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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: The American Missionary, Vol. 43, No. 7, July, 1889 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 29, 2005 [EBook #16147] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE 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>July, 1889.</b></td> + <td width="25%" align="right"><b>No. 7.</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="#CONGREGATIONALISM_IN_GEORGIA"><span class="smcap">Congregationalism in Georgia</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#ATLANTA_UNIVERSITY"><span class="smcap">Atlanta University</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#INDUSTRY_AND_SKILL_OF_THE_NEGRO"><span class="smcap">Industry and Skill of the Negro</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#PARAGRAPHS"><span class="smcap">Paragraphs</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#CASTE_IN_THE_CHURCHES"><span class="smcap">Caste in the Churches</span></a></li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#THE_SOUTH"><b>THE SOUTH.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#MOUNTAIN_WORK_IN_TENNESSEE"><span class="smcap">Mountain Work in Tennessee</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#WILLIAMSBURG_ACADEMY_WHITLEY_CO_KY"><span class="smcap">Williamsburg Academy, Ky.</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#SCHOOL_AT_MARSHALLVILLE_GA"><span class="smcap">Marshallville, Ga.</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#ALBANY_GA"><span class="smcap">Albany, Ga.</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#GREGORY_INSTITUTE_WILMINGTON_NC"><span class="smcap">Wilmington, N.C.</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#SENIOR_CLASS_AT_LE_MOYNE_NORMAL_INSTITUTE"><span class="smcap">Senior Class at Le Moyne Institute</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#ITEMS"><span class="smcap">Items</span></a></li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#THE_INDIANS"><b>THE INDIANS.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#A_TRIP_AMONG_THE_OUT-STATIONS"><span class="smcap">Trip Among the Out-Stations</span></a></li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#THE_CHINESE"><b>THE CHINESE.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#THE_CHINESE_WORK"><span class="smcap">The Chinese Work, Rev. Dr. Dana</span></a></li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#BUREAU_OF_WOMANS_WORK"><b>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#The_meeting_of_the_officers"><span class="smcap">Meeting of State Organizations</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#MERIDIAN_MISS"><span class="smcap">Meridian, Miss.</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#MACON_GA"><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span></a></li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#OUR_YOUNG_FOLKS"><b>OUR YOUNG FOLKS.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#WORK_AMONG_THE_CHILDREN"><span class="smcap">Work Among the Children</span></a></li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#RECEIPTS_FOR_MAY_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">F.A. Noble</span>, D.D., Ill.</li> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Alex. McKenzie</span>, D.D., Mass.</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">Edmund L. Champlin</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> + </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> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Rev. C.W. Hiatt</span>, <i>Cleveland, Ohio</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: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181"></a>[181]</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>JULY, 1889.</b></td> + <td align="right" width="25%"><b><span class="smcap">No.</span> 7.</b></td> + </tr> +</table> +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<h3>American Missionary Association.</h3> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<h2><a name="FINANCIAL" id="FINANCIAL"></a>FINANCIAL.</h2> + +<h4><i>The Figures Improving.</i></h4> + +<p>The receipts of the Association for the eight months to May 31, 1889, +are: from donations, $134,993.37; from estates, $26,530.09; income, +$6,479.21; tuition, $26,084.21; U.S. Gov't, $9,540.87, total, +$203,627.75. Expenditures for the eight months, $229,422.82. Debtor +balance, $25,795.07.</p> + +<p>The debtor balance reported in the last MISSIONARY for the seven months +ending April 30th, was $28,328.14. The showing, therefore, is favorable, +and we appeal to our friends to make their contributions so generous +that at the end of the fiscal year we may report entire freedom from +debt.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CONGREGATIONALISM_IN_GEORGIA" id="CONGREGATIONALISM_IN_GEORGIA"></a>CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA.</h2> + +<p>At the recent meeting of the American Home Missionary Society, held in +Saratoga (June 6th), the question of the future relations of the newly +formed Congregational Conference of Georgia to that Society, and to the +earlier Congregational Association of that State, was fully discussed, +and resulted in the following action:</p> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>In the full conviction that these churches are in accord with the +principles of Congregationalism, and with the principles of this +Society, and with those held by the Congregational churches which +it represents:</p> + +<p><i>Resolved.</i> That we heartily welcome them to fellowship with us +in the Gospel. We commend them to the fraternal sympathy and +prayers of all our people, and we request the officers of the +society to extend to them such financial aid as they may need as +promptly as the state of its treasury will allow.</p> + +<p><i>Resolved.</i> That this Society rejoices to learn that an effort is +making to unite the Georgia Congregational Conference and the +Georgia Congregational Association on principles of equal +recognition and fellowship of all the churches of each body, and +trust that such a union will be accomplished.</p></div> + + +<p>We are in full and hearty agreement with the general spirit of these +utterances. In the hope that the churches of the Georgia Conference are +in <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182"></a>[182]</span>accord with the principles of Congregationalism, which do not +discriminate against men because of caste or color, we are prepared to +welcome them heartily. That Conference has already published its +Articles of Faith and of Church Government, and these have assured us of +its adherence to the general principles of the Congregational faith and +order. The only question still open is as to the readiness of that body +to unite with the Congregational churches already existing in that State +in the practical recognition of the broad Christian and Congregational +principles in the fellowship of all churches irrespective of caste +distinctions.</p> + +<p>The second resolution quoted above rejoices in the effort now making to +unite the two Congregational bodies in Georgia on that basis. We trust +that effort may be successful, for we believe that such a union is +essential to recognition by the National Council and to the cordial +fellowship of the Congregational churches. The Georgia Association, ever +since its organization in 1878, has been recognized and represented in +every subsequent meeting of the National Council, and we cannot see how +the Council can consistently welcome another organization, covering the +same State, that is kept separate from the older body by the line of +race or color; nor do we believe that the Congregational churches of +this country will fellowship both organizations thus held apart. We are +confirmed in the correctness of this impression from the decided and +independent utterances of the influential religious papers which so +largely represent the sentiments of the Congregational churches of this +country.</p> + +<p>We present below some extracts from such of these papers published since +the Saratoga meeting as have come to hand before the MISSIONARY goes to +press, while in another portion of our pages we give more at length the +prior utterances of these journals on the same general subject. We deem +the question to be so important that we wish to lay it fully before our +readers.</p> + + +<h4><i>From The Independent.</i></h4> + +<p>We have nothing but satisfaction to express with this action. It would +be absurd to imagine that Congregationalists could forget their spotless +record, and could now, for the pride of the addition of fifty or a +hundred churches, consent to help a movement that should put colored +brothers in a separate fellowship by themselves. This they will never +do. They will hold out a warm hand of welcome to all comers, and warmest +to those who come to them from the South, white and black: but they want +them to come together, not apart.</p> + + +<h4><i>From The Congregationalist.</i></h4> + +<p>This, we are confident, was the proper attitude for the Society to +assume. No one wanted to grieve or irritate the Southern brethren, by +clauses in the resolutions, which might seem uncalled for, or at all +distrustful of their explicit utterances. At the same time it should be +distinctly understood that <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183"></a>[183]</span>the unanimous action taken means that the +Congregational churches stand exactly where the Presbyterians do, in not +abating one hair of their principles, and in forever demanding that +color shall prove no barrier to Christian fellowship in its truest, +deepest intent. This journal has taken this position repeatedly, and it +re-asserts it. Sooner or later, but as surely as the sun-rise, it will +prevail, because it is right, and our grandchildren, if not our +children, will wonder that any of our generation ever hesitated about +it.</p> + + +<h4><i>From The Advance.</i></h4> + +<p>Then, the question as to the color-line in the churches, as known to +exist in the South, could not be ignored. Our Congregational churches +and their two great Home Missionary Societies, the American Home +Missionary Society and the American Missionary Association, hold to +certain principles respecting the universal brotherhood of believers in +Christ, and for which they stand before the world as witnesses, +historically, conspicuously, always and everywhere. Do these newly +constituted Congregational churches in the South stand with us on this +point? To ask this question implies not the slightest suspicion or +distrust. Not to have asked it would have been to betray a great +responsibility.</p> + +<p>For one thing, the Home Missionary Society could not afford to even seem +to be indifferent to a matter of this kind. And if there is to be this +close fellowship and co-operation and mutual assistance, there should +obviously be, from the beginning, the most perfect frankness. The best +way to insure permanence of happy mutual relations is to begin right.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="ATLANTA_UNIVERSITY" id="ATLANTA_UNIVERSITY"></a>ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.</h2> + +<p>The State officials of Georgia are disposed, perhaps it might be said +they desire, to renew the gift of eight thousand dollars to the Atlanta +University, insisting, however, upon compliance with the color-line +requisition. To this, the University cannot yield. The controversy on +that subject was not of its seeking. The children of the professors had +for years attended the classes, and the State Examiners had known this +all the time and had made no objections. The demand for the exclusion of +these pupils from the classes was suddenly made by an outside pressure, +and was not provoked in any way by word or deed of the teachers. To +surrender now is simply to yield a principle for money.</p> + +<p>Some of the officials of the State express the wish that a compromise +may be effected, but others of their number—the large majority, we +believe—regard this as impossible, and hence both parties—the State +and the University—must pursue their independent lines of action. Under +these circumstances, the Trustees of the University have deemed it wise +to resume relations of co-operation with the American Missionary +Association. This question was fully discussed at the recent meeting of +the Board of Trustees, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184"></a>[184]</span>May 29th, two of the members, Drs. Beard and +Strieby, being present and presenting, in behalf of the Executive +Committee of the Association, some overtures for co-operation. One of +these was accepted, and is now the basis of the relations existing +between the Association and the University. It stipulates that the +Trustees of the University shall elect six of the sixteen members of the +Board, on the nomination of the Executive Committee of the Association, +as vacancies may exist, and that the Association shall (after the +present fiscal year) contribute $3,000 per annum towards defraying the +current expenses of the University.</p> + +<p>Four vacancies were found to exist in the Board, and, in accordance with +the vote, they were filled by the unanimous choice of Rev. Drs. Twichell +of Hartford, Llewellyn Pratt of Norwich, Cooper of New Britain, and +Brand of Oberlin. These honored brethren, friends alike of the +Association and of the University, will, if they accept, add to the +efficiency of the school and to the confidence of the public in it. We +believe there is a bright future before the University. It will pursue +its work quietly, having no controversy with the State, and will +continue its noble efforts for the education of the colored race, thus +benefiting both the State of Georgia and the Nation.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="INDUSTRY_AND_SKILL_OF_THE_NEGRO" id="INDUSTRY_AND_SKILL_OF_THE_NEGRO"></a>INDUSTRY AND SKILL OF THE NEGRO.</h2> + +<p>In replacing the burned portion of our building at Le Moyne Institute, +Memphis, Tenn., the work was done by colored men. The Principal of the +Institute says that, "though the job was far from simple, not a single +error or mistake has occurred from beginning to end to mar our +satisfaction at its successful completion."</p> + +<p>The architect who drew the plan expressed considerable anxiety lest a +colored mechanic with all colored assistants should not prove equal to +so large and important an undertaking. The result shows how unfounded +were his forebodings.</p> + +<p>The job is done, and well done, and with so much expedition that in +sixty days after the fire they were moving into the reconstructed and +improved building. Every one who has had any hand in the work has seemed +personally interested and anxious to expedite the work, from the +architect and lumber dealer to the commonest laborer.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Superintendent Hall writes:</p> + +<p>Testimony as to the working power and will of the Negro is to be had on +all sides whenever a person speaks honestly.</p> + +<p>A professional gentleman in Andersonville operates five large +plantations without any white overseer except himself, and is making +money from the land. He states his principle to be: "I make a short, +clear contract with the Negroes and do <i>exactly</i> what I promise, and I +require the same execution of their side of the bargain. <i>And I pay them +just what I agree to pay them.</i> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185"></a>[185]</span>They work six days every week. I give +them a chance to attend a funeral or church service if they keep up the +work."</p> + +<p>A prominent contractor, builder and brick-maker in Thomasville, Ga., +employs from one hundred to three hundred Negroes constantly in all +branches of his business. He says: "They are a patient, reliable class +of workers. If a man will be fair with them and do as he agrees, he will +never have trouble. They are not cranky as some white workmen. They do +the finest part of mason's and carpenter's work well."</p> + +<p>These two men are native Southerners, whose parents were large slave +owners.</p> + +<p>Fault is found with the Negro on the coast line, wherever the turpentine +business exists, because he will not work on the plantations. The +turpentine work with its "boxing," "scraping," "gathering" and +"distilling," is all piece-work, paid in cash. The Negroes are among the +trees before daylight and work till dark. By so doing they earn 75c., +$1.00 or $1.25 per day. The plantations pay "rations"—a peck of common +meal and four pounds of bacon per week, and 35c. to 50c. per day, the +latter mostly in promises.</p> + +<p>A lady in New Orleans who keeps a popular boarding house for tourists +said, when Straight University was mentioned, "Just as soon as a colored +girl goes to school she is good for nothing afterward. She won't work. +I've lost several bright, likely girls that way." Inquiry shows that the +lady pays five dollars per month and requires the help to sleep at home. +A constant demand is made on our Normal Department for teachers for from +twenty to forty dollars per month. Strange that educated colored young +men and women will not "work!"</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="PARAGRAPHS" id="PARAGRAPHS"></a>PARAGRAPHS.</h2> + +<p>Dr. Roy, in his lantern lectures, sometimes meets with pleasant +incidents. Recently, at East Saginaw, before the General Association of +Michigan, coming to Fisk University on his programme, he had brought on +his canvas pictures of the Jubilee Singers, Jubilee and Livingstone +Halls and of Jowett, one of the students, and when he came to present +Mr. Ousley and his wife, a venerable man jumped up and remarked, "We +received Mr. Ousley and his wife at the Zulu Mission on their way to +East Central Africa. So also Miss Jones. Within two weeks I have +received from Mr. Ousley his photograph." This man was Rev. Dr. Rood, +for forty years a missionary among the Zulus, just now back to this +country. After the lecture, Mr. Rood told Dr. Roy that Mr. Ousley was +one of the most level-headed men in the mission, and so had been made +the treasurer of the mission—a good tribute to one of Fisk's graduates.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Our readers will remember an account in our last month's magazine of a +communion service held by Rev. T.L. Riggs at one of the out-stations +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186"></a>[186]</span>where he was obliged to use the back of a hymnbook covered with a napkin +for a plate, and a tin cup for a baptismal bowl. It gives us pleasure to +say that Mr. Riggs has received from Mrs. Farnam of New Haven, a +beautiful and complete traveling communion service closely packed in a +small morocco case, with the needful linen, which also goes in the case. +One piece fits into another in such a way that the whole service takes +up scarcely more room than is required for the largest piece. Mrs. +Farnam also sent suitable bags for the different pieces, so that Mr. +Riggs, when he goes on horse-back can carry them in his saddle pouches. +This is certainly the right gift in the right place.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The <i>New York Sun</i> says: The merchants of Chinatown have heard of the +Johnstown disaster and have contributed their share to the relief of the +survivors. Tom Lee explained the matter to them, and at a mass meeting +at the Chinese municipal hall on Tuesday a subscription was opened. Here +is a list of some of the subscribers: Tuck High, $15; Tom Lee, $50; Sang +Chong, $15; Sinn Quong On, $15; Kwong Hing Lung, $15; Kwong Chin Cheong, +$15; Yuet Sing, $10; Yuen Kee, $10; Wo Kee, $15; Ju Young Keau, $2; Wong +Chin Foo, $3; Wing Wah Chong, $15; Jow Shing Pong, $3; Ham Lum Chin, $3; +Mai Li Wa, $2; Kwong Yin Lung, $15; Quong Lung Yuen, $15 and Ung Wah, +$10.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The <i>New York Tribune</i> says: It appears from a report made to the +Presbyterian Assembly that the mountain districts of North Carolina, +Southwest Virginia, Southern and Eastern Kentucky and Eastern Tennessee +contain a population of about 2,000,000 white people, largely of Scotch +Irish descent, of whom 70 per cent, can neither read nor write. This +statement suggests the reflection that if there is one thing which is +more essential than the education of the Southern Negroes it is the +education of the Southern whites.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held +in Chicago, Ill., commencing October 29. Rev. R.R. Meredith, D.D., of +Brooklyn, N.Y., will preach the sermon.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>We would still call attention to our Leaflets for distribution in the +pews on the taking of collections for our Association. We shall be happy +to furnish them to those making application.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The <i>New York Tribune</i> says: "The Rev. Joseph Jordan, who was ordained +in Philadelphia on Sunday, is the first colored man to enter the +ministry of the Universalist Church. He is to engage in mission work in +the South."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CASTE_IN_THE_CHURCHES" id="CASTE_IN_THE_CHURCHES"></a><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187"></a>[187]</span>CASTE IN THE CHURCHES.</h2> + +<h4>OPINIONS OF THE RELIGIOUS PRESS.</h4> + +<h4><i>From The Congregationalist.</i></h4> + +<p>If report be true, the South Carolina Episcopalians have compromised +their difficulty in the matter of color in a manner which is not likely +to be permanently satisfactory. A portion of the diocesan convention had +seceded because the bishop declared that he could not exclude a +regularly ordained minister who was black. The canon law now has been +amended so as to exclude henceforth all other black men, and the +seceders have returned, consenting to make the best of the one obnoxious +colored man, but indignant because he has not been ejected. Whether the +General Convention will endorse or repudiate this compromise remains to +be seen. In either case the Episcopal branch of the church might as well +abandon its efforts to make headway among the colored race in that +State. So far as we can see, the bishop has made a manly stand, however, +and deserves commendation and sympathy. But the seceders have shown a +sad lack of the true spirit of Christ.</p> + +<h4><i>From The Advance.</i></h4> + +<p>There have been in Georgia for ten or more years a number of +Congregational churches and a State Congregational Association. This +included, along with the pastors of colored churches, the President and +some of the Professors in Atlanta University. Last year, when that +interesting body of churches hitherto known as Congregational +Methodists, saw fit to take measures for becoming in name as well as in +fact Congregationalists, a "Georgia Congregational Conference" was +formed, a committee was also appointed to confer with the previously +existing Congregational Association, with a view to the right adjustment +of relations between the members of the two organizations. We publish +on another page the reply recently addressed by the "Association" to the +"Conference," with a view to unity on terms that would be in themselves +Christian and agreeable to both the parties interested, as well as +acceptable to Congregationalists everywhere. All of our churches have an +interest in a matter of such significance, as they would also be +sensitive to the reproach of there being two distinct Congregational +Associations in the same State, separated from each other on the +un-Christian caste line of race and color. With the temper and spirit +manifest in the communication referred to, it would seem that the way is +now open for a happy consummation of Congregational fellowship in the +State of Georgia, on terms which not only Congregationalists but +Christians of every name at the North will warmly approve and applaud.</p> + + +<h4><i>From The Independent.</i></h4> + +<p>The members of the Presbyterian General Assembly can go home from New +York assured that they have vindicated truth and righteousness. The one +vital, vicious fault in the report of the Conference Committee of the +Northern and Southern Presbyterian Churches on Co-operation was amended +out of it and as it now stands adopted it gives not even by implication +any support to the unchristian doctrine of separate presbyteries and +synods for black and half-white Presbyterians.</p> + +<p>When the General Assembly met a year ago the Church had been somewhat +stirred up, though the leaders and editors generally seemed so anxious +for a proud reunion that they were ready to forget the wrong proposed to +the colored brothers. Indeed, a volunteer commission of editors and +managers had gone all through the South visiting the synods of the +Northern Church where the Negroes were in the majority, persuading them +that it would be better for them to go by themselves and <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188"></a>[188]</span>get their share +of the honors. Not willing to be an obstacle, the Negroes had very +generally yielded to the persuasions of their kind visitors.</p> + +<p>But there were a number of earnest men who were not willing to yield the +principle, and who would make a fight. It was the Centennial year, and +the two Assemblies were meeting at the same time and in neighboring +cities, ready to consummate the union if desired. But the previous +discussion had stirred up the Southerners also, and they had discovered +that the temper of the North was not all that had been represented. They +were not at all sure that the color-line could be peacefully drawn. They +had decided, therefore, not to unite. The report of the Committee of +Conference was accordingly withdrawn, and the matter referred to another +committee, which praised the fidelity of the Committee, declared it +premature to act on their report, and approved "the general principles +enumerated in the replies of the Committee," and recommended that the +committee of thirteen be enlarged by the addition of five more men, and +continued to devise methods of co-operation with the Southern Church. In +fear of acrimonious discussion this was railroaded through in two +minutes.</p> + +<p>Well, the General Assembly has met again and the action taken by an +overwhelming majority of the Assembly fills us with gratitude to God. +The ticklish part of the report on co-operation was that, of course, on +colored evangelization. Here the report first stated what had been the +policy of the Southern Church for a separate Negro denomination, and +then gave that of the Northern Church:</p> + +<p>"The Northern Assembly, on the other hand, has pronounced itself as not +in favor of setting off its colored members into a separate, independent +organization; <i>while by conceding the existing situation, it approves +the policy of separate churches, presbyteries and synods, subject to the +choice of the colored people themselves</i>."</p> + +<p>Only one of the seventeen, Elder S.M. Breckinridge, of St. Louis, signed +a minority report.</p> + +<p>It was fully expected that this report, so overwhelmingly recommended, +would go through with a rush. The managers had so planned. The +ex-Moderators, Smith, Crosby and Thompson, were in its favor. Dr. Crosby +said he would as soon be in the Southern Church as in the Northern. All +the prestige of good fellowship was in favor of the report as it was +presented, and the Southern Assembly had adopted it by a large majority +the day before.</p> + +<p>The Rev. John Fox, of Allegheny, Penn., opened the opposition, opposing +the report generally, and supporting Elder Breckinridge's minority +report. It was a useful speech, and, though the sentiment of the +Assembly was plainly opposed, it stemmed the tide awhile and prepared +the way for what was to follow. Ex-Moderator Smith, of Baltimore, +Chairman of the Northern Assembly's Committee, then defended his report +and showed how much the Southern Assembly had yielded in accepting it. +Then came the event of the day. The Rev. M. Woolsey Stryker, of Chicago, +a young man of thirty-five, whom our readers will remember as one of our +correspondents, arose and denounced that portion of the report which in +the paragraph given above we have put in italics, and moved its +omission. He denied that the Church ever had "approved the policy of +separate churches, presbyteries and synods," and he declared such a +policy to be utterly unchristian. It instantly appeared that he had the +sympathy of the Assembly, if not of its leaders. Dr. Niccolls, of St. +Louis, supported him vigorously, but briefly, for speakers had been shut +down to five minute speeches. Dr. McCulloch, of Alton Presbytery, Ill., +defended the report and asked, "Do you mean to tell me that if the +colored people themselves prefer separate churches, presbyteries and +synods, you would deny them the right to have them?" "Yes, by all +means," shouted Mr. Stryker, whose clear head and bold answer was +rewarded with loud approval. Dr. Crosby said he <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189"></a>[189]</span>understood that the +Negroes had last year indicated their desire for separation; but Mr. +Sanders, the colored editor of <i>The Africo-American Presbyterian</i>, of +North Carolina, arose, and said they had many of them consented to it +last year rather than seem to stand in the way of re-union, but that +this year there was no reason for such a sacrifice, that they did not +wish it, and that while the presbytery of which he was a member had no +white ministers in it, they would be glad to welcome them if they would +come. After other addresses, the motion of Mr. Stryker for the excision +of the paragraph favoring separation of the races was put and carried by +an overwhelming majority, not less than three to one, and the report, +with this amendment, adopted.</p> + +<p>It was a glorious victory, due to the conscience of the rank and file of +the Assembly, a victory of the Christian heart of fellowship with the +humblest over the pride and ambition of greatness and power. The +Assembly has done its duty by its colored members, and every colored +member's face was radiant with delight. We have never doubted that if +the subject once came fairly up for discussion, the Conference Committee +would learn something they did not know before about their denomination. +Encouraged by the indorsement given by the Presbyterian Assembly to the +position we have maintained against the separation of Christians in the +Church of Christ, we shall not neglect the same conflict going on among +the Congregationalists and Episcopalians.</p> + + +<h4><i>From the Christian Union.</i></h4> + +<p>The question whether the Church of Christ shall recognize the color line +is coming up to vex in turn each one of the great Protestant +denominations in the North. We say Protestant denominations advisedly; +for we do not believe that the Roman Catholic Church would for a moment +entertain the notion of excluding a man either from its sacraments, its +worshiping assemblies, or its priesthood, on the ground of color, or +would recognize in its worshiping assemblies any distinction except the +broad one between clergy and laity. To do so would be to violate all its +traditions and history.