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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. 5, May, 1889 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 23, 2005 [EBook #16118] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** 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 + +May, 1889 + +VOL. XLIII. NO. 5. + + + + +CONTENTS + + +EDITORIAL. + FINANCIAL + CENTENNIAL + CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA + NOTES FROM THE SOUTH + ILLUMINATED SPOTS + THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIANS + NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND + WHAT THE WORLD SAYS + PARAGRAPHS + SOUTHERN ECHOES + BOOK NOTICE + +THE SOUTH. + THE GEORGIA CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION + EVANGELISTIC LABORS + THOMASVILLE, GA. + DEATH OF MRS. BENNETT + +THE INDIANS. + PERILS OF MISSIONARY LIFE + FIRST FRUITS + +THE CHINESE. + LOS ANGELES CONGREGATIONAL CHINESE MISSION + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION + ALABAMA ASSOCIATION + THREE NEW ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTH + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + HOW THE PENNIES GREW + +RECEIPTS + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +Rooms, 56 Reade Street. + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. + +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + * * * * * + + +American Missionary Association. + + +President, Rev. WM. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y. + + +_Vice-Presidents._ + + Rev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y. + Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass. + Rev. F.A. 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, + 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. MAY, 1889. NO. 5. + + +American Missionary Association. + + * * * * * + + +FINANCIAL. + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY presents its greetings for the month of May. Six +months of our fiscal year are now in the past. The half year which we +anticipate includes the summer time, when many of the friends of the +ignorant millions to whom we are sent, are absent from their churches. +The months of May and June ought to swell the stream of love and service +against the season when the demand will continue and income will be +small. + +We appealed last month for an increase of the contributions in _church_ +collections. We renew and emphasize that appeal, for these collections +are the steady streams on which we rely to keep in motion the wheels of +the large and ever enlarging work of the Association. We believe that +the interest in this great work is on the increase. We rejoice that "the +most prolific missionary field ever opened to any Christian people-- +right here at our doors," is gaining upon the interest and benevolence +of the churches year by year. Never were the friends of the cause mote +responsive; never was the work more hopeful. The work enlarges, and the +people's faith enlarges. Their gifts to Christ for his poor were never +freer. + +We have been greatly favored with special gifts. Every one of them is +needed. It is a blessed thing that one can plant his benevolences in +some special institution or feature of work, and know that the +influences are to follow on after the giver has gone to a higher world. +But we do hope that the CHURCHES OF CHRIST, AS CHURCHES, will not fail +to keep step with the providences of God in their church contributions. + +It is also true that some fear that the day of LEGACIES is to come to an +end. Indeed, there are those who take a solemn comfort in bewailing and +fearing that everything is to come to an end. They mix a pound of +forebodings with an ounce of faith. If, for some unseen reasons in the +movements of life and death, legacies do not appear with the regularity +of insurance tables, they think the day of legacies is dead. +Nevertheless legacies will continue as long as Christians pass from +earth to heaven. There will always be faithful souls who will remember +Christ and his cause in their wills. There will always be those who may +not be able to divide their estates and to dispose of portions of them +while they live, who will yet provide that they may see their works +following them, when they shall look down from a world redeemed, to a +world for whose redemption Christ lived and died. There will always be +legacies, and the American Missionary Association, so long as it follows +in the steps of Christ in such mission as it has, will not be forgotten. +The legacies will come, because they ought to come. The people of God +will remember this work in their wills because they ought to do this, +and God will take care that what Christian stewards ought to do, shall +be done. + +We thank God for SPECIAL GIFTS. We thank God for LEGACIES. We also thank +God for the ability and faith and sacrifices of those who cannot plant +institutions or build or endow schools, but who live and give that which +provides for the unceasing CURRENT EXPENSES. Almost every one can do a +little more, and it is the many littles that make the difference between +a debt with a crippled work, and freedom from debt with healthful +growth. All along the lines, the calls for help are so urgent, that it +is painful for us, in the name of the church, to be constantly saying +"No!" + +OUR RECEIPTS for the past six months (ending March 31) are as follows: + +Church contributions $95,843.37 +Estates and legacies 15,194.10 +Tuition from schools 18,781.58 +Income from invested funds 4,829.21 +Income from the United States Government 9,540.87 + + ---------- + +Total $144,189.13 + +OUR PAYMENTS for the past six +months are $171,237.64 +OUR DEFICIT is 27,048.51 + +The churches can easily take this out of the way if they will. We +believe that they will. + + * * * * * + + +CENTENNIAL. + +These pages will come before our readers amid the enthusiastic +rejoicings of a great nation celebrating the one hundredth anniversary +of its Constitution--a Constitution that has been tried and found +worthy. + +The greatest strain to which this great charter has been subjected in +the past hundred years has been occasioned by slavery. The crisis cost +untold blood and treasure. The great strain of the next hundred years +will be what slavery has left behind it--a vast and growing black +population, and an imbittered race prejudice. + +There is but one way to meet this strain of the coming century, and that +is by the education of the blacks. The task is great, but if the +American people will awake to its urgency and put forth the needed +effort, the crisis may be averted. We call upon all Christian people, +and upon all patriots, to begin this new century with the purpose to +increase their contributions for this great object. We ask them to begin +at once and to continue steadily--in church contributions, in personal +gifts, and, not to forget the object in the making of wills. + + * * * * * + + +CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA. + +Our readers are aware that there are two Congregational Organizations in +the State of Georgia. The Georgia Congregational Association was +organized in 1878, and is composed of about a dozen colored churches, +some of their pastors being white and some colored. The United +Congregational Conference of Georgia was formed a little more than a +year ago, is a much larger body, and is composed of white pastors and +churches. With a view to a possible union of these two organizations, +committees have been appointed by each, and, in another column, we lay +before our readers the propositions to that end, made by the Committee +of the Georgia Association. We cannot withhold our expression of +satisfaction with the Christian spirit exhibited in this document, and +the readiness to accept any possible alternative to secure the union. +The Congregational Churches of the country will feel an interest in +marking the progress of these negotiations, and will hail with delight a +consummation that will relieve the denomination from the embarrassment +of sanctioning two organizations in the same State that seem to be +separated only by the color-line. + + * * * * * + + +NOTES FROM THE SOUTH. + +BY SECRETARY A.F. BEARD. + +Once more in Nashville. There is no question in my mind but that +Nashville is the educational leader in the South. It is a city of hills +which are crowned with institutions for white and black. These are the +beginnings of greater and better days for this part of "our country." My +duties have taken me to Fisk University. It is a college which has +justly won very high praise. Jubilee and Livingstone Halls are +significant names. One speaks of an historic event, and the other of an +historic person, but the work that goes on in both these large buildings +does no dishonor to one name or the other. + + * * * * * + +When Congressman Kelley, of Pennsylvania, was in Nashville, he visited +Fisk University. He afterwards told me that he could not conceal his +surprise at what he saw and heard and only with difficulty his emotion +when he arose to address the students. + +I have now visited Fisk several times. I am each time more impressed +with the fidelity and quality of the work on the part of the students, +and the patient enthusiasm of the professors and of the teachers. If +there were to be no other or greater results than those of the past and +the present, all that has been done for Fisk University would be +justified. + + * * * * * + +From Nashville to Sparta, Tenn., and then a rough, tough ride up the +mountain side, "rattling the bones over the stones" until at length we +have climbed the Cumberland Plateau. We arrive at no-where in +particular, which is named Pleasant Hill. Here are a neat church, which +is both church and school, and a sightly building of two stories with a +third under the mansard roof, which will accommodate forty boys. A few +houses are visible from the top of this building, but no one could guess +where forty mountain boys and as many girls might be living. +Nevertheless they have been discovered, and it was none too soon. +Missionary Dodge did not locate in Pleasant Hill before the time. He +realized this. He looked about him and looked up and down. He saw things +which were invisible. He saw castles in the air. It must be confessed +that the office at Reade Street, fearing lest it might "trust the +churches" too much, had not the faith which could take hold of these +castles in the air and anchor them to the soil of Pleasant Hill; but +Brother Dodge got his grapples out and pulled down a church building +from the heavens. Well done; now surely he should rest from his labors +and give himself and us time to breathe. No; a visible church only +stimulated his faith, it did not satisfy it. This church was a place in +which he could read the eleventh chapter of Hebrews every Sunday. The +result was the "Hall" for young men and for the teachers. Now we are in +it and are glad. The Massachusetts Principal gave us welcome, the +Oberlin Vice-Principal endorsed it, while the Matron materialized the +spirit of welcome in a way calculated to excite gratitude, from the fact +that missionaries cannot live absolutely on faith. + +Next the young men were introduced. One of them was seized with +undisguised curiosity to behold a minister whose theological system some +institution had found it necessary to doctor. It is, perhaps, the first +instance on record in modern times where these semi-lunar fardels have +been looked upon with respect and curiosity. When "Brother Dodge" came, +congratulations were in order over his Church, his School and his Hall, +but he would have none of it. He was seeing another building floating in +the clouds, and could only talk of the invisible. It will, however, soon +be among things visible, for the missionary has his grapples out. It is +to be a Boarding Hall and Industrial Home for girls who will come into +it and learn to live and to be. "But, Pleasant Hill is not a town, it is +not a village, it is only by courtesy a hamlet. Where are your pupils?" +"The woods are full of them and they will come from near and from far," +replies their young missionary of more than three score and ten years. +On Sunday, the church was filled; on Monday, the school was full; and +our heart was full of thanksgiving that God had come to these mountain +people, that hope would enter their lives and their cabins, and that +these boys and girls would now step up in Christian manhood and +womanhood. + + * * * * * + +One of the impressive thoughts which a visit to an institution like Fisk +University is sure to excite, is the relation of all this work to the +future. Apropos of this, the Rev. J.O.A. Clark, D.D., LL.D., of Macon, +Ga., has just written a little tract of fifty pages on "The Future of +the Races." He does not vote in New England, nor is he a Yankee; but he +is a good and true witness. He says, that the Races are running races +along the paths of knowledge and up the hills of science. These are his +words (pages 19 and 20): "Have they" [the colored people] "availed +themselves of the educational facilities? Have they profited by them? We +answer that they have been incalculably benefited. They have shown not +only that they can receive education, but education of a high order. +Their improvement has been so astonishing as to silence doubt and +caviling. Our Southern eyes have been opened to see it. Southern candor +is free to admit it. There are none who do not admit it but the +hopelessly prejudiced. I am persuaded that the _average_ examinations in +the colored schools are better than the average in the white schools, +for teachableness is the basis of all education, and this universally +distinguishes the negro." Dr. Clark is not saying that the white boy may +not learn more easily and master more rapidly, but rather is telling how +the hare came out second in the race with his competitor not so fleet of +foot, but which had the gift of patient continuance in well-doing. Still +he accentuates the fact that "their improvement is astonishing." I am +sure that no one can visit Fisk University without having all his doubts +dispersed as to the future of the negro race. It is to have a future. + +This leads me to quote the closing words of Dr. Clark's significant +pamphlet (page 52): "All Africa stretches out her hands to God; to the +work of delivering her fatherland from heathenism. God is calling the +blacks of these Southern States. They are to be the chief instruments in +giving the Gospel of Christ to the benighted land of their fathers. +Wherefore, let the work of Christian, and so sanctified, education go +on." + +All this is true, and it means that in our American Missionary +Association the ministerial education must now be made more prominent. +When white missionaries can say, as one whose bones are in the soil of +the Dark Continent did say, "Let a thousand fall before Africa shall be +given up," the children of Africa must respond, "Africa shall be +evangelized by Africans." That is, we must have more and better +theological schools for the Negro people. The demand for educated Negro +ministers, who know what religion is, and what purity is, will be +greater and greater. + +The demand for _missionaries_ of the negro race who can realize that +"Christianity is a missionary religion," will be greater, also. We can +scarcely expect that those who came out of Egypt will become +missionaries to Egypt. The apprehension of missionary responsibility +comes with a developed Christianity. The missionary sense came to the +Apostles themselves very slowly. It came to the Christian Church slowly. +The African people in America, I trust, will seize upon it more rapidly, +for they have a large emotional nature and great faith. What they now +need is education and intellectual character, and those qualities which +give shape, and tone, and persistence, to the forces which direct and +control events. + +Men who have been slaves may not take on this, and their children may +not in great numbers. But their children's children are coming on +multitudinously, and from them must go those who shall preach the Gospel +to their own race in Africa. For psychological as well as physiological +reasons this must be. Not only because they can live, and whites cannot, +in Africa, but because, other things being equal, they can do this work +better with their own race. Said Christ, "Go home to thy friends, and +tell what great things the Lord hath done for thee." + +All of which says that the Fisk must now add to its great work a +thorough theological school, and must urge its students to listen to the +voice of God and to answer when God calls, "Speak, Lord, thy servant +heareth." More and better ministers are needed both for Africa in the +United States and Africa across the sea. He will give wisely who will +give quickly for this. + + * * * * * + + +ILLUMINATED SPOTS. + +A Northern visitor in the South, writing in a recent number of _The +Advance_ speaks of the rapid improvement of the Negroes in that +locality. He says that the Negro is prosperous; that commercially he is +honest; that one house has had no less than thirteen hundred names of +colored people on its books, each having a credit from a few dollars to +forty or more; that the Negro respects education--even if he is unable +to read himself, he wants, with all the determination of his soul, that +his children shall be educated; that the merchants say that they are +buying better and better goods, are learning the value of money, are +exercising wiser judgment, are becoming farmers and mechanics, are +becoming better men. + +These items, taken from a long article, show the bright light glowing in +that locality. Of course the writer gives some dark touches to the +picture, and thus modified, it may be repeated of thousands of places +throughout the South. Some of our friends, we fear, look too much upon +the dark side. There _is_ a dark side, and it is dense. But if we can +only continue and enlarge the sphere of these bright spots, and kindle +others in new localities, the time will come when the light will +displace the darkness and the dawn of a new era will come. Friends of +the Negro race, patriots and Christians! furnish the oil for these +bright spots and help to multiply them. + + * * * * * + + +THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIANS. + + On the 13th of March, some of the Secretaries of the missionary + societies, and others interested in the welfare of the Indians, + had an interview with President Harrison and with Secretary + Noble, of the Interior Department. We were kindly received, and + the Secretary solicited information from us as to the methods in + which he could aid in furtherance of Indian civilization. A + number of suggestions were made in response, and the following + outline is given as a summary of the points presented to the + Secretary: + +1. That the appointment or retention of all officers and employés in the +Indian service of the Government shall be on the sole ground of +fitness--that ability, integrity and an interest in the welfare of the +Indians, shall constitute the only required conditions. We are not +ignorant of the difficulties involved in securing such persons, +especially with the low salaries paid to some of these employés; and we +shall be abundantly satisfied with the purpose of the Government to +reach the nearest attainable success in this direction. + +2. That the Government shall make adequate appropriations for the +establishment and maintenance of suitable schools for the education of +all Indian pupils--whether these schools be sustained and controlled +wholly by the Government or in co-operation with missionary societies. +The millions of dollars now due to the Indians by treaty stipulations, +for educational purposes, should not be idle in the National Treasury, +but should, as rapidly as possible, be devoted to their legitimate +purposes, and they should be supplemented as far as need be by direct +grants from the Government. + +3. That the co-operation of the Government with the missionary societies +in what are known as _Contract_ schools should be continued and +enlarged. We believe that no better teaching has been afforded to the +Indians than that given in these Contract schools. The educational +qualifications of the teachers, together with their disinterested and +self-denying characters and their religious influence and instruction, +render them pre-eminently fit for their places and successful in their +work. The experience of the past and the testimony of all unprejudiced +persons bear witness to this fact. + +4. That compulsory education of Indian pupils be enforced, with liberty +of choice to the parents in the selection of the schools to which their +children shall be sent. The Indians are generally averse, or +indifferent, to the education of their children. The withholding of +rations in case of failure or neglect is usually an all-sufficient +motive for prompt compliance. Then, too, the parent, if a Christian and +intelligent, should be allowed to select the school for his child, and +not be compelled to send it to a Government school simply because that +may happen to be nearest. + +5. The Government should adopt a liberal policy in regard to the use of +the vernacular in the Indian schools. We are all agreed that the English +language should be brought into use among the Indians at the earliest +practicable period. But the experience of all the past, in Indian +civilization among the ruder tribes, has shown that Christian influences +have been most successfully brought to bear by the use of the +vernacular, in giving them the knowledge of the Word of God, in teaching +them a practical morality, and in preparing them for civilized life. We +ask, therefore, that no restrictions be placed upon Christian people in +their efforts for this great object. + +6. We ask that the Government exercise an absolute impartiality in +dealing with the different denominations of Christians, in the +distribution of appropriations, in the granting of lands for missionary +uses, and in the appointment of officers, agents, teachers and employés. +We ask no favors in these respects, and we desire that none shall be +granted to others. + + * * * * * + + +NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND. + +BY REV C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY. + +"_Miss_ ----: + +"DEAR MADAM: I understand you have got the school, but I can't possibly +board you, as social equality is not custom in this country. I don't +think it would be pleasant for you nor for us, either. I wrote this in +order for you to look out some other place. You need not depend on +getting board with us. + +"FEBRUARY 2, 1889." + +This letter was written to a cultivated Northern young lady who had +graduated at one of the best high schools in the country and held a +special recommendation, besides her diploma, on account of her +excellency as a student and practice teacher. She went South to help +these people in their great need. It was for Christ's sake and in "His +name" that she entered this field. She secured board of a white family, +but when they learned that she was going to teach the blacks and seek to +lead them to Christ, this letter was sent her. Every door was closed +against this Christian woman because she was trying to save the poor and +ignorant! And it is eighteen hundred and eighty-nine of the Christian +era and in free America! + +But this plucky Yankee girl did not so give up her school. She found a +boarding place in the home of one of our missionaries, two miles away, +and she tramps across these two miles twice a day, patiently putting in +her best services, to bring light into the dense darkness of the very +community whose doors were closed against her! + +In connection with this incident of narrow prejudice read these words +from Dr. Haygood's "Pleas for Progress." "In all truth and common sense +there is no reason for discounting in any respect a white man or woman +simply for teaching negroes. It is absurd. I believe it is sinful." +These earnest words were spoken by the eloquent divine to his Southern +brethren, August 2, 1883, six long years ago. If they only carried the +conviction of the people to whom he appealed! How strangely they sound, +standing so close to this letter refusing board to a young lady because +she is teaching these very negroes! "How long, O Lord, how long?" + + * * * * * + +The semi-annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Association met +in the Beneficent Congregational Church, or "Old Round Top," as the +street car conductor called it, Providence, April 3d. The weather was +extremely unfavorable, as New England weather has been lately, as a +rule, but there was a good attendance and deep interest. All the +missionary societies of the Congregational churches which do work in +America were represented. The field work of the Woman's Association has +passed into the control of the national societies. The future looks very +bright for its increasing usefulness. + + * * * * * + +And now Pleasant Hill, Tenn., rejoices in the sweet music of one of the +Smith organs. Mr. S.D. Smith is making many schools happy and adding +greatly to their efficiency by his generous gifts of organs. + + * * * * * + + +WHAT THE WORLD SAYS. + +BLACK SAINTS AND WHITE. + +Do colored folks retain their complexion when they go to heaven? This is +a question of some importance to the members of the Diocesan Convention +of the Protestant Episcopal churches of Charleston, S.C. Not long ago +the Convention appointed a special committee to consider and report upon +the subject of the admission of negro clergymen and laymen as members of +that body. Their action was taken with the view of bringing the +Charleston churches, if possible, into harmony with the other Episcopal +congregations of the State. In 1887, the former had seceded in +consequence of the adoption of a resolution which the Charleston +brethren regarded as a virtual obliteration of the color-line. + +Thursday, the report of the committee was made public. It proposes a +separate convocation for the colored churches under the ministration of +the bishop, and consents to the admission to the Convention of colored +clergymen who have been associated with the church for twelve months +prior to May, 1889. If the report is adopted, three negro ministers will +sit as members, but no lay delegates will be eligible. The committee +were willing to forego their prejudice out of deference to the holy +office. They felt that the color of a clergyman's skin, although it was +no doubt a very serious ground of objection when it happened to be +black, should not overcome the respect due to the sanctity of his +official calling. His cloth, so to speak, saved him, and what would have +been denied to the man it was possible to concede to the priest. + +Under these circumstances the gravity of the question, "Do colored folks +retain their complexion when they go to heaven?" is obvious. The +concession which the committee of the Diocesan Convention make is but a +re-affirmation of the Charleston brethren's aversion to anything that +smacks of an approach to association of the two races on terms of +equality. If there are colored saints in Paradise, it will be utterly +impossible for the Charleston white saints of the Episcopal denomination +to feel at home there. The only chance of reconciling them to a heaven +so liberally disposed would depend on the adoption of some such plan as +that recommended by the committee as a _modus vivendi_ in the church on +earth. That is to say, if the colored saints were corraled by +themselves--if their convocations were separate from the convocations of +the white saints--if they were not admitted to the white circles of +celestial society as equal partakers of the privileges of the heavenly +kingdom--the Caucasian angels from Charleston might be willing to pass +their eternity in such a place. + +It is very essential for them, therefore, to know whether there are in +fact any colored saints in heaven; and, if there are, whether the +divisions of the Father's house into "many mansions" admits of an +arrangement whereby the angelic brunettes may occupy one set of quarters +and the Charleston blondes another. Until these problems are solved to +their satisfaction, we do not see how our Christian friends of the chief +city of South Carolina can contemplate a future life with any degree of +equanimity. Their faith may be equal to the removal of mountains and +their virtues may entitle them to all the felicity of the spirits of +just men made perfect, but if it is the rule of the "happy land, far, +far away" that a black saint is just as good as a white one, how much +more rational it would be for them to prefer annihilation to +immortality. + +_Brooklyn Daily Eagle._ + + * * * * * + + +PARAGRAPHS. + +We would continue to remind pastors and churches of our Leaflets, which +we will be happy to furnish, on application, to those taking collections +for our Association. + + * * * * * + +The _Daily Standard-Union_, of Brooklyn, is a good judge. It says: + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY for April, published by the American Missionary +Association, New York, is full of information useful and edifying to all +interested in domestic missions. + + * * * * * + +The "Student's Letter" found on another page is worth attention. The +writer, Rev. Spencer Snell, gives a modest and yet vivid picture of his +struggles for an education, and he is now--we say it for him, as he does +not--the able and acceptable pastor of our growing church in Birmingham, +Alabama. We wish in a quiet way to suggest to our friends in the North +that "it pays" to spend money to educate such men. + +Rev. James Wharton, the evangelist, who has been efficiently preaching +to the American Missionary churches in the South this winter, has left +this country for England, where he will remain until the first of +October, when he will return again to his specific work in which the +churches have been greatly blessed. The churches which he has visited, +and which have added to their numbers through his ministration, are +Louisville, Ky., Sherwood, Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., Athens, +Florence, Mobile and Montgomery, Ala., Jackson and Tougaloo, Miss., and +New Orleans, La. + +Many prayers will go with him across the sea, and many welcomes will +greet him on his return. + + * * * * * + + +SOUTHERN ECHOES. + +PRAYERS OF WOMEN AT THE MEETING OF FAREWELL TO A MISSIONARY. + +"O! Lord, thou knowest how I love her. Thou knowest how I have run to +her in every trouble, as a chicken does to its mother." + +"O! Lord, you know what she has been to me in the greatest trouble I +ever had. You know I think more of her than of any being in the whole +world, except my husband. Will you please to be with her when she gets +ready for the train, and when she goes from the house to the train, and +on the train, and when she goes to the house from the train, and bless +her all the time." + + * * * * * + +Mrs. W----, an old lady, said: "My old man ax me every night when he +come from work if there be a meeting up yonder. He do like to go to +meeting. He think a heap of that young preacher up yonder. Last +Wednesday night after meeting, he say to me, 'Mary, I'll be good to you +after this,' and I say the same to him. It do me a heap of good to go up +yonder. I learn more than I ever knowed before. I knows what the texts +means now." + + * * * * * + +SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED.--A few days since, during a recitation in +geography, a teacher was endeavoring to explain the subject of +electricity in the lesson on "Thunder and lightning." It had been stated +that when a flash of lightning darts to the earth it is said to +_strike_. A precocious lad of twelve summers (winters included), raised +his hand and upon recognition said: "Do _people_ have any electricity?" +Upon being informed that every one possessed the subtle force in a +greater or less degree, his dusky, good-natured face lighted up, and he +added, "Then is that the reason why some people always want to strike?" + + * * * * * + +BOOK NOTICE + +_Pleas for Progress._ By ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD, D.D. Publishing House of +M.E. Church South, Nashville, Tenn. Price, $1.00. + +Dr. Haygood is a Southern man who stands with his face toward sunrise +and not sunset. As a writer, he is interesting and vigorous. He +sometimes forgets to take off his "Titbottom spectacles" when he looks +southward, but he puts in tremendous blows against the wrong which he +sees. This volume before us contains papers and addresses delivered at +various times and places, both North and South. It is a very valuable +book for those who desire to learn what the really Christian people of +the South think on these great National problems that the American +Missionary Association is helping to solve. + +The lecture on "The Education of the Negro," delivered at Monteagle, +Tenn., and published in this volume, is a sample. Dr. Haygood states +"four root objections" to negro education: 1--Ignorance; 2--Stinginess; +3--Prejudice; 4--Fear that education will "spoil the negro as a laborer" +and bring him into "social equality" with the whites. The author shows +the absurdity of all these objections. + +The volume is full of statistics and will prove a valuable mine of +facts. The discussions are clear and generally convincing. We commend +the book highly. + + * * * * * + + +THE SOUTH. + + + * * * * * + + +THE GEORGIA CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION. + +_Rev. S.C. McDaniel and others, Committee of the United Congregational +Conference of Georgia._ + +DEAR BRETHREN.--Having been appointed by the Georgia Congregational +Association as a committee to confer with you in reference to a union of +the two bodies represented by you and us, we desire to express to you +our gratification at the receipt of your request for such a conference, +and our earnest desire that such a union should be consummated. With +this end in view, we would respectfully submit for your consideration +the following propositions: + +1. We cordially invite the churches composing the United Congregational +Conference to become members of the Georgia Congregational Association. +Upon the acceptance of this invitation by the United Conference, we +agree to recommend to the Association the passage of a vote immediately +placing upon the roll of the Association the names of all the churches +of the United Conference. + +2. In case the foregoing proposition should not be acceptable to you, we +propose that each of the bodies represented by us should pass a vote +disbanding its organization, with the understanding that all the +churches of both bodies should then come together and form a new +organization. Upon the agreement of your committee to recommend to the +United Conference the adoption of this proposition, we agree to make a +similar recommendation to the Association. + +3. If neither of the foregoing propositions should be acceptable to you, +we propose that the United Conference place upon its roll the names of +all the churches and ministers of the Georgia Association. Upon the +agreement of your committee to recommend such action to the United +Conference, we agree to recommend to the Association the adoption of a +vote declaring its organization disbanded as soon as the churches +composing the same are received by the United Conference. + +With reference to the foregoing propositions we would say further: + +It is our conviction that any union between the organizations +represented by our respective committees should be as comprehensive and +thorough as possible, and that to this end the churches of the Georgia +Association should be enrolled as members of the District Conferences, +in fellowship with the United Conference within whose respective +boundaries the Association churches may be located. And the foregoing +propositions are made with the understanding that a vote shall be passed +by the United Conference recommending the District Conferences to +receive the Association churches as hereby suggested. + +Of these three proposed methods of union, our own preference is for the +first. As the Georgia Congregational Association is the older body and +represents the historic Congregationalism of the State, going back not +only to the early years succeeding the Civil War, but even, in the +record of one of its churches, to the colonial period preceding the +Revolution, we feel that a respect for the traditional usages of our +polity would suggest the absorption of the newer churches by the +Association as being the older State organization. But as in our opinion +the result to be achieved is of more importance than the method by which +it shall be achieved, we would not insist upon the method of our choice. +If more acceptable to you, we should gladly form a union on the basis of +either the second or the third proposition already stated. Our chief +desire is for a complete and hearty union, in which, acknowledging the +fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, we may live and work +together in the love of Christ, the Elder Brother of us all. That our +Heavenly Father may graciously help us all in perfecting and maintaining +such a union, is our earnest prayer. + +Your brethren in Christ, + +GEO. V. CLARK, HORACE BUMSTEAD, GEO. C. ROWE, L.B. MAXWELL, EVARTS KENT, +FLOYD SNELSON, C.F. SARGENT. + + * * * * * + + +EVANGELISTIC LABORS. + +REV. JAMES WHARTON. + +You last heard of my work, I believe, from Memphis, Tenn., where God +revealed his gracious power among the students of LeMoyne, and also at +the Congregational church. Altogether, some one hundred and thirty-four +professed a hope in Christ during my visit there. I then went to +Jackson, Miss., to hold services in the new church there; a pretty +little building, situated in a very central and prominent part of the +city. For eleven nights, I preached to not a very large, but to an +interesting congregation. Twelve professed conversion, their conversion +proving a source of great joy, not only to themselves, but to their +friends and acquaintances. + +I also visited Tougaloo University and spoke to the students. Between +fifty and sixty at the close of the address arose for prayer. I feel +sure if I could have spent a few days with them, that most of them would +have decided for Christ, but they remain under the good and wise +instruction of the President, Rev. F.G. Woodworth. I hope to visit them +again. + +I then went to New Orleans, to find the Central Congregational Church +recovering itself under the leading of the pastor, Rev. Geo. W. +Henderson. We believe that it will steadily grow, and be a great +influence for good in that large and wicked city. At Straight +University, I found the religious interest going on quietly and steadily +under the care of Professor Hitchcock and Rev. W.L. Tenney, some cases +of conversion taking place during the week of prayer. + +I came to Montgomery three weeks ago, and a revival there has surpassed +any I have seen for the last thirteen years among the colored folks of +the South. In fact, many of the old-time people say they never saw such +a deep interest manifested in this city. The third night the church was +filled to overflowing, and hundreds were outside the door who could not +get in. The power of God came down upon the people in such a way that at +the close of the preaching the seekers fairly ran to the front benches, +taking them by storm. All around the front they sat or knelt. We placed +chairs in rows on the platform, and the crowd was so thick I could +scarcely get a place to stand. The pastor, Rev. R.C. Bedford, and the +Christians, worked hard among the unconverted, and now at the close of +the three weeks' services, more than two hundred are rejoicing in a new +found hope. + +One case was that of a young man, the son of a Methodist preacher, both +deaf and dumb, who gave reasonable evidence of conversion as the love of +God filled his heart, and another was a young man who had been a wild +young fellow, who had at the time of his conversion a five barrel loaded +revolver in his pocket, and which I now have. One whole family is now +rejoicing that God has brought salvation to that house; father, mother, +son and four daughters are among the converts. Another father rejoices +over four of his sons and daughters converted. Husbands and wives have +started together on the road to Zion. On the streets and wherever you +go, the people are talking about, and rejoicing over, the conversion of +some of their friends or relations. + +This finishes another winter's work among the dear colored people, which +has been one of the happiest and most successful I have known for many +years. + + * * * * * + + +THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA. + +The Connecticut Normal and Industrial School, Thomasville. Ga., closed +its winter term, for a few days' vacation, on March 26th, with +appropriate exercises. The _Thomasville Daily Times_ says, "The growth +and management of the school is very gratifying to our people, and +everyone wishes it continued success and prosperity." The _Thomasville +Enterprise_ speaks of "the results of the seven sweet-faced patient lady +teachers," and adds, "If yesterday's exhibition was a fair sample of +what the pupils can do, the American Missionary Association, and the +corps of teachers it has employed, have not labored in vain; that a +great deal of hard, honest work has been done, was fully exemplified." + +Again we are reminded that _Thomasville_ is not _Quitman_, and also of +the fact that Southern people are generally quite generous in their +appreciation of the work and the methods of our Association. + + * * * * * + + +MRS. LYDIA HERRICK BENNETT. + +On Saturday, March 16, the great household at Fisk University was +suddenly saddened by the announcement of the death of Mrs. Bennett, who, +after an illness of four weeks, was called to her rest. + +In 1867, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett gave up their work in a pleasant Northern +parish, and came to Fisk University, where they have labored together +for almost twenty-two years. During these years, Mrs. Bennett has been +not only an efficient helper to her husband and a wise and tender mother +to her children, but has contributed much to the work of the school. Her +strong mind and fine intellectual tastes especially fitted her for life +in an institution of learning. During the last few years, she gave much +time and labor to the preparation of a botanical collection for the +Scientific Department of the University. + +Mrs. Bennett was also the warm personal friend of the young people. +Since her death, many tender expressions from present and former +students bear witness to appreciation of her quiet, earnest, Christian +character, as manifested both in her own life, and in her ministry to +others. Why such a life, apparently so indispensable to her husband and +children, and so helpful to a large body of young people, should be thus +suddenly terminated we cannot understand. We can only accept the +dispensation of Him "Who doeth all things well." + +H.C.M. + + * * * * * + + +STUDENT'S LETTER. + +HOW I WAS EDUCATED, LED TO CHRIST AND INTO THE MINISTRY. + +BY REV. SPENCER SNELL. + +My first lessons from books I received in night school. At this time I +was employed as dining-room servant by a family in Mobile. I did my work +during the day, taking a little time here and there for study as best I +could, and went to school at night. I was first employed at $3.50 per +month. Fifty cents of this I took each month to pay tuition. The tuition +in this school was one dollar per month, but I was receiving such small +wages that a woman who was employed in the same yard, and who went to +the same school, persuaded the teacher to let me go for fifty