She had been teaching for several years, but wanted to prepare
+herself for the teachers' examination by taking a short course of
+study. She was permitted to try the sixth grade examination and failed;
+then the fifth with like results; finally she was placed in the fourth
+grade, where it was discovered that she did not know the multiplication
+tables, and evidently <a name="page183" id="page183"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 183]</span>had never heard of division. Her knowledge of
+spelling would not exceed that of an average third grade pupil, and she
+is called one of the best colored teachers in the county from which she
+came.</p>
+
+<p>In the Industrial Department nearly two hundred and fifty girls sew
+from a half hour to an hour every day. Excellent work is being done and
+they are very much interested, some of them begging for the privilege
+of sewing at other times than those designated for that purpose. The
+industrial teacher finds difficulty in keeping the supply of work equal
+to the demand.</p>
+
+<p>Friends have kindly sent us donations of work, and much more will be
+acceptable. Sheets, pillow cases, underclothing or patchwork, basted
+ready for sewing, will be very thankfully received. The work in the
+sewing classes includes patchwork, the making of dresses, all kinds of
+other garments, and quilting.&mdash;<i>From the Ballard Record.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="dreary" id="dreary"></a>A DREARY PICTURE OF PLACE AND PEOPLE.</h3>
+
+<h5>BY AN A.M.A. WORKER.</h5>
+
+
+<p>The country is low and flat, with here and there a small elevation on
+which is a house or log cabin. For miles and miles the country is
+dreary and monotonous. The swamps have a funereal aspect as one looks
+upon the live-oak and cypress, hung with long Spanish moss swaying to
+and fro in the gentle breeze.</p>
+
+<p>Back in these pine woods are hundreds who have never seen the railroad,
+a boat, carriage, or even a mail-bag. Sometimes a few will go to the
+little obscure station on Saturdays and stand gazing at the train as it
+goes thundering by, and many comical remarks are made, as: "Dat am de
+train 'pon which no darkies nor crackers kin ride; dat am all de heben
+dat dem buckra want and am gwine ter git."</p>
+
+<p>Most of the people own their homes, which are poorly constructed of
+pine poles with clapboards to cover the cracks, through which the
+dampness and cold winds make it uncomfortable for the occupants, who
+are seated before a clay chimney and a great lightwood fire. Very few
+of the houses have any windows. A lightwood torch furnishes the light
+by day and by night. Some of them are improving each year, but the most
+of them are satisfied with a roof, and a few acres under cultivation.</p>
+
+<p>The country people seem to be naturally religious, as they are all
+church members, are so from childhood, and are great believers in the
+"sperit," which must be the evil one. They are not denominational in
+the sense in which enlightened people are. The church which allows the
+greatest number of privileges, and the minister who will just be
+preacher and make the most noise and have the greatest number of "big
+meetings," are the most popular. They have a burial service, and
+several months or a year after, they have a funeral service, which is
+always a big time.</p>
+
+<p><a name="page184" id="page184"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 184]</span>C&aelig;sar is considered the best preacher that has ever been in &mdash;&mdash;. He
+comes once a month, and cannot read a chapter; "nor need you expect me
+to get the one-thousandth part of the ingrejience out of this text," is
+his introduction to every sermon, but he can get up steam enough to be
+heard half a mile. One of the preachers wanting to be known as a
+licentiate, said in meeting: "I want you to know that I am a licentious
+preacher,"&mdash;which is the truth.</p>
+
+<p>Our work has done an amount of good, even among those outside, and our
+schools and the two churches have done more good in the country than
+all other work combined. The recent fanaticism in the county did not
+get one believer from our church.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="report" id="report"></a>REPORT FROM MOUNTAIN SCHOOLS.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Our year's work is rapidly drawing to an end. The older scholars are
+doing well and are remaining with us through the year. They certainly
+are gaining in this direction. They become very restless as soon as it
+is "put in crap time." They sigh for the fields and "shovel plow," and
+often look from the school-room windows with a longing for the log
+cabin and the ground surrounding it. In many cases we have to be
+<i>very</i> persuasive to have them remain, yet they seem thankful for
+the advice and remain. The older scholars seem to manifest an earnest
+ambition to obtain situations through the summer, so that they may
+procure clothing and help pay their tuition. We try as far as possible
+to obtain situations for our girls. The better class of the people will
+come to us for help, feeling that our girls have been educated in the
+home and kitchen.</p>
+
+<p>In our temperance meeting last Friday, I asked the question, "What
+would you do if you were forced to take whiskey?" A little girl rose
+and said, "My father asked me to take some and said 'you must.' I said,
+'I can't. God would not be pleased.' He said, 'Well, I 'lows how you're
+'bout right." What a happy girl she was. She knows if she will keep on
+refusing, he will give up strong drink. Our greatest hope is in the
+children.</p>
+
+<p>A poor woman had some articles of clothing to take home with her. I
+offered to wrap her parcel in newspaper. She said, "If you don't care,
+I would like to have that ar paper." She never has a piece except what
+is given her by some kind person. She utterly refused to have the
+parcel wrapped. The people use the papers to keep the cold out. I have
+seen pieces of paper four inches square and parts of letters pasted on
+the boards. We save all the papers we receive, and have assisted in
+making many poor homes comfortable.</p>
+
+<p>There is a good Sunday-school in a neighboring town. The people listen
+very attentively, and seem to be thankful for the Sunday-school and
+church services. The average attendance for the last five Sundays has
+<a name="page185" id="page185"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 185]</span>been forty-two. The thought of leaving this school during the summer is
+a <i>cross</i>. There are fathers and mothers who are present every
+Sabbath. The children show the need of a good school.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h5>FROM MISS M.A. BYE.</h5>
+
+
+<p>Our Christian Endeavor Society interests me very much, as I have given
+more time and thought to that than to anything else outside of school
+work. It has increased in numbers, and the members have for the most
+part gained a great deal in interest and courage, and this term quite
+a number of associate members have become Christians. We are working
+now to send a delegate to the St. Louis Convention, and I anticipate
+great pleasure in watching the effect upon our delegate of the
+enthusiasm of the Convention and the sight of the city, and think it
+will be worth the year's work to be with him, for we hope to send one
+of the boarding boys.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="kings" id="kings"></a>THE KING'S DAUGHTERS SOCIETY.</h3>
+
+
+<p>About a year ago, ten or fifteen girls might have been seen sitting in
+their teacher's room, at Tougaloo University, while she spoke to them
+of forming a society. The members of this society, she said, were to do
+all the good they could in every way they could.</p>
+
+<p>Now, of course, we want a name for our society. If we are going to do
+all the good we can, we are worthy to be called followers of Christ,
+and as he is a King, we call ourselves "King's Daughters." When our
+society began, we had but eight or ten members, but at almost every
+meeting there was some one who wanted to join. The meetings were
+carried on every Sunday evening, and some one of the members was
+appointed to lead the next meeting. During the week we try in every way
+to do something definite to please our King; to go to no place in which
+we would be ashamed to have our King see us, and to keep no company
+with which we would be ashamed to have him see us. Our society
+continued to grow and prosper, and finally the young men concluded to
+organize a King's Sons Society. During the summer the two societies
+held joint meetings. New members were continually joining. As the
+meetings were new to us when we first began, they were not as
+interesting as they grew to be at a later date; but generally the time
+was all occupied. Some one would read a portion of Scripture and offer
+prayer, after which a story would be read or told by one of the
+members, who had prepared it during the week. Then we would tell how we
+had kept our pledge, or in what way we had been helped by being King's
+Daughters. Sometimes, when we had broken our pledge, we would leave off
+our badge for a week.</p>
+
+<p>The first Sunday in every month we have what we call our consecration
+meeting. The President calls the roll and each one answers by giving a
+<a name="page186" id="page186"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 186]</span>verse of Scripture, or her experience as a King's Daughter. The third
+Sunday in every month we elect the officers who are to serve during the
+next month. These consist of President, Vice-President, Secretary, a
+sick committee, whose business it is to visit and help any who are
+sick, and a committee on invitation, whose business it is to find out
+who would like to join our society. They report the names at the next
+meeting. Sometimes we have a question-box into which we put questions
+regarding the society. These are written on small slips of paper and
+read by one of the members. If they are directed to a particular one,
+that person answers them; but if not, any one in the Society answers
+them.</p>
+
+<p>During the school year of 1888, we made a box of clothing to send to
+the Indian mission school in Dakota. We would meet every Saturday
+evening and sew until we had made enough to fill our box. Whenever one
+of us finished a piece we would write our name and pin it on. One of
+our girls wanted to sew a little on every article, so as to have her
+name on all of them. Well, when we had finished our box of presents, we
+each wrote a letter and put into it. We intended to make this a
+Christmas present, but severe snow-storms prevented it from reaching
+its destination in time. They received it about a month after
+Christmas, and the things were divided among the Indian girls. Some of
+them wrote to us, thanking us for the presents which they had received.
+After our society grew to about twenty or thirty, we were divided into
+tens. Each ten had a name given it, such as the Truthful Ten, the Judge
+Not Ten, the Do Without Ten and the Polite Ten. Most of us find it
+hardest to be Judge Not Tens and Truthful Tens.&mdash;<i>From the Tougaloo
+Quarterly.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3>THE INDIANS</h3>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="skokomish" id="skokomish"></a>OUR S'KOKOMISH MISSION.</h3>
+
+<h5>BY DISTRICT SECRETARY J.E. ROY.</h5>
+
+
+<p>The S'kokomish Reservation is at the extreme southwestern corner of the
+Puget Sound, where the S'kokomish River empties in, and is three miles
+square, with five thousand acres, embracing rich bottom land and
+mountain timber land, the river and the sound furnishing the best means
+of transportation to the market. On the place I measured the stumps of
+red cedar that were eight, ten and twelve feet in diameter. The waters
+at hand are of the best for fishing. As we&mdash;Mrs. Roy was with me&mdash;were
+going up from the river where we had been set across after a ten-mile
+mountain drive from Shelton, we saw a Mr. Lo lugging a three-foot
+salmon into the missionary home; and at Olympia, the capital, and
+another point on the sound, the fishmonger told us they did not sell
+such fish by the pound, but by the piece, twenty-five cents each. When,
+in 1855, this reservation was set apart by the treaty, it was for the
+three bands of this tribe and for <a name="page187" id="page187"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 187]</span>the Clallams up at the entrance of
+the Sound, who, because of variance with one of the other bands, never
+left their ancestral habitation to go to the selected spot. The people
+belonging to the Reservation now number about six hundred and twenty.</p>
+
+<p>The handling of the Indians here was one of the first fruits of
+President Grant's Peace Policy, by which the agencies were assigned to
+the several missionary societies, which were to nominate their
+respective agents. This was one of those which were assigned to the
+American Missionary Association. In 1871 the Association nominated to
+this Agency Edwin Eells, Esq., the eldest son of Rev. Gushing Eells,
+D.D., who was one of the mission band that crossed the Rocky Mountains
+in 1838, under commission of the American Board, to be associated with
+Dr. Marcus Whitman's series of Indian Missions. Here is an illustration
+of the wisdom of that policy, which has secured a highly successful
+management in all the secular, educational and religious affairs of the
+Agency, and one that has been continued on through the changes of
+governmental administration, and also one that has resulted in repeated
+promotions, until now Agent Eells has charge of five of the seven
+distinct Reservations in the State of Washington. His present
+headquarters are at the Puyallup Agency, near Tacoma, where he has just
+completed an eight thousand dollar building to displace an old one, for
+the Government Boarding School. In all these five reservations, lands
+have been secured in severalty to the Indians, and largely through his
+persistent devotion to their welfare. For two or three years his father
+had care of the S'kokomish Mission under the American Missionary
+Association, and in 1874, his brother, Rev. Myron Eells, was appointed
+to the same work, in which he still abides. Besides the preaching, the
+care of the Sunday-school and the prayer meetings and the pastoral
+work, in which he gets around among his people as often as once in a
+month, he has also the charge of the Indian Church among the Clallams,
+near New Dunginess, the brethren of that station, in the pastor's
+absence, maintaining stated worship. The people at S'kokomish have
+gotten beyond Government payments; they live on their own allotted
+lands, in cabins or frame houses, wearing citizens' dress, and doing
+business as white men do it. One of Pastor Eells's first Sundays at the
+mission was noted for the celebration of Christian marriage on the part
+of seven or eight couples who had been living together under their
+heathen way of taking up. So they have been shuffling off their
+polygamy. While we were there, a man of middle life came to the
+pastor's house with his first wife, to be married to her after the
+Christian form, having made a satisfactory pecuniary arrangement with
+the second, who was a sister of the first. In this case there were no
+children to complicate settlement. After I had addressed the church
+upon their duty of doing more for the support of their pastor, even as
+I had betimes had to do before in white home missionary churches, the
+several responses were as decorous and assuring as could be desired.</p>
+
+<p><a name="page188" id="page188"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 188]</span>As another advantage of this Grant plan, the Government School and the
+Mission are found to be in entire harmony, the principal, Mr. Foster,
+and his assistants and the industrial teacher all being Christians and
+caring for the moral advancement of their pupils. Nor does the
+missionary administration come in any way to overlie the governmental.
+From the herd of cows kept for the service of the boarding school,
+neither is one set aside for the pastor's family, nor is he allowed to
+buy their milk. He gets his supply from outside. Nor does the preacher
+use from Uncle Sam's wood pile. He buys from the Indians.</p>
+
+<p>Some may wonder how a man in such a field can keep from drying up. Come
+with me into this missionary study. The first thing that strikes you is
+a growth of English ivy, from its root in the earth outside creeping
+through a crack in the siding and climbing up one corner and then
+around the upper corners of the four sides of the room. That evergreen
+wreath is a symbol of the fresh intellectual life in that study, which
+has all the air and fix of a workshop. On the shelves, besides the
+ordinary outfit, there is an extensive geological collection, which
+in its classification and nomenclature shows scientific investigation.
+Then there is a fine cabinet of Indian relics and curios, appropriate
+to the calling of the incumbent: and there is a supply of Indian
+literature, historic and scientific, out of which this student is
+transmuting the essential elements of the Indian problem of the Pacific
+Northwest. And so it is a small library of his own that has thus been
+elaborated. The first is a "History of Indian Missions on the Pacific
+Coast," published by the American Sunday-school Union; and the second
+is "Ten Years at S'kokomish,"&mdash;1874-1884&mdash;published by our own
+Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society. These books would
+make an enrichment of any Sunday-school library, giving the very
+essence of romance and of heroism along with Christian instruction. The
+others are monographs, among them the following:</p>
+
+<p>"Marcus Whitman, M.D.: Proofs of his Work in Saving Oregon to the
+United States, and in promoting the immigration of 1843;" "Justice to
+the Indian;" "Indian Traditions as to Religion;" "Hand of God in the
+History of the Pacific Coast;" "Papers on the Anthropology of the
+Indians of Washington," as published in the Smithsonian Report of
+1886-7. Another such monograph he now has ready for the press&mdash;"God's
+Hand in the Missions to the Indians beyond the Rocky Mountains," a
+paper read at the recent fiftieth anniversary of the organizing of Dr.
+Whitman's church. And beyond all this literary work is the occasional
+supply of destitute white congregations round about, and service as a
+Trustee of the Pacific University in Oregon, and of the Whitman
+College, at Walla Walla, Washington. Surely in literary work, to the
+names of Jonathan Edwards among his Stockbridge Indians, and John Eliot
+among his Naticks, and S.R. Riggs among the Dakotas, and not a few
+others, maybe added this of Myron Eells among the S'kokomish.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<a name="page189" id="page189"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 189]</span>
+<h3>THE CHINESE.</h3>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="jottings" id="jottings"></a>JOTTINGS.</h3>
+
+<h5>BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.</h5>
+
+
+<p>If I were to attempt to place before the readers of the MISSIONARY, in
+such setting as would be needed for a comprehension of them, all the
+interesting minor facts and scenes that pass under my observation in
+our work, there would be no room on its pages for anything else. Let me
+give a few examples of these.</p>
+
+<p>A young Chinaman is being examined with reference to baptism, and is
+asked why he decided to turn from the worship of idols. "God is
+<i>true</i>" is the reply, a very simple reason,&mdash;a trite one possibly;
+but there was something in the tone and emphasis of it which thrilled
+me. I saw the emptyness of heathen worship at a point from which I had
+never looked at it before. A God that is <i>true</i>, that can be
+absolutely trusted! Where will you find one in any heathen Pantheon?
+Conceive now a thoughtful, honest man passing from the timorous worship
+of such gods to the rest and comfort and courage which come from
+knowing and trusting Him who is true, and you will begin to realize
+what that simple answer meant.</p>
+
+<p>"What are your people making such a noise for?" was asked of a Chinese
+brother at Ventura, during the Chinese New Year's Festival. "To scare
+away the evil spirits," was the reply. "And why don't <i>you</i> scare
+them away?" was the next question, for all was quiet at our little
+mission house, "Evil spirits stay away when Holy Spirit comes," was the
+reply. I am not confident that I recall the exact words, but I have
+certainly given the idea, and it meant emancipation for the man that
+uttered it, an entrance into the liberty wherewith Christ makes us
+free.</p>
+
+<p>"When I get discouraged, as I often do," writes a teacher, "I think of
+the five who are studying the Testament, and of a remark one of them
+made to me, 'I love Jesus more all the time when I read about him.'"
+This brother took his religion with him to China, and brought it back
+unharmed.</p>
+
+<p>One of the brethren worked in a hotel where to specially toilsome
+service was added a treatment far from kind. He said to his teacher
+that he remembered how much Jesus had to bear and so he "had patient."
+The wages received he spoke of as the "hardest money" he had earned
+since coming to California, and <i>so</i> he took part of it to buy a
+nice Bible. An American said scoffingly to him: "Are you one of the
+Christian Chinamen?" "Yes," he replied. "I love Jesus; I am not ashamed
+that I love Jesus."</p>
+
+<p>One of our Santa Barbara brethren rents quite a tract of land, much of
+which he devotes to the culture of small fruits. On a visit to his
+place a year or two ago, friends saw strawberry plants heavily laden
+with luscious looking fruit so arranged in front of our brother's door
+as to spell out this sentence, "God loves the earth."</p>
+
+<p><a name="page190" id="page190"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 190]</span>"It seems," said Jee Gam once, "as though I could recall his very
+words, and hear the tones of his voice as he prayed for the conversion
+of his countrymen." It was the closing prayer of a gospel service among
+the Chinese in Oakland. The brother who offered it was a Chinese
+merchant of that city. Two days afterwards he was shot in his own store
+by a Chinaman because he refused to submit to blackmail. A policeman
+hastened to the spot and saw him die, and testified in court that his
+last words were those of prayer to our true God; this testimony, though
+given probably by an ungodly man, being such as to draw tears from many
+who listened. Yet some say there are no real Christian Chinamen; that
+you can't convert a Chinaman; that they are throughout a race of
+hypocrites.</p>
+
+<p>It may not be safe to say <i>every</i> month without exception, though
+that is the impression made upon me, but it is certainly safe to say
+<i>almost</i> every month brings some report to me of pupils beginning
+to believe in Jesus and professing their faith in him. This extract
+from a letter will serve as an example: "I have some very good news for
+you concerning my scholars. Two of them have promised to join the
+Association [i.e. of Christian Chinese] next week. One of them I have
+been praying for especially, for nearly a year.... There are three
+more who, I trust, are born of God, but are not yet brave enough to
+take a stand for him. One says his brother will kill him if he joins in
+Christ's name." And here is a word from another teacher: "Five of the
+brethren unite with the church at the coming communion. I do not feel
+that this is through my effort, as I have not known how to work
+individually. It is the Lord that 'giveth the increase.' Two of them
+have been ready to come into the church for a long time. The others
+show their conversion by face and manner as well as by testimony and
+prayer."</p>
+
+<p>I fear that I have exhausted my space, though I am far from the end of
+possible "jottings." I will close with a few sentences from a letter
+received from a Chinese Christian living at a roadside tavern beyond
+Oroville. "Since I am determined to be a Christian, has very much
+surprised my elder brother. When he heard about I join the Association
+he make a great deal of trouble to me. Then I ask our brothers to pray
+for that matter, till one day I go and entreat him; also, tell him all
+about the gospel of Christ how good for us and redeem us from our sins.
