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diff --git a/16154.txt b/16154.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4bf655a --- /dev/null +++ b/16154.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3407 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary, Vol. 43, No. 9, +September, 1889, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The American Missionary, Vol. 43, No. 9, September, 1889 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 30, 2005 [EBook #16154] + +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. + +SEPTEMBER, 1889. + +VOL. XLIII. NO. 9. + + + + +CONTENTS + + +EDITORIAL. + + ANNUAL MEETING + THE TREASURY + AS TO "METHODS" + FIVE QUESTIONS + A MID-SUMMER LEAF OF THE A.M.A. CATECHISM + THE CARS, THE CHURCH, THE COURTS + THE WORK OF THE A.M.A. AND FOREIGN MISSIONS + ROME AND THE NEGRO + NOTES BY THE WAY, _Dist. Sec'y C.J. Ryder_ + + +THE SOUTH. + + HAND FUND + HOWARD UNIVERSITY + TILLOTSON INSTITUTE + EXTRACT + MISSIONARY VISITS + A CALL FROM AUNT MARY + + +THE INDIANS. + + LETTER FROM OAHE SCHOOL + + +THE CHINESE. + + EVANGELISTIC WORK AT PETALUMA + + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + + STATE ORGANIZATIONS + PARAGRAPHS + VISIT TO A MISSIONARY SUNDAY-SCHOOL + + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + + THE FRESH DRINK. + LETTER FROM AN INDIAN BOY. + + +RECEIPTS. + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +Rooms, 56 Reade Street. + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. + +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. + + * * * * * + + +American Missionary Association. + + +PRESIDENT, Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., LL.D., N.Y. + + +_Vice-Presidents._ + + Rev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y. + Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass. + Rev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. + Rev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass. + Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo. + + +_Corresponding Secretaries._ + + Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + + +_Recording Secretary._ + + Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + + +_Treasurer._ + + H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ + + +_Auditors._ + + PETER McCARTEE. + CHAS. P. PEIRCE. + + +_Executive Committee._ + + JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman. + ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary. + + + _For Three Years._ + + J.E. RANKIN, + WM. H. WARD, + J.W. COOPER, + JOHN H. WASHBURN, + EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN. + + _For Two years._ + LYMAN ABBOTT, + CHAS. A. HULL, + CLINTON B. FISK, + ADDISON P. FOSTER + ALBERT J. LYMAN. + + _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 Sheet, Chicago._ + Rev. C.W. HIATT, _64 Euclid Avenue, 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. SEPTEMBER, 1889. NO. 9. + + * * * * * + +American Missionary Association. + + * * * * * + + +The next annual meeting of the American Missionary Association will be +held at Chicago, Ill., in the New England Church, commencing at three +o'clock Tuesday afternoon, October 29. Rev. R.R. Meredith, D.D., of +Brooklyn, N.Y., will preach the sermon. On the last page of the cover +will be found directions as to membership and other items of interest. +Fuller details regarding the reception of delegates and their +entertainment, together with rates at hotels, and railroad and steamboat +reductions, will be given in the religious press and in the next number +of the MISSIONARY. + +A meeting of exceptional interest is expected, and we trust our friends +will be present in large force. + + * * * * * + + +THE TREASURY. + +It will encourage the contributors to the great work entrusted to us, to +know that the friends of the A.M.A. are enabling us to make a very +hopeful report up to this date. + +If those who have not shared in the work of the Association as yet, this +year, will make a corresponding effort with those who have done so, we +shall have reason to hope that we can go to our Annual Meeting in +Chicago, owing no man anything but love and good will. + +But those who have waited are many, and we are waiting and depending on +these. Those who have not taken their contributions have the power to +convert our hopes into realities. + +We appeal, therefore, to the pastors whose collections for this fiscal +year have not been taken to take their collections and forward them to +our treasury before the close of September. + + * * * * * + + +AS TO "METHODS". + +We have been thinking that the methods of Christ were divine as well as +his truth, and that when the Christian world will use Christ's methods +in the propagation of truth there will be a great advance upon some +features of the present. Dr. Parkhurst has some very suggestive +sentences in this line of thought in a sermon on "The Regenerative Force +of the Gospel." His words are: "Christ never patches. The Gospel is not +here to mend people. Regeneration is not a scheme of moral tinkering and +ethical cobbling. In the Gospel, we move into a new world and under a +new scheme. The Gospel does not classify with other schemes of +amelioration." + +This accords with our thought of the methods of Christ. The way to meet +that which is wrong, is to meet it as a wrong. We shall not do well to +ameliorate it. If we may not expect those who have been "raised" amid +prejudices and ignorance to be leaders for the absolute rectitude of +things, those who have not lived where this excuse is available should +be the leaders. If some do not lead, none will follow. Where principles +were at stake, Christ never gave way to prejudices. He never yielded to +that which was in itself wrong. If those to whom he ministered could not +come up to his standard, then he waited, but he never compromised. That +which is right should not yield to that which is wrong. + +It may take a right hand. It may take an eye. But "If thy right hand +offend thee, cut it off," and "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it +out." He would not "cut it off" by amputating the finger and gradually +disjointing it up to the mark; and plucking out the offending eye is not +to bandage it so that it temporarily does not see the evil to which it +is attracted. No, the Gospel is not a system of repairs. It is not here +to temporize, but to make all things new, and it strikes at the heart of +evil and not at its surface. + +It was not Christ's method to ignore an evil which confronted him. He +did not evade or get around issues. He met them. He answered them. He +was an "incarnate conscience" in the land. He knew what was in man. His +followers cannot fail when they walk closely with him in the path which +he has made plain. + + * * * * * + + +FIVE QUESTIONS. + +1.--If the Georgia Association had been without any colored members in +it, would the Georgia Conference ever have been formed? + +2.--If the Georgia Association had been without any colored members, +would the Georgia Conference have declined to unite with it, on some one +of the terms submitted by the Georgia Association? + +3.--If the Georgia Association had been without any colored members, +would this curious and ingenious scheme of "co-ordinate and equal +bodies," "to elect delegates" to visit each other now and then ever have +been concocted? + +4.--Is it worth while to "darken counsel with words" as to methods, when +it is evident that the purpose is, not to form any union which would be +other than humiliating to a colored man, and contrary to the heretofore +held principles of the Congregational Churches? + +5.--Why these arguments to show "how not to do it," when to do it would +be so simple and so evidently Christian? + +_N.Y. Independent._ + + * * * * * + + +A MID-SUMMER LEAF OF THE A.M.A. CATECHISM. + +Q. _When are Home Missions properly so called?_ + +A. When they are ordained to save the unevangelized people of the land +in which they dwell. + +Q. _When are missions properly called Foreign Missions?_ + +A. When they are missions to foreigners in a foreign country. + +Q. _Are missions among the Indians in this country, Foreign Missions?_ + +A. They are not, though the Indians have been treated as foreigners, +which has been the source of great wrongs and many sorrows. + +Q. _Are missions to the Chinese in this country, Foreign Missions?_ + +A. They are not, though the Chinese are refused the privileges accorded +other foreigners. The missions of the A.M.A. on the Pacific Coast are +most fruitful and hopeful, and, since these foreigners return to China, +there is an interblending of Home and Foreign Missions here, that is +full of promise. + +Q. _Are the missions of the A.M.A. in the South, Foreign Missions?_ + +A. They are not, though they have been successful in exciting interest +for Africa among the students of their schools. Some of these are now +foreign missionaries; others are preparing to go; but the missions of +the A.M.A. in the broadest sense are Home Missions, for they minister to +white and black as to citizens of a common country, who alike need the +Gospel. The A.M.A. is planting white churches (so called) every year, +and has added several this year, though none of them would refuse +membership to a man because he is black, and is planting colored +churches (so called), none of which should be excluded from State +Associations merely because of color. + +Q. _Should the missions of the A.M.A. be called Foreign Missions because +its schools and churches cannot win the co-operation of the Christians +among whom they live?_ + +A. They did not at once win the co-operation of Christians among whom +they went, but confidence has been growing with the years until the +cases are exceptional where they do not have the co-operation of +enlightened and broad-minded Christians. In most cases, the schools and +churches of the A.M.A. have won both confidence and gratitude throughout +the South. Southern men are among the trustees of its institutions, and +everywhere its Field Superintendents and Secretaries are greeted with +cordiality. A prominent editor of a Southern political paper--white and +democratic--testifies this month: "_Yours is the most practical +missionary work ever undertaken by a Christian body, and should have the +hearty and unstinted support of all Christians._" The cases are few +where good will does not exist between its teachers and ministers and +the white people among whom they live. + +Q. _Does not social ostracism show that the white teacher is engaged in +a Foreign Mission?_ + +A. Social ostracism is gradually giving way among the more intelligent +Christian people. Nothing, however, dies so hard as prejudice, and +nothing is so cruel; but missions do not cease to be Home Missions, +because they may be where there is sinful prejudice and dense ignorance. + +Q. _What would be Foreign Missions in the South?_ + +A. Missions in the South which would treat an entire race as foreigners +and aliens because in God's wisdom he has seen fit to make them black, +would be foreign to the spirit of the Gospel: "For He is our peace who +hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition +between us. Through Him, we both have access by one Spirit unto the +Father. Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but +fellow citizens with the saints and of the general household of God, and +built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ +himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building, fitly +framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord." Missions in +the South which exclude pastors and delegates from Associations and +Conferences, would be foreign to the Gospel. Missions in the South +founded upon an aristocracy of skin, would be foreign to the spirit of +the Gospel. Missions which would preach against caste in India, and +perpetuate it in America, would be foreign to the methods of Christ, and +to Christian methods in foreign lands. + +Q. _Does the A.M.A. believe in mixed churches of white and black +people?_ + +A. The A.M.A. does not regard it as at all probable that such churches +will exist to any great extent. Race tastes and race affiliations will +make for churches essentially white and essentially black. "But to close +the door on any Christian is in so far to make it an unchristian church. +To go into the South and establish white churches from which, whether by +a formal law or by an unwritten but self-forcing edict, men are excluded +because God made them black, is to deny one of the fundamental tenets of +Christ. There is no need to attempt to corral all men of all races in +one enclosure, but for any church, especially a church of the Puritans, +to enter upon a missionary work in the South and initiate it by refusing +to fellowship a black man because he is black, is to apostatize from the +faith in order to get a chance to preach the faith." The doors of every +Christian church ought to stand wide open to men of every race and +color, and in all representative bodies these churches should be one. + +Q. _Is this the position of the Roman Catholic Church in its Southern +work?