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diff --git a/16083.txt b/16083.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c94174 --- /dev/null +++ b/16083.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3325 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 1, +January, 1889, 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 43, No. 1, January, 1889 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 17, 2005 [EBook #16083] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + + + + +Produced by Cornell university, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald +Perry and the Distributed Proofreaders Team + + + + + +The American Missionary + +JANUARY, 1889. + +VOL. XLIII. NO. 1. + + + + +CONTENTS + + +PICTURE OF MR. DANIEL HAND + + +EDITORIAL. + + NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS + + FINANCIAL--LARGE GIFTS OF THE WEALTHY + + THE SOUTHERN SITUATION + + PARAGRAPHS--ITEMS FROM THE FIELD + + DEATH OF MRS. GEO. A. WOODARD + + SYSTEMATIC SPENDING. REV. C.J. RYDER + + +THE CHINESE. + + SCRAPS FROM CORRESPONDENCE + + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + + STATE ORGANIZATIONS + + ANNUAL MEETING + + MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK. MRS. A.A. MYERS + + NEEDS OF COLORED WOMEN AND GIRLS. MRS. G.W. MOORE + + +RECEIPTS + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, + +Rooms, 56 Reade Street. + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. + +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + * * * * * + +American Missionary Association + + +PRESIDENT, Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., LLD., 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., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + + +_Recording Secretary._ + + Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + + +_Treasurer._ + + H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + + +_Auditors._ + + PETER McCARTEE. + CHAS. P. PEIRCE. + + +_Executive Committee._ + + JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman. + ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary. + + + _For Three Years._ + + J.E. RANKIN, + WM. H. WARD, + J.W. COOPER, + JOHN H. WASHBURN, + EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN. + + + _For Two Years._ + + LYMAN ABBOTT, + CHAS. A. HULL, + J.R. DANFORTH, + CLINTON B. FISK, + ADDISON P. FOSTER. + + _For One Year._ + + S.B. HALLIDAY, + SAMUEL HOLMES, + SAMUEL S. MARPLES, + CHARLES L. MEAD, + ELBERT B. MONROE. + + +_District Secretaries._ + + Rev. C.J. RYDER, _21 Cong'l House, Boston._ + Rev. J.E. ROY, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago._ + + +_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions. + + Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON + + +_Field Superintendents._ + + Rev. FRANK E. JENKINS. + Prof. EDWARD S. HALL. + + +_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._ + + Miss D.E. EMERSON, _56 Reade St., N.Y._ + + +COMMUNICATIONS + +Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the +Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to +the Editor, at the New York Office. + + +DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS + +In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be +sent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when +more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational +House, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. 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. + + +[Illustration: Daniel Hand] + + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +VOL. XLIII. JANUARY, 1889. No. 1. + + * * * * * + +American Missionary Association. + + * * * * * + +We present to our readers, on the opposite page, a picture of Mr. Daniel +Hand from a photograph taken some time ago. It presents the likeness of a +man of fine physical proportions and with energy and intelligence +impressed on the features. The signature at the bottom of the picture is +copied from one of Mr. Hand's recent letters, and shows the remarkable +physical vigor of a man in his 88th year. + + * * * * * + +NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS. + +The New Year opens upon us auspiciously, and we send forth our joyous +greetings to our patrons at home, and to our fellow workers in the field. +Above all we thank God for putting us into this ministry for the poor and +the ignorant, and for the success granted to us in prosecuting it. We +have had sorrows and anxieties, but they have been followed by +consolations and deliverances. The hand that penned the "Happy New Year" +in our MISSIONARY for last January, is now silent in the grave, but the +memory of Brother Powell's life and character is so precious that it +mitigates our loss. The yellow fever prevented the opening of many of our +schools, and awakened fears of widespread hindrance to our work +throughout the South; but the scourge was restrained, and the work now +goes on prosperously. Our last fiscal year drew towards its close with +the cloud of a large debt looming up, but our friends responded so +generously to our appeals, that the year ended with a debt so small as to +be only a salutary warning. + +But the crowning mercy of the year came at our Annual Meeting, when we +were able to announce the gift of over a million of dollars from that +generous friend of the poor Negro, Mr. Daniel Hand. It is a wonderful +gift, and comes in a good way. The income only can be used, and that will +do just so much more for the Negro, and will not be applied to work now +in progress. We are tempted to fear that our patrons will diminish their +gifts because Mr. Hand has been so liberal. But we will have faith in +God, who has entrusted us with this great work, and we will enter upon +our new year with the full confidence that every friend of the +Association who appreciates our responsibilities to Christ and the +Nation, will decide that his gifts to us shall be increased and not +diminished in this year of grace 1889. + + * * * * * + +_Financial._ + +Emphasis is added to the closing words of the preceding article by the +report of our Treasurer for the first two months of our fiscal year, +October and November. The receipts for those two months were, from +donations, $31,261.99; from estates, $3,961.29; from income, $1,822.72, +making a total for current work of $37,046. The Association needs $62,500 +for these two months. Let us remind our patrons that Mr. Hand's gift will +do its own work and not theirs. We think they will feel that it is only +honorable to let Mr. Hand's benefaction add so much new work, and that it +should not be used simply to relieve others. The great, pressing, and +stupendous work which rests upon this Association as the representative +of the churches, must not stand still. Patriots and statesmen are +becoming alarmed at the Southern situation, and while they will do what +they can to meet the emergency, we believe that the grand solution of the +problem is in the Christian enlightenment and the industrial progress of +the Negro. May God grant that the Christians of this land may not fail to +see their special responsibilities and to meet them in the spirit of +Christian liberality and self-sacrifice. + + * * * * * + +_Large Gifts of the Wealthy._ + +It is refreshing to find in this grasping, selfish and money-making world +that there are wealthy men who amass fortunes and use them for noble +purposes. It is said that growing wealth only tightens the grip on the +money and hardens the heart against the calls of benevolence. But the +examples are accumulating that give shining evidence that there are noble +exceptions. Mr. Hand has added his name to the number. He knows the needs +of the colored people, and he devotes a vast fortune to their benefit. +But Mr. Hand has not exhausted the opportunities, even in the range of +the work of this Association, for blessing needy races of men, or of +aiding in the varied forms of effort for the colored people. The mountain +regions of the South present an unique and promising field of effort. The +inhabitants are a noble people, descendants of some of the best races +that settled America. Their mountain isolation separated them from the +people around them. The want of schools and churches left them ignorant, +their thin mountain lands kept them poor; but they never held slaves and +they were loyal to the Union in the war. Railroads now penetrate their +mountains and valleys, and the hitherto unused wealth of mines and timber +is brought to light. A new future opens out to these people, and the +question is, "Shall that future be one of prosperity and piety, or one of +intemperance and infidelity?" Some other man wise and wealthy can do for +these people what Daniel Hand has done for the primary and industrial +education of the Negroes. But this does not exhaust the opening for large +investments in the work of the Association. The Indians are fewer in +number than the blacks or whites of the South, and their future will +sooner be determined by their being incorporated into the national life +as citizens, yet that problem is not settled, and a large fund could be +wisely used for their benefit. Then, too, our higher schools and colleges +need endowment, and our church work should be _indefinitely_ +expanded. + +If this review does not succeed in drawing large gifts for these several +objects, it may at least serve to show that our wants are not all +provided for, and that smaller contributors have still the duty and the +privilege of aiding by gifts and prayer this good work of patriotism and +Christianity. + + * * * * * + +THE SOUTHERN SITUATION. + +The position of the South is becoming once more clearly defined. Before +the war, it was fully formulated thus: The Negroes are an inferior race, +and slavery is their divinely ordained condition. To this was added: The +Negro question is purely local, and with it no one outside of the South +has any right to interfere. To these axioms agreed the press, the pulpit +and the politician. But the war came as an earthquake, with the utter +upheaval of these firm foundations. + +During the years of reconstruction and political agitation, uncertainty +prevailed, but now again the Southern position is becoming settled. It is +the old position with a variation. It runs: The Negroes are an inferior +race, and must be held as a peasant class in subjection to the superior +white race. To this the warning is again added: This is purely a domestic +affair, and all outsiders must keep tongues and hands off. This revised +version of the old theory is proclaimed by Senator Eustis in his now +somewhat famous article in the _Forum_. More recently it has been +re-affirmed in the fervid eloquence of Mr. Grady, of Atlanta, in his +address at Dallas, Texas. + +This is the same orator (he is an orator) who a few years since +electrified the whole country by his speech at the New England dinner, on +the "New South." But the logic of Southern events has driven him down +again to the platform of the "Old South." More recently still, the +Governor of South Carolina, in his message to the Legislature, has taken +the same position. + +These three gentlemen, representing the press and the politician, are +sustained by the pulpit in the South. For example, the Presbyterian +church South repels all overtures for re-union with the Presbyterian +church North, because such a re-union would involve a practical +recognition of the equal manhood of the inferior race. The Presbyterian +church South does not stand alone on this platform. Other denominations +are arrayed side by side with it, and we fear that even the +Congregationalists in the South, with two Conferences in the same State, +one white and the other black, are in danger of being numbered with them. + +This is the Southern position. It portends the renewal of the old +antagonism. It repels the North, denying its right to interfere, and thus +draws again the sectional line; and above all, it sets up sharply the +antagonism of races, consigning the Negro permanently to an inferior +place. This implies, of course, that if the Negro will not quietly accept +this place, he must be compelled to do so by force of arms, and in this +struggle the North is notified that it has no right to interfere. We can +only express our amazement at this theory! With the memory of the war so +fresh, when the North broke over all warnings against interference, and +stepped in to aid the helpless slave, can the South now hope to make +these warnings any more efficacious? Can it hope that the North will +acquiesce in a quasi slavery, that sets aside substantially all that it +gained and established by the long war? + +And if the struggle comes again, what hope of success can the South +cherish? If in the last national struggle, it was overpowered when the +slave, as Mr. Grady acknowledges, guarded the house while his master +fought for his perpetual enslavement, what can it do when the Negroes +have tasted freedom for a quarter of a century, and now number nearly as +many as the whites in the South? It is for the white people of the South +to say whether that struggle shall come. The North does not desire it, +the Negro does not desire it, and we sincerely believe that a large share +of the people of the South do not want it. Rev. Dr. Haygood, the +efficient agent of the Slater Fund, in a recent article in _The +Independent_, in reply to Senator Eustis, voices, as we hope, the +sentiments of thoughtful