+Then he said, 'Do not talk such things to me; we are Chinese; must keep
+our customs.' I say, 'I cannot keep anything wrong; idol worship is
+against God. Four thousand years ago our Chinese population have no
+idol to worship. Don't you search a thing before you keep it?' Then he
+answer: 'If good then you keep it,' and then I received baptism; then
+do no more persecution to me afterwards." This extract merely hints at
+facts which, if related, would show that for our Chinese Christians at
+least, the days that <i>try</i> men's souls are not yet past.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<a name="page191" id="page191"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 191]</span>
+<h3><a name="paragraphs" id="paragraphs"></a>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</h3>
+
+<h5>MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.</h5>
+
+
+<p>The thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of
+Alabama met with the Congregational Church in Marion, March 31. This
+Union has contributed during the year to the A.M.A. for Indian work, to
+the A.H.M.S. for Bohemian work, besides aiding a missionary in China,
+and one in South Africa. All the auxiliaries have also done good work
+in aiding the churches and the poor in their respective localities. The
+meeting was pleasant and profitable, and the Union starts upon another
+year with the prospect of adding greatly to its strength and
+efficiency.</p>
+
+<p>The first Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Missionary Union, held at New
+Orleans, April 3, was also full of encouragement. The new interest
+awakened, simply by the gathering together to report the progress of
+the year, indicates how much can be accomplished. Not only will the
+missionary cause receive direct benefit, but there will be a reflex,
+healthful influence upon the churches thus represented.</p>
+
+<p>The first Annual Meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Central
+South Association, held in Nashville, Tennessee, April 5, was in all
+respects encouraging. One of the peculiar features of these Southern
+Unions is that the State Association is always likely to meet at a
+school centre, as in this case at Nashville, Tennessee, and the older
+students thus are enthused and stimulated to missionary purpose and
+activity, whether in the ordinary experiences of church life at home,
+or as special missionaries.</p>
+
+<p>There was a good representation of auxiliaries, and encouraging word of
+new ones soon to be received. The interest in the meeting was intense,
+and the reports from the different societies showed a deep and
+heartfelt sympathy with the cause of missions. It was very interesting
+to note how anxiously some of those who represent a people burdened
+with poverty, planned for the work of the coming year, taking for their
+field&mdash;the world. Considering that this Union is only a year old, its
+growth seems remarkable.</p>
+
+<p>The question is sometimes asked, whether the Mountain girls appreciate
+the opportunity of education that is now afforded them. We reply by
+giving extracts from the letter of a pupil obliged to leave school. The
+letter was written to a school-mate, and is but one of many instances
+of the kind.</p>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">My Dearest Friend</span>:&mdash;I would have written sooner, but I thought I might
+get a chance to go to school, and that is why I have delayed so long.
+It is impossible for me to go now, the boys are preparing 'for to make
+a crap,' and I can see how much they are needed at home. We have but
+one horse, and I cannot go alone. Oh! how glad I would be to see my
+teacher. I know I shall never be able to reward her for her kindness to
+me, but the Lord will reward her. I never have met the people who were
+so kind to <a name="page192" id="page192"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 192]</span>me as those people. I still have a desire to get an
+education; sometimes I think I will not get to go to school any more,
+but where there is a will, there is a way, and I know I have a good
+will. My sisters all married before they were twenty. I am twenty-two
+now. I want an education more than I want to marry. My folks tell me I
+have enough education, but I think I know better than they. To be sure,
+I can read and write a little, but that don't satisfy me, I have a hope
+yet that I may still get higher, that is if the Lord is willing. We
+cannot do anything unless the Lord is willing and will help us. Give my
+love to all the girls. Please write and tell me about the school.
+Remember me in your prayers.</p>
+
+<p>Your true friend, &mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&mdash;&mdash;."</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="letter" id="letter"></a>OUR YOUNG FOLKS.</h3>
+
+
+<p><i>Dear Children</i>:&mdash;The first morning I entered my school-room
+South, such a mass of little dark faces as greeted me! At first it
+seemed so strange to me, they all looked alike, but in a short time I
+was able to pick out Simon, and Tommy, and Mollie, and Janie. Most of
+them want to learn, and are quite tidy in their appearance. One of the
+exercises they enjoy most is the singing. It would be hard to find a
+colored boy or girl who does not sing, and many of them have very sweet
+voices. They are able to sing the alto with very little practice. It
+often surprises me to find how well they keep their parts. One day we
+had a very severe shower, and it was so dark we could not see the
+black-boards or see to work, so I let them sing for nearly an hour. All
+over the building, if you could have visited the different rooms, you
+would have enjoyed listening to them. One of their own pieces which
+they like to sing, is "Roll, Jordan, roll." They pronounce it "Jurdon."</p>
+
+<p>Many of the parents are working very hard to give their children an
+education, and I am glad to say that the children themselves are glad
+to learn. One little girl said, "I've got on a <i>terrible</i> bad
+looking shoe, and the big girls out doors were laughing at me
+yesterday, but I thought I'd rather come to school with the bad shoe,
+than stay away a day and not come at all. I pray every day that God
+will help me to do right and be a good girl in school. Last night papa
+was out of a job, and I prayed that he might get another one, and now
+he's got another one." Then looking at her shoes, she said: "I'd rather
+wear these ragged shoes than not to pay for my schooling at all."</p>
+
+<p>And now, children, will you come with me for a little drive? We are
+going in a phaeton with our good horse, Maud. We drive about a mile out
+of the city, cross a little bridge, and finally drive through a
+gateway. The ground is sandy, in some places so white that it almost
+reminds one of snow. The trees are still green. Our attention is
+attracted by a procession <a name="page193" id="page193"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 193]</span>moving slowly forward. There is one carriage
+and the friends, men and women, are walking. The words they are
+chanting show it to be a funeral procession. Every one wears a green
+badge, for most all the colored people belong to some order. Finally
+they come to a stop and gather about the grave. The mourners break out
+into a wail, and they begin to chant the words: "And must my trembling
+spirit glide into a world unknown?" The chant I can never describe, for
+there is no music in it, and we cannot distinguish any tune. Then the
+minister preaches, and they begin another chant. Let us look around a
+little. I am sure you are already interested and surprised at what you
+see. Here is a group of three little graves; on one, we find three
+dolls' heads, a quantity of shells, marbles, dishes and other toys with
+which the children used to play. On another, is a tin kitchen, a bell,
+a doll in a chair, a marble under a sugar-bowl cover, and part of a
+tea-set. On another, that of a grown person, is a long pipe with a
+paper of tobacco, medicine boxes with powders. A little further away we
+find one on which is a tooth-brush, ten medicine bottles, two lamps, a
+basket filled with sand, vases, tumblers, a toy boat made out of bark,
+and pieces of glassware. Among other decorations we find a ball and
+bat, pitchers, bits of colored glass, pill boxes, teapots, etc. But it
+is already growing dark, and Maud is anxious to start; I think you have
+seen enough to make you wonder at the curious customs, and I am sure
+that you want to help them to know a better way.</p>
+
+<p>One day a little girl said to her teacher: "I got religion last night."
+Shall I tell you just here, something of what they mean by "getting
+religion?" It means bad air, late hours, shouting, screaming, and
+general excitement. Sometimes they sit for hours, and go night after
+night saying over and over the same words. When they finally do "get
+religion," they jump up and shout, and run about the church, falling
+into the arms of those standing nearest. I think the children are
+looking for some strange experience. They expect, from what they are
+taught, to see some vision, or hear some voice. I try to show them the
+simple way of salvation by just taking Jesus at his word.</p>
+
+<p>And now let us turn to a brighter scene. One Sunday about a month ago,
+our pastor preached a sermon, which led us to feel that the Lord was
+especially near us, and that we had only to do our part to receive an
+outpouring of God's Spirit. Some of us agreed to pray for this. Then we
+began to pray for our scholars, and to invite them to our meetings. At
+first only a few came, but more kept coming every night, and we kept
+bringing in seats, until the mission room was so full we had to change
+to the large hall up stairs. Every night some would rise for prayers,
+and we would stay and talk with them quietly, and try to show them the
+way to Jesus. I think there are about forty now, who have expressed a
+desire to live a Christian life. Many of them are children and young
+people. Four are boys in my Sabbath-school class. We have held prayer
+meetings for this after school, <a name="page194" id="page194"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 194]</span>and many are glad to come. About twenty
+joined our Christian Endeavor Society as active members, at our last
+consecration meeting.</p>
+
+<p>And now, dear children, do you know that this is all given us in answer
+to prayer? We have simply asked and received. I knew that the home
+friends were praying for us. Their prayers are a constant help. Will
+you not pray this month that these little ones may be kept from
+falling, and that they may grow to be bright and shining lights in the
+world, to lead their own people out of the darkness of sin and
+ignorance?</p>
+
+<p>Sincerely your friend,</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Minnie T. Strout.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3><a name="womans" id="womans"></a>WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.</h3>
+
+<h5><span class="smcap">Co-operating with the American Missionary Association.</span></h5>
+
+<div class="org">
+<div class="center">MAINE.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Aid to A.M.A.</span></div><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Chairman of Committee&mdash;Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">VERMONT.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. A.B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. E.C. Osgood, 14 First Ave., Montpelier.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND.</div>
+<div class="center"><a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Association.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, Mass.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational House, Boston.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Miss Ella A. Leland, 32 Congregational House, Boston.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">CONNECTICUT.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. Francis B. Cooley, Hartford.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">NEW YORK.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., Brooklyn.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, Syracuse.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New York City.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">OHIO.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Box 932, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">INDIANA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. C.B. Safford, Elkhart.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. C. Evans, Indianapolis.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">ILLINOIS.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., Chicago.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">IOWA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>Presidents&mdash;Mrs. T.O. Douglass, Grinnell.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Miss Ella E. Marsh, Box 232, Grinnell.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. M.J. Nichoson, 1513 Main St., Dubuque.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">MICHIGAN.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. George M. Lane, 47 Miami Ave., Detroit.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. Leroy Warren, Lansing.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Greenville.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">WISCONSIN.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. H.A. Miner, Madison.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. C.C. Keeler, Beloit.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">MINNESOTA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Society.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. E.S. Williams, Box 464, Minneapolis.</span><br />
+<a name="page195" id="page195"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 195]</span><span>Secretary&mdash;Miss Gertude A. Keith, 1350 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">NORTH DAKOTA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Society.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">SOUTH DAKOTA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Miss A.A. Noble, Lake Preston.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">NEBRASKA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St., Fremont.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">MISSOURI.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. A.W. Benedict, 3841 Delmar Ave., St. Louis.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. E.H. Bradbury, 3865 Washington Ave., St Louis.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. Louis.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">KANSAS.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Society.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">COLORADO AND WYOMING.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., Colorado Springs, Colorado.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, Wyoming.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">WASHINGTON.</div>
+<div class="center">WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</div>
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. W.E. Dawson, Seattle.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. N.F. Cobleigh, Walla Walla.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. W.R. Abrams, Ellensburg.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. Elijah Cash, 927 Temple St., Los Angeles.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Box 426, Pasadena.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. H.W. Mills, So. Olive St., Los Angeles.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">CALIFORNIA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Society.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. H.L. Merritt, 686 34th St., Oakland.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Miss Grace E. Barnard, 677 21st. St., Oakland.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. J.M. Havens, 13239 Harrison St., Oakland.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">LOUISIANA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. R.C. Hitchcock, New Orleans.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">MISSISSIPPI.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. A.F. Whiting, Tougaloo.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Miss Sarah J. Humphrey, Tougaloo.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Miss S.L. Emerson, Tougaloo.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">ALABAMA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Miss S.S. Evans, 2519 Third Ave., Birmingham.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Miss M.K. Lunt, Selma.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">FLORIDA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Missionary Union of the Central South Association.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. E.M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">NORTH CAROLINA.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh.</span><br /><br />
+
+<div class="center">TEXAS.</div>
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Union.</span></div><br />
+<span>President&mdash;Mrs. S.C. Acheson, 149 W. Woodard St., Denison.</span><br />
+<span>Secretary&mdash;Mrs. Mary A. McCoy, 122 No. Harwood St., Dallas.</span><br />
+<span>Treasurer&mdash;Mrs. C.I. Scofield, Dallas.</span><br /><br />
+</div>
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1" />
+<a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> For the purpose of exact information, we note that
+while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a State body for Mass.
+and R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
+</p><p>
+We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State
+Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association
+be sent to use through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however,
+should be taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary
+Association, since <i>undesignated funds will not reach us</i>.</p></div>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+<div><a name="page196" id="page196"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 196]</span></div>
+<h3><a name="receipts" id="receipts"></a>RECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1890.</h3>
+
+
+<div class="center"><b>THE DANIEL HAND FUND,</b><br />
+<i>For the Education of Colored People.</i><br /><br />
+FROM<br />
+<span class="smcap">Mr. Daniel Hand, Guilford, Conn.</span><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="90%" summary="Income from Daniel Hand Fund">
+<tr><td align='left'>Income for April, 1890</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$960.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Income previously acknowledged</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7,489.85</td></tr>
+<tr><td></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Total</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$8,449.85</td></tr>
+<tr><td></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>=========</td></tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>CURRENT RECEIPTS</h3>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'>MAINE, $175.41.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bangor. Central Ch., 10; Hammond St. Ch., 3.25, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Belfast. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.54</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brewer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.40</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Castine. Y.P.S.C.E., 3.73, and Garments; Helen J. Webster, 2; "Rainbow Band," 1.25, and Sewing Bags, <i>for Student Aid, Chandler Normal Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign="bottom">6.98</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch., <i>for freight to N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Gorham. Childrens Miss'y Soc. in Cong. Ch., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Hiram. "Friends," by Mrs. J.P. Hubbard, 10; Mrs J.P. Hubbard, 5, <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">South Berwick. Two Sab. Sch. Classes, by Mrs. K.B. Lewis, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.34</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Wells. "A Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="2">Woman's Aid to A.M.A., by Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Alfred. Cong. Ch., to const. Mrs. Laura A. Littlefield L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Portland. Ladies' Circle of Second Parish Ch., <i>for Acres Memorial Room, Selma, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>46.65</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>76.65</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />NEW HAMPSHIRE, $657.68.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Amherst Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.30</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc., bal. to const Ambrose D. Aldrich L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.47</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Canaan. Miss Mary A. George</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Durham. Cong. Ch., in part</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Epping. Cong. Ch., 30.42; Mrs. G.N. Shepard's S.S. Class, 3.25.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>33.67</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Epping. Pansy Circle, Cong. Ch. <i>for Student Aid, Williamsburg Academy, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Exeter. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>234.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Gorham. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Hopkinton. Mrs. M.G. Barnard to const. Mary E. Barnard L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Keene. Dea. Metcalf's Sab. Sch. Class, First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Keene. Mrs. K.C. Thayer, <i>for Pleasant Hill. Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Laconia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.27</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Littleton. Cong. Ch., 8.34; John Farr, 5</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.34</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Meriden. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Nashua. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.40</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Pembroke. First Cong. Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Penacook. Jeremiah C. Martin.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Tilton. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">West Concord. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. C.F. Roper L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>34.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">West Concord. Y.L.M. Soc., by Mrs. Bertha R. Roper, <i>for Storrs Sch.</i> and to const. Miss Hattie B. Holmes L.M.</td><td align='right' valign="bottom">30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">West Lebanon. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.48</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />VERMONT, $197.26.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bethel First Cong. Ch., 3.37; Y.P.S.C.E., by Lucy M. Graham, Treas., 1.75</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.12</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brandon. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brattleboro. Central Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>112.61</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brattleboro. Mrs. F.C. Rice, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Cornwall. <i>For freight to McIntosh, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Derby Center. Mrs. R.C. Drisko, Bbl. of C., Freight, 2., <i>for McIntosh Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Dorset. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Essex Junction. Cong. Ch., <i>for Freight to McIntosh, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.80</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">East Dummerston. Mrs. A.A. Dutton, Box of C. <i>for Mclntosh Ga.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Johnson. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 25 Hymn Books <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Montpelier. "F.E.B."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Newport. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.08</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Putney. Ladies' Aid Soc., Bbl of C., <i>for McIntosh Ga.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Saint Johnsbury. Sab. Sch. Class, North Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian Sch'p</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Swanton. C.C. Long</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">West Westminster. Mrs. H.A. Goodhue, <i>for Freight to McIntosh, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.15</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Williamstown. "A Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Worcester. James F. Smith, Box of S.S. Papers, <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />MASSACHUSETTS, $7,310.40.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Amherst. Ladies, by Mrs. H.L. Hubbell, <i>for Student Aid, Tillotson C. and N. Inst.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Amherst. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Amherst. Mrs. J.C. Bryant, <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Andover. Phillips Academy, <i>for Pleasant Hill. Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Arlington. Ortho. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>46.19</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bedford. H.B. Doland, <i>for Home, Wilmington N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Berlin. Cong. Ch., 8.50; Y.P.S.C.E., 7.50; Sab. Sch., 4., <i>for Williamsburg Academy, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="2">Boston. Central Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>948.20</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Old South Cong. Ch., in Part</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>310.59</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>"Felice Circle of King's Daughters" Mount Vernon Ch., <i>for Williamsburg Academy, Ky.</i>
+and to const. Miss Alma Holmes, Miss Anna Norris, Miss Lucy Brown and Miss L.H. Maxwell L.M.'s</td><td align='right' valign="bottom">125.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Chas. H. Rutan, <i>for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>67.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>W.H.M.S., Park St. Ch. <i>for Student Aid Straight U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>54.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a name="page197" id="page197"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 197]</span>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Mrs. Susan C. Warren, <i>for Jewett Memorial Hall, Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>C.A. Hopkins, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>36.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Mrs. Woodbridge Odlin, <i>for Freight to Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.10</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>122.92</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. F. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.68</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Miss Almira C. Wilkins, 5; Mrs. M. Houston, 3, <i>for Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Jamaica Plain. "A Friend," <i>for Indian M., Grand River, S.D.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Roxbury. Immanuel Ch., 22; Walnut Av. Cong. Ch., 13.50; <i>for Stoves, Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Highland. Cong. Ch., <i>for Williamsburg Academy, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.30</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>West Roxbury. Sab. Sch. of South Evan. Ch. <i>for Tougaloo U.</i> and to const. Abner J. Nutter L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>South Evan. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.94</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,830.98</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brookfield. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.49</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brookline. Howard Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>104.34</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brockton. Porter Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brockton. Joseph Hewitt</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>87.79</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Cambridgeport. "Scatter Good Circle," of Pilgrim Ch. <i>for Freight to Beaufort, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Chelsea. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Clinton. Cong. Ch. <i>for Academy, Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>80.85</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Colerain. Mrs. P.B. Smith.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.47</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Cotuit. Union Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Danvers. Webster F. Putnam.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>68.54</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Dedham. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. <i>for Student Aid, Straight U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Dighton. Miss M.F. Aiken, <i>for Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">East Dennis. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">East Somerville. First Orthdox Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>82.93</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">East Weymouth. Ladies, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Fall River. Central Cong. Ch., 33; Third Cong. Ch., 16.65.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>49.65</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Fall River. Y.W.C.T.U., Package Papers, <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Florence. Florence Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.38</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Framingham. George Nourse.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Georgetown. "S," <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch., "A Friend," by Rev. R.P. Hibbard</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>53.68</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Granby. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>37.58</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Greenwich Village. Mrs. M.A. Sibley</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.99</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Holliston. "Bible Christians."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Holliston. Mrs. S.E. Walker, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Hopkinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>34.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Hopkinton. Mrs. J.P. Crooks. B. of C. <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Indian Orchard. Willing Helpers, <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i>&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Ipswich. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.32</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lawrence. Mrs. A.J. Doland, Table Spread, Val. 3, <i>for Home, Wilmington, N.C.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Leicester. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.70</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Leominster. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Ortho. Cong. Ch., 25; F.J. Lathrop, 5, <i>for Williamsburg Academy, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lowell. Sab. Sch. High St. Ch., <i>for Mountain Work, support of a boy and girl</i>, and to const.
+Mrs. Frank N. Chase and Mrs. Ephraim Brown. L.M.'s.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lowell. Eliot Ch. to const. Miss Helen A. Ward L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>44.19</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lynn. Central Ch., 31; Miss A.E. Knowles, 15c.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>31.15</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Milford. "Friends," <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Millbury. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>45.12</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Monterey. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Natick. Primary Dep't, Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., 10; Cong. Ch., 8.05</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.05</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Newton. Eliot Ch., 150. First Cong. Ch., 83.30; Miss Mary Calkins' S.S. Class,
+North Village Ch., 5.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>238.30</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Newton. J.W. Davis, <i>for Stereopticon Slides</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Norfolk. Union Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Norton. Mrs. E.B. Wheaton, to const. Arthur M. Round and William E. Robbins, L.M.'s.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Northamptom. A.L. Williston, 300; First Cong. Ch., 226.92</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>526.92</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>77.28</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch., 7; Y.P.S.C.E., 5, <i>for Williamsburg Academy, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Northfield. Miss'y Soc. of Northfield Sem., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Peabody. "Friends." 3 Boxes Books, <i>for Lathrop Library, Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Peru. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Pittsfield. South Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>49.20</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Pittsfield. Ladies, <i>for Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Pittsfield. "A Member of South Ch."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Pittsfield. M.A. Bissell, 2; S.S. Bissell, 2;<i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>217.01</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.57</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Somerville. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of Franklin St. Ch., <i>for Indian M., Santee Agency, Neb.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Southampton. Mrs. Edwards, deceased, by her son, Rev. H.L. Edwards.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">South Easton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.80</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">South Easton. Cong. Ch., 38.68; Young Men's Class, 30, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>68.68</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">South Framingham. Grace Cong. Ch., (50 of which <i>for Williamsburg Academy, Ky.</i>)&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>217.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">South Framingham. Fred. Folger, 5; Ethel Cutler, Albert J. Dutton, Jr., Mabel Sykes, 5; on "True Blue" card</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Springfield. South Cong. Ch., <i>for Williamsburg Academy, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Taunton. Union Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.48</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Upton. Cong. Ch., B. of C., <i>for Mobile, Ala.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Waltham. Trinity Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.17</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Ware. "Little Sunbeams," <i>for Indian M. Birds Nest, Santee Agency, Neb.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. Edward C. Porter and Alfred E. Turner L.M.'s.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>107.08</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">West Boxford. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.85</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Westford. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">West Medford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">West Medway. Second Cong. Ch., 9.25, and Sab. Sch., 7.70 (2 of which <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.95</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">West Medway. "Friends," <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">West Newton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Westport. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3"><a name="page198" id="page198"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 198]</span>
+Wilmington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.17</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Winchendon. George L. Beals and Nancy Norcross Beals, deceased, by C.L. Beals
+and C.L.B. Whitney, <i>for the establishment of Beals Library, Williamsburg, Academy, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>500.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Winchester. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>51.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Worcester. Central Cong. Ch., 136; Old South Ch., Dea. Alfred Holden, 5.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>141.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Worcester. G. Henry Whitcomb. <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Worcester. Ladies of Union Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian Sch'p</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Worcester. Benev. Soc. Plymouth Ch., Box of C.; Sab. Sch.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Piedmont Ch., Books, Canned fruit, etc., <i>for Jellico, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Worcester. Rev. T.W. Thompson, Box of Books, <i>for Lathrop Library, Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Yarmouth. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 22.67; Rev. J.W. Dodge and Wife, 12.33; Sewing Circle, 20;
+<i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>55.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;. "A Friend"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="2">Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh, Treasurer:</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>South Hadley Falls</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.46</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Springfield. South</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.31</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>West Springfield. First, to const. B.W. Colton L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>111.77</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="2">Woman's Home Missionary Association, by Miss Ella A. Leland, Treasurer, <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><i>For Salary of Teachers </i>(10 of which bal. to const. Mrs.