cents. I +remained with this family about four years, and went to night school +much of the time. I suppose they considered my services more and more +valuable as I became more enlightened, for, during the four years, my +wages were increased from $3.50 to $10 per month. As my wages increased, +I had more tuition to pay also, for during my study in the night school +I had several teachers and paid some of them as much as two dollars per +month, and so anxious was I to acquire an education that I would have +paid five dollars had it been required, even at a time when it would +have taken all my wages to do so. While I was a student in one of these +night schools, I chanced one day to see a newspaper which a colored man +who knew me had thrown into the yard for me. In this paper I read an +article telling about Emerson Institute, a school of the American +Missionary Association, and the commencement exercises soon to occur +there. The school had been in Mobile for several years, but I had heard +nothing of it till now. As soon as I read of these exercises, I +determined to see them, for I had never heard of such exercises before. +When the time came, I went one night, accompanied by a few of my fellow +night-school students. We were well pleased with what we saw, and I said +to them that I meant to enter that school when it opened the next fall, +and that I meant to be an educated man if I could. I soon began to carry +out my purpose, for in a few weeks I left my employment in that family +and went back into the country, from whence I had gone to Mobile, and +took the examination and began teaching public school. By this means, I +earned money enough to go back to Mobile and become a pupil of Emerson +Institute, not in the fall of 1873, as I had hoped to do, but in the +spring of 1874. I shall ever feel grateful to the man who threw over the +fence for me the article from which I learned about that good school, +for I am sure I am quite a different man to-day from what I would have +been but for reading that article. Precious to me is the memory of those +days during which I took tuition in the night-school, where the key was +put into my hand and the door of knowledge was opened to me. + +Next to God I am grateful to the American Missionary Association for +having received training in a Christian school, where I was led to +Christ and felt called to the Christian ministry. When I lived on the +plantation, before I went to Mobile and received instruction in the +Christian school, I had heard the uneducated colored ministers preach +and they had endeavored to lead me to Christ, but I could not accept +Christ in the way they had presented Him to me. I remember well how they +told us that in order to find Christ we must fast and pray for a number +of days. I remember, too, the unsuccessful attempt which I made to give +myself to Jesus in this way. I was a farm boy and was plowing hard every +day, and it was hard work for a boy of my age to follow the mule all day +in the tough grass, and I always felt like eating when meal time came, +but still I tried to become a Christian by doing as the minister said I +must, and so for a few days I ate no breakfast, no dinner, and no +supper, though I worked on. They told us, also, that we must not go to +bed at night, for if we did the wicked one would make us sleep all night +and we would fail to pray through the night, and they said we must pray +all night. For several nights I did not go to bed at all, but would lie +down upon the doorstep that I might get up often through the night and +go down the hill to pray, for we were instructed to "go down in the +valley." Of course after a few days I became tired, sleepy and +discouraged, and gave up. I did not make another attempt till I became a +student in Emerson Institute. One of the lady teachers in that school +became interested in my soul's salvation. She read the Bible to me, +talked to me, and prayed for me, and made the way of life and salvation +seem so plain and simple that it was not long before I accepted the Lord +Jesus as my Saviour. + +My heart overflows with gratitude to that Christian lady whenever I +think of my conversion. There is no favor which one person can do for +another so great as that of leading him to Christ. + +Soon after I was converted I felt inclined to enter the ministry, and +was advised to go to Talladega College and there take a theological +course. I wanted to go but did not see any way to get there, to say +nothing of how I was to stay there, but a lady from the North had been +visiting one of our lady teachers at Mobile, and heard me deliver an +oration in a prize contest. She said she liked it, and after she went +back home she sent me $25 to help me in my education. I had been praying +that a way might open for me to go to Talladega, and I felt that the $25 +came in answer to prayer. I used up the money in getting ready and in +going to Talladega. I wrote Dr. G.W. Andrews, who has for a number of +years been instructor in theology there, that I was anxious to go and +enter his department, but I had no money, and he wrote me, if I had +money enough to get there, to come on. Thank God that I went, and that a +way was provided for me to stay there and finish the course of study; +and now I am out in the ministry and trying to do something for Him who +has so wonderfully led me and blessed me. + + * * * * * + + +THE INDIANS. + + + * * * * * + + +PERILS OF MISSIONARY LIFE. + +Rev. T.L. Riggs, our missionary at Oahe, Dakota, thus describes the loss +of a team and the peril of his fellow missionary, Rev. J.F. Cross: + +"I wished to cross my team on the ice to the west side of the Missouri +and keep it there for use during the breaking up of the river. Being +very busy with some writing, I asked Mr. Cross to take my team over when +he started to return to the White River, sending a man with him. Mr. +Cross's team went over safely, but mine, which Mr. Cross himself was +driving, broke through and were drowned, in spite of every effort of the +two men. Mr. Cross had a narrow escape. He managed to save the wagon, +but the horses went down with harness on as they were driven. Mr. Cross +took the loss so to heart, that together with the strain and agony of +the moment, it quite prostrated him. He started for White River in a day +or two after, though I felt that he was hardly fit to go." + + * * * * * + + +FIRST FRUITS. + +REV. C.L. HALL, FORT BERTHOLD, DAK. + +In the fall of 1879, a young Gros-Ventre Indian named _Dahpitsishesh_, +"The Bear's Tooth," began to attend the day school at Fort Berthold, and +although he was over twenty years old and not very quick to learn, he +surpassed the younger pupils by his industry. He attended the day +school, in the day time or in the evening, quite regularly during the +winter, and became a help to the missionary in translating parts of +Scripture into the Gros-Ventre language. + +He wore his long hair braided behind, and banged and plastered with clay +in front so that it stood upright, and he dressed in blanket, breech +clout, leggings and moccasins, and the lower joints of several of his +fingers were cut off in accordance with the Indian custom of mutilating +themselves at the burial of a friend. His first appearance to a new +teacher who came the following spring caused her no little trepidation, +but she soon learned to prize him as her best pupil, and the next year +the influence of God's word upon him was seen by his saying, after +recounting some of his Gros-Ventre religious fables, in which his belief +had been shaken; "I have been coming to school now more than a year. +Since reading these books about God and angels I cannot sleep at night, +but have had dreams. I think some harm will come to me. I am poor and +cannot help myself, but I pray God to keep me from harm, and I want to +trust him." + +From that time on, we hoped he would take a decided stand for Christ. As +yet, none among his people had been converted. A few passages of the +Bible and a few words of song had been given to the Gros-Ventres in +their own tongue, and every Sabbath there were attentive Indian +listeners, but would there ever be a Gros-Ventre convert? "The Bear's +Tooth" continued to come to us, and learned to understand quite fully +the requirements of our faith. He became a trusted helper in charge of +the mission cattle and the milking, working regularly as few Indians +would do at Berthold, and he soon had stock of his own in which he took +great pleasure. He read the Bible on Sabbath afternoons with one who was +soon called to her reward; it was almost her last prayer that he might +be saved. He came in spite of dissuasions, jeers, and even persecutions +from his people, and yet he took no stand for Christ. Three years after, +there were Indian inquirers, and he helped to explain to them the +demands of Christ, but they all felt that "the way was too hard for +them" and "went away sorrowful." + +Some of the young people who had been taken away to school and removed +from the opposition of their people had confessed Christ, but there were +none to face it here and say that they loved him. "The Bear's Tooth" +took a wife in the Indian way, unwilling to marry, and removed, as it +seemed, away from our influence, to a claim forty miles up the river +from our mission station. + +But God dealt with him and afflicted him in the loss of his babes, and +of his stock, so that he said, "It seems as though I could acquire +nothing. Explain it to me; the Indians say it is because I follow your +teaching." I taught him from the book of Job, and the words of Christ. +His soul was hungry, and when he came once in two weeks for his +government rations, he sought the bread of life at the mission. Finally, +after nearly eight years, one summer day he came and sat on a bench in +the shade of the house in a little flower garden, and after we had +talked awhile, he said to the missionary: "Good Voice, now I can; I will +be faithful to my own wife, I will keep Sunday, I will pray and avoid +the dances and other heathen customs; when you think best I will come +down and be received into the church." That was a glad moment. To clasp +the hand of the first Gros-Ventre brother in Christ, won through a +strange tongue and from a people who had sat in darkness for eighteen +hundred years since the great light shone in Galilee! + +I said, "Bring your wife and friends with you to Christ." He went home +but soon returned, saying sorrowfully: "My wife and my friends are none +of them willing. If I join I think it must be alone." "Well," I said, +"let it be so," and it was. His clothes were second-hand and old, and he +had no natural attractiveness of appearance; but in a simple, manly, +determined way, he made his confession and was baptized before an +audience of Indians in the little mission chapel, (July, 1887), a poor +Indian, but another Daniel standing alone. + +Then, as the man of Gergesa, he went home to tell his neighbors what God +had done for him. He had a Bible in Dakota, of which language he +understood something, and a few Gros-Ventre translations in writing, and +some attempts at hymns, and some pictures. With these he preached, in +neighbors' houses, and then he would report to me of his reception, and +ask me questions about the Christian life. A veritable man "Friday" had +come to me; I was no longer alone. Then why did his health fail, and he +forty miles away where I could not see him? But so God willed. Soon they +brought me the word: Your friend has gone. I gathered up his last words, +questioning his wife and lame old father. He wanted to see _his friend_ +and tell him some things. He thought he did see him come in and then go +out before he could speak. He said, "I thought it was difficult, but I +joined with those who pray, and I find now it is only a _short_ way. I +am going above." With his last breath and his Bible open, he asked to be +shown the way, that he might go in it. + +The influence of a genuine life is strongest at home, and so it comes +that the wife is seeking to follow her husband. There are other converts +with us now, but we shall never forget this first Gros-Ventre "friend," +(madakina); and although the story of his life is not a peculiar one to +white men, nay for that very reason, we are glad to write this record of +a once lowly, but now glorified, believer. + + * * * * * + + +THE CHINESE. + + + * * * * * + + +LOS ANGELES CONGREGATIONAL CHINESE MISSION. + +BY REV. ROBERT G. HUTCHINS. + +Our First Church has recently enjoyed two peculiarly impressive +occasions; one the anniversary on the 17th of last month, of the Chinese +school, established by Dr. Pond; the other the reception, on the 3d +instant, of six Chinese brethren to church membership. To appreciate the +significance of these scenes, one must remember how contemptuous is the +prejudice which prevails on this coast against these inoffensive +strangers. + +Nine or ten young Chinamen delivered addresses at the anniversary. They +spoke with remarkable simplicity, perspicuity and accuracy of English +pronunciation. In view of their perfect self-possession and propriety of +manner in the presence of the crowded congregation, one could scarcely +realize that nearly all of them were utterly inexperienced in public +speaking. The success of these humble representatives gave a hint of the +possibilities of a Christianized China. One of the speakers gave an +account of the conversion, sickness, death and Christian burial of a +member of the school, a youth of eighteen. The heathen relatives and +friends had attributed the illness to the boy's desertion of the +religion of his fathers, and had begged him to allow the burning of +idolatrous incense. But he had calmly resisted their appeals, and, in an +alien land, far from his father and mother, had pillowed his dying head +on the breast of the Saviour of mankind. + +Low Quong, who superintends the mission, and who is true-hearted, +prudent and influential with his countrymen, showed with clearness, the +relation between the conversion of the Chinese in California and the +evangelization of China. It was news to many of his hearers that the +Christian Chinese of America are supporting native missionaries of their +own in China. + +The recitation by the school in concert of some of the sweetest and most +familiar of the Psalms and Scriptural promises, melted the hearts of the +hearers into sympathy. The old truths borrowed a new tenderness and +emphasis from these voices accustomed to recite heathen prayers. The +pupils sang in solo, in duet and in chorus. When "Over the Ocean Wave" +was rendered, some of us queried in our minds on which side of the ocean +wave God thinks the poor heathen live--the side from which these gentle +friends have come, or the side where their countrymen receive such +unchristian welcome? + +Nothing could more effectually knock in the head mean prejudice than the +grateful words and kind spirit which characterized this anniversary. +Whatever may be the prospect of the Chinese over-running us, they +certainly _had_ us that Sunday evening. Mrs. Sheldon, who has had large +experience in the work, and Miss Watson, are devoting themselves to the +mission with a beautiful fidelity and consecration. + +Dr. Pond, who conducted the anniversary service, closed with an address +only too brief, but most felicitous and convincing. To the opponents of +Chinese immigration he is accustomed to reply: "Can there be any better +way of keeping the Chinese at home than to have it known among the +fathers in China that their sons, if they come to this country, are +likely to be Christianized?" + +Nothing could be sweeter or more cordial than the spirit of welcome with +which the six Chinese brethren were received into covenant. Not an +officer or member breathed an objection to their reception. Had there +been in any heart any lurking Phariseeism concerning them, it would have +been rebuked, if not exorcised, by hearing them sing with us at the +Lord's table, in broken accents, "Rock of Ages," by observing their +devout bearing and by witnessing the affecting baptismal scene. These +brethren came to the church approved by Dr. Pond, by the Chinese +missionary, Low Quong, and by the vote of the Christian Association, and +after an examination by the pastor. + + * * * * * + + +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. + +MASS. and R.I.--Woman's Home Miss. Association, Secretary, Miss Natalie + Lord, Boston, Mass.[1] + +N.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. William Spalding, Salmon + Block, Syracuse, N.Y. + +ALA.--Woman's Missionary Union, Secretary, Miss. S.S. Evans, Birmingham, + Ala. + +MISS.--Woman's Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Sarah J. Humphrey. Tougaloo, + Miss. + +TENN. and ARK.--Woman's Missionary Union of Central South Conference, + Secretary, Miss Anna M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn. + +LA.--Woman's Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., + New Orleans. La. + +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, 734 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. + + [Footnote 1: For the purpose of exact information, we + note that while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a + State body for Mass, and R.I., it has certain + auxiliaries elsewhere.] + +We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State +Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association +be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however, +should be taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary +Association, since _undesignated funds will not reach us_. + + * * * * * + +The Woman's Home Missionary Association, which has its office in the +Congregational House in Boston, held its semi-annual meeting in +Providence, April 3d, the first since it has come into co-operation with +the American Missionary Association in its administration and with the +other national benevolent societies. Rev. G.A. Hood represented the +Congregational Union, Rev. Joshua Coit, the American Home Missionary +Society, Rev. J.A. Hamilton, D.D., the College and Education Society, +Rev. C.J. Ryder, the American Missionary Association, and the Rev. G.M. +Boynton, D.D., the Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society. +These all expressed their sympathy with the closer alliance of the +Woman's Association with the national societies through which they have +elected to work, and to which they have committed the administration of +their benevolence in their respective fields. We cordially welcome the +Woman's Home Missionary Association as the representative of the States +of Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the sisterhood of co-operative +societies. + + * * * * * + +At the meeting of the Woman's Missionary Association of Alabama, held in +connection with the Congregational Conference at Mobile, April 1st, the +Constitution was amended, enlarging the sphere of work to cover both +home and foreign missions, and thus we have the "Woman's Missionary +Union of the State of Alabama." The actual working of this woman's +organization had already been varied. It was most interesting at their +meeting to hear the reports of the auxiliaries. All reported aid to +their respective churches and relief to the destitute in their parishes, +and then their contributions took other directions--to the American +Missionary Association for its Indian work; to the American Board for a +girl in Smyrna; for a Hindoo girl; for work in South Africa; to the Home +Missionary Society for work in the West. Thus these churches in the +South are being trained to a world-wide interest in missions. + + * * * * * + + +THREE NEW ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTH. + +A Woman's Missionary Union for the State of Louisiana was organized in +connection with the Congregational Association of the State. The meeting +of ladies was well attended, and the interest was manifested in their +hearty response in favor of joining the sisterhood of State Unions. The +officers of the Union were selected from both the white and colored +churches, the church at Hammond being thus represented. + +At the annual meeting of the General Association of Congregational +churches of Mississippi, which met at Tougaloo, March 28th, a Woman's +Missionary Union was organized. Mrs. A.V. Whiting was chosen President, +Miss Julia Sauntry, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Miss S.J. +Humphrey, Secretary. Although it is but a small beginning, we hope the +day is not far distant when Mississippi will take her place with other +States in missionary work. + +The Woman's Missionary Union of the Central South Conference was +organized April 13th, at Knoxville, Tenn.; Secretary, Miss Anna M. +Cahill, of Nashville. + + * * * * * + + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + + + * * * * * + + +HOW THE PENNIES GREW. + +Not the pennies that lay hidden away in the bank, nor the pennies that +were spent for candy. O no; but the honest, hard-working pennies that +had a work to do and the heart to do it. + +These work-a-day pennies fell into the hands of a mission band called +"Willing Workers." It was in the summer-time when they began to stir +about and see what they could do for missions, and when winter came +along there was a pleasant little festival, and the pennies came +together, and brought just as many with them as they possibly could. + +For these were "talent" pennies, and they had been invested for the +Lord. One of the very pleasant features of the festival was the reading +of little papers, telling how the pennies grew. And we are going to let +the children see some of these very papers. For all this is exactly +true, and took place in a pleasant village in the State of New York. + +About ten dollars grew out of a little more than twenty pennies. We have +not room to publish all the little papers, telling how the pennies grew +into dollars, though all are of great interest. In some cases the +original penny was invested, and then turned over and over. This is an +instance: + +"With the original cent I bought some darning-cotton and darned +stockings, some for a cent a stocking, but most of them for a cent a +hole. I then bought thread and crocheted some lace which I sold for 25 +cents. I hemmed two aprons for 5 cents apiece, and some towels for one +cent apiece. Afterward, I bought another card of darning-cotton. After +paying for the thread and cotton, I have left the sum of one dollar.-- +PHEBE." + +"Rosie," who brought in $1.66, says nothing about her penny, but tells +how she earned money, as: "Hitching up horse for grandpa, 10 cents; +topping carrots, 12 cents; keeping the fowls off the wheat, 25 cents; +sweeping, 17 cents," etc., all showing honest, hard work. But the penny +started it all, perhaps. + +Here is "Nellie's," with an idea in it: + +"With my penny I bought a pen and holder, and sold it for 10 cents. I +dug a pailful of potatoes for 3 cents, and mended a hole in grandpa's +sock for one cent. I then bought a little chicken for 5 cents, and let +it grow into a big chicken, and sold it for 36 cents, making a total of +50 cents." + +Well done for Nellie! + +Only one more of these charming little papers can we give in full, +though we should love to have our little readers see every one of them. + +"The first thing I did with my penny, I made some edging which I sold +for 10 cents; then I sewed it on for 5 cents, which made 15. Then mamma +said if I killed 15 flies she would give me a penny, and so I earned 14 +cents in that way. Then I had 29 cents. I then took away 25 cents and +bought some ice-cream, and sold it for 8 cents a dish, and received 48 +cents for it. Now I had 52 cents. Then I took 8 cents away from it for +some linen, and 4 cents for some braid, with which I made some lace and +sold it for 70 cents, which leaves me $1.11. Then I sold some flowers +for 14 cents, making $1.25. This is what I did with my penny.--LIBBIE." + +"Freddie" and "Tusie," little brother and sister of Libbie, did well +with their pennies. Tusie increased hers to 35 cents, while Freddie's +grew to 48 cents. Each of these little people gathered all the string +they could find and made it up into balls, which they sold. + +"Meda" made a ruche for grandma, crocheted lace, and speculated in +butter, gaining in all 66 cents. + +"Davie," Meda's brother, found a generous customer in grandpa, who +bought a pen-holder and then gave it back to be sold over again. Davie +also speculated in tallow, and increased his penny to 50 cents. + +"Helen" invested in a penny tablet, sold it for 3 cents, and crept up by +degrees to the place where she could buy material for an apron which she +sold for 35 cents. She made another apron and a tidy, and cleared 55 +cents. + +"Lulu" bought a penny rubber and sold it for 2 cents, bought darning +cotton, pins, cloth for apron, etc., and increased her penny to 50 +cents. + +The pennies have been growing, and that is good. But love has been +growing too, in these young hearts, and that is better! + +May the "Willing Worker" bands multiply all over our great land! + +S.S. ADVOCATE. + + * * * * * + + +RECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1889. + + +MAINE, $179.96. + +Camden. David Fowler $1.00 + +Castine. Prof. Fred W. Foster 1.20 + +East Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovell, 5; + Rev. J. Loring, 2; Mrs. Millie Knight, 1; + Miss Sally Spurr, 1; Mrs. Caroline Turner, + 1; Miss Hattie I. Loring, 1; Mrs. + Mary H. Jennings, 1 12.00 + +Farmington. First Cong. Ch. 18.76 + +Gardiner. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Hiram. Sewing Material, _for Meridian, Miss._ + +Madison. Cong. Ch., 27; Cong. Ch. of + North Anson, 5, to const. FRANK DINSMORE + L.M. 32.00 + +Portland. "A Friend." 5.00 + +Portland. High St. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud + Indian M._ 5.00 + +Portland. King's Daughters, Alpha Ten + Silver Cross, Package of Basted Work, + _for Selma, Ala._ + +Waterford. Douglass Seminary by Miss + H.E. Douglass, _for Freight to Tougaloo + U._ 5.00 + +West Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. + of C., _for Macon, Ga._ + +Woodfords. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Yarmouth. First Parish Ch. 100.00 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $494.52. + +Amherst. "L.F.B.," _for Storrs Sch., + Atlanta, Ga._ 20.00 + +Atkinson. Joseph Grover 8.00 + +Berlin Mills. Parish Ch. of Christ 8.46 + +Concord. "A Friend." 5; "C.L." 50c. 5.50 + +Dartmouth. Dartmouth Sab. Sch., 25; + Mrs. S.A. Brown, 5, _for Rosebud Indian + M._ 30.00 + +Dumbarton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Mountain Work_ 21.00 + +Dumbarton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Wilmington, N.C._ 10.00 + +Dumbarton. Miss Lizzie F. Burnham, + (1 of which _for Indian M._) 2.00 + +Epping. Cong. Ch., 29.65, to const. DR. + FRANK W. SPAULDING L.M.; Mrs. J.N. + Shepard's S.S. Class, 3 32.65 + +Exeter. Mary E. Shute, 50; "A Friend," 35 85.00 + +Greenville. Cong. Ch. 17.00 + +Hanover. Cong. Ch. at Dartmouth College 10.00 + +Hanover. A.H. Washburn, _for Indian M._ 10.00 + +Hudson. J.G. Proctor (3 of which _for Jellico, + Tenn._) 10; R.E. Winn, 2 12.00 + +Kingston. Prof. A. Wood 10.00 + +Lancaster. Mrs. A.M. Amsden 5.00 + +Londonderry. Chas. S. Pillsbury 1.00 + +Mason. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Ind'l 'Sch., + Thomasville, Ga._ 5.00 + +Nashua. Mrs. Annie D. Richardson's S.S. + Class, _for Rosebud Indian M._ 5.00 + +New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. 4.15 + +Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, _for + Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 21.00 + +Penacook. Two Little Boys, Papers, _for + Savannah, Ga._ + +Portsmouth. "A Member of North Ch." 100.00 + +Tilton. Cong. Ch. 35.00 + +Troy. First Cong. Ch. 6.76 + +West Concord. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., to + const. MRS. C.F. ROPER L.M., _for Storrs + Sch., Atlanta, Ga._ 30.00 + + +VERMONT, $967.31. + +Brandon. Mrs. L.G. Case, + _for Mountain Work_ 5.00 + +Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. 12.38; First + Cong. Ch. and Soc., 4 16.38 + +Burlington. Infant Class, College St. + Sab. Sch., on True Blue Card, + _for Indian M._ 1.00 + +Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 30.00 + +Cornwall. Bbl. of C.; Cash 2, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00 + +East Thetford. Mrs. O.T. Pressey and + Mother 1.90 + +Fayetteville. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Hartland. Cash, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00 + +Marshfield. Lyman Clark 15.00 + +Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to + const. SIDNEY JOHNSON L.M. 41.11 + +North Bennington. Cong. Ch. 7.74 + +North Cornwall. Cong. Ch. 48.20 + +Northfield. Mrs. J.D. Allen. 30, to const. + REV. WILLIAM S. HAZEN L.M.; Cong. + Ch. and Soc., 24.92 54.92 + +Pawlet. A. Flower 2.00 + +Rutland. Cong. Ch. 18.00 + +Saint Albans. Cong. Ch. 125.00 + +Saint Albans. F.S. Stranahan's S.S. + Class, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 + +Saint Johnsbury. Box of C.; Cash 2, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00 + +Springfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. 13.06 + +Weybridge. Bbl. of C.; Cash 2, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00 + + --------- + + $467.31 + +ESTATE. + +Jericho. Estate of Mrs. Lucy Spaulding + by C.M. Spaulding 500.00 + + --------- + + $967.31 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $4,871.39. + +Adams. Mr. Kirk's Class, Cong. S.S., + _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +Amesbury. Main St. Cong. Ch. 9.10 + +Amherst. Amherst College Ch., 131.48; + North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30, to const. + MRS. MARY E. GRAVES L.M.; "A Friend," + Thank Offering, 10 171.48 + +Amherst. First Cong. Ch., 20.42; "A + Friend in First Cong. Ch., Thank Offering," + 10; Mrs. Stearns' School, 8, + _for Indian M._ 38.42 + +Andover. C.E. Goodell, 25; Rev. F.W. + Greene, 20 45.00 + +Andover. Dorcas Mission, 2 Bbls C., + _for Jellico, Tenn._ + +Belchertown. By Mrs. C.F.D. Hazen, + _for Freight_ 0.25 + +Ayer. Paper Mission Soc., Box Papers, + _for Tougaloo U._ + +Beverly. Sab. Sch. of Dane St. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 10.00 + +Boston. Henry Woods, 500; Mrs. + Susan C. Warren, 400; + Old South Ch., by Mrs. + Susan W. Hardy, 50; + J.A. Brown, 50; J.D. + Leland, 25, Chas. H. + Routaw, 25; Mrs. Withington, + 5; Edwin S. + Woodbury, 10; Mrs. + E.P. Eayers, 10; H.M. + Bird, 5; Rev. R.B. + Howard, 2; "Friend," + 1; "A Friend," 1, _for + Girls' Hall, Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 1,084.00 + + S.D. Smith, American + Organ, _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 75.00 + +Dorchester. Mrs. Walter Baker + of Second Cong. + Ch., _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 25.00 + + Mrs. A.W. Torrey, + _for Marion, Ala._ 5.00 + + Mrs. Houston, Pkg. + of Work, _for Selma, Ala._ + +Jamaica Plain. Nellie F. Riley. + Package Cotton Cloth, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Roxbury. John H. Soren 1.75 + + Mrs. J.D. Proctor, + _for Freight, + to Atlanta, Ga._ 1.50 + + Highland Cong. Ch., + 20; Mrs. Campbell, + 2, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 22.00 + +South Boston. Phillips Y.P.S.C.E., + "Thank Offering." 5.00 + + -------- 1,219.25 + +Brimfield. Cong. Ch., Benev. Soc., 14.55; + Second Cong. Ch., 6.91 21.46 + +Buckland. Cong Ch., 23.96; Mrs. E.T. + Smith 1; Mrs. Z.C. Woodward, 50c.; + ----, 50c. 25.96 + +Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch., 77.60; + Pilgrim Ch., M.C. Coll, 6.66 84.26 + +Cambridgeport. "Friend," 25; Mrs. A.E. + Douglass. 10; Miss Lucena Palmer, + 1, _for Girl's Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 36.00 + +Cambridge. Mrs. A.C. Thorpe, 10; Mrs. + Sara C. Bull, 5, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 15.00 + +Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc. 70.46 + +Charlestown. Edward Graves 10.00 + +Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Dalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._ 17.50 + +Dighton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._ 8.00 + +East Bridgewater. Union Cong. Ch. and + Soc. 10.27 + +East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. 9.39 + +Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. 88.98 + +Easthampton. Mrs. W.H. Wright's Sab. + Sch. Class, _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +East Weymouth. "Individuals," 2.70; + "Friend." 25c, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 2.95 + +Enfield. Cong. Ch. 50.00 + +Erving. Rev. Ira A. Smith, _for Student Aid, + Wilmington, S.C._ 8.00 + +Fall River. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 + +Foxboro. Orthodox Cong. Ch., 35.22; + Primary Class, Miss Ellen Jewett, + Teacher, 5 40.22 + +Franklin. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Grand View, Tenn._ 30.00 + +Georgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.00 + +Groveland. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch. 1.00 + +Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. ad'l. 50.00 + +Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. 21.32 + +Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch. 8.75 + +Lowell. "R.S." 5.00 + +Lynn. North Cong. Ch. 50.00 + +Malden. First Cong. Ch., (30 of which to + const. HERBERT PORTER L.M.) 117.00 + +Malden. First Cong. Ch., + _for Mountain Work_ 2.00 + +Mansfield. Ortho. Cong. Ch. 14.85 + +Marblehead. Miss H.A. Richardson. 5; + Miss Anna H. Dana, 5, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + +New Boston. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + +Newbury. First Ch., M.C. Coll 20.34 + +Newton. _For Student Aid, Marion, Ala._ 4.00 + +Northampton. A.L. Williston, 103.15; + Geo. W. Cable, 25, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 128.15 + +North Amherst. Mrs. Henry Stearns 2.50 + +North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 10.88 + +North Hadley. Second Cong. Ch., bal. to + const. DEA. JAMES SPEAR L.M. 10.00 + +North Leominster. "Friends," + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.05 + +Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. 112.50 + +Phillipston. Mrs. Mary P. Estey 5.00 + +Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch., Rev. Edward + Strong and wife 40.00 + +Pittsfield. Mrs. S.H. Stevenson, _for Girls' + Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 1.00 + +Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.50 + +Reading. Cong. Ch. 18.00 + +Rockport. Jun. C.E. Soc. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 3.75 + +Sharon. Cong. Ch and Soc., to const. + E.J. MOSMAN L.M. 30.66 + +Springfield. "H.M." 1,000.00 + +Springfield. Memorial Sab. Sch., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 + +Springfield. Y.P.S.C.E. of Hope Ch., + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 12.00 + +Somerville. Sab. Sch. of Franklin St. + Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Santee Indian Sch._ 40.00 + +Somerville. Young Ladies' Mission Circle + of Franklin St. Ch., _for Santee Indian + Sch._ 20.00 + +Somerville. Y.L.M.C. of Franklin St. + Ch., _for Freight to Santee Agency_ 1.94 + +Somerville. Dea. William Conant 5.00 + +Somerville. "Friend" _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 0.25 + +South Braintree. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +South Framingham. Sab. Sch. of South + Cong. Ch. 16.61 + +South Farmington. G.M. Amsden 5.00 + +South Hadley. First Cong. Ch., 31; + Maria B. Gridley, 5 36.00 + +South Wellfleet. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Taunton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 47.74 + +Taunton. Young Peoples' Union, Trin. + Cong. Ch., 25; Y.P. Union of Broadway + Ch., 25, _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +Ware. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 + +Ware. "Little Sunbeams," for Bird's + Nest, _Indian M._ 25.00 + +Ware. Miss Hitchcock's Class, East Cong. + Sab. Sch. _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 + +Wendell. Mrs. E.H. Evans, 3, _for Mountain + Work_, 2 _for Chinese M._ 5.00 + +West Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + 5 _for Santee Agency_, 5 _for S.S. Work_ 10.00 + +West Dennis Mrs. S.S. Crowell (1 of + which _for Chinese M._) 1.50 + +West Gardner. Mrs. Nettle. M. Fairbanks' + S.S. Class and "Other Friends," + _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 + +Westport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 + +West Somerville. Day St. Ch. 8.89 + +Winchendon. Y.P.S.C.E, bal. to const. + MISS HATTIE M. WYMAN L.M. 10.00 + +Winchester. S. Elliott 10.00 + +Winchester. "A Friend" _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 2.00 + +Wollaston. Correction, Cong. Ch. and + Soc., 31, ack. in April number, should + read to const. REV. B.B. SHERMAN L.M. + +Worcester. Ladies of Union Ch. + _for Indian Sch'p_ 20.50 + +Worcester. W.J. White 5.00 + +----. "A Friend In Massachusetts" 50.00 + +----. "A Friend." 1.00 + +Hampden Benevolent Association, by + Charles Marsh, Treas.: + + Chicopee. First 5.25 + + Ludlow 16.65 + + South Hadley Falls 15.48 + + Westfield. First Cong. Ch. + (of which 50 from Indian + Circle _for Santee Indian Sch._ + Sab. Sch. 20, "Friend" 5, + "Two little children" 5, + "Young Lady" 1.50 _for + Rosebud Indian Sch._, "Two + Friends" _for Indian Work,_ + 15.) 220.23 + + West Springfield, Park St., + _for ed. of Indian Youth_ 21.65 + + --------- + + 279.26 + + --------- + + $4,546.39 + +LEGACY. + +Phillipston. Estate of T. Ward, + by James Watts, Ex. 325.00 + + --------- + + $4,871.39 + + +CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE. + +Waterford, Me. Douglass Seminary, Box + _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Andover. Mass. Miss Mary B. Mills, Box + Magazines, _for Lexington, Ky._ + +Auburndale, Mass. By Miss Norton of + W.H.M.A. Large Bundle Magazines + +Belchertown, Mass. By Mrs. C.F.D. Hazen, + Bbl. and Box, _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Cambridge. Mass. Miss Fannie W. Bowen. + Choice Scrap Album + +Hubbardston, Mass. Package, for "Aunt + Rachel," _Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Marblehead, Mass. Hon. J.J.H. Gregory, + Box Seeds, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Somerville, Mass. Young Ladies' Mission + Circle, Bbl. _for Dakota Home, Santee, Neb._ + +Yarmouth, Mass. First Cong. Sewing Circle, + Box, _for Marion, Ala._ + + +RHODE ISLAND, $47.03. + +Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. 22.03 + +Providence. Mrs. Sarah L. Danielson, + _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 25.00 + +Providence. Mission Band Beneficent Ch., + Papers, _for Savannah, Ga._ + + +CONNECTICUT, $6,623.06. + +Avon. "Friend" _for Mountain Work_ 5.00 + +Bristol. Mrs. Nancy Adams 2.00 + +Bristol. Mrs. Peck's Class Cong. S.S., + _for Indian Sch'p._ 15.00 + +Buckingham. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Canaan. Pilgrim Ch. 16.63 + +Canton Center. "Cherry Blossom Miss. + Band," _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 9.00 + +Cornwall. Sab. Sch, of Cong. Ch. Christmas + Offerings, _for Ind'l Sch., + Thomasville, Ga._ + +Cromwell. G.H. Butler, + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00 + +Durham. Cong. Ch. 10.73 + +East Hartford. Mrs. N.S. Nash, Box C., + _for Williamsburg, Ky._, 1 _for Freight_ 1.00 + +Enfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Ballard Normal Sch., Macon, Ga._ 18.00 + +Essex. Cong. Ch. 20.90 + +Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. + Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00 + +Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch. 62.50 + +Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. + EMELINE S. LEETE, L.M. 30.00 + +Guilford. Hattie E. Seward, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 1.00 + +Hartford. Roland Mather, _for Dakota + Home, Indian M._ 100.00 + +Hartford. Sab. Sch. of Asylum Hill Cong. + Ch., _for Chinese M._ 15.00 + +Lebanon. Goshen Ch. and Soc. 32.00 + +Milford. Plymouth Ch. 39.39 + +New Hartford. Cong. Ch. 34.14 + +New Haven. Church of the Redeemer, + 133; Mrs. Nelson Hall, 50. to const. EVA + A. JUDSON L.M.; Prof. E.E. Salisbury, + 50; Howard Av. Ch. 25.03 258.03 + +New Haven. Sab. Sch. of First Cong, Ch. + 17.50: Mrs. W.M. Parsons, 4 + _for Indian M._ 21.50 + +New London. "X.Y.Z." _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +New Milford. Mrs. Geo. Hine 2.00 + +New Preston. Mrs. Betsey Averill, + _for Indian M._ 10.00 + +Norfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 15.00 + +North Greenwich. Miss Amy Downes 1.00 + +North Stonington. "A Friend" + _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. 2743.97 + +Norwich. Sab. Sch. of Park Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 12.50 + +Norwich. Second Cong. Ch, _for Jewett + Memorial Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 16.86 + +Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 26.40 + +Old Saybrook. The "Seaside" Band of + Young Girls, by Miss Grace A. Paine, + Treas., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Plantsville. Cong. Ch., 97.74; Sab. Sch. + of Cong. Ch., 19.84 117.58 + +Ridgefield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 10.00 + +Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 14.06 + +South Killingly. Rev. W.H. Beard, Papers, + _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Stafford Springs. Cong. Ch. 14.85 + +Terryville. James Woodruff, + _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +Terryville. Cong. Ch. 32.00 + +Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.80 + +Washington Depot. "S." 10.00 + +Waterbury. First Cong. Ch. 120.00 + +Waterbury. Primary Class Second Cong. + Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 30.00 + +Waterbury. Mrs. M.R. Mitchell, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Waterbury. Sunshine Circle, Papers, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Westford. Cong. Ch. 6.72 + +West Suffield. Cong. Ch. 13.28 + +Wethersfield. Mrs. J.C. Francis' S.S. + Class, to const. CHAS. HOWARD WELDON + L.M., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 30.00 + +Wethersfield. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Mountain + Work_, by Minnie A. Havens, Treas. 5.00 + +Windsor. First Cong. Ch., + _for Miss Collins' Indian Work_ 10.00 + +----. "A Connecticut Friend," + _for Indian M._ 300.00 + +----. "A Friend," _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 10.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of + Connecticut, by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec.: + + Essex. The Whatsoevers + Miss. Circle, by Miss A. + Parker, Sec., _for Conn. Ind'l + Sch., Ga._ 5.00 + + Naugatuck. Ladies' Aid + Soc., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., + Ga._ 25.00 + + New Haven. College St. Ch., + by Mrs. Luman Cowles, _for + Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 35.00 + + -------- + + 65.00 + + --------- + + $4,475.84 + + +LEGACY. + +Collinsville. Estate of Mrs. Margaret + McNary Spencer, by Sam'l N. Codding, Ex. 2,147.22 + + --------- + + $6,623.06 + + +NEW YORK, $1,566,68. + +Amsterdam. S. Louise Bell 4.50 + +Aquebogue. Six Little Boy's by Miss + Mamie Benjamin, 6; Miss A.H. Benjamin, + Box C., etc., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 6.00 + +Astoria. Miss Frances W. Blackwell, + _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Ballard + Normal Sch., Macon, Ga._ 900.00 + +Brooklyn. Clarence F. Birdseye, + _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 + +Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Presb, Ch., 2 Bbls. + C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Buffalo. First Cong. Ch., _for Freedmen + and Indian Work_ and to const. MRS. AGNES + B. EARL, MRS. EMMA D. KINSLEY + and MISS AGNES DICK L.M's 100.00 + +Buffalo. Wm. W. Hammond, + _for Indian M._ 2.00 + +Canandaigua. King's Daughters of Cong. + Ch., _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +Flushing. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Oaks, N.C._ 40.00 + +Granby Center. Mrs. J.C. Harrington 10.00 + +Honeoye. Cong. Ch. 7.15 + +Lowville. "E." 9.50 + +Mount Sinai. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Mount Vernon. Y.P.S.C.E. of Reformed + Ch., by Miss C. Pearson 5.53 + +New York. Miss S.R. Kendall, 24, + "Friend," 5, _for Chapel, Santee + Indian M._ 29.00 + +New York. Mrs. L.H. Spelman, _for Student Aid, + Atlanta U._ 25.00 + +New York. Mrs. E.B. Monroe, _for Ind'l + Sch., Thomasville, Ga._ 20.00 + +New York. A.P. Blevin, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + +New York. Mrs. O.M. Scripture 0.50 + +Paris. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + +Perry Centre. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 18.56 + +Richford. Mrs Lucy E. Allen 4.00 + +Sherburne. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 20.94 + +Walton. Y.P.S.C.E., by Mary S. Colton, + Sec., _for Ballard Normal Sch., + Macon, Ga._ 10.50 + +Westmoreland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Wilmington. Allie M. Bell, on "True + Blue" Card 1.50 + +Woodstock. Miss F. Butler, Package C., + _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., + by Mrs. L H. Cobb, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Brooklyn. Ladies' Benev. + Ass'n of Central Cong. Ch. 225.00 + + Geddes. Ladies' Aux. 5.00 + + Homer. "Band of Hope." 3.50 + + Jamestown. Woman's Aux. + to const. MRS. S.E. WOODIN + L.M. 30.00 + + Napoli. Ladies' Soc. 11.00 + + ------- + + 274.50 + + +NEW JERSEY, $315.89. + +Arlington. Mission Band _for Student Aid_ 0.75 + +East Orange. F.W. Van Wagenen, _for + Student Aid, Marion, Ala._ 8.50 + +Moorestown. A.S. and H.F. Carter, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Murray Hill. Dr. S.H. Bassinger 10.00 + +Nutley. Miss Lydia M. Story, + _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +Orange Valley. Cong. Ch. 205.64 + +Parsippany. Mrs. M.F. Condit 1.00 + +Roselle. "A Friend," _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 50.00 + +Salem. W. Graham Tyler, to const. + KATHERINE L. TYLER L.M. 30.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $56.50. + +Carbondale. Rev. D.L. Davis 2.00 + +Driftwood. F.E. Blackwell, _for Student + Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 + +Philadelphia. "A Friend" _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 20.00 + +Philadelphia. Susan Longstreth, Pkg. + Books; Miss R.C. Sheppard, 2, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 2.00 + +Pittsburg. Mrs. Hannah B. Rea, _for Ind'l + Sch., Thomasville, Ga._ 1.50 + +Ridgway. First Cong. Ch. 26.00 + + +OHIO, $545.41. + +Atwater. "A Friend." 105.00 + +Brookfield. Welsh Cong. Ch. 4.00 + +Bryan. S.E. Blakeslee 5.50 + +Castalia. First Ch. and Sab. Sch. 6.00 + +Cincinnati. Ladies of Central Ch., Box + C., _for Fisk U._ + +Cleveland. T.W. Low, 10; Mrs. C.A. + Garlick, 1.50 11.50 + +Cleveland. Rev. M.L. Berger, D.D., + _for Student Aid, Talladega, Ala._ 6.00 + +Cleveland. "Young People." by Miss E.A. + Johnson, _for Mountain Work_ 1.50 + +Cleveland. Mrs. A.J. Smith, Box Papers, + etc., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Elyria. Ladles' Soc. of Cong. Ch., 8 + _for Wilmington, N.C. and for Freight_ 80c. 8.80 + +Hudson. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Kingsville. Ladies' M. Soc. of Presb. Ch., + Bbl. of C., Cash 2.50, and _for Freight + 1.89, for St. Augustine, Fla._ 4.39 + +Madison. Central Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Medina. Miss Fannie Thomson's S.S. + Class, 5: Rev. Norman Plass' Class, 5, on + True Blue Cards 10.00 + +Medina. Cong. Ch., Cards, by Miss Hard; + Papers by May Woodward, _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Norwalk. Cong. Ch. 11.00 + +Sandusky. First Cong. Ch. 12.20 + +Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Burton. "A Friend" 2.00 + + Lodi. H.M.S. _for Miss Collins' + Indian Work_ 5.00 + + Madison. Center Ch. W.H.M.S. 10.00 + + Medina. W.M.S., Cong. Ch. 10.00 + + Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 75.00 + + Oberlin. L.S., Second Ch. 18.77 + + West Williamsfield. Woman's + Aux. _for Mist Collins' + Indian Work_ 6.15 + + West Williamsfield, Willing + Workers, _for Miss Collins' + Indian Work_ 2.60 + + ------- 129.52 + + --------- + + $345.41 + + +LEGACY. + +Paddy's Run. Estate of Mrs. Mary A. + Davies, by Abner Francis 200.00 + + --------- + + $545.41 + + +ILLINOIS, $1,069.88. + +Aurora. First Cong. Ch. 23.19 + +Belvidere. Mrs. M.C. Foote, 5, _for Tillotson + C. & N. Inst._, 3 _for Woman's Work_ 8.00 + +Camp Point. S.B. McKinney 10.00 + +Chenoa. Mrs. E.M. Pike, _for Mobile, Ala._ 8.90 + +Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 83.45; W.E. + Sanford, 25; New England Cong. Ch., + 86.12; W.H.M.U. South Cong. Ch., 15 209.57 + +Chicago. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Leavitt + St. Cong. Ch., _for Sch'p End't Fund, + Fisk U._ 30.00 + +Chicago. Mrs. E.C. Hancock and Friends, + Bbl. C., etc.; Mrs. C.E. Stanley, Box + remnants, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Crete. Mrs. A.D. Reed 25.00 + +Crystal Lake. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Danville. Mrs. A.M. Swan, Package Cotton + Cloth, _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Earlville. "J.A.D." 25.00 + +Farm Ridge. B.U. Heister and Sister 25.00 + +Farmington. Geo. W. Little, 15; Mrs. + Theodore Tarleton, dec'd, 10 35.00 + +Forrest. Cong. Ch. 17.32 + +Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean 2.50 + +Geneseo. First Cong. Ch. 105.25 + +Hinsdale. Cong. Ch., bal. to const, J.W. + BUSHNELL and FLETCHER LINSLEY L.M's 34.00 + +Hyde Park. Classes in S.S. by Miss Comstock, + 3, A.W. Cole, 2, Olin family, 1, + _for Marion, Ala._ 6.00 + +Kewanee. Cong. Ch. to const. DEA. WILSON + A. MINNICK, SAMUEL BENNISON and + MRS. MARTHA M. PRATT L.M's 83.08 + +Lisbon. Dr. G. Kendall 1.00 + +Lyndon. Cong. Ch. 7.00 + +Lyonsville. L.B.S., _for Miss Collins' + Indian Work_ 3.80 + +New Windsor. L.M.S. 5.00 + +Oak Park. Mrs. Elizabeth Durham, + _for Chinese M._ 5.00 + +Odell. Mrs. H.E. Dana 10.00 + +Peoria. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV. + D.K. NESBIT, L.F. HOUGHTON, MRS. + SARAH P. HOWE, MRS. MARGARET R. + SCHIMPFF and MISS SARAH F. LINES, L.M's 151.82 + +Princeton. Mrs. P.B. Corss 8.00 + +Rio. Y.P.S.C.E., by Mary Hall, Sec. 11.65 + +Washington Heights. Bethany Sab. Sch., + _for Mountain Work_ 6.22 + +Wyoming. Y.P.S.C.E. 4.67 + +----. "Friends in Illinois," _for Sch'p + End't Fund, Fisk U._ 120.96 + + +MICHIGAN, $375.38. + +Alpena. Cong. Ch. 25.00 + +Alpena. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Wilmington, N.C._ 10.00 + +Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch. 63.00 + +Benzonia. Amasa Waters 20.00 + +Canandaigua. Cong. Ch. 1.90 + +Clinton. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Detroit. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 38.23 + +Detroit. Mrs. A.T. Twiss, _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ 5.00 + +Grand Ledge. Miss E. Beckwith 12.00 + +Morenci. Cong. Ch. 5.10 + +New Baltimore. Cong. Ch. 15.65 + +Port Huron. First Cong. Ch. 44.50 + +Richland. Alice Harvey, _for Student Aid, + Memphis, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Romeo. Cong. Ch. 27.00 + +----. Friends in Michigan, _for Sch'p + End't Fund, Fisk U._ 83.00 + + +IOWA, $248.14. + +Atlantic. Allie McCarthy, + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 0.50 + +Bear Grove. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Belmond. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Box of + Books, _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Charles City. Cong. Ch. 16.00 + +Chester Center. Cong. Ch., 13.96; + Christian Endeavor Soc., 2.08 16.04 + +Danville. S.H. Mix 5.00 + +Davenport. Mrs. M. Willis, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 0.75 + +Des Moines. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 11.00 + +De Witt. Y.P.S.C.E. 2.25 + +Eldon. Sab. Sen. of Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 10.00 + +Fontanelle. Y.P.S.C.E. 3.75 + +Iowa City. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 8.13 + +Jefferson. Rev. D.B. Ells 5.00 + +Lewis. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +Mitchellville. Cong. Ch. adl. 2.45 + +New Providence. "A Friend." 5.00 + +Newton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch, _for Sch'p + End't Fund, Fisk U._ 10.80 + +Newton. Cong. Ch. adl. 3.70 + +Tipton. Mrs. M.D. Clapp 4.50 + +Shenandoah. Cards and Papers by Mrs. Todd, + _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Waverly. Cong. Ch. 5.32 + +Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, + _for Woman's Work_: + + Algona 11.60 + + Anamosa. W.M.S. 8.00 + + Chester Center. W.H.M.U. 1.25 + + Council Bluffs. W.M.S. 10.00 + + Denmark. L.M.S. 5.00 + + Dubuque. S.S. 8.60 + + Farragut. W.M.S. 10.00 + + Mount Pleasant. L.M.S. 3.50 + + Riceville. L.M.S. 1.00 + + Waucoma. L.H.M.U. 19.00 + + ------- $77.95 + + --------- + + $198.14 + +ESTATE. + +Grand Junction. Estate of John Thompson 50.00 + + --------- + + $248.14 + + +WISCONSIN, $614.33. + +Clinton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box and + Bbl. of C., _for Marion, Ala._ + +Fulton. Cong. Ch. 10.07 + +Hartford. Mrs. R. Freeman, "in + Memory of Mary L. Freeman." 10.00 + +Hartland. G.W. Henderson and Friends, + Box Clothing, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Janesville. Rev. Lewis P. Frost and Wife 5.00 + +Kenosha. Thomas Gillespie 25.00 + +Lake Geneva. G. Montague 4.00 + +Paris and Bristol. "Friends." Bbl. C., + _for Thomasville, Ga._, 2.24 _for Freight_ 2.24 + +Prairie du Sac. Sewing Material, + _for Meridian, Miss._ + +Potosi. Cong. Ch. 4.02 + +Union Grove. Cong. Ch., 15; Cong. Sab. + Sch., 5 20.00 + +Waukesha. "Friends in Cong. Ch.," _for + Student Aid, Fisk U._ 24.00 + +Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor 5.00 + +West Salem. Mrs. E.W. Jenney, + _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +Whitewater. Sewing Material + _for Meridian, Miss._ + + --------- + + $114.33 + +ESTATES. + +Milwaukee. Estate of William Dawes, + by J.H. Dawes, Executor 500.00 + + --------- + + $614.33 + + +MINNESOTA, $91.25. + +Alexandria. "A Friend." 3.00 + +Cannon Falls. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + +Glenwood. Cong. Ch. 2.58 + +Glyndon. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Basted + Patchwork, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Grand Meadow. T. Skyberg, Package S.S. + Papers, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Hastings. D.B. Truax 5.00 + +Lake City. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + Package Easter Exercises, + _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Little Falls. Cong. Ch. 3.75 + +Minneapolis. Plym. Ch., + _for Hampton Inst._ 5.00 + +Minneapolis. Open Door Cong. Ch. 2.65 + +Minneapolis. Mrs. E.F. Murdock, + 7 Basted Gingham Aprons, + 5 Handkerchiefs and Cases + +Owatonna. First Cong. Ch. 12.08 + +Plainview. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + Box of S.S. Books, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Rochester. Cong. Ch. 31.59 + +Rushford. Cong. Ch. 5.05 + +Worthington. Union Cong. Ch. 5.55 + + +MISSOURI, $29.50. + +Garden City. W.B. Wills, 10; P.M. Wills, 1; + A.C. Wills, 1 12.00 + +Hannibal. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 17.50 + + +KANSAS, $148.07. + +Anthony. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Blue Rapids. "Blue Rapids Junior Soc." 2.85 + +Topeka. First Cong. Ch. 136.22 + +Topeka. Band of Hope S.S. Class, 50 + Copies "Water Lily" _for Meridian, Miss._ + +White City. "Willing Workers" Mission + Band of Cong. Ch. 6.00 + + +NEBRASKA, $159.73. + +Arborville. Cong. Ch. 6.10 + +Beatrice. Cong. Ch. 5.10 + +Blair. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + +Fairmont. Cong Ch. adl. 6.80 + +Franklin. Cong. Ch. adl. 1.56 + +Greenwood. Cong. Ch. 14.17 + +Linwood. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Long Pine. First Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Santee Agency. S.L. Voorhees, 50; H.A. + Brown, 30 80.00 + +Waverly. Cong. Ch. 11.00 + + +DAKOTA, $53.86. + +Harwood. Cong. Ch. 1.08 + +Huron. First Cong Ch. 42.58 + +Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_ + + Ashton. W.M.S. 3.20 + + Fire Steel. W.M.S. 2.00 + + Sioux Falls. W.M.S. 5.00 + + ------- 10.20 + + +UTAH, $5.00. + +Ogden. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. 5.00 + + +CALIFORNIA, $122.58. + +Grass Valley. Cong. Ch. 122.58 + + +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $10.19. + +Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch. 10.19 + + +KENTUCKY, $1.66. + +Woodbine. Rev. E.H. Bullock 1.66 + + +VIRGINIA, $3.20. + +Herndon. Cong. Ch. 3.20 + + +TENNESSEE, $22.50. + +Deer Lodge. Cong. Ch. 2.50 + +Grandview. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Jonesboro. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Sherwood. "Unknown Friends," 5 Packages + Patchwork, etc., _for Sewing Sch._ + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $7.25. + +Troy. S.D. Leak 4.25 + +Nalls. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + +Hillsboro. Mrs. C.E. Jones 2.00 + + +GEORGIA, $1.55. + +Cypress Slash. Cong. Ch. 1.55 + + +ALABAMA, $13.53. + +Marion. Cong. Ch. 5.53 + +Mobile. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Selma. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + + +MISSISSIPPI, 60c. + +Piney Grove. By Rev. E. Tapley 0.60 + + +CANADA, $5.00. + +Montreal. Charles Alexander 5.00 + + +TURKEY, $10.00 + +Mardin. Mrs. Ellen Ainsle, 5 _for Chinese M._ + and 5 _for Mountain Work_ 10.00 + + +EAST AFRICA + +Kambeni. Rev. B.F. Ousley, _for Theo. + Dept., Fisk U._ 10.00 + + ---------- + +Donations $14,948.73 + +Estates 3,722.22 + + ---------- + + $18,670.95 + + +INCOME, $455.00. + +Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 355.00 + +C.F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ 50.00 + +General Endowment Fund, + _for Freedmen_ 50.00 + + ------- 455.00 + + +TUITION, $4,810.18. + +Lexington, Ky., Tuition 881.23 + +Williamsburg, Ky., Tuition 109.30 + +Genesis, Tenn., Tuition 3.12 + +Grand View, Tenn., Tuition 35.00 + +Jellico, Tenn., Tuition 70.33 + +Jonesboro, Tenn., Tuition 27.15 + +Memphis, Tenn., Tuition 468.95 + +Nashville, Tenn., Tuition 650.15 + +Pleasant Hill, Tenn., Tuition 28.65 + +Beaufort, N.C., Tuition Pub. Fund 32.20 + +Wilmington, N.C., Tuition 122.60 + +Charleston, S.C., Tuition 212.37 + +Atlanta, Ga., Storrs Sch., + Tuition 239.20 + +Macon, Ga., Tuition 294.70 + +McIntosh, Ga., Tuition 55.40 + +Savannah, Ga., Tuition 197.25 + +Thomasville, Ga., Tuition 74.25 + +Athens, Ala., Tuition 74.65 + +Marion, Ala., Tuition 112.06 + +Mobile, Ala., Tuition 193.40 + +Talladega, Ala., Tuition 139.45 + +Meridian, Miss., Tuition 75.85 + +Tougaloo, Miss., Tuition 177.25 + +New Orleans, La., Tuition 338.50 + +Austin, Texas, Tuition 197.27 + + -------- 4,810.18 + +United States Government for the + education of Indians 5,254.02 + + --------- + +Total for March $29,190.15 + + ========== + + +SUMMARY. + +Donations $95,843.37 + +Estates 15,194.10 + + ----------- + + $111,037.47 + +Income 4,829.21 + +Tuition 18,781.58 + +United States Government appropriation + for Indians 9,540.87 + + ----------- + +Total from Oct. 1 to March 31 $144,189.13 + + =========== + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +Subscriptions for March 76.14 + +Previously acknowledged 532.99 + + ------- + +Total 690.13 + + +DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE. + +Income for March, 1889, from investments 1,500.00 + +Previously acknowledged 7,354.86 + + --------- + + $8,854.86 + + +H.W. 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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. 5, May, 1889 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 23, 2005 [EBook #16118] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** 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 + + + + + + +</pre> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i"></a>[i]</span></p> +<h1>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY</h1> + +<hr class="full" /> +<table class="volume" width="100%" summary="Title"> + <tr> + <td width="25%" align="left"><b>Vol. XLIII.</b></td> + <td width="50%" align="center"><b>May, 1889.</b></td> + <td width="25%" align="right"><b>No. 5.</b></td> + </tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> + +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + +<ul> + <li><a href="#EDITORIAL"><b>EDITORIAL.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#FINANCIAL"><span class="smcap">Financial</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#CENTENNIAL"><span class="smcap">Centennial</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#CONGREGATIONALISM_IN_GEORGIA"><span class="smcap">Congregationalism in Georgia</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#NOTES_FROM_THE_SOUTH"><span class="smcap">Notes from the South</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#ILLUMINATED_SPOTS"><span class="smcap">Illuminated Spots</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#THE_GOVERNMENT_AND_THE_INDIANS"><span class="smcap">The Government and the Indians</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#NOTES_FROM_NEW_ENGLAND"><span class="smcap">Notes from New England</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#WHAT_THE_WORLD_SAYS"><span class="smcap">What the World Says</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#PARAGRAPHS"><span class="smcap">Paragraphs</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#SOUTHERN_ECHOES"><span class="smcap">Southern Echoes</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#BOOK_NOTICE"><span class="smcap">Book Notice</span></a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><a href="#THE_SOUTH"><b>THE SOUTH.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#THE_GEORGIA_CONGREGATIONAL_ASSOCIATION"><span class="smcap">The Georgia Congregational Association</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#EVANGELISTIC_LABORS"><span class="smcap">Evangelistic Labors</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#THOMASVILLE_GEORGIA"><span class="smcap">Thomasville, Ga.</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#MRS_LYDIA_HERRICK_BENNETT"><span class="smcap">Death of Mrs. Bennett</span></a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><a href="#THE_INDIANS"><b>THE INDIANS.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#PERILS_OF_MISSIONARY_LIFE"><span class="smcap">Perils of Missionary Life</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#FIRST_FRUITS"><span class="smcap">First Fruits</span></a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><a href="#THE_CHINESE"><b>THE CHINESE.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#LOS_ANGELES_CONGREGATIONAL_CHINESE_MISSION"><span class="smcap">Los Angeles Congregational Chinese Mission</span></a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><a href="#BUREAU_OF_WOMANS_WORK"><b>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#Womans_Home_Missionary_Association"><span class="smcap">Woman's Home Missionary Association</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#Alabama"><span class="smcap">Alabama Association</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#THREE_NEW_ORGANIZATIONS_IN_THE_SOUTH"><span class="smcap">Three New Organizations in the South</span></a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><a href="#OUR_YOUNG_FOLKS"><b>OUR YOUNG FOLKS.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#HOW_THE_PENNIES_GREW"><span class="smcap">How the Pennies Grew</span></a></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><a href="#RECEIPTS_FOR_MARCH_1889"><b>RECEIPTS</b></a></li> +</ul> + +<hr class="quarter" /> + +<div class="center"><b>NEW YORK:<br /> +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.<br /> +Rooms, 56 Reade Street.</b></div> +<br /> + +<div class="center">Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.<br /> +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.</div> +<br /> +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii"></a>[ii]</span></p> +<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2> + + +<ul> + <li>PRESIDENT, Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Taylor</span>, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.</li> + <li><i>Vice-Presidents.</i> + <ul> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">A.J.F. Behrends</span>, D.D., N.Y.</li> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Alex. McKenzie</span>, D.D., Mass.</li> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">F.A. Noble</span>, D.D., Ill.</li> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">D.O. Mears</span>, D.D., Mass.</li> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Hopkins</span>, D.D., Mo.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Corresponding Secretaries.</i> + <ul> + <li>Rev. M.E. <span class="smcap">Strieby</span>, D.D., <i>56 Reads Street, N.Y.</i></li> + <li>Rev. A.F. <span class="smcap">Beard</span>, D.D., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Recording Secretary.</i> + <ul> + <li>Rev. M.E. <span class="smcap">Strieby</span>, D.D., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Treasurer.</i> + <ul> + <li><span class="smcap">H.W. Hubbard</span>, Esq., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Auditors.</i> + <ul> + <li><span class="smcap">Peter McCartee</span>.</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Chas. P. Peirce</span>.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Executive Committee.</i> + <ul> + <li><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>, Chairman.</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>, Secretary.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li> + <ul> + <li><i>For Three Years.</i> + <ul> + <li><span class="smcap">J.E. Rankin</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Wm. H. Ward</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">J.W. Cooper</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Edmund L. Champlin</span>.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>For Two Years.</i> + <ul> + <li><span class="smcap">Lyman Abbott</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Chas. A. Hull</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>For One Year.</i> + <ul> + <li><span class="smcap">S.B. Halliday</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Samuel S. Marples</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Charles L. Mead</span>,</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Elbert B. Monroe</span>.</li> + </ul> + </li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>District Secretaries.</i> + <ul> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">C.J. Ryder</span>, <i>21 Cong'l House, Boston.</i></li> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">J.E. Roy</span>, D.D., <i>151 Washington Street, Chicago.</i></li> + </ul> + </li> +<li><i>Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.</i> + <ul> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Chas. W. Shelton</span>.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Field Superintendents.</i> + <ul> + <li>Rev.<span class="smcap"> Frank E. Jenkins</span>,</li> + <li>Prof. <span class="smcap">Edward S. Hall</span>.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Secretary Of Woman's Bureau.</i> + <ul> + <li>Miss <span class="smcap">D.E. Emerson</span>, <i>56 Reade St. N.Y.</i></li> + </ul> + </li> +</ul> + + +<h4><br />COMMUNICATIONS</h4> + +<p>Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the +Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the +Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the +Treasurer.</p> + + +<h4>DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</h4> + +<p>In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be +sent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 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.</p> + + +<p>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.</p> + + +<h4>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h4> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121"></a>[121]</span><a name="EDITORIAL" id="EDITORIAL"></a></p> + +<h2>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h2> + +<table width="60%" summary="Title" align="center"> + <tr> + <td align="left" width="25%"><b><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> XLIII.</b></td> + <td align="center" width="50%"><b>MAY, 1889.</b></td> + <td align="right" width="25%"><b><span class="smcap">No.</span> 5.</b></td> + </tr> +</table> +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<h2><a name="FINANCIAL" id="FINANCIAL"></a>FINANCIAL.</h2> + +<p>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY presents its greetings for the month of May. Six +months of our fiscal year are now in the past. The half year which we +anticipate includes the summer time, when many of the friends of the +ignorant millions to whom we are sent, are absent from their churches. +The months of May and June ought to swell the stream of love and service +against the season when the demand will continue and income will be +small.</p> + +<p>We appealed last month for an increase of the contributions in <i>church</i> +collections. We renew and emphasize that appeal, for these collections +are the steady streams on which we rely to keep in motion the wheels of +the large and ever enlarging work of the Association. We believe that +the interest in this great work is on the increase. We rejoice that "the +most prolific missionary field ever opened to any Christian people— +right here at our doors," is gaining upon the interest and benevolence +of the churches year by year. Never were the friends of the cause mote +responsive; never was the work more hopeful. The work enlarges, and the +people's faith enlarges. Their gifts to Christ for his poor were never +freer.</p> + +<p>We have been greatly favored with special gifts. Every one of them is +needed. It is a blessed thing that one can plant his benevolences in +some special institution or feature of work, and know that the +influences are to follow on after the giver has gone to a higher world. +But we do hope that the CHURCHES OF CHRIST, AS CHURCHES, will not fail +to keep step with the providences of God in their church contributions.</p> + +<p>It is also true that some fear that the day of LEGACIES is to come to an +end. Indeed, there are those who take a solemn comfort in bewailing and +fearing that everything is to come to an end. They mix a pound of +forebodings with an ounce of faith. If, for some unseen reasons in the +movements of life and death, legacies do not appear with the regularity +of insurance tables, they think the day of legacies is dead. +Nevertheless legacies will continue as long as Christians pass from +earth to heaven. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122"></a>[122]</span>There will always be faithful souls who will remember +Christ and his cause in their wills. There will always be those who may +not be able to divide their estates and to dispose of portions of them +while they live, who will yet provide that they may see their works +following them, when they shall look down from a world redeemed, to a +world for whose redemption Christ lived and died. There will always be +legacies, and the American Missionary Association, so long as it follows +in the steps of Christ in such mission as it has, will not be forgotten. +The legacies will come, because they ought to come. The people of God +will remember this work in their wills because they ought to do this, +and God will take care that what Christian stewards ought to do, shall +be done.</p> + +<p>We thank God for SPECIAL GIFTS. We thank God for LEGACIES. We also thank +God for the ability and faith and sacrifices of those who cannot plant +institutions or build or endow schools, but who live and give that which +provides for the unceasing CURRENT EXPENSES. Almost every one can do a +little more, and it is the many littles that make the difference between +a debt with a crippled work, and freedom from debt with healthful +growth. All along the lines, the calls for help are so urgent, that it +is painful for us, in the name of the church, to be constantly saying +"No!"</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='left'>OUR RECEIPTS for the past six months (ending March 31) are as follows:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Church contributions</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$95,843.37</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Estates and legacies</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15,194.10</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Tuition from schools</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18,781.58</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Income from invested funds</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4,829.21</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Income from the United States Government</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9,540.87</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>—————</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Total</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$144,189.13</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>OUR PAYMENTS for the past six months are </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$171,237.64</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>OUR DEFICIT is</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>27,048.51</td></tr> +</table> +</div> +<br /><br /> +<p>The churches can easily take this out of the way if they will. We +believe that they will.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CENTENNIAL" id="CENTENNIAL"></a>CENTENNIAL.</h2> + +<p>These pages will come before our readers amid the enthusiastic +rejoicings of a great nation celebrating the one hundredth anniversary +of its Constitution—a Constitution that has been tried and found +worthy.</p> + +<p>The greatest strain to which this great charter has been subjected in +the past hundred years has been occasioned by slavery. The crisis cost +untold blood and treasure. The great strain of the next hundred years +will be what slavery has left behind it—a vast and growing black +population, and an imbittered race prejudice.</p> + +<p>There is but one way to meet this strain of the coming century, and that +is by the education of the blacks. The task is great, but if the +American people will awake to its urgency and put forth the needed +effort, the crisis may be averted. We call upon all Christian people, +and upon all patriots, to <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123"></a>[123]</span>begin this new century with the purpose to +increase their contributions for this great object. We ask them to begin +at once and to continue steadily—in church contributions, in personal +gifts, and, not to forget the object in the making of wills.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CONGREGATIONALISM_IN_GEORGIA" id="CONGREGATIONALISM_IN_GEORGIA"></a>CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA.</h2> + +<p>Our readers are aware that there are two Congregational Organizations in +the State of Georgia. The Georgia Congregational Association was +organized in 1878, and is composed of about a dozen colored churches, +some of their pastors being white and some colored. The United +Congregational Conference of Georgia was formed a little more than a +year ago, is a much larger body, and is composed of white pastors and +churches. With a view to a possible union of these two organizations, +committees have been appointed by each, and, in another column, we lay +before our readers the propositions to that end, made by the Committee +of the Georgia Association. We cannot withhold our expression of +satisfaction with the Christian spirit exhibited in this document, and +the readiness to accept any possible alternative to secure the union. +The Congregational Churches of the country will feel an interest in +marking the progress of these negotiations, and will hail with delight a +consummation that will relieve the denomination from the embarrassment +of sanctioning two organizations in the same State that seem to be +separated only by the color-line.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="NOTES_FROM_THE_SOUTH" id="NOTES_FROM_THE_SOUTH"></a>NOTES FROM THE SOUTH.</h2> + +<h4>BY SECRETARY A.F. BEARD.</h4> + +<p>Once more in Nashville. There is no question in my mind but that +Nashville is the educational leader in the South. It is a city of hills +which are crowned with institutions for white and black. These are the +beginnings of greater and better days for this part of "our country." My +duties have taken me to Fisk University. It is a college which has +justly won very high praise. Jubilee and Livingstone Halls are +significant names. One speaks of an historic event, and the other of an +historic person, but the work that goes on in both these large buildings +does no dishonor to one name or the other.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>When Congressman Kelley, of Pennsylvania, was in Nashville, he visited +Fisk University. He afterwards told me that he could not conceal his +surprise at what he saw and heard and only with difficulty his emotion +when he arose to address the students.</p> + +<p>I have now visited Fisk several times. I am each time more impressed +with the fidelity and quality of the work on the part of the students, +and the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124"></a>[124]</span>patient enthusiasm of the professors and of the teachers. If +there were to be no other or greater results than those of the past and +the present, all that has been done for Fisk University would be +justified.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>From Nashville to Sparta, Tenn., and then a rough, tough ride up the +mountain side, "rattling the bones over the stones" until at length we +have climbed the Cumberland Plateau. We arrive at no-where in +particular, which is named Pleasant Hill. Here are a neat church, which +is both church and school, and a sightly building of two stories with a +third under the mansard roof, which will accommodate forty boys. A few +houses are visible from the top of this building, but no one could guess +where forty mountain boys and as many girls might be living. +Nevertheless they have been discovered, and it was none too soon. +Missionary Dodge did not locate in Pleasant Hill before the time. He +realized this. He looked about him and looked up and down. He saw things +which were invisible. He saw castles in the air. It must be confessed +that the office at Reade Street, fearing lest it might "trust the +churches" too much, had not the faith which could take hold of these +castles in the air and anchor them to the soil of Pleasant Hill; but +Brother Dodge got his grapples out and pulled down a church building +from the heavens. Well done; now surely he should rest from his labors +and give himself and us time to breathe. No; a visible church only +stimulated his faith, it did not satisfy it. This church was a place in +which he could read the eleventh chapter of Hebrews every Sunday. The +result was the "Hall" for young men and for the teachers. Now we are in +it and are glad. The Massachusetts Principal gave us welcome, the +Oberlin Vice-Principal endorsed it, while the Matron materialized the +spirit of welcome in a way calculated to excite gratitude, from the fact +that missionaries cannot live absolutely on faith.</p> + +<p>Next the young men were introduced. One of them was seized with +undisguised curiosity to behold a minister whose theological system some +institution had found it necessary to doctor. It is, perhaps, the first +instance on record in modern times where these semi-lunar fardels have +been looked upon with respect and curiosity. When "Brother Dodge" came, +congratulations were in order over his Church, his School and his Hall, +but he would have none of it. He was seeing another building floating in +the clouds, and could only talk of the invisible. It will, however, soon +be among things visible, for the missionary has his grapples out. It is +to be a Boarding Hall and Industrial Home for girls who will come into +it and learn to live and to be. "But, Pleasant Hill is not a town, it is +not a village, it is only by courtesy a hamlet. Where are your pupils?" +"The woods are full of them and they will come from near and from far," +replies their young missionary of more than three score and ten years. +On Sunday, the church was filled; on Monday, the school was full; and +our heart was full of thanksgiving that God had come to these mountain +people, that hope would enter their lives and their <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125"></a>[125]</span>cabins, and that +these boys and girls would now step up in Christian manhood and +womanhood.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>One of the impressive thoughts which a visit to an institution like Fisk +University is sure to excite, is the relation of all this work to the +future. Apropos of this, the Rev. J.O.A. Clark, D.D., LL.D., of Macon, +Ga., has just written a little tract of fifty pages on "The Future of +the Races." He does not vote in New England, nor is he a Yankee; but he +is a good and true witness. He says, that the Races are running races +along the paths of knowledge and up the hills of science. These are his +words (pages 19 and 20): "Have they" [the colored people] "availed +themselves of the educational facilities? Have they profited by them? We +answer that they have been incalculably benefited. They have shown not +only that they can receive education, but education of a high order. +Their improvement has been so astonishing as to silence doubt and +caviling. Our Southern eyes have been opened to see it. Southern candor +is free to admit it. There are none who do not admit it but the +hopelessly prejudiced. I am persuaded that the <i>average</i> examinations in +the colored schools are better than the average in the white schools, +for teachableness is the basis of all education, and this universally +distinguishes the negro." Dr. Clark is not saying that the white boy may +not learn more easily and master more rapidly, but rather is telling how +the hare came out second in the race with his competitor not so fleet of +foot, but which had the gift of patient continuance in well-doing. Still +he accentuates the fact that "their improvement is astonishing." I am +sure that no one can visit Fisk University without having all his doubts +dispersed as to the future of the negro race. It is to have a future.</p> + +<p>This leads me to quote the closing words of Dr. Clark's significant +pamphlet (page 52): "All Africa stretches out her hands to God; to the +work of delivering her fatherland from heathenism. God is calling the +blacks of these Southern States. They are to be the chief instruments in +giving the Gospel of Christ to the benighted land of their fathers. +Wherefore, let the work of Christian, and so sanctified, education go +on."</p> + +<p>All this is true, and it means that in our American Missionary +Association the ministerial education must now be made more prominent. +When white missionaries can say, as one whose bones are in the soil of +the Dark Continent did say, "Let a thousand fall before Africa shall be +given up," the children of Africa must respond, "Africa shall be +evangelized by Africans." That is, we must have more and better +theological schools for the Negro people. The demand for educated Negro +ministers, who know what religion is, and what purity is, will be +greater and greater.</p> + +<p>The demand for <i>missionaries</i> of the negro race who can realize that +"Christianity is a missionary religion," will be greater, also. We can +scarcely expect that those who came out of Egypt will become +missionaries to Egypt. The apprehension of missionary responsibility +comes with a <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126"></a>[126]</span>developed Christianity. The missionary sense came to the +Apostles themselves very slowly. It came to the Christian Church slowly. +The African people in America, I trust, will seize upon it more rapidly, +for they have a large emotional nature and great faith. What they now +need is education and intellectual character, and those qualities which +give shape, and tone, and persistence, to the forces which direct and +control events.</p> + +<p>Men who have been slaves may not take on this, and their children may +not in great numbers. But their children's children are coming on +multitudinously, and from them must go those who shall preach the Gospel +to their own race in Africa. For psychological as well as physiological +reasons this must be. Not only because they can live, and whites cannot, +in Africa, but because, other things being equal, they can do this work +better with their own race. Said Christ, "Go home to thy friends, and +tell what great things the Lord hath done for thee."</p> + +<p>All of which says that the Fisk must now add to its great work a +thorough theological school, and must urge its students to listen to the +voice of God and to answer when God calls, "Speak, Lord, thy servant +heareth." More and better ministers are needed both for Africa in the +United States and Africa across the sea. He will give wisely who will +give quickly for this.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="ILLUMINATED_SPOTS" id="ILLUMINATED_SPOTS"></a>ILLUMINATED SPOTS.</h2> + +<p>A Northern visitor in the South, writing in a recent number of <i>The +Advance</i> speaks of the rapid improvement of the Negroes in that +locality. He says that the Negro is prosperous; that commercially he is +honest; that one house has had no less than thirteen hundred names of +colored people on its books, each having a credit from a few dollars to +forty or more; that the Negro respects education—even if he is unable +to read himself, he wants, with all the determination of his soul, that +his children shall be educated; that the merchants say that they are +buying better and better goods, are learning the value of money, are +exercising wiser judgment, are becoming farmers and mechanics, are +becoming better men.</p> + +<p>These items, taken from a long article, show the bright light glowing in +that locality. Of course the writer gives some dark touches to the +picture, and thus modified, it may be repeated of thousands of places +throughout the South. Some of our friends, we fear, look too much upon +the dark side. There <i>is</i> a dark side, and it is dense. But if we can +only continue and enlarge the sphere of these bright spots, and kindle +others in new localities, the time will come when the light will +displace the darkness and the dawn of a new era will come. Friends of +the Negro race, patriots and Christians! furnish the oil for these +bright spots and help to multiply them.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_GOVERNMENT_AND_THE_INDIANS" id="THE_GOVERNMENT_AND_THE_INDIANS"></a><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127"></a>[127]</span>THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIANS.</h2> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>On the 13th of March, some of the Secretaries of the missionary +societies, and others interested in the welfare of the Indians, +had an interview with President Harrison and with Secretary +Noble, of the Interior Department. We were kindly received, and +the Secretary solicited information from us as to the methods in +which he could aid in furtherance of Indian civilization. A +number of suggestions were made in response, and the following +outline is given as a summary of the points presented to the +Secretary:</p></div> + +<p>1. That the appointment or retention of all officers and employés in the +Indian service of the Government shall be on the sole ground of +fitness—that ability, integrity and an interest in the welfare of the +Indians, shall constitute the only required conditions. We are not +ignorant of the difficulties involved in securing such persons, +especially with the low salaries paid to some of these employés; and we +shall be abundantly satisfied with the purpose of the Government to +reach the nearest attainable success in this direction.</p> + +<p>2. That the Government shall make adequate appropriations for the +establishment and maintenance of suitable schools for the education of +all Indian pupils—whether these schools be sustained and controlled +wholly by the Government or in co-operation with missionary societies. +The millions of dollars now due to the Indians by treaty stipulations, +for educational purposes, should not be idle in the National Treasury, +but should, as rapidly as possible, be devoted to their legitimate +purposes, and they should be supplemented as far as need be by direct +grants from the Government.</p> + +<p>3. That the co-operation of the Government with the missionary societies +in what are known as <i>Contract</i> schools should be continued and +enlarged. We believe that no better teaching has been afforded to the +Indians than that given in these Contract schools. The educational +qualifications of the teachers, together with their disinterested and +self-denying characters and their religious influence and instruction, +render them pre-eminently fit for their places and successful in their +work. The experience of the past and the testimony of all unprejudiced +persons bear witness to this fact.</p> + +<p>4. That compulsory education of Indian pupils be enforced, with liberty +of choice to the parents in the selection of the schools to which their +children shall be sent. The Indians are generally averse, or +indifferent, to the education of their children. The withholding of +rations in case of failure or neglect is usually an all-sufficient +motive for prompt compliance. Then, too, the parent, if a Christian and +intelligent, should be allowed to select the school for his child, and +not be compelled to send it to a Government school simply because that +may happen to be nearest.</p> + +<p>5. The Government should adopt a liberal policy in regard to the use of +the vernacular in the Indian schools. We are all agreed that the English +language should be brought into use among the Indians at the earliest +practicable period. But the experience of all the past, in Indian +civilization <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128"></a>[128]</span>among the ruder tribes, has shown that Christian influences +have been most successfully brought to bear by the use of the +vernacular, in giving them the knowledge of the Word of God, in teaching +them a practical morality, and in preparing them for civilized life. We +ask, therefore, that no restrictions be placed upon Christian people in +their efforts for this great object.</p> + +<p>6. We ask that the Government exercise an absolute impartiality in +dealing with the different denominations of Christians, in the +distribution of appropriations, in the granting of lands for missionary +uses, and in the appointment of officers, agents, teachers and employés. +We ask no favors in these respects, and we desire that none shall be +granted to others.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="NOTES_FROM_NEW_ENGLAND" id="NOTES_FROM_NEW_ENGLAND"></a>NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND.</h2> + +<h4>BY REV C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY.</h4> + +<p>"<i>Miss</i> ——:</p> + +<p>"DEAR MADAM: I understand you have got the school, but I can't possibly +board you, as social equality is not custom in this country. I don't +think it would be pleasant for you nor for us, either. I wrote this in +order for you to look out some other place. You need not depend on +getting board with us.</p> + +<p>"FEBRUARY 2, 1889."</p> + +<p>This letter was written to a cultivated Northern young lady who had +graduated at one of the best high schools in the country and held a +special recommendation, besides her diploma, on account of her +excellency as a student and practice teacher. She went South to help +these people in their great need. It was for Christ's sake and in "His +name" that she entered this field. She secured board of a white family, +but when they learned that she was going to teach the blacks and seek to +lead them to Christ, this letter was sent her. Every door was closed +against this Christian woman because she was trying to save the poor and +ignorant! And it is eighteen hundred and eighty-nine of the Christian +era and in free America!</p> + +<p>But this plucky Yankee girl did not so give up her school. She found a +boarding place in the home of one of our missionaries, two miles away, +and she tramps across these two miles twice a day, patiently putting in +her best services, to bring light into the dense darkness of the very +community whose doors were closed against her!</p> + +<p>In connection with this incident of narrow prejudice read these words +from Dr. Haygood's "Pleas for Progress." "In all truth and common sense +there is no reason for discounting in any respect a white man or woman +simply for teaching negroes. It is absurd. I believe it is sinful." +These earnest words were spoken by the eloquent divine to his Southern +brethren, August 2, 1883, six long years ago. If they only carried the +conviction of the people to whom he appealed! How strangely they sound, +standing so close <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129"></a>[129]</span>to this letter refusing board to a young lady because +she is teaching these very negroes! "How long, O Lord, how long?"</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The semi-annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Association met +in the Beneficent Congregational Church, or "Old Round Top," as the +street car conductor called it, Providence, April 3d. The weather was +extremely unfavorable, as New England weather has been lately, as a +rule, but there was a good attendance and deep interest. All the +missionary societies of the Congregational churches which do work in +America were represented. The field work of the Woman's Association has +passed into the control of the national societies. The future looks very +bright for its increasing usefulness.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>And now Pleasant Hill, Tenn., rejoices in the sweet music of one of the +Smith organs. Mr. S.D. Smith is making many schools happy and adding +greatly to their efficiency by his generous gifts of organs.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="WHAT_THE_WORLD_SAYS" id="WHAT_THE_WORLD_SAYS"></a>WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.</h2> + +<h4>BLACK SAINTS AND WHITE.</h4> + +<p>Do colored folks retain their complexion when they go to heaven? This is +a question of some importance to the members of the Diocesan Convention +of the Protestant Episcopal churches of Charleston, S.C. Not long ago +the Convention appointed a special committee to consider and report upon +the subject of the admission of negro clergymen and laymen as members of +that body. Their action was taken with the view of bringing the +Charleston churches, if possible, into harmony with the other Episcopal +congregations of the State. In 1887, the former had seceded in +consequence of the adoption of a resolution which the Charleston +brethren regarded as a virtual obliteration of the color-line.</p> + +<p>Thursday, the report of the committee was made public. It proposes a +separate convocation for the colored churches under the ministration of +the bishop, and consents to the admission to the Convention of colored +clergymen who have been associated with the church for twelve months +prior to May, 1889. If the report is adopted, three negro ministers will +sit as members, but no lay delegates will be eligible. The committee +were willing to forego their prejudice out of deference to the holy +office. They felt that the color of a clergyman's skin, although it was +no doubt a very serious ground of objection when it happened to be +black, should not overcome the respect due to the sanctity of his +official calling. His cloth, so to speak, saved him, and what would have +been denied to the man it was possible to concede to the priest.</p> + +<p>Under these circumstances the gravity of the question, "Do colored folks +retain their complexion when they go to heaven?" is obvious. The +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130"></a>[130]</span>concession which the committee of the Diocesan Convention make is but a +re-affirmation of the Charleston brethren's aversion to anything that +smacks of an approach to association of the two races on terms of +equality. If there are colored saints in Paradise, it will be utterly +impossible for the Charleston white saints of the Episcopal denomination +to feel at home there. The only chance of reconciling them to a heaven +so liberally disposed would depend on the adoption of some such plan as +that recommended by the committee as a <i>modus vivendi</i> in the church on +earth. That is to say, if the colored saints were corraled by +themselves—if their convocations were separate from the convocations of +the white saints—if they were not admitted to the white circles of +celestial society as equal partakers of the privileges of the heavenly +kingdom—the Caucasian angels from Charleston might be willing to pass +their eternity in such a place.</p> + +<p>It is very essential for them, therefore, to know whether there are in +fact any colored saints in heaven; and, if there are, whether the +divisions of the Father's house into "many mansions" admits of an +arrangement whereby the angelic brunettes may occupy one set of quarters +and the Charleston blondes another. Until these problems are solved to +their satisfaction, we do not see how our Christian friends of the chief +city of South Carolina can contemplate a future life with any degree of +equanimity. Their faith may be equal to the removal of mountains and +their virtues may entitle them to all the felicity of the spirits of +just men made perfect, but if it is the rule of the "happy land, far, +far away" that a black saint is just as good as a white one, how much +more rational it would be for them to prefer annihilation to +immortality.</p> + +<div class="right"><i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle.</i></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="PARAGRAPHS" id="PARAGRAPHS"></a>PARAGRAPHS.</h2> + +<p>We would continue to remind pastors and churches of our Leaflets, which +we will be happy to furnish, on application, to those taking collections +for our Association.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The <i>Daily Standard-Union</i>, of Brooklyn, is a good judge. It says:</p> + +<p>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY for April, published by the American Missionary +Association, New York, is full of information useful and edifying to all +interested in domestic missions.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The "Student's Letter" found on another page is worth attention. The +writer, Rev. Spencer Snell, gives a modest and yet vivid picture of his +struggles for an education, and he is now—we say it for him, as he does +not—the able and acceptable pastor of our growing church in Birmingham, +Alabama. We wish in a quiet way to suggest to our friends in the North +that "it pays" to spend money to educate such men.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131"></a>[131]</span>Rev. James Wharton, the evangelist, who has been efficiently preaching +to the American Missionary churches in the South this winter, has left +this country for England, where he will remain until the first of +October, when he will return again to his specific work in which the +churches have been greatly blessed. The churches which he has visited, +and which have added to their numbers through his ministration, are +Louisville, Ky., Sherwood, Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., Athens, +Florence, Mobile and Montgomery, Ala., Jackson and Tougaloo, Miss., and +New Orleans, La.</p> + +<p>Many prayers will go with him across the sea, and many welcomes will +greet him on his return.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="SOUTHERN_ECHOES" id="SOUTHERN_ECHOES"></a>SOUTHERN ECHOES.</h2> + +<h4>PRAYERS OF WOMEN AT THE MEETING OF FAREWELL TO A MISSIONARY.</h4> + +<p>"O! Lord, thou knowest how I love her. Thou knowest how I have run to +her in every trouble, as a chicken does to its mother."</p> + +<p>"O! Lord, you know what she has been to me in the greatest trouble I +ever had. You know I think more of her than of any being in the whole +world, except my husband. Will you please to be with her when she gets +ready for the train, and when she goes from the house to the train, and +on the train, and when she goes to the house from the train, and bless +her all the time."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Mrs. W——, an old lady, said: "My old man ax me every night when he +come from work if there be a meeting up yonder. He do like to go to +meeting. He think a heap of that young preacher up yonder. Last +Wednesday night after meeting, he say to me, 'Mary, I'll be good to you +after this,' and I say the same to him. It do me a heap of good to go up +yonder. I learn more than I ever knowed before. I knows what the texts +means now."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED.—A few days since, during a recitation in +geography, a teacher was endeavoring to explain the subject of +electricity in the lesson on "Thunder and lightning." It had been stated +that when a flash of lightning darts to the earth it is said to +<i>strike</i>. A precocious lad of twelve summers (winters included), raised +his hand and upon recognition said: "Do <i>people</i> have any electricity?" +Upon being informed that every one possessed the subtle force in a +greater or less degree, his dusky, good-natured face lighted up, and he +added, "Then is that the reason why some people always want to strike?"</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="BOOK_NOTICE" id="BOOK_NOTICE"></a><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132"></a>[132]</span>BOOK NOTICE</h2> + +<p><i>Pleas for Progress.</i> By ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD, D.D. Publishing House of +M.E. Church South, Nashville, Tenn. Price, $1.00.</p> + +<p>Dr. Haygood is a Southern man who stands with his face toward sunrise +and not sunset. As a writer, he is interesting and vigorous. He +sometimes forgets to take off his "Titbottom spectacles" when he looks +southward, but he puts in tremendous blows against the wrong which he +sees. This volume before us contains papers and addresses delivered at +various times and places, both North and South. It is a very valuable +book for those who desire to learn what the really Christian people of +the South think on these great National problems that the American +Missionary Association is helping to solve.</p> + +<p>The lecture on "The Education of the Negro," delivered at Monteagle, +Tenn., and published in this volume, is a sample. Dr. Haygood states +"four root objections" to negro education: 1—Ignorance; 2—Stinginess; +3—Prejudice; 4—Fear that education will "spoil the negro as a laborer" +and bring him into "social equality" with the whites. The author shows +the absurdity of all these objections.</p> + +<p>The volume is full of statistics and will prove a valuable mine of +facts. The discussions are clear and generally convincing. We commend +the book highly.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_SOUTH" id="THE_SOUTH"></a>THE SOUTH.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_GEORGIA_CONGREGATIONAL_ASSOCIATION" id="THE_GEORGIA_CONGREGATIONAL_ASSOCIATION"></a>THE GEORGIA CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.</h2> + +<p><i>Rev. S.C. McDaniel and others, Committee of the United Congregational +Conference of Georgia.</i></p> + +<p>DEAR BRETHREN.—Having been appointed by the Georgia Congregational +Association as a committee to confer with you in reference to a union of +the two bodies represented by you and us, we desire to express to you +our gratification at the receipt of your request for such a conference, +and our earnest desire that such a union should be consummated. With +this end in view, we would respectfully submit for your consideration +the following propositions:</p> + +<p>1. We cordially invite the churches composing the United Congregational +Conference to become members of the Georgia Congregational Association. +Upon the acceptance of this invitation by the United Conference, we +agree to recommend to the Association the passage of a vote immediately +placing upon the roll of the Association the names of all the churches +of the United Conference.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133"></a>[133]</span>2. In case the foregoing proposition should not be acceptable to you, we +propose that each of the bodies represented by us should pass a vote +disbanding its organization, with the understanding that all the +churches of both bodies should then come together and form a new +organization. Upon the agreement of your committee to recommend to the +United Conference the adoption of this proposition, we agree to make a +similar recommendation to the Association.</p> + +<p>3. If neither of the foregoing propositions should be acceptable to you, +we propose that the United Conference place upon its roll the names of +all the churches and ministers of the Georgia Association. Upon the +agreement of your committee to recommend such action to the United +Conference, we agree to recommend to the Association the adoption of a +vote declaring its organization disbanded as soon as the churches +composing the same are received by the United Conference.</p> + +<p>With reference to the foregoing propositions we would say further:</p> + +<p>It is our conviction that any union between the organizations +represented by our respective committees should be as comprehensive and +thorough as possible, and that to this end the churches of the Georgia +Association should be enrolled as members of the District Conferences, +in fellowship with the United Conference within whose respective +boundaries the Association churches may be located. And the foregoing +propositions are made with the understanding that a vote shall be passed +by the United Conference recommending the District Conferences to +receive the Association churches as hereby suggested.</p> + +<p>Of these three proposed methods of union, our own preference is for the +first. As the Georgia Congregational Association is the older body and +represents the historic Congregationalism of the State, going back not +only to the early years succeeding the Civil War, but even, in the +record of one of its churches, to the colonial period preceding the +Revolution, we feel that a respect for the traditional usages of our +polity would suggest the absorption of the newer churches by the +Association as being the older State organization. But as in our opinion +the result to be achieved is of more importance than the method by which +it shall be achieved, we would not insist upon the method of our choice. +If more acceptable to you, we should gladly form a union on the basis of +either the second or the third proposition already stated. Our chief +desire is for a complete and hearty union, in which, acknowledging the +fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, we may live and work +together in the love of Christ, the Elder Brother of us all. That our +Heavenly Father may graciously help us all in perfecting and maintaining +such a union, is our earnest prayer.</p> + +<p>Your brethren in Christ,</p> + +<p>GEO. V. CLARK, HORACE BUMSTEAD, GEO. C. ROWE, L.B. MAXWELL, EVARTS KENT, +FLOYD SNELSON, C.F. SARGENT.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="EVANGELISTIC_LABORS" id="EVANGELISTIC_LABORS"></a><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134"></a>[134]</span>EVANGELISTIC LABORS.</h2> + +<h4>REV. JAMES WHARTON.</h4> + +<p>You last heard of my work, I believe, from Memphis, Tenn., where God +revealed his gracious power among the students of LeMoyne, and also at +the Congregational church. Altogether, some one hundred and thirty-four +professed a hope in Christ during my visit there. I then went to +Jackson, Miss., to hold services in the new church there; a pretty +little building, situated in a very central and prominent part of the +city. For eleven nights, I preached to not a very large, but to an +interesting congregation. Twelve professed conversion, their conversion +proving a source of great joy, not only to themselves, but to their +friends and acquaintances.</p> + +<p>I also visited Tougaloo University and spoke to the students. Between +fifty and sixty at the close of the address arose for prayer. I feel +sure if I could have spent a few days with them, that most of them would +have decided for Christ, but they remain under the good and wise +instruction of the President, Rev. F.G. Woodworth. I hope to visit them +again.</p> + +<p>I then went to New Orleans, to find the Central Congregational Church +recovering itself under the leading of the pastor, Rev. Geo. W. +Henderson. We believe that it will steadily grow, and be a great +influence for good in that large and wicked city. At Straight +University, I found the religious interest going on quietly and steadily +under the care of Professor Hitchcock and Rev. W.L. Tenney, some cases +of conversion taking place during the week of prayer.</p> + +<p>I came to Montgomery three weeks ago, and a revival there has surpassed +any I have seen for the last thirteen years among the colored folks of +the South. In fact, many of the old-time people say they never saw such +a deep interest manifested in this city. The third night the church was +filled to overflowing, and hundreds were outside the door who could not +get in. The power of God came down upon the people in such a way that at +the close of the preaching the seekers fairly ran to the front benches, +taking them by storm. All around the front they sat or knelt. We placed +chairs in rows on the platform, and the crowd was so thick I could +scarcely get a place to stand. The pastor, Rev. R.C. Bedford, and the +Christians, worked hard among the unconverted, and now at the close of +the three weeks' services, more than two hundred are rejoicing in a new +found hope.</p> + +<p>One case was that of a young man, the son of a Methodist preacher, both +deaf and dumb, who gave reasonable evidence of conversion as the love of +God filled his heart, and another was a young man who had been a wild +young fellow, who had at the time of his conversion a five barrel loaded +revolver in his pocket, and which I now have. One whole family is now +rejoicing that God has brought salvation to that house; father, mother, +son and four daughters are among the converts. Another father rejoices +over four of his sons and daughters converted. Husbands and wives have +started together on the road to Zion. On the streets and wherever you +go, the people <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135"></a>[135]</span>are talking about, and rejoicing over, the conversion of +some of their friends or relations.</p> + +<p>This finishes another winter's work among the dear colored people, which +has been one of the happiest and most successful I have known for many +years.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THOMASVILLE_GEORGIA" id="THOMASVILLE_GEORGIA"></a>THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.</h2> + +<p>The Connecticut Normal and Industrial School, Thomasville. Ga., closed +its winter term, for a few days' vacation, on March 26th, with +appropriate exercises. The <i>Thomasville Daily Times</i> says, "The growth +and management of the school is very gratifying to our people, and +everyone wishes it continued success and prosperity." The <i>Thomasville +Enterprise</i> speaks of "the results of the seven sweet-faced patient lady +teachers," and adds, "If yesterday's exhibition was a fair sample of +what the pupils can do, the American Missionary Association, and the +corps of teachers it has employed, have not labored in vain; that a +great deal of hard, honest work has been done, was fully exemplified."</p> + +<p>Again we are reminded that <i>Thomasville</i> is not <i>Quitman</i>, and also of +the fact that Southern people are generally quite generous in their +appreciation of the work and the methods of our Association.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="MRS_LYDIA_HERRICK_BENNETT" id="MRS_LYDIA_HERRICK_BENNETT"></a>MRS. LYDIA HERRICK BENNETT.</h2> + +<p>On Saturday, March 16, the great household at Fisk University was +suddenly saddened by the announcement of the death of Mrs. Bennett, who, +after an illness of four weeks, was called to her rest.</p> + +<p>In 1867, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett gave up their work in a pleasant Northern +parish, and came to Fisk University, where they have labored together +for almost twenty-two years. During these years, Mrs. Bennett has been +not only an efficient helper to her husband and a wise and tender mother +to her children, but has contributed much to the work of the school. Her +strong mind and fine intellectual tastes especially fitted her for life +in an institution of learning. During the last few years, she gave much +time and labor to the preparation of a botanical collection for the +Scientific Department of the University.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Bennett was also the warm personal friend of the young people. +Since her death, many tender expressions from present and former +students bear witness to appreciation of her quiet, earnest, Christian +character, as manifested both in her own life, and in her ministry to +others. Why such a life, apparently so indispensable to her husband and +children, and so helpful to a large body of young people, should be thus +suddenly terminated we cannot understand. We can only accept the +dispensation of Him "Who doeth all things well."</p> + +<div class="right">H.C.M.</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136"></a>[136]</span></p> + +<h3>STUDENT'S LETTER.</h3> + +<h4>HOW I WAS EDUCATED, LED TO CHRIST AND INTO THE MINISTRY.</h4> + +<h4>BY REV. SPENCER SNELL.</h4> + +<p>My first lessons from books I received in night school. At this time I +was employed as dining-room servant by a family in Mobile. I did my work +during the day, taking a little time here and there for study as best I +could, and went to school at night. I was first employed at $3.50 per +month. Fifty cents of this I took each month to pay tuition. The tuition +in this school was one dollar per month, but I was receiving such small +wages that a woman who was employed in the same yard, and who went to +the same school, persuaded the teacher to let me go for fifty cents. I +remained with this family about four years, and went to night school +much of the time. I suppose they considered my services more and more +valuable as I became more enlightened, for, during the four years, my +wages were increased from $3.50 to $10 per month. As my wages increased, +I had more tuition to pay also, for during my study in the night school +I had several teachers and paid some of them as much as two dollars per +month, and so anxious was I to acquire an education that I would have +paid five dollars had it been required, even at a time when it would +have taken all my wages to do so. While I was a student in one of these +night schools, I chanced one day to see a newspaper which a colored man +who knew me had thrown into the yard for me. In this paper I read an +article telling about Emerson Institute, a school of the American +Missionary Association, and the commencement exercises soon to occur +there. The school had been in Mobile for several years, but I had heard +nothing of it till now. As soon as I read of these exercises, I +determined to see them, for I had never heard of such exercises before. +When the time came, I went one night, accompanied by a few of my fellow +night-school students. We were well pleased with what we saw, and I said +to them that I meant to enter that school when it opened the next fall, +and that I meant to be an educated man if I could. I soon began to carry +out my purpose, for in a few weeks I left my employment in that family +and went back into the country, from whence I had gone to Mobile, and +took the examination and began teaching public school. By this means, I +earned money enough to go back to Mobile and become a pupil of Emerson +Institute, not in the fall of 1873, as I had hoped to do, but in the +spring of 1874. I shall ever feel grateful to the man who threw over the +fence for me the article from which I learned about that good school, +for I am sure I am quite a different man to-day from what I would have +been but for reading that article. Precious to me is the memory of those +days during which I took tuition in the night-school, where the key was +put into my hand and the door of knowledge was opened to me.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137"></a>[137]</span>Next to God I am grateful to the American Missionary Association for +having received training in a Christian school, where I was led to +Christ and felt called to the Christian ministry. When I lived on the +plantation, before I went to Mobile and received instruction in the +Christian school, I had heard the uneducated colored ministers preach +and they had endeavored to lead me to Christ, but I could not accept +Christ in the way they had presented Him to me. I remember well how they +told us that in order to find Christ we must fast and pray for a number +of days. I remember, too, the unsuccessful attempt which I made to give +myself to Jesus in this way. I was a farm boy and was plowing hard every +day, and it was hard work for a boy of my age to follow the mule all day +in the tough grass, and I always felt like eating when meal time came, +but still I tried to become a Christian by doing as the minister said I +must, and so for a few days I ate no breakfast, no dinner, and no +supper, though I worked on. They told us, also, that we must not go to +bed at night, for if we did the wicked one would make us sleep all night +and we would fail to pray through the night, and they said we must pray +all night. For several nights I did not go to bed at all, but would lie +down upon the doorstep that I might get up often through the night and +go down the hill to pray, for we were instructed to "go down in the +valley." Of course after a few days I became tired, sleepy and +discouraged, and gave up. I did not make another attempt till I became a +student in Emerson Institute. One of the lady teachers in that school +became interested in my soul's salvation. She read the Bible to me, +talked to me, and prayed for me, and made the way of life and salvation +seem so plain and simple that it was not long before I accepted the Lord +Jesus as my Saviour.</p> + +<p>My heart overflows with gratitude to that Christian lady whenever I +think of my conversion. There is no favor which one person can do for +another so great as that of leading him to Christ.</p> + +<p>Soon after I was converted I felt inclined to enter the ministry, and +was advised to go to Talladega College and there take a theological +course. I wanted to go but did not see any way to get there, to say +nothing of how I was to stay there, but a lady from the North had been +visiting one of our lady teachers at Mobile, and heard me deliver an +oration in a prize contest. She said she liked it, and after she went +back home she sent me $25 to help me in my education. I had been praying +that a way might open for me to go to Talladega, and I felt that the $25 +came in answer to prayer. I used up the money in getting ready and in +going to Talladega. I wrote Dr. G.W. Andrews, who has for a number of +years been instructor in theology there, that I was anxious to go and +enter his department, but I had no money, and he wrote me, if I had +money enough to get there, to come on. Thank God that I went, and that a +way was provided for me to stay there and finish the course of study; +and now I am out in the ministry and trying to do something for Him who +has so wonderfully led me and blessed me.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_INDIANS" id="THE_INDIANS"></a><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138"></a>[138]</span>THE INDIANS.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="PERILS_OF_MISSIONARY_LIFE" id="PERILS_OF_MISSIONARY_LIFE"></a>PERILS OF MISSIONARY LIFE.</h2> + +<p>Rev. T.L. Riggs, our missionary at Oahe, Dakota, thus describes the loss +of a team and the peril of his fellow missionary, Rev. J.F. Cross:</p> + +<p>"I wished to cross my team on the ice to the west side of the Missouri +and keep it there for use during the breaking up of the river. Being +very busy with some writing, I asked Mr. Cross to take my team over when +he started to return to the White River, sending a man with him. Mr. +Cross's team went over safely, but mine, which Mr. Cross himself was +driving, broke through and were drowned, in spite of every effort of the +two men. Mr. Cross had a narrow escape. He managed to save the wagon, +but the horses went down with harness on as they were driven. Mr. Cross +took the loss so to heart, that together with the strain and agony of +the moment, it quite prostrated him. He started for White River in a day +or two after, though I felt that he was hardly fit to go."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="FIRST_FRUITS" id="FIRST_FRUITS"></a>FIRST FRUITS.</h2> + +<h4>REV. C.L. HALL, FORT BERTHOLD, DAK.</h4> + +<p>In the fall of 1879, a young Gros-Ventre Indian named <i>Dahpitsishesh</i>, +"The Bear's Tooth," began to attend the day school at Fort Berthold, and +although he was over twenty years old and not very quick to learn, he +surpassed the younger pupils by his industry. He attended the day +school, in the day time or in the evening, quite regularly during the +winter, and became a help to the missionary in translating parts of +Scripture into the Gros-Ventre language.</p> + +<p>He wore his long hair braided behind, and banged and plastered with clay +in front so that it stood upright, and he dressed in blanket, breech +clout, leggings and moccasins, and the lower joints of several of his +fingers were cut off in accordance with the Indian custom of mutilating +themselves at the burial of a friend. His first appearance to a new +teacher who came the following spring caused her no little trepidation, +but she soon learned to prize him as her best pupil, and the next year +the influence of God's word upon him was seen by his saying, after +recounting some of his Gros-Ventre religious fables, in which his belief +had been shaken; "I have been coming to school now more than a year. +Since reading these books about God and angels I cannot sleep at night, +but have had dreams. I think some harm will come to me. I am poor and +cannot help myself, but I pray God to keep me from harm, and I want to +trust him."</p> + +<p>From that time on, we hoped he would take a decided stand for Christ. As +yet, none among his people had been converted. A few passages of the +Bible and a few words of song had been given to the Gros-Ventres in +their own tongue, and every Sabbath there were attentive Indian +listeners, but <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139"></a>[139]</span>would there ever be a Gros-Ventre convert? "The Bear's +Tooth" continued to come to us, and learned to understand quite fully +the requirements of our faith. He became a trusted helper in charge of +the mission cattle and the milking, working regularly as few Indians +would do at Berthold, and he soon had stock of his own in which he took +great pleasure. He read the Bible on Sabbath afternoons with one who was +soon called to her reward; it was almost her last prayer that he might +be saved. He came in spite of dissuasions, jeers, and even persecutions +from his people, and yet he took no stand for Christ. Three years after, +there were Indian inquirers, and he helped to explain to them the +demands of Christ, but they all felt that "the way was too hard for +them" and "went away sorrowful."</p> + +<p>Some of the young people who had been taken away to school and removed +from the opposition of their people had confessed Christ, but there were +none to face it here and say that they loved him. "The Bear's Tooth" +took a wife in the Indian way, unwilling to marry, and removed, as it +seemed, away from our influence, to a claim forty miles up the river +from our mission station.</p> + +<p>But God dealt with him and afflicted him in the loss of his babes, and +of his stock, so that he said, "It seems as though I could acquire +nothing. Explain it to me; the Indians say it is because I follow your +teaching." I taught him from the book of Job, and the words of Christ. +His soul was hungry, and when he came once in two weeks for his +government rations, he sought the bread of life at the mission. Finally, +after nearly eight years, one summer day he came and sat on a bench in +the shade of the house in a little flower garden, and after we had +talked awhile, he said to the missionary: "Good Voice, now I can; I will +be faithful to my own wife, I will keep Sunday, I will pray and avoid +the dances and other heathen customs; when you think best I will come +down and be received into the church." That was a glad moment. To clasp +the hand of the first Gros-Ventre brother in Christ, won through a +strange tongue and from a people who had sat in darkness for eighteen +hundred years since the great light shone in Galilee!</p> + +<p>I said, "Bring your wife and friends with you to Christ." He went home +but soon returned, saying sorrowfully: "My wife and my friends are none +of them willing. If I join I think it must be alone." "Well," I said, +"let it be so," and it was. His clothes were second-hand and old, and he +had no natural attractiveness of appearance; but in a simple, manly, +determined way, he made his confession and was baptized before an +audience of Indians in the little mission chapel, (July, 1887), a poor +Indian, but another Daniel standing alone.</p> + +<p>Then, as the man of Gergesa, he went home to tell his neighbors what God +had done for him. He had a Bible in Dakota, of which language he +understood something, and a few Gros-Ventre translations in writing, and +some attempts at hymns, and some pictures. With these he preached, in +neighbors' houses, and then he would report to me of his reception, and +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140"></a>[140]</span>ask me questions about the Christian life. A veritable man "Friday" had +come to me; I was no longer alone. Then why did his health fail, and he +forty miles away where I could not see him? But so God willed. Soon they +brought me the word: Your friend has gone. I gathered up his last words, +questioning his wife and lame old father. He wanted to see <i>his friend</i> +and tell him some things. He thought he did see him come in and then go +out before he could speak. He said, "I thought it was difficult, but I +joined with those who pray, and I find now it is only a <i>short</i> way. I +am going above." With his last breath and his Bible open, he asked to be +shown the way, that he might go in it.</p> + +<p>The influence of a genuine life is strongest at home, and so it comes +that the wife is seeking to follow her husband. There are other converts +with us now, but we shall never forget this first Gros-Ventre "friend," +(madakina); and although the story of his life is not a peculiar one to +white men, nay for that very reason, we are glad to write this record of +a once lowly, but now glorified, believer.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_CHINESE" id="THE_CHINESE"></a>THE CHINESE.</h2> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="LOS_ANGELES_CONGREGATIONAL_CHINESE_MISSION" id="LOS_ANGELES_CONGREGATIONAL_CHINESE_MISSION"></a>LOS ANGELES CONGREGATIONAL CHINESE MISSION.</h2> + +<h4>BY REV. ROBERT G. HUTCHINS.</h4> + +<p>Our First Church has recently enjoyed two peculiarly impressive +occasions; one the anniversary on the 17th of last month, of the Chinese +school, established by Dr. Pond; the other the reception, on the 3d +instant, of six Chinese brethren to church membership. To appreciate the +significance of these scenes, one must remember how contemptuous is the +prejudice which prevails on this coast against these inoffensive +strangers.</p> + +<p>Nine or ten young Chinamen delivered addresses at the anniversary. They +spoke with remarkable simplicity, perspicuity and accuracy of English +pronunciation. In view of their perfect self-possession and propriety of +manner in the presence of the crowded congregation, one could scarcely +realize that nearly all of them were utterly inexperienced in public +speaking. The success of these humble representatives gave a hint of the +possibilities of a Christianized China. One of the speakers gave an +account of the conversion, sickness, death and Christian burial of a +member of the school, a youth of eighteen. The heathen relatives and +friends had attributed the illness to the boy's desertion of the +religion of his fathers, and had begged him to allow the burning of +idolatrous incense. But he had calmly resisted their appeals, and, in an +alien land, far from his father and mother, had pillowed his dying head +on the breast of the Saviour of mankind.</p> + +<p>Low Quong, who superintends the mission, and who is true-hearted, +prudent and influential with his countrymen, showed with clearness, the +relation between the conversion of the Chinese in California and the +evangelization of China. It was news to many of his hearers that the +Christian Chinese of America are supporting native missionaries of their +own in China.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141"></a>[141]</span>The recitation by the school in concert of some of the sweetest and most +familiar of the Psalms and Scriptural promises, melted the hearts of the +hearers into sympathy. The old truths borrowed a new tenderness and +emphasis from these voices accustomed to recite heathen prayers. The +pupils sang in solo, in duet and in chorus. When "Over the Ocean Wave" +was rendered, some of us queried in our minds on which side of the ocean +wave God thinks the poor heathen live—the side from which these gentle +friends have come, or the side where their countrymen receive such +unchristian welcome?</p> + +<p>Nothing could more effectually knock in the head mean prejudice than the +grateful words and kind spirit which characterized this anniversary. +Whatever may be the prospect of the Chinese over-running us, they +certainly <i>had</i> us that Sunday evening. Mrs. Sheldon, who has had large +experience in the work, and Miss Watson, are devoting themselves to the +mission with a beautiful fidelity and consecration.</p> + +<p>Dr. Pond, who conducted the anniversary service, closed with an address +only too brief, but most felicitous and convincing. To the opponents of +Chinese immigration he is accustomed to reply: "Can there be any better +way of keeping the Chinese at home than to have it known among the +fathers in China that their sons, if they come to this country, are +likely to be Christianized?"