</p> + +<p>In the Protestant denominations of the North, the question is +complicated by two considerations: a strong anti-caste prejudice in the +Northern constituency, on which the missionary organizations are +dependent for their support, and a strong ecclesiastical ambition and +spiritual desire, commingled in various proportions, to push on the work +of church extension in the South, where it cannot, apparently, be pushed +forward with early success, if caste is ignored and colored Christians +are admitted to white churches, and colored clergymen to white +ecclesiastical assemblies, on equal terms with their white brethren. In +the Diocesan Episcopal Convention of South Carolina it is, therefore, +proposed to amend the diocesan constitution so as to provide for two +Conventions, a white and a colored. In the Presbyterian Church the +difference of opinion on this subject constitutes one bar to a union +between the Northern and Southern churches, or even to co-operation +between them. This has been for the time removed by a sort of concordat +by which the relations of the colored and the white members in the two +churches respectively are allowed to remain <i>in statu quo</i>, and the +settlement of the problem is relegated to the future. In the +Congregational denomination, the question is likely to come up before +the meeting of the American Home Missionary Society at Saratoga early in +June, and again before the National Council at Worcester in October. In +the State of Georgia, there has been for some time an Association of +Congregational churches mainly composed of colored people, and largely +under the fostering care of the American Missionary Association. A +Congregational work has latterly been started among the whites under the +fostering care of the American Home Missionary Society. And <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190"></a>[190]</span>recently a +body of independent Methodists, really Congregational in the principles +of their government, and having a considerable number of churches in +Georgia, and some in other Southern States, has become also +Congregational in name. Both bodies will have representatives, +presumably, at Saratoga, certainly at the meeting of the National +Council at Worcester in October, and the latter body, if not the former, +will have to determine whether it will recognize two Congregational +Associations in one State, the sole difference between them being that +one Association is composed wholly of white people, and the other +chiefly of colored people; unless, indeed—and of this there is some +hope—the Congregational Associations of Georgia solve the problem by +coming together and forming one body. There have been some +correspondence and conferences to consider the possibility of such a +union.</p> + +<p>We find ourselves on this subject occupying a position midway between +the radicals on the one side and the conservatives on the other. In some +parts of the South, the whites and Negroes must for many years to come +be educated in separate schools and worship in separate churches. They +need, to some extent, a different education; they desire, to a large +extent, a different kind of religious worship and instruction. The +preaching which appeals to the Anglo-Saxon race appears cold and +unmeaning to the warm-blooded Negro; the preaching which arouses in him +a real religious fervor appears to his cold-blooded neighbor +imaginative, passionate, unintelligent. To attempt to force the two +races into a fellowship distasteful to both, to attempt to require the +two to listen to the same type of sermon and join in the same forms of +worship, is a "reform against nature." Even if the erection and +maintenance of two churches where one would suffice for the worshipers +of both classes involves some additional expense, the expense may not be +greater than the resultant spiritual advantage.</p> + +<p>But to close the doors of any church on any Christian is in so far to +make it an unchristian church. To go into the South to establish white +churches from which, whether by a formal law or by an unwritten but +self-enforcing edict, men are excluded because God made them black, is +to deny one of the fundamental tenets of Christ: All ye are brethren. It +is to introduce into a church already divided by sectarian strifes a new +division. It is to rend afresh the seamless robe. To say to any man +asking for Christian fellowship on the simple ground of faith in Christ, +"Stand back: for I am whiter than thou," is simply a new and +indefensible form of Pharisaism. The church exists to proclaim certain +truths, among which the brotherhood of man stands pre-eminent. It is +difficult to see with what consistency a Christian minister can preach +on the parable of the Good Samaritan if his church refuses to recognize +a Christian brother in one of another race because he belongs to another +race. There is no reason for an attempt to corral all men of all races +in one inclosure; but for any church, especially for a church of the +Puritans, to enter upon missionary work in the South, and initiate it by +refusing to admit to its fellowship a black man because he is black, is +to apostatize from the faith in order to get a chance to preach the +faith. To assert equality and brotherhood at the polls, to reaffirm it +in a public school system, to reassert it by courts of law in the hotel +and the railroad train, and then deny it in the church, would be indeed +a singular incongruity, and would make the Nation more Christian than +the church.</p> + +<p>The principle, then, by which the color-line question is to be settled +is very simple, though its application may in some cases present some +difficulties. The whites and Negroes are not to be coerced or bribed +into uniting in one and the same church organizations. If they prefer to +worship and to work separately, they must be allowed so to do. This is +within their Christian liberty. But it is not within their Christian +liberty to refuse the fullest and most perfect Christian fellowship to +each other. The doors of every Christian church must stand wide open to +men of <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191"></a>[191]</span>every race and color. The only reason of exclusion must be in +moral or spiritual character. And in the higher representative bodies +these churches must be one. To organize, for example, in the State of +Georgia two Congregational bodies, one white and the other colored, +would be to organize a church to perpetuate divisions which the church +should aim to obliterate. It were far better that the Northern Church +should not go with its missionary work into the South at all, than that +it should go with a mission which strengthens the infidelity that denies +that God made of one blood all the nations of the earth for to dwell +together.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_SOUTH" id="THE_SOUTH"></a>THE SOUTH.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="MOUNTAIN_WORK_IN_TENNESSEE" id="MOUNTAIN_WORK_IN_TENNESSEE"></a>MOUNTAIN WORK IN TENNESSEE.</h2> + +<h4>BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.W. HIATT.</h4> + +<p>I have found the man of iron. In one short day, he travelled one hundred +miles by rail, walked twelve miles over a steep and rocky mountain, rode +fourteen miles horseback through a pouring and drenching rain, and at +nightfall preached an earnest, telling sermon to an audience of railroad +employees, besides performing the duties of organist and janitor. The +next morning he was up at four o'clock and away for other tasks of +similar sort. One who watches Brother Pope, must do it on the run. One +of the fairest spots on the Cumberland Plateau is Grand View. Here the +American Missionary Association holds a strategic position. The wild, +magnificent scenery and the cool, bracing air, tingling with ozone, make +it an ideal spot for a great religious and educational centre. Already +eyes are turning upward from the surrounding valleys to this mountain +school. The first words I heard on landing at Spring City, six miles +away, were in its praise: "They've got a mighty good school up thar." +Such is the fact. What is needed now to balance things is a "mighty good +school" <i>building</i>. If the insignificant frame structures which are +hidden among the trees, and only half supply the needs of the +institution, could be exchanged for a good, roomy, handsome edifice, +placed on the summit of the mountain, where it would be visible for +miles along the line of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, besides being +a benefaction to the cause, it would be the best, cheapest and most +attractive advertisement of our mountain work, conceivable. It is to be +hoped that someone will visit this beautiful spot ere long whose +enthusiasm will not all run to words.</p> + +<p>Within easy reach of Grand View are various churches flanked by their +educational departments, which will one day become tributary to the +great central institution. At one of these points, Deer Lodge, a fine +church building is just nearing completion. The community is all loyal +to the American Missionary Association, whose help it has received and +appreciated. A good many Northerners are coming into this section, +induced by climate, whose co-operation in his work Mr. Pope is very +prompt in securing.</p> + +<p>Glen Mary is a mining settlement hidden in the oak forest about a mile +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192"></a>[192]</span>from the above mentioned railroad. Here, Mr. Pope recently found a small +Sunday-school battling against great odds. Intemperance and profanity +were rife, and the demand for gospel labor was very urgent. Meetings +were held with blessed results, so that shortly ago a church was +organized, now one of the strongest in this region. One consecrated +young man is at the bottom of the whole movement. Two years ago, he +started a Sunday-school with no assistance. At first, he met his pupils +in the colored people's meeting house, but was obliged to change after a +time, because of the prejudices of color which started among the blacks! +He then took an axe and cleared a spot in the woods to which he invited +his school. Here Mr. Pope found him. After the interest began to grow, a +subscription was started among the miners, resulting in money sufficient +(including help from the mining company) to erect a comfortable little +church edifice. This building has recently been enlarged by one-third, +to accommodate the crowds. The membership of the church is less than +forty, and yet it has raised one collection for the American Missionary +Association amounting to <i>twenty-four dollars</i>!</p> + +<p>These people have no pastor. They are dependent on the scattering +ministrations of two or three of our overworked missionaries from other +points, who have undertaken to supply them by turns. There are one +hundred and fifty families in the community, fifty being colored, +<i>without pastoral training</i>. I am assured that it would not be hard to +raise money enough in the community to nearly, if not quite, support a +minister. The people are hungering and thirsting for teaching in +spiritual things. After repeated and urgent invitations your pilgrim was +prevailed upon to suspend his trip for a day or two, that he might tell +these people of the "good news" of Jesus Christ. It was evidently of the +Lord, for last night at the first exhortation, eight persons, two men +and six women, gave themselves to the Master. The entire congregation +seemed to hear the word with gladness. It is a great field. And so it is +in many places, I am told. Glen Mary is anxious for a resident minister +and a Christian teacher. The influence of an educated, godly woman is +sorely needed in these homes. The gospel has already done much for the +place, but there is still a great work to do. Thank God for such +tireless, self-forgetful men as Mr. Pope. With the brain of a general +and the zeal of an apostle, he is planting the cross of Christ so firmly +on this plateau, and in such commanding positions, that it cannot be +dislodged, but will shed its saving influence far and wide forever. +After preaching once more I hope to move on to Nashville in time for the +commencement.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="WILLIAMSBURG_ACADEMY_WHITLEY_CO_KY" id="WILLIAMSBURG_ACADEMY_WHITLEY_CO_KY"></a>WILLIAMSBURG ACADEMY, WHITLEY CO., KY.</h2> + +<h4>BY MISS EDITH WILLIAMS.</h4> + +<p>In this land where the people live by their crops, it was most +encouraging to see the number of older boys who remained in school till +the last <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193"></a>[193]</span>of the term. Two of our boys remain with us during vacation, to +do the needed work. They are earnest Christians and faithful workers, +and appreciate the home influences here.</p> + +<p>Many of the girls tell me that their fathers used to be "moonshiners," +and they say that at that time they thought it all right; did not +realize the evils of alcohol until taught about it in the school. We +believe, however, that the morals of this part of Kentucky are steadily +improving, and feel confident of it in our own little town.</p> + +<p>Last week I visited a country school house about four miles from town. +It was made of logs. Three small holes were cut in the logs for windows. +The benches were split logs, and the floor was the earth. The great +stone chimney, (the only spacious thing about the building,) was +beginning to crumble away. This is a typical log school house of the +past, but much better ones are going up all over the country, giving +brighter hopes for the future.</p> + +<p>With the better school buildings through the country, our Academy will +be ready to furnish them with better teachers than they have had in the +past. Our hope for the future among the Mountain Whites is great.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="SCHOOL_AT_MARSHALLVILLE_GA" id="SCHOOL_AT_MARSHALLVILLE_GA"></a>SCHOOL AT MARSHALLVILLE, GA.</h2> + +<h4>BY MRS. ANNA W. RICHARDSON.</h4> + +<p>Our school is very large, there being enrolled two hundred. Our great +trouble is a lack of teachers. There are only three of us.</p> + +<p>New facts regarding the people among whom we work are brought to us +constantly. Yesterday four pupils entered school who were perfect +wonders. The oldest of them is seventeen years of age, and the youngest +perhaps ten. The oldest has been to church three times during her life, +the others have never been. They have never been to Sabbath-school, and +know nothing about Christ and God. They have never in their lives heard +the word Bible. The <i>oldest</i> one has seen a preacher three times—the +same man each time. They made their first visit to town, and beheld the +first railroad car yesterday. They do not know who made them! Ever since +their arrival I have been saying over and over, "Surely we have Africa +at our very door." I cannot realize it. The responsibility is so great +that it makes me tremble.</p> + +<p>Many of our pupils have little or no religious training at home. We have +a good many pupils whose parents are "<i>Hard Shell</i> Baptists," and do not +allow them to go to Sabbath-school, and teach them not to pray for +forgiveness of sins. A few afternoons ago, the pupils were all asked +what they desired to be. One little boy raised his hand to say that he +was going to be a "Hard Shell" minister, for they were already saved, +and had no praying to do. This answer was a result of his training at +home.</p> + +<p>We have many features of encouragement connected with our work <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194"></a>[194]</span>here. +Especially are we pleased with the work that is being done by a class of +our advanced boys and girls. There are ten of them out in the wooded +country, teaching for three months those who cannot find their way to +our school. Every two weeks, these pupils come in to give a report of +their work. It is understood by them that it is a part of their duty to +tell us just what work they do and <i>how</i> they do it. We supply them with +reading matter for their pupils—especially are we careful to let them +have Sunday-school books, etc. These pupils will be out of school three +months, and will then return to their school work. Every one who is out +is a Christian, and we feel that their influence for good is very great. +It is a joy to us to feel that our little school here in this town is +spreading its influence out into darker portions of the State. Each one +of these pupils has no less than forty pupils in his school, so that the +work of the school here at Marshallville reaches over six hundred souls! +This is indeed a dark portion of the field, but God's loving care is +about us, and we are content to labor here.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="ALBANY_GA" id="ALBANY_GA"></a>ALBANY, GA.</h2> + +<h4>BY MR. W.C. GREENE.</h4> + +<p>Our school is overrun with pupils this school year. I was compelled to +turn away a large number because I didn't have room for them.</p> + +<p>The people on their part are manifesting a deep interest in education +They are trying to take advantage of the opportunity as it is given +them. Many are going hungry to get a chance to send their children to +school.</p> + +<p>This last week has been one of profit in this part of the State. The +people have been made to see their duty to the colored man more plainly +by the lectures delivered by Dr. Lansay and others in the Georgia +Chautauqua. There were some fine speeches made in behalf of the Negro.</p> + +<p>Judge Hook was down one day and visited our school, and said that he was +surprised and glad to see the rapid progress we had made here.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="GREGORY_INSTITUTE_WILMINGTON_NC" id="GREGORY_INSTITUTE_WILMINGTON_NC"></a>GREGORY INSTITUTE, WILMINGTON, N.C.</h2> + +<p>A densely packed church of white and colored people witnessed the +closing exercises of the Gregory Institute, a school of high grade for +colored people founded and supported by the American Missionary +Association, and aided by Mr. Gregory. This school has been in operation +some eighteen or twenty years, and has done a most excellent work among +the people it was designed to benefit. The writer of this article has +attended public exercises of the Institute three times, and has been +each time impressed with the dignified and self-respecting deportment of +the scholars and visitors.</p> + +<p>The neat programme called for graduating essays from six girls—there +were no boys in the class—and there were six songs rendered by the +whole school, or by the class, and every one present agreed with Dr. +Pritchard when in his address he declared that such was the musical and +literary excellence <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195"></a>[195]</span>of the occasion that it would have done credit to +any institution of learning in North Carolina.</p> + +<p>The address of Dr. Pritchard was humorous, practical and highly +complimentary to the school, and was received with much favor by the +audience. After the conferring of the diplomas by Mr. Woodard, the +pleasant occasion came to an end. The Institute is an honor to the city, +and certainly reflects great credit on the officers who conduct +it.—<i>Morning Star.</i></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="SENIOR_CLASS_AT_LE_MOYNE_NORMAL_INSTITUTE" id="SENIOR_CLASS_AT_LE_MOYNE_NORMAL_INSTITUTE"></a>SENIOR CLASS AT LE MOYNE NORMAL INSTITUTE.</h2> + +<h4>MEMPHIS, TENN.</h4> + +<p>The Senior class of the present year is the largest graduated from the +school, numbering eleven members, seven young ladies and four young men.</p> + +<p>Tennessee is the native State of all but one, who was born in Virginia.</p> + +<p>The youngest is seventeen years old, the oldest twenty-eight; average +age, twenty and one-half years.</p> + +<p>The tallest member of the class is five feet, eight and one-half inches +in height, the shortest in stature measures five feet; average height, +five feet, six inches.</p> + +<p>The heaviest weight turns the scale at one hundred and sixty-five +pounds, and the lightest at one hundred and twenty; average weight, one +hundred and thirty-seven pounds.</p> + +<p>The longest attendance at this school is ten years and the shortest, +four; average term in school, six and one-half years.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="ITEMS" id="ITEMS"></a>ITEMS.</h2> + +<p>We have received No. 1, Vol. 1, of the <i>Academy Student</i>, published and +printed by the students of the Williamsburg Academy, Williamsburg, Ky. +The little paper is large with promise. It is as bright as a new dollar.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>A teacher asked her class in geography where the Turks live. The +remarkable reply was, "In the woods." Thinking the pupil had confounded +the Orientals with the Aborigines, the answer was pronounced to be +"incorrect." The pupil rejoined, "Well, I have seen them there roosting +in the trees."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The following extract is from a composition on "The Blacksmith."</p> + +<p>"Man in his state of incarnation has various ways of making money to +supply himself with nutriment so that the body may be able to +exhiliarate its immortal tenant, 'the soul.' The one about which I shall +speak is the Smith. This trade is of momentous importance.... It is +quite amusing to hear him when he is mending a piece of malleable work; +he has a way of striking the iron that makes it sound harmonious to the +ear, and children very often stop to hear him."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196"></a>[196]</span></p> +<h2><a name="THE_INDIANS" id="THE_INDIANS"></a>THE INDIANS.</h2> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="A_TRIP_AMONG_THE_OUT-STATIONS" id="A_TRIP_AMONG_THE_OUT-STATIONS"></a>A TRIP AMONG THE OUT-STATIONS.</h2> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The out-station work among the Indians is a feature almost +peculiar to the Indian Missions of the A.M.A. These stations are +the picket-lines pushed forward into the Reservations beyond the +line of established schools and missions. Each one consists of a +cheap home connected sometimes with a cheap school-house, and +these are occupied by one or two native Indian missionaries who +teach and preach, and thus accomplish an immediate good and lay +the foundation for the more permanent church and school. The +Association has about twenty such stations on the Cheyenne and +other rivers in Dakota. One of the teachers from Oahe gives a +racy sketch of a trip among some of the out-stations. We make +room for a large extract, regretting that we have not space for +more.</p></div> + +<h4>THE JOURNEY.</h4> + +<p>We started Thursday morning, going about seven miles above the Mission +to cross the river. We took dinner at the house of a white man who has +an Indian wife, and then started out on the long drive. Our direction +was almost due west, a little south toward the Cheyenne River. We +reached an out-station on the Cheyenne about dark, where James Brown, a +Santee Indian, is stationed. Two of our Santee school-girls are here, +and it was encouraging to see their neat dress, and hear them use their +English, though they so seldom see any one with whom they have occasion +to use it that it is not easy for them. The next morning, the girls had +classes in reading and writing. Some of the children were ragged and +dirty, with faces unwashed, and hair uncombed, one little boy with both +knees coming through his trousers, but their faces were, almost without +exception, bright and intelligent, with the intelligence of childhood, +which would inevitably change to the stolid indifference of ignorance, +were it not for the influence which this Christian household among them +may exert. To be sure, the girls are young and inexperienced, but that +they do their best means a great deal. Two young men were learning to +read the Dakota Bible. Soon after eleven, we were on our way again, +keeping the Cheyenne River in sight. We stopped at one of the villages +on the Cheyenne, where a Frenchman with an Indian wife has built up +quite a little colony, all related to one another. Several of our pupils +come from here, and the mode of life at their home has been modified by +their influence.</p> + +<p>We reached Plum Creek, where Edwin Phelps is stationed, about dark, and +after two long days' ride I was glad when bed time came. Ellen Kitto and +Elizabeth Winyan had come up from the Cheyenne, and I felt sure that +Elizabeth had given up her bed for me. The next morning I asked Ellen if +we could go out to some of the houses, but she said the people were all +on the other side of the river, that there was a dance there. This was a +disappointment to me, as I wanted to see the homes of the people, but +after dinner Edwin offered to take Elizabeth, Ellen and me across the +river to Cherry Creek, so that I gained rather than lost.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197"></a>[197]</span></p> +<h4>THE DANCE.</h4> + +<p>As we drew near the dance-house I could hear the monotonous yet rythmic +beat of the drum, and get glimpses through the door-way of the feathered +heads moving in time to the music. Outside there was a crowd of women, +girls, and young men, the young men wrapped in white sheets under which +they carry off, and make love to, the dusky maidens. This is the way a +Titon "makes love." As a recent writer describes this dance, bringing +before one only its poetry, and that which may be perhaps really +beautiful, it does not seem shocking or revolting in the least; but the +reality is simply dreadful. Not so much in itself, perhaps, though that +is bad enough, as in its influence, its consequences, all that it means +and all that it leads to.</p> + +<h4>THE CONTRAST.</h4> + +<p>Just beyond the dance house is the mission station where Clarence Ward +and his wife are; a civilized Christian family in the midst of this +heathenism.</p> + +<p>Sunday was to be the eventful day, and as early as half past nine the +congregation began to arrive. When the bell rang for service, the +school-room was filled almost immediately. Everything possible was +utilized for seats; trunks, boxes, wagon-seats, kegs, and those who +could not be provided with seats sat on the floor. There were probably a +hundred in all. The weight of so many people on the floor was too much +for the sleepers. Some of them gave way, and the floor settled somewhat, +but the audience was not "nervous" and was only amused. As I sat at the +organ, a group outside the door attracted my attention; several bright +faced girls, their shawls drawn over their heads with a grace a white +girl might envy, but could not hope to attain, and beyond them a face +that would pass on the most perfectly appointed stage for one of +Macbeth's witches, without being "made-up." The faces of some of the men +were as wooden and expressionless as the figures in front of a tobacco +shop, but these are they into whose lives the power of the Gospel of the +Son of God has not come. After this service came the church meeting, and +a Cheyenne River branch church was established which still has +connection with the mother church at Oahe.</p> + +<p>The school-room being too small for the afternoon communion service, +this was held out of doors. There must have been a hundred and fifty +present, perhaps more. First came a marriage ceremony, then the +admission of four new members, and the baptism of two children. Probably +four-fifths of the congregation had been drawn thither merely from +curiosity, and on the faces of many of these were the traces of +yesterday's paint. The simple service, which the new communion set made +perfect, could not fail to impress them that there is something better +than they have known. At its close, Edwin Phelps's scholars stood and +sang "Whiter than Snow," in Dakota. Have not those girls gained a great +moral victory, when in native dress, with their shawls worn after the +native fashion, they stand up among <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198"></a>[198]</span>their own people and proclaim +themselves on the side of right? It was a day full of new experiences +and new impressions for me. The contrast between this scene and the one +of the day before, presented itself to me over and over again.</p> + +<h4>DAKOTA WIND.</h4> + +<p>The next morning we started out for the return to Oahe. The day was warm +and pleasant and uneventful. I was comfortable and happy, and as we +stopped for lunch when we got hungry, I began to wonder where the +hardships of my journey were coming in, but people who are never so +happy as when they are uncomfortable, <i>ought</i> to get their just deserts. +I got mine. After we started from James Brown's, the wind rose. It rose +and it rose. It kept rising. How that wind did blow! It blew us up hill +and threw us down hill. It fairly hurled us along. It blew Mr. Riggs's +hat off and we chased it for half a mile. It blew my hat off; it blew my +hair down; we put into a ravine for repairs. We went through long +stretches of burned prairie, and clouds of fire-black dust were flying. +We hoped when we got down into the ravine it would not be so bad. Vain +hope. It was worse. The dust was blacker and thicker and more dusty. The +gravel stung our faces and blinded our eyes. For the entire distance of +thirty-five miles, that wind howled and raved and tore. It almost took +the ponies off their feet. I have not exaggerated it one bit. It would +be impossible to exaggerate. When we reached the house where we had +taken dinner going up, we found the dirt blown from the roof, likewise +the tar-paper, leaving great cracks through which the dirt rattled. +Everything was an inch deep in dirt, but we were welcomed to the shelter +of the four walls, and what was left of the roof. The dirt did not +matter. We were already done in charcoal. Mr. Collins was here, caught +by the wind, and before dark the Agency farmer came. It was impossible +to cross the river in such a gale, and here I knew we must stay.</p> + +<p>The next morning was still and clear and beautiful. It was difficult to +realize that the elements had been on such a tear the day before, so +after breakfast we embarked for home, going the seven miles by water +this time, and I reached the mission a gladder and a wiser woman.</p> + +<p>This glimpse of out-station work is something I have long wanted, and +anyone who does not believe in Indian education should see the results +of it as they appear here. In the audience on Sunday, were three young +women former students, one at Hampton, one at Santee, one at Oahe. Their +dress, the expression of their faces, their whole appearance proclaimed +the power of Christian education, and it is only in the faces of the +Christian Indians that there is any expression of gladness. There is no +gladness in their life outside of this. Oh, that the work at these +stations may be blessed! There are hundreds and hundreds, yes, thousands +of Indians who will never be reached by Hampton, Carlisle, Santee, by +all the Indian schools put <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199"></a>[199]</span>together, and who will never be Christianized +or civilized by "edict from Washington." Christ must be taken to them, +lived among them in such a way that his true loveliness may be made +apparent to them. Without this, all else goes for naught; with this, +life and light must come, and darkness and ignorance and superstition +must flee away.