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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 3,
+March, 1889, by Various
+
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+Title: American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 3, March, 1889
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: June 22, 2005 [EBook #16103]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY ***
+
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+Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald
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+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
+
+March, 1889
+
+Vol. XLIII.  No. 3.
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+EDITORIAL.
+
+  TO THE PASTORS AND CHURCHES
+
+  A CALL FOR ENLISTMENT
+
+  PARAGRAPHS
+
+  SUPREMACY OF THE WHITE RACE IN THE SOUTH
+
+  TRAINING OF COLORED STUDENTS FOR THE EPISCOPAL MINISTRY
+
+  A MONTHLY CONCERT AND SUPPLEMENT
+
+  NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND
+
+  ENGLISH AS IT IS NOT TAUGHT--CLIPPINGS
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+  REVIVAL AT LEMOYNE INSTITUTE
+
+  EVERY-DAY LIFE
+
+  CROWDED SCHOOL-ROOMS
+
+  PARAGRAPHS--DEATH OF MRS. HATTIE B. SHERMAN
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+  LOO QUONG'S APPEAL
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+  PARAGRAPHS
+
+  CHRISTMAS AT FORT YATES
+
+  MISS COLLINS
+
+
+FOR THE CHILDREN.
+
+  OUR SCHOOL GIRLS--JOSIE MIKE--POLLIWOG
+
+
+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; letters relating to the finances, to the
+Treasurer.
+
+
+DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
+
+In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be
+sent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when
+more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational
+House, Boston, Mass., 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.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+
+VOL. XLIII.       MARCH, 1889.        No. 3.
+
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+TO THE PASTORS AND CHURCHES
+
+_Who take Collections for the A.M.A. in March, April and May._
+
+Dear Brethren: The work of this Association requires $1,000 per day. The
+receipts for the first four months of our fiscal year have been only
+about $800 a day. Here is the germ of a debt. Unless it is chilled and
+destroyed in the vigorous months of March, April and May, when the
+churches are full and active, it will, during the hot summer months,
+when the audiences are thin, grow rapidly, and develop its bitter
+fruit--a great deficit. The coming three months will be the test. We are
+the servants of the churches and are doing their work, and we are
+confident that they intend to give us the means to carry it forward.
+
+We, therefore, appeal to the pastors whose collections come during these
+three months, or whose collections can conveniently be brought within
+these three months, to lend us their great help by emphasizing our needs
+when the collections are taken, and we appeal to our patrons that they
+will, both in their church collections or by their special donations,
+come to our aid in a time when that aid will be so beneficial.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A CALL FOR ENLISTMENT.
+
+Perhaps we never shall cease our urgent appeals for the "sinews of war."
+The growing work of this Association requires increasing funds to meet
+the enlarged demand. But we are beginning to feel the need of a greater
+force in the field. We sound forth the bugle note calling for recruits
+for the army of the Lord in our glorious warfare. We appeal to students
+in theological seminaries, colleges, normal schools and female
+seminaries, to consider the claims of this great work. We make this
+appeal with special urgency to the Congregational institutions of the
+land, for it is from this body of Christians that we receive nearly all
+the funds with which we carry on our work, and there is a special
+fitness that the sons and daughters of these churches should enter the
+field for which the funds are contributed.
+
+But we wish to make a distinct announcement in connection with this
+appeal. We wish only to "get the best." The needy people for whom we
+labor have suffered such privations, and such absolute destitution of
+all adequate religious instruction, that we feel they are now entitled
+to as good as can be given them. We send no teachers to the field that
+are incompetent and without adequate experience. We do not believe that
+everybody is qualified to teach the Negroes, at least it is not fair to
+them, that we should employ those who cannot find occupation anywhere
+else. Good health, good training, good powers of discipline, a
+missionary spirit and a membership in some evangelical church, are the
+absolute essentials for all persons that we employ. We call for
+recruits, but we ask for only those that are well equipped, courageous
+and ready to endure hardness as good soldiers of Christ.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The treasurer of a church in the West, who had been an officer in a
+colored regiment during the war, in remitting the contribution of the
+church to which he belongs, thus expresses his reason for his interest
+in the welfare of the colored people:
+
+"I was an officer in the 5th United States Colored Troops, the first
+colored regiment raised west of the Alleghenies, just before the
+massacre of colored troops at Fort Pillow, and knowing so much of the
+fidelity and valor and good service of those troops in the war to the
+Nation, to which they then owed so little, I have special interest in
+the enlightenment and uplifting of the colored race in the South."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In the last month's _Missionary_, we published some statements showing
+that persons declined to contribute to our treasury because we had been
+so enriched by the Daniel Hand Fund. It gives us pleasure to know that
+all our patrons do not take this view of the matter, as will be seen
+from the following extract from the letter of a practical business man:
+
+"If A.M.A. means _A Million Accepted_, I hope you will be able to write
+it once a year till you can build churches, school-houses and colleges
+all through the South, but not enough to take away from the churches of
+the North and East the privilege of helping the poor and needy till they
+are able to take care of themselves."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Rev. Chas. H. McIntosh has for some months assisted Dr. Roy in
+     collecting funds for the Association, using a stereopticon as a
+     means of illustrating his lectures on the varied phases of our
+     work.
+
+Pastor Leeper of Red Oak, Iowa, writes: "We were much pleased with
+Brother McIntosh's lecture and exhibit. He does well, and makes in every
+way a good impression. The lantern works promptly and makes clear
+pictures. That mode of presenting the work is the best I have seen. The
+people will not soon forget what they saw and heard. They were surprised
+to know that the A.M.A. is doing so extensive a work. I had often
+preached on the subject, but pictures make the facts stand out so much
+more vividly. We had crowded houses."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Rev. J.B. Chase, of Hull, Iowa, wishes to complete his files of the
+_American Missionary_ to have them bound for a public library. If any of
+our readers have the numbers for August and September, 1880, and April,
+1878, that they can spare and willingly give, it would be a favor to us
+if they would mail them to the above address. Our edition for those
+months is exhausted.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE SUPREMACY OF THE WHITE RACE IN THE SOUTH.
+
+Never since the days of reconstruction and of the adoption of the
+Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, has the question of the equal
+suffrage of the races in the South awakened public attention as it does
+now. In many quarters, some of them very influential, the right of the
+Negro to a fair vote and a fair count is strenuously advocated. On the
+other hand, the supremacy of the whites as the ruling race in the South
+is set forth by leading Southern men more distinctly than ever before.
+
+
+WHITE SUPREMACY.
+
+Col. Grady, of Atlanta, in his famous speech at Dallas, Texas, urges
+this in these emphatic terms:
+
+     Standing in the presence of this multitude, sobered with the
+     responsibility of the message I deliver to the young men of the
+     South, I declare that the truth above all others to be worn
+     unsullied and sacred in your hearts, to be surrendered to no
+     force, sold for no price, compromised in no necessity, but
+     cherished and defended as the covenant of your prosperity, and
+     the pledge of peace to your children, is that the white race
+     must dominate forever in the South, because it is the white
+     race, and superior to that race with which its supremacy is
+     threatened.
+
+Hon. W.C.P. Breckinridge, member of Congress from Kentucky, and many
+other prominent men in the South, express the same sentiment, so that
+this may be regarded as the ultimatum of Southern popular requirement.
+
+
+HOW THIS SUPREMACY IS TO BE ATTAINED.
+
+The most _obvious_ way is that which is in use at present, the
+intimidation of the colored man and the manipulation of the ballot-box.
+But against this the sober second thought of the South itself begins to
+revolt. Thus a paper so thoroughly Southern as the Charleston _News and
+Courier_ utters this salutary and emphatic protest:
+
+     "It appals thinking men to know and see that the present
+     generation and the rising generation of white men in the South
+     are taught in practice that republican institutions are a
+     failure, and that elections are to be carried, not by the honest
+     vote of a fair majority, but by campaigning, which begins with
+     rank intimidation and ends with subterfuge and evasion. The
+     white people suffer more by the trickery and malfeasance by
+     which they score victory than the colored people suffer. The
+     supremacy of what, for convenience, is called Anglo-Saxon
+     civilization, though there is little of the Anglo-Saxon manner
+     or of civilization in the mode of securing it, must and will be
+     maintained, but it can be maintained without sectional divisions
+     in politics and without the maintenance of radical lines at
+     elections."
+
+As these old methods are beginning to find little favor with the South
+itself, a multitude of other schemes are brought to the front.
+
+The _Age-Herald_, of Birmingham, Ala., claims a patent (which it says
+others are infringing) for the scheme which it thus sets forth:
+
+"The Negroes could be induced to emigrate to a Western Territory, if it
+were set apart for their especial use without any force being used to
+compel them to go."
+
+A writer in the Richmond _Dispatch_ proposes that the Negroes in the
+South be induced to voluntarily emigrate to Brazil, Mexico or other
+countries where they are wanted, and even the old plan of fifty years
+ago, to return them to Africa is again brought forward. To this last
+suggestion, the _Yonkers Statesman_ replies:
+
+     The notion that the black can be successfully re-shipped to
+     Africa dies hard; but there are few things plainer than that he
+     has no desire and no purpose to be thus disposed of, but regards
+     this land as being as much his as it is the white man's. It
+     would be hard to dispute his title, grounded as it is in age and
+     effective service. The Negro believes he belongs here, and here
+     he means to remain; and the prospect that his mind can be
+     changed is certainly not very cheering.
+
+The _Times-Democrat_ of New Orleans thinks that the true solution is
+white immigration, but the _Daily Express_ of San Antonio, Texas,
+replies: "The principal objection to this scheme is that the Negro will
+not go till the white immigrants come, and the white immigrants will not
+come until the Negro goes."
+
+Congressman Oates, of Alabama, advocates the disfranchisement of the
+Negroes, or rather as a Democrat he suggests that the Republicans do it.
+He says that as the Republicans gave him the ballot, the South would
+cheerfully acquiesce if they should take it away from him. But it is not
+likely that the Republican administration will lead off in such a
+movement. Indeed, from present appearances, the new President is looking
+in exactly the opposite direction.
+
+
+WISER VIEWS.
+
+There are men, however, in the South, wise, conscientious and "to the
+manner born," who take entirely different views of this great problem.
+The Hon. J.L.M. Curry, once a General in the Confederate Army,
+subsequently the efficient Secretary of the Peabody Fund, more recently
+our Minister in Spain, and now again at his post as Secretary of the
+Peabody Fund, utters himself in this forcible language:
+
+     "I want to say to you, in perfect frankness, that the man who
+     thinks the Negro problem has been settled is either a fanatic or
+     a fool. I stand aghast at the problem. I don't believe
+     civilization ever encountered one of greater magnitude. It casts
+     a dark shadow over your churches, your government of the future.
+     It is a great problem which will tax your energies. Your
+     ancestors and mine a few years ago were cannibals and pagans.
+     They have become what they are, not by virtue of white skin, but
+     by improving government and good laws. You let the Negro
+     children get an education where yours do not, let the Negro be
+     superior to you in culture and property, and you will have a
+     black man's government. Improvement, cultivation, education is
+     the secret, the condition and guarantee of race supremacy. I
+     will astonish you, perhaps, by saying that if the Negro develops
+     and becomes in culture, property and civilization, superior to
+     the white man, the Negro ought to rule. You see to it that he
+     does not become so. The responsibility rests with you."
+
+Rev. A.G. Haygood, D.D., Secretary of the Slater Fund, closes a review
+of Senator Eustis's recent paper in these earnest words:
+
+     Whatever political theory men form or oppose; whatever their
+     speculative opinions about the origin of races; whatever their
+     notions concerning color or caste; whatever their relations
+     heretofore to slavery and what went along with it, this is
+     absolutely certain: no question involving the rights and wrongs
+     of men, civilized or savage, white or black, was ever yet
+     settled so that it would stay settled by any system of mere
+     repression. And to those who believe in Jesus Christ it is
+     equally certain that nothing can be rightly settled that is not
+     settled in harmony with the teachings of the Sermon on the
+     Mount. If there be a Divine Providence no good man need be
+     afraid to do right to-day; nay, he will fear only doing wrong.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE TRAINING OF COLORED STUDENTS FOR THE EPISCOPAL MINISTRY.
+
+A very interesting discussion occurred in the Missionary Council of the
+Episcopal Church, held in Washington, D.C., November 13th and 14th, in
+regard to the education of colored students for the ministry in the
+Episcopal Church. The motive for not educating them in the existing
+Episcopal Seminaries appeared to be simply the caste-prejudice, and some
+marked utterances and facts were given on that subject, which we wish to
+preserve.
+
+The Bishop of Kentucky, whose generous feelings toward the colored race
+we have had occasion to notice heretofore, quoted from another, and
+endorsed for himself, the declaration: "The white man is not fit to
+study for the ministry who is not ready to have his black brother sit by
+him in the class room," and he subsequently added: "I believe I can
+speak for my brothers, and I say out of my heart I would just as soon
+sit by the side of a black man if he were in the House of Bishops, as
+one of my white brothers." But yet the Bishop suggested and endorsed the
+plan for the separate education of colored students, for two reasons:
+(1) "The power of heredity is not to be overthrown in a day nor an
+hour... This subtle spirit of caste is perhaps the demon hardest to cast
+out of the human spirit, the one that requires the most prayer and
+fasting, without which it will not go out," and (2) "It is certainly
+true that the colored men themselves do not want to go there. It is just
+as true that the white men do not want to have them there."
+
+As to the first point, it is to be regretted that the good Bishop did
+not give himself to fasting and prayer to cast out this malignant demon,
+rather than to yield to it, and that he did not heed the words which
+Jesus uttered when his disciples could not cast out a demon, "_Bring him
+hither to me._" If bishops and churches will only bring this demon of
+caste to Jesus, the work will be done.