</p> + +<p>Nothing could be sweeter or more cordial than the spirit of welcome with +which the six Chinese brethren were received into covenant. Not an +officer or member breathed an objection to their reception. Had there +been in any heart any lurking Phariseeism concerning them, it would have +been rebuked, if not exorcised, by hearing them sing with us at the +Lord's table, in broken accents, "Rock of Ages," by observing their +devout bearing and by witnessing the affecting baptismal scene. These +brethren came to the church approved by Dr. Pond, by the Chinese +missionary, Low Quong, and by the vote of the Christian Association, and +after an examination by the pastor.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="BUREAU_OF_WOMANS_WORK" id="BUREAU_OF_WOMANS_WORK"></a>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</h2> + +<h4>MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.</h4> + + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.</h3> + +<h4>CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h4> + +<p> +ME.—Woman's Aid to A.M.A., <br /> +Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.<br /> +<br /> +VT.—Woman's Aid to A.M.A.,<br /> +Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.<br /> +<br /> +VT.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Montpelier, Vt.<br /> +<br /> +CONN.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.<br /> +<br /> +MASS. and R.I.—Woman's Home Miss. Association,<br /> +Secretary, Miss Natalie Lord, Boston, Mass.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a><br /> +<br /> +N.Y.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. William Spalding, Salmon Block, Syracuse, N.Y.<br /> +<br /> +ALA.—Woman's Missionary Union,<br /> +Secretary, Miss. S.S. Evans, Birmingham, Ala.<br /> +<br /> +MISS.—Woman's Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Miss Sarah J. Humphrey. Tougaloo, Miss.<br /> +<br /> +TENN. and ARK.—Woman's Missionary Union of Central South Conference,<br /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142"></a>[142]</span> +Secretary, Miss Anna M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.<br /> +<br /> +LA.—Woman's Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans. La.<br /> +<br /> +OHIO.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, Ohio.<br /> +<br /> +IND.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne, Ind.<br /> +<br /> +ILL.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill.<br /> +<br /> +MINN.—Woman's Home Miss. Society,<br /> +Secretary, Miss Katharine Plant, 2651 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.<br /> +<br /> +IOWA.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa.<br /> +<br /> +KANSAS.—Woman's Home Miss. Society,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. G.L. Epps. Topeka, Kan.<br /> +<br /> +MICH.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, Mich.<br /> +<br /> +WIS.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis.<br /> +<br /> +NEB.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. L.F. Berry, 734 N Broad St., Fremont, Neb.<br /> +<br /> +COLORADO.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Packard, Pueblo, Colo.<br /> +<br /> +DAKOTA—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +President, Mrs. T.M. Hills, Sioux Falls;<br /> +Secretary, Mrs. W.R. Dawes, Redfield;<br /> +Treasurer, Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston.<br /> +</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1">[1]</a> For the purpose of exact information, we +note that while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a +State body for Mass, and R.I., it has certain +auxiliaries elsewhere.</p></div><br /> + +<p>We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State +Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association +be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however, +should be taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary +Association, since <i>undesignated funds will not reach us</i>.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><a name="Womans_Home_Missionary_Association" id="Womans_Home_Missionary_Association"></a>The Woman's Home Missionary Association, which has its office in the +Congregational House in Boston, held its semi-annual meeting in +Providence, April 3d, the first since it has come into co-operation with +the American Missionary Association in its administration and with the +other national benevolent societies. Rev. G.A. Hood represented the +Congregational Union, Rev. Joshua Coit, the American Home Missionary +Society, Rev. J.A. Hamilton, D.D., the College and Education Society, +Rev. C.J. Ryder, the American Missionary Association, and the Rev. G.M. +Boynton, D.D., the Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society. +These all expressed their sympathy with the closer alliance of the +Woman's Association with the national societies through which they have +elected to work, and to which they have committed the administration of +their benevolence in their respective fields. We cordially welcome the +Woman's Home Missionary Association as the representative of the States +of Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the sisterhood of co-operative +societies.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><a name="Alabama" id="Alabama"></a>At the meeting of the Woman's Missionary Association of Alabama, held in +connection with the Congregational Conference at Mobile, April 1st, the +Constitution was amended, enlarging the sphere of work to cover both +home and foreign missions, and thus we have the "Woman's Missionary +Union of the State of Alabama." The actual working of this woman's +organization had already been varied. It was most interesting at their +meeting to hear the reports of the auxiliaries. All reported aid to +their respective churches and relief to the destitute in their parishes, +and then their contributions took other directions—to the American +Missionary Association for its Indian work; to the American Board for a +girl in Smyrna; for a Hindoo girl; for work in South Africa; to the Home +Missionary <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143"></a>[143]</span>Society for work in the West. Thus these churches in the +South are being trained to a world-wide interest in missions.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THREE_NEW_ORGANIZATIONS_IN_THE_SOUTH" id="THREE_NEW_ORGANIZATIONS_IN_THE_SOUTH"></a>THREE NEW ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTH.</h2> + +<p>A Woman's Missionary Union for the State of Louisiana was organized in +connection with the Congregational Association of the State. The meeting +of ladies was well attended, and the interest was manifested in their +hearty response in favor of joining the sisterhood of State Unions. The +officers of the Union were selected from both the white and colored +churches, the church at Hammond being thus represented.</p> + +<p>At the annual meeting of the General Association of Congregational +churches of Mississippi, which met at Tougaloo, March 28th, a Woman's +Missionary Union was organized. Mrs. A.V. Whiting was chosen President, +Miss Julia Sauntry, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Miss S.J. +Humphrey, Secretary. Although it is but a small beginning, we hope the +day is not far distant when Mississippi will take her place with other +States in missionary work.</p> + +<p>The Woman's Missionary Union of the Central South Conference was +organized April 13th, at Knoxville, Tenn.; Secretary, Miss Anna M. +Cahill, of Nashville.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="OUR_YOUNG_FOLKS" id="OUR_YOUNG_FOLKS"></a>OUR YOUNG FOLKS.</h2> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="HOW_THE_PENNIES_GREW" id="HOW_THE_PENNIES_GREW"></a>HOW THE PENNIES GREW.</h2> + +<p>Not the pennies that lay hidden away in the bank, nor the pennies that +were spent for candy. O no; but the honest, hard-working pennies that +had a work to do and the heart to do it.</p> + +<p>These work-a-day pennies fell into the hands of a mission band called +"Willing Workers." It was in the summer-time when they began to stir +about and see what they could do for missions, and when winter came +along there was a pleasant little festival, and the pennies came +together, and brought just as many with them as they possibly could.</p> + +<p>For these were "talent" pennies, and they had been invested for the +Lord. One of the very pleasant features of the festival was the reading +of little papers, telling how the pennies grew. And we are going to let +the children see some of these very papers. For all this is exactly +true, and took place in a pleasant village in the State of New York.</p> + +<p>About ten dollars grew out of a little more than twenty pennies. We have +not room to publish all the little papers, telling how the pennies grew +into dollars, though all are of great interest. In some cases the +original penny was invested, and then turned over and over. This is an +instance:</p> + +<p>"With the original cent I bought some darning-cotton and darned +stockings, some for a cent a stocking, but most of them for a cent a +hole. I then bought thread and crocheted some lace which I sold for 25 +cents. I hemmed <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144"></a>[144]</span>two aprons for 5 cents apiece, and some towels for one +cent apiece. Afterward, I bought another card of darning-cotton. After +paying for the thread and cotton, I have left the sum of one dollar.— +PHEBE."</p> + +<p>"Rosie," who brought in $1.66, says nothing about her penny, but tells +how she earned money, as: "Hitching up horse for grandpa, 10 cents; +topping carrots, 12 cents; keeping the fowls off the wheat, 25 cents; +sweeping, 17 cents," etc., all showing honest, hard work. But the penny +started it all, perhaps.</p> + +<p>Here is "Nellie's," with an idea in it:</p> + +<p>"With my penny I bought a pen and holder, and sold it for 10 cents. I +dug a pailful of potatoes for 3 cents, and mended a hole in grandpa's +sock for one cent. I then bought a little chicken for 5 cents, and let +it grow into a big chicken, and sold it for 36 cents, making a total of +50 cents."</p> + +<p>Well done for Nellie!</p> + +<p>Only one more of these charming little papers can we give in full, +though we should love to have our little readers see every one of them.</p> + +<p>"The first thing I did with my penny, I made some edging which I sold +for 10 cents; then I sewed it on for 5 cents, which made 15. Then mamma +said if I killed 15 flies she would give me a penny, and so I earned 14 +cents in that way. Then I had 29 cents. I then took away 25 cents and +bought some ice-cream, and sold it for 8 cents a dish, and received 48 +cents for it. Now I had 52 cents. Then I took 8 cents away from it for +some linen, and 4 cents for some braid, with which I made some lace and +sold it for 70 cents, which leaves me $1.11. Then I sold some flowers +for 14 cents, making $1.25. This is what I did with my penny.—LIBBIE."</p> + +<p>"Freddie" and "Tusie," little brother and sister of Libbie, did well +with their pennies. Tusie increased hers to 35 cents, while Freddie's +grew to 48 cents. Each of these little people gathered all the string +they could find and made it up into balls, which they sold.</p> + +<p>"Meda" made a ruche for grandma, crocheted lace, and speculated in +butter, gaining in all 66 cents.</p> + +<p>"Davie," Meda's brother, found a generous customer in grandpa, who +bought a pen-holder and then gave it back to be sold over again. Davie +also speculated in tallow, and increased his penny to 50 cents.</p> + +<p>"Helen" invested in a penny tablet, sold it for 3 cents, and crept up by +degrees to the place where she could buy material for an apron which she +sold for 35 cents. She made another apron and a tidy, and cleared 55 +cents.</p> + +<p>"Lulu" bought a penny rubber and sold it for 2 cents, bought darning +cotton, pins, cloth for apron, etc., and increased her penny to 50 +cents.</p> + +<p>The pennies have been growing, and that is good. But love has been +growing too, in these young hearts, and that is better!</p> + +<p>May the "Willing Worker" bands multiply all over our great land!</p> + +<div class="right">S.S. ADVOCATE.</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="RECEIPTS_FOR_MARCH_1889" id="RECEIPTS_FOR_MARCH_1889"></a><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145"></a>[145]</span>RECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1889.</h2> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>MAINE, $179.96.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Camden. David Fowler</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>$1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Castine. Prof. Fred W. Foster</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovell, 5; Rev. J. Loring, 2; Mrs. Millie Knight, 1; Miss Sally Spurr, 1; Mrs. Caroline Turner, 1; Miss Hattie I. Loring, 1; Mrs. Mary H. Jennings, 1</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Farmington. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.76</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gardiner. Bbl. of C., <i>for Selma, Ala.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hiram. Sewing Material, <i>for Meridian, Miss.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Madison. Cong. Ch., 27; Cong. Ch. of North Anson, 5, to const. FRANK DINSMORE L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Portland. "A Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Portland. High St. Sab. Sch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Portland. King's Daughters, Alpha Ten Silver Cross, Package of Basted</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Work, <i>for Selma, Ala.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waterford. Douglass Seminary by Miss H.E. Douglass, <i>for Freight to Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woodfords. Bbl. of C., <i>for Selma, Ala.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Yarmouth. First Parish Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>NEW HAMPSHIRE, $494.52.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Amherst. "L.F.B.," <i>for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Atkinson. Joseph Grover</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Berlin Mills. Parish Ch. of Christ</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.46</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Concord. "A Friend." 5; "C.L." 50c.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dartmouth. Dartmouth Sab. Sch., 25; Mrs. S.A. Brown, 5, <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dumbarton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dumbarton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Wilmington, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dumbarton. Miss Lizzie F. Burnham, (1 of which <i>for Indian M.</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Epping. Cong. Ch., 29.65, to const. DR. FRANK W. SPAULDING L.M.; Mrs. J.N. Shepard's S.S. Class, 3</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.65</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Exeter. Mary E. Shute, 50; "A Friend," 35</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>85.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Greenville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hanover. Cong. Ch. at Dartmouth College</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hanover. A.H. Washburn, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hudson. J.G. Proctor (3 of which <i>for Jellico, Tenn.</i>) 10; R.E. Winn, 2</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kingston. Prof. A. Wood</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lancaster. Mrs. A.M. Amsden</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Londonderry. Chas. S. Pillsbury</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mason. Y.P.S.C.E., <i>for Ind'l 'Sch., Thomasville, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nashua. Mrs. Annie D. Richardson's S.S. Class, <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Ipswich. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Penacook. Two Little Boys, Papers, <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Portsmouth. "A Member of North Ch."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tilton. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Troy. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.76</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Concord. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., to const. MRS. C.F. ROPER L.M., <i>for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>VERMONT, $967.31.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Brandon. Mrs. L.G. Case, <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. 12.38; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 4</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.38</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Burlington. Infant Class, College St. Sab. Sch., on True Blue Card, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cornwall. Bbl. of C.; Cash 2, <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Thetford. Mrs. O.T. Pressey and Mother</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.90</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fayetteville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hartland. Cash, <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Marshfield. Lyman Clark</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. SIDNEY JOHNSON L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>41.11</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Bennington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.74</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Cornwall. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>48.20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Northfield. Mrs. J.D. Allen. 30, to const. REV. WILLIAM S. HAZEN L.M.; Cong. Ch. and Soc., 24.92</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>54.92</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pawlet. A. Flower</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rutland. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Saint Albans. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>125.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Saint Albans. F.S. Stranahan's S.S. Class, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Saint Johnsbury. Box of C.; Cash 2, <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Springfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.06</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Weybridge. Bbl. of C.; Cash 2, <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$467.31</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br />ESTATE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jericho. Estate of Mrs. Lucy Spaulding by C.M. Spaulding</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>500.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$967.31</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>MASSACHUSETTS, $4,871.39.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Adams. Mr. Kirk's Class, Cong. S.S., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Amesbury. Main St. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.10</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Amherst. Amherst College Ch., 131.48; North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30, to const. MRS. MARY E. GRAVES L.M.; "A Friend," Thank Offering, 10</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>171.48</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Amherst. First Cong. Ch., 20.42; "A Friend in First Cong. Ch., Thank Offering," 10; Mrs. Stearns' School, 8, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>38.42</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Andover. C.E. Goodell, 25; Rev. F.W. Greene, 20</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>45.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Andover. Dorcas Mission, 2 Bbls C., <i>for Jellico, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Belchertown. By Mrs. C.F.D. Hazen, <i>for Freight</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ayer. Paper Mission Soc., Box Papers, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Beverly. Sab. Sch. of Dane St. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Boston. Henry Woods, 500; Mrs. Susan C. Warren, 400;<br /> + Old South Ch., by Mrs. Susan W. Hardy, 50;<br /> + J.A. Brown, 50; J.D. Leland, 25, Chas. H. Routaw, 25;<br /> + Mrs. Withington, 5; Edwin S. Woodbury, 10; Mrs. E.P.<br /> + Eayers, 10; H.M. Bird, 5; Rev. R.B. Howard, 2;<br /> + "Friend," 1; "A Friend," 1, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant</i><br /> + <i>Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,084.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> S.D. Smith, American Organ, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>75.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146"></a>[146]</span>Dorchester. Mrs. Walter Baker of Second Cong. Ch., <i>for Girls'</i><br /> + <i>Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Mrs. A.W. Torrey, <i>for Marion, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Mrs. Houston, Pkg. of Work, <i>for Selma, Ala.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jamaica Plain. Nellie F. Riley. Package Cotton Cloth,<br /> + <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Roxbury. John H. Soren</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.75 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Mrs. J.D. Proctor, <i>for Freight, to Atlanta, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Highland Cong. Ch., 20; Mrs. Campbell, 2, <i>for Girls'</i><br /> + <i>Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Boston. Phillips Y.P.S.C.E., "Thank Offering."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 1,219.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brimfield. Cong. Ch., Benev. Soc., 14.55; Second Cong. Ch., 6.91</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.46</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Buckland. Cong Ch., 23.96; Mrs. E.T. Smith 1; Mrs. Z.C. Woodward, 50c.; ——, 50c.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.96</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch., 77.60; Pilgrim Ch., M.C. Coll, 6.66</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>84.26</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cambridgeport. "Friend," 25; Mrs. A.E. Douglass. 10; Miss Lucena Palmer, 1, <i>for Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>36.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cambridge. Mrs. A.C. Thorpe, 10; Mrs. Sara C. Bull, 5, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>70.46</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Charlestown. Edward Graves</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dighton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Bridgewater. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.27</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Charlemont. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.39</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Easthampton. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>88.98</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Easthampton. Mrs. W.H. Wright's Sab. Sch. Class, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Weymouth. "Individuals," 2.70; "Friend." 25c, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.95</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Enfield. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Erving. Rev. Ira A. Smith, <i>for Student Aid, Wilmington, S.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fall River. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian Sch'p.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Foxboro. Orthodox Cong. Ch., 35.22; Primary Class, Miss Ellen Jewett, Teacher, 5</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.22</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Franklin. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Georgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>31.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Groveland. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. ad'l.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.32</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lowell. "R.S."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lynn. North Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Malden. First Cong. Ch., (30 of which to const. HERBERT PORTER L.M.)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>117.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Malden. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mansfield. Ortho. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.85</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Marblehead. Miss H.A. Richardson. 5; Miss Anna H. Dana, 5, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Boston. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newbury. First Ch., M.C. Coll</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.34</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newton. <i>For Student Aid, Marion, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Northampton. A.L. Williston, 103.15; Geo. W. Cable, 25, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>128.15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Amherst. Mrs. Henry Stearns</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.88</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Hadley. Second Cong. Ch., bal. to const. DEA. JAMES SPEAR L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Leominster. "Friends," <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.05</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>112.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Phillipston. Mrs. Mary P. Estey</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch., Rev. Edward Strong and wife</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pittsfield. Mrs. S.H. Stevenson, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Reading. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rockport. Jun. C.E. Soc. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sharon. Cong. Ch and Soc., to const. E.J. MOSMAN L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.66</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Springfield. "H.M."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,000.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Springfield. Memorial Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Springfield. Y.P.S.C.E. of Hope Ch., <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Somerville. Sab. Sch. of Franklin St. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Somerville. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of Franklin St. Ch., <i>for Santee Indian Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Somerville. Y.L.M.C. of Franklin St. Ch., <i>for Freight to Santee Agency</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.94</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Somerville. Dea. William Conant</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Somerville. "Friend" <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Braintree. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Framingham. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.61</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Farmington. G.M. Amsden</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Hadley. First Cong. Ch., 31; Maria B. Gridley, 5</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>36.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Wellfleet. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Taunton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>47.74</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Taunton. Young Peoples' Union, Trin. Cong. Ch., 25; Y.P. Union of Broadway Ch., 25, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ware. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ware. "Little Sunbeams," for Bird's Nest, <i>Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ware. Miss Hitchcock's Class, East Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Indian Sch'p.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wendell. Mrs. E.H. Evans, 3, <i>for Mountain Work</i>, 2 <i>for Chinese M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 5 <i>for Santee Agency</i>, 5 <i>for S.S. Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Dennis Mrs. S.S. Crowell (1 of which <i>for Chinese M.</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Gardner. Mrs. Nettle. M. Fairbanks' S.S. Class and "Other Friends," <i>for Indian Sch'p.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Westport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Somerville. Day St. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.89</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Winchendon. Y.P.S.C.E, bal. to const. MISS HATTIE M. WYMAN L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Winchester. S. Elliott</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Winchester. "A Friend" <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wollaston. Correction, Cong. Ch. and Soc., 31, ack. in April number, should read to const. REV. B.B. SHERMAN L.M.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Worcester. Ladies of Union Ch. <i>for Indian Sch'p</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Worcester. W.J. White</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>——. "A Friend In Massachusetts"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>——. "A Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh, Treas.:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Chicopee. First</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Ludlow</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.65 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> South Hadley Falls</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.48 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Westfield. First Cong. Ch. (of which 50 from Indian<br /> + Circle <i>for Santee Indian Sch.</i> Sab. Sch. 20,<br /> + "Friend" 5, "Two little children" 5, "Young Lady"<br /> + 1.50 <i>for <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147"></a>[147]</span>Rosebud Indian Sch.</i>, "Two Friends"<br /> + <i>for Indian Work,</i>15.)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>220.23 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> West Springfield, Park St., <i>for ed. of Indian Youth</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.65 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">279.26</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$4,546.39</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br />LEGACY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Phillipston. Estate of T. Ward, by James Watts, Ex.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>325.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$4,871.39</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br />CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waterford, Me. Douglass Seminary, Box <i>for Tougaloo, Miss.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Andover. Mass. Miss Mary B. Mills, Box Magazines, <i>for Lexington, Ky.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Auburndale, Mass. By Miss Norton of W.H.M.A. Large Bundle Magazines</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Belchertown, Mass. By Mrs. C.F.D. Hazen, Bbl. and Box, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cambridge. Mass. Miss Fannie W. Bowen. Choice Scrap Album</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hubbardston, Mass. Package, for "Aunt Rachel," <i>Tougaloo, Miss.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Marblehead, Mass. Hon. J.J.H. Gregory, Box Seeds, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Somerville, Mass. Young Ladies' Mission Circle, Bbl. <i>for Dakota Home, Santee, Neb.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Yarmouth, Mass. First Cong. Sewing Circle, Box, <i>for Marion, Ala.</i></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>RHODE ISLAND, $47.03.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Little Compton. United Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>22.03</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Providence. Mrs. Sarah L. Danielson, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Providence. Mission Band Beneficent Ch., Papers, <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>CONNECTICUT, $6,623.06.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Avon. "Friend" <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bristol. Mrs. Nancy Adams</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bristol. Mrs. Peck's Class Cong. S.S., <i>for Indian Sch'p.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Buckingham. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Canaan. Pilgrim Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.63</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Canton Center. "Cherry Blossom Miss. Band," <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cornwall. Sab. Sch, of Cong. Ch. Christmas Offerings, <i>for Ind'l Sch., Thomasville, Ga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cromwell. G.H. Butler, <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Durham. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.73</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Hartford. Mrs. N.S. Nash, Box C., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i>, 1 <i>for Freight</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Enfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Ballard Normal Sch., Macon, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Essex. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.90</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>62.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. EMELINE S. LEETE, L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Guilford. Hattie E. Seward, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hartford. Roland Mather, <i>for Dakota Home, Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hartford. Sab. Sch. of Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., <i>for Chinese M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lebanon. Goshen Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Milford. Plymouth Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>39.39</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Hartford. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>34.14</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Haven. Church of the Redeemer, 133; Mrs. Nelson Hall, 50. to const. EVA A. JUDSON L.M.; Prof. E.E. Salisbury, 50; Howard Av. Ch. 25.03</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>258.03</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Haven. Sab. Sch. of First Cong, Ch. 17.50: Mrs. W.M. Parsons, 4 <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New London. "X.Y.Z." <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Milford. Mrs. Geo. Hine</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Preston. Mrs. Betsey Averill, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Norfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Greenwich. Miss Amy Downes</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Stonington. "A Friend" <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Norwich. Park Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2743.97</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Norwich. Sab. Sch. of Park Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Norwich. Second Cong. Ch, <i>for Jewett Memorial Hall, Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.86</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.40</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Old Saybrook. The "Seaside" Band of Young Girls, by Miss Grace A. Paine, Treas., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Plantsville. Cong. Ch., 97.74; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 19.84</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>117.58</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ridgefield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Salisbury. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.06</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Killingly. Rev. W.H. Beard, Papers, <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Stafford Springs. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.85</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Terryville. James Woodruff, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Terryville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.80</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Washington Depot. "S."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waterbury. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>120.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waterbury. Primary Class Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waterbury. Mrs. M.R. Mitchell, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waterbury. Sunshine Circle, Papers, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Westford. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.72</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Suffield. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.28</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wethersfield. Mrs. J.C. Francis' S.S. Class, to const. CHAS. HOWARD WELDON L.M., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wethersfield. Y.P.S.C.E., <i>for Mountain Work</i>, by Minnie A. Havens, Treas.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Windsor. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Miss Collins' Indian Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>——. "A Connecticut Friend," <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>300.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>——. "A Friend," <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Connecticut, by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec.:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Essex. The Whatsoevers Miss. Circle, by Miss A. Parker,<br /> + Sec., <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Naugatuck. Ladies' Aid Soc., <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> New Haven. College St. Ch., by Mrs. Luman Cowles,<br /> + <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">——— 65.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$4,475.84</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br />LEGACY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Collinsville. Estate of Mrs. Margaret McNary Spencer, by Sam'l N. Codding, Ex.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'> 2,147.22</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$6,623.06</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>NEW YORK, $1,566,68.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Amsterdam. S. Louise Bell</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>4.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Aquebogue. Six Little Boy's by Miss Mamie Benjamin, 6; Miss A.H. Benjamin, Box C., etc., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Astoria. Miss Frances W. Blackwell, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, <i>for Ballard Normal Sch., Macon, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>900.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Clarence F. Birdseye, <i>for Indian Sch'p.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Presb, Ch., 2 Bbls. C., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Buffalo. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Freedmen and Indian Work</i>and to const. MRS. AGNES B. EARL, MRS. EMMA D. KINSLEY and MISS AGNES DICK L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148"></a>[148]</span>Buffalo. Wm. W. Hammond, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Canandaigua. King's Daughters of Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Flushing. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Oaks, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Granby Center. Mrs. J.C. Harrington</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Honeoye. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lowville. "E."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mount Sinai. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mount Vernon. Y.P.S.C.E. of Reformed Ch., by Miss C. Pearson</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.53</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. Miss S.R. Kendall, 24, "Friend," 5, <i>for Chapel, Santee Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>29.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. Mrs. L.H. Spelman, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. Mrs. E.B. Monroe, <i>for Ind'l Sch., Thomasville, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. A.P. Blevin, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. Mrs. O.M. Scripture</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Paris. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Perry Centre. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.56</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Richford. Mrs Lucy E. Allen</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sherburne. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.94</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Walton. Y.P.S.C.E., by Mary S. Colton, Sec., <i>for Ballard Normal Sch., Macon, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Westmoreland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wilmington. Allie M. Bell, on "True Blue" Card</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woodstock. Miss F. Butler, Package C., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L H. Cobb, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Brooklyn. Ladies' Benev. Ass'n of Central Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>225.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Geddes. Ladies' Aux.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Homer. "Band of Hope."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Jamestown. Woman's Aux. to const. MRS. S.E.<br /> + WOODIN L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Napoli. Ladies' Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">——— 274.50</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>NEW JERSEY, $315.89.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Arlington. Mission Band <i>for Student Aid</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>0.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Orange. F.W. Van Wagenen, <i>for Student Aid, Marion, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Moorestown. A.S. and H.F. Carter, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Murray Hill. Dr. S.H. Bassinger</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nutley. Miss Lydia M. Story, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Orange Valley. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>205.64</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Parsippany. Mrs. M.F. Condit</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Roselle. "A Friend," <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Salem. W. Graham Tyler, to const. KATHERINE L. TYLER L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>PENNSYLVANIA, $56.50.