—<i>Word-Carrier.</i></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2><a name="THE_CHINESE" id="THE_CHINESE"></a>THE CHINESE.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_CHINESE_WORK" id="THE_CHINESE_WORK"></a>THE CHINESE WORK.</h2> + +<h4>BY REV. M. McG. DANA, D.D., LOWELL, MASS.</h4> + +<p>I never read any report of this, without feeling both humiliated and +inspired. Humiliated, because I have regarded the field so unpromising; +inspired, because such glimpses of gracious possibilities and +achievements are caught. We have been so incredulous as to certain alien +races, that we have only partially and feebly brought to bear upon them +the saving influences of the Gospel. We are not, indeed, responsible for +the presence of these Orientals in our land. Ours is a different +responsibility; it is for their evangelization, now that they have been +led to our shores. This work is laid upon us, and never was it more +urgent or hopeful than at this hour. It was one of the methods of our +Lord to arouse men to noblest service by reminding them of the +obligations imposed upon them by their circumstances and opportunities.</p> + +<p>Whether the call came to them from a promising or unpromising field, on +them rested the duty of responding. In the great Sermon on the Mount, +our Lord, after finishing with his gentle and sweet benedictions, +abruptly turned and, with changed tone and impressive words, said to his +disciples, "Ye are the salt of the earth." On you rests the obligation +of becoming the conservative element in society. Confronting as they did +a decadent civilization and a vanishing religious faith and a general +heart-despair, they were to be the saviors of men. Pungent and +preservative as salt, are ye to be in the midst of a putrid age. Few, +too, as they were in numbers, and without honor as well, yet they were +to be the light of the world. On their luminousness depended their power +to influence. The radiancy of their life and teaching was to penetrate +the surrounding gloom. Later on follows the divine imperative to "Go +forth and disciple all nations."</p> + +<p>However unfavorable the outlook, however inadequate they seemed for the +undertaking, they were to attempt what was enjoined. It lifted them to +an altitude never before reached, and made them conscious of a power +never before possessed.</p> + +<p>This is the principle which we need to apply to the emergencies in which +we are called to act. We get from others what we tell them we expect. +There is something in human nature that likes to be trusted with +responsibility; something in us that responds to great occasions. You +remember <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200"></a>[200]</span>when Nelson fought that pivotal naval engagement at Trafalgar +against the combined fleets of France and Spain, he gave to his command +as a motto to inspire them to do their best, "England expects every man +to do his duty." That brought every soldier and sailor under the eyes of +the country whose interests they were upholding, and nerved each one to +deeds of valor. It awakened a sense of responsibility and called forth +their noblest service. So our Lord seems to be saying to American +churches and to the constituency of this Society, "'Ye are the light of +the world.' On you depends the evangelization of these despised Chinese. +Treating them now contemptuously and now even brutally, ye are called to +be salt to them, thus saving them from moral deterioration, and +inoculating them with the spirit of the Gospel. Ye are to illuminate +them with the light you have to shed as followers of Christ, and the +responsibility is laid upon you to carry to them the principles of that +faith which has given to us whatever excellence we have as a Nation. I +expect you to Christianize these representatives of the Orient, to +convert them to the worship of the God of the Bible." In this +expectation of the Master, lies at once our obligation and our +privilege. Much is laid upon us, but the trust brings with it honor, and +inspires to grandest service.</p> + +<p>The progress already made in this work, the cheering tokens of success +that are reported by all laborers in this field, ought to awaken a far +greater sympathy for those in whose behalf we are called to make our +Christ-like expenditures. It is time we rose above the mean political +enmities which have embarrassed not a little this imperative evangelism. +Our treatment of these people is but another chapter in our history on +which other and larger hearted generations will look with shame and +sorrow. In the animosities born of our commercial greed, we have acted +as if our religion had made us neither in life nor doctrine better than +they. Eager to send the Gospel to distant heathen, we have been +reluctant to exemplify, and slow to practically apply, to the heathen in +our midst the teaching of Christianity. Now has come a new era, and the +evangelistic efforts among the Chinese are assuming greater proportions +than ever, and are engirt with every sign of gracious success. We have +yet to learn to respect the manhood in these emigrants from the great +kingdom beyond the Pacific. It is said of our Lord, when he came across +the Publican Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom, that "he saw a +man," and it was oftentimes the lowly, the shunned, the socially +despised he called to become his disciples. It is a great art, this of +seeing in a man the ideal, the possible man. When Jesus Christ looks +upon a man, he looks him into a nobler manhood. We need to rise above +class distinctions, to regard no one common or unclean, to speak of no +one as hopeless or worthless.</p> + +<p>One word as to opportunity. God always matches opportunity with ability, +and when we stand face to face with opportunity, we must go forward or +be recreant to every trust.</p> + +<p>Here is this man—the Chinaman—on our coast, for whom we are doing +exactly the same work that this Society has been urging us to do for the +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201"></a>[201]</span>black race, in raising up preachers amongst them to go back to the homes +in their own country and there become the proper evangels to their own +people. When we realize that this is our work, and this is the +opportunity before us, we shall talk of the Chinese question with more +seriousness.</p> + +<p>We are like the two American boys. One says to the other: "My father is +a Christian; is your father a Christian?" The other boy replies, not +wishing to be outdone, "Oh, yes, my father is a Christian, but he is not +working much at it just now." That is about the way with this nation, +nominally a Christian nation; we are not working much at it in the way +we are treating the Indian, Chinese and colored man. We want the nation +to act out the principles it believes in.</p> + +<p>Mr. Gladstone said he divided the English nation into classes and +masses. The masses, he added, have as little regard for the doctrines of +the Gospel, as the upper classes have for its precepts. Now we have not +only to give the precepts of the Gospel to the Chinaman, but we must +inculcate its principles in the heart beyond all danger of eradication. +If we do not do this, we shall act little better than the Chinese do +themselves. A man was once asked how much he weighed. He replied, "I +weigh 160, but when I am mad I weigh a ton." We need the madness born of +a great zeal, the enthusiasm kindled by the Gospel, then shall we be +able to lift up all classes and conditions of men.</p> + +<p>When we get anointed for this work, and carry the Gospel with all the +earnestness of our faith, and all the patience born of the example of +Christ, then we shall realize our fondest hopes for the Christianization +of the Chinese and of other races in our country.</p> + +<p>We have only a few thousands of Chinese in our country, and whenever one +of these becomes a Christian he is much like a Christian in apostolic +days. He is raised above his former life, loses largely the sympathy of +his own people, and is regarded as an apostate from his ancestral faith. +It costs, therefore, a great deal to become a Christian under such +circumstances, yet there are joyous, devoted Chinese Christians +preaching, with signal power, the Gospel to their brethren, and living +so as to be Christian luminaries among their idolatrous kindred.</p> + +<p>I consider it no inferior part of this Association's work that it is +expending its efforts among the Chinese now resident on the coast. We +have, however, only made a beginning; much, very much, remains to be +done. We have to conquer political prejudices, and invite to our faith +with warmest welcomes those for whom Christianity has such priceless +boons. If we raise up amongst them missionaries to go back to the +crowded Mongolian Empire, this society will become an institution not +only for Christianizing the conscience of our nation, but also an agency +for training up and sending forth missionaries for the neediest of +lands. Let it be ours to evince a friendly fellowship and true devotion +to the despised, and kindle a manlier faith and larger Christian +service.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202"></a>[202]</span> +<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 /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.</span></p><p> + +VT.—Woman's Aid to A.M.A.,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.</span></p><p> + +VT.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Montpelier, Vt.</span></p><p> + +CONN.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.</span></p><p> + +MASS. and R.I.—Woman's Home Miss. Association,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">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></span></p><p> + +N.Y.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. William Spalding, Salmon Block, Syracuse, N.Y.</span></p><p> + +ALA.—Woman's Missionary Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss S.S. Evans, Birmingham, Ala.</span></p><p> + +MISS.—Woman's Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Sarah J. Humphrey, Tougaloo, Miss.</span></p><p> + +TENN. and ARK.—Woman's Missionary Union of Central South Conference,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Anna M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.</span></p><p> + +LA.—Woman's Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans. La.</span></p><p> + +FLA.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park, Fla.</span></p><p> + +OHIO.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, Ohio.</span></p><p> + +IND.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. W.B. Mossman, Fort Wayne, Ind.</span></p><p> + +ILL.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill.</span></p><p> + +MINN.—Woman's Home Miss. Society,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Katharine Plant, 2651 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.</span></p><p> + +IOWA.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa.</span></p><p> + +KANSAS.—Woman's Home Miss. Society,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. G.L. Epps. Topeka, Kan.</span></p><p> + +MICH.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, Mich.</span></p><p> + +WIS.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis.</span></p><p> + +NEB.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 N. Broad St., Fremont, Neb.</span></p><p> + +COLORADO.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Packard, Pueblo, Colo.</span></p><p> + +DAKOTA.—Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">President, Mrs. T.M. Hills, Sioux Falls;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. W.R. Dawes, Redfield;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Treasurer, Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston.</span> +</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: 65%;" /> +<p><a name="The_meeting_of_the_officers" id="The_meeting_of_the_officers"></a>The meeting of the officers of the Home Missionary Unions of the +Congregational Churches held at Saratoga, June 4th, was well attended. +Twelve States were there represented, and the occasion was one of great +interest and of encouragement to the cause of missions. The suggestive +and forceful papers presented, indicate that our ladies are in earnest +for the evangelization of our country, and that they will give their +best effort toward extending the influence of our National Societies by +the financial help which they will endeavor to render.</p> + +<p>The next meeting of these State organizations will be held in Chicago, +Ill., at the time of the annual meeting of the American Missionary +Association the latter part of next October.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="MERIDIAN_MISS" id="MERIDIAN_MISS"></a>MERIDIAN, MISS.</h2> + +<p>A little of our industrial work of this first year I would like to +present to you. Our girls, on the closing day, exhibited fourteen pieced +quilts all completed, and twenty were well along toward completion. +Twenty garments <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203"></a>[203]</span>have been finished and disposed of. All of the material +has been sent from Northern friends and homes, and some of the girls +have learned the first things of needlework, having learned to use +needle, thread and thimble. One little girl when first given a needle +said, "O see! there is a hole in one end of it." One old lady learned to +knit.</p> + +<p>We feel happy in the thought of the spiritual growth in our school. +Several young men and some of our girls have openly expressed themselves +as desirous of being Christians, and have started, I am sure, to follow +Jesus. Another hopeful thing is the zeal with which they attend to the +duties of the Band of Hope. Our young people who are to teach in the +country are quite determined to organize bands and to fight for "God and +home and native land," on the line of temperance. We have given all the +instruction and illustrations we could, and the little ones are becoming +leaders of the older members in the families. One little boy urged his +old grandmother to stop using snuff, and she has given it up after using +it more than twoscore years. She said he used to say, "Don't chew, +grandma; the teachers say it is poison." Some mothers who have been in +the habit of using ruinous alcohol medicines for their children, assured +me they would stop it, after seeing the amount of alcohol contained, as +was shown by our little experiments in evaporating and burning. One +young man of twenty years old passed an examination in the country, and +obtained a second grade certificate, and at sixteen years of age he did +not know his letters. Are there many boys at the North who can show a +better record in four years?</p> + +<div class="right">H.I. MILLER.</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="MACON_GA" id="MACON_GA"></a>MACON, GA.</h2> + +<p>I am sure you want to hear about the closing exercises of our cooking +class. The teacher had given the seven girls comprising the class the +privilege of getting a dinner and each one inviting a guest. One of the +lovely things about the affair was that the guests were the mothers and +teachers of the girls. So at three o'clock one day a company of eighteen +sat down to a dinner that was all cooked and served by these girls. The +white, puffy biscuits, well-cooked meat and vegetables, and the quiet +lady-like serving, all testified to the excellence of the instruction +received. Prouder mothers I never saw than those who then partook of +their daughter's cookery. I was told that every Saturday it had been the +custom for the girls at home to repeat in their own kitchens the work of +the day previous, as it had been done under their teacher's +instructions.</p> + +<p>We hope next year with our boarding pupils to do more than we could with +only day pupils. Our sewing classes are this week finishing their work +for the year. There has been sewing in five rooms. The primaries have +pieced blocks for outsides for two quilts, over-hand work. The next +grade has put together four outsides (running). The upper classes have +made fifty pillow-cases, twelve sheets, forty aprons, hemstitched three +tray cloths, outlined one tidy and made three night-dresses. Darning, +button-hole making <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204"></a>[204]</span>and hem-stitching were taught in one class. The girls +in another room have tied six comfortables. The boys in the carpenter +shop are doing excellent work, and they like it very much. One class of +five or six come every morning at seven o'clock, and they do this to get +more instruction. Most of this class are country boys who cannot stay at +school all of the year. In one of the primary rooms, we have the +kitchen-garden material. There, with the twenty-four sets of toy dishes, +the little ones are taught how to set and clear off table, and a great +many useful things in reference to table manners and customs.</p> + +<p>Our general school work goes on like clock-work. The children and young +people are growing in their power of concentration and self-control, and +we feel greatly encouraged, as we look into the future for them, to hope +that at no very distant day a well ordered home, where three meals a day +shall be served in a refined, orderly manner, shall not be so rare a +thing as it now is. We are more and more convinced that the home life of +these people must be changed, if they are ever to be what we want them +to be, and what, for the interests of our country and for the coming of +Christ's kingdom on earth, they must be.</p> + +<p>And now I will close in the usual way by telling you some of our needs.</p> + +<p>For the new boarding department, we shall need bedding of all kinds. I +especially want that each mattress shall be furnished with a quilted or +padded cover—that is, something as large as the mattress on top. +Towels, table linen and such things as are needed in every house are +always acceptable. If any one wants to furnish carpets for teacher's +rooms, we do not say them nay.</p> + +<div class="right">MRS. LIVA A. SHAW.</div> + + + +<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="WORK_AMONG_THE_CHILDREN" id="WORK_AMONG_THE_CHILDREN"></a>WORK AMONG THE CHILDREN.</h2> + +<h4>BY MRS. L.R. GREENE.</h4> + +<p>I have spent nearly five years in teaching the little colored children +in this Southland. In my department there are over ninety bright, +enthusiastic little folks between the ages of five and thirteen. I have +often wished that the anxious inquirers as to whether the colored +children were as bright and smart intellectually as white ones, could +visit my room, and the little people would answer the question +themselves.</p> + +<p>My pupils, with one exception, being day scholars, I have had an +excellent opportunity to know the colored people. I go to their homes; +some I find as cosy and prettily fitted up as the average home at the +North, while others are miserable apologies for the name.</p> + +<p>I often, Sunday afternoons, take a bundle of papers and go through some +of the streets where I find boys playing ball or marbles, and flying +kites. When I ask why they haven't been to Sunday-school, or at home +reading, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205"></a>[205]</span>they tell me they have no clothes, and that they have nothing +to read at home; as I distribute the papers, they lay down bat and ball +and eagerly devour the stories and study the pictures.</p> + +<p>I find some very bright little fellows among them. I asked one little +boy, "Won't you come to my Sunday-school?" He replied at once, "Oh yes." +I said, "Do you know where I teach?" The ready answer came at once, "Up +at the big college yonder," The next Sunday, as I went in, the first +child I saw was Dan. He sat with eyes and mouth wide open as we talked +about Joseph, sung our little hymns and repeated the commandments— +things he had never heard before. The next Sabbath he was there as +interested and eager as on the first, his bare feet hanging from the +chair; but the third Sunday as I went out the gate, there stood Dan, +forlorn enough. I said, "Aren't you going to Sunday-School?" He said, +"I can't go; my sister is married, my mother has gone crazy, and I +haven't a clean shirt." It would have melted the stoutest heart to have +heard his sorrowful tale. I found him soon after, and through the +kindness of a Northern friend in paying his tuition, I had him in my +school, where he proved himself bright and interesting.</p> + +<p>I might cite many such instances that have come within my observation, +if time and space would permit. I long for much that is wasted at the +North to help many such bright, interesting, needy little children.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="RECEIPTS_FOR_MAY_1889" id="RECEIPTS_FOR_MAY_1889"></a>RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1889.</h2> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>MAINE, $352.06.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. </td><td width="20%" align='right'>$3.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Albany. Anna K. Cummings, <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bangor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>38.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bath. Winter St. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>140.30</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bucksport. Y.P.S.C.E., by Charlotte S. Barnard, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Castine. Prof. Fred. W. Foster</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.44</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., (2. of which <i>for Mountain Work</i>) bal. to const., REV. GEO. W. REYNOLDS, JOHN A. +WATERMAN, STEPHEN HINCKLEY, J.S. LEAVITT, JR., A.H. SAMPSON, MISS MINNIE TOLFORD and MISS NELLIE WHITE L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.65</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hampden. C.E. Hicks</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kennebunk. Union Cong. Ch. (1.75 of which from Y.P.S. of C.E.)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kennebunkport. Ladies of South Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Madison. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Portland. West Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Portland. Ladies' Mission Circle of State St, Ch., 2 Valuable Bbl's C.; Maine Women's Ind. Ass'n, 2 Valuable Bbl's C.; +Carter Bros., Valuable Gift of Roger's Plated Ware.; George C. Frye, Chemist, Medicines, Val. 10.25, <i>for Fort Yates, Dak.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Berwick. Miss Lewis' S.S. Class, <i>for Wilmington, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Gardiner. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., Mrs. S. Adams, <i>for Freight</i> 2., <i>for Selma, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Union. Rev. F.V. Norcross</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waterford. Sab. Sch. of Cong, Ch., <i>for Santee Indian Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waterford. Mrs. H.E. Douglass, Box C., <i>for Tougaloo, Miss.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Windham. W.M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Bedding, etc., Val. 43.97, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i>, also Bbl. and Box <i>for N.C.</i> Val.75.30</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Winslow. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woodfords. Miss W. Perry's S.S. Class, 2; Mrs. I.S. Woodbury, Bbl. C., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woolwich. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.32</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>York. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Aid to A.M.A. by Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Chairman, <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> "From Two Sisters In Memory of their Sister Mrs. Sophia<br /> + M. Trumble," to const. MRS. CAROLINE J. WALKER 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>NEW HAMPSHIRE, $222.85.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Concord. South Ch., Mrs. Bancroft's S.S. Class, 10. <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i>; Mr. Willard's S.S. Class, 3.75 +<i>for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>13.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Concord. I.W. Chandler</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nashua. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Ipswich. A.N. Townsend</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Hampton. "J.L.P."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Northwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.60</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Penacook. Jer. C. Martin</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206"></a>[206]</span>Stoddard. King's Daughters, <i>for Meridian, Miss</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tilton. S.S. Class of Young Ladies Cong. Ch., <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wilton. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wilmot. By Rev. N.F. Carter</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right' valign='bottom'>$122.85</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Greenville. Estate of Dea. Franklin Merriam, by Mary A. Merriam, Executrix. </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right' valign='bottom'>$222.85</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, $377.05.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Cornwall. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>48.26</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dorset. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Granby. Infant Class, by H.W. Matthews, <i>for Rosebud Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.18</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lyndon. Mrs. Alice L. Ray</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Manchester. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>37.13</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Northfield. "A Friend," <i>for Mountain Work</i>, and to const. MRS. DIANTHA E. KNIGHT L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Royalton. First Cong. Ch. 11.40; A.W. Kenney, 30., to const. GARNER R. DEWEY L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>41.40</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. 50. <i>for Indian M.</i> 50. <i>for Santee Home</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Vergennes. "E.L.B."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waitsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 6.14; Mrs. S.P. Prindle, 1.50</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.64</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Williamstown. C.C. Barnes</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>McIndoes Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.44</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont, by Mrs. W.P. Fairbanks, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Burlington. W.H.M.S., First Ch. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">40.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Granby. Mrs. C.W. Matthews </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Saint Albans. W.H.M.S., First Ch. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">25.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Williamstown, Ladies </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">2.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 72.00</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>MASSACHUSETTS, $8,333.49.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Amesbury. Main St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>13.36</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Amherst. Wm. M. Graves</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Andover. "A Friend" by Stephen Ballard, <i>for Girl's Dormitory, Macon, Ga.</i> 1,581.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Andover. Free Christian Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Andover. Mrs. Chas. S. Mills, 15; Mrs. S. J. Stetson 5; Miss Susanna Jackson, 5; Mrs. K.P. Williams, 2; Mrs. Wm. Abbott, +2; Mrs. Homer Barrows, 1, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Andover. Class of Phillips Academy Boys, <i>for Tools, Industrial Sch., Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Andover. Ladies' Soc., Free Ch., Bbl. C. etc., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Auburndale. "Friends" 44; Branch of Newton Ind'l Ass'n, Bbl. C.; Miss Miller and Friends, Bbl. C., <i>for Fort Yates, Dak.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>44.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bernardston. Miss M.L. Newcomb, (of which 100. <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i>; 100. <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta, U.</i>; 50. +<i>for Teacher, Austin. Texas)</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>900.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Boston. C.A. Hopkins, 250.; Woman's Home Miss'y<br /> + Ass'n, 60. <i>for Girl's Ind'l Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">310.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> "G.A.W." </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">50.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Mrs. E.P. Eayers </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> "Cash"</td><td align='right' valign="bottom">.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Ladies' Sewing Circle of Union Cong. Ch.,<br /> + Bbl. C., <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Brighton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">60.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Dorchester. "M.L.E," 10; Pilgrim Ch., 8.25, <i>for</i><br /> + <i>Mountain Work</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">18.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">247.85 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Jamaica Plain. "A Friend" </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">4.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Roxbury, Sab. Sen. and Y.P. Soc., Elliot Ch.,<br /> + Box Books etc., and 1., <i>for Thomasville, Ga.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">1.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right' valign='bottom'>——— 697.10</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bridgewater. "Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brockton. Mrs. S.A. Southworth, Box C. for <i>Tougaloo, Miss.