+
+The Bishop's second point, that the colored people desired the
+separation, was pointedly answered by Dr. Crummell (rector of St. Luke's
+Colored Church, Washington,) who was invited to speak on the subject.
+Dr. Crummell said: "I do not think that any man in this country has seen
+any statement by any number of black men or black students that they
+wanted to be by themselves. I do not think such an utterance can be
+found among the race. I myself never heard such a thing, and wherever
+they have had entrance to other schools they have gone to them."
+
+The decision reached by the Council was to erect, in connection with
+some of the colored universities in the South, a hall under Episcopal
+control for colored Episcopal students for the ministry, who should also
+attend the college classes in the University. So far as the principle is
+concerned, we regret this decision. How much better if the wealthy and
+intelligent Episcopal Church in this country had lent its vast influence
+in repudiating the spirit of caste by introducing colored theological
+students into its own excellent seminaries.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A MONTHLY CONCERT AND SUPPLEMENT.
+
+BY REV. EDWIN N. ANDREWS.
+
+Do they say the monthly concert is dull? If so, it is likely owing to
+one or two causes like the following, (1) Perhaps only two or three
+families take any missionary Magazine, hence but little information can
+be expected. People are not interested in what they know nothing of. Or,
+(2) there is a lack of preparation and purpose to make the meeting
+interesting on the part of those to whom the leader ought to look for
+help.
+
+However, our last meeting took a rather interesting turn. It had been of
+the average sort only, when towards the close one of the ladies spoke of
+a call among the Freedmen for dolls and clothing, (not clothing for
+dolls). The pastor suggested that we gather together, from the families,
+various contributions, such as partly-worn garments, toys, books,
+religious papers, etc., and make a New Year's donation to the people to
+whom such things would be a god-send and good as new.
+
+The suggestion was favored, and the animated countenances and talk that
+followed betokened an after-meeting of unusual interest, and certainly
+the most practical if not the best part of our conference. Something to
+do, then and there, had been suggested; tongues were somehow set loose;
+each one seemed to have a new-born interest, each held common stock in
+the enterprise. Dr. Roy was consulted by the pastor as to a proper and
+responsible party. Meanwhile the goods began to come in, often sent by
+the boys or girls, who thus began to do missionary service, The pastor's
+wife and daughter did the packing. Picture cards were pasted in cloth
+folios for the little ones; old hats were trimmed; coats and vests went
+in, shawls, Bibles, toys, etc., till a barrel, a large sugar barrel,
+take notice, was crammed.
+
+After awhile there came the address of a colored graduate of Tougaloo
+University, living at or near Chattanooga, whose name was marked on one
+end of the barrel, and the freight sent forward. After some delay, the
+letter of acknowledgment came, saying, "The barrel came safe. The things
+are just what so many of the people need, and they will go to those most
+in need. Accept our thanks."
+
+This letter will be read at our next concert, which should be a
+thanksgiving occasion for the opportunity of doing something for the
+destitute, and for the discovery of a way to make a monthly concert
+interesting.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.
+
+BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.
+
+Here comes a gift of five dollars from an aged friend ninety-one years
+old! He has contributed to the A.M.A. every year for a generation. Who
+will step into the place of these grand veterans when they are called
+from the ranks? Such examples ought to thrill younger men and untie
+their purse strings.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At a recent visit to Wellesley College, the great company of students
+listened patiently more than an hour to the story of the "American
+Highlanders; where they are, who they are, and what the A.M.A. is doing
+for them."
+
+This interest on their part is characteristic of the intelligent people
+throughout New England. The churches are asking for information
+concerning these most interesting mountaineers, and are prayerfully
+considering their duty toward them. In view of this general interest, I
+give in these notes this month the following review of a book which I
+have been requested by several New England pastors to present in THE
+AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+_The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee._ By Thomas William Humes, S.T.D.
+Ogden Brothers & Co.: Knoxville, Tenn.
+
+Another interesting book on the Mountain people of the South. Those who
+are familiar with the mountain missions of the A.M.A. will hail this new
+volume with special delight. Those who read it will understand better
+the magnitude and importance of this great field into which the A.M.A.
+has pushed out its vanguard, and the necessity of following up these
+advances with a solid phalanx of intelligent and enthusiastic
+missionaries. This historical sketch brings prominently before us the
+heroic manhood of these American Highlanders during the years of bitter
+and systematic persecution by the rebel government. There is stuff in
+these Highland chieftains and their clans!
+
+Three facts that stand out from the pages of this history must intensify
+our interest in these American Highlanders. One, the systematic and
+brutal outrages inflicted upon them by the rebel authorities and their
+heroic endurance; second, their unimpeachable and unswerving loyalty to
+the country; third, the tremendous debt the loyal Christian people of
+the North owe them. Take the following order issued by J.P. Benjamin,
+Secretary of War, November 25, 1861, which appears on the 140th page of
+this book;
+
+"_First._ All such as can be identified in having been engaged in
+bridge-burning are to be tried summarily by drum-head court martial,
+and, if found guilty, executed on the spot by hanging. It would be well
+to leave their bodies hanging in the vicinity of the burned bridges."
+
+The State had voted in February, by sixty thousand majority, to remain
+loyal to the Union. These Highlanders had sought to save their section
+of the State from rebellion, and to defend their cabin homes from
+outrage and butchery. In doing so, they had burned bridges, and for this
+the government at Richmond deliberately instructs its army officers to
+hold a mock trial, to hang, and to brutally expose the bodies of those
+who had been executed, so that surviving friends would have to look upon
+these sickening horrors! It seems almost impossible that any man could
+deliberately perpetrate such monstrous cruelties. But the order was
+issued by the rebel government and carried into effect. Indeed, the
+brutalities went even farther than this. In December, 1861, two men by
+the name of Harmon, father and son, were hanged. Only one gallows was
+provided, and the authorities compelled the father to stand by and see
+his own son pass through the horrors of strangulation while awaiting his
+own execution. (Page 151).
+
+The diary of Parson Brownlow, from which abundant quotations are given
+in this volume, furnishes many similar instances of cruelty perpetrated
+against these loyal mountaineers; but they were true to the flag from
+beginning to end. They left their homes, and camped in the forests and
+"down the coves" of their own wild mountains. Parson Brownlow encamped
+for days in concealment in Tuckaleeche and Wear's Coves in the great
+Smoky Mountains. Had fair and honorable means been used, these loyal
+mountaineers would have saved Tennessee from that disgraceful chapter in
+her history which records the dark story of her treason. This book must
+stir the patriotism and Christian enthusiasm of every one who reads it.
+It ought to lead us to make genuine sacrifices to show our appreciation
+of their supreme devotion to the country by sending to this Mountain
+Work, opened by the A.M.A., generously of men and of means.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ENGLISH AS IT IS NOT TAUGHT.
+
+He didn't crack a smile.
+
+I feel many gratitudes to you.
+
+His forgiven name is John.
+
+Help us to bring forth meats for our repentance.
+
+I won't fool with the Lord no more.
+
+Help us to pray as the Republican did, "God be merciful to me a sinner."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At one of our schools, students had been learning the Beatitudes to
+recite at the table, and one Sunday they were asked to write the meaning
+in their own language. One wrote, "To be poor in spirit means weak but
+willing." Another, "Poor in spirit means that a person who has religion
+and don't make a great to-do over it, has as much as one who cuts up
+over theirs." ("Cutting up" means the noisy demonstrations in meeting).
+
+A pupil gives us the following insight into the precise appearance of
+the beings of the future world. "An angel is two lines which intend to
+meet," in response to the question, "What is an angle?"
+
+According to one of our growing historians here, Gen. Gage, of
+Revolutionary fame, didn't altogether believe in the then existing
+styles, for we were told the other day, that, "Gage, learning that there
+were millinery stores at Concord, at once sent a force to destroy them."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CLIPPINGS
+
+FROM PAPERS EDITED BY COLORED MEN.
+
+The only colored daily paper in America is printed at Columbus, Ga. It
+is a four column folio, neat in make-up and well edited.
+
+
+COLORED EXHIBITIONS TO THE FRONT.--At the recent Virginia Exposition Mr.
+J.C. Farley, the colored photographer, was awarded the first premium for
+his work, for which he is to receive a diploma and medal. Our esteemed
+townsman has entered a new field and ascended to the topmost round of
+the ladder at one bound.
+
+
+A COLORED PRIZE WINNER.--Give a colored man a fair show and he is
+certain to give a good account of himself. One of the notable college
+contests in Illinois is known as the Swan Oratorical Contest, and is
+held annually at Lombard University, at Galesburg. This contest was held
+Thursday night of last week. The first prize was awarded to Burt Wilson,
+a colored student, who lives at Galesburg, and is one of the most
+promising scholars in the university. His oration is said to have been
+an unusually brilliant effort.
+
+
+WHAT THE NEGRO HAS DONE.--In the South there are now 16,000 colored
+teachers, 1,000,000 pupils, 17,000 in the male and female high schools,
+and 3,000,000 worshipers in the churches. There are sixty normal
+schools, fifty colleges and universities, and twenty-five theological
+seminaries. The colored people pay taxes on nearly $200,000,000 worth of
+property valuation. This is a wonderful showing for a race that has two
+hundred years of slavery and four thousand years of barbarism back of
+it; it needs no silent sympathy or patient waiting, when in twenty years
+it makes such a showing. American generosity has done for the South in
+twenty years what statesmanship has failed to do in over a century; but
+generosity should not be depended upon, as even that can reach a limit.
+
+
+SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS.--North Carolina has a colored man whose business
+success is hard to find surpassed by even the white people. The Concord
+_Times_, a white journal, gives the following interesting sketch of his
+career:
+
+He was born a slave, and until he was twenty-one years of age, never had
+a copper of his own. Possessed of a keen and adaptable mind, he has by
+his energy and untiring efforts accumulated a competency, equalled by
+few of his race in the South.
+
+Warren Coleman commenced business here in 1879. He has lost everything
+by fire three times,--one time meeting with a loss of $7,000 and no
+insurance. Various purses of money were made up and sent him at this
+time, all of which he very nobly returned. But by pluck and energy he
+rose again.
+
+He owns four farms, amounting in all to some 300 acres of land, and
+employs on them twenty regular hands. He is the owner of ninety-eight
+tenement houses and is still adding to the list, having in his employ at
+this time twenty carpenters and eight or ten brick masons, laborers,
+etc.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+REVIVAL AT LE MOYNE INSTITUTE.
+
+PROF. A.J. STEELE.
+
+It has been my privilege and my great joy to write you often during my
+nearly twenty years of continuous service under the Association, of
+God's blessing upon our work. We are now in the midst of one of the most
+gracious visitations that I have ever experienced, and I recall "times
+of refreshing" not a few. In 1875, the first great revival in connection
+with this school saw over a hundred and twenty-five of our pupils
+hopefully converted to Christ, and the young converts, by their
+faithfulness, overcame all the fixed notions and ways of the old
+churches on the subject of early conversions.
+
+I have since that time, year by year, followed many of these young
+people, and know that the great majority of them have proven faithful
+followers of the Saviour, and many have lived lives of exceptional
+influence and usefulness. Since that notable year in the history of the
+school, but one year has passed without most evident tokens of God's
+gracious presence in the conversion of pupils attending the school. In
+some years the number has been large, and in others not so many have
+made open profession of faith in Christ. I think I am safe in saying
+that not a year, nor a month, has passed in which the school has not
+been markedly under the influence of the Spirit, giving guidance and
+instruction, and drawing, as with cords of love, many of our pupils to
+see in the religion of the cross a peace and joy to be found nowhere
+else. To this influence, the school owes all its success in every
+direction. For myself I can truly say that in the midst of the sorrow
+that has been my constant and only companion, besides my Saviour, the
+joy of this work and the consciousness of its acceptance with God have
+alone held me to the task laid upon me these years. I rejoice now, with
+all my fellow workers, that we are in the midst of another season of
+reaping, after months of sowing precious seed.
+
+During the past week, two members of the senior class, young men,
+professed their faith in Christ in the quiet prayer meeting of the
+school, as did also a young lady of a lower class, and now, this week,
+Brother Wharton is with us, and to-day, at the first meeting led by him
+in the school, sixteen of our students, three more of the senior class,
+quietly but hopefully profess to become followers of the Master, with
+scores more earnestly seeking to enter in.
+
+Since writing the above, two days of great but quiet interest have
+passed in our work. Between thirty and forty of our scholars, including
+five of the seniors and nearly every pupil of the other higher classes,
+have learned the joy of Christian experience, and there are yet others
+to follow.
+
+The night meetings at the church are very interesting and in them
+conversions are occurring in considerable numbers. The class work of the
+school has not been interrupted, as half-hour meetings only have been
+held, morning and noon. We rejoice greatly in this work that crowns and
+confirms all the other work of the school.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+EVERY-DAY LIFE.
+
+MRS. A.W. CURTIS.
+
+Put on your best glasses, dear friends, and take a peep at the regular,
+every-day life of some of the workers among the colored people South.
+
+Rap, rap, rap.
+
+"Come in!"
+
+It is a toil-worn, sad-faced woman, with hard, bony hands, and that look
+of patient endurance that is so pathetic. She is poorly clad, with only
+a thin bit of an old shawl around her shoulders, and a hat so
+disreputable that she instantly removes it, and drops it behind her on
+the floor. After a few kindly words of greeting, she tells her story. A
+sickly husband, deranged for the last nine years of his life, whom she
+had to support and care for; a daughter who married a wretch who treated
+her so cruelly that she, too, lost her mind, when he left her entirely,
+with their child. She kept the daughter confined to bed or chair, while
+she worked out as cook, to support them all. She had several other
+children. Finally the crazy daughter got away, and she does not know
+whether she is dead or alive.