+Elizabeth K. Chapman L.M.)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>440.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Boston. Union Ch. Aux., <i>for Sch'p, Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Newton. Mr. Cobb's S.S. Class Eliot Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>546.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">$6,711.55</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'>ESTATE.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Weymouth. Estate of Dea. Jacob Loud, by John J. Loud, Ex.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>598.85</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">$7,310.40</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'>CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT THE BOSTON OFFICE.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Cambridgeport, Mass. "Scatter Good Circle," Pilgrim Ch., 2 Boxes, <i>for Beaufort, N.C.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Dorchester, Mass. Mrs. G.H. Guetin, 2 Boxes</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Newton, Mass. Eliot Ch., Mrs. M.T. Vincent, 2 Boxes; Goodell Young Ladies Ass'n,
+1 Bbl; Freedmen's Aid Sewing Circle, Case and Package; <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i>
+J.W. Davis, Books and Papers, <i>for Jellico, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Wilmington, Mass. "Snow Birds," 1 Bbl., <i>for Gregory Inst., Wilmington, N.C.</i></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />RHODE ISLAND, $108.30.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Central Falls. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.80</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Providence. W.H.M.A. of North Ch., <i>for Indian M. Santee Agency, Neb.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Providence. Y.P.S.C.E. of North Cong. Ch., <i>for Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.50</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />CONNECTICUT, $3,349.23.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bantam. Miss Cornelia Bradley, <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Black Rock. Young Ladies' Guild, Box of C., <i>for Thomasville, Ga.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., 25; Y.P.S.C.E. of Park St Ch., 8.02.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>33.02</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian Sch'p</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bridgeport. Ladies of South Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Val., 55.41, <i>for Santee Agency, Neb.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bridgewater. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.40</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bristol. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Canaan. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.22</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Chester. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.65</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Collinsville. Mrs. M.A. Warren, <i>for Charleston, S.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Columbia. "Friends," <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Danielsonville. Thomas Backus (5 of which <i>for Indian M.</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Darien. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Durham. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.85</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">East Hartford. First Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">East Haven. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Hartford. "Friends" In Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Harwington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.80</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Huntington. Ladies' Soc., by Miss Eleanor L. Wooster, <i>for Conn. Ind'l. Sch. Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Mansfield Center. Elliot H. Marsh, M.D.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Middletown. Y.P.S.C.E. of Bethany Chapel, by Edward P. Wilcox, Sec.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Naugatuck. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Naugatuck. Miss Maggie Platt, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">New Haven. Ch. of the Redeemer, 178.35; Rev. S.W Barnum, 5 Copies "Romanism As It Is"; Sab. Sch. Ch. of the Redeemer,
+<i>for Indian Sch'p</i>, 20.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>198.35</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">New Haven. Prof. E.E. Salisbury</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">New Haven. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of United Ch., <i>for Sch'p, Indian Sch.,
+Santee Agency, Neb.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">New London. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>55.86</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">New Preston. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>42.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">North Woodstock. Ladies and Sab. Sch., <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Norwich. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.72</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Plainville. Cong. Ch., to const. Miss Emily Dresser, Miss Hattie Hough and
+Miss Daisy Crissey L.M.'s.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>95.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Plantsville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>79.41</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Poquonock. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.21</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Putnam. Sab. Sen. of Second Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.38</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Somerville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">South Coventry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>38.94</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Southington. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Southport. Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M., Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2010.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.18</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Terryville. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian Sch'p</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Tolland. Lucy L. Clough.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Wapping. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.69</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Washington. Cong. Ch. <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Wethersfield. Mrs. M.S. Tillotson, Bbl. of Books, <i>for Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Whitneyvllle. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. C.A. Dinsmore L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'> 45.52</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Willington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Windsor. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Woodstock. Miss F. Butler, Pkg. of C., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="2">Woman's Home Mission'y Union of Conn., by Mrs. D. Wilder Smith, Sec., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Chaplin. Ladies' Soc.&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Columbia. Mission Circle <i>for Conn. Ind'l. Sch., Ga.</i>&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Griswold. Aux.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Higganum. By Mrs. J.G. Hubbard, <i>for Conn. Ind'l. Sch., Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Kensington. Eunonean Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;<a name="page199" id="page199"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 199]</span></td><td align='left'>Suffield. Young Ladies M.C.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'>ESTATE.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Darien. Correction.&mdash;Estate of Rev. Ezra D. Kinney, 100;
+ack. in May number, should read "for the benefit of those
+who were lately slaves."</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />NEW YORK. $2,913.16.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Amsterdam. D. Cady</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Aquebogue. Box of C., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brasher Falls. Mrs. Eliza A. Bell, in memory of her
+father, Elijah Wood, deceased</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>243.53</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brooklyn. The Church of the Pilgrims (of which W.F.
+Merrill, 50; S.B. Chiltenden, 30; J.S. Stanton, 30.
+to const. themselves L.M.'s., and Charles A. Hull,
+30. to const. Miss Amelia H. Benjamin L.M.)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>780.51</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch., 63.97; Atlantic Av. Sab. Sch.
+Miss'y. Ass'n. by A.C. Pohl, Treas., 25; Miss H.M.
+Wiggins, 50 cents</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>89.47</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brooklyn. Miss M.A. Hall's Bible Class, 10; Lee Av.
+Cong. Sab. Sch., 7, and Infant Class, 10; Park Av. M.E.
+Ch., 9; Miss Morrison, 4; Wm. Graham, 1; John
+Writenoner, 1, <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>42.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brooklyn. "A Friend," <i>for Industrial work,
+Lexington, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Buffalo. "R.W.B.," <i>for Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Chittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">East Rockaway. Bethany Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Fillmore. L.L. Nourse</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Flushing. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for the Freedmen</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Fredonia. "Friend," <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Fredonia. Presb. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.30</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Jefferson. Mrs. S. Ruliffson</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lawrenceville. Lucius Hulburd</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lowville. Mrs. L.C. Hough, to const. Mrs. Salmon
+Crandall L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'> 30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Maine. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.71</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Marcellus. Mrs. L. Hemenway, to const. Josephine
+Hemenway L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'> 31.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Marion. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Newark Valley. Y.L. Miss'y. Soc., Box C., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">New York. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 115.18; Mrs. Susie Dez
+Arnauld, 30; Broadway Tabernacle, F.K. Trowbridge, 25;
+Madison Sq. Presb. Ch. Mrs. Caroline L. Smith, 10; George
+S. Hickok, 10</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>190.18</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">New York. Mrs. H.B. Spelman, <i>for Student Aid,
+Atlanta U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">New York. Sab. Sch. Class Broadway Tabernacle, by Miss
+E. Agnew, <i>for Student Aid, Williamsburg Academy, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.14</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">New York. Joseph Wild, Books, <i>for Thomasville, Ga.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Oswego Falls. "Willing Workers" Cong. Ch., <i>for Gregory
+Inst., Wilmington, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Pekin. Abigail Peck</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Sherburne. First Cong. Ch., to const Mrs. Frances A.
+Morgan and Mrs. Maggie Buchanan L.M.'s</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Suspension Bridge. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.90</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Syracuse. Plym. Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, 8.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Verona. E. Day</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="2">Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H.
+Cobb, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Albany. Ladies' Aux. Clinton Av.
+Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Ladies' Willing Aid Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Buffalo. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Class 35, Sab. Sch. of
+Puritan Ch.&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Boys' and Girls' Mission Band
+Central Ch.&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Clifton Springs. Mrs. W.W. Warner</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Homer. Mrs. C. Hitchcock, 5;
+Mrs. B.W. Payne, 5</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Honeoye. Ladies' Aux.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Ithaca. Ladies' Aux. and Ch. Coll.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>94.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Jamestown. Woman's H.M. Aux, <i>for
+Student Aid, Tillotson Inst</i>, and
+bal. to const. Mrs. A.M. Towle L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Newark Valley. Ladies' Aux.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Oswego. Ladies' Aux.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Poughkeepsie. Ladies' Aux.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Syracuse. Woman's Christian Assn.,
+Plym. Ch., to const. Mrs. M.E. Kendall
+L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Syracuse. Primary Dept. Plym. Ch.
+Sab. Sch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>West Groton. Y.P. Mission Circle. <i>for
+Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Westmoreland. Ladies' Aux 14.53;
+Y.P.S.C.E., 6</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.53</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>122.29</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>584.82</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">$2,323.56</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'>ESTATE.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Waverly. Estate of Phebe Hepburne</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>589.60</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">$2,913.16</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />NEW JERSEY, $163.90.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bound Brook. "Pilgrim workers," <i>for Indian M. Santee
+Agency, Neb.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lyons Parms. Fred W.C. Crane. bal. to const. himself L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Newark. Loyal Circle of King's Daughters, by Kate L.
+Hamilton, <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Orange Valley. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>80.90</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Roselle. "A Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Westfield. Young People's Union, Box of Books</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />PENNSYLVANIA, $505.00.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., to const. Amos J.
+Boyden, J. Rockhill Claire, Mrs. Ellen E. Dexter,
+Gilbert Elliott, Miss Lizzie Gorton, Miss Marian B.
+Heritage, Miss Della C. Keyes, Mrs. Hannah E. McKnight,
+Miss Mary F. Maxfield, George M. Randle, Paul S.
+Richards, Mrs. E.B. Ripley, and Miss Annie B.
+Stephens L.M.'s</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>400.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Philadelphia. M.H. Harrington</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Ridgway. Bible Class, by Minnie J. Kline, <i>for Oaks, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />OHIO. $675.13.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Akron. West Hill Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>37.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Brecksville. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.40</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Byrn. S.E. Blakeslee</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">East Cleveland. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., <i>for Mobile, Ala.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Kelloggsville. Mrs. P.F. Kellogg, 5; Eliza S. Comings, 1;
+"Little Frankie Kellogg," 50 cts., <i>for
+Indian M., Grand River, S.D.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Kent. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.15</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Mount Vernon. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>93.16</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">North Benton. Simeon Hartzell</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">North Ridgeville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 6; "Friends,"
+Shoemaking Tools, Ladies Benev. Soc,. Bbl. of fruit, etc;
+<a name="page200" id="page200"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 200]</span>
+Miss Maria Lickorish, 4.25, <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., (6.25 of which <i>for Jewett
+Memorial Hall</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>45.42</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Oberlin. Mrs. M.A. Spear, Box and Bbl. of C., 3 <i>for freight, for New Orleans, La.</i>
+</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Saybrook. Franklin K .Hilbert</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="2">Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. F.I.
+Fairchild, Treasurer, <i>for Womans Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Columbus. High St. Ch. Y.P.M.S.&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Cuyahoga Falls. L.M.S.&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Fredericksburg. H.M.S.&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Harmar. Oak Grove Mission Band&nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Hudson. L.H.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Lindenville. W.H.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Lock. Y.L.M.U.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Madison. Central Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. Aid Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>75.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Williamsfield. H.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Wellington. Benev. and H.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>York. Cong. Ch. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>154.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'>ESTATE. $375.13</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Jersey. Estate of Lucinda Sinnett, by J.B.
+Metcalf, Executor&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>300.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">$675.13</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />INDIANA, $1.00.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Liber. Thomas Towle</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />ILLINOIS, $355.45.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Altona. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.56</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Aurora. Mrs. N. Lanes</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Avon. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Chicago. South Cong. Ch., 45.45; Leavitt St.
+Cong. Ch., 71 cts</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>46.16</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Earlville. "J.A.D."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Evanston. First Cong. Ch., to const. George T. Stone,
+W.J. Young, Joseph Hubbart and Lorado Taft L.M.'s</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>139.27</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Farmington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>49.30</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lawn Ridgs. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lowell. "V.G."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Naperville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Oak Park. "Friends," <i>for Freight to Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Odell. Mrs. H.E. Dana.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Providence. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.16</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Seward. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Lizzie Short, <i>for Woman's Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Thomasboro. H.M. Seymour</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Tolona. Mrs. L. Haskell</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />MICHIGAN, $150.94.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Armada. Cong. Ch., 10.55. and Sab. Sch, 3.20</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Canandaigua. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Grand Rapids. E.M. Ball</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Irving. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.84</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Morenei. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">South Haven. Clark Pierce</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Three Oaks. Mrs. H.E. Crosby, deceased, to const.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Josiah Birney Crosby and John Abbott</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Crosby, M.D., L.M.'s</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="2">Woman's Home Missionary Union of Mich., by Mrs. E.F.
+Grabill, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Cadillac. W.H.M.S.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Chelsea. W.H.M.S. 2.35</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Detroit. W.H.M.S., Trumbull Av.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Cong. Ch.&nbsp; &nbsp; 5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Detroit. Ladies' Union First Cong. Ch.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Eaton Rapids. Y.P.S.C.E.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Tipton. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.35</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />WISCONSIN, $187.67.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Beloit. "Whatsoever Ten," of King's Daughters, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Berlin. "Young Conquerors" Mission Band, <i>for Librarian of Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.46</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Bristol and Paris. Woman's Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C.,
+etc., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Footville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.18</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Genesee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Madison. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.96</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Madison. Mrs. A.E.H. Deyon, Bbl. and Box of C., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Milwaukee. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>52.29</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Rosendale. Daniel Clark</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Whitewater. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="2">Wisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union, <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Arena. W.H.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.69</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Brodhead. Mrs. C. Matter</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Eau Claire. W.H.M.S.&nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Milwaukee. W.H.M.S. Grand Av.&nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Milwaukee. W.H.M.S. Grand Av.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Plattsville. W.H.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Waukesha.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; " " " "</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Whitewater.&nbsp; " " " "</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Whitewater. S.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.69</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>65.28</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />IOWA, $84.97.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Cresco. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Des Moines. Sab. Sch. Class, by Mrs. A.Y. Rawson,
+<i>for Sch'p, Indian Sch., Santee Agency, Neb.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Des Moines, Y.P.S.C.E. of North Park Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.13</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Dubuque. Sab. Sch. of German Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Muscatine. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'> 15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Muscatine. German Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Round Grove. Z. Banks</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Waverly. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.59</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />MINNESOTA, $59.01.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Fairmont. "Whatsoever Band" Cong. Ch.; B. of C., <i>for Jonesboro, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Freeborn. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.20</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Mankato. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.05</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>43.62</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Rochester. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Crockery, <i>for Jonesboro, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Saint Paul. Y.P.S.C.E. St. Anthony Park Cong.
+Ch., 2.75, and Bbl. of C., <i>for Jonesboro, Tenn.</i>&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Sleepy Eye. Union Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.39</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />MISSOURI, $24.00.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Garden City. W.B. Wills, 10; P.J. Wills, 1; F.P.
+Morelan, 1; A.C. Wills, 1</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Ironton. Mrs. C.E. Markham</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Kansas City. M. Marty</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />KANSAS, $99.55.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Atchison. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.12</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Highland. Miss Annie Kloss, <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Topeka. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>76.42</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Wabaunsee. First Church of Christ</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />NEBRASKA, $48.15.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Blyville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.90</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Clarks. John Parker</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Greenwood. Mrs. C.A. Mathis, 10; Cong. Ch., 2.90</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.90</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Hastings. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Sutton. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.35</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><a name="page201" id="page201"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 201]</span><br />NORTH DAKOTA, $25.00.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Fort Abercrombie. "Thank Offering"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />SOUTH DAKOTA, $36.13.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Faulkton. Rev. Pliny B. Fisk and Wife</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Huron. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.87</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lake Preston. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.26</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />WASHINGTON, $10.00.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Walla Walla. Pres. A.J. Anderson</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />OREGON, $3.50.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Myrtle Point. C.C. Stoddard</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Salem. Joseph Fry</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />CALIFORNIA, $100.00.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;. "A Friend in California," to const. Charles H.
+Abernethy and Miss Helen Abernathy L.M.'s</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Saratoga. Women's Missy Soc. First Cong. Ch., Pkg.
+Patchwork, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $288.28</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Washington. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>188.28</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Washington. "A friend," <i>for Theo. Dept. Howard U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />KENTUCKY, $12.00.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Lexington. Prof. Fred W. Foster, 5; "A Friend", 5;
+Miss Lena V. Lowell, 2,</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />TENNESSEE, $95.09.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Harriman. "Friends," by Rev. G.S. Pope</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.48</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Nashville. Manager Jubilee Singers, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Pleasant Hill. "Two Friends," by Rev. B. Dodge, <i>for Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>33.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.61</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />NORTH CAROLINA, $86.11.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">High Point Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Nalls. Cong. Ch. <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.38</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Wilmington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>68.73</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Wilmington. Miss M. Lewis, <i>for Home, Wilmington, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />GEORGIA, $19.84.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Thomasville. Sab. Sch. of Normal and Industrial Sch.,
+<i>for Indian M., Fort Berthold, N.D.</i>&nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., 64c.; Mrs. Sengstacke's
+Miss's Band, 70 cents</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.24</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />ALABAMA, $12.46.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Talladega. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.46</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />FLORIDA, $2.00.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Georgiana. Mr. &amp; Mrs. F.W. Munson</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />LOUISIANA, $21.85.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">New Orleans. Straight University Ch., 11.85;
+Watson Jones, 4</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.85</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Woman's Missionary Union of La., by Mrs. C.S.Shattuck, Treasurer, <i>for Women's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>New Iberia. Belle Place Aux.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>New Orleans. University Ch. Aux.&nbsp;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />TEXAS, $2.50.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Dallas. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.50</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />HOLLAND, $10.00.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Rotterdam. G.P. Ittman, Jr., <i>for Gymnasium, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />EAST AFRICA, $4.00.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Kamdini. Miss Nancy Jones, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Donations</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$16,305.52</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Estates</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,488.45</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">$17,794.97</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />TUITION, $4,740.42.</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Lexington, Ky. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>228.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>223.45</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Athens, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Crossville, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>42.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Deer Lodge, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.72</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Jellico, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>39.90</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.82</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Memphis, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>513.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Nashville, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>647.08</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Pine Mountain, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>61.65</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>33.15</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Chapel Hill, N.C. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Troy, N.C. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Wilmington, N.C. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>159.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Charleston, S.C. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>262.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Greenwood, S.C. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>96.30</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Atlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>153.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Macon, Ga. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>412.35</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>McIntosh, Ga. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>46.66</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Savannah, Ga. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>166.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Thomasville, Ga. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>68.45</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Anniston, Ala. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Athens, Ala. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>75.10</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Mobile, Ala. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>220.92</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Selma, Ala. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>82.85</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Talladega, Ala. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>170.70</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Meridian, Ala. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>90.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>146.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>New Orleans, La. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>489.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>Austin, Tx. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>186.57</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="3">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4,740.42</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">United States Government for the Education of Indians</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4,275.38</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Total for April</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$26,810.77</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">==========</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />SUMMARY</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Donations</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>117,815.96</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Estates</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>102,668.08</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">$220,484.04</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Income</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4,262.91</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>27,469.74</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">United States Government for the Education of Indians</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13,221.45</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Total from Oct. 1 to April 30</td><td align='left' colspan="3">$265,438.14</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">===========</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="4" align='center'><br />FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Subscriptions for April</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$45.34</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Previously acknowledged</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>537.38</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left' colspan="3">Total</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$582.72</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right' colspan="4">=======</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<p>H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,<br />
+Bible House, N.Y.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h5><a name="page202" id="page202"></a><span class="newpage">[pg 202]</span><i>Advertisements.</i></h5>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h4>"A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER."</h4>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/img1.png" width="500" height="225" alt="THE RISING SUN STOVE POLISH" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+SOLD BY MERCHANTS IN <i>CIVILIZED</i> COUNTRIES.</b><br /><br /><br />
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 222px;">
+<img src="images/img2.png" width="222" height="300" alt="DR. WARNER&#39;S CAMELS HAIR HEALTH UNDERWEAR" title="" />
+</div>
+<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+<p>A new Fabric for Underwear superior to Silk or Wool. A
+protection against Colds.</p>
+
+<p>Sold by leading Merchants.</p>
+
+<p>Catalogues sent on application.</p>
+
+<p>WARNER BROS. 359 Broadway, N.Y.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<p><b>$60 SALARY. $40 EXPENSES IN ADVANCE</b> allowed each month.