and influential Southerners. But it remains to +be seen whether these wise counselors will be heard. Such voices were +uttered before the war, but they were drowned in the noise of sectional +hatred and the imperious demands of slavery. God grant that the sad +lesson of the past may be heeded. + +In the meantime, the A.M.A. will continue its efforts at what it believes +to be the true solution of the Southern problem--the Christian, +educational and industrial advancement of the colored people. With the +help of the great benefaction of Mr. Hand, whose money was made in the +South, and is now consecrated to the South, we shall go forward with +greater zeal and encouragement. We are not partizans; we are not +sectionalists. We are working for the good of both whites and blacks, and +for the peace and prosperity of our common country. + +The election of Benjamin Harrison as President of the United States, and +the restoration of the Republican party to power, awakens special +attention to the probable attitude of both towards the great Southern +problem. We have no opinion to express on the subject, and we have no +interest in it as a mere party question, but only as it may lead to the +sober and earnest investigation of that transcendently important problem +which requires the unbiased and honest consideration of the patriot, the +statesman and the Christian. + + * * * * * + +The combination of the Christian powers of Europe for the suppression of +the nefarious African slave-trade is a measure sanctioned by Christianity +and humanity, and is in the interest of the world's commerce. The effort +can be hopefully undertaken. The abolition of slavery in the Western +Hemisphere--once the great slave mart--confines the outlet of the traffic +to the eastern coast of Africa, and the blockade can be made more +effective than when both sides of the great continent had to be guarded. + + * * * * * + +An esteemed Christian brother, who made his wife a Life Member of the +Association in 1854, and who has added a member to the list each year +since by his personal gift, speaks of the pleasure he finds in thus +contributing to our treasury, and at the same time enlisting others in +our work. We commend to our patrons this helpful and agreeable way of +doing good. Try it. + + * * * * * + +ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. + +From a teacher in one of our schools in the mountain country: + +"As I go among the homes I continually see something new which shows me +how great are the needs of the people here. The primitive ways and +simplicity of the mountain people strike me and I sometimes imagine that +I am in a country a century behind the times. Last week I made a call at +the home of one of my pupils whose mother was sick. As I entered the room +I could not distinguish the faces of those who sat about the fire, for +the room had no windows. The only light that came in was through a door +in an outer room, and it seemed to let in more cold than light. I +wondered how much work or enjoyment could be got out of such dark, small +quarters, while the sick woman told of her struggle with sickness and +poverty. She also gave me some history of her early life, which showed a +great lack of necessary instruction in what are the best things. The +children of this home look like sickly plants which have always lived in +the dark and which have never felt the invigorating influence of God's +beautiful sunshine. We are praying that the sunshine of God's love may be +felt in the hearts of this people, even if there are no windows in their +homes to let it in." + + +From a pastor in Kentucky: + +"We are busily at work in this mountain country, and as we think of wider +possibilities for the mountain boys, you cannot imagine our gratitude in +view of our hopes that a new industrial department will be opened. It has +been the subject of many a prayer in the closet and in teachers' +meetings, and we feel that all that is needed will be supplied according +to His riches who gave himself for us. He has heard our united petitions +for a pastor to gather the straying flock and relieve our overworked +missionaries. We held our weekly teachers' meeting on Friday. Last +evening as we were sitting together as usual, one spoke of the coming +pastor, when lo, he was ushered in. He has really come. We rejoice in our +work, but we see so much just ahead. I long for the time to come when +this interesting people shall be a 'peculiar' people in the better +sense." + + +From a teacher at Jonesboro, Tenn.: + +"Each week brings new accessions to the school: there are now nearly a +hundred enrolled. All the seats in the primary room are in use, so that +when Miss Smith has a full school she has to seat some of her scholars in +chairs. The seats in Miss Page's room are also full. We have eight pupils +who room here and board themselves. Four of them come from Scott Co., +Va., coming ninety miles. They are young men and women, but they have had +very little opportunity for education. They are anxious to learn and try +to carefully obey the rules of the school. We hope they will gain much +from church and Sunday-school and the influences thrown around them here, +as well as the lessons from the school room. Yesterday we had +applications from four others from the same region for accommodations--a +young married man and his little daughter, seven years old--a young man +and a young woman. We said, 'Come and we will do our best for you;' but +if others apply we shall have to tell them we are full. These are just +the kind of people we want; eager to learn and willing to do the best +they can." + + +From a school in North Carolina: + +"Your letter of the 28th, informing us that we can have assistance from +the Hand Fund for a certain number of pupils, is received, and we have +had a continual thanksgiving ever since. If I could tell you how the +mothers looked when I told them, and if I could put down the tones of +their voices as well as their words, you would be sure that the help is +appreciated." + + +The pastor of the church and teacher of the Theological Department of +Straight University writes us: + +"The religious interest has so deepened that for several weeks I have +been preaching three times a week. Four or five prayer meetings have been +started by the students of their own accord in each other's rooms. Eleven +united with us on profession of faith at our last communion, and as many +more have made a start at different meetings, and will unite with us at +the next communion. A remarkable feature about the work is the fact that +numbers of the older students who are most deeply interested are Roman +Catholics. One young man who united with us is a Spaniard from Matamoras, +Mexico, and has been educated as a Roman Catholic. I believe he may be +counted on to do loyal service in his native city. In this way the A.M.A. +is ever doing 'foreign work,' and work which I believe will tell in +Mexico, Cuba, and the Central American States. + +"If some benevolent friend in the North would send us twenty-five copies +of Stalker's Life of Christ, it would be of great help in this work." + + +Information respecting a very interesting revival of religion comes to us +from Sherwood, Tenn. + +Increased religious interest is reported from Fisk University, Nashville, +Tenn. + +The teachers in the Normal School at Lexington are taking new courage in +their work in view of their increasing facilities. + + * * * * * + +One of our young men who expects to take up missionary work this fall +thus expresses himself: "I don't suppose that I know very much; but one +thing I know, and that is the Dakota Bible. I can read that to the people +and talk about it in my own language, and they can understand me, and +that is what they need; they need the Bible."--_Word Carrier._ + + * * * * * + +A CHINAMAN'S VIEW OF A FAMILIAR TEXT.--The writer was for a time a pupil +in the White Street Mission School in New York, but he is now a +prosperous laundryman at Kingston, N.Y. In a recent letter to one of his +former teachers, he gives the following bit of New Testament exegesis: "I +led the Young Men's Christian Association meeting on the Sunday before +January 11th. The subject which I gave out: 'The Christian must be born +twice;' and also read the Scriptures in chapter iii of the Gospel St. +John, and explain to them. I said if a man in this world born twice, he +only die once, and if a man born once he die twice. I mean if a man born +twice he must born again of the spirit; his soul shall save; that is, he +only die once. If a man born once his body shall die and his soul also +perish; that is, he die twice. After the meeting was pass one of the old +gentleman came to me and said, 'Are you a missionary?' I answered him +'No.' I said 'I am a laundryman.' And good people thought I was +missionary."--_The Foreign Missionary._ + +Full of encouragement to the workers for the Chinese here in America is +the fact that most of the students entering the new Christian college in +Canton were formerly Sunday-school scholars in America. Most of these +converted Chinamen who return to their own country are said to take their +part in various forms of Christian work. What an inspiration to the +patient teacher, who spends an hour or more every Sunday in trying to +Christianize a single Chinaman, to think that, in this indirect way, he, +or more frequently she, may be helping on the conversion of China.--_The +Congregationalist._ + +These very just remarks are equally applicable to the work the American +Missionary Association is doing so largely and effectively among the +Chinese on the Pacific coast. A letter from Mr. Pond gives us this +corroborative item: + +"On Monday evening, November 26, we expect to hold a farewell meeting for +Joe Jet, once one of our missionary helpers, who is going back to China +to superintend missionary operations for our Chinese Missionary Society. +He takes over $1,100 with him, contributed for this purpose by the +Chinese connected with our mission. To this Missionary Society, our +Christian Chinese contribute regularly each month, from twenty-five to +fifty cents. They aim to do quite a large work, which they hope that the +representatives of the Board will superintend, but the whole expense of +which they mean to bear." + + * * * * * + +The American Missionary Association has been greatly afflicted in the +death of Mrs. George A. Woodard, the wife of the Principal of Gregory +Institute, Wilmington, N.C. She was a most devoted missionary, +consecrating her earnestness and fidelity to the cause of Christ. She +will be sadly missed by the colored people of Wilmington, and by those +who are inmates of the Teachers' Home at Gregory Institute. + + * * * * * + +SYSTEMATIC SPENDING. + +BY REV. C.J. RYDER. + +The pastor of a Boston church recently handed to the District Secretary +of the A.M.A. $1, saying as he did so: "That one dollar is really more +than some hundreds of dollars. It is the gift of a poor woman in my +congregation who depends upon her own labor for support. She gives this +dollar to the A.M.A. from her hard economy." It may be that God's decimal +pointing is not the same as ours in many cases. + +On a table of the same district office of the A.M.A., there stands a +little brown pasteboard box. In it are some tracts offered for sale. All +the proceeds from their sale go into the treasury of the Association. +These tracts were printed at the expense of a poor woman who has spent a +long and useful life in service for others. She comes into that office +now and again to see if her gift is increasing. She is not fashionably +dressed. No! She never drives to the Congregational House in a carriage. +I doubt if she often enjoys the luxury of a street-car ride, although she +is upward of seventy years of age; and yet she never comes through that +office door but she brings with her the bright glory of spiritual +sunshine, and the wealth of her Lord's own presence. She is pinching +herself in almost painful economy that she may have $100 to give to this +great mission work before she dies, and + + "Her great Redeemer shall call her to inherit + The heaven of wealth long garnered up for her." + +Now let us turn a moment to the other side of the A.M.A. work. I hold in +my hand a letter written upon this scrap of paper by a colored boy in the +South and sent to one of our missionaries who had come North: + +"_Oct. 21._ My Dear Friend, Mr. Brown--I wish you would if you please if +you please send me three dollars and a half now if you please send it I +want to buy a good little shot gun please send it." + +These facts present the double responsibility which the A.M.A. sustains +to its constituency in this vast and complex missionary work. None of +these facts are exceptional in character. The Association must so present +its work to the churches as to "constrain" them to give; drag them by the +chains of Christian duty to give; those who can of their abundance +abundantly; those who must of their penury, with this tremendous +self-sacrifice. + +An old colored preacher in Georgia, in my hearing, preached on +"Pasteboard Christians." He said: "Brethren, did you neber see a +pasteboard box? It's mighty nice; maybe all covered with gilt paper; +looks right stiff and stout, but you just set it out in the rain and see +it when it goes 'pooh,' and am all omnatiously busted. It am jest so with +some Christians. They comes to meetin' with good clothes on; they looks +drefful fine! But you just pass the contribution box 'round, da goes +'pooh!' and dar ain't nothin' left of 'em." It has not been my experience +that there are many pasteboard Christians in the district of New England. +Systematic giving, giving constantly, giving because the safety of our +country requires it, and the kingdom of Christ demands it; this is the +sort of giving which I have found to be the rule. + +But there must be systematic spending as truly as systematic giving. The +gifts of the churches must be husbanded, and the churches must be warned +from time to time against wasteful and unwise efforts, by which others +are seeking to do the work, which is being done systematically through +your agent, the American Missionary Association. + +My personal experience as Field Superintendent, has pressed upon me the +imperative importance of this side of the responsibility which this +Association holds to the churches. One must pass back and forth often, +and become personally familiar with this great field, before he can +understand the importance of the systematic spending of this Association. +Wrecks of schools and churches are not few in the Southland. Godly men +and women and godless adventurers have experimented in many places. Money +has been and is being wasted, that might be used to great and permanent +advantage if contributed through the A.M.A. and disbursed according to +the principles which long experience has proved to be sound. + +It is the purpose of this paper to emphasize some of the facts concerning +this great missionary field, and to point out the advantages of +systematic spending, which you secure when you commit your funds to this +society rather than to the hap-hazard efforts which you have no power to +supervise and no control over. + +An organized society controlled and directed by those who contribute is +the surest possible way of securing this systematic spending. This method +has both negative and positive advantages: + +I. It prevents waste. + +(a.) Waste in administration of funds. Its accounts are open to and +audited by those whose money is being spent. Reports of the financial +standing, receipts and expenditures to the half-penny are presented every +year. Look them over and note how minutely your accounts are kept. +Officers and missionaries are held by you to strictest responsibility. +This is sound business sense applied to missionary work. But one +naturally asks why, when such absolute safeguards are thrown around the +administration of the funds committed to the A.M.A., some of those who +established those safeguards give a considerable portion of their money +to individuals over whose expenditure they have absolutely no control, +and where funds may be, and often are, wasted? And in this way the +percentage of the cost of administering the funds committed to the A.M.A. +is also increased. This can scarcely be called sound business wisdom. + +(b.) Waste in field work. It requires wide experience and knowledge of +the whole field in order to adjust and direct, without waste of laborers, +the force of missionaries. Those who know only one locality cannot do +this. It is often remarked that each missionary thinks his particular +field the most important, and the one especially needing help and +enlargement. This is a grand tribute to their faithfulness and Christian +enthusiasm. But the systematic investigation of the whole field, +constantly and patiently carried on as it is by the A.M.A., determines +with larger wisdom whether work should be strengthened and developed in +Tennessee, or Georgia, or Texas. Gen. Grant was familiar with the whole +field, and placed his men according to the varying exigencies of the +campaign. Just so the systematic methods of this Association place these +noble missionaries where there will be least waste of labor. + +But there are also positive advantages secured by the systematic methods +of the A.M.A. in expending the money committed to its treasury. + +II. It secures proportion in different parts of the work. + +(a.) In appeal.--This Association, constituted, as it is, the immediate +agent of the churches, ought to be your watchman on the tower. + +Every pastor is crowded with parish duties. Few intelligent laymen can +give time enough to study thoroughly the whole field covered by the +missions of the A.M.A. It is now an enormous field. Representatives of +five distinct races, Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Mountain Whites and +Negroes wait for Christian instruction very largely upon the missionaries +you are sending out. + +Now, no one who is not compelled by official duties to do it can find +time, nor has he the information at hand, to investigate thoroughly each +department of this missionary work. The A.M.A. is your agent to discover, +through careful and patient investigation, the exact facts, and so to +direct its appeals to the churches that the department of work which is +especially pressing may be given due prominence. Systematic spending +involves this. + +(b.) Greatest care is required and exercised in planting new work. Let us +in fancy plant a new school in the South, as the Association does it. +Exhaustive correspondence is of course, the first step. Then the Field +Superintendent visits the field. He gathers every possible fact bearing +upon the question: The population; schools, if any; the opinions of white +and colored citizens; the religious complexion of the community, etc., +etc., etc. Now this Field Superintendent has studied maps and statistics +and school reports, and been back and forth until the whole field is in +his mind, not simply this one locality. These facts _in extenso_ are +reported to the officers in New York. Conferences many and patient are +held over them until finally it is settled that this place rather than +some other shall be selected for the new school. Now such care as this +would be impossible except as the A.M.A., through its officers and +teachers, knew the whole field. By independent or individual effort this +could not be done. It is not the absolute, but the comparative need and +hopefulness that determine the wisdom of fixing upon a certain place for +a school or church. This comparative need can only be known by an +organized society which has frequent and abundant communication with the +whole field, and has officers whose business it is to know that field. +The experiments being tried in different places have already been made by +the A.M.A., and proved to be either absolutely failures or relatively an +uneconomic use of funds. + +The saving to you who furnish the money is very great by this method of +systematic spending. Let me illustrate by a single example which occurred +only a few months ago. Two towns, only a few miles apart, were clamoring +for help in school work. We opened a school tentatively in one of these +places, as we had one missionary there already, and I visited the other +place. This is what I found: A teacher independent of any society, and +consequently knowing only a small part of the South, had opened a school. +She had labored very faithfully, but very unwisely, putting money and +years of hard work into a field which, from its very conditions, could +not be largely successful. She had a poor building for teachers' home, a +rough school-house with no desks, a narrow strip of land, and an +enrollment of about eighty pupils. She was anxious to have the A.M.A. +take the work. She informed me that in order to secure it, it would be +necessary to pay out from $2,500 to $3,000 in paying debts and putting +the buildings in shape for advantageous use. This was the case then: A +fairly good house, a rough school-house, a bit of land, and a school of +less than one hundred pupils, costing at least $2,500. At the other point +under discussion, there were five acres of land, five buildings, an +enrollment of about 250 pupils, and the whole property could be secured +for $600! $2,500 vs. $600. + +These are not very exceptional cases. It is only fair to the generous +constituency of this Association to know that their funds are being thus +guarded, and that those who give through independent agencies may have +their funds squandered because they cannot hold those doing this +independent work to strict account as they do the Association, nor can +these independent missionaries know the whole field as the A.M.A. knows +it. Here are nearly 500 missionaries in constant correspondence with this +office, besides the field officers appointed especially to gather +information. + +(c.) Again, this systematic method of disbursing funds secures a +methodical arrangement of field work. Take the mountain field as an +illustration of this. This field has been divided into two general +districts; one having for its base the L.N.R.R., the other lying along +the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. Each department has its general +missionary, who goes back and forth in his district to lay out new work, +and to superintend the old. The missionaries, pastors and teachers are +all busy in their own places. Here then is systematic development of +this whole work. These noble missionaries in this way form a +well-organized army, and are not guerrillas fighting behind trees and +stones, and scattered hap-hazard over the mountains. We shall hold these +lines of railroad in the name of the Lord. Churches and missions and +Sunday-schools will supplant the saloons and gambling hells if you as +churches generously support this painfully urgent work. But when +school-houses shall stand in all their fertile coves and church bells +shall call to intelligent Christian worship on all those mountain sides, +and the people shall be lifted up into spiritual citizenship, it will +simply be the victory under God of the systematic planning and execution +possible only when funds are disbursed on the sound principles of this +Association. + +III. This systematic spending of benevolent funds also secures +permanency. How few deaths there are in the family of A.M.A. schools and +churches! Why? Because these missions are born through wisdom and sound +judgment. These schools and churches are not only permanent but they will +also perpetuate the great fundamental principles of the churches whose +prayers and money have gone into their establishment. + +These missions cannot become Roman Catholic or infidel. They cannot drift +away from the safe moorings of evangelical truth, unless the churches to +which they are tied up give way. The churches control these missions +forever. Local management in this work often means mismanagement, on +account of the peculiar surroundings in which these schools are placed. +They differ radically from schools and colleges planted among the new +settlers in the West. Here in the South there is no considerable +intelligent Christian constituency to direct their work, manage their +affairs and keep them in close connection with Congregational conferences +and councils. + +IV. Lastly. By means of this systematic spending you keep step with the +grand onward movement of God's providence in the marvelous openings of +this great missionary field. How wonderfully this work develops! The +primary schools of the early period have grown into normal and +preparatory institutes and colleges and theological seminaries, although +the primary work is still being done and well done! New schools are being +planted. "Enter the mountains with your mission host," came the command, +and it was done. Industrial training became necessary to the best +furnishing of these young people for their life-work and their largest +intellectual development, and now thorough training in these departments +is furnished by the schools of the American Missionary Association. The +grand work has kept step with the developing needs. + +I asked one of the most experienced teachers and missionaries in the +South what feature of the A.M.A. especially impressed him. He replied at +once, "The wonderful and consummate statesmanship displayed in its +management. The wisdom manifested in planting schools and churches, and +in keeping pace with the new and constantly changing conditions of this +great and perplexing field, absolutely astounds me." This is no tribute +to those of us who have recently entered this service. + +To sum up this argument, then: By the systematic method of spending +through the A.M.A., you avoid-- + +I. Waste, (1.) In administration. (2.) In field work. + +II. You secure the wisest apportionment of the work, (1.) Appeals are +systematic. (2.) The work is developed proportionately. (3.) And each +department is systematically conducted. + +III. You can secure permanency in the work, (b.) And perpetuate the +principles you believe to be of fundamental importance in uplifting these +races. + +IV. You keep step with God's providence in the development of these +fields. + +It is told us that during the days that immediately preceded the capture +of Richmond, Sheridan was in hot pursuit of Lee's retreating troops. He +telegraphed to Grant, "I think if the thing is pushed Lee will surrender." +There came flashing back this laconic message from that silent soldier, +"Push things." They were pushed, and within a few weeks Lee's army was +annihilated, and the sword of the haughty rebel was in the hands of the +loyal Grant. The Union army had pushed through the broken fortifications +around Richmond and planted the grand old stars and stripes, +battle-stained and