_ + +A. It is: The Roman Catholic Church would not for a moment recognize any +color-line in its assemblies or priesthood. + +Q. _Does the A.M.A. believe in the social equality of the races?_ + +A. The A.M.A. has never seen any social equality anywhere, and believes +and teaches nothing about it. It believes in the Fatherhood of God and +the brotherhood of man. + +Q. _Is the A.M.A. agitating the color-line question?_ + +A. It is not. It always has proclaimed its principles for the interests +of the oppressed, and always has championed the cause of God's poor, +pleading for the right because it is right. + +Q. _Why is the A.M.A. in the South doing its work in schools and +churches among white and black?_ + +A. Because the Lord has said; "Behold, I have set before thee an open +door, and no man can shut it." + + * * * * * + + +THE CARS, THE CHURCH, THE COURTS. + +Our esteemed brother, Rev. G.C. Rowe, pastor of the Plymouth +Congregational Church, Charleston, S.C., and his associates, on their +return from the meeting of the Joint Committee on the union of the +Georgia Association and the Georgia Conference, were forcibly +transferred to an inferior car on the Georgia Railroad. They were not +driven from the train, they were allowed to ride, and the car in which +they rode was connected with the cars containing the white passengers. +They were simply separated from the others and that only because they +were colored persons. + +The reception these honored ministers of Christ met in the Joint +Committee was very much of the same sort. The white brethren did not +deny them their place in the church--nay, the two bodies, white and +colored, were to be connected together, but these colored brethren were +to be kept separate and that only because they were colored persons. + +An appeal will be made to the courts, but the interesting question is: +which will be first to recognize the equal manhood of the colored man-- +the cars, the courts or the church? Would it not be a shame to the +church and a dishonor to the Christian name if the church should be the +last? + + * * * * * + +Speaking of the race problem, in his baccalaureate sermon at Vanderbilt +University, recently, Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi, of the Methodist +Church, South, startled his hearers by the following vigorous +declaration: "It is a travesty on religion, this disposition to canonize +missionaries who go to the dark continent, while we have nothing but +social ostracism for the white teacher who is doing a work no less noble +at home. The solution to the race problem rests with the white people +who live among the blacks, and who are willing to become their teachers +in a missionary spirit." + + * * * * * + + +THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION AND FOREIGN MISSIONS. + +BY REV. FRANK B. JENKINS. + +The American Missionary Association has done both home and foreign +missionary work. There is nothing in its constitution or traditions to +prevent its doing the same again. + +Providence, however, seems to indicate clearly that its work at present +be within the United States. While in this sense it does home missionary +work, the peculiar conditions of the people among whom it mostly labors +require largely the methods of foreign missions. It must supply the +school, as well as the church; industrial training as well as that which +is intellectual and moral. It must create a native ministry and develop +native workers of all kinds. In fact, it would be hard to find on +foreign mission fields a single kind of activity which is not duplicated +in the fields of the American Missionary Association. + +Home missions aid foreign missions by creating the conditions of more +income and more missionaries for foreign fields. The work of this +Association has done this already to some extent; without doubt it is to +do it to a far greater extent in the future. + +In taking people from the ignorance and poverty of slavery and savagery, +it could not be expected to form them at once into large givers or +efficient workers for foreign fields; but who can say, after the marvels +of the past twenty-four years, what the future shall show, when the +coming millions shall arise and, out of gratitude for what they have +received, give of their increasing means and send forth their sons and +daughters to tell the glad story of freedom, truth and love. + +It has been a favorite idea of many that the Negroes of America should +evangelize Africa. Perhaps some have been disappointed that so few of +them have gone to Africa as missionaries; but such, I am sure, have +failed fully to consider the facts. A people who had received only the +degrading tuition of slavery could not produce at once many who should +have the reliable qualities and the intellectual and moral training +needed for the responsible and, to a large extent, the unsuperintended +work of a foreign missionary. Then, every capable preacher, teacher and +leader has been needed in a hundred places at home. They could scarcely +be justified in leaving their own brothers and sisters in heathenism and +without the truth within their reach, to go to the heathen abroad. + +Yet a few have gone forth and proved themselves capable, faithful and +successful. A former slave of Jefferson Davis is not only a successful +missionary in Africa, but has proved himself such a level-headed man +that he has been chosen treasurer of one of the missions of the American +Board. Such as he are an earnest of what shall be, when the colored +people shall be more fully evangelized and the appeal for Africa can be +made strong to their hearts and consciences. Then there will be such a +going forth as will astonish the Christian Church. + +The bearing of the work for the one hundred thousand Chinese in this +country on foreign missions can be clearly seen. Christian work for them +is missionary work for China--it sends them back to become missionaries +to their native land. The fruitfulness of this work for foreign missions +has been fully demonstrated. + +The possibilities of the influence of the evangelization of the Indians +on foreign missions is a topic which I do not remember having seen or +heard mentioned. Yet it seems to me worth thinking about. + +Mexico has four million Indians; Central America, one million five +hundred thousand, and South America seven million. Here is a foreign +mission field of twelve and a half million souls. How can it be +otherwise than that, when once the Indians of our land shall come to +have and appreciate the blessings of a Christian civilization, their +hearts shall be stirred by the needs of their brethren according to the +flesh, and that they will go to them with the gospel story? + +There remains one other field--the whites of the South and especially +the "Mountain Whites." As a class, they are poor, ignorant and needy in +every way--materially, intellectually, morally and spiritually, but +_they are not the "poor, white trash" of the South_. As good blood flows +in their veins as in the veins of the Northern people. A wrong start and +their surroundings have made them what they are. Give them schools and +pure and enlightened churches and they will awake into new life as fast +as any people ever did. They will show in years what missionary work can +usually show only in decades. In Williamsburg Academy, Ky., nearly every +boy in the higher classes is expecting to prepare for the ministry, and +that school is only a little over half a dozen years old and is the +first one opened in our mountain work. + +Give these mountain boys and girls a chance, and the people who gave the +nation a Lincoln will give it ministers and missionaries, not only for +the seven mountain States, but also for other home mission fields and +for foreign lands. + +If the Congregational churches will listen to the call of Christ and +appreciate the opportunity which he has placed before them, there may be +in these mountains, filled with their marvellous mineral wealth, +Congregational churches which shall be not only self-supporting, but +give generously for the advancement of Christ's kingdom throughout the +earth. The most generous giver I know, is a native of the mountains and +a member of one of our missionary churches. + + * * * * * + + +ROME AND THE NEGRO. + +One of our most interesting exchanges is an "_Illustrated Roman Catholic +Quarterly_ edited and published by the Fathers of St. Joseph's +Missionary Society of the Sacred Heart," its "Record of Missions among +the Colored People of the United States." + +We need not say that we have no sympathy with Romanism and its errors, +nor with the "Missionary Society of the Sacred Heart," and its efforts +to plant Romanism among the colored people of the South. + +We can, however, but admire the fidelity of the church to its doctrines, +and the Christian example it gives to all missionary societies in its +recognition of man as man. The quotations which we make from the Roman +Catholic Quarterly will account for the strong hold that Romanism is +beginning to secure upon the negro race. + +The following, for example, is a Roman Catholic tribute to John Brown: + + On the 2nd of December next, thirty years will have passed + since John Brown, in his sixtieth winter, ascended the scaffold + and gave his life for the colored race. + + Connecticut gave the hero birth--from heroes; New York, in her + Adirondack recesses, developed in him that spirit of liberty + which Ohio had nurtured, and is forever honored by his grave; + while Virginia, "building better than she knew," bestowed the + martyr's crown. It was necessary that one man should die for the + people (John xviii, 14), and God arranged that he who is likewise + one of the great benefactors of the human race as well as of his + native land should crimson and beautify with his blood the soil + that gave a cradle and a tomb to the Father of his Country. + + Grand indeed is the greatness of the rock-ribbed Adirondacks + where John Brown lived, prayed, thought out his great + life-thought, and made his first trials in the work of emancipation, + but grander is the stone there that marks the grave of him whose + mighty spirit is still "marching on;" for the greatness of that + soul invests the tomb with moral grandeur, and calls "all the + astonishing magnificence of unintelligent creation poor." + + Fair indeed are the banks of the Shenandoah, and beautiful the + landscape on which the dying eyes of the hero rested, but more + lovely far the death of him and of his sons and comrades,--"even + in death they were not divided" (2nd Kings i, 19), because the + most beautiful thing in the world or out of it is love, and he + and they died of love for their brethren, God's children. It is + truly fitting, therefore, that they who were rescued by him from + bondage should love and honor his glorious name, and that we all + should chant the praises of the man who was the chosen instrument + of Providence in destroying out of our country the inhuman custom + of human slavery. + +The _Southern Congregationalist_, published in Atlanta, does not have a +high opinion of such men as John Brown. We quote: + + There are men who never are mistaken. If your opinion or plan, no + matter how well sustained, differs from theirs, they solemnly + greet you: "Our conscience is our monitor: we can make no + concessions of principle." The case is ended. You may as well + make your humble bow and pass on, leaving them in their lofty and + superior place. Such men are of little use in the world. They may + have a few satellites, but that is all. It is noticeable how + uniformly the conscience and principles of these men agree with + their prejudices, salaries and other interests, and with changed + circumstances how "concessions" distill from them gently as the + dew. + +We quote again from the _St. Joseph's Advocate_, as to the color line: + + Man was created in God's own image and likeness. This image and + likeness is, however, not a physical one, it is a spiritual or + soul likeness. The likeness and image of the operation of the + human soul--the mind--through the material, physical medium of + the brain, is not only similar, but substantially and formally + alike in every division of the human race. It thus follows that + fundamentally there is an identity of mental or soul activity and + action in all the human race. Neither color, nor form, nor + feature, nor clime, operates a change on the formal and + fundamental identity of human thought as evolved by the human + mind.... + + It follows that the negro race, thinking the same thoughts, have + the same apprehension of the perfect, good and true, and, + thinking in the same lines as the Caucassian race, must needs be + of the same order of creation, in the image and likeness of their + Maker, although physically different in color, yet in mind and + soul the same. This, too, removes the theory of the inferiority + of races, and relegates it to the lumber room of the mere + physicist or corporal anatomist, who, because he cannot find life + in death any more than thought, would deny life as he would deny + the soul, even as La Place would not admit a Creator--God-- + because he could not see him at the end of his telescope.... + + Naturally working for and under white men, their industry, + versatility and submissiveness have made many people think they + were an inferior race. This cannot be. Give them a fair chance in + life's battle, train their minds, fill their immortal souls with + worthy conceptions of the truth as only presented by the Roman + Catholic Church, and you will make of the negro race a kind, + charitable, intelligent, worthy Christian people, as full of love + for the country of their former enslavement as the best patriot + descendant of the Revolutionary fathers. Tried in peace and in + war when they have received but half the training of the white + race, they have not been found wanting, but have proven + themselves worthy of offices of trust and honor in every sphere + of life and as good Christians as God has ever granted His divine + grace to. His promises are for all nations and for all times, and + necessarily for the negro as for the white man, all of whom in + their souls are created in His own image and likeness from the + beginning. + +Apropos of Romanism among the colored people, Archbishop Janssens, +of New Orleans, writes: + + Last year there were baptized 3,705 colored children and 297 + colored adults, which I estimate forms a population of about + 75,000 Catholics in this Diocese. + + We have six convents of colored Sisters, of which four are + schools, one an asylum for 74 girls, and the other an asylum, for + 21 old women. There are, besides, nine schools conducted by white + Sisters, and eleven schools conducted by lay teachers--in all, + twenty-four schools with 1,330 scholars. It is not bad. + +At Emmetsburg, Maryland, the Roman Catholics report the following: + + _The Sisters are putting up a large and fine edifice_ which will + be ready for business in September, and will accommodate all the + Catholic children, both white-colored and black-colored in the + town and vicinity. I am curious to know if this is the first + instance in which children of both the dominant races will be + educated under one roof. + +Says the editor: "How quickly the color-line disappears in the Catholic +Church." + + * * * * * + + +NOTES BY THE WAY. + +BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER. + +Not long ago, I met a Frenchman in the halls of the Congregational +House, who was looking for Secretary Coit of the Massachusetts Home +Missionary Society. He evidently had a very limited knowledge of the +English language, for he accosted me as follows:--"You--eh, you +somewheres? Ah! I begs my pardon." + +This amusing bungle of the French brother fairly represents my condition +during the past few weeks. I have not been altogether sure that I was +even "somewheres." Preaching one Sunday in Dover, N.H., the next in +Talladega, Ala., the next at Santee Agency, Neb., the next on the +Cheyenne River, Dak., then enjoying a communion season with Brother Hall +at Fort Berthold, and the next standing beside the pastor of a New +England Church at the same Lord's table. + +The days between these Sabbaths were filled with pleasant duties, in +talking over the great work of our Association with the earnest and +devoted missionaries. But many things are impressed upon one's thought +by such a trip as this. We realize more than ever that the American +Missionary Association is a great National Society, limited neither +geographically nor by any race restrictions; actually gathering in its +schools and missions, Negroes, Whites and Indians, and Chinese and +Japanese, and Hondurans and Cubans, and who knows how many other needy +and destitute people! Another fact that must impress one, is the +thoroughness of the work done. The examinations were thorough and +exhaustive in the schools. This was true, not only in the lower grades, +but also in the advanced classes. Dr. Andrews conducted the examinations +in Church History, at Talladega, which would have done credit to any of +our Theological Seminaries. And Dr. DeForest's classes in Mental +Philosophy gave evidence of careful study and of assimilation of that +which they had studied. They had not only eaten, but had digested their +mental food. The same was true at Fisk. What a grand thing it would be, +if the good friends of the Association in New England, and elsewhere in +the North, to whom our work is only presented through an appeal for +funds, might visit some of these grand institutions in the South and +West, and see just what is being done for these neglected people! The +work cannot be appreciated in its vast importance and magnificent +results, except after such a personal inspection of the field. + + +These large institutions are the centers of still larger missionary work +outside. One professor in Talladega, a graduate of Harvard, has been +especially busy during the last year, developing the Sunday-school work +in the surrounding districts. The following are some of the results:-- +eight Sunday-schools enrolling about five hundred scholars; thirty +teachers, all students in the College; two schools meet in buildings +belonging to the College, three in log churches, owned by other +denominations, not having Sunday-schools, two in log cabins. "In one +school, teachers and scholars have to huddle together under umbrellas, +if they have any, or go wet, if they haven't them, whenever it rains; +and it is a sight which makes one long for better accommodations, that +more efficient work may be done," writes this self-sacrificing professor +in a note just received. In one house, he found a family of white +children, all of them very ignorant, and, so far as he was able to +discover, there was not a single book of any kind in the cabin. He +invited the children to Sunday-school, where, like Robert Raikes, he +teaches reading and spelling as well as the Bible, but the mother +indignantly refused, saying that she "didn't let her children go to +school with Niggers!" + +There are many evidences of heroic sacrifice on the part of the people +among whom we labor, that one runs across in such a trip as this. Here +is one: A small church in Alabama has recently voted to pay fifty +dollars per month of their pastor's salary, that they may become +self-supporting, and so let the funds which they have received go to +other more needy fields. There are seventy-five persons in this church +who might be termed paying members; of all these, the pastor informed +me, not more than fifteen receive over a dollar per day; sixty receive +less than this. They pay, on an average, ten dollars per month for rent; +there are twenty-six working-days to the month, and they often lose at +least five of these, on account of weather or lack of work, making an +income of only twenty-one dollars per month. Ten dollars going for rent, +leaves but eleven dollars for the support of the family. Pretty heroic +economy that! + +The Annual Meeting of the Dakota Mission, the Convention of missionaries +who are at work in the Indian field under the direction of this +Association, gathered at Santee Agency, Nebraska, Saturday, June 15, and +was full of interest. Sessions were held for three days, and continued +late into the night. Thrilling incidents of exposure on the prairie +during winter, swimming swollen and chilly streams, breaking through the +ice when crossing, which, in one case, resulted in the drowning of a +team of horses, seemed to be every-day incidents in the life of these +heroic missionaries, who are carrying on this noble work among the +Indians. The two Riggs brothers, whose heredity as well as personal +consecration fit them for large usefulness in the Indian work, were +especially rich in experience and inspiring in conference. One thing, +especially, impressed me in this Indian work, and that was, the +difference in character between the average teacher employed by the +Government and those employed by this Association and other missionary +bodies. Many noble men and women are at work under the Government in +teaching the Indians, but the purpose of the Government-school at the +best is simply to make intelligent citizens. The purpose of the +mission-school is to develop character, to inculcate purity, to create +moral earnestness, in other words, not simply to citizenize, but to +Christianize. We need more mission schools among the Indians, for only +the mission idea can redeem a pagan people. I would like to speak of +Miss Collins's work, gradually bringing the village of Running Antelope +on the Grand River into the knowledge of Christ, and of the developing +work at Fort Yates, and of the work among the Mandans, Rees and Gros +Ventres, and of the motley and picturesque crowd that gathered for +communion in the little church at Fort Berthold; but the interesting +facts from these fields must be left for other notes. + + * * * * * + + +THE SOUTH + + + * * * * * + + +The Daniel Hand Fund is doing a noble work this first year in the +education of many students who would otherwise not have been able to +attend school. + + * * * * * + + +HOWARD UNIVERSITY, THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. + +The anniversary of this department opened the commencement week of the +Howard University at Washington, D.C., which extended from Friday, May +24th, to Wednesday, May 29th. A crowded audience was in attendance at +the Asbury colored church. The graduating class of four was +exceptionally small this year, having been less in number than usual on +entering three years ago, and having been particularly unfortunate in +deaths and removals. The preceding graduating class numbered twelve, and +the succeeding one will number thirteen. But the addresses delivered by +the young men were of excellent quality, eliciting high approval from +numerous intelligent judges who were present. One general from the army, +who listened with great interest, came up afterwards to express thanks +to one of the Professors for having invited him to attend the exercises. + + * * * * * + + +TILLOTSON INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS. + +Wednesday, June 5, witnessed the close of the eighth year in the history +of Tillotson Institute. The closing exercises began on Thursday, May 30, +with the annual written examinations which, on account of the very large +attendance of this year--greater than ever before--meant more work than +usual for the teachers. These examinations cover the work of the entire +year, and are looked forward to with much apprehension by the students. + +For the past three years, the last Saturday afternoon before +commencement has been set apart as "Tillotson Day," and devoted to +exercises appropriate to such an occasion. This year, Rev. W.H. Shaw, +pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in this city, addressed the +students in the chapel. This was followed by a pic-nic on the school +grounds. + +The last Sunday in the school is rather a sad day to most of the +teachers. There are many interests in these Sunday-schools which one +cannot bear the thought of leaving for four long months. We can only +hope that the good seed sown during the year has not fallen on stony +ground or by the wayside, and that it will survive the heat of the +summer. + +Monday and Tuesday were devoted to oral examinations. These were held in +the chapel and were attended by an unusually large number of the parents +and friends of the students from the city and elsewhere. The classes +acquitted themselves very creditably; especially good, however, were the +examinations of the seventh grade in geometry and the fourth grade in +geography. + +More attention has been given this year to industrial training than ever +before. In the recitation rooms, were specimens of the handiwork of the +students in the various industrial departments. A class of little girls +told of the various forms of needlework, which was something more than +theory with them, as their samples of work