+
+What had she come to us for? Money, old clothes, help of some kind?
+
+No, indeed. She came to see if we would take her grand-daughter and her
+own daughter, both about twelve years old, into our school. She had
+never been able to make them fit to go to any school, so they could not
+even read, but she would do her very best, if we would take them now. I
+wish Mr. Hand could have seen her shining face and tearful eyes, when we
+told her of the kind friend who had provided so grandly for just such
+cases as these.
+
+A patter of small feet, a hasty rap at the door.
+
+"Please ma'am, send little sister some medicine."
+
+"What ails sister?"
+
+The little fellow looked puzzled for a moment, then confidently
+answered, "Her stomach has settled on her bowels!"
+
+It is a perplexing diagnosis, but a few skillful questions draw out the
+fact that she has a bad cold, and some chamomilla is sent at a venture.
+Word comes back the next day that "Sister is well: that medicine did her
+_all_ the good."
+
+Next comes, one after another, a perfect rush of small boys and big
+girls, with now and then a man or woman for variety, on various errands.
+"Please ma'am, give me a settin' of eggs. Our old hen wants to set, and
+we haint got no eggs." The great brown eyes grow round with astonishment
+when we tell them that the hens are A.M.A. hens now, and not ours, and
+these hungry teachers eat every egg they lay. Two or three others, who
+have been accustomed to rely on our good nature for their winter supply
+of greens and salad, receive the same reply, and it is evident that the
+new order of things is very unsatisfactory and perplexing to them.
+
+"Please ma'am, give me some castor oil for the baby; she's awful sick;
+Doctor says it's indigestion of the lungs."
+
+She gets the castor oil, but soon comes back to say in most cheerful
+tones--"Baby is dead. She died at ten o'clock, but she's better off, and
+please, ma'am, give mother a black basque to wear to the funeral."
+
+Heartless? Oh no. There was great wailing and moaning at the funeral,
+and when the one carriage, with as many of the family as could crowd in
+beside the poor little coffin, started for the cemetery, this same child
+stood in the doorway, waving her handkerchief, and shouting tragically,
+"Fare thee well, baby! Fare thee well!"
+
+A half-grown girl came up the steps with two tiny chickens about as
+large as pigeons, their legs tied together, their voices lifted up in
+shrill squawks.
+
+"Father sent you these two chickens for a Christmas present, and says
+please send him a coat and pair of breeches, and a vest, too, if you
+can. And mother sent you these eggs for a present, and please send her a
+warm underskirt and a pair of shoes!" A modest request, surely.
+
+Next, a great girl, barefooted, though it was a raw, cold day that made
+us huddle gladly over a big fire, and with her a small boy, literally
+naked so far as his bony little legs were concerned. A few fluttering
+rags that had once been pants depended from the remnant of what had once
+been a calico waist. An old bag was pinned around his shoulders, which
+completed his entire outfit. "Please ma'am, mother says she'll send
+Johnny to school if you'll give him a coat and some breeches." Alas,
+there is neither on hand, nothing for the boy except a thin cotton
+shirt, and a pair of thin overalls to make over, by a mother who is more
+accustomed to the use of a hoe than a needle, and who has seven children
+as ragged and miserable as poor Johnny.
+
+A messenger rushes in without knocking. "Come quick--Mattie's baby
+burnt!"
+
+"Yes, I'll come. Wrap it in cotton and oil."
+
+Away flies the messenger. I seize the bottle of morphine and a hat, and
+follow to the child's home. The floor is strewn with fragments of burnt
+clothing. A sickening odor of burnt flesh fills the room. The scorched
+high chair, in which the child was tied and put before the open
+fireplace, while the mother went to a neighbor's for milk, lay in a pool
+of water, and beside it, the burnt whisk-broom that an older baby had
+put in the fire, then dropped blazing under the baby's long clothes,
+these told the whole sad story. They were all at the grandparent's house
+next door--a crowd of screaming people. Upon the bed lay what was left
+of the poor child, moaning in conscious agony. A drop of water
+containing the precious anodyne which alone could ease it then, soon
+brought blessed unconsciousness until death kindly bore the little soul
+to God. But oh! the heart-rending grief of that poor mother! God grant
+we may never witness such suffering again. We tried to comfort her with
+our tearful sympathy and prayers, but God alone can ever heal her sore
+heart.
+
+A sad-faced man wants to see the minister. We know his pitiful story and
+his errand before he speaks. A sick wife and six young children. The
+desperate daily fight with the hunger-wolf at the door, spite of the
+little lifts we try to give them. Now the wife is dead, and he comes to
+ask for money to buy a coffin and a place to lay her away. He has tried
+in vain elsewhere, so comes to us, and we cannot refuse. A few hours
+after, the pitiful little procession passes by. The pine coffin in an
+old cart, the husband and children, the minister and a few friends,
+following on foot. Such calls are frequent. Does the money ever come
+back? _Once_ it did.
+
+So it goes on, day after day, twenty, thirty, sometimes forty calls, for
+all these incidents are actual facts, and fair samples of our daily
+experiences and only a small part of our work. There is a large
+household to look after, and between times there must be flying visits
+to the distant kitchen to see that everything is going on right there. A
+watchful eye must look after the details of the dining room and see to
+the comfort of the whole household. Supplies must be ordered; bills must
+be paid; there are countless letters to write; there are sorrowful
+hearts to be comforted; wayward church members to look after; cold, dead
+prayer meetings to warm up; the Sunday-school to carry along; mother's
+meetings and children's meetings and missionary societies. An unlimited
+stock of patience, tact and good nature must be constantly on hand to
+keep all the machinery running smoothly, while the work is exhausting,
+wearing out body and soul far too soon.
+
+Does it pay? _Yes!_ for slowly but surely this people is being lifted up
+to a higher life, and while we sometimes grow faint and heartsick and
+discouraged, still there are rifts in the clouds and bits of sunshine
+now and then to cheer our hearts, and someday we hope to hear the Master
+say, "_Well done!_"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CROWDED SCHOOL-ROOMS.
+
+Perhaps some of our friends would be glad to hear a few words concerning
+Brewer Normal School, Greenwood, S.C. The work goes on, but we are
+hurried and crowded almost beyond endurance. We have only two
+school-rooms and one recitation room. In one school-room fitted for
+fifty-eight scholars, there are ninety-seven. They are obliged to sit,
+three in a seat made for two, on chairs, stools and even on the teacher's
+platform. Classes are sent from this room, and their recitation room is
+the teacher's kitchen and dining-room--not very pleasant for the teachers,
+but a necessity. The teacher of these classes is the Principal's
+daughter, who has been taken from her own school to aid in this
+emergency. In the other school-room, fitted for fifty-eight, there are
+eighty-six--not quite as many as in the other room, but what is wanting
+in numbers is made up in size. There are several men six feet tall, and
+one minister six and a half. In many instances, we are obliged to look
+up to our scholars.
+
+Some of our classes in this room number thirty-five or forty. The
+smaller classes from this room recite in the recitation room. It is with
+difficulty that some of our men, weighing two hundred, get into the
+seats in the school-room, but they bear the crowding and close packing
+with great patience. The small boarding-houses in the yard are as badly
+crowded as the school-rooms. In two small rooms, having two beds each,
+there are twelve young men, six in each. Here they cook for themselves,
+sleep and study out of school hours. One can hardly find standing-room
+among the chairs, trunks, etc. Other rooms are crowded nearly as much.
+And still the scholars come. What shall we do with them? Our cry is
+_more room_. O, that God would put it into the heart of some one to give
+the money needed for another building at Brewer!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PARAGRAPHS.
+
+The congregation of Lincoln Memorial Church, Washington, D.C., rejoiced
+in a renovated and newly-furnished church edifice, Sunday, Jan. 6th. The
+pastor, Rev. George W. Moore, preached an interesting sermon on "The Law
+of Christian Growth." At the conclusion of the services a statement of
+the cost of the recent improvements was read. The total cost was $1,500,
+about $200 of which was given by contractors and workmen. Hon. A.C.
+Barstow, of Providence, R.I., presented the church with one of the large
+and beautiful stoves, and gave the other at the cost of manufacture. The
+present membership of the church is one hundred, ninety of whom are
+resident members. The people have done nobly in their gifts and
+self-denials, and Pastor and Mrs. Moore have in their hands a great work
+which promises to be greater in the future.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+From a pastor in a remote part of Georgia:
+
+"I have seen more of the condition and wants of the people than ever
+before, but whiskey and tobacco are the great evils of this part of the
+country. The colored people are not very much in advance of what they
+were twenty years ago, but the sad part of it is, that the leaders are
+no better than the people. I think almost every minister about here uses
+whiskey and tobacco, as far as I can learn, and of course the members of
+the churches can see no harm in doing what their minister does. This is
+a sad picture, but it only shows the need of intelligent and consecrated
+leaders, such as the American Missionary Association is raising up for a
+people who have been led by those who are neither intelligent nor
+consecrated."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mrs. Hattie B. Sherman, the daughter of Rev. R.F. Markham, died January
+14th at her residence in Stockton, Kansas. For two years she was a
+missionary of this Association at Beach Institute, Savannah, Ga., where
+she rendered faithful and effective service in the education of the
+colored people. We tender our sympathies to her father, who was for so
+many years a useful missionary of the Association in the South, and to
+her husband, in their great bereavement.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LOO QUONG'S APPEAL.
+
+     Loo Quong is one of our Evangelistic Helpers. His special field
+     at present is Southern California. The appeal is not only
+     original, but spontaneous; written out of the anxious longings
+     of his own heart, and not upon any suggestion from me. I have
+     simply condensed it, to bring it within the limits of our space.
+     I ask for it a kind and responsive hearing.
+
+WM. C. POND.
+
+_Dear friends of the American Missionary Association_:
+
+We, the Chinese, have appreciated the generous Christian acts of the
+members of this great Association, who not only have done good to other
+souls of the United States, but have saved hundreds of poor sinners of
+our Chinese race, in which I, myself, was one of the lost and now am
+found. It was through the generosity and God-loving heart of the
+Association that the Chinese found Jesus Christ the Saviour of the
+world. And it was through the hard labors and patience of our
+Superintendent of the California Chinese Mission that the Chinese have
+become partakers of the blessings of the gospel. Though it is here that
+the good news is told, it has echoed back far away across the Pacific,
+where the four hundred millions of heathen Chinese are living. Just as
+our Lord said to his disciples, "There is nothing covered that shall not
+be revealed, neither hid that shall not be known. Therefore, whatsoever
+ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light, and that which
+ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the house
+tops." Luke 12: 2, 3.
+
+Those who have been converted in California and who have visited their
+homes in China, have seen the necessity of Christianity for their
+countrymen in China. Within these ten years there were hospitals
+established and missionary societies organized by native Christians and
+by those who have returned to China from California. Contribution books
+are often sent over to the United States to the different denominations
+of Christian Chinese to raise money and send back to support the
+hospitals and missionary societies in China. But this is not all; not
+long ago the Congregational Association of Christian Chinese in
+California organized a missionary society to Southern China, from which
+part nearly all the Christian Chinese that are now in the United States
+have come, and this is the most important part of China in which to do
+the missionary work. There are now many native preachers and
+evangelists. This society proposes to buy property in China, for a
+headquarters must be established in some of the middle cities in the
+south of China, and then to sustain some of those native preachers and
+evangelists.
+
+Now I must come back to our work in California among the Christian
+Chinese. There are about one thousand Christian Chinese in California.
+You may hear in our towns and cities Chinese preachers and Chinese
+evangelists preaching the gospel to their countrymen. The American
+Missionary Association has put three more Chinese missions in Southern
+California during the year 1888, one of them in Tuscon, one in San
+Buenaventura and one in Los Angeles. Each of these is doing good work.
+As to our mission at Los Angeles, which was only opened April 1, 1888,
+it has twenty-five Christian members, and it has nearly one hundred
+pupils who attend the evening schools and preaching service at the
+mission house from night to night. There are union meetings of all the
+denominations of Christian Chinese at Los Angeles, and at San Francisco
+and Santa Barbara. These meetings occur once a month; Chinese preachers
+and speakers are appointed to address the meetings, a week beforehand.
+We have found these meetings a great help to us. Street meetings were
+often held in the Chinese quarters in many cities and towns throughout
+the State. Thousands of Bibles and tracts in Chinese were given away to
+Chinese readers, and thousands of heathen have heard the blessed gospel
+of Jesus, and, perhaps, there are other thousands who may give their
+hearts to Christ through this operation. Surely God is hastening the
+time when His will will be done in all parts of the earth, since the
+Chinese themselves have summoned their people to Christ. And now I
+respectfully and earnestly request of all the friends of the A.M.A., and
+even people of every name, race and creed of this Christian land of the
+United States, to follow the example of our Master who has given himself
+for us all, and we do ask for your prayers both for the Chinese in your
+country and in China.
+
+LOO QUONG.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+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_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+One of the most encouraging signs of the times is found in the numerous
+letters that are now received at the Woman's Bureau of the following
+import:
+
+"We have started a 'Young Ladies' Missionary Society,' and are anxious
+to inform ourselves in regard to the different Indian Missions. Please
+forward whatever you have that relates to the past and present work."
+
+"We have received the missionary letters you sent and are very anxious
+to learn more about the colored people of the South, and also the
+Mountain Whites, of whom we have very little knowledge."