+Steady employment at home or traveling. No soliciting. Duties
+delivering and making collections. No Postal Cards. Address
+with stamp, HAFER &amp; CO., Piqua, O.</p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<p><b>THE BURTON HOUSE</b>,<br />
+PRIVATE BOARDING.</p>
+
+<p>Summit St., CRESCENT CITY, FLA.</p>
+
+<p>Open all the Year. Charges Moderate.</p>
+
+<p>D.W. Burton, <i>Prop.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3>INDELIBLE</h3>
+
+<div class="center">Mark your Clothing!
+Clear Record of half a Century.</div>
+
+<div class="center">"Most Reliable and Simplest for plain or decorative marking."
+Use a common pen.</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 457px;">
+<img src="images/img3.png" width="457" height="296" alt="Children with giant marking pen" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">Sold by all Druggists, Stationers, News and Fancy Goods dealers.</div>
+
+<p>"Don't on any account omit to mark plainly all your sheets,
+pillow cases, napkins and towels. Mark all of your own personal
+wardrobe which has to be washed. If this were invariably done, a
+great deal of property would be saved to owners, and a great deal
+of trouble would be spared those who 'sort out' clean pieces."</p>
+
+<div class="right">KATE UPSON CLARK.</div>
+
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 108px;">
+<img src="images/img4.png" width="108" height="129" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>MENEELY &amp; COMPANY,<br />
+WEST TROY, N.Y., BELLS.</p>
+
+<p>For Churches, Schools, etc., also Chimes
+and Peals. For more than half a century
+noted for superiority over all others.</p>
+<br /><br />
+<hr class="mid" />
+
+<h3>JOSEPH GILLOTT'S<br />
+STEEL PENS</h3>
+
+<div class="center"><i>GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSITION 1878.</i><br /><br />
+
+Nos. 303-404-170-604.<br /><br />
+
+<b>THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS.</b></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume 44, No. 6,
+June, 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. 6, June, 1890
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: June 11, 2005 [EBook #16036]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Erika
+Q. Stokes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
+https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+The American Missionary
+
+June, 1890.
+VOL. XLIV. NO. 6.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+EDITORIAL.
+
+  Removal
+
+  Dr. Storrs on the Negro Problem
+
+  Missionaries to Alaska
+
+  In a Nutshell
+
+  Higher Education of the Colored People
+
+  Spring Conferences
+
+  Mississippi Immigrants
+
+  Notes from New England
+
+  Music's Mission
+
+  Items
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+  Our School Work
+
+  Our Church Work
+
+  Revival at Wilmington, N.C.
+
+  Ballard School, Macon, Ga.
+
+  Dreary Picture of Place and People
+
+  Report from Mountain Schools
+
+  The King's Daughters Society
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+  Our S'kokomish Mission
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+  Jottings
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+  Paragraphs--State Missionary Unions
+
+
+OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
+
+  Letter from a Teacher
+
+  Woman's State Organizations
+
+
+RECEIPTS.
+
+
+
+
+NEW YORK:
+
+Published By The American Missionary Association
+
+Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York.
+
+
+Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.
+
+Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.
+
+
+
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+President, Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.
+
+_Vice-Presidents._
+  Rev. A.J.F. Behrends, D.D., N.Y.
+  Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D., Mass.
+  Rev. F.A. Noble, D.D., Ill.
+  Rev. D.O. Mears, D.D., Mass.
+  Rev. Henry Hopkins, D.D., Mo.
+
+_Corresponding Secretaries._
+  Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._
+  Rev. A.F. Beard, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._
+  Rev. F.P. Woodbury, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._
+
+_Recording Secretary._
+  Rev. M.E. Strieby, D.D., _Bible House, N.Y._
+
+_Treasurer._
+  H.W. Hubbard, Esq., _Bible House, N.Y._
+
+_Auditors._
+  Peter McCartee.
+  Chas. P. Peirce.
+
+_Executive Committee._
+  John H. Washburn, Chairman.
+  Addison P. Foster, Secretary.
+
+  _For Three Years._
+    S.B. Halliday,
+    Samuel Holmes,
+    Samuel S. Marples,
+    Charles L. Mead,
+    Elbert B. Monroe.
+
+  _For Two Years._
+    J.E. Rankin,
+    Wm. H. Ward,
+    J.W. Cooper,
+    John H. Washburn,
+    Edmund L. Champlin.
+
+  _For One Year._
+    Lyman Abbott,
+    Chas. A. Hull,
+    Clinton B. Fisk,
+    Addison P. Foster,
+    Albert J. Lyman.
+
+_District Secretaries._
+  Rev. C.J. Ryder, _21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._
+  Rev. J.E. Roy, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill._
+  Rev. C.W. Hiatt, _64 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio._
+
+_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._
+  Rev. Chas. W. Shelton.
+
+_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._
+  Miss D.E. Emerson, _Bible House, N.Y._
+
+
+COMMUNICATIONS
+
+Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the
+Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the
+Treasurer.
+
+
+DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
+
+In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent
+to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York, or, when more
+convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House,
+Boston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., or 64 Euclid Ave.,
+Cleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.
+
+
+NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the "address label," indicates the
+time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on
+label to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made
+afterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please send
+early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address
+and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers
+may be correctly mailed.
+
+
+FORM OF A BEQUEST.
+
+"I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person who,
+when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American
+Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the
+direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its
+charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by three
+witnesses.
+
+
+
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+  Vol. XLIV.
+  June, 1890.
+  No. 6.
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REMOVAL.
+
+
+The Rooms of the American Missionary Association are now in the Bible
+House, New York City. Correspondents will please address us accordingly.
+
+Visitors will find our Rooms on the sixth floor of the Bible House,
+corner Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue; entrance by elevator on Ninth
+Street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DR. STORRS, ON THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
+
+
+Not long since Rev. R.S. Storrs, D.D., preached a sermon in his own
+pulpit, presenting the claims of the American Missionary Association for
+the annual collection in its behalf from the Church of the Pilgrims,
+Brooklyn, N.Y. This sermon appeared in print in one of the daily papers,
+and attracted the attention of a benevolent gentleman deeply interested in
+the Christian education of the colored people, who was so impressed with
+the great value of the address, that he has furnished the Association with
+the means to print a large edition for general circulation. This we have
+done, and we presume that already, many of our readers have had the
+opportunity of reading this eminently wise and timely utterance on one of
+America's greatest problems. Should any one desire an extra copy, we will
+gladly furnish it on application.
+
+Although the discourse has had large circulation, we cannot resist the
+temptation to extract a few of its forcible utterances on some very
+important points.
+
+     Permanent popular liberties have their only sure foundation in
+     sound moral conditions practically universal. We must secure
+     these among those to whom we have given the ballot, and who are
+     to be henceforth citizens with ourselves. Otherwise, we are
+     building our splendid political house on the edges of the
+     pestilential swamp from which fatal miasmatic odors are rising
+     all the time. Yes, we are building our house on piles driven into
+     the thick ooze and mud of the pestilential swamp itself. We are
+     building our cities, which we think are so splendid, and which
+     are so in fact, as men built Herculaneum and Pompeii, on a shore
+     which ever and anon trembled with earthquake, over which was hung
+     the black flag of Vesuvius, and down upon which rolled, in time,
+     the lava floods that burned and buried them.
+
+     We have got to meet this immense problem, which is not far off,
+     but right at hand; which is not a problem of theory, or of
+     distant history, but of practice and fact; and which concerns
+     not the well-being alone, but the very life of the nation. Noble
+     men and women at the South are engaged in it already, with all
+     their hearts; and we must help, mightily! It would be the
+     craziest folly of the age for us to be indifferent to it.
+
+     Some men may say, perhaps, "But this is a work that cannot be
+     done. It is too radical and vast to be hopefully attempted."
+     Nonsense! There is no work for the kingdom of God and the glory
+     of His name, which cannot be done! With the Gospel in our hand,
+     we can do everything.
+
+     There has been a good beginning made already. This Society, to
+     which we are to contribute to-day, the American Missionary
+     Association, has four established colleges, three of which are
+     entirely supported by itself, have been founded by it and are
+     carried on by it; and the fourth very largely so. It has
+     multitudes of high schools, normal schools and primary schools.
+
+     First of all, we want men trained, and women too, in the
+     knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ, and then to have them
+     teaching others. And that is precisely the line along which the
+     Society to which we are to contribute to-day, as we have done
+     gladly and largely heretofore, is carrying its incessant
+     operation.
+
+     Now I affirm absolutely that if ever there was a work of God on
+     earth, this is his work! If there was ever anything to which the
+     American Christian people are called, they are called to this. If
+     there was ever a great opportunity before the Christian church,
+     here it is.
+
+     Ah, my friends, don't say "It is too great a work." It is going
+     to be done! You and I may do or may not do our part in it. It is
+     going to be done!
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISSIONARIES TO ALASKA.
+
+
+As announced in the last number of the MISSIONARY, we have appointed
+two men as missionary teachers for the new station to be opened at
+Point Prince of Wales, Alaska. The names of these brethren are H.R.
+Thornton, of Hampden Sydney, Virginia, and W.T. Lopp, of Valley City,
+Indiana. The credentials furnished by these young men are very
+satisfactory, and they enter upon the field with the full realization
+of its difficulties and even dangers, and yet, cheerfully trusting
+themselves to the hand of God, are ready to go forward with undaunted
+faith. We bespeak for them the prayers of God's people. It is expected
+that they will leave home about the middle of May and sail from San
+Francisco June 1st. Dr. Sheldon Jackson and Dr. Pond will aid them in
+providing materials for the building and the necessary outfit. They
+will, therefore, be well provided for, though long months must elapse
+before they can again have communication with the civilized world.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+IN A NUTSHELL.
+
+_WHICH IS THE WISER WAY?_
+
+
+There are some people who seem to see only the ignorance and vice of
+the Negro, and the inveterate race-prejudice against him; or at least
+they appear to be so occupied in dilating upon these hindrances that
+they have no time to devote to their removal, and, so far as their
+influence goes, they discourage others from doing anything.
+
+On the other hand there are those who, while they see all these
+difficulties, only find in them the strongest incentives to the most
+earnest efforts to relieve the Negro from them. Which of these two
+classes is the wiser?
+
+Some persons propose as the solution of the race problem,
+disfranchisement; and they point to the bad legislation of the blacks
+in South Carolina and Louisiana a quarter of a century ago, when
+scarcely any of them could read, and almost none owned property. On the
+other hand, there are those that are industriously trying to educate
+the blacks and inspiring them to the acquisition of property, and not
+in vain. More than two millions of the blacks can now read, and more
+than two hundred million dollars' worth of property is now owned by
+them. They are thus being prepared to vote wisely.
+
+Which of these two classes of persons is solving this problem to the
+best purpose?
+
+There are other persons, in Congress and out, urging the deportation of
+the blacks to Africa, a thing impossible to be done, and, if possible,
+it would be harmful to those that were sent, as well as useless to
+benighted Africa. On the other hand, there are those who are training
+the colored people of this country in education, industrial habits and
+stable Christian character, thus preparing them as missionaries to
+Africa.
+
+Which of these two classes has the wiser theory?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HIGHER EDUCATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE.
+
+
+The eagerness of our colored population for education is strikingly
+shown in the reports given on another page from our institutions in the
+South--reports of over-crowded rooms, and students dismissed by scores,
+and even hundreds, for want of accommodations.
+
+We call special attention to the report from Fisk University, in
+reference to the higher grades of education. It will be seen that, even
+in that place, a relatively small number are in the higher classes, and
+yet there is a sufficient number of these to indicate that some of the
+pupils are seeking what is absolutely essential to the race, to wit,
+that some should have the best education attainable.
+
+While it is true of this race as of all others, that the masses can
+receive only primary training in letters and in industry, there must be
+some of their number who can be leaders in thought and influence. No
+race can make progress without such leaders, who can command the line
+of march. There must be the inspiration that comes from the success of
+the leaders. Hooker's men did not ascend Lookout Mountain in a steady
+line. There were some far ahead of others, cheering and encouraging
+those following at greater or less distances, till at length the whole
+array stood on the brow, and thus won their position.
+
+The warfare is different, but human nature is the same. The Negroes are
+no more of equal capacity than white men, and there is just the same
+call for differences in their attainments in scholarship and in general
+influence. And if those advanced in scholarship shall have Christian
+character as well as education, it will render their leadership all the
+more safe for their people and the nation.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+SPRING CONFERENCES AND CHURCH WORK.
+
+
+Five of our Conferences in the South have held their spring meetings.
+The reports we have had from them indicate that they were of unusual
+interest. Almost without exception they are pronounced to have been
+the best ever held. The high character of the sermons, addresses and
+discussions shows that these ministers are fit leaders of the people.
+Their reports of the progress of the work among the churches is
+encouraging. On another page of the MISSIONARY will be found some brief
+sketches of revival scenes and of individual experience and effort.
+This branch of the work of the Association deserves and will receive
+increased attention and assistance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISSISSIPPI IMMIGRANTS.
+
+
+We alluded in a recent number of the MISSIONARY to the attractive
+advertisements of railroad and immigrant companies in the South, and we
+expressed the fear that many colored people might find the change to be
+disappointing. But the process goes on, and the rich bottom-lands in
+the State of Mississippi are attracting many hundreds and thousands of
+new settlers. Perhaps there is no better place to which they can go,
+for there are no better lands in the South. The great point is whether
+these people shall be herded together in rude homes, tilling the soil
+without skill, and rearing their children in ignorance and vice. It is
+the part of Christian wisdom and the duty of the Christian churches of
+this land to see that the people in this densely-packed and fertile
+region shall be promptly met with the means of Christian education. Our
+school at Tougaloo should be enabled to meet in some degree the
+opportunity it has to prepare and furnish preachers and teachers for
+this growing population; and schools and churches should be multiplied
+to meet the emergency.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.
+
+BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.
+
+
+Nothing stimulates to good deeds more effectively than good deeds
+themselves. I copy the following notice, which was circulated on a
+neatly printed sheet among the members of a certain church in Boston:
+
+     The "Felice" circle of "King's Daughters" will hold a sale for
+     the benefit of the Williamsburg Academy, established for the
+     education of the "Mountain Whites" in Kentucky, on Friday,
+     March 21, from 8 to 10 P.M., and on Saturday, March 22, from 3
+     to 10 P.M., at Miss Maxwell's, 37 Allen Street, Boston.
+     Admission 10 cents.
+
+The enthusiastic leader of this circle of "King's Daughters" thought
+that possibly she might raise $30 and so constitute one of their number
+a Life Member of the American Missionary Association. Imagine our
+surprise and delight when, as the result of this effort, $125 were
+brought in, as their splendid offering to this work!
+
+Take another fact of unusual interest in the religious life in New
+England. Five leading pastors here in Boston chose a particular
+Sabbath, upon which they would each preach upon the Negro Problem.
+Several sermons were reported at length in our daily journals, and
+aroused much interest and comment. One found its way down into the
+South, and was commented upon by a Southern editor in true Southern
+style. Hard words were used with the recklessness that characterizes
+Southern editors, and often Northern as well. The funny thing about it
+was, that two gentlemen of the same name, who are both ministers and
+reside in Boston, were confused in this comment. The one, who had
+recently been South, but who did not preach the sermon, was read a
+severe lecture, because after partaking of the hospitality of the
+Southern people, he had spoken in so severe terms of them. It was an
+amusing blunder, but illustrates the fact that more and more even the
+Southern editor is coming to feel the importance of Northern criticism.
+It is a very hopeful sign. It is sometimes said that time will settle
+these monstrous inequalities that prevail in the South, but time never
+settles anything. Mischievous forces only increase in power, the longer
+they are permitted to operate. There must be set in operation
+beneficent forces, in order to make the element of time useful.
+Agitation is needed, patriotic, prayerful agitation, and such united
+effort as was made in these Boston pulpits, helps in this agitation.
+
+The new book which comes from the pen of G.W. Cable, under the title
+of "The Negro Question," puts old truth in a new dress, and renders it
+more attractive and presentable. If any man has the right to write
+upon this "Negro Question," it is Mr. Cable. If I had to prepare a
+liturgy for the Congregational churches, I would put in it the
+following petition: "From the superficial views and misleading
+statements of tourists through the South, or those who reside in a
+single locality, good Lord, deliver us!" Mr. Cable is not of either of
+these classes. He speaks from an intimate acquaintance with, and a
+long residence in, the South; better than this, he is familiar with
+the whole territory, and not with a single locality simply. This
+little book ought to be in the hands of every conscientious student of
+this Southern problem. Take a single quotation:
+
+"To be governed merely by instincts is pure savagery. All civilization
+is the result of subordinating instinct to reason, and to the
+necessities of peace, amity and righteousness. To surrender to
+instinct, would destroy all civilization in three days. If, then, the
+color-line is the result of natural instincts, the commonest daily
+needs of the merest civilization require that we should ask ourselves,
+is it better or worse to repress or cherish this instinct, and this
+color-line?" There are forces at work, regenerative and ennobling, that
+will lead the Southern white people to be ashamed of their attitude
+toward the Negroes, and not the least of these are the life and works
+of Mr. Cable.
+
+A letter came into my hand, when I was in the South, which is not only
+a commentary, but also throws a ray of sunlight where there is much
+darkness. It was a letter from an old mistress to her former slave. He
+is now a successful business man in Chattanooga. This earnest,
+Christian woman, rising above her prejudices, wrote her former slave a
+cordial invitation to visit her in her home. Her husband, his old
+master, had died in the Confederate service. She had seen her servants
+taken away from her through the success of the Union armies. Her
+property had been depleted, and her fertile plantation overrun by the
+loyal troops. It must have been with great sadness and a bitter heart,
+that she looked out upon this ruin, wrought as she believed, throughout
+the invading of the sacred soil of Virginia. But in these years that
+have passed, this bitterness has largely gone, and this sweet,
+Christian letter comes to her former slave. The ex-slave told me with
+tears in his eyes that he paid her this visit, and that she welcomed
+him, not to the Negro quarters, nor to the kitchen-chamber, but to her
+best guest-chamber, and said: "I want you to feel that you are welcome
+to the best hospitality of my home." "And she treated me almost as
+tenderly as she would one of her own sons," said the colored man. And
+so light is coming, little by little.
+
+Dr. Haygood expresses a regret that the white women of the South are so
+slow to appreciate the importance of the moral elevation of the
+Negroes, and so slow to join hands with their Northern sisters in his
+education. But such facts as this kind, Christian letter furnishes,
+lead us to hope and to believe that better times are coming, and that
+the Southern Christians, interested as they are in the Negro in Africa,
+will, little by little, appreciate and minister more and more to the
+terrible need of the Negro in South Carolina and Alabama.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MUSIC'S MISSION.
+
+BY REV. E.N. ANDREWS, HARTFORD, WIS.
+
+
+Suggested by the following words by Rev. B.A. Imes in the May
+MISSIONARY:
+
+     "The Mozart Society at Fisk treated us to an excellent
+     rendering of Haydn's great oratorio, 'The Creation.' Many came
+     over from the city (Nashville),--whites from the "best
+     families," all crowding in, listening, wondering, enjoying!
+     How the music of those well-tuned instruments and voices
+     caught us up and carried us away! Color-line melted and faded
+     out. How we wished the politicians all might have been brought
+     under that magic spell of solos and choruses!"
+
+
+          O Music, with thy wand celestial, touch
+          The hearts of men, and by thy alchemy
+          Divine, resolve, remelt, aye, e'en recast
+          The thought and very being! Selfish man,
+          So filled with prejudice and hate hath need,
+          O heavenly messenger, of all thy aid.
+
+          And as thy votaries in anthems sing
+          With the immortal Haydn, and do praise
+          Creative Wisdom, Who, of one blood made
+          All Nations for to dwell on earth in love,
+          Then let celestial fires descend and burn
+          Complete, the offering of the lips, and purge
+          The dross of caste and hate from every soul!
+
+          This do, for Satan hath his spectrum set
+          Before the door of human hearts and cast
+          Upon the screen the separated lines
+          Of black and red and yellow--white forsooth,
+          While these should mingle in that glorious Sun
+          That shines alike on all, impartially.