on exhibition testified. +There was not a useless article in the entire collection; they have been +taught how to make serviceable garments. Very neat specimens of darning +and mending were displayed, also. + +The cooking classes exhibited samples of their skill. The disappearance +of all the handiwork of this class in the course of inspection witnessed +to its success. The classes in carpentry displayed specimens of their +skill. This is the first year that this industry has been taught here. + +On Tuesday evening, occurred the annual musical and rhetorical +entertainment. A large audience is always expected on this occasion, but +this year it was larger than ever. Before eight o'clock, the chapel with +the adjoining halls and recitation rooms were filled, and +notwithstanding the efforts of the ushers to find room for every one, +about half the number were obliged to go away. One little boy who came +especially to see the dumbbell drill was found under the front steps, +after the close of the entertainment, fast asleep. He had taken refuge +there to await a chance to get a seat in the chapel later in the +evening. + +On Wednesday morning, an audience of much more manageable magnitude than +that of the previous evening assembled at 10 o'clock, to listen to the +regular commencement exercises. These consisted of essays, orations, +recitations and declamations. Two young men, one of whom was graduated +last year from the elementary normal course, were graduated from the +higher normal course. The original productions presented this year were +said to have been unusually good. A visitor, in an address made after +the presentation of the diplomas, in speaking of the excellence of the +orations said of one of them, "It would be creditable on the platform of +any school in the United States." + +The year just ended has been one of hard work and great prosperity. The +attendance has been not only larger than ever before, but constant, and +the result of such steady and persistent work is, as might be expected, +gratifying progress in all departments. + + * * * * * + + +EXTRACT FROM A VALEDICTORY ADDRESS. + +An account of the closing exercises of Avery Institute in South +Carolina, was given in the MISSIONARY last month. A copy of the +valedictory address of one of the pupils has been sent to us, from which +we excerpt one or two passages to give the flavor of the occasion. We +think it would be creditable to any school of like grade in the country. + + To-day we are to go forth. Is it strange that emotions deep and + solemn should pervade our hearts? Amid these emotions, gratitude + stands prominent--gratitude to the honored Association which has + placed within our reach these opportunities for the development + of intellect and of character that fit us to take our places in + life as intelligent men and women. In behalf of the class of '89 + and of all our schoolmates, we return to THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY + ASSOCIATION our heartfelt thanks, and invoke for it the richest + blessings of Him who maketh rich.... In bidding adieu to + school life, the thought which presses most forcibly is that we + are supposed now to be ready for our duties in life. Let us + rather remember that we have but caught a glimpse of the + knowledge which lies beyond and which beckons to us. May our + thirst for it be insatiable. Let us take care of each day and + each hour, and show to our Heavenly Father that we love his + precepts, and are seeking to live true and holy lives. Our places + here will soon be filled, but nothing will take away from our + hearts the memories of dear old _Avery_. + + * * * * * + + +MISSIONARY VISITS. + +BY MRS. A.W. CURTIS. + +We were going out for a ride, a pleasure ride, a mission of mercy to the +sick and afflicted, to carry them spiritual and physical comforts. + +We have no missionary horse and buggy, and it was not an elegant +equipage standing before our door. Our steed was a very lank, bony, +long-eared mule, and the vehicle a rather disreputable looking old +delivery wagon, kindly loaned to us by our grocer; but we were thankful +for anything that would take us safely. We soon came to a deep, +ugly-looking ravine, that must be crossed. I walked over the log that +spanned it, while Dominie "rattled his bones over the stones," down the +steep descent, and up the farther side in safety, thanks to the +sure-footed mule. Just beyond was a small rude cabin. The old chimney had +tumbled down, leaving nearly the whole of one side entirely open to the +weather. Inside, upon a bed that nearly filled the small room, lay a woman +who was paralyzed. A little child was her only attendant. Some kind +neighbor, however, had made her clean and comfortable for the day. The +poor woman could not move, but her dark eyes beamed with delight at the +sight of us, and the poor drawn face expressed the joy she could not +speak. We talked of the dear friend Jesus, whom she loved and trusted, +sang together a song of faith, and commended her to heaven's mercy and +kindness, in prayer. + +On we went again, over the hills, the sun climbing higher and growing +hotter every moment. Then we turned off into some dim cool woods, +picking our way through rough ravines and blind tracks until we reached +another little cabin home. We had to bend low to enter the door of the +rough, rude house, yet the one low room, with loft above, sheltered a +family of nine persons. + +Upon a bed, the dear old grandmother was dying, but the dark cabin +seemed illuminated by the shining face of the happy saint. + +"You are almost home, Auntie?" + +"Yes chile, almost home!" + +"And you find Jesus dear and precious, now?" + +"Yes! yes! dear and precious." + +I held her cold, almost pulseless hands in mine, while her minister read +comforting words of hope from the blessed Word. Then we sang for her, +closing with-- + + "Oh come, angel bands, come and around me stand, + Oh bear me away on your snowy wings + To my eternal home." + +Her dark face was fairly radiant. She lifted her hands toward heaven, +and though our eyes were holden that we could not see, we _felt_ that +the Lord and his angels were glorifying that humble abode, making it the +gateway of heaven. Holding fast to our hands as we knelt beside her bed, +she murmured responses to our prayers. + +With uplifted hearts, we said our last good-bye, and went away rejoicing +in her triumph over the terrors of death and at the thought of the glory +that awaited her. As we passed out of sight, she entered within the +gates, with that radiant look upon her face; and the next day at sunset +we laid her away to rest. + + +From this "Beulah-land," we hastened on to visit a man who was in the +last stages of consumption. We had been for some time doing what we +could that he might be prepared for the great change that was drawing +near. In the low doorway, sat an old hag-like woman, who stared at us +with a look of rage, as we passed by her into the room where the sick +man was. Sultry as was the day, there was a hot blaze in the cavernous +fireplace. Over it hung an iron kettle, from which most sickening odors +emanated. The sick man was in a heavy stupor. We tried in vain to arouse +him, even for a moment. His wife looked unusually cheerful, as she +assured us that he "was a great deal better; that he did not cough at +all, and rested mighty easy." + +We understood the situation at once. The poor woman was densely +ignorant, and believed her husband had been "conjured." The old hag in +the doorway was "a witch doctor," who had promised to cure him for ten +dollars! How the poor wife with her five little children to support +managed to raise it, God only knows; but she had done it, and was +pouring down that unconscious man's throat, hourly doses of a villainous +compound of most loathsome things, over which the old hag muttered her +incantations, and worked her Satanic spells. She watched us with her +evil eye as we looked pityingly upon the poor sufferer, and glared +menacingly when we told the poor wife that he was no better; that the +end was near. + +That very night the death-like stupor was broken by agonies of torture +which racked the wasted frame for many hours. There was no respite for a +prayer, or for a thought of the eternity into which his poor soul was +hastening. The witch doctor fled in haste, unable to endure the sight of +the tortures she herself had invoked. It was an unutterable relief when +those shrieks of agony were hushed by the awful silence of death. + +To us, there came an added burden of care as we realized how many of +this people are still in bondage to these heathenish customs and +superstitions. Nothing but the light of a pure gospel and the elevating +influences of education, will lift them out of their degradation. It +will take years of time, and patient labor, and will cost something; but +these souls are precious to God. They are "the heathen at our door." +There are _millions_ of them! They will soon be a mighty power for good +or evil in our nation. Which shall it be? + + * * * * * + + +A CALL FROM AUNT MARY. + +Aunt Mary is a member of one of our colored churches--a genuine daughter +of Africa--possessing characteristics belonging rather to the rougher +than the softer sex--a peddler by occupation; peddling cast-off clothing +(which she gets from white folks) among her colored sisters. + +This business, together with her masculine performances and her +qualification in plantation melodies, makes her exceedingly popular with +the colored people of the town. + +"Hello! Hello!" rang out from the highest key-note one morning just +after breakfast. Going to the door to see who it was, aunt Mary was +standing at the gate; she had come to make us a social and business +call. + +"Dog bite?" she asked. "Yes," was the reply, "but he won't bite you, +open the gate." Aunt Mary opened it and entered the yard. "Mornin'" +(again at a high key). "Good morning, walk in." "I come roun ter see you +all dis mornin'; I dun know if I am 'ceptable." "Certainly, aunt Mary, +you are, walk in and take a seat by the fire." + +Aunt Mary walked in, took a seat before the fire, placed her bag and an +old hat-box on the floor by her side and for a moment looked around the +room, noticing everything. Then she took up the poker, commenced poking +the fire, as if she wanted more heat to enable her to explain the chief +object of her visit. The heat is now up to the degree required, the +poker is laid aside, the old hat-box is in her lap, and aunt Mary is +ready to talk business. Opening the box, she said to Mrs. R., "Sister, I +have something har I want ter show you; dun know if you want ter see +it." "What is it?" Mrs. R. enquired. Here she pulled out a second-hand +bonnet trimmed in high colors. "A lady," she said, "give me dis last +night to sell. I aint show it to no body yet; she say to take it to some +of de preachers' wives be case it's too stylish for these yer common +niggers." The hat was examined and returned with, "I don't think I need +a hat just now, aunt Mary." + +"Do you sell a great deal?" "Yes 'urn, but sometimes 'tis mighty hard +to get money out ter our people. Dat ar ---- (naming the man) tuck a +dress from me for his wife; can't get a nickel from him, and every time +he see me he dodge inter some corner." "How do they pay? Cash?" "No, one +dollar a week till dey finish payin." "As a general thing I suppose they +try to meet you pretty promptly, don't they?" "Lors, no, honey! dey alus +put me off; but I keep a runin' and runin' every week jis ter make dem +tell lie." + +The subject of the hat, etc., rested here, and aunt Mary took up some of +her experience at church. "Broder ---- (she said, calling the preacher +by name) get so now-a-days he don't preach out ter de Bible no more. He +alus (always) on de path, he aint got time ter look in de book. I aint +got nara larnin, but I kin tell if anybody is preachin out ter de Bible. +We had a meetin ter vote him out de other day and I was a sittin' near +de stove; I hear dat ar ---- (calling the person's name) say, 'Broder A., +I don't want you to go 'way, I want you to stay,' and she was a sittin' +right up under de preacher's coat tail; and who tell you she didn't +wisper somethin ter him, then look at me and laugh?" "Is that so?" "Tis +so, honey! and I jis tuck up de shovel and went for her." Aunt Mary was +now on her feet, poker grasped in her hand, and arm lifted above her +head. "Laugh agin, says I, laugh agin, Miss Nigger, and I will stave +you down, who dar you to laugh at me, you unfogotten, hen-pecken, +know-nothin, off-scorn of the eart." + +With this, aunt Mary slung her bag across her shoulder, took up her hat +box, bade good morning, and as she got through the gate, struck out