+
+"Kindly send us all information at your command regarding the Chinese
+and Mountain Whites and the work of the Association among them. The
+ladies of our Missionary Society are taking up these subjects as studies
+for their meetings."
+
+"The missionary letters are full of interest, and the ladies are always
+attentive listeners."
+
+"We take pleasure in enclosing check for forty dollars toward the salary
+of Miss ----. The ladies of our society are much interested in her work
+and have also been sewing for the boarding hall."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In response to inquiry from many who wish to sew, while also studying
+the missions and contributing to the support of teachers, we give below
+a list of standard needs in all our mission homes and boarding halls.
+
+_Furnishing._--Sheets and bed-ticks for double beds; pillow cases for
+pillows twenty to twenty-two inches wide; bed spreads, large size;
+quilts of medium weight; tablecloths from three to five yards long;
+napkins, kitchen towels; rugs or mats for the floor.
+
+_Garments._--Underwear for boys and girls of ages from twelve to twenty,
+especially night wear, of strong, unbleached muslin; work aprons for
+students in industrial schools; dresses of all sizes, of print, gingham
+or wool; long-sleeved aprons for children.
+
+_Sundries._--Shoe bags, soiled-clothes bags, spool and thimble bags,
+whisk broom cases, comb and brush cases, hairpin holders, pin cushions,
+paper and letter racks, bureau covers, stand covers, lamp mats, etc.
+
+Whatever a girl or boy may need away from home to maintain habits of
+neatness and order, and for refining influences, these students need in
+our boarding-schools. We can always assign special schools to those who
+will render this form of help.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CHRISTMAS AT FORT YATES, DAKOTA.
+
+     Our readers will be glad to welcome Miss Josephine E. Barnaby to
+     her new field of work, and to a place in the pages of the
+     _Missionary_. She is of the Omaha tribe, was a student at
+     Hampton, then spent some time in a training school for nurses in
+     New Haven, Connecticut, and is now the assistant of Miss Collins
+     at the Grand River Station.
+
+     Miss Collins writes of her: "Josephine is very much interested
+     in her work. She said to-day, 'I wish every one interested in
+     Indians could come here and stay long enough to see how the
+     foundation _ought to be laid_, and how much better off our
+     native teachers, Elias and Wakanna, are with the Bible knowledge
+     they have without the English, than the Indians are who speak
+     English and are without Christ.' She knows, for her people are
+     largely godless but English-speaking."
+
+_My Dear Friends_:
+
+We have been so busy getting ready for Christmas that we have had no
+time to write to our friends. Miss Collins told the Indians on Sunday
+last that we were going to have a tree and wanted all the Indians to
+come, the real old ones as well as the young men and women. She told
+them of how our Saviour was born on Christmas day, how the people came
+and gave him gifts, and we, in remembering his birthday, would give them
+little gifts. The next day, a very old woman came to the school-house
+and told Mary (that is the native teacher's wife) that she heard we were
+going to have a "Ghost feast" and give away everything we had, so she
+thought she would come and ask for one of the school-room lamps for fear
+she might not get it if she waited, as there would be so many people to
+get the things, and she needed a lamp very much.
+
+Doesn't that sound like an Indian? I was very sorry the poor woman did
+not get the lamp.
+
+Yesterday morning, while Miss Collins pinned the names on to the
+presents, I went up to the school-house, and by the help of two native
+teachers planted the tree in a cracker-box and put the little colored
+candles on. In the afternoon, we took the presents up and hung them on
+the tree; we put up a curtain to hide the tree, and then in the evening
+put out several Japanese lanterns on the corners of the house and over
+the door, and rang the bell; while the bell was ringing, you could see
+the Indians coming from all parts of the village. It was a pretty sight.
+The ground was covered with snow, it was just between the light and
+dark, and a few bright stars were shining through the clouds.
+
+The room is not very large, so Miss Collins proposed that they should
+stand. It was well they did, for they were packed tightly together, the
+men and boys on one side, the women and girls on the other.
+
+After all came, we sang "Joy to the World," in Dakota, with several
+other hymns; they all sang very loud. Then Wakanna told them about
+Christ's birthday, then we lighted the little candles and took the
+curtain away, and you can imagine there were some wide-open eyes and
+big, smiling faces. There were over two hundred, and each one received
+something; as one man came to day and said to Miss Collins, "Why,
+Winona, you did not forget the little babies; their names were read out
+the same as the old men." The tree was very pretty, and it would be
+useless for me to tell what each one received, but the boys were
+delighted with their tops as much as the girls were with their pretty
+dolls; the old men received feather fans and were delighted. After they
+had their gifts, we passed refreshments; we then had the fireworks; the
+red light was wonderful to them--the first they had ever seen. They went
+home seeming very happy.
+
+We want to thank our friends who were so kind as to send us those pretty
+things for the Christmas tree.
+
+I myself have never before spent such a happy Christmas, because
+previously all my kind friends have always tried to make me happy, and
+this time I worked hard to make some one else happy, and I find that is
+the best kind of happiness.
+
+My benches were almost crowded to-day in school, as I had so many
+children; married women come with the children; they are all very
+anxious and earnest to learn to read and write. I ask you to pray, my
+dear friends, that there may be some good seed sown each day, that may
+spring up and bring forth fruit for His service.
+
+Truly your Indian Friend,
+
+JOSEPHINE E. BARNABY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MISS COLLINS.
+
+     Our friends will recollect Miss Collins's visit to the East, and
+     many will cherish a very pleasant remembrance of her addresses
+     at Lake Mohonk and elsewhere. We give below extracts from a
+     letter received from her, presenting a vivid picture of her
+     experience in crossing the Missouri River with the ice breaking
+     up, the loss of her clothing, and her subsequent labors among
+     her people at home.
+
+I was so late in returning from the meetings at Oahe, though I hurried
+as fast as possible, that the river was frozen, detaining us nearly
+three weeks. The ice broke, letting the wagon with all my winter
+supplies go down. My trunks with all my clothing also went down. It
+wholly ruined all the clothing which could not be washed. My best dress
+was a frozen block of ice when I took it out--can never be worn again,
+and, in fact, all my clothes were ice. I was so thankful that no lives
+were lost that it hardly seems worth speaking of. I find myself poorer,
+if not wiser. I am worked down at present. Have kept "open house" now
+for two weeks, and my head refuses to be worked any further. Miss
+Emerson must wait for my letter. After Christmas I can write. I have so
+many patients, and so much work to take care of spoiled clothes and
+provisions, and to look out for winter supplies again, that I am not in
+a condition to write.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FOR THE CHILDREN.
+
+A few weeks ago, I stood by my window watching the children gathering
+for school. My attention was attracted to three girls coming up the
+street, one carrying a bundle done up in a handkerchief in one hand and
+books in the other, while the other two carried a trunk between them. As
+they turned toward the house, I ran down to meet them; they came with
+smiles, saying they had come to school. As I bade them welcome, my eyes
+filled with tears, and a prayer went up to God that he would bless those
+girls and make them a blessing. Susan, Angeline and Emma have proved to
+be intelligent, pleasant girls and very appreciative.
+
+I have had one hundred and seven girls in sewing, this quarter; they
+seem as interested in their work as ever. Some of the older girls are
+doing well in cutting and basting. We hope to have a class in
+dressmaking soon. The little ones are very happy to have sewing days
+come. I am often met with the question, "Is us going to sew to-day?" I
+meet these forty little ones in a large sunny room, (that is to be our
+parlor some day, I hope) for an hour and a half each week. Their eyes
+brighten at the sight of the basins of water and the work basket. They
+apply themselves as demurely as their elder sisters; they love to sing
+little sewing songs and hear stories while they ply the needle.
+
+From a teacher in Beach Institute, Savannah:
+
+One of my new pupils has a name much longer than himself. It is Ulysses
+Virginia Lee, and in addition, the surname Smith. Another new boy is
+Josie _Mike_, and I think it might well be changed to "Mite," because he
+is such a small specimen. He could not tell his age, and we thought him
+too much of a baby to come, but took him for a week on trial, and as he
+is rapidly learning the ways of the school, we shall let him stay. Last
+Friday, while trying to impress upon him that only good behavior would
+insure him a desk in my room, I wrote some of his sayings. "Why do you
+want to come here to school?" "To larn something." "What if you are
+naughty and we send you away?" "Go to other school." "Why did you leave
+that other school?" "They won't teach me nothin." In answer to the
+question what kind of a boy he intended to be, instead of saying "good"
+as I expected, he replied, "I'll be a Beach boy." So he was ready with
+an answer to every question, and I am only sorry that I cannot reproduce
+for you his little face and the funny inflections of his voice, as he
+looked me right in the eye, his own little eyes just dancing with fun.
+
+One of the little Indian girls whose name is Polly has just come in to
+ask, "Miss D., what is a wog? One white boy called me a polliwog, and I
+thought a wog must be something bad."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+RECEIPTS FOR JANUARY, 1889.
+
+
+
+MAINE. $1,161.38.
+
+Auburn. High St. Cong. Ch., (of which
+  131.70 _for Freedmen_; 40.77 _for
+  Indian M._ and 9.26 _for Chinese M._)       $247.00
+
+Bangor. Central Ch., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._       5.00
+
+Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.                      46.45
+
+Bluehill. Mrs. A.D. Hinckley on _True
+  Blue Card_                                     5.00
+
+Brunswick. Bbl. and Box of C. Mrs. E.
+  Lincoln, 2, _for Selma, Ala._                  2.00
+
+Castine. Class 9, Trin. Sab. Sch. _for
+  Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                      1.70
+
+Castine. Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington N.C._
+
+Cumberland Mills. Warren Ch., to const.
+  WINGATE C. TITCOMB and HUGH M.
+  WOODSIDE L.M.'s                               89.29
+
+Cumberland. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for
+  Selma, Ala., 2 for Freight_                    2.00
+
+Dennysville. Cong. Ch.                          12.75
+
+Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch., _for Freight
+  to Macon, Ga._                                 2.00
+
+Fryeburg. Cong. Ch.                              6.30
+
+Gorham. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._; 3.04
+  _for Freight_                                  3.04
+
+Gorham. Miss E.B. Emery, _for Freight
+  to Sherwood, Tenn._                            2.00
+
+Hampden. Mrs. R.S. Curtis                        3.00
+
+Harpswell Center. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._
+
+Limerick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    18.00
+
+Limington. Cong. Ch.                            12.00
+
+Norridgewock. Missionary Sewing Class,
+  by Woman's Aid to A.M.A.                      30.25
+
+North Bridgeton. ----, _for Wilmington, N.C._   10.00
+
+North Bridgeton. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Freight to Tougaloo, Miss._               2.00
+
+Oquinquit. B. Maxwell                           25.00
+
+Orland. "Friends," 23, "A Friend," 1            24.00
+
+Patten. Members Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,
+  _for Emerson Inst., Mobile, Ala._
+
+Portland. Second Parish Ch., bal. 161.01;
+  State St. Cong. Ch., 150.00; High St. Ch.,
+  108.30; Sab. Sch. High St. Ch., H.W.
+  Shaylor's Class, 8; Williston Ch., adl.
+  78.83, to const. DEA. JOHN H. TRUE, DEA.
+  N.W. EDSON, DEA. S.R. WILCOX, DEA.
+  SAMUEL PETERS and GEO. F. THURSTON
+  L.M.'s                                       506.14
+
+Portland. Brown Thurston's S.S. Class
+  in High St. Ch., _for Hampton N. and A.
+  Inst._                                        15.00
+
+Rockland. Cong. Ch.                             16.59
+
+Saccarappa. Second Cong. Ch., Westbrook         60.16
+
+Skowhegan. Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for
+  Selma, Ala._
+
+South Berwick. Miss Ricker's S.S. Class,
+  1.52; Miss Brooking's S.S. Class, 42c;
+  Mrs. Lewis 45c, _for Wilmington, N.C._         2.39
+
+Sumner. _For Freight to Wilmington, N.C._        2.00
+
+Union. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._
+
+Waterford. Cong. Ch., 3.85 and Sab, Sch.
+  6.47, _for Mountain Work_                     10.32
+
+Waterville. Bbl. of Merchandise, _for
+  Meridian, Miss._
+
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $515.35.
+
+Bedford. Presb. Ch.                              2.56
+
+Brookline. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                4.00
+
+Camden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      16.25
+
+Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     10.00
+
+Concord. Granite Mission Band, 10;
+  Frank Coffin's S.S. Class, 10, _for
+  Wilmington, N.C._                             20.00
+
+Concord. "Light Bearers," by Mrs. Alice
+  M. Nims, _for Santee Indian M._               10.00
+
+Exeter. Mrs. John L. Lovering, _for Freight
+  to Jellico, Tenn._                             1.00
+
+East Derry. First Ch., adl.                      2.03
+
+Farmington. Cong. Ch.                           12.22
+
+Hanover. "Friend," 20; "Friend" 10;
+  Brewster Pelton, 1; Miss Mary Pelton,
+  1; Children's Offering, 2, _for
+  Rosebud Indian M._                            34.00
+
+Hanover Center. Cong. Ch.                        1.80
+
+Harrisville. Mrs. L.B. Richardson               10.00
+
+Keene. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 120,
+  to const. DEA. HARVEY PHILLIPS, WILLIAM
+  H. JONES, HERBERT E. FAY and
+  WILLARD I. BISHOP L.M.'s; Sab. Sch. of
+  Second Cong. Co., 43.31                      163.31
+
+Manchester. Franklin St. Ch., adl.              27.70
+
+Milford. First Cong. Ch., (1 of which _for
+  Mountain Work_), to const. MRS. N.W.