+
+          Then come, O Music, re-resolve the lines,
+          These color-lines, and let the sun's pure ray
+          Beam forth in unobstructed light and love,
+          Transmuting, by his touch, these human hearts,
+          Till they shall mirror forth the Golden Rule.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ITEMS.
+
+
+Everywhere the colored contestants in Civil Service examinations
+succeed admirably in their work. In March just past, there was a
+competitive examination held in the Custom House at Newark, N.J., for
+clerkships. Out of forty-three contestants, Mr. J.N. Vandewall, a well
+known young colored man, stood No. 1, 96 per cent. There was only one
+other colored contestant, Mr. G.W. Harris. He stood fifth, with an
+average of 86 per cent.
+
+Mr. A.C. Garner, our colored representative in the Chicago Theological
+Seminary, passed an excellent examination last week, and received
+praise not only from his Professors but from his student friends as
+well. Out of a class of forty, he was one of seven chosen by the
+Professor of Elocution to represent the class in oratory at the closing
+exercises held last week.
+
+During the recent illness of one of our teachers in the South, the
+pastor of the Church called every Sunday for volunteers as watchers
+during the week. There was always a ready response from the church
+members. The teacher relates that before leaving him in the morning,
+these watchers would almost invariably kneel down by his bedside and
+offer up earnest, fervent prayers for his recovery. He was impressed
+with the simple faith and trust in God of these colored Christians,
+their belief in prayer and the contrast between them and an equal
+number of white brethren under the same circumstances.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+
+OUR SCHOOL WORK.
+
+PROGRESS--OVER-CROWDING.
+
+
+From Wilmington, N.C.--Instead of sixty pupils as a year or two ago,
+we now have over ninety, and next year the number will be fully one
+hundred or more, if we have room. The classes are very large.
+
+From Grand View, Tenn.--The classes are full and the accommodations
+inadequate. The school numbers one hundred and eleven. It is necessary
+to crowd four boys into each room of the Boys' Hall. Four boys are
+boarding themselves in a shackly log building at the foot of the hill.
+Their grit is admirable.
+
+From Tougaloo, Miss.--Both the dormitories are crowded. The Ladies'
+Hall is supposed to accommodate seventy-five girls. One hundred and six
+are crowded into it to-day. We have turned away nearly one hundred more
+because we had not room for them. Every indication is that the crowd of
+applicants will be greater next year than ever. Already applications
+are coming in. The American Missionary Association has the lead in
+Mississippi to-day.
+
+From Marion, Ala.--We need another grade established. Our primary has
+numbered nearly or quite one hundred pupils. The average attendance has
+been large and the school-room over-crowded. Three grades are now
+virtually working in the primary department. We may look for a large
+increase of attendance in all grades next year.
+
+From Florence, Ala.--We need a building if the school is to be
+continued. We are now inconveniently crowded, one hundred and sixty
+children in a 20 x 40 room, with all the teaching to be done in the same.
+To fail in giving us a building will certainly narrow our usefulness in
+this field. Our school is constantly increasing in popularity. We can
+safely count on an enrollment of over two hundred next year, with
+someplace to accommodate them.
+
+From Meridian, Miss.--The work of the school is hindered by lack of
+room. We have enrolled this year two hundred and thirty two pupils, and
+many have been turned off because we could not seat them. We opened in
+December of 1888 with twenty-eight pupils. A school for more advanced
+pupils is needed in this part of Mississippi. We have thirty young
+people in school who come from the five adjoining counties. They are
+boarding in good families and I have every reason to believe that they
+have used their time and opportunities well; most of them are this
+summer to teach.
+
+From Straight University, N.O.--It has been a golden year for Straight
+University. Financially it has been our best year. A larger proportion
+of students able to pay came to us. We want to grow, and have every
+opportunity to do so save that our quarters are too small. We have
+turned away during the year probably two hundred applicants, many of
+them for the boarding department. We have had to put cots in nearly all
+the rooms, packing them too full for comfort, as it was very hard to
+say No! to young people who came hundreds of miles and begged tearfully
+for admission. The school has grown during the last eight years from
+two hundred to six hundred, and only is not one thousand because we had
+no room for them. Our graduates are filling important positions all
+over the South. Several are Superintendents in Texas, Kansas,
+Mississippi and Louisiana. One holds an important office in Honduras;
+others are doing good work in Cuba and Mexico. Eight are filling
+important positions in this city. We have no trouble in getting
+positions for our young people. Indeed, we cannot supply as fast as
+demanded. Often as many as twenty are called for when we have none to
+send.
+
+From Fisk University, Nashville.--The evidence of progress in the
+educational department of the University is found in the very marked
+increase of numbers in the first year of our normal course and of our
+college preparatory department. Last year there were fifteen in the
+first year of the latter department; this year there are thirty-one.
+Last year there were thirteen in the first year of the normal
+department; this year there are thirty-one. Last year there were in the
+normal, college, preparatory and college departments, one hundred and
+forty-five students; this year there are one hundred and seventy-six.
+At the coming Commencement, we expect to graduate twelve young men, and
+from the normal ten young women and one young man; making a total of
+twenty-three. This is a little more than one-sixth of the entire number
+of present graduates from these departments.
+
+From a Teacher in the Tennessee Mountains:--Let me tell you of the
+general interest manifest in several of the counties west and north of
+us in attending this school. One of our students visited many cabins
+over the mountains during his vacation, and found that school
+advantages were very scarce and poor. He found poverty and ignorance of
+the world and of books. Some of the people are still using the old-time
+method of kindling their fires by flint and steel instead of matches.
+He met many young people who were thirsting for books and schools, also
+numbers who had struggled up through the darkness to become teachers in
+the neighborhoods. These almost invariably wish to come to our school,
+and say they shall be here as soon as their schools close. Many are too
+poor to come. This is true of a large number of young girls, who would
+come if they could work for their board or in any possible way pay for
+it. Whoever will provide funds to meet the expenses of these neglected
+girls, and place them at our school, and prepare them for the future
+duties of life, will be doing an angelic work, and in the end will do
+the greatest good that can be done to this people. Very much of the
+money spent for this mountain people will be the same as thrown away,
+if this effort is not made to educate the girls.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OUR CHURCH WORK.
+
+
+A letter from Rev. F.R. Sims of the Medway Congregational Church,
+McIntosh, Ga., reports that seventy persons have been added to that
+church on confession of faith, within the last four months.
+
+From Knoxville, Tenn.:--Our attendance at preaching services has been
+large and attentive. On the second Sabbath of March the members and
+friends made special efforts for collection and raised $30. There has
+been a happy increase in the Sunday-school and the prayer meetings.
+
+From Dudley, North Carolina;--It gives me much pleasure to write you
+that the Lord has abundantly blessed us in our work at this point.
+
+For three weeks a revival, with much success, has been going on in my
+church, the Lord has been with us disturbing the slumber of the
+sleeping Christians and bringing sinners unto repentance. We have ten
+converts and ten more seeking the Lord. We are all very much encouraged
+and are now looking forward for a brighter and more encouraging future.
+
+From Macon, Ga.--At our last communion we baptized and received four
+into our fellowship on confession of faith. They were all young people
+who are in school and full of promise. Others are expected to unite
+with us next month. There have been seventeen additions to the church
+in the last eleven months. There has been some real progress made by
+the church in all directions. I find in our church meetings a much more
+gentle spirit between the members than when I first came here, and I
+feel that this outward improvement is due to inward spiritual growth. I
+can see this growth in the prayers and testimonies of the weekly prayer
+meetings.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REVIVAL AT WILMINGTON, N.C.
+
+PROFESSOR GEORGE A. WOODARD.
+
+
+The revival which took place in this church the latter part of the
+winter was, in some respects, a model one.
+
+At the close of one of the Wednesday evening prayer meetings, our
+pastor spoke to us with the view of ascertaining if the church were
+ready for special work; then he appointed another prayer meeting for
+Friday night. With faith, and resting upon the promises of God, the
+work was begun the next week. At first the attendance was small; but,
+as the meetings continued, the interest increased, and it became
+necessary to move into the large hall of the school.
+
+It was evident throughout that God was in the work and that the Holy
+Spirit was striving mightily with sinners. A deep, quiet emotion
+pervaded the meetings, in strong contrast with the revivals held in
+many of the colored churches of the city, where the excitement becomes
+intense, and the confusion great. Their meetings are often continued
+until long after midnight, in a crowded, unventilated room, whereas
+ours never closed later than ten o'clock.
+
+As a result of our revival, although other revivals were going on
+amongst the colored people at the same time, upwards of forty were born
+into the Kingdom, for some of whom, many, many prayers had been offered
+up; and all was done in answer to prayer. Among these were several
+cases of interest, two of which I will mention. One is that of an
+intelligent young man employed by the leading dentist of the city, for
+whom he does the mechanical work, which previously had to be sent
+North. Although of excellent character, he was a skeptic, reading the
+writings of Ingersoll, Paine, and others. For years, our teachers had
+taken a special interest in him laboring with him and praying for him,
+that he might come into the light He was induced to attend these
+meetings, and was finally led to believe that these things are so and
+to accept of the Saviour. He has gone earnestly to work to bring in
+other young men, teaches in the Sunday-school and is ready for any
+Christian work.
+
+The other is that of a brawny brick mason, a great sinner, who, while
+earning excellent wages, often failed to bring home sufficient to feed
+and clothe his children; and when remonstrated with by his wife, would
+answer; "They are your children, you take care of them." All is changed
+now. He gets up early Sunday mornings, assists in getting the children
+ready for church, where the family, all neatly dressed, can be seen
+regularly every Sunday; and in the prayer meeting his voice is usually
+heard.
+
+As a further result of this revival, the church has been greatly
+quickened, the members have been brought closer together in brotherly
+love, and God has given a fresh outpouring of his spirit.
+
+On Easter morning, when a special communion service was held,
+twenty-nine of the new converts were received into our church, amidst
+the most touching and impressive services. But the revival has not
+stopped with the special meetings. After every Sunday evening service,
+an after-meeting has been held, in which several have been led to give
+their hearts to God. All of these meetings have been marked by the
+earnestness with which the church has labored for the salvation of
+those who were yet without, and more fervent prayers never ascended to
+the throne of grace.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FACTS ABOUT BALLARD SCHOOL, MACON, GA.
+
+
+The opening of the New Year saw manifestations of the Holy Spirit in
+our midst, and during the week of prayer there appeared to be a deep
+interest among the pupils. Our prayers seemed to take a new meaning,
+and we felt that they were about to be answered.
+
+Nothing but God's Spirit could have laid the burden of souls upon so
+many hearts at once, or have bidden us speak to different ones, while
+our movements were almost unknown to one another.
+
+In the meetings that were held in the different rooms, and those
+conducted in the High School, which were attended by some of the pupils
+from other grades, a large number expressed a desire to become
+Christians; and there were about sixty who gave their hearts to Christ.
+We rejoice greatly over the work of the Spirit, and have the assurance
+that "there is joy in the presence of the angels of God."
+
+The study of the Bible is an important feature in the school work. One
+hour each week is set apart for it. A visitor, passing from the lower
+grades up, on Friday afternoon, would find Bible work going on in every
+room. The work of the little ones is largely memorizing. The older ones
+have a systematic course. The outlines of Bible history are first
+carefully studied, then the more important events and characters in
+detail. Work in map-drawing is done in connection with all the lessons.
+
+A short time ago, a middle-aged woman applied for admission to our
+school. She had been teaching for several years, but wanted to prepare
+herself for the teachers' examination by taking a short course of
+study. She was permitted to try the sixth grade examination and failed;
+then the fifth with like results; finally she was placed in the fourth
+grade, where it was discovered that she did not know the multiplication
+tables, and evidently had never heard of division. Her knowledge of
+spelling would not exceed that of an average third grade pupil, and she
+is called one of the best colored teachers in the county from which she
+came.
+
+In the Industrial Department nearly two hundred and fifty girls sew
+from a half hour to an hour every day. Excellent work is being done and
+they are very much interested, some of them begging for the privilege
+of sewing at other times than those designated for that purpose. The
+industrial teacher finds difficulty in keeping the supply of work equal
+to the demand.
+
+Friends have kindly sent us donations of work, and much more will be
+acceptable. Sheets, pillow cases, underclothing or patchwork, basted
+ready for sewing, will be very thankfully received. The work in the
+sewing classes includes patchwork, the making of dresses, all kinds of
+other garments, and quilting.--_From the Ballard Record._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A DREARY PICTURE OF PLACE AND PEOPLE.
+
+BY AN A.M.A. WORKER.
+
+
+The country is low and flat, with here and there a small elevation on
+which is a house or log cabin. For miles and miles the country is
+dreary and monotonous. The swamps have a funereal aspect as one looks
+upon the live-oak and cypress, hung with long Spanish moss swaying to
+and fro in the gentle breeze.
+
+Back in these pine woods are hundreds who have never seen the railroad,
+a boat, carriage, or even a mail-bag. Sometimes a few will go to the
+little obscure station on Saturdays and stand gazing at the train as it
+goes thundering by, and many comical remarks are made, as: "Dat am de
+train 'pon which no darkies nor crackers kin ride; dat am all de heben
+dat dem buckra want and am gwine ter git."
+
+Most of the people own their homes, which are poorly constructed of
+pine poles with clapboards to cover the cracks, through which the
+dampness and cold winds make it uncomfortable for the occupants, who
+are seated before a clay chimney and a great lightwood fire. Very few
+of the houses have any windows. A lightwood torch furnishes the light
+by day and by night. Some of them are improving each year, but the most
+of them are satisfied with a roof, and a few acres under cultivation.
+
+The country people seem to be naturally religious, as they are all
+church members, are so from childhood, and are great believers in the
+"sperit," which must be the evil one. They are not denominational in
+the sense in which enlightened people are. The church which allows the
+greatest number of privileges, and the minister who will just be
+preacher and make the most noise and have the greatest number of "big
+meetings," are the most popular. They have a burial service, and
+several months or a year after, they have a funeral service, which is
+always a big time.
+
+Caesar is considered the best preacher that has ever been in ----. He
+comes once a month, and cannot read a chapter; "nor need you expect me
+to get the one-thousandth part of the ingrejience out of this text," is
+his introduction to every sermon, but he can get up steam enough to be
+heard half a mile. One of the preachers wanting to be known as a
+licentiate, said in meeting: "I want you to know that I am a licentious
+preacher,"--which is the truth.
+
+Our work has done an amount of good, even among those outside, and our
+schools and the two churches have done more good in the country than
+all other work combined. The recent fanaticism in the county did not
+get one believer from our church.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REPORT FROM MOUNTAIN SCHOOLS.
+
+
+Our year's work is rapidly drawing to an end. The older scholars are
+doing well and are remaining with us through the year. They certainly
+are gaining in this direction. They become very restless as soon as it
+is "put in crap time." They sigh for the fields and "shovel plow," and
+often look from the school-room windows with a longing for the log
+cabin and the ground surrounding it. In many cases we have to be
+_very_ persuasive to have them remain, yet they seem thankful for
+the advice and remain. The older scholars seem to manifest an earnest
+ambition to obtain situations through the summer, so that they may
+procure clothing and help pay their tuition. We try as far as possible
+to obtain situations for our girls. The better class of the people will
+come to us for help, feeling that our girls have been educated in the
+home and kitchen.
+
+In our temperance meeting last Friday, I asked the question, "What
+would you do if you were forced to take whiskey?" A little girl rose
+and said, "My father asked me to take some and said 'you must.' I said,
+'I can't. God would not be pleased.' He said, 'Well, I 'lows how you're
+'bout right." What a happy girl she was. She knows if she will keep on
+refusing, he will give up strong drink. Our greatest hope is in the
+children.
+
+A poor woman had some articles of clothing to take home with her. I
+offered to wrap her parcel in newspaper. She said, "If you don't care,
+I would like to have that ar paper." She never has a piece except what
+is given her by some kind person. She utterly refused to have the
+parcel wrapped. The people use the papers to keep the cold out. I have
+seen pieces of paper four inches square and parts of letters pasted on
+the boards. We save all the papers we receive, and have assisted in
+making many poor homes comfortable.
+
+There is a good Sunday-school in a neighboring town. The people listen
+very attentively, and seem to be thankful for the Sunday-school and
+church services. The average attendance for the last five Sundays has
+been forty-two. The thought of leaving this school during the summer is
+a _cross_. There are fathers and mothers who are present every
+Sabbath. The children show the need of a good school.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FROM MISS M.A. BYE.
+
+
+Our Christian Endeavor Society interests me very much, as I have given
+more time and thought to that than to anything else outside of school
+work. It has increased in numbers, and the members have for the most
+part gained a great deal in interest and courage, and this term quite
+a number of associate members have become Christians. We are working
+now to send a delegate to the St. Louis Convention, and I anticipate
+great pleasure in watching the effect upon our delegate of the
+enthusiasm of the Convention and the sight of the city, and think it
+will be worth the year's work to be with him, for we hope to send one
+of the boarding boys.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE KING'S DAUGHTERS SOCIETY.
+
+
+About a year ago, ten or fifteen girls might have been seen sitting in
+their teacher's room, at Tougaloo University, while she spoke to them
+of forming a society. The members of this society, she said, were to do
+all the good they could in every way they could.
+
+Now, of course, we want a name for our society. If we are going to do
+all the good we can, we are worthy to be called followers of Christ,
+and as he is a King, we call ourselves "King's Daughters." When our
+society began, we had but eight or ten members, but at almost every
+meeting there was some one who wanted to join. The meetings were
+carried on every Sunday evening, and some one of the members was
+appointed to lead the next meeting. During the week we try in every way
+to do something definite to please our King; to go to no place in which
+we would be ashamed to have our King see us, and to keep no company
+with which we would be ashamed to have him see us. Our society
+continued to grow and prosper, and finally the young men concluded to
+organize a King's Sons Society. During the summer the two societies
+held joint meetings. New members were continually joining. As the
+meetings were new to us when we first began, they were not as
+interesting as they grew to be at a later date; but generally the time
+was all occupied. Some one would read a portion of Scripture and offer
+prayer, after which a story would be read or told by one of the
+members, who had prepared it during the week. Then we would tell how we
+had kept our pledge, or in what way we had been helped by being King's
+Daughters. Sometimes, when we had broken our pledge, we would leave off
+our badge for a week.
+
+The first Sunday in every month we have what we call our consecration
+meeting. The President calls the roll and each one answers by giving a
+verse of Scripture, or her experience as a King's Daughter. The third
+Sunday in every month we elect the officers who are to serve during the
+next month. These consist of President, Vice-President, Secretary, a
+sick committee, whose business it is to visit and help any who are
+sick, and a committee on invitation, whose business it is to find out
+who would like to join our society. They report the names at the next
+meeting. Sometimes we have a question-box into which we put questions
+regarding the society. These are written on small slips of paper and
+read by one of the members. If they are directed to a particular one,
+that person answers them; but if not, any one in the Society answers
+them.
+
+During the school year of 1888, we made a box of clothing to send to
+the Indian mission school in Dakota. We would meet every Saturday
+evening and sew until we had made enough to fill our box. Whenever one
+of us finished a piece we would write our name and pin it on. One of
+our girls wanted to sew a little on every article, so as to have her
+name on all of them. Well, when we had finished our box of presents, we
+each wrote a letter and put into it. We intended to make this a
+Christmas present, but severe snow-storms prevented it from reaching
+its destination in time. They received it about a month after
+Christmas, and the things were divided among the Indian girls. Some of
+them wrote to us, thanking us for the presents which they had received.
+After our society grew to about twenty or thirty, we were divided into
+tens. Each ten had a name given it, such as the Truthful Ten, the Judge
+Not Ten, the Do Without Ten and the Polite Ten. Most of us find it
+hardest to be Judge Not Tens and Truthful Tens.--_From the Tougaloo
+Quarterly._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE INDIANS
+
+
+OUR S'KOKOMISH MISSION.
+
+BY DISTRICT SECRETARY J.E. ROY.
+
+
+The S'kokomish Reservation is at the extreme southwestern corner of the
+Puget Sound, where the S'kokomish River empties in, and is three miles
+square, with five thousand acres, embracing rich bottom land and
+mountain timber land, the river and the sound furnishing the best means
+of transportation to the market. On the place I measured the stumps of
+red cedar that were eight, ten and twelve feet in diameter. The waters
+at hand are of the best for fishing. As we--Mrs. Roy was with me--were
+going up from the river where we had been set across after a ten-mile
+mountain drive from Shelton, we saw a Mr. Lo lugging a three-foot
+salmon into the missionary home; and at Olympia, the capital, and
+another point on the sound, the fishmonger told us they did not sell
+such fish by the pound, but by the piece, twenty-five cents each. When,
+in 1855, this reservation was set apart by the treaty, it was for the
+three bands of this tribe and for the Clallams up at the entrance of
+the Sound, who, because of variance with one of the other bands, never
+left their ancestral habitation to go to the selected spot. The people
+belonging to the Reservation now number about six hundred and twenty.