bullet-torn, above the dome of the rebel capitol, +never, never, never to be pulled down again by disloyal hands. + +My brethren, there comes flashing to us to-day from this army of +Christ-like men and women away out yonder in front of us, from out the +heat of battle against ignorance, and prejudice, and misery, and sin, +these stirring words: "We can take these lowlands and mountains and +prairies and ocean coasts for our Lord, and for his Christ, now if the +thing be pushed." + +What message shall we send back to them, O people of God? + +Shall it not be this? "We pledge you our prayers, our sympathy, our best +sons and daughters and five hundred thousand dollars in consecrated money +this year; and in the great name of the Lord our God let the thing be +pushed." + + * * * * * + +THE CHINESE. + + +SCRAPS FROM MY CORRESPONDENCE. + +BY REV. W.C. POND. + +Our limited space forbids the publication of extended correspondence; and +yet, often, in the familiar and unstudied letters which I receive from +our workers, there are paragraphs or sentences which I greatly desire +that our Eastern friends and helpers might share with me. The following +are a few of these. + +Mrs. Carrington, our very faithful and efficient teacher at Sacramento, +writes as follows: "Our school seems in better condition than for many +months. Chin Toy [missionary helper] is true and watchful. Two joined the +church at the last communion, one has given his name to join the +Association, and others seem almost ready." + +Our school at Oroville has been for a year past in the hands of two quite +young, but true hearted and enthusiastic teachers, from one of whom I +hear in this way: "We have had a very good school this month. The +attendance has been very good; the scholars seem to feel better, and I +think the teachers do too. We had quite a re-union one evening last +month. There was one brother who had just returned from China, and +another from away out in the country. The former had not been here for +years, nor the latter for more than twelve months. It would have done any +one good to see how glad they were to meet each other. I never saw so +much hand-shaking, and talking, and laughing. Both these are good +scholars and will help us much. We have the Bible lessons twice a week, +and they are very interesting to us both. We have nearly finished the +Gospel of Mark, and it gets more interesting towards the last." + +Other extracts shall be from letters of our Chinese brethren. Here is one +who has evidently gotten over into an American way of thinking. He is so +much in earnest that his English is badly wrenched in the effort to +convey his views, but I give his words very nearly as he wrote them. +"What I think and what often I observed is that the Chinese very meanness +and sordidness, just exactly what were the Jews. Scatter all round the +world, and still they feel very proud of their country, despise the +foreigners, close all their sea-ports, would not allow the poor celestial +to go out or have civilized men to enter the happy country. On account of +their ignorance of Christ, unhappy, miserable, wretched. Some of them +think good deal of their improvement, national, naval, but if the +Government will not adopt the Christianity and put behind their ancestor +and evil ways and the wicked custom, they will not be very flourishing +what they look for." For himself he says, "I hope I will have a good +opportunity while I am working for the Lord and looking for some souls to +bring to the Lord, as His will be done." + +Another writes: "I speak in Chinatown yesterday. Then we had very good +singers of American Christian young men (they were five) and Chinese +brethren (they were eight.). All go on to sing with me. Then I have a +good chance. I pray God to help and hope our countrymen immediately come +to repent and follow Christ and worship Him." And again, "I thank God for +His blessing. This school now is increasing. Last evening we had +twenty-three scholars. Six new ones came in this month. I like stay here +two or three months more and talk this gospel of Christ." + +Another translated for me a letter just received from his father-in-law +in China--a letter which gives him great joy. "Dear Son-in-law:--Your +letter was reached me some ten days ago, and glad to read it and that you +are all right in California, _doing Jesus work_. But there was a fellow +named ---- ---- who had come back from San Francisco last year. This +fellow came to me with some news to tell me, so he said. So I asked him +to sit down and gave him a cup of tea. Then he commenced his false story +about you _being poisoned by the Jesus doctors_, and that your heart had +been poisoned so that you don't want to come back any more. After the +length of his false talks, I commenced to ask him questions which he +cannot answer. I told him that I had known my son-in-law too much about +his faith in Jesus. People with the same report came to me from time to +time, before you [i.e., the son-in-law addressed in the letter,--W.C.P.] +came back the last time. At first I have faith in their talks, but since +you came home, I have found you all right. Now a mission is near my +house, and I have time to talk and to read the Jesus books, and have +found that Jesus is like our Confucius, and I believed Jesus words all +right and so my son-in-law all-right too. Thus I have told the dog, +[i.e., the tale-bearer] to get off from my door and not call on me +again." + +I hope there may yet be space for this extract from a letter from Jee +Gam, who took a vacation of two weeks, spending it not far from a Chinese +fishing village near Monterey. "Sunday morning, accompanied by about ten +American friends, I went to Chinatown to hold a preaching service. After +singing several times and offering prayer, I took the stand and preached +to a large crowd of my countrymen, of both sexes and all ages, drawn by +our loud invitation and our songs. Before I began my sermon I told them +what we had been singing about, also what we prayed for, and to whom we +prayed, and asked them to see the difference between these Christian +Americans who sang and prayed for us, and those who would crowd us out +Then I preached on Gal. 6:7, for nearly an hour, and all listened +attentively. Not one of the hearers said anything against us. I was told +that two years ago a Chinaman had tried to preach there, but the people +drowned his voice by beating their tin cans, and drove him off with +various missiles. When I heard this I said, 'I am not afraid, God will go +with us; with his help I will preach Christ to them.' And he did help, +and oh, may he bless the seed sown! On Sunday evening one of the Chinese +came out decided as a Christian, and one other seemed almost persuaded." + + * * * * * + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + +MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY. + + * * * * * + +WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS. + +CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + + +ME--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, + Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me. + +VT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, + Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt. + +VT.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, + Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Montpelier, Vt. + +CONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, + Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn. + +N.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, + Mrs. William Spalding, Salmon Block, Syracuse, N.Y. + +ALA.--Woman's Missionary Association, Secretary, + Mrs. G.W. Andrews, Talladega, Ala. + +OHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, + Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, Ohio. + +IND.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, + Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne, Ind. + +ILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. + C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill. + +MINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, + Miss Katharine Plant, 2651 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. + +IOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, + Miss Ella E. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa. + +KANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, + Mrs. G.L. Epps, Topeka, Kan. + +MICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, + Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, Mich. + +WIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, + Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis. + +NEB.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, + Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 N Broad St., Fremont, Neb. + +COLORADO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, + Mrs. S.M. Packard, Pueblo, Colo. + +DAKOTA,--Woman's Home Miss. Union, President, + Mrs. T.M. Hills, Sioux Falls; Secretary, + Mrs. W.R. Dawes, Redfield; Treasurer, + Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston. + + +We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State +Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association be +sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however, should be +taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary Association, +since _undesignated funds will not reach us_. + + * * * * * + +ANNUAL MEETING. + +The public meeting of the Woman's Bureau was held Thursday afternoon, +simultaneously with the business meeting of the A.M.A. in Providence, and +was conducted by Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, of Portland, Me. The report of the +Secretary, Miss D.E. Emerson, of New York, was presented, and then +missionary addresses were delivered by Mrs. A.A. Myers on "Mountain +Work;" by Mrs. Geo. W. Moore on the "Colored People;" and by Miss Collins +on "Indians," all of which were listened to with deep interest. + +Mrs. Woodbury, on taking the chair, said: + +The object of this meeting is well understood. It is to decide what the +women of the Congregational Churches shall do in connection with woman's +work--that part of the Association's work which is designed to be among +women. It is woman's work among women. It is designed at this time to +hear from those fields in which the speakers are especially interested. +We shall hear from the Mountain Work, from the Negroes in the South, and +from the work among the Indians in the West. Like a very close man who, +to the surprise of those who approached him, gave money enough to +purchase a town clock, who explained by saying he liked to hear his money +tick, so it is meant here this afternoon that the women shall hear the +tick of their work from all these fields to which I have referred, and +may the sound of it reverberate all down through the ages. + + * * * * * + +A special meeting for ladies was held on Thursday morning, at which there +was a full attendance. Brief remarks, interspersed with song and prayer, +made the occasion an enjoyable one. Miss Plimpton, of McIntosh, Ga., gave +bits of her experience among the colored people, and Miss Haynes +described her work for the Indians at Santee Agency, Neb. + + * * * * * + +The annual report made by the Secretary was given in full in our November +Magazine, and is also published in leaflet form for free distribution to +those desiring it. + +We give below extracts from the addresses of the missionaries. + + * * * * * + +MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK. + +BY MRS. A.A. MYERS. + +In my younger days I never remember looking at the forests that skirt the +horizon without an indefinable questioning as to what lay beyond. It was +easy to picture stretches of landscape and quiet homes like our own, but +the query was ever the same, what is _still beyond_? + +The first Sabbath I attended church in the mountains of Kentucky, having +listened to the quaint singing before entering the rough-board building, +seating myself on one of the slab benches near a box stove, which had but +one length of pipe, out of which the smoke was pouring towards an opening +in the roof, glancing around on the women in their sun bonnets, the +babies in their little calico caps and the men in homespun, then out of +the open door into a ravine where the tops of the tall trees were beneath +us, I said to myself, I've reached "_that beyond_." The undefined has +taken shape and I have reached the place of which I could never formulate +a picture. Seven years' acquaintance in this mountain country has not +changed my opinion. We are in another world, and if I could describe that +world so you could see it as it is, could feel its needs as we feel them +day by day, it is all I could ask. + +Philosophers might describe it as the dead centre of motion; at least it +has remained seemingly unmoved, while all the world around it has been +moving forward. + +Here in these mountains live over two million people, two-thirds of whom +have never written nor received a letter, could not read one if printed +and sent them. They take no newspapers, and the great events of nations +or discoveries of science have been nothing to them. Questions of vital +importance to our country have never troubled them. They knew there was a +war, for contending armies met on their grounds. With few exceptions +their sympathies were with the Union. Too poor to own slaves to any +extent, they had no motive