+  ROBINSON, SUSIE H. KIMBALL and ROYAL
+  MANSFIELD L.M.'s                             100.00
+
+Milton. "A Lady."                                1.00
+
+Nashua. First Cong. Ch.                         19.45
+
+Pembroke. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 25.85;
+  Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, 5                      30.85
+
+Penacook. Cong. Ch.                             21.18
+
+South Newmarket. Cong. Ch. and Soc.              8.00
+
+South Newmarket. Miss H.L. Fitts, 2
+  Bbls. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._
+
+Stoddard. Pkg. material for Sewing
+  Class, etc., _for Meridian, Miss._
+
+West Lebanon. "Children's Band," by
+  Mrs. C.E. Havens, _for Storrs Sch.,
+  Atlanta, Ga._                                 20.00
+
+
+
+VERMONT, $614.96.
+
+Barnet. Cong. Ch., 50.66 and Sab. Sch.,
+  18.12; Alexander Holmes, 20                   88.78
+
+Barton. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+Barton Landing. Children's Miss'y Soc.,
+  _for Santee Indian M._, adl                    5.00
+
+Bethel. Mrs. Laura F. Sparhawk                   5.00
+
+Brattleboro. "A Friend."                         5.00
+
+Brownington. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._;
+  5 _for Freight_                                5.00
+
+Cambridge. Mrs. Charlotte Safford, Bbl.
+  of C., etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Charlotte. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._; 1
+  _for Freight_                                  1.00
+
+Charlotte. Minerva E. Wing, _for Marion, Ala._   1.00
+
+Chester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                 26.00
+
+Coventry. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+Derby. Ladies of Cong. Soc., _for McIntosh, Ga._ 3.00
+
+East Burke. Pkg. Christmas Cards, _for
+  McIntosh, Ga._
+
+East Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.          58.26
+
+Enosburg. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+Fairlee. Mrs. P.C. Blodgett                      2.00
+
+Georgia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     14.40
+
+Granby. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., Infant
+  Class, _for Rosebud Indian M._                 1.02
+
+Jonesville. Union Soc.                           9.60
+
+Manchester. "A Friend."                          5.50
+
+Marlboro. Rev. O.F. Thayer                       1.00
+
+McIndoes Falls. Cong. Ch.                       10.00
+
+Montpelier. Bethany Sab. Sch., _for McIntosh,
+  Ga._                                          13.26
+
+Newport. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._; 2
+  _for Freight_                                  2.00
+
+North Craftsbury. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh,
+  Ga._; 3 _for Freight_                          3.00
+
+North Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.               5.00
+
+Pittsford. Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey               10.00
+
+Richmond. Cong. Ch.                             20.00
+
+Rutland. Young Ladies' Miss'y League,
+  _for Indian Sch'p_                            70.00
+
+Rutland. King's Daughters, Pkg., _for McIntosh,
+  Ga._
+
+Saint Albans. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Student
+  Aid, Fisk U._                                 50.00
+
+Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch.                30.00
+
+Saint Johnsbury. Sab. Sch. of South
+  Cong Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._                 30.00
+
+Saint Johnsbury. "Friend," _for Marion, Ala._    5.00
+
+South Royalton. Mrs. Susan H. Jones             25.00
+
+Waterbury. Cong. Ch.                             9.20
+
+West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.                     24.81
+
+West Brattleboro. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Freight to McIntosh, Ga._                 5.00
+
+Westminster West. Bbl. of C.,
+  _for McIntosh, Ga._
+
+West Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                8.00
+
+Windsor. "A Friend," 25; Cong. Ch. and
+  Soc., 6.75; Cong. Ch., Mrs. John E.
+  Freeman, 3, to const. ALONZO KENT L.M.        34.75
+
+Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   16.38
+
+----. "Friends," _for Freight to
+  McIntosh, Ga._                                 1.00
+
+Vermont Woman's Home Missionary
+  Union, by Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks,
+  Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Pittsford. Sab. Sch. of Cong.
+      Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._       20.00      20.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                              $623.96
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Jericho. Estate of Hosea Spaulding,
+  C.M. Spaulding, 10; A.K. Spaulding, 5;
+  K.J. Spaulding, 3; Nellie M. Percival, 3      21.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                              $644.96
+
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $11,013.71.
+
+Abington. Mrs. H.F. Peirce, _for Cal.
+  Chinese M._                                    2.00
+
+Adams. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    22.25
+
+Amherst. Mrs. Wright, 5; Mrs. Wm.
+  Bangs, 2; Mrs. Lucy Bentley, 2; Miss
+  Jennie Kendricks, S.S. Class, 1;
+  Cong. Ch., Bbl. and Box of C.,
+  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    10.00
+
+Andover. West. Cong. Ch., adl, 46.78;
+  South Cong. Ch., adl, 56.20                  102.98
+
+Andover. Juvenile Mission Circle of West
+  Cong. C., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._          25.00
+
+Ashby. Cong. Ch.    13.25
+
+Ashfield. "Ishi," _for Indian M._                2.00
+
+Ashland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                 11.37
+
+Bedford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     25.00
+
+Beverly. Washington St. Cong. Ch.               17.57
+
+Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch.           472.83
+
+        Union Ch.                   190.55
+
+        Park St. Homeland Circle,
+         by Isabella H. Hobart,
+         Treas., 100, _for
+         Tougaloo U._; 54,
+         _for Student Aid,
+         Straight U._;
+         30, _for Mountain Work_,
+         and 6, _for Indian M._     190.00
+
+        S.D. Smith, Organ            75.00
+
+        Y.P.S.C.E., of Park St.
+        Ch., _for Indian Sch'p,
+        Oahe, Dak._                  50.00
+
+        W.H.M. Ass'n,
+        _for Santee Indian M._       10.83
+
+        Rev. C.J. Ryder, _for
+          Sch'p Endowment Fund_      10.00
+
+        "Cash."                       1.88
+
+Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch.        104.31
+
+        Mrs. Eleanor J.W.
+          Baker, _for Student Aid,
+          Fisk U._                   60.00
+
+        Thos. Knapp's S.S.
+          Class, 8; B. Wilkins's
+          S.S. Class, 8,
+          _for Wilmington, N.C._     16.00
+
+        Mrs. Mary A. Tuttle,
+          _for Indian M._            10.00
+
+  Jamaica Plain. Nellie F. Riley,
+    _for Sherwood, Tenn._             2.00
+
+  Roxbury. Immanuel Cong. Ch.       102.43
+
+     Sab. Sch. of Immanuel Cong, Ch.,
+     _for Indian M._                 50.00
+
+     South Boston. "A Member of
+       Phillips Ch."                 50.00
+
+     West Roxbury. South Evan.
+       Cong. Ch.                     22.14
+
+                                   -------   1,417.97
+
+Brockton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C.,
+  _for Marion, Ala._
+
+Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch.                   189.27
+
+Brimfield. First Cong. Ch.                       7.40
+
+Cambridge. Margaret Shepard Soc.,
+  _for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._                9.00
+
+Cambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch., 131.01;
+  Pilgrim Ch., 37.45                           168.46
+
+Campello. Mrs. Allen Leach                       0.50
+
+Chelsea. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    25.00
+
+Chelsea. Miss E. Davenport,
+  _for Mountain Work_                            5.00
+
+Clarendon Hills. Cong. Ch.                       9.00
+
+Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.             10.91
+
+Concord. Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt                     5.00
+
+Curtisville. Geo. E. Dresser, 6;
+  Mrs. Frances M. Clarke, 5                     11.00
+
+Dalton. Mrs. James B. Crane                    100.00
+
+Dedham. Allen Evan Sab. Sch. of First Ch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Straight U._                13.76
+
+Easthampton. "S.R.," _for Rosebud Indian M._     1.00
+
+East Marshfield. Mrs. C.T. Prior's S.S. Class    5.00
+
+Easton. Cong. Ch., 16.60; Sab. Sch. of
+  Evan. Cong. Ch. (30. of which special,
+  from one class, _for Lady Student_)
+  71.72, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             88.32
+
+Enfield. Mrs. F.S. Wood's S.S. class,
+  _for Indian Sch'p_                            15.00
+
+Fall River. Central Cong. Ch.                  169.47
+
+Fall River. First Cong. Ch. (of which 24.60
+  _for Indian M._)                              86.82
+
+Fall River. Mary L. Holmes,
+  _for Indian M._                               10.00
+
+Fitchburg. William Leathe,
+  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    10.00
+
+Framingham. Plymouth Ch. and Soc.               74.28
+
+Gardner. Members of First Cong. Sab.
+  Sch. Christmas Offering                        8.57
+
+Gilbertville. Cong. Ch., to const.
+  REV. ARTHUR TITCOMB L.M.                      40.28
+
+Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch.                     64.00
+
+Greenwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    7.27
+
+Groveland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   11.00
+
+Hardwick. Calvinistic Ch.                        4.45
+
+Haverhill. Center Cong. Ch. and Soc., 106;
+  Proceeds of Harvest Festival West Cong.
+  Sab. Sch., 30; Class No 2, 11.30; Class
+  No. 4, 8.09; to const. F.A. RUSSELL L.M.;
+  West Cong. Ch., 10                           165.39
+
+Haverhill. Mrs. Geo. Gleason, Bbl. of C.,
+  _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 13.72
+
+Holbrook. Sab. Sch. of Winthrop Ch., _for
+  Student Aid, Tillotson C. and N. Inst._,
+  in part                                       41.52
+
+Holliston. "A Friend."                         100.00
+
+Holyoke. F.B. Towne, 9.50, _for Macon, Ga._,
+  (incorrectly ack. in January number
+  from F.B. Jones)
+
+Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. in part 66.84;
+  Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Primary Class. 5;
+  "A Friend," 50c                               72.34
+
+Hopkinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Mobile, Ala._                             4.00
+
+Huntington. First Cong. Ch.                      5.00
+
+Hyde Park. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.               23.83
+
+Ipswich. South Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._,
+  10; Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch.,75;
+  _for Student Aid, Ramona Sch., Santa Fe._     85.00
+
+Ipswich. First Ch. and Soc., _for Ramona Sch.,
+  Santa Fe, N.M._                                0.05
+
+Islington. "An old time friend,
+  81 years old."                                 5.00
+
+Lakeville. "A Friend."                           4.50
+
+Lawrence. Lawrence St Cong. Ch.                193.93
+
+Leicester. First Cong. Ch.                     122.31
+
+Lexington. Hancock Ch.                          10.16
+
+Linden. "A Friend" for L.M., and
+  _for Mountain Work_                           30.00
+
+Longmeadow. Thomas P. Carleton,
+  _for Testaments, Fort Yates, Indian Boys_      2.00
+
+Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch.                     125.80
+
+Ludlow. Mission Circle, by M.E. Jones,
+  Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._
+
+Ludlow. Mission Circle, Bbl. of C., etc.,
+  _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Marshfield. _For Freight to Wilmington, N.C._    1.45
+
+Melrose. "A Lady Friend."                        5.00
+
+Middlefield. Cong. Ch.                          18.00
+
+Milton. Mrs. T.E. Ruggles' Mite Box              3.16
+
+Monson. Sarah E. Bradford                        4.00
+
+Natick. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.            60.00
+
+Newburyport. Mrs. Ann P. Bassett, 10;
+  Foster W. Smith, 5                            15.00
+
+Newton. Eliot Ch.                              231.09
+
+Newton Center. J.M.E. Drake, _for Rosebud
+  Indian M._ and to const. J.M.E.
+  DRAKE, DURANT DRAKE and STELLA
+  DRAKE L.M.'s                                 100.00
+
+Newton Center. First Cong. Ch.                  92.25
+
+Newton Center. Maria Furber Miss'y Soc.
+  First Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._         2.00
+
+Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      5.00
+
+North Adams. Cong. Ch.                         190.41
+
+North Amherst. Mrs. Johnson's S.S.
+  Class, 20; Mrs. C.H. Bentley's S.S.
+  Class, 10; Mrs. G.E. Fischer, 15,
+  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                    45.00
+
+North Amherst. Bbl. of C., _for Fisk U._
+
+Northampton. "C."                              170.00
+
+North Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong.
+  Ch., _for Student Aid, Santee
+  Indian Sch._                                  25.00
+
+Northfield. Trin. Cong. Ch.                     15.00
+
+North Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch.                     18.27
+
+Norwood. First Cong. Ch.                       108.50
+
+Otis. Rev. S.W. Powell                           5.00
+
+Otis. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch, _for Sabbath
+  School Work, Beach Inst, Savannah, Ga._        3.47
+
+Oxford. Sab. Sen. of First Cong. Ch.            23.33
+
+Peabody. "Friend," _for Marion, Ala._            5.00
+
+Peabody. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch. 3
+  Boxes of C., etc. _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Pittsfield. James H. Dunham                     50.00
+
+Pittsfield. "Friends," Bbl. and Box of C.,
+  _for Marion, Ala._
+
+Pittsfield. Mrs. H.M. Hurd, Bbl. C., etc.,
+  _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Princeton. Cong. Ch., Box of C.,
+  _for Wilmington, N.C._
+
+Quincy. Rev. E. Norton, _for tuition of a
+  little boy, Gregory Inst.,
+  Wilmington, N.C._                              8.00
+
+Reading. Cong. Ch.                              18.00
+
+Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.                              4.50
+
+Rockland. Cong. Ch.                             30.00
+
+Rockland. Miss C. Chase, _for freight to
+  Nashville, Tenn._                              1.35
+
+Salem. South Cong. Ch., 67.41; Crombie
+  St. Ch. and Soc, 62.19                       129.60
+
+Somerville. E. Stone,_for Student Aid,
+  Fisk U._                                      50.00
+
+Somerville. Day St. Cong. Ch., 16.13; W.E.