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Carbondale. Rev. D.L. Davis</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Driftwood. F.E. Blackwell, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Philadelphia. "A Friend" <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Philadelphia. Susan Longstreth, Pkg. Books; Miss R.C. Sheppard, 2, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pittsburg. Mrs. Hannah B. Rea, <i>for Ind'l Sch., Thomasville, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ridgway. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>OHIO, $545.41.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Atwater. "A Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>105.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brookfield. Welsh Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bryan. S.E. Blakeslee</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Castalia. First Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cincinnati. Ladies of Central Ch., Box C., <i>for Fisk U.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cleveland. T.W. Low, 10; Mrs. C.A. Garlick, 1.50</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cleveland. Rev. M.L. Berger, D.D., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cleveland. "Young People." by Miss E.A. Johnson, <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cleveland. Mrs. A.J. Smith, Box Papers, etc., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Elyria. Ladles' Soc. of Cong. Ch., 8 <i>for Wilmington, N.C. and for Freight</i>80c.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.80</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hudson. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kingsville. Ladies' M. Soc. of Presb. Ch., Bbl. of C., Cash 2.50, and <i>for Freight 1.89, for St. Augustine, Fla.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.39</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Madison. Central Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Medina. Miss Fannie Thomson's S.S. Class, 5: Rev. Norman Plass' Class, 5, on True Blue Cards</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Medina. Cong. Ch., Cards, by Miss Hard; Papers by May Woodward, <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Norwalk. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sandusky. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Burton. "A Friend"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Lodi. H.M.S. <i>for Miss Collins' Indian Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Madison. Center Ch. W.H.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Medina. W.M.S., Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>75.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Oberlin. L.S., Second Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.77 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> West Williamsfield. Woman's Aux. <i>for Mist Collins'</i><br /> + <i>Indian Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.15 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> West Williamsfield, Willing Workers, <i>for Miss Collins'</i><br /> + <i>Indian Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.60 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">——— 129.52</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$345.41</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br />LEGACY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Paddy's Run. Estate of Mrs. Mary A. Davies, by Abner Francis</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>200.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$545.41</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>ILLINOIS, $1,069.88.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Aurora. First Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>23.19</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Belvidere. Mrs. M.C. Foote, 5, <i>for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.</i>, 3 <i>for Woman's Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Camp Point. S.B. McKinney</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chenoa. Mrs. E.M. Pike, <i>for Mobile, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.90</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 83.45; W.E. Sanford, 25; New England Cong. Ch., 86.12; W.H.M.U. South Cong. Ch., 15</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>209.57</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chicago. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Leavitt St. Cong. Ch., <i>for Sch'p End't Fund, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chicago. Mrs. E.C. Hancock and Friends, Bbl. C., etc.; Mrs. C.E. Stanley, Box remnants, etc., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Crete. Mrs. A.D. Reed</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Crystal Lake. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Danville. Mrs. A.M. Swan, Package Cotton Cloth, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Earlville. "J.A.D."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Farm Ridge. B.U. Heister and Sister</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Farmington. Geo. W. Little, 15; Mrs. Theodore Tarleton, dec'd, 10</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Forrest. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.32</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Geneseo. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>105.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hinsdale. Cong. Ch., bal. to const, J.W. BUSHNELL and FLETCHER LINSLEY L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>34.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hyde Park. Classes in S.S. by Miss Comstock, 3, A.W. Cole, 2, Olin family, 1, <i>for Marion, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149"></a>[149]</span>Kewanee. Cong. Ch. to const. DEA. WILSON A. MINNICK, SAMUEL BENNISON and MRS. MARTHA M. PRATT L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>83.08</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lisbon. Dr. G. Kendall</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lyndon. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lyonsville. L.B.S., <i>for Miss Collins' Indian Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.80</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Windsor. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oak Park. Mrs. Elizabeth Durham, <i>for Chinese M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Odell. Mrs. H.E. Dana</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Peoria. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV. D.K. NESBIT, L.F. HOUGHTON, MRS. SARAH P. HOWE, MRS. MARGARET R. SCHIMPFF and MISS SARAH F. LINES, L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>151.82</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Princeton. Mrs. P.B. Corss</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rio. Y.P.S.C.E., by Mary Hall, Sec.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.65</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Washington Heights. Bethany Sab. Sch., <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.22</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wyoming. Y.P.S.C.E.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.67</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>——. "Friends in Illinois," <i>for Sch'p End't Fund, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>120.96</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>MICHIGAN, $375.38.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Alpena. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Alpena. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Wilmington, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>63.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Benzonia. Amasa Waters</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Canandaigua. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.90</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Clinton. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Detroit. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>38.23</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Detroit. Mrs. A.T. Twiss, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Grand Ledge. Miss E. Beckwith</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Morenci. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.10</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Baltimore. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.65</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Port Huron. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>44.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Richland. Alice Harvey, <i>for Student Aid, Memphis, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Romeo. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>27.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>——. Friends in Michigan, <i>for Sch'p End't Fund, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>83.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>IOWA, $248.14.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Atlantic. Allie McCarthy, <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>0.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bear Grove. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Belmond. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Box of Books, <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Charles City. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chester Center. Cong. Ch., 13.96; Christian Endeavor Soc., 2.08</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.04</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Danville. S.H. Mix</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Davenport. Mrs. M. Willis, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Des Moines. Plymouth Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>De Witt. Y.P.S.C.E.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Eldon. Sab. Sen. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fontanelle. Y.P.S.C.E.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Iowa City. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.13</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jefferson. Rev. D.B. Ells</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lewis. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mitchellville. Cong. Ch. adl.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.45</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Providence. "A Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch, <i>for Sch'p End't Fund, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.80</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newton. Cong. Ch. adl.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.70</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tipton. Mrs. M.D. Clapp</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Shenandoah. Cards and Papers by Mrs. Todd, <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waverly. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.32</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Algona</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.60 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Anamosa. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Chester Center. W.H.M.U.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Council Bluffs. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Denmark. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Dubuque. S.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.60 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Farragut. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Mount Pleasant. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Riceville. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Waucoma. L.H.M.U.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— $77.95</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$198.14</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br />ESTATE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Grand Junction. Estate of John Thompson</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$248.14</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>WISCONSIN, $614.33.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Clinton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box and Bbl. of C., <i>for Marion, Ala.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fulton. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>10.07</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hartford. Mrs. R. Freeman, "in Memory of Mary L. Freeman."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hartland. G.W. Henderson and Friends, Box Clothing, etc., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Janesville. Rev. Lewis P. Frost and Wife</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kenosha. Thomas Gillespie</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lake Geneva. G. Montague</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Paris and Bristol. "Friends." Bbl. C., <i>for Thomasville, Ga.</i>, 2.24 <i>for Freight</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.24</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Prairie du Sac. Sewing Material, <i>for Meridian, Miss.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Potosi. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.02</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Union Grove. Cong. Ch., 15; Cong. Sab. Sch., 5</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waukesha. "Friends in Cong. Ch.," <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Salem. Mrs. E.W. Jenney, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Whitewater. Sewing Material <i>for Meridian, Miss.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$114.33</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br />ESTATES.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Milwaukee. Estate of William Dawes, by J.H. Dawes, Executor</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>500.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$614.33</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>MINNESOTA, $91.25.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Alexandria. "A Friend."</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cannon Falls. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Glenwood. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.58</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Glyndon. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Basted Patchwork, <i>for Jonesboro, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Grand Meadow. T. Skyberg, Package S.S. Papers, <i>for Jonesboro, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hastings. D.B. Truax</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lake City. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Package Easter Exercises, <i>for Jonesboro, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Little Falls. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Minneapolis. Plym. Ch., <i>for Hampton Inst.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Minneapolis. Open Door Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.65</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Minneapolis. Mrs. E.F. Murdock, 7 Basted Gingham Aprons, 5 Handkerchiefs and Cases</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Owatonna. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.08</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Plainview. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Box of S.S. Books, <i>for Jonesboro, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rochester. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>31.59</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rushford. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.05</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Worthington. Union Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.55</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>MISSOURI, $29.50.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Garden City. W.B. Wills, 10; P.M. Wills, 1; A.C. Wills, 1</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hannibal. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>KANSAS, $148.07.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Anthony. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Blue Rapids. "Blue Rapids Junior Soc."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.85</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Topeka. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>136.22</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Topeka. Band of Hope S.S. Class, 50 Copies "Water Lily" <i>for Meridian, Miss.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>White City. "Willing Workers" Mission Band of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150"></a>[150]</span>NEBRASKA, $159.73.</td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Arborville. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>6.10</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Beatrice. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.10</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Blair. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fairmont. Cong Ch. adl.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.80</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Franklin. Cong. Ch. adl.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.56</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Greenwood. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.17</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Linwood. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Long Pine. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Santee Agency. S.L. Voorhees, 50; H.A. Brown, 30</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>80.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waverly. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>DAKOTA, $53.86.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Harwood. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>1.08</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Huron. First Cong Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>42.58</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Ashton. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.20 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Fire Steel. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Sioux Falls. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 10.20</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>UTAH, $5.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Ogden. Ladies' Miss'y Soc.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>CALIFORNIA, $122.58.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Grass Valley. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>122.58</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $10.19.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>10.19</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>KENTUCKY, $1.66.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Woodbine. Rev. E.H. Bullock</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>1.66</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>VIRGINIA, $3.20.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Herndon. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>3.20</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>TENNESSEE, $22.50.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Deer Lodge. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>2.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Grandview. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jonesboro. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sherwood. "Unknown Friends," 5 Packages Patchwork, etc., <i>for Sewing Sch.</i></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>NORTH CAROLINA, $7.25.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Troy. S.D. Leak</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>4.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nalls. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hillsboro. Mrs. C.E. Jones</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>GEORGIA, $1.55.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Cypress Slash. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>1.55</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>ALABAMA, $13.53.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Marion. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>5.53</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mobile. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Selma. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>MISSISSIPPI, 60c.</td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Piney Grove. By Rev. E. Tapley</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>0.60</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>CANADA, $5.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Montreal. Charles Alexander</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>TURKEY, $10.00</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Mardin. Mrs. Ellen Ainsle, 5 <i>for Chinese M.</i>and 5 <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>EAST AFRICA, $10.00</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Kambeni. Rev. B.F. Ousley, <i>for Theo. Dept., Fisk U.</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Donations</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'> $14,948.73</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Estates</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3,722.22</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$18,670.95</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>INCOME, $455.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Avery Fund, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>355.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>C.F. Dike Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>General Endowment Fund, <i>for Freedmen</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 455.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>TUITION, $4,810.18.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Lexington, Ky., Tuition</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>881.23 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Williamsburg, Ky., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>109.30 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Genesis, Tenn., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.12 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Grand View, Tenn., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jellico, Tenn., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>70.33 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jonesboro, Tenn., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>27.15 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Memphis, Tenn., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>468.95 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nashville, Tenn., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>650.15 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pleasant Hill, Tenn., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>28.65 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Beaufort, N.C., Tuition Pub. Fund</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.20 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wilmington, N.C., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>122.60 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Charleston, S.C., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>212.37 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Atlanta, Ga., Storrs Sch., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>239.20 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Macon, Ga., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>294.70 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>McIntosh, Ga., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>55.40 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Savannah, Ga., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>197.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Thomasville, Ga., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>74.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Athens, Ala., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>74.65 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Marion, Ala., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>112.06 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mobile, Ala., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>193.40 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Talladega, Ala., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>139.45 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Meridian, Miss., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>75.85 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tougaloo, Miss., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>177.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Orleans, La., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>338.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Austin, Texas, Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>197.27 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 4,810.18</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>United States Government for the education of Indians</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5,254.02</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">————</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Total for March</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'> $29,190.15</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">========</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>SUMMARY.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Donations</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'> $95,843.37</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Estates</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>15,194.10</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">—————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$111,037.47</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Income</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4,829.21</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18,781.58</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>United States Government appropriation for Indians</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9,540.87</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">—————</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Total from Oct. 1 to March 31</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'> $144,189.13</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">=========</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Subscriptions for March</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>76.14</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Previously acknowledged</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>532.99</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">———</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Total</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>690.13</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><b>DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Income for March, 1889, from investments</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>1,500.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Previously acknowledged</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7,354.86</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align="right">$8,854.86</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<br /><br /> +<div class="right">H.W. 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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. 5, May, 1889 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 23, 2005 [EBook #16118] + +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 + +May, 1889 + +VOL. XLIII. NO. 5. + + + + +CONTENTS + + +EDITORIAL. + FINANCIAL + CENTENNIAL + CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA + NOTES FROM THE SOUTH + ILLUMINATED SPOTS + THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIANS + NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND + WHAT THE WORLD SAYS + PARAGRAPHS + SOUTHERN ECHOES + BOOK NOTICE + +THE SOUTH. + THE GEORGIA CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION + EVANGELISTIC LABORS + THOMASVILLE, GA. + DEATH OF MRS. BENNETT + +THE INDIANS. + PERILS OF MISSIONARY LIFE + FIRST FRUITS + +THE CHINESE. + LOS ANGELES CONGREGATIONAL CHINESE MISSION + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION + ALABAMA ASSOCIATION + THREE NEW ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTH + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + HOW THE PENNIES GREW + +RECEIPTS + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +Rooms, 56 Reade Street. + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. + +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + * * * * * + + +American Missionary Association. + + +President, Rev. WM. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D., N.Y. + + +_Vice-Presidents._ + + Rev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y. + Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass. + Rev. F.A. 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, + 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. MAY, 1889. NO. 5. + + +American Missionary Association. + + * * * * * + + +FINANCIAL. + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY presents its greetings for the month of May. Six +months of our fiscal year are now in the past. The half year which we +anticipate includes the summer time, when many of the friends of the +ignorant millions to whom we are sent, are absent from their churches. +The months of May and June ought to swell the stream of love and service +against the season when the demand will continue and income will be +small. + +We appealed last month for an increase of the contributions in _church_ +collections. We renew and emphasize that appeal, for these collections +are the steady streams on which we rely to keep in motion the wheels of +the large and ever enlarging work of the Association. We believe that +the interest in this great work is on the increase. We rejoice that "the +most prolific missionary field ever opened to any Christian people-- +right here at our doors," is gaining upon the interest and benevolence +of the churches year by year. Never were the friends of the cause mote +responsive; never was the work more hopeful. The work enlarges, and the +people's faith enlarges. Their gifts to Christ for his poor were never +freer. + +We have been greatly favored with special gifts. Every one of them is +needed. It is a blessed thing that one can plant his benevolences in +some special institution or feature of work, and know that the +influences are to follow on after the giver has gone to a higher world. +But we do hope that the CHURCHES OF CHRIST, AS CHURCHES, will not fail +to keep step with the providences of God in their church contributions. + +It is also true that some fear that the day of LEGACIES is to come to an +end. Indeed, there are those who take a solemn comfort in bewailing and +fearing that everything is to come to an end. They mix a pound of +forebodings with an ounce of faith. If, for some unseen reasons in the +movements of life and death, legacies do not appear with the regularity +of insurance tables, they think the day of legacies is dead. +Nevertheless legacies will continue as long as Christians pass from +earth to heaven. There will always be faithful souls who will remember +Christ and his cause in their wills. There will always be those who may +not be able to divide their estates and to dispose of portions of them +while they live, who will yet provide that they may see their works +following them, when they shall look down from a world redeemed, to a +world for whose redemption Christ lived and died. There will always be +legacies, and the American Missionary Association, so long as it follows +in the steps of Christ in such mission as it has, will not be forgotten. +The legacies will come, because they ought to come. The people of God +will remember this work in their wills because they ought to do this, +and God will take care that what Christian stewards ought to do, shall +be done. + +We thank God for SPECIAL GIFTS. We thank God for LEGACIES. We also thank +God for the ability and faith and sacrifices of those who cannot plant +institutions or build or endow schools, but who live and give that which +provides for the unceasing CURRENT EXPENSES. Almost every one can do a +little more, and it is the many littles that make the difference between +a debt with a crippled work, and freedom from debt with healthful +growth. All along the lines, the calls for help are so urgent, that it +is painful for us, in the name of the church, to be constantly saying +"No!" + +OUR RECEIPTS for the past six months (ending March 31) are as follows: + +Church contributions $95,843.37 +Estates and legacies 15,194.10 +Tuition from schools 18,781.58 +Income from invested funds 4,829.21 +Income from the United States Government 9,540.87 + + ---------- + +Total $144,189.13 + +OUR PAYMENTS for the past six +months are $171,237.64 +OUR DEFICIT is 27,048.51 + +The churches can easily take this out of the way if they will. We +believe that they will. + + * * * * * + + +CENTENNIAL. + +These pages will come before our readers amid the enthusiastic +rejoicings of a great nation celebrating the one hundredth anniversary +of its Constitution--a Constitution that has been tried and found +worthy. + +The greatest strain to which this great charter has been subjected in +the past hundred years has been occasioned by slavery. The crisis cost +untold blood and treasure. The great strain of the next hundred years +will be what slavery has left behind it--a vast and growing black +population, and an imbittered race prejudice. + +There is but one way to meet this strain of the coming century, and that +is by the education of the blacks. The task is great, but if the +American people will awake to its urgency and put forth the needed +effort, the crisis may be averted. We call upon all Christian people, +and upon all patriots, to begin this new century with the purpose to +increase their contributions for this great object. We ask them to begin +at once and to continue steadily--in church contributions, in personal +gifts, and, not to forget the object in the making of wills. + + * * * * * + + +CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA. + +Our readers are aware that there are two Congregational Organizations in +the State of Georgia. The Georgia Congregational Association was +organized in 1878, and is composed of about a dozen colored churches, +some of their pastors being white and some colored. The United +Congregational Conference of Georgia was formed a little more than a +year ago, is a much larger body, and is composed of white pastors and +churches. With a view to a possible union of these two organizations, +committees have been appointed by each, and, in another column, we lay +before our readers the propositions to that end, made by the Committee +of the Georgia Association. We cannot withhold our expression of +satisfaction with the Christian spirit exhibited in this document, and +the readiness to accept any possible alternative to secure the union. +The Congregational Churches of the country will feel an interest in +marking the progress of these negotiations, and will hail with delight a +consummation that will relieve the denomination from the embarrassment +of sanctioning two organizations in the same State that seem to be +separated only by the color-line. + + * * * * * + + +NOTES FROM THE SOUTH. + +BY SECRETARY A.F. BEARD. + +Once more in Nashville. There is no question in my mind but that +Nashville is the educational leader in the South. It is a city of hills +which are crowned with institutions for white and black. These are the +beginnings of greater and better days for this part of "our country." My +duties have taken me to Fisk University. It is a college which has +justly won very high praise. Jubilee and Livingstone Halls are +significant names. One speaks of an historic event, and the other of an +historic person, but the work that goes on in both these large buildings +does no dishonor to one name or the other. + + * * * * * + +When Congressman Kelley, of Pennsylvania, was in Nashville, he visited +Fisk University. He afterwards told me that he could not conceal his +surprise at what he saw and heard and only with difficulty his emotion +when he arose to address the students. + +I have now visited Fisk several times. I am each time more impressed +with the fidelity and quality of the work on the part of the students, +and the patient enthusiasm of the professors and of the teachers. If +there were to be no other or greater results than those of the past and +the present, all that has been done for Fisk University would be +justified. + + * * * * * + +From Nashville to Sparta, Tenn., and then a rough, tough ride up the +mountain side, "rattling the bones over the stones" until at length we +have climbed the Cumberland Plateau. We arrive at no-where in +particular, which is named Pleasant Hill. Here are a neat church, which +is both church and school, and a sightly building of two stories with a +third under the mansard roof, which will accommodate forty boys. A few +houses are visible from the top of this building, but no one could guess +where forty mountain boys and as many girls might be living. +Nevertheless they have been discovered, and it was none too soon. +Missionary Dodge did not locate in Pleasant Hill before the time. He +realized this. He looked about him and looked up and down. He saw things +which were invisible. He saw castles in the air. It must be confessed +that the office at Reade Street, fearing lest it might "trust the +churches" too much, had not the faith which could take hold of these +castles in the air and anchor them to the soil of Pleasant Hill; but +Brother Dodge got his grapples out and pulled down a church building +from the heavens. Well done; now surely he should rest from his labors +and give himself and us time to breathe. No; a visible church only +stimulated his faith, it did not satisfy it. This church was a place in +which he could read the eleventh chapter of Hebrews every Sunday. The +result was the "Hall" for young men and for the teachers. Now we are in +it and are glad. The Massachusetts Principal gave us welcome, the +Oberlin Vice-Principal endorsed it, while the Matron materialized the +spirit of welcome in a way calculated to excite gratitude, from the fact +that missionaries cannot live absolutely on faith. + +Next the young men were introduced. One of them was seized with +undisguised curiosity to behold a minister whose theological system some +institution had found it necessary to doctor. It is, perhaps, the first +instance on record in modern times where these semi-lunar fardels have +been looked upon with respect and curiosity. When "Brother Dodge" came, +congratulations were in order over his Church, his School and his Hall, +but he would have none of it. He was seeing another building floating in +the clouds, and could only talk of the invisible. It will, however, soon +be among things visible, for the missionary has his grapples out. It is +to be a Boarding Hall and Industrial Home for girls who will come into +it and learn to live and to be. "But, Pleasant Hill is not a town, it is +not a village, it is only by courtesy a hamlet. Where are your pupils?" +"The woods are full of them and they will come from near and from far," +replies their young missionary of more than three score and ten years. +On Sunday, the church was filled; on Monday, the school was full; and +our heart was full of thanksgiving that God had come to these mountain +people, that hope would enter their lives and their cabins, and that +these boys and girls would now step up in Christian manhood and +womanhood. + + * * * * * + +One of the impressive thoughts which a visit to an institution like Fisk +University is sure to excite, is the relation of all this work to the +future. Apropos of this, the Rev. J.O.A. Clark, D.D., LL.D., of Macon, +Ga., has just written a little tract of fifty pages on "The Future of +the Races." He does not vote in New England, nor is he a Yankee; but he +is a good and true witness. He says, that the Races are running races +along the paths of knowledge and up the hills of science. These are his +words (pages 19 and 20): "Have they" [the colored people] "availed +themselves of the educational facilities? Have they profited by them? We +answer that they have been incalculably benefited. They have shown not +only that they can receive education, but education of a high order. +Their improvement has been so astonishing as to silence doubt and +caviling. Our Southern eyes have been opened to see it. Southern candor +is free to admit it. There are none who do not admit it but the +hopelessly prejudiced. I am persuaded that the _average_ examinations in +the colored schools are better than the average in the white schools, +for teachableness is the basis of all education, and this universally +distinguishes the negro." Dr. Clark is not saying that the white boy may +not learn more easily and master more rapidly, but rather is telling how +the hare came out second in the race with his competitor not so fleet of +foot, but which had the gift of patient continuance in well-doing. Still +he accentuates the fact that "their improvement is astonishing." I am +sure that no one can visit Fisk University without having all his doubts +dispersed as to the future of the negro race. It is to have a future. + +This leads me to quote the closing words of Dr. Clark's significant +pamphlet (page 52): "All Africa stretches out her hands to God; to the +work of delivering her fatherland from heathenism. God is calling the +blacks of these Southern States. They are to be the chief instruments in +giving the Gospel of Christ to the benighted land of their fathers. +Wherefore, let the work of Christian, and so sanctified, education go +on." + +All this is true, and it means that in our American Missionary +Association the ministerial education must now be made more prominent. +When white missionaries can say, as one whose bones are in the soil of +the Dark Continent did say, "Let a thousand fall before Africa shall be +given up," the children of Africa must respond, "Africa shall be +evangelized by Africans." That is, we must have more and better +theological schools for the Negro people. The demand for educated Negro +ministers, who know what religion is, and what purity is, will be +greater and greater. + +The demand for _missionaries_ of the negro race who can realize that +"Christianity is a missionary religion," will be greater, also. We can +scarcely expect that those who came out of Egypt will become +missionaries to Egypt. The apprehension of missionary responsibility +comes with a developed Christianity. The missionary sense came to the +Apostles themselves very slowly. It came to the Christian Church slowly. +The African people in America, I trust, will seize upon it more rapidly, +for they have a large emotional nature and great faith. What they now +need is education and intellectual character, and