at +the very top of her voice one of her favorite melodies. + + * * * * * + +This bit of history was imparted in an examination in answer to the +question, "What were the Alien and Sedition Laws?" "Alien and Sedition +were members of Congress." + +Definition of education: Education is the cultivation of the moral, +brain, intellectual and voice. + + * * * * * + + +THE INDIANS. + + + * * * * * + + +LETTER FROM OAHE SCHOOL, DAKOTA. + +BY MISS JULIA E. PRATT. + +A very sad incident came into our life as a school last winter, which +has accentuated anew the ignorance and the superstitious heathenism of +these Indian people. + +One of our little boys was sent to the dormitory one morning to do some +work to which he objected, and, while pretending to obey, he took one of +the other little boys with him and ran away. Their absence was not +discovered until it was too late to overtake them, and as their home was +only ten miles away, and we knew they were good walkers, as all Indians +are almost from babyhood, we had every reason to believe they would +reach home in safety. They had started before daylight, and without any +breakfast, and the little boy who was enticed away had no overcoat nor +mittens, but had gone on the impulse of the moment without taking any +extra clothing. About ten o'clock, it grew very cold, and as the little +fellow had on shoes, to which he was unaccustomed, his feet became so +cold and tired that he could not go on. Then the boy who had coaxed him +away gave him his overcoat and mittens and went on, reaching home about +noon, telling that he had run away, and that he had left Jaran about +half way. Jaran's father did not believe the story, and came back to us, +ten miles, to see if it were true. This made us very anxious, but +nothing could be done but to await the issue. It seemed as if a series +of unfortunate mistakes had combined to bring about this result; and to +make everything still more puzzling, Mr. Riggs, our superintendent, was +away. He reached home that evening, and the next morning sent the +steward to learn the fate of the little runaway. He went on until he +found the little boy's cap and mittens, and the place where he had +evidently lain all night. It was a bitter night, and we knew that he +could not possibly have survived, in his exhausted condition, and not +knowing how to protect himself, even if he had had the means for so +doing. This, in itself, was a very bitter experience for us, but the +worst was yet to come. Mr. Riggs found it impossible to get an Indian to +go to the assistance of these poor people. They were all _afraid_. +Rumors were afloat that the father was going to shoot anyone connected +in any way with the school, Indian or white. When an Indian is +sorrow-stricken over the death of a friend or relative, he alleviates +his suffering by killing some one else. + +After the little boy was buried, the family came to the school. The old +grandmother brought the clothes he had on when found--and which they had +cut off,--spread them out before Mr. Riggs, and reproached him for +sending a little boy out into a storm so insufficiently clad; to which +Mr. Riggs replied that we had no idea he was going out into the storm, +that he was dressed for the house, and had we known he was going on a +journey, he would have been dressed for it. She would not be pacified, +however, and after bitterly reproaching Mr. Riggs for the death of her +grandson, she _demanded pay_ for it, as if money would make up to them +his loss. + +That afternoon, at the woman's meeting, we learned that they had given +away everything they possessed, furniture, clothing, bedding, dishes, +and were absolutely destitute of the barest necessities of life. This is +one of their customs. They reason thus: Our child is dead; our hearts +are sad; life has no longer any attractions; take all we have. The +Christian Indian women in our church each gave something out of her +little property to help these poor heathen people, who in their +superstitious ignorance had made their lot so wretched. Taking this, +they returned home and demanded of the family of the other poor boy a +cow in _payment_ for the death of their child. + +And there came to me this question: Is it possible that in the midst of +this beautiful free land of ours, there lives a people so densely +ignorant, so darkly superstitious, sunk so low in heathenism, as this +incident shows? And this is only one of many such incidents. May God +help us when such things are possible in a Christian land. + + * * * * * + + +THE CHINESE. + + + * * * * * + + +THREE DAYS OF EVANGELISTIC WORK AT PETALUMA. + +BY JEE GAM. + +I reached Petaluma a little while before school began. The scholars soon +poured in and the attendance was the largest the school ever had. In +order to have a little preaching service, we hurried through the +lessons. At the conclusion of school, two hymns were sung. I then +preached to them of Jesus. They all listened very attentively and +appeared interested. At the close, I asked them to come again the next +evening and bring their friends. To my great surprise, the next evening +not only all the scholars came, but many outsiders; some of these had +years ago attended our school for some little time, but the majority of +them had never been inside our mission. I was informed, after the +meeting, that five or six of them were very highly educated in Chinese, +and that they were chief officers of the Chinese Branch Masonic Society +in Petaluma. I thought they came simply for curiosity and perhaps for +argument. Just before the meeting commenced, I went into my room, knelt +down and said to God: "Oh Lord, Thou art the Almighty God, Thou knowest +the motives of those who have come to this meeting; Thou knowest I am +very weak. I can do nothing without Thy help, so I beseech Thee to make +me a good agent in Thy hand. Give me the right word to speak, fill me +with power." + +I arose from prayer and felt that God was with me. I went into the +meeting and announced my subject. It was on Daniel being cast into the +lions' den. I noticed the marked interest they all seemed to feel. At +the close, I again asked all present to come the next evening (Sunday +evening) and bring more friends. + +The Sabbath evening meeting came. Sunday-school began at six o'clock. +Not only the scholars and every one of the outsiders who had attended +the meeting of the night before came, but many others besides, so that +we had to bring in extra benches, and yet we lacked room. + +My subject this evening was Daniel, third chapter, the three Hebrew +children cast into the fiery furnace, being a continuation of my Bible +reading of the previous evening. I endeavored to bring home to my +countrymen three things: 1st.--That this was the true God, and he was +the Supreme Ruler mentioned by our Confucius, Mencius and other sages. +2d.--He was all-powerful and not like the golden image which +Nebuchadnezzar had set up, nor like the idols that we Chinese serve. +3d.--He was able to save all those that put their trust in Him. He is +_just as able_ and as _willing_ to _save_ us _to-day_ as He was when He +saved Daniel and his three countrymen, provided we are willing to trust +in Him, as these men did, for He is the same yesterday, to-day and +forever. The golden image could not protect from the dangers of the fire +the king's mighty men that cast Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the +furnace. And why? Because it was simply an image, the work of men's +hands. And now, what are our Chinese idols? Are not they the works of +men's hands too? We all say that they are true gods and are very +powerful; yet, you all well know that we have a common saying: "Though +the gods are powerful, yet they are not able to protect an _unfortunate_ +man." So let us seek, believe and worship the only true God, and Him +alone. + +I had to come away the next day, and felt that perhaps I might never +have another chance to speak to them. The opportunity, too, was one of +the best that any preacher could desire, for they all seemed hungering +for more of the truth. Therefore I went on to tell them that the Son of +God whom Nebuchadnezzar saw in the fiery furnace was this same Jesus +that we Christians believe in and preach to-day. At the conclusion, I +urged all to accept Him as their Saviour. I said: "Of course I cannot +tell you all about Jesus in one evening, for nearly every one of the +thirty-nine books of the Old Testament and every one of the twenty-seven +books of the New Testament speak of Jesus,--his birth, his life, his +teaching. All these you can find out by reading the Chinese translation +of the Bible, and therefore we earnestly invite you all to read it for +yourselves." + +"One of our proverbs says: 'Genuine gold never fears the hot furnace +fire.' So the Bible never fears examination. The more you try it, the +truer you will find it to be. You are all acquainted with the ways of +the Tanist priests. They deceive the people and you all know their +doctrines and tricks will not bear inspection. For example, the manner +in which they pretend to catch demons; they go to the house with their +gongs, cymbals, etc., and pretend to catch the ghost and place him in a +jar. After they have caught him, they will not _allow you_ to open the +jar to view him. Why? The Bible you see is as true as the broad +daylight, for it has borne the inspection of centuries. The doctrines of +the Tanist priests differ in this respect. Their teaching will not stand +criticism nor examination, while the Bible stands the tests of all +times, and it is fast becoming the standard book of the nations of the +world." + +The meeting was then closed with a prayer. I said to them, "I shall be +happy to have any one ask questions about Jesus and I will endeavor to +answer." But no question was asked, so I gave each a tract to take home +to read. After they had left, a Chinese laundryman and two of his +employees came. I learned that they had come before and found the room +so crowded that they could not enter. I had a very pleasant visit from +them. I talked to them both of their spiritual and temporal welfare. + +May God bless the seed sown there and grant that all the Petaluma +Chinese may find salvation in Jesus Christ, our Lord. + + * * * * * + + +DEATH OF LEUNG KEE. + +BY MRS. C.A. SHELDON. + +Leung Kee was but 16 years old and was in a store with his uncle, a +heathen, but a fine-looking man and one whose character is worthy of +respect. He had just joined our Christian Association when he was taken +sick. His uncle thought his sickness came because he had become a +Christian, and he begged of him to go back to his old religion, but he +said "No," he would trust in Jesus. Just as he died, his uncle again +asked him if he should not burn incense, but he still said "No," and +asked the Christian brethren to pray with him. As soon as we heard of +his death, Miss Watson and I called. The uncle was very courteous, told +us that Leung Kee was a Christian boy, and he wanted us to do just what +we thought best. Our pastor, Dr. Hutchins, attended the funeral with us +and made some very touching remarks. We had singing by the Christian +brethren and others who were there. The uncle was attentive, and more +than once tears were in his eyes. At the grave we sang a hymn. Chung Moi +prayed in Chinese; all joined in the Lord's prayer in Chinese, then we +sang again, "O think of the home over there." The uncle came and thanked +us for our kindness to his boy; said it was his brother's son, but just +like his own; I wish all who think the Chinese have no heart could have +heard the tremor in his voice and seen his quivering lips and his eyes +full of tears. One of the Christian brethren told us that he said +afterwards that he would join the Christian Association himself if he +were not so old. So I think perhaps our young brother's early death may +do more for his countrymen than his life would have done. I pray that it +may be so. + + * * * * * + + +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 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.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne, Ind. + +ILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St, Chicago, Ill. + +MINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, + Secretary, Miss Katharine Plant, 2651 Portland Avenue, + Minneapolis, Minn. + +IOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa. + +KANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, + Secretary, Mrs. G.L. Epps, Topeka, Kan. + +MICH.--Woman's Home Miss, Union, + Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, Mich. + +WIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis. + +NEB.