+
+The handling of the Indians here was one of the first fruits of
+President Grant's Peace Policy, by which the agencies were assigned to
+the several missionary societies, which were to nominate their
+respective agents. This was one of those which were assigned to the
+American Missionary Association. In 1871 the Association nominated to
+this Agency Edwin Eells, Esq., the eldest son of Rev. Gushing Eells,
+D.D., who was one of the mission band that crossed the Rocky Mountains
+in 1838, under commission of the American Board, to be associated with
+Dr. Marcus Whitman's series of Indian Missions. Here is an illustration
+of the wisdom of that policy, which has secured a highly successful
+management in all the secular, educational and religious affairs of the
+Agency, and one that has been continued on through the changes of
+governmental administration, and also one that has resulted in repeated
+promotions, until now Agent Eells has charge of five of the seven
+distinct Reservations in the State of Washington. His present
+headquarters are at the Puyallup Agency, near Tacoma, where he has just
+completed an eight thousand dollar building to displace an old one, for
+the Government Boarding School. In all these five reservations, lands
+have been secured in severalty to the Indians, and largely through his
+persistent devotion to their welfare. For two or three years his father
+had care of the S'kokomish Mission under the American Missionary
+Association, and in 1874, his brother, Rev. Myron Eells, was appointed
+to the same work, in which he still abides. Besides the preaching, the
+care of the Sunday-school and the prayer meetings and the pastoral
+work, in which he gets around among his people as often as once in a
+month, he has also the charge of the Indian Church among the Clallams,
+near New Dunginess, the brethren of that station, in the pastor's
+absence, maintaining stated worship. The people at S'kokomish have
+gotten beyond Government payments; they live on their own allotted
+lands, in cabins or frame houses, wearing citizens' dress, and doing
+business as white men do it. One of Pastor Eells's first Sundays at the
+mission was noted for the celebration of Christian marriage on the part
+of seven or eight couples who had been living together under their
+heathen way of taking up. So they have been shuffling off their
+polygamy. While we were there, a man of middle life came to the
+pastor's house with his first wife, to be married to her after the
+Christian form, having made a satisfactory pecuniary arrangement with
+the second, who was a sister of the first. In this case there were no
+children to complicate settlement. After I had addressed the church
+upon their duty of doing more for the support of their pastor, even as
+I had betimes had to do before in white home missionary churches, the
+several responses were as decorous and assuring as could be desired.
+
+As another advantage of this Grant plan, the Government School and the
+Mission are found to be in entire harmony, the principal, Mr. Foster,
+and his assistants and the industrial teacher all being Christians and
+caring for the moral advancement of their pupils. Nor does the
+missionary administration come in any way to overlie the governmental.
+From the herd of cows kept for the service of the boarding school,
+neither is one set aside for the pastor's family, nor is he allowed to
+buy their milk. He gets his supply from outside. Nor does the preacher
+use from Uncle Sam's wood pile. He buys from the Indians.
+
+Some may wonder how a man in such a field can keep from drying up. Come
+with me into this missionary study. The first thing that strikes you is
+a growth of English ivy, from its root in the earth outside creeping
+through a crack in the siding and climbing up one corner and then
+around the upper corners of the four sides of the room. That evergreen
+wreath is a symbol of the fresh intellectual life in that study, which
+has all the air and fix of a workshop. On the shelves, besides the
+ordinary outfit, there is an extensive geological collection, which
+in its classification and nomenclature shows scientific investigation.
+Then there is a fine cabinet of Indian relics and curios, appropriate
+to the calling of the incumbent: and there is a supply of Indian
+literature, historic and scientific, out of which this student is
+transmuting the essential elements of the Indian problem of the Pacific
+Northwest. And so it is a small library of his own that has thus been
+elaborated. The first is a "History of Indian Missions on the Pacific
+Coast," published by the American Sunday-school Union; and the second
+is "Ten Years at S'kokomish,"--1874-1884--published by our own
+Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society. These books would
+make an enrichment of any Sunday-school library, giving the very
+essence of romance and of heroism along with Christian instruction. The
+others are monographs, among them the following:
+
+"Marcus Whitman, M.D.: Proofs of his Work in Saving Oregon to the
+United States, and in promoting the immigration of 1843;" "Justice to
+the Indian;" "Indian Traditions as to Religion;" "Hand of God in the
+History of the Pacific Coast;" "Papers on the Anthropology of the
+Indians of Washington," as published in the Smithsonian Report of
+1886-7. Another such monograph he now has ready for the press--"God's
+Hand in the Missions to the Indians beyond the Rocky Mountains," a
+paper read at the recent fiftieth anniversary of the organizing of Dr.
+Whitman's church. And beyond all this literary work is the occasional
+supply of destitute white congregations round about, and service as a
+Trustee of the Pacific University in Oregon, and of the Whitman
+College, at Walla Walla, Washington. Surely in literary work, to the
+names of Jonathan Edwards among his Stockbridge Indians, and John Eliot
+among his Naticks, and S.R. Riggs among the Dakotas, and not a few
+others, maybe added this of Myron Eells among the S'kokomish.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+
+JOTTINGS.
+
+BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.
+
+
+If I were to attempt to place before the readers of the MISSIONARY, in
+such setting as would be needed for a comprehension of them, all the
+interesting minor facts and scenes that pass under my observation in
+our work, there would be no room on its pages for anything else. Let me
+give a few examples of these.
+
+A young Chinaman is being examined with reference to baptism, and is
+asked why he decided to turn from the worship of idols. "God is
+_true_" is the reply, a very simple reason,--a trite one possibly;
+but there was something in the tone and emphasis of it which thrilled
+me. I saw the emptyness of heathen worship at a point from which I had
+never looked at it before. A God that is _true_, that can be
+absolutely trusted! Where will you find one in any heathen Pantheon?
+Conceive now a thoughtful, honest man passing from the timorous worship
+of such gods to the rest and comfort and courage which come from
+knowing and trusting Him who is true, and you will begin to realize
+what that simple answer meant.
+
+"What are your people making such a noise for?" was asked of a Chinese
+brother at Ventura, during the Chinese New Year's Festival. "To scare
+away the evil spirits," was the reply. "And why don't _you_ scare
+them away?" was the next question, for all was quiet at our little
+mission house, "Evil spirits stay away when Holy Spirit comes," was the
+reply. I am not confident that I recall the exact words, but I have
+certainly given the idea, and it meant emancipation for the man that
+uttered it, an entrance into the liberty wherewith Christ makes us
+free.
+
+"When I get discouraged, as I often do," writes a teacher, "I think of
+the five who are studying the Testament, and of a remark one of them
+made to me, 'I love Jesus more all the time when I read about him.'"
+This brother took his religion with him to China, and brought it back
+unharmed.
+
+One of the brethren worked in a hotel where to specially toilsome
+service was added a treatment far from kind. He said to his teacher
+that he remembered how much Jesus had to bear and so he "had patient."
+The wages received he spoke of as the "hardest money" he had earned
+since coming to California, and _so_ he took part of it to buy a
+nice Bible. An American said scoffingly to him: "Are you one of the
+Christian Chinamen?" "Yes," he replied. "I love Jesus; I am not ashamed
+that I love Jesus."
+
+One of our Santa Barbara brethren rents quite a tract of land, much of
+which he devotes to the culture of small fruits. On a visit to his
+place a year or two ago, friends saw strawberry plants heavily laden
+with luscious looking fruit so arranged in front of our brother's door
+as to spell out this sentence, "God loves the earth."
+
+"It seems," said Jee Gam once, "as though I could recall his very
+words, and hear the tones of his voice as he prayed for the conversion
+of his countrymen." It was the closing prayer of a gospel service among
+the Chinese in Oakland. The brother who offered it was a Chinese
+merchant of that city. Two days afterwards he was shot in his own store
+by a Chinaman because he refused to submit to blackmail. A policeman
+hastened to the spot and saw him die, and testified in court that his
+last words were those of prayer to our true God; this testimony, though
+given probably by an ungodly man, being such as to draw tears from many
+who listened. Yet some say there are no real Christian Chinamen; that
+you can't convert a Chinaman; that they are throughout a race of
+hypocrites.
+
+It may not be safe to say _every_ month without exception, though
+that is the impression made upon me, but it is certainly safe to say
+_almost_ every month brings some report to me of pupils beginning
+to believe in Jesus and professing their faith in him. This extract
+from a letter will serve as an example: "I have some very good news for
+you concerning my scholars. Two of them have promised to join the
+Association [i.e. of Christian Chinese] next week. One of them I have
+been praying for especially, for nearly a year.... There are three
+more who, I trust, are born of God, but are not yet brave enough to
+take a stand for him. One says his brother will kill him if he joins in
+Christ's name." And here is a word from another teacher: "Five of the
+brethren unite with the church at the coming communion. I do not feel
+that this is through my effort, as I have not known how to work
+individually. It is the Lord that 'giveth the increase.' Two of them
+have been ready to come into the church for a long time. The others
+show their conversion by face and manner as well as by testimony and
+prayer."
+
+I fear that I have exhausted my space, though I am far from the end of
+possible "jottings." I will close with a few sentences from a letter
+received from a Chinese Christian living at a roadside tavern beyond
+Oroville. "Since I am determined to be a Christian, has very much
+surprised my elder brother. When he heard about I join the Association
+he make a great deal of trouble to me. Then I ask our brothers to pray
+for that matter, till one day I go and entreat him; also, tell him all
+about the gospel of Christ how good for us and redeem us from our sins.
+Then he said, 'Do not talk such things to me; we are Chinese; must keep
+our customs.' I say, 'I cannot keep anything wrong; idol worship is
+against God. Four thousand years ago our Chinese population have no
+idol to worship. Don't you search a thing before you keep it?' Then he
+answer: 'If good then you keep it,' and then I received baptism; then
+do no more persecution to me afterwards." This extract merely hints at
+facts which, if related, would show that for our Chinese Christians at
+least, the days that _try_ men's souls are not yet past.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
+
+
+The thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of
+Alabama met with the Congregational Church in Marion, March 31. This
+Union has contributed during the year to the A.M.A. for Indian work, to
+the A.H.M.S. for Bohemian work, besides aiding a missionary in China,
+and one in South Africa. All the auxiliaries have also done good work
+in aiding the churches and the poor in their respective localities. The
+meeting was pleasant and profitable, and the Union starts upon another
+year with the prospect of adding greatly to its strength and
+efficiency.
+
+The first Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Missionary Union, held at New
+Orleans, April 3, was also full of encouragement. The new interest
+awakened, simply by the gathering together to report the progress of
+the year, indicates how much can be accomplished. Not only will the
+missionary cause receive direct benefit, but there will be a reflex,
+healthful influence upon the churches thus represented.
+
+The first Annual Meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Central
+South Association, held in Nashville, Tennessee, April 5, was in all
+respects encouraging. One of the peculiar features of these Southern
+Unions is that the State Association is always likely to meet at a
+school centre, as in this case at Nashville, Tennessee, and the older
+students thus are enthused and stimulated to missionary purpose and
+activity, whether in the ordinary experiences of church life at home,
+or as special missionaries.
+
+There was a good representation of auxiliaries, and encouraging word of
+new ones soon to be received. The interest in the meeting was intense,
+and the reports from the different societies showed a deep and
+heartfelt sympathy with the cause of missions. It was very interesting
+to note how anxiously some of those who represent a people burdened
+with poverty, planned for the work of the coming year, taking for their
+field--the world. Considering that this Union is only a year old, its
+growth seems remarkable.
+
+The question is sometimes asked, whether the Mountain girls appreciate
+the opportunity of education that is now afforded them. We reply by
+giving extracts from the letter of a pupil obliged to leave school. The
+letter was written to a school-mate, and is but one of many instances
+of the kind.
+
+"MY DEAREST FRIEND:--I would have written sooner, but I thought I might
+get a chance to go to school, and that is why I have delayed so long.
+It is impossible for me to go now, the boys are preparing 'for to make
+a crap,' and I can see how much they are needed at home. We have but
+one horse, and I cannot go alone. Oh! how glad I would be to see my
+teacher. I know I shall never be able to reward her for her kindness to
+me, but the Lord will reward her. I never have met the people who were
+so kind to me as those people. I still have a desire to get an
+education; sometimes I think I will not get to go to school any more,
+but where there is a will, there is a way, and I know I have a good
+will. My sisters all married before they were twenty. I am twenty-two
+now. I want an education more than I want to marry. My folks tell me I
+have enough education, but I think I know better than they. To be sure,
+I can read and write a little, but that don't satisfy me, I have a hope
+yet that I may still get higher, that is if the Lord is willing. We
+cannot do anything unless the Lord is willing and will help us. Give my
+love to all the girls. Please write and tell me about the school.
+Remember me in your prayers.
+
+Your true friend, ---- ----."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
+
+
+_Dear Children_:--The first morning I entered my school-room
+South, such a mass of little dark faces as greeted me! At first it
+seemed so strange to me, they all looked alike, but in a short time I
+was able to pick out Simon, and Tommy, and Mollie, and Janie. Most of
+them want to learn, and are quite tidy in their appearance. One of the
+exercises they enjoy most is the singing. It would be hard to find a
+colored boy or girl who does not sing, and many of them have very sweet
+voices. They are able to sing the alto with very little practice. It
+often surprises me to find how well they keep their parts. One day we
+had a very severe shower, and it was so dark we could not see the
+black-boards or see to work, so I let them sing for nearly an hour. All
+over the building, if you could have visited the different rooms, you
+would have enjoyed listening to them. One of their own pieces which
+they like to sing, is "Roll, Jordan, roll." They pronounce it "Jurdon."
+
+Many of the parents are working very hard to give their children an
+education, and I am glad to say that the children themselves are glad
+to learn. One little girl said, "I've got on a _terrible_ bad
+looking shoe, and the big girls out doors were laughing at me
+yesterday, but I thought I'd rather come to school with the bad shoe,
+than stay away a day and not come at all. I pray every day that God
+will help me to do right and be a good girl in school. Last night papa
+was out of a job, and I prayed that he might get another one, and now
+he's got another one." Then looking at her shoes, she said: "I'd rather
+wear these ragged shoes than not to pay for my schooling at all."
+
+And now, children, will you come with me for a little drive? We are
+going in a phaeton with our good horse, Maud. We drive about a mile out
+of the city, cross a little bridge, and finally drive through a
+gateway. The ground is sandy, in some places so white that it almost
+reminds one of snow. The trees are still green. Our attention is
+attracted by a procession moving slowly forward. There is one carriage
+and the friends, men and women, are walking. The words they are
+chanting show it to be a funeral procession. Every one wears a green
+badge, for most all the colored people belong to some order. Finally
+they come to a stop and gather about the grave. The mourners break out
+into a wail, and they begin to chant the words: "And must my trembling
+spirit glide into a world unknown?" The chant I can never describe, for
+there is no music in it, and we cannot distinguish any tune. Then the
+minister preaches, and they begin another chant. Let us look around a
+little. I am sure you are already interested and surprised at what you
+see. Here is a group of three little graves; on one, we find three
+dolls' heads, a quantity of shells, marbles, dishes and other toys with
+which the children used to play. On another, is a tin kitchen, a bell,
+a doll in a chair, a marble under a sugar-bowl cover, and part of a
+tea-set. On another, that of a grown person, is a long pipe with a
+paper of tobacco, medicine boxes with powders. A little further away we
+find one on which is a tooth-brush, ten medicine bottles, two lamps, a
+basket filled with sand, vases, tumblers, a toy boat made out of bark,
+and pieces of glassware. Among other decorations we find a ball and
+bat, pitchers, bits of colored glass, pill boxes, teapots, etc. But it
+is already growing dark, and Maud is anxious to start; I think you have
+seen enough to make you wonder at the curious customs, and I am sure
+that you want to help them to know a better way.
+
+One day a little girl said to her teacher: "I got religion last night."
+Shall I tell you just here, something of what they mean by "getting
+religion?" It means bad air, late hours, shouting, screaming, and
+general excitement. Sometimes they sit for hours, and go night after
+night saying over and over the same words. When they finally do "get
+religion," they jump up and shout, and run about the church, falling
+into the arms of those standing nearest. I think the children are
+looking for some strange experience. They expect, from what they are
+taught, to see some vision, or hear some voice. I try to show them the
+simple way of salvation by just taking Jesus at his word.
+
+And now let us turn to a brighter scene. One Sunday about a month ago,
+our pastor preached a sermon, which led us to feel that the Lord was
+especially near us, and that we had only to do our part to receive an
+outpouring of God's Spirit. Some of us agreed to pray for this. Then we
+began to pray for our scholars, and to invite them to our meetings. At
+first only a few came, but more kept coming every night, and we kept
+bringing in seats, until the mission room was so full we had to change
+to the large hall up stairs. Every night some would rise for prayers,
+and we would stay and talk with them quietly, and try to show them the
+way to Jesus. I think there are about forty now, who have expressed a
+desire to live a Christian life. Many of them are children and young
+people. Four are boys in my Sabbath-school class. We have held prayer
+meetings for this after school, and many are glad to come. About twenty
+joined our Christian Endeavor Society as active members, at our last
+consecration meeting.
+
+And now, dear children, do you know that this is all given us in answer
+to prayer? We have simply asked and received. I knew that the home
+friends were praying for us. Their prayers are a constant help. Will
+you not pray this month that these little ones may be kept from
+falling, and that they may grow to be bright and shining lights in the
+world, to lead their own people out of the darkness of sin and
+ignorance?
+
+Sincerely your friend,
+
+MINNIE T. STROUT.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.
+
+CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+
+MAINE.
+
+WOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A.
+
+  Chairman of Committee--Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.
+
+
+VERMONT.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A.B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington.
+  Secretary--Mrs. E.C. Osgood, 14 First Ave., Montpelier.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.
+
+
+[A]MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND.
+
+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 Ave., Hartford.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.
+
+
+NEW YORK.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., Brooklyn.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, Syracuse.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New York City.
+
+
+OHIO.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. F.L. Fairchild, Box 932, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
+
+
+INDIANA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. C.B. Safford, Elkhart.
+  Secretary--Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C. Evans, Indianapolis.
+
+
+ILLINOIS.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., Chicago.
+  Secretary--Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign.
+
+
+IOWA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  Presidents--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 Gertude A. Keith, 1350 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield.
+
+
+NORTH DAKOTA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
+
+  President--Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.
+
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle.
+  Secretary--Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron.
+  Treasurer--Miss A.A. Noble, Lake Preston.
+
+
+NEBRASKA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln
+  Secretary--Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St., Fremont.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete.
+
+
+MISSOURI.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A.W. Benedict, 3841 Delmar Ave., St. Louis.
+  Secretary--Mrs. E.H. Bradbury, 3865 Washington Ave., St Louis.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. Louis.
+
+
+KANSAS.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
+
+  President--Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka.
+  Secretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa.
+
+
+COLORADO AND WYOMING.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado.
+  Secretary--Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., Colorado Springs,
+       Colorado.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. S.A. Sawyer, Boulder, Colorado.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. W.L. Whipple, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
+
+
+WASHINGTON.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+  President--Mrs. W.E. Dawson, Seattle.
+  Secretary--Mrs. N.F. Cobleigh, Walla Walla.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. W.R. Abrams, Ellensburg.
+
+
+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, 13239 Harrison St., Oakland.
+
+
+LOUISIANA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. R.C. Hitchcock, New Orleans.
+  Secretary--Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond.
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A.F. 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, 2519 Third Ave., Birmingham.
+  Treasurer--Miss M.K. Lunt, Selma.
+
+
+FLORIDA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood.
+
+
+TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION.
+
+  President--Mrs. E.M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.
+  Secretary--Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn.
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill.
+  Secretary--Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh.
+  Treasurer--Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh.
+
+
+TEXAS.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. S.C. Acheson, 149 W. Woodard St., Denison.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Mary A. McCoy, 122 No. Harwood St., Dallas.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C.I. Scofield, Dallas.
+
+[Footnote A: 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 use 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 APRIL, 1890.
+
+
+THE DANIEL HAND FUND,
+
+_For the Education of Colored People._
+
+FROM
+
+Mr. Daniel Hand, Guilford, Conn.
+
+
+Income for April, 1890                                       $960.00
+Income previously acknowledged                              7,489.85
+                                                           ---------
+Total                                                      $8,449.85
+                                                           =========
+
+
+CURRENT RECEIPTS
+
+
+MAINE, $175.41.
+
+Bangor. Central Ch., 10; Hammond St. Ch., 3.25,
+  for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.                                     13.25
+
+Belfast. First Cong. Ch.                                       23.54
+
+Brewer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               22.40
+
+Castine. Y.P.S.C.E., 3.73, and Garments; Helen J.
+  Webster, 2; "Rainbow Band," 1.25, and Sewing Bags,
+  _for Student Aid, Chandler Normal Sch._                       6.98
+
+Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch., _for freight to N.C._               2.00
+
+Gorham. Childrens Miss'y Soc. in Cong. Ch., _for
+  Sherwood, Tenn._                                             12.25
+
+Hiram. "Friends," by Mrs. J.P. Hubbard, 10; Mrs J.P.
+  Hubbard, 5, _for Williamsburg, Ky._                          15.00
+
+South Berwick. Two Sab. Sch. Classes, by   Mrs. K.B.