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cambridge. Mrs. Preble, 5. and Bbl. Sewing Materials <i>for Fort Yates, Dak.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dedham. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>161.16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Walpole. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.60</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Enfield. Miss C.E. Fairbanks' S.S. Class, <i>for Indian Sch'p.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>70.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fall River. Y.P.S.C.E., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. <i>for Student Aid Fund, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Groveland Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Groton. "Friend," 20, <i>for Chinese M., 10. for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hanover. Second Cong. Ch., by Mrs. Dr. Sweeney and Others on True Blue Card.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hinsdale. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., (25, of which <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.)</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>47.90</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Holbrook. Sab. Sch. of Winthrop Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Tillotson C. and N. Inst.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>28.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Holliston. Class of Young Ladies' Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hopkinton. Mrs. P.B. Wing's S.S. Class, <i>for Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Housatonic. Cong. Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>76.61</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.32</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Islington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lawrence. Mrs. J.H. Eaton, 15., Mrs. M. J. Jenness, 5., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Leverett. Y.P.S.C.E., Ad'l <i>for Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Marlboro. T.B. Patch</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Medford. Mystic Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>108.46</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Medway. "A Friend"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,000.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Melrose. Ortho. Cong. Ch., <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.42</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Millis. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Bedford. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>82.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41., "A Friend," 5.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>46.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newbury. First Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.49</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Northampton. A.L. Williston</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>300.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Northampton. Geo. W. Cable, 5 vols., <i>for Library, Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Peru. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Quincy. Primary Dep't of Evan Cong. Sab. Sch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Reading. By J.H. Gleason, "In memory of my mother, Lucy Bancroft Gleason."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Reading. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Revere. A Member of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Salem. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of Tab. Ch., <i>for Indian Sch'p</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Salem. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of South Ch., 20. <i>for Tougaloo U., 20., for Santee, Neb.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.80</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Somerville. Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n of Day St. Ch., <i>for freight to Fort Yates</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.40</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Amherst. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Southampton. C.B. Lyman's S.S. Class Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Southbridge. M.L. Richardson <i>for Student Aid Fund, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Framingham. South Cong. Ch., (50. of which <i>for Mountain Work</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>189.92</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207"></a>[207]</span>South Hadley Falls. "Friends."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Springfield. Memorial Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.14</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Stockbridge. Alice Byington, Books and Patchwork, for <i>Sherwood, Tenn</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sutton. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.88</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Taunton. Sab. Ch. of Broadway Cong. Ch. <i>for Student Aid Fund. Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Taunton. Young Peoples' Union of Broadway Ch. <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Taunton. "For Christ's Work." <i>Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Topsfield. Cong. Ch. and. Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>44.82</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wakefield. Mission Workers of Cong. Ch. <i>for Bird's Nest, Santee, Neb.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.84</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ware. East Cong. Ch. (20 of which <i>Indian M</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>342.40</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.32</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Watertown. Phillips Mission Band <i>for Student Aid, Straight U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waverly. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>31.64</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wellesley. "Friend,"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Action. Rev. J.W. Brown</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Boxford. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.10</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Westhampton, Ladies' Benev. Soc., by Mrs. E.P. Torrey, Sec'y</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Newton. Mrs. E. Price, <i>for Mountain work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Springfield. Ladies' Mission Circle of Park St. Ch., <i>Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Whitinsville. Additional by Rev. J.R. Thurston, <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Whitman. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Ch. <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.35</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Winchester. First Cong. Ch. (85.53 of which <i>for Indian M.</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>124.31</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Worcester. J.M. Bassett</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Worcester. Ladies of Union Ch. <i>for Indian Sch'p</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh, Treas.:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Holyoke. Second </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">50.36 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Holyoke. Second, <i>for Fisk U.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">50.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Longmeadow, Y.P.S.C.E. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">4.37 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> South Hadley Falls </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">16.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Springfield. Hope </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">98.77 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Springfield. Hope <i>for Hampton Inst.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">42.74 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Springfield. South </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">56.83 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Springfield. Olivet. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">28.71 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Springfield. First </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">18.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Westfield. Second. <i>for Fisk</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">60.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> West Springfield. First </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">28.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> West Springfield. Mittineague </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">9.60 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> ——. "Friend" </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 463.38</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>———</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$7,783.49</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATES</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hadley. Estate of Dea. Eleazar Porter, by J.E. Porter. Ex.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>500.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lancaster. Estate of Miss Sophia Stearns, by Wm. W. Wyman. Ex. </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$8,333.49</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bangor. Me. Central Ch. Sew. Circle, Bbl. <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Auburndale. Mass. Miss Alice Williston, Bbl. <i>for McLeansville, N.C.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Boston. Mass. Cong. Pub. Soc. P'k'g. Books; Gen'l Theo. Library, Several Val. Vols.; Miss H.H. Stanwood. Books <i>Girls' +Hall</i>; Miss Ada Hartshorne, Files of "Golden Rule," <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dorchester Mass. Miss Lapham, 2 Bbls. <i>for Raleigh, N.C.</i>; Master Fred E. Swan, Scrap Book.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hyde Park Mass. Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, 2 Bbls. Val. 110. <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i>, and 1 Bbl. Val. 63 <i>Tougaloo, U.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Spencer, Mass. Ladies' Charitable Soc., Box Val. 83.05, <i>for Indian Sch., Pierre, So. Dak.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Boylston, Mass. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 2 Bbls. <i>for McLeansville, N.C.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Winchendon, Mass. Y.P.S.C.E., Box. <i>for Talladega, 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, $5.00</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Newport. Miss Sophia L. Little</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>CONNECTICUT, $1,700.83</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Ansonia. First Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>83.33</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ashford. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.06</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bethlehem, Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Berlin. "A Friend," <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bridgeport. Bbl. C., <i>for Thomasville, Ga.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bridgewater, Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.27</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bristol, L.H.M. Soc., Bbl. C., 1.50, for Freight, <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chaplin. Mrs. F. Williams, 10 and Bbl. C. <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Darien. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Conn. Ind. Sch., Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Hampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>41.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Hampton. Mrs. Laura A. Skinner, <i>Student Aid Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Haven. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.81</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fairfield. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gilead. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>28.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Goshen. Mrs. Moses Lyman</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Guilford. Soc. of Christian Endeavor</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hartford. Mrs. Frances Howe Wood, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hartford. Weathersfield Ave. Cong. Ch. Bbl. Sundries, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Higganum. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jewett City, Rev. Q.M. Bosworth, Sewing Machine, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mansfield Center. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Britain. Miss E.R. Eastman, Pkg. Patchwork, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Haven. Humphrey St. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. to const. EULIUS B. SHELDON, JAMES M. ATWATER, JAMES F. PARSONS, JOSEPH +RAWIES, MISS ELLA M. WATSON and MRS. JANE A. BREWER L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>201.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Haven. Mrs. J.A. Dickerman, 100; Davenport Cong. Ch., 64; Students of Yale Theol. Sch., by F.H. Means, Treas. 21.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>185.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New London. "Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven," (100 of which <i>for Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn.</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>400.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New London. Friends of First Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Old Lyme. Ladies' Soc., Box C., Freight 2., <i>for Thomasville, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Orange. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Plainville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>81.17</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Plainville. King's Daughters, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Plantsville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.63</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Salisbury. Thomas Martin's S.S. Class, Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid Fund, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.40</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Norwalk. Supt. E.S. Hall, <i>for Thomasville, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Southport. "A Friend"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.94</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Terryville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>53.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Thomaston. Eagle Rock Cong. Soc. to cont. REV. D. MOSES, L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Thompson. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.40</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Washington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. <i>for Indian Sch'p</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Westbrook. T.D. Post.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.52</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wethersfield. By E.L. Tillotson, (of which Miss Harris', Miss Clark's, Miss Griswold's S.S. Classes and Infant Class, +10.; Mrs. H.C. Johnson, 10; Miss S. Cushman, 1)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>36.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208"></a>[208]</span>Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>80.30</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>——. ——, <i>for Hope Station, Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>75.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>——. "A Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Conn., by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec. <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Griswold. Ladies' H.M. Soc. First Ch., 10,<br /> + <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">10.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> New Britain. Ladies' H.M. Soc. of First Ch.,<br /> + <i>for Normal Inst., Grand View, Tenn.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">50.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 60.00</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 YORK, $2,211.55.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Albany. First Cong. Ch., 59.97; Chas. A. Beach, 50</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>109.97</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Binghamton. Mrs. Caroline A. Morris</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>684.03</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>37.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Ch. of the Pilgrims, add'l to const. MISS CATHERINE L. STANTON L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Mrs. Hall, 8; Mrs. M. Jacques, 8; Mrs. C. Weeks, 5; Miss M. Morrison, 4; Carrie Strong, 1; Miss F. Bingham. 1;</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mrs. Foos. 1; Flossie Brigham and Carrie Strong, Bbl. of C.; Mrs. Mary Lowell, 7, <i>for Williamsburg, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Miss H.M. Wiggins .25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Castile. G.A. Davis, to const. J. HARRY VAN ARSDAL, JR., L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Rockaway. Bethany Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Elbridge. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gloversville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>155.62</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Homer. Band of Hope, 6 Testaments, <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ithaca. Prof. Geo. P. Armstrong</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kinderhook. Rev. W. Ingalls .50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Moravia. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Haven. Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., <i>for Talladega C.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. Young People of First Reformed Episcopal Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. "K," 15; Miss Haswell, 5; Mrs. A.H. Elliott, 1, <i>for Chapel, Santee, Neb.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. H.P. Van Liew, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. Tabernacle Ch., ad'l</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. S.F. Gordon, Organ, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. F. Ernest Lewis, 15 yds. Carpet, <i>for Fort Yates, Dak.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. National Temp. Soc., 100 copies "Blackboard Temp. Lessons."</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Winfield. Mrs. O.E. Harrison</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Owego. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Portland. Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Coon</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rochester. Plymouth Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>37.96</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sherburne. First Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. EMMA J. KELLY and MISS MARY PRUTZEHBACH L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>66.90</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Spencerport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.06</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Walton. Christian Endeavor Soc. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> N.Y. W.H.M.U.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>352.51</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— $1,736.55</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Owego. Estate of Dr. Lucius H. Allen</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>475.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$2,211.55</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>NEW JERSEY, $732.45.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Arlington. Mission Band, <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td><td width="20%" align='right'>.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Montclair. First Cong. Ch., (30 of which to const. D.O. ESHBAUGH L.M.), 442; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 100</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>542.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Montclair. D.O. Eshbaugh, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Morristown. Mrs. F.W. Owen, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>75.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey, 15; Mrs. Hannah Howe, 5</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Orange Valley. F.W. Van Wagener, <i>for Marion, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Paterson. Auburn St. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>31.20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Plainfield. Mrs. Mary H. Whiton, (20 of which <i>for Woman's Work</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</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, $410.20.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., to const. MISS EDITH BATES, +SAMUEL W. FRESCOLN, MISS EMMA L. GODELL, MELVIN H. HARRINGTON, MISS ADALENA HICKMAN, +DR. W.S. HOW, MISS MARY C. LEEDS, ALBERT M. PATTERSON, WILLIAM C. STROUD, MISS CELIA +B. ULMER, PROF. GEO. L. WEED, and MISS LUCY E. WOODRUFF L.M's</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>410.20</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>OHIO, $720.64.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Akron. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>96.66</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bryan. S.R. Blakeslee</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chagrin Falls. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>41.42</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cincinnati. Central Cong. Ch., 149.68 and Sab. Sch., 18.25</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>167.93</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Claridon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cleveland. Plymouth Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>61.06</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cleveland. M.L. Berger, D.D., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</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'>Columbus. Eastwood Ch. and Sab. Sch., to const. MRS. GEO. W. EARLY and MRS. J.B. POWELL L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>61.40</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gomer. Miss'y Soc. of Welsh Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.80</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Medina. Sab. Sch. Classes Cong. Ch., Miss Carrie Lowe, 5; Miss Flora Hard, 5; Mrs. O.H. +McDowell, 5; Geo. Thompson, 5; +Wm. P. Clark, 5; Miss Sarah Smith, 3.73; Miss May Woodward, 3; A. I. Root, 2.75; Miss Mary O. Sipher, 2; E.R. Root, +1.89; S.B. Curtiss, 1.05; Mrs. Geo. Thomson, 1; Miss Clara Sipher, 1; bal. to const. REV. NORMAN PLASS and FRANK MILLER +L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>41.33</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Paddy's Run. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ravenna. Howard Carter, 50; Cong. Ch., 33.54</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>83.54</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Toledo. Miss Laura A. Parmelee, <i>for Sch'p End. Fund, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Twinsburg. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wellington. Edward West</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</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'> Columbus. "E.T.B," <i>for Miss Collins' Work</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> North Bloomfield. "King's Daughters,"<br /> + <i>for Student Aid, Storrs Sch.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">4.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 9.00</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>INDIANA, $12.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Fort Wayne. Plymouth Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</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>ILLINOIS, $6,160.52</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Alton. Ch. of the Redeemer</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>60.42</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Caseyville. Miss Mary Meckfessel</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chicago. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>96.78</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Evanston. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>71.51</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Glencoe. Arthur H. Day, <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Griggsville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>33.37</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hyde Park. S.S. Class by Miss Elsie Cole, 1.50; S.S. Class by Miss Ida Chapin, .75; +A.W. Cole, 1., Olin Family, 1., <i>for Marion, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.25<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209"></a>[209]</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kumler. Franklin S. King</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>La Grange. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>La Prairie Center. "Friends."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Naperville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oglesby. T.T. Bent</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rockford. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>295.71</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rosemond. B.E. Warner, to const MRS. MARIA A. PAINE L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sandwich. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sheffield. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>67.06</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Streator. Mrs. S.H. Plumb, <i>for Sch'p End. Fund, Fisk, U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tonica. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wheaton. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wilmette. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Annawan </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">13.36 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Avon </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">8.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Bloomington </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.75 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Champaign </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Geneseo, Individuals </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">27.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Hamilton </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Ildini </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Jacksonville </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">16.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Lombard </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">16.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Morris </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">11.80 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Oak Park </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">20.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Payson </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">10.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Rock Falls </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Rockford. First Ch. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">15.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Sheffield </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">2.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Stark. Daughters of the King </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">2.60 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Illinois Woman's H.M.U. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">82.40 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— $251.51</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$1,113.52</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rockford. Estate of Lewis S. Swezey by John G. Penfield, Ex.</td><td align='right' valign="bottom">$5,047.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$6,160.52</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, $251.09.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Ann Arbor. Mrs. C.S. Cady</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Armada. Cong. Ch., 8. and Sab. Sch., 3</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bay City. Cong. Ch., ad'l</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.22</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Covert. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Flint. First Cong. Co., to const. CHARLES T. BRIDGEMAN L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>42.71</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Grand Rapids. Young Ladies' Park Miss'y Soc., <i>for Santee Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jackson. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.60</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lake Linden. Cong. Sab. Sch. and King's Daughters, 21.25, and Clothing, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Manistee. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Owosso. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. SARAH E. WYLIE and MISS EDITH SEELYE L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Saline. Eli Benton</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Webster. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Mich., by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Bay City. W.H.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.66 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Benton Harbor. Sab. Sch., Easter Offering </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">0.47 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Muskegon. W.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">10.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Reed City. W.H.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Stanton. W.H.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">10.43 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 31.56</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, $548.47.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Decorah. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>46.73</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Farragut. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.53</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Grinnell. Cong. Ch., 129.38; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 103.84</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>233.22</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Harlan. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.03</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lansing Ridge. German Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Muscatine. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>63.21</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Alden </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">1.30 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Chester Center, W.H.M.U. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">0.20 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Davenport </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">18.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Des Moines, W.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">15.83 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Earlville, W.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">3.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Fairfield, L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">1.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Gilman, L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">8.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Grinnell, W.H.M.U. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">26.03 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Harlan, L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">1.41 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Le Mars </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">9.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Marshalltown. L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Magnolia, L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">2.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> McGregor, L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">7.43 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Miles. L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">15.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Montour. L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.30 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Oldfield, Mrs. A. Turner's S.S. Class </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">2.15 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Osage, W.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">4.07 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Red Oak, L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">6.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Rockford. L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">0.38 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Sioux City. L.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">6.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Stuart, Y.P.S.C.E. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Iowa, W.H.M.U. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">30.40 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— $173.75</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, $166.11.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Bloomington. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>4.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bloomington. Blake's Prairie Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.60</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Darlington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Genesee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.65</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kenosha. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.40</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Koshkonong. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rosendale, First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rosendale. "Friends," by Mrs. H.N. Clark, Box. C., etc., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sparta. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.51</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Superior City. Miss A.B. Butler, <i>for Indian Sch'p</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>70.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Salem. "Mission Band," Bbl. C., 3. <i>for Freight, for Greenwood, S.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</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>MINNESOTA, $81.17.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Ada. Sab. Sch. Birthday Box, <i>for Jonesboro, Tenn.</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>5.64</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Alexandria. First Cong. Ch., 6; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 8.54</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.54</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brownsville. Mrs. S.M. McHose</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Elmwood. By Mrs. Wm. M. Jones, on True Blue Card</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Faribault. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Glyndon. Cong. Ch., 10.76; Union Sab. Sch., 77c.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.53</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Litchfield. Sewing Class Material, <i>for Meridian, Miss.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Minneapolis. Fifth Ave. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Minneapolis. Young Ladies' Soc. Plymouth Ch., Box Furnishings, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Minneapolis. Y.L.M. Soc., Bbl. C., <i>for Talladega C.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Plainview. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.46</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, $24.55.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Ironton. J. Markham</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>2.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Peirce City. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Saint Louis. Campian Hill Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.05</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, $66.12.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Burlington. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chapman. Rev. J.F. Smith</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cora. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dover. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Highland. Annie Kloss, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk, U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Parsons. Miss F.A. Locke, 5; Mrs. S.C. Boardman, 3</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sedgwick. Plymouth Cong. Ch., Mrs. John Hollister</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Stockton. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.62</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wakerusa Valley. 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 colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>NEBRASKA, $11.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Oxford. F.A. Wood</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Bend. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210"></a>[210]</span><b>DAKOTA, $46.41.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Dakota. "S.F.P."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>33.33</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Dakota, Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Iroquois. "Young Helpers." </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">1.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Sioux Falls. W.M.S. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Yankton. Willing Workers </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">7.08 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 13.08</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, $48.85.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Long Beach. Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>12.60</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>National City. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>31.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Riverside. Boys' Mission Soc. <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.25</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>COLORADO, $4.40.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Pueblo. First Cong. Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>4.40</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>OREGON, $30.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Portland. First Cong. Ch., to const. DEA. W.R. WALPOLE L.M.</td> +<td width="20%" 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>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. $57.30.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Washington. First Cong. Ch., ad'l, 20; Mon. Con. Coll., +Howard University, 12; Lincoln Memorial Ch., 5.30</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>37.30</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Washington. Mrs. M.P. Comstock, by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec. W.C.H.M. U. of Conn., <i>for Theo. Dept. Howard U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</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>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>TENNESSEE, $24.22.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Chattanooga. Mrs. A.S. Steele, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>12.22</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jonesboro. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</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>NORTH CAROLINA, $16.50.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Hillsboro. Mrs. C.E. Jones</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Troy. "Friends," 2; Y.P.S.C.E., 1; Cong. Ch., 50c.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wilmington. Miss H.L. Fitts</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>GEORGIA, $12.50.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Bloomfield. Mrs. N. Bidwell, <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i></td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>12.50</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>ALABAMA, $13.29.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Selma. First Ch.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Talladega. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.29</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>FLORIDA, $12.44.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Jacksonville. Union Cong. Ch., 7.37, and Sab. Sch., 5.07</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>12.44</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, $10.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Montreal Chas. Alexander</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sweetsburg. Mrs. H.W. Spaulding</td><td 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>SANDWICH ISLANDS. $500.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Kohala. "A Friend."</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>500.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Donations</td><td width="20%" colspan="2" align='right'> $16,942.12</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Estates</td><td colspan="2" align='right'> 6,222.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$23,164.12</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, $1,650.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Avery Fund, <i>for Mendi M</i> </td><td width="20%" align='right' valign="bottom">505.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>De Forest Fund, <i>for President's Chair, Talladega C.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">22.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>General Endowment Fund, <i>for Freedmen</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">36.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Graves Library Fund, <i>for Atlanta U.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">125.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hammond Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">75.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hastings Sch'p Fund, <i>for Atlanta U.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">12.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Howard Theo. Fund, <i>for Howard U.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">862.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>H.W. Lincoln Sch'p Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">30.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Le Moyne Fund, <i>for Le Moyne Inst</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">182.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rice Memorial Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">11.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Scholarship Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">27.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Scholarship Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">21.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Theo. Endowment fund, <i>for Fisk U.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">7.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tuthill King Fund, 125 <i>for Atlanta U.</i>, 75 <i>for Berea C.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">200.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wood Sch'p Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">25.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Yale Library Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i> </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">12.75 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 1,650.00</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, $3,364.32.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Lexington, Ky., Tuition </td><td width="20%" align='right' valign="bottom">176.75 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Williamsburg, Ky., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">159.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woodbine, Ky., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">32.90 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Genesis, Tenn., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">3.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Grand View, Tenn., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">35.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jellico, Tenn., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">47.85 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jonesboro, Tenn., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">18.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jonesboro, Tenn., County Fund </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">53.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Memphis, Tenn., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">429.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nashville, Tenn., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">585.30 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pleasant Hill, Tenn., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">12.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wilmington, N.C., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">122.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Charleston, S.C., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">204.75 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Atlanta, Ga., Tuition, Storrs Sch. </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">238.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Macon, Ga., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">237.45 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Savannah, Ga., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">174.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Thomasville, Ga., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">70.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Athens, Ala., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">83.40 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Marion, Ala., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">86.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mobile, Ala., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">180.15 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Meridian, Miss., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">80.40 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tougaloo, Miss., Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">125.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Austin, Texas, Tuition </td><td align='right' valign="bottom">200.63 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 3,364.32</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Total for May </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$28,178.44</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'>$134,993.37</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Estates </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26,530.09</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>—————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$161,523.46</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Income </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6,479.21</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tuition </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26,084.21</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 May 31 </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$203,627.75</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 May </td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>$32.28</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Previously acknowledged</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>655.29</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>———</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Total</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>687.57</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>DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="80%" align='left'>Income from investments to April 30, 1889,</td> +<td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>$28,144.86</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: The American Missionary, Vol. 43, No. 7, July, 1889 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 29, 2005 [EBook #16147] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + + + + +Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald +Perry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY + +July, 1889 + +Vol. XLIII. No. 7 + + + + +CONTENTS + + +EDITORIAL. + + FINANCIAL + CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA + ATLANTA UNIVERSITY + INDUSTRY AND SKILL OF THE NEGRO + PARAGRAPHS + CASTE IN THE CHURCHES + +THE SOUTH. + + MOUNTAIN WORK IN TENNESSEE + WILLIAMSBURG ACADEMY, KY. + MARSHALLVILLE, GA. + ALBANY, GA. + WILMINGTON, N.C. + SENIOR CLASS AT LE MOYNE INSTITUTE + ITEMS + + +THE INDIANS. + + TRIP AMONG THE OUT-STATIONS + + +THE CHINESE. + + THE CHINESE WORK, REV. DR. DANA + + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + + MEETING OF STATE ORGANIZATIONS + MERIDIAN, MISS. + MACON, GA. + + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + + WORK AMONG THE CHILDREN + + +RECEIPTS + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +Rooms, 56 Reade Street. + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. + +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + + * * * * * + + +AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION + + +PRESIDENT, REV. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., LLD., N.Y. + + +_Vice-Presidents._ + + Rev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y. + Rev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. + Rev. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass. + 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, + EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN, + WM. H. WARD, + J.W. COOPER, + JOHN H. WASHBURN. + + _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._ + Rev. C.W. HIATT, _Cleveland, Ohio._ + + +_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. JULY, 1889. No. 7. + + + +The American Missionary Association + + * * * * * + + +FINANCIAL. + +_The Figures Improving._ + +The receipts of the Association for the eight months to May 31, 1889, +are: from donations, $134,993.37; from estates, $26,530.09; income, +$6,479.21; tuition, $26,084.21; U.S. Gov't, $9,540.87, total, +$203,627.75. Expenditures for the eight months, $229,422.82. Debtor +balance, $25,795.07. + +The debtor balance reported in the last MISSIONARY for the seven months +ending April 30th, was $28,328.14. The showing, therefore, is favorable, +and we appeal to our friends to make their contributions so generous +that at the end of the fiscal year we may report entire freedom from +debt. + + * * * * * + + +CONGREGATIONALISM IN GEORGIA. + +At the recent meeting of the American Home Missionary Society, held in +Saratoga (June 6th), the question of the future relations of the newly +formed Congregational Conference of Georgia to that Society, and to the +earlier Congregational Association of that State, was fully discussed, +and resulted in the following action: + + + In the full conviction that these churches are in accord with the + principles of Congregationalism, and with the principles of this + Society, and with those held by the Congregational churches which + it represents: + + _Resolved._ That we heartily welcome them to fellowship with us + in the Gospel. We commend them to the fraternal sympathy and + prayers of all our people, and we request the officers of the + society to extend to them such financial aid as they may need as + promptly as the state of its treasury will allow. + + _Resolved._ That this Society rejoices to learn that an effort is + making to unite the Georgia Congregational Conference and the + Georgia Congregational Association on principles of equal + recognition and fellowship of all the churches of each body, and + trust that such a union will be accomplished. + + +We are in full and hearty agreement with the general spirit of these +utterances. In the hope that the churches of the Georgia Conference are +in accord with the principles of Congregationalism, which do not +discriminate against men because of caste or color, we are prepared to +welcome them heartily. That Conference has already published its +Articles of Faith and of Church Government, and these have assured us of +its adherence to the general principles of the Congregational faith and +order. The only question still open is as to the readiness of that body +to unite with the Congregational churches already existing in that State +in the practical recognition of the broad Christian and Congregational +principles in the fellowship of all churches irrespective of caste +distinctions. + +The second resolution quoted above rejoices in the effort now making to +unite the two Congregational bodies in Georgia on that basis. We trust +that effort may be successful, for we believe that such a union is +essential to recognition by the National Council and to the cordial +fellowship of the Congregational churches. The Georgia Association, ever +since its organization in 1878, has been recognized and represented in +every subsequent meeting of the National Council, and we cannot see how +the Council can consistently welcome another organization, covering the +same State, that is kept separate from the older body by the line of +race or color; nor do we believe that the Congregational churches of +this country will fellowship both organizations thus held apart. We are +confirmed in the correctness of this impression from the decided and +independent utterances of the influential religious papers which so +largely represent the sentiments of the Congregational churches of this +country. + +We present below some extracts from such of these papers published since +the Saratoga meeting as have come to hand before the MISSIONARY goes to +press, while in another portion of our pages we give more at length the +prior utterances of these journals on the same general subject. We deem +the question to be so important that we wish to lay it fully before our +readers. + + +_From The Independent._ + +We have nothing but satisfaction to express with this action. It would +be absurd to imagine that Congregationalists could forget their spotless +record, and could now, for the pride of the addition of fifty or a +hundred churches, consent to help a movement that should put colored +brothers in a separate fellowship by themselves. This they will never +do. They will hold out a warm hand of welcome to all comers, and warmest +to those who come to them from the South, white and black: but they want +them to come together, not apart. + + +_From The Congregationalist._ + +This, we are confident, was the proper attitude for the Society to +assume. No one wanted to grieve or irritate the Southern brethren, by +clauses in the resolutions, which might seem uncalled for, or at all +distrustful of their explicit utterances. At the same time it should be +distinctly understood that the unanimous action taken means that the +Congregational churches stand exactly where the Presbyterians do, in not +abating one hair of their principles, and in forever demanding that +color shall prove no barrier to Christian fellowship in its truest, +deepest intent. This journal has taken this position repeatedly, and it +re-asserts it. Sooner or later, but as surely as the sun-rise, it will +prevail, because it is right, and our grandchildren, if not our +children, will wonder that any of our generation ever hesitated about +it. + + +_From The Advance._ + +Then, the question as to the color-line in the churches, as known to +exist in the South, could not be ignored. Our Congregational churches +and their two great Home Missionary Societies, the American Home +Missionary Society and the American Missionary Association, hold to +certain principles respecting the universal brotherhood of believers in +Christ, and for which they stand before the world as witnesses, +historically, conspicuously, always and everywhere. Do these newly +constituted Congregational churches in the South stand with us on this +point? To ask this question implies not the slightest suspicion or +distrust. Not to have asked it would have been to betray a great +responsibility. + +For one thing, the Home Missionary Society could not afford to even seem +to be indifferent to a matter of this kind. And if there is to be this +close fellowship and co-operation and mutual assistance, there should +obviously be, from the beginning, the most perfect frankness. The best +way to insure permanence of happy mutual relations is to begin right. + + * * * * * + + +ATLANTA UNIVERSITY. + +The State officials of Georgia are disposed, perhaps it might be said +they desire, to renew the gift of eight thousand dollars to the Atlanta +University, insisting, however, upon compliance with the color-line +requisition. To this, the University cannot yield. The controversy on +that subject was not of its seeking. The children of the professors had +for years attended the classes, and the State Examiners had known this +all the time and had made no objections. The demand for the exclusion of +these pupils from the classes was suddenly made by an outside pressure, +and was not provoked in any way by word or deed of the teachers. To +surrender now is simply to yield a principle for money. + +Some of the officials of the State express the wish that a compromise +may be effected, but others of their number--the large majority, we +believe--regard this as impossible, and hence both parties--the State +and the University--must pursue their independent lines of action. Under +these circumstances, the Trustees of the University have deemed it wise +to resume relations of co-operation with the American Missionary +Association. This question was fully discussed at the recent meeting of +the Board of Trustees, May 29th, two of the members, Drs. Beard and +Strieby, being present and presenting, in behalf of the Executive +Committee of the Association, some overtures for co-operation. One of +these was accepted, and is now the basis of the relations existing +between the Association and the University. It stipulates that the +Trustees of the University shall elect six of the sixteen members of the +Board, on the nomination of the Executive Committee of the Association, +as vacancies may exist, and that the Association shall (after the +present fiscal year) contribute $3,000 per annum towards defraying the +current expenses of the University. + +Four vacancies were found to exist in the Board, and, in accordance with +the vote, they were filled by the unanimous choice of Rev. Drs. Twichell +of Hartford, Llewellyn Pratt of Norwich, Cooper of New Britain, and +Brand of Oberlin. These honored brethren, friends alike of the +Association and of the University, will, if they accept, add to the +efficiency of the school and to the confidence of the public in it. We +believe there is a bright future before the University. It will pursue +its work quietly, having no controversy with the State, and will +continue its noble efforts for the education of the colored race, thus +benefiting both the State of Georgia and the Nation. + + * * * * * + + +INDUSTRY AND SKILL OF THE NEGRO. + +In replacing the burned portion of our building at Le Moyne Institute, +Memphis, Tenn., the work was done by colored men. The Principal of the +Institute says that, "though the job was far from simple, not a single +error or mistake has occurred from beginning to end to mar our +satisfaction at its successful completion." + +The architect who drew the plan expressed considerable anxiety lest a +colored mechanic with all colored assistants should not prove equal to +so large and important an undertaking. The result shows how unfounded +were his forebodings. + +The job is done, and well done, and with so much expedition that in +sixty days after the fire they were moving into the reconstructed and +improved building. Every one who has had any hand in the work has seemed +personally interested and anxious to expedite the work, from the +architect and lumber dealer to the commonest laborer. + + * * * * * + +Superintendent Hall writes: + +Testimony as to the working power and will of the Negro is to be had on +all sides whenever a person speaks honestly. + +A professional gentleman in Andersonville operates five large +plantations without any white overseer except himself, and is making +money from the land. He states his principle to be: "I make a short, +clear