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 N Broad St., Fremont, Neb. + +COLORADO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Packard, Pueblo, Colo. + +SOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, + President, Mrs. T.M. Hills, Sioux Falls; + Secretary, Mrs. W.B. Dawes, Redfield; + Treasurer, Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston. + +NORTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Soc., + President, Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight; + Sec., Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood; + Treas., Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo. + + [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_. + + * * * * * + +Now is the time to plan to attend our A.M.A. Woman's Meeting in +connection with the Annual Meeting at Chicago, where you may see and +listen to some live missionaries. We hope to see one or more lady +representatives from every church. + + * * * * * + +The Woman's state home missionary unions will also hold a meeting upon +this occasion, with a full and good programme. See notice of time and +entertainment on cover. Particulars will be given in our next number. + +Mrs. Regal's valuable paper, "The Local Society--its Management and +Membership," also the paper "The Relation of the State Unions to the +American Missionary Association," are published as pamphlets, and may be +had of any officer of the State Unions, or of the American Missionary +Association, 56 Reade Street, New York. + + * * * * * + + +A VISIT TO A MISSION SUNDAY-SCHOOL. + +BY MRS. L.S. HITCHCOCK. + +One Lord's day, I went out to look after a Sunday-school in which one of +our missionaries had become interested, and where she labored part of +the year. The day was excessively warm. The distance was two miles, and +the horse cars would only take me half the way, leaving a walk across +the fields for the rest of the trip. There was no road, and much of the +way not even a footpath, and the fields were partly covered with water +from the frequent showers. I got along quite well during the first half +of my walk by picking my way, now and then elongating steps, or jumping, +generally with satisfactory results. Presently a place appeared where +the water seemed too wide to venture with safety. There was no +possibility of jumping this time, and I was ready to give up in despair, +when I discovered at some little distance a log laid across the narrow +part of the stream. I commenced the tight rope walk and was just +congratulating myself upon my heroic adventure which, with one step +more, would have landed me safely on the other side, when the log tilted +and off I went, my knees plowing into the mud making a hole as big as +grandma's workbasket. I lost no time in getting up. As I arose, I saw my +_best_ parasol and big palm-leaf fan floating along leisurely in the +muddy stream. These were secured later, but with much trouble, and my +portmanteau was fished from the hidden deep at the peril of crabs and +other biters who make such places homes of retreat. + +I called at the nearest cabin, and found "Auntie" with a kind heart +ready to undertake the job of "cleaning me up." She took in the +situation at once, ejaculating, "Lor', honey! specs Is'e goin ter let +yer go ter Sunday-school wid dem ar close all spilt? Sam, take dem ar +shoes and wash em clar fru for Missus." + +In a short time she said, "You's fine," and I started for the little +church close by, arriving just five minutes before the Sunday-school +closed. I was greeted with "Howdy" by the pastor, who is superintendent, +and was requested to speak to the children, while the whole Sunday +school, including twenty-six boys and girls, and seven fathers and +mothers, rose to their feet, indicating their delight to see me. + +I was in time to observe one little boy standing on tiptoe to reach up +to the Bible which the minister held open on the table and was teaching +him to read. It was his custom, as he was the only teacher, to call each +one separately, and teach him to read, as well as his ignorance would +allow. This is in advance of their old way of conducting Sunday-school. +Formerly, all the instruction received was from Webster's "blue back," +and, for the closing exercise, they counted from one to a hundred. The +pastor attended school at Straight University during the past year and +can read a little, but not intelligently. He looks as if he had seen +sixty years or more, and I believe him to be a good man who tries to do +faithful work for the Master so far as he is able. He has built a little +church, mostly with his own hands and out of his own scanty earnings. It +is made of rough boards, but it has a good foundation and the roof is +well shingled. There are no glass windows, but boards like a barn door +hung on hinges serve to let in the light or shut out the cold in winter. + +The people are ignorant beyond description. Most of them live in little +huts or cabins on the banks of the canal, getting a scanty living by +working out as they can find places. + +Their homes are filthy and uninviting. How much good a missionary could +accomplish by going into their homes and teaching them the true +Christian way of living! The mothers with whom I talked seemed willing, +and even anxious, to know better ways. Any instruction in housekeeping +would be gratefully received, and a sewing class, where cutting and +making plain clothing were taught, would be eagerly accepted. A mothers' +meeting once a week would be more helpful to those barren minds than +words can express. The work is right there, all ready and waiting for +some loving, self-denying Christian woman to take up. Who in the far-off +Northland will say, "Lord, here am I, send me," and who will reach deep +in their pockets and say, "I will give a tenth, yea, even more," for +that which is more is the only true giving? May God open the hearts of +those who have an abundance and to spare, to give liberally for the +uplifting of our colored brothers and sisters. + + * * * * * + + +OUR YOUNG FOLKS. + + + * * * * * + + +THE FRESH DRINK. + +A missionary teacher to the mountain whites, who was laid aside +temporarily from teaching, on account of illness, writes of one of the +children of her charge: + +I must tell you of the little native girl who lived with us, and of her +practical application of a Scripture text. It was my custom to teach her +from the Bible every Sabbath afternoon. I had been reading from the +ninth chapter of Mark, where it speaks of the child-like spirit our dear +Saviour wants us to possess. + +She listened very attentively, and seemed especially interested when we +came to the forty-first verse, "For whosoever shall give you a cup of +water to drink in my name, ... he shall not lose his reward." + +She left me a few moments, but presently came back saying: "Won't you +tell me about that verse again?" I gladly complied; then came the +question, "Does it mean me--can I do something for Jesus?" + +That evening, there came a gentle rap on my door, and to my "Come in," +Minnie entered, bearing a glass of water. + +Coming near, she placed the water on a little stand by my bedside. +Noticing that she stood as though she would speak, I said, "What is it, +Minnie?" She hesitated a moment, then replied: "I was thinking about +what you said about the 'cup of water,' and I wanted to give you +something 'cause you was sick, but I didn't have anything, so I thought +may be you might like a fresh drink of water, for it's all I've got." + +Indeed, my heart was touched by this poor girl's beautiful application +of the lesson learned; nor was it forgotten--every evening during my +illness came the "fresh drink" from the hands of the little beginner, +who wanted to do something for Jesus. + + * * * * * + + +LETTER FROM AN INDIAN BOY. + +JUNE 5th, 1889. + +_Friends at the East:_ + +It is summer over here now and every thing looks green and nice. The +roses are red and beautiful, so every day everybody has a bouquet on his +coat. There are lots of more flowers, some of them are white, blue, red, +yellow; so everything looks nice. + +The girls always decorate the church on Sunday. They get lots of flowers +on the hills and down in the bottom. The days have been nice for about +two weeks. The sun shines every day, and the wind has not blown for a +long time, but to-day the wind blows just a little but not much. + +We always play ball, and have nice times playing. But some times we get +hurt. The Perkins Hall boys always play ball with the Whitney Hall boys, +but the Whitney boys always get beaten. + +Everybody on the Reservation has ploughed his field and planted corn, +potatoes, onions, squashes, beets, turnips, wheat, oats, flax, beans and +melons, so everything is just coming out, and after a while they will +grow big and good to eat. + +Mr. Lawson went away in May, and the boys had to work up there alone. +They worked all right, and when he came back he found that all papers +were ready to be printed. He came back with some galley-holders and some +cases. After he had been back about two weeks, another machine came; it +is the paper cutter. It is a nice machine for the printing office. Seven +boys work in the morning and six in the afternoon, so we are getting +along first rate. + +We always go after tipsina on the hills; some of the people call them +wild turnips. They are very good to eat. If you don't know them, you +lose something in your life. You don't know how they taste unless you +have eaten some. They have dark-blue flowers on them which stand about +four or five inches from the ground. They are easy to find out, and when +we find them, we have to dig them. When we come back, we always get so +tired that we lay down under the trees. + +Your friend, JOHN BROWN. + + * * * * * + + +RECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1889. + + +DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE. + +Income for July, 1889, from investments $832.50 + +Previously acknowledged 30,469.86 + + ---------- + +Total $31,302.36 + + ========== + + +MAINE, $463.22. + +Bangor. Hammond St. Ch. and Soc. 70.46 + +Bangor. Sab. Sch. of First Parish Cong. + Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 10.00 + +Bangor. Sab. Sch. Central Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00 + +Blanchard. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 7.00 + +Brownsville. "A." 1.00 + +Bucksport. Sab. Sch. of Elm St. Cong. + Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 25.00 + +Machias. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Portland. State St. Ch., 150; Mrs. + Mary C. Ingalls, 2.50 152.50 + +Portland. "King's Daughters," + Box basted work, _for Selma, Ala._ + +Saccarappa. Westbrook. Second Cong. Ch. 27.15 + +Skowhegan. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + +South Berwick. Miss Ella Ricker's S.S. + Class, 2.08; Miss Lene Ridley's S.S. + Class. 1.03, _for Indian Sch'p._ 3.11 + +Wells. "A Friend." 1.00 + +Woodfords. Cong. Ch. 73.00 + +----. "Friend," _for Indian Sch'p._ 70.00 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $308.06. + +Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.89 + +Bennington. Cong. Ch. 8.63 + +Bethlehem. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.25 + +Derry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 46.62 + +Dover. "Busy Bee" Soc. of First Cong. + Ch., _for Library Books and Case, + Wilmington, N.C._ 65.00 + +Epping. Miss Hannah Pearson, 5; Mrs. + Sarah P. Billson, 3, _for Indian M._ 8.00 + +Manchester. C.B. Southworth, to const. + MISS NELLIE M. SENTER L.M. 50.00 + +Meredith Village. Cong. Ch. 14.50 + +Nashua. First Ch. 18.45 + +Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson 5.00 + +Troy. Trin. Cong. Ch. 3.47 + +Walpole. First Cong. Ch. 22.25 + +Winchester. A.L. Jewell 7.00 + + ------- + + $258.06 + +ESTATE. + +Auburn. Estate of Benjamin Chase, by + Miss Louise C. Emery, Executrix 50.00 + + ------- + + $308.06 + + +VERMONT, $893.71. + +Barnet. Rev. Jos. Boardman, 34 vols, + _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Barre. Cong. Ch. 23.73 + +Castleton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +Cornwall. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M._ 20.00 + +Johnson. First Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Johnson. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., for tools, + _Industrial Building, Williamsburg, Ky._ 25.00 + +Lower Waterford. Cong. Ch., 4.05, and + Sab. Sch., _for Indian M._, 7.06 11.11 + +Lyndon. First Cong. Ch. 23.00 + +Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, + _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 70.00 + +New Haven. Mrs. E.A. Doud's S.S. Class, + _for Savannah, Ga._ 5.00 + +South Royalton. Mrs. Susan H. Jones 25.00 + +Tunbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00 + +West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. 