+Lewis, _for Indian M._                                          2.34
+
+Wells. "A Friend."                                              1.00
+
+Woman's Aid to A.M.A., by Mrs. C.A. Woodbury,
+  _for Woman's Work_: Alfred. Cong. Ch.,
+  to const. Mrs. Laura A. Littlefield L.M.          30.00
+
+  Portland. Ladies' Circle of Second Parish
+  Ch., _for Acres Memorial Room, Selma,
+  Ala._                                             46.65
+
+                                                    -----      76.65
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $657.68.
+
+Amherst Cong. Ch.                                              17.30
+
+Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc., bal. to const Ambrose
+  D. Aldrich L.M.                                              22.47
+
+Canaan. Miss Mary A. George                                     5.00
+
+Durham. Cong. Ch., in part                                      7.00
+
+Epping. Cong. Ch., 30.42; Mrs. G.N. Shepard's S.S.
+  Class, 3.25.                                                 33.67
+
+Epping. Pansy Circle, Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid,
+  Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                                   15.00
+
+Exeter. Second Cong. Ch.                                      234.00
+
+Gorham. Cong. Ch.                                               5.00
+
+Hopkinton. Mrs. M.G. Barnard to const. Mary E.
+  Barnard L.M.                                                 30.00
+
+Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                     11.00
+
+Keene. Dea. Metcalf's Sab. Sch. Class, First Cong. Ch.          5.00
+
+Keene. Mrs. K.C. Thayer, _for Pleasant Hill. Tenn._            15.00
+
+Laconia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    50.27
+
+Littleton. Cong. Ch., 8.34; John Farr, 5                       13.34
+
+Meriden. Cong. Ch.                                             14.00
+
+Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch.                                        15.00
+
+Nashua. First Cong. Ch.                                        25.40
+
+Pembroke. First Cong. Soc.                                     20.75
+
+Penacook. Jeremiah C. Martin.                                   5.00
+
+Tilton. Cong. Ch.                                              25.00
+
+West Concord. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. C.F. Roper L.M.        34.00
+
+West Concord. Y.L.M. Soc., by Mrs. Bertha R. Roper,
+  _for Storrs Sch._ and to const. Miss Hattie
+  B. Holmes L.M.                                               30.00
+
+West Lebanon. Cong. Ch.                                        24.48
+
+
+VERMONT, $197.26.
+
+Bethel First Cong. Ch., 3.37; Y.P.S.C.E., by Lucy M.
+  Graham, Treas., 1.75                                          5.12
+
+Brandon. Cong. Ch.                                             10.00
+
+Brattleboro. Central Cong. Ch.                                112.61
+
+Brattleboro. Mrs. F.C. Rice, _for Student Aid,
+  Talladega C._                                                10.00
+
+Cornwall. _For freight to McIntosh, Ga._                        1.50
+
+Derby Center. Mrs. R.C. Drisko, Bbl. of C., Freight, 2.,
+  _for McIntosh Ga._                                            2.00
+
+Dorset. Cong. Ch.                                              16.00
+
+Essex Junction. Cong. Ch., _for Freight to
+  McIntosh, Ga._                                                1.80
+
+East Dummerston. Mrs. A.A. Dutton, Box of C. _for
+  Mclntosh Ga._
+
+Johnson. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 25 Hymn Books _for
+  Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Montpelier. "F.E.B."                                            1.00
+
+Newport. First Cong. Ch.                                       15.08
+
+Putney. Ladies' Aid Soc., Bbl of C., _for McIntosh Ga._
+
+Saint Johnsbury. Sab. Sch. Class, North Cong. Ch., _for
+  Indian Sch'p_                                                 5.00
+
+Swanton. C.C. Long                                             10.00
+
+West Westminster. Mrs. H.A. Goodhue, _for Freight to
+  McIntosh, Ga._                                                1.15
+
+Williamstown. "A Friend."                                       6.00
+
+Worcester. James F. Smith, Box of S.S. Papers, _for
+  McIntosh, Ga._
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $7,310.40.
+
+Amherst. Ladies, by Mrs. H.L. Hubbell, _for Student Aid,
+  Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                                   20.00
+
+Amherst. First Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_                   9.00
+
+Amherst. Mrs. J.C. Bryant, _for Atlanta U._                     5.00
+
+Andover. Phillips Academy, _for Pleasant Hill. Tenn._          25.00
+
+Arlington. Ortho. Cong. Ch.                                    46.19
+
+Bedford. H.B. Doland, _for Home, Wilmington N.C._              14.00
+
+Berlin. Cong. Ch., 8.50; Y.P.S.C.E., 7.50; Sab. Sch., 4.,
+  _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                              20.00
+
+Boston. Central Cong. Ch.                                     948.20
+  Old South Cong. Ch., in Part                 310.59
+
+  "Felice Circle of King's Daughters" Mount
+    Vernon Ch., _for Williamsburg Academy,
+    Ky._ and to const. Miss Alma Holmes,
+    Miss Anna Norris, Miss Lucy Brown and
+    Miss L.H. Maxwell L.M.'s                   125.00
+
+  Chas. H. Rutan, _for Student Aid,
+    Pleasant Hill Academy, Tenn._               67.50
+
+  W.H.M.S., Park St. Ch. _for Student
+    Aid Straight U._                            54.00
+
+  Mrs. Susan C. Warren, _for Jewett
+    Memorial Hall, Grand View, Tenn._           25.00
+
+  C.A. Hopkins, _for Pleasant Hill,
+    Tenn._                                      36.75
+
+  Mrs. Woodbridge Odlin, _for Freight to
+    Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                        5.10
+
+  Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch.                 122.92
+
+  Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. F. Ch.              24.68
+
+  Miss Almira C. Wilkins, 5; Mrs. M.
+    Houston, 3, _for Girl's Hall,
+    Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                        8.00
+
+  Jamaica Plain. "A Friend," _for Indian
+    M., Grand River, S.D._                       4.50
+
+  Roxbury. Immanuel Ch., 22; Walnut Av.
+    Cong. Ch., 13.50; _for Stoves,
+    Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._          35.50
+
+  Highland. Cong. Ch., _for
+      Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                15.30
+
+  West Roxbury. Sab. Sch. of South Evan.
+    Ch. _for Tougaloo U._ and to
+    const. Abner J. Nutter L.M.                 30.00
+
+  South Evan. Ch. and Soc.                      17.94
+
+                                                -----       1,830.98
+
+Brookfield. Cong. Ch.                                          12.49
+
+Brookline. Howard Cong. Ch.                                   104.34
+
+Brockton. Porter Cong. Ch.                                     15.00
+
+Brockton. Joseph Hewitt                                         5.00
+
+Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                               87.79
+
+Cambridgeport. "Scatter Good Circle," of Pilgrim Ch.
+  _for Freight to Beaufort, N.C._                               2.00
+
+Chelsea. First Cong. Ch.                                       20.00
+
+Clinton. Cong. Ch. _for Academy, Williamsburg, Ky._            80.85
+
+Colerain. Mrs. P.B. Smith.                                      5.00
+
+Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch.                                       26.47
+
+Cotuit. Union Ch.                                              10.00
+
+Danvers. Webster F. Putnam.                                    68.54
+
+Dedham. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid,
+  Straight U._                                                 25.00
+
+Dighton. Miss M.F. Aiken, _for Girl's Hall, Pleasant
+  Hill, Tenn._                                                  5.00
+
+East Dennis. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+  Fisk U._                                                      5.00
+
+East Somerville. First Orthdox Cong. Ch.                       82.93
+
+East Weymouth. Ladies, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._              25.00
+
+Fall River. Central Cong. Ch., 33; Third Cong. Ch., 16.65.     49.65
+
+Fall River. Y.W.C.T.U., Package Papers, _for
+  Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Florence. Florence Cong. Ch.                                   22.38
+
+Framingham. George Nourse.                                     10.00
+
+Georgetown. "S," _for Sherwood, Tenn._                         10.00
+
+Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch., "A Friend," by Rev. R.P.
+  Hibbard                                                      25.00
+
+Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              53.68
+
+Granby. Cong. Ch.                                              10.00
+
+Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                                   37.58
+
+Greenwich Village. Mrs. M.A. Sibley                             1.00
+
+Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                      7.99
+
+Holliston. "Bible Christians."                                100.00
+
+Holliston. Mrs. S.E. Walker, _for Student Aid,
+  Fisk U._                                                      2.00
+
+Hopkinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill,
+  Tenn._                                                       34.50
+
+Hopkinton. Mrs. J.P. Crooks. B. of C. _for Williamsburg,
+  Ky._
+
+Indian Orchard. Willing Helpers, _for
+  Williamsburg, Ky._                                           12.00
+
+Ipswich. First Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_                  23.32
+
+Lawrence. Mrs. A.J. Doland, Table Spread, Val. 3, _for
+  Home, Wilmington, N.C._
+
+Leicester. First Cong. Ch.                                     17.70
+
+Leominster. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Ortho. Cong.
+ Ch., 25; F.J. Lathrop, 5, _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._     30.00
+
+Lowell. Sab. Sch. High St. Ch., _for Mountain Work,
+  support of a boy and girl_, and to const. Mrs. Frank
+  N. Chase and Mrs. Ephraim Brown. L.M.'s.                     60.00
+
+Lowell. Eliot Ch. to const. Miss Helen A. Ward L.M.            44.19
+
+Lynn. Central Ch., 31; Miss A.E. Knowles, 15c.                 31.15
+
+Milford. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._             4.00
+
+Millbury. First Cong. Ch.                                      45.12
+
+Monterey. Cong. Ch.                                            24.00
+
+Natick. Primary Dep't, Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., 10;
+  Cong. Ch., 8.05                                              18.05
+
+Newton. Eliot Ch., 150. First Cong. Ch., 83.30; Miss Mary
+  Calkins' S.S. Class, North Village Ch., 5.                  238.30
+
+Newton. J.W. Davis, _for Stereopticon Slides_                   5.00
+
+Norfolk. Union Cong. Ch.                                        3.00
+
+Norton. Mrs. E.B. Wheaton, to const. Arthur M. Round and
+  William E. Robbins, L.M.'s.                                  60.00
+
+Northamptom. A.L. Williston, 300; First Cong. Ch., 226.92     526.92
+
+North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     77.28
+
+North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch., 7; Y.P.S.C.E., 5,
+  _for Williamsburg Academy, Ky._                              12.00
+
+Northfield. Miss'y Soc. of Northfield Sem., _for
+  Indian M._                                                   25.00
+
+Peabody. "Friends." 3 Boxes Books, _for Lathrop Library,
+  Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Peru. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                                    9.50
+
+Pittsfield. South Ch. and Soc.                                 49.20
+
+Pittsfield. Ladies, _for Girl's Hall, Pleasant
+  Hill, Tenn._                                                 10.00
+
+Pittsfield. "A Member of South Ch."                             5.00
+
+Pittsfield. M.A. Bissell, 2; S.S. Bissell, 2; _for
+  Mountain Work_                                                4.00
+
+Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc.                                217.01
+
+Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            14.25
+
+Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch.                                 26.57
+
+Somerville. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of Franklin St.
+  Ch., _for Indian M., Santee Agency, Neb._                    20.00
+
+Southampton. Mrs. Edwards, deceased, by her son,
+  Rev. H.L. Edwards.                                            5.00
+
+South Easton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                           16.80
+
+South Easton. Cong. Ch., 38.68; Young Men's Class, 30,
+  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   68.68
+
+South Framingham. Grace Cong. Ch., (50 of which _for
+  Williamsburg Academy, Ky._)                                 217.50
+
+South Framingham. Fred. Folger, 5; Ethel Cutler, Albert J.
+  Dutton, Jr., Mabel Sykes, 5; on "True Blue" card             10.00
+
+South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch.                               25.50
+
+Springfield. South Cong. Ch., _for Williamsburg
+  Academy, Ky._                                                20.00
+
+Taunton. Union Cong. Ch.                                        8.48
+
+Upton. Cong. Ch., B. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._
+
+Waltham. Trinity Cong. Ch.                                     10.17
+
+Ware. "Little Sunbeams," _for Indian M. Birds Nest,
+  Santee Agency, Neb._                                         25.00
+
+Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. Edward C.
+  Porter and Alfred E. Turner L.M.'s.                         107.08
+
+West Boxford. Cong. Ch.                                         6.85
+
+Westford. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             19.50
+
+West Medford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant
+  Hill, Tenn._                                                 30.00
+
+West Medway. Second Cong. Ch., 9.25, and Sab. Sch., 7.70
+  (2 of which _for Student Aid, Fisk U._)                      16.95
+
+West Medway. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Fisk U._              8.00
+
+West Newton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student
+  Aid, Fisk U._                                                10.00
+
+Westport. Cong. Ch.                                            20.00
+
+Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                          17.17
+
+Winchendon. George L. Beals and Nancy Norcross Beals,
+  deceased, by C.L. Beals and C.L.B. Whitney, _for
+  the establishment of Beals Library, Williamsburg,
+  Academy, Ky._                                               500.00
+
+Winchester. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                   51.00
+
+Worcester. Central Cong. Ch., 136; Old South Ch., Dea.
+  Alfred Holden, 5.                                           141.00
+
+Worcester. G. Henry Whitcomb. _for Tougaloo U._                35.00
+
+Worcester. Ladies of Union Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_       13.00
+
+Worcester. Benev. Soc. Plymouth Ch., Box of C.; Sab. Sch.
+  Piedmont Ch., Books, Canned fruit, etc., _for
+  Jellico, Tenn._
+
+Worcester. Rev. T.W. Thompson, Box of Books, _for
+  Lathrop Library, Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Yarmouth. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 22.67; Rev. J.W. Dodge
+  and Wife, 12.33; Sewing Circle, 20; _for Pleasant
+  Hill, Tenn._                                                 55.00
+
+----. "A Friend"                                               25.00
+
+Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh,
+  Treasurer:
+    South Hadley Falls                          11.46
+    Springfield. South                          60.31
+    West Springfield. First, to
+      const. B.W. Colton L.M.                   40.00
+
+                                                -----         111.77
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Association, by Miss Ella A.
+  Leland, Treasurer, _for Woman's Work_:
+    _For Salary of Teachers_ (10 of
+        which bal. to const. Mrs.
+        Elizabeth K. Chapman L.M.)             440.00
+    Boston. Union Ch. Aux., _for
+      Sch'p, Tougaloo U._                      100.00
+    Newton. Mr. Cobb's S.S.
+      Class Eliot Ch.                            6.25
+
+                                                -----         546.25
+                                                           ---------
+
+                                                           $6,711.55
+
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Weymouth. Estate of Dea. Jacob Loud, by John J. Loud, Ex.     598.85
+                                                           ---------
+
+                                                           $7,310.40
+
+
+CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT THE BOSTON OFFICE.
+
+Cambridgeport, Mass. "Scatter Good Circle," Pilgrim Ch.,
+  2 Boxes, _for Beaufort, N.C._
+
+Dorchester, Mass. Mrs. G.H. Guetin, 2 Boxes
+
+Newton, Mass. Eliot Ch., Mrs. M.T. Vincent, 2 Boxes;
+  Goodell Young Ladies Ass'n, 1 Bbl; Freedmen's Aid
+  Sewing Circle, Case and Package; _for Sherwood,
+  Tenn._ J.W. Davis, Books and Papers, _for Jellico,
+  Tenn._
+
+Wilmington, Mass. "Snow Birds," 1 Bbl., _for Gregory
+  Inst., Wilmington, N.C._
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $108.30.
+
+Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                       50.80
+
+Providence. W.H.M.A. of North Ch., _for Indian M.
+  Santee Agency, Neb._                                         50.00
+
+Providence. Y.P.S.C.E. of North Cong. Ch., _for
+  Grand View, Tenn._                                            7.50
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $3,349.23.
+
+Bantam. Miss Cornelia Bradley, _for Mountain Work_             10.00
+
+Black Rock. Young Ladies' Guild, Box of C., _for
+  Thomasville, Ga._
+
+Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., 25;
+  Y.P.S.C.E. of Park St Ch., 8.02.                             33.02
+
+Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., _for Indian
+  Sch'p_                                                       17.50
+
+Bridgeport. Ladies of South Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.
+  Val., 55.41, _for Santee Agency, Neb._
+
+Bridgewater. Cong. Ch.                                         13.40
+
+Bristol. Cong. Ch.                                             25.00
+
+Canaan. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                      21.22
+
+Chester. Cong. Ch.                                             16.65
+
+Collinsville. Mrs. M.A. Warren, _for
+  Charleston, S.C._                                             2.00
+
+Columbia. "Friends," _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+Danielsonville. Thomas Backus (5 of which _for
+  Indian M._)                                                  10.00
+
+Darien. Cong. Ch.                                              32.00
+
+Durham. Cong. Ch.                                              10.85
+
+East Hartford. First Ch.                                       20.00
+
+East Haven. Cong. Ch.                                          12.00
+
+Hartford. "Friends" In Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., _for
+  Indian M._                                                    5.00
+
+Harwington. Cong. Ch.                                          23.80
+
+Huntington. Ladies' Soc., by Miss Eleanor L. Wooster,
+  _for Conn. Ind'l. Sch. Ga._                                   7.50
+
+Mansfield Center. Elliot H. Marsh, M.D.                        10.00
+
+Middletown. Y.P.S.C.E. of Bethany Chapel, by
+  Edward P. Wilcox, Sec.                                        1.25
+
+Naugatuck. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+  Fisk U._                                                     25.00
+
+Naugatuck. Miss Maggie Platt, _for Tougaloo U._                 5.00
+
+New Haven. Ch. of the Redeemer, 178.35; Rev. S.W.
+  Barnum, 5 Copies "Romanism As It Is"; Sab. Sch. Ch.
+  of the Redeemer, _for Indian Sch'p_, 20.                    198.35
+
+New Haven. Prof. E.E. Salisbury                                50.00
+
+New Haven. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of United Ch.,
+  _for Sch'p, Indian Sch., Santee Agency, Neb._                50.00
+
+New London. First Cong. Ch.                                    55.86
+
+New Preston. Cong. Ch.                                         42.50
+
+North Woodstock. Ladies and Sab. Sch., _for Conn.
+  Ind'l Sch., Ga._                                             17.50
+
+Norwich. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.                         21.72
+
+Plainville. Cong. Ch., to const. Miss Emily Dresser, Miss
+  Hattie Hough and Miss Daisy Crissey L.M.'s.                  95.00
+
+Plantsville. Cong. Ch.                                         79.41
+
+Poquonock. Cong. Ch.                                           35.21
+
+Putnam. Sab. Sen. of Second Cong. Ch., _for Student
+  Aid, Fisk U._                                                25.00
+
+Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.                                       11.38
+
+Somerville. Cong. Ch.                                          22.00
+
+South Coventry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       38.94
+
+Southington. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._              50.00
+
+Southport. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M., Cape Prince of
+  Wales, Alaska_                                             2010.00
+
+Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   19.18
+
+Terryville. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_            17.50
+
+Tolland. Lucy L. Clough.                                       10.00
+
+Wapping. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._               10.69
+
+Washington. Cong. Ch. _for Mountain Work_                      18.00
+
+Wethersfield. Mrs. M.S. Tillotson, Bbl. of Books, _for
+  Tillotson C. & N. Inst._
+
+Whitneyvllle. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. C.A.
+  Dinsmore L.M.                                                45.52
+
+Willington. Cong. Ch.                                           2.00
+
+Windsor. First Cong. Ch.                                       25.00
+
+Woodstock. Miss F. Butler, Pkg. of C., _for
+  Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Woman's Home Mission'y Union of Conn.,
+  by Mrs. D. Wilder Smith, Sec.,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+    Chaplin. Ladies' Soc.                       15.00
+    Columbia. Mission Circle
+      _for Conn. Ind'l. Sch., Ga._             10.00
+    Griswold. Aux.                              10.00
+    Higganum. By Mrs. J.G.
+      Hubbard, _for Conn. Ind'l.
+      Sch., Ga._                                10.00
+    Kensington. Eunonean Soc.                    2.50
+    Suffield. Young Ladies M.C.                 12.50
+                                                -----          60.00
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Darien. Correction.--Estate of Rev. Ezra D. Kinney, 100;
+ack. in May number, should read "for the benefit of those
+who were lately slaves."
+
+
+NEW YORK. $2,913.16.
+
+Amsterdam. D. Cady                                             10.00
+
+Aquebogue. Box of C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Brasher Falls. Mrs. Eliza A. Bell, in memory of her
+  father, Elijah Wood, deceased                               243.53
+
+Brooklyn. The Church of the Pilgrims (of which W.F.
+  Merrill, 50; S.B. Chiltenden, 30; J.S. Stanton, 30.
+  to const. themselves L.M.'s., and Charles A. Hull,
+  30. to const. Miss Amelia H. Benjamin L.M.)                 780.51
+
+Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch., 63.97; Atlantic Av. Sab. Sch.
+  Miss'y. Ass'n. by A.C. Pohl, Treas., 25; Miss H.M.
+  Wiggins, 50 cents                                            89.47
+
+Brooklyn. Miss M.A. Hall's Bible Class, 10; Lee Av.
+  Cong. Sab. Sch., 7, and Infant Class, 10; Park Av. M.E.