+  Valentine of Day St. Ch., 1.15                17.28
+
+Southbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 77.07
+
+Southbridge. Miss N. Vinton, _for Freight
+  to Wilmington, N.C._                           1.00
+
+South Weymouth. Ladies of Second Cong.
+  Ch., Bbl. and Box of C., _for
+  Wilmington, N.C._
+
+Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.              149.39
+
+Spencer. W.H.M.S., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._        10.00
+
+Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. in part           55.63
+
+Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch.                        29.03
+
+Waltham. "Friend," _for Marion, Ala._            5.00
+
+Ware. Mrs. Wm. Hyde and Miss S.R.
+  Sage, _for Native Indian Missionary_         225.00
+
+Ware. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., H.B. Anderson's
+  Class, 85; East Cong. Sab. Sch., 25,
+  _for Indian M._                               60.00
+
+Ware. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of First Cong.
+  Ch., 15; Wm. L. Brakenridge, 5                20.00
+
+Warren. L.H.M.S. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._               70.00
+
+Warren. Cong. Ch.                               30.00
+
+Webster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.               17.00
+
+Wellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 170.34;
+  Miss Mary A. Stevens, 10                     180.34
+
+West Attleboro. First Cong. Ch.                  7.87
+
+Westboro. Evan. Cong. Ch.                      108.09
+
+Westboro. Young Ladies' Benev. Soc., by
+  Miss E.L. Howard, _for Mountain Work_         20.00
+
+West Brookfield. Cong. Ch.                      47.00
+
+West Newbury. J.C. Carr                          4.00
+
+Whitinsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for School Work, Meridian, Miss._            75.00
+
+Williamsburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
+  const. REV. HENRY SPEKE SNYDER L.M.           50.70
+
+Wilmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
+  Student Aid, Straight U._                     13.00
+
+Winchester. First Cong. Ch. (5.92 of which
+  _for Indian M._)                             119.61
+
+Woburn. First Cong. Ch. 155.66; North
+  Cong. Ch., 19.98                             175.64
+
+Woburn. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Mountain Work_                           15.00
+
+Woburn. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch.,
+  6.20; Mrs. Susan T. Greenough, 5              11.20
+
+Worcester. Piedmont Ch., 96.64; Salem
+  St. Ch., 19.28; "Friend," 25                 140.92
+
+Worcester. Mrs. Geo. M. Price, _for Sch'p,
+  Santee Indian Sch._                           35.00
+
+Worcester. "Friend," 9; Central Ch.,
+  Bbl. of C. and Christmas gifts,
+  _for Marion, Ala._, 2.40 _for Freight_        11.40
+
+Hampden Benevolent Association, by
+  Charles Marsh, Treas.:
+
+    Blandford                         5.00
+
+    Chicopee, First                   4.56
+
+    East Longmeadow                  19.00
+
+    Holyoke, Second                  53.19
+
+    Palmer, Second                   27.00
+
+    South Hadley Falls               16.00
+
+    Springfield, First               90.69
+
+    Springfield, South               92.02
+
+    Westfield. Sab. Sch. of
+      First Ch., _for Sch'p,
+      Hampton Inst._                 70.00
+
+    Westfield, _for Jewett Mem.
+      Hall, Grand View, Tenn._       50.00
+
+                                   -------     427.46
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                            $7,503.71
+
+
+ESTATES.
+
+Cambridge. Estate of C. Thayer Reed,
+  by W. Minot, Jr., Trustee                  1,000.00
+
+Greenfield. Estate of Martha O. Farrand,
+  by Mrs. Ellen M. Russell                     200.00
+
+Phillipston. Estate of Trowbridge Ward,
+  by James Watts, Ex.                        1,300.00
+
+Pittsfield. Estate of Asaph D. Foot, by
+  Joseph Foot, Ex.                           1,000.00
+
+                                           ----------
+                                           $11,003.71
+
+
+CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
+
+Falmouth. Me. Second Cong. Ch., Bbl.
+  _for Macon, Ga._
+
+Gorham, Me. Miss E.B. Emery, Bbl.
+  _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+North Bridgeton, Me. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,
+  Bbl., _for Tougaloo U._
+
+Exeter, N.H. Mrs. John L. Levering, Bbl.
+  and Case, _for Jellico, Tenn._
+
+Hollis, N.H. Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. _for Storrs
+  Sch., Atlanta, Ga._
+
+Mason, N.H. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl.
+  _for Thomasville, Ga._
+
+Boston, Mass. Miss H.H. Stanwood, Fine
+  Steel Engraving of the Lord's Prayer,
+  _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
+
+Brimfield, Mass. Ladies' Union of Second
+  Ch., Bbl., _for McLeansville, N.C._
+
+Cambridgeport, Mass. Miss L, Palmer,
+  Box basted patchwork, _for Tougaloo U._
+
+Rockland, Mass. Ladles' Sew. Circle of
+  Cong. Ch., Bbl. Val. 61.60, _for Fisk U._
+
+Springfield, Mass. A Gift of Webster's
+  Unabridged Dictionary through Mrs. N.B.
+  Wilder, of Somerville, _for Pleasant
+  Hill, Tenn._
+
+Ware, Mass. East Ch., Bbl., _for Birmingham, Ala._
+
+Winchester. Mass. E.D. Chapin, Bbl.
+  _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $967.08.
+
+Central Falls. "Mission Workers," Cong.
+  Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._                      68.50
+
+Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                        62.25
+
+Providence. Mrs. Mary White, _for Jewett
+  Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._                  5.00
+
+Providence. Union Cong. Ch. (39.75 of
+  which _for Indian M._)                       796.16
+
+Newport. United Cong. Ch. adl., 25.17;
+  "A Friend," 10                                35.17
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $4,602.55.
+
+Bantam. Cornelia Bradley                        10.00
+
+Bethel. Cong. Ch., 47.03; "A Friend," 5         52.03
+
+Bozrah. Cong. Ch.                               10.00
+
+Bristol. Mission Circle, Bbl. of C. and
+  Box of Christmas Gifts,
+  _for Charleston, S.C._
+
+Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.                          13.55
+
+Brooklyn. "In Memoriam" of Dr. Wm.
+  Woodbridge, by Mrs. Wm. Woodbridge           200.00
+
+Central Village. Cong. Ch.                       6.00
+
+Collinsville. Mission Circle, by Mrs. Warren,
+  Bbl. of C., 1.10 _for Freight,
+  for Charleston, S.C._                          1.10
+
+Columbia. Cong. Ch.                             26.92
+
+Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
+  Christmas offerings, _for Conn.
+  Ind'l Sch., Ga._                              19.50
+
+Cromwell. Cong. Ch.                            140.23
+
+Danielsonville. Ladies of Westfield Cong.
+  Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Marian, Ala._,
+  10 _for Freight_                              10.00
+
+Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. and Soc.     9.06
+
+Darien. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn.
+  Ind'l Sch., Ga._                              10.00
+
+Durham. Cong. Ch.                               17.17
+
+East Hampton. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._        38.75
+
+East Hartford. First Ch.                        57.51
+
+East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.              10.00
+
+Enfield. First Cong. Ch.                        75.00
+
+Enfield. Primary Dept. Cong. Sab. Sch.,
+  _for Freight to Macon, Ga._                    0.75
+
+Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch.                    54.03
+
+Farmington. First Cong. Ch.                    104.73
+
+Greeneville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Straight U._                 7.62
+
+Hadlyme. R.E. Hungerford, 100; Cong.
+  Ch., 2.36; J.W. Hungerford, 100              202.36
+
+Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch.                276.30
+
+Hartford. First Cong. Ch., 50; C.A.
+  Jewell, 25; Miss C.A. Jewell, 25;
+  Henry Roberts, 25; John C. Parsons, 10;
+  Rev. Wm. Thompson, D.D., 10;
+  Miss Fannie H. Wells, 5, _for Tougaloo U._   150.00
+
+Hartford. Sab. Sch. of Park Ch., 15; Sab.
+  Sch. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., 10,
+  _for Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._     25.00
+
+Hartford. Girls Circle, Sab. Sch. of Fourth
+  Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+  Grand View Normal Sch._                       25.00
+
+Harwinton. "A Friend," to const. DEA.
+  A.W. BUELL L.M.                               30.00
+
+Higganum. Cong. Ch.                             15.00
+
+Jewett City. Second Cong. Ch.                   19.83
+
+Kensington. Cong, Ch., to const. THERON
+  UPSON L.M.                                    42.55
+
+Lakeville. Sab. Sch. Class, by Mrs. Geo.
+  Burall, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._           10.00
+
+Lakeville. Mrs. S.P. Robbins                     5.00
+
+Ledyard. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     21.00
+
+Litchfield. Miss Phoebe F. Benton,
+  _for Indian M._                                1.00
+
+Lyme. First Cong. Ch.                           42.45
+
+Madison. First Cong. Ch. (5 of which from
+  Mrs. A.D. Lee, _for Mountain Work_)            9.00
+
+Manchester Center. Ladies' Benev. Soc.
+  of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._     22.00
+
+Meriden. A.W. Gardner, _for Jewett Mem.
+  Hall, Grand View, Tenn._                       1.00
+
+Middlefield. John O. Couch, 85; Rev. A.
+  Winter, 10, _for Jewett Mem. Hall,
+  Grand View, Tenn._                            35.00
+
+Middleton. Miss Williams, 50; John N.
+  Camp, 25, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._      75.00
+
+Milford. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch.,
+  _for Bird's Nest, Santee Agency_              24.54
+
+Mystic Bridge. Cong. Ch.                        16.00
+
+New Britain. Sab. Sch. of First Ch., _for
+   Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._         25.00
+
+New Haven. College St. Cong. Ch.                56.85
+
+New Haven. Dwight Place Cong. Ch., Bbl.
+  of C., _for Fisk U._
+
+New London. Second Cong. Ch.                   664.80
+
+New London. Mrs. J.N. Harris, _for
+  Indian M._                                    20.00
+
+New Preston. Mrs. Betsey Averill
+  (5 of which _for Mountain Work_)              10.00
+
+Newtown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     15.00
+
+Northfield. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._    8.00
+
+Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    159.85
+
+Norfolk. "Friend," _for Indian Sch'p._          17.50
+
+North Greenwich. Cong. Ch.                      69.82
+
+Norwich. Second Cong. Ch., ad'l. 208.70,
+  to const. MISS HENRIETTA LANZ, MRS.
+  LOUISE M. WOODMANSEE, MRS. MARGARET
+  J. PARKS, JOHN P. HUNTINGTON,
+  WILLIAM JARDINE, MISS MABEL A. UNDERWOOD,
+  MRS. MARTHA A. ROATH, EVERARD
+  P. BRIGDEN, and WM. SMITH WILSON L.M.'s;
+  First Cong. Ch., 7.98                        216.68
+
+Norwich. R.D. Jones, _for Jewett Mem. Hall_,
+  _Grand View, Tenn._                            1.00
+
+Norwich Town. Miss Grace McClellan              24.00
+
+Old Lyme. Cong. Ch.                             15.70
+
+Orange. Cong. Ch.                                8.74
+
+Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                              5.00
+
+Pomfret. First Cong. Ch.                        21.75
+
+Pomfret Center. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 2
+  Bbl's of C., etc., _for Thomasville, Ga._
+
+Putnam. "A Friend."                             17.50
+
+Roxbury. Cong. Ch., 14.69; Sab. Sch., 5;
+  Mrs. D.H. Beardsley, 4.50                     24.19
+
+Salisbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._                    6.62
+
+Scotland. Cong. Ch.                             24.25
+
+Simsbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Fisk U._                                 15.00
+
+Somers. Cong. Ch.                                3.00
+
+South Britain. Cong. Ch.                        14.09
+
+Southington. Cong. Ch.                          29.67
+
+South Windsor. First Cong. Ch.                   8.65
+
+Stafford Springs. Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Mountain Work_                            8.35
+
+Terryville. Cong. Ch.                           57.33
+
+Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                            10.96
+
+Thomaston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._     10.00
+
+Tolland. Mrs. Lucy L. Clough                     8.00
+
+Wallingford. Cong. Ch.                          89.37
+
+Waterbury. Mrs. W.H. Camp, _for Indian M._      50.00
+
+Wapping. Cong. Ch.                              18.07
+
+West Avon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                5.00
+
+Westchester. Cong. Ch.                          17.74
+
+West Hartford. Anson Chappell                   10.00
+
+West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ad'l, to
+  const. W.L.G. PRITCHARD, NATHANIEL
+  V. PERRY, MISS WINNIE KENDRICK,
+  MISS ALICE J. WALKER L.M.'s                   66.00
+
+Westminster. Westminster Cong. Ch.,
+  (5.60 of which from Mrs. A.C. Greene
+  and her S.S. Class _for Rosebud M._)
+  _for Indian M._                               11.90
+
+Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Ch., 8.44;
+  Saugatuck Cong. Sab. Sch., 5.96               14.40
+
+Wilton. Cong. Ch., 60;
+  Mrs. S.L. Adams, 5                            65.00
+
+Windsor. First Cong. Ch., _for Grand
+  View Normal Inst._                            30.00
+
+Windsor. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Indian Sch'p_                            18.03
+
+Winsted. Mrs. M.A. Mitchell,
+  _for Talladega C._                            25.00
+
+Winthrop. Mrs. M.A. Jones, 1.50;
+  Miss C. Rice, 1                                2.50
+
+Woodbridge. Cong. Ch.                           12.50
+
+Woodstock. Miss Frances H. Butler, Pkg.