contract with the Negroes and do _exactly_ what I promise, and I +require the same execution of their side of the bargain. _And I pay them +just what I agree to pay them._ They work six days every week. I give +them a chance to attend a funeral or church service if they keep up the +work." + +A prominent contractor, builder and brick-maker in Thomasville, Ga., +employs from one hundred to three hundred Negroes constantly in all +branches of his business. He says: "They are a patient, reliable class +of workers. If a man will be fair with them and do as he agrees, he will +never have trouble. They are not cranky as some white workmen. They do +the finest part of mason's and carpenter's work well." + +These two men are native Southerners, whose parents were large slave +owners. + +Fault is found with the Negro on the coast line, wherever the turpentine +business exists, because he will not work on the plantations. The +turpentine work with its "boxing," "scraping," "gathering" and +"distilling," is all piece-work, paid in cash. The Negroes are among the +trees before daylight and work till dark. By so doing they earn 75c., +$1.00 or $1.25 per day. The plantations pay "rations"--a peck of common +meal and four pounds of bacon per week, and 35c. to 50c. per day, the +latter mostly in promises. + +A lady in New Orleans who keeps a popular boarding house for tourists +said, when Straight University was mentioned, "Just as soon as a colored +girl goes to school she is good for nothing afterward. She won't work. +I've lost several bright, likely girls that way." Inquiry shows that the +lady pays five dollars per month and requires the help to sleep at home. +A constant demand is made on our Normal Department for teachers for from +twenty to forty dollars per month. Strange that educated colored young +men and women will not "work!" + + * * * * * + + +PARAGRAPHS. + +Dr. Roy, in his lantern lectures, sometimes meets with pleasant +incidents. Recently, at East Saginaw, before the General Association of +Michigan, coming to Fisk University on his programme, he had brought on +his canvas pictures of the Jubilee Singers, Jubilee and Livingstone +Halls and of Jowett, one of the students, and when he came to present +Mr. Ousley and his wife, a venerable man jumped up and remarked, "We +received Mr. Ousley and his wife at the Zulu Mission on their way to +East Central Africa. So also Miss Jones. Within two weeks I have +received from Mr. Ousley his photograph." This man was Rev. Dr. Rood, +for forty years a missionary among the Zulus, just now back to this +country. After the lecture, Mr. Rood told Dr. Roy that Mr. Ousley was +one of the most level-headed men in the mission, and so had been made +the treasurer of the mission--a good tribute to one of Fisk's graduates. + + * * * * * + +Our readers will remember an account in our last month's magazine of a +communion service held by Rev. T.L. Riggs at one of the out-stations +where he was obliged to use the back of a hymnbook covered with a napkin +for a plate, and a tin cup for a baptismal bowl. It gives us pleasure to +say that Mr. Riggs has received from Mrs. Farnam of New Haven, a +beautiful and complete traveling communion service closely packed in a +small morocco case, with the needful linen, which also goes in the case. +One piece fits into another in such a way that the whole service takes +up scarcely more room than is required for the largest piece. Mrs. +Farnam also sent suitable bags for the different pieces, so that Mr. +Riggs, when he goes on horse-back can carry them in his saddle pouches. +This is certainly the right gift in the right place. + + * * * * * + +The _New York Sun_ says: The merchants of Chinatown have heard of the +Johnstown disaster and have contributed their share to the relief of the +survivors. Tom Lee explained the matter to them, and at a mass meeting +at the Chinese municipal hall on Tuesday a subscription was opened. Here +is a list of some of the subscribers: Tuck High, $15; Tom Lee, $50; Sang +Chong, $15; Sinn Quong On, $15; Kwong Hing Lung, $15; Kwong Chin Cheong, +$15; Yuet Sing, $10; Yuen Kee, $10; Wo Kee, $15; Ju Young Keau, $2; Wong +Chin Foo, $3; Wing Wah Chong, $15; Jow Shing Pong, $3; Ham Lum Chin, $3; +Mai Li Wa, $2; Kwong Yin Lung, $15; Quong Lung Yuen, $15 and Ung Wah, +$10. + + * * * * * + +The _New York Tribune_ says: It appears from a report made to the +Presbyterian Assembly that the mountain districts of North Carolina, +Southwest Virginia, Southern and Eastern Kentucky and Eastern Tennessee +contain a population of about 2,000,000 white people, largely of Scotch +Irish descent, of whom 70 per cent, can neither read nor write. This +statement suggests the reflection that if there is one thing which is +more essential than the education of the Southern Negroes it is the +education of the Southern whites. + + * * * * * + +The Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held +in Chicago, Ill., commencing October 29. Rev. R.R. Meredith, D.D., of +Brooklyn, N.Y., will preach the sermon. + + * * * * * + +We would still call attention to our Leaflets for distribution in the +pews on the taking of collections for our Association. We shall be happy +to furnish them to those making application. + + * * * * * + +The _New York Tribune_ says: "The Rev. Joseph Jordan, who was ordained +in Philadelphia on Sunday, is the first colored man to enter the +ministry of the Universalist Church. He is to engage in mission work in +the South." + + * * * * * + + +CASTE IN THE CHURCHES. + +OPINIONS OF THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. + +_From The Congregationalist._ + +If report be true, the South Carolina Episcopalians have compromised +their difficulty in the matter of color in a manner which is not likely +to be permanently satisfactory. A portion of the diocesan convention had +seceded because the bishop declared that he could not exclude a +regularly ordained minister who was black. The canon law now has been +amended so as to exclude henceforth all other black men, and the +seceders have returned, consenting to make the best of the one obnoxious +colored man, but indignant because he has not been ejected. Whether the +General Convention will endorse or repudiate this compromise remains to +be seen. In either case the Episcopal branch of the church might as well +abandon its efforts to make headway among the colored race in that +State. So far as we can see, the bishop has made a manly stand, however, +and deserves commendation and sympathy. But the seceders have shown a +sad lack of the true spirit of Christ. + +_From The Advance._ + +There have been in Georgia for ten or more years a number of +Congregational churches and a State Congregational Association. This +included, along with the pastors of colored churches, the President and +some of the Professors in Atlanta University. Last year, when that +interesting body of churches hitherto known as Congregational +Methodists, saw fit to take measures for becoming in name as well as in +fact Congregationalists, a "Georgia Congregational Conference" was +formed, a committee was also appointed to confer with the previously +existing Congregational Association, with a view to the right adjustment +of relations between the members of the two organizations. We publish +on another page the reply recently addressed by the "Association" to the +"Conference," with a view to unity on terms that would be in themselves +Christian and agreeable to both the parties interested, as well as +acceptable to Congregationalists everywhere. All of our churches have an +interest in a matter of such significance, as they would also be +sensitive to the reproach of there being two distinct Congregational +Associations in the same State, separated from each other on the +un-Christian caste line of race and color. With the temper and spirit +manifest in the communication referred to, it would seem that the way is +now open for a happy consummation of Congregational fellowship in the +State of Georgia, on terms which not only Congregationalists but +Christians of every name at the North will warmly approve and applaud. + + +_From The Independent._ + +The members of the Presbyterian General Assembly can go home from New +York assured that they have vindicated truth and righteousness. The one +vital, vicious fault in the report of the Conference Committee of the +Northern and Southern Presbyterian Churches on Co-operation was amended +out of it and as it now stands adopted it gives not even by implication +any support to the unchristian doctrine of separate presbyteries and +synods for black and half-white Presbyterians. + +When the General Assembly met a year ago the Church had been somewhat +stirred up, though the leaders and editors generally seemed so anxious +for a proud reunion that they were ready to forget the wrong proposed to +the colored brothers. Indeed, a volunteer commission of editors and +managers had gone all through the South visiting the synods of the +Northern Church where the Negroes were in the majority, persuading them +that it would be better for them to go by themselves and get their share +of the honors. Not willing to be an obstacle, the Negroes had very +generally yielded to the persuasions of their kind visitors. + +But there were a number of earnest men who were not willing to yield the +principle, and who would make a fight. It was the Centennial year, and +the two Assemblies were meeting at the same time and in neighboring +cities, ready to consummate the union if desired. But the previous +discussion had stirred up the Southerners also, and they had discovered +that the temper of the North was not all that had been represented. They +were not at all sure that the color-line could be peacefully drawn. They +had decided, therefore, not to unite. The report of the Committee of +Conference was accordingly withdrawn, and the matter referred to another +committee, which praised the fidelity of the Committee, declared it +premature to act on their report, and approved "the general principles +enumerated in the replies of the Committee," and recommended that the +committee of thirteen be enlarged by the addition of five more men, and +continued to devise methods of co-operation with the Southern Church. In +fear of acrimonious discussion this was railroaded through in two +minutes. + +Well, the General Assembly has met again and the action taken by an +overwhelming majority of the Assembly fills us with gratitude to God. +The ticklish part of the report on co-operation was that, of course, on +colored evangelization. Here the report first stated what had been the +policy of the Southern Church for a separate Negro denomination, and +then gave that of the Northern Church: + +"The Northern Assembly, on the other hand, has pronounced itself as not +in favor of setting off its colored members into a separate, independent +organization; _while by conceding the existing situation, it approves +the policy of separate churches, presbyteries and synods, subject to the +choice of the colored people themselves_." + +Only one of the seventeen, Elder S.M. Breckinridge, of St. Louis, signed +a minority report. + +It was fully expected that this report, so overwhelmingly recommended, +would go through with a rush. The managers had so planned. The +ex-Moderators, Smith, Crosby and Thompson, were in its favor. Dr. Crosby +said he would as soon be in the Southern Church as in the Northern. All +the prestige of good fellowship was in favor of the report as it was +presented, and the Southern Assembly had adopted it by a large majority +the day before. + +The Rev. John Fox, of Allegheny, Penn., opened the opposition, opposing +the report generally, and supporting Elder Breckinridge's minority +report. It was a useful speech, and, though the sentiment of the +Assembly was plainly opposed, it stemmed the tide awhile and prepared +the way for what was to follow. Ex-Moderator Smith, of Baltimore, +Chairman of the Northern Assembly's Committee, then defended his report +and showed how much the Southern Assembly had yielded in accepting it. +Then came the event of the day. The Rev. M. Woolsey Stryker, of Chicago, +a young man of thirty-five, whom our readers will remember as one of our +correspondents, arose and denounced that portion of the report which in +the paragraph given above we have put in italics, and moved its +omission. He denied that the Church ever had "approved the policy of +separate churches, presbyteries and synods," and he declared such a +policy to be utterly unchristian. It instantly appeared that he had the +sympathy of the Assembly, if not of its leaders. Dr. Niccolls, of St. +Louis, supported him vigorously, but briefly, for speakers had been shut +down to five minute speeches. Dr. McCulloch, of Alton Presbytery, Ill., +defended the report and asked, "Do you mean to tell me that if the +colored people themselves prefer separate churches, presbyteries and +synods, you would deny them the right to have them?" "Yes, by all +means," shouted Mr. Stryker, whose clear head and bold answer was +rewarded with loud approval. Dr. Crosby said he understood that the +Negroes had last year indicated their desire for separation; but Mr. +Sanders, the colored editor of _The Africo-American Presbyterian_, of +North Carolina, arose, and said they had many of them consented to it +last year rather than seem to stand in the way of re-union, but that +this year there was no reason for such a sacrifice, that they did not +wish it, and that while the presbytery of which he was a member had no +white ministers in it, they would be glad to welcome them if they would +come. After other addresses, the motion of Mr. Stryker for the excision +of the paragraph favoring separation of the races was put and carried by +an overwhelming majority, not less than three to one, and the report, +with this amendment, adopted. + +It was a glorious victory, due to the conscience of the rank and file of +the Assembly, a victory of the Christian heart of fellowship with the +humblest over the pride and ambition of greatness and power. The +Assembly has done its duty by its colored members, and every colored +member's face was radiant with delight. We have never doubted that if +the subject once came fairly up for discussion, the Conference Committee +would learn something they did not know before about their denomination. +Encouraged by the indorsement given by the Presbyterian Assembly to the +position we have maintained against the separation of Christians in the +Church of Christ, we shall not neglect the same conflict going on among +the Congregationalists and Episcopalians. + + +_From the Christian Union._ + +The question whether the Church of Christ shall recognize the color line +is coming up to vex in turn each one of the great Protestant +denominations in the North. We say Protestant denominations advisedly; +for we do not believe that the Roman Catholic Church would for a moment +entertain the notion of excluding a man either from its sacraments, its +worshiping assemblies, or its priesthood, on the ground of color, or +would recognize in its worshiping assemblies any distinction except the +broad one between clergy and laity. To do so would be to violate all its +traditions and history. + +In the Protestant denominations of the North, the question is +complicated by two considerations: a strong anti-caste prejudice in the +Northern constituency, on which the missionary organizations are +dependent for their support, and a strong ecclesiastical ambition and +spiritual desire, commingled in various proportions, to push on the work +of church extension in the South, where it cannot, apparently, be pushed +forward with early success, if caste is ignored and colored Christians +are admitted to white churches, and colored clergymen to white +ecclesiastical assemblies, on equal terms with their white brethren. In +the Diocesan Episcopal Convention of South Carolina it is, therefore, +proposed to amend the diocesan constitution so as to provide for two +Conventions, a white and a colored. In the Presbyterian Church the +difference of opinion on this subject constitutes one bar to a union +between the Northern and Southern churches, or even to co-operation +between them. This has been for the time removed by a sort of concordat +by which the relations of the colored and the white members in the two +churches respectively are allowed to remain _in statu quo_, and the +settlement of the problem is relegated to the future. In the +Congregational denomination, the question is likely to come up before +the meeting of the American Home Missionary Society at Saratoga early in +June, and again before the National Council at Worcester in October. In +the State of Georgia, there has been for some time an Association of +Congregational churches mainly composed of colored people, and largely +under the fostering care of the American Missionary Association. A +Congregational work has latterly been started among the whites under the +fostering care of the American Home Missionary Society. And recently a +body of independent Methodists, really Congregational in the principles +of their government, and having a considerable number of churches in +Georgia, and some in other Southern States, has become also +Congregational in name. Both bodies will have representatives, +presumably, at Saratoga, certainly at the meeting of the National +Council at Worcester in October, and the latter body, if not the former, +will have to determine whether it will recognize two Congregational +Associations in one State, the sole difference between them being that +one Association is composed wholly of white people, and the other +chiefly of colored people; unless, indeed--and of this there is some +hope--the Congregational Associations of Georgia solve the problem by +coming together and forming one body. There have been some +correspondence and conferences to consider the possibility of such a +union. + +We find ourselves on this subject occupying a position midway between +the radicals on the one side and the conservatives on the other. In some +parts of the South, the whites and Negroes must for many years to come +be educated in separate schools and worship in separate churches. They +need, to some extent, a different education; they desire, to a large +extent, a different kind of religious worship and instruction. The +preaching which appeals to the Anglo-Saxon race appears cold and +unmeaning to the warm-blooded Negro; the preaching which arouses in him +a real religious fervor appears to his cold-blooded neighbor +imaginative, passionate, unintelligent. To attempt to force the two +races into a fellowship distasteful to both, to attempt to require the +two to listen to the same type of sermon and join in the same forms of +worship, is a "reform against nature." Even if the erection and +maintenance of two churches where one would suffice for the worshipers +of both classes involves some additional expense, the expense may not be +greater than the resultant spiritual advantage. + +But to close the doors of any church on any Christian is in so far to +make it an unchristian church. To go into the South to establish white +churches from which, whether by a formal law or by an unwritten but +self-enforcing edict, men are excluded because God made them black, is +to deny one of the fundamental tenets of Christ: All ye are brethren. It +is to introduce into a church already divided by sectarian strifes a new +division. It is to rend afresh the seamless robe. To say to any man +asking for Christian fellowship on the simple ground of faith in Christ, +"Stand back: for I am whiter than thou," is simply a new and +indefensible form of Pharisaism. The church exists to proclaim certain +truths, among which the brotherhood of man stands pre-eminent. It is +difficult to see with what consistency a Christian minister can preach +on the parable of the Good Samaritan if his church refuses to recognize +a Christian brother in one of another race because he belongs to another +race. There is no reason for an attempt to corral all men of all races +in one inclosure; but for any church, especially for a church of the +Puritans, to enter upon missionary work in the South, and initiate it by +refusing to admit to its fellowship a black man because he is black, is +to apostatize from the faith in order to get a chance to preach the +faith. To assert equality and brotherhood at the polls, to reaffirm it +in a public school system, to reassert it by courts of law in the hotel +and the railroad train, and then deny it in the church, would be indeed +a singular incongruity, and would make the Nation more Christian than +the church. + +The principle, then, by which the color-line question is to be settled +is very simple, though its application may in some cases present some +difficulties. The whites and Negroes are not to be coerced or bribed +into uniting in one and the same church organizations. If they prefer to +worship and to work separately, they must be allowed so to do. This is +within their Christian liberty. But it is not within their Christian +liberty to refuse the fullest and most perfect Christian fellowship to +each other. The doors of every Christian church must stand wide open to +men of every race and color. The only reason of exclusion must be in +moral or spiritual character. And in the higher representative bodies +these churches must be one. To organize, for example, in the State of +Georgia two Congregational bodies, one white and the other colored, +would be to organize a church to perpetuate divisions which the church +should aim to obliterate. It were far better that the Northern Church +should not go with its missionary work into the South at all, than that +it should go with a mission which strengthens the infidelity that denies +that God made of one blood all the nations of the earth for to dwell +together. + + * * * * * + + +THE SOUTH. + + + * * * * * + + +MOUNTAIN WORK IN TENNESSEE. + +BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.W. HIATT. + +I have found the man of iron. In one short day, he travelled one hundred +miles by rail, walked twelve miles over a steep and rocky mountain, rode +fourteen miles horseback through a pouring and drenching rain, and at +nightfall preached an earnest, telling sermon to an audience of railroad +employees, besides performing the duties of organist and janitor. The +next morning he was up at four o'clock and away for other tasks of +similar sort. One who watches Brother Pope, must do it on the run. One +of the fairest spots on the Cumberland Plateau is Grand View. Here the +American Missionary Association holds a strategic position. The wild, +magnificent scenery and the cool, bracing air, tingling with ozone, make +it an ideal spot for a great religious and educational centre. Already +eyes are turning upward from the surrounding valleys to this mountain +school. The first words I heard on landing at Spring City, six miles +away, were in its praise: "They've got a mighty good school up thar." +Such is the fact. What is needed now to balance things is a "mighty good +school" _building_. If the insignificant frame structures which are +hidden among the trees, and only half supply the needs of the +institution, could be exchanged for a good, roomy, handsome edifice, +placed on the summit of the mountain, where it would be visible for +miles along the line of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, besides being +a benefaction to the cause, it would be the best, cheapest and most +attractive advertisement of our mountain work, conceivable. It is to be +hoped that someone will visit this beautiful spot ere long whose +enthusiasm will not all run to words. + +Within easy reach of Grand View are various churches flanked by their +educational departments, which will one day become tributary to the +great central institution. At one of these points, Deer Lodge, a fine +church building is just nearing completion. The community is all loyal +to the American Missionary Association, whose help it has received and +appreciated. A good many Northerners are coming into this section, +induced by climate, whose co-operation in his work Mr. Pope is very +prompt in securing. + +Glen Mary is a mining settlement hidden in the oak forest about a mile +from the above mentioned railroad. Here, Mr. Pope recently found a small +Sunday-school battling against great odds. Intemperance and profanity +were rife, and the demand for gospel labor was very urgent. Meetings +were held with blessed results, so that shortly ago a church was +organized, now one of the strongest in this region. One consecrated +young man is at the bottom of the whole movement. Two years ago, he +started a Sunday-school with no assistance. At first, he met his pupils +in the colored people's meeting house, but was obliged to change after a +time, because of the prejudices of color which started among the blacks! +He then took an axe and cleared a spot in the woods to which he invited +his school. Here Mr. Pope found him. After the interest began to grow, a +subscription was started among the miners, resulting in money sufficient +(including help from the mining company) to erect a comfortable little +church edifice. This building has recently been enlarged by one-third, +to accommodate the crowds. The membership of the church is less than +forty, and yet it has raised one collection for the American Missionary +Association amounting to _twenty-four dollars_! + +These people have no pastor. They are dependent on the scattering +ministrations of two or three of our overworked missionaries from other +points, who have undertaken to supply them by turns. There are one +hundred and fifty families in the community, fifty being colored, +_without pastoral training_. I am assured that it would not be hard to +raise money enough in the community to nearly, if not quite, support a +minister. The people are hungering and thirsting for teaching in +spiritual things. After repeated and urgent invitations your pilgrim was +prevailed upon to suspend his trip for a day or two, that he might tell +these people of the "good news" of Jesus Christ. It was evidently of the +Lord, for last night at the first exhortation, eight persons, two men +and six women, gave themselves to the Master. The entire congregation +seemed to hear the word with gladness. It is a great field. And so it is +in many places, I am told. Glen Mary is anxious for a resident minister +and a Christian teacher. The influence of an educated, godly woman is +sorely needed in these homes. The gospel has already done much for the +place, but there is still a great work to do. Thank God for such +tireless, self-forgetful men as Mr. Pope. With the brain of a general +and the zeal of an apostle, he is planting the cross of Christ so firmly +on this plateau, and in such commanding positions, that it cannot be +dislodged, but will shed its saving influence far and wide forever. +After preaching once more I hope to move on to Nashville in time for the +commencement. + + * * * * * + + +WILLIAMSBURG ACADEMY, WHITLEY CO., KY. + +BY MISS EDITH WILLIAMS. + +In this land where the people live by their crops, it was most +encouraging to see the number of older boys who remained in school till +the last of the term. Two of our boys remain with us during vacation, to +do the needed work. They are earnest Christians and faithful workers, +and appreciate the home influences here. + +Many of the girls tell me that their fathers used to be "moonshiners," +and they say that at that time they thought it all right; did not +realize the evils of alcohol until taught about it in the school. We +believe, however, that the morals of this part of Kentucky are steadily +improving, and feel confident of it in our own little town. + +Last week I visited a country school house about four miles from town. +It was made of logs. Three small holes were cut in the logs for windows. +The benches were split logs, and the floor was the earth. The great +stone chimney, (the only spacious thing about the building,) was +beginning to crumble away. This is a typical log school house of the +past, but much better ones are going up all over the country, giving +brighter hopes for the future. + +With the better school buildings through the country, our Academy will +be ready to furnish them with better teachers than they have had in the +past. Our hope for the future among the Mountain Whites is great. + + * * * * * + + +SCHOOL AT MARSHALLVILLE, GA. + +BY MRS. ANNA W. RICHARDSON. + +Our school is very large, there being enrolled two hundred. Our great +trouble is a lack of teachers. There are only three of us. + +New facts regarding the people among whom we work are brought to us +constantly. Yesterday four pupils entered school who were perfect +wonders. The oldest of them is seventeen years of age, and the youngest +perhaps ten. The oldest has been to church three times during her life, +the others have never been. They have never been to Sabbath-school, and +know nothing about Christ and God. They have never in their lives heard +the word Bible. The _oldest_ one has seen a preacher three times--the +same man each time. They made their first visit to town, and beheld the +first railroad car yesterday. They do not know who made them! Ever since +their arrival I have been saying over and over, "Surely we have Africa +at our very door." I cannot realize it. The responsibility is so great +that it makes me tremble. + +Many of our pupils have little or no religious training at home. We have +a good many pupils whose parents are "_Hard Shell_ Baptists," and do not +allow them to go to Sabbath-school, and teach them not to pray for +forgiveness of sins. A few afternoons ago, the pupils were all asked +what they desired to be. One little boy raised his hand to say that he +was going to be a "Hard Shell" minister, for they were already saved, +and had no praying to do. This answer was a result of his training at +home. + +We have many features of encouragement connected with our work here. +Especially are we pleased with the work that is being done by a class of +our advanced boys and girls. There are ten of them out in the wooded +country, teaching for three months those who cannot find their way to +our school. Every two weeks, these pupils come in to give a report of +their work. It is understood by them that it is a part of their duty to +tell us just what work they do and _how_ they do it. We supply them with +reading matter for their pupils--especially are we careful to let them +have Sunday-school books, etc. These pupils will be out of school three +months, and will then return to their school work. Every one who is out +is a Christian, and we feel that their influence for good is very great. +It is a joy to us to feel that our little school here in this town is +spreading its influence out into darker portions of the State. Each one +of these pupils has no less than forty pupils in his school, so that the +work of the school here at Marshallville reaches over six hundred souls! +This is indeed a dark portion of the field, but God's loving care is +about us, and we are content to labor here. + + * * * * * + + +ALBANY, GA. + +BY MR. W.C. GREENE. + +Our school is overrun with pupils this school year. I was compelled to +turn away a large number because I didn't have room for them. + +The people on their part are manifesting a deep interest in education +They are trying to take advantage of the opportunity as it is given +them. Many are going hungry to get a chance to send their children to +school. + +This last week has been one of profit in this part of the State. The +people have been made to see their duty to the colored man more plainly +by the lectures delivered by Dr. Lansay and others in the Georgia +Chautauqua. There were some fine speeches made in behalf of the Negro. + +Judge Hook was down one day and visited our school, and said that he was +surprised and glad to see the rapid progress we had made here. + + * * * * * + + +GREGORY INSTITUTE, WILMINGTON, N.C. + +A densely packed church of white and colored people witnessed the +closing exercises of the Gregory Institute, a school of high grade for +colored people founded and supported by the American Missionary +Association, and aided by Mr. Gregory. This school has been in operation +some eighteen or twenty years, and has done a most excellent work among +the people it was designed to benefit. The writer of this article has +attended public exercises of the Institute three times, and has been +each time impressed with the dignified and self-respecting deportment of +the scholars and visitors. + +The neat programme called for graduating essays from six girls--there +were no boys in the class--and there were six songs rendered by the +whole school, or by the class, and every one present agreed with Dr. +Pritchard when in his address he declared that such was the musical and +literary excellence of the occasion that it would have done credit to +any institution of learning in North Carolina. + +The address of Dr. Pritchard was humorous, practical and highly +complimentary to the school, and was received with much favor by the +audience. After the conferring of the diplomas by Mr. Woodard, the +pleasant occasion came to an end. The Institute is an honor to the city, +and certainly reflects great credit on the officers who conduct +it.