13.10 + +Weston. Cong. Ch. 3.50 + +Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 115.27 + + ------- + + $393.71 + +ESTATE. + +Hartford. Estate of Albert Buell, + by Nancy M. Buell 500.00 + + ------- + + $893.71 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $10,017.79. + +Alford. Rev. J. Jay Dana, to const. + NATHAN B. CURTIS L.M. 30.00 + +Amherst. First Cong. Ch. 30.00 + +Amherst. Y.P.S.C.E. First Cong. Ch., + _for Indian Sch'p_ 17.50 + +Andover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, _for + Chandler Normal Sch., Lexington, Ky._ 2,000.00 + +Andover. "Friend," _for Girls' Dormitory, + Macon, Ga._ 1,378.99 + +Andover. Chap. Ch. and Cong. 39.00 + +Athol Center. "Friend." 10.00 + +Ballardvale. Mrs. G.S. Butler, _for Storrs + Sch., Atlanta, Ga._ 5.00 + +Barre. Sab. Sch. of Evan. Cong. Ch. 7.06 + +Belchertown. Cong. Ch. 31.50 + +Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc. 192.01 + +Brookline. Harvard Ch. 89.48 + +Brimfield. Cong. Ch. 7.14 + +Buckland. "Friends," _for African M._ 0.70 + +Byfield. Cong. Ch. 58.43 + +Boston. C.A. Hopkins, ad'l, + _for Girls' Hall, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 250.00 + + Union Ch. 148.40 + + Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, + _for Indian M._ 54.00 + + Houghton, Mifflin & Co., + 2 Lithograph Portraits, + Whittier and Longfellow, + _for Library, + Sherwood, Tenn._ + + Berkeley Temple 21.20 + + Dorchester. Second Ch. 119.66 + + Dorchester. Miss Mary A. Tuttle, + _for Indian M._ 1.00 + + Jamaica Plain. Cen. Cong. Ch. + ad'l 10.00 + + West Roxbury. South Evan Ch. 25.19 + + ------ 629.45 + +Cambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch. 88.19 + +Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 114.34 + +Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Cummington. Cong. Ch. 11.39 + +Dalton. Zenas Crane, 100; W.M. Crane, + 100; O.B. Hayes, 2: Mr. Strong, 1; + W.H. Woodworth, 50c; "A Friend," 50c; + L.M. Stanton, 50c; _for Tougaloo U._ 204.50 + +Dalton. Sab. Sen. of Cong. Ch., + _for Indian Sch'p._ 17.50 + +Duxbury. Mrs. Rebecca R. Holmes 1.50 + +East Cambridge. Miss Mary F. Aiken, + _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 15.00 + +Easthampton. First Cong. Ch., 37.28, _for + Indian M., 37.28 for Chinese M._ 74.56 + +Fitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. J.M.R. Eaton 10.00 + +Florence. A.C. Estabrook and Sab. Sch. Class 10.00 + +Framingham. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Framingham and Auburndale. "Friends," + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 + +Harwich (Cape Cod). Miss Tamesin + Brooks, 50; Miss Sarah G. Brooks, 50, + ad'l, _for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, + Tenn._ 100.00 + +Haverhill. Center Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00 + +Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 + +Holliston. Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4 50.00 + +Hubbardston. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.50 + +Lawrence. Mrs. T.C. Whittemore, + _for Indian Sch'p_ 12.00 + +Leicester. First Cong. Ch. 36.71 + +Lenox. Cong. Ch. 22.50 + +Lexington. Hancock Ch. 20.00 + +Littleton. Cong. Ch. 11.16 + +Lunenburg. Evan. Cong. Ch. 6.38 + +Medway. Village Ch. 50.00 + +Melrose. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 3.30 + +Merrimac. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. to + const JOSEPH W. NICHOLS L.M. 50.00 + +Milton. E.P. Dutton, _for Ch. building, + Athens, Ga._ 5.00 + +Monterey. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + +Newton. Eliot Ch. 125.00 + +Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. 79.99 + +Newton Center. Maria B. Furber Soc., + _for Woman's Work_ 20.00 + +Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. 99.90 + +Norfolk. William E. Mann, _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +North Abington. Rev. Chas Jones 1.00 + +North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.93 + +North Brookfield. Bbl. C., + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Northfield. Miss'y Society of Northfield + Sem., _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +North Leominster. "Mission Band," _for + Indian Sch'p_, and to const., MISS JESSIE + O. RICE and MISS E.C. ALLEN L.M's 70.00 + +Oxford. First Cong. Ch. 100.00 + +Peabody. South Cong. Ch. 66.00 + +Reading. Cong. Ch., ad'l., to const DEA. + GEORGE H. DAMON and DEA DEAN + PEABODY L.M's 18.00 + +Reading. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., to const. + MISS HATTIE S. TEMPLE L.M. 30.00 + +Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc. 113.62 + +Sandwich. Mrs. Robert Tobey, + _for Mountain Work_ 4.00 + +Sheffield. Cong. Ch. 13.00 + +South Hadley. "Friends in + Mount Holyoke Sem," 25.00 + +South Natick. John Eliot Ch. 20.29 + +Spencer. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for + Indian M._ 50.00 + +Spencer. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Church, + _for Mountain Work_ 50.00 + +Springfield. North Ch., _for Straight U._ 11.45 + +Stoneham. Cong. Ch., by Miss Abbie Wood + (20; of which _for Mountain Work_) 40.00 + +Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.55 + +Sunderland. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. _for + Indian Sch., Santee Agency, Neb._ 25.00 + +Townsend. Cong. Ch. 30.53 + +Wakefield. Cong. Ch. 57.59 + +Walpole. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00 + +Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. 14.20 + +Ware. Miss S.R. Sage, _for Indian M._ 37.50 + +Ware. Mrs. Hitchcock's Class, East Cong. + Sab. Sch., 25; Sab. Sch. East Cong. Ch., + 25, _for Indian M._ 50.00 + +Wareham. Miss Wing and Mrs. Bodfish, + _for Straight U._ 7.50 + +Waverley. Mrs. Daniel Butler, to const. + ROBERT ROCKWELL L.M. 30.00 + +Wellesley. Miss F.E. Lord. 5; Miss Lord, + 5; "Friend," 5, _for Rosebud Indian M._ 15.00 + +Wellesley Hills. Miss Lillie C. Clement, + _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +West Brookfield. Cong. Ch., 30; + H. Barnes, 50c. 30.50 + +Westford. Cong. Ch. 12.25 + +Williamstown. First Cong. Ch., ad'l to + const. ROBERT R. CLARK L.M. 21.29 + +Worcester. Union Church, 179.71; + Plymouth Ch., 120; Piedmont Ch. (5.20 of + which for _Berea C._) 65.20; + Salem St. Ch., 18.70 383.61 + +----. "A Massachusetts Friend," _for + Native Missionary, Indian M._ 100.00 + +Hampden Benevolent Association, by + Charles Marsh, Treasurer: + + Chicopee. Second, to const. + REV. W.G. POOR and MRS. + HATTIE POOR L.M's 60.00 + + Mittineague 24.70 + + South Hadley Falls 15.41 + + Springfield. South 66.58 + + Do. North 31.49 + + Do. First 18.00 + + Wilbraham 14.45 + + ------ 230.63 + + --------- + + $8,001.12 + +ESTATES. + +Cambridge. Estate of A.E. Hildreth, by + Trustees, _for Freedmen_ 500.00 + +Framingham. Estate of Mary F. Cutler, + by Geo. E. Cutler, and Chas. P. Cutler, + Executors 816.67 + +North Brookfield. Estate of Daniel Whiting, + by William P. Hasten, Executor 700.00 + + --------- + + $10,017.79 + + +RHODE ISLAND, $7.60 + +Providence. Children in Central Cong. + Ch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 2.60 + +Providence. C.H. Bachellor 5.00 + + +CONNECTICUT, $4,931.85. + +Bantam. Miss Cornelia Bradley 10.00 + +Berlin. A few Ladies, by Mrs. W.W. + Woodworth, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 15.00 + +Bristol. Cong. Ch. 25.27 + +Broad Brook. Cong. Ch. 12.50, and Sab. + Sch. Birthday box 9 21.50 + +Canaan. "A Friend." 2.00 + +Centerbrook and Ivoryton. Cong. Ch., + to const. CLEMENT M. PARMELEE L.M. 57.52 + +Chester. Cong. Ch., 44; C.N. Smith, 5 49.00 + +Colchester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 7.46 + +Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 33.13 + +Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. 29.57; + Mrs. Sarah A. Backus, 6 35.57 + +East Hartford. South Cong. Ch. 25.25; + Mrs. E.M. Roberts, 5 30.25 + +Enfield. Cong. Ch. 5., and Sab. Sch. 18.75 +_for Straight U._ 23.75 + +Enfield. Daniel H. Abbe 5.00 + +Fairfield. Sab. Sch of Cong. Ch. + _for Indian M._ 25.00 + +Farmington. First Cong Ch., 138.90; (Dea. + Henry D. Hawley, 200. to const. REV. + GEO. L. CLARK L.M.) 338.90 + +Glastonbury. D.W. Williams, 150; Mrs. + Nancy W. Goodrich, 100. _for Indian M._ 250.00 + +Goshen. Cong. Ch. 43.50 + +Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Greenville. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Guilford. Geo. W. Hill 5.00 + +Hadlyme. R.E. Hungerford, 100; + Cong. Ch., 3.48 103.48 + +Hartford. Roland Mather, 500; + First Ch., 387.20 887.20 + +Hartford. Woman's Conn. Home Miss. + Union, _for Ind'l Sch., Williamsburg, Ky._ 50.00 + +Hartford. Sab. Sch. of Pearl St. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 26.97 + +Hartford. Ladies' Soc. Cong. Ch. Bbl. C., + _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +Huntington. Ladies' H.M. Soc., + _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 5.00 + +Killingly. E. Frances Jenks 5.00 + +Lebanon. First Cong. Ch. 34.51 + +Lyme, (Grassy Hill). Cong. Ch. 21.30 + +Manchester. Second Cong. Ch., to const. + J.D. PICKLES, L.M. 62.44 + +Mellington. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + +Middlebury. Cong. Ch. 8.33 + +Middletown. Mrs. E.R. White, 10; Geo. + T. Much, 5., _for Indian M._ 15.00 + +Monroe. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. by Mrs. H.L. + Curtis, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 10.00 + +New Haven. Dwight Place Ch. 121.84 + +New Haven. Sab. Sch. of College St. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 15.00 + +New London. First Church of Christ 53.10 + +New London. _Correction._ Henry R. Bond + for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. 200., ack. in + August number, should read Trust + Estate of Henry P. Haven + +Norfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 52.73 + +North Branford. Cong. Ch. 19.39 + +New Britain. Ladies' H.M. Soc., Box C. + _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Northfield. Cong. Ch. 46.14 + +Norwich Town. First Ch. "*" 24.00 + +Plainville. "King's Daughters" _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ 4.00 + +Pomfret. Two classes boys, Cong. Sab. Sch., + by Miss Mathewson, _for Pleasant Hill, + Tenn._ 15.00 + +Pomfret. S.S. Papers _for Thomasville, Ga._ + +Preston. Long Soc. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + +Putnam. Second Cong. Ch., 24.43; + Mrs. A.S. Fitts, 17.50 41.93 + +Ridgefield. First Cong. Ch. 9.22 + +Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 15.99 + +Simsbury. Cong. Ch. 62.26 + +Stonington. Anna W. Hill's S.S. Class, + _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 8.00 + +Stony Creek. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + +South Glastonbury. Wm. S. Williams 100.00 + +Southington. Cong. Ch. 23.19 + +Southington. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 10.00 + +Southport. "Friends" _for Indian M._ 1.90 + +Terryville. "Soldier of Christ," + _for Mountain Work_ 5.00 + +Thomaston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Indian Sch'p_ 17.50 + +Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 11.01 + +Torrington. "Valley Gleaners," + _for Indian Sch'p._ 53.47 + +Wallingford. Cong. Ch. 40.81 + +Waterbury. Mission Circle of Second + Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._ 70.00 + +Waterbury. Cong. Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._ 70.00 + +Watertown. Mrs. F. Scott's Class, 10.00; + Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch., 7.00, + _for Indian M._ 17.00 + +West Chester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by + Mrs. E. Brown, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ 12.00 + +Westford. Cong. Ch. 7.00 + +West Hartford. Mrs. Mary A. Hutchinson, + deceased, by A. Chappell 200.00 + +West Hartford. A. Chappell 10.00 + +Westport. Ladles' Bible Class, Cong. Ch., + by Mrs. Edw. Wakeman, _for Conn. Ind'l + Sch., Ga._ 15.00 + +Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Ch. 27.00 + +West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch, (50 of + which from MISS MARTHA. E. BEARDSLEY + to const. herself L.M.) 126.78 + +Winchester. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + +Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. 