+  of C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Woman's Cong. H.M. Union of Conn.,
+  by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec:
+
+    Bridgeport. "A Friend"
+      of L.H.M.S., First Ch.,
+      _for Oahe Indian M._            5.00
+
+    Enfield. Ladies' H.M. Soc.,
+      Mrs. Horace Patton,
+      _for Santee Indian M._          5.00
+
+    Hartford. "Mite Box," L.H.M.
+      Soc. Of First Ch., _for
+      Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._          1.00
+
+    South Coventry. Sab. Sch.
+      of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Ind'l
+      Sch., Ga._                      5.69
+
+                                    ------      16.69
+
+                                            ---------
+                                            $3,952.55
+
+
+ESTATES.
+
+Meriden. Estate of Mrs. Betsey H.
+  Tuttle to const. JOHN TUTTLE HUBBARD L.M.,
+  by Chas. L. Taylor, Adm'r                     30.00
+
+New Britain. Estate of Augustus Stanley,
+  by J.A. Pickett, Ex.                         500.00
+
+Pomfret. Estate of Caroline D. Adams,
+  by C.M. Adams                                 20.00
+
+Rocky Hill. Estate of Rev. A.B. Smith (in part)
+  by Rev. Elijah Harmon, Ex.                   100.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                            $4,602.55
+
+
+NEW YORK, $3,224.93.
+
+Albany. Mrs. Electa M. Eames, 10,
+  Miss E. Maria Eames, 10                       20.00
+
+Albany. Ladies' H.M.S., by Miss Celia
+  Jones, Sec., Bbl. of C.,
+ _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Binghamton. "A Friend,"                          5.00
+
+Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Ballard Sch.
+  Building, Macon, Ga._                      1,035.00
+
+Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Student Aid_    25.00
+
+Brooklyn. Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch., (100
+  of which from George E. Nichols,
+  _for Talladega C._)                        1,302.69
+
+Brooklyn. Atlantic Ave. Mission Sab.
+  Sch. Association, by A.C. Pohl, Treas.,
+  (30 of which _for Mountain Work_)             30.00
+
+Brooklyn. Lee Ave. Cong. Ch., 12.78;
+  Mrs. J.M. Hyde, 1                             13.78
+
+Brooklyn. Mrs. Rev. Geo. Hollis,
+  _for Mountain Work_                            5.00
+
+Buffalo. First Cong. Ch., _for Freedmen
+  and Indian M._, ad'l, to const. W.H. WASSON,
+  JOHN B. SQUIRE, FRANKLIN M. ERLENBACH,
+  MISS MAUDE DAVIS AND MISS
+  AGNES A. JUSTIN L.M.'s                       100.00
+
+Copenhagen. Cong. Ch.                           12.00
+
+Fulton. Juv. Miss'y Band, Bbl of C.,
+  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Goshen. Fannie E. Crane, _for Atlanta U._        1.00
+
+Hudson. Mrs. D.A. Jones                         15.00
+
+Holley. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C.,
+  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Jamestown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.          7.03
+
+LeRoy. Mrs. L.A. Parsons                         2.00
+
+Lima. Mrs. M.D. Warner                           2.00
+
+Livonia. Mrs. William Calvert                   15.00
+
+Lowville. Mrs. L.C. Hough, to const.
+  MRS. ANNA VERAH MERRILL L.M.                  30.00
+
+Marcellus. Mrs. L. Hemenway                      5.00
+
+Mount Vernon. "A Friend," _for Indian M._      100.00
+
+New York. M.D. Herrick, by J. Dougall & Co.      1.00
+
+New York. American Bible Soc., Grant
+  of Scriptures, Val.                        1,079.85
+
+North Walton. Union M. Soc. of Cong. Ch.        21.85
+
+Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 32.46;
+  H.T. Dunham, 10                               42.46
+
+Oriskany. Mrs. R.W. Porter                       1.00
+
+Oswego. Y.P.S.C.E., Rag Carpet,
+  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Pitcher. Miss Nancy Wire                         1.00
+
+Rome. Welch Cong. Ch.                           10.00
+
+Sherburne. Miss E.A. Rexford,
+  _for Mountain Work_                            5.00
+
+Syracuse. Plymouth Ch., ad'l, 35.19;
+  Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch., 15.71              50.90
+
+Troy. Mrs. E.C. Stewart                          0.50
+
+Vernon Center. Rev. G.C. Judson                  1.00
+
+Volney. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.             3.80
+
+Walton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Mountain Work_                           66.68
+
+Warsaw. Cong. Ch.                               14.15
+
+Webster Station. Mamie Safford and
+  Others, Box of C., _for Athens, Ala._
+
+West Brook. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.,
+  _for Indian M._                                5.00
+
+West Winfield. Cong. Ch.                         7.50
+
+Whitesboro. Mrs. L. Halsey                      10.00
+
+----. "A Friend," Communion Set,
+  8 pieces, _for Church in the South_
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y.,
+  by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas.,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Albany. Ladies' Aux.,
+    First Ch                         20.00
+
+    Camden. Ladies' Aux.             20.00
+
+    Northville. W.H.M.U.              8.00
+
+                                   -------      48.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                            $3,024.93
+
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Waverly. Estate of Phebe Hepburne, by
+  Howard Elmer, Ex.                            200.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                            $3,234.93
+
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $70.45.
+
+Arlington. "Mission Band," _for Student
+  Aid, Savannah, Ga._                            2.10
+
+Bound Brook. Young Ladies' Mission
+  Band of Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._            10.00
+
+Montclair. Bbl. of Table and Bed Linens,
+  _for Meridian, Miss._
+
+Orange. F.W. and Bleecker Van Wagenen,
+  25.50; F.W. Van Wagenen, 8.50,
+  _for Student Aid, Marion, Ala._               34.00
+
+Orange. "Friends," Pkg. Christmas
+  Gifts, _for Marion, Ala._
+
+Orange. Miss M. Shoemaker                        4.50
+
+Upper Montclair. Sab. Sch. of Christian
+  Union Cong. Ch.                               15.85
+
+Woodbridge. First Cong. Ch.                      4.50
+
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $35.67.
+
+East Springfield. Mrs. C.J. Cowles               4.50
+
+Farmers Valley. E.C. Olds.                       0.50
+
+Franklin. M.E.S.S., Box of C., etc.,
+  _for Wilmington, N.C._
+
+Pittsburg. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                   10.57
+
+Ridgway. Y.P. Bible Class by Minnie J.
+  Kline, _for Oaks, N.C._                        5.00
+
+Shenandoah. Welsh Cong. Ch.                     10.00
+
+West Alexander. John McCoy and wife              5.00
+
+
+
+OHIO, $548.21.
+
+Akron. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Jewett
+  Memorial Hall, Grand View, Tenn._             25.00
+
+Ashland. Mrs. E. Thomson                         2.28
+
+Belpre. Cong. Ch.                                7.30
+
+Berea. J.S. Smedley                              5.00
+
+Cleveland. Dr. C.N. Cooper                      10.00
+
+Cleveland. Young People, by Miss E.A.
+  Johnson, _for Williamsburg, Ky._               1.50
+
+Cleveland. Young People, by Miss E.A.
+  Johnson, _for Mountain Work_                   1.50
+
+Conneaut. H.K. Pond                              5.00
+
+Defiance. Mrs. Dr. J.L. Scott,
+  _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                     5.00
+
+Dover. Box of Christmas Gifts,
+  _for Athens, Ala._
+
+Geneva. "A Friend."                              1.50
+
+Hudson. Cong. Ch., (1.50 of which
+  _for Indian M._)                              12.00
+
+Madison. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch.         20.00
+
+Marietta. "New Year Thank Offering,"
+  _for Indian M._                                1.00
+
+Medina. Congregational Y.P.S.C.E.               12.45
+
+Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch.                         31.00
+
+North Ridgeville. L.M.S., Bbl. of Preserved Fruit,
+  _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+Norwalk. Thomas Hagaman, 5;
+  Mrs. C. Lawrence, 50c                          5.50
+
+Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., 61.15; Second
+  Cong. Ch., 30.53; Harris Lewis, 5;
+  Lyndon Freemen, 1.50                          98.18
+
+Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., _for Jewett Mem.
+  Hall, Grand View, Tenn._                       6.25
+
+Painesville. Cong. Ch.                          45.00
+
+Tallmadge. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 15.73;
+  "Friend of Missions," 9.50                    25.23
+
+Toledo. Central Cong. Ch.                        7.52
+
+Unionville. Mrs. E.F. Burnell, 5;
+  Mrs. E. Stratton, 2                            7.00
+
+Windham. Wm. A. Perkins                          5.00
+
+Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union,
+  by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas.,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Columbus. Eastwood Ch.,
+      Mrs. P.L. Alcott, _for Indian
+      M._, and to const. MRS.
+      BEATRICE F. BUCKLAND L.M.      30.00
+
+    Columbus. Eastwood Ch.,
+      "Mrs. P.A.C.," _for Indian
+      M._, and to const. KATHARINE
+      A. CRAFTS L.M.                 30.00
+
+    Hudson L.H.M.S.                   7.00
+
+    Oberlin. Sab. Sch. of Second
+      Cong. Ch.                      10.00
+
+    Olmsted. M.S., _for Fort
+      Yates Indian M._                5.00
+
+                                    ------      82.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                              $427.21
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Oberlin. Estate of Alonzo Bailey               221.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                              $648.21
+
+
+
+INDIANA, $2.00.
+
+Sparta. John Hawkswell    2.00
+
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $595.87.
+
+Aurora. N.L. Janes                              20.00
+
+Batavia. Cong. Ch.                              41.00
+
+Bone Gap. O.S. Rice                             20.00
+
+Canton. First Cong. Ch.                         30.60
+
+Chicago. "Hapland," 100; Sab. Sch. of
+  New England Cong. Ch., 50.61; Leavitt
+  St. Cong. Ch., 8.78                          159.39
+
+Concord. Joy Prairie Sab. Sch.,
+  _for Mountain Work_                           13.10
+
+Danville. Mrs. A.M. Swan, Box of C.,
+  etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Englewood. First Cong. Ch.                      29.32
+
+Elmwood. Mrs. George Avery                      15.00
+
+Galesburg. First Cong. Ch., ad'l                 7.88
+
+Hampton. Henry Clark                             5.00
+
+Hyde Park. Harvey Olin, 1; A.W. Cole,
+  1; Class of S.S. Boys, Pres. Ch., 75c.,
+  _for Student Aid, Marion, Ala._; Sab. Sch.
+  of Pres. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C., _for Marion,
+  Ala._                                          2.75
+
+Ivanhoe. Mrs. S. Sanford                         0.50
+
+Kewanee. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C.,
+  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Mendon. Mrs. Jeanette Fowler, to const.
+  ARTHUR C. GARRETT L.M.                        40.00
+
+Morris. W.H.M.U. _for Woman's Work_             10.00
+
+North Monroeville. First Cong. Ch.               6.06
+
+Ottawa. First Cong. Ch.                         45.47
+
+Providence. Cong. Ch.                            7.80
+
+Princeton. Cong. Ch.                            15.00
+
+Ridge Prairie. Rev. Andrew Kerr                  2.00
+
+Rockford. First Cong. Ch.                       42.10
+
+Rockford. Blanche Goodall,
+  _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._                          3.00
+
+Roscoe. Mrs. A.A. Tuttle                         5.00
+
+Saint Charles. Cong. Ch., 16.86 and Sab.
+  Sch., 3.39                                    19.75
+
+Shabbona. Cong. Ch.                             52.15
+
+Shabbona. Mrs. E.J. Bouslough, Box of C.,
+  _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+----. "Friends."                                 3.00
+
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $303.81.
+
+Agricultural College. PROF. ROBERT C.
+  KEDZIE, to const. himself L.M.                30.00
+
+Ann Arbor. Mrs. Cady, Bbl. of C., etc.,
+  _for Athens, Ala._
+
+Armada. Cong. Ch., 15.30, and Sab. Sch., 2      17.30
+
+Banks. Cong. Ch.                                 8.35
+
+Benzonia. Cong. Ch., 13; W.J. Pettitt,
+  _Special_, 10; Mrs. L. Barnes, 40c.           23.40
+
+Charlevoix. Banks Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._     4.60
+
+Detroit. Trumbull Ave., Cong. Ch., 14;
+  Mrs. B.B. Hudson, 5                           19.00
+
+Detroit. Mrs. Leete, _for Student Aid,
+  Athens, Ala._                                  6.00
+
+Detroit. Sab. Sch., Trumbuil Ave. Cong.
+  Ch., Miss Park's Class, _for Santee
+  Indian M._                                     5.00
+
+Eastport. Cong. Ch.                              1.75
+
+Grand Haven. Cong. Ch.                           7.00
+
+Grand Rapids. Y.L.P. Soc., by Mary L. Elliott,
+  Treas., _for Indian M._                       10.00
+
+Grass Lake. Cong. Ch.                           11.40
+
+Hancock. First Cong. Ch.                        46.87
+
+Jackson. Mrs. R.M. Bennett                       2.50
+
+Laingsburg. Cong. Ch.                            3.50
+
+Milford. Mrs. Wm. A. Arms                        5.00
+
+Republic. Mrs. S.A.B. Carrier                    1.00
+
+Romeo. Miss E.B. Dickinson, 50; Miss
+  Mary A. Dickinson, 30, to const. EDGAR
+  LATHROP GILLETT L.M.                          80.00
+
+Somerset. Y.P.S.C.E., Box of C.,
+  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Union City. Ladies' Home M. Soc.,
+  by Miss Emma Wemple, Sec.,
+  _for Athens, Ala._                             5.00
+
+Union City. A. Lucas                             0.50
+
+White Lake. Robert Gerner                       10.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of
+  Mich., by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas.,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Greenville. _For Trinity School,
+      Athens, Ala._                   5.64
+
+                                   -------       5.64
+
+
+
+IOWA. $552.15.
