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diff --git a/16103.txt b/16103.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8dcc744 --- /dev/null +++ b/16103.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4072 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 3, +March, 1889, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 3, March, 1889 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 22, 2005 [EBook #16103] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + + + + +Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald +Perry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +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 + + + H.W. 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