+  Ch., 9; Miss Morrison, 4; Wm. Graham, 1; John
+  Writenoner, 1, _for Williamsburg, Ky._                       42.00
+
+Brooklyn. "A Friend," _for Industrial work,
+  Lexington, Ky._                                               5.00
+
+Buffalo. "R.W.B.," _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._               50.00
+
+Chittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown                               7.00
+
+East Rockaway. Bethany Cong. Ch.                               12.00
+
+Fillmore. L.L. Nourse                                           9.00
+
+Flushing. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for the Freedmen_           40.00
+
+Fredonia. "Friend," _for Williamsburg, Ky._                     5.00
+
+Fredonia. Presb. Ch.                                            4.30
+
+Jefferson. Mrs. S. Ruliffson                                    3.50
+
+Lawrenceville. Lucius Hulburd                                   5.00
+
+Lowville. Mrs. L.C. Hough, to const. Mrs. Salmon
+  Crandall L.M.                                                30.00
+
+Maine. First Cong. Ch.                                         13.71
+
+Marcellus. Mrs. L. Hemenway, to const. Josephine
+  Hemenway L.M.                                                31.00
+
+Marion. Cong. Ch.                                               5.00
+
+Newark Valley. Y.L. Miss'y. Soc., Box C., _for
+  Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+New York. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 115.18; Mrs. Susie Dez
+  Arnauld, 30; Broadway Tabernacle, F.K. Trowbridge, 25;
+  Madison Sq. Presb. Ch. Mrs. Caroline L. Smith, 10; George
+  S. Hickok, 10                                               190.18
+
+New York. Mrs. H.B. Spelman, _for Student Aid,
+  Atlanta U._                                                  25.00
+
+New York. Sab. Sch. Class Broadway Tabernacle, by Miss
+  E. Agnew, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg Academy, Ky._        9.14
+
+New York. Joseph Wild, Books, _for Thomasville, Ga._
+
+Oswego Falls. "Willing Workers" Cong. Ch., _for Gregory
+  Inst., Wilmington, N.C._                                      3.50
+
+Pekin. Abigail Peck                                            15.00
+
+Sherburne. First Cong. Ch., to const Mrs. Frances A.
+  Morgan and Mrs. Maggie Buchanan L.M.'s                       60.00
+
+Suspension Bridge. First Cong. Ch.                             17.90
+
+Syracuse. Plym. Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, 8.        23.00
+
+Verona. E. Day                                                 10.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H.
+  Cobb, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+
+  Albany. Ladies' Aux. Clinton Av.
+    Cong. Ch.                                    5.00
+
+  Brooklyn. Ladies' Willing Aid Soc.           100.00
+
+  Buffalo. First Cong. Ch.                      25.00
+
+  Brooklyn. Class 35, Sab. Sch. of
+    Puritan Ch.                                 12.00
+
+  Brooklyn. Boys' and Girls' Mission Band
+    Central Ch.                                 10.00
+
+  Clifton Springs. Mrs. W.W. Warner              1.00
+
+  Homer. Mrs. C. Hitchcock, 5;
+    Mrs. B.W. Payne, 5                          10.00
+
+  Honeoye. Ladies' Aux.                         20.00
+
+  Ithaca. Ladies' Aux. and Ch. Coll.            94.00
+
+  Jamestown. Woman's H.M. Aux, _for
+    Student Aid, Tillotson Inst_, and
+    bal. to const. Mrs. A.M. Towle L.M.         15.00
+
+  Newark Valley. Ladies' Aux.                   20.00
+
+  Oswego. Ladies' Aux.                          20.00
+
+  Poughkeepsie. Ladies' Aux.                    20.00
+
+  Syracuse. Woman's Christian Assn.,
+    Plym. Ch., to const. Mrs. M.E. Kendall
+    L.M.                                        50.00
+
+  Syracuse. Primary Dept. Plym. Ch.
+    Sab. Sch.                                   20.00
+
+  West Groton. Y.P. Mission Circle. _for
+    Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                   20.00
+
+  Westmoreland. Ladies' Aux 14.53;
+    Y.P.S.C.E., 6                               20.53
+
+  Woman's Home Missionary Union                122.29
+                                               ------         584.82
+                                                           ---------
+                                                           $2,323.56
+
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Waverly. Estate of Phebe Hepburne                             589.60
+                                                           ---------
+                                                           $2,913.16
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $163.90.
+
+Bound Brook. "Pilgrim workers," _for Indian M. Santee
+  Agency, Neb._                                                20.00
+
+Lyons Parms. Fred W.C. Crane. bal. to const. himself L.M.      10.00
+
+Newark. Loyal Circle of King's Daughters, by Kate L.
+  Hamilton,_for Williamsburg, Ky._                              3.00
+
+Orange Valley. Cong. Ch.                                       80.90
+
+Roselle. "A Friend."                                           50.00
+
+Westfield. Young People's Union, Box of Books
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $505.00.
+
+Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., to const. Amos J.
+  Boyden, J. Rockhill Claire, Mrs. Ellen E. Dexter,
+  Gilbert Elliott, Miss Lizzie Gorton, Miss Marian B.
+  Heritage, Miss Della C. Keyes, Mrs. Hannah E. McKnight,
+  Miss Mary F. Maxfield, George M. Randle, Paul S.
+  Richards, Mrs. E.B. Ripley, and Miss Annie B.
+  Stephens L.M.'s.                                            400.00
+
+Philadelphia. M.H. Harrington                                 100.00
+
+Ridgway. Bible Class, by Minnie J. Kline, _for
+  Oaks, N.C._                                                   5.00
+
+
+OHIO. $675.13.
+
+Akron. West Hill Cong. Ch.                                     37.75
+
+Brecksville. First Cong. Ch.                                    2.40
+
+Byrn. S.E. Blakeslee                                            5.50
+
+East Cleveland. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._
+
+Kelloggsville. Mrs. P.F. Kellogg, 5; Eliza S. Comings, 1;
+  "Little Frankie Kellogg," 50 cts., _for
+  Indian M., Grand River, S.D._                                 6.50
+
+Kent. First Cong. Ch.                                           7.15
+
+Mount Vernon. First Cong. Ch.                                  93.16
+
+North Benton. Simeon Hartzell                                   5.00
+
+North Ridgeville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 6; "Friends,"
+  Shoemaking Tools, Ladies Benev. Soc,. Bbl. of fruit, etc;
+  Miss Maria Lickorish, 4.25, _for Williamsburg, Ky._          10.25
+
+Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., (6.25 of which _for Jewett
+  Memorial Hall_)                                              45.42
+
+Oberlin. Mrs. M.A. Spear, Box and Bbl. of C., 3 _for
+  freight, for New Orleans, La._                                3.00
+
+Saybrook. Franklin K .Hilbert                                   5.00
+
+Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. F.I.
+  Fairchild, Treasurer, _for Womans Work_:
+
+    Columbus. High St. Ch. Y.P.M.S.             10.00
+
+    Cuyahoga Falls. L.M.S.                       7.00
+
+    Fredericksburg. H.M.S.                       5.00
+
+    Harmar. Oak Grove Mission Band               4.00
+
+    Hudson. L.H.M.S.                             5.00
+
+    Lindenville. W.H.M.S.                        5.00
+
+    Lock. Y.L.M.U.                               2.00
+
+    Madison. Central Cong. Ch.                   8.00
+
+    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. Aid Soc.           75.00
+
+    Williamsfield. H.M.S.                        3.00
+
+    Wellington. Benev. and H.M.S.               15.00
+
+    York. Cong. Ch. L.M.S.                      15.00
+
+                                                -----         154.00
+
+
+ESTATE. $375.13
+
+Jersey. Estate of Lucinda Sinnett, by J.B.
+  Metcalf, Executor                                           300.00
+                                                             -------
+
+                                                             $675.13
+
+
+INDIANA, $1.00.
+
+Liber. Thomas Towle                                             1.00
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $355.45.
+
+Altona. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                                    14.56
+
+Aurora. Mrs. N. Lanes    5.00
+
+Avon. Cong. Ch.                                                 5.00
+
+Chicago. South Cong. Ch., 45.45; Leavitt St.
+  Cong. Ch., 71 cts                                            46.16
+
+Earlville. "J.A.D."                                            25.00
+
+Evanston. First Cong. Ch., to const. George T. Stone,
+  W.J. Young, Joseph Hubbart and Lorado Taft L.M.'s           139.27
+
+Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                          49.30
+
+Lawn Ridgs. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                            10.00
+
+Lowell. "V.G."                                                  2.00
+
+Naperville. Cong. Ch.                                          20.00
+
+Oak Park. "Friends," _for Freight to Sherwood, Tenn._           5.00
+
+Odell. Mrs. H.E. Dana.                                         10.00
+
+Providence. Cong. Ch.                                          13.16
+
+Seward. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Lizzie Short, _for
+  Woman's Work_                                                 7.00
+
+Thomasboro. H.M. Seymour                                        3.00
+
+Tolona. Mrs. L. Haskell                                        10.00
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $150.94.
+
+Armada. Cong. Ch., 10.55. and Sab. Sch, 3.20                   13.75
+
+Canandaigua. Cong. Ch.                                          4.00
+
+Grand Rapids. E.M. Ball                                        30.00
+
+Irving. Cong. Ch.                                               1.84
+
+Morenei. Cong. Ch.                                              6.00
+
+South Haven. Clark Pierce                                      10.00
+
+Three Oaks. Mrs. H.E. Crosby, deceased, to const.
+  Josiah Birney Crosby and John Abbott
+  Crosby, M.D., L.M.'s                                         60.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of Mich., by Mrs. E.F.
+  Grabill, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Cadillac. W.H.M.S.                           2.00
+
+    Chelsea. W.H.M.S.                            2.35
+
+    Detroit. W.H.M.S., Trumbull Av.
+      Cong. Ch.                                  5.00
+
+    Detroit. Ladies' Union First Cong. Ch.       3.00
+
+    Eaton Rapids. Y.P.S.C.E.                     5.00
+
+    Tipton. W.M.S.                               3.00
+
+                                                 ----          25.35
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $187.67.
+
+Beloit. "Whatsoever Ten," of King's Daughters, _for
+  Sherwood, Tenn._                                             20.00
+
+Berlin. "Young Conquerors" Mission Band, _for
+  Librarian of Fisk U._                                         2.46
+
+Bristol and Paris. Woman's Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C.,
+  etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Footville. Cong. Ch.                                            7.18
+
+Genesee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                     5.00
+
+Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                        6.96
+
+Madison. Mrs. A.E.H. Deyon, Bbl. and Box of C., _for
+  Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Milwaukee. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                   52.29
+
+Rosendale. Daniel Clark                                         5.00
+
+Whitewater. Cong. Ch.                                          22.50
+
+Wisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union, _for
+  Woman's Work_:
+
+    Arena. W.H.M.S.                              1.69
+
+    Brodhead. Mrs. C. Matter                     5.00
+
+    Eau Claire. W.H.M.S.                         3.50
+
+    Milwaukee. W.H.M.S. Grand Av.               25.00
+
+    Milwaukee. W.H.M.S. Grand Av.                6.00
+
+    Plattsville. W.H.M.S.                         .75
+
+    Waukesha.    " " " "                         1.50
+
+    Whitewater.  " " " "                        12.75
+
+    Whitewater. S.S.                             9.69
+                                                -----          65.28
+
+
+IOWA, $84.97.
+
+Cresco. Cong. Ch.                                              13.25
+
+Des Moines. Sab. Sch. Class, by Mrs. A.Y. Rawson,
+  _for Sch'p, Indian Sch., Santee Agency, Neb._                25.00
+
+Des Moines, Y.P.S.C.E. of North Park Cong. Ch.                  3.13
+
+Dubuque. Sab. Sch. of German Cong. Ch.                         10.00
+
+Muscatine. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+  Talladega C._                                                15.00
+
+Muscatine. German Cong. Ch.                                     4.00
+
+Round Grove. Z. Banks                                           5.00
+
+Waverly. Cong. Ch.                                              9.59
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $59.01.
+
+Fairmont. "Whatsoever Band" Cong. Ch.; B. of C., _for
+  Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Freeborn. Cong. Ch.                                             3.20
+
+Mankato. Cong. Ch.                                              6.05
+
+Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                                43.62
+
+Rochester. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Crockery, _for
+  Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Saint Paul. Y.P.S.C.E. St. Anthony Park Cong.
+  Ch., 2.75, and Bbl. of C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._             2.75
+
+Sleepy Eye. Union Cong. Ch.                                     3.39
+
+
+MISSOURI, $24.00.
+
+Garden City. W.B. Wills, 10; P.J. Wills, 1; F.P.
+  Morelan, 1; A.C. Wills, 1                                    13.00
+
+Ironton. Mrs. C.E. Markham                                      1.00
+
+Kansas City. M. Marty                                          10.00
+
+
+KANSAS, $99.55.
+
+Atchison. Cong. Ch.                                             8.12
+
+Highland. Miss Annie Kloss, _for Student
+  Aid, Fisk U._                                                 8.00
+
+Topeka. First Cong. Ch.                                        76.42
+
+Wabaunsee. First Church of Christ                               7.00
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $48.15.
+
+Blyville. Cong. Ch.                                             2.90
+
+Clarks. John Parker                                             4.00
+
+Greenwood. Mrs. C.A. Mathis, 10; Cong. Ch., 2.90               12.90
+
+Hastings. Cong. Ch.                                            14.00
+
+Sutton. First Cong. Ch.                                        14.35
+
+
+NORTH DAKOTA, $25.00.
+
+Fort Abercrombie. "Thank Offering"                             25.00
+
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA, $36.13.
+
+Faulkton. Rev. Pliny B. Fisk and Wife                           3.00
+
+Huron. First Cong. Ch.                                         25.87
+
+Lake Preston. Cong. Ch.                                         7.26
+
+
+WASHINGTON, $10.00.
+
+Walla Walla. Pres. A.J. Anderson                               10.00
+
+
+OREGON, $3.50.
+
+Myrtle Point. C.C. Stoddard                                     2.50
+
+Salem. Joseph Fry                                               1.00
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, $100.00.
+
+----. "A Friend in California," to const. Charles H.
+  Abernethy and Miss Helen Abernathy L.M.'s                   100.00
+
+Saratoga. Women's Missy Soc. First Cong. Ch., Pkg.
+  Patchwork, _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+
+DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $288.28
+
+Washington. First Cong. Ch.                                   188.28
+
+Washington. "A friend," _for Theo. Dept. Howard U._           100.00
+
+
+KENTUCKY, $12.00.
+
+Lexington. Prof. Fred W. Foster, 5; "A Friend", 5;
+  Miss Lena V. Lowell, 2                                       12.00
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $95.09.
+
+Harriman. "Friends," by Rev. G.S. Pope                         24.48
+
+Nashville. Manager Jubilee Singers, _for Fisk U._              32.00
+
+Pleasant Hill. "Two Friends," by Rev. B. Dodge, _for
+  Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                           33.00
+
+Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.                                        5.61
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $86.11.
+
+High Point Cong. Ch.                                            1.00
+
+Nalls. Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                1.38
+
+Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                          68.73
+
+Wilmington. Miss M. Lewis, _for Home, Wilmington, N.C._        15.00
+
+
+GEORGIA, $19.84.
+
+Thomasville. Sab. Sch. of Normal and Industrial Sch.,
+  _for Indian M., Fort Berthold, N.D._                         18.50
+
+Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., 64c.; Mrs. Sengstacke's
+  Miss's Band, 70 cents                                         1.24
+
+
+ALABAMA, $12.46.
+
+Talladega. Cong. Ch.                                           12.46
+
+
+FLORIDA, $2.00.
+
+Georgiana. Mr. & Mrs. F.W. Munson                               2.00
+
+
+LOUISIANA, $21.85.
+
+New Orleans. Straight University Ch., 11.85;
+  Watson Jones, 4                                              15.85
+
+Woman's Missionary Union of La., by Mrs. C.S.
+  Shattuck, Treasurer, _for Women's Work_:
+
+    New Iberia. Belle Place Aux.                 1.00
+
+    New Orleans. University Ch. Aux.             5.00
+                                                 ----           6.00
+
+
+TEXAS, $2.50.
+
+Dallas. Cong. Ch.                                               2.50
+
+
+HOLLAND, $10.00.
+
+Rotterdam. G.P. Ittman, Jr., _for Gymnasium, Fisk U._          10.00
+
+
+EAST AFRICA, $4.00.
+
+Kamdini. Miss Nancy Jones, _for Fisk U._                        4.00
+                                                          ----------
+
+Donations                                                 $16,305.52
+
+Estates                                                     1,488.45
+                                                          ----------
+                                                          $17,794.97
+
+
+TUITION, $4,740.42.
+
+Lexington, Ky. Tuition                         228.75
+
+Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition                      223.45
+
+Athens, Tenn. Tuition                            3.50
+
+Crossville, Tenn. Tuition                       42.50
+
+Deer Lodge, Tenn. Tuition                       23.72
+
+Jellico, Tenn. Tuition                          39.90
+
+Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition                        11.82
+
+Memphis, Tenn. Tuition                         513.75
+
+Nashville, Tenn. Tuition                       647.08
+
+Pine Mountain, Tenn. Tuition                    61.65
+
+Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition                    33.15
+
+Chapel Hill, N.C. Tuition                        5.50
+
+Troy, N.C. Tuition                              18.00
+
+Wilmington, N.C. Tuition                       159.50
+
+Charleston, S.C. Tuition                       262.00
+
+Greenwood, S.C. Tuition                         96.30
+
+Atlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch., Tuition              153.75
+
+Macon, Ga. Tuition                             412.35
+
+McIntosh, Ga. Tuition                           46.66
+
+Savannah, Ga. Tuition                          166.00
+
+Thomasville, Ga. Tuition                        68.45
+
+Anniston, Ala. Tuition                          60.00
+
+Athens, Ala. Tuition                            75.10
+
+Mobile, Ala. Tuition                           220.92
+
+Selma, Ala. Tuition                             82.85
+
+Talladega, Ala. Tuition                        170.70
+
+Meridian, Ala. Tuition                          90.50
+
+Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition                        146.50
+
+New Orleans, La. Tuition                       489.50
+
+Austin, Tx. Tuition                            186.57
+
+                                              -------       4,740.42
+
+
+United States Government for the Education of Indians       4,275.38
+
+Total for April                                           $26,810.77
+                                                          ==========
+
+
+SUMMARY
+
+Donations                                                 117,815.96
+
+Estates                                                   102,668.08
+                                                         -----------
+
+                                                         $220,484.04
+
+Income                                                      4,262.91
+
+Tuition                                                    27,469.74
+
+United States Government for the Education of Indians      13,221.45
+                                                         -----------
+
+Total from Oct. 1 to April 30                            $265,438.14
+                                                         ===========
+
+
+FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+Subscriptions for April                                       $45.34
+
+Previously acknowledged                                       537.38
+                                                             -------
+
+Total                                                        $582.72
+                                                             =======
+
+
+H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
+Bible House, N.Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Advertisements._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER."
+
+[Illustration: THE RISING SUN STOVE POLISH
+
+For beauty of polish, saving of labor, freeness from dust,
+durability and cheapness, truly unrivalled in any country.
+
+CAUTION.--Beware of worthless imitations under other names,
+put up in similar shape and color intended to deceive. Each
+package of the genuine bears our Trade Mark. Take no other.]
+
+SOLD BY MERCHANTS IN _CIVILIZED_ COUNTRIES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: DR. WARNER'S CAMELS HAIR HEALTH UNDERWEAR
+
+FOR MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN.]
+
+A new Fabric for Underwear superior to Silk or Wool. A
+protection against Colds.
+
+Sold by leading Merchants.
+
+Catalogues sent on application.
+
+WARNER BROS. 359 Broadway, N.Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+$60 SALARY. $40 EXPENSES IN ADVANCE allowed each month.
+Steady employment at home or traveling. No soliciting. Duties
+delivering and making collections. No Postal Cards. Address
+with stamp, HAFER & CO., Piqua, O.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE BURTON HOUSE,
+PRIVATE BOARDING.
+
+Summit St., CRESCENT CITY, FLA.
+
+Open all the Year. Charges Moderate.
+
+D.W. Burton, _Prop._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+INDELIBLE
+
+Mark your Clothing!
+Clear Record of half a Century.
+
+"Most Reliable and Simplest for plain or decorative marking."
+Use a common pen.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Sold by all Druggists, Stationers, News and Fancy Goods dealers.
+
+"Don't on any account omit to mark plainly all your sheets,
+pillow cases, napkins and towels. Mark all of your own personal
+wardrobe which has to be washed. If this were invariably done, a
+great deal of property would be saved to owners, and a great deal
+of trouble would be spared those who 'sort out' clean pieces."
+
+KATE UPSON CLARK.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration]
+
+MENEELY & COMPANY,
+WEST TROY, N.Y., BELLS.
+
+For Churches, Schools, etc., also Chimes
+and Peals. For more than half a century
+noted for superiority over all others.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+JOSEPH GILLOTT'S
+STEEL PENS
+
+_GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSITION 1878._
+
+Nos. 303-404-170-604.
+
+THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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