+
+Albia. Mrs. Mary A. Payne                        2.00
+
+Alden. Mrs. E. Rogers                            2.00
+
+Almoral. Cong. Ch.                               7.50
+
+Anita. Cong. Ch.                                16.00
+
+Atlantic. Cong. Ch., 37.30, and Sab. Sch.,
+  8.70, to const. DEA. R.D. McGEEHON L.M.       46.00
+
+Atlantic. Infant Class, Bear Grove Union
+  Sab. Sch., by Mrs. O.C. Warne,
+  _for Mountain Work_                            5.00
+
+Bethel. Cong. Ch.                                2.31
+
+Burlington. Cong. Ch.    2.06
+
+Cedar Rapids. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.             3.00
+
+Des Moines. Plymouth Cong. Ch., to
+  const. DEA. J.S. CLARK, DEA. M.H.
+  SMITH, DEA. W.G. WORK, DEA. HENRY
+  M. McFARLAND and DEA. ELLIOTT
+  S. MILLER L.M.'s                             157.81
+
+Earlville. Cong. Ch.                             9.90
+
+Eldora. Birthday Gifts, Miss Fell's Class
+  Cong. S.S., _for Indian M._                    2.10
+
+Eldora. C.M.K. Duren's S.S. class,
+  Birthday Gifts, _for Mountain Work_            1.70
+
+Grand View. German Cong. Ch.                     5.00
+
+Harlan. Cong. Ch.                                4.60
+
+Jewell. Cong. Ch.                                2.30
+
+La Moille. Cong. Ch.                             2.16
+
+Logan. Cong. Ch.                                 5.00
+
+McGregor. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. C.A.
+  MARSHALL L.M.                                 65.00
+
+Maquoketa. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   28.15
+
+Marion. Cong. Ch.                               13.51
+
+New Hampton. Cong. Ch.                          11.03
+
+Newton. Children's Mission Band, by
+  Mrs. Alice Hadley, _for Savannah, Ga._        20.00
+
+Newton. Wittenberg Cong. Sab. Sch.,
+  _for Beach Inst., Savannah, Ga._              14.15
+
+Ogden. Cong. Ch.                                 4.00
+
+Oldfield. Highland Cong. Sab. Sch.,
+  _for Mountain Work_                           11.53
+
+Red Oak. Cong. Ch.                              25.00
+
+Shenandoah. Cong. Ch., 16.40, and Sab.
+  Sch., 1.72                                    18.12
+
+Waterloo. Box of C., _for Marion, Ala._
+
+Waucoma. Sab. Sch., Birthday Offerings,
+  _for Mountain Work_                            4.00
+
+Victor. Y.L. Miss'y Soc., Pillow Slips, etc.,
+  _for Thomasville, Ga._
+
+Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Ames. Sab. Sch.                   4.60
+
+    Ames. Sab. Sch., _for Marie
+      Adlof Fund_                     0.40
+
+    Anamosa. Junior M. Sec            5.00
+
+    Cedar Falls. Ladies' Ass'n.       1.43
+
+    Des Moines. Plym. Ch. W.M.S.      8.88
+
+    Fairfield.                        1.85
+
+    Grinnell. W.H.M.U.                8.11
+
+    Le Mars. L.M.S.                   3.90
+
+    McGregor. W.M.S.                 15.00
+
+    Magnolia. W.H.M.U.                2.10
+
+    Marion. Y.L.M.S.                 15.00
+
+    Montour. Y.L.M.S.                 1.10
+
+    Osage. W.M.S.                     1.75
+
+    Wayne. L.M.S.                     5.00
+
+    Webster City. L.M.S.              9.50
+
+    Wentworth. Isabel Kimball's
+      S.S. Class                      8.10
+
+                                   -------      91.22
+
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $322.22.
+
+Appleton. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. JOHN
+  FAVILLE L.M.                                  52.50
+
+Beloit. E.P. Wheeler, _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._      5.00
+
+Beloit. Cong. Ch.                                2.00
+
+Berlin. Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. L. Waring,
+  Treas.,_for Austin, Texas_                     5.00
+
+Columbus. Cong. Ch., (15 of which
+  _for Indian M._)                              33.80
+
+Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch.                         6.00
+
+Johnstown. Cong. Ch.                             2.00
+
+La Crosse. Cong. Ch.                            25.00
+
+Lake Geneva. Mary J. Barnard, 15;
+  First Cong. Ch., 10.71                        25.71
+
+Madison. First Cong. Ch.                        10.83
+
+Menasha. William P. Rounds                      30.00
+
+Racine. Mrs. D.D. Nichols                        0.50
+
+Ripon. First Cong. Ch.                          64.25
+
+Sheboygan. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
+  12.55 and 2 Boxes Books, etc., _for Lathrop
+  Mem. Library, Sherwood, Tenn._                12.55
+
+Sheboygan. W.M.S. of First Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._               10.00
+
+Wisconsin Woman's Home Missionary
+  Union, _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Arena. W.U.M.S.                   1.36
+
+    Brodhead. "Willing Workers."      7.00
+
+    Eau Claire. W.U.M.S.              2.35
+
+    Evansville. Ladies' Birthday
+    Boxes                             3.05
+
+    Evansville. "Little Gleaners."    2.45
+
+    Fond du Lac. W.U.M.S.             5.00
+
+    Lancaster. "Willing Workers."     3.00
+
+    Lake Geneva. Photos of
+      Elizabeth Winyan, Sold          1.00
+
+    Madison. W.U.M.S.                 9.87
+
+    Ripon. Mrs. C.L. Tracy            2.00
+
+                                    ------     $37.08
+
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $156.99.
+
+Ada. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.,
+  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._                         6.45
+
+Litchfield. Mrs. M.E. Weeks. 5;
+  Mrs. C.A. Greenleaf, 50c.                      5.50
+
+Mazeppa. Cong. Ch.                               2.11
+
+Minneapolis. First Cong. Ch., 59.71;
+  Bloomington Ferry Sab. Sch., 5.18             64.89
+
+New Richland. The Ladies Soc. and Sab.
+  Sch., Box of Christmas Gifts,
+  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Northfield. Woman's Home M. Soc. of
+  Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Christmas Gifts,
+  _for Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+Saint Charles. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.            1.50
+
+Waseca. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._                          5.00
+
+Winona. First Cong. Ch.                         50.00
+
+Worthington. Cong. Ch.                          21.54
+
+
+
+MISSOURI, $143.72.
+
+Laclede. Miss Clara Seward, Pkg. Needle-books,
+  _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Meadville. Ladles' Miss'y Soc.,
+  _for Indian M._, by Mrs. A.A. Myers, Treas.    7.00
+
+Saint Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 74.42;
+  First Cong. Ch., ad'l, 52.30; Young People's
+  Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. Ch., 10           136.72
+
+
+
+KANSAS, $145.81.
+
+Atchison. Cong. Ch.                             14.15
+
+Independence. S.P. Ingraham                      1.00
+
+Kirwin. First Cong. Ch.                          6.00
+
+Neosha Falls. S.B. Dyckman                       3.00
+
+Osawatomie. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 2.50;
+  "S.L.A.," 2.50, _for Indian M._                5.00
+
+                                             --------
+
+                                                29.15
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Manhattan. Estate of Mrs. Mary Parker,
+  of Cong. Ch., deceased, by Rev. R.D.
+  Parker, Ex.                                  116.66
+
+                                             --------
+
+                                              $145.81
+
+
+
+DAKOTA, $31.02.
+
+Ipswich. Rosette Park Ch., 1,
+  and Sab. Sch., 1                               2.00
+
+Meckling. Cong. Ch.                              1.57
+
+Oahe. A. Ward, _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._             2.00
+
+Ponca Agency. Ponca Mission, by Rev.
+  John E. Smith                                 10.00
+
+Redfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                 6.78
+
+Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union,
+  by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas.,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Highmore                          1.60
+
+    Huron                             3.00
+
+    Yankton                           0.50
+
+    Yankton. W.M.S.                   3.57
+
+                                   -------       8.67
+
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $31.56.
+
+Cambridge. Cong. Ch.                             1.56
+
+Lincoln. First Cong. Ch. ad'l                    2.65
+
+Rising City. First Cong. Ch.                    27.35
+
+
+
+COLORADO, $48.85.
+
+Denver. John R. Hanna                           25.00
+
+Greeley. Park Cong. Ch.                         23.85
+
+
+
+OREGON, 63c.
+
+East Portland. First Cong. Ch.                   0.63
+
+
+
+WASHINGTON TERR., $40.00.
+
+Seattle. Plymouth Cong. Ch., to const
+  MRS. CASSANDRA E. GEORGE L.M.                 30.00
+
+Seattle. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Athens, Ala._               10.00
+
+
+
+MARYLAND, $5.00.
+
+Federalsburg. Sarah A. Beals                     5.00
+
+
+
+KENTUCKY, $1.66.
+
+Woodbine. E.H. Bullock                           1.66
+
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $6.24.
+
+Deer Lodge. Cong. Ch.                            3.63
+
+Grand View. By E.H. Davison, _for Freight
+  to Grand View, Tenn._                          2.00
+
+Sunbright "Friends,"                             0.61
+
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $54.50.
+
+Hillsboro. Carrie E. Jones                       2.00
+
+Troy. "Friends," by Rev. S.D. Leak               2.50
+
+Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                           50.00
+
+
+
+GEORGIA, $4.92.
+
+Cyprus Slash. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.             1.00
+
+Savannah. M.R. Montgomery,
+  _for Student Aid, Savannah, Ga._               0.75
+
+Thomasville. Sab. Sch. of Conn. Ind'l
+  Sch., _for Fort Berthold, Indian M._           3.17
+
+
+
+ALABAMA, $52.06.
+
+Marion. Cong. Ch.                               19.04
+
+Montgomery. Rev. R.C. Bedford, _for Lathrop
+  Mem. Library, Sherwood, Tenn._                 5.00
+
+Talladega. Miss'y Societies, Talladega C.,
+  _for Indian M._                               20.00
+
+Talladega. Talladega College Ch.                 8.02
+
+
+
+FLORIDA, $12.75.
+
+Altoona. Mrs. J.S. Blackman                      5.00
+
+Dayton. First Cong. Ch.                          7.75
+
+Montclair. Mrs. E.C. Downing, Basted
+  work for 3 quilts, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._
+
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI, $3.10.
+
+Tougaloo. "King's Daughters," _for Indian M._    2.00
+
+Meridian. Cong. Ch.                              1.10
+
+Meridian. Barker & Grandberry,
+  Material for Sewing Class,
+  _for Meridian, Miss._
+
+
+
+CANADA, $9.00.
+
+Montreal. Chas. Alexander                        5.00
+
+Sweetsburg. Mrs. H.W. Spaulding,
+  _for Mountain Work_                            4.00
+
+
+
+AUSTRIA, $1.62.
+
+Prague. "From the Children, _For little
+  Colored Children in the South_"                1.62
+
+
+
+JAPAN, $20.00.
+
+Kyoto. Mission Ch., by Rev.
+  D.W. Learned                                  20.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+Donations                                  $20,711.01
+
+Estates                                      4,708.66
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                           $25,419.67
+
+
+
+INCOME, $729.55.
+
+Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._          570.00
+
+Graves Library Fund                 150.00
+
+Scholarship Fund, _for
+  Straight U._                        4.09
+
+Yale Library Fund, _for
+  Talladega C._                       5.46
+
+                                   -------     729.55
+
+
+
+TUITION, $3,185.30.
+
+Wllliamsburg, Ky., Tuition           36.63
+
+Wilmington, N.C., Tuition           160.75
+
+Charleston, S.C., Tuition           217.60
+
+Jellico, Tenn., Tuition              55.85
+
+Jonesboro, Tenn., Tuition            10.85
+
+Memphis, Tenn., Tuition             376.25
+
+Nashville, Tenn., Tuition           513.84
+
+Pleasant Hill, Tenn., Tuition        16.25
+
+Atlanta, Ga., Storrs Sch.,
+  Tuition                           283.70
+
+Macon Ga., Tuition                  212.35
+
+Savannah, Ga., Tuition              208.65
+
+Thomasville, Ga., Tuition            70.75
+
+Athens, Ala., Tuition                44.75
+
+Marion, Ala., Tuition                38.33
+
+Mobile, Ala., Tuition               170.85
+
+Talladega., Ala., Tuition           265.45
+
+Tougaloo, Miss., Tuition             70.00
+
+New Orleans, La., Tuition           253.00
+
+Austin, Texas, Tuition              131.55
+
+                                   -------   3,185.30
+
+United States Government for the
+  education of Indians                       1,032.30
+
+                                           ----------
+
+Total for January                          $30,366.82
+
+                                           ==========
+
+
+SUMMARY.
+
+Donations                                  $69,515.27
+
+Estates                                      9,599.95
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                           $79,115.22
+
+Income                                       4,344.21
+
+Tuition                                      9,640.07
+
+United States Government appropriation
+  for Indians                                4,225.75
+
+                                            ---------
+
+Total from Oct. 1 to Jan. 31               $97,325.25
+
+                                            =========
+
+
+FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+Subscriptions for January                      186.10
+
+Previously acknowledged                        230.48
+
+                                            ---------
+
+Total                                         $416.58
+
+                                             ========
+
+
+DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE.
+
+Income for January, 1889, from investments     832.50
+
+Previously acknowledged                      2,325.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+Total                                       $3,157.50
+
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