33.51 + +Woodstock. Miss F. Butler, P'k'g. C., + _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of + Conn., by Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, Treas. + + Cromwell. Ladies of Cong. + Ch. _for Conn. Ind'l + Sch., Ga._ 21.00 + + Enfield. Mrs. Emily M. Abbe, + 10.00; Mrs. Horace Patten, + 5, _for Freedmen_ 15.00 + + Hartford. Infant Dept. of + First Ch. Sab. Sch. 5.00 + + --------- 41.00 + + $3,631.85 + +ESTATES. + +Hamden. Estate of Medad A. Bassett by + Lyman H. Bassett, Ex. $100.00 + +North Branford. Estate of Mrs. Nancy W. + Rose, by Charles Page, Executor 1,000.00 + +Watertown. Estate of Eliza Marsh, by + H.M. Hickcox, Adm. 100.00 + +West Hartford. Estate of Miss Mary A. + Butler, by F.G. Butler, Ex. 100.00 + + -------- + + $4,931.85 + + +NEW YORK, $1,116.35. + +Bergen. First Cong. Ch. 15.50 + +Binghamton. "A Friend" 10.00 + +Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. 12.06 + +Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch. 50.00 + +Brooklyn. Lee Av. S.S., "King's Daughters," 5; + Carrie Strong, 1; Flossie Bingham, 1, + _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 7.00 + +Chenango Forks. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Clifton Springs. Mrs. W.W. Warner 10.50 + +East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 35.60; + Mrs. Eliza S. Goodwin. 5; 40.60 + +Eden. Mrs. H. McNett 2.00 + +Fulton. Mrs. O. King 5.00 + +Hamilton. O.S. Campbell, 5; "A Friend," 5 10.00 + +Homes. B.W. Payne 10.00 + +Jefferson. Mrs. Susannah Ruliffson. 2.50 + +Lima. Mrs. Abby E. Minor 2.00 + +Lowville. Mrs. L.C. Hough, to const. REV. + J.W. EARNSHAW, L.M. 30.00 + +Marcellus. Mrs. L. Hemmingway, bal. to + const. WILLYS G. FRANCIS. L.M. 20.00 + +New York. S.T. Gordon, 100; + "A Friend," 100 200.00 + +New York. Wager Swayne, _for Talledega C._ 120.00 + +New York. Joseph Wild, + _for Conn. Ind'l Sab. Sch., Ga._ 10.00 + +New York. B.B. Adams, Jr., Package C. + +Northville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Norwich. First Cong. Ch. 27.00 + +Norwich. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 11.30 + +Norwich. "Friends" in First Cong. Ch., + _for Indian M., Native Missionary_, + and to const. MISS CORNELIA M. MARTIN, + JOSEPH H. LATHAM, WILLIAM E. REED, + WILLIAM P. CHAPMAN, T. DE WITT MILLER + and GEORGE H. STONE L.M's 170.00 + +Oswego. Cong. Ch. 125.89 + +Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Syracuse. Plymouth Ch. 26.00 + +Warsaw. "Earnest Workers" of Cong. Ch. + _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00 + +West Groton. Cong. Ch. 14.00 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., + by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., + _for Woman's Work_: + + Canandaigua. Ladies' Aux. 70.00 + + --------- + + $1,066.35 + +ESTATE. + +Perry Center. Estate of Mrs. Laura A. + Sheldon, by Miss D.E. Sheldon, + _for Fort Berthold Indian M._ 50.00 + + --------- + + $1,116.35 + + +NEW JERSEY, $171.05 + +Arlington. Mrs. G. Overacre 2.00 + +Bernardsvile. Mrs. M.K. Roberts 40.00 + +Jersey City. Mrs. C.L. Ames 5.00 + +Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch. 76.05 + +Nutley. S.O. Rusby, P'k'g Papers. + +Passaic. First Cong. Ch. 18.00 + +Perth Amboy. Rev. Peter Kimball, + Thank Offerings: 5 for 96th Christmas, + 5 for 96th New Year, 5 for 97th Birthday 15.00 + +Westfield. Mission Band, by Miss M.C. + Alpers, _for Savannah, Ga._ 20.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $48.92. + +Neath. Cong. Ch. 9.48 and Sab. Sch. 2.97 12.45 + +Ridgway. Y.P.B.C., of First Cong. Ch, + _for Oaks, N.C._ 5.00 + +Scranton. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 31.47 + + +OHIO, $1,934.08. + +Ashland. Miss Eliza Thomson 2.28 + +Berea. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., Box C., etc., + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Brownhelm. O.H. Perry 10.00 + +Castalia. Mrs. I.W. Storey 1.00 + +Cincinnati. Columbia Cong. Ch. 14.80 + +Clark's Corners. Box Books, etc., + _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Cleveland. "A.E.W.H." 500.00 + +Cleveland. Mrs. F.W. Low, 10; + Rev. J.G. Fraser, D.D., 50c. 10.50 + +Cleveland. Mrs. H.B. Spelman, + _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00 + +Cleveland. Young People, by Miss E.A. + Johnson, _for Mountain Work_ 3.00 + +Dayton. Rev. I.W. Metcalf 1.50 + +Harmar. Cons. Ch. (100 of which to const. + MRS. D.F. HARRIS, MISS SUSAN DANIELS + and MISS KATE CISSLER L.M's) 119.85 + +Lodi. Cong. Ch. 9.46 + +Oberlin. First Ch., 62.65; + Second Cong. Ch. 29.54 92.19 + +Parkman. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + +Rootstown. W.J. Dickinson 10.00 + +Saybrook. Mission Band, by A.K. Hough 5.00 + +Toledo. First Cong. Ch. 18.00 + +Ohio. Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. Phebe. A. Crafts, Treasurer, + _for Woman's Work_: + + Cleveland. Euclid Av. + Cong. Ch. 20.00 + + Garrettsville. L.M.S. 25.00 + + Hudson. L.H.M.S. 5.50 + + Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., + L.S. 90.00 + + Oberlin. Sab. Sch. Second + Cong. Ch., _for + Indian Sch'p._ 20.00 + + ------ 160.50 + + ------- + + $989.08 + +ESTATES. + +Geneva. Estate of Bryant Hewins, by + H.W. Turner, Executor 945.00 + + --------- + + $1,934.08 + + +ILLINOIS, $1,733.81. + +Aurora. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Bartlett. Cong. Ch. 11.12 + +Chicago. C.B. Boughton, _for Sch'p + Endowment Fund, Fisk U._ 50.00 + +Chicago. Lincoln Park Ch., 17.61; + Western Av. Cong. Ch., 13.00 30.61 + +Earlville. Cong. Ch. 19.75 + +Granville. Cong. Ch. 35.70 + +Granville. Mrs. J.W. Hopkins 25.00 + +Greenville. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + +Lyonsville. Cong. Ch. 5.54 + +Malden. Members Cong. Ch. 7.80 + +Millburn. Cong. Ch. 7.70 + +Naperville. A.A. Smith 5.00 + +Princeton. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + +Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch. 174.65 + +Rockford. Rockford Seminary Miss'y Soc. 14.25 + +Tonica. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., + _for Sch'p Endowment Fund, Fisk U._ 15.00 + +Tonica. Cong. Ch. 14.61 + +Winnetka. Cong. Ch. 41.58 + +Woodburn. Cong. Ch, 4.03; Dea. A.L. + Sturges, 5 9.03 + + ------- + + $502.34 + +ESTATES. + +Rockford. Estate of Lewis S. Swezey, by + J.G. Penfield, Ex. 1,131.47 + +Yorkville. Estate of Mrs. Elvira H. Colton + (30 of which to const. R.D. CROFOOT, + Executor L.M.) 100.00 + + --------- + + $1,733.81 + + +MICHIGAN, $119.35. + +Ann Arbor. "A Friend," bal. to const., + ROBERT W.A. DUNCAN L.M. 15.00 + +Clinton. Cong. Ch. 6.75 + +Columbus. Cong. Ch., 12.50; + Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 2.50 15.00 + +Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch. 8.57 + +Lake Linden. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 25.00 + +Olivet. Cong. Ch. 24.03 + +Romeo. Watson Loud 15.00 + +White Lake. Robert Garner 10.00 + + +WISCONSIN, $331.73. + +Arena. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Evansville. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + +Kinnickinnic. Cong. Ch. 2.60 + +Lake Geneva. First Cong. Ch. 13.00 + +Madison. First Cong. Ch. 50.40 + +Milton. Cong. Ch. 14.78 + +Platteville. Cong. Ch., 15.45; + Y.P.S.C.E., 2 17.45 + +Ripon. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Sturgeon Bay. Mrs. Anna Packard and "Friends," + Bbl. C., etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._ + +Whitewater. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 + +Windsor. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Freight + to Sherwood, Tenn._ 2.25 + +Wisconsin. Woman's Home Missionary + Union, _for Woman's Work_: + + Arena. W.H.M.S. 1.19 + + Baraboo. "A Congregationalist" 2.00 + + Beloit. W.N.M.U. Second Ch. 5.00 + + Boscobel. W.H.M.U. 2.00 + + Brandon. W.U.M.S. 5.00 + + Brodhead. Mrs. Sherman, + 10; Mrs. A.S. Moore, 2; + W.U.M.S., 30c. 12.30 + + Eau Claire. W.U.M.S. 6.39 + + Fond du Lac. W.U.M.S 10.00 + + Green Bay. W.U.M.S. 20.00 + + Janesville. W.U.M.S. 5.25 + + Madison. W.M.S. 7.64 + + Milton Junction. Misses + Chapman 2.00 + + Milwaukee. W.U.M.S. + Grand Av. Ch. 25.00 + + Sun Prairie. W.U.M.S. 2.98 + + Waukesha. Y.P.S.C.E. 5.00 + + Whitewater. Ladies 5.00 + + Windsor. W.M.S. 10.00 + + Wyoming 4.50 + To const, MRS. H.A. MINER, + MRS. A.A. JACKSON, MRS. C.C. + MATTER, and MRS. C.C. + KEELER L.M's + +Woman's Home Missionary Union, + by Mrs. H.A. Miner, Pres., _for + Miss Adams, Tillotson C. and + N. Inst._ 40.00 + + ------- 171.25 + + +IOWA. $63.40. + +Algona. A Zahlten 15.00 + +Cedar Falls. Cong. Ch. 16.00 + +Charles City. Y.P.S.C.E. 5.00 + +Danville. S.H. Mix and Children 3.50 + +Durant. Mrs S.M. Dutton, + _for Library, Sherwood, Tenn._ 2.25 + +Traer. Cong. Ch. 6.65 + +Traer. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 15.00 + + +MINNESOTA, $360.32. + +Elk River. Union Ch. 8.15 + +Faribault. Cong. Ch. 31.53 + +Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 192.33; + Lynndale Cong. Ch., 26.43 218.76 + +Minneapolis. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. + Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 28.07 + +Rochester. Cong. Ch. 45.68 + +Rochester. Y.P.S.C.E., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 + +Saint Cloud. First Cong. Ch. 5.00 + +Saint Paul. Atlantic Cong. Ch. 13.13 + + +MISSOURI, $70.87. + +Amity. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + +Lebanon. Cong. Ch. 26.32 + +Lebanon. Cong. Ch. ad'l 0.25 + +Saint Louis. Hyde Park Cong. Ch. 10.00 + +Sedalia. First Cong. Ch. 25.30 + + +KANSAS, $18.32. + +Neosha Falls. S.B. Dyckman 2.00 + +Plevna. Cong. Ch. 1.46 + +Valley Falls. Cong. Ch. 13.61 + +Wakarusa Valley. Cong. Ch. 1.25 + + +SOUTH DAKOTA, $12.12. + +Lake Preston. Cong. Ch. 7.25 + +Rosebud Agency. Rev. J.P. Cross, + _for Rosebud M._ 10.00 + +Ponca Mission. Ponca reserve, + _for Indian M._ 5.00 + +Sioux Falls. W.S. Bell 5.00 + +Valley Springs, Cong. Ch. 5.43 + +Woman's Home Missionary Union of + South Dakota, by Mrs. Sue Fifield, + Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + + Chamberlain. W.M.S. 2.00 + + Oahe. W.M.S. Shiloh Ch. 2.00 + + Valley Springs. W.M.S. 2.86 + + Yankton. W.M.S. 2.58 + + ------ 9.44 + + +NEBRASKA, $1.00. + +Creighton. Mrs. C.F. Pierce 1.00 + + +COLORADO, $125.22. + +Denver. Ladies' Aid Soc. of Cong. Ch. by + Mrs. Alonzo Rice, Treas. 100.00 + +Denver. Thomas S. Spyler, + _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 2.50 + +West Denver. Cong. Ch., Y.P.S.C.E., 9.72; + Sab. Sch., 2.50, by Rev. R.T. Cross 12.22 + +West Denver. Cong. Ch. 10.50 + + +UTAH, $10.16. + +Ogden. First Cong. Ch. 10.16 + + +WASHINGTON, $42.60. + +Bay Center. Rev. C.W. Matthews and Wife 5.00 + +Skokomish. Cong. Ch., by Rev. M. Eells 30.00 + +Walla Walla. First Cong. Ch. + _for Indian M._ 7.60 + + +VIRGINIA, $3.32. + +Herndon. Cong. Ch. 3.32 + + +KENTUCKY, $28.75. + +Williamsburg. Mrs. Hubbard, 24.50; Miss + Packard. 4.25, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 28.75 + + +TENNESSEE, $7.60. + +Oakdale. "Friends." 0.95 + +Sherwood. Union Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. + Birthday Miss'y Box 6.65 + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $66.55. + +McLeansville. Second Cong. Ch. 0.50 + +Troy. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., 2.00; + S.D. Leak, .50 2.50 + +Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 59.80 + +Pekin. Cong. Ch. 0.75 + +Wilmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., + _for Rosebud Indian M._ 3.00 + + +GEORGIA, $16.00. + +Milford. Rev. J.A. Jones, 4.50; Cong. Ch. .50 5.00 + +Thomasville. Conn. Ind'l Sab. Sch. 11.00 + + +FLORIDA, $1.47. + +Winter Park. W.H.M.U., _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 1.47 + + +ALABAMA, $10.00. + +Birmingham. Woman's Miss'y Soc. 10.00 + + +TEXAS, $5.75. + +Austin. Tillotson Church of Christ 5.00 + +Dallas. Rev. R.S. Holloway 0.75 + + +CANADA, $5.00. + +Montreal. Chas. Alexander 5.00 + + ----------- + +Donations $16,862.88 + +Estates 6,093.14 + + ---------- + + $22,955.97 + + +INCOME, $756.50. + +Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 658.50 + +C.F. Dike Fund, _for + Straight U._ 50.00 + +Endowment Fund, _for Freedmen_ 50.00 + + -------- 758.50 + + +TUITION, $3,721.72. + +Williamsburg, Ky., Tuition 54.75 + +Charleston, S.C., Tuition 228.50 + +Jellico, Tenn., Tuition 15.75 + +Memphis, Tenn., Tuition 442.80 + +Nashville, Tenn., Tuition 234.59 + +Macon, Ga., Tuition 36.30 + +Thomasville, Ga., Tuition 62.75 + +Marion, Ala., Tuition 2.00 + +Talladega, Ala., Tuition 101.02 + +Saint Augustine, Fla., Public + Fund 450.00 + +New Orleans, La., Tuition 518.50 + +Tougaloo, Miss., State + Appropriation 1,500.00 + +Austin, Texas, Tuition 74.76 + + ------- 3,721.72 + + -------- + +Total for July $27,436.19 + + +SUMMARY. + +Donations $168,679.89 + +Estates 56,214.68 + + ----------- + + $220,094.07 + +Income 9,073.21 + +Tuition 33,961.34 + +United States Government + appropriation for Indians 15,219.37 + + ----------- + +Total from Oct. 1 to July 31 $278,347.99 + + =========== + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +Subscriptions for July 20.50 + +Previously acknowledged 712.62 + + -------- + +Total $733.12 + + + + +H.W. 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