those qualities which +give shape, and tone, and persistence, to the forces which direct and +control events. + +Men who have been slaves may not take on this, and their children may +not in great numbers. But their children's children are coming on +multitudinously, and from them must go those who shall preach the Gospel +to their own race in Africa. For psychological as well as physiological +reasons this must be. Not only because they can live, and whites cannot, +in Africa, but because, other things being equal, they can do this work +better with their own race. Said Christ, "Go home to thy friends, and +tell what great things the Lord hath done for thee." + +All of which says that the Fisk must now add to its great work a +thorough theological school, and must urge its students to listen to the +voice of God and to answer when God calls, "Speak, Lord, thy servant +heareth." More and better ministers are needed both for Africa in the +United States and Africa across the sea. He will give wisely who will +give quickly for this. + + * * * * * + + +ILLUMINATED SPOTS. + +A Northern visitor in the South, writing in a recent number of _The +Advance_ speaks of the rapid improvement of the Negroes in that +locality. He says that the Negro is prosperous; that commercially he is +honest; that one house has had no less than thirteen hundred names of +colored people on its books, each having a credit from a few dollars to +forty or more; that the Negro respects education--even if he is unable +to read himself, he wants, with all the determination of his soul, that +his children shall be educated; that the merchants say that they are +buying better and better goods, are learning the value of money, are +exercising wiser judgment, are becoming farmers and mechanics, are +becoming better men. + +These items, taken from a long article, show the bright light glowing in +that locality. Of course the writer gives some dark touches to the +picture, and thus modified, it may be repeated of thousands of places +throughout the South. Some of our friends, we fear, look too much upon +the dark side. There _is_ a dark side, and it is dense. But if we can +only continue and enlarge the sphere of these bright spots, and kindle +others in new localities, the time will come when the light will +displace the darkness and the dawn of a new era will come. Friends of +the Negro race, patriots and Christians! furnish the oil for these +bright spots and help to multiply them. + + * * * * * + + +THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIANS. + + On the 13th of March, some of the Secretaries of the missionary + societies, and others interested in the welfare of the Indians, + had an interview with President Harrison and with Secretary + Noble, of the Interior Department. We were kindly received, and + the Secretary solicited information from us as to the methods in + which he could aid in furtherance of Indian civilization. A + number of suggestions were made in response, and the following + outline is given as a summary of the points presented to the + Secretary: + +1. That the appointment or retention of all officers and employes in the +Indian service of the Government shall be on the sole ground of +fitness--that ability, integrity and an interest in the welfare of the +Indians, shall constitute the only required conditions. We are not +ignorant of the difficulties involved in securing such persons, +especially with the low salaries paid to some of these employes; and we +shall be abundantly satisfied with the purpose of the Government to +reach the nearest attainable success in this direction. + +2. That the Government shall make adequate appropriations for the +establishment and maintenance of suitable schools for the education of +all Indian pupils--whether these schools be sustained and controlled +wholly by the Government or in co-operation with missionary societies. +The millions of dollars now due to the Indians by treaty stipulations, +for educational purposes, should not be idle in the National Treasury, +but should, as rapidly as possible, be devoted to their legitimate +purposes, and they should be supplemented as far as need be by direct +grants from the Government. + +3. That the co-operation of the Government with the missionary societies +in what are known as _Contract_ schools should be continued and +enlarged. We believe that no better teaching has been afforded to the +Indians than that given in these Contract schools. The educational +qualifications of the teachers, together with their disinterested and +self-denying characters and their religious influence and instruction, +render them pre-eminently fit for their places and successful in their +work. The experience of the past and the testimony of all unprejudiced +persons bear witness to this fact. + +4. That compulsory education of Indian pupils be enforced, with liberty +of choice to the parents in the selection of the schools to which their +children shall be sent. The Indians are generally averse, or +indifferent, to the education of their children. The withholding of +rations in case of failure or neglect is usually an all-sufficient +motive for prompt compliance. Then, too, the parent, if a Christian and +intelligent, should be allowed to select the school for his child, and +not be compelled to send it to a Government school simply because that +may happen to be nearest. + +5. The Government should adopt a liberal policy in regard to the use of +the vernacular in the Indian schools. We are all agreed that the English +language should be brought into use among the Indians at the earliest +practicable period. But the experience of all the past, in Indian +civilization among the ruder tribes, has shown that Christian influences +have been most successfully brought to bear by the use of the +vernacular, in giving them the knowledge of the Word of God, in teaching +them a practical morality, and in preparing them for civilized life. We +ask, therefore, that no restrictions be placed upon Christian people in +their efforts for this great object. + +6. We ask that the Government exercise an absolute impartiality in +dealing with the different denominations of Christians, in the +distribution of appropriations, in the granting of lands for missionary +uses, and in the appointment of officers, agents, teachers and employes. +We ask no favors in these respects, and we desire that none shall be +granted to others. + + * * * * * + + +NOTES FROM NEW ENGLAND. + +BY REV C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY. + +"_Miss_ ----: + +"DEAR MADAM: I understand you have got the school, but I can't possibly +board you, as social equality is not custom in this country. I don't +think it would be pleasant for you nor for us, either. I wrote this in +order for you to look out some other place. You need not depend on +getting board with us. + +"FEBRUARY 2, 1889." + +This letter was written to a cultivated Northern young lady who had +graduated at one of the best high schools in the country and held a +special recommendation, besides her diploma, on account of her +excellency as a student and practice teacher. She went South to help +these people in their great need. It was for Christ's sake and in "His +name" that she entered this field. She secured board of a white family, +but when they learned that she was going to teach the blacks and seek to +lead them to Christ, this letter was sent her. Every door was closed +against this Christian woman because she was trying to save the poor and +ignorant! And it is eighteen hundred and eighty-nine of the Christian +era and in free America! + +But this plucky Yankee girl did not so give up her school. She found a +boarding place in the home of one of our missionaries, two miles away, +and she tramps across these two miles twice a day, patiently putting in +her best services, to bring light into the dense darkness of the very +community whose doors were closed against her! + +In connection with this incident of narrow prejudice read these words +from Dr. Haygood's "Pleas for Progress." "In all truth and common sense +there is no reason for discounting in any respect a white man or woman +simply for teaching negroes. It is absurd. I believe it is sinful." +These earnest words were spoken by the eloquent divine to his Southern +brethren, August 2, 1883, six long years ago. If they only carried the +conviction of the people to whom he appealed! How strangely they sound, +standing so close to this letter refusing board to a young lady because +she is teaching these very negroes! "How long, O Lord, how long?" + + * * * * * + +The semi-annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Association met +in the Beneficent Congregational Church, or "Old Round Top," as the +street car conductor called it, Providence, April 3d. The weather was +extremely unfavorable, as New England weather has been lately, as a +rule, but there was a good attendance and deep interest. All the +missionary societies of the Congregational churches which do work in +America were represented. The field work of the Woman's Association has +passed into the control of the national societies. The future looks very +bright for its increasing usefulness. + + * * * * * + +And now Pleasant Hill, Tenn., rejoices in the sweet music of one of the +Smith organs. Mr. S.D. Smith is making many schools happy and adding +greatly to their efficiency by his generous gifts of organs. + + * * * * * + + +WHAT THE WORLD SAYS. + +BLACK SAINTS AND WHITE. + +Do colored folks retain their complexion when they go to heaven? This is +a question of some importance to the members of the Diocesan Convention +of the Protestant Episcopal churches of Charleston, S.C. Not long ago +the Convention appointed a special committee to consider and report upon +the subject of the admission of negro clergymen and laymen as members of +that body. Their action was taken with the view of bringing the +Charleston churches, if possible, into harmony with the other Episcopal +congregations of the State. In 1887, the former had seceded in +consequence of the adoption of a resolution which the Charleston +brethren regarded as a virtual obliteration of the color-line. + +Thursday, the report of the committee was made public. It proposes a +separate convocation for the colored churches under the ministration of +the bishop, and consents to the admission to the Convention of colored +clergymen who have been associated with the church for twelve months +prior to May, 1889. If the report is adopted, three negro ministers will +sit as members, but no lay delegates will be eligible. The committee +were willing to forego their prejudice out of deference to the holy +office. They felt that the color of a clergyman's skin, although it was +no doubt a very serious ground of objection when it happened to be +black, should not overcome the respect due to the sanctity of his +official calling. His cloth, so to speak, saved him, and what would have +been denied to the man it was possible to concede to the priest. + +Under these circumstances the gravity of the question, "Do colored folks +retain their complexion when they go to heaven?" is obvious. The +concession which the committee of the Diocesan Convention make is but a +re-affirmation of the Charleston brethren's aversion to anything that +smacks of an approach to association of the two races on terms of +equality. If there are colored saints in Paradise, it will be utterly +impossible for the Charleston white saints of the Episcopal denomination +to feel at home there. The only chance of reconciling them to a heaven +so liberally disposed would depend on the adoption of some such plan as +that recommended by the committee as a _modus vivendi_ in the church on +earth. That is to say, if the colored saints were corraled by +themselves--if their convocations were separate from the convocations of +the white saints--if they were not admitted to the white circles of +celestial society as equal partakers of the privileges of the heavenly +kingdom--the Caucasian angels from Charleston might be willing to pass +their eternity in such a place. + +It is very essential for them, therefore, to know whether there are in +fact any colored saints in heaven; and, if there are, whether the +divisions of the Father's house into "many mansions" admits of an +arrangement whereby the angelic brunettes may occupy one set of quarters +and the Charleston blondes another. Until these problems are solved to +their satisfaction, we do not see how our Christian friends of the chief +city of South Carolina can contemplate a future life with any degree of +equanimity. Their faith may be equal to the removal of mountains and +their virtues may entitle them to all the felicity of the spirits of +just men made perfect, but if it is the rule of the "happy land, far, +far away" that a black saint is just as good as a white one, how much +more rational it would be for them to prefer annihilation to +immortality. + +_Brooklyn Daily Eagle._ + + * * * * * + + +PARAGRAPHS. + +We would continue to remind pastors and churches of our Leaflets, which +we will be happy to furnish, on application, to those taking collections +for our Association. + + * * * * * + +The _Daily Standard-Union_, of Brooklyn, is a good judge. It says: + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY for April, published by the American Missionary +Association, New York, is full of information useful and edifying to all +interested in domestic missions. + + * * * * * + +The "Student's Letter" found on another page is worth attention. The +writer, Rev. Spencer Snell, gives a modest and yet vivid picture of his +struggles for an education, and he is now--we say it for him, as he does +not--the able and acceptable pastor of our growing church in Birmingham, +Alabama. We wish in a quiet way to suggest to our friends in the North +that "it pays" to spend money to educate such men. + +Rev. James Wharton, the evangelist, who has been efficiently preaching +to the American Missionary churches in the South this winter, has left +this country for England, where he will remain until the first of +October, when he will return again to his specific work in which the +churches have been greatly blessed. The churches which he has visited, +and which have added to their numbers through his ministration, are +Louisville, Ky., Sherwood, Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., Athens, +Florence, Mobile and Montgomery, Ala., Jackson and Tougaloo, Miss., and +New Orleans, La. + +Many prayers will go with him across the sea, and many welcomes will +greet him on his return. + + * * * * * + + +SOUTHERN ECHOES. + +PRAYERS OF WOMEN AT THE MEETING OF FAREWELL TO A MISSIONARY. + +"O! Lord, thou knowest how I love her. Thou knowest how I have run to +her in every trouble, as a chicken does to its mother." + +"O! Lord, you know what she has been to me in the greatest trouble I +ever had. You know I think more of her than of any being in the whole +world, except my husband. Will you please to be with her when she gets +ready for the train, and when she goes from the house to the train, and +on the train, and when she goes to the house from the train, and bless +her all the time." + + * * * * * + +Mrs. W----, an old lady, said: "My old man ax me every night when he +come from work if there be a meeting up yonder. He do like to go to +meeting. He think a heap of that young preacher up yonder. Last +Wednesday night after meeting, he say to me, 'Mary, I'll be good to you +after this,' and I say the same to him. It do me a heap of good to go up +yonder. I learn more than I ever knowed before. I knows what the texts +means now." + + * * * * * + +SATISFACTORILY EXPLAINED.--A few days since, during a recitation in +geography, a teacher was endeavoring to explain the subject of +electricity in the lesson on "Thunder and lightning." It had been stated +that when a flash of lightning darts to the earth it is said to +_strike_. A precocious lad of twelve summers (winters included), raised +his hand and upon recognition said: "Do _people_ have any electricity?" +Upon being informed that every one possessed the subtle force in a +greater or less degree, his dusky, good-natured face lighted up, and he +added, "Then is that the reason why some people always want to strike?" + + * * * * * + +BOOK NOTICE + +_Pleas for Progress._ By ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD, D.D. Publishing House of +M.E. Church South, Nashville, Tenn. Price, $1.00. + +Dr. Haygood is a Southern man who stands with his face toward sunrise +and not sunset. As a writer, he is interesting and vigorous. He +sometimes forgets to take off his "Titbottom spectacles" when he looks +southward, but he puts in tremendous blows against the wrong which he +sees. This volume before us contains papers and addresses delivered at +various times and places, both North and South. It is a very valuable +book for those who desire to learn what the really Christian people of +the South think on these great National problems that the American +Missionary Association is helping to solve. + +The lecture on "The Education of the Negro," delivered at Monteagle, +Tenn., and published in this volume, is a sample. Dr. Haygood states +"four root objections" to negro education: 1--Ignorance; 2--Stinginess; +3--Prejudice; 4--Fear that education will "spoil the negro as a laborer" +and bring him into "social equality" with the whites. The author shows +the absurdity of all these objections. + +The volume is full of statistics and will prove a valuable mine of +facts. The discussions are clear and generally convincing. We commend +the book highly. + + * * * * * + + +THE SOUTH. + + + * * * * * + + +THE GEORGIA CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION. + +_Rev. S.C. McDaniel and others, Committee of the United Congregational +Conference of Georgia._ + +DEAR BRETHREN.--Having been appointed by the Georgia Congregational +Association as a committee to confer with you in reference to a union of +the two bodies represented by you and us, we desire to express to you +our gratification at the receipt of your request for such a conference, +and our earnest desire that such a union should be consummated. With +this end in view, we would respectfully submit for your consideration +the following propositions: + +1. We cordially invite the churches composing the United Congregational +Conference to become members of the Georgia Congregational Association. +Upon the acceptance of this invitation by the United Conference, we +agree to recommend to the Association the passage of a vote immediately +placing upon the roll of the Association the names of all the churches +of the United Conference. + +2. In case the foregoing proposition should not be acceptable to you, we +propose that each of the bodies represented by us should pass a vote +disbanding its organization, with the understanding that all the +churches of both bodies should then come together and form a new +organization. Upon the agreement of your committee to recommend to the +United Conference the adoption of this proposition, we agree to make a +similar recommendation to the Association. + +3. If neither of the foregoing propositions should be acceptable to you, +we propose that the United Conference place upon its roll the names of +all the churches and ministers of the Georgia Association. Upon the +agreement of your committee to recommend such action to the United +Conference, we agree to recommend to the Association the adoption of a +vote declaring its organization disbanded as soon as the churches +composing the same are received by the United Conference. + +With reference to the foregoing propositions we would say further: + +It is our conviction that any union between the organizations +represented by our respective committees should be as comprehensive and +thorough as possible, and that to this end the churches of the Georgia +Association should be enrolled as members of the District Conferences, +in fellowship with the United Conference within whose respective +boundaries the Association churches may be located. And the foregoing +propositions are made with the understanding that a vote shall be passed +by the United Conference recommending the District Conferences to +receive the Association churches as hereby suggested. + +Of these three proposed methods of union, our own preference is for the +first. As the Georgia Congregational Association is the older body and +represents the historic Congregationalism of the State, going back not +only to the early years succeeding the Civil War, but even, in the +record of one of its churches, to the colonial period preceding the +Revolution, we feel that a respect for the traditional usages of our +polity would suggest the absorption of the newer churches by the +Association as being the older State organization. But as in our opinion +the result to be achieved is of more importance than the method by which +it shall be achieved, we would not insist upon the method of our choice. +If more acceptable to you, we should gladly form a union on the basis of +either the second or the third proposition already stated. Our chief +desire is for a complete and hearty union, in which, acknowledging the +fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, we may live and work +together in the love of Christ, the Elder Brother of us all. That our +Heavenly Father may graciously help us all in perfecting and maintaining +such a union, is our earnest prayer. + +Your brethren in Christ, + +GEO. V. CLARK, HORACE BUMSTEAD, GEO. C. ROWE, L.B. MAXWELL, EVARTS KENT, +FLOYD SNELSON, C.F. SARGENT. + + * * * * * + + +EVANGELISTIC LABORS. + +REV. JAMES WHARTON. + +You last heard of my work, I believe, from Memphis, Tenn., where God +revealed his gracious power among the students of LeMoyne, and also at +the Congregational church. Altogether, some one hundred and thirty-four +professed a hope in Christ during my visit there. I then went to +Jackson, Miss., to hold services in the new church there; a pretty +little building, situated in a very central and prominent part of the +city. For eleven nights, I preached to not a very large, but to an +interesting congregation. Twelve professed conversion, their conversion +proving a source of great joy, not only to themselves, but to their +friends and acquaintances. + +I also visited Tougaloo University and spoke to the students. Between +fifty and sixty at the close of the address arose for prayer. I feel +sure if I could have spent a few days with them, that most of them would +have decided for Christ, but they remain under the good and wise +instruction of the President, Rev. F.G. Woodworth. I hope to visit them +again. + +I then went to New Orleans, to find the Central Congregational Church +recovering itself under the leading of the pastor, Rev. Geo. W. +Henderson. We believe that it will steadily grow, and be a great +influence for good in that large and wicked city. At Straight +University, I found the religious interest going on quietly and steadily +under the care of Professor Hitchcock and Rev. W.L. Tenney, some cases +of conversion taking place during the week of prayer. + +I came to Montgomery three weeks ago, and a revival there has surpassed +any I have seen for the last thirteen years among the colored folks of +the South. In fact, many of the old-time people say they never saw such +a deep interest manifested in this city. The third night the church was +filled to overflowing, and hundreds were outside the door who could not +get in. The power of God came down upon the people in such a way that at +the close of the preaching the seekers fairly ran to the front benches, +taking them by storm. All around the front they sat or knelt. We placed +chairs in rows on the platform, and the crowd was so thick I could +scarcely get a place to stand. The pastor, Rev. R.C. Bedford, and the +Christians, worked hard among the unconverted, and now at the close of +the three weeks' services, more than two hundred are rejoicing in a new +found hope. + +One case was that of a young man, the son of a Methodist preacher, both +deaf and dumb, who gave reasonable evidence of conversion as the love of +God filled his heart, and another was a young man who had been a wild +young fellow, who had at the time of his conversion a five barrel loaded +revolver in his pocket, and which I now have. One whole family is now +rejoicing that God has brought salvation to that house; father, mother, +son and four daughters are among the converts. Another father rejoices +over four of his sons and daughters converted. Husbands and wives have +started together on the road to Zion. On the streets and wherever you +go, the people are talking about, and rejoicing over, the conversion of +some of their friends or relations. + +This finishes another winter's work among the dear colored people, which +has been one of the happiest and most successful I have known for many +years. + + * * * * * + + +THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA. + +The Connecticut Normal and Industrial School, Thomasville. Ga., closed +its winter term, for a few days' vacation, on March 26th, with +appropriate exercises. The _Thomasville Daily Times_ says, "The growth +and management of the school is very gratifying to our people, and +everyone wishes it continued success and prosperity." The _Thomasville +Enterprise_ speaks of "the results of the seven sweet-faced patient lady +teachers," and adds, "If yesterday's exhibition was a fair sample of +what the pupils can do, the American Missionary Association, and the +corps of teachers it has employed, have not labored in vain; that a +great deal of hard, honest work has been done, was fully exemplified." + +Again we are reminded that _Thomasville_ is not _Quitman_, and also of +the fact that Southern people are generally quite generous in their +appreciation of the work and the methods of our Association. + + * * * * * + + +MRS. LYDIA HERRICK BENNETT. + +On Saturday, March 16, the great household at Fisk University was +suddenly saddened by the announcement of the death of Mrs. Bennett, who, +after an illness of four weeks, was called to her rest. + +In 1867, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett gave up their work in a pleasant Northern +parish, and came to Fisk University, where they have labored together +for almost twenty-two years. During these years, Mrs. Bennett has been +not only an efficient helper to her husband and a wise and tender mother +to her children, but has contributed much to the work of the school. Her +strong mind and fine intellectual tastes especially fitted her for life +in an institution of learning. During the last few years, she gave much +time and labor to the preparation of a botanical collection for the +Scientific Department of the University. + +Mrs. Bennett was also the warm personal friend of the young people. +Since her death, many tender expressions from present and former +students bear witness to appreciation of her quiet, earnest, Christian +character, as manifested both in her own life, and in her ministry to +others. Why such a life, apparently so indispensable to her husband and +children, and so helpful to a large body of young people, should be thus +suddenly terminated we cannot understand. We can only accept the +dispensation of Him "Who doeth all things well." + +H.C.M. + + * * * * * + + +STUDENT'S LETTER. + +HOW I WAS EDUCATED, LED TO CHRIST AND INTO THE MINISTRY. + +BY REV. SPENCER SNELL. + +My first lessons from books I received in night school. At this time I +was employed as dining-room servant by a family in Mobile. I did my work +during the day, taking a little time here and there for study as best I +could, and went to school at night. I was first employed at $3.50 per +month. Fifty cents of this I took each month to pay tuition. The tuition +in this school was one dollar per month, but I was receiving such small +wages that a woman who was employed in the same yard, and who went to +the same school, persuaded the teacher to let me go for fifty cents. I +remained with this family about four years, and went to night school +much of the time. I suppose they considered my services more and more +valuable as I became more enlightened, for, during the four years, my +wages were increased from $3.50 to $10 per month. As my wages increased, +I had more tuition to pay also, for during my study in the night school +I had several teachers and paid some of them as much as two dollars per +month, and so anxious was I to acquire an education that I would have +paid five dollars had it been required, even at a time when it would +have taken all my wages to do so. While I was a student in one of these +night schools, I chanced one day to see a newspaper which a colored man +who knew me had thrown into the yard for me. In this paper I read an +article telling about Emerson Institute, a school of the American +Missionary Association, and the commencement exercises soon to occur +there. The school had been in Mobile for several years, but I had heard +nothing of it till now. As soon as I read of these exercises, I +determined to see them, for I had never heard of such exercises before. +When the time came, I went one night, accompanied by a few of my fellow +night-school students. We were well pleased with what we saw, and I said +to them that I meant to enter that school when it opened the next fall, +and that I meant to be an educated man if I could. I soon began to carry +out my purpose, for in a few weeks I left my employment in that family +and went back into the country, from whence I had gone to Mobile, and +took the examination and began teaching public school. By this means, I +earned money enough to go back to Mobile and become a pupil of Emerson +Institute, not in the fall of 1873, as I had hoped to do, but in the +spring of 1874. I shall ever feel grateful to the man who threw over the +fence for me the article from which I learned about that good school, +for I am sure I am quite a different man to-day from what I would have +been but for reading that article. Precious to me is the memory of those +days during which I took tuition in the night-school, where the key was +put into my hand and the door of knowledge was opened to me. + +Next to God I am grateful to the American Missionary Association for +having received training in a Christian school, where I was led to +Christ and felt called to the Christian ministry. When I lived on the +plantation, before I went to Mobile and received instruction in the +Christian school, I had heard the uneducated colored ministers preach +and they had endeavored to lead me to Christ, but I could not accept +Christ in the way they had presented Him to me. I remember well how they +told us that in order to find Christ we must fast and pray for a number +of days. I remember, too, the unsuccessful attempt which I made to give +myself to Jesus in this way. I was a farm boy and was plowing hard every +day, and it was hard work for a boy of my age to follow the mule all day +in the tough grass, and I always felt like eating when meal time came, +but still I tried to become a Christian by doing as the minister said I +must, and so for a few days I ate no breakfast, no dinner, and no +supper, though I worked on. They told us, also, that we must not go to +bed at night, for if we did the wicked one would make us sleep all night +and we would fail to pray through the night, and they said we must pray +all night. For several nights I did not go to bed at all, but would lie +down upon the doorstep that I might get up often through the night and +go down the hill to pray, for we were instructed to "go down in the +valley." Of course after a few days I became tired, sleepy and +discouraged, and gave up. I did not make another attempt till I became a +student in Emerson Institute. One of the lady teachers in that school +became interested in my soul's salvation. She read the Bible to me, +talked to me, and prayed for me, and made the way of life and salvation +seem so plain and simple that it was not long before I accepted the Lord +Jesus as my Saviour. + +My heart overflows with gratitude to that Christian lady whenever I +think of my conversion. There is no favor which one person can do for +another so great as that of leading him to Christ. + +Soon after I was converted I felt inclined to enter the ministry, and +was advised to go to Talladega College and there take a theological +course. I wanted to go but did not see any way to get there, to say +nothing of how I was to stay there, but a lady from the North had been +visiting one of our lady teachers at Mobile, and heard me deliver an +oration in a prize contest. She said she liked it, and after she went +back home she sent me $25 to help me in my education. I had been praying +that a way might open for me to go to Talladega, and I felt that the $25 +came in answer to prayer. I used up the money in getting ready and in +going to Talladega. I wrote Dr. G.W. Andrews, who has for a number of +years been instructor in theology there, that I was anxious to go and +enter his department, but I had no money, and he wrote me, if I had +money enough to get there, to come on. Thank God that I went, and that a +way was provided for me to stay there and finish the course of study; +and now I am out in the ministry and trying to do something for Him who +has so wonderfully led me and blessed me. + + * * * * * + + +THE INDIANS. + + + * * * * * + + +PERILS OF MISSIONARY LIFE. + +Rev. T.L. Riggs, our missionary at Oahe, Dakota, thus describes the loss +of a team and the peril of his fellow missionary, Rev. J.F. Cross: + +"I wished to cross my team on the ice to the west side of the Missouri +and keep it there for use during the breaking up of the river. Being +very busy with some writing, I asked Mr. Cross to take my team over when +he started to return to the White River, sending a man with him. Mr. +Cross's team went over safely, but mine, which Mr. Cross himself was +driving, broke through and were drowned, in spite of every effort of the +two men. Mr. Cross had a narrow escape. He managed to save the wagon, +but the horses went down with harness on as they were driven. Mr. Cross +took the loss so to heart, that together with the strain and agony of +the moment, it quite prostrated him. He started for White River in a day +or two after, though I felt that he was hardly fit to go." + + * * * * * + + +FIRST FRUITS. + +REV. C.L. HALL, FORT BERTHOLD, DAK. + +In the fall of 1879, a young Gros-Ventre Indian named _Dahpitsishesh_, +"The Bear's Tooth," began to attend the day school at Fort Berthold, and +although he was over twenty years old and not very quick to learn, he +surpassed the younger pupils by his industry. He attended the day +school, in the day time or in the evening, quite regularly during the +winter, and became a help to the missionary in translating parts of +Scripture into the Gros-Ventre language. + +He wore his long hair braided behind, and banged and plastered with clay +in front so that it stood upright, and he dressed in blanket, breech +clout, leggings and moccasins, and the lower joints of several of his +fingers were cut off in accordance with the Indian custom of mutilating +themselves at the burial of a friend. His first appearance to a new +teacher who came the following spring caused her no little trepidation, +but she soon learned to prize him as her best pupil, and the next year +the influence of God's word upon him was seen by his saying, after +recounting some of his Gros-Ventre religious fables, in which his belief +had been shaken; "I have been coming to school now more than a year. +Since reading these books about God and angels I cannot sleep at night, +but have had dreams. I think some harm will come to me. I am poor and +cannot help myself, but I pray God to keep me from harm, and I want to +trust him." + +From that time on, we hoped he would take a decided stand for Christ. As +yet, none among his people had been converted. A few passages of the +Bible and a few words of song had been given to the Gros-Ventres in +their own tongue, and every Sabbath there were attentive Indian +listeners, but would there ever be a Gros-Ventre convert? "The Bear's +Tooth" continued to come to us, and learned to understand quite fully +the requirements of our faith. He became a trusted helper in charge of +the mission cattle and the milking, working regularly as few Indians +would do at Berthold, and he soon had stock of his own in which he took +great pleasure. He read the Bible on Sabbath afternoons with one who was +soon called to her reward; it was almost her last prayer that he might +be saved. He came in spite of dissuasions, jeers, and even persecutions +from his people, and yet he took no stand for Christ. Three years after, +there were Indian inquirers, and he helped to explain to them the +demands of Christ, but they all felt that "the way was too hard for +them" and "went away sorrowful." + +Some of the young people who had been taken away to school and removed +from the opposition of their people had confessed Christ, but there were +none to face it here and say that they loved him. "The Bear's Tooth" +took a wife in the Indian way, unwilling to marry, and removed, as it +seemed, away from our influence, to a claim forty miles up the river +from our mission station. + +But God dealt with him and afflicted him in the loss of his babes, and +of his stock, so that he said, "It seems as though I could acquire +nothing. Explain it to me; the Indians say it is because I follow your +teaching." I taught him from the book of Job, and the words of Christ. +His soul was hungry, and when he came once in two weeks for his +government rations, he sought the bread of life at the mission. Finally, +after nearly eight years, one summer day he came and sat on a bench in +the shade of the house in a little flower garden, and after we had +talked awhile, he said to the missionary: "Good Voice, now I can; I will +be faithful to my own wife, I will keep Sunday, I will pray and avoid +the dances and other heathen customs; when you think best I will come +down and be received into the church." That was a glad moment. To clasp +the hand of the first Gros-Ventre brother in Christ, won through a +strange tongue and from a people who had sat in darkness for eighteen +hundred years since the great light shone in Galilee! + +I said, "Bring your wife and friends with you to Christ." He went home +but soon returned, saying sorrowfully: "My wife and my friends are none +of them willing. If I join I think it must be alone." "Well," I said, +"let it be so," and it was. His clothes were second-hand and old, and he +had no natural attractiveness of appearance; but in a simple, manly, +determined way, he made his confession and was baptized before an +audience of Indians in the little mission chapel, (July, 1887), a poor +Indian, but another Daniel standing alone. + +Then, as the man of Gergesa, he went home to tell his neighbors what God +had done for him. He had a Bible in Dakota, of which language he +understood something, and a few Gros-Ventre translations in writing, and +some attempts at hymns, and some pictures. With these he preached, in +neighbors' houses, and then he would report to me of his reception, and +ask me questions about the Christian life. A veritable man "Friday" had +come to me; I was no longer alone. Then why did his health fail, and he +forty miles away where I could not see him? But so God willed. Soon they +brought me the word: Your friend has gone. I gathered up his last words, +questioning his wife and lame old father. He wanted to see _his friend_ +and tell him some things. He thought he did see him come in and then go +out before he could speak. He said, "I thought it was difficult, but I +joined with those who pray, and I find now it is only a _short_ way. I +am going above." With his last breath and his Bible open, he asked to be +shown the way, that he might go in it. + +The influence of a genuine life is strongest at home, and so it comes +that the wife is seeking to follow her husband. There are other converts +with us now, but we shall never forget this first Gros-Ventre "friend," +(madakina); and although the story of his life is not a peculiar one to +white men, nay for that very reason, we are glad to write this record of +a once lowly, but now glorified, believer. + + * * * * * + + +THE CHINESE. + + + * * * * * + + +LOS ANGELES CONGREGATIONAL CHINESE MISSION. + +BY REV. ROBERT G. HUTCHINS. + +Our First Church has recently enjoyed two peculiarly impressive +occasions; one the anniversary on the 17th of last month, of the Chinese +school, established by Dr. Pond; the other the reception, on the 3d +instant, of six Chinese brethren to church membership. To appreciate the +significance of these scenes, one must remember how contemptuous is the +prejudice which prevails on this coast against these inoffensive +strangers. + +Nine or ten young Chinamen delivered addresses at the anniversary. They +spoke with remarkable simplicity, perspicuity and accuracy of English +pronunciation. In view of their perfect self-possession and propriety of +manner in the presence of the crowded congregation, one could scarcely +realize that nearly all of them were utterly inexperienced in public +speaking. The success of these humble representatives gave a hint of the +possibilities of a Christianized China. One of the speakers gave an +account of the conversion, sickness, death and Christian burial of a +member of the school, a youth of eighteen. The heathen relatives and +friends had attributed the illness to the boy's desertion of the +religion of his fathers, and had begged him to allow the burning of +idolatrous incense. But he had calmly resisted their appeals, and, in an +alien land, far from his father and mother, had pillowed his dying head +on the breast of the Saviour of mankind. + +Low Quong, who superintends the mission, and who is true-hearted, +prudent and influential with his countrymen, showed with clearness, the +relation between the conversion of the Chinese in California and the +evangelization of China. It was news to many of his hearers that the +Christian Chinese of America are supporting native missionaries of their +own in China. + +The recitation by the school in concert of some of the sweetest and most +familiar of the Psalms and Scriptural promises, melted the hearts of the +hearers into sympathy. The old truths borrowed a new tenderness and +emphasis from these voices accustomed to recite heathen prayers. The +pupils sang in solo, in duet and in chorus. When "Over the Ocean Wave" +was rendered, some of us queried in our minds on which side of the ocean +wave God thinks the poor heathen live--the side from which these gentle +friends have come, or the side where their countrymen receive such +unchristian welcome? + +Nothing could more effectually knock in the head mean prejudice than the +grateful words and kind spirit which characterized this anniversary. +Whatever may be the prospect of the Chinese over-running us, they +certainly _had_ us that Sunday evening. Mrs. Sheldon, who has had large +experience in the work, and Miss Watson, are devoting themselves to the +mission with a beautiful fidelity and consecration. + +Dr. Pond, who conducted the anniversary service, closed with an address +only too brief, but most felicitous and convincing. To the opponents of +Chinese immigration he is accustomed to reply: "Can there be any better +way of keeping the Chinese at home than to have it known among the +fathers in China that their sons, if they come to this country, are +likely to be Christianized?" + +Nothing could be sweeter or more cordial than the spirit of welcome with +which the six Chinese brethren were received into covenant. Not an +officer or member breathed an objection to their reception. Had there +been in any heart any lurking Phariseeism concerning them, it would have +been rebuked, if not exorcised, by hearing them sing with us at the +Lord's table, in broken accents, "Rock of Ages," by observing their +devout bearing and by witnessing the affecting baptismal scene. These +brethren came to the church approved by Dr. Pond, by the Chinese +missionary, Low Quong, and by the vote of the Christian Association, and +after an examination by the pastor. + + * * * * * + + +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. + +MASS. and R.I.