--_Morning Star._ + + * * * * * + + +SENIOR CLASS AT LE MOYNE NORMAL INSTITUTE. + +MEMPHIS, TENN. + +The Senior class of the present year is the largest graduated from the +school, numbering eleven members, seven young ladies and four young men. + +Tennessee is the native State of all but one, who was born in Virginia. + +The youngest is seventeen years old, the oldest twenty-eight; average +age, twenty and one-half years. + +The tallest member of the class is five feet, eight and one-half inches +in height, the shortest in stature measures five feet; average height, +five feet, six inches. + +The heaviest weight turns the scale at one hundred and sixty-five +pounds, and the lightest at one hundred and twenty; average weight, one +hundred and thirty-seven pounds. + +The longest attendance at this school is ten years and the shortest, +four; average term in school, six and one-half years. + + * * * * * + + +ITEMS. + +We have received No. 1, Vol. 1, of the _Academy Student_, published and +printed by the students of the Williamsburg Academy, Williamsburg, Ky. +The little paper is large with promise. It is as bright as a new dollar. + + * * * * * + +A teacher asked her class in geography where the Turks live. The +remarkable reply was, "In the woods." Thinking the pupil had confounded +the Orientals with the Aborigines, the answer was pronounced to be +"incorrect." The pupil rejoined, "Well, I have seen them there roosting +in the trees." + + * * * * * + +The following extract is from a composition on "The Blacksmith." + +"Man in his state of incarnation has various ways of making money to +supply himself with nutriment so that the body may be able to +exhiliarate its immortal tenant, 'the soul.' The one about which I shall +speak is the Smith. This trade is of momentous importance.... It is +quite amusing to hear him when he is mending a piece of malleable work; +he has a way of striking the iron that makes it sound harmonious to the +ear, and children very often stop to hear him." + + + + +THE INDIANS. + + +A TRIP AMONG THE OUT-STATIONS. + + The out-station work among the Indians is a feature almost + peculiar to the Indian Missions of the A.M.A. These stations are + the picket-lines pushed forward into the Reservations beyond the + line of established schools and missions. Each one consists of a + cheap home connected sometimes with a cheap school-house, and + these are occupied by one or two native Indian missionaries who + teach and preach, and thus accomplish an immediate good and lay + the foundation for the more permanent church and school. The + Association has about twenty such stations on the Cheyenne and + other rivers in Dakota. One of the teachers from Oahe gives a + racy sketch of a trip among some of the out-stations. We make + room for a large extract, regretting that we have not space for + more. + +THE JOURNEY. + +We started Thursday morning, going about seven miles above the Mission +to cross the river. We took dinner at the house of a white man who has +an Indian wife, and then started out on the long drive. Our direction +was almost due west, a little south toward the Cheyenne River. We +reached an out-station on the Cheyenne about dark, where James Brown, a +Santee Indian, is stationed. Two of our Santee school-girls are here, +and it was encouraging to see their neat dress, and hear them use their +English, though they so seldom see any one with whom they have occasion +to use it that it is not easy for them. The next morning, the girls had +classes in reading and writing. Some of the children were ragged and +dirty, with faces unwashed, and hair uncombed, one little boy with both +knees coming through his trousers, but their faces were, almost without +exception, bright and intelligent, with the intelligence of childhood, +which would inevitably change to the stolid indifference of ignorance, +were it not for the influence which this Christian household among them +may exert. To be sure, the girls are young and inexperienced, but that +they do their best means a great deal. Two young men were learning to +read the Dakota Bible. Soon after eleven, we were on our way again, +keeping the Cheyenne River in sight. We stopped at one of the villages +on the Cheyenne, where a Frenchman with an Indian wife has built up +quite a little colony, all related to one another. Several of our pupils +come from here, and the mode of life at their home has been modified by +their influence. + +We reached Plum Creek, where Edwin Phelps is stationed, about dark, and +after two long days' ride I was glad when bed time came. Ellen Kitto and +Elizabeth Winyan had come up from the Cheyenne, and I felt sure that +Elizabeth had given up her bed for me. The next morning I asked Ellen if +we could go out to some of the houses, but she said the people were all +on the other side of the river, that there was a dance there. This was a +disappointment to me, as I wanted to see the homes of the people, but +after dinner Edwin offered to take Elizabeth, Ellen and me across the +river to Cherry Creek, so that I gained rather than lost. + +THE DANCE. + +As we drew near the dance-house I could hear the monotonous yet rythmic +beat of the drum, and get glimpses through the door-way of the feathered +heads moving in time to the music. Outside there was a crowd of women, +girls, and young men, the young men wrapped in white sheets under which +they carry off, and make love to, the dusky maidens. This is the way a +Titon "makes love." As a recent writer describes this dance, bringing +before one only its poetry, and that which may be perhaps really +beautiful, it does not seem shocking or revolting in the least; but the +reality is simply dreadful. Not so much in itself, perhaps, though that +is bad enough, as in its influence, its consequences, all that it means +and all that it leads to. + +THE CONTRAST. + +Just beyond the dance house is the mission station where Clarence Ward +and his wife are; a civilized Christian family in the midst of this +heathenism. + +Sunday was to be the eventful day, and as early as half past nine the +congregation began to arrive. When the bell rang for service, the +school-room was filled almost immediately. Everything possible was +utilized for seats; trunks, boxes, wagon-seats, kegs, and those who +could not be provided with seats sat on the floor. There were probably a +hundred in all. The weight of so many people on the floor was too much +for the sleepers. Some of them gave way, and the floor settled somewhat, +but the audience was not "nervous" and was only amused. As I sat at the +organ, a group outside the door attracted my attention; several bright +faced girls, their shawls drawn over their heads with a grace a white +girl might envy, but could not hope to attain, and beyond them a face +that would pass on the most perfectly appointed stage for one of +Macbeth's witches, without being "made-up." The faces of some of the men +were as wooden and expressionless as the figures in front of a tobacco +shop, but these are they into whose lives the power of the Gospel of the +Son of God has not come. After this service came the church meeting, and +a Cheyenne River branch church was established which still has +connection with the mother church at Oahe. + +The school-room being too small for the afternoon communion service, +this was held out of doors. There must have been a hundred and fifty +present, perhaps more. First came a marriage ceremony, then the +admission of four new members, and the baptism of two children. Probably +four-fifths of the congregation had been drawn thither merely from +curiosity, and on the faces of many of these were the traces of +yesterday's paint. The simple service, which the new communion set made +perfect, could not fail to impress them that there is something better +than they have known. At its close, Edwin Phelps's scholars stood and +sang "Whiter than Snow," in Dakota. Have not those girls gained a great +moral victory, when in native dress, with their shawls worn after the +native fashion, they stand up among their own people and proclaim +themselves on the side of right? It was a day full of new experiences +and new impressions for me. The contrast between this scene and the one +of the day before, presented itself to me over and over again. + +DAKOTA WIND. + +The next morning we started out for the return to Oahe. The day was warm +and pleasant and uneventful. I was comfortable and happy, and as we +stopped for lunch when we got hungry, I began to wonder where the +hardships of my journey were coming in, but people who are never so +happy as when they are uncomfortable, _ought_ to get their just deserts. +I got mine. After we started from James Brown's, the wind rose. It rose +and it rose. It kept rising. How that wind did blow! It blew us up hill +and threw us down hill. It fairly hurled us along. It blew Mr. Riggs's +hat off and we chased it for half a mile. It blew my hat off; it blew my +hair down; we put into a ravine for repairs. We went through long +stretches of burned prairie, and clouds of fire-black dust were flying. +We hoped when we got down into the ravine it would not be so bad. Vain +hope. It was worse. The dust was blacker and thicker and more dusty. The +gravel stung our faces and blinded our eyes. For the entire distance of +thirty-five miles, that wind howled and raved and tore. It almost took +the ponies off their feet. I have not exaggerated it one bit. It would +be impossible to exaggerate. When we reached the house where we had +taken dinner going up, we found the dirt blown from the roof, likewise +the tar-paper, leaving great cracks through which the dirt rattled. +Everything was an inch deep in dirt, but we were welcomed to the shelter +of the four walls, and what was left of the roof. The dirt did not +matter. We were already done in charcoal. Mr. Collins was here, caught +by the wind, and before dark the Agency farmer came. It was impossible +to cross the river in such a gale, and here I knew we must stay. + +The next morning was still and clear and beautiful. It was difficult to +realize that the elements had been on such a tear the day before, so +after breakfast we embarked for home, going the seven miles by water +this time, and I reached the mission a gladder and a wiser woman. + +This glimpse of out-station work is something I have long wanted, and +anyone who does not believe in Indian education should see the results +of it as they appear here. In the audience on Sunday, were three young +women former students, one at Hampton, one at Santee, one at Oahe. Their +dress, the expression of their faces, their whole appearance proclaimed +the power of Christian education, and it is only in the faces of the +Christian Indians that there is any expression of gladness. There is no +gladness in their life outside of this. Oh, that the work at these +stations may be blessed! There are hundreds and hundreds, yes, thousands +of Indians who will never be reached by Hampton, Carlisle, Santee, by +all the Indian schools put together, and who will never be Christianized +or civilized by "edict from Washington." Christ must be taken to them, +lived among them in such a way that his true loveliness may be made +apparent to them. Without this, all else goes for naught; with this, +life and light must come, and darkness and ignorance and superstition +must flee away.--_Word-Carrier._ + + * * * * * + +THE CHINESE. + + + * * * * * + + +THE CHINESE WORK. + +BY REV. M. McG. DANA, D.D., LOWELL, MASS. + +I never read any report of this, without feeling both humiliated and +inspired. Humiliated, because I have regarded the field so unpromising; +inspired, because such glimpses of gracious possibilities and +achievements are caught. We have been so incredulous as to certain alien +races, that we have only partially and feebly brought to bear upon them +the saving influences of the Gospel. We are not, indeed, responsible for +the presence of these Orientals in our land. Ours is a different +responsibility; it is for their evangelization, now that they have been +led to our shores. This work is laid upon us, and never was it more +urgent or hopeful than at this hour. It was one of the methods of our +Lord to arouse men to noblest service by reminding them of the +obligations imposed upon them by their circumstances and opportunities. + +Whether the call came to them from a promising or unpromising field, on +them rested the duty of responding. In the great Sermon on the Mount, +our Lord, after finishing with his gentle and sweet benedictions, +abruptly turned and, with changed tone and impressive words, said to his +disciples, "Ye are the salt of the earth." On you rests the obligation +of becoming the conservative element in society. Confronting as they did +a decadent civilization and a vanishing religious faith and a general +heart-despair, they were to be the saviors of men. Pungent and +preservative as salt, are ye to be in the midst of a putrid age. Few, +too, as they were in numbers, and without honor as well, yet they were +to be the light of the world. On their luminousness depended their power +to influence. The radiancy of their life and teaching was to penetrate +the surrounding gloom. Later on follows the divine imperative to "Go +forth and disciple all nations." + +However unfavorable the outlook, however inadequate they seemed for the +undertaking, they were to attempt what was enjoined. It lifted them to +an altitude never before reached, and made them conscious of a power +never before possessed. + +This is the principle which we need to apply to the emergencies in which +we are called to act. We get from others what we tell them we expect. +There is something in human nature that likes to be trusted with +responsibility; something in us that responds to great occasions. You +remember when Nelson fought that pivotal naval engagement at Trafalgar +against the combined fleets of France and Spain, he gave to his command +as a motto to inspire them to do their best, "England expects every man +to do his duty." That brought every soldier and sailor under the eyes of +the country whose interests they were upholding, and nerved each one to +deeds of valor. It awakened a sense of responsibility and called forth +their noblest service. So our Lord seems to be saying to American +churches and to the constituency of this Society, "'Ye are the light of +the world.' On you depends the evangelization of these despised Chinese. +Treating them now contemptuously and now even brutally, ye are called to +be salt to them, thus saving them from moral deterioration, and +inoculating them with the spirit of the Gospel. Ye are to illuminate +them with the light you have to shed as followers of Christ, and the +responsibility is laid upon you to carry to them the principles of that +faith which has given to us whatever excellence we have as a Nation. I +expect you to Christianize these representatives of the Orient, to +convert them to the worship of the God of the Bible." In this +expectation of the Master, lies at once our obligation and our +privilege. Much is laid upon us, but the trust brings with it honor, and +inspires to grandest service. + +The progress already made in this work, the cheering tokens of success +that are reported by all laborers in this field, ought to awaken a far +greater sympathy for those in whose behalf we are called to make our +Christ-like expenditures. It is time we rose above the mean political +enmities which have embarrassed not a little this imperative evangelism. +Our treatment of these people is but another chapter in our history on +which other and larger hearted generations will look with shame and +sorrow. In the animosities born of our commercial greed, we have acted +as if our religion had made us neither in life nor doctrine better than +they. Eager to send the Gospel to distant heathen, we have been +reluctant to exemplify, and slow to practically apply, to the heathen in +our midst the teaching of Christianity. Now has come a new era, and the +evangelistic efforts among the Chinese are assuming greater proportions +than ever, and are engirt with every sign of gracious success. We have +yet to learn to respect the manhood in these emigrants from the great +kingdom beyond the Pacific. It is said of our Lord, when he came across +the Publican Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom, that "he saw a +man," and it was oftentimes the lowly, the shunned, the socially +despised he called to become his disciples. It is a great art, this of +seeing in a man the ideal, the possible man. When Jesus Christ looks +upon a man, he looks him into a nobler manhood. We need to rise above +class distinctions, to regard no one common or unclean, to speak of no +one as hopeless or worthless. + +One word as to opportunity. God always matches opportunity with ability, +and when we stand face to face with opportunity, we must go forward or +be recreant to every trust. + +Here is this man--the Chinaman--on our coast, for whom we are doing +exactly the same work that this Society has been urging us to do for the +black race, in raising up preachers amongst them to go back to the homes +in their own country and there become the proper evangels to their own +people. When we realize that this is our work, and this is the +opportunity before us, we shall talk of the Chinese question with more +seriousness. + +We are like the two American boys. One says to the other: "My father is +a Christian; is your father a Christian?" The other boy replies, not +wishing to be outdone, "Oh, yes, my father is a Christian, but he is not +working much at it just now." That is about the way with this nation, +nominally a Christian nation; we are not working much at it in the way +we are treating the Indian, Chinese and colored man. We want the nation +to act out the principles it believes in. + +Mr. Gladstone said he divided the English nation into classes and +masses. The masses, he added, have as little regard for the doctrines of +the Gospel, as the upper classes have for its precepts. Now we have not +only to give the precepts of the Gospel to the Chinaman, but we must +inculcate its principles in the heart beyond all danger of eradication. +If we do not do this, we shall act little better than the Chinese do +themselves. A man was once asked how much he weighed. He replied, "I +weigh 160, but when I am mad I weigh a ton." We need the madness born of +a great zeal, the enthusiasm kindled by the Gospel, then shall we be +able to lift up all classes and conditions of men. + +When we get anointed for this work, and carry the Gospel with all the +earnestness of our faith, and all the patience born of the example of +Christ, then we shall realize our fondest hopes for the Christianization +of the Chinese and of other races in our country. + +We have only a few thousands of Chinese in our country, and whenever one +of these becomes a Christian he is much like a Christian in apostolic +days. He is raised above his former life, loses largely the sympathy of +his own people, and is regarded as an apostate from his ancestral faith. +It costs, therefore, a great deal to become a Christian under such +circumstances, yet there are joyous, devoted Chinese Christians +preaching, with signal power, the Gospel to their brethren, and living +so as to be Christian luminaries among their idolatrous kindred. + +I consider it no inferior part of this Association's work that it is +expending its efforts among the Chinese now resident on the coast. We +have, however, only made a beginning; much, very much, remains to be +done. We have to conquer political prejudices, and invite to our faith +with warmest welcomes those for whom Christianity has such priceless +boons. If we raise up amongst them missionaries to go back to the +crowded Mongolian Empire, this society will become an institution not +only for Christianizing the conscience of our nation, but also an agency +for training up and sending forth missionaries for the neediest of +lands. Let it be ours to evince a friendly fellowship and true devotion +to the despised, and kindle a manlier faith and larger Christian +service. + + * * * * * + + +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. + +FLA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park, Fla. + +OHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, Ohio. + +IND.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. W.B. Mossman, Fort Wayne, Ind. + +ILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill. + +MINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, + Secretary, Miss Katharine Plant, 2651 Portland Avenue, + Minneapolis, Minn. + +IOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa. + +KANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, + Secretary, Mrs. G.L. Epps. Topeka, Kan. + +MICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, Mich. + +WIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis. + +NEB.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 N. Broad St., Fremont, Neb. + +COLORADO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Packard, Pueblo, Colo. + +DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + President, Mrs. T.M. Hills, Sioux Falls; + Secretary, Mrs. W.R. Dawes, Redfield; + Treasurer, Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston. + + [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 meeting of the officers of the Home Missionary Unions of the +Congregational Churches held at Saratoga, June 4th, was well attended. +Twelve States were there represented, and the occasion was one of great +interest and of encouragement to the cause of missions. The suggestive +and forceful papers presented, indicate that our ladies are in earnest +for the evangelization of our country, and that they will give their +best effort toward extending the influence of our National Societies by +the financial help which they will endeavor to render. + +The next meeting of these State organizations will be held in Chicago, +Ill., at the time of the annual meeting of the American Missionary +Association the latter part of next October. + + * * * * * + + +MERIDIAN, MISS. + +A little of our industrial work of this first year I would like to +present to you. Our girls, on the closing day, exhibited fourteen pieced +quilts all completed, and twenty were well along toward completion. +Twenty garments have been finished and disposed of. All of the material +has been sent from Northern friends and homes, and some of the girls +have learned the first things of needlework, having learned to use +needle, thread and thimble. One little girl when first given a needle +said, "O see! there is a hole in one end of it." One old lady learned to +knit. + +We feel happy in the thought of the spiritual growth in our school. +Several young men and some of our girls have openly expressed themselves +as desirous of being Christians, and have started, I am sure, to follow +Jesus. Another hopeful thing is the zeal with which they attend to the +duties of the Band of Hope. Our young people who are to teach in the +country are quite determined to organize bands and to fight for "God and +home and native land," on the line of temperance. We have given all the +instruction and illustrations we could, and the little ones are becoming +leaders of the older members in the families. One little boy urged his +old grandmother to stop using snuff, and she has given it up after using +it more than twoscore years. She said he used to say, "Don't chew, +grandma; the teachers say it is poison." Some mothers who have been in +the habit of using ruinous alcohol medicines for their children, assured +me they would stop it, after seeing the amount of alcohol contained, as +was shown by our little experiments in evaporating and burning. One +young man of twenty years old passed an examination in the country, and +obtained a second grade certificate, and at sixteen years of age he did +not know his letters. Are there many boys at the North who can show a +better record in four years? + +H.I. MILLER. + + * * * * * + + +MACON, GA. + +I am sure you want to hear about the closing exercises of our cooking +class. The teacher had given the seven girls comprising the class the +privilege of getting a dinner and each one inviting a guest. One of the +lovely things about the affair was that the guests were the mothers and +teachers of the girls. So at three o'clock one day a company of eighteen +sat down to a dinner that was all cooked and served by these girls. The +white, puffy biscuits, well-cooked meat and vegetables, and the quiet +lady-like serving, all testified to the excellence of the instruction +received. Prouder mothers I never saw than those who then partook of +their daughter's cookery. I was told that every Saturday it had been the +custom for the girls at home to repeat in their own kitchens the work of +the day previous, as it had been done under their teacher's +instructions. + +We hope next year with our boarding pupils to do more than we could with +only day pupils. Our sewing classes are this week finishing their work +for the year. There has been sewing in five rooms. The primaries have +pieced blocks for outsides for two quilts, over-hand work. The next +grade has put together four outsides (running). The upper classes have +made fifty pillow-cases, twelve sheets, forty aprons, hemstitched three +tray cloths, outlined one tidy and made three night-dresses. Darning, +button-hole making and hem-stitching were taught in one class. The girls +in another room have tied six comfortables. The boys in the carpenter +shop are doing excellent work, and they like it very much. One class of +five or six come every morning at seven o'clock, and they do this to get +more instruction. Most of this class are country boys who cannot stay at +school all of the year. In one of the primary rooms, we have the +kitchen-garden material. There, with the twenty-four sets of toy dishes, +the little ones are taught how to set and clear off table, and a great +many useful things in reference to table manners and customs. + +Our general school work goes on like clock-work. The children and young +people are growing in their power of concentration and self-control, and +we feel greatly encouraged, as we look into the future for them, to hope +that at no very distant day a well ordered home, where three meals a day +shall be served in a refined, orderly manner, shall not be so rare a +thing as it now is. We are more and more convinced that the home life of +these people must be changed, if they are ever to be what we want them +to be, and what, for the interests of our country and for the coming of +Christ's kingdom on earth, they must be. + +And now I will close in the usual way by telling you some of our needs. + +For the new boarding department, we shall need bedding of all kinds. I +especially want that each mattress shall be furnished with a quilted or +padded cover--that is, something as large as the mattress on top. +Towels, table linen and such things as are needed in every house are +always acceptable. If any one wants to furnish carpets for teacher's +rooms, we do not say them nay. + +MRS. LIVA A. SHAW. + + * * * * * + + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + + + * * * * * + + +WORK AMONG THE CHILDREN. + +BY MRS. L.R. GREENE. + +I have spent nearly five years in teaching the little colored children +in this Southland. In my department there are over ninety bright, +enthusiastic little folks between the ages of five and thirteen. I have +often wished that the anxious inquirers as to whether the colored +children were as bright and smart intellectually as white ones, could +visit my room, and the little people would answer the question +themselves. + +My pupils, with one exception, being day scholars, I have had an +excellent opportunity to know the colored people. I go to their homes; +some I find as cosy and prettily fitted up as the average home at the +North, while others are miserable apologies for the name. + +I often, Sunday afternoons, take a bundle of papers and go through some +of the streets where I find boys playing ball or marbles, and flying +kites. When I ask why they haven't been to Sunday-school, or at home +reading, they tell me they have no clothes, and that they have nothing +to read at home; as I distribute the papers, they lay down bat and ball +and eagerly devour the stories and study the pictures. + +I find some very bright little fellows among them. I asked one little +boy, "Won't you come to my Sunday-school?" He replied at once, "Oh yes." +I said, "Do you know where I teach?" The ready answer came at once, "Up +at the big college yonder," The next Sunday, as I went in, the first +child I saw was Dan. He sat with eyes and mouth wide open as we talked +about Joseph, sung our little hymns and repeated the commandments-- +things he had never heard before. The next Sabbath he was there as +interested and eager as on the first, his bare feet hanging from the +chair; but the third Sunday as I went out the gate, there stood Dan, +forlorn enough. I said, "Aren't you going to Sunday-School?" He said, +"I can't go; my sister is married, my mother has gone crazy, and I +haven't a clean shirt." It would have melted the stoutest heart to have +heard his sorrowful tale. I found him soon after, and through the +kindness of a Northern friend in paying his tuition, I had him in my +school, where he proved himself bright and interesting. + +I might cite many such instances that have come within my observation, +if time and space would permit. I long for much that is wasted at the +North to help many such bright, interesting, needy little children. + + * * * * * + + +RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1889. + + +MAINE, $352.06. + +Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $3.50 + +Albany. Anna K. Cummings, + _for Mountain Work_ 2.00 + +Bangor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 38.00 + +Bath. Winter St. Ch. 140.30 + +Bucksport. Y.P.S.C.E., by Charlotte + S. Barnard, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 20.00 + +Castine. Prof. Fred. W. Foster 1.44 + +Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., (2. + of which _for Mountain Work_) bal. to + const., REV. GEO. W. REYNOLDS, JOHN A. + WATERMAN, STEPHEN HINCKLEY, J.S. + LEAVITT, JR., A.H. SAMPSON, MISS + MINNIE TOLFORD and MISS NELLIE + WHITE L.M's 40.65 + +Hampden. C.E. Hicks 1.00 + +Kennebunk. Union Cong. Ch. (1.75 of + which from Y.P.S. of C.E.) 14.15 + +Kennebunkport. Ladies of South Ch. 10.00 + +Madison. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + +Portland. West Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Portland. Ladies' Mission Circle of State + St, Ch., 2 Valuable Bbl's C.; Maine Women's + Ind. Ass'n, 2 Valuable Bbl's C.; + Carter Bros., Valuable Gift of Roger's + Plated Ware.; George C. Frye, Chemist, + Medicines, Val. 10.25, _for Fort Yates, Dak._ + +South Berwick. Miss Lewis' S.S. Class, + _for Wilmington, N.C._ 3.25 + +South Gardiner. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., + Mrs. S. Adams, _for Freight_ 2., + _for Selma, Ala._ 2.00 + +Union. Rev. F.V. Norcross 5.00 + +Waterford. Sab. Sch. of Cong, Ch., + _for Santee Indian Sch._ 6.20 + +Waterford. Mrs. H.E. Douglass, Box C., + _for Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Windham. W.M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. + of Bedding, etc., Val. 43.97, _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._, also Bbl. and Box _for N.C._ + Val. 75.30 + +Winslow. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +Woodfords. Miss W. Perry's S.S. Class, 2; + Mrs. I.S. Woodbury, Bbl. C., _for + Williamsburg, Ky._ 2.00 + +Woolwich. Cong. Ch. 8.32 + +York. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.25 + +Woman's Aid to A.M.A. by Mrs. C.A. + Woodbury, Chairman, _for Woman's Work_: + + "From Two Sisters In Memory of + their Sister Mrs. Sophia M. Trumble," + to const. MRS. CAROLINE J. + WALKER L.M. 30.00 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $222.85. + +Concord. South Ch., Mrs. Bancroft's S.S. + Class, 10. _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._; Mr. + Willard's S.S. Class, 3.75 _for Storrs Sch., + Atlanta, Ga._ 13.75 + +Concord. I.W. Chandler 1.00 + +Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.50 + +Nashua. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 + +New Ipswich. A.N. Townsend 1.50 + +North Hampton. "J.L.P." 5.00 + +Northwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.60 + +Penacook. Jer. C. Martin 10.00 + +Stoddard. King's Daughters, _for Meridian, + Miss_ 3.50 + +Tilton. S.S. Class of Young Ladies Cong. + Ch., _for Savannah, Ga._ 8.00 + +Wilton. Second Cong. Ch. 14.00 + +Wilmot. By Rev. N.F. Carter 10.00 + + -------- + + $122.85 + + ESTATE. + +Greenville. Estate of Dea. Franklin Merriam, + by Mary A. Merriam, Executrix. 100.00 + -------- + $222.85 + + + VERMONT, $377.05. + +Cornwall. Cong. Ch. 48.26 + +Dorset. Cong. Ch. 16.00 + +Granby. Infant Class, by H.W. Matthews, + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00 + +Jericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.18 + +Lyndon. Mrs. Alice L. Ray 2.00 + +Manchester. Cong. Ch. 37.13 + +Northfield. "A Friend," _for Mountain + Work_, and to const. MRS. DIANTHA E. + KNIGHT L.M. 30.00 + +Royalton. First Cong. Ch. 11.40; A.W. + Kenney, 30., to const. GARNER R. DEWEY + L.M. 41.40 + +Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. 50. + _for Indian M._ 50. _for Santee Home_ 100.00 + +Vergennes. "E.L.B." 1.00 + +Waitsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 6.14; + Mrs. S.P. Prindle, 1.50 7.64 + +Williamstown. C.C. Barnes 5.00 + +McIndoes Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 8.44 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont, +by Mrs. W.P. Fairbanks, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Burlington. W.H.M.S., + First Ch. 40.00 + + Granby. Mrs. C.W. + Matthews 5.00 + + Saint Albans. W.H.M.S., + First Ch. 25.00 + + Williamstown, Ladies 2.00 + + -------- 72.00 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $8,333.49. + +Amesbury. Main St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.36 + +Amherst. Wm. M. Graves 20.00 + +Andover. "A Friend" by Stephen Ballard, + _for Girl's Dormitory, Macon, Ga._ 1,581.75 + +Andover. Free Christian Ch. 35.25 + +Andover. Mrs. Chas. S. Mills, 15; Mrs. S. + J. Stetson 5; Miss Susanna Jackson, 5; + Mrs. K.P. Williams, 2; Mrs. Wm. Abbott, + 2; Mrs. Homer Barrows, 1, _for Girls' + Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 30.00 + +Andover. Class of Phillips Academy Boys, + _for Tools, Industrial Sch., Williamsburg, + Ky._ 25.00 + +Andover. Ladies' Soc., Free Ch., Bbl. C. + etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Auburndale. "Friends" 44; Branch of + Newton Ind'l Ass'n, Bbl. C.; Miss Miller + and Friends, Bbl. C., _for Fort Yates, + Dak._ 44.00 + +Bernardston. Miss M.L. Newcomb, + (of which 100. _for Student Aid, Talladega + C._; 100. _for Student Aid, Atlanta, U._; 50. + _for Teacher, Austin. Texas)_ 900.00 + +Boston. C.A. Hopkins, 250.; Woman's + Home Miss'y Ass'n, + 60. _for Girl's Ind'l + Hall, Pleasant Hill, + Tenn._ 310.00 + + "G.A.W." 50.00 + + Mrs. E.P. Eayers 5.00 + + "Cash" .50 + + Ladies' Sewing Circle of + Union Cong. Ch., Bbl. + C., _for Williamsburg, + Ky._ + + Brighton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and + Soc. 60.00 + + Dorchester. "M.L.E," 10; Pilgrim + Ch., 8.25, _for + Mountain Work_ 18.25 + + Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. + Ch. 247.85 + + Jamaica Plain. "A Friend" 4.50 + + Roxbury, Sab. Sen. and Y.P. + Soc., Elliot Ch., Box + Books etc., and 1., _for + Thomasville, Ga._ 1.00 + + -------- 697.10 + +Bridgewater. "Friend." 1.00 + +Brockton. Mrs. S.A. Southworth, Box C. + for _Tougaloo, Miss._ + +Cambridge. Mrs. Preble, 5. and Bbl. + Sewing Materials _for Fort Yates, Dak._ 5.00 + +Dedham. First Cong. Ch. 161.16 + +East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., _for + Student Aid, Talladega C._ 12.50 + +East Walpole. Cong. Ch. 5.60 + +Enfield. Miss C.E. Fairbanks' S.S. + Class, _for Indian Sch'p._ 70.00 + +Fall River. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 50.00 + +Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. _for Student + Aid Fund, Fisk U._ 9.00 + +Groveland Cong. Ch. 14.50 + +Groton. "Friend," 20, _for Chinese M., 10. + for Indian M._ 30.00 + +Hanover. Second Cong. Ch., by Mrs. Dr. + Sweeney and Others on True Blue Card. 5.00 + +Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.75 + +Hinsdale. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., (25, of + which _for Student Aid, Talladega C._) 47.90 + +Holbrook. Sab. Sch. of Winthrop Cong. + Ch., _for Student Aid, Tillotson C. and N. + Inst._ 28.75 + +Holliston. Class of Young Ladies' Cong. + Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00 + +Hopkinton. Mrs. P.B. Wing's S.S. + Class, _for Grand View, Tenn._ 5.00 + +Housatonic. Cong. Soc. 76.61 + +Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. 23.32 + +Islington. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Lawrence. Mrs. J.H. Eaton, 15., Mrs. M. + J. Jenness, 5., _for Student Aid, Talladega + C._ 20.00 + +Leverett. Y.P.S.C.E., Ad'l _for Grand + View, Tenn._ 13.00 + +Marlboro. T.B. Patch 1.00 + +Medford. Mystic Ch. and Soc. 108.46 + +Medway. "A Friend" 1,000.00 + +Melrose. Ortho. Cong. Ch., _for Mountain + Work_ 21.42 + +Millis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00 + +New Bedford. First Cong. Ch. 82.00 + +Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. + 41., "A Friend," 5. 46.00 + +Newbury. First Ch. 12.49 + +Northampton. A.L. Williston 300.00 + +Northampton. Geo. W. Cable, 5 vols., _for + Library, Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Peru. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Quincy. Primary Dep't of Evan Cong. + Sab. Sch. 5.00 + +Reading. By J.H. Gleason, "In memory + of my mother, Lucy Bancroft Gleason." 100.00 + +Reading. Cong. Ch. 18.00 + +Revere. A Member of Cong. Ch. 1.00 + +Salem. Young Ladies' Mission Circle of + Tab. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p_ 50.00 + +Salem. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of + South Ch., 20. _for Tougaloo U., 20., for + Santee, Neb._ 40.00 + +Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. 12.80 + +Somerville. Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n + of Day St. Ch., _for freight to Fort Yates_ 2.40 + +South Amherst. Cong. Ch. 8.50 + +Southampton. C.B. Lyman's S.S. Class + Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 11.25 + +Southbridge. M.L. Richardson _for Student + Aid Fund, Fisk U._ 25.00 + +South Framingham. South Cong. Ch., + (50. of which _for Mountain Work_) 189.92 + +South Hadley Falls. "Friends." 5.00 + +Springfield. Memorial Ch. 16.14 + +Stockbridge. Alice Byington, Books and + Patchwork, for _Sherwood, Tenn_ + +Sutton. Cong. Ch. 21.88 + +Taunton. Sab. Ch. of Broadway Cong. + Ch. _for Student Aid Fund. Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Taunton. Young Peoples' Union of + Broadway Ch. _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +Taunton. "For Christ's Work." _Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 2.00 + +Topsfield. Cong. Ch. and. Soc. 44.82 + +Wakefield. Mission Workers of Cong. + Ch. _for Bird's Nest, Santee, Neb._ 15.00 + +Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. 14.84 + +Ware. East Cong. Ch. (20 of which + _Indian M_) 342.40 + +Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch. 100.32 + +Watertown. Phillips Mission Band _for + Student Aid, Straight U._ 50.00 + +Waverly. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.64 + +Wellesley. "Friend," 100.00 + +West Action. Rev. J.W. Brown 5.00 + +West Boxford. Cong. Ch. 13.10 + +Westhampton, Ladies' Benev. Soc., by + Mrs. E.P. Torrey, Sec'y 10.00 + +West Newton. Mrs. E. Price, _for Mountain + work_ 50.00 + +West Springfield. Ladies' Mission Circle + of Park St. Ch., _Pleasant Hill, + Tenn._ 50.00 + +Whitinsville. Additional by Rev. J.R. + Thurston, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, + Tenn._ 7.00 + +Whitman. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Ch. _for + Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 8.35 + +Winchester. First Cong. Ch. (85.53 of + which _for Indian M._) 124.31 + +Worcester. J.M. Bassett 100.00 + +Worcester. Ladies of Union Ch. _for Indian + Sch'p_ 35.00 + +Hampden Benevolent Association, by + Charles Marsh, Treas.: + + Holyoke. Second 50.36 + + Holyoke. Second, _for + Fisk U._ 50.00 + + Longmeadow, Y.P.S.C.E. 4.37 + + South Hadley Falls 16.00 + + Springfield. Hope 98.77 + + Springfield. Hope _for Hampton + Inst._ 42.74 + + Springfield. South 56.83 + + Springfield. Olivet. 28.71 + + Springfield. First 18.00 + + Westfield. Second. _for + Fisk_ 60.00 + + West Springfield. First 28.00 + + West Springfield. Mittineague 9.60 + + ----. "Friend" 5.00 + + -------- 463.38 + + ------ + + $7,783.49 + +ESTATES + +Hadley. Estate of Dea. Eleazar Porter, + by J.E. Porter. Ex. 500.00 + +Lancaster. Estate of Miss Sophia Stearns, + by Wm. W. Wyman. Ex. 100.00 + ------- + + $8,333.49 + + +CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE + +Bangor. Me. Central Ch. Sew. Circle, + Bbl. _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Auburndale. Mass. Miss Alice Williston, + Bbl. _for McLeansville, N.C._ + +Boston. Mass. Cong. Pub. Soc. P'k'g. + Books; Gen'l Theo. Library, Several + Val. Vols.; Miss H.H. Stanwood. Books + _Girls' Hall_; Miss Ada Hartshorne, Files of + "Golden Rule," _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + +Dorchester Mass. Miss Lapham, 2 Bbls. + _for Raleigh, N.C._; Master Fred E. + Swan, Scrap Book. + +Hyde Park Mass. Woman's Home Miss'y + Ass'n, 2 Bbls. Val. 110. _for Pleasant Hill, + Tenn._, and 1 Bbl. Val. 63 _Tougaloo, U._ + +Spencer, Mass. Ladies' Charitable Soc., + Box Val. 83.05, _for Indian Sch., Pierre, + So. Dak._ + +West Boylston, Mass. Sab. Sch. of First + Cong. Ch. 2 Bbls. _for McLeansville, N.C._ + +Winchendon, Mass. Y.P.S.C.E., Box. + _for Talladega, Ala._ + + +RHODE ISLAND, $5.00 + +Newport. Miss Sophia L. Little 5.00 + + +CONNECTICUT, $1,700.83 + +Ansonia. First Cong. Ch. 83.33 + +Ashford. Cong. Ch. 7.06 + +Bethlehem, Cong. Ch. 17.00 + +Berlin. "A Friend," _for Tougaloo U._ 25.00 + +Bridgeport. Bbl. C., _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +Bridgewater, Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.27 + +Bristol, L.H.M. Soc., Bbl. C., 1.50, for + Freight, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 10.00 + +Chaplin. Mrs. F. Williams, 10 and Bbl. + C. _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 10.00 + +Darien. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. + Ind. Sch., Ga._ 10.00 + +East Hampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.50 + +East Hampton. Mrs. Laura A. Skinner, + _Student Aid Talladega C._ 5.00 + +East Haven. Cong. Ch. 9.81 + +Fairfield. First Cong. Ch. 30.00 + +Gilead. Cong. Ch. 28.00 + +Goshen. Mrs. Moses Lyman 10.00 + +Guilford. Soc. of Christian Endeavor 6.50 + +Hartford. Mrs. Frances Howe Wood, _for + Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00 + +Hartford. Weathersfield Ave. Cong. Ch. + Bbl. Sundries, _for Talladega C._ + +Higganum. Cong. Ch. 19.00 + +Jewett City, Rev. Q.M. Bosworth, Sewing + Machine, _for Fisk U_ + +Mansfield Center. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + +New Britain. Miss E.R. Eastman, Pkg. + Patchwork, _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +New Haven. Humphrey St. Cong. Ch. + and Sab. Sch. to const. EULIUS B. SHELDON, + JAMES M. ATWATER, JAMES F. PARSONS, + JOSEPH RAWIES, MISS ELLA M. + WATSON and MRS. JANE A. BREWER L.M's 201.00 + +New Haven. Mrs. J.A. Dickerman, 100; + Davenport Cong. Ch., 64; Students of + Yale Theol. Sch., by F.H. Means, Treas. + 21. 185.00 + +New London. "Trust Estate of Henry P. + Haven," (100 of which _for Jewett Mem. + Hall, Grand View, Tenn._) 400.00 + +New London. Friends of First Ch. 16.00 + +Old Lyme. Ladies' Soc., Box C., Freight + 2., _for Thomasville, Ga._ 2.00 + +Orange. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Plainville. Cong. Ch. 81.17 + +Plainville. King's Daughters, _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ 4.00 + +Plantsville. Cong. Ch. 11.63 + +Salisbury. Thomas Martin's S.S. Class, + Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid Fund, Fisk U._ 3.15 + +Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.40 + +South Norwalk. Supt. E.S. Hall, _for + Thomasville, Ga._ 2.25 + +Southport. "A Friend" 25.00 + +Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.94 + +Terryville. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 53.75 + +Thomaston. Eagle Rock Cong. Soc. to + cont. REV. D. MOSES, L.M. 30.00 + +Thompson. Cong. Ch. 10.40 + +Washington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for + Indian Sch'p_ 25.00 + +Westbrook. T.D. Post. 4.50 + +West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.52 + +Wethersfield. By E.L. Tillotson, (of which + Miss Harris', Miss Clark's, Miss Griswold's + S.S. Classes and Infant Class, + 10.; Mrs. H.C. Johnson, 10; Miss S. + Cushman, 1) 36.00 + +Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch. 80.30 + +----. ----, _for Hope Station, +Indian M._ 75.00 + +----. "A Friend." 20.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of + Conn., by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec. _for + Woman's Work_: + + Griswold. Ladies' H.M. Soc. + First Ch., 10, _for Conn. Ind'l + Sch., Ga._ 10.00 + + New Britain. Ladies' H.M. + Soc. of First Ch., _for Normal + Inst., Grand View, Tenn._ 50.00 + + -------- 60.00 + + +NEW YORK, $2,211.55. + +Albany. First Cong. Ch., 59.97; Chas. A. + Beach, 50 109.97 + +Binghamton. Mrs. Caroline A. Morris 1.00 + +Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch. 684.03 + +Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 37.50 + +Brooklyn. Ch. of the Pilgrims, add'l to + const. MISS CATHERINE L. STANTON L.M. 30.00 + +Brooklyn. Mrs. Hall, 8; Mrs. M. Jacques, 8; + Mrs. C. Weeks, 5; Miss M. Morrison, 4; + Carrie Strong, 1; Miss F. Bingham. 1; + Mrs. Foos. 1; Flossie Brigham and + Carrie Strong, Bbl. of C.; Mrs. Mary Lowell, + 7, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 35.00 + +Brooklyn. Miss H.M. Wiggins .25 + +Castile. G.A. Davis, to const. J. HARRY + VAN ARSDAL, JR., L.M. 30.00 + +East Rockaway. Bethany Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Elbridge. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + +Gloversville. Cong. Ch. 155.62 + +Homer. Band of Hope, 6 Testaments, _for + Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Ithaca. Prof. Geo. P. Armstrong 5.00 + +Kinderhook. Rev. W. Ingalls .50 + +Moravia. First Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +New Haven. Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for + Talladega C._ + +New York. Young People of First Reformed + Episcopal Ch., _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +New York. "K," 15; Miss Haswell, 5; + Mrs. A.H. Elliott, 1, _for Chapel, Santee, + Neb._ 21.00 + +New York. H.P. Van Liew, _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ 15.00 + +New York. Tabernacle Ch., ad'l 10.00 + +New York. S.F. Gordon, Organ, _for Fisk + U._ + +New York. F. Ernest Lewis, 15 yds. Carpet, + _for Fort Yates, Dak._ + +New York. National Temp. Soc., 100 + copies "Blackboard Temp. Lessons." + +North Winfield. Mrs. O.E. Harrison 20.00 + +Owego. Cong. Ch. 9.75 + +Portland. Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Coon 25.00 + +Rochester. Plymouth Ch. 37.96 + +Sherburne. First Cong. Ch., to const. + MRS. EMMA J. KELLY and MISS MARY + PRUTZEHBACH L.M's 66.90 + +Spencerport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 25.06 + +Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel 5.00 + +Walton. Christian Endeavor Soc. of First + Cong. Ch., _for Macon, Ga._ 10.50 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union, by + Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., _for Woman's + Work:_ + + N.Y. W.H.M.U. 352.51 + + -------- + $1,736.55 + + ESTATE. + +Owego. Estate of Dr. Lucius H. Allen 475.00 + + -------- + $2,211.55 + + +NEW JERSEY, $732.45. + +Arlington. Mission Band, _for Savannah, + Ga._ .75 + +Montclair. First Cong. Ch., (30 of which + to const. D.O. ESHBAUGH L.M.), 442; + Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 100 542.00 + +Montclair. D.O. Eshbaugh, _for Talladega + C._ 30.00 + +Morristown. Mrs. F.W. Owen, _for Indian + M._ 75.00 + +Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey, 15; Mrs. + Hannah Howe, 5 20.00 + +Orange Valley. F.W. Van Wagener, _for + Marion, Ala._ 8.50 + +Paterson. Auburn St. Cong. Ch. 31.20 + +Plainfield. Mrs. Mary H. Whiton, (20 of + which _for Woman's Work_) 25.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $410.20. + +Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., to const. + MISS EDITH BATES, SAMUEL W. FRESCOLN, + MISS EMMA L. GODELL, MELVIN H. + HARRINGTON, MISS ADALENA HICKMAN, DR. + W.S. HOW, MISS MARY C. LEEDS, ALBERT + M. PATTERSON, WILLIAM C. STROUD, + MISS CELIA B. ULMER, PROF. GEO. L. + WEED, and MISS LUCY E. WOODRUFF + L.M's 410.20 + + +OHIO, $720.64. + +Akron. Cong. Ch. 96.66 + +Bryan. S.R. Blakeslee 5.00 + +Chagrin Falls. First Cong. Ch. 41.42 + +Cincinnati. Central Cong. Ch., 149.68 and + Sab. Sch., 18.25 167.93 + +Claridon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Cleveland. Plymouth Ch. 61.06 + +Cleveland. M.L. Berger, D.D., _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ 12.00 + +Cleveland. Young People, by Miss E.A. + Johnson, _for Mountain Work_ 1.50 + +Columbus. Eastwood Ch. and Sab. Sch., + to const. MRS. GEO. W. EARLY and MRS. + J.B. POWELL L.M's 61.40 + +Gomer. Miss'y Soc. of Welsh Cong. Ch. 14.80 + +Medina. Sab. Sch. Classes Cong. Ch., + Miss Carrie Lowe, 5; Miss Flora Hard, + 5; Mrs. O.H. McDowell, 5; Geo. Thompson, + 5; Wm. P. Clark, 5; Miss Sarah + Smith, 3.73; Miss May Woodward, 3; A. + I. Root, 2.75; Miss Mary O. Sipher, 2; + E.R. Root, 1.89; S.B. Curtiss, 1.05; Mrs. + Geo. Thomson, 1; Miss Clara Sipher, 1; bal. + to const. REV. NORMAN PLASS and FRANK + MILLER L.M's 41.33 + +Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson. 5.00 + +Paddy's Run. Cong. Ch. 26.25 + +Ravenna. Howard Carter, 50; Cong. Ch., + 33.54 83.54 + +Toledo. Miss Laura A. Parmelee, _for + Sch'p End. Fund, Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Twinsburg. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch., + _for Mountain Work_ 13.75 + +Wellington. Edward West 20.00 + +Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., _for + Woman's Work_: + + Columbus. "E.T.B," _for + Miss Collins' Work_ 5.00 + + North Bloomfield. "King's + Daughters," _for Student + Aid, Storrs Sch._ 4.00 + + -------- 9.00 + + +INDIANA, $12.00. + +Fort Wayne. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 12.00 + + +ILLINOIS, $6,160.52 + +Alton. Ch. of the Redeemer 60.42 + +Caseyville. Miss Mary Meckfessel 2.00 + +Chicago. First Cong. Ch. 96.78 + +Evanston. First Cong. Ch. 71.51 + +Glencoe. Arthur H. Day, _for Mountain + Work_ 5.00 + +Griggsville. Cong. Ch. 33.37 + +Hyde Park. S.S. Class by Miss Elsie + Cole, 1.50; S.S. Class by Miss Ida + Chapin, .75; A.W. Cole, 1., Olin Family, + 1., _for Marion, Ala._ 4.25 + +Kumler. Franklin S. King 2.00 + +La Grange. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +La Prairie Center. "Friends." 30.00 + +Naperville. Cong. Ch. 16.00 + +Oglesby. T.T. Bent 5.00 + +Rockford. Second Cong. Ch. 295.71 + +Rosemond. B.E. Warner, to const + MRS. MARIA A. PAINE L.M. 30.00 + +Sandwich. Cong. Ch. 25.16 + +Sheffield. Cong. Ch. 67.06 + +Streator. Mrs. S.H. Plumb, _for Sch'p End. Fund, + Fisk, U._ 50.00 + +Tonica. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Fisk U._ 15.00 + +Wheaton. First Cong. Ch. 15.00 + +Wilmette. Cong. Ch. 32.75 + +Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Annawan 13.36 + + Avon 8.00 + + Bloomington 5.75 + + Champaign 5.00 + + Geneseo, Individuals 27.25 + + Hamilton 5.50 + + Ildini 5.25 + + Jacksonville 16.00 + + Lombard 16.00 + + Morris 11.80 + + Oak Park 20.00 + + Payson 10.00 + + Rock Falls 5.00 + + Rockford. First Ch. 15.00 + + Sheffield 2.50 + + Stark. Daughters of the King 2.60 + + Illinois Woman's H.M.U. 82.40 + + ------- $251.51 + + --------- + + $1,113.52 + +ESTATE. + +Rockford. Estate of Lewis S. Swezey by + John G. Penfield, Ex. $5,047.00 + + --------- + + $6,160.52 + + +MICHIGAN, $251.09. + +Ann Arbor. Mrs. C.S. Cady 1.00 + +Armada. Cong. Ch., 8. and Sab. Sch., 3 11.00 + +Bay City. Cong. Ch., ad'l 8.22 + +Covert. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +Flint. First Cong. Co., to const. + CHARLES T. BRIDGEMAN L.M. 42.71 + +Grand Rapids. Young Ladies' Park Miss'y + Soc., _for Santee Indian M._ 10.00 + +Jackson. Cong. Ch. 10.60 + +Lake Linden. Cong. Sab. Sch. and King's + Daughters, 21.25, and Clothing, + _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 21.25 + +Manistee. First Cong. Ch. 12.00 + +Owosso. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. SARAH + E. WYLIE and MISS EDITH SEELYE L.M's 60.00 + +Saline. Eli Benton 20.00 + +Webster. Cong. Ch. 14.75 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of + Mich., by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Bay City. W.H.M.S. 5.66 + + Benton Harbor. Sab. Sch., + Easter Offering 0.47 + + Muskegon. W.M.S. 10.00 + + Reed City. W.H.M.S. 5.00 + + Stanton. W.H.M.S. 10.43 + + ------ 31.56 + + +IOWA, $548.47. + +Decorah. Cong. Ch. 46.73 + +Farragut. Cong. Ch. 25.53 + +Grinnell. Cong. Ch., 129.38; + Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 103.84 233.22 + +Harlan. Cong. Ch. 5.03 + +Lansing Ridge. German Cong. Ch. 1.00 + +Muscatine. Cong. Ch. 63.21 + +Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, + _for Woman's Work_: + + Alden 1.30 + + Chester Center, W.H.M.U. 0.20 + + Davenport 18.00 + + Des Moines, W.M.S. 15.83 + + Earlville, W.M.S. 3.50 + + Fairfield, L.M.S. 1.25 + + Gilman, L.M.S. 8.00 + + Grinnell, W.H.M.U. 26.03 + + Harlan, L.M.S. 1.41 + + Le Mars 9.50 + + Marshalltown. L.M.S. 5.00 + + Magnolia, L.M.S. 2.00 + + McGregor, L.M.S. 7.43 + + Miles. L.M.S. 15.00 + + Montour. L.M.S. 5.30 + + Oldfield, Mrs. A. Turner's + S.S. Class 2.15 + + Osage, W.M.S. 4.07 + + Red Oak, L.M.S. 6.00 + + Rockford. L.M.S. 0.38 + + Sioux City. L.M.S. 6.00 + + Stuart, Y.P.S.C.E. 5.00 + + Iowa, W.H.M.U. 30.40 + + ------- $173.75 + + +WISCONSIN, $166.11. + +Bloomington. Cong. Ch. 4.75 + +Bloomington. Blake's Prairie Cong. Ch. 4.60 + +Darlington. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + +Genesee. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.65 + +Kenosha. Cong. Ch. 23.40 + +Koshkonong. Cong. Ch. 5.20 + +Rosendale, First Cong. Ch. 7.00 + +Rosendale. "Friends," by Mrs. H.N. Clark, + Box. C., etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Sparta. First Cong. Ch. 26.51 + +Superior City. Miss A.B. Butler, + _for Indian Sch'p_ 70.00 + +West Salem. "Mission Band," Bbl. C., 3. + _for Freight, for Greenwood, S.C._ 3.00 + + +MINNESOTA, $81.17. + +Ada. Sab. Sch. Birthday Box, + _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ 5.64 + +Alexandria. First Cong. Ch., 6; Sab. + Sch. of Cong. Ch., 8.54 14.54 + +Brownsville. Mrs. S.M. McHose 5.00 + +Elmwood. By Mrs. Wm. M. Jones, on + True Blue Card 5.00 + +Faribault. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for + Jewett Mem. Hall, Grand View, Tenn._ 25.00 + +Glyndon. Cong. Ch., 10.76; + Union Sab. Sch., 77c. 11.53 + +Litchfield. Sewing Class Material, + _for Meridian, Miss._ + +Minneapolis. Fifth Ave. Cong. Ch. 7.00 + +Minneapolis. Young Ladies' Soc. Plymouth + Ch., Box Furnishings, _for Fisk U._ + +Minneapolis. Y.L.M. Soc., Bbl. C., + _for Talladega C._ + +Plainview. Cong. Ch. 7.46 + + +MISSOURI, $24.55. + +Ironton. J. Markham 2.50 + +Peirce City. First Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +Saint Louis. Campian Hill Cong. Ch. 14.05 + + +KANSAS, $66.12. + +Burlington. Cong. Ch. 17.50 + +Chapman. Rev. J.F. Smith 5.00 + +Cora. Cong. Ch. 7.00 + +Dover. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +Highland. Annie Kloss, _for Student Aid, + Fisk, U._ 8.00 + +Parsons. Miss F.A. Locke, 5; + Mrs. S.C. Boardman, 3 8.00 + +Sedgwick. Plymouth Cong. Ch., + Mrs. John Hollister 10.00 + +Stockton. Cong. Ch. 5.62 + +Wakerusa Valley. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + + +NEBRASKA, $11.00. + +Oxford. F.A. Wood 10.00 + +South Bend. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + + +DAKOTA, $46.41. + +North Dakota. "S.F.P." 33.33 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of Dakota, + Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas., _for Woman's + Work_: + + Iroquois. "Young Helpers." 1.00 + + Sioux Falls. W.M.S. 5.00 + + Yankton. Willing Workers 7.08 + + ------- 13.08 + + +CALIFORNIA, $48.85. + +Long Beach. Cong. Ch. 12.60 + +National City. Cong. Ch. 31.00 + +Riverside. Boys' Mission Soc. _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ 5.25 + + +COLORADO, $4.40. + +Pueblo. First Cong. Ch. 4.40 + + +OREGON, $30.00. + +Portland. First Cong. Ch., to const. DEA. + W.R. WALPOLE L.M. 30.00 + + +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. $57.30. + +Washington. First Cong. Ch., ad'l, 20; + Mon. Con. Coll., Howard University, 12; + Lincoln Memorial Ch., 5.30 37.30 + +Washington. Mrs. M.P. Comstock, by + Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec. W.C.H.M. + U. of Conn., _for Theo. Dept. Howard U._ 20.00 + + +KENTUCKY, $1.66. + +Woodbine. Rev. E.H. Bullock 1.66 + + +TENNESSEE, $24.22. + +Chattanooga. Mrs. A.S. Steele, + _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 12.22 + +Jonesboro. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $16.50. + +Hillsboro. Mrs. C.E. Jones 2.00 + +Troy. "Friends," 2; Y.P.S.C.E., 1; + Cong. Ch., 50c. 3.50 + +Wilmington. Miss H.L. Fitts 11.00 + + +GEORGIA, $12.50. + +Bloomfield. Mrs. N. Bidwell, _for Conn. + Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 12.50 + + +ALABAMA, $13.29. + +Selma. First Ch. 4.00 + +Talladega. Cong. Ch. 9.29 + + +FLORIDA, $12.44. + +Jacksonville. Union Cong. Ch., 7.37, and + Sab. Sch., 5.07 12.44 + + +CANADA, $10.00. + +Montreal Chas. Alexander 5.00 + +Sweetsburg. Mrs. H.W. Spaulding 5.00 + + +SANDWICH ISLANDS. $500.00. + +Kohala. "A Friend." 500.00 + + --------- + +Donations $16,942.12 + +Estates 6,222.00 + + --------- + + $23,164.12 + +INCOME, $1,650.00. + +Avery Fund, _for Mendi M_ 505.00 + +De Forest Fund, _for President's + Chair, Talladega C._ 22.50 + +General Endowment Fund, + _for Freedmen_ 36.00 + +Graves Library Fund, + _for Atlanta U._ 125.00 + +Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._ 75.00 + +Hastings Sch'p Fund, + _for Atlanta U._ 12.50 + +Howard Theo. Fund, + _for Howard U._ 862.50 + +H.W. Lincoln Sch'p Fund, + _for Talladega C._ 30.00 + +Le Moyne Fund, _for Le Moyne + Inst_ 182.50 + +Rice Memorial Fund, + _for Talladega C._ 11.25 + +Scholarship Fund, _for + Straight U._ 27.50 + +Scholarship Fund, _for + Talladega C._ 21.00 + +Theo. Endowment fund, _for + Fisk U._ 7.50 + +Tuthill King Fund, 125 _for + Atlanta U._, 75 _for Berea C._ 200.00 + +Wood Sch'p Fund, _for + Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Yale Library Fund, _for + Talladega C._ 12.75 + + --------- 1,650.00 + + +TUITION, $3,364.32. + +Lexington, Ky., Tuition 176.75 + +Williamsburg, Ky., Tuition 159.25 + +Woodbine, Ky., Tuition 32.90 + +Genesis, Tenn., Tuition 3.50 + +Grand View, Tenn., Tuition 35.25 + +Jellico, Tenn., Tuition 47.85 + +Jonesboro, Tenn., Tuition 18.50 + +Jonesboro, Tenn., County Fund 53.00 + +Memphis, Tenn., Tuition 429.25 + +Nashville, Tenn., Tuition 585.30 + +Pleasant Hill, Tenn., Tuition 12.00 + +Wilmington, N.C., Tuition 122.00 + +Charleston, S.C., Tuition 204.75 + +Atlanta, Ga., Tuition, Storrs + Sch. 238.50 + +Macon, Ga., Tuition 237.45 + +Savannah, Ga., Tuition 174.25 + +Thomasville, Ga., Tuition 70.25 + +Athens, Ala., Tuition 83.40 + +Marion, Ala., Tuition 86.50 + +Mobile, Ala., Tuition 180.15 + +Meridian, Miss., Tuition 80.40 + +Tougaloo, Miss., Tuition 125.50 + +Austin, Texas, Tuition 200.63 + + ------- 3,364.32 + + -------- + +Total for May $28,178.44 + + +SUMMARY. + +Donations $134,993.37 + +Estates 26,530.09 + + ----------- + + $161,523.46 + +Income 6,479.21 + +Tuition 26,084.21 + +United States Government + appropriation for Indians 9,540.87 + + ----------- + +Total from Oct. 1 to May 31 $203,627.75 + + =========== + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +Subscriptions for May $32.28 + +Previously acknowledged 655.29 + + ------- + +Total 687.57 + + ======= + + +DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED + PEOPLE. 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