for seceding, and many of them joined our army +and were faithful soldiers. + +At the close of the war, they went back to their secluded homes, and +between them and the world the curtain fell again. We very well know that +mortals cannot rise above their surroundings only within defined limits. +Alas! for the defeated manhood and blasted womanhood in our land, held +down to earth by unfortunate surroundings. They are looking to you for +help. You have done nobly in sustaining a work in their midst. Besides +what you have done at Pleasant Hill, Grand View and other points, you +have enabled us to organize eight churches and build one academy and +eight houses of worship. You have sent among us most efficient teachers. +Besides their school duties they have taken upon themselves to visit the +homes, to pray with the sick, to distribute clothing among the needy, to +go to the homes of the students, to share their humble fare and sleep in +their crowded rooms. They have spared neither time nor strength to carry +the uplifting word to those needy souls. From the better classes we have +been fortunate enough to draw a nucleus for each of our churches. We have +some Sunday-school superintendents that for zeal and tact are models in +their work and many a Northern school might rejoice in the possession of +such officers. They are not so well versed in Scripture as we could wish, +but they spare neither time nor expense to prepare themselves for their +work. + +This class of people responds quickly to the new life that comes to them +by the school, the railroad or the business man. If we could find as +ready response in the masses as we find in the individuals, our work in +the mountains would be quickly done. But, alas! what of these hundreds of +thousands who seemingly have no more aspiration than the brute in their +field? They are wedded to the customs of their ancestors, and they rebel +at any innovation. Give them tobacco, and whiskey, and pistols, a little +meal and bacon and coffee, a crude bed and a roof, and that, to them, is +living. Oh, those purposeless lives! They exist simply because they are +in the world and cannot help it. With the girls especially, marriage is +the chief aim, and what should be the holy relation is entered upon +almost in childhood. As soon as they begin to lisp they are talking of +their lovers. A little wee girl came to a teacher's home, and after +answering in monosyllables the common questions as to schools and +Sunday-schools, there was a lull in the conversation, when she spoke up: +"I hain't got no sweetheart." For all marriage is the chief aim, it is +surprising how little preparation they make for it. No bridal trousseau +is ever thought of; not even a new dress is made for the occasion. I have +seen many a bride in calf-skin shoes, old calico dress, long apron, with +no cuffs nor collar, and her hair falling from her comb, while the groom +appeared with uncombed hair, stogy shoes, jean pants and in shirt +sleeves. + +We have no rollicking girls or boisterous boys; we never see a crowing, +cooing baby. The children are born old. The babies have a sad and +dejected look, as if this world were a "dreary wilderness of woe," and +they grieve they were ever born. Poor little ones in the Southland! how +many are gathered home ere a twelve months' stay on earth. Besides this +weary, aged look of the children, we frequently find those who look like +walking corpses. A little inquiry reveals the fact that they are clay +eaters. We have them in our schools. In our Jellico school, we have +children whose elder sisters had to sprinkle pepper around the +hearthstones to keep them from digging out the clay and eating it. The +habit once formed, it seems to last them during life; where it ever +originated I don't know, but have no doubt it was from lack of proper +nourishment. + +Our women! how shall I describe them? I wish I might picture them before +you as they ride into town with their babies in their arms and a child or +two on their horses with them, or as they walk in with heavy, dragging +gait, loaded with some produce for sale, or as they stand for hours +open-eyed and open-mouthed around the counters of some country store. I +wish you could see them in their cabin homes, as bare of comfort as a wild +desert waste, or at work in the field with the family, but always and +everywhere with a chew of tobacco or a snuff stick in their mouths. They +never express a desire for what they have not, nor a murmur at what they +have, but their very movements are a complaint--a wail. On their face is +ever seen that weary, resigned, passionless look. They never lighten with +joy or surprise. If you could manage to fire a Vesuvius before their eyes +you would never know by any outward expression but that they had seen +volcanoes every day of their lives. There is no imagery, no ideality. The +world to them is a humdrum routine, a common-place affair. They have no +heroes, and they look upon all men, not as protectors, but seducers, not +as beings formed in the image of a pure and holy God, but in the image of +a God of lust and debauchery. + +When first going among these people, the ludicrous or comical keeps +presenting itself, but as you stay year by year the terrible _reality_ of +their lives presses sore upon you. You are cramped by their narrowness; +you are depressed by their lack of buoyancy; you grow distrustful because +of their perfidy; you become sharer of their woes, but they have no joys +to share. + +Our work among them was begun none too soon. The eye of the speculator is +being turned to our mineral and timber resources, and with unscrupulous +money-makers for a centre and a demoralized people to gather round them, +and no Christ in their midst, what strongholds of Satan would be formed. +When we commenced our work seven years ago the field was open to the +Congregationalists. If we could have had means to have secured helpers we +could have planted ourselves largely, for we had continuous calls to come +and organize churches. The people of better minds are sick and tired of +the church life around them; they cannot indorse it and so are called +infidels. But we have found no infidels there; still it takes no prophet +to see that the reaction from this demoralized church life all through +the mountains is going to create a great wave of infidelity unless real +Christians come to the rescue very soon. + +How these things nerve us to increased efforts to save the children and +youth from these ways of death. Our hope for the land is in saving them, +and our work is largely for them. We have many Sunday-schools connected +with our churches and many others where we furnish some helps and where +our students teach. Our Bands of Hope are encouraging. Our Christian +Endeavor Society has a large membership, and is a power for good. But +while we rejoice over these places that have these helps we think of the +hundreds of counties along this mountain range that have no such helps. +Senator Plumb has stated that the assessment in Alabama for pistols, guns +and dirks is four times that on farming implements, and Kentucky's record +of crime is far worse than Alabama's. Who of us can say that he is +innocent of this shed blood, unless he is doing something toward sending +the only cure--a Christian civilization? Because the work has many +discouragements, are we excused? Because the people are prejudiced +against us and our principles, shall we withdraw, and let them sink lower +and lower? + +But the question is asked: "Have you no public schools or churches in +this large section of the country?" Yes, schools for a few months in the +year, taught in little log school houses, some with floors and some with +none; some with a tiny window and some without; some have doors and some +haven't. Very few have desks; in most there are but slab benches. But +worse than the school house and its surroundings is the illiterate, +immoral teacher who attempts to teach the children. As for church +organizations they are numerous, and a large majority are church members; +but alas for the Christianity taught and practiced. Religion and morality +are divorced. With most of them, religion is the thing of a moment and +not of a life. Meetings once a month during the summer, and that is all +the Christian institution the people have, and we call it _instruction_. +We are inclined to smile at the thought of a preacher prefacing his +sermon with the boast that he has no learning; that his "jeens" coat has +never brushed the chalk off college walls, and what he has to say is "no +fixup" of his own, but direct from "_sac_-rid writ" or an "inspiration of +the Speret." But our smiles end with a sigh when we see that there is not +only _ignorance_, but "the poison of asps is under their lips." Their +hatred for all other churches than their own is intense. They have no +charity for any religion outside of their own church. The excitement and +strife for membership is unequalled even in the craze of their political +wars. They are bigoted and intolerant, they have no idea of practical +Christianity. They have no prayer-meeting, no family prayers, no +Sunday-schools. One minister living near where we have recently planted +some Sunday-schools gave a whole sermon to talking against them, and said +if any one would show him from the Bible where Sunday-schools were taught +he'd believe they were right; but a few weeks later, pressed by seeing +our schools drawing so largely from the community, he thought something +must be done, so with a few of his leading members they announced the +organization of a school near ours. They sent to Jellico on Saturday and +bought two gallons of whiskey in order to draw the crowd. Of course, such +a school lasted but a few days, but their hatred doesn't die so easily. +We could help many churches if it were not for this jealousy among their +ministers. The people are our friends, and our growing churches are a +stimulant to them. Paul said: "What matter if Christ were preached +through envy, only so he were preached," and if we can provoke them to +good works, will not the children be blessed? Whatever cause prompts them +to church building, to prayer or outward Christian living, they must be +bettered by it. + +And so, slowly, but steadily, this great mass is going to be leavened. It +may not come in your day or mine, but come it will, and happy will we be +in that far-off time to know that we had something to do in bringing +about such needed results. We are confident of success. Right must win +"since God is God," and the day is coming when the great "I Am" will +dwell in all these churches. Then the bigot will say, "my brother;" the +intolerant will grasp hands in loyal fellowship, and Christian hearts +will pulsate in one common rhythm. Then will our mountains and hills +break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their +hands. + + * * * * * + +NEEDS OF THE COLORED WOMEN AND GIRLS. + +BY MRS. G.W. MOORE. + +I have been asked to speak to you on the needs of four millions of women +and girls. The time allotted for this paper is far too limited for me to +give more than a glimpse of their real condition. + +In considering the needs of the colored women and girls of the South, you +must bear in mind their past condition, present status and future +prospects, together with the forces that have contributed to each, before +you can know and feel the heart yearnings and struggles of my sisters. + +No human lips can tell the story of that dark night that has left its +impress upon the habits, customs and life of a whole race of people. The +crudest results of that iniquitous system fell heaviest upon the colored +woman. From childhood, no matter how favorably situated, she was liable +to become the doomed victim of the grossest outrages. There was no +assurance that she would not be a constant associate in the field with +the coarsest and most ignorant men of both races, or at any moment, at +the caprice of the master, be sold. Swayed, body, mind and spirit, by a +master class who found it necessary to close every avenue of intelligence +in order to accomplish his fiendish purposes, this creature, made in the +image of God, was often taught that there was no God of justice for her. +Her body, instead of being a fit temple for the indwelling of the Holy +Spirit, was subject to the foulest demands of sensuality. No wonder they +sang, + + "Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord, + Nobody knows but Jesus." + +These slave songs, born of agony, might well be called "The Passion +Flowers" of the slave cabin. Thank God that all of my sisters were not +thus brutalized, and even to those who were, God was merciful. Deep down +underneath the lacerated and bruised heart, rested the "Shekinah of the +Lord," preventing the wholesale transmission of vice. Two hundred and +fifty years of such tuition gave her but little chance to develop her +womanhood. + +Intuitively she knew that there was a living God, and she sought Him in +visions, and listened for His voice, and looked forward and persevered +for that home not made with hands, and from her heart were wrung these +words: + + "O Lord, O my Lord, O my good Lord, + Keep me from sinking down." + +And then comforted, she cried out triumphantly-- + + "Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, + Then why not every man?" + +Many have told me their struggles, and I know of others who even suffered +death rather than submit