--Woman's Home Miss. Association, Secretary, Miss Natalie + Lord, Boston, Mass.[1] + +N.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. William Spalding, Salmon + Block, Syracuse, N.Y. + +ALA.--Woman's Missionary Union, Secretary, Miss. S.S. Evans, Birmingham, + Ala. + +MISS.--Woman's Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Sarah J. Humphrey. Tougaloo, + Miss. + +TENN. and ARK.--Woman's Missionary Union of Central South Conference, + Secretary, Miss Anna M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn. + +LA.--Woman's Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., + New Orleans. La. + +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, 734 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. + + [Footnote 1: For the purpose of exact information, we + note that while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a + State body for Mass, and R.I., it has certain + auxiliaries elsewhere.] + +We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State +Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association +be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however, +should be taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary +Association, since _undesignated funds will not reach us_. + + * * * * * + +The Woman's Home Missionary Association, which has its office in the +Congregational House in Boston, held its semi-annual meeting in +Providence, April 3d, the first since it has come into co-operation with +the American Missionary Association in its administration and with the +other national benevolent societies. Rev. G.A. Hood represented the +Congregational Union, Rev. Joshua Coit, the American Home Missionary +Society, Rev. J.A. Hamilton, D.D., the College and Education Society, +Rev. C.J. Ryder, the American Missionary Association, and the Rev. G.M. +Boynton, D.D., the Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society. +These all expressed their sympathy with the closer alliance of the +Woman's Association with the national societies through which they have +elected to work, and to which they have committed the administration of +their benevolence in their respective fields. We cordially welcome the +Woman's Home Missionary Association as the representative of the States +of Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the sisterhood of co-operative +societies. + + * * * * * + +At the meeting of the Woman's Missionary Association of Alabama, held in +connection with the Congregational Conference at Mobile, April 1st, the +Constitution was amended, enlarging the sphere of work to cover both +home and foreign missions, and thus we have the "Woman's Missionary +Union of the State of Alabama." The actual working of this woman's +organization had already been varied. It was most interesting at their +meeting to hear the reports of the auxiliaries. All reported aid to +their respective churches and relief to the destitute in their parishes, +and then their contributions took other directions--to the American +Missionary Association for its Indian work; to the American Board for a +girl in Smyrna; for a Hindoo girl; for work in South Africa; to the Home +Missionary Society for work in the West. Thus these churches in the +South are being trained to a world-wide interest in missions. + + * * * * * + + +THREE NEW ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTH. + +A Woman's Missionary Union for the State of Louisiana was organized in +connection with the Congregational Association of the State. The meeting +of ladies was well attended, and the interest was manifested in their +hearty response in favor of joining the sisterhood of State Unions. The +officers of the Union were selected from both the white and colored +churches, the church at Hammond being thus represented. + +At the annual meeting of the General Association of Congregational +churches of Mississippi, which met at Tougaloo, March 28th, a Woman's +Missionary Union was organized. Mrs. A.V. Whiting was chosen President, +Miss Julia Sauntry, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Miss S.J. +Humphrey, Secretary. Although it is but a small beginning, we hope the +day is not far distant when Mississippi will take her place with other +States in missionary work. + +The Woman's Missionary Union of the Central South Conference was +organized April 13th, at Knoxville, Tenn.; Secretary, Miss Anna M. +Cahill, of Nashville. + + * * * * * + + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + + + * * * * * + + +HOW THE PENNIES GREW. + +Not the pennies that lay hidden away in the bank, nor the pennies that +were spent for candy. O no; but the honest, hard-working pennies that +had a work to do and the heart to do it. + +These work-a-day pennies fell into the hands of a mission band called +"Willing Workers." It was in the summer-time when they began to stir +about and see what they could do for missions, and when winter came +along there was a pleasant little festival, and the pennies came +together, and brought just as many with them as they possibly could. + +For these were "talent" pennies, and they had been invested for the +Lord. One of the very pleasant features of the festival was the reading +of little papers, telling how the pennies grew. And we are going to let +the children see some of these very papers. For all this is exactly +true, and took place in a pleasant village in the State of New York. + +About ten dollars grew out of a little more than twenty pennies. We have +not room to publish all the little papers, telling how the pennies grew +into dollars, though all are of great interest. In some cases the +original penny was invested, and then turned over and over. This is an +instance: + +"With the original cent I bought some darning-cotton and darned +stockings, some for a cent a stocking, but most of them for a cent a +hole. I then bought thread and crocheted some lace which I sold for 25 +cents. I hemmed two aprons for 5 cents apiece, and some towels for one +cent apiece. Afterward, I bought another card of darning-cotton. After +paying for the thread and cotton, I have left the sum of one dollar.-- +PHEBE." + +"Rosie," who brought in $1.66, says nothing about her penny, but tells +how she earned money, as: "Hitching up horse for grandpa, 10 cents; +topping carrots, 12 cents; keeping the fowls off the wheat, 25 cents; +sweeping, 17 cents," etc., all showing honest, hard work. But the penny +started it all, perhaps. + +Here is "Nellie's," with an idea in it: + +"With my penny I bought a pen and holder, and sold it for 10 cents. I +dug a pailful of potatoes for 3 cents, and mended a hole in grandpa's +sock for one cent. I then bought a little chicken for 5 cents, and let +it grow into a big chicken, and sold it for 36 cents, making a total of +50 cents." + +Well done for Nellie! + +Only one more of these charming little papers can we give in full, +though we should love to have our little readers see every one of them. + +"The first thing I did with my penny, I made some edging which I sold +for 10 cents; then I sewed it on for 5 cents, which made 15. Then mamma +said if I killed 15 flies she would give me a penny, and so I earned 14 +cents in that way. Then I had 29 cents. I then took away 25 cents and +bought some ice-cream, and sold it for 8 cents a dish, and received 48 +cents for it. Now I had 52 cents. Then I took 8 cents away from it for +some linen, and 4 cents for some braid, with which I made some lace and +sold it for 70 cents, which leaves me $1.11. Then I sold some flowers +for 14 cents, making $1.25. This is what I did with my penny.--LIBBIE." + +"Freddie" and "Tusie," little brother and sister of Libbie, did well +with their pennies. Tusie increased hers to 35 cents, while Freddie's +grew to 48 cents. Each of these little people gathered all the string +they could find and made it up into balls, which they sold. + +"Meda" made a ruche for grandma, crocheted lace, and speculated in +butter, gaining in all 66 cents. + +"Davie," Meda's brother, found a generous customer in grandpa, who +bought a pen-holder and then gave it back to be sold over again. Davie +also speculated in tallow, and increased his penny to 50 cents. + +"Helen" invested in a penny tablet, sold it for 3 cents, and crept up by +degrees to the place where she could buy material for an apron which she +sold for 35 cents. She made another apron and a tidy, and cleared 55 +cents. + +"Lulu" bought a penny rubber and sold it for 2 cents, bought darning +cotton, pins, cloth for apron, etc., and increased her penny to 50 +cents. + +The pennies have been growing, and that is good. But love has been +growing too, in these young hearts, and that is better! + +May the "Willing Worker" bands multiply all over our great land! + +S.S. ADVOCATE. + + * * * * * + + +RECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1889. + + +MAINE, $179.96. + +Camden. David Fowler $1.00 + +Castine. Prof. Fred W. Foster 1.20 + +East Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovell, 5; + Rev. J. Loring, 2; Mrs. Millie Knight, 1; + Miss Sally Spurr, 1; Mrs. Caroline Turner, + 1; Miss Hattie I. Loring, 1; Mrs. + Mary H. Jennings, 1 12.00 + +Farmington. First Cong. Ch. 18.76 + +Gardiner. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Hiram. Sewing Material, _for Meridian, Miss._ + +Madison. Cong. Ch., 27; Cong. Ch. of + North Anson, 5, to const. FRANK DINSMORE + L.M. 32.00 + +Portland. "A Friend." 5.00 + +Portland. High St. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud + Indian M._ 5.00 + +Portland. King's Daughters, Alpha Ten + Silver Cross, Package of Basted Work, + _for Selma, Ala._ + +Waterford. Douglass Seminary by Miss + H.E. Douglass, _for Freight to Tougaloo + U._ 5.00 + +West Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. + of C., _for Macon, Ga._ + +Woodfords. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._ + +Yarmouth. First Parish Ch. 100.00 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $494.52. + +Amherst. "L.F.B.," _for Storrs Sch., + Atlanta, Ga._ 20.00 + +Atkinson. Joseph Grover 8.00 + +Berlin Mills. Parish Ch. of Christ 8.46 + +Concord. "A Friend." 5; "C.L." 50c. 5.50 + +Dartmouth. Dartmouth Sab. Sch., 25; + Mrs. S.A. Brown, 5, _for Rosebud Indian + M._ 30.00 + +Dumbarton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Mountain Work_ 21.00 + +Dumbarton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Wilmington, N.C._ 10.00 + +Dumbarton. Miss Lizzie F. Burnham, + (1 of which _for Indian M._) 2.00 + +Epping. Cong. Ch., 29.65, to const. DR. + FRANK W. SPAULDING L.M.; Mrs. J.N. + Shepard's S.S. Class, 3 32.65 + +Exeter. Mary E. Shute, 50; "A Friend," 35 85.00 + +Greenville. Cong. Ch. 17.00 + +Hanover. Cong. Ch. at Dartmouth College 10.00 + +Hanover. A.H. Washburn, _for Indian M._ 10.00 + +Hudson. J.G. Proctor (3 of which _for Jellico, + Tenn._) 10; R.E. Winn, 2 12.00 + +Kingston. Prof. A. Wood 10.00 + +Lancaster. Mrs. A.M. Amsden 5.00 + +Londonderry. Chas. S. Pillsbury 1.00 + +Mason. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Ind'l 'Sch., + Thomasville, Ga._ 5.00 + +Nashua. Mrs. Annie D. Richardson's S.S. + Class, _for Rosebud Indian M._ 5.00 + +New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. 4.15 + +Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, _for + Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 21.00 + +Penacook. Two Little Boys, Papers, _for + Savannah, Ga._ + +Portsmouth. "A Member of North Ch." 100.00 + +Tilton. Cong. Ch. 35.00 + +Troy. First Cong. Ch. 6.76 + +West Concord. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., to + const. MRS. C.F. ROPER L.M., _for Storrs + Sch., Atlanta, Ga._ 30.00 + + +VERMONT, $967.31. + +Brandon. Mrs. L.G. Case, + _for Mountain Work_ 5.00 + +Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. 12.38; First + Cong. Ch. and Soc., 4 16.38 + +Burlington. Infant Class, College St. + Sab. Sch., on True Blue Card, + _for Indian M._ 1.00 + +Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 30.00 + +Cornwall. Bbl. of C.; Cash 2, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00 + +East Thetford. Mrs. O.T. Pressey and + Mother 1.90 + +Fayetteville. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Hartland. Cash, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00 + +Marshfield. Lyman Clark 15.00 + +Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to + const. SIDNEY JOHNSON L.M. 41.11 + +North Bennington. Cong. Ch. 7.74 + +North Cornwall. Cong. Ch. 48.20 + +Northfield. Mrs. J.D. Allen. 30, to const. + REV. WILLIAM S. HAZEN L.M.; Cong. + Ch. and Soc., 24.92 54.92 + +Pawlet. A. Flower 2.00 + +Rutland. Cong. Ch. 18.00 + +Saint Albans. Cong. Ch. 125.00 + +Saint Albans. F.S. Stranahan's S.S. + Class, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 + +Saint Johnsbury. Box of C.; Cash 2, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00 + +Springfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. 13.06 + +Weybridge. Bbl. of C.; Cash 2, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00 + + --------- + + $467.31 + +ESTATE. + +Jericho. Estate of Mrs. Lucy Spaulding + by C.M. Spaulding 500.00 + + --------- + + $967.31 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $4,871.39. + +Adams. Mr. Kirk's Class, Cong. S.S., + _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +Amesbury. Main St. Cong. Ch. 9.10 + +Amherst. Amherst College Ch., 131.48; + North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30, to const. + MRS. MARY E. GRAVES L.M.; "A Friend," + Thank Offering, 10 171.48 + +Amherst. First Cong. Ch., 20.42; "A + Friend in First Cong. Ch., Thank Offering," + 10; Mrs. Stearns' School, 8, + _for Indian M._ 38.42 + +Andover. C.E. Goodell, 25; Rev. F.W. + Greene, 20 45.00 + +Andover. Dorcas Mission, 2 Bbls C., + _for Jellico, Tenn._ + +Belchertown. By Mrs. C.F.D. Hazen, + _for Freight_ 0.25 + +Ayer. Paper Mission Soc., Box Papers, + _for Tougaloo U._ + +Beverly. Sab. Sch. of Dane St. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 10.00 + +Boston. Henry Woods, 500; Mrs. + Susan C. Warren, 400; + Old South Ch., by Mrs. + Susan W. Hardy, 50; + J.A. Brown, 50; J.D. + Leland, 25, Chas. H. + Routaw, 25; Mrs. Withington, + 5; Edwin S. + Woodbury, 10; Mrs. + E.P. Eayers, 10; H.M. + Bird, 5; Rev. R.B. + Howard, 2; "Friend," + 1; "A Friend," 1, _for + Girls' Hall, Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 1,084.00 + + S.D. Smith, American + Organ, _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 75.00 + +Dorchester. Mrs. Walter Baker + of Second Cong. + Ch., _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 25.00 + + Mrs. A.W. Torrey, + _for Marion, Ala._ 5.00 + + Mrs. Houston, Pkg. + of Work, _for Selma, Ala._ + +Jamaica Plain. Nellie F. Riley. + Package Cotton Cloth, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Roxbury. John H. Soren 1.75 + + Mrs. J.D. Proctor, + _for Freight, + to Atlanta, Ga._ 1.50 + + Highland Cong. Ch., + 20; Mrs. Campbell, + 2, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 22.00 + +South Boston. Phillips Y.P.S.C.E., + "Thank Offering." 5.00 + + -------- 1,219.25 + +Brimfield. Cong. Ch., Benev. Soc., 14.55; + Second Cong. Ch., 6.91 21.46 + +Buckland. Cong Ch., 23.96; Mrs. E.T. + Smith 1; Mrs. Z.C. Woodward, 50c.; + ----, 50c. 25.96 + +Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch., 77.60; + Pilgrim Ch., M.C. Coll, 6.66 84.26 + +Cambridgeport. "Friend," 25; Mrs. A.E. + Douglass. 10; Miss Lucena Palmer, + 1, _for Girl's Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 36.00 + +Cambridge. Mrs. A.C. Thorpe, 10; Mrs. + Sara C. Bull, 5, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 15.00 + +Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc. 70.46 + +Charlestown. Edward Graves 10.00 + +Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Dalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._ 17.50 + +Dighton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._ 8.00 + +East Bridgewater. Union Cong. Ch. and + Soc. 10.27 + +East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. 9.39 + +Easthampton. First Cong. Ch. 88.98 + +Easthampton. Mrs. W.H. Wright's Sab. + Sch. Class, _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +East Weymouth. "Individuals," 2.70; + "Friend." 25c, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 2.95 + +Enfield. Cong. Ch. 50.00 + +Erving. Rev. Ira A. Smith, _for Student Aid, + Wilmington, S.C._ 8.00 + +Fall River. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 + +Foxboro. Orthodox Cong. Ch., 35.22; + Primary Class, Miss Ellen Jewett, + Teacher, 5 40.22 + +Franklin. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Grand View, Tenn._ 30.00 + +Georgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.00 + +Groveland. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch. 1.00 + +Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. ad'l. 50.00 + +Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. 21.32 + +Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch. 8.75 + +Lowell. "R.S." 5.00 + +Lynn. North Cong. Ch. 50.00 + +Malden. First Cong. Ch., (30 of which to + const. HERBERT PORTER L.M.) 117.00 + +Malden. First Cong. Ch., + _for Mountain Work_ 2.00 + +Mansfield. Ortho. Cong. Ch. 14.85 + +Marblehead. Miss H.A. Richardson. 5; + Miss Anna H. Dana, 5, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + +New Boston. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + +Newbury. First Ch., M.C. Coll 20.34 + +Newton. _For Student Aid, Marion, Ala._ 4.00 + +Northampton. A.L. Williston, 103.15; + Geo. W. Cable, 25, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 128.15 + +North Amherst. Mrs. Henry Stearns 2.50 + +North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 10.88 + +North Hadley. Second Cong. Ch., bal. to + const. DEA. JAMES SPEAR L.M. 10.00 + +North Leominster. "Friends," + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.05 + +Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. 112.50 + +Phillipston. Mrs. Mary P. Estey 5.00 + +Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch., Rev. Edward + Strong and wife 40.00 + +Pittsfield. Mrs. S.H. Stevenson, _for Girls' + Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 1.00 + +Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.50 + +Reading. Cong. Ch. 18.00 + +Rockport. Jun. C.E. Soc. of Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 3.75 + +Sharon. Cong. Ch and Soc., to const. + E.J. MOSMAN L.M. 30.66 + +Springfield. "H.M." 1,000.00 + +Springfield. Memorial Sab. Sch., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 + +Springfield. Y.P.S.C.E. of Hope Ch., + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 12.00 + +Somerville. Sab. Sch. of Franklin St. + Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Santee Indian Sch._ 40.00 + +Somerville. Young Ladies' Mission Circle + of Franklin St. Ch., _for Santee Indian + Sch._ 20.00 + +Somerville. Y.L.M.C. of Franklin St. + Ch., _for Freight to Santee Agency_ 1.94 + +Somerville. Dea. William Conant 5.00 + +Somerville. "Friend" _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 0.25 + +South Braintree. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +South Framingham. Sab. Sch. of South + Cong. Ch. 16.61 + +South Farmington. G.M. Amsden 5.00 + +South Hadley. First Cong. Ch., 31; + Maria B. Gridley, 5 36.00 + +South Wellfleet. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Taunton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 47.74 + +Taunton. Young Peoples' Union, Trin. + Cong. Ch., 25; Y.P. Union of Broadway + Ch., 25, _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +Ware. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 + +Ware. "Little Sunbeams," for Bird's + Nest, _Indian M._ 25.00 + +Ware. Miss Hitchcock's Class, East Cong. + Sab. Sch. _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 + +Wendell. Mrs. E.H. Evans, 3, _for Mountain + Work_, 2 _for Chinese M._ 5.00 + +West Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + 5 _for Santee Agency_, 5 _for S.S. Work_ 10.00 + +West Dennis Mrs. S.S. Crowell (1 of + which _for Chinese M._) 1.50 + +West Gardner. Mrs. Nettle. M. Fairbanks' + S.S. Class and "Other Friends," + _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 + +Westport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 + +West Somerville. Day St. Ch. 8.89 + +Winchendon. Y.P.S.C.E, bal. to const. + MISS HATTIE M. WYMAN L.M. 10.00 + +Winchester. S. Elliott 10.00 + +Winchester. "A Friend" _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 2.00 + +Wollaston. Correction, Cong. Ch. and + Soc., 31, ack. in April number, should + read to const. REV. B.B. SHERMAN L.M. + +Worcester. Ladies of Union Ch. + _for Indian Sch'p_ 20.50 + +Worcester. W.J. White 5.00 + +----. "A Friend In Massachusetts" 50.00 + +----. "A Friend." 1.00 + +Hampden Benevolent Association, by + Charles Marsh, Treas.: + + Chicopee. First 5.25 + + Ludlow 16.65 + + South Hadley Falls 15.48 + + Westfield. First Cong. Ch. + (of which 50 from Indian + Circle _for Santee Indian Sch._ + Sab. Sch. 20, "Friend" 5, + "Two little children" 5, + "Young Lady" 1.50 _for + Rosebud Indian Sch._, "Two + Friends" _for Indian Work,_ + 15.) 220.23 + + West Springfield, Park St., + _for ed. of Indian Youth_ 21.65 + + --------- + + 279.26 + + --------- + + $4,546.39 + +LEGACY. + +Phillipston. Estate of T. Ward, + by James Watts, Ex. 325.00 + + --------- + + $4,871.39 + + +CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE. + +Waterford, Me. Douglass Seminary, Box + _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Andover. Mass. Miss Mary B. Mills, Box + Magazines, _for Lexington, Ky._ + +Auburndale, Mass. By Miss Norton of + W.H.M.A. Large Bundle Magazines + +Belchertown, Mass. By Mrs. C.F.D. Hazen, + Bbl. and Box, _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Cambridge. Mass. Miss Fannie W. Bowen. + Choice Scrap Album + +Hubbardston, Mass. Package, for "Aunt + Rachel," _Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Marblehead, Mass. Hon. J.J.H. Gregory, + Box Seeds, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Somerville, Mass. Young Ladies' Mission + Circle, Bbl. _for Dakota Home, Santee, Neb._ + +Yarmouth, Mass. First Cong. Sewing Circle, + Box, _for Marion, Ala._ + + +RHODE ISLAND, $47.03. + +Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. 22.03 + +Providence. Mrs. Sarah L. Danielson, + _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 25.00 + +Providence. Mission Band Beneficent Ch., + Papers, _for Savannah, Ga._ + + +CONNECTICUT, $6,623.06. + +Avon. "Friend" _for Mountain Work_ 5.00 + +Bristol. Mrs. Nancy Adams 2.00 + +Bristol. Mrs. Peck's Class Cong. S.S., + _for Indian Sch'p._ 15.00 + +Buckingham. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Canaan. Pilgrim Ch. 16.63 + +Canton Center. "Cherry Blossom Miss. + Band," _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 9.00 + +Cornwall. Sab. Sch, of Cong. Ch. Christmas + Offerings, _for Ind'l Sch., + Thomasville, Ga._ + +Cromwell. G.H. Butler, + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00 + +Durham. Cong. Ch. 10.73 + +East Hartford. Mrs. N.S. Nash, Box C., + _for Williamsburg, Ky._, 1 _for Freight_ 1.00 + +Enfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Ballard Normal Sch., Macon, Ga._ 18.00 + +Essex. Cong. Ch. 20.90 + +Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. + Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00 + +Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch. 62.50 + +Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. + EMELINE S. LEETE, L.M. 30.00 + +Guilford. Hattie E. Seward, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 1.00 + +Hartford. Roland Mather, _for Dakota + Home, Indian M._ 100.00 + +Hartford. Sab. Sch. of Asylum Hill Cong. + Ch., _for Chinese M._ 15.00 + +Lebanon. Goshen Ch. and Soc. 32.00 + +Milford. Plymouth Ch. 39.39 + +New Hartford. Cong. Ch. 34.14 + +New Haven. Church of the Redeemer, + 133; Mrs. Nelson Hall, 50. to const. EVA + A. JUDSON L.M.; Prof. E.E. Salisbury, + 50; Howard Av. Ch. 25.03 258.03 + +New Haven. Sab. Sch. of First Cong, Ch. + 17.50: Mrs. W.M. Parsons, 4 + _for Indian M._ 21.50 + +New London. "X.Y.Z." _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +New Milford. Mrs. Geo. Hine 2.00 + +New Preston. Mrs. Betsey Averill, + _for Indian M._ 10.00 + +Norfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 15.00 + +North Greenwich. Miss Amy Downes 1.00 + +North Stonington. "A Friend" + _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. 2743.97 + +Norwich. Sab. Sch. of Park Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 12.50 + +Norwich. Second Cong. Ch, _for Jewett + Memorial Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 16.86 + +Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 26.40 + +Old Saybrook. The "Seaside" Band of + Young Girls, by Miss Grace A. Paine, + Treas., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Plantsville. Cong. Ch., 97.74; Sab. Sch. + of Cong. Ch., 19.84 117.58 + +Ridgefield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 10.00 + +Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 14.06 + +South Killingly. Rev. W.H. Beard, Papers, + _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Stafford Springs. Cong. Ch. 14.85 + +Terryville. James Woodruff, + _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +Terryville. Cong. Ch. 32.00 + +Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.80 + +Washington Depot. "S." 10.00 + +Waterbury. First Cong. Ch. 120.00 + +Waterbury. Primary Class Second Cong. + Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 30.00 + +Waterbury. Mrs. M.R. Mitchell, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Waterbury. Sunshine Circle, Papers, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Westford. Cong. Ch. 6.72 + +West Suffield. Cong. Ch. 13.28 + +Wethersfield. Mrs. J.C. Francis' S.S. + Class, to const. CHAS. HOWARD WELDON + L.M., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 30.00 + +Wethersfield. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Mountain + Work_, by Minnie A. Havens, Treas. 5.00 + +Windsor. First Cong. Ch., + _for Miss Collins' Indian Work_ 10.00 + +----. "A Connecticut Friend," + _for Indian M._ 300.00 + +----. "A Friend," _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 10.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of + Connecticut, by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec.: + + Essex. The Whatsoevers + Miss. Circle, by Miss A. + Parker, Sec., _for Conn. Ind'l + Sch., Ga._ 5.00 + + Naugatuck. Ladies' Aid + Soc., _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., + Ga._ 25.00 + + New Haven. College St. Ch., + by Mrs. Luman Cowles, _for + Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 35.00 + + -------- + + 65.00 + + --------- + + $4,475.84 + + +LEGACY. + +Collinsville. Estate of Mrs. Margaret + McNary Spencer, by Sam'l N. Codding, Ex. 2,147.22 + + --------- + + $6,623.06 + + +NEW YORK, $1,566,68. + +Amsterdam. S. Louise Bell 4.50 + +Aquebogue. Six Little Boy's by Miss + Mamie Benjamin, 6; Miss A.H. Benjamin, + Box C., etc., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 6.00 + +Astoria. Miss Frances W. Blackwell, + _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +Brooklyn. Stephen Ballard, _for Ballard + Normal Sch., Macon, Ga._ 900.00 + +Brooklyn. Clarence F. Birdseye, + _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 + +Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Presb, Ch., 2 Bbls. + C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Buffalo. First Cong. Ch., _for Freedmen + and Indian Work_ and to const. MRS. AGNES + B. EARL, MRS. EMMA D. KINSLEY + and MISS AGNES DICK L.M's 100.00 + +Buffalo. Wm. W. Hammond, + _for Indian M._ 2.00 + +Canandaigua. King's Daughters of Cong. + Ch., _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +Flushing. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Oaks, N.C._ 40.00 + +Granby Center. Mrs. J.C. Harrington 10.00 + +Honeoye. Cong. Ch. 7.15 + +Lowville. "E." 9.50 + +Mount Sinai. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Mount Vernon. Y.P.S.C.E. of Reformed + Ch., by Miss C. Pearson 5.53 + +New York. Miss S.R. Kendall, 24, + "Friend," 5, _for Chapel, Santee + Indian M._ 29.00 + +New York. Mrs. L.H. Spelman, _for Student Aid, + Atlanta U._ 25.00 + +New York. Mrs. E.B. Monroe, _for Ind'l + Sch., Thomasville, Ga._ 20.00 + +New York. A.P. Blevin, _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00 + +New York. Mrs. O.M. Scripture 0.50 + +Paris. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + +Perry Centre. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 18.56 + +Richford. Mrs Lucy E. Allen 4.00 + +Sherburne. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 20.94 + +Walton. Y.P.S.C.E., by Mary S. Colton, + Sec., _for Ballard Normal Sch., + Macon, Ga._ 10.50 + +Westmoreland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Wilmington. Allie M. Bell, on "True + Blue" Card 1.50 + +Woodstock. Miss F. Butler, Package C., + _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., + by Mrs. L H. Cobb, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Brooklyn. Ladies' Benev. + Ass'n of Central Cong. Ch. 225.00 + + Geddes. Ladies' Aux. 5.00 + + Homer. "Band of Hope." 3.50 + + Jamestown. Woman's Aux. + to const. MRS. S.E. WOODIN + L.M. 30.00 + + Napoli. Ladies' Soc. 11.00 + + ------- + + 274.50 + + +NEW JERSEY, $315.89. + +Arlington. Mission Band _for Student Aid_ 0.75 + +East Orange. F.W. Van Wagenen, _for + Student Aid, Marion, Ala._ 8.50 + +Moorestown. A.S. and H.F. Carter, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Murray Hill. Dr. S.H. Bassinger 10.00 + +Nutley. Miss Lydia M. Story, + _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +Orange Valley. Cong. Ch. 205.64 + +Parsippany. Mrs. M.F. Condit 1.00 + +Roselle. "A Friend," _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 50.00 + +Salem. W. Graham Tyler, to const. + KATHERINE L. TYLER L.M. 30.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $56.50. + +Carbondale. Rev. D.L. Davis 2.00 + +Driftwood. F.E. Blackwell, _for Student + Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 + +Philadelphia. "A Friend" _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 20.00 + +Philadelphia. Susan Longstreth, Pkg. + Books; Miss R.C. Sheppard, 2, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 2.00 + +Pittsburg. Mrs. Hannah B. Rea, _for Ind'l + Sch., Thomasville, Ga._ 1.50 + +Ridgway. First Cong. Ch. 26.00 + + +OHIO, $545.41. + +Atwater. "A Friend." 105.00 + +Brookfield. Welsh Cong. Ch. 4.00 + +Bryan. S.E. Blakeslee 5.50 + +Castalia. First Ch. and Sab. Sch. 6.00 + +Cincinnati. Ladies of Central Ch., Box + C., _for Fisk U._ + +Cleveland. T.W. Low, 10; Mrs. C.A. + Garlick, 1.50 11.50 + +Cleveland. Rev. M.L. Berger, D.D., + _for Student Aid, Talladega, Ala._ 6.00 + +Cleveland. "Young People." by Miss E.A. + Johnson, _for Mountain Work_ 1.50 + +Cleveland. Mrs. A.J. Smith, Box Papers, + etc., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Elyria. Ladles' Soc. of Cong. Ch., 8 + _for Wilmington, N.C. and for Freight_ 80c. 8.80 + +Hudson. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Kingsville. Ladies' M. Soc. of Presb. Ch., + Bbl. of C., Cash 2.50, and _for Freight + 1.89, for St. Augustine, Fla._ 4.39 + +Madison. Central Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Medina. Miss Fannie Thomson's S.S. + Class, 5: Rev. Norman Plass' Class, 5, on + True Blue Cards 10.00 + +Medina. Cong. Ch., Cards, by Miss Hard; + Papers by May Woodward, _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Norwalk. Cong. Ch. 11.00 + +Sandusky. First Cong. Ch. 12.20 + +Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Burton. "A Friend" 2.00 + + Lodi. H.M.S. _for Miss Collins' + Indian Work_ 5.00 + + Madison. Center Ch. W.H.M.S. 10.00 + + Medina. W.M.S., Cong. Ch. 10.00 + + Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 75.00 + + Oberlin. L.S., Second Ch. 18.77 + + West Williamsfield. Woman's + Aux. _for Mist Collins' + Indian Work_ 6.15 + + West Williamsfield, Willing + Workers, _for Miss Collins' + Indian Work_ 2.60 + + ------- 129.52 + + --------- + + $345.41 + + +LEGACY. + +Paddy's Run. Estate of Mrs. Mary A. + Davies, by Abner Francis 200.00 + + --------- + + $545.41 + + +ILLINOIS, $1,069.88. + +Aurora. First Cong. Ch. 23.19 + +Belvidere. Mrs. M.C. Foote, 5, _for Tillotson + C. & N. Inst._, 3 _for Woman's Work_ 8.00 + +Camp Point. S.B. McKinney 10.00 + +Chenoa. Mrs. E.M. Pike, _for Mobile, Ala._ 8.90 + +Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 83.45; W.E. + Sanford, 25; New England Cong. Ch., + 86.12; W.H.M.U. South Cong. Ch., 15 209.57 + +Chicago. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Leavitt + St. Cong. Ch., _for Sch'p End't Fund, + Fisk U._ 30.00 + +Chicago. Mrs. E.C. Hancock and Friends, + Bbl. C., etc.; Mrs. C.E. Stanley, Box + remnants, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Crete. Mrs. A.D. Reed 25.00 + +Crystal Lake. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Danville. Mrs. A.M. Swan, Package Cotton + Cloth, _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Earlville. "J.A.D." 25.00 + +Farm Ridge. B.U. Heister and Sister 25.00 + +Farmington. Geo. W. Little, 15; Mrs. + Theodore Tarleton, dec'd, 10 35.00 + +Forrest. Cong. Ch. 17.32 + +Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean 2.50 + +Geneseo. First Cong. Ch. 105.25 + +Hinsdale. Cong. Ch., bal. to const, J.W. + BUSHNELL and FLETCHER LINSLEY L.M's 34.00 + +Hyde Park. Classes in S.S. by Miss Comstock, + 3, A.W. Cole, 2, Olin family, 1, + _for Marion, Ala._ 6.00 + +Kewanee. Cong. Ch. to const. DEA. WILSON + A. MINNICK, SAMUEL BENNISON and + MRS. MARTHA M. PRATT L.M's 83.08 + +Lisbon. Dr. G. Kendall 1.00 + +Lyndon. Cong. Ch. 7.00 + +Lyonsville. L.B.S., _for Miss Collins' + Indian Work_ 3.80 + +New Windsor. L.M.S. 5.00 + +Oak Park. Mrs. Elizabeth Durham, + _for Chinese M._ 5.00 + +Odell. Mrs. H.E. Dana 10.00 + +Peoria. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV. + D.K. NESBIT, L.F. HOUGHTON, MRS. + SARAH P. HOWE, MRS. MARGARET R. + SCHIMPFF and MISS SARAH F. LINES, L.M's 151.82 + +Princeton. Mrs. P.B. Corss 8.00 + +Rio. Y.P.S.C.E., by Mary Hall, Sec. 11.65 + +Washington Heights. Bethany Sab. Sch., + _for Mountain Work_ 6.22 + +Wyoming. Y.P.S.C.E. 4.67 + +----. "Friends in Illinois," _for Sch'p + End't Fund, Fisk U._ 120.96 + + +MICHIGAN, $375.38. + +Alpena. Cong. Ch. 25.00 + +Alpena. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Wilmington, N.C._ 10.00 + +Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch. 63.00 + +Benzonia. Amasa Waters 20.00 + +Canandaigua. Cong. Ch. 1.90 + +Clinton. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Detroit. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 38.23 + +Detroit. Mrs. A.T. Twiss, _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ 5.00 + +Grand Ledge. Miss E. Beckwith 12.00 + +Morenci. Cong. Ch. 5.10 + +New Baltimore. Cong. Ch. 15.65 + +Port Huron. First Cong. Ch. 44.50 + +Richland. Alice Harvey, _for Student Aid, + Memphis, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Romeo. Cong. Ch. 27.00 + +----. Friends in Michigan, _for Sch'p + End't Fund, Fisk U._ 83.00 + + +IOWA, $248.14. + +Atlantic. Allie McCarthy, + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 0.50 + +Bear Grove. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Belmond. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., Box of + Books, _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Charles City. Cong. Ch. 16.00 + +Chester Center. Cong. Ch., 13.96; + Christian Endeavor Soc., 2.08 16.04 + +Danville. S.H. Mix 5.00 + +Davenport. Mrs. M. Willis, + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ 0.75 + +Des Moines. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 11.00 + +De Witt. Y.P.S.C.E. 2.25 + +Eldon. Sab. Sen. of Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 10.00 + +Fontanelle. Y.P.S.C.E. 3.75 + +Iowa City. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 8.13 + +Jefferson. Rev. D.B. Ells 5.00 + +Lewis. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +Mitchellville. Cong. Ch. adl. 2.45 + +New Providence. "A Friend." 5.00 + +Newton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch, _for Sch'p + End't Fund, Fisk U._ 10.80 + +Newton. Cong. Ch. adl. 3.70 + +Tipton. Mrs. M.D. Clapp 4.50 + +Shenandoah. Cards and Papers by Mrs. Todd, + _for Savannah, Ga._ + +Waverly. Cong. Ch. 5.32 + +Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, + _for Woman's Work_: + + Algona 11.60 + + Anamosa. W.M.S. 8.00 + + Chester Center. W.H.M.U. 1.25 + + Council Bluffs. W.M.S. 10.00 + + Denmark. L.M.S. 5.00 + + Dubuque. S.S. 8.60 + + Farragut. W.M.S. 10.00 + + Mount Pleasant. L.M.S. 3.50 + + Riceville. L.M.S. 1.00 + + Waucoma. L.H.M.U. 19.00 + + ------- $77.95 + + --------- + + $198.14 + +ESTATE. + +Grand Junction. Estate of John Thompson 50.00 + + --------- + + $248.14 + + +WISCONSIN, $614.33. + +Clinton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box and + Bbl. of C., _for Marion, Ala._ + +Fulton. Cong. Ch. 10.07 + +Hartford. Mrs. R. Freeman, "in + Memory of Mary L. Freeman." 10.00 + +Hartland. G.W. Henderson and Friends, + Box Clothing, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Janesville. Rev. Lewis P. Frost and Wife 5.00 + +Kenosha. Thomas Gillespie 25.00 + +Lake Geneva. G. Montague 4.00 + +Paris and Bristol. "Friends." Bbl. C., + _for Thomasville, Ga._, 2.24 _for Freight_ 2.24 + +Prairie du Sac. Sewing Material, + _for Meridian, Miss._ + +Potosi. Cong. Ch. 4.02 + +Union Grove. Cong. Ch., 15; Cong. Sab. + Sch., 5 20.00 + +Waukesha. "Friends in Cong. Ch.," _for + Student Aid, Fisk U._ 24.00 + +Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor 5.00 + +West Salem. Mrs. E.W. Jenney, + _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +Whitewater. Sewing Material + _for Meridian, Miss._ + + --------- + + $114.33 + +ESTATES. + +Milwaukee. Estate of William Dawes, + by J.H. Dawes, Executor 500.00 + + --------- + + $614.33 + + +MINNESOTA, $91.25. + +Alexandria. "A Friend." 3.00 + +Cannon Falls. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + +Glenwood. Cong. Ch. 2.58 + +Glyndon. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Basted + Patchwork, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Grand Meadow. T. Skyberg, Package S.S. + Papers, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Hastings. D.B. Truax 5.00 + +Lake City. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + Package Easter Exercises, + _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Little Falls. Cong. Ch. 3.75 + +Minneapolis. Plym. Ch., + _for Hampton Inst._ 5.00 + +Minneapolis. Open Door Cong. Ch. 2.65 + +Minneapolis. Mrs. E.F. Murdock, + 7 Basted Gingham Aprons, + 5 Handkerchiefs and Cases + +Owatonna. First Cong. Ch. 12.08 + +Plainview. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + Box of S.S. Books, _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + +Rochester. Cong. Ch. 31.59 + +Rushford. Cong. Ch. 5.05 + +Worthington. Union Cong. Ch. 5.55 + + +MISSOURI, $29.50. + +Garden City. W.B. Wills, 10; P.M. Wills, 1; + A.C. Wills, 1 12.00 + +Hannibal. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 17.50 + + +KANSAS, $148.07. + +Anthony. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Blue Rapids. "Blue Rapids Junior Soc." 2.85 + +Topeka. First Cong. Ch. 136.22 + +Topeka. Band of Hope S.S. Class, 50 + Copies "Water Lily" _for Meridian, Miss._ + +White City. "Willing Workers" Mission + Band of Cong. Ch. 6.00 + + +NEBRASKA, $159.73. + +Arborville. Cong. Ch. 6.10 + +Beatrice. Cong. Ch. 5.10 + +Blair. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + +Fairmont. Cong Ch. adl. 6.80 + +Franklin. Cong. Ch. adl. 1.56 + +Greenwood. Cong. Ch. 14.17 + +Linwood. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Long Pine. First Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Santee Agency. S.L. Voorhees, 50; H.A. + Brown, 30 80.00 + +Waverly. Cong. Ch. 11.00 + + +DAKOTA, $53.86. + +Harwood. Cong. Ch. 1.08 + +Huron. First Cong Ch. 42.58 + +Dakota Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_ + + Ashton. W.M.S. 3.20 + + Fire Steel. W.M.S. 2.00 + + Sioux Falls. W.M.S. 5.00 + + ------- 10.20 + + +UTAH, $5.00. + +Ogden. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. 5.00 + + +CALIFORNIA, $122.58. + +Grass Valley. Cong. Ch. 122.58 + + +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $10.19. + +Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch. 10.19 + + +KENTUCKY, $1.66. + +Woodbine. Rev. E.H. Bullock 1.66 + + +VIRGINIA, $3.20. + +Herndon. Cong. Ch. 3.20 + + +TENNESSEE, $22.50. + +Deer Lodge. Cong. Ch. 2.50 + +Grandview. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Jonesboro. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Sherwood. "Unknown Friends," 5 Packages + Patchwork, etc., _for Sewing Sch._ + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $7.25. + +Troy. S.D. Leak 4.25 + +Nalls. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + +Hillsboro. Mrs. C.E. Jones 2.00 + + +GEORGIA, $1.55. + +Cypress Slash. Cong. Ch. 1.55 + + +ALABAMA, $13.53. + +Marion. Cong. Ch. 5.53 + +Mobile. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Selma. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + + +MISSISSIPPI, 60c. + +Piney Grove. By Rev. E. Tapley 0.60 + + +CANADA, $5.00. + +Montreal. Charles Alexander 5.00 + + +TURKEY, $10.00 + +Mardin. Mrs. Ellen Ainsle, 5 _for Chinese M._ + and 5 _for Mountain Work_ 10.00 + + +EAST AFRICA + +Kambeni. Rev. B.F. Ousley, _for Theo. + Dept., Fisk U._ 10.00 + + ---------- + +Donations $14,948.73 + +Estates 3,722.22 + + ---------- + + $18,670.95 + + +INCOME, $455.00. + +Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 355.00 + +C.F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ 50.00 + +General Endowment Fund, + _for Freedmen_ 50.00 + + ------- 455.00 + + +TUITION, $4,810.18. + +Lexington, Ky., Tuition 881.23 + +Williamsburg, Ky., Tuition 109.30 + +Genesis, Tenn., Tuition 3.12 + +Grand View, Tenn., Tuition 35.00 + +Jellico, Tenn., Tuition 70.33 + +Jonesboro, Tenn., Tuition 27.15 + +Memphis, Tenn., Tuition 468.95 + +Nashville, Tenn., Tuition 650.15 + +Pleasant Hill, Tenn., Tuition 28.65 + +Beaufort, N.C., Tuition Pub. Fund 32.20 + +Wilmington, N.C., Tuition 122.60 + +Charleston, S.C., Tuition 212.37 + +Atlanta, Ga., Storrs Sch., + Tuition 239.20 + +Macon, Ga., Tuition 294.70 + +McIntosh, Ga., Tuition 55.40 + +Savannah, Ga., Tuition 197.25 + +Thomasville, Ga., Tuition 74.25 + +Athens, Ala., Tuition 74.65 + +Marion, Ala., Tuition 112.06 + +Mobile, Ala., Tuition 193.40 + +Talladega, Ala., Tuition 139.45 + +Meridian, Miss., Tuition 75.85 + +Tougaloo, Miss., Tuition 177.25 + +New Orleans, La., Tuition 338.50 + +Austin, Texas, Tuition 197.27 + + -------- 4,810.18 + +United States Government for the + education of Indians 5,254.02 + + --------- + +Total for March $29,190.15 + + ========== + + +SUMMARY. + +Donations $95,843.37 + +Estates 15,194.10 + + ----------- + + $111,037.47 + +Income 4,829.21 + +Tuition 18,781.58 + +United States Government appropriation + for Indians 9,540.87 + + ----------- + +Total from Oct. 1 to March 31 $144,189.13 + + =========== + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +Subscriptions for March 76.14 + +Previously acknowledged 532.99 + + ------- + +Total 690.13 + + +DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE. + +Income for March, 1889, from investments 1,500.00 + +Previously acknowledged 7,354.86 + + --------- + + $8,854.86 + + +H.W. 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