to the outrage of chastity. One poor mother with +three beautiful baby girls, driven to despair by realizing their probable +doom if allowed to live, sent them back to the God who gave them and then +took her own life. + +Thus the colored women and girls lived before the war. + +How have they fared since Freedom? + +Have they had a fair chance in the race of life? No. They have met +caste-prejudice, the ghost of slavery, at every step of their journey +during these years of freedom. They have been made to feel that they are a +separate species of the human family. The phrases "Your people" and "Your +place," do not so much designate their race identity, as the fixed status +in the sisterhood of races. This idea, as harmless as it may appear, or +as much as it is used, with varied phrases of meaning, according to the +attitude of the speaker, has been one of the greatest barriers to the +progress of the Negro, especially of the women and girls. It has colored +everything they have to do. Their place, like the ebony of their skin, is +a dark place. In the home, and in social life, "their place" is confined +to colored society, colored schools and colored churches. Be it +understood, I am not reflecting upon colored society, but am pointing out +the limitations that no other race in this country has to contend with, +in its efforts to rise. + +The higher the plane of culture the colored women and girls reach, the +more sensitive they become, and the more keenly the effects of ostracism +are felt. In wages it does not matter how capable she may be, she must +not aspire. I have asked several persons, "What is the greatest need of +the colored woman and girl?" and many have replied, "To be good +servants." Assuming that this is her highest need, can good servants be +had without good wages? + +In education, her place is the colored school, if there is one far or +near, and if there is no school for colored youth, (as is sometimes the +case) the no-school is her place. In religious life, her place is the +colored church. No matter how her soul may long for a more intelligent +Gospel than perchance surrounds her, she must find it there. + +Her place in the work of reform, if she has fallen or desires to reform, +is the public street. I could relate many incidents which have come under +my personal observation in Washington, (and Washington is far ahead of +many places in the South) to illustrate how our fallen sisters have +suffered worse than death, because doors have been shut against them. +Several cases have been brought to me this year, one since writing this +paper, but my sisters, the sad fact is like the advent of our blessed +Lord, there is no room in the inn for her. + +What is the true place of our women and girls? It is that place which is +not circumscribed by the mere accident of birth and race, where she can +rise just as high as she has the ability to reach and sustain. My five +years' experience in Europe as a Jubilee Singer gave me a taste of the +sweets of true womanhood, unfettered by caste-prejudice and by a low +estimate of my position. There my complexion was not a target for insult +and ostracism. Our needs are not only those common to other races, but +are in a vast measure greater, because of the past and present +difficulties. The masses furnish the most difficult problem to solve. How +can we rescue them from poverty and illiteracy, and not pauperize them? +How can we prevent crime, check immorality and decrease mortality? The +answer lies in giving to them better home life, more elevating social +surroundings, better educational advantages in school and industries, and +a higher type of Christian life and worship. + +My first introduction into an intelligent idea of practical Christianity +was at Fisk University. There, and at many similar institutions under the +A.M.A., may be found the epitome of a Christian home. Such schools +furnish potent object lessons; such are the factors of the problem in +answer to the question of how to meet the needs of the colored women and +girls, who are to preside over the homes of eight millions of people, who +had no home twenty-three years ago. Washington, alone, has a population +of eighty thousand colored people, and more than forty thousand of these +are women and girls. + +It is said that the "hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world." It +matters not whether that hand be black or white, but it does matter +whether that hand be intelligent or ignorant. They not only need the +education of the schools to develop their minds, and industrial training +to prepare their hands for the practical duties of life, but Christian +education, such as is given in the schools of the Association. + +More than three thousand women and thousands of men have gone out under +the A.M.A., in school, home and church, for the uplifting, Christianizing +and elevating of our people. + +Eternity alone will reveal the work that these Christian heroines and +heroes have done in the Master's name. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews +would need be extended to give to them their rightful place in the role +of achievements of faith. We need not wait for eternity, we now see some +of the grand results; their memory is already engraven upon the hearts, +and their spirit infused into the life of thousands of educated colored +young men and women, who have gone out among their people, carrying +educated minds, trained hands and warm hearts, as an outgrowth of that +labor which has not been in vain. This magnificent record of Christian +endeavor and conquest has largely been made possible by the foresight, +energy and fidelity of the many who have been and are at the head of the +different departments of the A.M.A. + +How can the Association more fully meet these needs? By continuing +woman's work for woman, through their Woman's Bureau. Through this +agency, ladies of the churches can furnish volunteers for the work and +the base of supply. While we at the front are in the heat of the battle, +you at home, through your missionary societies, young people's meetings, +and Sunday-schools, can aid us with your prayers, your sympathy, your +gifts and service. Those in the larger churches can sustain a missionary +in the field, and may it be said of all, both large and small, "They have +done what they could." Then we can sing, + + "March on, and you shall gain the victory, + March on, and you shall gain the day." + +My sisters, we must first be touched by the Spirit of the Master, and +through him touch them. This work cannot be done perfunctorily or +professionally. + +And now in conclusion allow me to thank you in behalf of the millions +whom I represent, for the faithful work and practical sympathy already +given, and appeal to you in his name, and through you to the thousands +whom you represent, for a continuation of your Christian efforts and +support, also for greater supplies and larger gifts to the treasury of +the A.M.A., that it may be able to furnish the laborers according to the +demands of the growing needs of more than four millions of colored women +and girls, who are trying to help themselves. Our lamented President +Garfield said to the Jubilee Singers during their visit to Mentor: +"Ethiopia is not only stretching out her hand unto God, but God is +stretching out his hand unto Ethiopia." We believe this, and that the +time is coming when all races shall sing: + + "O, brethren, rise and shine and give God the glory, + For the year of Jubilee." + + * * * * * + +RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1888. + + +MAINE, $186.96. + +Augusta. North Parish Sab. Sch., _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ $3.60 + +Bangor. W.S. Dennett, for _Pleasant Hill, + Tenn._ 20.00 + +Bangor. Y.M.C.A., 9.66; Miss Mary F. + Duren, 1, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.66 + +Bath. Sab. Sch. of Central Ch., + _for Mountain White Work_ 23.00 + +Bluehill. "A Friend" 1.00 + +Brewer. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 15.00 + +Brunswick. Marshall Cram 10.00 + +Falmouth. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _for + Freight to Williamsburg, Ky._ 0.50 + +Gorham. "A Friend," bal. to const. MRS. + HENRY J. LEAVITT L.M. 21.00 + +Gorham. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 10, _for + Selma, Ala._, 10 _for Mountain White Work_ 20.00 + +Gorham. "Friend," _for Mountain White Work_ 10.00 + +Lyman. Cong. Ch. 4.85 + +Machias. Gilbert Longfellow 10.00 + +Orono. Cong. Ch. 15.10 + +Patten. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + +South Berwick. Mrs. Lewis' S.S. Class, + _for Wilmington, N.C._ 3.00 + +West Brooksville. Cong. Ch. 2.25 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $430.96. + +Candia. John P. French and Mary E.C. + French 200.00 + +Exeter. Mrs. Samuel Hall, _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Franklin Falls. Mrs. Stephen Kenrick 25.00 + +Great Falls. Ladies, _for Pleasant Hill, + Tenn._ 8.20 + +Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. 11.06 + +Keene. G.E. Whitney, 5; Mrs. C. Hatch, + 4.25; Rev. G.H. De Bevoise and other + "Friends," 4.75; Sab. Sch. + of First Cong. Ch., 5 19.00 + +Keene. C.D. Robertson, _for Mountain + White work._ 1.00 + +Nashua. First Cong. Ch. 47.17 + +Nashua. "Friends," 27; Ladies' Charitable + Soc., 10 _for Dormitory, Brewer Normal + Sch., Greenwood, S.C._ 37.40 + +Newington. Cong. Ch. 4.68 + +New Ipswich. Children's Fair, _for Freight + to Straight U._ 1.10 + +Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.40 + +Pembroke. Mrs. Mary Thompson, 10; + Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 8, _for + Wilmington, N.C._ 18.00 + +Raymond. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 + +Tamworth. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + + +VERMONT, $159.10. + +Lunenburg. Charles W. King 15.00 + +Norwich. William E. Lewis 5.00 + +Springfield. "Splinters of the Board," + by Myrtle A. Ellison, Treas., 2.25 for + _Tougaloo U._, and 2.25 _for Indian M._ 4.50 + + Saint Johnsbury. South Cong. Ch. 64.85 + +Swanton. Cong. Ch. 15.65 + +Wallingford. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and + Soc., Bbl. of C.: Cash, 1, by Miss C.M. + Townsend, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 1.00 + +Westminster West. Sab. Sch. of Cong. + Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._ 19.10 + +West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 + +Vermont Woman's Home Miss'y Union, + by Mrs. William P. Fairbanks, Treas., + _for McIntosh, Ga._: + + Castleton. Ladies, by + M.K. Adams 3.00 + + Dorset. W.H.M. Soc., _for + School, Marshallville, Ga._ 5.00 + + Newport. Ladles of Cong. + Ch. 20.00 + + ----- 28.00 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $7,332.96. + +Amesbury. Main St. Cong. Ch. 9.87 + +Amherst. Members of Amherst College + Ch. 45.00 + +Andover. George W.W. Dove, _for Tillotson + C. and N. Inst._ 25.00 + +Arlington. Rev. R.B. Howard, _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 2.00 + +Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch. 20.00 + + Mrs. Emily P. Eayers 5.00 + + "Friend" 4.50 + + Daniel S Ford. _for Laundry, + Talladega C._ 300.00 + + Rev. C.A. Richardson, + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + + W.H. Emerson, _for Sherwood, + Tenn._ 10.00 + + Mrs. J.B. Potter, _for + Wilmington, N.C._ 8.00 + + A.A. Winsor, _for + Talladega C._ 5.00 + +Dorchester. Rev. Mrs. Houston, + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + + Miss Mary A. Tuttle, _for + Rosebud Indian M._ 0.50 + + "Miss T.," _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +Roxbury. Walnut Ave. Cong. + Ch., ad'l 10.00 + +Somerville. Sab. Sch. of Franklin + St. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Santee Normal Sch._ 40.00 + + Mrs. N.B. Wilder, _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 15.00 + +West Somerville. Ladies' Aid Soc., + Box of Bedding, _for + Talladega C._ + + ------- 443.00 + +Bernardston. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +Blackstone. Rev. L.M. Pierce 10.00 + +Brimfield. First Cong. Ch. 8.50 + +Brockton. Porter Evan. Ch. and Soc., + 69.28 to const. HARRISON D. WILBUR and + MISS MARY A. CHADBOURNE L.M.'s; + Mrs. J.R. Perkins, 5; Mrs. S.A. + Southworth, 2 76.28 + +Brockton. Central Methodist Ch. Sab. + Sch., 5.11; Mrs. O.M. Littlefield, 2, + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 7.11 + +Cambridge. Mem. First Ch. and Shepard + Soc., 50; MRS. J. RUSSEL BRADFORD, 15, + bal. to const. herself L.M. 65.00 + +Cambridgeport. Mrs. J.D. Merriam, 50; + Mrs. E. Kendall, 25; Ladies' Miss'y + Soc., 25, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 100.00 + +Cambridgport. Y.P.S.C.E. of Pilgrim Ch. 7.00 + +Campello. South Cong. Ch. 100.00 + +Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. 48.98 + +Chelsea. Mrs. Mary A. Hallgreen, 5; Mr. + Flanders, 5, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + +Chester Center. D.B. Lyman 1.00 + +Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Colerain. Mrs. Prudence B. Smith 5.00 + +Curtisville. Cong. Ch. 20.85 + +Dalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student + Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._ 45.00 + +Danvers Center. Sab. Sch. of First Ch., + _for Atlanta, U._ 11.98 + +Dedham. First Cong. Ch. 105.40 + +Dover. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.87 + +Dracut. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +East Bridgewater. Sab. Sch., _for + Talladega C._ 12.50 + +East Cambridge. Miss Mary F. Aiken + (3.85 of which _for Freight to Pleasant Hill, + Tenn._) 5.35 + +East Dennis. Union Sab. Sch., _for + Talladega C._ 5.00 + +East Granville. Y.P.S. of C.E., by John + A. Gellett, Treas. 2.50 + +Easthampton. First. Cong. Ch. 61.07 + +East Taunton. Ev. Cong. Ch., _for Mountain + White Work_ 5.06 + +East Weymouth. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 28.00 + +East Weymouth. Mrs. James Vining, _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Enfield. Mrs. F.W. Kimball's Primary + Class, Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud + Indian M._ 5.00 + +Essex. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 46.00 + +Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.05 + +Florence. Florence Ch. 20.00 + +Fitchburg. Cal. Cong. Ch. 50.50 + +Fitchburg. Sab. Sch. of Rollstone Ch., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Franklin. First Cong. Ch. addl. 9.60 + +Franklin. ---- _for Wilmington, N.C._ 2.00 + +Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 56.21 + +Haverhill. A.P. Nichols, _for Talladega C._ 100.00 + +Hinsdale. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Indl. Sch., Williamsburg, Ky._ 40.40 + +Holbrook. Sab. Sch. of Winthrop Ch., _for + Student Aid, Gregory Inst._ 10.00 + +Holliston. "Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4." 50.00 + +Holliston. Rev. Geo. M. Adams, D.D., _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + +Holyoke. F.B. Jones, _for Macon, Ga._ 9.50 + +Hyannis Port. Cong. Ch., 6.63; Sab. Sch., + 3.36; Dr. W.J. Wright, 2.01, _for Student + Aid, Straight U._ 12.00 + +Ipswich. First Ch. 10.00 + +Lakeville and Taunton. Precinct Ch. and + Soc. 60.00 + +Lanesville. William L. Saunders, _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Lawrence. J.H. Eaton, _for Talladega C._ 5.00 + +Leverett Y.P.S.C.E., _for Grand View, + Tenn._ 13.00 + +Littleton. "A Friend" 50.00 + +Lowell. R. Stevens 5.00 + +Lynnfield Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 33, + to const. REV. HARRY L. BRICKETT L.M.; + Cong. Sab. Sch., 5.10 38.10 + +Ludlow. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Malden. Mrs. Mary D. Convers, _for Laundry, + Talladega, Tenn._ 500.00 + +Maplewood. Infant S.S. Class, _for + Wilmington, N.C._ 1.00 + +Marblehead. J.J.H. Gregory, _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 66.00 + +Melrose. Ortho. Cong. Ch. ad'l. 51.69 + +Monson. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Wilmington, N.C._ 12.00 + +Newburyport. Prospect St. Cong. Ch., + 273.25, to const CHARLES H. COFFIN, MRS. + FRANCES E. COFFIN, REV. P.S. HULBERT, + MRS. P.S. HULBERT and KATE CAMPBELL + HURD, M.D., L.M.'s.: North Cong. Ch. + and Soc., 30 303.25 + +New Marlboro. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Newton. Eliot Mission Circle, _for + Rosebud Indian M._ 5.00 + +North Adams. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Northampton. A. Lyman Williston 300.00 + +Northampton. A. Lyman Williston, _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 21.00 + +Northampton. Geo. W. Cable's Sab. Sch. + Class. Edwards Ch. 75.42 + +North Billerica. Mrs. E.R. Gould, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 3.00 + +North Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. + Ch., _for Pleasant Hill. Tenn._ 25.00 + +Northfield. Trin. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + +North Weymouth. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + 8: Ladies of Cong. Ch., 7, _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 15.00 + +North Weymouth. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim + Ch., _for Student Aid, Gregory + Inst._ 8.00 + +Norton. Sab. Sch. of Trin. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Pepperell. "Friends," 2 Bbls. C., etc., + _for Greenwood, S.C._ + +Phillipston. D. & L. Mixter 2.00 + +Pittsfield. A.A. Mills, _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ 13.95 + +Plainfield. Mrs. Albert Dyer 5.00 + +Randolph. Rev. J.C. Labaree, _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + +Reading. Cong. Ch. 18.00 + +Reading. Miss E.A. White, _Freight for + Sherwood, Tenn._ 2.00 + +Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Salem. Sab. Sch. of Tabernacle Ch. 25.00 + +Salem. "Friends," _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 2.00 + +Southampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 + +South Natick. John Eliot Ch. 14.63 + +South Weymouth. Union Cong. Sab. Sch., + _for Wilmington. N.C._ 50.00 + +Spencer. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 40.00 + +Sudbury. Cong. Ch. 52.42 + +Townsend. Ladies' Soc., bbl. of C., etc., + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Townsend Harbor. By Helen E. Haynes, + _for freight to Greenwood, S.C._ 2.00 + +Uxbridge. Wm. H. Seagrave 25.00 + +Ware. Young Men's Class, Sab. Sch. East + Cong. Ch., _for Indian Scholarship_ 35.00 + +Walpole. Mr. & Mrs. Loring Johnson, _for + new building, McIntosh, Ga._ 60.00 + +Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. 21.27 + +Wendell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.55 + +Wellesley. Wellesley College, Woman's + Christian Ass'n, _for Library Fund, + Macon, Ga._ 40.00 + +Wellesley College. Miss Marion Metcalf, + _for Indian M._ 5.07 + +Westfield. Mrs. M.A. Shurtleff. 5; Miss + Elizabeth Phelps, 5, _for Jewett Hall, + Grand View, Tenn._ 10.00 + +Westfield. Mrs. C.W. Fowler, Box of + C., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Westford. "A Friend" 5.00 + +West Medway. Dorcas Soc. Third Cong. + Ch., 10: Ladies' Char. Soc. Third Cong. + Ch., 5, _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 15.00 + +West Springfield. Miss Mary W. Southworth, + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (300 of + which for _Mountain Work, Tenn._) 1,077.73 + +Whitinsville. Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 15.00 + +Williamstown. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Fisk U._ 20.00 + +Williamstown. South Cong. Ch. 15.50 + +Winchendon. First Cong. Ch., 11; and + Sab. Sch., 20.79 31.79 + +Winchendon. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch., + (3 of which _for freight to Grand View, + Tenn._) 7.82 + +Winchester. First Cong. Ch. (25.08 of + which _for Indian M._) 52.68 + +Wollaston. Cong. Ch., 16.35; + Friend, 50 cts 16.85 + +Worcester. Central Ch., 141.35; Summer + St. Mission Chapel Ch., 6.40 147.75 + +Worcester. Piedmont Ch., _for Paris, Tex._ 61.86 + +Worcester. Primary and Intermediate + Depart's. Piedmont Sab. Sch., _for church + building, Roxton, Texas_ 50.00 + +Worcester. Union Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 75.00 + +Worcester. Ladies of Union Ch., _for Indian + Scholarship_ 20.50 + +Worcester. Infant Class of Central Ch., + _for Student Aid, Lincoln Normal Inst., + Marion, Ala._ 8.00 + +Worcester. "Friend," _for Rev. J.R. McLean, + Paris, Texas_ 5.00 + +----. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 50.00 + +Hampden Benevolent Association, by + Charles Marsh, Treas.: + + East Granville $10.00 + + Ludlow 17.64 + + Monson 35.42 + + South Hadley Falls 31.29 + + Springfield. First 20.00 + + Westfield. Second 19.20 + + West Springfield, Park St. 18.00 + + -------- 146.55 + + --------- + $5,832.96 + + + ESTATES. + +Medfield. Estate of Mrs. Abigail Cummings, +_for education, instruction and improvement +of the Colored population of the +South_ 1,000.00 + +Phillipston. Estate of Trowbridge Ward, +by James Watts, Ex. 500.00 + + --------- + + $7,332.96 + + +CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC. RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE. + +Falmouth, Me. First Cong. Ch., Bbl., _for + Williamsburg, Ky._ + +South Berwick, Me. Ladies of Cong. Ch., + Bbl., _for Wilmington, N.C._ + +New Ipswich, N.H. Cong. Sab. Sch. and + Mrs. L.A. Obear, Case, _for Straight U._ + +Pittsfield, N.H. By S.G. French, Bbl. + and Box, _for Marion, Ala._ + +Auburndale, Mass. Mrs. Johnson, 2 Packages. + +Cambridgeport, Mass. Pilgrim Ch., Case + Comfortables, Val. 20, _for Pleasant Hill, + Tenn._ + +Dorchester, Mass. Ladies of Harvard Ch., + 2 Bbls., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Ipswich, Mass. Ladles' Benev. Soc. of + First Ch., Bbl., Val. 25. _for Oaks, N.C._ + +Marshfield Mass. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of + First Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls., Val. 48.25 + +Millbury, Mass. Miss Emily S. Ewell, + Box, _for Mrs. J.T. Ware, Atlanta, Ga._ + +Phillipston, Mass. Ladies of Cong. Ch., + and Mrs. Annie S. Sawyer, 2 Boxes. + +Reading, Mass. E.A. White, Bbl., _for + Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Somerville, Mass. Young People's Miss. + Circle of Day St. Ch., Bbl., val. 92.75, + Box. val. 75, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Townsend Harbor, Mass. By Helen E. + Haynes, Bbl., _for Greenwood, S.C._ + +Winchendon. Mass. Y.P.S.C.E., Case, + _for Grand View, Tenn._ + + +RHODE ISLAND, $525.54. + +Bristol. First Cong. Ch. 45.91 + +East Providence. S. Belden. 75.00 + +Hughsdale. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for + Williamsburg, Ky._ 4.28 + +Kingston. Cong. Ch. 36.22 + +Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch. 75.00 + +Thornton. Union Cong. Sab. Sch., + _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 2.75 + +Westerly. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.96 + +Providence. Churches, by G.E. Luther: + + Beneficent Cong. Ch. 48.40 + + Central Cong. Ch. 85.75 + + Union " 70.80 + + Pilgrim " 15.65 + + North " 7.80 + + Plymouth " 5.22 + + Park Place, Pawtucket Cong. + Ch. 8.15 + + Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. 15.65 + + ------ 252.42 + + +CONNECTICUT, $2,239.19. + +Abington. Cong. Ch., to const. MISS + ALTHEA M. LORD L.M. 35.50 + +Canaan. ---- 1.00 + +Chester. Cong. Ch. 37.00 + +Clinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 57.47 + +East Hampton. Philo. Bevin, 25; Dea. S. + Skinner, 10; A.H. Conklin, E.C. Barton + and H.H. Abbe, 65, _for Talladega C._ 100.00 + +Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. 9.50 + +Granby. Cong. Ch. 3.75 + +Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. MISS + CALLIE F. DAVIS L.M. 30.00 + +Guilford. "Wigwam Club," First Cong. + Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_, and to const. + CATHARINE L. GRISWOLD, L.M. 30.00 + +Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch., 72.48; + Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., "A Friend," 10; + "A Friend," 1 83.48 + +Hartford. C.A. Jewell, 25; Roland Mather, + 25; John C. Parsons, 5; J.S. Wells, + 5; "R.D.," 5; "Amicus," 5; "A Friend," + 5; "A Friend," 5; "A Friend," 50 cts., + _for Jewett Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 85.50 + +Kensington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 30, to + const. MRS. GEORGE L. TAYLOR L.M.; + Mayflower Mission Circle, 5, _for + Tougaloo U._ 35.00 + +Mansfeld. Mrs. N.J. Stevenson, _for + Indian M._ 5.00 + +Meriden. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 25.00 + +Middlebury. Cong. Ch. 20.57 + +Middletown. First Ch., 116.50; South + Cong. Ch., 52.59 169.09 + +Middletown. Benj. Douglass, _for Jewett + Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 10.00 + +Milton. Cong. Ch. 13.00 + +Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. 35.36 + +New Britain. First Cong. Ch., _for Jewett + Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 50.00 + +New Britain. Sab. Sch. of South Ch., _for + Indian M._ 25.10 + +New Canaan. Woman's Home Miss'y Soc. + of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 26.00 + +New Haven. Mrs. E.G. Cady, 30, to const. + MISS MARY LUCY JEWETT L.M.; + Howard Ave. Cong. Ch., 7.66, + _for Jewett Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 37.66 + +New Haven. Miss Fannie Skinner, 6 Silver + Forks, _for Teachers' Home, Macon, Ga._ + +Newington. Cong. Ch. 40.50 + +North Branford. Cong. Ch. 16.68 + +Norwich. Mrs. Mary B. Holyoke, _for Jewett + Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 25.00 + +Norwich Town. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. + Ch., 17.90; Rev. W.B. Clark. 50 cts., _for + Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 18.40 + +Old Lyme. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. + Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 20.00 + +Plainville. "King's Daughters," _for + Student Aid, Talladega C._ 4.00 + +Plantsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Atlanta U._ 32.06 + +Plymouth. George Langdon, _for Jewett + Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 10.00 + +Salisbury. Proceeds of Fair by the King's + Daughters, by Mrs. John C. Goddard, + _for Decatur, Ala._ 25.00 + +Southington. Geo. B. Finch 1.00 + +Southport. "Friends" in Cong. Ch., _for + Out-Station, Grand River, Indian M._ 186.00 + +Southport. "Friends," 90; "Friends," + 75, _for Grand River, Indian M._ 165.00 + +Stonington. Miss Anne Williams Hill's + S.S. Class, _for Talladega C._ 8.00 + +Stratford. Cong. Ch. 25.12 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 35.10 + +Thomaston. H.M. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 30.00 + +Thompson. Cong. Ch. 17.05 + +Thompson. Cong. Ch., collected by Miss + Julia Shaw, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 30.75 + +Torringford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 + +Vernon. Cong. Ch. 13.55 + +Washington. Cong. Ch., by S.J. Nettleton, + _for Student Aid, Santee Normal Sch._ 25.00 + +Wauregan. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Carrie + Fellows, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 8.00 + +Westminster. Rev. S.B. Carter and Wife. 10.00 + +Winsted. David Strong, _for Theo. Dept., + Talladega C._ 25.00 + +----. "A Friend" 500.00 + +----. "A Conn. Friend" 80.00 + + +NEW YORK, $4,826.43. + +Alfred Center. Mrs. Ada F. Kenyon 5.00 + +Amsterdam. D. Cady 10.00 + +Ashland. Rev. O.B. Hitchcock 5.00 + +Binghamton. First Cong. Ch. 53.08 + +Blodgett Mills. Miss E.C. Nason, Bbl. of + Papers, _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Ballard + Sch. Building, Macon, Ga._ 2,060.00 + +Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Student + Aid_ 144.00 + +Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Student + Aid, Atlanta U._ 40.00 + +Brooklyn. Miss J.E. Prentiss' Sab. Sch. + Class, Ch. of Pilgrims. _for Indian + Scholarship_ 70.00 + +Brooklyn. Lee Ave. Cong. Ch. 13.75 + +Brooklyn. Lee Ave. Cong. Ch., Infant + Class "Birthday offerings," _for + Williamsburg, Ky._ 10.00 + +Brooklyn. Mayflower Mission Sab. Sch., + _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 5.00 + +Brooklyn. Rev. T.L. Cuyler, _for Jewett + Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 10.00 + +Elmira. Park Ch., _for Grand View, Tenn._ 50.00 + +Fredonia. Miss Mary F. Lord 5.00 + +Ithaca. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Indian Sch'p._ 27.70 + +Marion. "Friend." 1.00 + +Massena. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ 18.00 + +Medina. M.P. Lyman 1.50 + +Mexico. E. Wheeler 1.00 + +New Haven. Cong. Ch., to const. DEA. + EDWARD W. ROBINSON L.M. 34.00 + +New York. Gen. Wager Swayne. 50; + Ralph Wells, 25, _for Talladega C._ 75.00 + +New York. H.P. Van Liew, _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00 + +Orient. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 12.50 + +Schenectady. Mrs. J.W. Chute, _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00 + +----. "A Friend," _for Jenkins Chapel, +Talladega, Ala._ 6.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., + by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., _for + Womans' Work_: + + Churchville. Ladies' Aux. 10.00 + + Homer. Mrs. Coleman Hitchcock 5.00 + + Homer. Ladies' Aux. 1.00 + + ----- 16.00 + + --------- + + $2,683.48 + + +ESTATES. + +Brooklyn. Estate of Alfred S. Barnes, + _for Fisk U._ 925.00 + +New York. Estate of W.E. Dodge, _for + Theo. Student Aid_ 150.00 + +Ransomville. Estate of John Powley 1,067.95 + + --------- + + $4,826.43 + + +NEW JERSEY, $222.99. + +Arlington. Arlington Mission Band, + _for Savannah, Ga._ 1.00 + +Chester. "A Friend of Missions," + _for Mountain White Work_ 30.00 + +East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch. 19.10 + +Montclair. D.O. Eshbaugh, _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ 30.00 + +Montclair. Young Ladies Miss'y Soc., + Bbl. of C., _for Meridian, Miss._ + +Morristown. Woman's Indian Ass'n, + _for Indian M._ 20.00 + +Newark. Belleville Ave. Cong. Ch. 107.89 + +Newark. Rev. J.M. Whitin, _for Prize in + English Composition, Talladega C._ 15.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $29.00. + +Franklin. Sab. Sch. of M.E. Ch., _for + Wilmington, N.C._ 8.00 + +Guy's Mills. Mrs. F. Maria Guy 2.00 + +Lansford. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Montrose. Mrs. D.T. Brewster, _for Jewett + Mem. Hall_, Grand View, Tenn._ 1.00 + +New Milford. H.A. Summers 5.00 + +Philadelphia. A.L. Elwyn, _for Jewett + Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 1.00 + +Saire Oaks. Miss Jane Wilson 2.00 + + +OHIO, $612.18. + +Alexis. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Canfield. Cong. Ch. 10.10 + +Claridon. First Cong. Ch., 33.65; L.T. + Wilmot, 10 45.65 + +Claridon. Ladies' Benev. Soc.; Pkg. + sheets and quilts, _for Tougaloo U._ + +Cincinnati. Walnut Hills Cong. Ch. and + Sab. Sch. 86.63 + +Cleveland. "In Memory of J.M.F. and + H.B.F.", 50; Cong Ch. and Sab. Sch., + 21.90; Union Cong. Ch., 2 73.90 + +Hampden. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Hicksville. E.M. Ensign 10.00 + +Lenox. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Napoleon. Mrs. N.B. Palmer 1.00 + +New Richland. Mrs. Elizabeth Johnston 2.00 + +North Bloomfield. F.O. Reeve 5.00 + +Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 85.20 + +Oberlin. Rev. C.V. Spear, _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Parisville. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 27.05 + +Radnor. Edward D. Jones 5.00 + +Ruggles. Cong. Ch. 18.65 + +Wauseon. Cong. Ch. 25.00 + +Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., _for + Woman's Work_: + + Harmar. Ladies' Oak Grove + Miss. Band 5.00 + + Hudson. W.H.M.S. 5.00 + + Ravenna. Cong. Ch. Miss. + Band. 30.00 + + ------- 40.00 + + ------- + + $452.18 + +ESTATE. + +Tallmadge. Estate of Rev. John Seward, + by Wm. H. Upson, Ex. 160.00 + ------- + + $612.18 + + +INDIANA, $9.00. + +Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + + +ILLINOIS, $724.06. + +Aurora. Mrs. J.L. Greenfield, _for Chinese + M._, and to const. S.H. SHERWOOD, MRS. + H.H. BONSLOUGH and MRS. J.E. GREENFIELD + L.M.'s 100.00 + +Camp Point. Mrs. S.B. McKinney 12.00 + +Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 149.88; O.B. + Green, 125; Rev. Arthur Little, D.D., 25; + E.F. Parr, 15 314.88 + +Chicago. Bethany Cong. Ch., _for Printing + Dept, Santee Ag., Neb._ 8.10 + +Chicago. Estate of Dea. Philo Carpenter, + by Rev. J.E. Roy, Trustee, Box of books + etc., _for Talladega C._ + +Danville. First Presb. Sab. Sch, 14.10; + Col. Candler, 5: Mrs. C.M. Young, 2; + Mrs. A.M. Swan, 2; Mrs. Crane, 50c, _for + Talladega C._ 20.00 + +Danville. H.M. Kimball, _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 20.00 + +Dover. Cong. Ch. 31.50 + +Elmwood. Cong. Ch. 21.15 + +Lyndon. J.M. Hamilton 1.00 + +Napersville. "Friends" _for Sch'p + Endowment Fund, Fisk U._ 21.08 + +Paxton. George L. Shaw 3.00 + +Pecatonica. Seward Cong. Ch. 34.25 + +Plainfield. Mrs. A.E. Hagar 5.00 + +Polo. Miss Emma R. Pearson, _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 10.50 + +Rockford. Miss Gracie Morton, _for + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 1.00 + +Stillman Valley. Lovejoy Johnson 25.00 + +Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Treas., _for + Woman's Work_: + + Ashkum 2.91 + + Alton. _for Mt. White Work_ 20.01 + + Chicago. New England Ch. 42.00 + + Oak Park 13.00 + + Danvers. "Busy Bees" 5.00 + + ------ 82.91 + + +MICHIGAN, $295.12. + +Battle Creek. J.B. Chapin, M.D. 1.00 + +Calumet. Sab Sch. Cong. Ch. _for Theo. + Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Clinton. Cong. Ch. 12.25 + +East Gilead. Rev. L. Curtis 1.60 + +Galesburg. Cong. Ch. 23.00 + +Hancock. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Union City. First Cong. Ch., 100.87: I.W. + Clark, 100 200.87 + +Wheatland. Cong. Ch. 1.40 + +Whittaker. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + + +IOWA, $319.27. + +Atlantic. Bear Grove Cong. Ch. 0.50 + +Cedar Falls. Cong. Ch., adl 3.00 + +Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 15.50 + +Clinton. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + +Des Moines. North Park Ch., 12.30, and + Sab. Sch. 2 14.30 + +Edgewood. Cong. Ch. 2.75 + +Fort Dodge. Cong. Ch. 12.10 + +Grinnell. Cong. Ch., 11.36; Sab. Sch. Concert, + Cong. Ch., 14.28 25.64 + +Grinnell. Mrs. J.B. Grinnell, _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00 + +Hawarden. Cong. Ch. 4.47 + +Independence. Rev. W.S. Potwin, _for + Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Monticello. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Montour. Cong Ch., to const. MRS. J.G. + CRONK L.M. 31.82 + +Muscatine. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Student Aid, Talladega C._ 20.00 + +Newton. Cong. Ch. 19.96 + +Sioux Rapids. Cong. Ch. 3.14 + +Strawberry Point. Cong. Ch. 2.75 + +Tipton. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch. 7.50 + +Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union + _for Woman's Work_: + + Dubuque. L.M.S. 25.00 + + Dubuque. Y.L.B.S. 18.00 + + Des Moines. L.M.S. Plym. 5.27 + + Fairfield. W.M.S. 2.20 + + Lyons. L.M.S. 7.53 + + Magnolia. W.H.M.U. 4.25 + + Osage. L.M.S. 3.20 + + Shenandoah. ---- 2.78 + + ------ 68.23 + + +WISCONSIN, $165.09. + +Beloit. Mrs. C.M. Nelson, Box of C., + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Clinton. Cong. Ch. 37.18 + +Emerald Grove. "Friends" _for Marion, Ala._ 0.50 + +Lake Geneva. Y.P.M. Soc., _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ 25.00 + +Leeds. Cong. Ch. 10.50 + +Milton. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Racine. Mrs. Canfield Sith 20.00 + +West Salem. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + +Whitewater. Cong. Ch., 31.54; Sab. Sch. + Cong. Ch., 11.37 42.91 + +Windsor. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + + +MINNESOTA, $187.18. + +Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 20.00 + +New Richland. Ladies, Box of C., _for + Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Northfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Student Aid, Talladega C._ 59.93 + +Saint Paul. "Members and Friends" + Pacific Cong. Ch., to const. REV. E.C. + EVANS L.M. 30.00 + +Saint Paul. H.B. Ayres, _for Jewett Mem. + Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 75.00 + +Saint Paul. S.S. Class, _for Talladega C._ 2.25 + + +MISSOURI, $138.05. + +Laclede. Miss Clara A. Seward, _for Woman's + Work_ 2.00 + +Saint Joseph. Tabernacle Cong. Ch. 25.30 + +Saint Louis. Wm. Humphrey, _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + +Webster Groves. Cong. Ch. 100.75 + + +KANSAS, $14.45. + +Burlingame. "A Friend." 1.00 + +Meriden. J. Rutty 10.00 + +Stockton. First Cong. Ch. 3.45 + + +DAKOTA, $43.50. + +Chamberlain. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 4.00 + +Jamestown. Mrs. M.S. Wells 3.50 + +Rapid City. "A Friend." 2.00 + +Ree Heights. Olive Branch Mission Band, + by Nettie Galloway 1.00 + +Yankton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas., _for Woman's + Work_: + + Henry. W.M.S. 5.00 + + Sioux Falls. W.M.S. 5.00 + + Vermillion. W.M.S. 3.00 + + ------- 13.00 + + +NEBRASKA, $2.20. + +Red Cloud. Cong. Ch. 2.20 + + +COLORADO, $124.10. + +Brighton. Presb. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 14.00 + +Denver. First Cong. Ch. 46.60 + +Denver. Ladies' Aid Soc., 50; Zion Bapt. + Sab. Sch., 3.50, _for Student Aid, Tillotson + C. and N. Inst._ 53.50 + +West Denver. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Student Aid, Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 10.00 + + +CALIFORNIA, $15.50. + +Eureka. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Riverside. Mrs. D.C. Parsons' S.S. Class + Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ 5.50 + + +OREGON, $12.50. + +Forest Grove. First Cong. Ch. 12.50 + + +WASHINGTON TERR., $5.00. + +Roy. Mrs. Eliza Taylor 5.00 + + +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $8.82. + +Washington. Lincoln Mem. Ch. 8.82 + + +KENTUCKY, $1.66. + +Woodbine. Rev. E.H. Bullock 1.66 + + +TENNESSEE, $43.00. + +Crossville. G. Walton 2.00 + +Nashville. Rev. P.A. Chase 10.00 + +Pleasant Hill. "A Friend," 5; "A Friend," + 5; "A Friend," 1; "A Friend," 10; Rev. + Mr. Vincent and Others, 10, by Rev. B. + Dodge, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 31.00 + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $27.50. + +Salem. Cong. Ch. 1.50 + +Strieby. Cong. Ch. 8.50 + +Troy. S.D. Leak 0.50 + +Wilmington. Miss H.E. Fitts, 11; Miss + A.E. Farrington, 6; _for Wilmington, + N.C._ 17.00 + + +GEORGIA, $1.50. + +Marietta. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., 75c + each 1.50 + + +ALABAMA, $2.00. + +Marion. Miss Estelle Lovelace, _for tuition + of a little girl, Lincoln Normal Inst._ 2.00 + + +TEXAS, $42.50. + +Austin. Rev. H.L. Hubbell, D.D. 15.00 + +Helena. Cong. Ch. 27.40 + + +CANADA, $15.00. + +Montreal. Chas. Alexander 5.00 + +Sherbrooke. Mrs. H.J. Morey 10.00 + + ---------- + +Donations $14,959.26 + +Estates 3,802.95 + + ---------- + + $18,762.21 + + +INCOMES, $1,822.72. + +Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 128.97 + +De Forest Fund, _for President's + Chair, Talladega C._ 481.25 + +Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._ 62.50 + +Hastings Sch'p Fund, _for + Atlanta U._ 12.50 + +Howard Theo. Fund, _for + Howard U._ 615.00 + +Tuthill King Fund, 125 _for Atlanta + U._ and 75 _for Berea C._ 200.00 + +Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, + Tenn._ 162.50 + +Luke Mem. Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega + C._ 10.00 + +Plumb Sch'p Fund, _for Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Stone Sch'p Fund, _for + Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Sch'p Fund, _for Straight U._ 45.00 + +Rev. J. and Lydia Dawes Wood + Sch'p Fund, _for Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega + C._ 5.00 + + -------- $1,822.72 + + -------- + +Total for November $20,584.93 + + ======== + + +SUMMARY. + +Donations 31,261.99 + +Estates 3,961.29 + + ---------- + + $35,223.28 + +Incomes 1,822.72 + + ---------- + +Total from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 $37,046.00 + ========== + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +Subscriptions for November $51.90 + +Previously received 20.25 + + ------ + +Total $72.15 + + + H.W. 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